Anyone catch SportsCenter Saturday night??? I happened to see part of this post game interview, I could have sworn that this kid was going through Roid Rage while talking to reporters....this article doesn't give the full effect of his outburst but I do agree with the writer!!
Column: Winslow's outburst embarrasses himself, Miami and college football
Published on Monday, November 10, 2003
David Skretta
Kansas State Collegian
I'm not very original in my column this week. In fact, more than a few people are going to write about this topic.
Yet it has to be said.
Kellen Winslow is an idiot.
There really isn't any way to sugar-coat it, and there really isn't a good way to rationalize it.
He's just an idiot.
The talented Miami tight end lashed out at everything and everybody Saturday after the Hurricanes lost their second-straight game, a 10-6 heartbreaker against Tennessee.
After a hard block in which Winslow wiped out two Volunteers in the third-quarter, springing a big gain on a running play around the right end, Winslow stood over the injured Corey Campbell and taunted him.
When asked if he realized he had hurt the Tennessee defensive back, Winslow replied in a tirade in the Hurricane locker room.
"It's war," he screamed at reporters and television cameras. "They're out there to kill you, so I'm out there to kill them."
Uh, Kellen, this is a game.
If you want to know what war is, ship your pompous, spoiled ass to Iraq and fight in a real war, where people are really dying.
Football is a game, and when you lose a game, you should lose with grace and dignity.
Not with a foul-mouthed tirade bleeped out by the TV stations that showed it.
"We don't care about anybody but this U," he kept on during the five-minute outburst. "They're going after my legs. I'm going to come right back at them. I'm a... soldier."
Give him props for refraining from the f-bomb before "soldier," but chalk up a couple points to immaturity for the rest.
Add a couple more for being just plain dumb. As defined in the Oxford Dictionary, a soldier is "a person serving in or having served in an army."
Kellen, you don't apply.
Winslow then lashed out at the Southeastern Athletic Conference and its officials for targeting him during the game. Somehow, they kept him to just seven catches for 88 yards.
There's no disputing Winslow is the best tight end in college football, and if that position wasn't as glamorous as a beat up Chevy Nova, he'd be the best player in college football.
But that doesn't mean he and his attitude belong in college football, either. He should be suspended for the Canes' next game, if not the remainder of the season.
The only good that came of this is perhaps he learned a lesson.
In a statement released by the University of Miami Sunday, Winslow apologized for his statements.
"I cannot begin to imagine the magnitude of war or its consequences," the statement read. "What I have learned from this experience is to take my triumphs and failures in stride. My outburst should in no shape or form be a reflection on this institution or the Miami football program."
Judging from his intelligence in the interview, I'd be hard-pressed to believe Winslow wrote any of that statement.
Regardless, Winslow and college football learned a lesson -- keep it a game, played between the lines, for the good of everybody.
Column: Winslow's outburst embarrasses himself, Miami and college football
Published on Monday, November 10, 2003
David Skretta
Kansas State Collegian
I'm not very original in my column this week. In fact, more than a few people are going to write about this topic.
Yet it has to be said.
Kellen Winslow is an idiot.
There really isn't any way to sugar-coat it, and there really isn't a good way to rationalize it.
He's just an idiot.
The talented Miami tight end lashed out at everything and everybody Saturday after the Hurricanes lost their second-straight game, a 10-6 heartbreaker against Tennessee.
After a hard block in which Winslow wiped out two Volunteers in the third-quarter, springing a big gain on a running play around the right end, Winslow stood over the injured Corey Campbell and taunted him.
When asked if he realized he had hurt the Tennessee defensive back, Winslow replied in a tirade in the Hurricane locker room.
"It's war," he screamed at reporters and television cameras. "They're out there to kill you, so I'm out there to kill them."
Uh, Kellen, this is a game.
If you want to know what war is, ship your pompous, spoiled ass to Iraq and fight in a real war, where people are really dying.
Football is a game, and when you lose a game, you should lose with grace and dignity.
Not with a foul-mouthed tirade bleeped out by the TV stations that showed it.
"We don't care about anybody but this U," he kept on during the five-minute outburst. "They're going after my legs. I'm going to come right back at them. I'm a... soldier."
Give him props for refraining from the f-bomb before "soldier," but chalk up a couple points to immaturity for the rest.
Add a couple more for being just plain dumb. As defined in the Oxford Dictionary, a soldier is "a person serving in or having served in an army."
Kellen, you don't apply.
Winslow then lashed out at the Southeastern Athletic Conference and its officials for targeting him during the game. Somehow, they kept him to just seven catches for 88 yards.
There's no disputing Winslow is the best tight end in college football, and if that position wasn't as glamorous as a beat up Chevy Nova, he'd be the best player in college football.
But that doesn't mean he and his attitude belong in college football, either. He should be suspended for the Canes' next game, if not the remainder of the season.
The only good that came of this is perhaps he learned a lesson.
In a statement released by the University of Miami Sunday, Winslow apologized for his statements.
"I cannot begin to imagine the magnitude of war or its consequences," the statement read. "What I have learned from this experience is to take my triumphs and failures in stride. My outburst should in no shape or form be a reflection on this institution or the Miami football program."
Judging from his intelligence in the interview, I'd be hard-pressed to believe Winslow wrote any of that statement.
Regardless, Winslow and college football learned a lesson -- keep it a game, played between the lines, for the good of everybody.
Chumpass.
