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I am wondering why everybody seems so concerned with protecting NFL players when of all the occupations I can think of, they have some of the best pay, benefits, and a player run union to fight for the rights and goals of their membership.
Well, they get hit in the head a lot, so...
posted by dirigibleman at 07:23 PM on November 11
it's getting harder and harder to be a conservative white guy in America these days.
That's a good thing. The smaller the Archie Bunker contingent gets, the better off our country is.
Back when Rush made his McNabb statement, I knew he'd get a lot of heat for it, but the man was just stating his opinion.
"Black people should go back to Africa" is also an opinion.
posted by dirigibleman at 01:35 AM on October 08
Oh, and to add sprinkles to the bloody corpses:
Team Genocide is the same team that, for at least two seasons, sold their tickets to scal ticket brokers before letting their loyal season ticket holders have a chance.
posted by dirigibleman at 12:39 AM on September 04
1.) Team name is a racial slur on a people that our government literally tried to wipe from the face of the Earth, by killing them all.
2.) They sue a 72-year-old woman because she can no longer pay for season tickets, even though she is a lifelong fan of a team with a name that evokes the near-genocide of a people and the taking of their land by force, by killing most of them.
3.) Team genocide wins, financially ruining someone's grandma. Oh, and by the way, the name of this team -- in the year 2009 -- is a literal racial slur on the same level as "nigger", "spic", and "kike". And this is a team based in the capital city of the government that tried to wipe said people from the face of the Earth, by killing them all.
4.) I hope you go 0-17. That's right, I hope you somehow lose an extra game. For the fucking Indians, and someone's grandma.
posted by dirigibleman at 12:11 AM on September 04
They were going to stiff him on the tip? That's a five-minute major right there.
posted by dirigibleman at 07:56 PM on August 09
FWIW, while I love wearing Greek pastries on my face, I think WeedyMcSmokey meant balaclava (which I also love eating).
posted by dirigibleman at 12:30 AM on June 19
That was an unbelievable game.
It's a great year to be a Pittsburgh sports fan.
posted by dirigibleman at 11:50 PM on June 12
Argh!
posted by dirigibleman at 12:55 AM on November 16
As a Pirates fan who moved to northern Florida this year, I've really become a Rays fan. Because the Rays are the team that the Pirates should have been years ago -- the team that chucked pretty much everything but the ballpark and rebuilt everything in a way to make it work. I guess the Rays are my vicarious Pirates.
Besides, if there's anything the playoffs need, it's more cowbell.
posted by dirigibleman at 10:55 PM on October 10
This is cool. Unfortunately, it looks like I'll never get to see a Steelers game down here.
posted by dirigibleman at 12:23 AM on September 04
Are we really debating the movie Flubber in this thread?
posted by dirigibleman at 06:05 PM on June 27
If only Billy Bean hadn't single-handedly built that basket...
posted by dirigibleman at 04:43 PM on June 25
Oh, man, those Formula 1 guys are hilariously bad. Every time there's even the mildest skid, you hear them go "OOOAHAAHAAA!!!" It's like listening to a broadcast by Jerry Lewis. And why do they need three announcers? They all talk over each other (usually with "OOOAUAAAAUAUAAOAA!!!"). It's the most amateurish announcing I think I've heard in professional sports.
posted by dirigibleman at 08:45 PM on June 19
German MNT keeper Enke in apparent suicide
When I sat there seriously considering ending my own life and the best way to do it, I thought of my wife and children, and how sad and traumatized they would be whichever way I did it. And I stepped back from the edge that day and damn glad I did.
Whereas Enke thought about his wife and child and likely thought, in his diseased mental state, that they would be better off without him. After all, him being away for so long, in a career he was "failing" at, with no other way to provide for them, because what else does he know but soccer? If he was out of the picture, the threat of their daughter being taken away would be gone. His wife could find someone better to love her and help raise their daughter, someone not broken. After all, he couldn't even save his first daughter. Yeah, they'll be sad, but they'll move on, and be better for it. Hey, there's a train.
Or, you know, maybe he didn't think a single thought about them. I don't really know. To be fair, I doubt he really thought much about what he'd leave behind for the bystanders. I guess I just don't see the usefulness in getting pissed off at dead people for offing themselves when they were clearly in a very broken mental state.
Now, after writing this comment, I'm off to watch baby ducks in a bathtub.