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Inlander:
--- Quote from: Ptommydski on 21 Oct 2009, 17:34 ---The film was woeful. I implore people to skip it and read the book if they have a passing interest in football.
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I enjoyed the film, but I do find it amusing that it's going to potentially create quite a large new audience for the book, seeing as how emotionally the two are pretty much polar opposites. The thought of legions of cinema-goers marching into their local bookshops and picking up a copy of the Damned Utd. and taking it home and reading it at bed-time only to discover it's not so much a feel-good depiction of a bygone era as it is a highly modernist depiction of a man consumed by his own obsession and loathing tickles me no end.
Alex C:
--- Quote from: Alex C on 21 Oct 2009, 13:27 ---I don't really think the Vikings have a chance in hell against the Steelers if Winfield can't play.
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Hey, remember when I said that?
They say he won't be back until late November at the earliest. Unless the backup plays a fuckin' hell of a lot better than he did against Atlanta, the Vikings are pretty boned against competent teams, since corner is basically the one area with no depth that I'm aware of. I would have been happier with literally any other player getting injured just because we have a lot of depth on the team everywhere but in the defensive backfield. Favre getting hurt? Would suck, and Packers fans would say "I TOLD YOU!" (Which, is patently ridiculous, since Brett Favre's corpse is a better football player than Tarvaris Jackson looked like last year), but I think we could limp through some games that way with Rosenfels or maybe even a slightly improved Jackson. Adrian Peterson? Love the guy, but he's overrated and Chester Taylor is pretty good and actually more versatile. We'd be fine. Jared Allen, Ray Edwards or one of the Williamses? We have tons of depth there, so I wouldn't be worried. Even our backup tackles are good. Best line rotation in the league, if not the best individual linemen. Losing another offensive linemen would hurt, but it'd be no worse than Green Bay's situation. Linebackers? Already went a year without E.J. and we lived. But Winfield? Once he left the field Atlanta quickly responded by passing for roughly 8,000 yards in the second half. His ankle is the turd in my 6 and 0 team's punch bowl.
Bastardous Bassist:
You know who's team is definitely not going to lose today? Mine. The Redskins will, in fact, avoid tacking on losses at least two Sundays in a row.
We're totally fucking boned tomorrow, though. We play our second competent team of the season, and the first team we'll encounter that has wins on their record before we play them. Good luck everyone else today. If you guys could just try to send a little bit of luck in the direction of DC tomorrow, that would be great. Who doesn't want Philly to lose?
valley_parade:
Pats are starting to run away with it again..
Bastardous Bassist:
Did anyone expect them to have even a slightly hard time of it against Tampa Bay?
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