Sep 23, 2013
We watch sports for the excitement and entertainment but sometimes it’s hard to remember that major sport franchises are businesses. We all know major businesses don’t always make popular decisions, and with sports it’s the same.
One business decision that’s becoming popular is “tanking”. If there’s one thing I hate in sports is franchises that tank. We had a new example of tanking this week when the Cleveland Browns traded tailback Trent Richardson to the Colts.
It took the Browns only two games to go into tank mode and trade their prize possession from last year’s draft. Instead of keeping a bright prospect to work around they’d rather suck this year, then try and hit the jackpot in the draft.
This happens all the time and it’s just annoying. Nobody likes a loser and nobody wants to sit around and wait years for a loser to be a winner. Then banking on the draft is dumb because there’s a 50 -50 chance that the player you selected will be a bust.
I personally can’t stand tanking, there are plenty of bad teams that put there who aren’t doing it on purpose, so there’s no room for teams that are bad on purpose. Maybe a new draft process would help because all this tanking is just ugly.
Everick Davis Jr.
Was good though, it's me Everick Davis Jr. Born and raised in Portsmouth Virginia, I'm currently a senior at the University of North Carolina Greensboro. I watch every sport (not so much golf) but I am huge on the NBA. My favorite players right now are J.R. Smith, Russell Westbrook & Nick Young. Drinking beer and watching sports is my favorite past time and I do it year round! I used to play basketball on the regular until everyone else kept growing and I still stood at 5'6. So that's when I channeled my efforts into becoming the next Stephen A Smith or anything close to that. I currently write for "The Carolinian" newspaper in Greensboro, NC and intern for http://theurbantwist.com/ Random Fact about me, I love anime, my favorite one is One Piece! Second random fact, I got beatz! check me out http://www.reverbnation.com/ielabs
