Topic: WE LIKE SPORTS (Read 577948 times)

the_pied_piper · « **Reply #1000 on:** 07 Aug 2010, 10:44 »

Hey, at least we bring our own players through rather than buying them all at extortionate rates and claiming that we raise them as our own.

valley_parade · « **Reply #1001 on:** 07 Aug 2010, 11:05 »

Joe Cole much?

Yayniall · « **Reply #1002 on:** 07 Aug 2010, 20:16 »

Joe Cole on a free transfer or Anderson for £18 million?

valley_parade · « **Reply #1003 on:** 10 Aug 2010, 09:52 »

United should just not ever sign South Americans. Forlan wasn't that great, Veron didn't pan out, and um...yeah. Anderson.

the_pied_piper · « **Reply #1004 on:** 10 Aug 2010, 10:15 »

Don't forget Kleberson.

amok · « **Reply #1005 on:** 10 Aug 2010, 10:18 »

woo, time for another year of no good goalkeeper and van persie injury news

I think I prefer the transfer window

scarred · « **Reply #1006 on:** 10 Aug 2010, 10:23 »

First Bears ~~game~~ loss of the preseason on Saturday!

valley_parade · « **Reply #1007 on:** 10 Aug 2010, 10:34 »

Quote from: the_pied_piper on 10 Aug 2010, 10:15

Don't forget Kleberson.

I'd purged my memory of him you asshole.

BeoPuppy · « **Reply #1008 on:** 11 Aug 2010, 07:35 »

Quote from: scarred on 10 Aug 2010, 10:23

First Bears ~~game~~ loss of the preseason on Saturday!

From your lips to god's ears.

scarred · « **Reply #1009 on:** 11 Aug 2010, 12:16 »

I can't wait for our entire coaching staff to be axed this postseason.

BeoPuppy · « **Reply #1010 on:** 13 Aug 2010, 02:18 »

I believe that the a replacement coach has already been found.

scarred · « **Reply #1011 on:** 13 Aug 2010, 10:47 »

are you talking about urlacher or the duck? because urlacher's nearing the end of his run but I think he'd make a great LB coach and maybe even Defensive Coordinator someday.

BeoPuppy · « **Reply #1012 on:** 13 Aug 2010, 10:49 »

... the duck, obviously.

But I guess your Urlacher point is valid too.

scarred · « **Reply #1013 on:** 13 Aug 2010, 10:50 »

He can't be as bad as Norv Turner.

scarred · « **Reply #1014 on:** 13 Aug 2010, 10:51 »

BeoPuppy · « **Reply #1015 on:** 13 Aug 2010, 10:56 »

Painful ...

Alex C · « **Reply #1016 on:** 13 Aug 2010, 14:42 »

Even worse.

I know he's a Jet now, but still.

scarred · « **Reply #1017 on:** 14 Aug 2010, 21:11 »

Only down 14-10 at half (the only part of preseason games that matter) and Cutler was only on the field for one drive... ugggggh still wish I could've watched it.

Inlander · « **Reply #1018 on:** 16 Aug 2010, 20:39 »

Quote from: Ptommydski on 07 Aug 2010, 03:33

Ah, thank fuck. New football season at last.

Man there are, like, only three months between seasons. That's nowhere near long enough to start getting sport withdrawals.

valley_parade · « **Reply #1019 on:** 17 Aug 2010, 10:11 »

Ryan. Goddamned. Giggs. Woo!

amok · « **Reply #1020 on:** 17 Aug 2010, 13:33 »

Giggs was awesome before some of our players were even born. Ridiculous.

BeoPuppy · « **Reply #1021 on:** 19 Aug 2010, 13:40 »

So ... Mr. Alex C. .... excited?

Alex C · « **Reply #1022 on:** 19 Aug 2010, 14:18 »

A li'l bit, yeah. As long as the Vikings have a talented team it should be fun to watch. Still, I always thought the Packers were going to be pretty damn good last year and other than their offensive line, they were. I even felt kinda dirty since Aaron Rodgers, Greg Jennings and Donald Driver were starters on my fantasy team for most of the year. I don't see much reason why they should be worse this year, so it's not like I think the Vikings are an automatic lock for a high seed again since splitting the series with Green Bay hits me as pretty plausible.

