Posted on 06/21/2002 6:36:46 AM PDT by Illbay
My claim to fame was Peter Mellor (sp?)scouting me about 2 years ago in a tournament and he helped me off the field when I suffered a save with a sensitve area shall we say.
I had no idea who he was until he left.
Gotta thank you for getting The Hitman off our hands. He's a great run stuffer, but those knees of his are shot.The guys at Cleveland Clinic (probably the best sports medicine facility in America) didn't seem to think so, and they wouldn't likely steer a $100 million dollar contributor wrong. >:)
Good luck during the season, but really, The Stillers are Super Bowl bound this year.Only if you find a QB that doesn't choke when it counts. Speaking of wheels, aren't the Bus's getting a little out of alignment? >:)
-Eric
If they were soccer players, they would be DEAD.
Agreed.
However Norwood was not really harassed. Buckner had to move to South Dakota because classy Boston fans would shout nasty things at his kids. Mitch Williams received death threats for at least a year from fans in the city of brotherly love. But soccer fans take the cake for sheer mania and over-reaction to, when all is said and done, just a game.
I've always thought Norwood got a raw deal. It's not like he missed an extra point or a chip shot. That was a 47-yard field goal. Hardly a "gimme".
You need to loosen it up a bit.
That's not what we're talking about here. What we're saying is that the U.S. went head-to-head and toe-to-toe with Germany, one of the elite world powers in the sport, and came away bloody but unbowed.
Yes, a win would have been fabulous.
But c'mon, are you REALLY telling me that if an NFL team goes, say 3-13 for about a decade, then one year wins 5 games, and then the next year wins EIGHT games, that the pundits aren't gonna say "hey, that team seems to be coming around. If this keeps up we can expect big things from them in the coming seasons"?
Your attitude is VERY typical of the throw-away, here-and-now, entertain-me-this-minute, ADD-inspired attitude that makes our current culture so shallow.
Understand the ULTIMATE GOAL, and don't focus on one game. A loss is a loss, yes, but as I said in a previous post, this game shouldn't have even been close, and the U.S. had Germany fighting for its life during the entire contest. That DOES mean something, even if your trivia-plagued mind can't grasp it.
No James Jacksons on this team. :o)
BTW, my thoughts are that Bettis is done. I think it's a Fred Taylor-type injury and he's just not keeping himself together, not that it matters, as it appears.
The German defenders, wings, and attackers averaged 6 ft 2 in and 195 lbs; they looked like your basic NFL cornerback/ safety/ lanky wide receiver. Or imagine if Ken Griffey Jr. had taken up soccer instead of baseball. By comparison, Landon Donovan is 5'10", 165 lbs; Eddie Pope the same; DeMarcus Beasley is 5'7" 135 lbs, for crying out loud--had he played the Germans would have broken him like a twig.
The challenge for American soccer is to encourage people of moderate size to try out soccer instead of football or basketball.
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