nothing's too good for the taxpayers!
Posted on 11/18/2012 4:19:52 AM PST by raccoonradio
Not so very long ago the NFL played a 12-game schedule. (Jim Brown rushed for 1527 yards in 12 games.) Also, not so very long ago the loathsome Ohio Sate Buckeyes played a 9-game schedule.
Please tell me you are not a man!
IF all NFL Games were home games, then pray tell where would we get visiting teams? ; ]
Why go to Cowboys Stadium when all anyone does there is watch the game on the huge screen there, what’s the point?
It was better when stadiums were all metal seats and the common man could afford to go to the games. Now it’s all too corporate.
Is it true that during home Patriots’ games that every conservative in New England is at the game? ;) Lord knows they all could fit comfortably into the stadium.
Good point. “Scholar-athlete” is a joke.
When games start showing on television on Thursday and now, as you say, Wednesday, they blur together and lose their uniqueness. After a while, the fan says cares?
Good point. “Scholar-athlete” is a joke.
When games start showing on television on Thursday and now, as you say, Wednesday, they blur together and lose their uniqueness. After a while, the fan says cares?
nothing's too good for the taxpayers!
I hate booth reviews, I’d rather take my chances and have the human element, now whenever there’s a big play you hesitate to cheer because inevitably you know it’s going to take five minutes for them to review the play.
That’s why I prefer now watching EPL soccer, the action is non-stop, without the constant stop/starts of a football game.
If you looked at the article he was talking about watching all the games on TV...........
Hockey used to be much better in person than on TV, but even now (at least the last time they were actually playing), they have so many TV timeouts, that it kills the buzz.
[[Football is a much better game on TV than in person. Baseball vice versa.]]
Soccer has them both beat. It is worse both on TV and in person.
College at least has some semblance of tradition....nothing better than 80,000+ Gator fans interlocking and singing “We Are the Boys...” at the end of the third quarter.
Try watching the EPL, rather than the MLS....you’ll get hooked like I did....watching the MLS is like watching rookie league baseball compared to the EPL. I love listening to the chanting of the crowds.
Is it true that during home Patriots’ games that every conservative in New England is at the game? ;) Lord knows they all could fit comfortably into the stadium.
There were two of us but the other guy didn’t pay his dues so I banished him to Rhode Island.
...also, you might like this article if you haven’t seen it. It mentions Johan Cruyff (you introduced me to him awhile ago on a soccer related thead):
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1206114/index.htm
The problem with watching football at home are the commercials that would lead one to believe half of America is black and all white people hang out with black people. Also, most people in the military are black.
I can see the game better on TV. And I didn’t have to pay $100 a ticket for nosebleed seats.
One of our traditions is that the winner of the USC-UCLA game gets to keep the Victory Bell, which came from a Union Pacific steam locomotive. The team that possesses the bell rings it during games. The framework that holds the bell has been painted Cardinal since 2007. After yesterday's game in the Rose Bowl, it will now be painted baby blue.
OK but don’t know if I can bring myself to do it. :-)
I know... I just couldn’t resist tweaking the headline.
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