Author Topic: NFL Thread (2015-16) (Read 113719 times)

MarquisDeSade · « **Reply #2350 on:** January 20, 2016, 11:01:26 am »

Who cares. If these guys want to go out there and be Sunday GLORYBOIZ for the FOOZBAWL GODZ giving up their bodies and brains why should I give a damn. Wanna play in the NFL? You're going to be under the thumb with no guaranteed contracts and someone ready to take your spot the second you get injured. Don't want to play in the NFL? No worries, you'll miss out on the potential whores, fame, money, and glory. I'm sure working at 84 Lumber or in administrivia or as a long haul trucker will be just as fun.

skippy1999 · « **Reply #2351 on:** January 20, 2016, 12:55:50 pm »

Quote from: JCA-CrystalCity on January 20, 2016, 10:53:38 am

Watching the NFL makes me feel like I'm watching the gladiators at the Coliseum sometimes.

This is really starting to bug me. Can the NFL be dangerous? Sure. But don't guys bash into each other in hockey? where is the outrage over hockey? Soccer players get concussions as well. Runners who run for a long time generally deal with shot knees as they get older. Randle el sounds a bit fanciful, he was drafted in the 14th round yet he's sure he'd still be playing baseball today, who's to say he'd ever have even made it to the show?? My dad worked in a factory all his life and now can barely use his hands, you know what he doesn't do? nag or whine about it. Randle el has already sued the NFL and yet he's not that old that he didn't know what he was doing when he played, I really just don't care to hear all of these players AFTER they've gotten all the money and glory talk about how awful football is.

HalfSmokes · « **Reply #2352 on:** January 20, 2016, 12:59:45 pm »

Quote from: skippy1999 on January 20, 2016, 12:55:50 pm

This is really starting to bug me. Can the NFL be dangerous? Sure. But don't guys bash into each other in hockey? where is the outrage over hockey? Soccer players get concussions as well. Runners who run for a long time generally deal with shot knees as they get older. Randle el sounds a bit fanciful, he was drafted in the 14th round yet he's sure he'd still be playing baseball today, who's to say he'd ever have even made it to the show?? My dad worked in a factory all his life and now can barely use his hands, you know what he doesn't do? nag or whine about it. Randle el has already sued the NFL and yet he's not that old that he didn't know what he was doing when he played, I really just don't care to hear all of these players AFTER they've gotten all the money and glory talk about how awful football is.

no one watches hockey, but relative to its ratings it does get crap, especially for fighting and it's had to soften the sport the same way football has. As far as soccer, how a many former creates are coming down with CTE?

skippy1999 · « **Reply #2353 on:** January 20, 2016, 01:01:53 pm »

Quote from: HalfSmokes on January 20, 2016, 12:59:45 pm

no one watches hockey, but relative to its ratings it does get crap, especially for fighting and it's had to soften the sport the same way football has. As far as soccer, how a many former creates are coming down with CTE?

how many do you think would have been found to have it if they donated their brains after death? I'm betting a bunch.

HalfSmokes · « **Reply #2354 on:** January 20, 2016, 01:06:21 pm »

possibly, but how many would the average american recognize? ESPN barely acknowledges major championships in soccer- what are the odds that they'd bother reporting on CTE in a person no viewer recognizes?

MarquisDeSade · « **Reply #2355 on:** January 20, 2016, 01:13:06 pm »

I ain't cryin' any tears for these fools. They didn't have to play and take the money. Or the whores. Or the GLORY. Ain't nobody gotten CTE from formatting spreadsheets or selling lumber.

JCA-CrystalCity · « **Reply #2356 on:** January 20, 2016, 01:20:22 pm »

as for hockey, it is a lot harder to get the necessary leverage to do real damage. Cuts, teeth, etc... are a bit short of "Concussion." I don't think the % of mashed brains comes anywhere near what the NFL has. As for soccer, there's a concern about heading, and there is efforts to address it.

I'm just saying I don't enjoy football as much as I did a while back. I'm not saying you can't choose that lifestyle. But I gave up watching boxing back in the 80s, and never watch UFC. Football is getting that way for me.

mitlen · « **Reply #2357 on:** January 20, 2016, 01:23:30 pm »

Quote from: JCA-CrystalCity on January 20, 2016, 01:20:22 pm

I'm just saying I don't enjoy football as much as I did a while back. I'm not saying you can't choose that lifestyle. But I gave up watching boxing back in the 80s, and never watch UFC. Football is getting that way for me.

Pretty much this.

MarquisDeSade · « **Reply #2358 on:** January 20, 2016, 01:34:17 pm »

Quote from: JCA-CrystalCity on January 20, 2016, 01:20:22 pm

I'm just saying I don't enjoy football as much as I did a while back.

NFL FOOZBAWL is a bore and only getting worse. Between Goddell and his "protect the Shield" mantra, the overall decline in play, and the zebras getting in the way the only way I can handle watching it with RedZone. But if you think people are going to stop watching it because former players come out with complaints like Elevator and Jim MacMahon you're delusional. It could become completely scripted like the WWE and the morons would still tune in.

skippy1999 · « **Reply #2359 on:** January 20, 2016, 02:10:23 pm »

Quote from: JCA-CrystalCity on January 20, 2016, 01:20:22 pm

I'm just saying I don't enjoy football as much as I did a while back. I'm not saying you can't choose that lifestyle. But I gave up watching boxing back in the 80s, and never watch UFC. Football is getting that way for me.

that's cool JCA, honestly I'm sorry I said anything because there's probably no way for me to express what I'm trying to say without sounding like a complete cold-hearted beyotch. I'm sure there are players who suffer the rest of their lives after playing, but I also see a bunch of them living long, happy, seemingly healthy lives, so I just feel like we're being force-fed this narrative that football is the worst thing ever and I just don't completely buy it, or that other sports are so much better and we should feel better steering our kids to play them instead. I agree more with MDS that between all the penalties and reviews football has started to bore me and that's more what's causing my waning enthusiasm for it, well that and that nimrod Ginger Hammer

but whatever, go Pats.

mitlen · « **Reply #2360 on:** January 20, 2016, 02:50:46 pm »

CNN's now picking up the Post Gazette story.

