I don't know who Chris Harry is other than a writer for the Orlando Sentinel who apparently doesn't make enough money to afford a last name. But I love the balls he shows in his latest piece, "Loss of Alstott helps Gruden". In it, he basically says that many so-called Buccaneer fans are actually just Mike Alstott fans and could give a shit how the team as a whole does.

If Alstott had barreled, say, 21 times for 56 yards and a touchdown, sold-out crowds at Raymond James Stadium would have sounded their air horns and gone home feeling better about themselves and the 10-point defeat.

Since Alstott went on IR, Gruden doesn't have to endure another season of "Give Mike the ball!", Mike gets his salary for the year, the Bucs are probably off the hook for not bringing him back in 2008, and the team and the city get to draw out his imminent retirement for a whole year. Everyone wins. The only drawback is that it gives Steve Duemig one more conspiracy theory to pollute the airwaves with. McFarland, Rice and now Alstott all in one season. If Derrick Brooks gets injured and put on IR this season, my money is on Duemig hanging himself in the shower.

I don't know who Chris Harry is other than a writer for the Orlando Sentinel who apparently doesn't make enough money to afford a last name. But I love the balls he shows in his latest piece, "Loss of Alstott helps Gruden". In it, he basically says that many so-called Buccaneer fans are actually just Mike Alstott fans and could give a shit how the team as a whole does.

If Alstott had barreled, say, 21 times for 56 yards and a touchdown, sold-out crowds at Raymond James Stadium would have sounded their air horns and gone home feeling better about themselves and the 10-point defeat.

Since Alstott went on IR, Gruden doesn't have to endure another season of "Give Mike the ball!", Mike gets his salary for the year, the Bucs are probably off the hook for not bringing him back in 2008, and the team and the city get to draw out his imminent retirement for a whole year. Everyone wins. The only drawback is that it gives Steve Duemig one more conspiracy theory to pollute the airwaves with. McFarland, Rice and now Alstott all in one season. If Derrick Brooks gets injured and put on IR this season, my money is on Duemig hanging himself in the shower.