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February 2, 2015
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and so, we again enter the doldrums...  

when the biggest sports news is 'pitchers and catchers report today'.  ugh.  

  

we need another pro football league.  

  

  awfully paranoid, arent you?   

February 2, 2015
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Well, I said it all along. The New England Patriots won the Super Bowl (again) by defeating the biggest bullies and shit talkers of the NFC, the Seattle Seahawks. We owe a great deal of gratitude to Mr. Pete Carroll, who called what was undoubtedly one of the worst play calls in Super Bowl history, thus literally handing us the game on a silver platter.

 

Sherman……U Mad Bro? You should be, you just lost one of the biggest games of your career after you talked all that shit. Now you just look stupid, AND you're still quite possibly the ugliest player in the NFL.

 

I hereby claim my year long bragging rights, and shall bask in the glory of simply knowing that whatever any of you haters choose to throw my way, I can just answer "We won the Super Bowl" and completely shatter any argument that you may of had. 

 

So, therefore, haha, your team sucks, fuck you, and oh yeah, we won the Super Bowl. Bitches.

May 1, 2015
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Alright, a couple months is enough time to let pat bask in the Patriots glory. ;)

How'd everybody's teams do in the first round of the draft? I'm happy with the Browns beefing up both lines. Was disappointed that all the drama surrounding the 2nd pick ended up turning into a massage with no happy ending... lol. Glad Shane Ray didn't go to any AFCN rivals, dude's going to be a beast at the next level.

May 1, 2015
8:46 am
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rams ended up with gurley.  was a tad surprised by that.  but frankly, all the guys i had ranked above him were gone by then, so it was a good call.  if that kid hits his ceiling, could be big.  

course, thats true of most first rounders.  

  awfully paranoid, arent you?   

May 1, 2015
2:36 pm
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I was a bit surprised to see two backs go in the first, with the recent "meh" the league has had toward the typical feature back and the prominence of committee backfields. Both could be special, though. Or they could be the next *shudder* Trent Richardson (Thank you Colts!)...

The only problem I have with that pick for St Louis is that y'all have quite a few worse needs, your backfield wasn't bad to begin with. Now, drafting Gurley has Stacy wanting out... So what happens if Stacy gets traded, becomes a stud, and Gurley turns bust? That's an epic "worst case scenario" that typically only my team has to worry about lol.

May 1, 2015
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entrappedmind said  
The only problem I have with that pick for St Louis is that y'all have quite a few worse needs, your backfield wasn't bad to begin with. Now, drafting Gurley has Stacy wanting out... So what happens if Stacy gets traded, becomes a stud, and Gurley turns bust? That's an epic "worst case scenario" that typically only my team has to worry about lol.    

well, then cunningham or mason gotta run.  id like to have em keep all four, but stacy in particular is much better off on a roster with more room.  

theyre claiming they had gurley number one on the board, but who knows.  every team always says they got the guy they wanted.  

  awfully paranoid, arent you?   

May 1, 2015
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Eagles didn't draft up to get Mariota and ended up drafting a wide receiver. I'm fine with a wide out but I was hoping for some more defense. Let's see who they will get today. Go Birds! 

May 2, 2015
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Redskins are finally trying to build a pocket?  Stranger things have happened maybe they will be able to let this guy stand for more then two seconds with out our Offensive line crumbling like a pile of cards...

"Somewhere theres a Waffle House thats severely understaffed right now" -OCJ to Scruffy watching a second stage act at the Gathering.

May 2, 2015
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OCJ_Brendan said
Redskins are finally trying to build a pocket?  Stranger things have happened maybe they will be able to let this guy stand for more then two seconds with out our Offensive line crumbling like a pile of cards...

Yeah, it's been hard to judge RG3 with what he's had "protecting" him. I mean, you can give a QB fifteen Deseans, and it won't matter if he is running for his life. (As a Browns fan, I have enough experience watching QBs run for their lives to be fully qualified to make this statement.)

May 2, 2015
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have a feeling scherff will work out well.  thats who i woulda drafted, if i was in charge of shit like that.  

  awfully paranoid, arent you?   

May 2, 2015
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Didn't take long for them to find Stacy a home lol. Nice move by your Rams to grab a 7th, kinda wonder if they could've gotten more though.

I'm not sold on the Browns draft. I love what they did on both sides of the line, and the linebackers, but they desperately needed a #1 WR, and in my opinion, failed to get one.

May 3, 2015
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Sports are all stupid and professional athletes do not deserve half of the money they are paid.

May 3, 2015
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Pigg said
Sports are all stupid and professional athletes do not deserve half of the money they are paid.

Paid waaaay too much.

 

You must suck at sports...

I'll fuck you till you love me, Faggot!

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May 3, 2015
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I do suck at sports. I like playing them, but I hate watching them most of the time. It sucks when your best friend growing up is super competitive and better than you at everything.

