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Post by clemiethedog on Jan 28, 2010 18:32:18 GMT
(1) The overblown media coverage shouldn't obscure what an amazing athlete Farve is. 309 consecutive NFL starts at QB is about ten times more impressive than Ripken's streak.
(2) Really happy for the Saints fans. This is like the Lions making the Super Bowl if Detroit had been destroyed by some terrible disaster. No wait it's exactly like the Lions making the Super Bowl.
(3) Troy Aikman is pretty clueless.
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Post by iamjumbo on Jan 29, 2010 18:56:09 GMT
the best team, the chargers, is not going to be there, again. favre is a great quarterback, and it's time for him to leave while he's on top. beating dallas in the playoffs was the highlight of his career, as he had lost the previous four times. nonetheless, the saints are now the best team in the nfl, and the saints will beat the colts by ten points in the super bowl. however, are you nuts? the saints have had at least an average team for several years. it's been a couple of decades since the lions were worth anything they changed the general manager several years ago because they were so dismal, and matt millen promptly made them a catastrophe
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Post by clemiethedog on Jan 31, 2010 17:36:03 GMT
"matt millen promptly made them a catastrophe"
That he did. He assumed office the same time as George Bush, and he left office at roughly the same time. The results were close to identical. Millen at least left his successor with some high draft picks and some salary cap money; Bush did neither.
The Lions did have some decent teams during the Barry Sanders era, though; no doubt because of Barry Sanders. I hated the Pontiac Silverdome but attended a few games each year simply to watch Sanders. I like Ford Field; it's a great facility, but lordy that team sucks.
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Post by iamjumbo on Jan 31, 2010 20:04:21 GMT
"matt millen promptly made them a catastrophe" That he did. He assumed office the same time as George Bush, and he left office at roughly the same time. The results were close to identical. Millen at least left his successor with some high draft picks and some salary cap money; Bush did neither. The Lions did have some decent teams during the Barry Sanders era, though; no doubt because of Barry Sanders. I hated the Pontiac Silverdome but attended a few games each year simply to watch Sanders. I like Ford Field; it's a great facility, but lordy that team sucks. hey, they won two more games this year than they did last year. at that rate, in ten years, they'll have a perfect season. you do realize of course, that high draft picks are earned by being so bad. i think i'd rather have the super bowl and the number 32 draft pick. of course, you're a million percent correct on dumbya
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Post by ♫anna♫ on Jan 31, 2010 23:24:20 GMT
It looks like a foul play against Brett Favre may have gotten the Saints into the Superbowl. www.foxnews.com/sports/2010/01/29/source-saints-fined-hit-favre/ QUOTE: Saints DE fined $20,000 for hit on Favre The New Orleans Saints are going to the Super Bowl, but defensive end Bobby McCray is going to pay for the hit that helped his team get there. The New Orleans Saints are going to the Super Bowl, but defensive end Bobby McCray is going to pay for the hit that helped his team get there.
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Post by iamjumbo on Feb 2, 2010 21:30:02 GMT
It looks like a foul play against Brett Favre may have gotten the Saints into the Superbowl. www.foxnews.com/sports/2010/01/29/source-saints-fined-hit-favre/ QUOTE: Saints DE fined $20,000 for hit on Favre The New Orleans Saints are going to the Super Bowl, but defensive end Bobby McCray is going to pay for the hit that helped his team get there. The New Orleans Saints are going to the Super Bowl, but defensive end Bobby McCray is going to pay for the hit that helped his team get there. he wasn't really trying to hurt favre, but, even if he was, each losing player in the super bowl gets about ten times that much. since he'll win, he'll get massively more. he's trading twenty thousand casualties for a few hundred thousand good trade, i'd say
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Post by ♫anna♫ on Feb 2, 2010 23:07:06 GMT
It looks like a foul play against Brett Favre may have gotten the Saints into the Superbowl. www.foxnews.com/sports/2010/01/29/source-saints-fined-hit-favre/ QUOTE: Saints DE fined $20,000 for hit on Favre The New Orleans Saints are going to the Super Bowl, but defensive end Bobby McCray is going to pay for the hit that helped his team get there. The New Orleans Saints are going to the Super Bowl, but defensive end Bobby McCray is going to pay for the hit that helped his team get there. he wasn't really trying to hurt favre, but, even if he was, each losing player in the super bowl gets about ten times that much. since he'll win, he'll get massively more. he's trading twenty thousand casualties for a few hundred thousand good trade, i'd say If McCray did intentionally try to hurt Favre then he made a bad trade in a moral sense. US Football is a rough sport and some of these guys have admitted to trying to injure key players on the other side.
