Get a giant tube of Proactiv and smear it all over Germany, they are seriously a flawed side going into the Euro final. Turkey deserved to win that matchup almost as much as Croatia deserved to beat them the game prior - more chances, more creativity, and just as much Michael Ballack as Germany had (is he invisible?). Germany has a terrible defence, and perhaps the worst goalie in the tourney really in Jens Lehmann, who looks shakier than Michael J. Fox on a case of Red Bull...wonder why Russia is looking fresh where Holland, for example, looked gassed? The Russian league is only half way through its season while the majority of players have played full seasons of domestic and European competition. That said, I think that with the mental hurdle of Italy now behind them, Spain (+114) will play a free flowing game and down them again, albeit closer than the 4-1 score of earlier in the tourney. Apologies to new poster "Russian"! Best line from TSN's Vic Rauter, on the fact that Russia has no official state bird: "they may choose the 'Guus'"...the Pinnacle ledger sits at 14-15 (-$43) for the tourney...good of Novak Djokovic to talk of how vulnerable Roger Federer was going into Wimbledon. Federer survived round two. Nola? Not so much...it looks like long-time Indiana Pacer Jermaine O'Neal is going to the Toronto Raptors for T.J. Ford, Rasho Nesterovic and the #17 pick in tonights draft. Who wins the deal? Everybody, says ESPN...if the talk of Anthony Parker and Carlos Delfino moving is true, that could be five Raptors rotation players gone in one off season. Says much of how Bryan Colangelo assessed the past season...if you're interested in seeing Pachua (Mexico) or Independiente (Argentina) when they come to face Toronto FC in the coming weeks, be sure to post - may have a trio of tickets available in section 114 (aka "The Bunker" or south end)...Vinny Lacavalier is a fantastic hockey player. Top 5 or 10. But a 9 year contract for $77 million by the Tampa Bay Bolts is moronic on their part...Yankees pitcher Joba Chamberlain was throwing 97mph change ups last night and hit 100 on the fastball en route to his first win as a starter. Seems the conversion is complete...one suggestion on how Joe Torre might get his LA Dodgers back in the NL West race: have Andruw Jones eat the competition...have a great Thursday, enjoy the semi-final.Thursday, June 26, 2008
Thursday, June 27th, 2008
Get a giant tube of Proactiv and smear it all over Germany, they are seriously a flawed side going into the Euro final. Turkey deserved to win that matchup almost as much as Croatia deserved to beat them the game prior - more chances, more creativity, and just as much Michael Ballack as Germany had (is he invisible?). Germany has a terrible defence, and perhaps the worst goalie in the tourney really in Jens Lehmann, who looks shakier than Michael J. Fox on a case of Red Bull...wonder why Russia is looking fresh where Holland, for example, looked gassed? The Russian league is only half way through its season while the majority of players have played full seasons of domestic and European competition. That said, I think that with the mental hurdle of Italy now behind them, Spain (+114) will play a free flowing game and down them again, albeit closer than the 4-1 score of earlier in the tourney. Apologies to new poster "Russian"! Best line from TSN's Vic Rauter, on the fact that Russia has no official state bird: "they may choose the 'Guus'"...the Pinnacle ledger sits at 14-15 (-$43) for the tourney...good of Novak Djokovic to talk of how vulnerable Roger Federer was going into Wimbledon. Federer survived round two. Nola? Not so much...it looks like long-time Indiana Pacer Jermaine O'Neal is going to the Toronto Raptors for T.J. Ford, Rasho Nesterovic and the #17 pick in tonights draft. Who wins the deal? Everybody, says ESPN...if the talk of Anthony Parker and Carlos Delfino moving is true, that could be five Raptors rotation players gone in one off season. Says much of how Bryan Colangelo assessed the past season...if you're interested in seeing Pachua (Mexico) or Independiente (Argentina) when they come to face Toronto FC in the coming weeks, be sure to post - may have a trio of tickets available in section 114 (aka "The Bunker" or south end)...Vinny Lacavalier is a fantastic hockey player. Top 5 or 10. But a 9 year contract for $77 million by the Tampa Bay Bolts is moronic on their part...Yankees pitcher Joba Chamberlain was throwing 97mph change ups last night and hit 100 on the fastball en route to his first win as a starter. Seems the conversion is complete...one suggestion on how Joe Torre might get his LA Dodgers back in the NL West race: have Andruw Jones eat the competition...have a great Thursday, enjoy the semi-final.
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How much you pushing the tix for?
CFL 2008 predictions
West
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BC Lions
Calgary
Edmonton
Saskatchewan
East
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Winnipeg
Toronto
Hamilton
Montreal
Winnipeg over BC in Grey Cup 2008.
