NFL 2009

Brother None said:
Sander said:
American Football, and any sport for that matter, does not need an off-season alternative. It isn't viable, and a constant stream of sports would probably just kill it due to overexposure anyway.
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Uh, Sander, you might want to rethink that statement, considering football has one of the biggest off-season alternatives in the world in the Continental Cups and World Cup, one every alternate year.

Plus football seasons last 40+ weeks. The entire gridiron season, including the pre-season, lasts 25 (26?), that's quite a difference maker in how long you gotta wait.
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That's true.

The off-season cups for football are slightly different because they are oriented on nations instead of club, something that can't be replicated with American Football due to the lack of more than one nation actually playing the game.
Although a state vs state cup might be interesting.
 
duuuuude....but here's the thing: if the season just fuckin' started right away it'd be too intense. there's gotta be something to ease from the off-season into the season. kinda like watchin' yr dudes practice and having an excuse to catch up with all yr football buddies and drink some beers and bbq. fuck, i get excited just to watch the game again.
 
To me it's like going to a strip club. You get all hot and bothered, but at the end of the night all you have is blueballs and an empty wallet.


Every year I truly want to watch preseason, I just can't do it. Same as the probowl. NFL without the intensity is just hollow.

And you know that Pats and Colts will go 0-4 in the preseason and some overhyped fraud like Dallas or Washington will go 4-0 and the pundits will be getting the red carpets and flower petals ready for their coronation when preseason football isn't a good indicator of anything.
I'd rather watch College ball, it's about the same level as 3rd string NFLers and at least their games count.

Go UCONN!
 
Awesome recovery, or on the flip side, typical Bengals ineptitude, depends how you look at it. Either way it's exhibition, doesn't count, and by the 2nd QTR the game is a scrimmage between 3rd string scrubs playing for a spot on the practice squad. I can't be bothered to sit through that. Especially in August, it's too nice to sit inside.

And why do they call him A-Rod? That's lame. He's hijacking someone else's nickname (like him or not) whose legacy Rodgers will never, ever surpass. Alex Rodriguez is going to go down as statistically (enhanced or not) the greatest baseball player ever. Why bite on his nuts like that?

Same with LT. There is an LT. He's in the Hall of Fame. No other single player forced the league to evolve to cope with him the way Lawrence Taylor did. Nobody ever changed the way the game is played like he did.
LaDanian (French for "The Danian"?) is a prolific Pro-bowl HB, they come and go like I buy new socks. What's worse, he's a gutless crybaby that enters the witness protection program come playoff time. Houdini's got nothing on Tomlinson in the playoffs. Can't wait to see who he blames after the Pats knock his sorry ass out of the playoffs again this year.
I hope he's done for good, one of the most overrated, whiny, chokers in the game today. Stat whore with no heart. Can we stop with the fucking Chunky soup commercials? Guy got more face time with his chunky soup commercials than he did playing time last year. That's who this LT is.
 
yeah i thought the A-Rod thing was lame but i can guarantee it wasn't Aaron Rodgers going "hey guise you know wat wud be ttly kewwl? lol, call me A-rod!" it was probably the assholes on the tv. whatevs, people are uncreative.
 
TwinkieStabllis said:
yeah i thought the A-Rod thing was lame but i can guarantee it wasn't Aaron Rodgers going "hey guise you know wat wud be ttly kewwl? lol, call me A-rod!" it was probably the assholes on the tv. whatevs, people are uncreative.
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For some reason, they're also calling Andy Roddick A-Rod.
 
Sander said:
TwinkieStabllis said:
yeah i thought the A-Rod thing was lame but i can guarantee it wasn't Aaron Rodgers going "hey guise you know wat wud be ttly kewwl? lol, call me A-rod!" it was probably the assholes on the tv. whatevs, people are uncreative.
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For some reason, they're also calling Andy Roddick A-Rod.
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That "some reason" is lack of creativity. DeAngelo Williams? D-Will. Andy Roddick, Aaron Rodgers, Alex Rodriguez? A-Rod (also the name of a horse from LotR, Wikipedia says). Brandon Jacobs? J-Cobs.

And Cimm: while the Chargers fans always refer to him as LT, I think a lot of pundits prefer LDT, for reasons you name. At least the A-Rod thing is not crossing any sports boundaries, but LaDanian (despite the fact that you just hate him because you're a Pats fan, how predictable) swaggerjacking LT is certainly out of the question.

