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NFL Players Association: Yeah, We're Worried About the Decline in Viewership
Sunday Night Football's ratings dropped again.
While NFL teams continue to pile up the stats, the NFL’s television ratings continue to come in with lower and lower numbers each week. NBC’s Sunday Night Football matchup between the Dallas Cowboys and Chicago Bears last night drew in 18.62 million viewers, scoring a 6.8/21 rating in the 18-49 demographic, the group most coveted by advertisers. That marks a fall from last week’s 7.4 rating in the 18-49 demo. Last night’s game also scored a 12.9/21 in Nielsen’s metered-market rating, a decline from last week’s 13.7/23.This Forbes article, written before this weekend's games, notes the general trend.
Just last year some opined that the league’s ratings had no ceiling. That appears to be false.The NFLPA says they're concerned by the amount of blood gushing from this very pale formerly golden goose.
To summarize Sports Business Daily: NBC’s three primetime games, which includes the NFL Kickoff game, have averaged 23.7 million viewers, down 12% from the same period last year. ESPN also is seeing a 12% decline for its three “MNF” games to date. While CBS CBS +1.45% and NFL Network have only one Thursday night game to date, that lone game (Jets-Bills, 15.4 million viewers) was down 27% compared to the opening “TNF” game last season. Looking at Sunday afternoons, Fox is off (-0.2%) through two weeks, averaging 20.9 million viewers. CBS is averaging 17.3 million viewers through the same point, down 5%. While some suggest that the drop in ratings may be due to the lack of “marquee” match ups, I don’t buy it. For starters, none of the recent PR debacles, such as drugs, beatings or concussions, created something like #boycotnfl. Two, Kaepernick is the most-disliked player in the NFL. Three, I challenge anyone to look at the comments on stories about the NFL national anthem protests and tell me the anecdotal evidence does not strongly suggest many, if not most viewers are fed up either because they are against the protests, or just don’t want politics of any kind to interfere with their football.
"This is a huge issue for us obviously," NFLPA executive director DeMaurice Smith said on Friday's PFT Live. "We spend a lot of time looking at trends. I was thrilled to see the game being streamed on Twitter. We're interested about where media is going. Viewership is an important issue, stadium attendance is a very important issue to us. So as we look forward knowing that there are a couple of television contracts that are going to come up. I think it is smart for us to look at the impact of whether fans are watching on TV or not." A decline in TV viewership won’t be a factor until after the current TV contracts expire, assuming there isn’t a renegotiation before the existing deals expire after the 2022 season.Well, there's only one possible way to arrest the decline of the NFL: Coed bathrooms for everyone!
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: iforgot says God bless Snorky at September 27, 2016 02:21 PM (oGNNA)
Go fill a stadium with Democrats. Do a halftime show with ugly chicks hauling mattresses on their heads.
Then, screw off.
Forever.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 27, 2016 02:22 PM (9P3OG)
Quick! Change tactics! When the national anthem is played, everyone VOGUE.
Posted by: iforgot says God bless Snorky at September 27, 2016 02:23 PM (oGNNA)
Posted by: Roy at September 27, 2016 02:23 PM (VndSC)
Old fans dying and new fans not interested. It's the "Hope and Change" we were all looking for.
Posted by: Nip Sip at September 27, 2016 02:23 PM (NbJXF)
(Am I doing this right?)
Posted by: Signeur de Virtu at September 27, 2016 02:23 PM (shTVV)
Posted by: Roy at September 27, 2016 02:25 PM (VndSC)
How oh how shall we solve this sticky, tricky problem? What careful response shall we craft?
Posted by: ANYTHING BUT PATRIOTISM -- the righty matrix at September 27, 2016 02:25 PM (oGNNA)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 27, 2016 02:25 PM (9P3OG)
Posted by: Pepe, The Irredeemable at September 27, 2016 02:25 PM (XN4C4)
I was able to break away completely.
Guess who those viewers will probably vote for?
I really do hope this is a wave of backlash that finally peaked.
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at September 27, 2016 02:26 PM (qCMvj)
Go fill a stadium with Democrats. Do a halftime show with ugly chicks hauling mattresses on their heads.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton
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Ugly chicks that gained 60 lbs this year, just for good measure.
Posted by: Chi at September 27, 2016 02:26 PM (oHrQ/)
Posted by: ALH at September 27, 2016 02:26 PM (uLuPn)
Yeah," Jazz hands", that's the ticket.
Posted by: Unwatched football player at September 27, 2016 02:26 PM (cCxiu)
It's gone totally PC.
Posted by: The Deplorable Redneck Bitter Clinger at September 27, 2016 02:26 PM (jAZR9)
Posted by: L, Elle at September 27, 2016 02:27 PM (6IPEM)
I think the NFL getting in bed with BLM is a "straw that broke the camel's back" scenario. It's just the final nail in the coffin for people who have become disgusted with the things that have been going on in the league.
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at September 27, 2016 02:27 PM (KUaJL)
Posted by: Colon Cappersnatch at September 27, 2016 02:27 PM (JO+Jb)
This only goes to prove that there's nothing golden that Obama & Co. can't turn into shit.
Posted by: Cicero -- Profoundly Deplorable But Pretty Dependable at September 27, 2016 02:27 PM (8ZskC)
Posted by: K-E at September 27, 2016 02:27 PM (J23oQ)
Posted by: sexypig at September 27, 2016 02:28 PM (UBBWX)
Posted by: The NBA at September 27, 2016 02:28 PM (VndSC)
Adding insult upon insult the sports media the media applauds all this.
Posted by: Northernlurker at September 27, 2016 02:28 PM (s7hQ/)
Posted by: TheQuietMan at September 27, 2016 02:29 PM (493sH)
Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at September 27, 2016 02:29 PM (iONHu)
Posted by: Roy at September 27, 2016 02:29 PM (VndSC)
That was dead on hit on lefties...when I was a good snooty smart people didn't watch TV.
Posted by: sexypig at September 27, 2016 02:30 PM (UBBWX)
Posted by: bjk at September 27, 2016 02:30 PM (x2rNW)
You may not be interested in politics, but in the Obama era, politics is interested in you.
Posted by: Cicero -- Profoundly Deplorable But Pretty Dependable at September 27, 2016 02:30 PM (8ZskC)
Not one penny, not gonna watch one play.
Not one.
But, it doesn't stop there.
I am gonna MOCK anyone who does.
Make them own their idiocy.
Posted by: navybrat at September 27, 2016 02:30 PM (w7KSn)
Posted by: Dave at September 27, 2016 02:30 PM (kH/If)
All ready have...... Good old Lebron says He's afraid His Sons will be killed By cops, and Curry "stands" or kneels with Kraperdick...
Posted by: deplorable donna at September 27, 2016 02:30 PM (O2RFr)
Posted by: setnaffa at September 27, 2016 02:30 PM (jl6Ly)
Posted by: Northernlurker at September 27, 2016 02:30 PM (s7hQ/)
I don't know how people can afford to go to the games. They cost so much now.
A lot of corporate sponsorship is there, yes, but a family? Nope.
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at September 27, 2016 02:31 PM (qCMvj)
The crowd has turned pretty low rent AND the games are VERY boring and we win.
The NFL's greed, with time outs every 10 minutes, is killing me.
That and $9.25 beer, $4 snickers and $10 popcorn.
Posted by: Nip Sip at September 27, 2016 02:31 PM (NbJXF)
Won't stand for the National Anthem? Piss on the flag?
F. U. C. K. Y. O. U.
Don't expect me to pay your salary.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 27, 2016 02:31 PM (ApT0U)
Wonder if that has something to do with it. ::shrug::
Anyway I'm getting psyched for the baseball playoffs coming soon.
Posted by: eleven at September 27, 2016 02:32 PM (qUNWi)
---
Barack Obama, color commentator.
You're welcome.
Posted by: Methos at September 27, 2016 02:32 PM (3Liv/)
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at September 27, 2016 02:32 PM (qCMvj)
Posted by: Phillip J. Fry at September 27, 2016 02:33 PM (jjaLl)
Yes, I think this is the start of the demise of the NFL. It will basically end as we know it once high school football essentially ends.
Posted by: SH at September 27, 2016 02:33 PM (gmeXX)
Posted by: bjk at September 27, 2016 02:33 PM (x2rNW)
Posted by: L, Elle at September 27, 2016 02:33 PM (6IPEM)
Posted by: bjk at September 27, 2016 02:34 PM (x2rNW)
Adding insult upon insult the sports media the media applauds all this.
Posted by: Northernlurker at September 27, 2016 02:28 PM (s7hQ/)
Very good point...
Why should I invite a Guest into my home, who insults me?
When I can keep said guest out, with the TV remote?
Posted by: Don Quixote at September 27, 2016 02:34 PM (qf6WZ)
-Quality of referee calls definitely slipping over the last decade or so.
-The whole pseudo-spectacle take; I'm not just watching a football game, I'm WITNESSING THE GREATEST EVENT IN THE HISTORY OF EVER!!!(echos)
Feh. It's a football game.
-Culturally, it's not in my demographic anymore. Now I'm expected to watch a bunch of 'too-ed up hood mooks 'roiding their snaky-haired butts around the field cheap-shotting each other, and re-enacting the love dance from Zulu every time they do something marginally productive. This I don't need.
- The inability to avoid the over-the-top emoting of the pasty caspers in the play-by-play booth wetting their Y-fronts over some basic achievement. DO NOT WANT.
-Oh, all you multi-millionaires on the field are just poor oppressed minorities? Boo-fuckety-hoo. NOT BUYING IT.
-Plus, (drum roll) the capper: My home team is the Chicago Bears. Derp DERP derp derp de derp, derp de derp derp DERP DERP derp de derp! Not watching a bunch of no-name clowns get blown out every week. Oh, I know one of their names; Jay Cutler. This makes it worse.
So, there.
Posted by: Sort-of-Mad Max at September 27, 2016 02:34 PM (nd1zx)
ot, but this is good news
THE UNIVERSITY ENDS ITS INVESTIGATION: "In short, no disciplinary action will be taken against Professor Reynolds. The tweet was an exercise of his First Amendment rights."
instapundit
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at September 27, 2016 02:34 PM (qCMvj)
It isn't virtue signalling if one chooses to boycott an organization that supports ideals that are antithetical to one's own, and attacks ideals that one supports.
That's called sanity.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 27, 2016 02:34 PM (Zu3d9)
I've cut them almost completely out of my loop.
I resent that fact that they insist on injecting politics (very LIBERAL politics) into just about everything now.
I am a political junkie, but I always watched sports to get away from it. These **ssholes insist on putting it where it has never ever belonged.
Posted by: VelvetElvis at September 27, 2016 02:35 PM (hleDf)
Don't knock it. The thing I most miss about Germany is co-ed saunas and locker rooms and FKK swimming nights.
I'm deep that way.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at September 27, 2016 02:35 PM (mgbwf)
Well, there's only one possible way to arrest the decline of the NFL:
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Barack Obama, color commentator.
You're welcome.
PLEASE don't give them ideas. *shudder*
Posted by: What's a Seawolf? at September 27, 2016 02:35 PM (WuRdh)
I'm not sure what it's like because I'm not addicted to football, but I have overcome addictions to other media offerings when I got as disgusted with myself as I was with the substance I was abusing.
Posted by: iforgot says God bless Fleegle at September 27, 2016 02:35 PM (oGNNA)
That was beautiful.
Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at September 27, 2016 02:35 PM (WlGX+)
1) I am so busy. On Duty almost every Sunday
2) My Team, The NY Jets, suck
3) The Flag thing
4) The BLM thing
5) That Fuck of a Commissioner
Stuff like that
Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 27, 2016 02:35 PM (zp+j1)
I watch football because I want some simple, mindless entertainment that I enjoy.
I don't want to be "challenged".
I don't want to be insulted.
I don't want to be offended.
I don't want to be educated.
I want to watch two teams beat the living fuck out of each other with the Cowboys emerging victorious.
Nothing else.
Because football is not a need. At. All.
And if you make it unpleasant for me in any way, y'all can go fuck yourselves.
I'll do something else.
Posted by: naturalfake at September 27, 2016 02:36 PM (0cMkb)
Kinda like being forced to pay for the broadcast of things you don't like, as in PBS.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 27, 2016 02:36 PM (SRKgf)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at September 27, 2016 02:36 PM (APoY4)
Hah...that was classic.
Posted by: eleven at September 27, 2016 02:36 PM (qUNWi)
Posted by: josephistan at September 27, 2016 02:36 PM (7HtZB)
-New commissioner
-Stop it with the political/social crap both in commentary and on the field.
-Quit wimpifying the game
-Cut back on the overwhelming drive for parity and let teams build something fans can stick with and identify rather than being different year to year.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 27, 2016 02:36 PM (39g3+)
Typed out really long comment and then deleted it. Boils down to:
1. Does a moron take direction from anyone?
2. People's use of their time is related to the feedback they get from it. If there is no perceived utility they will not do the thing or stop it soon.
3. Your level of feedback from an event is related to your investment/identification. Its a loop.
Feedback from the accomplishment of your own goals will tend to eclipse vicarious entertainments with the exception of say watching your own children/loved ones accomplish hard won goals.
Investment levels vary person to person and within the person over time.
I stopped watching Network news a long time ago because it sucks and it supports a structure that is literally out to get me and those like me. Stated differently, I had no identification with it and so no investment of my time was warranted.
Can watching the Cleveland Browns be considered entertainment? Only for some values of masochism.
The league in general and the Browns in particular a making a very strong argument that your time is better spent elsewhere.
