Simeon is still a "poser"
I went to Illinois with "the Sim" (and played basketball with him and against him often) and know from personal experience that he's always had a ridiculous ego but absolutely NO charisma. He thinks he's cool (does anyone remember "Game"?) and he tries really hard to be a celebrity, but the dude is just a dork in an athlete's body. He's shown up in "gangsta" videos (even though he was raised in a rich suburban home). He's tried to make it as a professional basketball player (even though our second stringers at Illinois often made him look silly). And it seems like he's always trying to get time as a comentator or special guest host. Then he shines his buttox with his jumbled narratives and his very impressive use of the English language ("A-light" versus "E-leet").
Simeon will go down in the record books as an all time sack leader (not the top guy, but towards the top). So I give him credit there. But I'll always remember the idiot who gave these interviews:
Once someone asked him about Pat Tillman (still alive and serving in Iraq) and he said something to the effect of "Who is Pat Tillman, I don't care about Pat Tillman."
After the playoff loss to Minnesota (paraphrased), "I know we lost, but did you notice that I still got mine...."
Or maybe (again.... paraphrased) "I deserve to be mentioned in the same breath as Reggie White and Lawerence Taylor, I'm as good as ether of those guys."
Please attack my lack of references, but I lacked the time (or incination) to search out those quotes. My point is that no one should ever care about anything that Simeon Rice says!!!!!!
