Topic: WE LIKE SPORTS (Read 576331 times)

LeeC · « **Reply #700 on:** 07 Feb 2010, 19:13 »

great game, and happy for the saints!

BeoPuppy · « **Reply #701 on:** 07 Feb 2010, 19:41 »

Great game, the right team won and Manning did not.

Happy!

David_Dovey · « **Reply #702 on:** 07 Feb 2010, 20:56 »

Yeah really happy about the Saints, That Drew Brees seems like a really nice guy as well. His press conference made me happy (until he started up the god talk).

Also pretty blown away that a) Peyton Manning did a Favre in the most improtant part of the game, considering he's ice-cold most of the time b) he managed to get showered an into a suit between leaving the field and his press conference. If I'd just been responsible for my team fucking up the Superbowl I'd wanna sit in the locker room and wallow for a while.

Also, was the audio and visual of The Who's set, like, unbelievably out-of-sync for anyone else? Like, 5 seconds out of sync or something? I ended up leaving the room because it was too shitty to watch.

negative creep · « **Reply #703 on:** 07 Feb 2010, 21:03 »

Yeah, we got that out-of-sync-thing here too, that sucked.

scarred · « **Reply #704 on:** 07 Feb 2010, 21:23 »

Man that was a fun game. I called my lady (who's in nola) after it was over and she was on her way to Bourbon Street and I could barely hear her over the din. Ridiculous.

David_Dovey · « **Reply #705 on:** 07 Feb 2010, 21:27 »

Oh yeah lil Brees was so cute

scarred · « **Reply #706 on:** 07 Feb 2010, 21:27 »

Also can this thread be sad Peyton Manning pictures from now on?

scarred · « **Reply #707 on:** 07 Feb 2010, 21:31 »

sean · « **Reply #708 on:** 07 Feb 2010, 21:43 »

you know i watched that and i dont have a goddamned idea of what actually happened inthat game.

i had drugs instead!

valley_parade · « **Reply #709 on:** 08 Feb 2010, 08:02 »

I hit one of the pools I was in at half-time and won $250.

Go go gadget Saints kicker!

scarred · « **Reply #710 on:** 08 Feb 2010, 09:27 »

scarred · « **Reply #711 on:** 08 Feb 2010, 13:50 »

Drew Brees is Mufasa

David_Dovey · « **Reply #712 on:** 09 Feb 2010, 02:53 »

Quote from: scarred on 08 Feb 2010, 13:50

Drew Brees is Mufasa

Drew Brees is on the right, Mufasa is the Indianapolis Colts

Jace · « **Reply #713 on:** 09 Feb 2010, 07:02 »

<3 you so much Dovey

Patrick · « **Reply #714 on:** 14 Feb 2010, 05:22 »

So uh now that the Super Bowl is over, sports do still exist, right? I heard there's this thing people are doing right now called the Olympics I guess it's a biggish thing

Sucks about that dude from the Republic of Georgia who got killed in luge practice. Apparently he left the track at 88 miles an hour and slammed his head into a steel beam. What a shitty thing, all hoping to maybe win recognition for an accomplishment that you and your country can be proud of, and instead you get a faceful of cold, hard steel.

Insensitive quips aside, it really does suck. Winter Olympics are more badass than summer Olympics 'cause they are more deadly in my opinion.

Jace · « **Reply #715 on:** 14 Feb 2010, 07:41 »

The only important sport for the Winter Olympics is hockey.
What the fuck is curling. That is bullshit compared to hockey.

Barmymoo · « **Reply #716 on:** 14 Feb 2010, 08:54 »

Curling is what the Scots do because they have no other entertainment. What kind of sport involves brooms and a bedpan?

the_pied_piper · « **Reply #717 on:** 14 Feb 2010, 10:31 »

Man, I am not sure what to make of Olympic Ice Hockey. I watched the Canadian women's team beat Slovakia 18-0 last night. That is just not Olympic standard by any means.

KaosPilot · « **Reply #718 on:** 14 Feb 2010, 12:52 »

Good weekend for Rangers! Celtic held to a 4 all draw by Aberdeen and today we beat Hibs 3-0 whilst playing the most attractive football I've seen us play in a while. Good stuff. Keeps us 10 points clear!

scarred · « **Reply #719 on:** 14 Feb 2010, 13:29 »

Quote from: Jace on 14 Feb 2010, 07:41

Curling makes me horny

I feel you, bud.

