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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: FUNKED1 on March 30, 2006, 09:50:27 AM
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Refs bent my wookie. (http://x.go.com/cgi/x.pl?goto=http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=2388918) :( :( :(
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He is taking his ball and going home.
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So where is the "Refs bent my wookie" and retirement alignment? Could you show me? How did you extract that type of thinking out of the article?
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Originally posted by Ripsnort
So where is the "Refs bent my wookie" and retirement alignment? Could you show me? How did you extract that type of thinking out of the article?
Still smarting a bit from his team's Super Bowl XL loss two months ago, a defeat he clearly feels was affected by some dubious officiating, Seattle Seahawks coach Mike Holmgren left open the possibility the 2006 season could be his last in the league.
:cry
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Originally posted by rpm
:cry
That was the reporter structuring the story to combine a superbowl defeat, with a previous "possible" decision that he'd talked about with his wife. Can't you see the journalism structure? Read the rest of the article for once!
There is, Holmgren said, no timetable for determining his future, and it's possible a decision might not come until after the season.
"It could be as simple as, 'How about we go through next year and if you're happy and I'm feeling good then we'll meet.' I really don't know," Holmgren said.
There are some who felt that, had the Seahawks defeated the Pittsburgh Steelers in the Super Bowl, Holmgren, a man of many interests who has spoken in the past about what he might want to do after his coaching career, might have retired.
Holmgren acknowledged such a scenario was the exit strategy his wife had in mind, but that he never thought much about it. He will, though, take some more time to consider the future, but emphasized that he will not keep Seahawks officials in the dark.
"Sometimes you just don't know," he said. "I'm not being cute, or leveraging anything, or doing anything like that. I want to be fair and I want to be honest with my bosses and certainly my owner. So I just asked them, 'Give me some time on this.' And they said that was fine."
Sounds like holmren would have retired if he had WON the Superbowl! Now it sounds like he wants to hang out another year or two.
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No it doesn't. It looks like that's what his wife might have done but apparently he didn't give it much thought.
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I'm sure that since his contract is up, that has nothing to do with decisions on retirement. :rofl
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Holmgren, 57, is entering the final season of the eight-year contract he signed in 1999. And while owner Paul Allen indicated in the days preceding the Super Bowl that he wanted to discuss an extension with Holmgren, the future has not been determined.
No one sees a contract negotiation tactic in this?
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Originally posted by Holden McGroin
No one sees a contract negotiation tactic in this?
I do and it what Holmgren himself said.
Karaya
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Originally posted by Holden McGroin
No one sees a contract negotiation tactic in this?
Exactly. Good example how sentence structure can lead one to believe otherwise.
I see dumb people...and they not in the article.
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I didn't see anything in there linking his retirement to his being a crybaby about the superbowl.
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Originally posted by NattyIced
He is taking his ball and going home.
So you are saying his Green Bay Packer WIN doesn't count?
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dont let the door hit ya on the way out, studmuffin.
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Hey Rip,
I'll trade you one wide receiver for one all pro offencive lineman ;)