Best and Worst of 1999.....© Shane Andy Youngblood
Jan 13, 2000
Among the more brain-dead trends of of my lifetime (along with 65 mile-per-hour speed limits, early parole for felons and Pokeman) are the proliferation of the so-called "award" shows. About one out of every five years will a movie win an Oscar for Best Picture that you have actually heard of before. Otherwise, you get a steady diet of silent French films that center on the mating habits of the yak.
But at the very least, the Oscars buck the trend of making the selection process one that originates out of a popularity contest rather than choosing the movie that is the "best". The Hypeman Trophy is routinely awarded to someone other than the nation's best player (Gino Torretta?) and has about as much credibility as a Beano Cook preseason ranking list (#1: Notre Dame, #2: the first team that beats Notre Dame, #3: South Carolina as long as they have Lou Holtz....get the picture?).
Finally, the worst category of award shows are those that no one really gives a rip about anyway. The Emmys have won a lifetime achievement award in this category and can be dubbed a permanent team captain among horrible award programs. There are two things that you can count on with the Emmys: Fraiser will win best comedy series and Susan Lucci couldn't win an award if Francis Ford Coppola directed "All My Children" and Tom Hanks was her co-star.
What? Susan finally won?
Great! That is all the justification that I need to hand out my own awards for the 1999 NFL season. If the Emmys can actually be interesting one time, then maybe my own accolades can mean a damn....
COACH OF THE YEAR: Jeff Fischer, Tennessee Titans. Fischer built this program the way it is supposed to be built....through the draft and developing your own. Unlike the salary-cap paralyzed San Fransisco 49rs, Fischer refused to go after band-aid high-priced, aging free-agents to put his team over the top. He drafted shrewdly and wisely, snatching up the signal-caller of the future in Steve McNair, a prototype NFL back in Eddie George and "The Freak", Jevon Kearse. (Sign that you have made it in any sport...get a cool nickname like "The Freak" during your FIRST YEAR.) Runner-up kudos to Dom Capers of Jacksonville, who may not be a head coach (though that will certainly be one of his options after the playoffs), but did enough with the Jaguars' defense to single-handedly keep them in some of those 7-3 wins when their offense was struggling.
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