Deadlift said:
It looks like somebody's been reading CF! He even has a link to the Terrance Cody "topless"... nonetheless, there had to be a few "obligatory Whites" who are a bit heavy.
http://www.cbssports.com/columns/story/13691510/looking-for-laughs-in-this-fat-albert-episode-not-here?tag=globalNav.nfl;cover
I'm angry because this lack of discipline is offensive, and it goes beyond sports. Guys like this often -- not always, but often -- lack the discipline to live their life the right way. Haynesworth stomped on a player's unprotected head in 2006, opening a 30-stitch gash in Dallas Cowboys center Andre Gurode's face. After eating his way out of the NBA, Oliver Miller was kicked off the Harlem Globetrotters for having no discipline and then, earlier this year, was expelled from a minor-league basketball game after running into the stands to confront a fan. Nate Newton had no willpower as a 360-pound lineman with Dallas, then was caught with 175 pounds of marijuana in his car. And there's John Daly, who has diluted his world-class talent for golf with his no-class tendencies toward food, alcohol, cigarettes and women.
The obligatory White is present, of course, but this is pretty good writing here. Discipline is largely the product of mental prowess, so, if you lack discipline, it's likely the result of having a dull-mind.
If he were to add the "extreme AA" to this discussion, everything would have been tied in nicely. It's clear that most of the sumos' are blacks/Polys.
There's something I find interesting.. In the article, he mentions the passing of "Dinner Bell" Mel (suicide) and Kevin Duckworth, two basketball players, but he fails to mention the recent passing of
(DT) Norman Hand and also Chris Mims (obscure name, I'll give you that, but he was a 1st Round Pick).
Both basketball players were in their 40s when they passed, but both football linemen were under-40 when their hearts gave out. It's not just the jiggling rolls of fat that make these sumo lineman look "unhealthy," but it's the knowledge that these guys have been eating an abundance of greasy foods since they were children.
Something else... With the passing of Harry Galbreath and Chris Mims, those are two former
Tennessee Vols' players right there, and Norman Hand went to
Ole Miss. And, looking at the other original sumos, it's clear that the "sumo movement" started in the South, for sure, but, these days, there's no shortage of super-obese blacks in the North, either. If Mims or Hand were
ON NFL rosters when they passed, YOU KNOW it would have gotten much more scrutiny, but, as it stands now, it's like
"someone has sent it down the memory hole."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Hand
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Mims
With all of the facts, one can really lay-down the gauntlet, and the anti-sumo message could really resonate. Doyle, if you're reading this, did you just forget about these linemen's deaths? One was a 1st Rounder, and the other, Hand, started every game he played in, except 28, in his career. I remember when he was with the Saints. I always thought his last name was "odd."
