BS: NFL 2012 (US football)

Subject: RE: BS: NFL 2012 (US football)
From: J-boy
Date: 02 Nov 11 - 07:06 PM

Oops! Maybe that didn't work.

Subject: RE: BS: NFL 2012 (US football)
From: J-boy
Date: 02 Nov 11 - 07:05 PM

We Are Kickers

Subject: RE: BS: NFL 2012 (US football)
From: gnu
Date: 02 Nov 11 - 04:04 PM

Kick ball, get cheque.

Subject: RE: BS: NFL 2012 (US football)
From: Dave MacKenzie
Date: 02 Nov 11 - 02:13 PM

"While it is widely assumed that the word "football" (or "foot ball") references the action of the foot kicking a ball, there is a historical explanation, which is that football originally referred to a variety of games in medieval Europe, which were played on foot. These games were usually played by peasants, as opposed to the horse-riding sports often played by aristocrats. There is no conclusive evidence for either explanation, and the word football has always implied a variety of games played on foot, not just those that involved kicking a ball. In some cases, the word football has even been applied to games which have specifically outlawed kicking the ball."

Subject: RE: BS: NFL 2012 (US football)
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 02 Nov 11 - 02:12 PM

Is Tebow the worst QB in the NFL

Subject: RE: BS: NFL 2012 (US football)
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 02 Nov 11 - 01:45 PM

an thank his self-righteous fans for heat he's taking

Subject: RE: BS: NFL 2012 (US football)
From: gnu
Date: 01 Nov 11 - 07:13 PM

Yankees kick the ball. But they throw it and run it too. Why limit yourself to simply kicking it? So boring.

Nearly as boring as blue dot squash... a game for pussies.

Yes, that was nasty. But, I was forced to retaliate.

Subject: RE: BS: NFL 2012 (US football)
From: GUEST
Date: 01 Nov 11 - 06:07 PM

Have a look at real football where they KICK the bloody ball

Subject: RE: BS: NFL 2012 (US football)
From: gnu
Date: 31 Oct 11 - 03:59 PM

Thibeaux... Thibeau... Thebeau... Thibault... Thibeault... never heard of Tebow, although it is shorter to spell. So is Tbo.

Subject: RE: BS: NFL 2012 (US football)
From: Dave MacKenzie
Date: 31 Oct 11 - 02:54 PM

"The match ball is round and made of leather, filled with grass, horsehair or sheep's wool. It weighs 2.5 kg and is 85-90 cm long" - not quite granite, but not designed for kicking (or long downfield passes).

I didn't think the 'Boys were that good.

Subject: RE: BS: NFL 2012 (US football)
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 31 Oct 11 - 01:16 PM

People didn't want to kick them when they were made from granite?

Cowboys Sux

Subject: RE: BS: NFL 2012 (US football)
From: Dave MacKenzie
Date: 31 Oct 11 - 01:09 PM

What's up with Sunday Night Football? Two blow-outs in a row!

Incidentally, kicking the ball in football was almost unknown until the early 19th century when inflatable footballs began to be more easily available.

Subject: RE: BS: NFL 2012 (US football)
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 31 Oct 11 - 11:33 AM

Tebow

Subject: RE: BS: NFL 2012 (US football)
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 31 Oct 11 - 11:27 AM

Will Tibo start a game at QB AFTER this season?

Subject: RE: BS: NFL 2012 (US football)
From: gnu
Date: 30 Oct 11 - 07:36 PM

If ya don't throw it, it ain't US football. Google it. It ain't rocket science. Whassup? Ya don't got Google? Read up on the best team sport in the world.

Subject: RE: BS: NFL 2012 (US football)
From: GUEST
Date: 30 Oct 11 - 06:17 PM

I thought football is where you kick the ball not throw it

Subject: RE: BS: NFL 2012 (US football)
From: gnu
Date: 30 Oct 11 - 12:42 PM

I got $2 on Cam today.

What's the take on Suck for Luck? If I was a Colt's fan I'd be pissed.

Subject: RE: BS: NFL 2012 (US football)
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 30 Oct 11 - 12:18 PM

Still enjoying the Cam Newton show. Offense seems almost there. Now Carolina needs to Beef up the D!

Subject: RE: BS: NFL 2012 (US football)
From: Rapparee
Date: 12 Sep 11 - 08:09 PM

Yup, all the way. They're going all the way this year! No stopping them!

Subject: RE: BS: NFL 2012 (US football)
From: gnu
Date: 12 Sep 11 - 02:34 PM

Great performance.

Can't believe I posted to an old thread... oh well... football fever I guess.

Subject: RE: BS: NFL 2012 (US football)
From: GUEST,JTS
Date: 12 Sep 11 - 12:05 PM

Did ya see Cam Newton yesterday? Solid running and throwing. lots of poise. tied the rookie record for yards in a game, but still some room to improve. all with weak protection from the O-Line. Like I said, fun to watch!

