Let's Get Ready For Mare Football...Practice!

[peterh6308]

Peter, your team plays in the NFC West and mine in the NFC East, and they're not playing each other during the regular season, so I have no reason to root against the Seahawks. Geez, you make it so hard for me to be nice.

So now your sensitive? must be all that hard work your not used too!! lol Quit being such a pussy mikeyank!!!

 

[mikeyank]

So now your sensitive? must be all that hard work your not used too!! lol Quit being such a pussy mikeyank!!!

I wasn't watching, as my Yankees who are still sputtering on the brink of elimination had a fabulous two homerun walk off win in the bottom of the ninth, but from the final score of your game, the Seahawks apparently had an impressive win.

Whether it makes me a "pussy" or not, I am happy for you to be celebrating your Hawks into the new season.

 

[Beth]

Okay Peter, looks like your team has got some very nice speed, control and ability to score. The Cowboys will see you Oct 12 in Seattle...I hope we are up to the task (gulp).

 

[peterh6308]

Okay Peter, looks like your team has got some very nice speed, control and ability to score. The Cowboys will see you Oct 12 in Seattle...I hope we are up to the task (gulp).

You'll see us but not hear us BOOM!!!!! Damnit I won't be home to watch it, I'll be in NYC visiting the great Mikeyank of Broke Straight Boys/BTS fame.

 

[Beth]

You'll see us but not hear us BOOM!!!!! Damnit I won't be home to watch it, I'll be in NYC visiting the great Mikeyank of Broke Straight Boys/BTS fame.

Why am I picturing a Seahawk, helmet on, T-bagging a cowboy?!
As far as where you watch the game, no biggie; I think there are enough other Seahawk fans to yell while you're in NYC.

 

[peterh6308]

Why am I picturing a Seahawk, helmet on, T-bagging a cowboy?!
As far as where you watch the game, no biggie; I think there are enough other Seahawk fans to yell while you're in NYC.

I will however be sporting my Seahawk gear in NYC as thats where we kick the shit out of the Giants, then returned to win the Superbowl.

 

[mikeyank]

I will however be sporting my Seahawk gear in NYC as thats where we kick the shit out of the Giants, then returned to win the Superbowl.

You will be just another out of town rube walking around the big city gawking at the tall buildings in your native garb. lol

 

[stowe1]

You will be just another out of town rube walking around the big city gawking at the tall buildings in your native garb. lol

Well said, mikey!

 

[peterh6308]

You will be just another out of town rube walking around the big city gawking at the tall buildings in your native garb. lol

You all have big buildings in that there big city??? WTF do you think Seattle is "a ghost town" we do have tall buildings here also, matter of fact we have the tallest bldg west of Chicago in our little town. So there big guy!!!

 

[stowe1]

Seattle's Columbia Center, completed in 1985, has 76 floors, making it the building with most floors west of the Mississippi. It also has the most observation viewing area of any building west of the Mississippi.

However, the tallest building west of the Mississippi is the U.S. Bank Tower in Los Angeles, completed in 1989. It is 1,018 ft tall. Ranges for the Columbia Center in Seattle go from 937 ft. to 987 ft.

 

[peterh6308]

Seattle's Columbia Center, completed in 1985, has 76 floors, making it the building with most floors west of the Mississippi. It also has the most observation viewing area of any building west of the Mississippi.

However, the tallest building west of the Mississippi is the U.S. Bank Tower in Los Angeles, completed in 1989. It is 1,018 ft tall. Ranges for the Columbia Center in Seattle go from 937 ft. to 987 ft.

oh thanks, I knew it had the most floors so I guessed it was the tallest.

 

[mikeyank]

oh thanks, I knew it had the most floors so I guessed it was the tallest.

It's nice to see you boys playing nice. lol. And I just checked it out, and see that the Empire State Building is 103 floors, and 1,454 feet high, including the antennae. Not bragging just saying. But you will see it all for yourself, Peterh of the pacific northwest.

 

[stowe1]

It's nice to see you boys playing nice. lol. At least on this thread - lol!!

And I just checked it out, and see that the Empire State Building is 103 floors, and 1,454 feet high, including the antennae.But of course Freedom Tower at One World Trade Center is 1,776 ft. tall.


