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Jerk of the Week (Jan. 4): Thomas Jones

January 4th, 2009, 1:25 pm by Brad Milner

A New Year doesn’t mean idiot athletes have taken a new tact in speaking about teammates.

The first Jerk of the Week for 2009 is New York Jets running back Thomas Jones. He threw quarterback Brett Favre under the bus after the Jets lost to Miami in the regular-season finale. Favre threw three interceptions and Jones, who thinks he’s the best running back in the league, said the veteran should have been benched.

Jones went on to say he was “ticked” and that the guys are all “playing for the Super Bowl.” Well, news flash Mr. Jones, you were officially out of the playoff race at halftime. Plus, Favre is the best option at QB. AND it’s the coach’s decision, so maybe you should have pointed your anger there.

Here’s the big fact: Favre made the Jets a better team. Yes, Chad Pennington went to Miami and helped turn the Dolphins into a playoff team, but Favre showed the ability to stretch the field with a stronger arm. Pennington is a good QB, but teams would have been able to stop the run more with him in the lineup.

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Jerk(s) of the Week (Dec. 8): O.J. and Plaxico Burress

December 9th, 2008, 10:01 am by Brad Milner

O.J. Simpson and Plaxico Burress are not the pair you’d want to have dinner with. They both recently found their way into trouble after using a firearm and are tied for the Jerk of the Week honor (which has gone a bit astray, but I promise to be more vigilant in 2009).

The Juice was found guilty last week on several counts of armed robbery and kidnapping in Las Vegas. The former Buffalo Bills running back, who was aquitted of murder some 13 years ago, told the court he thought he was doing nothing wrong in trying to retrieve stolen property.

Well, O.J., threatening someone with a gun and stealing is wrong in just about everyone’s book. We all know you have skewed view of right and wrong, but perhaps the at leats nine years you’ll spend in prison will jar your memory. He’ll be behind bars until he’s 70 and could be in longer.

Then there’s Plaxico Burress, who last week was suspended for the remainder of the season after shooting himself in a club. The often troubled wide receiver might not play with the New York Giants again, and he has no one to blame but himself.

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Jerk of the Week (Oct. 2): Al Davis

October 2nd, 2008, 10:30 am by Brad Milner

It doesn’t take much to dislike the Oakland Raiders. The fact I’m a Denver Broncos makes it that much easier. But what helps the most is Owner Al Davis.

Davis, the NFL’s version of a bad joke, fired Lane Kiffin this week. He went a few steps beyond that by holding a press conference, telling the media how bad of a coach Kiffin was, how he didn’t want to draft JaMarcus Russell (who may not pan out, mind you) and how he didn’t get along with Davis. He even had visual aids and read a letter he sent to Kiffin. At least he can read.

He did everything short of brining out the Easter Bunny to sing the Raiders fight song, which goes something like this I think: Oakland, fight on. Forge into battle strong. Lose all night long. Oakland, fight on. There’s more losing at the dawn.

I’d be amazed to find anyone who would get along with Davis. His press conference only made him look like more of a jerk. His days of glory are well behind him, yet he thinks he is still relevant in today’s NFL.

He’s old and needs to move along. Lane Kiffin has already and he’ll make one heckuva coach someday, just like that other guy Davis ran out of town, Mike Shanahan, who has defeated the Raiders more times than Plaxico Burress has been fined by the New York Giants.

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Jerk(s) of the Week (Aug. 27): Olympic edition

August 27th, 2008, 4:24 pm by Brad Milner

A quick perusal of the archives made it clear in my head that I had let the Jerk of the Week go by the wayside for a few weeks. Now it’s back, with a look at bad sportsmanship from the Olympics.

We start off with Cuba’s Angel Matos, who kicked a referee in the head after being disqualified for taking too much injury time during a taekwando match. He was upset, which is understandable, but he should have walked off and taken it like a man. Instead, Mr. Matos, you took the coward’s way out and you were suspended for life for it. You deserved it.

Watch the video here.

Next we take a look at Sweden’s Ara Abrahamian, who threw down his bronze during the medal ceremony in grego-roman wrestling. He acted as if the guy who put the medal around his neck was to blame for his ineptness on the mat. The Swedish coach cried “politics” as the reason. I think a few better holds would have sufficed.

Finally, British runner Martyn Rooney took it upon himself to taunt Jamaica as he finished first in a 4×400 relay semifinal. The key word there is SEMIFINAL. Your team placed fourth. Oh, and Mr. Rooney fell flat in the 400 final. Way to go.

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Jerk(s) of the Week (July 14): Ted Thompson and Mike McCarthy

July 14th, 2008, 9:23 am by Brad Milner

In the immortal words of Ben Stiller in “There’s Something About Mary,” “What about Brett Favera?”

Yes, what about Brett Favre? If you ask the Green Bay Packers the answer would be who cares?

