We would like to announce a special event we are throwing together here at Complain In Vain.  This week will be designated as “Write Like Todd Boyd Week.”  Boyd, an occasional guest columnist on ESPN’s Page 2, just so happens to be one of our least favorite sports journalists around.  You can check here for our previous comments about Boyd.

But what will this special week entail?  Well, for each of the next four days, we will post one column written in the same way that Boyd writes.  He has one major angle that he uses that we will focus on - “they.”  See, Boyd likes to set up the fictional “they” to have an opinion he disagrees with.  Once Boyd has decided what he wants “they” to think, then he argues against that and shows how offended he is that “they” could even have such views in the first place (even though he is the one who attributed those views to his fictional counterparts).

So, our plan is to find issues that we can make more controversial then they actually are, then argue against some mythical societal force that inexplicably believes the opposite of what we think

And Tuesday, we will start off with a topic close to Boyd’s heart - USC football.