Not bragging just saying. But you will see it all for yourself, Peterh of the pacific northwest.

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[joninliverton]

Here is the first game to be shown on the uk's best tv channel - channel 4.

Indianapolis Colts at Denver Broncos.
Channel 4's first live game of the 2014 campaign sees a clash between two of the NFL's greatest quarterbacks, in a classic confrontation between veteran and young pretender.
Twenty-five-year-old Andrew Luck is the brightest young quarterback in the game, guiding the Indianapolis Colts to the playoffs in his first two NFL seasons.
Meanwhile, 38-year-old Peyton Manning had the greatest quarterback campaign in NFL history last season, passing for a record 55 touchdowns.
Despite his record-breaking season, however, Manning had a disastrous Super Bowl as the Denver Broncos were outplayed by the Seattle Seahawks, losing 43-8.
So Manning has it all to prove again this season. To add to the intrigue, Luck beat Manning in their only ever meeting, in 2013. Will the apprentice take down the master again?
Nat Coombs presents with analysis from Mike Carlson.

 

[joninliverton]

Interesting bbc article - what do you americans think

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-echochambers-29052531

"Are you ready for some football?"
It's the shouted rhetorical question that has started Monday night National Football League (NFL) broadcasts for decades.
For the millions of Americans who make the NFL by far the most popular US professional sport, the answer has long been yes. And it will be again on Thursday night, as NFL season kicks off with a matchup between the Green Bay Packers and the defending Super Bowl champions Seattle Seahawks.
Continue reading the main story[h=2]“Start Quote[/h]

Fans need to recognise that the game isn't going to change until we force the issue by walking away”
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Steve AlmondAuthor


Every Sunday (and Monday, and some Saturdays and Thursdays) for the next five months, millions of Americans - and plenty of Brits, thanks to three regular-season games in London - will feast on a bacchanalia of gridiron pageantry.
Best-selling author Steve Almond, however, won't be watching.
The self-professed long-time American football fan writes in the Los Angeles Times that he feels guilty about watching a sport whose participants risk traumatic brain injury. More than that, however, he says he objects to "the cynical commercialisation of the sport, its cultish celebration of violence and the more subtle ways in which football warps our societal attitudes about race, gender and sexual orientation."
He says that he, like other spectators, are enabling the corruption of a game he used to love.
"Fans need to recognise that the game isn't going to change until we force the issue by walking away," he writes.
It's not as easy as it may seem, however, as every sport channel and website this time of year is packed full of football-related content. Moreover, with friends who are passionate fans, boycotting football means abandoning the social activity that revolves around the weekly contests.

"A lot of people criticise football," Almond says. "Not all of them recognise how deeply meaningful it can be to fans like me."
In another piece, written for Salon, Almond addresses what he calls the "toxic lies" football fans tell themselves to calm a guilty conscience.
The game is getting safer? Hardly, he says. Tackling and violent collisions are still an integral part of the game. Injuries still abound. And even the most state-of the art gear can't prevent possibly debilitating concussions.
The players know what they're getting into and are paid millions? It's only because the fans create the market. Players perform for our amusement. And the "Football Industrial Complex", as he calls it, grinds up and spits out the tens of thousands of others who play but don't get the golden lottery ticket of a career in the NFL.


