From: darkstar7646@gmail.com   
      
   On Thursday, November 30, 2023 at 11:37:35 AM UTC-8, The NOTBCS Guy wrote:   
   > This year's Sportsperson of the Year: Deion Sanders.    
   >    
   > Because nothing says "sporstperson" like going 4-8. Okay, to be fair, this   
   is one of those years where nobody really stood out - well, at least, nobody   
   who meets the "unwritten rules" for the award (either (a) an athlete in one of   
   the four major pro    
   leagues, (b) someone representing USA in some sport, (c) an American   
   golfer/tennis player, (d) a college football or basketball coach, or (e)   
   someone who gets it for reasons that have nothing to do with sports).    
   > My "short list" was Mahomes, somebody from the baseball Rangers, and a "city   
   award" for Las Vegas (Golden Knights, Aces, and throw in the Raiders and A's   
   and a Grand Prix plus an upcoming Super Bowl as well).   
      
   There are so many problems with this, it's not funny.   
      
   But my short list is Max Verstappen.  19 of the 22 F1 races this year, he   
   wins.     
      
   One of the ramifications of this award is that no one (not even Mahomes or the   
   Rangers) sufficiently had achievement to merit this award, nor even a Lifetime   
   Achievement Award like the year Favre won it.   
      
   The second is that you do have to wonder whether there is some real admission   
   of corporate tampering in American sports, to the end stated just above.   
      
   And the big one:  One, this guy accomplished NOTHING.  He went 4-8 in another   
   irrelevant year for a football program which does not have a future in the   
   reality of American college football (to be fair, even a good number of the   
   programs going to a bowl    
   game have no such future, but that's another argument).   
      
   Two, if this guy is to be that lauded, it basically is another step toward the   
   open-facing of what Keith Olbermann calls "college-pro" football, and in more   
   than just the "pay the players, any way you can"...  This guy fired a   
   significant number of the    
   former Colorado players and told them, straight out, they were unfit for FBS.   
      
   (The real question should be how many of these players found other FBS   
   programs which enjoyed some level of success, but no one has actually done   
   that study.)   
      
   This was a horrific decision.  If you MUST, either find some story of bravery   
   to win it or declare "No Winner" and actually start calling out American sport   
   for the ills it has and actually state that genuine competition and   
   achievement are things of the    
   past.   
      
   Mike   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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