BS: NFL football is a stupid jerkwad sport

Subject: BS: NFL football is a stupid jerkwad sport
From: GUEST,josepp
Date: 21 Sep 11 - 12:11 PM

In case you care.

Subject: RE: BS: NFL football is a stupid jerkwad sport
From: Wesley S
Date: 21 Sep 11 - 12:39 PM

What a subtle way to troll. Good job. At least you weren't obvious.

Subject: RE: BS: NFL football is a stupid jerkwad sport
From: GUEST,highlandman at work
Date: 21 Sep 11 - 12:51 PM

"No it isn't."
"Yes it is."
"You're an ass."
"You're a cretin."
et cetera. Next thread.

Subject: RE: BS: NFL football is a stupid jerkwad sport
From: Bill D
Date: 21 Sep 11 - 12:57 PM

"NFL football is a stupid jerkwad sport"
...played by a bunch of very rich, stupid jerkwads...I guess 'rich' outweighs 'stupid' for many.

(Some famous coach was asked once what it took to succeed in coaching football. He replied,(paraphrased)"Well, you have to be smart enough to work out all the complex factors in planning plays and managing players....and dumb enough to think it's all worthwhile.")

Subject: RE: BS: NFL football is a stupid jerkwad sport
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 21 Sep 11 - 03:07 PM

How many people make a living out of pro football? Many, many hundreds of thousands, from the food stalls to the newspaper, TV and publicity people to the clothing makers (jersey-T-shirt etc.) to the construction workers who build the stadiums to the transportation companies etc. etc.

Now take the equally stupid pro soccer (football outside of N. Am.) "game" and add the even larger number of people who depend on it in one way or another for their livelihood and the answer is millions

Our guest Joe is one of our best trolls, starting many a pointless topic in an obnoxious manner.

Subject: RE: BS: NFL football is a stupid jerkwad sport
From: gnu
Date: 21 Sep 11 - 04:16 PM

Q ... he also runs away when he can't pay the piper. Yo... jo... ya gonna answer my last question on the Palin thread?

Didn't think so.

BTW... it takes a LOTTA brians ta play NFL football. FAR more tactical than any other sport.

Subject: RE: BS: NFL football is a stupid jerkwad sport
From: Bill D
Date: 21 Sep 11 - 05:02 PM

Oh... I see it really does!

Subject: RE: BS: NFL football is a stupid jerkwad sport
From: gnu
Date: 21 Sep 11 - 05:10 PM

Bill D... I get a buncha links at Google???

Subject: RE: BS: NFL football is a stupid jerkwad sport
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 21 Sep 11 - 06:04 PM

And all of the links are for Brian Westerbrook.

Now why did I look? I couldn't care less, as the saying goes.

Subject: RE: BS: NFL football is a stupid jerkwad sport
From: Bobert
Date: 21 Sep 11 - 07:02 PM

Yeah, jeoz, and we love it...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: NFL football is a stupid jerkwad sport
From: Rapparee
Date: 21 Sep 11 - 07:08 PM

Maybe not all of us. No bunch of scantily clad females cheered me on when I was working. I never got any product endorsement offers. And the Cubs haven't been in the Superbowel for a long time!

Subject: RE: BS: NFL football is a stupid jerkwad sport
From: kendall
Date: 21 Sep 11 - 07:55 PM

I've never been able to understand the attraction in any sport.

Subject: RE: BS: NFL football is a stupid jerkwad sport
From: John on the Sunset Coast
Date: 21 Sep 11 - 08:13 PM

It's not so much what the title of the thread says, but i just don't find it a compelling sport anymore. Perhaps it's because it's hard to know if there really is a person encased in those uniforms. All the padding makes them look three times as big (wide) as they really are. But mostly it's the headgear...helmets with multiple bars and a dark visor that looks like a space helmet, making it impossible to really see the player.

