Roll, roll, roll the joint Pass it down the line Take a toke and hold the smoke Feel it blow your mind! Smokin' some good stuff today, dude?
Some people are just born for professional sports. A 6'6" 280# guy who can do 4.6 seconds in a 40-yard sprint CAN become an accountant, but WHY? People should take advantage of what they are given. All the better if people will pay you to do it.
such a true statement it needs to be said again. amazing how cheatriot apologists come on here to whine about someones opinion they have they are so insecure over the truth about it all. it would really be funny if it wasnt so sad and pathetic,that a cheatriot apologist would be so concerned about a post of someone,be more concerned about THAT,instead of this topic here which happens to be the biggest sports story of the century. http://www.politicalforum.com/sports/411870-anybody-else-here-excited-about-rams-coming-back-la.html a team that had played the majority of its inception into pro football going back to the city they belong to.even if they arent a fan of that team,you would think more people would be interested in this topic,its ONLY the biggest sports story in the last century. pretty sad that people here would rather whine over a posters opinion of how sports are so corrupt now instead of the biggest sports story of the century. pretty much WHY I seldom visit this site the prioritys posters have here. my ignore list grows larger. the NFL is as phony and as rigged as pro wrestling.same as it is,it is all scripted by the officials.the tuck rule,the holy roller game with the raiders and chargers giving the raiders the playoff win over them,then recently last year the refs picking up an obvious pass interference penalty flag against a cowboys defender with no explanation on WHY it was picked up so the cowboys would have their home playoff victory. all scripted and planned by the officials. well i finally woke up up about this which cant be said for many people around here sadly.
at least Alucard understood it was a major event and had enough of an interest to visit my Rams thread.I tip my hat off to you for doing so Alucard and glad to see that YOU here at least understand what a major event it is. something that seems to be rare around these parts at this place.
in Europe where sports betting is legal, it generate multiple BILLIONS in revenue and pays for stadiums so that taxes are not needed to finance their construction as in the USA
awesome high schools need stadiums and apparel all levels of college bowl need places to play, gear etc and the Div schools generate a lot of revenue with their football programs. there are many who receive sports scholarships and that is their way to an education as they never play pro sports sports is a huge industry and generates a lot of revenue and supports a lot of workers. The beauty is that it's all voluntary unlike govt. One chooses to buy a team jersey, attend a game or play the game themselves
You're bang on with everything you said! The Cheatriots don't have any raw talent. Tom Brady is nothing but a pretty boy masquerading as a tough quarterback. Face it the Cheatriots are "successful" because they cheat and have a lot of money so they can buy further "success." With money you also can buy a public relations staff to put a sugar coat and spin on all the negativity that your cheating has caused. A public relations firm will make people believe that white is black and black is white. It's like advertising toothpaste or some other product. You lie enough and enough fools will believe you.
As long as people value it, it's a value. What you might be asking is "Why do people value it? What good does it do?". My only response to that is that people DO value it. Beyond that, I'd have to ask you why it matters to you personally.
what I cant figure out and understand is WHY someone would rather whine about the truth of a post of mine on how the NFL is corrupt and as phony and rigged as pro wrestling and be more interested in just a mere post like that,instead of being interested in my Rams thread since the Rams going back to LA is the biggest major news event of sports history in the last CENTURY.. they would rather pay more attention whining about a post over how someone thinks the NFL is corrupt rather than have an interest in the biggest sports news story of the century. nice to see sports fans have such high prioritys.
Whether it's sports, video games or pornography, it's all about vicarious escapism from the heavyweight issues like existentialism and our mortality. Peruse the board...as an example. Global warming, escalation of the war in Syria, racial tensions, terrorism....we can only process so much bad news before your mind needs a vacation...hence watching sports serves an important role as a means to decompress from more serious matters.
its too bad that sports are as corrupt and rigged especially the NFL which is as scripted and rigged as pro wrestling.thats why i stick to mostly old NFL football games when it wasnt corrupt like it is now. for some reason,this little truth is something that upset someone here so much that they had to throw childish insults at me over.guess the truth like that being said hurts.