Posted by: simplemind at September 27, 2016 02:36 PM (xVRrG)
Posted by: The Deplorable Redneck Bitter Clinger at September 27, 2016 02:36 PM (DaDYr)
Posted by: Phone of kari which, deplorably, features a headphone jack at September 27, 2016 02:36 PM (VoMt7)
Posted by: Rather Not at September 27, 2016 02:36 PM (oPogG)
Or my sister
Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 27, 2016 02:36 PM (zp+j1)
I've cut them almost completely out of my loop.
I resent that fact that they insist on injecting politics (very LIBERAL politics) into just about everything now.
I am a political junkie, but I always watched sports to get away from it. These **ssholes insist on putting it where it has never ever belonged.
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Notice that ESPN isn't doing so well either. There are obviously other factors at play, but at some point a line is crossed where it simply is not worth the cost and hassle to support a network, league, hobby that is not aligned with your values.
Posted by: SH at September 27, 2016 02:37 PM (gmeXX)
There's always basketball. Oh, wait a second . . .
http://www.weaselzippers.us/297724-man-who-has-
made-hundreds-of-millions-of-dollars-playing-
basketball-not-confident-police-wont-kill-his-son/
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 27, 2016 02:37 PM (9P3OG)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 27, 2016 02:36 PM (SRKgf)
Because that would be awful.
Forceps, please.
Posted by: Planned Parenthood at September 27, 2016 02:37 PM (8ZskC)
Posted by: Phone of kari which, deplorably, features a headphone jack at September 27, 2016 02:38 PM (VoMt7)
Furthermore, he said if the Colin crap spreads to college ball he'll be done with that too.
It's thrilling that NBC is seeing such a viewership drop. Sports programming is their main bread and butter revenue stream.
Posted by: GnuBreed, powering through his deplorability at September 27, 2016 02:38 PM (gyKtp)
Posted by: yankeefifth at September 27, 2016 02:38 PM (cPsPa)
Fuck 'em
Posted by: Drill Thrawl at September 27, 2016 02:38 PM (E1NNj)
That was beautiful.
Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at September 27, 2016 02:35 PM (WlGX+)
Pure poetry.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 27, 2016 02:38 PM (SRKgf)
Posted by: Whatevs at September 27, 2016 02:38 PM (7wyDO)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 27, 2016 02:38 PM (J+eG2)
Posted by: joanie weston fan at September 27, 2016 02:39 PM (m/Gc2)
---
Barack Obama, color commentator.
You're welcome.
Posted by: Methos at September 27, 2016 02:32 PM (3Liv/)
Barry: Where's the tight end? I just looooove tight ends!! I hope he hits a home run today.
Posted by: TheQuietMan at September 27, 2016 02:39 PM (493sH)
Posted by: Stay out da bushes at September 27, 2016 02:39 PM (VjPX+)
Posted by: yankeefifth at September 27, 2016 02:39 PM (cPsPa)
Jose Fernandez, the Marlins pitcher who died much too young, escaped Cuba about ten years ago. He was a boat person. A local sportscaster shares his Cuban heritage and was close to the MLB phenom. The media guy took Jose on a tour of Philadelphia's historic area. He said the young man's eyes became misty at the sight of the Liberty Bell. Another report was that Fernandez said the proudest day of his life was when he became an American citizen, because it was the Home of the Free.
What a terrible loss.
Posted by: kallisto at September 27, 2016 02:39 PM (nNdYv)
I find it funny that the quote was from PFT, which for years has been one of the main drivers of pushing lefty BS on the NFL. Mike Florio is a huge lib and uses that site to push his agenda. It also gets amplified because so many news outlets are lazy and use PFT for source material.
Posted by: Benji Carver at September 27, 2016 02:40 PM (OD2ni)
Posted by: Bandersnatch at September 27, 2016 02:40 PM (mgbwf)
Posted by: Roger Goodhead at September 27, 2016 02:40 PM (Tyii7)
bullshit. I heard it on the (non) Football Thread a few weeks ago, and
it hasn't improved with age.
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The boycott itself isn't, but perhaps bragging about it may fit the bill.
For my part I haven't watched much this year out of disinterest rather than principle.
Posted by: Methos at September 27, 2016 02:40 PM (3Liv/)
In fairness Troy Aikman predicted this about five years ago.He said in an interview that the NFL had already reached its peak in popularity and that it would steadily decline.He caught some grief for it.
Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at September 27, 2016 02:40 PM (lKyWE)
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Its also the addition of Thursday night games. The NFL has taken its best advantage over the other pro sports - scarcity - and negated it.
As you say - its a host of things.
Posted by: SH at September 27, 2016 02:40 PM (gmeXX)
Posted by: Insomniac - Irredeemably Deplorable at September 27, 2016 02:40 PM (0mRoj)
Posted by: steve walsh at September 27, 2016 02:40 PM (xDQNc)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 27, 2016 02:41 PM (IqV8l)
Posted by: TheBlackBaron at September 27, 2016 02:41 PM (tfNvq)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 27, 2016 02:41 PM (J+eG2)
Posted by: undocumented analysis at September 27, 2016 02:41 PM (e8kgV)
Posted by: yankeefifth at September 27, 2016 02:41 PM (cPsPa)
48
ot, but this is good news
THE UNIVERSITY ENDS ITS INVESTIGATION: "In short, no disciplinary
action will be taken against Professor Reynolds. The tweet was an
exercise of his First Amendment rights."
instapundit
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at September 27, 2016 02:34 PM (qCMvj)
Translation: The Puppy-Blender is a MUCH better lawyer than the hacks we have access to, so we're washing our hands of this shit before we get our taints handed to us in court.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 27, 2016 02:41 PM (LuZz8)
I've cut them almost completely out of my loop.
I resent that fact that they insist on injecting politics (very LIBERAL politics) into just about everything now.
I am a political junkie, but I always watched sports to get away from it. These **ssholes insist on putting it where it has never ever belonged.
-----------
Notice that ESPN isn't doing so well either. There are obviously other factors at play, but at some point a line is crossed where it simply is not worth the cost and hassle to support a network, league, hobby that is not aligned with your values.
Posted by: SH at September 27, 2016 02:37 PM (gmeXX)
Yep. We watch sports for fun and relaxation, not to do a blood pressure stress test on our cerebral arteries.
As it is now, the NFL and ESPN are nudging into "The View" and MSNBC territory.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 27, 2016 02:41 PM (SRKgf)
Posted by: Whatevs at September 27, 2016 02:42 PM (7wyDO)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 27, 2016 02:42 PM (39g3+)
On TV anyway. Going to games has gotten too expensive, and the relentlessly "family-friendly" atmosphere has ruined it.
Too much crap like mascots shooting t-shirts out of the little air guns, goddam "kiss-cams" and wimpy-ass music.
Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at September 27, 2016 02:42 PM (WlGX+)
*Fist bump*
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 27, 2016 02:41 PM (J+eG2)
Right on!
Posted by: Insomniac - Irredeemably Deplorable at September 27, 2016 02:42 PM (0mRoj)
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I agree with him completely. If I were an NFL owner, I'd be looking to sell my team now while the bubble is still strong.
Posted by: SH at September 27, 2016 02:42 PM (gmeXX)
It isn't virtue signalling if one chooses to boycott an organization that supports ideals that are antithetical to one's own, and attacks ideals that one supports.
That's called sanity.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 27, 2016 02:34 PM (Zu3d9)
++++
It's worse than that. I have heard it referred to as "shaming" to advocate a boycott, because those that don't want to participate are made to feel guilty. Even going so far as to wonder what is next. Lists, people getting reported, etc. Even going so far as to compare it to Nazism.
Delusional, or hysterical or just merely being silly? I guess that's something for the therapists to figure out.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at September 27, 2016 02:42 PM (R+30W)
Posted by: yankeefifth at September 27, 2016 02:43 PM (cPsPa)
It is a tragedy. I saw pictures of the wreck. Somebody was driving way too fast and hit a jetty.
Boats and the ocean are serious things. I love them both but you can't take them lightly.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at September 27, 2016 02:43 PM (mgbwf)
Posted by: GO EGLES at September 27, 2016 02:43 PM (e8kgV)
Coed bathrooms for everyone!-Ace
Yes, let's slow down the bathroom process even more. Nothing like a gaggling threesome of broads sucking up urinal space.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at September 27, 2016 02:43 PM (voOPb)
Posted by: yankeefifth at September 27, 2016 02:43 PM (cPsPa)
Posted by: kallisto at September 27, 2016 02:39 PM (nNdYv)
The guy who hit the home run and rounded the bases sobbing was a shining moment in sports that I have not witnessed in perhaps decades.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 27, 2016 02:43 PM (9P3OG)
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Like when your lifetime church hires a progressive pastor.
Or the second time they do it.
Posted by: Methos at September 27, 2016 02:43 PM (3Liv/)
I guess it's that whole brain-sees-first-and-last-letter-of-a-word-and-fills-in-the-rest business.
Or it's a word association thing. Either way, I shall expend no further neuron time considering it.
Posted by: the deplorable chiefjaybob, who hates everyone at September 27, 2016 02:44 PM (IVNPU)
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Like when your lifetime church hires a progressive pastor.
Or the second time they do it.
Posted by: Methos at September 27, 2016 02:43 PM (3Liv/)
Oh good Lord.
Posted by: Insomniac - Irredeemably Deplorable at September 27, 2016 02:44 PM (0mRoj)
Posted by: yankeefifth at September 27, 2016 02:43 PM (cPsPa
Shut your whore mouth
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at September 27, 2016 02:44 PM (voOPb)
Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at September 27, 2016 02:44 PM (WlGX+)
2. It is just a game.
3. Cheerleaders wear too much clothing.
Posted by: Vashta Nerada at September 27, 2016 02:44 PM (7ZVPa)
Posted by: Banana Splits Guy at September 27, 2016 02:45 PM (QVVXM)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at September 27, 2016 02:44 PM (voOPb
hey, I kiss your mom with this mouth
Posted by: yankeefifth at September 27, 2016 02:45 PM (cPsPa)
Maybe it's time we started our own leagues. Street games that we can broadcast over the internetz.
Screw the media. DIY.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 27, 2016 02:45 PM (9P3OG)
Nah. The burkas would get tangled in the skates.
Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at September 27, 2016 02:44 PM (WlGX+)
They also don't throw goats onto the ice.
Posted by: Insomniac - Irredeemably Deplorable at September 27, 2016 02:45 PM (0mRoj)
Pro Rugby just started here in Ohio and I and going to buy season Tickets and watch them play and so should you.
Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at September 27, 2016 02:45 PM (dKiJG)
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at September 27, 2016 02:45 PM (qCMvj)
I cannot imagine how boring a football game has to be in person.
Actually its much better in person.You can see the entire field and you get to see plays developing down field unlike watching it on TV.
Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at September 27, 2016 02:45 PM (lKyWE)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 27, 2016 02:45 PM (IqV8l)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Deplorable Cycling Stars (TM) at September 27, 2016 02:46 PM (BK3ZS)
I believe that "deflategate" had something to do with this, too, for various reasons.
Posted by: M Magoo's at September 27, 2016 02:46 PM (Y2G1A)
Posted by: eleven at September 27, 2016 02:46 PM (qUNWi)
Then, screw off.
Forever.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton
________
Counterpoints to this are very hard to make but I'll try:
(1) The Left has been trying to take down football in general and the NFL in particular for a while. They're succeeding - at least making some short-term successes - and I'm becoming wary. I don't always agree with the political Right, but it's always bad when the Left wins.
(2) There are a many decent people who rely on professional football - that guy on the Titans with the 9/11 cleats, for example. Maybe the league should hurt but I don't want everyone in the league to hurt.
(Still - awesome comment, J.J.)
Posted by: FireHorse at September 27, 2016 02:46 PM (VDlGs)
Posted by: Roger Goodhead at September 27, 2016 02:46 PM (Tyii7)
Somewhere in the not-too-distant future, Moonpie and Jonathan E are gazing into the Wayback Machine and shaking their heads . . .
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 27, 2016 02:46 PM (9P3OG)
Posted by: yankeefifth at September 27, 2016 02:47 PM (cPsPa)
Posted by: eleven at September 27, 2016 02:47 PM (qUNWi)
That said, I believe fans are just as rabid about knowing the scores, injury updates and stats as they ever were because that info is all you need to gamble or fantasize. There is just no need in this personal-electronic-device world to actually sit home and actually WATCH the game.
Also, the politics have obviously hurt too, but I believe the politics are a byproduct of the player rosters being dominated by African Americans. The media and the league will not call them out on this national anthem stiff for that reason alone.
Posted by: JoeF. at September 27, 2016 02:47 PM (X4jLi)
Maybe I'm weird, but I enjoy grilling hot dogs and drinking a couple of beers in the parking lot before a game. The game itself is almost a let down.
Posted by: Benji Carver at September 27, 2016 02:48 PM (OD2ni)
Posted by: lowtech redneck at September 27, 2016 02:48 PM (egK2C)
It is a tragedy. I saw pictures of the wreck. Somebody was driving way too fast and hit a jetty.
Boats and the ocean are serious things. I love them both but you can't take them lightly.
Outside is trying to kill you. Sometimes it succeeds.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 27, 2016 02:48 PM (ApT0U)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at September 27, 2016 02:48 PM (VdICR)
Maybe it's time we started our own leagues. Street games that we can broadcast over the internetz.
Screw the media. DIY.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 27, 2016 02:45 PM (9P3OG)
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Same story as citizen journalists, CreateSpace bestsellers, people who live off ad revenue from their blogs and youtube channels.
Street games could be hilarious and exciting as hell.
Posted by: iforgot says God bless Fleegle at September 27, 2016 02:48 PM (oGNNA)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 27, 2016 02:48 PM (u82oZ)
Yeah, the box seats thing turns out to be a loser every time it's tried.
They're never filled for every game, and when it's "employee night" at that box (cause they can't fill it for business), there's no concession sales...