May 3, 2015
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@the_almighty_smack 

I'll let that rant pass, considering Canadians in general can't grasp the intricacies of Football. Proof? When they adapted it for their own use, they didn't even get the size of the field right, for chrissakes. If that doesn't tell you everything you need to know, I don't know what will.

;)

I used to be into hockey, was a Penguins fan as a young kid, in the days of Lemieux and Jagr. Lost interest at some point, and have trued to watch from time to time, and try to rekindle that interest... And haven't been able to. I've tried, though. I will agree that hockey's much more of a "man's" game, as compared to today's pussified NFL.

@piggofdoom 

Professional athletes are overpaid. But that's the nature of the beast. If the pay wasn't what it is, you'd have less kids aspiring to be athletes, considering how quickly you can go from a star to a rehabbing has-been. The quality of the product would suffer, as a result.

And sports in general have a very important place in the development of children. They foster a sense of achievement, competition, physical as well as mental fitness, and teamwork/camaraderie.

May 3, 2015
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I know WHY they are paid so much, supply/demand  of the skills and the fact that many people watch the sport which means ad revenue, merchandise, etc. 

 

I feel before too long Football (American football) will see its way out. It is dangerous to the kids that play it. And the proof of the damage it does (usually to the brain) is becoming more and more prominent. Eventually it will come to the point where society will say "we cannot submit children to this damage." Of course it may still be in college/pro level, but how will colleges find players? 

May 4, 2015
5:14 am
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They're beginning to do an adequate job of rethinking the protective gear in response to the recent head trauma issues (CTE/etc). That, along with the pussification I referred to, is making the game much safer to play. What may turn out to be the NFL's downfall is "too much football". They wanna start the season earlier, they wanna add playoff games, yadda yadda yadda... The league may eventually devour itself.

May 4, 2015
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playoffs are fine as they are.  a third of the league gets in.  thats enough.  

 

id be in favor of more games during the season like a mufucka...  if they expanded the rosters a bit.  to at least sixty, id say.  

and the active list to about fifty.  

  awfully paranoid, arent you?   

May 4, 2015
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Both of the Grey Cup links lead to the same overall timeline, which goes from 1909 to 2013. The years 1860 and 1870 aren't covered anywhere on that page. The other link you presented offers no substantiation for its claims, and, in fact, even admits that the game it's referring to was more akin to rugby or soccer than anything else. Not only that, that website is by means any sort of an authoritative one - it's just a message board.

Look, I can Google, too!

http://www.profootballhof.com/.....birth.aspx said

The sport of American football itself was relatively new in 1892. Its roots stemmed from two sports, soccer and rugby, which had enjoyed long-time popularity in many nations of the world. On November 6, 1869, Rutgers and Princeton played what was billed as the first college football game. However, it wasn't until the 1880s that a great rugby player from Yale, Walter Camp, pioneered rules changes that slowly transformed rugby into the new game of American Football.

 

http://www.history.com/news/as.....d-football said

Closely related to two English sports—rugby and soccer (or association football)—gridiron football originated at universities in North America, primarily the United States, in the late 19th century. On November 6, 1869, players from Princeton and Rutgers held the first intercollegiate football contest in New Brunswick, New Jersey, playing a soccer-style game with rules adapted from the London Football Association.

 

1869

Rutgers and Princeton played a college soccer football game, the first ever, November 6. The game used modified London Football Association rules. During the next seven years, rugby gained favor with the major eastern schools over soccer, and modern football began to develop from rugby.

 

Oh... And for the record... The NFL Championship goes back well beyond the relatively young "Super Bowl" title. Trust me, as a Browns fan, I'm forced to find solace in this fact quite often.

http://www.profootballhof.com/.....pions.aspx said

From 1920-1931, the NFL champion was determined by a team's win-loss percentage. In 1932, a playoff game was needed to determine the championship. Starting in 1933, the NFL split into two divisions and a championship game was played between the two division winners.

So, while the NFL Championship is, admittedly, 5 years younger than your Grey Cup... But until 1937, your "professional" football included university teams; whereas the NFL has, since its inception, been a professional league. 

http://cfl.ca/greycupcentral/year/1926 said

It was the end of an era in Canadian football, as it was the final time a university team made it to the Grey Cup final. Clubs in the Intercollegiate Union continued to play for the title until 1937, but could not make it past the Eastern playoffs.

Therefore, professional football has existed in the States for 17 years longer than in Canada.

 

Oh... And my final, and penultimate point... To differentiate between "football" and "futbol", the term "American Football" is invariably used. Not "Canadian Football".

Sorry Smack, I think I've got ya on this one. 'twas a noble attempt, though! :)

May 6, 2015
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*checks the date, looks around and sees no sign of smack*

I think I wall-of-text'ed smack to death............. ;)

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