I respect everyone's opinion

Post by **Sylvus** » June 30, 2006, 11:16 am

But I'm going to be driven crazy if I keep seeing new posts in the Sports forum and I click in here only to see it about Cycling or Soccer. Next thing I know you guys are going to start posting about dresses and cosmetics.

Only 63 days until kickoff, thank Jesus!

miir · Post by **miir** » June 30, 2006, 11:21 am

At least there's been no posts about the sport of poker.

Midnyte_Ragebringer · Post by **Midnyte_Ragebringer** » June 30, 2006, 11:33 am

miir wrote:At least there's been no posts about the sport of poker.

I've lost 5 pounds this week doing 2 reps a day of poker.

noel · Post by **noel** » June 30, 2006, 11:34 am

I totally understand and agree. I get real bored when there's no Football, Cycling or NBA discussion here. Don't worry, there's only going to be a month or so of cycling, and the World Cup is mercifully almost over (not dissing anyone's love of the World Cup just stating it's not for me).

Kelshara · Post by **Kelshara** » June 30, 2006, 11:37 am

Well to be honest.. the only sports that I am aware of right now are:

- Tennis
- Soccer
- Cycling

Kind of slow days otherwise, so at least we have something to discuss!

Post by **Sylvus** » June 30, 2006, 11:53 am

It's baseball season and I'm starting to become a fan again since the Tigers are finally a respectable club. Not that I want to talk about that, just that it's a topic people could get on that I wouldn't hate. I read pretty much every post in sports and when you guys talk about World Cup and Cycling, I've never even heard of any of these people and I just can't really get into any of them. You might as well be talking about NASCAR.

Kelshara · Post by **Kelshara** » June 30, 2006, 12:39 pm

Nascar.. OK NOW you sink low, sir!

Edit: Just realized it is Formula 1 and Moto GP as well. I watch both but doubt many others do.

Truant · Post by **Truant** » June 30, 2006, 1:17 pm

Why don't we follow the Aslanna solution and make a seperate forum for each sport, that way you can just read the football and basketball forums and not have to be bothered by the rest of us.

/sarcasm off

Winnow · Post by **Winnow** » June 30, 2006, 1:21 pm

/sarcasm off
Probably need a Suns forum separate from the NBA forum too!
/sarcasm on

Kilmoll the Sexy · Post by **Kilmoll the Sexy** » June 30, 2006, 2:13 pm

Why would someone in Detroit be glad for football season to start? Anyway, it does suck during the football offseason in here. They need to start putting that crap like soccer and cycling and poker and lacrosse and NASCAR and the rest of that gay shit on The Ocho and just run repeats of NFL games on the real ESPN stations during the offseason.

I am about to go get Madden football and start having the computer play the season out every Sunday on the big screen.

Post by **Sylvus** » June 30, 2006, 2:34 pm

63 days until NCAA football kickoff, knucklehead. I'm from Ann Arbor, not Detroit Proper.

That said, I still can't help but be a Lions fan, if only because Barry was the greatest running back of all time.

Sabek · Post by **Sabek** » June 30, 2006, 2:42 pm

Sylvus wrote:63 days until NCAA football kickoff, knucklehead. I'm from Ann Arbor, not Detroit Proper.

That said, I still can't help but be a Lions fan, if only because Barry was the greatest running back of all time.

How many days until Michigan loses to OSU?

masteen · Post by **masteen** » June 30, 2006, 2:43 pm

Come on Sylvus! You don't find discussions over which country takes the most authentic looking dives absolutely fascinating?

And that magic spray they use! Why don't we have that kind of miraculous technology here in the US?!?

Kelshara · Post by **Kelshara** » June 30, 2006, 2:49 pm

Have to say though.. doesn't this thread break the Sports forum rules?

Spankes · Post by **Spankes** » June 30, 2006, 2:50 pm

Sylvus wrote:That said, I still can't help but be a Lions fan, if only because Barry was the greatest running back of all time.

Bite your tounge! Walter Payton was the greatest running back of all time.

Post by **Sylvus** » June 30, 2006, 3:01 pm

Sabek wrote:
Sylvus wrote:63 days until NCAA football kickoff, knucklehead. I'm from Ann Arbor, not Detroit Proper.

That said, I still can't help but be a Lions fan, if only because Barry was the greatest running back of all time.
How many days until Michigan loses to OSU?

I think we're probably looking at like 1200-1500 days until Michigan loses to OSU.

