A cheap laugh

[Colleen Thomas]

If you have Espn, you should tune in to the football game. It's the Mississippi State Bulldogs (my almamater) vs. The University of Georiga (who also happen to be bulldogs).

To add to it, the announces must have done a spartans game recently. (another MSU)

Two professional broadcasters stumbling over this stuff is a riot. On a fumble, sagely announcing Bulldogs football! (well duh)

Constantly miscalling things as in stateing Mississippi State's defense has to be aware of when Connor (state's quarterback) is on the field. (I'll say!)

And the best is saying the spartans have to be careful here. One wonder's why? A long pass from Starkville to Lansing perhaps? (Now there's a hail mary!)

As I said, it's cheap laughs, but when you team is as bad as state, it's pure brillance

 

[Guest]

is a bulldog a pitbull?

or are pitbull's only "bull TERRIERS"?

 

[blackhaus7]

If you have Espn, you should tune in to the football game. It's the Mississippi State Bulldogs (my almamater) vs. The University of Georiga (who also happen to be bulldogs).

To add to it, the announces must have done a spartans game recently. (another MSU)

Two professional broadcasters stumbling over this stuff is a riot. On a fumble, sagely announcing Bulldogs football! (well duh)

Constantly miscalling things as in stateing Mississippi State's defense has to be aware of when Connor (state's quarterback) is on the field. (I'll say!)

And the best is saying the spartans have to be careful here. One wonder's why? A long pass from Starkville to Lansing perhaps? (Now there's a hail mary!)

As I said, it's cheap laughs, but when you team is as bad as state, it's pure brillance

I knew there was a reason I don't pay much attention to announcers. Mostly they state the obvious and I can grasp that without their help. Glad you enjoy it, Colly.

 

[Colleen Thomas]

I knew there was a reason I don't pay much attention to announcers. Mostly they state the obvious and I can grasp that without their help. Glad you enjoy it, Colly.

If you're a state fan, anything to give a laugh is worthwhile. My team hasn't won the SEC since 1491 and they haven't even been good enough to call bad in the last three years, When you loose to the maine bears and Vandy and jacksonville state in the same season. Well, it's a good think I'm only a casual fan. My uncle was to the point of dispondance.

 

[blackhaus7]

If you're a state fan, anything to give a laugh is worthwhile. My team hasn't won the SEC since 1491 and they haven't even been good enough to call bad in the last three years, When you loose to the maine bears and Vandy and jacksonville state in the same season. Well, it's a good think I'm only a casual fan. My uncle was to the point of dispondance.

My apologies because I've imbibed too much tonight, who did Jackie Sherill coach for? I was thinking it was Miss. State.

 

[Colleen Thomas]

My apologies because I've imbibed too much tonight, who did Jackie Sherill coach for? I was thinking it was Miss. State.

He was. He quit. As usual, the NCAA was a step behind him with recruiting violations. Sylvester Croom is coach now.

 

[cloudy]

I went to Tennessee, so you'll have to excuse this...

I still have a t-shirt, old and with several holes in it, that says: GO TO HELL OLE MISS!

 

[blackhaus7]

I went to Tennessee, so you'll have to excuse this...

I still have a t-shirt, old and with several holes in it, that says: GO TO HELL OLE MISS!

Geez, cloudy, the Rebels haven't been a threat to the Vols in a long time. Y'all need to get a Gator hater or Bama slamma T shirt now.

 

[cloudy]

Geez, cloudy, the Rebels haven't been a threat to the Vols in a long time. Y'all need to get a Gator hater or Bama slamma T shirt now.

Does the bumper sticker on my car that says "Avoid the rush - hate Bama early" count?



(the t-shirt is from when I was in school, and dating a football player. They had them printed up and the whole football team wore them the day before the game)

 

[blackhaus7]

Does the bumper sticker on my car that says "Avoid the rush - hate Bama early" count?



(the t-shirt is from when I was in school, and dating a football player. They had them printed up and the whole football team wore them the day before the game)

I'm sure the bumper sticker endears you to your neighbors.

 

[cloudy]

I'm sure the bumper sticker endears you to your neighbors.

eh, it's all good....they probably just assume that I'm an Auburn fan. Oh, wait...nope, that can't be right, because the bumper sticker is bright orange and white.