Liz · « **Reply #720 on:** 14 Feb 2010, 13:47 »

Quote from: Jace on 14 Feb 2010, 07:41

The only important sport for the Winter Olympics is hockey.
What the fuck is curling. That is bullshit compared to hockey.

Dude. Biathlon. They ski around and then they fire rifles before they ski some more. Totally friggin' badass.

pilsner · « **Reply #721 on:** 14 Feb 2010, 13:57 »

That's what Finnish people call "Saturday. And alternate Sundays." And they don't even get medals for doing it. Best case scenario, they get herring.

Patrick · « **Reply #722 on:** 14 Feb 2010, 15:05 »

Quote from: KaosPilot on 14 Feb 2010, 12:52

Good weekend for Rangers! Celtic held to a 4 all draw by Aberdeen

Yeah but it wasn't a defeat for Celtic. Wait for it, we'll stomp you yet

David_Dovey · « **Reply #723 on:** 15 Feb 2010, 04:04 »

What the fuck there is Olympic women's hockey

Barmymoo · « **Reply #724 on:** 15 Feb 2010, 04:50 »

WHY IS THIS A SURPRISE WOMEN'S HOCKEY IS A SPORT IT IS THE BEST SPORT.

Slovakia got creamed, but they were up against Canada. It was hardly a fair match.

BeoPuppy · « **Reply #725 on:** 15 Feb 2010, 05:13 »

Quote from: Barmymoo on 14 Feb 2010, 08:54

Curling is what the Scots do because they have no other entertainment. [...]

You do know where scotch whiskey comes from, right?

Barmymoo · « **Reply #726 on:** 15 Feb 2010, 05:18 »

Right. They drink themselves into a stupor to forget the drudgery of their existence.

David_Dovey · « **Reply #727 on:** 15 Feb 2010, 05:34 »

I mean I knew ladies played hockey thanks to you May I just did not realise it was in the Olympics

Barmymoo · « **Reply #728 on:** 15 Feb 2010, 06:53 »

I didn't really have any awareness of the Winter Olympics until I started playing hockey so fair enough.

Alex C · « **Reply #729 on:** 15 Feb 2010, 10:01 »

Women's ice hockey kinda bums me out though due to the lack of body checking. My hockey instincts are always say that the quickest way to the puck is through violence. Of course, that turned kinda problematic for me when I topped out at 5'8" and had few other appreciable skills, but I still find the no checking thing puzzling.

Barmymoo · « **Reply #730 on:** 15 Feb 2010, 10:31 »

There's no checking, but there's certainly a level of violence. I spent the whole of my last shift on Friday face down on the ice - every time I got up someone slammed me again. Maybe I'm a bit biased but I prefer watching women's ice hockey since there seems to be more skill involved. The men's teams tend to be better but women have to be more tactical.

the_pied_piper · « **Reply #731 on:** 15 Feb 2010, 12:30 »

As much as I complained about the Canada 18 - 0 Slovakia drubbing and I will proceed to complain about the USA 12 - 1 China mauling there was some good to come out of it, namely this stunning goal (may be UK only video). However, the commentator claims it will not happen in the men's games which I doubt. Unless he means that there will be better goals just not that move which would make sense because there are amazing goals pretty much every night in the NHL anyway.

In terms of tactics for hits I understand where May is coming from because there is a lot of jostling and pushing even though there is no checking but I'm not so sure about tactics in general as the attack and defense setups seem quite uncoordinated in the women's games that I have watched so far.

David_Dovey · « **Reply #732 on:** 15 Feb 2010, 22:40 »

Quote from: Barmymoo on 15 Feb 2010, 10:31

Thog: Here stadium, where our women basketball teams play.

Kug: We no can dunk, but good fundamentals.

Ornik: That more fun to watch.

Yayniall · « **Reply #733 on:** 16 Feb 2010, 13:50 »

Bloody City.
I should be happy that we've gone 4th but they had to do it in a gawd awful way.
=/

scarred · « **Reply #734 on:** 17 Feb 2010, 01:42 »

USA vs. Norway men's curling is so intense right now oh god they're in an 11th end and each country only has two rocks left augh

scarred · « **Reply #735 on:** 17 Feb 2010, 01:51 »

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

McTaggart · « **Reply #736 on:** 17 Feb 2010, 02:45 »

It'd sure be nice if we had coverage of the games.

