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- 01/09/09
| Name: | troy nipple |
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| Member since: | January 24, 2006 |
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nothing like mentioning the irish to bring the haters out. i'm an NFL fan primarily, the only college i'll watch is Notre Dame. nice to know they'll have their own network for a few more years.
posted by tnip23 at 01:49 PM on June 19
wow, what a no-show game for the colts. I know it's not right, but I have nothing to root for except injuries in the AFC championship game featuring the two most classless teams in the NFL. I almost always root for the AFC in the SB, but this year it's Go NFC, hopefully Favre and the Pack.
posted by tnip23 at 07:36 PM on January 13
the league office who is ever more concerned with making the game a more gentile sport About time somebody kicked the Jews out of hockey. posted by The_Black_Hand at 11:54 AM CST on January ROFL, very funny black hand, i had a couple too many rangpur and tonics when i posted that, wasn't my only spelling error either. genteel makes more sense as other than matt schneider, i couldn't name any jewish players in the nhl.
posted by tnip23 at 07:30 PM on January 07
tnip, like Howard_T stated, there have been 6 incidents involving the Flyers. The same amount for the rest of the league combined. This isn't Flyer bashing. These are facts. where the men on the ice handle any issues We all know there are "fighters", or "tough guys" on each team. Jason Blake is not that player for the Leafs and Downie knows that. Regardless, Flyer fans should be embarrassed by the cheap plays. posted by BoKnows at 7:20 PM CST on January 6 i was embarressed by last yrs. performance. downie is what he is, a marginal player who has to push the envelope, as do the flyers to be competative. i don't care if the style of a minority (and it is a minority) of flyers players offend the delicate sensibilities of opposing hockey fans as long as it results in wins. look at the flyers, they have no true enforcer, it takes a team effort to take up the slack.
posted by tnip23 at 08:01 PM on January 06
Bullshit. It was that way until they added the Third Man In rule and tie downs and all that other stuff in hopes of cleaning up the image of the sport in the US. All of that has led to the dirty play we see now. Who is going to deal with this on ice and how? How would the Bruins have addressed what the Flyers did to Patrice Bergeron? Blown out one of the best Flyers' knees? Everytime we have an example of dirty play, someone pops in to talk about political correctness and "pussification". Nonsense and dosh, sir. posted by yerfatma at 6:31 PM CST on January 6 nonsense and dosh is a new england area fan complaining about anything within the past sports year. 16-0 with a cheating coach, sox title, celtics great start, bruins playing well, good BC season... honestly, i didn't see the bergeron hit so i can't comment, i'm just tired of constant flyers bashing and whether you will admit it or not a constant movement towards pol. corectness, "pussification", or "soccerization" or whatever you want to call it in all sports.
posted by tnip23 at 06:45 PM on January 06
I don't think trying to poke someone's eye out or having a go at someone's head comes under the category of "borderline." in the heat of the battle it happens. downie is a borderline player in a borderline sport doing what it takes to win. not what you'd teach your children, but what happens in gladiator sports. i'm sure the new NHL will punish him, (although i have yet to see the play in live speed) i just want league offices and the despicaple humans that are sports officials to have less say in sporting events. the flyers have made a nice adjustment this year and the games i have seen have been determined by legal play on the ice. a prime example was the 8-2 win over the pens that became a fight fest in the 3rd, not because of anything the flyers did but because of the frustration of the losing team. again, this is hockey, not soccer, play on, fight on.
posted by tnip23 at 06:36 PM on January 06
it's nice to see the flyers are a competitive team again. the rhetoric here is teeming with resentment for the flyers franchise and another cry for the continued "pussification" of team sports. hockey is a sport where the men on the ice handle any issues regarding borderline play and it should remain that way to avoid hockey becoming soccer on ice. i read several reports on the game, none mentioned the incident. i imagine that it is an incident of more concern to flyers haters, leafs fans, and unfortunately the league office who is ever more concerned with making the game a more gentile sport instead of a game decided and enforced by the men on the ice.
posted by tnip23 at 05:20 PM on January 06
Monday night football's theme (not the Hank williams Jr. intro) will always be the best IMHO.
posted by tnip23 at 03:30 PM on September 07
What's the point of this post, it's a link to promote an event that americans care even less about than soccer. There is no interesting commentary only a public relations site for bicycling. The only reason I have ever paid attention to the TDF or world cup was to see if an american or american team could win to piss off the rest of the world by beating them at there own game/contest/sport?/flopfest. IMHO, Floyd and especially Lance won fair and square, and if they didn't, who cares? It is a bicycle race we're talking about. My jingoist ass will be watching blase baseball and offseason NFL transactions until something interesting transpires in the wide world of sports.
posted by tnip23 at 07:34 PM on July 06
First off, the microbrews made in the U.S. are some of the finest beers made in the world (Dogfishhead, Victory, Brooklyn, Rogue, Sierra Nevada, the list goes on and on) so IMO we have already equalled or surpassed the rest of the world in this category. Unfortunately, most of our beer drinkers continue to consume the mass produced twaddle that is budweiser, coor's light, etc. So, that continues to be the face of american brewing. As far as soccer, I just don't care. I've tried to appreciate the game, but I cannot get by the lack of meaningful action (i.e. action that leads directly to scoring, not just wearing the other team out) and the combination of bad-acting/diving and poor officiating that plagues the game. It's a great game for kids to work off some energy but for entertainment I'm just going to have to settle back with a Dogfishhead 90 min. IPA, a banjo, a chicken, some fascist doctrine, and whatever other stereotypes apply to the majority of yanks who still choose the NFL over the "world's" game.
posted by tnip23 at 07:16 AM on June 17
coughlin is a dinosaur. no matter what you think of shockey, he was only saying what others on the team feel and some such as tiki barber have already said. the benching of plaxico burress for most of the game was an example of a coach out of control and putting his own feelings for a player above what was best for the team. i'm not a giants fan, but i can see that this coach is clearly holding his team back, much like dan reeves did in denver in the elway years. the broncos used to struggle for 3 quarters under reeve's game plan and then he would turn elway loose in the 4th, thus all elway's comeback wins. the same pattern is emerging in new york. if the g-men ever get a 21st century coach like mike shanahan, they would be tough to beat.
posted by tnip23 at 06:27 PM on September 25
what an irrelevent article. i kept reading hoping it was a bad attempt at satire, but evidently the author thought it was a topic of some importance. it played like a bad monty python skit. the only bright point was it wasn't another steroid-related story.
posted by tnip23 at 10:51 AM on March 16
F*CK CANADA! They're not even a real countryanyway . ......................................................................... ............................................. And God bless south park
posted by tnip23 at 09:23 AM on March 09
George Carlin: (Late) Sports Authority
rip, george. i hope you know now in death, what you didn't in life. and i hope you are with the great joe pesci as you wished.