Favre wants to play again, months after he retired. The Packers, and more specifically General Manager Ted Thompson and Coach Mike McCarthy, have other ideas.

Favre asked for his release. They won’t allow it.

Favre wants to be traded. They probably won’t do that, either.

Basically they told the face of the franchise that he would be an active member of the team, but he wouldn’t be the starting quarterback. He inquired about a coaching position, and they said no.

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Jerk of the Week (June 9): Rick Dutrow Jr.

June 9th, 2008, 8:42 am by Brad Milner

The greatest story in sports this year became the greatest flop in the span of three minutes on Saturday. And it all centered around Big Brown’s trainer, Rick Dutrow Jr.

Big Brown jockey Kent Desormeaux was the fall guy

Dutrow is less than modest and he trumpeted his horse’s cause for weeks, even through a quarter crack in one of its hooves. He said if Big Brown got out to the lead it would all be over. On Saturday he guaranteed a win in front of a national television audience.

Instead, he was left with a last-place horse and angry with a sweat-stained shirt. And what was with all that sweat? Come on I sweat but dude that was a million gallons.

Anyway, he refused to say anything to the media for a short time after, and it’s understandable if he wanted to tend to his horse first.

But that’s not the kind of guy he is. It was obvious he was ticked that he lost, that his horse let him down. Or, as he led on it was his jockey and he made that point clear on Monday.

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Jerk of the Week (May 26): Danica Patrick

May 26th, 2008, 10:27 am by Brad Milner

Who’s the biggest whiner in all sports? Danica Patrick.

The open-wheel “phenom” (with a whopping one win to her credit) was knocked out of Sunday’s Indianapolis 500 after Ryan Briscoe clipped her car in the pits. She spun into the wall and finished 22nd.

Ms. Patrick proceeded to do her usual spoiled brat stomp out of the car as if her world had come crashing down. She charged after Briscoe, who was still in his car mind you, and was guided away by race officials at the last second.

Afterwards, she told ESPN, with her trademark scowl, that Briscoe was “happy I didn’t get down there.”

What? Are you some kind of a thug now. Would you have opened up a flurry of punches on him, knowing full well he can’t fight back because he’d be called out for hitting a woman?

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Jerk of the Week (May 5): Roger Clemens

May 5th, 2008, 10:12 am by Brad Milner

Roger Clemens has recently found a way to look more and more shady. And we all know, being shady is never a good thing.

The latest news links Clemens with country singer Mindy McCready, as a New York Daily News article reported the two carried on a decade-long affair. Clemens claimed they were simply friends (and it’s even more creepy if a then-28-year-old was “friends” with a 15-year-old kid). McCready has said otherwise, and was unable to refute any of the facts in the story.

There is another report of an affair with John Daly’s ex-wife. Both parties are mum.

The bottom line is Clemens is a guy who is not to be trusted. This is only a bad thing for his ongoing defamation law suit against his former trainer. All of these issues also will be used to build the potential perjury charge that could be coming.

I feel for Clemens if all these stories are false. If true, I also feel for him, but it reinforces that he was shady character in a sport that seems to be filled with a lot of them. And if he did use performance-enhancing drugs, all of this could have been avoided if he just came clean

He will be forever remembered for the bad things, rather than as a great pitcher. But, he has no one to blame but himself for that.

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Jerk of the Week (April 15): Gino Castignoli

April 15th, 2008, 8:50 am by Brad Milner

Happy Tax Day! Ok, you might ask who is this? He’s the construction worker who dumped the David Ortiz jersey into the concrete mix at the new Yankee Stadium.

Mr. Castignoli, a Boston Red Sox fan, thought this would put a curse on the Yankees. Instead, he put a curse on his own guy, Big Papi, who started the season with the lowest batting average among players with enough qualified at-bats. (It was even worse than Andruw Jones, yikes.)

Castignoli was bold enough to wear the jersey to the contruction site and proceeded to put it into the concrete in front of everyone. What he should have done is hid the jersey, or done it under the cloak of darkness with a buddy. They could have taken pictures and taped the incident to throw it up on Youtube the day of the opening.

Now that would have been funny. But now the jersey has been unearthed and Big Papi had two hits. Interesting.

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Jerk(s) of the Week (March 10): The Oakland Raiders

March 10th, 2008, 8:32 am by Brad Milner

I wish I could nominate the worst team in the world for this honor every week, but alas I cannot. The Raiders have been known for many things in their history, including most recently being one of the worst teams in the NFL.

The front office also has a way of making boneheaded decisions. The latest was signing oft-injured wide receiver Javon Walker to a six-year deal that could be worth up to $55 million. He received a $6 million signing bonus and will make $5 in the first two years with the team.

This idiotic amount went to a wide receiver who had fewer than 300 yards last season with Denver. He had a decent year the season before, but went back on the injured list for most of last year.

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