Kelshara wrote:Have to say though.. doesn't this thread break the Sports forum rules?

I suppose I wasn't that clear when I said...

I wrote:If you don't like a sport, nobody cares. If there's a conversation about the Pan-Am Water Polo Games and you think water polo is for pussies, stfu and click on the next thread. We don't need someone chiming in on every thread about how they dislike some sport. If you must, go for it, but please at least have an argument to make.

I meant more in the "disrupting a thread with it" sense. That's why I started a new thread, if you do like one of the sports that I don't, you don't have to read this one.

Post by **Sylvus** » June 30, 2006, 3:03 pm

Spankes wrote:
Sylvus wrote:That said, I still can't help but be a Lions fan, if only because Barry was the greatest running back of all time.

Bite your tounge! Walter Payton was the greatest running back of all time.

That's an argument that I could be persuaded on. Sweetness is the only person though that there's even an argument about.

masteen · Post by **masteen** » June 30, 2006, 3:08 pm

Jim Brown? Don't hate him just because he cast off the shackles of his white oppressors years before his career was over!

Post by **Sylvus** » June 30, 2006, 3:44 pm

I almost said Jim Brown. He was pretty phenomenal, he just played for too short of a period. Shorter even than Barry, if memory serves.

Zamtuk · Post by **Zamtuk** » June 30, 2006, 3:50 pm

yeah but jim brown averaged what? 6.6 yards/carry? not to mention he was a brown

Post by **Sylvus** » June 30, 2006, 4:02 pm

He was a man among boys though. Barry was a man among men. And Barry had no offensive line to speak of. I can't say whether Jim Brown did or not.

Payton, Brown and Barry are the only 3 people whose names should ever be mentioned when talking about the best running back ever.

Winnow · Post by **Winnow** » June 30, 2006, 4:19 pm

In the "we'll never know" category goes Bo Jackson.

Barry Sanders would get my vote. Sweetness was consistent though and always popped back up after a hit or tackle. Both were great no nonsense professionals.

masteen · Post by **masteen** » June 30, 2006, 4:47 pm

Jim Brown had a pretty damn good offensive line. Not like the hogs the Skins had in the 80's, but decent enough.

Kilmoll the Sexy · Post by **Kilmoll the Sexy** » June 30, 2006, 4:49 pm

Whole different breeds of backs were Barry and Jim. I would say Barry is the second best speed back ever.....behind Walter. With power backs, you have a serious line of guys who could all contend they were the best. Jim Brown, John Riggins, Larry Csonka, Earl Campbell, etc. The big back looks to be extinct with the retirement of the leading rusher among all of them, The Bus.

Nick · Post by **Nick** » June 30, 2006, 5:02 pm

The world cup is like the first time in years i've bothered with this forum. NBA, American football = for me ultra tedious. Don't mind other people liking it ofc^^

Winnow · Post by **Winnow** » June 30, 2006, 5:24 pm

No Emmitt Smith talk brings a smile to my face!

Canelek · Post by **Canelek** » June 30, 2006, 9:54 pm

Winnow wrote:No Emmitt Smith talk brings a smile to my face!

Terrell Davis is in there too, as far as short careers go (re: Jim Brown). That said, Davis was no Jim Brown.

WTF is Emmitt Smith? AFL? Canada? Texas? NFL Gyro? I cannot recall the lesser pro football "attempts", assuming this fellow played pro.

Boogahz · Post by **Boogahz** » June 30, 2006, 10:03 pm

Canelek wrote:WTF is Emmitt Smith? AFL? Canada? Texas? NFL Gyro? I cannot recall the lesser pro football "attempts", assuming this fellow played pro.

My sarcasm detector is borken...

http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/821 ... .L_n3.uLYF

Canelek · Post by **Canelek** » June 30, 2006, 10:20 pm

GODDAMIT TEXAS! You stop that mr boogaz

Boogahz · Post by **Boogahz** » July 1, 2006, 3:25 am

Canelek wrote:GODDAMIT TEXAS! You stop that mr boogaz

You could also blame Florida since he started out there!

Canelek · Post by **Canelek** » July 1, 2006, 4:52 am

You could also blame Florida since he started out there!

Who did?

Xorian · Post by **Xorian** » July 1, 2006, 5:58 am

Heheh

The World cup is one of the first time i can discuss in this forum and not feeling like a total noob. (At least I feel so).

