My feeling has always been that if you can’t laugh at yourself then you have no business complaining about anything. The worst thing someone can do in this world is take themselves too seriously.
Now, I do not know Rob Parker. I have no idea what kind of person he is. I also do not know anyone can speak on his behalf. He could be a huge jerk that kicks kittens or he could be the guy shoveling out soup at the neighborhood homeless kitchen.
What I do know is that Terry Bradshaw thinks Parker is “an idiot” (which is funny because Bradshaw may or not be one himself, but he certainly plays one on television) and that Michael Strahan wants him fired.
(On a side note, normally I would get terrifically angry when a multi-millionaire who works a few days a week calls for the firing of someone who makes significantly less than him/her merely on principle, but I have no idea how much Parker makes and since he is on ESPN occasionally, I’ll assume he isn’t pulling some shabby paycheck.)
What did Parker do to incite so much anger among the football minds? Well, during a press conference with Marinelli, Parker asked:
"On a light note, seriously, do you wish your daughter had married a better
defensive coordinator?”
Oh yeah, Marinelli’s son-in-law is the defensive coordinator. Hmmm….
It isn’t only the Sunday morning talking heads that have taken issue with Rob Parker. Chris Chase, a Yahoo! Sports writer has a condescending article up airing out his grievances with Parker. This article has 931 comments as of right now, and after reading about 30 of them, I think it is safe to assume that over 90% of them are all helping Chase hold Parker under the bus.
I can sort of understand why Bradshaw and Strahan, former players, can take issue with some joke a journalist cracked at the expense of the coach…but as for Chase…it just doesn’t make sense.
It seems to me Parker was making a light-hearted joke in the midst of an 0-15 going on 0-16 season. I’m sorry Marinelli can’t get his shit together, but he did appoint his son-in-law second in command and his team is crapawful. Marinelli gets paid a lot of money to excel at nothing. I think a joke at his expense is occasionally in order.
Journalists these days seem to think the only way to save the profession is by weeding out the bad ones and distancing themselves as far from them as possible. As soon as public opinion of Parker was swayed by Tweedle-Dum and Tweedle-Dumber on FOX, then people, like Chase, started lining up to show their disapproval.
I mean…what else is Parker supposed to ask? Coach, do you think Daunte Culpepper is the long-term answer at QB? How nice is it to have Calvin Johnson scoring meaningless touchdowns? Is this a 2-14, 3-13 team with Charles Rogers still in the lineup? How do you feel about the Iverson acquisition?
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