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Omar Kelly Calls Out Dan Marino

Discussion in 'Miami Dolphins Forum' started by jim1, Jul 14, 2015.

  1. Stringer Bell

    Stringer Bell Post Hard, Post Often Club Member

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    Almost everyone that meets Omar Kelly in person says hes completely different than what he is online.
     
  2. Fin D

    Fin D Sigh

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    I don't know what that has to do with his opinions.

    I mean he may be less condescending in real life (or not condescending at all), but still believe in the points he makes. His attitude used while delivering his opinions may be constructed, I just don't think his opinions are fabricated for clicks.
     
  3. PhinFan1968

    PhinFan1968 To 2020, and BEYOND! Club Member

    Which would say to me, it's intentional. No way around it logically...unless he's being totally fake in person...either way, I don't read his crap.
     
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  4. PhinFan1968

    PhinFan1968 To 2020, and BEYOND! Club Member

    Maybe not in their entirety, but in the level of hyperbole and asinine nature of them, that's most certainly intentional. He has a god complex in his online persona...f*ck him and his paper.

    Edit: Hell, he calls his Twitter followers "Twitches"...come on now...
     
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  5. Clark Kent

    Clark Kent Fighter of the Nightman

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    http://www.sun-sentinel.com/sports/...ather-than-140-characters-20150713-story.html

    David Hyde ethers Omar on Marino.

    Hyde was generous in not mentioning the #1 ranked defense allowed 62 points in 98.

    more pwnage in the link.
     
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  6. Fin D

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  7. jdang307

    jdang307 Season Ticket Holder Club Member

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    I don't that's correct. Hyde addresses 98:

    99 was when they got shredded, in January 2000.
     
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  8. finyank13

    finyank13 Reality Check

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    AB>OK all day because AB tweeted out the pornsite he was watching one time.....

    Too soon?
     
  9. 54Fins

    54Fins "In Gase we trust"

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    over there
    Hyde just put up blog about Omar and his opinion on the subject.I'm not a subscriber, so can someone post it where it can be read?
     
  10. ckparrothead

    ckparrothead Draft Forum Moderator Luxury Box

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    Players are systematically discouraged from speaking their minds or showing an excess of personality. Their coaches discourage it, their general managers fire them for it, the league fines them for excesses of personality, and they can even be suspended for it. By the time they even become an NFL veteran they had been conditioned in this way for long years, going back to college, and basically a large percentage of the players get so fed up with it they intentionally avoid doing/saying anything that ends up noticed at all, excepting perhaps charity. The fans encourage this by seizing on anything that might even be considered REMOTELY controversial, like a player saying that it remains to be seen whether a quarterback in his second or third year is a true franchise quarterback, etc. And then coaches and general managers have damn near absolute power because of the non-guaranteed status of most NFL contracts, that they feel like they can make decisions based on whatever whim comes to them. Coaches themselves aren't immune. Rex Ryan is considered such a bad boy because every now and then he says something at a press conference that you couldn't have written three days prior. And because of that, whenever his team loses it gets blamed on the general "lack of discipline" that comes with the public's perception of him.

    The NFL has no personality. They systematically discourage it. That leaves an opening for people AROUND the NFL to insert their own personalities and be just as big a story as the NFL itself. That's what Omar Kelly is doing and it's what Skip Bayless has been doing for years.
     
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  11. rafael

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    IMO that's the case with most people. In any society most people tend to try to be at least somewhat polite to your face. The internet's distance lessens that constraint. I think the internet tends to reveal what people are really like given less societal constraint.
     
  12. Stringer Bell

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    Not sure that applies to entertainers or public figures. You are correct, but I think it hinges on anonymity.

    Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G920A using Tapatalk
     
  13. jdang307

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    Just look at all the stuff they banned while celebrating touchdowns. I miss the old group celebrations, going to the ground, etc. These guys are smashing each other senseless causing lifelong brain injuries and we are afraid feelings will get hurt because TO pulled out a sharpie?
     
  14. rafael

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    Anonymity is a factor, but I also believe that even celebrities tend to be kinder face to face. Sometimes it's fear of physical or direct confrontation or other things, but it's more than just anonymity. Although there is always that celebrity group who relies on being outrageous to make a living. Personally however I think you only become one of those if you're a person who would be more of an ***hole generally given lesser societal constraints.
     
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  15. fin13

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    So we agree Omar is not a reporter or journalist he's an entertainer, and as such he's not funny.
     
  16. Fin D

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    He's a click farmer.
     
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  17. Zach13

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    Exactly.
     
  18. ckparrothead

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    Exactly
     
  19. RevRick

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    Now, that bespeaks very well for one's integrity!
     
  20. the 23rd

    the 23rd a.k.a. Rio

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    see nothing wrong with what little was said
     
  21. jim1

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    I don't know how many page views Omar Kelly generates, I don't know what his cost per click is for advertisers, I don't know what his sales conversion rate is. But I do know that I've been avoiding his articles for years because he is a bad writer. Armando Salguero at the Miami Herald might be a bigger page views whore than Omar, I'm not sure. But my page views have been devoted over the years to Bernie Lincicome, Edwin Pope, Dave Hyde, Jason Cole and Barry Jackson- Omar Kelly pales in comparison as a sports writer, he just isn't any good and his articles aren't worth reading. He got himself some attention and page views for further debasing himself by insulting Dan Marino- yay. If Omar Kelly wants to justify his existence by being an embarrassing train wreck of a sports writer, so be it. But he's embarrassing the Sun Sentinel in the process, who should in my view ask writers to generate page views and convert that to advertising income by writing quality articles that people will view on a regular basis. Omar Kelly is just whoring himself out, and that's probably all that he can do to justify his salary. That might work for him, but at the end of the day the Sun Sentinel's reputation is paying the price for that whore fest, guilt by association.
     
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  22. TiP54

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    **** Omar Kelly
     
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  23. Itsdahumidity

    Itsdahumidity X gonna take it from ya

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    OP you did exactly what he wanted in starting a thread about him. All Dolfans will be better off ignoring "everything" he does from here on out.
     
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  24. jim1

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    The link I provided is to the Phinsider, I don't visit Omar's twitter page or read his articles at the Sun Sentinel.
     
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  25. Rocky Raccoon

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  26. PhinFan1968

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