JCA-CrystalCity · « **Reply #2361 on:** January 20, 2016, 03:31:03 pm »

Quote from: MarquisDeSade on January 20, 2016, 01:34:17 pm

But if you think people are going to stop watching it because former players come out with complaints like Elevator and Jim MacMahon you're delusional. It could become completely scripted like the WWE and the morons would still tune in.

Hey, I don't think I said anything about people should stop watching b/c its destroying the players. I just said I enjoy it less and watch it less. Some of that is because a lot of the guys I used to like watching, like Sam Hunt and Steve Moore and Ted Johnson, and later Junior Seau, are dead way too young or suffering severe symptoms of head injuries or have non-functional legs.

MarquisDeSade · « **Reply #2362 on:** January 20, 2016, 03:39:03 pm »

Quote from: JCA-CrystalCity on January 20, 2016, 03:31:03 pm

Hey, I don't think I said anything about people should stop watching b/c its destroying the players. I just said I enjoy it less and watch it less. Some of that is because a lot of the guys I used to like watching, like Sam Hunt and Steve Moore and Ted Johnson, and later Junior Seau, are dead way too young or suffering severe symptoms of head injuries or have non-functional legs.

The FOOZBAWL GODZ cry for no one.

skippy1999 · « **Reply #2363 on:** January 20, 2016, 03:48:28 pm »

Quote from: JCA-CrystalCity on January 20, 2016, 03:31:03 pm

Hey, I don't think I said anything about people should stop watching b/c its destroying the players. I just said I enjoy it less and watch it less. Some of that is because a lot of the guys I used to like watching, like Sam Hunt and Steve Moore and Ted Johnson, and later Junior Seau, are dead way too young or suffering severe symptoms of head injuries or have non-functional legs.

doesn't Ted Johnson host a radio show in Houston? I remember because he called Bianca Wilfork ugly a couple of years ago. I know in like 2006 he was all about how football ruined his life but I mean, I just looked at his Twitter feed and he seems pretty normal.

MarquisDeSade · « **Reply #2364 on:** January 20, 2016, 04:42:27 pm »

Everyone comes around to the universal truth that Cash Rules Everything Around Me.

BrandonK · « **Reply #2365 on:** January 20, 2016, 04:50:35 pm »

Get the money, $ $ bill y'all

spidernat · « **Reply #2366 on:** January 20, 2016, 04:58:25 pm »

Quote from: MarquisDeSade on January 20, 2016, 01:34:17 pm

the only way I can handle watching it with RedZone.

JCA-CrystalCity · « **Reply #2367 on:** January 20, 2016, 05:27:36 pm »

Quote from: skippy1999 on January 20, 2016, 03:48:28 pm

doesn't Ted Johnson host a radio show in Houston? I remember because he called Bianca Wilfork ugly a couple of years ago. I know in like 2006 he was all about how football ruined his life but I mean, I just looked at his Twitter feed and he seems pretty normal.

well, I just read his wiki and if that is what you mean by pretty normal, we have different definitions. at least he can hold a job now. thing is, he always was very bright, which is why he got all his media opportunities.

skippy1999 · « **Reply #2368 on:** January 20, 2016, 05:35:26 pm »

Quote from: JCA-CrystalCity on January 20, 2016, 05:27:36 pm

well, I just read his wiki and if that is what you mean by pretty normal, we have different definitions. at least he can hold a job now. thing is, he always was very bright, which is why he got all his media opportunities.

wiki does sound pretty dire from like 2007-09, but it's 2016 and he's got a pretty sweet radio and tv gig for the Texans now and just looking at what the guy is posting to twitter, how he's interacting with people and doing fun things, yea to me it looks like his life is pretty normal.

MarquisDeSade · « **Reply #2369 on:** January 20, 2016, 06:11:39 pm »

Quote from: spidernat on January 20, 2016, 04:58:25 pm

I'm serious. College football I can actually sit down and watch a complete game from start to finish without too much channel changing (if it's a CHOKIES game and they aren't totally crapting themselves, for example) but the NFL? If RedZone wasn't around I'd spend my Sunday shopping instead of parked on the couch watching touchdowns and the Browns turn the ball over.

spidernat · « **Reply #2370 on:** January 24, 2016, 03:10:36 pm »

Simms is an idiot.

spidernat · « **Reply #2371 on:** January 24, 2016, 03:17:21 pm »

NE daring Manning to beat them and trying to bait him into a mistake but their CB's are going to have to play better than this.

skippy1999 · « **Reply #2372 on:** January 24, 2016, 03:37:44 pm »

Ugh I'm going to need more pain meds to get through this

spidernat · « **Reply #2373 on:** January 24, 2016, 03:44:05 pm »

Mike Carey wrong again.

skippy1999 · « **Reply #2374 on:** January 24, 2016, 03:44:12 pm »

heads up play!