Smart, huh?
Posted by: Anon a mouse... at September 27, 2016 02:48 PM (C9pBZ)
Street games that we can broadcast over the internetz.
Our street hockey games when we were kids were the greatest fun. We used wire panels, two per each, for our goals and the sound of the puck hitting them as a goal was scored was wuite distinctive.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Deplorable Cycling Stars (TM) at September 27, 2016 02:48 PM (BK3ZS)
Top that off with the strike and lo, it was three strikes and you're out. I abolished pro football after that. This latest crap from Kaepershit is just iceing on the cake.
Like I said several weeks ago, these primadonners need to look at that great career enhancing move by the Dixie Chicks.. Both forget they are in the buiiness of entertainment not politics and when you piss off your audience it is not good for your career..
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at September 27, 2016 02:48 PM (mpXpK)
If it is common practice to attack Chik Fillet because of the owner's private beliefs, what companies can be trashed for supporting open borders, or gun "control", or anything "unAmerican"? These companies flinch and accommodate the most radical crap, and maybe need to learn not to poke the monster consumer.
The NFL would be a good start, but people are pretty addicted to their sports teams.
Posted by: illiniwek at September 27, 2016 02:49 PM (n6rAX)
Posted by: Fritz at September 27, 2016 02:49 PM (2Mnv1)
Posted by: Goat simulator Hillary at September 27, 2016 02:49 PM (K3F/8)
-Not Baseball, its a radio sport for a more pastoral, Rural America.
-Not Hockey, its too Canadian and niche. Nobody grows up playing hockey south of the 40th parallel.
-Not Basketball, it has all the same problems as football with none of the charisma.
Soccer. Your kids are growing up playing that, not football or baseball. The baseball fields are all turned into soccer fields. The left loooves soccer, because its not American. You will be made to care.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 27, 2016 02:49 PM (39g3+)
(Still - awesome comment, J.J.)
Posted by: FireHorse at September 27, 2016 02:46 PM (VDlGs)
Thanks, but just because we have maybe a half dozen Congressman and Senators who at least try to do the right thing most of the time, that doesn't mean that our government does not need to be dissolved.
Same applies here. Sorry for the few or maybe even more than few decent guys on the gridiron or wherever, shooting whatever apparatus into whatever receptacle. But their institutions have been corrupted to be used as cudgels to destroy the culture and society. It has to end.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 27, 2016 02:49 PM (9P3OG)
It's worse than that. I have heard it referred to as "shaming" to advocate a boycott, because those that don't want to participate are made to feel guilty. Even going so far as to wonder what is next. Lists, people getting reported, etc. Even going so far as to compare it to Nazism.
But you can't hold a whole NFL responsible for the behavior of a few, sick twisted individuals. For if you do, then shouldn't we blame the whole NFL? And if the whole NFL is guilty, then isn't this an indictment of our athletic institutions in general? I put it to you, CharlieBrown'sDildo - isn't this an indictment of our entire American socio-educational system? Well, you can do whatever you want to us, but we're not going to sit here and listen to you badmouth the United States of America. Gentlemen!
Posted by: undocumented Otter at September 27, 2016 02:49 PM (e8kgV)
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I disagree at least insofar as if you like NASCAR, you should get to at least one race during your lifetime. The feel of all those engines (which is more than just sound) running at once is something TV can't convey.
But yeah once it got going, between my eyes and not hearing the track announcer, I didn't have much idea what was going on except around the restarts.
Posted by: Methos at September 27, 2016 02:49 PM (3Liv/)
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Whoa Vic - what about the 30 years in between the strike and Kaepernick?
Posted by: SH at September 27, 2016 02:49 PM (gmeXX)
I am for this, if I get to share the bathroom with the cheerleaders.
Posted by: buzzion at September 27, 2016 02:50 PM (z/Ubi)
Maybe I'm weird, but I enjoy grilling hot dogs and drinking a couple of beers in the parking lot before a game. The game itself is almost a let down.
Posted by: Benji Carver
Have a good time and go home when the game starts.
Don't even need to buy tickets.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 27, 2016 02:50 PM (IqV8l)
we should start our own league with people that live in the city they
play for. they have to live in the city they play for, full time for at
least two years before they join the team.
Posted by: yankeefifth at September 27, 2016 02:47 PM (cPsPa)
Does it have to be football?
With the issues in America's inner cities, why not a television show we'd see in those movies where the future goes to crap. Maybe armed gangs hunting down convicted killers.
Posted by: Stateless Infidel at September 27, 2016 02:50 PM (/NlFx)
Please tune in at halftime during the game on November 6 where I will bash one of the candidates. Guess which one?
Posted by: Bob Costas at September 27, 2016 02:51 PM (OD2ni)
Four bucks a seat, and every bit as fun (and then some) as any of that crap on TV.
Plus we get to see and interact with our neighbors and community members.
If TV were to disappear, many of the things we complain about would correct themselves.
Posted by: Azenogoth (TEXIT or Fire) at September 27, 2016 02:51 PM (yiTg1)
Posted by: yankeefifth at September 27, 2016 02:43 PM
Sacrilege! Heretic! Stone the blasphemer!
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at September 27, 2016 02:52 PM (1qrFE)
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Reading this couldn't help but remind me of when Homer had to give up beer for a month and he's at a baseball game where everyone is drinking a beer and he says "I never realized how boring this game is."
Yes I know different sports.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlORWhsJjNM
Posted by: Independent George (subscribes to the worlds theory) at September 27, 2016 02:52 PM (BDZWU)
Median age of the TV viewer is 50. Millennials don't watch as much live tv as the other groups.
Some media group, Navigate Research, reported in 2014 that live sports viewing is down 16% for ages 6 - 17 .
So don't hang your hat on this story.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 27, 2016 02:52 PM (V3IFq)
Posted by: SH at September 27, 2016 02:52 PM (gmeXX)
With the issues in America's inner cities, why not a television show we'd see in those movies where the future goes to crap. Maybe armed gangs hunting down convicted killers.
Posted by: Stateless Infidel at September 27, 2016 02:50 PM (/NlFx)
nah, your suggestion is fine too, I just want some real team spirit, not some over paid astro turf warriors.
Posted by: yankeefifth at September 27, 2016 02:52 PM (cPsPa)
He's still an awful owner. Enemy of my enemy can still be the overly involved of a bad team.
Posted by: Banana Splits Guy at September 27, 2016 02:52 PM (QVVXM)
Today, its estimated there are about 45 million slaves worldwide, mostly held by Moslems.
Yet Colin K, protests the US, who freed its slaves... and converts to Islam, which still holds slavery to be legal...
/shakes head...
Posted by: Don Quixote at September 27, 2016 02:52 PM (qf6WZ)
Posted by: Dave at September 27, 2016 02:30 PM (kH/If)
Heh. I was a Cowboys fan since the mid-60s. Not anymore.
Funny we have that in common...
Posted by: Tex Lovera at September 27, 2016 02:52 PM (wtvvX)
The nice and hairy kind, like Mork from Ork.
Oh, and more players crying in commercials.
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at September 27, 2016 02:53 PM (hqZPQ)
People used to bet the hell out of baseball in the past when it was the big sport. And fantasy sports started with Rotisserie Baseball back in the late 80s. Its just that Football plays better on TV and is considered faster paced (its not, its dull as paint ,but the replays and production make it seem fast).
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 27, 2016 02:53 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: Naes at September 27, 2016 02:53 PM (Ypc8j)
Posted by: Gouverneur Morris at September 27, 2016 02:54 PM (dQJCS)
How can we forget NBC turning the lights off in studio during "Green Week" because climate?
Posted by: josephistan at September 27, 2016 02:54 PM (7HtZB)
The NFLPA is only worried about getting paid because it's contract time. Choke on a dick boys.
Posted by: Marcus T at September 27, 2016 02:54 PM (XbPiz)
Posted by: JoeF. at September 27, 2016 02:54 PM (X4jLi)
Posted by: yankeefifth at September 27, 2016 02:54 PM (cPsPa)
Screw the media. DIY.
Looking forward to the Street Football League (SFL):
Both teams are lined up on the 50, Johnson takes the snap, he drops back, throwing long...
CAR!
Looks like they'll have to replay that down.
Posted by: Blanco Basura at September 27, 2016 02:54 PM (YEelc)
Ended up watching a movie on Netflix and the wife and I took our two dogs to a local state park with good hiking trails. Hiked for about 90 minutes.
Felt a lot more relaxed Sunday evening than I ever did after a full day of vegging on the couch yelling at my TV.
Posted by: Biergood at September 27, 2016 02:54 PM (v8Lx/)
1 If they'd treat it like a streaker, not show it and only mention it in passing that'd go a long way to pacifying some folks.
2 RE: Virtue signaling Please explain the difference between watching a game on tv without purchasing any of the advertised products and paying to attend a Marvel/Disney (owners of ESPN btw) movie.
I distinctly recall Ace reaming out the entire blog because "we" were talking about boycotting Whoreywood and that we wouldn't be able to engage with the LIV's yadda yadda yadda. Well guys chat about football around the watercooler just as much if not more than they do movies.
Sorry for the wall of text but this whole situation pisses me off.
Posted by: random lurker at September 27, 2016 02:55 PM (+tRIN)
With the issues in America's inner cities, why not a television show we'd see in those movies where the future goes to crap. Maybe armed gangs hunting down convicted killers.
Posted by: Stateless Infidel at September 27, 2016 02:50 PM (/NlFx)
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You mean we should do The Running Man for real?
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at September 27, 2016 02:55 PM (R+30W)
Posted by: Ferd Berfall at September 27, 2016 02:55 PM (NuElX)
Why does something in front of a TV have to be a Sunday afternoon ritual? The weather is great right now in most places for Sunday afternoon outdoorsy things. And if not, how about reading a book? Once you break the TV habit you will never miss it.
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at September 27, 2016 02:55 PM (mpXpK)
Tom Landry and Roger Staubach were class. After they were booted out, I did not watch.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 27, 2016 02:56 PM (u82oZ)
Goodell could've made this easy. Stand up for the anthem at stay in the locker room til it's over.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at September 27, 2016 02:56 PM (kTF2Z)
Posted by: Marcus T at September 27, 2016 02:56 PM (XbPiz)
Posted by: Naes at September 27, 2016 02:57 PM (Ypc8j)
Posted by: IC at September 27, 2016 02:57 PM (a0IVu)
Posted by: Skip at September 27, 2016 02:57 PM (JfUI4)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at September 27, 2016 02:56 PM (kTF2Z)
Yup, this x1000
Posted by: random lurker at September 27, 2016 02:57 PM (+tRIN)
Posted by: Ferd Berfall at September 27, 2016 02:55 PM (NuElX
how hard can it be to give a Chihuahua an enema?
Posted by: yankeefifth at September 27, 2016 02:57 PM (cPsPa)
I gamble. I pay attention to my money.
As for viewers being down - I can stream any sporting event I would care to see, FOR FREE, and often without having to watch ANY commercials. Also, I stream NFL Red Zone.
That's where you're viewers went NFLPA.
Maybe if they didn't have a 2 minute commercial break, with a blizzard of ads, after every punt/kickoff the viewers would still be measurable.
But because all involved are greedy, they've just managed to train fans, like me, on how to avoid the pain.
Posted by: Skunky Choom at September 27, 2016 02:57 PM (CbGSW)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at September 27, 2016 02:58 PM (E8PzM)
Both teams are lined up on the 50, Johnson takes the snap, he drops back, throwing long...
CAR!
Looks like they'll have to replay that down.
Posted by: Blanco Basura
We called that sandlot football even though we played in the street. We also called it "Saturday".
Posted by: rickb223 at September 27, 2016 02:58 PM (ApT0U)
People used to bet the hell out of baseball in the past when it was the big sport. And fantasy sports started with Rotisserie Baseball back in the late 80s. Its just that Football plays better on TV and is considered faster paced (its not, its dull as paint ,but the replays and production make it seem fast).
Good points. And baseball opened the door to fantasy--and gambling as it preceeded football by a number of years.
But anyone who bets on baseball is a fool.
And football HAS gotten boring on TV. Too many commercials and other play stoppages.
Posted by: JoeF. at September 27, 2016 02:58 PM (X4jLi)
Whoa Vic - what about the 30 years in between the strike and Kaepernick?
Posted by: SH at September 27, 2016 02:49 PM (gmeXX)
I didn't think it had been that long since I quit pro football. Oh well, good for me.
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at September 27, 2016 02:58 PM (mpXpK)
Jose Fernandez, the Marlins pitcher who died much too young, escaped Cuba about ten years ago. He was a boat person. A local sportscaster shares his Cuban heritage and was close to the MLB phenom. The media guy took Jose on a tour of Philadelphia's historic area. He said the young man's eyes became misty at the sight of the Liberty Bell. Another report was that Fernandez said the proudest day of his life was when he became an American citizen, because it was the Home of the Free.
What a terrible loss.
Posted by: kallisto at September 27, 2016 02:39 PM (nNdYv)
Agree. At least he got a taste of his dreams.
Posted by: Drill Thrawl at September 27, 2016 02:58 PM (E1NNj)
I can't wait to see them kill the golden goose.
Posted by: Marcus T at September 27, 2016 02:58 PM (XbPiz)
156 Chances are that the decline has less to do with political considerations than it does with the general decline in TV audiences.
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Isn't streaming part of the calculation? I'm not sure if the articles stress t.v. viewership or all media coverage.
Posted by: iforgot says God bless Fleegle at September 27, 2016 02:58 PM (oGNNA)
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at September 27, 2016 02:58 PM (QlyN5)
Posted by: Roger Goodhead at September 27, 2016 02:59 PM (Tyii7)
That's where you're viewers went NFLPA.
