While I’m unwilling to speak for SGM, I am willing to argue that celebrating is taunting, and if it wasn’t there would be no flags or fines issued for “excessive celebration.” There was a time when the whole idea of celebrating after you scored was considered bad form in and of itself, and yet here you are attempting to turn a blind to all that represents being a ‘good sport,’ as if to suggest, since everyone’s doing it…let’s just all jump off the cliff.

Your entire piece is nothing more than an argument at justifying poor sportsmanship and being sore loser. He’s getting paid how many millions of dollars, and he can’t sit in front of a group of journalists who are also being paid to do their job? None of the questions were anywhere close to the kind of contempt Cam has shown his opponents or the journalists in front of him at this time or in the past, let alone an opponent explaining how they went about shutting them down. Boo hoo, indeed. Seems to me like a teachable moment of why dignity and respect has become a dying art instead of the norm.

One of the most delightful things I found about this Super Bowl was in noting the dichotomy between Peyton and Cam, one representing, unfortunately I fear in light of your piece, one of the last true gentleman of the game, the other, the up-and-coming trash-talking phat-mouth Hater, coddled by writers like yourself who think it’s perfectly acceptable to act like an ass and don’t deserve to be called an ass because, as you suppose, we’re all asses — consider speaking for yourself, apologist.

To even attempt to argue since we all act like asses, this somehow justifies acting like an ass beguiles what being a ‘good sport’ is all about, and only leads to more people attempting to justify assholery.