The Quite Sensical Ravings of a Pissed Off Jets Fan

By James Ferguson, OTSL Special Contributor

After 12 days of camp the New York Jets seem to be more uncontrollable than ever.  The team resembles a soap opera cast more than a professional football team.  With a company of characters that are more interested in winning Emmy's than football games.   

Leading the charge, Rex Ryan who can't get out of the cameras way and that appears to be contagious.  Isn't training camp about football??  Has anyone told the Jets the "Hard Knocks" cameras are in Miami this season??  It's like the focus of Jets camp is to hide the reality that most of these guys would be better off starting their acting careers than play football.  I just wonder how many two bit parts where they need a hot headed tough guy are available anyway??  

If the dust ever gets a chance to settle I think the Jets will realize their Offense is atrocious and their Defense is gonna be gassed by Week 8.  That is if Ryan doesn't run them dry with disciplinary wind sprints first.  The hope that Tim Tebow and his amazing ability to bring a locker room together was noble, but in football terminology, it was Wide Right!!.  No one man can control the angst that lives in that huddle and that includes the ring leader Rex Ryan.  How can he make a team from this?  

A team is defined as a group of people with complimentary skills that are required to complete a task together... These men are not a team.  They are a collection of individuals without a common goal.  Hopefully Ryan can fix that, otherwise he may get a chance to begin his own acting career when the season ends.

10 Reasons Michael Phelps Should Have Retired After the 2008 Olympics

by Dave Shepard, OTSL Special Contributor

Michael Phelps has absolutely ruined his legacy, he should have retired after Bejing, when he was 23.  Here are 10 reasons why.

1) Phelps at the 2008 Olympics set a record winning eight gold medals in a single Olympics

2) In seven of those eight gold medals he set world records.

3) His coach Bob Bowman even said Phelps has struggled in the last four years with conditioning. That tells you in the prime of his life, from 23-27 he has lost the motivation to be the King of his sport. Something he was for over half a decade.

4) Keep in mind in 2004 when he was just 19 years old he won eight medals, including six gold medals, this was when he was just 19 years old.

5) In his first race in the 2012 Olympics he placed fourth in the 400 meter individual medley. It was the first time since he was 15 years old in Sydney where he failed to receive a medal in a an event.

6) For the last four years, Ryan Lochte had put in the greatest effort of his life. He flipped tires, pulled chains and had a very strict diet and did everything he could to help his body prepare to beat Michael Phelps. Phelps isn’t even the best American anymore.

7) Ryan Lochte not just beat Phelps, he destroyed him. He beat him by four total seconds in the 400 meter individual medley.

8) This also isn’t the first time that in recent years that Lochte has beaten Phelps. He beat him in the 2010 Pan Pacific Championships. He also did it in the 200 IM and 200 free at last year's World Championships

9) He is world swimmer of the year six times. Sports illustrated named him sportsman of the year in 2008. The same magazine also said he was the greatest swimmer of all time.

10) Why tarnish that legacy, retire at 23 and have the greatest legacy of any Olympic athlete and maybe go down as the greatest athlete to ever live.

Now, to be fair, I wrote this piece after Phelps got off to a slow start at these London games.  I have to give it to him, he closed his career with a flourish, proof that he will go down as one of the greatest Olympians ever.