Maybe if they didn't have a 2 minute commercial break, with a blizzard of ads, after every punt/kickoff the viewers would still be measurable.
But because all involved are greedy, they've just managed to train fans, like me, on how to avoid the pain.
Exactly.
Posted by: eleven at September 27, 2016 02:59 PM (qUNWi)
Posted by: ThunderB at September 27, 2016 03:00 PM (BkJzF)
Posted by: yankeefifth at September 27, 2016 03:00 PM (cPsPa)
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at September 27, 2016 03:00 PM (hqZPQ)
If you can't do a full NFL boycott, then only watch when your team is on - ignore the rest of the game. Not everyone is a fan of the same team, therefore all ratings will be down. You'll still get your team, while hurting the NFL/SJWESPN and have a lot of free time to workout, do a hobby, spend time with the vodka kids.
Posted by: Memories at September 27, 2016 03:00 PM (mwcEF)
Posted by: Marcus T at September 27, 2016 03:00 PM (XbPiz)
NCAA and ACC cancel tournaments in NC because of "Human Rights" of Trannies and bathroom bill.
Still playing in Cuba and China. I guess there are no Trannies there?
Posted by: Nip Sip at September 27, 2016 03:00 PM (NbJXF)
Blah, blah, blah about twitter streaming, new tech platforms.
That's not content, that's just a means to get the content to the audience.
And your content has been sucking a$$ for a while now thanks to SJW'ing the heck out of your broadcast. *That's* the trend you should be noticing.
The national anthem stuff is the final straw.
Posted by: Lizzy at September 27, 2016 03:01 PM (NOIQH)
Posted by: Hope's Rolo at September 27, 2016 03:01 PM (Tyii7)
Posted by: Blanco Basura at September 27, 2016 03:01 PM (YEelc)
Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at September 27, 2016 03:01 PM (dKiJG)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 27, 2016 02:56 PM (u82oZ)
Yep. The Golden Years for sure.Although, at least Staubach retired (too many concussions). He went into real estate (which he started doing in the offseasons) and did very, very well....
Posted by: Tex Lovera at September 27, 2016 03:01 PM (wtvvX)
Posted by: Marcus T at September 27, 2016 03:01 PM (XbPiz)
Posted by: yankeefifth at September 27, 2016 03:01 PM (cPsPa)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 27, 2016 03:02 PM (J+eG2)
Posted by: yankeefifth at September 27, 2016 03:00 PM (cPsPa)
LOL,
Posted by: random lurker commenter at September 27, 2016 03:02 PM (+tRIN)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 27, 2016 03:02 PM (zp+j1)
Oh, I agree completely. Personally I only watch television when I'm ill. Unfortunately, that happens an awful lot, so I get a lot of stuff like Forged in Fire binge watched, but otherwise I avoid it.
It's not just Kapernick. Everything has to be a PSA.
Yeah, I think he was just the last straw for a lot of people. Above, folks have mentioned a good half dozen just obnoxious things the NFL has been doing lately that drives people away. After a while it all builds up and people reach that breaking point: NASCAR is in danger of doing the same thing, so is MLB.
I liked the Mets game last night, but I had to turn off the sound after the 86th mention of Jose Fernandez and how everyone had the sadz. The dipstick cranked his boat into a pier at top speed. Yeah, its sad he died, but he wasn't some saint. They freaking retired his number after less than 3 years?
Its "Gay day" once a year at the Mariners park so homosexuals can feel better about themselves. Oh and the pink jerseys. And the Stand up to Cancer (like those wimps who didn't died from cancer because they were too weak and stupid to stand up to it).
Just play the damned game.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 27, 2016 03:03 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 27, 2016 03:02 PM (J+eG2)
if you use three gallons then you are going to have to brush his teeth after you finish the enema.
Posted by: yankeefifth at September 27, 2016 03:03 PM (cPsPa)
Posted by: yankeefifth at September 27, 2016 03:00 PM (cPsPa)
No Guts, No Glory
Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 27, 2016 03:03 PM (zp+j1)
Three gallons should about do it.
If Fido doesn't explode I'd recommend a mattress propped up against the far wall for when the tube is removed.
Posted by: Blanco Basura at September 27, 2016 03:04 PM (YEelc)
Posted by: rickb223 at September 27, 2016 02:58 PM (ApT0U)
Hell, that was every day after school, too!!!
Posted by: Tex Lovera at September 27, 2016 03:04 PM (wtvvX)
Posted by: x at September 27, 2016 03:05 PM (5zXx+)
I've been doing that - just checking in on two teams, Pat's and Broncos, and not watching the full games (nor any others). Will not buy any NFL licensed stuff.
The benefit is, in addition to missing any anthem kneel-ins, I am missing the annoying feminist PSAs. My hubby and son do not need lectures on not beating women, to embrace grrrrl power, or to become "aware" of freakin' cancer, thankyouverymuch.
Posted by: Lizzy at September 27, 2016 03:05 PM (NOIQH)
Years ago the city I lived in had one of the nations's top High School boys basketball teams. Talking top 5 in the country. One year, 3 starters went on to Division 1 and their 6th man ended up starring in football for the Packers. They played a nationwide schedule, all the big tourneys. When they had local games, those were a blast to attend. More fun than any pro sport I've ever attended.
Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at September 27, 2016 03:05 PM (WlGX+)
Whew. At least for once they aren't talking about me.
Posted by: The Chicken at September 27, 2016 03:06 PM (Tyii7)
Still playing in Cuba and China. I guess there are no Trannies there?
No human rights issues either.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 27, 2016 03:06 PM (ApT0U)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 27, 2016 03:02 PM (zp+j1)
Not that I'm aware of, but as a Naval Academy graduate and Veteran, I've got to believe it saddens him.
Posted by: Tex Lovera at September 27, 2016 03:06 PM (wtvvX)
Posted by: Ian Faith at September 27, 2016 03:06 PM (hqZPQ)
Posted by: dananjcon at September 27, 2016 03:06 PM (NpXoL)
Damn straight.
Three on a team.
Defense on the Quarterback counted by "One Thousand" to five, and then could rush in and touch the Quarterback.
Meanwhile, the other four were rushing down the street for the pass.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 27, 2016 03:07 PM (J+eG2)
Posted by: Blanco Basura at September 27, 2016 03:07 PM (YEelc)
People who say "enough" may go to the ballot box to make their discontent heard.
Posted by: Revenant at September 27, 2016 03:07 PM (3DSAh)
Posted by: Marcus T at September 27, 2016 03:08 PM (XbPiz)
Damn straight.
Three on a team.
Defense on the Quarterback counted by "One Thousand" to five, and then could rush in and touch the Quarterback.
Meanwhile, the other four were rushing down the street for the pass.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 27, 2016 03:07 PM (J+eG2)
our football games always devolved into smear the queer
Posted by: yankeefifth at September 27, 2016 03:08 PM (cPsPa)
Posted by: Killerdog at September 27, 2016 03:08 PM (vsYED)
Posted by: Bandersnatch at September 27, 2016 03:08 PM (mgbwf)
Replace the mattress with a canvas, and sell it as art.
I call it: "Yo Quero Taco Bell".
Posted by: Azenogoth (TEXIT or Fire) at September 27, 2016 03:08 PM (yiTg1)
That chicken ain't gonna fly no-how.
Not even if you inflate him with helium.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 27, 2016 03:08 PM (J+eG2)
Posted by: Banana Splits Guy at September 27, 2016 03:09 PM (QVVXM)
Posted by: Zombie Jack Tatum at September 27, 2016 03:09 PM (hqZPQ)
1) Its super cheap to play. All you need is an open space and a ball.
2) Anybody who can run and kick can play soccer well enough to be on a team. The truly great players are amazing athletes, but anyone this side of a wheelchair can play.
That means its super accessible to everyone, whereas it takes real talent to play baseball and real athletic ability to play football. Little nerdy kid can't be in the line of scrimmage and hitting a baseball is damned hard. Football takes pads and equipment, baseball takes a special dedicated field, hockey takes both, basketball requires a hard court and hoops plus a ball. Soccer is the easy sport.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 27, 2016 03:09 PM (39g3+)
Mets game after 911 was a moment too
Football isnt doing that anymore
Posted by: ThunderB at September 27, 2016 03:09 PM (BkJzF)
Posted by: Jen Psocki at September 27, 2016 03:09 PM (Tyii7)
it is just tiresome and not because I'm old. I'm 31.Everything they
inject into the game to make it more interesting makes it less
interesting. Don't even get me started on the constant replays and the overly-elaborate graphics.
Posted by: Naes at September 27, 2016 03:09 PM (Ypc8j)
That Rory fella...like a thief in the night DJ, well is DJ. Piont is I'm finding the story lines in golf more compelling than that of football.
Posted by: dananjcon at September 27, 2016 03:09 PM (NpXoL)
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at September 27, 2016 03:10 PM (zc3Db)
Posted by: Tex Lovera at September 27, 2016 03:01 PM (wtvvX)
I saw on the NFL network a Football Life of Roger Staubach. Great goobly goo did he clean up in real estate. He's a really decent guy, family man, honored his commitment to the Navy and is worth far more than the low life halfwits playing today. And he helped coin the term Hail Mary pass. The NFL needs far more of him and less of Crapdick
Posted by: TheQuietMan at September 27, 2016 03:10 PM (493sH)
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at September 27, 2016 03:10 PM (hqZPQ)
Posted by: Banana Splits Guy at September 27, 2016 03:09 PM (QVVXM)
There is some other name for it. Can't remember though.
Posted by: buzzion at September 27, 2016 03:10 PM (z/Ubi)
I can't possibly eat that much yogurt!
Oh, its not going in that end, Mr Lightbody.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 27, 2016 03:10 PM (39g3+)
I like to watch a few college football games, but to just sit around and binge watch it all weekend and then go on line and talk about it, and then fantasy football, etc.
It just gets old to me quickly.
But I continue to see numbers dwindling for a variety of reasons, a big one being not everybody in America will automatically have 12 sport stations on their cable tv since they've pulled the plug.
Posted by: Maritime at September 27, 2016 03:12 PM (2JFSt)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 27, 2016 03:12 PM (J+eG2)
1) Its super cheap to play. All you need is an open space and
FIFY
Posted by: rickb223 at September 27, 2016 03:13 PM (ApT0U)
Posted by: Prez'nit Spam at September 27, 2016 03:13 PM (Tyii7)
the yard playing football while the games were on. I suspect the
ringleader is the kid of a Three tour Marine. They were saluting the
flag in his front yard before they played. It actually broke my heart.
Posted by: Marcus T at September 27, 2016 03:08 PM (XbPiz)That is friggin' awesome.
Pretty enlightening that a kid acts like an adult, and the adult acts like a kid...
Posted by: Tex Lovera at September 27, 2016 03:13 PM (wtvvX)
1) Its super cheap to play. All you need is an open space and a ball.
2) Anybody who can run and kick can play soccer well enough to be on a team. The truly great players are amazing athletes, but anyone this side of a wheelchair can play.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 27, 2016 03:09 PM (39g3+)
And the armless have a huge advantage, too.
The opposable thumb is what separated us from the lower animals and soccer is a rejection of the opposable thumb ... and the arm that goes with it. Soccer is a sport for lower life forms.
If you like soccer you ought to check out the new professional bobbing for apples league. It's the new thing in armless sports.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at September 27, 2016 03:13 PM (zc3Db)
Nah, progs are all about soccer. The NFL's too masculine for them, hence the Vox articles every year about how it should be banned.
Posted by: Ian S. at September 27, 2016 03:13 PM (KUTP5)
Posted by: joanie weston fan at September 27, 2016 03:14 PM (m/Gc2)
Posted by: Banana Splits Guy at September 27, 2016 03:09 PM (QVVXM)
There is some other name for it. Can't remember though.
Posted by: buzzion at September 27, 2016 03:10 PM (z/Ubi)
We called it "Kill the Cow". One of the best games ever.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at September 27, 2016 03:14 PM (zc3Db)
Oh, the TV gods know very well how to ignore behavior they don't like. You don't see the college players kneeling and praying before a game, but it's happening at nearly every game.
Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at September 27, 2016 03:14 PM (97XyN)
1) Its super cheap to play. All you need is an open space and a ball.
2) Anybody who can run and kick can play soccer well enough to be on a team. The truly great players are amazing athletes, but anyone this side of a wheelchair can play.
That means its super accessible to everyone, whereas it takes real talent to play baseball and real athletic ability to play football. Little nerdy kid can't be in the line of scrimmage and hitting a baseball is damned hard. Football takes pads and equipment, baseball takes a special dedicated field, hockey takes both, basketball requires a hard court and hoops plus a ball. Soccer is the easy sport.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 27, 2016 03:09 PM (39g3+)
I read an article on how Baseball is dead in the Inner City because kids need someone to teach them to throw and Catch and that person is a Father, which is a dying breed. Baby Daddy don't have time for that.
Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at September 27, 2016 03:14 PM (dKiJG)
Posted by: Skip at September 27, 2016 03:15 PM (JfUI4)
Posted by: Banana Splits Guy
--
I believe it is called "Dishonor the safe space of a non cis-normative person based on their lifestyle choices" now, and is a class C misdemeanor, unless it is accompanied by an assault charge.
Posted by: Vashta Nerada at September 27, 2016 03:15 PM (7ZVPa)
Nah, progs are all about soccer. The NFL's too masculine for them, hence the Vox articles every year about how it should be banned.
Posted by: Ian S. at September 27, 2016 03:13 PM (KUTP5)
The progs don't care about soccer. They care about talking about soccer as being better in order to get rid of football and even baseball.
Posted by: buzzion at September 27, 2016 03:15 PM (z/Ubi)
What say youse?
