In googling "Mike Florio hates.." I came across a lot of articles about Mike Florio sensationalizing non-storys and attacking people other than Bill Belichick. I hadn't realized that Florio was just a **** to whomever, not just Bill Belichick.
My respect for him went down even more. Even as a Belichick homer, I can
kind of understand why Belichick might rub the more self-important media types the wrong way. I just thought Florio was abusing his bully pulpit with personal agenda.
But I now think that Mike Florio simply
built his bully pulpit by being a judgmental, poisonous little prick to anything that looks like it might be an emotional button to push.
Anyone remember his scathing attack on Aaron Rodgers walking by a woman with cancer in the airport.
http://bayarea.sbnation.com/califor...odgers-jan-cavanaugh-cancer-patient-non-story
Anyway, I'm now thinking that Belichick and the Patriots are just one more thing for Florio to attack. He certainly knows that 4/5ths of the country hates us. By attacking us, he gets himself more page views than he loses.
But I dont think its just a business decision with him. The man hates being attacked. Funny how it's always this way. The most people with the most aggressive and contentious writing styles just can't stand to be criticized.
Such is what we see in reading over the witter war between Florio and of all people, the Jacksonville Mascot. I think you get a glimpse of what he's all about.
http://www.bigcatcountry.com/2013/6...lle-mike-florio-twitter-fight-profootballtalk
I think we got to see a little of the real Mike Florio here. I wish I had read about him insult-bragging about the money he makes from his 50 to 100 million page views a month a year ago. I could have started boycotting PFT then.
It's never too late. I'm starting today.