Subject: RE: BS: NFL 2012 (US football)
From: Raptor
Date: 19 Aug 11 - 08:37 AM

The niners look bad with no good additions and some big key losses. We just signed Josh McCown what is that about?

Subject: RE: BS: NFL 2012 (US football)
From: gnu
Date: 18 Aug 11 - 07:36 PM

Yeah!!! But, I can't. Thanks for offerng. Someday, maybe. I wish.

Subject: RE: BS: NFL 2012 (US football)
From: olddude
Date: 18 Aug 11 - 06:43 PM

Hey Gnu, wanna go? Ya can meet the players?

Subject: RE: BS: NFL 2012 (US football)
From: olddude
Date: 18 Aug 11 - 06:22 PM

Sorry Gnu
playing Denver !! Yah

Subject: RE: BS: NFL 2012 (US football)
From: gnu
Date: 18 Aug 11 - 04:34 PM

Interesting to say the least, Dan.

Subject: RE: BS: NFL 2012 (US football)
From: PoppaGator
Date: 18 Aug 11 - 03:46 PM

Here's my very belated reply to Gnu's post of 28 July (about the Saints losing Reggie Bush to the Dolphins):

Coach Payton and the Saints would have been glad to keep Reggie at a reasonable salary for a part-time player. Miami offered him more, so good for him.

Not mentioned in the Miami newspaper article:

The Saints quickly acquired former San Diego free-agent Darren Sproles to play the role that Reggie had been performing: 3rd-down pass-catching back and kick returner. Sproles' numbers in every pertinent category have been markedly better than Bush's over the past few years, and his asking price was reasonable. (It might also be noted that the oft-injured Reggie missed almost exactly half of all regular-season and playoff games during his time in New Orleans, and the Saints had a better won-loss record without him than with him.)

The Sproles signing may not yet have happened when that Miami news article was written, but the Saints HAD already drafted and signed former Heisman winner Mark Ingram, who will be in the mix at RB along with Pierre Thomas and Chris Ivory. It's early yet, but he looks VERY good. Why wasn't he mentioned?

Saints should bounce back and go deep into the playoffs again, two years after winning the Super Bowl. They had 28 unresitricted free agents that they might have lost (more than any other team), but they managed to keep just about everyone they wanted to keep. The sole exception was center Jonathan Goodwin, and they immediately signed former Chicago Bear and future Hall-of-Famer Olin Kreutz (sp?) to play that position for a year or two (while youngster Matt Tennant out of Boston College is allowed to develop).

There will be many more "new" starters this year than last, but not because the team lost anyone they wanted; the new faces will be young guys coming into their own, and/or new free-agant signees considerably BIGGER than the guys they're replacing (especially on the defensive front).

The national media are saying nothing about the Saints. I'm tempted to say "Good!," but I doubt that my guys are going to sneak up and take any of their opponents unaware. The coaches around the league know who should be taken seriously, even if the media talking-heads don't...

Subject: RE: BS: NFL 2012 (US football)
From: gnu
Date: 17 Aug 11 - 07:58 PM

Have fun Dan! Who are they playin?

Subject: RE: BS: NFL 2012 (US football)
From: olddude
Date: 17 Aug 11 - 07:47 PM

I got 6 tickets to a Packers game courtesy of one of my coach friends .. Now that is gonna be fun ... Off to Lambeau Field this october Yah

Subject: RE: BS: NFL 2012 (US football)
From: olddude
Date: 17 Aug 11 - 07:44 PM

Bobster
They are sending me something fer your P-Vine
I will let ya know when I get it ..

Dan

Subject: RE: BS: NFL 2012 (US football)
From: gnu
Date: 18 Aug 11 - 02:29 PM

If you say so, I'll take yer word for it. I just watched the linked clip.

Subject: RE: BS: NFL 2012 (US football)
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 14 Aug 11 - 01:09 PM

I watched some clips of Newton, I think he throws better than Vick at that age. He runs and throws very well. Unlike Vick, he can scramble in either direction and throw well.

I think he's gonna be fun to watch.

Subject: RE: BS: NFL 2012 (US football)
From: gnu
Date: 14 Aug 11 - 12:38 PM

I'm with Bobert. The ones in the clip weren't pretty but they worked. If he throws low or wobbles the ball in good weather...? Maybe just jitters?

Subject: RE: BS: NFL 2012 (US football)
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 14 Aug 11 - 11:31 AM

Accurate enough to make a middling SEC team into the national champion. I like this tight end they got from the Bears as well.