Watching basketball, baseball, football (soccer), and hockey(except for the goal keeper) allows one to actually see and recognize the participants. And except for baseball, these sports allow for pretty much continuous a.ction

Subject: RE: BS: NFL football is a stupid jerkwad sport
From: gnu
Date: 21 Sep 11 - 09:24 PM

It's all been said and done on various previous threads. But... again... If ya played and had fun ya live it vicariously by watching it on the TV in yer old age. If ya understand the sport it can be entertaining. If ya didn't and don't (any sport), well, whatever... but shittin on it just shows yer own misunderstanding and, well, intolerance in a way. I mean, why bother? Ya got nuthin better ta do?

Sorry if that seems harsh, but, really, why bother?

GO PATS!

Subject: RE: BS: NFL football is a stupid jerkwad sport
From: bobad
Date: 21 Sep 11 - 09:38 PM

I'm with you on that, gnu.

Subject: RE: BS: NFL football is a stupid jerkwad sport
From: Bill D
Date: 21 Sep 11 - 09:51 PM

I don't know what your browser sees, but mine sees:

Brian Duncan
Brian Xanders
Brian Dawkins
Brian Dabolle
Brian Rolle
Brian Orakpo
Brian Griese
Brian Waters
Brian Westbrook
Chicago Bears linebacker Brian Urlacher

and several relatives of them, plus sports writers named Brian

Subject: RE: BS: NFL football is a stupid jerkwad sport
From: michaelr
Date: 21 Sep 11 - 09:51 PM

The way for men to play the game is called Rugby - none of that sissy helmets and pads shit...

Subject: RE: BS: NFL football is a stupid jerkwad sport
From: Bill D
Date: 21 Sep 11 - 10:00 PM

In Rugby, they ALL run up & down the field. The NFL gives 325lb. failed Sumo wrestlers a job opportunity.

Subject: RE: BS: NFL football is a stupid jerkwad sport
From: Rapparee
Date: 21 Sep 11 - 10:10 PM

Fencing. Fencing without those sissy masks and jackets, fencing with sharp sabers and pointed epees and foils. None of this electronic scoring -- it isn't needed.

Subject: RE: BS: NFL football is a stupid jerkwad sport
From: Amergin
Date: 21 Sep 11 - 10:27 PM

I am deeply offended and enraged that a scum bag like Michael Vick still has a career after the abuse, and horrors he inflicted upon defenseless animals. It is rewarding him, saying don't do that you jerk, on the one hand and then telling him don't do it again, mikey, you naughty boy, on the other, and then sending him back to the playground.

Subject: RE: BS: NFL football is a stupid jerkwad sport
From: GUEST,999
Date: 21 Sep 11 - 11:05 PM

There is more thought in that opening post than I have ever read from this particular thread starter. You have hit a new high and quite outdone yourself, Josepp.

Notice the alliteration in the stark yet poignant soundbite-sentence: In case you care. To some, the period missing in the thread title may be perceived as an error, but people who see more deeply will recognize it as a poetic 'come hither'.

There is little else to say except BRAVO, Josepp, BRAVO, for we who are about to puke salute you.

Subject: RE: BS: NFL football is a stupid jerkwad sport
From: Neil D
Date: 21 Sep 11 - 11:33 PM

The way for men to play the game is called Rugby - none of that sissy helmets and pads shit...


I don't wish to argue the relative merits of the two sports but this business about pads and helmets making American football sissified is a myth. The pads and helmets actually serve as offensive weapons. You can lay a lot deadlier hit on someone without damaging your shoulder if its cushioned and covered in hard plastic.

Subject: RE: BS: NFL football is a stupid jerkwad sport
From: GUEST,josepp
Date: 21 Sep 11 - 11:54 PM

I don't know why I picked the NFL--it's really football at any level. It's a sport for rednecks and ghetto-hoppers. It's a game where poor sportsmanship is rewarded as long as it's as ostentatious as it is pointless. It's a game where it's really about the audience and hence all the face paint, cheesehead hats, tailgate parties, shirtlessness in freezing weather, etc. The players are just tokens put on the field to reflect the fan mentality. It's game where winning has no importance outside of rubbing it in as mean and nasty as you can to the losing side but with classless pop culture cleverness. "You mad, bro?"   

This game should be outlawed just for being stupid.

