NFL - week 13 seems like as good a week as any

[Paladin Solo]

Terrell 'Butterfingers' Owens was yelled out a lot during the game, I'll leave it at that.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8Mm1YRPZtQ[/youtube]

Obviously the guy is going to make foul-ups. But maybe next time I should use some smileys in my post to let everyone know I'm just trying to piss in their morning coffee. A Tease too Far.

 

[xdarkyrex]

Whoa whoa whoa...

People in Europe watch our football?
O_o

Do you guys play over there?
I thought you didn't :/

playing > watching

 

[Paladin Solo]

Well, there was NFL Europa.

 

[xdarkyrex]

Aww, it died?
Too bad, American football is the best team sport there is.

I wonder, when you got to a sporting goods store in Europe, are there American footballs on the shelves?

 

[TwinkieGorilla]

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[Brother None]

Too bad, American football is the best team sport there is.

NFL Europe was actually fairly good at times. Both Kurt Warner and Adam Vinatieri played for the Amsterdam Admirals before going to the NFL. Let me put it this way, the NFL Europe champion might have been able to beat the current Miami Dolphins

I don't know about best team sport. I like soccer more. But what I love most is how different they are, soccer is a more flowing, more individualistic sport that depends a lot more on finesse and skill, whereas football has is more move-hit-bam-pause-move-hit-bam, more organisation and is a lot more physical.

What can I say, I love 'em both.

I wonder, when you got to a sporting goods store in Europe, are there American footballs on the shelves?

Only rubber toy versions for the kids.

There are still some amateur teams in Europe, but since NFL Europe stopped the sport is now more or less dead. Still, the NFL Europe never hit off, and the idea of holding NFL matches in Europe will probably work a lot better.

Though you didn't make any friends with the game in Wembley. The Guardian (prominent English paper - ed.) blamed Miami and NYG mucking up the field for their team losing to Croatia

RE: T.O. Here I was figuring his butterfinger days were over. He's never been as sure-handed as some, to be honest, but his other skills make up for it. Still, sometimes he'll have a game like that.

 

[xdarkyrex]

I don't know about best team sport. I like soccer more. But what I love most is how different they are, soccer is a more flowing, more individualistic sport that depends a lot more on finesse and skill, whereas football has is more move-hit-bam-pause-move-hit-bam, more organisation and is a lot more physical.

To me, the NFL reminds me most of a game of chess or a battlefield simulation than any other sport, and that is a huge appeal.

 

[TwinkieGorilla]

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[xdarkyrex]

Football is the RTwP of sports

 

[Maphusio]

To me, the NFL reminds me most of a game of chess or a battlefield simulation than any other sport, and that is a huge appeal.

ahhh! yes! exactly why i love it! tactics/strategy..setup, breakdown. move again. love it.

not too much a fan of basketball or soccer...for the same reason.

Christ Basketball... I used to watch it on occasion in high school near the end of the game. That was about the only time I could find it exciting. That and I liked to root for the home team...

Currently the home team is moving to Oklahoma and the WORST team in the NBA right now... So I could give a flying banana.

Basketball, no comparison to American football imo.

 

[TwinkieGorilla]

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[New Enclave]

Let me put it this way, the NFL Europe champion might have been able to beat the current Miami Dolphins

I would have paid to see that!

ahhh! yes! exactly why i love it! tactics/strategy..setup, breakdown. move again. love it.

Thats also the lure that has kept me a fan of the sport.

 

[Syphon]

wait, wait.. this is GOOD! Rob Hart, Eupora's leading scorer in history, is known for placekicking BAREFOOT. Lol! Man they are some dumb sonuvabitches over there.

 

[New Enclave]

Oh me, you are a Dolphins fan I assume?

 

[Brother None]

The Dolphins still have fans?

As for kicking barefoot, what works works. I believe the NFL longest kick record is held by a guy who does not use soccer style kicks. Whatever, as long as it works.

 

[Moving Target]

The Dolphins still have fans?

*BA-ZING*

Yep....Dolphins lost again this week. They beat out the first-season Bucs for most losing season EVER in the NFL.

Though to be fair.... their QB is actually pretty good. Just about everything else, though....eck.

 

[Brother None]

Lost...to the Jets.

I mean, that's almost an accomplishment in itself.

Weren't the Bucs 0-14 in their first season? The Dolphins still have to beat that out.

Beck's in too early. He might be good, some day.

 

[Moving Target]

Huh. So they did. My mistake.

These Dolphins just might do it, though.

And yea, losing to the Jets.... almost as bad as losing to the Cardinals. Well, the last few seasons' Cardinals, anyway. They're still pretty awful, but not abysmal this season.

 

[New Enclave]

Lost...to the Jets.

I mean, that's almost an accomplishment in itself.

The single season winning record 14-0(before the expansion)
The single season losing record TBA

Obviously the Dolphins are the NFL trendsetters.

 

[Moving Target]

To change the subject now:

I'd just like to add some more to the Cowboys' hate. I've always hated these guys.... from back when I started watching football, around '88 or so, when they just packed the hell out of their team and beat the other team by attrition, to today's team of....well, I don't even have a term for them. Don't like them, though.

And I do know they're going to get, at least, very far in the playoffs. I was working when the Packers/Cowboys game was on, but I had hope the Pack would beat them. My reaction when I heard that Dalls had won? "Sonovabitching Cowboys!" (Exact words.)

Some people here told me to keep my voice down. I am in west Texas, after all.

Which.... is strange to me, coming from Los Angeles, that just about any team in the state of Texas that's doing well gets rallied behind by EVERYONE. It's unthinkable in California that, say, someone in San Diego would root for the 49ers, if they were doing well. There's some seriously bitter rivalries in that state, lemme tell ya.