With the season-long benching of Keyshawn Johnson by Tampa Bay, analysts have been falling all over themselves to label him the most overrated player in football. With that in mind, and with nothing better to do over the weekend, the Fistful of Sports presents our first overrated/underrated list.

Overrated: Keyshawn Johnson. The man is a possession receiver who thinks he's a deep threat. Keyshawn is a good player on a good team, and a horrible distraction on a bad team. He's not the next Jerry Rice, he's the second coming of Andre Rison.
Underrated: Hines Ward. Think about what he's done since they turned him into a receiver. Now realize he did most of that with Kordell Stewart as his quarterback. Wow. The man could move mountains.
Forgotten: Herman Moore. What happened to him? This guy was a hundred-catch a season guy, then he vanished without a trace like he was on "Coupling."

Overrated: Warren Sapp. Sapp is 63rd in the league in sacks, and had one of his best collisions this season with a line judge before the game started.
Underrated: Tony Dungy's ability to craft defenses.

Overrated: Kurt Warner. Not to jump on the guy while he's down, but one championship season and a life torn from a Lifetime TV Movie does not a Hall Of Fame career make. Kurt, there's a seat on the bench beside Jeff Hostetler, Mark Rypien, and Trent Dilfer waiting on you.
Underrated: Jay Feidler. Dolphins fans couldn't wait to replace this guy, so they went out and got Brian Griese. As the old saying goes, "I was sad because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had Brian Griese as his quarterback."

Overrated: Joe Theismann broken leg on Monday Night Football.
Underrated: Napoleon McCallum's shredded knee on Monday Night Football.
Forgotten: Marcus Dupree's knee injury in the USFL. This was the original "Holy @#$%" moment.

Overrated: Half the Minnesota Vikings defensive line getting DUI's in the same week.
Underrated: Minnesota Twin Torii Hunter getting ejected on his own bobble-head night.

Overrated: The East Coast media bias. Not always true.
Underrated: Every other state hates Texas. Pretty much right on the money.

Overrated: Paying a 14-year-old to play soccer for four years.
Underrated: Paying a 13-year-old's parents to let him come play at Neverland ranch for the weekend.

Overrated: Baseball players taking steroids.
Underrated: Baseball players who are mutants.

Overrated: Rotisserie baseball. If there's a better way to reduce baseball's myriad statistics to their most boring elements, I don't know what it would be. When I try and follow fourteen different stats for sixteen players over 162 games each, I nod off in the first month of the season like a common Detroit Tigers fan.
Underrated: Fantasy football. It's one game per week. From noon until seven on Sundays, it can make people care about a Lions-Bears matchup. That's powerful, people.

Overrated: Baseball's luxury tax. Boy, that sure seems to be keeping the Yankees from spending enough money to finance another Matrix movie, eh?
Underrated: On-base percentage.

Overrated: The color green.
Underrated: The Downy ball.

Overrated: Jason Giambi. This last year showed he's underperforming.
Underrated: Jason Voorhees. This last year showed he's still got it.

Overrated: Getting the Fistful of Sports e-mailed to you.
Underrated: Checking the Fistul of Sports website a couple of times a week for updates. It's updated several times a week with new jokes, headlines, commentary, and more.

Overrated: Shamelessly plugging your website in your e-mail column.
Underrated: Human dignity.

Overrated: Kobe going to the Clippers next year.
Underrated: Kobe going to Federal prison next year. I hate to bring down scores of freelance basketball analysts, but that is the flip side of the current situation.

Overrated: The BCS.
Underrated: Having a drunken stripper pick your National Champion out of a hat.

Overrated: Pat Riley. Riley never won anything without a couple of Hall of Famers on his team. Phil Jackson understands this lesson, and Phil won't ever have to do it.
Underrated: Jeff Van Gundy. Best remembered as Alonzo Mourning's anklet, Van Gundy got as much out of the Knicks as Riley ever did, and at a fraction of the fashion sense.

Overrated: Being underrated.
Underrated: Being overrated.

Overrated: The slam-dunk. We've seen it, fellas. When white people started winning the contest, the trend is over. It's even less exciting when the dunk is delivered from less than a foot away from the hoop.
Underrated: The alley-oop pass. It's the excitement of a dunk with the precision of a cross-court delivery.

Overrated: The Internet as an information gathering device.
Underrated: The Internet as a pornography gathering device. I firmly believe if we hadn't found a way to send nudie pictures over the net, the World Wide Web would still consist of a couple hundred geeks linking up to play Doom together.

Overrated: Foreigner. I don't understand why 80's bands like Styx and Journey are looked upon with such immense disdain, while we allow guitar bands like Foreigner to go unscathed.
Underrated: Billy Squier. Don't let the video for "Rock Me Tonight" erase his body of work.

Overrated: Using exclamation points in writing!!
Underrated: Knowing when to use apostrophes. Here's a hint. You don't have to use one every time a word ends in "s," Chester. That's the kind of thing's that just make's my blood boil.

Overrated: MTV. Their target audience downshifts every eight hours, and they show videos for about forty-five seconds a day. they still have their "Most Requested Videos" shows, it's just now you have to go to another channel to find out what videos are out.
Underrated: VH1 Classic. You can watch Twofer Tuesdays for hours and see videos you remember, but never saw enough to get sick of.

Overrated: Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck.
Underrated: Nicole Kidman and Lenny Kravitz.

Overrated: Itty-bitty on-screen scoreboards for other NFL games. Unless you're sitting in front of your TV with binoculars, you can't read everything.
Underrated: The Topic Totem Board on "Pardon the Interruption." If you don't like what you're watching, you know exactly how long you have to wait until they get to something you care about. If only we could use it in political debates, the world would be a better place.

Overrated: Hootie Johnson.
Underrated: Hootie and the Blowfish.

Overrated: Sarcastic sports humor columnists.
Underrated: Lame gimmicks for your sarcastic sports humor column.