Subject: RE: BS: NFL football is a stupid jerkwad sport
From: kendall
Date: 22 Sep 11 - 07:42 AM

Gnu, I understand what they are trying to do, it's just not worth doing, to me.

Subject: RE: BS: NFL football is a stupid jerkwad sport
From: Rapparee
Date: 22 Sep 11 - 10:25 AM

I want the Cubs in the Super Bowel this year.

Subject: RE: BS: NFL football is a stupid jerkwad sport
From: GUEST,olddude
Date: 22 Sep 11 - 11:58 AM

greatest sport even invented .. no wimps allowed in football.

Subject: RE: BS: NFL football is a stupid jerkwad sport
From: gnu
Date: 22 Sep 11 - 01:02 PM

Kendall... I understand. I know not everyone enjoys sports or watching them. My point is some people do enjoy watching sports they have never participated in. I thoroughly enjoy watching women's olympic diving but I have never had the slightest desire to compete.

Dan... I am including the Steelers to lose by more than 3 at 7.25 in my 6 picks this week.

Hmmm... Dan is armed idintee? Maybe I'll go for the Steelers at 1.25.

Subject: RE: BS: NFL football is a stupid jerkwad sport
From: frogprince
Date: 22 Sep 11 - 01:12 PM

BRING BACK GUNFIGHTING!!

Did you ever see a disputed decision in a gunfight?

Did you ever see some pitiful has-been, trying to hang in there for one more season?

Did you ever see some poor old gunfighter suffering through his middle years with a crippled body and brain damage?

Subject: RE: BS: NFL football is a stupid jerkwad sport
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 22 Sep 11 - 01:17 PM

I care nothing about spectator sports, but I don't begrudge those who like them.

Subject: RE: BS: NFL football is a stupid jerkwad sport
From: gnu
Date: 22 Sep 11 - 02:32 PM

froggy... hehehehee

Subject: RE: BS: NFL football is a stupid jerkwad sport
From: gnu
Date: 22 Sep 11 - 02:34 PM

BTW. WHY is poker on the sports channels? Now, strip poker, depending on the contestants, of course...

Subject: RE: BS: NFL football is a stupid jerkwad sport
From: Rapparee
Date: 22 Sep 11 - 03:17 PM

Did you ever see some poor old gunfighter suffering through his middle years with a crippled body and brain damage?

Clay Allison, Elfuego Baca, Frank James, Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, Charlie Siringo, John Holliday, Jim Kelly, Tom Horn, Bill Tighlman, James Slade, James Hickock, Luke Short, Jim Courtwright, Ben Thompson and Pat Garrett were all middle-aged for their time. Granted, Allison wasn't all THAT old when he died....

Subject: RE: BS: NFL football is a stupid jerkwad sport
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 22 Sep 11 - 05:10 PM

Those lsted were not gunfighters (which was an invention of the motion pictures), but were law enforcement officers, or participated only in one or two affairs. No more deserving of the gunfighter appelation than Aaron Burr, who shot Hamilton in a duel.
Even Billy, the cowboy who killed two men following the Lincoln County War, was never a gunfighter, professional or otherwise.

Subject: RE: BS: NFL football is a stupid jerkwad sport
From: gnu
Date: 22 Sep 11 - 05:16 PM

Well, what about Dirty Harry?

Do ya feel lucky?

Subject: RE: BS: NFL football is a stupid jerkwad sport
From: Ron Davies
Date: 23 Sep 11 - 07:20 AM

They say US football combines the worst of US culture:   senseless violence punctuated by committee meetings.

Subject: RE: BS: NFL football is a stupid jerkwad sport
From: Ed T
Date: 23 Sep 11 - 07:30 AM

Football-my brain hurts when I think of it.

Subject: RE: BS: NFL football is a stupid jerkwad sport
From: Rapparee
Date: 23 Sep 11 - 08:58 AM

No, technically they were shootists or shooters. And folks like Clay Allison were not particularily good people. You should check them out. The absence of Henry "Billy the Kid" McCarty is deliberate; he wasn't exactly middle-aged when Garrett (who was shot dead while mictruating) shot him.

