LETTERS
Favre touchdown mark deserved better play
To the sports editor:
Last Sunday, Green Bay Packers quarterback Brett Favre surpassed Dan Marino’s record for career touchdown passes — breaking one of the league’s most hallowed marks — yet note of this was made on Page 8C of your Monday Sports section.
Instead of seeing a photo of Favre hitting Greg Jennings on the record-breaking TD pass on the cover of Sports, we get a picture of the Philadelphia Phillies celebrating winning the National League East.
Big deal! Favre’s career achievement deserved far better than being placed in the middle of your Sports section.
RAY KUNDA
We’re a NASCAR town; where’s race coverage?
To the sports editor:
When NASCAR first came to town, the Review-Journal embraced it and was great at reporting all things NASCAR.
But for the past few years, I have had to go to outside sources to find out about my favorite sport, especially now with the Chase for the Cup in full swing and following last Sunday’s controversy at Kansas Speedway.
Las Vegas does have a track in town that now wants another race, so let’s cover the sport like we are a NASCAR town. Just a little more coverage and editorials that pertain to NASCAR’s playoff format, that’s all I ask.
DON MEEGAN
Whoa, New York ‘Mutts’? That’s insulting to dogs!
To the sports editor:
I found it offensive that Joe Hawk, in Tuesday’s “Rants & Raves” column, referred to the New York Mets as the New York Mutts.
That was uncalled for … as any mutt-owner will tell you!
DEBBIE RICHARDS
Football can do without strutting, crude behavior
To the sports editor:
Remember when football teammates encouraged each other before games without shouting unintelligible grunts in unison and caught passes or made tackles without a pose and a strut and handed the ball to the referee after a score instead of dancing and mugging for the cameras?
Football can be played with ferocity without in-your-face obscenities and the crude behavior of self-doting clowns, no matter how talented they may be.
I also remember games coming on television without bedazzling, zooming images and announcers who didn’t butcher the language, unlike today’s inarticulate ex-jocks and female sideline reporters spouting ditzy commentary.
ERNIE MATHEWS
HENDERSON
Maybe Gladiators owner should bring O.J. aboard
To the sports editor:
There has to be a day when Jim Ferraro, this clown of an owner of the Gladiators arena football team, is taken to task.
His comment in a recent Review-Journal story that playing on Sundays is not his preference is ridiculous. Has he ever turned his TV on in the fall on Sundays? A lot of football is played on that day.
The day Ferraro should be concerned about is the one when his franchise starts winning. Or maybe he should move his team to his home state of Florida, along with that other Florida resident who recently caused a stir in our town.
On second thought, maybe Ferraro should name O.J. Simpson to be the team’s new general manager. At least O.J. draws a crowd.
CHUCK DEKEADO
HENDERSON
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