Bill Murray gives Indiana woman, Cubs fan World Series ticket

I got to see a game at Wrigley. I’m a massive fan of baseball at all levels, but if you are a fan of baseball, you pretty much are a fan of the Cubs, and their fans.

Cub fans are loyal like only abused dogs are loyal. There are some amazing fan bases out there - the Cardinals fans are the nicest in the world - but Cub fans are human beings with hearts in a place like Chicago that doesn’t have one.

I fell in love with the Yanks when I was living in NYC and in the USCG. Steinbrenner himself told the stadium crew that anyone with a green card gets in for a dollar. It was an open secret.

You showed up at the press gate, you gave them a dollar (a subway token at the time was $1.25) and an old vet working the gate for that reason would take you to the third deck. You could bring your lunch too. How do you not love something only baseball would do? Ever hear the NFL do something like that for E-1 through E-3 even? Anywhere?

Boston fans are the most arrogant. The worst. San Diego fans are like Cub fans in a lot of respects, but they are itinerant because of the Navy. Hearing a game called in French in Montreal was surreal. They sort of loved their team there, the ones that showed up.

Saw a bunch of Phillies games in Philly. Decent folks. Oakland is a scary walk to the park, but a good place to watch a game. Candlestick was awesome. Hated that it closed. They new park is better in all respects, but the fans there are essentially yuppie scum. Probably worse than Boston fans now I’d saw, just for being such loud/proud a$$holes.

Mets fans are awesome. Like Cubs fans, but they got their cookie in the recent past. Loved watching games at Shea. One time I was there and a commercial heavy dropped suddenly about 200 feet above the stadium. The announcers even wet their drawers a little. (I was listening to the game on the radio in the ballpark, as I’m wont to do)

I’m just waiting for pitchers and catchers to report again. What an amazing season.

Oakland is a place that deserves their franchises. Blue collar and poor people live there, and in the East Bay there. If you are not an idiot, you can walk their with your kids and you are going to be fine. You can take BART to the park from anywhere and get off right at the stadium.

I think moving Oakland to LA was a giant mistake, and they’ll relive history again when they move the Raiders to Las Vegas. Oakland is the beating heart of the Raiders. Anywhere else, you might as well draft women in the spring, because it will amount to the same thing.

Oakland fans are a Nation. They are a Tribe. In fact, they are likely rabid Trumpians, because they share the same ethos, which is they are constantly getting f*cked by the establishment, and they don’t care if they have to endure a few losing seasons if it means opposing teams are still afraid of playing in Oakland.

They are the prison team in Longest Yard. That the bozos in the head shed have lost sight of that doesn’t surprise me, given they did cut Kaperneck’s head off when he took a knee during the anthem.

They could have said, “You will cough up the $100,000 fine today, and apologize. You may not respect the Flag, which is laughable given the money you are earning in the only place on earth where you’d be paid this much to play a game, but you WILL respect our fans, who pay your salary, who very much respect this flag. You will stand during the anthem, even if you don’t cover your heart or sing. Savvy?”

If you don’t have enough sense to squash a bug like Kaperneck, you’ll forget why Raider jerseys sell well even in foreign countries. The NFL is acting syphilitic at the moment. I think they caught a fatal dose, myself.

Ha, okay, I gotcha ya. To be honest when I was in my late teens the Oakland Raiders were my team. Ken Stabler was the quarter back and he loved passing the tide ends such as Dave Casper. I would go crazy, the Raiders were always down, losing by more than a touch down with 3 minutes to go and I would turn the TV off, then back on, then off and so on. Stabler would look like he didn’t have a care in the world and work his way down in 57 seconds and get the first touch down, then the D would hold, back in Stablers hands, another touchdown the win, it was insane. After he left I didn’t watch football until I was in my 30’s. That how stressed out I got during those days ...

We’re about the same age. I grew up in the East Bay during the 70’s. Madden was coach. Sistrunk, Van Eegan, Bilitnekoff, Branch, Casper, Stabler, Lamonica, Blanda, Otto, Ben Davison, the Assassin (the guy that hit Daryl Stingley and paralyzed him) . . .

The list goes on and on. Then in the 1980s with Flores, you had Plunkett and his crew. This was after Star Wars, and a guy would show up with a Darth Vader helmet and a Raider uniform with a cape. Dude was huge too, as tall as the guy in the movie.

Three Super Bowl trophies in lowly Oakland. All balls. All heart. No brain.

Stabler recently passed. He called games in New Orleans where he was raised for a long time. He should be in the Hall. Only Montana had his poise. The late 20th century was a good time for NorCal NFL teams between the Raiders and the Niners. Great time to become a fan.

I respected Landry so much I hated the guy. The O-Line for Dallas would hitch themselves up before the Staubach would snap the ball - they were a machine. Tearing off yards in chunks. Cold - boring during Thanksgiving, as they’d face Detroit and beat them by some obscene amount - Christians to lions.

Landry took the NFL’s dignity with him when he left. Madden was exactly the guy you saw on TV, only much smarter and he could run a prison. Landry and Bill Walsh, and to a lesser extent, the Tuna, made the NFL something smart people could watch. Very cerebral, and their offenses stayed pretty healthy because of the way they dominated time of possession.

Do you remember NFL films? Do you remember Cosell’s halftime show during MNF? We’d BEG my parents to allow us to stay up past 8PM on a school night until Cosell’s show was done. He was absolutely the best announcer ever to sit in front of a microphone. I include Joe Buck, Vin Scully, Kevin Calabro, Harry Cary, all of them. Cosell didn’t need a research guy - he had an eidetic memory for dates, events, and stats. He did it all by himself.

