skb12172 wrote:I heard that John Elway is going to be in the new OJ Simpson movie. He has a part as the Slow White Bronco…
Oh, Wocka Wocka Wocka!
In his prime he was one of the more mobile quarterbacks in the league. By white guy NFL quarterback standards he was fast. Also that ridiculous arm, made him dangerous on the move.
And no, I just find myself having a hard time caring about football. When I was in HS I was obsessive about my local sports teams. In college I did all kinds of rotisserie leagues, I did a full strat-o-matic baseball league season... I knew all the players, their strengths and weaknesses, etc.
I have cared less and less every year. As the leagues become bigger and bigger businesses, everything the teams, the owners, the players and the league bureaucracy does seems to inspire me to lose interest. Strikes, scandals, bad management, expansion, re-alignment, ever-expanding-and-more-inclusive 'playoffs', etc. It's just hard to give a fuck.
And over time I've found my identity is not enhanced by vicarious association with a particular band of physically overdeveloped and everything else stunted thuggish man-children. (Anyone who talks about a sports team and uses the word "we" is a fucktard. You weren't on the field.)
The same thing happened with boxing. We used to have one commissioning body and 8 weight classes, meaning 8 champions total. There are now something like 64.
As for the ala' carte TV, the cable/satellite companies will be dragged their eventually, albeit kicking and screaming because today's model pays them more money. Roku is a step in the right direction.
There must be an end to this intimidation by those who come to this great country, but reject its culture.
Much as I usually despise TMZ, I'd like to thank them for beclowning Roger Goodell and the league by making explicit what most people pretty much already knew.
ETA: Now Yahoo! is reporting that the league never contacted the casino to ask for the tape. Guess it's good to be [strike]the king[/strike] a Raven.
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FINALLY something I can agree with Yogi about......
They are one of the big reasons I've been steadily losing interest in professional sports since college. Also, change the 'j' to an 'm'.
Maybe we're just jaded, but your villainy is not particularly impressive. -Ennesby
If you know what you're doing, you're not learning anything. -Unknown
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FINALLY something I can agree with Yogi about......
They are one of the big reasons I've been steadily losing interest in professional sports since college. Also, change the 'j' to an 'm'.
I rode home on the school bus in first grade, 1969, chanting "Let's Go Mets!". I'm too old to change now. Although I don't follow baseball like I used too, the strike soured me and I never came all the way back.
MarkD wrote:
FINALLY something I can agree with Yogi about......
They are one of the big reasons I've been steadily losing interest in professional sports since college. Also, change the 'j' to an 'm'.
I rode home on the school bus in first grade, 1969, chanting "Let's Go Mets!". I'm too old to change now. Although I don't follow baseball like I used too, the strike soured me and I never came all the way back.
The '84 and '85 pennant races were bad. Annoying to lose each time to a team full of guys, each having career years. But that means it's just their year, so oh well. '86 was nice.
The divisional series in '88 broke me. Then they basically traded a guy who would be a perennial contender for batting champion in the 90's for Juan fucking Samuel. Words still fail me, I cannot find words to encompass my loathing and rage for that move.
Then for the better part of 10 years we had retread clowns (like say Vince Coleman) clogging up the roster. Yeah the guy who was so stupid he got injured by being run over by a tarp.
Then for a little while they had a better grade of retread clowns and made the playoffs a few times. It didn't take.
Maybe we're just jaded, but your villainy is not particularly impressive. -Ennesby
If you know what you're doing, you're not learning anything. -Unknown
Sanity is the process by which you continually adjust your beliefs so they are predictively sound. -esr
Greg wrote:
They are one of the big reasons I've been steadily losing interest in professional sports since college. Also, change the 'j' to an 'm'.
I rode home on the school bus in first grade, 1969, chanting "Let's Go Mets!". I'm too old to change now. Although I don't follow baseball like I used too, the strike soured me and I never came all the way back.
The '84 and '85 pennant races were bad. Annoying to lose each time to a team full of guys, each having career years. But that means it's just their year, so oh well. '86 was nice.
The divisional series in '88 broke me. Then they basically traded a guy who would be a perennial contender for batting champion in the 90's for Juan fucking Samuel. Words still fail me, I cannot find words to encompass my loathing and rage for that move.
Then for the better part of 10 years we had retread clowns (like say Vince Coleman) clogging up the roster. Yeah the guy who was so stupid he got injured by being run over by a tarp.
Then for a little while they had a better grade of retread clowns and made the playoffs a few times. It didn't take.
I was at Shea back when Mo Vaughn was on the team. He got a little flare foul-ball hit his way, and he chugged after it but didn't get to it. Someone yelled "Hey Mo, if that was a fried chicken you'd have caught it!"
Also went to the most boring game EVER at Shea one evening probably early 80's. Had great seats from my friend's mother's job, maybe four rows back of the Mets dugout. Mets pitcher walked the first batter, who stole second, reached third on a fielder's choice and was balked home, that was the only run of the game.