Yes, I know that technically channel 9 is covering it but god damn is this the worst coverage I've ever seen. Three hours of highlights in the morning and then those same highlights again in the late evening. I wish SBS still got to show what the commercial network that picked up the rights doesn't.

Spluff · « **Reply #737 on:** 17 Feb 2010, 03:10 »

To be fair, showing the Olympic Winter Games in Australia is basically ratings suicide.

David_Dovey · « **Reply #738 on:** 17 Feb 2010, 04:49 »

Quote from: scarred on 17 Feb 2010, 01:42

USA vs. Norway men's curling is so intense right now oh god they're in an 11th end and each country only has two rocks left augh

How awesome was that last throw from the Canadian dude?

(I have access to the Foxtel coverage which is 24hrs a day accross like 3 or 4 channels. Hooray for Canadian girlfriend)

blanktom · « **Reply #739 on:** 17 Feb 2010, 05:11 »

I really really enjoyed the mens snowboard cross, we watched the entire thing from the heats right into the final and wow, that thing got exciting. I don't like the womens so much though, cos the men raced 4 at a time so there was chance of collision and it was more like a race, but the womens is all time trial bullshit.

Over in the UK the BBC have pretty much round the clock coverage of several different events at once through the interactive service. Its pretty neat and makes me not mind paying the ridiculous license fee so much.

look out! Ninjas! · « **Reply #740 on:** 17 Feb 2010, 05:12 »

But dude how can you qualify first and then crash out? Fuck you sports.

blanktom · « **Reply #741 on:** 17 Feb 2010, 05:47 »

Ok never mind so it turns out the women do race in the final stages. And these final stages happened to be more awesome than the mens! Wooo the British woman got 8th cos she hurt her foot but its always nice to see the host side win stuff and Canada pretty much took this event by storm.

Barmymoo · « **Reply #742 on:** 17 Feb 2010, 06:58 »

Quote from: blanktom on 17 Feb 2010, 05:11

Over in the UK the BBC have pretty much round the clock coverage of several different events at once through the interactive service. It's pretty neat and makes me not mind paying the ridiculous license fee so much.

I went over to my captain's boyfriend's flat last night to watch the ice hockey with some of the team on their enormous plasma screen TV (so much better than a laptop screen) and there was about ten minutes of hockey followed by four hours of women's luge. Why is that even a sport? I wanted to watch HD ice hockey

the_pied_piper · « **Reply #743 on:** 17 Feb 2010, 09:14 »

That is exactly my problem with the BBC's coverage. Ice Hockey is the only thing I care about at the Winter Olympics (the snowboard cross was pretty cool though) and they show very little of it. I haven't seen any of the men's games and other than the first couple of women's games I haven't seen any of those either.

valley_parade · « **Reply #744 on:** 17 Feb 2010, 10:54 »

Quote from: blanktom on 17 Feb 2010, 05:11

I really really enjoyed the mens snowboard cross

Can someone explain to me why the US snowboard cross team (both mens' and womens') WORE JEANS?

I would think jeans are not a very snowboard-friendly item of clothing.

scarred · « **Reply #745 on:** 17 Feb 2010, 13:21 »

Quote from: David_Dovey on 17 Feb 2010, 04:49

How awesome was that last throw from the Canadian dude?

(I have access to the Foxtel coverage which is 24hrs a day accross like 3 or 4 channels. Hooray for Canadian girlfriend)

I missed it, but I did hear the crowd effin' explode since they were all in the same arena. Team USA literally had to huddle up because they couldn't hear each other.

the_pied_piper · « **Reply #746 on:** 17 Feb 2010, 15:14 »

Quote from: valley_parade on 17 Feb 2010, 10:54

Can someone explain to me why the US snowboard cross team (both mens' and womens') WORE JEANS?

I would think jeans are not a very snowboard-friendly item of clothing.

They mentioned this on the BBC coverage. They're not actually jeans, just styled to look that way.

Inlander · « **Reply #747 on:** 17 Feb 2010, 15:21 »

Their official team uniform plaid jumpers are also styled to look that way.

scarred · « **Reply #748 on:** 17 Feb 2010, 15:24 »

John Shuster needs to stop being terrible at curling god dammit

Inlander · « **Reply #749 on:** 17 Feb 2010, 17:04 »

Fuck yes double luge.

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