Comments on: Way To Fit The Stereotype

By: mikefromtexas

mikefromtexas — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 05:18:12 +0000

Only use I have for the NFL is sitting in a bar and listening to all the Dallas Cowboy fans whining on every single call that doesn’t go their way. I’d mutch rather watch Aussie Football, but there isn’t much on the tube anymore.

By: C.S.Strowbridge

C.S.Strowbridge — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 01:47:23 +0000

“The direct snap to Faulk was a play the Pats have used many times before. It would only be a trick to a team coached by Marty.”

But it is a trick play, a play designed to trick your opponent. The fact that it is common shows that the NFL is not above tricks.

However, the NFL is a league than punishes creativity and rewards conservative playbooks.

By: muzza

muzza — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 00:05:29 +0000

The direct snap to Faulk was a play the Pats have used many times before. It would only be a trick to a team coached by Marty.

By: Duros62

Duros62 — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 19:18:05 +0000

Go Pats!

By: C.S.Strowbridge

C.S.Strowbridge — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 18:03:47 +0000

“The CFL has to resort to that gimmickry”

Gimmickry? I fail to see what gimmicks the CFL is using. There are differences in the rules, but that’s hardly the same as gimmicks.

On the other hand, the NFL is geared towards a slower game, a much slower game. It’s too conservative. It’s like comparing trench warfare to the blitzkrieg.

(By the way, didn’t the Patriots use a trick play last night in their win? Kind of disproves the, ‘gimmicks are for losers’ position.)

By: muzza

muzza — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 14:52:20 +0000

Hey, the Hanson brothers are still out there somewhere.

By: pennywit

pennywit — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 14:32:10 +0000

Careful OW, with today’s weather they could skate down from Canada, pull your jersey over your head, and pummel you.

Eh?

By: muzza

muzza — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 13:28:51 +0000

“Plus, it’s Canadian.”

Careful OW, with today’s weather they could skate down from Canada, pull your jersey over your head, and pummel you.

By: Oliver Willis

Oliver Willis — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 07:03:41 +0000

The CFL has to resort to that gimmickry because its players aren’t very good. If I want to watch wacky football from sub-par players, then I watch Arena football so I can get ridiculous 100 point games. But to posit that the CFL is even decent, much less better than the NFL, is crazy.

Plus, it’s Canadian.

By: C.S.Strowbridge

C.S.Strowbridge — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 02:07:51 +0000

“Also, I just noticed someone said the CFL is better than the NFL: WTF are you smoking?”

“Shorter playclock, you can return missed field goals or punt them back, you have to give a point to get out of the end zone, the WHOLE backfield can be in motion, the end zone is deeper than 10 yards, no fair catch, more players on the field WITH a smaller bench…AND three downs means teams “go for it” more often.
Mmmm… sounds like more of a SPORT, doesn’t it?”

I’d like to add to that one more point…

No sudden death overtime. (I think Seahawk fans know what I’m talking about.)

WTF is that about? Sudden death overtime makes sense in Hockey where each time has an equel chance at scoring, but not in football. The team that gets to go first has a huge advantage.

Check out how the CFL does it, it’s much, much better.

By: doug r

doug r — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 00:58:02 +0000

Also, I just noticed someone said the CFL is better than the NFL: WTF are you smoking?
Posted by: Oliver Willis | Jan 14, 2007 12:50:50 PM

Shorter playclock, you can return missed field goals or punt them back, you have to give a point to get out of the end zone, the WHOLE backfield can be in motion, the end zone is deeper than 10 yards, no fair catch, more players on the field WITH a smaller bench…AND three downs means teams “go for it” more often.
Mmmm… sounds like more of a SPORT, doesn’t it?

By: Chris Wilcox

Chris Wilcox — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 00:20:43 +0000

If it weren’t for the games, considering Cheney mouthing off (again) about those opposed to the Bush escaltion as terrorist supporters, learning the cia and dod are looking at our bank records and etc. etc. etc. I’d maybe have to jump out a window or something. How about Da’Bears!!!!!

By: Oliver Willis

Oliver Willis — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 17:50:50 +0000

Also, I just noticed someone said the CFL is better than the NFL: WTF are you smoking?

By: C.S.Strowbridge

C.S.Strowbridge — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 15:24:24 +0000

“There’s another problem I have with pro sports, the stadium names. I wish I could go see a ball game at the Astrodome not “Minute Maid Park” or “Reliant Stadium”. I don’t mind if they’re named after people, but for the love of god, stop naming stadiums after companies, it’s so distasteful.”