As far as the Favre saga goes, I'm not as annoyed by it as a lot of people are, but as a huge football nerd it kinda sucks since there's been pretty much no news out of the camps other than "We really hope he will be back."

scarred · « **Reply #1023 on:** 19 Aug 2010, 18:30 »

I just hope his ankle doesn't give out. The vikes have their bye real early, and that's before they fight the Packers twice, Dallas, New England, and NYG. Not to mention the fact that since GB's looking so strong, they'll be fighting tooth and nail to get out of a wild card spot. That's a lot of consecutive weeks on a flimsy ankle, so unless they can protect him really well (he was sacked 34 times last year) I'd be more than a little anxious.

If he does stay healthy though I'll be rooting for ya'll the entire way, if any fandom deserves a Super Bowl it's the vikes.

At the same time, this means the Bears are for sure in 3rd again, damn it. I would've liked to see a winning record at least, but 8-8 and the firing of Lovie Smith might have to do in terms of healthy optimism.

Alex C · « **Reply #1024 on:** 19 Aug 2010, 18:52 »

I'd feel a helluva lot more comfortable coming into the season if everyone was talking about how healthy the Vikings are but that's pretty much the opposite of what has happened. When Chad Clifton got healthy the Packers o-line went from shit terrible to sorta OK and they grabbed a guy who can play both guard and tackle in the draft. And the Vikings wouldn't have beat them twice last year if Jared Allen and Ray Edwards weren't basically stealing Aaron Rodger's lunch money. I guess we'll see.

Alex C · « **Reply #1025 on:** 19 Aug 2010, 18:55 »

On the bright, I did a li'l fist pump just now while typing "Ray Edwards." It's a ridiculous luxury having a guy like that as your least accomplished starting defensive linemen.

valley_parade · « **Reply #1026 on:** 22 Aug 2010, 09:57 »

Clearly, when you get a penalty, up 2-1, this is the mindset you should have:

"Well who should take it? Owen and Berbatov are both on the field."
"Yeah, good point. NANI, YOU TAKE IT!"

Fucking IDIOT.

scarred · « **Reply #1027 on:** 22 Aug 2010, 12:35 »

Cutler sacked five times against the Raiders. This is going to be a long season.

Alex C · « **Reply #1028 on:** 22 Aug 2010, 19:27 »

The Raiders defense is secretly pretty OK because of their linebackers and dbacks, but yeah, um, 5 sacks is bad.

Alex C · « **Reply #1029 on:** 24 Aug 2010, 13:27 »

Sometimes when I feel like being self-righteous I go read the ESPN comment sections on any decision a player makes that's remotely controversial. It kills me how pro-ownership and pro-team the average ESPN poster is and how li'l they give a shit about the rights of any individual that makes more money than they do. For example, Sidney Rice is going to be out due to some hip surgery many people believe he should have gotten months ago. So the scholars on the ESPN comment boards are talking about how he's a moron and that teams should be able to withhold pay from players for games missed if they choose not to get surgeries advised by team doctors within the time frame advised by team doctors. You know, because there is no conflict of interests there or anything with team doctors and they totally have the player's best long term interests at heart. Sidney's decision to go with a doctor his agent recommended wasn't a great idea either, but finding someone who doesn't have a stake in your performance one way or the other is kinda tough as an NFL player, so I'm not about to start casting stones.

Another fun wrinkle: I know a respected orthopedist from the Mayo clinic (he's a friend of my mom) who says that his entrenched private practice colleagues would rather not work with NFL players and teams at all. They have unrealistic expectations on both sides and your average practice wouldn't survive a ruling based on a top player's lost projected earnings, so it's really only a good idea to work with them if you can use the name recognition to attract more clients.

McTaggart · « **Reply #1030 on:** 28 Aug 2010, 08:12 »

What the fuck, South Africa?

McTaggart · « **Reply #1031 on:** 28 Aug 2010, 09:48 »

What hell where did that come from you magnificent bastards.

(We conceded two tries in the first seven minutes, but came back to win 44-31.)

Patrick · « **Reply #1032 on:** 28 Aug 2010, 19:05 »

Quote from: Alex C on 22 Aug 2010, 19:27

The Raiders lineup is secretly pretty OK because of their Janikowski, but yeah, um, everything that ever happened to them after Madden is bad.

ftfy

Alex C · « **Reply #1033 on:** 28 Aug 2010, 19:12 »

Nah, they've got a good corner and I expect a couple of their linebackers to find success someday. Just not with the Raiders.

johnny5 · « **Reply #1034 on:** 29 Aug 2010, 00:12 »

so the Cowboys really sucked. silver boot is staying in houston i guess

Alex C · « **Reply #1035 on:** 01 Sep 2010, 22:19 »

Stupid Vikings being stupid unhealthy.