Also, send dead rats C.O.D. to Roger Goodell until he cracks down on this garbage.
Posted by: Beverly at September 27, 2016 03:15 PM (XRTIF)
Mohamed Mohamed filed a lawsuit against multiple media outlets and conservative political commentators, including TV host Glenn Beck and his television network, TheBlaze. He also sued FOX Television Stations and Irving Mayor Beth Van Duyne.
Mohamed Mohamed sued on behalf of himself and his son, arguing that commentators and media outlets were responsible for libelous statements after his son's arrest in 2015.
Posted by: undocumented Khawarij at September 27, 2016 03:15 PM (e8kgV)
Which, if you knew me growing up, you wouldn't believe. I was born in 1976 in Dallas and never saw the Cowboys win a title growing up. I still never missed a single game that CBS and NBC were showing. I also watched every Monday night game, at least until my mother made me go to bed. I watched every game, knew every player on every team, and had a rooting interest in every game I watched.
And now, I don't know anything about the NFL other than the handful of players who show up other places like insurance commercials.
Posted by: Texas99 at September 27, 2016 03:15 PM (+IAze)
The opposable thumb is what separated us from the lower animals and soccer is a rejection of the opposable thumb ... and the arm that goes with it. Soccer is a sport for lower life forms.
If you like soccer you ought to check out the new professional bobbing for apples league. It's the new thing in armless sports.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair
Know that Michelle Fields is clapping for you on the inside.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 27, 2016 03:16 PM (ApT0U)
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at September 27, 2016 03:14 PM (zc3Db)
so you grew up in New Delhi?
Posted by: yankeefifth at September 27, 2016 03:16 PM (cPsPa)
Posted by: Peyton Manning at September 27, 2016 03:16 PM (4AVeu)
Posted by: Beverly at September 27, 2016 03:16 PM (XRTIF)
Drill the Jill?
Tackle the Jackal?
Level the Devil?
Flatten The Lord Mountbatten?
Concuss the Gus?
Posted by: Banana Splits Guy at September 27, 2016 03:17 PM (QVVXM)
Posted by: Skip at September 27, 2016 03:17 PM (JfUI4)
I pity kids today that have every aspect of their lives stage-managed by their parents...
Posted by: Tex Lovera at September 27, 2016 03:17 PM (wtvvX)
---
Barack Obama, color commentator.
Oh, man, that would be awesome. If only we could trick them into doing it.
Posted by: t-bird at September 27, 2016 03:17 PM (2z74n)
Posted by: Banana Splits Guy
hug your transgendered sister.
Posted by: yankeefifth at September 27, 2016 03:17 PM (cPsPa)
Posted by: Yo! at September 27, 2016 03:17 PM (uPt3V)
Yeah all the programs and fields being built and equipment bought won't do a thing to turn around baseball in the city. A kid with a basketball can throw it at a hoop all night so he doesn't have to go home and deal with mom and the 8 siblings, plus whatever man she's shacked up with at the time.
But baseball needs a mentor, especially a dad. Teach you how to swing, how to hit, how to run, how to throw, how to field. Someone to shag those fly balls, someone to pitch to you. If daddy ain't there, who's going to do it?
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 27, 2016 03:17 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at September 27, 2016 03:18 PM (dKiJG)
They're being punished, thankfully. One of them is even based at Pearl Harbor.
I'd link, but Windows 10.
Posted by: Jane D'oh, Proud Deplorable at September 27, 2016 03:18 PM (1ZOkK)
Posted by: Roy at September 27, 2016 03:18 PM (VndSC)
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at September 27, 2016 03:14 PM (zc3Db)
so you grew up in New Delhi?
Posted by: yankeefifth at September 27, 2016 03:16 PM (cPsPa)
No. New Deli. You'd get arrested and tossed on a funeral pyre for saying "Kill the Cow" in New Dehli.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at September 27, 2016 03:18 PM (zc3Db)
Posted by: steevy at September 27, 2016 03:19 PM (fA75F)
What is smear the queer called anymore?
It isn't. Your five-year-old is never going to get a scholarship in it, so it does not get played.
Posted by: t-bird at September 27, 2016 03:19 PM (2z74n)
Posted by: undocumented Khawarij at September 27, 2016 03:15 PM (e8kgV)
How confusing must a family gathering be when everybody is named Mohammed? I'm dead serious. I come from an italian family, and we've got it difficult as there are several Joe's. Family reunions must be confusing as balls.
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at September 27, 2016 03:19 PM (KUaJL)
Posted by: steevy at September 27, 2016 03:19 PM (fA75F)
5 minutes each time of the TV guys showing you what it is and what they think it should be is always spine tingling entertainment!!!
Posted by: Bruce at September 27, 2016 03:20 PM (wTWmz)
John Sununu, Bush 41's chief of staff, endorsed Donald Trump for president after the first debate.
(h/t HA)
Posted by: mrp at September 27, 2016 03:20 PM (JBggj)
Its 90 minutes, period, no matter what. Then, any time taken up by penalties like the pathetic loser pretending his back is broken and being carried off by a stretcher, only to show up 10 minutes later unharmed (soccer is worse than basketball for flops), that's added on to the end of the game. Nobody but the refs know how many minutes that is.
There's a 15 minute break in the middle as well; this might sound wimpy but there are no other breaks in the game and they run constantly unless someone flops and a card halts play.
If there's a tie at the end, they take penalty shots until someone wins. That's another advantage of soccer -- it gets over with sooner than Football or Baseball.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 27, 2016 03:20 PM (39g3+)
They're being punished, thankfully. One of them is even based at Pearl Harbor.
Posted by: Jane D'oh, Proud Deplorable at September 27, 2016 03:18 PM (1ZOkK)
I think being immediately thrown out with dishonorable discharges would be the appropriate punishment. There shouldn't even be a question about this.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at September 27, 2016 03:21 PM (zc3Db)
Posted by: Ben H at September 27, 2016 03:21 PM (cfPDV)
College Football given its Alma Mater's SJW shit is even easier to ignore.
I extolled and told everyone here Auburn would win the National Championship and am a huge fan....
This season "zero games."
Keep trying me sports...I need you a lot less than you need me.
Posted by: sven10077 at September 27, 2016 03:21 PM (SzZnW)
Posted by: Helping Peyton with the cupcakes at September 27, 2016 03:21 PM (xujbM)
Posted by: Roy at September 27, 2016 03:21 PM (VndSC)
They're being punished, thankfully. One of them is even based at Pearl Harbor.
I'd link, but Windows 10.
Posted by: Jane D'oh, Proud Deplorable at September 27, 2016 03:18 PM (1ZOkK)
does the Navy dole out lashes for punishment. getting tied to the mast for 100 lashes is going to be awkward in this situation.
Posted by: yankeefifth at September 27, 2016 03:21 PM (cPsPa)
I pity kids today that have every aspect of their lives stage-managed by their parents...
Sandlot hockey. Take the hollow, bright orange plastic puck, put a slit in it, fill with bb's for some weight, and electrical tape it shut.
A buddy's dad was a high up muckety muck for Rawlings. Jeff had ALL the gear growing up. Bat, balls, gloves, footballs, hockey sticks, goalie sticks, pads, etc.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 27, 2016 03:22 PM (ApT0U)
Posted by: Prez'nit Spam at September 27, 2016 03:22 PM (Tyii7)
I watched a good amount of the Euro Championship (or whatever it is called) a couple of months back. I actually sort of liked it.
Posted by: Naes at September 27, 2016 03:22 PM (Ypc8j)
Posted by: steevy at September 27, 2016 03:22 PM (fA75F)
Whenever I see it it's constant scrums and sideouts and punting. Pretty boring.
Now, Aussie Rules, that's a winner.
Posted by: t-bird at September 27, 2016 03:22 PM (2z74n)
How does wearing pink crap on your uniform help a breast cancer patient?
Is there anyone alive who doesn't know about breast cancer?
Is breast cancer some sort of secret plot?
The NFL is trying to attract women, which is a waste of time because most women don't understand football and don't want to. Now, there are women who watch the NFL, but not because they need watch to to learn about breast cancer.
Posted by: Deplorable Adirondack Patriot at September 27, 2016 03:22 PM (4AVeu)
Drill the Jill?
Tackle the Jackal?
Level the Devil?
Flatten The Lord Mountbatten?
Concuss the Gus?
Posted by: Banana Splits Guy at September 27, 2016 03:17 PM (QVVXM)
Heh.
Another thing I miss from my elementary school days was the asphalt playground. There was a small paved drainage "swale" that ran behind the backstop that we called "The Anderson Pit", after one of the girls in the grade ahead of us.
To be thrown into, or even TOUCH, the Anderson Pit was to suffer the ultimate dishonor!!!
Posted by: Tex Lovera at September 27, 2016 03:22 PM (wtvvX)
Posted by: Steve Turner at September 27, 2016 03:22 PM (3NwWD)
...........
Moar boobehs. See through cheerleader tops?
Posted by: wth at September 27, 2016 03:22 PM (HgMAr)
Posted by: LGoPs at September 27, 2016 03:22 PM (AtCmq)
Posted by: Ferd Berfall at September 27, 2016 03:22 PM (NuElX)
They're being punished, thankfully. One of them is even based at Pearl Harbor.
I'd link, but Windows 10.
Posted by: Jane D'oh, Proud Deplorable at September 27, 2016 03:18 PM (1ZOkK)
So glad they joined the Navy if they hate the country and anthem. They should be booted immediately. Of course Barry will invite them to the White House
Posted by: TheQuietMan at September 27, 2016 03:23 PM (493sH)
Same here....well not the "fuck it I quit" point but I am not buying Madden this year either...
EA needs some red ass.
Posted by: sven10077 at September 27, 2016 03:23 PM (SzZnW)
Posted by: Roy at September 27, 2016 03:23 PM (VndSC)
Baseball should move to a 154 game schedule.
Football should get rid of Thursday night and eliminate 2 preseason games (and not replace with 2 regular season games).
College football will regret ever adding a college playoff.
Posted by: SH at September 27, 2016 03:23 PM (gmeXX)
Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at September 27, 2016 03:24 PM (SeD0w)
Our Kill Cow was a racing game in the student arcade. You did laps around a figure eight track and there was a pedal and shifter and everything. At the end of the first lap there was a cow on one side of the track. We would take in cases of beer and play while we got (more) shitfaced. Every time guys came around the first lap we'd yell KILL COW!!!! and if you hit the cow right he'd MOOO and spin off doing 360s.
Posted by: Banana Splits Guy at September 27, 2016 03:24 PM (QVVXM)
Sandlot hockey. Take the hollow, bright orange plastic puck, put a slit in it, fill with bb's for some weight, and electrical tape it shut.
A buddy's dad was a high up muckety muck for Rawlings. Jeff had ALL the gear growing up. Bat, balls, gloves, footballs, hockey sticks, goalie sticks, pads, etc.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 27, 2016 03:22 PM (ApT0U)
snow. football. most dangerous game ever. everyone thinks everything is going to be fine because snow is soft and coats are puffy. they are wrong.
Posted by: yankeefifth at September 27, 2016 03:24 PM (cPsPa)
Not to mention the sodomy.
Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at September 27, 2016 03:24 PM (97XyN)
Posted by: yankeefifth
Strip 'em nekkid and give them 10. Put it on pay per view.
Posted by: Bruce at September 27, 2016 03:24 PM (wTWmz)
Bob G Komen Brown for the cure.
Save the tatas? Save my asshole.
//Bob G Komen
Posted by: sven10077 at September 27, 2016 03:24 PM (SzZnW)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at September 27, 2016 03:24 PM (kTF2Z)
Posted by: buzzion
________
I knew that Progressives hate football - but baseball? I thought baseball was their darling.
Posted by: FireHorse at September 27, 2016 03:25 PM (VDlGs)
Mohamed Mohamed sued on behalf of himself and his son, arguing that commentators and media outlets were responsible for libelous statements after his son's arrest in 2015.
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Like calling Christians and Jews pigs and monkeys? Or period-shaming girls by not allowing them to pray or enter a mosque during their "time of uncleanness"?
Posted by: iforgot says God bless Fleegle at September 27, 2016 03:25 PM (oGNNA)
it's tougher, it's historic, they are punching each other for Jesus and a cow, the season is 3 games long, the games are only 50 minutes, and if you disrespect the flag the ref will pull his sword on you.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=P-B2EFxQ8fU
Posted by: x at September 27, 2016 03:25 PM (5zXx+)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEiRE_-qdo8
Posted by: Independent George (subscribes to the worlds theory) at September 27, 2016 03:25 PM (BDZWU)
_______________________
Oh, honey, I'll take lashes.
And extensions.
And press-on nails.
Where do I sign up?
Posted by: Lafawnduh Dynamite at September 27, 2016 03:25 PM (4AVeu)
Posted by: Prez'nit Spam at September 27, 2016 03:25 PM (Tyii7)
Posted by: Banana Splits Guy at September 27, 2016 03:24 PM (QVVXM)
Uh ... hmmm ... errr .....
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at September 27, 2016 03:25 PM (zc3Db)
Yeah I got to a point where I kind of liked basketball, and would watch it but the increasing thuggish appearance and behavior of players just turned me away. Head-to-toe tats, everyone is hardcore and thuggish, gang signs flashing, enough already.
Its bad enough they let MLB players wear all that crap around their necks during games. That used to be banned as a distraction and addition to the uniform but I guess they gave up.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 27, 2016 03:25 PM (39g3+)
Lie down with donks, get up with fleas and a sore butt.
Posted by: sven10077 at September 27, 2016 03:26 PM (SzZnW)
Posted by: Helping Peyton with the cupcakes at September 27, 2016 03:26 PM (xujbM)
GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAL!
