Talk:Rick Telander

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Can we call 'football' American Football or American Rules Football for clarity? There are so many varieties of football around the world; mostly 'football' is synonymous with Association Football but football can be used to describe many variants of the game, of which, gridiron is a minority sport.

Better yet, call soccer, soccer. Or anything besides football. Eelb53 (talk) 23:54, 23 August 2012 (UTC)

Notability? This guy's been famous for 20 years.
Telander played college football at Northwestern, wrote for Sports Illustrated for decades, writes for the Chicago Sun-Times, wrote Heaven Is A Playground, which was made into a movie, had a television show in Chicago for more than a decade, had a radio show in Chicago briefly, and has been featured on ESPN's Sports Reporters show a number of times. What else do you want this guy to do? He's not the best sports writer, but he's certainly well known, especially in Chicago. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Dancon7 (talk • contribs) 14:57, 1 April 2007 (UTC).

He's notable. I'm not sure the guy who raised the question is familiar with him. The above comment is pretty accurate. Telander also wrote quite a bit on the abuses in College Sports, including the 100 Yard Lie which blasted college football's abuses. He's been a panelist on Nightline several times, and he of course was well-known for the nationally syndicated television show Sportswriters on TV

He's been out of the national limelight for at least a decade. I doubt if many younger readers, outside of Chicago, know who he is. They'd rather watch the current morons on ESPN. Eelb53 (talk) 23:59, 23 August 2012 (UTC)