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"I'd love to finish my career here" and other great sports cliches
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<blockquote data-quote="TJV" data-source="post: 489963" data-attributes="member: 4300"><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">weeds hints at this in the OP but the clichés don’t irritate me nearly as much as when athletes go stupidly off-script. Finley comes to mind as a recent example for the Packers but in the scope of all pro athletes his foolish comments are rather mild in comparison. If I were an agent or someone giving advice to a pro athlete I would advise the exclusive use of clichés and bland generalities. While entertaining, raw honesty just isn’t good PR; it rarely, if ever helps the athlete so to me it’s all downside potential with little chance to improve how the athlete is viewed. E</span></span><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">ven if his on-the-field performance was exactly the same, how would Packers fans view Finley if they couldn’t recall a single thing he ever said? </span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TJV, post: 489963, member: 4300"] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Tahoma]weeds hints at this in the OP but the clichés don’t irritate me nearly as much as when athletes go stupidly off-script. Finley comes to mind as a recent example for the Packers but in the scope of all pro athletes his foolish comments are rather mild in comparison. If I were an agent or someone giving advice to a pro athlete I would advise the exclusive use of clichés and bland generalities. While entertaining, raw honesty just isn’t good PR; it rarely, if ever helps the athlete so to me it’s all downside potential with little chance to improve how the athlete is viewed. E[/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#000000][FONT=Tahoma]ven if his on-the-field performance was exactly the same, how would Packers fans view Finley if they couldn’t recall a single thing he ever said? [/FONT][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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