Sports Fool of the Year Bracket: Foolish Four

Thanks to all you educated voters out there, we are one step closer to crowning the Sports Fool of the Year. The slightly brainy have been dismissed and sentenced to 20 hours of listening to Sean Spicer pressers, as our 32-person field has seen four true contenders emerge in the hunt for foolish supremacy.

LaVar Ball, Roger Goodell, Skip Bayless, and Johnny Manziel have used their asinine actions/words to step all over their competition. But with only four idiots standing, each will have to don their dunce caps to overcome the challenges ahead.

Below is the full bracket along with a preview for our two Foolish Four matchups. You can use the voting widgets under each matchup to cast your vote. (Full disclosure: I sort of know what a “widget” is.) Voting will run until Monday, May 15, 2017.

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West Region

no. 1 LaVar Ball vs. no. 6 Roger Goodell

LaVar Ball has joined the Golden State Warriors and Cleveland Cavaliers in decimating anyone who stands in their way over the last month. In his Dull-ete Eight matchup, Ball made a mockery of what we believed to be stiff competition in Mark Emmert, receiving more than 90-percent of the vote.

What makes Ball so tough is his relentless pursuit of the title. Instead of hanging his hat on his absurd claim of being able to beat Michael Jordan one-on-one, the founder of the Big Baller Brand keeps coming at us with more and more idiotic proclamations. For example, it wasn’t enough for Ball to charge a whopping $495 for Lonzo’s ZO2s; he followed by saying Jordan can’t command that kind of money for his shoes “because he ain’t Lonzo.” This man truly has no filter.

If there’s one individual who has showcased the malarkey to go toe-to-toe with LaVar Ball, it’s the Commissioner of the National Football League, Roger Goodell. His most recent hypocrisy — expressing concern over the addictive nature of marijuana, while NFL players are being given pain killers like they’re Skittles — is just the tip of his idiot-iceberg. This is the man who thinks slightly deflating a football deserves commensurate punishment to domestic violence.

Goodell’s backwards morals and nonsensical stances on major player safety issues would make even the most concussed player scratch his head. Though Goodell never said he’s a better quarterback than Tom Brady, I wouldn’t rule it out in the future.

Just don’t think too hard about your decision since, y’know, these two wouldn’t.

East Region

no. 13 Skip Bayless vs. no. 10 Johnny Manziel

Unfortunately, as long as Fox Sports exists, there will be a place for adversarial, loud-mouthed buffoons who make a living on selling outrageous hot-takes. But I suppose we are sort of to blame for that, right? While we all know what it’s like to be wrong about an athlete’s future, no one does it more obnoxiously than Skip.

Funny, just three years ago, Skip Bayless took to Twitter to say the Texans should draft Johnny Manziel first overall, suggesting Manziel would “haunt them” if they passed. Manziel’s primitive behavior not only relegated him to the bench in the QB-desperate city of Cleveland, but right out of the NFL, making Skip look like a moron who can’t evaluate talent. (Idea for a new game show: “What Else Would Johnny Give up for a Party?”)

Now the question becomes, who will have the last laugh?