PS: swaggerjack is so the word of 2K9.
 
Brother None said:
(despite the fact that you just hate him because you're a Pats fan, how predictable)
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But I would begrudgingly respect him if he ever backed up his gaudy regular season garbage stats with a measley mediocre playoff performance, ever.
Phillip Rivers on the other hand, I do respect. He's not the best in the league, but he fucking brings it come playoff time. I love the intensity, the brashness, the competitiveness. He's the opposite of LT, stats are pedestrian but he gets the job done when he needs to - see him vs. Indy in the playoffs recently.

LDT only has excuses and crybaby sour grapes to account for his playoff disappearing acts. He's embarassing to the sport of football.

I hated Emmit Smith and Terrel Davis too. But I always respected them, their playoff performances are legendary. When has LDT proven that he deserves the hype?
He's all done anyway, RBs with that many touches don't make comebacks. Once the legs go, they go.
Make way for Sproles old man.
 
Cimmerian Nights said:
But I would begrudgingly respect him if he ever backed up his gaudy regular season garbage stats with a measley mediocre playoff performance, ever.
Phillip Rivers on the other hand, I do respect. He's not the best in the league, but he fucking brings it come playoff time. I love the intensity, the brashness, the competitiveness. He's the opposite of LT, stats are pedestrian but he gets the job done when he needs to - see him vs. Indy in the playoffs recently.
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Also, pedestrian? 34 TDs, 4000 yards and 11 INTs isn't pedestrian.

And yes, he's fun to watch play. I hope he continues on this way, both in hating Jay Cutler and in playing well.

Cimmerian Nights said:
LDT only has excuses and crybaby sour grapes to account for his playoff disappearing acts. He's embarassing to the sport of football.
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Yeah, yeah, the usual Patriots tripe. You're just still upset about this and this.

Ehehehe. Oh God he's such a douchebag in that last vid, eheh.

Still a HoF RB. Washed up, yes, though he might have a single decent year left in him, but HoF regardless.
 
Brother None said:
Yeah, yeah, the usual Patriots tripe. You're just still upset about this and this.
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Au contraire mon frere.
Not upset at all, giddy! Pats won that game, he can say whatever he wants, it's all sour grapes. What's to be upset about? Pats totally stole that game from them due to their stupidity.
Pats had no right winning that game but for some showboating - wait let me try that again. Troy Brown's strip of the INT that sealed that game for the Chargers totally swaggerjacked them in the worst way possible. That's why he's crying.

Also, I'm pretty sure Rule #1 of being classy, is not saying "I'm classy". What aputz

Troy Brown (and to show I'm not being biased) Brian Westbrook, Marvin Harrison. The league needs more guys who shun the spotlight and deliver on the field. Not more hot dogs like LenDale white (another one I have no use for).
 
Cimmerian Nights said:
Not upset at all, giddy! Pats won that game, he can say whatever he wants, it's all sour grapes. What's to be upset about? Pats totally stole that game from them due to their stupidity.
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Peh. I don't think anyone whined as incessantly about Spygate as did LDT, you're not selling me on that not souring up your Pats-in-denial, and your refusal to acknowledge the truth about Belichick

Cimmerian Nights said:
Also, I'm pretty sure Rule #1 of being classy, is not saying "I'm classy". What aputz
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Yeah I know. LOL'd a bit there.

Cimmerian Nights said:
Troy Brown (and to show I'm not being biased) Brian Westbrook, Marvin Harrison.
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Oh Frith. Remember that game with Westbrook, where he could've run it in for a touchdown but sat down right on the 1-yard line because it made more sense for the team? Now that's class.

Cimmerian Nights said:
Not more hot dogs like LenDale white (another one I have no use for).
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LenWhale is funny, tho'
 
Cimmerian Nights said:
Can anybody here, without cheating name him or any other Patriot from 1960-1993?
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Tony Eason! That's the only one I can name though.

It really couldn't be more embarassing if it tried to be.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hH8vS3u2Cc8[/youtube]
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Now that's Boston! It hasn't lost any of its awesomeness. 8-)

Philip Rivers is Greg Marmalard.

Aaron Rodgers should be AA-Rod.
 
