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Chancetragedy wrote: @helgrenze - go to my team-edit team setting- and you can can edit your team name and colors there. If your talking about something else let me know and I'll get it fixed!
Right.. got it. was a bit hurried last night with getting ready for work. New team name "Hel's Fury".
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Office of Naval Intelligence Research discovers 3 out of 4 sailors make up 75% of U.S. Navy.
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whembly wrote: Hey Alf... I just read that Kosar is getting criticism for his "color comments" on the RAMs last Friday? Was he really over the time? o.O
Feth no he wasn't
Fischer is making a stink over nothing. Bernie Kosar, for all of his alcoholism, brain damage from being hit too many times, and just a general gakky post-NFL life (wife left him and took his money, daughter is in porn, etc...) Kosar has a large amount of knowledge about football, and honestly I would respect what he says about the game over some of the national talking heads (simply because he doesn't have to cowtoe the company line). Bernie's comments in the first two quarters was spot on color commentary. He broke down the teams as they played, saw things that the average person didn't see, and talked about how bad the Rams were playing (as a color commentator should). The real issue occurred when Kellen Clemens came into the game. Had this been a real game, we would never have seen Clemens unless several acts of God happened to give him the chance to play. By the time you get to the 4th quarter, you're left with the last string players and have to keep things entertaining. So Jim Donovan, the main announcer for the Browns, had a story about Clemens' daughter being blessed/kissed by the pope. Kosar, a professed Catholic, responded in kind with a religious bit in which he said, "Bless me father for I have sinned, I have to watch him play the 4th quarter." Honestly, it's not much of an issue and never would have happened in a real game or on a national broadcast. The local NBC affiliate that runs the TV broadcast for the Browns should have gone through Donovan's story during a production meeting and then turned to Bernie and said, "What would you say to this?" And bam, problem solved.
Idk why Fischer is giving a gak. His team didn't show up and it's preseason. Honestly I think people should be making just as much of a stink over his comment about Bernie's history being well documented (alluding to the issues I said earlier).
It's a non-issue (says the guy that just wrote a large paragraph on it ).
Thanks dude... that makes much more sense...
Here in St. Louie... it was made out to such a big deal and I'm like "What. The. feth"? o.O (it wasn't on TV here, unless there was a way to get the Brown's feed).
I think Fischer is just doing his job defending his player and going overboard. *shrugs*
whembly wrote: Thanks dude... that makes much more sense...
Here in St. Louie... it was made out to such a big deal and I'm like "What. The. feth"? o.O (it wasn't on TV here, unless there was a way to get the Brown's feed).
I think Fischer is just doing his job defending his player and going overboard. *shrugs*
It honestly was a little weird hearing about it on my drive into work this morning, because you only would have heard it if you were watching the Browns feed here in the Cleveland area.
Also, I don't think it's much of an issue because Kosar doesn't do the regular season games, unless something happened to Doug Dieken.
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whembly wrote: Thanks dude... that makes much more sense...
Here in St. Louie... it was made out to such a big deal and I'm like "What. The. feth"? o.O (it wasn't on TV here, unless there was a way to get the Brown's feed).
I think Fischer is just doing his job defending his player and going overboard. *shrugs*
It honestly was a little weird hearing about it on my drive into work this morning, because you only would have heard it if you were watching the Browns feed here in the Cleveland area.
Also, I don't think it's much of an issue because Kosar doesn't do the regular season games, unless something happened to Doug Dieken.
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And SGC.....let's go all the way this year!!
12M4L!!
(12th Man 4 Life!)
SEA!
On a side note, I'd join the FF league if I wasn't already in a Field Gulls league, and I'm not much of a planner, so I don't see why I should join the Dakka league at this moment...maybe in the future, when I get serious about FF.
I saw the ID and password for the pickem, but what is the web address?
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I sold my soul to the devil and now the bastard is demanding a refund!
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Chancetragedy wrote: Ok so were upto 4 in the FFL and 3 in the pickem. Plenty of space in both. And if their is more interest we can move the FFL to 12-14 if need be.
They fear the Fury!!!!
Of all the races of the universe the Squats have the longest memories and the shortest tempers. They are uncouth, unpredictably violent, and frequently drunk. Overall, I'm glad they're on our side!
Office of Naval Intelligence Research discovers 3 out of 4 sailors make up 75% of U.S. Navy.
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So Tom Brady injured his left knee(same one that kept him from playing in 2008) at practice today. Left the field under his own power but please god no!!! Screw you Tim tebow this is all your fault...