They whine because they have no logic to support and buttress their accusations! It's very easy to make accusations but it is an entirely different matter to back up your accusations with the weight of evidence. The Rams are heading back to LA. How do We know?? Well how do we know the sun will rise in the morning??? We just know.
Monday Night Football was one of the greatest social changes ever to happen to American society when it came on in 1970. It added another day to the weekend; was the overriding conversation starter on Tuesday's; it effected every business and manufacturing company, especially the auto industry, as nobody who actually researched purchasing a vehicle, would buy one made on Tuesday's. Why? Because of MNF running 9:00pm-midnight and later sometimes. The regular union autoworkers watching the games called in sick on Tuesday's in sufficient numbers to effect the quality of automobile production, big auto companies having to call in temps to fill their places on the assembly lines. Any American manufacturing company was effected the same way as the auto industry was by MNF, shoddy workmanship. It also was the forerunner of ESPN and the 24/7 news cycle we live in today. Prior to that, you never saw the plays of the week from the other NFL games, but MNF introduced their Halftime Highlights, which led to NFL Films, the ESPN network, and now it is almost impossible to watch the NFL without seeing every significant play from every game played, every week, whether it is MNF, Sunday Night football, Thursday Night Football, etc. How much effort and dollars are spent on the Super Bowl is amazing. It is estimated that hosting the game brings about $500 million into the local economy of the city that gets the bid. America is mesmerized and hypnotized by the two week gala of stupid, non-essential questions, dialogue and analysis that is spouted by "talking head" media people. The betting on the game - legal and illegal is astronomical. And the two teams representing the cities involved, sort of live and die with this particular game. The winner is crowed like Caesar's returning victorious armies, and the loser is considered the "goat" and shunned by the nation. Just consider the fate of the Buffalo Bills and their four straight losing Super Bowl appearances, a spectacular feat in itself, getting to the game four straight years in a row, vs the fate of the dynastic New England Patriots, where an official's made up on-the-spot rule called the "tuck" rule against Oakland's Raiders in the title game, launched that franchise on an amazing run of championship's. They even went into two of their Super Bowl's, one 18-0, and lost a pair to the N.Y. Giants. Now the team is so successful, directed by an almost mythical power named Tom Brady, as to be almost unbeatable each week. Buffalo? 15-years and counting since their last playoff appearance despite a spectacular team which changed the game itself. Now, since I am just writing about what is probably the most popular of the sports out there in America. If you break it down as to what does it contribute to society, and is it necessary? Not really. Books; golf; music; jogging; movies; concerts; television, all sorts of entertainment venues are available to the American public. Football? On the basic level it is 11 men in one colored uniform, colliding on a field with 11 men in a different colored uniform, attempting to move an odd shaped ball forward, and across a line, where they are awarded points for doing so, and the one with the most points wins. Each team represents one city - and the fortunes of that city seem to rise and fall on the outcome of this silly contest of collisions. Imagine New York; Boston; Dallas; Philadelphia; Chicago; Pittsburgh; Kansas City (fan base covers the entire state); Washington, without the NFL? Ya got nothing. However, the sport(s), do represent job creation; job maintenance; economic opportunity at almost every level, from the highly paid fools stupid enough to crack heads at top speed each week, down to the janitor's; vendor's, television tech and cameramen; security personnel; police traffic enforcement and direction; parking revenue's; etc. across the board to owner's and also cities with teams. You are not considered to be a "major league" metropolis in America without a professional or college sports representative. Case in point would be Oklahoma or Nebraska; you schedule those two teams for a road game, almost the entire state travels with them even if they don't have tickets, and somehow, most of them get into the stadium. Sports are not essential. But, they bring entertainment; elation on winning for communities, or despair in equal shares. Nobody in America cares a fig about