Jay, here.

Watchmen is not scheduled to be released for over a year.

But just like the Watchmen’s journal-keeping superhero Rorschach’s name sake, fans are seeing what they want to see in journal-keeping football phenom Terrelle Pryor now.

There’s no real Terrelle Pryor news here, as such. However, I did come across a couple of curious items today regarding his alleged less-than-superhero-like behavior.

Yesterday, The Wizard of Odds posted an entry centered around a photo of Terrelle Pryor’s watch at the Wisconsin-Ohio State basketball game this past weekend. Yes. We’ve now gotten to the point where we’re now watching his watch.

Though, that wasn’t the most interesting part of the blog entry. Actually, that part was not interesting at all. It’s a just a photo of a kid wearing really big watch.

The most interesting part is that The Wizard of Odds linked to a commentary piece about Pryor’s on-court behavior on Bleacher Report.

If you’re not familiar with Bleacher Report, they describe themselves as “the open source sports network”. What does that mean? Anyone can post just about anything on there (kind of like a blog). And it means that you have a virtually anonymous source reporting and commenting on some alleged behavior by Terrelle Pryor at a high school basketball game on an open source blog.

So, take this with a big grain of salt.

The South Fayette fans saw a hard-fought game, worth every penny of the $6 they paid to spectate. Both sides played their hearts out through four periods and overtime. In Terrelle Pryor, they saw a tremendous athlete—fast, strong and agile.

They also saw one of the most disgusting and, quite frankly, disappointing displays of unsportsmanlike behavior they’d ever witnessed. It started before the tip-off and lasted well after the final buzzer.

You can read more about his alleged behavior here.

As interesting as the piece is, the comments make it even more interesting (as they usually do). I was about to suggest you read some of them. But after reading a few, I would suggest that you don’t. They make your typical moderated message boards and forums look like a picnic in comparison.

But there was one comment that caught my eye (as I tried to avert my other in Marty Feldman-like fashion from the other comments): “Someone else noticed Pryor’s behavior too”. Here’s the story.

What does this all mean?

Uncle Ben said it best: “With great power comes great responsibility.” Not only does that apply to the apt athlete, it goes for the anonymous author, as well. Because in sports, where passion and persuasion run high, sometimes all of us see only what we want to see.

Tags: Ducks, Football, oregon, Terrelle Pryor