NP -- Russian National Anthem
russian team lost, spain deserve to be in final and more likely will win. great attack, flowless defence and great goalie. what can i say? as soon as i saw rain in austria i realise that russia in trouble, spain is way better technicaly and russians lost speed because of weather conditions. i dont know why they choose defenceve soccer and give up all midfield. i cant be totaly upset, this team performed well and jumped over their heads, at least they jumped higher then france, italy and dutch. russian defence was missing their centre defence guy and all goals came right there, guus should dump his replacement from team, because he was the one who played first game against spain. arshavin didnt play well and he wants to go to barcelona. this team can bench ronaldinio for bad games, so arshavin need to realise this. i cant take my frasruation on russian team, they did well on euro, so i will trush edmonton oilers instead. i dont know if anyone noticed small news that kelly buchberger joined oilers coaching team. all what oilers need it is another lamberjack behind the bench. how long bad coach will stay in power without winning: barcelona fired their coach after 2 seasons, chelsea after one, even meaple leafs get rid of idiots. how long lowe/mctavish running oilers and what they achived? nothing. i can bet 100 dollars oilers will finish between 7 and 10 place as usual, as long as they have some euro player they will blame him for all problems. young players will count their days untill free agency. i dont want to talk about oilers first round picks, what a failure. do you want me to go over kevin lowe trades? not a single newspaper or tv station call him smart, not even edmonton newspaper. among gm he is desgrace after given so much money to justin penner. look at the people he surround himself, all of them his friends who he never will fire and they never will critisize him. do you think nobody wants to play in edmonton because it is cold here and city looks like industrial dump? no. calgary isnt better and detroit is way worse. players dont want to be on team when coach never gets fired no matter what he does and he does nothing. i dont know why anybody will pay so much money to watch AHL team playing. personaly i am boycoting their games until changes will be made.
P.S. i think i fill a little bit better now
is CFL is a league??? eh, nobody cares about it anyway. did they actualy pay players money or just give them cupons from safeway?
what have Lowe / MacTavish? done?
how about 1 game from winning the Stanley Cup in 2006 for starters?
are they perfect? no , of course not. But they are also far from the worst GM / coach combo in the NHL. MacTavish should go before Lowe ... I hate his fucking "awww , shucks , we lost again but we'll get em' next time" bullshit.
Lowe has brought in Peca , Samsonov , Pronger , Pitkanen , Roloson , Garon , etc. over the past three seasons. The fact is that Edmonton is a very undesirable destination for all the snooty hockey cunt wives these players marry. It is the North American equivelant of Siberia , somewhere your dirty communist ass is familiar with ...
NP -- Back in the USSR - The Beatles
"cfl?"
do tell ...
CFL ...
It's a high tempo , contact game called "Football" , not to be confused with the pussy euro version of "I run and kick the ball ... I run and kick the ball ... but I never score the goal" version you love so dearly.
This version is played by real men with testicles between their legs. They don't fall down and act like wounded ducks when someone runs over them. Greasy eurotrash mullets are not a normal hairstyle in theis form of football either.
Also , no orange slices at half time.
Clear? I can go on if required ...
NP -- Seventeen - Winger
almost winning stanley in 2006 has nothing to do with mctavish. pronger, roloson, peca and couple more guys elevate their games and push whole team up. what happened next? all of them left and official media choose to blame their wives. half of the players are single. like i said calgary isnt better, but easy can sign player. what else oilers did besides 2006? anyone?
Yeah, when I think "man", I think of a guy who wears more body armor than a SWAT team, and can't run 50 yards without grabbing an oxygen mask after, and has so few brains his coach has to call in plays that he has to memorize so he can execute the simplest task, and plays a sport named after its ancestral sport which is now referred to here as "soccer". Yeah, "foot"ball, because they use their feet 1% of the time. Those are REAL tough guys and geniuses.
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YF, have 3 tickets, $25 per ticket. Sound fair?
real game that you just mention bukkake call regby. i bet any regby team can run over your bills or packers. by the way they playing without protection. that is what i call real men sport. there is a reason why american futbol dead outside of north america.
hey , hey you dumb fucking russian ... when did rugby come in to play here? Did I ever say anything about rugby? For the record , I think rugby is a fine sport. I imagine it is what all the young men outside of north america looking to play something a little more physical than soccer
turn to.
Soccer is a gateway sport in North America, kids play it when they are 5 years old and don't know any better. By teenage years 95% of kids still playing soccer are either a) immigrant kids who's parents can't give up the dream , or b) pansies wh don't like the contact of football , hockey , rugby , lacrosse , or even basketball.
And TBek , your argument of "who can run further" carries no weight. Wow , a soccer player runs 10 km a game, Good for them. Join a fucking marathon. Football conditions for a different game. How many "soccer" players destroy their bodies from contact before they retire? There are many , many things you can call the game of football on (you and Ned's hatred of the rouge is a very valid one and hilarious when you get rolling ...) , but never call out a football players toughness or manlihood. It's the biggest meat grinder out there , everyone would concur with that.
As for play calling , all I ask is , have you ever played football? Coached it? Picked up a playbook? Again , easily the most complex sport in the world. This isn't sandlot pickup , the men that call plays and develop playbooks are students of the game that spend years perfecting this art. Sorry it's not as easy as it sounds and each player should get his turn at picking a play in the huddle...
