Football season is upon us...

rc26 · Post by **rc26** » Thu Aug 13, 2009 7:35 am

I don't follow a lot of professional sports, but...I do get into NFL football.

I'm a rabid Redskins fan...first pre-season game is tonight, I'm fucking psyched.

Shhted · Post by **Shhted** » Thu Aug 13, 2009 7:50 am

Go Packers!

Priest · Post by **Priest** » Thu Aug 13, 2009 8:19 am

RC26 wrote:
I'm a rabid Redskins fan...

Fucking asshole.

rc26 · Post by **rc26** » Thu Aug 13, 2009 8:25 am

Priest wrote:
RC26 wrote:
I'm a rabid Redskins fan...
Fucking asshole.

I'll take that as a compliment since it's coming from a Balti-less fan.

ninemileskid · Post by **ninemileskid** » Thu Aug 13, 2009 2:47 pm

Brady's back.........

guitargeek · Post by **guitargeek** » Thu Aug 13, 2009 2:53 pm

Fuck football.

Fuck basketball and baseball, for that matter.

Gauss · Post by **Gauss** » Thu Aug 13, 2009 3:03 pm

Broncos are gonna suck this year...more than normal

guitargeek wrote:Fuck football.

Fuck basketball and baseball, for that matter.

I know you're a huge fan of kick the ball futbol too...

Barclays Premier League season starts this weekend...and Serie A starts the week after...

Mean Chuck · Post by **Mean Chuck** » Thu Aug 13, 2009 3:31 pm

guitargeek wrote:Fuck football.

Fuck basketball and baseball, for that matter.

+1000

Caliann · Post by **Caliann** » Thu Aug 13, 2009 3:35 pm

guitargeek wrote:Fuck football.

Fuck basketball and baseball, for that matter.

Football...football....football......

That's the brown, oblong one the big guys fight over, right?

Sports are my life.

goose · Post by **goose** » Thu Aug 13, 2009 3:41 pm

man I love football season. I especially enjoyed it in Denver because of the almost rabid love of the Broncos.

See, all the good twisty roads were in just outside of town and on any Sunday there are scads of lookie loos cruising their Range Rovers up through Bailey and Turkey Creek. However, on Sundays they get all gussied up in their Elway oversized Jerseys and don the lovely blue face paint to head to some bar/friend's house/parking lot/the game and they stay the fuck off my beautiful twisty roads.

Sometimes I was absolutely alone on Golden Gate on Sundays. It was terrific. Here, well, let's just say there really isn't the same kind of enthusiasm for football. Still, the roads are less traveled on Sunday afternoons . . . and for that, I'd like to thank the NFL. Thanks for getting some of the asshats off of my roads. Yes, they are mine.

Procrustes · Post by **Procrustes** » Thu Aug 13, 2009 3:53 pm

Last year, I won two weekly NFL pool games, plus the entire playoff/SB pool.

Watching the Skins/Ravens game right now, too.

guitargeek · Post by **guitargeek** » Thu Aug 13, 2009 3:53 pm

There is that...

Flatline · Post by **Flatline** » Thu Aug 13, 2009 4:20 pm

Mean Chuck wrote:
guitargeek wrote:Fuck football.

Fuck basketball and baseball, for that matter.
+1000

I work in a bar right across the street from both of the stadiums here in Seattle. Fuck sports.

Procrustes · Post by **Procrustes** » Thu Aug 13, 2009 4:58 pm

Skins are getting their arses beat.

GOSTAZ · Post by **GOSTAZ** » Thu Aug 13, 2009 5:10 pm

I am in with the Bastard and the Asshole from East Goatfuck. Not so much "fuck football", but a definitely "meh". I never got into it.

Bigshankhank · Post by **Bigshankhank** » Thu Aug 13, 2009 5:31 pm

I can still dig on college ball, beyond that I would rather sleep off a couple hundred miles on Sunday afternoons.

ninemileskid · Post by **ninemileskid** » Thu Aug 13, 2009 7:00 pm

Pats 27, Eagles 25

Like I said, Brady's back.

(And Andy Reed STILL can't manage the clock in the last minute of a close game!)

roadmissile · Post by **roadmissile** » Thu Aug 13, 2009 7:53 pm

Lookat Goose, finding us a silver lining.

Now if they added grenades I might watch.

/RM

guitargeek · Post by **guitargeek** » Thu Aug 13, 2009 8:35 pm

Mine the playing surface.

Exploding football on a timer.

xaos · Post by **xaos** » Thu Aug 13, 2009 9:28 pm

Indeed folks, here in the uppermidwest, football season is the flag that riding season will soon be hampered. Not that i care, i've got a broken legg, so let it snow.

Rather, back to the matter at hand. I think football is stoopid.

I get why people enjoy the sports bit, it just doesn't do it for me. A big reason for this is the crowd that is typically drawn to the bar on game night. They stare, mind-numbingly, at the BiG SCReeN until the prescribed time to cheer arises. This in it self isn't so bad, most of the tme i tend to be a pretty obnoxious fella.