I will actually pull for Auburn as long as they're not playing Tennessee - that's my dad's alma mater, so it has some sentimental ties for me. We're an SEC family: dad went to Auburn, mom went to Georgia, my sister went to Alabama, and I went to Tennessee.

 

[Belegon]

I went to Tennessee, so you'll have to excuse this...

I still have a t-shirt, old and with several holes in it, that says: GO TO HELL OLE MISS!

only thing I have against Ole Miss is a particular dislike for a crybaby ex-quarterback of theirs...who I hope gets severely pounded Sunday night...

 

[An Awful Cad]

only thing I have against Ole Miss is a particular dislike for a crybaby ex-quarterback of theirs...who I hope gets severely pounded Sunday night...

Amen, Brother.

Admittedly, I'm riding the Bolts hard in my pool this week, but I'm hoping Eli takes a pounding on moral grounds as well.

 

[matriarch]

You guys remember your confusion when Earl and I were discussing cricket and England winning the Ashes?

Well........you all just did the same to me. The posts in this thread might as well have been written in Swahili as English.

I know you wrote words that I recognise and understand, I read them out loud.

I guess it must just have been the order in which you display them..........

 

[TheEarl]

You guys remember your confusion when Earl and I were discussing cricket and England winning the Ashes?

Well........you all just did the same to me. The posts in this thread might as well have been written in Swahili as English.

I know you wrote words that I recognise and understand, I read them out loud.

I guess it must just have been the order in which you display them..........

They're playing all the right notes. Just not necessarily in the right order. I'll give you that one sunshine.

What do you think about the elevation of Udal to the touring squad for Pakistan?

The Earl

 

[Liar]

What do you think about the elevation of Udal to the touring squad for Pakistan?

Wow... that sounded almost mythological.

 

[Colleen Thomas]

only thing I have against Ole Miss is a particular dislike for a crybaby ex-quarterback of theirs...who I hope gets severely pounded Sunday night...

Sorry folks, but if I were a football player with enough talent not to feel like I was just lucky to go on draft day, I wouldn't want to go play for the chargers. Your rookie contrct is a five or six year deal and after five or six years behind the chareger's Offensive line, you could well be looking at early retirement and hip/knee/back replacement surgery.

The owner is a tightwad, the Gm is a numbskull (witness gates suspeneded for the first game), the O-line is a joke (espescilly without the line coach they let go to miami, again over bucks), the reciving corps is lead by retread Keenan McCardell, and any pop warner Qb could rack up a 300 yrds passing game on a defense that can't cover their own bootys, much less opposing wide recievers (Anyone kno where that hard hitting strong safety they said was through went? Having a career renisanse in New england you say? How bout that linebacker who defined their defense? Miami now? Can we say talent seems less important than greenbacks? Who's their SS now? Anyone know? Their best linebacker? Defensive Captain?).

I know the draft is set up to make it easier for bad teams to get better, but chronically mismanaged teams aren't going to get better with all the draft picks in the world. Those teams are anathema to a young Qb who would lke to see a long career and at least one more payday in their lifetimes.

John York's penny pinching style has turned Sf into a laughing stock, the Benglas are only now seing improvement since deciding you have to spend a litle on players, Clevland has suffered from horendous draft day decisions, the cardinals are so inept you have to pay superstar dollars to mediocre talent free agents just to get them to visit.

I'm not even a fanatic, but after 8 years of playing fantasy football in an IDP league run by my brothers I've learned enough to know I would force a trade if I had the clout to do so. Besides LT & Gates, there is no one on that team I would have on my team (McCardell in an emergency situation if they were playing a team with a weak secondary perhaps).

Last year's amazing run aside, they just don't have the kind of organization I have any confidence in. They make too many bad decisions on personelle and too many decisions on coaching/scouting staff that are more concerned with dollars than ability. Even a great team with a winning tradition can be ruined if the top end management is incompetant (witness the 49er's). Even perinial cellar dwellers can become champions if you have the right people at the top (Again, witness the 49er's of the late seventies).

