Football is Coming

[Griff]

Surely this will offend you all:

There's nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you." - Woody Hayes / Ohio State

"I never graduated from Iowa, but I was only there for two terms - Truman's and Eisenhower's." – Alex Karras / Iowa

"Football is NOT a contact sport, it is a collision sport. Dancing IS a contact sport." - Duffy Daugherty / Michigan State

Ohio State 's Urban Meyer on one of his players:"He doesn't know the meaning of the word fear. In fact, I just saw his grades and he doesn't know the meaning of a lot of words.”

Why do Tennessee fans wear orange? So they can dress that way for the game on Saturday, go hunting on Sunday, and pick up trash on Monday.

What does the average Alabama player get on his SATs? Drool.

What do you say to a Florida State University football player dressed in a three-piece suit? "Will the defendant please rise."

How can you tell if a Clemson football player has a girlfriend? There's tobacco juice on both sides of the pickup truck.

What do you get when you put 32 Arkansas cheerleaders in one room? A full set of teeth.

University of Michigan Coach Jim Harbaugh is only going to dress half of his players for the game this week; the other half will have to dress themselves.

How do you get a former Illinois football player off your porch? Pay him for the pizza.

[Pete44ru]

Rah, Rah, Ree ............. Kick 'em in the knee.

Rah, Rah, Rass ............ Kick 'em in the other knee.




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[Blaine]

Michigan Cheerleaders banned from the field. Illegal grazing in the end zone.

[Bill in Oregon]

Ah, the sweet Saturdays of fall ....

[765x53]

Soccer: Twenty-two people running around a field chasing an inflated pig skin.

Football: Twenty-two people standing around a field looking at an inflated pig skin.

[jeepnik]

Yawn. I gave up on the cry babies in pro sports years ago. Now college ball is getting almost as bad. I'm down to the local high school games. And, even then some of the kids need a serious attitude adjustment via a swift kick in the behind.

[ollogger]

Yawn. I gave up on the cry babies in pro sports years ago. Now college ball is getting almost as bad. I'm down to the local high school games. And, even then some of the kids need a serious attitude adjustment via a swift kick in the behind.

Soccer: Twenty-two people running around a field chasing an inflated pig skin.

Football: Twenty-two people standing around a field looking at an inflated pig skin.

I Agree

Brad

[Rusty]

Q: How do you get an Alabama cheerleader into your dorm room?

A: Grease her hips and push her on in.

[Ysabel Kid]

Sadly, most professional sports here are deteriorated into some form of "thug-bowl".

[J Miller]

Football is Coming

Well, time to dig out the DVD, VHS and the boxes of movies. Nothing more BORING than football.


Joe

[mohavesam]

The NFL is a private business. They have a helluva marketing scheme, but I cannot get excited about their organization.

Sadly, the NFL is needed to keep millions of small-thinking worker bees entertained.

In the only state to let voters decide, AZ had a Sunday holiday for the Reverend King. The NFL spent five years and tens of millions of NFL patrons' dollars to get a weekday holiday for MLK, blackmailing (no pun intended) the citizens by withdrawing a Superbowl from the state until the citizens voted for it. This cost the AZ people $14 million in tax money for the additional state holiday during the week. The NFL Commissioner (Tagliabue) pushed this through the state political system personallyThe voters tuned it down three more years until the proposal was broken into three non-understandable pieces. Dr. Martin Luther King was finally reduced to an NFL mascot in all 50 states.
Go to Hell, NFL.

I may be biased a tad...

[Chuck 100 yd]

Not a fan !!!

[Blaine]

If, and when the Seahawks make the playoffs, I might go down to the watering hole and watch.

[Old Ironsights]

Hmmm....

Sportsball and Swingystick. Never understood the allure.

OTOH, IPSC, IDPA, Bianchi Cup, Bulleseye, CAS, Biathlon, Pentathlon, etc - THAT I can understand.

[jeepnik]

And here I was thinking I'd catch all get out badmouthing pro sports. Seem a fair number of us old curmudgeons feel the same way about a bunch spoiled brats wasting TV bandwidth.

[Old Ironsights]

And here I was thinking I'd catch all get out badmouthing pro sports. Seem a fair number of us old curmudgeons feel the same way about a bunch spoiled brats wasting TV bandwidth.

