From: athos@apple.com (Rick Eames)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.football.pro
Subject: Re: Young VS. Montana (My Thoughts)
Date: 12 Jan 93 23:41:14 GMT
Followup-To: rec.sport.football.pro
Organization: Apple Computer, Inc.

In article <1993Jan12.214210.23067@leland.Stanford.EDU>,
rustcat@leland.Stanford.EDU (Vallury Prabhakar) wrote:
> 
> In article <athos-120193100534@athos.apple.com> athos@apple.com (Rick Eames) writes:
> >Okay, so maybe I participate in Young Bashing a little too much.  It all
> >started back when Bill Walsh made what I consider to be the worst decision
> >in his career: pulling Montana out of a game and putting Steve Young in. 
> >Young became the media darling of the Bay Area and a "controversy" was
> >born.  Since then, I've had to listen to Steve Young bitch and moan about
> >being a bench warmer. 
> 
> Let's see, Steve Young "bitches & moans" but Joe Montana is being 
> competitive???

Young bitched when he was not the starter.  Montana is bitching because he
lost his job when he became injured and it looks as though he's not going
to ever get the chance to get that job back.  That's what's wrong (to me).
 
> > So then Montana gets wacked out of a game and Young
> >comes in.  The Niners lose that game and they don't go to the Super Bowl.  
> 
> That was utterly stupid of Joe Montana to get "wacked" (?) out of a game,
> knowing all the time that Steve Young is a consummate loser.  How dare Steve
> Young not win the game when Joe is out??  Of course, we know for a fact that
> Joe Montana could never lose/blow a game.  

Ah, I should expect someone from Stanford to be a condescending ass.  Look,
Montana got whacked like Kelly got whacked like Elway got wacked like
Cunningham got wacked.  The problem here is that Montana then LOST HIS JOB
due to an injury which he has now recovered from.  It's age-bigots like you
that demand that Joe just step aside and let his job go away permently.  
 
> >Joe Montana is out only because of injury.  People like me feel that when a
> >player gets wacked out of his starting job because of injury he should have
> >the chance to get his starting position back.  When you're Joe Montana and
> >have 4 Super Bowls under your belt, that becomes even a bigger thing to me.
> > 
> 
> This is getting awfully tiresome.  Mindless ramblings like this by Joe-fans
> can only hurt the team.  Thankfully, the majority of the 49er fans are 
> perfectly happy to support the team and give them a vocal boost when they
> need it.  The team wins IN SPITE of the likes of you.

Sorry, I'm a Niner fan who feels that it's PEOPLE who made the Niners
successful and that when those people get shit on (like Montana, Lott,
Craig, Waymer, Sydney...).  I bitched big time when they shit on Lott as
they did.  He gave them his all and they shit on him.  They OWED him.  Yes,
OWED him.  And they OWE Montana the opportunity to get his job back.
 
> Of course, Joe's had the chance to get his starting job back in the off-
> and pre-season games.  At the time, he just didn't make the grade.  Who
> exactly do you blame for his dysfunctional elbow??  Or do you think that 
> the 9ers should have forfeited all the games (rather than let Young start)
> until Joe is hale and hearty again??  Steve Young became the starter and 
> has shown the necessary skills and leadership to get the team to an 
> almost-perfect season.  So Steve Young stays as the starter, plain and 
> simple.  
> 
> In the off-season, as the 49er office has pointed out repeatedly, 
> the starting QB position will once again be open to all 3 QBs, and whoever
> performs better gets it. This season, the 9ers win or lose with Young at the
> helm, so why can't you accept that for a fact and support the team instead of
> spewing your bile all over the place??  

Spewing Bile?  Oh, puhlease.  I AM supporting the team.  I support the team
so much that if Steve Young comes out on Sunday and SUCKS, I hope they
forget Steve Young and try Montana.  Just desserts since they did that to
Montana in a playoff game...
 
> Seems to me that the likes of you aren't really 49er fans but just Montana
> fans and, in your own little worlds, believe that Joe can do nothing wrong
> and Young can do nothing right.  

See above.  I view Loyalty as paramount in teams.  Montana, Lott, Sydney,
Waymer are all people who were damned Loyal to the the Niners, but don't
seem to get the same respect back.
 
> I'm sick of this drivel.    

Yeah, me too.

>  
> -- 
> Eighty percent of air pollution comes from plants and trees. -- Ronald Reagan, famous movie star

I thought it was from the CO2 produced by chatty Stanford Students chanting
about having to take Western Civ classes while gyrating to Joan Baez
music...

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