{"id":2884,"date":"2012-03-05T12:00:38","date_gmt":"2012-03-05T17:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=2884"},"modified":"2012-12-29T06:11:33","modified_gmt":"2012-12-29T11:11:33","slug":"will-sports-ever-be-the-same-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2012\/will-sports-ever-be-the-same-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Sports Ever be the Same Again?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/030212_0730_WillSportsE1.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Jon Bois writes about an emerging trend that is threatening to undermine the very fabric of sports: athletes don&#8217;t call themselves Bob anymore.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>At one point the number of &#8220;Bobs&#8221; in major league sports numbered in the hundreds. Now there is just one. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bob_Sanders\">Bob Sanders<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>The decline in the number of Bobs hasn&#8217;t been slow or gradual. It has been short, sharp, and alarming.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To read the rest of a hilarious post with gems such as: &#8220;The Bobs arrived, didn&#8217;t like what they saw, and left. Maybe they&#8217;re off in another land, playing a sport superior to any of ours, with a ball that kicks straight and never bounces off the post. I hope they&#8217;re enjoying themselves, wherever they are. But they should know that we miss them&#8221; click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sbnation.com\/2012\/1\/18\/2713941\/rip-sporting-bobs?sct=hp_bf3_a2\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sbnation.com\/2012\/1\/18\/2713941\/rip-sporting-bobs?sct=hp_bf3_a2\">SBNation<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newmarksdoor.com\/mainblog\/2012\/02\/a-problem-honestly-i-didnt-know-we-had.html\">Newmark&#8217;s Door<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jon Bois writes about an emerging trend that is threatening to undermine the very fabric of sports: athletes don&#8217;t call themselves Bob anymore. At one point the number of &#8220;Bobs&#8221; in major league sports numbered in the hundreds. Now there is just one. Bob Sanders. The decline in the number of Bobs hasn&#8217;t been slow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2883,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin","category-signature"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/030212_0730_WillSportsE1.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2884"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7499,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2884\/revisions\/7499"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}