So who at ESPN is putting literary references on sports analysis?

[Al B. Sure!]

On the frontpage is an article about the Ravens' Super Bowl chances and the article is titled "Never Say Nevermore". Alright. I guess it's just what passes for clever at journalism school and Poe's The Raven was the inspiration for the naming of the team... so no big deal.

But then I see things like this first sentence of the season outlook for wide receiver Brandon Marshall:

Marshall has so much sturm und drang swirling around him, we'd swear he's a character dreamed up by Goethe: romantic, ambiguous and irrational.

Really? Who at ESPN has been reading a lot 19th century classics and felt the need to show off?

[Koyaanisqatsi]

God forbid a national "news" organization hold an expectation of literacy on the part of its followers.

Besides, they're based in Connecticut.

[Al B. Sure!]

God forbid a national "news" organization hold an expectation of literacy on the part of its followers.

Besides, they're based in Connecticut.

What you think this is? Europe?

Go to Europe and read Kant while blowing a vuvuzela and watching Manchester United while drinking powdered milk.

This is American damnit!

[giblets]

I thought vuvuzelas were african.

[Al B. Sure!]

I thought vuvuzelas were african.

Not really. We went over the fact that they're Mexican in origin but have been around for decades before the South African World Cup (I've seen them sold along the Jersey shore when I was younger). Italians seem to like them as well:

[flash9286]

How about references to bad sci-fi movies