Slate: Sports Blogs Are Taking Over the World!!!!!!! (Not Really)
Uncategorized August 24th. 2007, 10:49am
Interesting piece in Slate this week that all NFL fans – and sports fans in general – should definitely check out. In the Sports Nut column, Robert Weintraub gushes over NFL blog Pro Football Talk with fawning praise fit for ESPN – circa 1997.
Earlier this summer, we called PFT the alpha and the omega when it came to NFL news; Weintraub basically says the same in the wake of how PFT has dominated coverage of the Michael Vick catastrophe. The only thing he didn’t do was reach out to Len Pasquarelli for comment.
In addition, Weintraub touched on a larger point about the impact of blogs: “In other words, PFT and other gossipy blogs like Deadspin and the Big Lead have had the same influence on the sports world that the Drudge Report has had on politics. Michael Vick, meet Monica Lewinsky.€
Hey, we’ll take it!
How Pro Football Talk became the best source for NFL News(Slate)
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August 24th, 2007 at 10:54 am
Upon being reached at home for comment, Len Pasquarelli was quoted as saying, “Lets move on or move out!”
August 24th, 2007 at 11:04 am
“In other words, PFT and other gossipy blogs like Deadspin and the Big Lead have had the same influence on the sports world that the Drudge Report has had on politics. Michael Vick, meet Monica Lewinsky.€
Does this mean Peter King is going to add reviews of Wonder Years in his wonderful and underrated MMQB column? He could stick it in between his weekly Brett Favre stroking and the coffee thing.
August 24th, 2007 at 11:04 am
Mike Florio SWEARS that Favre is really retiring this time!
That Brunell to Atlanta rumor must have been another one of his sick jokes.
August 24th, 2007 at 11:10 am
““In other words, PFT and other gossipy blogs like Deadspin and the Big Lead have had the same influence on the sports world that the Drudge Report has had on politics. Michael Vick, meet Monica Lewinsky.€”
So wait, which blog broke the Vick story?
August 24th, 2007 at 11:13 am
This guy had to have written this before TBL become the cornerstone of the WonderYears/Politics/OC blogosphere. You guys really have that market by the balls.
August 24th, 2007 at 11:28 am
PFT is the best and it (?) turned me onto TBL.
August 24th, 2007 at 11:31 am
This article had to come pre Kardashian outpouring
August 24th, 2007 at 12:52 pm
Ah, “The Maj,” a bit jealous, are we? PFT, the best football site out there, period.
August 24th, 2007 at 1:01 pm
I enjoy PFT, just not when they rise my hopes with false tales of a Mark Brunell trade. That’s just cruel.
August 24th, 2007 at 1:02 pm
“Ah, “The Maj,†a bit jealous, are we? PFT, the best football site out there, period.”
You don’t actually have to say “period” when you’re writing a sentence ya dumbass.
August 24th, 2007 at 1:19 pm
One thing’s for sure: PFT is definitely the best site for boring legal analysis, boring agent rumors, and whoring Sprint phones.
August 24th, 2007 at 2:10 pm
Ha, here they come. Well they’re definitely not the best for posting fake interviews, fake monologues, and getting 90% of their readership from Deadspin. Hey, Rex Grossmann is going deep! Bwahaha!
August 24th, 2007 at 2:10 pm
While, l am an interested follower of PFT, I don’t know that it has the WWL or sport franchises quaking in their boots. However, it is a fresh departure from KSK, which tends to play in mud and more nonsports topics than the other blogs.
August 24th, 2007 at 2:26 pm
Yeah, we’re also not a news gathering outfit.
August 24th, 2007 at 2:27 pm
Bwahaha, EXCLAMATION POINT!
August 24th, 2007 at 2:57 pm
“Well they’re definitely not the best for posting fake interviews, fake monologues, and getting 90% of their readership from Deadspin.”
Damn right, you ain’t! And, for your information, we also excel at bad MS paint artwork.
August 24th, 2007 at 4:15 pm
Whoa. Break it up boys. Back to your corners.
August 24th, 2007 at 7:20 pm
PFT is the best but it didnt turn me to tbl, that was their good friend colin cowherd