The Legend Of An Internet Guru

LKelley67 · 04-25-2006, 01:23 PM

If you haven't been following the Bongo59 story it is entertaining. The dude certainly is unique and knows how to draw a crowd.

He appears on many NFL message boards as well as other subject boards. He claims to be an ex-employee of the Saints and currently is consulting for 4 other NFL teams. Jets, Titans, and even other Saints boards are filled with his stuff. I find his take to be not too wacky but nothing so revealing to convince me of his sincerity as having any inside info. He seems to be the perpetuator of the current strong trade rumor of Oakland moving up to get Leinart that is all over the internet. I just find it amazing how one person can capture the attention so devotedly of so many. If you check some of these other boards there are many threads 12-40+ pages long conversing with him or discussing the "inside" info he drops. SR even has a devoted 'Who Is Bongo' guessing thread LOL. It's novel but it reflects how giant the NFL draft has become. Quite a few people are making some bucks over this expanding cottage industry. Whodi said something kewl in another thread... along the lines of- There are many people here that do a lot of research and study. A lot of the views are well thought out. And ya know what, many are just as good as some of the so-called experts. We are dealing with people here. There are many factors that go into personnel evaluation. One of my beefs with Haz was that he was always enamored by great athletes and not great ball players. I don't think I'll ever forget 3 draft picks for Tesucky. How many of you along with me said WTF!? when they moved up to get Sullivan. He might have been worth getting to give a shot. But they certainly could have gotten him at the pick numbers they traded away. Plain goofy for people being paid major bucks to make those calls that you and I can see through.

So just a little rant here. Thanks Bongo for avoiding our little circle.

04-25-2006, 01:23 PM	#1
LKelley67 1000 Posts + Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: baton rouge Posts: 2,540	The Legend Of An Internet Guru If you haven't been following the Bongo59 story it is entertaining. The dude certainly is unique and knows how to draw a crowd. He appears on many NFL message boards as well as other subject boards. He claims to be an ex-employee of the Saints and currently is consulting for 4 other NFL teams. Jets, Titans, and even other Saints boards are filled with his stuff. I find his take to be not too wacky but nothing so revealing to convince me of his sincerity as having any inside info. He seems to be the perpetuator of the current strong trade rumor of Oakland moving up to get Leinart that is all over the internet. I just find it amazing how one person can capture the attention so devotedly of so many. If you check some of these other boards there are many threads 12-40+ pages long conversing with him or discussing the "inside" info he drops. SR even has a devoted 'Who Is Bongo' guessing thread LOL. It's novel but it reflects how giant the NFL draft has become. Quite a few people are making some bucks over this expanding cottage industry. Whodi said something kewl in another thread... along the lines of- There are many people here that do a lot of research and study. A lot of the views are well thought out. And ya know what, many are just as good as some of the so-called experts. We are dealing with people here. There are many factors that go into personnel evaluation. One of my beefs with Haz was that he was always enamored by great athletes and not great ball players. I don't think I'll ever forget 3 draft picks for Tesucky. How many of you along with me said WTF!? when they moved up to get Sullivan. He might have been worth getting to give a shot. But they certainly could have gotten him at the pick numbers they traded away. Plain goofy for people being paid major bucks to make those calls that you and I can see through. So just a little rant here. Thanks Bongo for avoiding our little circle.