I'm acknowledged to rant sometimes. It's not unusual for me to rant in this blog. And the targets of my rants are normally what I see as important problems regarding the sport of golfing.
But I'm positive that is the primary time I've ever ranted about a truth TV show.
As you probably know, GC's Big Break NFL Puerto Rico ran its final show last night. This time around, the show put together 3-player teams consisting of 2 former Big Breakers (one male, one female) and a former NFL star/golfer. It sounds workable, right? It's definitely a twist on the show's standard format.
In this example, the very last display got here all the way down to a war among Team Rice:
- wide receiver Jerry Rice
- Emily Talley from Big Break Mexico
- Isaac Sanchez from Big Break Greenbrier
- defensive lineman Chris Doleman
- Shannon Fish from Big Break Atlantis
- Brian Cooper from Big Break Greenbrier
Tim Doleman was a brilliant participant within the NFL, however he turned into a disruptive pressure on his team. There will be those who argue that he "toughened up his teammates." I do not disagree -- in the event that they hadn't toughened up, they would were compelled to kill him with a purpose to preserve their sanity. Doleman changed into an obnoxious accomplice.
But GC went further and made the NFL players the team captains, that means that they could in reality pull rank and order the professionals around. This is nothing towards Doleman as someone however -- and that is placing it kindly -- he did not appear to apprehend what might help his teammates. (He didn't even seem to apprehend that golfing is approached relatively in another way than soccer.) For instance, in one section as they prepared for a setting venture, Fish asked him what he saw within the putt and Doleman not simplest gave her no help however acted like she turned into asking a stupid query.
Not a week went through with out several groups wondering while Team Doleman turned into going to self-destruct... And thinking how they controlled to keep away from getting removed whilst it was clear they desired to remove every other.
But then, after he repeatedly "strongly implied" that he had helped his teammates grow up so they could "show up" when it counted, Doleman didn't show up at all for the final competition. The final challenge was set up in 4 quarters (like a football game) with each player facing their counterpart in a single hole of match play -- 1 point for a win, 1/2 for a halve, and 0 for a loss. The points from each of the three matches were totaled to get a winner in that quarter. The team that won the most quarters would win Big Break NFL. All 3 members played in the first 3 quarters, with only the two pros playing the final quarter.
That became too little too late for the professionals on Team Doleman. Doleman tied his first fit with Rice then never determined the green in his last two matches, which he misplaced. He stored hitting slices -- which, given his play in the other suggests, indicated that he couldn't handle the stress. Had it been most effective the professionals from each group gambling, the fits would had been tied after 4 quarters and long gone to sudden loss of life. As it turned into, Fish and Cooper went into the final quarter needing a win just to live alive.
That's just wrong. If the goal is to give the pros a "big break," then the outcome should be determined by the pros. The winning NFL player got $50k to donate to a charity; but the winning pros got $50k apiece, entry into an LPGA or PGA event, and a club deal. Those pros had to earn a place on their original Big Break; I'm pretty sure the NFL players "earned" their spot by being former NFL players who played golf and had agents to negotiate the gig. I know the NFLers play pretty well, but it just doesn't mean the same for them. For the pros, this could mean their future; for the NFL players, this was a lark.
If the goal is to give the pros a "big break," then the outcome shouldn't be determined by the celebrities you brought in to get ratings. But that's exactly what happened... and it's why I'm so pissed off by Big Break NFL Puerto Rico. If GC wants to bring in celebrities to set goals for the pro challenges -- as Rodney Harrison did on one show -- that's fine. But let the pros determine who gets the break into the pro ranks, not celebrities who just want to say they were on Big Break.
Rant over.
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