Subject: RE: BS: NFL football is a stupid jerkwad sport
From: olddude
Date: 23 Sep 11 - 11:22 AM

Ron
of course it does that is why it is such a great sport :-)

Subject: RE: BS: NFL football is a stupid jerkwad sport
From: olddude
Date: 23 Sep 11 - 11:27 AM

Hey Gnu
I was watching "sons of guns" you know the red jacket gun smiths on TV. Anyway they are friend with the kicker for the NO Saints. They had a bet, the saints kicker would practice field goal kicking and the one guy had to blow up the football with a shotgun before it went through the goal post. The kicker won ..

Now that is a sport, football with guns LOL
OMG

Subject: RE: BS: NFL football is a stupid jerkwad sport
From: Little Hawk
Date: 23 Sep 11 - 02:45 PM

Okay. But how about polo, curling, hockey, and rugby? Hmmm?

Subject: RE: BS: NFL football is a stupid jerkwad sport
From: gnu
Date: 23 Sep 11 - 02:58 PM

Polo is tops. It takes tremendous skill and a fine steed. Indeed, it is a finely tuned and magical partnership between man and beast.

Chuck on gnu's pudder (I try to visit the colonies and find out what the commoners are concerned with by and by).

Subject: RE: BS: NFL football is a stupid jerkwad sport
From: Little Hawk
Date: 23 Sep 11 - 06:25 PM

Penelope Rutledge would agree with that, Chuck. Polo is indeed a patrician and magnificently classy sport that embodies all the noble virtues and skills which are inherent in establishing and maintaining an imperial order based upon industry, enlightenment, law, and good taste.

Football, in comparison, is a tawdry and tasteless spectacle.

Subject: RE: BS: NFL football is a stupid jerkwad sport
From: gnu
Date: 23 Sep 11 - 06:48 PM

I wouldn't know LH. Mummy never allowed us to play or even watch so I assume you are correct in your statement.

Chuck again on g's pudder

PS... g served spaghetti with lean ground beef, canned tomatoes, many fresh veggies, fresh frozen fried "shrooms", and canned Catelli sauce. AND, BUDWEISER! NO SHIT! I shall summon the chopper to pick me up forthwith and may have them fire a salvo on his house as we depart for the airport. The nerve! But, he tells some pretty good jokes and stories. Maybe I'll let him keep his head. We'll see.

Subject: RE: BS: NFL football is a stupid jerkwad sport
From: Fossil
Date: 23 Sep 11 - 08:59 PM

Oh, help! I find myself, first off, agreeing. With Josepp! Slap my wrist someone, pull me out of it.

Only about NFL, mind.

Doesn't include the magnificent sporting spectacle that is Rugby Union Football, a game played by real men, a game whose finer points and chivalrous conduct are appreciated only by gentlemen and ladies of high degree.

But still a worrying trend, agreeing even once with him.

Subject: RE: BS: NFL football is a stupid jerkwad sport
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 23 Sep 11 - 09:53 PM

Posting a personal opinion, with no added content, is a stupid jerkwad sport

Subject: RE: BS: NFL football is a stupid jerkwad sport
From: Bill D
Date: 23 Sep 11 - 09:55 PM

LOLOLOL! Amen, Dick!

Subject: RE: BS: NFL football is a stupid jerkwad sport
From: Van
Date: 23 Sep 11 - 10:51 PM

What sport does josepp like? I enjoy rugby and cycling; might look at some others. Enjoy what you enjoy and let others do the same. Perhaps he just plays alone - with himself.

Subject: RE: BS: NFL football is a stupid jerkwad sport
From: Bill D
Date: 23 Sep 11 - 10:53 PM

Golf....using tiddly-winks, perhaps. Just YOU against the elements!

Subject: RE: BS: NFL football is a stupid jerkwad sport
From: Gurney
Date: 24 Sep 11 - 02:57 AM

Jerk. Wad. I understand the 'street' meaning of these words, so does jerkwad mean masturbating to orgasm?
Never used on my patch.

Subject: RE: BS: NFL football is a stupid jerkwad sport
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 24 Sep 11 - 04:41 AM

what's a jerkwad?