Alex C · « **Reply #1036 on:** 01 Sep 2010, 22:55 »

You know, I'm pretty drunk right now, and it occurs to me that I think if I was offered Ndamgahagablablah Suh from the Lions over any two Bears players, I'd take Suh without a moment's hesitation. I mean, I hate to say this, but I count being willing to just crush a guy for no god damned reason while playing an exhibition game for the fuckin' Lions as a plus. Wrecking somebody's shit over a football is kind of a shitty thing to do but for a defensive lineman that's pretty much the job description.

scarred · « **Reply #1037 on:** 01 Sep 2010, 23:24 »

i see him getting ejected from the league after brutally decapitating brent favre

Inlander · « **Reply #1038 on:** 03 Sep 2010, 06:12 »

CANBERRA RAIDERS!

They're into the National Rugby League finals for the first time since 2008 and they're going in with some great momentum and confidence: they've won five games in a row and eight of their last nine. They're almost certainly going to be playing against the minor premiers the St. George-Illawarra Dragons next week in the opening week of the finals, and that might normally be a concerning prospect but in fact they've got an unbelievably good record against the Dragons (they've beaten them ten times out of the last eleven games against them, or something crazy like that, and they've beaten them both times the two teams have played this year). Five weeks ago the Raiders were faced with having to win every single one of their remaining games to get into the finals, which nobody really gave them a chance of doing, and the fact that they've now done it is an incredible achievement, especially given that consistency has so often been a problem for the team in recent years (and in the first part of this year). The most exciting thing about the team is that they've done this all with what's probably the youngest team in the competition: they've got so many young players who are still improving and who look set to be genuinely great players in years to come. The Raiders have always been a development team, finding and nurturing their own players, and after being the best team in the competition for a long time fifteen or twenty years ago it's been a long, lean period. The prospect of another "dynasty" just around the corner is so exciting! Even if they lose next week and get knocked out of this year's finals, the future's looking brighter than it's looked for a long time.

Also, they've got Josh Dugan at fullback and he's only twenty years old:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Jla5TzfYUE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vz5cbGAdqys

SonofZ3 · « **Reply #1039 on:** 03 Sep 2010, 07:23 »

Oh Steelers, I had such high hopes for you, until seeing your pre-season games. Now I get to fall back on my second favorite team, the Colts, and watch Manning have a phenomenal regular season and choke in the playoffs...AGAIN.

Yayniall · « **Reply #1040 on:** 03 Sep 2010, 11:07 »

You're changing bandwagons after pre-season matches?
Get out.
There is no place in the sports thread for your kind.

scarred · « **Reply #1041 on:** 03 Sep 2010, 11:15 »

woooo 0-4 wooooo

Inlander · « **Reply #1042 on:** 04 Sep 2010, 08:56 »

Holy shit, the Wallabies (the Australian national Rugby Union team) are counter-attacking! From deep! That's something that hasn't been seen in, ohh, 15 years or so.

est · « **Reply #1043 on:** 04 Sep 2010, 21:22 »

0 from 5 games.

Wooo Sydney FC, way to defend your Premiership+Championship double titles.

Alex C · « **Reply #1044 on:** 09 Sep 2010, 17:54 »

God, why am I even watching this Vikings-Saints game? Banged up team with no corners vs. the offensively minded NFL champions.

Spluff · « **Reply #1045 on:** 09 Sep 2010, 19:06 »

Quote from: Alex C on 09 Sep 2010, 17:54

God, why am I even watching this Vikings-Saints game? Banged up team with no corners vs. the offensively minded NFL champions.

hurp

Alex C · « **Reply #1046 on:** 09 Sep 2010, 20:27 »

They stopped throwing on the Vikes and somehow that only made things worse.

Spluff · « **Reply #1047 on:** 09 Sep 2010, 20:41 »

Honestly, I don't know why Minnesota stopped using Peterson in the second half. They had no genuine receiving options and yet they persisted in trying to get a passing game going when their strongest plays of the whole game had been through run.

The Saints have questions over their run defence, and the Vikings have the best running back in the league, it doesn't take a genius to put 2+2 together.

Alex C · « **Reply #1048 on:** 09 Sep 2010, 20:47 »

On the one hand, I'm tempted to say that you can't win against top teams in the NFL with just the run. Running Peterson ragged early in the season in a game that I don't really think was as close as the score indicated-- if the Saints had persisted in making it a shoot out, there's no way the Vikes would have kept up-- doesn't really make sense to me. On the other, I have never liked Childress so let's go with him being an idiot.

scarred · « **Reply #1049 on:** 09 Sep 2010, 21:11 »

It'd help if Favre had receivers. When the top receiver on your team is the tight end you need to fix something.

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