Posted by: rickb223 at September 27, 2016 03:26 PM (ApT0U)
Know that Michelle Fields is clapping for you on the inside.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 27, 2016 03:16 PM (ApT0U)
________________________
That was hurtful....
~sniff-sniff~
Posted by: Michelle Fields at September 27, 2016 03:26 PM (HSmrB)
Heh. My high school was so tough, they called Dodgeball "Warball." I mean officially. The gym teachers called it that. It was listed as Warball on the gym schedule.
Oh, the triggering that would cause today.
Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at September 27, 2016 03:26 PM (WlGX+)
Posted by: Naes at September 27, 2016 02:57 PM (Ypc8j)
--------------------------------
AMEN.
And surprisingly (to leftist idiots) this is an objection I have heard more from FEMALE fans than from men.
Having reminders of breast cancer thrown at you every second is not ... fun.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at September 27, 2016 03:26 PM (Nox3c)
Not to mention the sodomy.
Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at September 27, 2016 03:24 PM (97XyN)
well if there is a sodomy penalty they do give them a ration of rum beforehand. not savages.
Posted by: yankeefifth at September 27, 2016 03:27 PM (cPsPa)
Posted by: steevy at September 27, 2016 03:27 PM (fA75F)
(I kid, I kid). When I was stationed in England, I went to see our local team, Ipswich Town, a few times a year. Decent seats weren't too expensive but were worth it to stay away from the yobs.
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at September 27, 2016 03:27 PM (hqZPQ)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 27, 2016 03:27 PM (IqV8l)
Posted by: Prez'nit Spam at September 27, 2016 03:25 PM (Tyii7)
You also had a different definition of header than the game does
Posted by: TheQuietMan at September 27, 2016 03:28 PM (493sH)
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at September 27, 2016 03:28 PM (oVJmc)
They're being punished, thankfully. One of them is even based at Pearl Harbor.
Immediate court-martial and DD. Make an example of their ass.
Posted by: LGoPs at September 27, 2016 03:28 PM (AtCmq)
Posted by: Izapole at September 27, 2016 03:28 PM (wmyHK)
Posted by: Roger Goodhead at September 27, 2016 03:28 PM (Tyii7)
Take the Sven Challenge and watch this game....
https://youtu.be/-0hGbMpt0L0
'88 Bengals-Jets 4th Q
and tell me the "modern" game competes.
Posted by: sven10077 at September 27, 2016 03:28 PM (SzZnW)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 27, 2016 03:29 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: Ghost of Lee Atwater at September 27, 2016 03:29 PM (JxMoP)
How confusing must a family gathering be when everybody is named Mohammed? I'm dead serious.
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Since you're dead serious, they also use titles like "Uncle" and "Aunt," and they also have alternate names like "Father of Khalid."
Posted by: iforgot says God bless Fleegle at September 27, 2016 03:30 PM (oGNNA)
Every single one of these media cheesedicks can go pound fucking sand.
Posted by: Jacob's Step Stool at September 27, 2016 03:30 PM (EQgcz)
Sorry if I seem bitter, but pretty much every single sports-fanatic I've met either has ZERO interest in politics, or purposefully try to drown it out and stay ignorant through mass consumption...
Posted by: I Smell Something Rotten at September 27, 2016 03:30 PM (ctO3Z)
It's always that same Columbian/Mexican commentator.
You'd think they could find others.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 27, 2016 03:30 PM (ApT0U)
Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at September 27, 2016 03:30 PM (WlGX+)
Posted by: Water Tower Sign at September 27, 2016 03:30 PM (hqZPQ)
The decline of football can be traced back to the day the 85 Bears released their Superbowl Shuffle video.
Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at September 27, 2016 03:30 PM (lKyWE)
2
3 Social justice generally and tangible policy changes within police departments specifically!
I think they might be missing a step.
Posted by: Naes at September 27, 2016 03:31 PM (Ypc8j)
Posted by: Rick in SK at September 27, 2016 03:31 PM (/CIN4)
Uncle Mohammed has gone through a hard time...
//San Francisco Imam
Posted by: sven10077 at September 27, 2016 03:31 PM (SzZnW)
You had to love the Bears though
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 27, 2016 03:31 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: FireHorse at September 27, 2016 03:25 PM (VDlGs)
An American tradition? And you think its their darling?
Posted by: buzzion at September 27, 2016 03:31 PM (z/Ubi)
Attention networks--you're broadcasting a *diversion* from politics and real life. When you forget that and attempt to mix politics and real life back into your diversion, you're going to lose, and badly.
Posted by: Crusader at September 27, 2016 03:32 PM (ewSN2)
Thanks, I'll send you a brown ribbon...
Posted by: sven10077 at September 27, 2016 03:32 PM (SzZnW)
J.J. Abrams has saved the national anthem!
Posted by: Insomniac - Irredeemably Deplorable at September 27, 2016 03:32 PM (0mRoj)
Posted by: LGoPs at September 27, 2016 03:32 PM (AtCmq)
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We had "Bombardment", with the bouncy red rubber balls - coed, too.
After taking out all the girls, you'd team up on the fat dorky kid. If he had red splotches all over his face, it was a good gym class.
Posted by: Roy at September 27, 2016 03:32 PM (VndSC)
Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at September 27, 2016 03:30 PM (lKyWE)
pretty sure it was when Bud Grant left the vikings.
Posted by: yankeefifth at September 27, 2016 03:32 PM (cPsPa)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at September 27, 2016 02:44 PM (voOPb
hey, I kiss your mom with this mouth
Posted by: yankeefifth at September 27, 2016 02:45 PM (cPsPa
Zombish is weird.
///
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at September 27, 2016 03:32 PM (voOPb)
I don't know how we live with ourselves, as a country, with this oppression in our midst.
Posted by: BurtTC at September 27, 2016 03:32 PM (TOk1P)
Posted by: steevy at September 27, 2016 03:32 PM (fA75F)
Posted by: Brother Cavil, convening Horde Thunderdome at September 27, 2016 03:33 PM (9krrF)
Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic
________
Ironic, considering that they weren't out to start no trouble.
Posted by: FireHorse at September 27, 2016 03:33 PM (VDlGs)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 27, 2016 03:27 PM (IqV8l)
Pay them $100,000 a year and see how many of these single digit IQ cretins stop playing the game.
Posted by: TheQuietMan at September 27, 2016 03:33 PM (493sH)
The decline of football can be traced back to the day the 85 Bears released their Superbowl Shuffle video.
Which came first, that or QB's using earpieces? I seem to remember sometime in the early 90s an article about Jim Kelly being the last holdout QB not using an earpiece.
At any rate, QB earpieces ruined football as sure as Phil Collins ruined Genesis.
Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at September 27, 2016 03:33 PM (WlGX+)
Rugby is 80 minutes.
Sorry but soccer is Capitalism, never heard of a NFL team buying a player for 10 million dollars, At least Baseball has bought some players from Central America and Asia.
Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at September 27, 2016 03:34 PM (dKiJG)
It looks like a pasttime the whole world can take an interest in.
Not me, but the whole world.
As far as American Football, I used to be a lot more interested, but kind of got tired of it.
Professional Sports is just an occasional time- killer anymore.
Taking the Football season off this year was a pretty easy thing to do.
There's always next year.
Posted by: tubal at September 27, 2016 03:34 PM (d6TTt)
CALCIO!
https://tinyurl.com/p75w683
Seriously, what is holding this sport back. The winning team gets a cow all to themselves.
Posted by: Skunky Choom at September 27, 2016 03:34 PM (CbGSW)
That was true in Chicago... to this day.
Posted by: Roy at September 27, 2016 03:34 PM (VndSC)
Posted by: steevy at September 27, 2016 03:22 PM
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Wasn't there a (Miami Dolphins?) NFL player who got in deeeeeep trouble simply for tweeting "Eeeeewww!" when Michael Sam passionately kissed his boyfriend on the lips on TV?
This was a private tweet of course, not something done while in uniform and on the field. But I now he was forced to go to re-education camp at least. Whether he was fined or suspended I don't recall.
Anyway, the "free speech" they advocate excludes any speech they don't like.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at September 27, 2016 03:34 PM (Nox3c)
Why was Tebow kneeling bad, but crapdick's kneeling the second coming?
Posted by: rickb223 at September 27, 2016 03:34 PM (ApT0U)
Posted by: Banana Splits Guy at September 27, 2016 03:09 PM (QVVXM)
++++
Muckle (sometimes called "muckle the man with the ball", "kill-the-guy-with-the-ball", "kill the carrier", or "smear the queer", among other names) is the reverse of regular tag; all of the other players chase "it". This player is denoted by carrying a ball (usually a football). When they are caught, they are tackled, or "muckled". Whoever retrieves the ball first or whoever attacks the one who is it then becomes it. Sometimes the last player arriving to tackle the former ball carrier is the next person to be it; in other variations the player with the ball throws the ball up in the air, where it is caught by another player who becomes it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tag_%28game%29#Muckle
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at September 27, 2016 03:35 PM (R+30W)
Posted by: obvious at September 27, 2016 03:35 PM (bsDXW)
Posted by: Izapole at September 27, 2016 03:35 PM (wmyHK)
sure didn't show in interest in Curt Schilling's right to be heard.
Or how about the claim that Kaepernick and others want "to start a conversation"?
Maybe we should ask the Seattle MLB player who was suspended for the entire season for participating in that "conversation," via twitter, during the Charlotte riots.
Posted by: Lizzy at September 27, 2016 03:35 PM (NOIQH)
Aunt Mohammed?
Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at September 27, 2016 03:30 PM (WlGX+)
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Please, we do not discuss the cisgendering tendencies of our Muslim siblings, you Islamophobic monster.
Posted by: iforgot says God bless Fleegle at September 27, 2016 03:35 PM (oGNNA)
Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at September 27, 2016 03:30 PM (lKyWE)
pretty sure it was when Bud Grant left the vikings.
________________________
Or when Tom Landry left the Cowboys.
Class act.
Posted by: Deplorable Adirondack Patriots at September 27, 2016 03:35 PM (4AVeu)
Posted by: IC at September 27, 2016 03:35 PM (a0IVu)
They are the modern-day equivalent of Gladiatorial combat, the key bread
circus component designed to keep the vast middle-class LIV
distracted and tuned-out as their country is taken from them one drip at
a time... People need to spend less time obsessing over player's stats
and start paying attention to WTF is going around them...
Sorry if I seem bitter, but pretty much every single sports-fanatic
I've met either has ZERO interest in politics, or purposefully try to
drown it out and stay ignorant through mass consumption...
Posted by: I Smell Something Rotten at September 27, 2016 03:30 PM (ctO3Z)
Well said. Call me overly serious, but I find it difficult to find a lot of satisfaction in watching an unimportant, fleeting distraction like sports when I see my country collapsing around me.
Posted by: LGoPs at September 27, 2016 03:36 PM (AtCmq)
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except they have almost got fighting removed from the game and their biggest "star" is that fairy sydney crosby
Posted by: Rick in SK at September 27, 2016 03:36 PM (/CIN4)
$5k a game like the one guy Johnny Carson used to interview.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 27, 2016 03:36 PM (ApT0U)
Posted by: Mica Vim Toot at September 27, 2016 03:36 PM (4rLGu)
______________________
Every country that is good at soccer sucks at war.
Posted by: Deplorable Adirondack Patriots at September 27, 2016 03:37 PM (4AVeu)
And if they don't get a handle on this social justice crap and their politics before next season, I'll never return.
Posted by: Bea Arthur's Dick at September 27, 2016 03:37 PM (0xzXo)
Yeah, its truly sad that a man who works a couple dozen days a year - if he makes the playoffs - for that kind of money is treated so badly.
Sorry but soccer is Capitalism, never heard of a NFL team buying a player for 10 million dollars
That's mostly because FIFA is possibly the single most corrupt organization in the history of the world.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 27, 2016 03:37 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at September 27, 2016 03:34 PM (dKiJG)
well, 13th amendment duh
Posted by: yankeefifth at September 27, 2016 03:38 PM (cPsPa)
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But, at least they get cool jerseys to wear.
Posted by: Presidential campaign workers. at September 27, 2016 03:38 PM (VndSC)
Posted by: LGoPs
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Welcome to the world's great game.
Posted by: FireHorse at September 27, 2016 03:38 PM (VDlGs)
Posted by: An Observation at September 27, 2016 03:38 PM (SAMq1)
Posted by: Weasel at September 27, 2016 03:38 PM (Sfs6o)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 27, 2016 03:37 PM (39g3+)
How dare you think they are above us!
Posted by: IOC at September 27, 2016 03:38 PM (z/Ubi)
FIFA? Pffffft.
Olympic Committee.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 27, 2016 03:39 PM (ApT0U)
Agreed. But I live in an NHL city, which helps. If I didn't, I doubt I'd have gotten into it.
Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at September 27, 2016 03:39 PM (WlGX+)
$5k a game like the one guy Johnny Carson used to interview.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 27, 2016 03:36 PM (ApT0U)
no contracts
Posted by: yankeefifth at September 27, 2016 03:39 PM (cPsPa)
BUT, I live in the county where they're based in VA, and most of them are pretty plugged into the community, do a lot of volunteering and charity work, the ones with families who live here actually volunteer on their PTAs on the understanding that they're there because they're_____'s dad, not for any other reason, so, can we all just do the bakesale or the movie night please? and some of the young unmarrieds room together in modest townhomes, and a couple bike to work at the team park.
Can't give up on them yet.
(but we also have some raving prog idiots who not only got on the name bandwagon, and damn near died--but not near enough more's the pity--when the poll came out saying a majority of actual native americans were fine with the name; those prog jerks object to the game, ALL sports, in general, because they're just. so. VI.O.LENT., which is ANOTHER thing that's horrible about America)
Posted by: barbarausa at September 27, 2016 03:39 PM (h3IJ6)
FIFA? Pffffft.