I’m not one of those old guys that think it was better then and today it isn’t. It was just more pure, but wow did people get hurt and not really get taken care of. Aroldis Chapman throws 105. That’s never happened before, and the medical community said it would never happen, ever. Human body couldn’t do it - that simple.

Russell Wilson before the injuries - probably one of the best to pick up a football - ever. The Packers have had one great QB after another, continuously to this day, from Starr onward.

I’m just saying that it felt a lot more like a game freely played back then. Stickum and all.

Yep, you have all the same memories as I do, NFL Films, Howard Cosell, and remember the old NFL theme music, I love that. I loved listening to Howard call the highlights, he was something special. Did you as a kid wear those NFL Jackets with the vinyl sleeves? I grew up in Indiana, we played basket ball of course in the summer but fall and winter were for football. We'd have on our NFL jackets of our favorite teams and play after school and all weekend, the more snowy the better. We'd even imitate the quarterback calls before the hike.

I do remember Plunkett too and Ray Guy the kicker (who could boom that thing).

More recently, being in Indiana folks loved Manning and so did I early on, and I hated Brady, but later, after loosing to him and time after time I learned to respect them, and finally became in awe of him. He is an amazing quarterback in my opinion. I take a lot of flak for it but I tell folks I respect the talent and I don't care who they play for. Anyway, you should be a sports writer, I remember all the stuff you're are writing about but could never retrieve it, you're bring up long lost memories that are in there below the surface. I agree, football was a hellish brutal game back then, never forget Pittsburgh either, Jack Lambert and those guys, sheeze ...

I can’t believe I left out Ray Guy. I remember seeing him in the first game in the Kingdome in Seattle. They installed a gondola in the middle you weren’t supposed to be able to hit.

Of course, first kick, he hit it. Refs didn’t know what to do.

I felt the way you do about the Steelers. They were amazing - Swann, Bradshaw, Lambert, Harris . . .

I also grew up respecting the Rams - Hacksaw Reynolds, Dickerson, and the Youngbloods.

Manning is the real deal. As for Brady, he plays on a team that cheats, and I watched the officials hand the game that started their dynasty to the Pats in the snows of a playoff game in the corrupt state of MA. That game was against none other than the Raiders. There will always be an asterisk next to the Pats in the annals of Football.

Manning and Favre were special. Warren Moon and Houston, with Earl Campbell in the backfield. Moon, with the number 1 on his jersey, with “Moon” above it - came back from 35 points down to beat one of the Ohio teams if I recall. I watched the whole game in my grandfather’s bedroom. He was a black quarterback who was legitimately one of the finest pure passers of his time. Very much like Stabler, but with better legs and a canon for an arm. Moon was stuck with Bum Phillips on that team, but his play was otherworldly. When he wasn’t getting his perfect teeth knocked out he was destroying your secondary and stretching the field for Campbell. I also remember Stabler’s contemporary on the Oilers, Dan Pastorini. The Raiders traded the straight across because Pastorini knew how to beat the Steelers. The magic didn’t come with Pastorini in the trade as I recall.

San Diego and Air Coryell was big too. Always a bridesmaid, however.

We couldn’t afford the cool jackets. My dad was a janitor, and mom smoked a boatload of weed and basically absorbed heat, light, and food for the bulk of my childhood.

And of course, we’d take the nerf football out and play endless games of football down the block in the middle of the street in the cul-de-sac, until dusk came and the streetlights came on. In fact, there was enough light by streetlamp that we ended up continuing sometimes.

One Thanksgiving I went to my friend’s house in North Olmstead, OH and the guys got together to play football in the mud in college. One of the last times I played a pick up game of ball.

George Bernard Shaw said, “One doesn’t stop playing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop playing.”

In Chicago the majority of Cubs fans are Democrats and support Hillary.

You will see news, I assume shortly hyping Hillary as a long-time Cubs fan. All in an attempt by MSM to distract from the Clinton crimes.

The GOP wrote this at the top of its post:

“With the Cubs headed to their first World Series since 1945, Hillary Clinton is jumping on Chicago’s bandwagon. But like with every other matter, Hillary Clinton switches allegiance with sports teams like positions on issues.”

Cowherd: Hillary a ‘Fake’ Sports Fan, ‘Doesn’t Know Squat’

by Trent Baker20 Jun 2016

On the Monday Fox Sports 1 broadcast of “The Herd,” host Colin Cowherd reacted to President Barack Obama staying on Air Force One after landing to see the ending of Game 7 of the NBA Finals.

Guest co-host Joy Taylor said President Obama “gets a hard time for being a fake sports fan,” and Cowherd brought up Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton, calling her a fake sports fan.

“You want to know who’s fake? Hillary,” Cowherd said. “When she [talks about sports], it’s horrible. She’s a politician to the core. Like, Bill Clinton really liked college basketball because he grew up with the Arkansas Razorbacks, who were really good in basketball, so Bill liked college basketball and he knew it. And I knew somebody that knew Clinton and they were like ‘He loves March Madness.’ Hillary doesn’t know squat.”

He then added that Secretary of State John Kerry also “doesn’t know squat about sports.”

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http://www.breitbart.com/video/2016/06/20/cowherd-hillary-a-fake-sports-fan-doesnt-know-squat/

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