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Offline DREDIOCK

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« Reply #30 on: February 05, 2007, 07:26:58 AM »
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no fan has the right to talk smack.  unless you are dressed out and taking hits you have no rights to comment either way.  spectator sports fans are such losers.


What about sports writers/reporters?
Some of them talk smack alll the time.
And I'd be willing to bet 90% of them never so much as played Pop Warner
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« Reply #31 on: February 05, 2007, 08:23:25 AM »
I believe those COLTS did some BEAR hunting last night.  Looks like they got their kill...........

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« Reply #32 on: February 05, 2007, 08:41:38 AM »
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Stopped posting awfully quick, didn't ya?  :D


:D

Actually I didn't have a dog in that fight.  I was thinking about all the hype around the Colts only to have them come out of the gate in the manner they did.  It was amusing.

But you are right, they sure turned it around and played a good game.   That is what the Stuper Bowl is all about!:D

I just wish I hadn't been on call.  Some beer would have gone very well with the Buffaloe Wings.:(

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« Reply #33 on: February 05, 2007, 09:52:01 AM »
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no fan has the right to talk smack.  unless you are dressed out and taking hits you have no rights to comment either way.  spectator sports fans are such losers.


You try so hard Storch... it's almost sad.
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« Reply #34 on: February 05, 2007, 09:56:54 AM »
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Originally posted by storch
no fan has the right to talk smack.  unless you are dressed out and taking hits you have no rights to comment either way.  spectator sports fans are such losers.


Between tickets, beer and food they pretty much payed for the right
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« Reply #35 on: February 05, 2007, 10:01:39 AM »
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Between tickets, beer and food they pretty much payed for the right
I hold those types of people in complete and utter contempt.  the scrubs and the wannabe's

sports writers and the press in general are parasites.

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« Reply #36 on: February 05, 2007, 10:05:40 AM »
storch you got picked on as a kid playing sports or something?

Or does it just piss you off when people get excited about a game and have a little fun with it?
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« Reply #37 on: February 05, 2007, 10:16:24 AM »
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no fan has the right to talk smack. unless you are dressed out and taking hits you have no rights to comment either way. spectator sports fans are such losers.


If it were not for the arm chair quarterbacks, the fans, the debates, the discussions, the fights etc over who's team is going to win, there would be no game.  

Yes, they do have the right to talk smack.  It's by design. How many would even watch the game if there was no buildup to it?  No emotion, no vested interest real or imagined does not lend itself to promotion.    

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spectator sports fans are such losers.


Unfortunate comment, really.  Tell me, does this logic transfer to other things?  You aren't all dressed out and taking hits in a fighter plane, mearly "pretending" much like a WW2 fan.  Loser?
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« Reply #38 on: February 05, 2007, 10:17:04 AM »
quite the opposite I played football from optimists through high school and was on the team that took away the state championship from a team that held it for 25 years.  I developed a strong dislike for fans from early on.  the one day "they" were the heros (our team won="we" won) to "you guys suck" depending on how the guys actually playing did.  when they were hollering "we" won my response was really?  I didn't see you on the field!! to being told "you guys suck"  to which my response was if I suck why don't we take it to the grinder and you show me how I might do it better.  I never had any takers though.  after highschool I became involved in individual sports me vs the wave initially and later me with the wave.

scrubs and losers.  sports fans are scrubs and losers.  I have no use for them and it annoys me when they come to my town and trash it.

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« Reply #39 on: February 05, 2007, 10:19:53 AM »
Ok, it's just a thin skin then.  I understand.

You probably ought to stay away from anything "cool" then, 'cause someone might give their opinion and make you feel bad.

:cry
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« Reply #40 on: February 05, 2007, 10:23:44 AM »
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If it were not for the arm chair quarterbacks, the fans, the debates, the discussions, the fights etc over who's team is going to win, there would be no game.  

Yes, they do have the right to talk smack.  It's by design. How many would even watch the game if there was no buildup to it?  No emotion, no vested interest real or imagined does not lend itself to promotion.    

 

Unfortunate comment, really.  Tell me, does this logic transfer to other things?  You aren't all dressed out and taking hits in a fighter plane, mearly "pretending" much like a WW2 fan.  Loser?
you don't need to justify your position to me.  justify it to your bosses as you spend hours of time that you are paid to be working talking about sports events as if it mattered.  

I'm not sorry when I see white collar jobs outsourced to india and other places.  if you scrubs put a quarter of the time and enthusiasm you reserve for sports events that don't pay you to your jobs which do the country would be a lot better off.

with regard to AHII I view it as challenging and vexing as golf but far less money.  and yes I suppose I'm a loser for playing it.

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« Reply #41 on: February 05, 2007, 10:25:31 AM »
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Ok, it's just a thin skin then.  I understand.

You probably ought to stay away from anything "cool" then, 'cause someone might give their opinion and make you feel bad.

:cry
not at all thin skinned in fact quite the opposite.  I wipe my    with people's opinions about any given topic and could care less about your views about my person.

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« Reply #42 on: February 05, 2007, 10:40:39 AM »
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quite the opposite I played football from optimists through high school



Lol   I know in my gut that this is BS.

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« Reply #43 on: February 05, 2007, 10:42:44 AM »
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you don't need to justify your position to me. justify it to your bosses as you spend hours of time that you are paid to be working talking about sports events as if it mattered.


Considering my position at my "job" I think I can post or work, depending on what I feel like doing.  I think, perhaps, a better example of what's "wrong" with America is that there are people that make ignorant assumptions leading to comments like yours, and Assuming there Is anything wrong to begin with.

Now, please explain to me what possessed you to do this.  You insult people who do things you don't like.  It shouldn't matter one bit what someone else does on their free time.  Yet, you insult, like you have the moral authority to define acceptable uses of ones time.  I point out how fans are beneficial, and Ask you a question about the logic of your ideals.  You return the discussion with Assumptions of my employment conditions, blame me for the cause of ruin in our nation, yet Never actually contradict my "opinion" of the inherent value of the Fan Base to the game.

I do see in a prior post how "you" feel wronged by your fans, and frankly, any player with your attitude probably does need to go float on a wave by himself.

Now, is it possible for you to have a conversation with anyone Without the inevitable insult?  Is this something beyond your ability? Or will you now try to divert the conversation away by insulting my Cat?
ROC
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« Reply #44 on: February 05, 2007, 10:47:19 AM »
The funniest part about storch's meltdown here is that he claims he went out and intentionally played spectator sports, but couldn't stand the actual spectators.  The implication of course is that he quit playing team spectator sports not out of any particular lack of talent, but because the spectators drove him away.

That's a bit like stripping down nude in the middle of of central park and getting offended when everyone stares.  If football wasn't supposed to have spectators, then they'd play it in a small building with no windows or bleachers and call it...  I dunno, congress maybe.  Anything but a spectator sport.
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