Olympic Committee.
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Pikers
Posted by: The DNC at September 27, 2016 03:39 PM (/CIN4)
Posted by: Skunky Choom at September 27, 2016 03:40 PM (CbGSW)
Harumph!
Posted by: The U. N. at September 27, 2016 03:40 PM (u0s1P)
Well, they play a lot of soccer and baseball in furrin' places...American style football, not so much, so the NFL can hardly recruit as much from those places.
MLB scouts foreign players because they are much, much cheaper. (And bring a lot of skill and enthusiasm, too, but mostly cheap)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at September 27, 2016 03:40 PM (E8PzM)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 27, 2016 03:40 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: The Hillary!!11!! Foundation at September 27, 2016 03:41 PM (Tyii7)
Not if you played it.
Another great game -- Gaelic football.
Aussie rules is Gaelic football played with a rugby ball (not a round ball) on a cricket field.
Posted by: Ignoramus at September 27, 2016 03:41 PM (r1fLd)
Posted by: Lou Saban at September 27, 2016 03:41 PM (q+IDS)
Posted by: Lincolntf at September 27, 2016 03:41 PM (2cS/G)
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at September 27, 2016 03:41 PM (qCMvj)
Posted by: Weasel at September 27, 2016 03:42 PM (Sfs6o)
Posted by: x at September 27, 2016 03:42 PM (5zXx+)
Posted by: Barack Obama at September 27, 2016 03:42 PM (IqV8l)
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at September 27, 2016 03:42 PM (Nox3c)
Harumph!
Posted by: The U. N. at September 27, 2016 03:40 PM (u0s1P)
________________________
Harumph, harrumph!
Posted by: The Clinton Foundation at September 27, 2016 03:42 PM (4AVeu)
Posted by: Reggie1971 at September 27, 2016 03:43 PM (H6376)
Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at September 27, 2016 03:43 PM (lKyWE)
the claim that Kaepernick and others want "to start a conversation"?
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I'll probably get willowed but anyway:
This crap about "wanting to start a conversation" gets me huffing and puffing every time. CNN wanted to "start a national conversation" about race, gender, topic A, topic B, whatever.
Just report some facts, you elitist pricks. You're not my 4th-grade teacher assigning conversation topics where we all break up into groups and then report to the class what we concluded. Americans will decide what we want to talk about.
Posted by: iforgot says God bless Fleegle at September 27, 2016 03:43 PM (oGNNA)
Posted by: Roy at September 27, 2016 03:43 PM (VndSC)
Elvira, Mistresses of the Dark - 35 years in pictures:
http://www.laweekly.com/slideshow/35-years-of-
elvira-mistress-of-the-dark-in-pictures-7363590/15
(remove extra spaces)
Posted by: naturalfake at September 27, 2016 03:43 PM (0cMkb)
At least that's what some comments on the weekend lead me to believe
Posted by: kbdabear at September 27, 2016 03:43 PM (Ya7zs)
Posted by: The Hillary!!11!! Foundation at September 27, 2016 03:41 PM (Tyii7)
Hey, that isn't fair. The Clinton Family Foundation proudly supports worthy causes by donating over two percent of its annual revenue to international projects in which Hillary's brother has been awarded a major contract.
Posted by: Cicero -- Profoundly Deplorable But Pretty Dependable at September 27, 2016 03:43 PM (8ZskC)
Posted by: grammie winger at September 27, 2016 03:43 PM (DLIpz)
Not only is it fun to watch, you, YES YOU, could probably make the team. Just show up at the stadium, get your drink on, go play.
https://tinyurl.com/p75w683
Posted by: Skunky Choom at September 27, 2016 03:44 PM (CbGSW)
They are men playing kids games.....
"real people doing real things"....
yeah like quantum physics or mastering hopium generator power.
Posted by: sven10077 at September 27, 2016 03:44 PM (SzZnW)
Amen. And Starr and Horning and Lombardi and Halas and on and on. Those were the days when America was America. Today I'm starting to wonder what the fuck it is.
Posted by: LGoPs at September 27, 2016 03:44 PM (AtCmq)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 27, 2016 03:44 PM (39g3+)
That's mostly because FIFA is possibly the single most corrupt organization in the history of the world.
Harumph!
Posted by: The U. N. at September 27, 2016 03:40 PM (u0s1P)
________________________
Harumph, harrumph!
Posted by: The Clinton Foundation at September 27, 2016 03:42 PM (4AVeu)
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Harrumph harrumph harrumph!
Posted by: The International Olympic Committee at September 27, 2016 03:44 PM (oGNNA)
Played a little intramural in college.
Bruising as hell.
But the beer drinking afterwards was epic.
Nothing makes a black eye, sore nuts, and knee gashes feel better than a twelve pack and a joint.
Good times.
Posted by: tubal at September 27, 2016 03:44 PM (d6TTt)
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He does. He wants to have a reasonable discussion! But everyone is racist and won't listen!
Posted by: Cenk Uygur at September 27, 2016 03:44 PM (BDZWU)
Posted by: Ignoramus at September 27, 2016 03:45 PM (r1fLd)
Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at September 27, 2016 03:45 PM (dKiJG)
Amen. And Starr and Horning and Lombardi and Halas and on and on. Those were the days when America was America. Today I'm starting to wonder what the fuck it is.
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Art Donovan
that is all
Posted by: Rick in SK at September 27, 2016 03:45 PM (/CIN4)
LIAR! How dare you LIE about that! MOderator, fact check him! LIAR!
...its 6%.
Posted by: Hillary Klin-Ton at September 27, 2016 03:45 PM (39g3+)
(remove extra spaces)
Posted by: naturalfake at September 27, 2016 03:43 PM (0cMkb)
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Too much trouble.
Posted by: iforgot says God bless Snorky at September 27, 2016 03:45 PM (oGNNA)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 27, 2016 03:45 PM (IqV8l)
Posted by: grammie winger at September 27, 2016 03:43 PM (DLIpz)
God bless you, grammie.
The Favre, he lives on, forever!
Posted by: tubal at September 27, 2016 03:45 PM (d6TTt)
Posted by: grammie winger at September 27, 2016 03:43 PM (DLIpz)
And yet you're a Cubs fan with no love for the Brewers.
Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at September 27, 2016 03:45 PM (lKyWE)
To see the Matrix, you actually have to escape the Matrix.
You have to purge the Matrix from your brain."
I've been calling it The Borg
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Resistance is futile, racist.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With More Je Ne Sais Quoi! at September 27, 2016 03:46 PM (Nwg0u)
Posted by: Lincolntf at September 27, 2016 03:46 PM (2cS/G)
(ok, I added thd last part)
Posted by: Skip at September 27, 2016 03:46 PM (JfUI4)
418 I have one word for you people - Johnny Unitas and Larry Czonka. Those guys were the NFL.
Amen. And Starr and Horning and Lombardi and Halas and on and on. Those were the days when America was America. Today I'm starting to wonder what the fuck it is.
Posted by: LGoPs at September 27, 2016 03:44 PM (AtCmq)
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Maybe Mr. Of Spades would let is have a thread where we remember America the way it used to be.
Posted by: Weasel at September 27, 2016 03:46 PM (Sfs6o)
i sat through many a game, alot of rainy day ones, some total storms but i never left because of the niners.
no more.
Posted by: concrete girl at September 27, 2016 03:46 PM (UU5Wy)
Hurling looks pretty awesome
Posted by: Deplorable Male
****
I have hurl daily
Posted by: Hillary at September 27, 2016 03:46 PM (0x/TW)
Posted by: Banana Splits Guy at September 27, 2016 03:09 PM (QVVXM)
There is some other name for it. Can't remember though.
Posted by: buzzion at September 27, 2016 03:10 PM (z/Ubi)
We were more progressive and inclusive as kids.
Kill the Carrier.
Posted by: Drill Thrawl at September 27, 2016 03:46 PM (k6zwU)
A local Ontario, Canada paper today had a story about electricity prices which have been and will continue to go through the roof.
A dealership owner opened his mail and almost choked when he found a bill for $21,000 for one month.
Let it burn...
Posted by: Stateless Infidel at September 27, 2016 03:47 PM (/NlFx)
Bent over, tight shorts, sweeping, cheeks flexing, ......
Posted by: rickb223 at September 27, 2016 03:47 PM (ApT0U)
Posted by: naturalfake at September 27, 2016 03:43 PM (0cMkb)
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Too much trouble.
I should have read that more carefully. I removed extra letters and it didn't work at all.
Posted by: Cicero -- Profoundly Deplorable But Pretty Dependable at September 27, 2016 03:47 PM (8ZskC)
Posted by: Skip at September 27, 2016 03:47 PM (JfUI4)
423 I used to say that what would hold the 50 US states together were things like the NFL and MLB.
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omg. You do realize some Americans are genetically predisposed against pro sports, don't you? Get me talking about movies, however...
Posted by: iforgot says God bless Snorky at September 27, 2016 03:47 PM (oGNNA)
Posted by: melodicmetal at September 27, 2016 03:47 PM (7XY13)
And it is true that I only watch the Brewers if the Cubs aren't on.
Posted by: grammie winger at September 27, 2016 03:47 PM (DLIpz)
Bent over, tight shorts, sweeping, cheeks flexing, ......
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HURRY HARRRRDDDDDD!!!!!!!
Posted by: Rick in SK at September 27, 2016 03:48 PM (/CIN4)
My next door neighbor spent "real people doing real things" time on sunday making bunk beds for his daughters....
I'm pretty sure coupled with my making a gaming video we did more to celebrate than a guy on the hill drinking a beer watching "Armored Rugby"
to each their own, I will land a blow against the NFL
Posted by: sven10077 at September 27, 2016 03:48 PM (SzZnW)
Posted by: Weasel at September 27, 2016 03:48 PM (Sfs6o)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at September 27, 2016 03:40
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Not for long are they cheaper....and not even that much cheaper at the start, given that the first thing they get when they get off the boat is a US agent.
You think Big Papi plays for peanuts?!?
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at September 27, 2016 03:49 PM (Nox3c)
Posted by: Weasel at September 27, 2016 03:46 PM (Sfs6o)
Yeah, we were all racists assholes!
Posted by: SJW's at September 27, 2016 03:49 PM (NbJXF)
The Anthem crap isn't the only reason, but it was the last straw. Watch if you want to, but I'm not going to watch and discuss a business that says to me "we hate everything about you and will use the money you spend on us to see you and your kind wiped from history"
Roger Goodell being a mealy-mouthed SJW corporate asswipe made it very easy
Posted by: kbdabear at September 27, 2016 03:49 PM (Ya7zs)
Well Brett Favre was undermined by Bert Favre his identical twin cousin
Posted by: sven10077 at September 27, 2016 03:49 PM (SzZnW)
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Resistance is futile, racist.
Except that the Borg had a sense of humor. In comparison to your average lefty SJW.
As a matter of fact they were a laugh riot compared to people like that Melissa Clique idiot from Mizzou. As just one example.
Posted by: LGoPs at September 27, 2016 03:49 PM (AtCmq)
Posted by: Independent George (originator of the worlds theory) at September 27, 2016 03:49 PM (BDZWU)
Posted by: x at September 27, 2016 03:49 PM (5zXx+)
One eighth of the concessions, souvenirs and parking revenue, gone. Remind the team owners that minus the fans, the owners have jack.
Every time there is a contract negotiation the fans should have a representative with their interests paramount and with veto power.
Posted by: JB1000 at September 27, 2016 03:50 PM (16OL0)
A dealership owner opened his mail and almost choked when he found a bill for $21,000 for one month.
Let it burn...
Posted by: Stateless Infidel at September 27, 2016 03:47 PM (/NlFx)
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Cool, we can be like Bombay. 100-degree heat and all you can do is whap-whap around your face with a paper fan.
Posted by: iforgot says God bless Snorky at September 27, 2016 03:50 PM (oGNNA)
Played a little intramural in college.
Bruising as hell.
But the beer drinking afterwards was epic.
Nothing makes a black eye, sore nuts, and knee gashes feel better than a twelve pack and a joint.
Good times.
Posted by: tubal at September 27, 2016 03:44 PM (d6TTt)
AFTER THE GAME? Hell we had a Keg on the bench, the most important player.
Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at September 27, 2016 03:50 PM (dKiJG)
This times a billion. Good post.
Posted by: Eli Cash at September 27, 2016 03:50 PM (a+WIL)
Possibly....*something* needs made an example of.
Posted by: sven10077 at September 27, 2016 03:50 PM (SzZnW)
Posted by: Weasel at September 27, 2016 03:50 PM (Sfs6o)
Posted by: Hillary Klin-Ton at September 27, 2016 03:50 PM (39g3+)
This is analogous to DNC chairbabe Donna Brazile's observation regarding her health insurance premium rising, "No good explanation."
I may be using that quote a lot, as in, "Deficit rising, No good explanation ." Or perhaps, "Shootings of police officers increase, No good explanation."
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 27, 2016 03:50 PM (9mTYi)
I mean I hurl daily. I'm a pro at it!
Posted by: Hillary at September 27, 2016 03:51 PM (m3iiU)
Posted by: Are we not still doing Phrasing? at September 27, 2016 03:51 PM (2CG5J)
Posted by: iforgot says God bless Fleegle at September 27, 2016 03:43 PM
Dood. We need to start conversations about the stuff you aren't talking about that we feel you should be talking about. If you were thinking correctly, we wouldn't need to start a conversation.
Duh.
Posted by: The unDeplorables at September 27, 2016 03:51 PM (V+C3K)
Coed bathrooms for everyone!"
I'm in if the cheerleaders are.
