Dr.Z-Stereotyping

[Bart]

I've read several of Dr.Z's articles, he surely must be at the top of the list of Caste Goof writers. What's his name any way, Zimmerbergenstein or something like that?


In his Super Bowl diary he throws in a paragraph out of the blue of the bad things about Jacksonville. Read below.


Now onto the bad things about Jacksonville ... you know something? I don't think I'm going to get into the bad things. We went to the Super Bowl, there were some good memories ... why pester you with a writer's whining? I will mention one thing, though, and please don't take it as a rip, just as a phenomenon.


Linda went to check out the B. Dalton bookstore. It had gone out of business. So she looked for bookstores in the yellow pages. There was one Borders listed. And 13 Christian bookstores.


Nice try John!He tells us the B.Dalton bookstore had gone out of business. Guess there must be an awful lot of unsophisticated half illiterate rednecks living there.Or perhapsthey are too stupid to realize what great writings are to be found in B.Dalton's store...just check out the gay and lesbian section and see the wonderful world of diversity. And horrors upon horrors, 13 Christian book stores! Oh my God, only in the South!


You know what John...I was in New York and one of the bad things about it were all the Jew bookstores listed in the yellow pages, I nearly puked. Oh, umm, don't take it as a rip it is just a phenomenom.

 

[Colonel_Reb]

I don't think I've ever heard of this guy before. I guess that's a good thing!

 

[Colonel_Reb]

By the way Bart, welcome to Caste Football!

 

[Don Wassall]

I was duly impressed by Dr. Z's Caste System credentials when his mid-season all-NFL team consisted of 22 blacks and 0 whites. Buddy Ryan, Jim Haslet, Jimmy Johnson and a zillion others must have been beside themselves with glee upon learning of that list.

 

[Bart]

Thanks for the welcome Col.Reb. Well Don, 22 .blacks and not one white on Dr.Z's list speaks volumes about his integrity and judgment or better still theTOTAL lack thereof. He must have had a hand in picking our previous olympic basketball team.I guess the strength of diversity is only preached to certain groups.

 

[bigunreal]

"Dr. Z" is the pretentious nickname for Paul Zimmerman, a long time
writer for Sports Illustrated. For many years, he was part of ESPN's
consistently underwhelming NFL draft day coverage. He was consistently
wrong in predicting which player would be picked next, and he had less
of a screen presence than Charlie Steiner. If you've seen and heard
Steiner on ESPN in the past, you know that's not a compliment!

 

[sunshine]

Funny I don't rank Dr. Z as a big caste offender. I have seen him praise white players athletic ability more so than the average hack out there. As for themid-season all NFL team I do not believe that is Dr. Z's list, it is SI's. I can double check. Even so I think he is one of the more astute NFL writers out there in my humble opinion.

 

[Colonel_Reb]

I guess I've never seen him on ESPN.

 

[jaxvid]

There are probably zero Christian bookstores in NY but I'm sure there are lots of porno book stores. That's probably what they were looking for anyway.

 

[Colonel_Reb]

jaxvid, i think your probably right.

 

[sport historian]

Paul Zimmerman wrote The Thinking Man's Guide To Pro Football in 1970. He was then a sportswriter for the NY Post. He published a revised version in 1984. Zimmerman also wrote The Last Season of Weeb Ewbank and Duane Thomas and the Fall of America's Team. In the late 70's, he joined Sports Illustrated.


The first book mentioned is pretty good, and was his passport to fame as a "football expert." It isn't biased except that Zimmerman has the usual attitudes of a New York writer. He was always pretty objective regarding Joe Namath.