Tank McNamara by Bill Hinds for December 01, 2024

Totally out of character for Pa Kent. Nominee for Sports Jerk of the Year right here.

Which Pa Kent are we talking about here? Glen Ford? Kevin Costner?

I think he is tired of shaving his legs when he wears sports shorts, athletes are the only men who are forced to shave their body hair, except for armpit hair.

People would get suspicious when he went through an entire football season without injury.

Just wants to play video games, right?

I think he’s worried that using his powers would be considered cheating.

I noticed he has no trophy for hockey. Wise choice, being super wouldn’t help. He’d end up whimpering in the corner with a stick as a bow tie

Greed is SO ugly, especially in a parent, and an adoptive one at that!

Does anyone have the numbers on a typical NIL payout vs. licensed merchandising in the form of plushies, tees, and various other branded thing-a-ma-bobs? Just wondering if Pa Kent has his financial priorities straight….

I wonder how much Jan-Michael Vincent as “The World’s Greatest Athlete” could have got out of Billy DeWolfe if they had NIL back in 1973.

Superboy can squeeze a lump of coal into a diamond…..

He always could have gotten money, about the same amount, relatively speaking.

The difference with N ow I t’s L egal is that every school (virtually) is participating.

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There were lots of rumors about players taking a pay cut when they turned pro.

Good thing, probably, that no trophies appear for either boxing or wrestling

In 1988,they said his powers didn’t reach full strength until he was 21,meaning he c ould play some school sports.

But the “meek,mild Clark Kent” think sprang mostly from being unable to play school sports because of his powers

But “Superman never made any money saving the World from Solomon Grundy.”