USA sports like American Football and Baseball are not really well known here, we have some teams but it is really little league, attracting close to no one, and barely appearing in newspapper at all.

We can't see NBA match on non paying TV channel, so even if i know baskeball rules and like it, i can't see it.

As for american football...this sport kinda interess me ! i understand absolutely nothing ( i tried to play Madden once....was a nightmare for me as i felt it was really complicated). But as each year im in a football fantaisy league with old EQ friends but i will need info on who to pick up etc, because here, appart for the retardwhoisnotwearingahelmetwhileriding (he has some swiss roots) we heard NOTHING of american football

masteen · Post by **masteen** » July 3, 2006, 4:13 pm

Canelek wrote:
You could also blame Florida since he started out there!
Who did?

Don't make me post pics of Emmet in the God-awful orange jerseys the Gators wore back then!

Pherr the Dorf · Post by **Pherr the Dorf** » July 3, 2006, 10:01 pm

The pistons have pissed away Wallace... is that what you were looking for

Canelek · Post by **Canelek** » July 3, 2006, 10:22 pm

masteen wrote:
Canelek wrote:
You could also blame Florida since he started out there!
Who did?
Don't make me post pics of Emmet in the God-awful orange jerseys the Gators wore back then!

You keep your honkey fetishes to yourself sir!

Deward · Post by **Deward** » July 6, 2006, 3:53 pm

I can't wait for football to start up again.

The NBA, MLB and NHL are just the suck. I like college level in those sports though. I just don't find the big leagues all that interesting. I like football because it is a team sport more so than the others. One or two superstars really won't do all that much in an NFL setting. One player can carry an NBA team though.

I enjoyed World Cup when I could get the games but I swear if I had to watch anymore faked dives then it would kill me. They should make that player lose at least 5 to 10 minutes of game time before being allowed back in. That bullshit of rolling around on the turf for 3 minutes, getting carried off the field and then being ready to get back into it 10 seconds later is just hogwash. That reminds me of the little league baseball coach that just has his hitters never try for a hit because most throws are balls anyway.

Winnow · Post by **Winnow** » July 30, 2006, 9:08 am

Thougt people might like the see the greatest RB in the NFL to have his career cut short!

Bo Jackson had the combination of speed and power. (225lbs running a 4.2 40!) Watch him bowl over defenders and then turn on the afterburners:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NooANnr2 ... ed&search=

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YIwt_wf ... ed&search=

Here's an 8 minute video. After you get get past the Bo Commercials, it has some great interviews taken with players and coaches during the time Bo Jackson was playing. Also a short clip of Michael Jordan talking about Bo Jackson:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8F6YWHO ... ed&search=

Wiki!

Following the 1987 baseball season, Jackson decided to again play football (just as a "hobby", he said) and joined the NFL's Los Angeles Raiders, rushing for 554 yards on 81 carries in just seven games. Over the next three seasons, Bo Jackson would rush for 2,228 more yards with 12 touchdowns. What made his stats so impressive was the fact that he was a back-up to Raiders' legend Marcus Allen.

Football fans vividly remember his 221-yard rushing performance on Monday Night Football in 1987 against the Seattle Seahawks. During this memorable performance he literally ran over Seahawks star linebacker Brian Bosworth, who had insulted Jackson and promised to contain him in a media event before the game. He also made a 91 yard run to the outside, untouched down the sideline. He continued sprinting until finally slowing down as he passed through the entrance to the field tunnel to the dressing rooms with teamates soon following.

He was the only man to hit the New Orleans Saints' Superdome scoreboard, suspended from its roof since its construction in 1975. In his rookie season Bo casually picked up a ball from the ball bag, threw it, and hit it on his first try.

Prior to his hip injury, Bo at 6'1", 222 lbs., ran a 4.12 40 yard dash at the 1986 NFL combine, as reported in the February 27, 1986, USA Today. This was one of the fastest NFL 40 times ever, regardless of position, and demonstrated strength comparable to the likes of Jim Brown. In his four seasons in the NFL, Jackson rushed for 2,782 yards and 16 touchdowns with an average yards per carry of 5.4. He also caught 40 passes for 352 yards and 2 touchdowns. Jackson's 221 yards on November 30, 1987 is still a Monday Night Football record.

Canelek · Post by **Canelek** » July 30, 2006, 9:17 pm

Jackson would have put up tremendous numbers (most likely) if not for the degenerative hip. It was a shame to see his career cut so short.

Too bad he played for the mincy raiders.