Posted by: rld77 WAY down south at September 27, 2016 03:51 PM (VzCZ2)
Posted by: Ahmed, UN High Commissioner of Sports at September 27, 2016 03:51 PM (97XyN)
Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at September 27, 2016 03:50 PM (dKiJG)
Aw man, shoulda played for you guys!
Posted by: tubal at September 27, 2016 03:51 PM (d6TTt)
Posted by: JEM at September 27, 2016 03:51 PM (TppKb)
Posted by: SaltyDonnie at September 27, 2016 03:51 PM (i6shs)
The racing sausages are probably the greatest mascots in all of sports.Although the Hispanic one might be in this country illegally.
Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at September 27, 2016 03:52 PM (lKyWE)
Probably something PC like "Looking for Mister Goodbar."
Posted by: Fritz at September 27, 2016 03:52 PM (2Mnv1)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 27, 2016 03:52 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: Skunky Choom at September 27, 2016 03:52 PM (CbGSW)
http://www.laweekly.com/slideshow/35-years-of-
elvira-mistress-of-the-dark-in-pictures-7363590/15
(remove extra spaces)
Posted by: naturalfake at September 27, 2016 03:43 PM (0cMkb)
Beware, she's a ginger!
Posted by: someoldguy at September 27, 2016 03:52 PM (9ZV4k)
Posted by: Zombie John Facenda at September 27, 2016 03:52 PM (TOk1P)
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Once I was a quarterback, I made it run
Made it race against time
Once I was a quarterback, now it's done
Brother, can you spare a dime?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With More Je Ne Sais Quoi! at September 27, 2016 03:53 PM (Nwg0u)
Surely even most hard core fans could stand to stream a game from another source when i.e. ESPN is carrying their team?
Or not. I don't particularly care since I'm only a very lukewarm sports fan, but I am hoping you all can emulate gamer gate and tell the SJWhiners to pound sand.
Posted by: Palerider at September 27, 2016 03:53 PM (dkExz)
Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at September 27, 2016 03:53 PM (dKiJG)
>>Harumph!
Posted by: U.N.
*whistles*
*looks side to side innocently*
Posted by: International Olympic Commity (IOC) at September 27, 2016 03:53 PM (NOIQH)
I think the German Sausage is really from Argentina
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 27, 2016 03:53 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: kbdabear at September 27, 2016 03:53 PM (Ya7zs)
I'll watch NFL football again when it looks like America.
Posted by: JEM at September 27, 2016 03:51 PM (TppKb)
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That's not who we are as Americans.
Posted by: iforgot says God bless Snorky at September 27, 2016 03:54 PM (oGNNA)
Daisy Red Ryder, Lawn Darts & M 80's FTMFW!
Posted by: rickb223 at September 27, 2016 03:54 PM (ApT0U)
I just watched a video of Brazilian Police literally kick and punching a perp into the back of a police vehicle and slamming the door on him as he struggles to get out.
These special little cunts have NO IDEA what life could be like.
Posted by: melodicmetal at September 27, 2016 03:54 PM (7XY13)
Oh, we were talking about scouting... at least I thought we were! There are several scouting camps (for lack of a better word) in various Caribbean countries in particular, and I am other Winter Ball countries have them, too.
I'm glad they get big bucks once they've proven themselves; it's the American Dream come true.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at September 27, 2016 03:54 PM (E8PzM)
Posted by: grammie winger at September 27, 2016 03:54 PM (DLIpz)
Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at September 27, 2016 03:54 PM (lKyWE)
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Damn! Does that mean I have to like Crystal Skull?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With More Je Ne Sais Quoi! at September 27, 2016 03:54 PM (Nwg0u)
Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at September 27, 2016 02:42 PM (WlGX+)
The Spurs mascot has a t-shirt Gatling gun. It's much more impressive than the little air guns.
Posted by: stace.....TEXIT at September 27, 2016 03:54 PM (ozZau)
Posted by: Ferd Berfall at September 27, 2016 03:55 PM (NuElX)
While growing up in communist Czechoslovakia, young hockey phenom Jaromir Jagr insisted on wearing #68 as a tribute to the freedom protesters of the Prague Spring in 1968. His father warned him about getting too political and advised him to focus on hockey, but Jaromir penned "D.A. 68" somewhere on his equipment. (The initials were a veiled reference to Alexander Dubcek, the leader of the Czechoslovakian freedom movement.) Think about it: This kid risked the possibility of going to prison for making his statement.
But Colin Kaepernick is "courageous."
Posted by: FireHorse at September 27, 2016 03:55 PM (VDlGs)
https://tinyurl.com/jpolwsm
Posted by: Skunky Choom at September 27, 2016 03:55 PM (CbGSW)
Posted by: SJW's at September 27, 2016 03:49 PM (NbJXF)
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No, before that!
Posted by: Weasel at September 27, 2016 03:50 PM (Sfs6o)
SLAVES!!
Posted by: SJW's at September 27, 2016 03:55 PM (NbJXF)
Posted by: rickb223 at September 27, 2016 03:47 PM
Warning! Warning! Male gaze detected!
Posted by: The Robot at September 27, 2016 03:55 PM (V+C3K)
Does Average Joe define AceofSpadesHQ? Or are you able to recognize Basic 101 trolling? Apply to Sports.
Posted by: Lincolntf at September 27, 2016 03:57 PM (2cS/G)
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Damn! Does that mean I have to like Crystal Skull?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With More Je Ne Sais Quoi!
What, the Val-U-Rite isn't good enough for ya?
Posted by: Brother Cavil, convening Horde Thunderdome at September 27, 2016 03:57 PM (9krrF)
Nobody is asking you to make that great a sacrifice.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 27, 2016 03:57 PM (39g3+)
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Depends. If the queer you're smearing is Milo, it's social justice.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With More Je Ne Sais Quoi! at September 27, 2016 03:57 PM (Nwg0u)
Posted by: Roy at September 27, 2016 03:57 PM (VndSC)
Posted by: JEM at September 27, 2016 03:51 PM (TppKb)
In the meantime:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPLmxtiVOe0
Posted by: Zombie John Facenda at September 27, 2016 03:57 PM (TOk1P)
485 We really should start funding field trips for the SJ snowflakes to places like Brazil, Russia, Iran... you know, give em a taste of what actual oppression and police brutality is.
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And I'm sorry to say it, but AAs especially. Translate "Black Lives Matter" into Russian (just don't have Hillary's state department do it) and see how far you get.
Posted by: iforgot says God bless Snorky at September 27, 2016 03:58 PM (oGNNA)
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I'm referring to the barely perceptible period of time after slaves and before we were all racist assholes.
Posted by: Weasel at September 27, 2016 03:58 PM (Sfs6o)
Posted by: x at September 27, 2016 03:58 PM (5zXx+)
Posted by: IC at September 27, 2016 03:59 PM (a0IVu)
Unlike Boob Costas I played the game.
The NFL had no problem with Tim Tebow being mocked and derided I guess he wanted "another conversation" they didn't.
The NFL can get control of its players or lose money, period.
More of us will leave the more moonbat the game gets.
Posted by: sven10077 at September 27, 2016 03:59 PM (SzZnW)
I will LISTEN on the radio if it's a Redskins game, but otherwise, I ignore it.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at September 27, 2016 03:59 PM (Nox3c)
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Damn! Does that mean I have to like Crystal Skull?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With More Je Ne Sais Quoi! at September 27, 2016 03:54 PM (Nwg0u)
No. because Lucas Spielberg and Shia.
Posted by: Buzzion at September 27, 2016 03:59 PM (z/Ubi)
I may occasionally clam-lap. But I for one do not turd-burgle.
Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at September 27, 2016 04:00 PM (WlGX+)
Hopefully, she doesn't quit, and Pres Trump informs her "on the 'morrow, you shall receive your purification."
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at September 27, 2016 04:00 PM (hqZPQ)
The trolls aren't tolerated and glorified here.
Posted by: Golfman at September 27, 2016 04:00 PM (48QDY)
Does Average Joe define AceofSpadesHQ? Or are you able to recognize Basic 101 trolling? Apply to Sports.
Posted by: Lincolntf at September 27, 2016 03:57 PM (2cS/G)
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Roger Goodell isn't a random troll who can be ignored, trolled back, or banned, however.
Posted by: iforgot says God bless Snorky at September 27, 2016 04:00 PM (oGNNA)
Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at September 27, 2016 04:01 PM (WlGX+)
Colin Kaepernick has been described as "courageous."
CK has helped to evolve my reaction to any story I may hear in the future about NFL players suffering horrible concussions or spinal injuries from "Oh my God, that's terrible..." to "Who was injured...?"
Progress....
Posted by: Stateless Infidel at September 27, 2016 04:01 PM (/NlFx)
Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at September 27, 2016 03:50 PM
Bench?? We had to jog to the bar and back at halftime and during injury timeouts. And it was uphill both ways.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 27, 2016 04:01 PM (V+C3K)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 27, 2016 04:01 PM (39g3+)
I missed Ace and the Cobs discussing what a hero Average Joe and Gerg are...
Posted by: sven10077 at September 27, 2016 04:01 PM (SzZnW)
perp into the back of a police vehicle and slamming the door on him as
he struggles to get out.<<<
That used to be called Saturday night in Carson and Compton.
Posted by: Fritz at September 27, 2016 04:01 PM (2Mnv1)
Posted by: Weasel
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Sure. Just set the AoSHQ Wayback Machine for 1955.
Eisenhower, '55 Chevy's, bobby socks, Everly Brothers, Choo Choo Charlie Justice. Suits me.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 27, 2016 04:01 PM (9mTYi)
Posted by: Seems legit at September 27, 2016 04:01 PM (U+nHb)
Posted by: Ferd Berfall at September 27, 2016 04:01 PM (NuElX)
Posted by: JEM at September 27, 2016 03:51 PM (TppKb)
But it's got that lovely south side of Chicago look to it now
Posted by: TheQuietMan at September 27, 2016 04:02 PM (493sH)
Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at September 27, 2016 04:02 PM (WlGX+)
[quote]It was hyped as "real" football without penalties for roughness and with fewer rules in general. The games would feature players and coaches with microphones and cameras in the huddle and in the locker rooms. Stadiums featured trash-talking public address announcers and scantily-clad cheerleaders. Instead of a pre-game coin toss, XFL officials put the ball on the ground and let a player from each team scramble for it to determine who received the kickoff option. The practice was dubbed "The Human Coin Toss" by commentators and led to the first XFL injury. Injuries would prove to be commonplace in the league, including one noted fatality, that of Troy Stark, who died during surgery to repair an injury he sustained during play. [/quote]
I'd watch the shit out of this today.
Posted by: 3.14159 at September 27, 2016 04:03 PM (MaINI)
Posted by: Stateless Infidel at September 27, 2016 04:03 PM (/NlFx)
Posted by: 3.14159 at September 27, 2016 04:04 PM (MaINI)
Eisenhower, '55 Chevy's, bobby socks, Everly Brothers, Choo Choo Charlie Justice. Suits me.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 27, 2016 04:01 PM (9mTYi)
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It might be fun - the thread wouldn't have a specified era, just however each commenter fondly recalls and defines American values and exceptionalism in their experience.
Posted by: Weasel at September 27, 2016 04:05 PM (Sfs6o)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 27, 2016 04:05 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at September 27, 2016 03:14 PM (dKiJG)
My theory is more in the line of the fact that baseball requires a long apprenticeship and doesn't fill the desire for instant gratification. They believe with NFL or NBA it's a few years in college ball where all living costs are paid, declare early, become instantly rich and famous after getting drafted.
With baseball it's a long apprenticeship through minor league towns at a rate that's less than minimum wage. No instant gratification.
Posted by: kbdabear at September 27, 2016 04:09 PM (Ya7zs)
And there was no such thing as a fair catch.
Posted by: FireHorse at September 27, 2016 04:13 PM (VDlGs)
Posted by: Myshiba at September 27, 2016 04:18 PM (cfHE9)
Posted by: Yobobbyb at September 27, 2016 04:20 PM (BKGXB)
That would be a good start.
But hey, I guess I'm just too raaccisstt to watch an NFL game any more.
Thanks for my Sundays back, Roger and the Players Association.
Posted by: Colombo's cousin at September 27, 2016 04:36 PM (UsCnO)
So that's you kids call 'fired from the inaugural limo ride' these days!
Posted by: Sort-of-Mad Max at September 27, 2016 04:38 PM (nd1zx)
Have a rule there has to be at least 5 girls on the field every play. Because gender equality...I want to see a linebacker hit a chick. Every play.
Posted by: Rather Not at September 27, 2016 04:46 PM (oPogG)
Well, there's only one possible way to arrest the decline of the NFL:
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Barack Obama, color commentator.
Shouldn't that be "commentator of color?"
Posted by: Star Tripper at September 27, 2016 04:51 PM (qZ/rV)
Contentious PC BS
From other sources
Used to watch football
An island of sanity
But those days are gone
Posted by: Haiku Guy at September 27, 2016 05:06 PM (PwFpR)
Get a bunch of Scottish and Irish drunkards together, arm them with sticks and have them swing them madly like their American cousins in baseball -- except there's always someone standing 2 feet away when they swing.
Posted by: Deplorable Adirondack Patriot at September 27, 2016 05:07 PM (4AVeu)
Posted by: Bill R. at September 27, 2016 05:29 PM (jKUeC)
Posted by: torabora at September 27, 2016 05:32 PM (wmssD)
The decline of football can be traced back to the day the 85 Bears released their Superbowl Shuffle video.
Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic
I thought it was the day the Bears fired their cheerleaders, the Honeybears....
Posted by: scrood at September 27, 2016 05:54 PM (3b9U4)
Posted by: Random Thought Generator at September 27, 2016 07:03 PM (XfHd6)
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