Brother None said:
Peh. I don't think anyone whined as incessantly about Spygate as did LDT, you're not selling me on that not souring up your Pats-in-denial, and your refusal to acknowledge the truth about Belichick
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Honestly, the only thing that bothers me about Spygate was that we lost a 1st round pick. That's brutal, especially considering BB's track record in the first round. That was potentially a Richard Seymour, Wilfork or Ty Warren that we'll never have. Thankfully it wasn't our only 1st rounder that year.
People can bitch all they want, call him Bellicheat, say their wins are tainted. Doesn't change the history books does it?

I can make apologies "every team steals signals" or "does anyone really believe they intercepted, decoded and beamed the opposing teams plays in time for the defense to know?" People don't want to know that. The Pats win and they are hated because of that. If they cheated and sucked nobody would care.
I can sympathise - I hated guys like Lawrence Taylor, Michael Irvin etc, at their dynastic peaks. We all knew they were on coke, doesn't change what they did. Marino too. The Raiders built their franchise on cheating and the league peddles that image.

I'll be frank, IMO the entire catalyst of the Pats dynasty was the tuck rule game. Again we got lucky and robbed another team. The Raiders probably got screwed. And with that, Tom Brady's legend took off. Without the that call, Brady would never advance, and might never have been given the chance to start again.

People call Belichek a genius, and he gets credit for picking Brady in the 6th round. But nobody knew what Brady would become. He just got thrust into the right position at the right time. Belichek still gets more out of his talent than just about anyone. But you heard it from me, he got lucky - in the tuck rule game, with Brady, with a lot of things. I hate that genius bullshit.

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Brother None said:
LenWhale is funny, tho'
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I do laugh at him quite a bit.

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Tony Eason! That's the only one I can name though.
Good call, he's somewhat infamous around here still. Steve Grogan was always the fan favorite.

Now that's Boston! It hasn't lost any of its awesomeness.
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You think the SB Shuffle is dated and hokey, then you watch that and it totally drops the bottom out to a whole lot lower.

Philip Rivers is Greg Marmalard.
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And the only reason it amuses me is the distance, I couldn't stand him if he was "my" QB. I love the antics, the antagonism, the shit talking of Cutler, the jawing with the Indy fans when he blew them out of the playoffs.
He's the quintessential prick, and I love seeing him piss other teams off. Not so much if he did that around here.



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OK I just thought of the only anti-Pats shit talking that gets under my skin:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjnZXSFOXCw[/youtube]
It's brutal because #1 It's true. #2 It's funny as all hell #3 They spanked us. Good. For many years. Shanahan owned the Pats in a very bad way. They used to light us up.
Tomlinson can talk all the shit he wants, until he beats us it means nothing.
 
Brother None said:
Oh Frith. Remember that game with Westbrook, where he could've run it in for a touchdown but sat down right on the 1-yard line because it made more sense for the team? Now that's class.
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yer. that was fuckin' beautiful.
 
Darrell Green was a flash in the pan. :P

'83 was a sick draft class. But hey, Marino, Kelly and Eason a combined 0-6 in the Super Bowl. Hell, Elway almost faded off into the sunset without one himself either (he lost one too early on, no?). Don't forget Ken O'Brien from that class either, carrying on the Jets' longstanding tradition of never having a competant QB ever in franchise history. How long until Jets fans have Sanchez reduced to a quivering pile of jelly? Too bad, the kid seems so bright and eager. He'll get booed off the field before the 4th game is in the books. And then they'll get what they asked for...Cowboy Kellen Clemens. Yee haa.
I'm actually going to miss Mangini on the sidelines staring at the ground with that "What the fuck are you doing Favre, you're going to get me fired" look after every INT. Good times.
 
Cimmerian Nights said:
I'm actually going to miss Mangini on the sidelines staring at the ground with that "What the fuck are you doing Favre, you're going to get me fired" look after every INT. Good times.
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haha! see, i think what most of the NFL world fails to realize is that in GB we saw Don fucking Majkowski as a savior! our situation had been so hopeless for so long that when Favre came into the picture intercepting his own pass, throwing fucked up hail marys, shuffling around the pocket and shovel-passing weird shit to anybody we were all just like "FUCK YEAH DO SOMETHING WHY NOT LOL!!!" and after it actually started to work for us (him/Packers) we began to worship him like he was blessed by the Gods of Luck. even Holmgren just threw his hands in the air like "i can't fucking coach this asshole...he just does whatever the fuck anyway."

but when you're fucking around on your own playground it's different. i highly doubt that shit will work for the Vikings any better than it worked for the Jets. the odds even back out when you bring your shit to somebody else's house.
 
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