Complain as Almond might - and he'll keep on doing it, as he's got a book to sell on the topic - football's popularity shows no sign of fading.
According to University of Virginia Prof Mark Edmundson, it's because football represents what the US has become.
"Football is a warlike game, and we are now a warlike nation," he writes in the Los Angeles Times. "Our love for football is a love, however self-aware, of ourselves as a fighting and (we hope) victorious people."
Back when the US was more pacifistic - when it had to be dragged, kicking and screaming into world wars - baseball was the national pastime.
"That game is skill-based, nonviolent and leisurely," he writes.
Football, however, "is urban, tough and based to a large degree on the capacity to overwhelm the other team with sheer force. Football is a tank attack, a sky-borne assault, a charge into the trenches for hand-to-hand fighting."
He, too, worries about the societal cost of the sport. Is football an outlet for our passions or a contributing factor to a growing culture of violence?
"If the modern world is truly a place where a nation must be ready to fight constantly in order to survive, then perhaps football serves a general good," he writes. "But whether the only way to thrive as a nation and a people is through the capacity for warfare, one can certainly doubt."
Michael P Noonan of the Foreign Policy Research Institute thinks such an reading is going too far, however. All sport - baseball, football, jai alai, whatever - is a proxy for war, he writes for US News & World Report. Football, however, is popular in part because it most resembles the modern ideal of warfare:
"Quick, violent action. Fighting similarly organised foes. Defined end-states with a clear victor. This is how most military professionals would also prefer war."
All of this debate recalls an old stand-up routine by the late comedian George Carlin about the differences between football and baseball.
"Baseball is a 19th Century pastoral game," he says. "Football is a 20th Century technological struggle."
Perhaps most importantly, according to Carlin, the difference between football and baseball is expressed in the attitude of the fans.
"In baseball, during the game in the stands there's kind of a picnic feeling," he says. "Emotions may run high or low, but there's not that much unpleasantness."
"In football in the stands during the game," he counters, "you can be sure that at least 27 times you are perfectly capable of taking the life of a fellow human being - preferably a stranger."
Growing up, my favourite football teams were the NFL's San Diego Chargers and the University of Texas Longhorns. For many years, Junior Seau anchored the Chargers defence with passion and skill. And I still hold dear a football autographed by star Texas running back Earl Campbell.
Seau is dead now, having taken his own life after suffering for years from symptoms of brain trauma. At 59, Campbell can barely walk, his body wreaked by the cumulative effects of countless violent tackles.
Is this what football does to its stars? Almond suggests that this is the blood on the hands of the millions of fans.
And yet unlike Almond, I'll still watch games this fall. I'm still ready for some football.
But I'm starting to feel uneasy about it.


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[Ambivalent]

Well,

I only watch American football to hear the marching-bands, at half-time. *The boys themselves, are wearing too much equipment.* (College football is better than NFL - because the lads are cuter, and younger ;-)

"A" XOXOXOXOXOXO

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8YTxIB1NN0

P.S. Competitive SWIMMING is a whole lot more fulfilling, anyway - and I oughtta know - I was English tutor to our university swim-team, from 1989-1992 ;-) *The guys are much more pleasantly NAKED ;-)))* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dA2DR9kYVDw

 

[Beth]

Oh Ambi...Lochte, are you serious?! Let me show you "how to enjoy boys in bathing suits."

 

[Ambivalent]

Oh Ambi...Lochte, are you serious?! Let me show you "how to enjoy boys in bathing suits."

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Awesome, cute, delectable selection, Beth!

About Ryan Lochte, I'm gonna take the Fifth - EXCEPT to say. . . there is a great short-story writer called Susan Swan, who once wrote a story entitled, "Stupid Boys Are Good to Relax With" ;-) And sometimes, that's true ;-)))

That's my story, and I'm sticking to it.

~ "A" XOXOXOXOXOXOXO

*Ryan Lochte's stupidest moments - this always makes me HOWL with laughter . . . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dlyCTswYH0

P.S. Of course, as SHY would tell you, cute, smart gay DIVERS can be excellent, too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZwxNrj0QAk

 

[bradleyreed88]

Well shit, when your teams owner describes the season, before it starts as, "gonna be tough," I think we all know where this is going. I watched all the preseason games and for the most part...they all need more practice. I hope this will be an exciting year, lots of standout players and incredible plays, but I'm not fully sold on the new guidelines set. There doesn't seem to be as many players who came to camp "ready to get it!" So, my Cowboys suck, how about your team?

Hi Miss Beth;

I think this will sum up our Cowboys season!!!

Hugs, Bradley!

 

[mikeyank]

P.S. Competitive SWIMMING is a whole lot more fulfilling, anyway - and I oughtta know - I was English tutor to our university swim-team, from 1989-1992 ;-) *The guys are much more pleasantly NAKED ;-)))*

I sure agree with you Ambi about young swimmers being almost embarrassingly almost naked. And as Peterh knows how much I enjoy "the competition", for as I've told him many times of how I strolled into the swimming hall of fame on the strip in Fort Lauderdale, when I read in the local morning paper, that the national high school diving competition would be held there that day. It was certainly a memorable display of youthful practically naked beauty.