NP -- Stompin' Tom Connors - The Football Song.
Most complex sport in the world?
Yeah, I think "complex" when I think "grab the ball with my hands, stick it in the arms of the guy standing behind me, watch him run three feet into waiting arms of seven guys in front of him." Wash, rinse, repeat. Yeah, real NASA and MENSA type stuff going on there. Takes vision and brains to manage that.
How many American Football players destroy their careers long before their bodies give out?
Lovingly yours,
Rob Johnson and Ryan Leaf
I apologize for the previous comment.
I forgot to include "insert commercial break, followed by a timeout so the coach can tell me to...hand off the ball to the guy behind me so he can run it into the guys standing three feet in front of him".
I apologize for the oversight.
sounds like your football players smart, tough and great characters. unfortunatly when you turn tv on all i can hear is another football player going to jail for something. football atract only mike tyson type of people - angree and stupid. NFL full of criminals and convicts. it tells you a lot.
Russian, let's not insult Mike Tyson that way. He at least made his own decisions without someone signaling in plays and telling him what to do like a trained seal.
interesting fact ...
myself , Jimmy McRobie , and The Creepy German once coached a high school football game in near typhoon like weather.
The wind and rain was blowing about 100 kn per hour right accross the field. Both our team and the oppositions were 2- 0 going into the game and had strong defences. The field was awful by the end of the first quarter. No team could move past the others 35 and no one could punt the ball more than 10 yards because of the strong wind.
Final Score? Ft. Sask 0 Leduc 0.
A nil - nil draw !!!
In all my years of playing / coaching / officiating football it was the only nil - nil draw I have ever been associated with. And might I say it was the crappiest display of sporting I have ever witnessed.
This must be what it is like to be a soccer fan year round ???
american football gives 6 points for touch down, sure scoreboard looks great after that. lets give 20 points for this heroic accomplishment just to keep bukkake happy. the best thing about american football are comercials and cheerleader girls.
quoting THE TBek
"Yeah, "foot"ball, because they use their feet 1% of the time. Those are REAL tough guys and geniuses."
I don't care that the sport is called "football". It was named in the 1800's for christ's sake !?
And the guys who do touch the ball with their feet 1% of the time (kickers and punters)are the least respected "athletes" in North American sports. Pansie's through and through ...
I guess I should add that 99% of these kickers and punters are former soccer players. Weird.
NP -- Rico Sauve' - Gerardo
true high school football tales (a follow up my last post).
As head coach of our high school team , this scene was played out many a year on the first day of school (after 10 day fall camp)...
Head Coach (HC) - Well guys , team looks solid this year ...
Assistant Coaches (AC) - man , strong running game , strong defence , this could be our year.
HC - everything in place for our first game? Only a week away ...
AC - strong O-line. Stud Running back. vicious linebackers. everyhting seems to be in place ...
HC - seems like we are missing something ...
AC - oh yeah , we have no kicker or punter !!
HC - damn. time to scour the intramural soccer "matches" and chess club at lunch hour to find an acne riddled social retard to kick the ball for us again this season.
you got this right bukkake, football coaches recruting "social retards" to play for team. i cant desagree with you. and when no more room left for this retards in USA they getting shipped to CFL on back of police cars. this is how US goverment solves crime problem.
I wouldn't be running down kickers, Bukkake. It is after all one of the "skill" positions in football, and what says "great sport" more than some positions require skill and some...do not?
The best part though is that 99% of football stories at some point include "high school". What a game!
Yours,
Al Bundy
And speaking of social retards and outcasts...what is the CFL if not that?
football: stop. start. stop. stop. flag. stop. start. commercial. penalty. review. start. stop. replay.
etc.
continued: stop. start. oxygen. stop. timeout. commercial. review. flag. flag picked up. huddle. timeout. commercial. start. offside. back up. start. stop. etc.
question --> how is it possible there is something in football called a "delay of game" penalty?
makes no sense.
Thought I would throw my 2 cents in here. Have played all sports discussed at a relatively competitive level except soccer which I have played at a recreation level only. In short, they are both great sports in their own way but very different in the toll it puts on your body.
Playing a full football game is like no other sport out there, even others with contact (hockey, rugby etc). The impact of the hits and how many times it happens in a game, there is a reason you can only play once a week!
Soccer was related to a "Marathon" which it is x10. What makes it even more grueling and demanding is the stop and start and change of direction while running. That coupled with some contact, this is no pussy sport even though the excessive diving gives it that impression.
Both also require a high level of intelligents and instinct.
Overall, the arguements made on both sides were nothing more then good comedy with little substance to discredit one another. If your a fan of sport, enjoy'em then. They are both great in their own ways!
the reason so many football players are sore all week is cuz about half of them (the line) are 300-pound fat- asses. and encouraged to be so.
That's what roids are for.
Comments 28 and 29, try and write something that makes sense.
while we're trying to make sense here, surely you mean "try to" and not "try and."
My apologies for the lack of clarity. By "roids", I meant "steroids".
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