The rub is in that through their enthusiastic patronage, they tend to overwhelm the waitstaff, therefor severely reducing the rate at which the drinks are delivered to the corner off the bar that i'm bivouaced in. This is unacceptable; I like my bars dark, depressing and with a flow of liquor that would've made Bukowski beam.

So i say to you, sports fan. Stay home and leave the bars to the drunks. You don't want to Hang out with a bunch of alcoholics anyway, those people cause all sorts of problems.

Priest · Post by **Priest** » Fri Aug 14, 2009 5:30 am

Of course you may have read that the Philadelphia Eagles signed The Asshole Michael Vick to a $1.6M one-year contract to back up an aging McNabb. (with like a $5M option for next year).

Couldn't happen to a better city.

Back where I come from (note the waxing false-nostalgic) in the MidWest, football is life in many places. The only people you'd ever hear say "I hate football" or "I don't like sports" are pretty much saying "I am too weak, untalented, or uncoordinated to participate in sports myself, so I will just hate them instead".

Kind of like disco. Most people who hated disco were simply people who couldn't dance.

I kid. But for really, I've always wondered if sports appeal much more to people that are extremely competitive, and that I am.

There's nothing like a good Sunday afternoon game for me. Football jerseys, nachos, beers, and competition. The wife and I connect over football too. She didn't like it either when we met, but after many a Sunday with me, she came around and started to have some fun just watching the game and hanging out. Now she makes her own SuperBowl t-shirts every year to root for her chosen team, and plays Fantasy Football - so much that she quit playing Fantasy Football because she felt it was stealing her ability to cheer for a chosen team while watching games because of the need to watch particular players on the Fantasy team. Wise girl.

You nerds go back to your Dungeons and Dragons, and leave football to the men. (But not the women. They should be making the nachos).

MoraleHazard · Post by **MoraleHazard** » Fri Aug 14, 2009 5:47 am

Mean Chuck wrote:
guitargeek wrote:Fuck football.

Fuck basketball and baseball, for that matter.
+1000

I don't mind watching the odd game, but I generally couldn't care less about sports.

roadmissile · Post by **roadmissile** » Fri Aug 14, 2009 5:57 am

Priest wrote:You nerds go back to your Dungeons and Dragons, and leave football to the men. (But not the women. They should be making the nachos).

I dunno, if it's a friends drinking, eating and yelling at the TV kind of thing I'm OK with most organized sports, but to follow if because I actually care? I mean, I'll readily admit I'm too weak, untalented, or uncoordinated to ride in an actual MotoGP, but somehow it's just so much cooler than team sports

And of course sitting your ass on a nice plush couch munching nachos doesn't really hit me as participation in a sport...

Unless you're training to eat fifty hotdogs.

/RM

rc26 · Post by **rc26** » Fri Aug 14, 2009 6:15 am

Priest wrote:Of course you may have read that the Philadelphia Eagles signed The Asshole Michael Vick to a $1.6M one-year contract to back up an aging McNabb. (with like a $5M option for next year).

I just now read about this. Media circus will be at Eagles training camp...should be fun for them.

SSCAM · Post by **SSCAM** » Fri Aug 14, 2009 6:21 am

RC26 wrote:I'm a rabid Redskins fan...

RC26 wrote:Balti-less

rc26 · Post by **rc26** » Fri Aug 14, 2009 6:31 am

supersweetcoolawesomeMatt wrote:
RC26 wrote:I'm a rabid Redskins fan...

RC26 wrote:Balti-less

At least it doesn't count. I will say I was a bit disappointed in Colt Brennan's performance. If Campbell doesn't pan out, I'd like to see him have a shot at starting.

GOSTAZ · Post by **GOSTAZ** » Fri Aug 14, 2009 6:41 am

RC26 wrote:
Priest wrote:Of course you may have read that the Philadelphia Eagles signed The Asshole Michael Vick to a $1.6M one-year contract to back up an aging McNabb. (with like a $5M option for next year).
I just now read about this. Media circus will be at Eagles training camp...should be fun for them.

The Killadelphia Eagles, Featuring Vick the Dick? Seems like it fits.

Metalredneck · Post by **Metalredneck** » Fri Aug 14, 2009 8:21 am

Go Hamilton!!
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rc26 · Post by **rc26** » Fri Aug 14, 2009 9:48 am

Poll at the Philadephia Enquirer with regards to Michael Vick.

http://www.philly.com/inquirer/home_top ... d=53182717

Almost a 50/50 split...

rc26 · Post by **rc26** » Mon Sep 28, 2009 6:05 am

It's official, the NFL team whom I've been a fan of for almost 4 decades is now the worst franchise in the league.

Thanks Mr. Snyder....we Washington fans are very appreciative of your efforts in accomplishing this goal.