I am wounded... how could you think that the intellectual elite of the shooting world (Leverguns, duh...) could be so tacticooly shallow...

[Nate Kiowa Jones]

They lost me when the fired Tom Landry

NFL is now the National FELONS League

[Streetstar]

Cant wait !

As a lifelong fan, occasional participant in my youth, and now a several year season ticket holder at my alma-mater, ------ I cant wait !

[jeepnik]

Cant wait !

As a lifelong fan, occasional participant in my youth, and now a several year season ticket holder at my alma-mater, ------ I cant wait !

I suspect that many of us participated in organized sports as youngsters. But, had we even tried to pull one of the minor stunts the pros and college players do we'd have been kicked off the team, ostracized by our peers, and had the holy stuff knocked out of us by our dads.

While I know we had some of "those" parents in little league, and a few more in high school sports, for the most part our parents & grandparents were much better behaved than those I see today attending the games.

I am reminded of a very old saying that is proving itself true with much regularity. "Spare the rod, spoil the child". There are no real ramifications for poor conduct and flat out criminal behavior by pro, college and even now some high school players.

Think about it. A pro quarter back stands accused of cheating, and it ends up going darn near to the Supreme Court, just because he is give a four game suspension. Whether he did or didn't do what he was accused of, it is just one of the latest examples of the type of folks that inhabit every facet of pro sports.

And why, all for money.

[Ysabel Kid]

Cant wait !

As a lifelong fan, occasional participant in my youth, and now a several year season ticket holder at my alma-mater, ------ I cant wait !

I suspect that many of us participated in organized sports as youngsters. But, had we even tried to pull one of the minor stunts the pros and college players do we'd have been kicked off the team, ostracized by our peers, and had the holy stuff knocked out of us by our dads.

While I know we had some of "those" parents in little league, and a few more in high school sports, for the most part our parents & grandparents were much better behaved than those I see today attending the games.

I am reminded of a very old saying that is proving itself true with much regularity. "Spare the rod, spoil the child". There are no real ramifications for poor conduct and flat out criminal behavior by pro, college and even now some high school players.

Think about it. A pro quarter back stands accused of cheating, and it ends up going darn near to the Supreme Court, just because he is give a four game suspension. Whether he did or didn't do what he was accused of, it is just one of the latest examples of the type of folks that inhabit every facet of pro sports.

And why, all for money.

Well said. These guys get paid millions to play a game. Granted, they play it better than 99.99% of the population could, but it is still a game. They should at least have the decency to act like the role-models they mistakenly are to many youths. Yet they act like thugs and spoiled brats, for the most part. Not all, but enough to sour me for sure.

I liked it when they had grooming standards and dress standards. If you didn't like it, you didn't have to get paid big bucks. They should bring these back.

[jeepnik]

Speaking of role models, a few years back the kid on the Wheaties box turned out to be less than worthy. The folks that make Wheaties looked around and found a dearth of sports stars fit to be on their box. So, they brought back some of the stars from my youth, and one that was an oops. Well nobodies perfect, and how were they to know this man was really a woman in a man's body.

And folks wonder why I crave the fifties.

[2ndovc]

Football is Coming

Well, time to dig out the DVD, VHS and the boxes of movies. Nothing more BORING than football.


Joe

With ya on that one Joe! So many better things to do out there.

jb

[RIHMFIRE]

football season......is really HUNTING SEASON!....SKEET SHOOTING SEASON.....

[BrianSH]

Hmmm....

Sportsball and Swingystick. Never understood the allure.

OTOH, IPSC, IDPA, Bianchi Cup, Bulleseye, CAS, Biathlon, Pentathlon, etc - THAT I can understand.

Sports and the Kardashians are the opiates of the sheeple. - Brian

[BrianSH]

And here I was thinking I'd catch all get out badmouthing pro sports. Seem a fair number of us old curmudgeons feel the same way about a bunch spoiled brats wasting TV bandwidth.

Yep, grown men playing children,s games, getting lots of money and crying every step of the way.
I thought I was the only one too that felt this way. - Brian

[Bill in Oregon]

Well, I love my college football, and it is looking like a very competitive Pac-12 this fall. Not sure where my Ducks will end up, but polls put them third for fourth -- quite a come down from previous seasons. That means a lot of the games will be nail-biters instead of gimmes, which is fine by me.