TOP 11 TAKEAWAYS FROM BUZZ BISSINGER'S ANTI-SPORTS BLOG TIRADE

by DMtShooter, Five Tool Tool

11. You must know about, and have read, old sportswriters to have the right to have and publish an opinion

10. You should stop reading things that you enjoy, and start reading things Buzz Bissinger thinks you should enjoy

9. If his child doesn't have a wonderful world to live in with ample supplies of newspapers, it's all our fault

8. The non-existent status quo where wonderful, benevolent and all-knowing sportswriters favor us with their painstakingly crafted and edited words must be protected

7. Only sports bloggers are glib

6. Screaming, cursing, and insulting someone's personal appearance must mean your argument is better, because you care about it so gosh-darned much

5. People who are under 50 who use the Internet are cheap, tawdry, mean, coarse, and stupid -- unlike, say, the person making the assessment

4. Posts on a sports blog and comments on a sports blog are all the same thing, bear the same weight, and are read with equal skepticism and intellectual rigour by the blog's readers

3. 50-year-old men who work in dying mediums are in no way projecting, insecure, irrelevant or unhinged, dammit -- they are just right

2. When a blogger uses invective, it's wrong: when a published author does it, we should respect our elders

1. Any of us who blogs about sports should probably just kill ourselves (hey, maybe he works for Google!)