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Post by clemiethedog on Feb 3, 2010 0:56:58 GMT
They've cleaned up the game enormously over the past few decades. The great Joe Namath was once belted after he threw a pass, a definate late hit, and the blow was so hard that his helmet flew off. Then Ben Davidson of the Raiders bashed the defenseless Namath in the face, breaking his cheekbone. They did flag the second late hit and marched off 15 yards. Davidson wasn't even fined; today he'd get a year off at minimum. BTW, good ol' Joe wouldn't give the Raiders any satisfaction. After the game Namath was asked about his facial injury, and he replied that it was caused by a 'tough piece of meat at breakfast'. The "never let 'em know they hurt ya' edict was in effect.
Joe Willie, one of a kind. He threw boatloads of interceptions, but damn was he good.
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Post by iamjumbo on Feb 3, 2010 12:31:12 GMT
They've cleaned up the game enormously over the past few decades. The great Joe Namath was once belted after he threw a pass, a definate late hit, and the blow was so hard that his helmet flew off. Then Ben Davidson of the Raiders bashed the defenseless Namath in the face, breaking his cheekbone. They did flag the second late hit and marched off 15 yards. Davidson wasn't even fined; today he'd get a year off at minimum. BTW, good ol' Joe wouldn't give the Raiders any satisfaction. After the game Namath was asked about his facial injury, and he replied that it was caused by a 'tough piece of meat at breakfast'. The "never let 'em know they hurt ya' edict was in effect. Joe Willie, one of a kind. He threw boatloads of interceptions, but damn was he good. joe was the greatest. his azz backed up his mouth, unlike most of the fools today. i bore a likeness to him, and grew a fu manchu for a couple of years just because he had one. the thing that the raiders have always been renowned for was hurting people, and i never heard ronnie lott apologize for shyt.
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Post by iamjumbo on Feb 3, 2010 12:34:54 GMT
he wasn't really trying to hurt favre, but, even if he was, each losing player in the super bowl gets about ten times that much. since he'll win, he'll get massively more. he's trading twenty thousand casualties for a few hundred thousand good trade, i'd say If McCray did intentionally try to hurt Favre then he made a bad trade in a moral sense. US Football is a rough sport and some of these guys have admitted to trying to injure key players on the other side.think how bill wade felt at buffalo when there was only the center, with he and oj simpson in the backfield. well hon, you care about moral, and except for winning, i care about moral. however, i am the biggest fan of vince lombardi's sage words, "winning isn't everything, it's the ONLY thing".
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Post by clemiethedog on Feb 6, 2010 18:58:49 GMT
Yeah, the Raiders had a lot of thugs. Remember Jack Tatum? He laid out Darryl Stingley of the Patriots, who was confined to a wheel chair, and never once did Tatum pay him a visit.
Jow Willie was the epitome of cool. I have a DVD of Namath, and watching those highlight reels makes me wonder just how great he could have been had been fully functional.
There was this jingle:
He's a hero, he's a pro He's the player we all know as Broadway Joe He's a groovy, super guy He can throw the ball right through a needle's eye What a feeling, what a sight When we see that number 12 in green and white Hey hey hey, go go go No one else can throw like Broadway Joe!
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Post by iamjumbo on Feb 6, 2010 22:55:13 GMT
Yeah, the Raiders had a lot of thugs. Remember Jack Tatum? He laid out Darryl Stingley of the Patriots, who was confined to a wheel chair, and never once did Tatum pay him a visit. Jow Willie was the epitome of cool. I have a DVD of Namath, and watching those highlight reels makes me wonder just how great he could have been had been fully functional. There was this jingle: He's a hero, he's a pro He's the player we all know as Broadway Joe He's a groovy, super guy He can throw the ball right through a needle's eye What a feeling, what a sight When we see that number 12 in green and white Hey hey hey, go go go No one else can throw like Broadway Joe! you're right on that count. i couldn't think of tatum, but yeah, he was one of the most savage. of course, i can't think of anyone on the raiders in those years who weren't thugs, except a few on offense such as daryl larmonica, ken stabler, and our all time favorite old guy, george blanda
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Post by iamjumbo on Feb 6, 2010 22:57:02 GMT
AND, you're right. joe was a hero. if his legs hadn't been so wobbly, he could have gone farther than manning. on second though, he DID go farther than manning is going to go, after tomorrow.
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Post by iamjumbo on Feb 8, 2010 12:31:50 GMT
hooray for the good guys. at halftime, i was a bit dismayed. it did seem as though what little defense the saints have had not bothered to show up. in the end though, brese proved, again, to be the superior quarterback, and the defense showed up. have to feel for archie though. he spent over a decade trying to get the saints there, with no success whatsoever, and then had to endure the trauma of his son trying to beat them
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Post by beth on Feb 8, 2010 18:43:02 GMT
It was a good game, the kind of game all Super Bowls should be. I was kind of pulling for the Colts (close to home, no better reason than that), but didn't care that much. Roger and Pete did fine at half time. Overall, a fun evening.
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