If I was this team's coach I'd cut this assclown from the team immediately

[bluestateguy]

There are too many serious players looking for a chance to let fools like this on an NFL field.


http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/blog/shutdown_corner/post/Video-Theismann-windily-calls-out-Redskins-retur?urn=nfl-wp6337

[Zanzoobar]

1. If you were his coach you'd keep him.

An NFL coach isn't going to throw away millions in salary. That kid, any of those kids, can secure his future.

They're all hotdoggers. You'd weigh it out and find that he's staying. Besides, the coach doesn't hire and fire.

He takes what talent is signed.

[jaxx]

2. Not many that can run that fast!!

[Recovered Repug]

3. The kid picked the right time to do something stupid.

It was a pre-season game and it was ruled a touchdown anyway. Couch him up and he'll learn from it. Leon Lett made a couple of bone-headed plays during a pretty good career.

[jobycom]

4. Joe T fulfilling his role of dead horse walloper with aplomb.

The list of NFL greats who did something that dumb in their early careers is long. If you were that team's coach and cut a promising player after one stupid play instead of analyzing his entire dossier and trying to shape him into a mature player, you wouldn't be head coach very long... Wait, who am I kidding, we're talking about the Redskins, and that's pretty much the MO of Mike Shanahan. :rofl:

[petronius]

5. "Dead Horse Walloper" - Obviously you have dibs, but I'm gonna give that

serious consideration during the next name-change-amnesty if you don't want it... :)

[jobycom]

8. LOL! Go for it! nt

[madinmaryland]

6. I'd tell Joe Theismann to SHUT THE FUCK UP. RIGHT FUCKING NOW.

Douchebag extraordinaire!

Oh. He's talking about the Deadskins?? Never mind.

[tabasco]

9. Good luck with that.

Theismann doesn't know how to STFU.

Just keeps on babbling and babbling and babbling.....

[JVS]

7. I figure I've got 15 years more of watching sports.

It seems that the athletic organizations are seeking and cultivating such an ever increasing degree of narcissistic showboating and self expression from the players that by then it will have degenerated into a spectacle along the likes of studio wrestling.

[hfojvt]

10. well youtube does not seem to have the video

but some ESPNer should dig it up.

In Sammy White's rookie year for the Vikings in a game against the Detroit Lions, Sammy White caught his second or third touchdown pass.

At least it would have been. Except that on the twenty yard line, White, being sure he had a touchdown again, held the ball aloft like it was the torch on the Statue of Liberty. Except that he also slowed down enough for one of the Detroit Lions to catch up, dive and grab his foot. Well, Sammy fell flat on his face and slid about ten yards and the ball went out the back of the end zone for a touch back. Detroit got the ball on their own twenty.

But the Vikings still won the game and Sammy White was still "rookie of the year".

But that was one for the ages, in a game that counted. Theisman should be old enough to remember that.

But then again, Ahmad Rashad was announcing and they were talking about the immaculate reception and he didn't even mention his own immaculate reception in one of the greatest comebacks I have ever seen as the Vikings erased a 20 point deficit against the Eagles with only about five minutes left in the game.

[hfojvt]

11. okay maybe it was the Browns

youtube has that video with the catch the way I remember it as well as the lateral play in the middle of the field.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDUvyoJCrhM&feature=related

I coulda sworn it was Eagles though, because I wouldn't have been rooting for the Browns.

[taterguy]

12. Football is a game. Being "serious" all the time kind of defeats the whole purpose

It's supposed to be fun and enjoyable.

[MineralMan]

13. That won't happen. Sadly, though, this kind of showboating is

filtering down into college and even high school players. I feel sorry for coaches at that level, who have to try to get their players to take end zone stuff seriously.