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To: discostu; All
So again, you’re wrong, targeting is against the rules because it lowers entertainment.

OK. With this comment alone, you have zero credibility.

How many hundreds of games have we seen where the home crowd goes crazy over big hits down the middle?

(All the time!!!)

We're done.

You have convinced me -- and everybody else in this thread -- that you have NO idea what you are talking about.

Ping me all you want in any future thread; but you are earmarked as "avoid when possible." Fruitless (as in fruitcake).

54 posted on 01/30/2015 10:18:30 AM PST by Colofornian
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To: Colofornian

You’re short sighted on your focus. Sure the crowd @ the game goes crazy, until the player doesn’t get up, now you have to stop the game for 10 minutes, everybody has that kind of queasy feeling you get in your gut as you internalize the fact that a young man was just potentially seriously injured for your entertainment, and of course if they were injured they’re going to miss however many games, which reduces the entertainment value of all those games.

It’s 5 seconds of happy followed by minutes of unhappy and possibly hours of lower quality games. Which means those targeted middle hits fall wind up in the serious negative on the entertainment value spectrum. So they’re against the rules.

Funny how you suddenly need to run to insults. Nothing like ad hominems to show you know the facts don’t support you. Sports ARE entertainment. They exist SOLELY to entertain. The rules are there to INCREASE the entertainment value. Period. And you know that, which is why you ran to insults.


55 posted on 01/30/2015 10:44:08 AM PST by discostu (The albatross begins with its vengeance A terrible curse a thirst has begun)
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To: Colofornian
"Fruitless (as in fruitcake)."

Now that's real intelligent, using an unfounded gay slur to make a point about football. Why didn't you say that up front, then we could have avoided all this talk about statistics? You should have just said, "I hate the Seahawks because there are so many queers in Seattle." Now I see where you were really coming from.
57 posted on 01/30/2015 12:55:33 PM PST by Steve_Seattle
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