Larry Johnson is Losing His Mind

**SpaceCityRaven** · 12-05-2019, 02:51 AM

You can’t make this stuff up. Athletes and Twitter are a dangerous mix.

https://www.nydailynews.com/news/nat...uw4-story.html

**I Touchdown There** · 12-05-2019, 07:46 AM

Originally Posted by SpaceCityRaven

You can’t make this stuff up. Athletes and Twitter are a dangerous mix.

https://www.nydailynews.com/news/nat...uw4-story.html

Correction... some athletes with potential CTE and Twitter are dangerous. The Torrey Smiths and Chris Longs of the world are great on Twitter!

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**SpaceCityRaven** · 12-05-2019, 07:49 AM

Originally Posted by I Touchdown There

Correction... some athletes with potential CTE and Twitter are dangerous. The Torrey Smiths and Chris Longs of the world are great on Twitter!

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Fair point.

**wickedsolo** · 12-05-2019, 08:23 AM

Originally Posted by I Touchdown There

Correction... most athletes with potential CTE and Twitter are dangerous. The Torrey Smiths and Chris Longs of the world are great on Twitter!

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FTFY.

The reality is most athletes are dumb and so far removed from normal society that they have very little perspective on reality.

**Vlad the lad** · 12-05-2019, 08:53 AM

Originally Posted by wickedsolo

FTFY.

The reality is most athletes are dumb and so far removed from normal society that they have very little perspective on reality.

You can add entertainers to that list. Most either don’t have an education, or didn’t take advantage of the time they were in school. Focusing on their skill, instead of learning basic things.

Then they get employees making significantly more than the average person. But still want to pretend they can relate to the average person

**DitkasSausage** · 12-05-2019, 10:07 AM

I guess I'm in a weird boat on this. I don't feel that athletes are "dumb". They spent time perfecting a skill and professional sports are insanely complex. It takes a totally different type of intelligence to play pro-sports, but it is STILL intelligence.
Can they put together a proposal, could they do functional math, or write coherently? Not all... some. But can you identify a man cover-2 split in under 3 seconds? Can you bench 225lbs 45 times? We all have skills and to put some above others isn't relevant. I worked a job where I was constantly on two phones, sending e-mails and instant messaging all while putting in data... it was an insane amount of multi-tasking, but I was good at it. I remember a guy in my office was talking sports and was saying about how Kerry Wood was a once-in-a-lifetime talent at pitching. My manager, very quickly, and very straight faced said, "Oh yeah? I bet he can't talk on two phones, respond to e-mails, and hit quotas like you can"... he was joking but it always stuck with me. We are amazed with what they do in the field, but if you put them in one of our jobs... they would fail. Think of the flip side. If you were yanked out of the stands, hot-dog in hand, and suited up and thrown into ANY position on a football field, you'd likely die of blunt force trauma as you aimlessly ran around trying to figure out what was even going on.

**wickedsolo** · 12-05-2019, 10:47 AM

Originally Posted by DitkasSausage

I guess I'm in a weird boat on this. I don't feel that athletes are "dumb". They spent time perfecting a skill and professional sports are insanely complex. It takes a totally different type of intelligence to play pro-sports, but it is STILL intelligence.
Can they put together a proposal, could they do functional math, or write coherently? Not all... some. But can you identify a man cover-2 split in under 3 seconds? Can you bench 225lbs 45 times? We all have skills and to put some above others isn't relevant. I worked a job where I was constantly on two phones, sending e-mails and instant messaging all while putting in data... it was an insane amount of multi-tasking, but I was good at it. I remember a guy in my office was talking sports and was saying about how Kerry Wood was a once-in-a-lifetime talent at pitching. My manager, very quickly, and very straight faced said, "Oh yeah? I bet he can't talk on two phones, respond to e-mails, and hit quotas like you can"... he was joking but it always stuck with me. We are amazed with what they do in the field, but if you put them in one of our jobs... they would fail. Think of the flip side. If you were yanked out of the stands, hot-dog in hand, and suited up and thrown into ANY position on a football field, you'd likely die of blunt force trauma as you aimlessly ran around trying to figure out what was even going on.

One can be football smart and not very intelligent.

Dexter Manley, for example. ;)