Posted on 01/10/2005 6:25:42 AM PST by 1rudeboy
*snickers*
When did he do this??
The Lombardi quotes:
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/v/vincelomba115467.html
a post like this means an obligatory clip from the George Carlin monologue re: Baseball vs. Football (excerpt) link below.
Football is played in a stadium; baseball is played in the park.
In football, you wear a helmet; in baseball, you wear a cap.
Football is played on an enclosed, rectangular grid, and everyone of them is the same size; baseball is played on an ever-widening angle that reaches to inifinity, and every park is different!
Football is rigidly timed; baseball has no time limit, we don't know when it's gonna end! We might even have extra innings!
In football, you get a penalty; in baseball, you make an error - whoops!
The object in football is to march downfield and penetrate enemy territory, and get into the end zone; in baseball, the object is to go home! "I'm going home!"
And, in football, they have the clip, the hit, the block, the tackle, the blitz, the bomb, the offense and the defense; in baseball, they have.. the sacrifice.
http://snltranscripts.jt.org/75/75amono.phtml
Instead, many act like they just won the Super Bowl in OT after merely getting a first down. .....or making a decent tackle.
You call it a man's game. That's kinda funny.
Look around. The NFL represents fewer football players than the rec council in my area of Baltimore county.
It's a kid's game, being played by overgrown kids. Really, what percentage of the players make it into their 30's as players?
This is where Condi should come in...
Can you imagine the phone call? "Mr. Moss? Commissioner Rice. You're touchdown celebration was gay. See that it never happens again." "Yes, ma'am."
you're=your
Thought the NFL put an end to this back in the days of Billy "Whiteshoes" Johnson and Luv Ya Blue?
Does the gentleman in #81 growl when he does this cutesy little dance too?
Not really if you think about it for a moment: Your legally a man at the age of 18... Are there any players in the NFL younger than 18? Not-a-one.
They are no kids in the NFL. Only men and punks... Wish the NFL would do something about the latter few.
Legal for some things at 18, not legal for others.
My point is simply that professional sports are kid's games. That we let a tiny percentage of the overall number of players continue to play professionally is, IMHO, the exception that proves the rule.
Thanks. Everyone remembers the "Winning isn't everything..." quote, but I think this one is better: "People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society."
My point has been simply this, semantics removed. IMHO, there's no place in football for punks... regardless of age.
Ping!
The NFL folks really have to much idol time on their hands.
The NFL is a bunch of millionares playing for billionares and all in it for the love of one thing; money.
I used to admire Unitas, Starr, Lilly, Butkus, Staubach and all those guys who could have been rich in private life but forsook that during the game season to play like modern gladiators on a field of battle.
Now they are mostly drug-addicted children playing for the cahs and they have no love or respect for the game, the league or their fans. Most likely not even themselves.
NFL; scrape it up and trash it and start over.
Intramural flag football anyone? I'd rather watch that.
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