Subject: RE: BS: NFL 2012 (US football)
From: Bobert
Date: 14 Aug 11 - 08:32 AM

Well, seein' as I now live outside of Charlotte all we get is Panthers news and so, yeah, I guess I'll make them my 2nd favorite team behind my beloved Washington Redskins... Had to buy a football package from Dreck-TV so I can see my Redskins but I can read all about them on line at WashingtonPost.com...

I did watch the Panthers preseason game and they looked very good on both sides of t6he ball... Newton throws hard but it remains to be seen just how accurate he will be... Clauson, at least at this point, is more accurate...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: NFL 2012 (US football)
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 14 Aug 11 - 01:51 AM

Cam has an arm.

Subject: RE: BS: NFL 2012 (US football)
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 14 Aug 11 - 01:49 AM

Are you creditworthy? Chipworthy?

Subject: RE: BS: NFL 2012 (US football)
From: gnu
Date: 13 Aug 11 - 08:59 PM

Of course, if I really get Jonesin fer some chips, there is a 3 ton (why a 3 ton I dunno) truck full of Lay's chips just across the street and buddy could hook me up with some Lightly Salted for a buck a bag at most. He said they were free any time I wanted but I know the chipmen... that's the way they get you hooked eh? Free bags of lightly salted... then it escaltes to a full blown DORITOS addiction and then... the gutter. I told him I wouldn't take any more for free... that I had to pay at least a buck a bag or I might become a hopeless addict.

Shit... I ain't got any change. Expect he'll extend me credit?

Subject: RE: BS: NFL 2012 (US football)
From: gnu
Date: 13 Aug 11 - 08:37 PM

But, I don't have any potato chips!

Subject: RE: BS: NFL 2012 (US football)
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 13 Aug 11 - 08:35 PM

So far the Panthers are going toe to toe with Giants with Claussen at QB. 7-7

Subject: RE: BS: NFL 2012 (US football)
From: PoppaGator
Date: 11 Aug 11 - 05:55 PM

49ers at Saints in about 24 hours (Friday evening). I'll be there ~ can't hardly wait!

Subject: RE: BS: NFL 2012 (US football)
From: gnu
Date: 11 Aug 11 - 04:42 PM

ARE YOU READY?!

Just a few hours. Pats and Jags on the TV here.

Subject: RE: BS: NFL 2012 (US football)
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 31 Jul 11 - 02:34 PM

Comics

Subject: RE: BS: NFL 2012 (US football)
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 29 Jul 11 - 07:14 PM

Check your PM please.

Subject: RE: BS: NFL 2012 (US football)
From: olddude
Date: 29 Jul 11 - 07:04 PM

Jack
when John Fox was the coach of the panthers he was on the board of directors with me and brady on the foundation for kids ... could have got you anything

don't know if I have contacts there now... I will try

Dan

Subject: RE: BS: NFL 2012 (US football)
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 29 Jul 11 - 02:13 PM

I think the Pats are looking very strong so far this year. The Packers too considering the number of non-superbowl quality players coming back from injury.

The Cowboys have a lot of talent. But the coaching is iffy and I haven't seen the heart of a champion in Romo, yet.

Will Vick have the year he had last year? That offense sure has the talent!

Steelers are strong, Jets are strong.

It is shaping up to be an interesting year.

How about the Eagles offensive talent against the Jets defense in the Superbowl? Naw.... too much green!

Subject: RE: BS: NFL 2012 (US football)
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 29 Jul 11 - 02:07 PM

Panthers have made some important signings. DeAngelo Williams and Newton in the backfield, Steve Smith signed. They should be a fun offence to watch!

(very kind of you!)

Subject: RE: BS: NFL 2012 (US football)
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 29 Jul 11 - 02:05 PM

From: olddude - PM
Date: 29 Jul 11 - 12:15 PM

Jack
you a pats fan?
if so I will get you something signed

Very king of you!
I used to be a Cowboy's fan, but this year its Panthers all the way!
I used to hate the Steelers (When they were kicking Staubach's butt) But now I like them. Pats against Steelers, I'm cheering Steelers all the way.

Subject: RE: BS: NFL 2012 (US football)
From: gnu
Date: 29 Jul 11 - 01:20 PM

INDIANAPOLIS - Colts coach Jim Caldwell does not expect Peyton Manning to practice at the start of training camp.

The coaches have not had a chance to see where Manning is more than two months after having neck surgery.

Caldwell says that Manning is "not ready right now" and that the team will "turn him loose" when he is ready to play. Manning also is trying to negotiate a new long-term contract, which should help Indy re-sign some of its own free agents.

The Colts report to training camp Sunday at Anderson University. Practice begins Monday.



And, John Mackey died.

Subject: RE: BS: NFL 2012 (US football)
From: olddude
Date: 29 Jul 11 - 12:15 PM

Jack
you a pats fan?
if so I will get you something signed

I am hoping my steelers make a show of it .. but this year .. dunno