Chicago Bears

I used to write for Sports Mockery, back in 2013-2014. The guys that founded it were all good people, and I remember having weekly meetings with 7 of us. It was good times.

Everyone got to write about what they loved, it gave us a chance to share our love for Chicago Sports. But, my issues came with the fact that we were unpaid writers, unless you had the top viewed article that week. We were expected to write one article each day, minimum. Again, unpaid.

It proved difficult when my sports were Illini Football and Chicago Bears football. If there wasn't anything going on, we were highly encouraged to write speculation or What If... Articles.

Then it went to clickbaiting.. I don't fault Chris for moving to clickbaity articles, it's not his fault that clicks get views, views get traffic, traffic gets ads, ads give money. He didn't create that model. But at the same time, I fell out of love with sports writing when it came to that.

Two of my favorite SM articles that I wrote were in partnership with Ranker, I wrote an article about the Top 10 sports video games. It was the favorite thing I've ever written. Second best was when I wrote a "Welcome Home Israel Idonije" article and he re-tweeted it and DM'd me his number. I got to chat with him for a bit about life, football, and his fundraising organization and their accomplishments. He's a great guy!