Posted on 01/09/2017 8:06:19 AM PST by C19fan
Agree. I pretty much ignore the tournament after the first weekend (unless the Gators are still in it). Because occasionally David does slay Goliath.
That ad has been running for a while now, and as you note it is basically a “Coexist” in video format. In typical Liberal fashion that ad is high in its effort to pull at the heartstrings of “Can’t we all just get along, here?”. Yet, what I always think of whenever I see that false ad is that the Muslim’s Koran demands that he is to kill that priest. The Holy Bible, on the other hand, obviously teaches the opposite, but that point is intentionally withheld.
For any Liberal, feelings always trump truth and reason.
I haven’t watched NFL since the players started being unAmerican. I wonder how much cash they are losing.
Which ones?
“I fell asleep for at least an hour’s nap on Sat afternoon and evening watching both games and again yesterday with the afternoon game”
yeah, but don’t you consider that a positive? You know, a deeply restful couch nap induced by the soothing, droning sounds of a boring football game in the background?
“This thread has several racist comments.”
i had no idea “football” was considered a race ... hey, FLM - football lives matter too!
“A very very long way from when the ‘College All Stars’ played an NFL team pre season ...”
I watched this game, ending in 1976, for years. It wasn’t just any team from the NFL. It was the Champion/Super Bowl winner playing College Seniors.
most boring wild card weekend ever
How can you say that? The announcers have such great discussions about such diverse topics and occasionally talk about what is going on the field. How can we not be inspired as they discuss the merits and virtues of the several players on the field, their hometown, what they like to do, their outside charities. they can go on and on without a work of the last several plays. One of the Sunday’s games, they talked adnosium (sp) about a missed penalty that basically who cares.
He’s not bad at everything but that doesn’t mean he should be Commissioner. His non-ticket, non-TV revenue growth is over-the-top, legendary really, and that’s why he’s Commissioner. This is why his last year’s comp was worth $42 million. They could easily keep him and get a smart football marketing guy as Commissioner instead of someone that thinks SJW’s matter and sitting the best player in the league are smart. They should do that.
“Nowadays, the playoffs grind on well into June and after a while, the whole thing becomes irrelevant and really not the fun or happy thing it was even during the Gretzky era (let alone when ones like Bobby Hull or Frank Mahovlich or Bobby Orr or Guy Lafleur were in the league).”
I humbly disagree. I am an “Original 6” fan and for me the more games played the better. I want them to play all year long. When they aren’t playing, I am watching college games. When I cannot see those, I watch high school games. When those aren’t available, I am watching youth league games and if I cannot find those, it’s the old, fat guy league at 12:00am Friday nights.
Basically, I love the game. I played it, I coached it and now I am a spectator. If they had a 24x7 hockey channel I would watch that.
I would think Alabama vs. Cleveland would be an interesting matchup.
I’ve read the article again and I’m trying to figure out what the author is complaining about. Does he prefer a scenario like we’ve seen in the NFL several times in recent years, in which wild card teams like the 9-7 New York Giants (2011) win Super Bowls?
Cleveland would win by 30.
The Giants were one of the oddest teams in the NFL this season. In one year they went from one of the worst defenses in the league to one of the best, but they struggled to do much offensively all season long. They were 2-0 against Dallas and beat some good teams, but they struggled against some very average (at best) teams as well. I wouldn't have been shocked if they had beaten the Packers, and for more than 30 minutes yesterday it looked like they could do it.
I agree with OttawaFreeper that the season is too long, though. Not just that it takes too much time on the calendar, but there are simply way too many games from start to finish. A team that wins the Stanley Cup may play as many as 28 games on top of the 82-game regular season, which means the playoffs are about one-third the length of the regular season.
The NHL has the least meaningful regular season of any sport, with playoff upsets that eliminate top regular-season teams occurring with almost boring regularity. In the last 30 years, only 8 teams with the top regular-season record in the NHL went on to win the Stanley Cup. And in the last ten years, the teams with the top record each season lost in the first round of the playoffs more frequently than they won the Stanley Cup. That's a damning statement about how meaningless the regular season has become in the NHL.
Bingo
Can you tell me the make/model?
My dad got it at Walmart. Here’s the page:https://www.walmart.com/search/?query=deep%20fringe%20tv%20anntenna%27s&cat_id=0
I watched about 4 plays with the Giant’s Beckham Jr. this year and he dropped 3 of the 4 balls thrown to him, including one that was right at his chest and the other barely above his head. Needs to shrink his head and enlarge his hands.
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