The Canucks sold the naming rights to GM so the official name is GM Place. However, most people I know call it the Garage.

Don’t like the official name, come up with a good nickname.

By: Reba

Reba — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 15:10:14 +0000

Jason Miller needs to attend a Renaissance Faire. He needs to watch a joust, where guys beat the crap out of each other while girls with heaving cleavage jump around getting the crowd to cheer for their guy. There’s no corporate sponsorship. There’s no recruiting funds. But the concept is the same. A bunch of guys beating the crap out of each other for your entertainment while hot chicks flash their tits at you. There is something genuinely thrilling about that, and since I can’t have jousters in my livingroom each weekend, I’ll gladly welcome the football broadcast. It’s like a clan war without kilts. And the physics of throwing a ball to the place where a guy is going to be is just beautiful. (Well, when they friggin manage it, anyway).

I spend my days fighting the good fight, making a piss poor living at it. I don’t really care if a guy who is going to be crippled for life makes $20 million dollars to entertain me. Actors can get that kind of money repeatedly, and if their movies suck, they STILL get paid. Athletes at least have to perform reasonably well for the cash. What really pisses me off is that this guy thinks we should spend all our time working for a cause or to better the world. Maybe I just want to relax once in awhile, okay? Maybe I want to spend the day with friends, with my kids and their friends, sitting around munching good food (I’m more about stuffed grape leaves and thai appetizers for my superbowl than nachos – just as long as there’s something really bad for you like deep fried wings rolled in spicy sauce, it’s okay) and watching two of the “best” (don’t get me started) teams play the final game of the year. I deserve at least one day off from saving the world.

By: Zython

Zython — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 11:58:29 +0000

Also, it used to be three hours on a Sunday, till Fox/CBS/ABC had to plump out the broadcasts with ads to offset the broadcast rights fees.

Which, of course, lead to the untimely death of Futurama. Then again, this isn’t suprising coming from the channel of Bill O’Riely and 4Kids TV.

Hey, I slam sports owners who aren’t man enough to build their own stadiums. Before he died Jack Kent Cooke built Fedex Field with his own cash.

There’s another problem I have with pro sports, the stadium names. I wish I could go see a ball game at the Astrodome not “Minute Maid Park” or “Reliant Stadium”. I don’t mind if they’re named after people, but for the love of god, stop naming stadiums after companies, it’s so distasteful.

By: vwcat

vwcat — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 07:20:53 +0000

I don’t like football but, I like baseball and I like to paint. whichever way we choose to spend time being happy and having fun is good. I feel really at peace in my garden on a sunny warm spring afternoon. It doesn’t mean I don’t care. but, it cannot be all doom and gloom.
I get tired of people who are so intense and also so unreal. the ones who do not really understand the way politics work. they scream and whine if a dem politican is not making a fool of himself on the floor. Or working things in a backroom way to get things done.
They scream if you don’t bleed for the cause.
If you laugh, drink wine with friends and share a joke. If you feel at one with nature for a moment and at peace.
Please.
For them, I say,
Oh, grow up!

By: Geoduck

Geoduck — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 06:26:37 +0000

Another reason not to gripe too much about the atheletes raking in the cash is that they, particularly football players, are out there destroying their bodies every Sunday; there’s a reason most NFL careers last only a relative handful of years. They’re doing the hard, even brutal, work, and if we peons in the stands are willing to shell out all that loot, better the fully-unionized workers get it than the capitalists.

I do have to toss out the standard lefty complaint that “Redskins” is an appalling name for a sports team, particularly the one playing in the nation’s capital. It’s a freaking racist slur, and the only reason it’s allowed to continue is because there aren’t enough Indians around to gripe loudly enough about it.

By: fd10801

fd10801 — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 01:32:07 +0000

Personally, I’m not in the least surprised.

The idea that you’re sitting around your living rooms, eating tons of popcorn and potato chips, when there are government (read “evil Republican administration”) actions to be protested, poverty to be cured, and global warming to be fought (perhaps by higher levees?) is unconscionable.

How dare you enjoy anything when there are wrongs to be righted?

Hehe

By: pennywit

pennywit — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 01:01:43 +0000

and simultaneously take 4 hours on a Sunday to see a defensive lineman beat the snot out of a quarterback

Is sombeody flashing back to Brad Johnson … and Patrick Ramsey?