Chancetragedy wrote: So Tom Brady injured his left knee(same one that kept him from playing in 2008) at practice today. Left the field under his own power but please god no!!! Screw you Tim tebow this is all your fault...
via Twittah:
@M_McDonough: NFL Football: Report: Brady tore ACL and MCL
So... lemme see... Pats sign Tebow... Brady blows up his knee... Super Bowl is held in Jets stadium this year. What's the point of having a season? We know how it ends... amirite?
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Jesus Christ whembly that tweet.... Please tell me he's just some shmoe with a smart phone and not someone with a good track record.
And yah that was my exact point about tebow. Clearly he is a divine being that is getting watched over by a higher power to obliterate all those in front of him... The demise of the jets and now possibly the patriots? My only hope is for zombie apocalypse soon!!!
Edit:lol the ghost of Bernard pollard gets the patriots again... Apparently Adrian clayborn the DE who injured Brady's knee is Bernard pollards cousin haha.
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Yah he walked off on his own in '08 too. After seeing the video and reading reports it appears there is nothing majorly wrong probably just tweaked it.
But it's still hilarious to joke about it happening on Tim Tebow's birthday and have it be Bernard pollards cousin that did it.
whembly wrote: Adam Schefter just reported that Brady's MRI results came back negative.
Patriot nation can breathe now...
That is amazing news, I would hate to have my 1st round draft pick miss the season...
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Man now wonder Mangini is highly regarded as a tool by every report I read. Awesome read for all the patriots, jets, and browns fans that had their stuff tainted by this dude.
I went to the Bears preseason game on Thursday night. As a season ticket holder, I'm required to buy preseason tickets too, and it's usually nice weather and the wife and I treat it like a night out, rather than anything serious. So, here's the thing about pre-season football...
It's pre-season for everyone. If you go to a pre-season game, the well-oiled machine that is a regular season game is just as rusty as the players. Odd, considering that they did it all not 8 months ago, but I guess people have short memories.
Little things are just not right. Thursday night, for example, they did the national anthem before the players were on the field. The scoreboard was wrong - not the score, but the stats on it. There was a noticeable delay between scoring, and the start of the fight song, and even then, the first time through, it wasn't accompanied by the video with the words, for those who haven't memorized them yet. (I'm fairly sure that less than 1% of the people at the game could describe the T-formation either, yet we sing about it every week - this is an historically curious relic that can be used to date when people actually wrote fight songs. Do new teams, like the Texans, even have a fight song?).
Talking about people who haven't yet memorized the words, the preseason crowd is also noticeably different than the regular season crowd. It's the game where people who don't go to football games can actually get tickets to. There are more families and seemingly more young people. They don't seem to know when to cheer (which, given that it's preseason, is minimally) and by the 3rd quarter, the actual game is pretty boring that they're looking for other ways to entertain themselves. I've never seen "the wave" during the regular season, but we waved Thursday night. Since this doesn't happen normally, I wonder what the players think to it.
Towards the end of the game, the coaches have their focus, and any seemingly rational game decisions that fans might understand are just not a factor. Thursday night, I can only imagine that they were trying to evaluate back-up back-up running backs and linemen, because they forgot that you can throw the ball. This is 2013, right? Forward passes are legal?
And, so here's the other thing I wonder about. The players on the field in the 4th quarter may be long-shots to make the team. But, they're still supposedly decent football players. They've all done four years of college ball, and the fact that they're even at an NFL camp means they were probably above average players on their college teams. So why is it that they look so inept? A couple of San Diego players dropped routine passes. I'd imagine that the Bears players would have also, had the Bears remembered that forward passes were legal. At that point in the game, it's the guys who won't make your team against the guys who won't make the other team - you'd think that might still be somewhat entertaining - but it isn't.
I went the Panthers/Bears preseason game here in Charlotte and I thought it was wonderfully entertaining. And I didn't notice any rustiness on the part of the stadium. . . they even had light shows on the neighboring Duke Energy building that would coincide with Carolina TDs.
Dustin Keller has apparently broken his ACL, MCL, and PCL as well as dislocating his knee. Considering how much Miami are airing it out this year it's really going to hurt them
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Hlaine Larkin mk2 wrote: Dustin Keller has apparently broken his ACL, MCL, and PCL as well as dislocating his knee. Considering how much Miami are airing it out this year it's really going to hurt them
That's basically a "Career Over" injury.
First cuts are later this week right?
Of all the races of the universe the Squats have the longest memories and the shortest tempers. They are uncouth, unpredictably violent, and frequently drunk. Overall, I'm glad they're on our side!
Office of Naval Intelligence Research discovers 3 out of 4 sailors make up 75% of U.S. Navy.
"Madness is like gravity... All you need is a little push."
