WHERE THE HELL IS THE FOOTBALL THREAD?

[AFK]

4th? 

Nevermind. 

[Suu]

4th? 

Nevermind. 

 

[Eater of Clowns]

4th? 

Nevermind. 

Y'all are ridiculous haters.  If I'm reading this correctly, literally every team has a chance to win the Super Bowl, probably even the ones not in the post-season, except the Patriots.

Listen, I get that it became cool to hate the Pats a few years ago for the 18-1 season, but this team's only resemblance to that formula is Brady and Belichick, and the way the ball is moved down the field by the former bears little resemblance to the Brady to Moss bombs that littered that season.

Their defense is young as hell, started the season off shaky, and has turned around to become at the very least competent and at the most formidable.  There's a bevy of players that were drafted, the response to which was "for real?" that have turned out to be very, very good picks.

FFFFF-UUUUUUUU

[Suu]

Nope. I've hated the Patriots since I moved here and got to interact with their adoring fans first hand. 

[Adios]

4th? 

Nevermind. 

Y'all are ridiculous haters.  If I'm reading this correctly, literally every team has a chance to win the Super Bowl, probably even the ones not in the post-season, except the Patriots.

Listen, I get that it became cool to hate the Pats a few years ago for the 18-1 season, but this team's only resemblance to that formula is Brady and Belichick, and the way the ball is moved down the field by the former bears little resemblance to the Brady to Moss bombs that littered that season.

Their defense is young as hell, started the season off shaky, and has turned around to become at the very least competent and at the most formidable.  There's a bevy of players that were drafted, the response to which was "for real?" that have turned out to be very, very good picks.

FFFFF-UUUUUUUU

I haven't liked the Pats even before Steve Grogan was the QB.

[Suu]

Addendum: I hated them even BEFORE I almost got thrown out of Foxboro for a fight that I didn't start.

[AFK]

Heh, I suffered through those dreadful seasons when the lost almost every game. 

[Suu]

Heh, I suffered through those dreadful seasons when the lost almost every game. 

Was everyone up here a Cowboy fan then?

Because everyone in Tampa was a Cowboy fan when the Bucs sucked.

-Suu
Somewhere in the deepest, darkest corner of the deepest darkest plastic tub in storage is an orange Testaverde jersey folded lovingly next to an orange Hardy Nickerson one.

[AFK]

Cowboys or Giants.  I always found it odd that the local news would recap the Giants games.  I guess it was because they were the next closest team and weren't awful like the Pats.  I mean, why not cover the Argonauts too? 

[LMNO]

Ah, tribalism at it's finest.  It's the name that counts, not the players.

[Suu]

Cowboys or Giants.  I always found it odd that the local news would recap the Giants games.  I guess it was because they were the next closest team and weren't awful like the Pats.  I mean, why not cover the Argonauts too? 

They didn't want to cover Buffalo.


The Bucs sucked when Miami had Dan Marino and before Jacksonville existed. However, because Tampa Bay fans, or at least, sports journalists are ruthless and still are to this day, their suckiness was broadcasted regularly. There was no baseball, the Lightning played at Expo Hall and sucked (BEFORE they decided to put them in the Thunderdome/Tropicana Field, which what was at the time called the Suncoast Dome and sat there empty), and the only team that was winning were the Storm. And nobody cares about Arena Football.

If anyone knows about bleak sport seasons...Anyone from Tampa certainly does.

[East Coast Hustle]

Football ruint for teh boyz. 


Also, I just found this. Damn. If we knew what we know now back then...

Not at all.  I just can't find Peyton attractive in any sense whatsoever.

That's okay, my sister thinks Eli looks like he has Down's Syndrome.

I'd say your sister is very astute, and I agree 100%. He also looks like he shouldn't be paid to throw footballs to people wearing the same-colored jersey as him.

[East Coast Hustle]

Cowboys or Giants.  I always found it odd that the local news would recap the Giants games.  I guess it was because they were the next closest team and weren't awful like the Pats.  I mean, why not cover the Argonauts too? 

They didn't want to cover Buffalo.


The Bucs sucked when Miami had Dan Marino and before Jacksonville existed. However, because Tampa Bay fans, or at least, sports journalists are ruthless and still are to this day, their suckiness was broadcasted regularly. There was no baseball, the Lightning played at Expo Hall and sucked (BEFORE they decided to put them in the Thunderdome/Tropicana Field, which what was at the time called the Suncoast Dome and sat there empty), and the only team that was winning were the Storm. And nobody cares about Arena Football.

If anyone knows about bleak sport seasons...Anyone from Tampa certainly does.

Seattle Fan thinks you probably don't want to get into a dick-measuring contest about sports misery and bleakness.

Seattle Fan wishes this were not the case, of course, but Seattle Fan assures you that no other cities' fans even come close except for maybe Cleveland.

[Suu]

Cowboys or Giants.  I always found it odd that the local news would recap the Giants games.  I guess it was because they were the next closest team and weren't awful like the Pats.  I mean, why not cover the Argonauts too? 

They didn't want to cover Buffalo.


The Bucs sucked when Miami had Dan Marino and before Jacksonville existed. However, because Tampa Bay fans, or at least, sports journalists are ruthless and still are to this day, their suckiness was broadcasted regularly. There was no baseball, the Lightning played at Expo Hall and sucked (BEFORE they decided to put them in the Thunderdome/Tropicana Field, which what was at the time called the Suncoast Dome and sat there empty), and the only team that was winning were the Storm. And nobody cares about Arena Football.

If anyone knows about bleak sport seasons...Anyone from Tampa certainly does.

Seattle Fan thinks you probably don't want to get into a dick-measuring contest about sports misery and bleakness.

Seattle Fan wishes this were not the case, of course, but Seattle Fan assures you that no other cities' fans even come close except for maybe Cleveland.

Oh bullshit, I can out misery-throwdown you ANY DAY.



....Okay. Cleveland wins. Nevermind. Nothing like having your sports team ripped away and given to Baltimore, and then given back to you out of sheer pity for your fans. This also happened when Vinny Testaverde was QB. You'll notice a lot of misery following that color-blind guido around.

[East Coast Hustle]

Devil Rays have been around for about 6 months and already went to a World Series.

Mariners have NEVER been to a World Series, even in the year they set the AL record for most wins in a season. They had Griffey Jr., Edgar Martinez, Randy Johnson and A-Roid in their primes and never did anything with it. Nevermind that they didn't even have a winning season until '93 and never made the postseason until '95. Hell, until Griffey became a big deal and "saved the franchise", Seattle was such a shit baseball town that at one point it was a dead certainty that the Mariners were going to leave town for some backwater swamphole called "St. Petersburg", wherever THAT is.

Bucs have won a Super Bowl.

Seahawks. I really don't need to say anything more, do I?

Lightning have won a Stanley Cup.

Seattle has, oddly enough, won a Stanley Cup. They were, in fact, the first American team to do so. But that team no longer exists and we don't even have an NHL franchise now. We have a minor league team (the Thunderbirds) who don't even play in the city they call home (they play in an arena in Kent) and who play in the same league with such lofty-sounding locales as Moose Jaw and Medicine Hat.

Tampa has never had an NBA franchise. They certainly never had an NBA franchise which was the only professional sports team in that city to ever actually win a championship and was one day sold to the NBA commissioner's best friend from elementary school and moved to godforfuckingsaken Oklahoma Fucking City, the year after they drafted the best young player in the NBA.