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22 minutes ago, FiddySicks said:

 I mean, I think you know exactly why people find it off putting.

 

These two had some mutual interest in each other and as soon as that got public everyone pounced on it like piranhas, and have spent the entire season trying to cram these stories down our throats

 

It’s just yet another example of how empty and meaningless so much of our society has become.

I'm sure you do think that, but I really don't know. Why anyone would get upset over cutaway shots during an NFL broadcast is a mystery to me. It's a cutaway shot. In terms of directing a telecast, it's a time killer. No one gets pissed when it's Fireman Ed or some shirtless, morbidly obese at an NFL game. If people find cutaways of Taylor Swift off putting, they may be taking the whole thing a little too seriously.

FWIW, I haven't found it difficult at all to avoid the whole affair. Maybe that's why I find the blow back to be absurd. I don't know.

It's cotton candy. It's harmless. I don't see it as an example of anything other than that. It's just a football telecast. No more, no less.

1 hour ago, BBTV said:

I have nothing against Bradshaw, but he wasn't much more than Brad Johnson but on a team full of HOFers.

Tell me you've never seen Terry Bradshaw play without telling me you've never seen Terry Bradshaw play. I was there and he was much more than "Brad Johnson but on a team full of HOFers."

4 hours ago, BBTV said:

Tell me you’ve never ever seen Terry Bradshaw play without telling me you’ve never seen Terry Bradshaw play. 
 

Come on dawg.   If Mahomes never played another down, no sane person would rank him equal or below Bradshaw. 

In Bradshaw's defense, he played in an era when this stuff was common.

If someone did any of that to Mahomes, they'd probably be suspended for life.

20 minutes ago, DG_ThenNowForever said:

The Taylor Swift stuff is super weird.

Can someone explain to me why using Taylor Swift in cutaway shots is the worst thing to happen to the NFL since...well, ever?

29 minutes ago, The_Admiral said:

If he proposes to the billionaire horse girl I'm not going to work tomorrow.

I was going to move to Costa Rica.

12 hours ago, Red Comet said:

Anyways, the Boston Braves were renamed the Boston Bees for a few years and considering that Salt Lake City is emerging as a dark horse candidate, why not bring back that moniker in the Beehive State? 

Salt Lake has the AAA Bees, but they're moving to suburb called South Jordan after this season.

On 2/2/2024 at 1:41 AM, DG_ThenNowForever said:

I'd love Belichick as an assistant with Buffalo.

He'd retire before he'd go back to being an assistant.

Give me Dollar Store Montana and the 49ers.

San Francisco.

23 minutes ago, GDAWG said:

 

Poor bastard.

6 minutes ago, sky1324 said:

Just binged the first four episodes and I love it.

It's excellent. I had to stop watching after the first two. If I hadn't, I would have been up until 4am watching it.

4 minutes ago, DCarp1231 said:

I dig it. It only focuses on the Playoffs and the drivers in the Playoffs, but it’s definitely a fun and intriguing introspective show. Netflix is supposedly at NASCAR Media Day this week so there’s rumors of a full season length feature for Full Speed  Season 2.

It's focusing on all the right things to bring in new fans.

I'd be all over a full season of this.

Anyone else watching NASCAR: Full Speed on Netflix?  I'm curious to see what NASCAR fans think of it. FWIW, I just watched the first episode and thought it was great.

13 minutes ago, TreyEight said:

Excuse me how did they land WalMart lol 

The price was right is my guess. Probably not a full time sponsor either.

2 minutes ago, SFGiants58 said:

 

That's the one. Jon Bois wrote a piece on it.

 

 

A Secret Base on the post-1985 Bears would be a fantastic piece, of how the historically-mediocre can become truly terrible.

That actually happened? I figured the Lt. Colonel was just embellishing the Bears ineptitude.

23 minutes ago, FiddySicks said:

Yeah I really love the GOP going to bat for a team in their favorite American city… San Francisco, California. 

20 minutes ago, The_Admiral said:

 

I've seen people say "Oh, this Super Bowl is going to be TERRIBLE for conservatives!" No, it's terrible for liberals: one team's logo used to be an Indian plastered over five Republican states, and the other one has a white guy at running back.

11 minutes ago, Red Comet said:

Zombie Deadspin sounds nice, but I haven’t seen Undeadspin yet. Someone should get on that. 

I know it’s an election year, but why the do wackos of any stripe feel the need to drag politics into everything?Flipping clickbait, man.   

Let's step away from the political stuff, folks.

1 hour ago, tBBP said:

Idol worship is the bane of us all.

 

There, I said it. 

Agreed.

2 hours ago, DG_ThenNowForever said:

Not gonna share the details, but some of them online mania surrounding the implications of this Super Bowl and Taylor Swift have me rooting for the Chiefs.

I'll share my favorite one so far. There are people saying Taylor Swift is a Pentagon psyop which would be hilarious except I think these people actually believe it.

We're doomed as a society. Enjoy the chaos.

14 minutes ago, Red Comet said:

So even in the 80s, a piece of paper saying you have the time and money to waste four years of your life didn’t mean you were smarter than anyone else? The more you know. 

I don't know about that, but I'm sure it didn't make them any better at football.

Also, college was way cheaper and more valuable back then.

2 hours ago, The_Admiral said:

I forgot who pointed it out on Twitter but it was that for all the talk of the Ravens' organizational excellence under their 15th-year coach or whatever, the team on the field is a bunch of certified dum-dums when it matters most. IQ leaks all over the place here, I guess.

In the early 80s, my buddies and I were watching a Browns game and one of the announcers said that the Browns had the most college graduates of any team in the NFL. It was something like 80% of the team. We thought it was really cool that the Browns were "smarter" than all the other teams. All those degrees didn't do all on the field, but Browns fans will take any win they can get.

21 minutes ago, TrueYankee26 said:

This is why I call the Ravens the old Browns still, the new Browns (1999-present) have nothing in common except name, logo and colors.

I much prefer the old Browns to the new version. We lost our team and the fans somehow lost 20 football IQ points in the process.

30 minutes ago, OnWis97 said:

But the Technically Not Expansion Browns was the best I could come up with for the change from futility to crapping the bed.

The Browns weren't team futility before they moved to Baltimore. In the Super Bowl era through the move in 1995, they made the playoffs in '67, '68, '69, '71, '72, '80, '82, '85, '86, '87, '88, '89, and '94., and they only had nine losing seasons in that span. They made the conference championship game in '68, '69, '86, '87, and '89. Point being, the Browns are not a good example of being awful forever before they achieved "crapping the bed" level. They'd been crapping the bed all along which might be even worse.

15 minutes ago, Alex Houston said:

 

You should never want the Steelers to win.

Or the Ravens.

17 minutes ago, OnWis97 said:

2 hours ago, infrared41 said:

 

Red Right 88, the Drive, and the Fumble have entered the chat.

For those old enough...

This is not a knock against you or your point, but why is it that we automatically give young people a pass on not knowing sports history? It wouldn't kill them to learn that Houston had a much worse collapse in the 1992 playoffs than the Lions did yesterday. Or that the Browns existed and were breaking the hearts of their fans in the playoffs well before 1999. If we make a reference that was "before their time" they can look it up and learn something.

This concludes my get off my lawn speech.

Went into the weekend 10-0 in playoff picks. Thanks to the Lions, I'm now 11-1.

57 minutes ago, OnWis97 said:

Lions fans were sick of living like Browns fans. Now they have a taste of what it's like to be a Vikings fan.

Red Right 88, the Drive, and the Fumble have entered the chat.