Rather than argue my case, I will let others do it for me ... mostly

Bill Simmons talks about things your friends would never talk about in a Sports Bar. For example, reality television, pop culture, celebrity relationships, and other shit that has no place in a sports column.

Example from a blog written in 2008.

[Bill Simmons] constantly calls out players for being pussy whipped, most notably Doug Christie. But he allowed his wife to post a column during his football picks about the FUCKING RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN BRAD PITT, ANGELINA JOLIE, AND JENNIFER ANISTON. Are you fucking serious? Is there a topic that a man [edit for content] would rather not talk about than that stupid relationship? We want an article on football and he has Us Weekly on the side! And he let her pick games. And she WON! Not just 1 game or 1 week or 1 month, she was better for the entire season!!! INCLUDING PLAYOFFS!!!! AND HE LET THIS HAPPEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Did he hold up his pinkie in recognition everytime she finished her picks, bowing to her superiority? Any man who allows his wife to show him up when it comes to football knowledge, and publishes it for thousands to read, is just as whipped as Mr. Christie.

More contributions on his horrible, horrible homer-ism about all Boston teams. Bill is a nationally-syndicated writer who literally decides what to write based on what teams he roots for.

"I do not respect Bill Simmons and his attitude about the Pats, like the fact that he was from Boston and wrote about sports made him an honorary member of the team. All he did was jump on their bandwagon as soon as they were good. Did he even write about the Pats in 2002 when they went 9-7? In 2003 they go 14-2 and in every other column he was licking their asshole."

"[After the Sox finally won] Bill mocked the Yankees fans for being sore losers, but then he did the exact same thing when the Colts, who have now beaten the Patriots 3 straight times including the AFC championship, win. He even refused to write a column about the Superbowl because he knew that all those fans he spit on when the Pats were always winning would relish it. But he wrote about 10 columns in 2004 regarding the Red Sox, and he dismissed Yankees fans who said that they were 25 championships behind now. 2 years later, he is being his typical hypocrite by saying that the Colts fans should call him when they win their 3rd."

 The only other person who does this is JA Andande, the biggest homer sportswriter of all time. If you are a sportswriter, you do not want to be compared to JA. It is not a compliment.

And finally, because that blog was written over a year ago, a more recent Bill Simmons story that includes ... well, all of the above, the shitty pop-culture E! entertainment references, the homerism, the drooling all over players and the comparisons to legends who won seven or eight trophies, instead of just 1.

Guess which team this story is about before you click on the link and you win ... a cookie.

http://sports.espn.go.com/espnmag/story?id=3467732

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