the city of Toledo, Ohio, or Duluth, Minnesota - but everybody in America knows and cares in some way about the city of Green Bay, Wisconsin, the nirvana of the National Football League because of the Packers. The resident's of Toledo and Duluth are fans of some team also, even if they don't have one. Another case in point - Erie, Pennsylvania, a NE rust bucket city on Lake Erie. It is halfway between Buffalo, Cleveland and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, so the good citizens of Erie are evenly split most weekends rooting for or watching the Cleveland Browns; Pittsburgh Steelers or Buffalo Bills fortunes in football. It would be nice to get America back in the Kennedy mode of the 50-mile hikes; running; jogging; walking; exercising, playing tennis instead of plopping ourselves in front of giant tv screens every week to watch football or NASCAR auto racing (as dull perhaps as watching grass grow, or paint dry - "go fast - turn left)" or professional golf. In the 1950's, until the arrival of the American Football League on NBC in 1961, baseball was America's sport (also as dull as drying paint today). The decline of baseball is in direct correlation to the rise in the NFL popularity. It is nice to have a baseball team in town; fun at the ballpark can be had, even with losing teams (Wrigley Field and the Chicago Cubs spring to mind). But, are sports really necessary? No; of course not, but they give us a vicarious thrill and something to look forward to and talk about, and argue about every week. What are our team's fortunes; how we doing; can we beat the damn Patriots (based out of Boston - a city know for three things: sports; beer and Irish revenge). Imagine Dallas without the Cowboys; New York without the Giants and Jets; Green Bay without the Packers, or Oakland without the Raaadars - and their hilarious dressed fans. Sports are a necessary release from the tensions of the workplace; or a past time during illness or in retirement, etc. Austin, Texas and Miami, Florida are not much if the Longhorns and Hurricane football teams are not playing well - which they are not. Miami has its sunshine and tourism, but the Dolphins are riddled with vanilla fair weather fans, while UM football is the Number 1 sports story in the Magic City all of the time, even with the success of the Heat basketball team the past 5-years. Do we need sports - yes-yes-and yes. Can we live without them - also yes but America is a much more interesting nation when our sports heroes are on center stage. Face it, Elvis and Sinatra could only appear perhaps once a year if that, in your town. But the Giants play 8-10 football games a year, and the baseball season stretches from April to October. What would we do with all that spare time without officials and Tom Brady to boo; argue over rapist football and basketball talents like Kobe Bryant and Big Ben in Pittsburgh; or have a Federal court have to decide if somebody actually deflated football's on a regular basis to gain an unfair advantage in passing? And people still hate Pete Rose and are actually interested in politics?.............
No. Catching a cannon ball is a liability. Sports make men into cannon fodder. sports should be for women only. Men should fight.
Sports, like war are a huge chunk of the economy. If there was a moratorium on sports, there would be another Great Depression. Literally, millions would be out of work.
yeah the ones that attack someone over a post throwing childish insults because the truth hurts their feelings that professional sports are corrupt,those losers are indeed easy to spot.
sour grapes would be someone who stoops to a childish insult of tin foil hatter because the truth hurts him that pro sports are corrupt as any INDEPENDENT THINKER can see. love how someone here evades how they have prioritys of whinging over a post of someone telling the truth that pro sports are corrupt and would rather do THAT than talk about the biggest sports story in sports history,the Rams coming back to LA.love the priorities here of people . As i said,thats pretty sad that they have that priority over a POST instead of the biggest sports story of the century in sports.lol. Now THATS a dodge there if there ever was one,dodoging whining about their priorities of ones post instead of the sports story of the century
You could ask the same about TV, movies or video games, even music... Yeah people like to watch sports... I love hockey, I was drafted by the White Sox because I was a good ball player, but hockey is my #1 sport... Sports aren't only fun to watch - they're fun to play as well... I would play hockey or baseball (softball these days lol) regardless if someone was watching me, but people do spectate so....