Until they learn that draft picks who perform well need to be retained, even if that means a big payday for them, and freeagent spending needs to be done in the best risk/reward manner, they are going to remain a talent poor, middle to low end of the pack team.

They really miss their line coach, he managed to get terrific results from a line that has little talent. Their defense really misses the identity Seau brought, even if his skills are diminishing. And that secondary desperatly misses the big hits and big play ability of a Rodney Harrison.

No team can be faulted for misevaluating a player, like Harrison or mis evaluating the effect an ageing star like Seau has on the lockerroom, or mis evaluating the imporatnace of a position coach, as with their line. But the cumulative effect of such misevalations is geometeric in its damage and teams that make the same mistakes over and over and don't seem to learn from them end up being the places older players who have lost a step or lost their fire are exiled too. They have to pay top dollar to free agents because no one wants to play there and the result of that is they have to pinch pennies at contract time with their own home grown talent and a lot of it gets away from them.

Until SD learns to hold on to their own talent and add pieces in an economical and intelligent way, anyone with asiprations of greatness is going to want to play elsewhere. You don't have to play for a great team to be great, but for great players chronic looseing will take a toll on them far faster than old age.

Five or six years is a substantial portion of a player's career. If you are good enough to dictate that that first six years is not spent in San diego, Cleveland, Arizona, etc. you can hardly blame someone for using that leverage. As a fan, you can, will and possibly should. If you are being fair, you have to admit Eli did the right thing for Eli. He is playing for a team with great owners (the Mara's), with decent to good talent around him, and he came in as the QB of the future title applied withourt reservation. How many snaps has Rivers taken on a Team that drafted him as the Qb of the future and paid him that way only to realize they already had a good Qb when the O-line can block for him? Where might they be right now, if they had passed on Eli, selected Gallery, and now had the cap space a first round O-lineman's contract would have gvien them AND bookend tackles who can play?

Not 0-2 I'm inclined to think.

 

[matriarch]

Sorry folks, but if I were a football player with enough talent not to feel like I was just lucky to go on draft day, I wouldn't want to go play for the chargers. Your rookie contrct is a five or six year deal and after five or six years behind the chareger's Offensive line, you could well be looking at early retirement and hip/knee/back replacement surgery.

The owner is a tightwad, the Gm is a numbskull (witness gates suspeneded for the first game), the O-line is a joke (espescilly without the line coach they let go to miami, again over bucks), the reciving corps is lead by retread Keenan McCardell, and any pop warner Qb could rack up a 300 yrds passing game on a defense that can't cover their own bootys, much less opposing wide recievers (Anyone kno where that hard hitting strong safety they said was through went? Having a career renisanse in New england you say? How bout that linebacker who defined their defense? Miami now? Can we say talent seems less important than greenbacks? Who's their SS now? Anyone know? Their best linebacker? Defensive Captain?).

I know the draft is set up to make it easier for bad teams to get better, but chronically mismanaged teams aren't going to get better with all the draft picks in the world. Those teams are anathema to a young Qb who would lke to see a long career and at least one more payday in their lifetimes.

John York's penny pinching style has turned Sf into a laughing stock, the Benglas are only now seing improvement since deciding you have to spend a litle on players, Clevland has suffered from horendous draft day decisions, the cardinals are so inept you have to pay superstar dollars to mediocre talent free agents just to get them to visit.

I'm not even a fanatic, but after 8 years of playing fantasy football in an IDP league run by my brothers I've learned enough to know I would force a trade if I had the clout to do so. Besides LT & Gates, there is no one on that team I would have on my team (McCardell in an emergency situation if they were playing a team with a weak secondary perhaps).

Last year's amazing run aside, they just don't have the kind of organization I have any confidence in. They make too many bad decisions on personelle and too many decisions on coaching/scouting staff that are more concerned with dollars than ability. Even a great team with a winning tradition can be ruined if the top end management is incompetant (witness the 49er's). Even perinial cellar dwellers can become champions if you have the right people at the top (Again, witness the 49er's of the late seventies).

Until they learn that draft picks who perform well need to be retained, even if that means a big payday for them, and freeagent spending needs to be done in the best risk/reward manner, they are going to remain a talent poor, middle to low end of the pack team.

