Official Jon Gruden Thread VIII

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VolNExile said:
I don't know if he ever got "outed as a troll." I know that somehow, overnight, lots of the in-the-know people here who were quoting him suddenly backed off.

I was on the evening/ night that he first started posting, and he seemed like an excited wide-eyed newbie, saying he was happy to be here. He mentioned that he worked as a guitar repair guy in Nashville (a very cool job, btw.)

Next thing I knew, a day and a half later, maybe 2 1/2 later, he was saying that he had all these contacts in the media and in pro football, and he was getting quoted all over the place.

So I asked him if it's true that his day job was working on guitars, and Sam pushed him for an answer, and he said yes and sort of shut down, at least for a while.

Then apparently he got in a Twitter flame war (geeze, what has happened to our world when there is such a thing as a "Twitter flame war") with Eric Ainge, and people started questioning his cred as a journalist, calling him unprofessional.

fwiw, I have no problem (and said so) with someone working a day job and trying to break into writing and blogging. I have a family member who does the same, and who is actually making money from writing. You've gotta start somewhere, and that's a good way to do it. But his tone and presence when he first came here was a "wow, what a cool website, and you guys are great" and about 72 hours later, he seemed to be lording around, telling us about all his inside info.

Oh, and he linked to a website that featured his name as being a writer for another website as proof. :)

I don't think he's a troll, but barring further evidence to the contrary, he sure looks like someone who got a bit carried away.

And again, if I'm wrong, my apologies. :hi: I kept looking for some proof that he was an insider, and frankly, I never saw it. But then I can't read every single post on all 8 threads, so I might well have missed something.
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Thanks. I couldn't get on for like twelve hours and he had tweeted "idiot " to Ainge. Then everybody started ragging him. Then I think he thought T was still at KY. This place moves so fast. I noticed he wasn't posting so I was trying to figure out what happened. Thanks again.
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#3,760
#3,760
We're really a pretty bad football team. I know it's been that way for a while but I'm still shocked with the talent we now have.
 
#3,762
#3,762
Bingo.

As soon as the ACC game ended on ABC, the blackout on ESPN2 was lifted.

Yet, they gave the Big Ten game to me on ESPN2 Alt.
 
#3,767
#3,767
The sad thing is we are a bad Football Team but we have some Good Athletes that if they were just coached good we would be alot better
 
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