They really miss their line coach, he managed to get terrific results from a line that has little talent. Their defense really misses the identity Seau brought, even if his skills are diminishing. And that secondary desperatly misses the big hits and big play ability of a Rodney Harrison.

No team can be faulted for misevaluating a player, like Harrison or mis evaluating the effect an ageing star like Seau has on the lockerroom, or mis evaluating the imporatnace of a position coach, as with their line. But the cumulative effect of such misevalations is geometeric in its damage and teams that make the same mistakes over and over and don't seem to learn from them end up being the places older players who have lost a step or lost their fire are exiled too. They have to pay top dollar to free agents because no one wants to play there and the result of that is they have to pinch pennies at contract time with their own home grown talent and a lot of it gets away from them.

Until SD learns to hold on to their own talent and add pieces in an economical and intelligent way, anyone with asiprations of greatness is going to want to play elsewhere. You don't have to play for a great team to be great, but for great players chronic looseing will take a toll on them far faster than old age.

Five or six years is a substantial portion of a player's career. If you are good enough to dictate that that first six years is not spent in San diego, Cleveland, Arizona, etc. you can hardly blame someone for using that leverage. As a fan, you can, will and possibly should. If you are being fair, you have to admit Eli did the right thing for Eli. He is playing for a team with great owners (the Mara's), with decent to good talent around him, and he came in as the QB of the future title applied withourt reservation. How many snaps has Rivers taken on a Team that drafted him as the Qb of the future and paid him that way only to realize they already had a good Qb when the O-line can block for him? Where might they be right now, if they had passed on Eli, selected Gallery, and now had the cap space a first round O-lineman's contract would have gvien them AND bookend tackles who can play?

Not 0-2 I'm inclined to think.

*Completely overcome with awed admiration.*
I read and understood almost every word of that. But not one sentence made sense - to me.

That is such a damn clever trick. How do you do it??

You should start writing scripts for politicians. You'd be a great hit.

 

[cloudy]

*Completely overcome with awed admiration.*
I read and understood almost every word of that. But not one sentence made sense - to me.

That is such a damn clever trick. How do you do it??

You should start writing scripts for politicians. You'd be a great hit.

I promise, though, that it made perfect sense to those of us who are secretly rabid NFL fans.

I miss the good ol' days when the Rams were still in Los Angeles. Eric Dickerson was always fun as hell to watch (was he fast, or was he fast?). BTW - does anyone know if he still holds the single season rushing record?

He and Jim Everett were a helluva team, and came close to unstoppable for a couple of seasons. Not to mention, Dickerson could be my daughter's father's twin - no shit.

I've just about quit watching NFL football anymore, since they moved the Rams to St. Louis. I just don't have a team that I can get excited about anymore.

 

[carsonshepherd]

I've just about quit watching NFL football anymore, since they moved the Rams to St. Louis. I just don't have a team that I can get excited about anymore.

LOL. We were slow warming up to the Rams, but they're not so bad.

 

[cloudy]

LOL. We were slow warming up to the Rams, but they're not so bad.

Well, then I proudly pass down the fanaticism that I used to have for the Rams.

(I'm not kidding - used to scare the neighbors screaming, "OFFSIDE!!! OFFSIDE!!!)

 

[R. Richard]

I miss the good ol' days when the Rams were still in Los Angeles. Eric Dickerson was always fun as hell to watch (was he fast, or was he fast?). BTW - does anyone know if he still holds the single season rushing record?

Current NFL single season rushing records:
2,105 Eric Dickerson, L.A. Rams, 1984
2,066 Jamal Lewis, Baltimore, 2003
2,053 Barry Sanders, Detroit, 1997

When Dickerson was with the Rams, they called him "Black Superman."

 

[cloudy]

Current NFL single season rushing records:
2,105 Eric Dickerson, L.A. Rams, 1984
2,066 Jamal Lewis, Baltimore, 2003
2,053 Barry Sanders, Detroit, 1997

When Dickerson was with the Rams, they called him "Black Superman."

He was absolutely amazing when he'd spot a hole in the defense - and it didn't have to be a big one either. He'd slither on through there like a snake, and he was gone!

I miss it.