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Cricket and rugby. Absolutely disgusting. It’s shameful that Irish people engage in these pursuits these days.

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Bringing cricket into this is despicable.

Just because your relation is a creep.

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I posted this in the NFL thread, but to be honest lots of people prob don’t read the stuff in there. This is a really good article about NFL and its place in American society. Very accessible and a great read. Long but worth it.

[B]http://m.espn.go.com/nfl/story?storyId=8286445&wjb=&pg=0[/B]

[I]“Complexity made the fans feel like cognoscenti. With a little homework, the everyman could monitor the action knowingly, through field glasses, like a five-star general watching the battle from a distant hilltop. But the game never alienated the ignorati. Maybe you recognize that the O is in an 11-personnel set, or a 22. Maybe you don’t. Maybe you just like all the pretty colors. Doesn’t matter. The NFL is a capacious tent. Come one, come all, step right up.”

“A war-ravaged nation embraced baseball’s soothing, pacific tableaus. Men in a pasture. Individuals confronting, but coexisting with, group dynamics.Four snow-white islands of safety. You want safety on a football field? Get the fuck out of bounds.”[/I]

“Courage, among other things, is order. Simple order. Cool, clear order. One of the exquisite pleasures of a football game is seeing a group of men risk their bodies, their lives, their fortunes, figuratively, literally, to wrest order from entropy”

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@tallback,

Can you post the link later not from the mobile site

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[quote=“chewy louie, post: 873523, member: 1137”]@tallback,

Can you post the link later not from the mobile site[/quote]
Better Link here:

http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/page/Mag15footballisdead/

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[quote=“tallback, post: 873525, member: 1158”]Better Link here:

http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/page/Mag15footballisdead/[/quote]

Thanks

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[quote=“tallback, post: 873525, member: 1158”]Better Link here:

http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/page/Mag15footballisdead/[/quote]

Great read!

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[quote=“tallback, post: 873520, member: 1158”]I posted this in the NFL thread, but to be honest lots of people prob don’t read the stuff in there. This is a really good article about NFL and its place in American society. Very accessible and a great read. Long but worth it.

[B]http://m.espn.go.com/nfl/story?storyId=8286445&wjb=&pg=0[/B]

[I]“Complexity made the fans feel like cognoscenti. With a little homework, the everyman could monitor the action knowingly, through field glasses, like a five-star general watching the battle from a distant hilltop. But the game never alienated the ignorati. Maybe you recognize that the O is in an 11-personnel set, or a 22. Maybe you don’t. Maybe you just like all the pretty colors. Doesn’t matter. The NFL is a capacious tent. Come one, come all, step right up.”

“A war-ravaged nation embraced baseball’s soothing, pacific tableaus. Men in a pasture. Individuals confronting, but coexisting with, group dynamics.Four snow-white islands of safety. You want safety on a football field? Get the fuck out of bounds.”[/I]

“Courage, among other things, is order. Simple order. Cool, clear order. One of the exquisite pleasures of a football game is seeing a group of men risk their bodies, their lives, their fortunes, figuratively, literally, to wrest order from entropy”[/quote]
That’s appalling writing.

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If it’s to do with NFL, I imagine it is. A sport for farmhands from Missouri.

I hope Tom Humphries gets off, he’s the best we’ve ever produced.

Other than him, Marina Hyde is the best journalist in the world, whether it’s football, politics or entertainment. I’d actually not be far off wanking to her articles.

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[quote=“Thrawneen, post: 873633, member: 129”]
Other than him, Marina Hyde is the best journalist in the world, whether it’s football, politics or entertainment. I’d actually not be far off wanking to her articles.[/quote]
I find her articles to be a bit Jekyll and Hyde.

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[quote=“Thrawneen, post: 873633, member: 129”]If it’s to do with NFL, I imagine it is. A sport for farmhands from Missouri.

I hope Tom Humphries gets off, he’s the best we’ve ever produced.

Other than him, Marina Hyde is the best journalist in the world, whether it’s football, politics or entertainment. I’d actually not be far off wanking to her articles.[/quote]

Admirable honesty thraw, but in fairness, i’d say i could make up a woman’s name and you’d be able to invent a personality for to crack one off to.

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[quote=“Thrawneen, post: 873633, member: 129”]If it’s to do with NFL, I imagine it is. A sport for farmhands from Missouri.

I hope Tom Humphries gets off, he’s the best we’ve ever produced.

Other than him, Marina Hyde is the best journalist in the world, whether it’s football, politics or entertainment. I’d actually not be far off wanking to her articles.[/quote]
There isn’t much you wouldn’t wank off to in fairness.

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I am as God made me, sir

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http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2013/dec/31/michael-schumacher-journalist-priest-intrusion

Superb, outside-the-box thinking, shame it didn’t come off.

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He was hardly going to get an exclusive interview. My limited knowledge of such things would suggest that even if Schumacher regains consciousness, he is unlikely to be the same person again, to put it mildly.

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Ps not sure I agree about TH getting off, but I agree he is the best sports journalist we have produced to date.

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Most of us are fairly sure how we feel about TH getting off with underage girls, but whatever you’re into yourself you freak.

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I was answering thrawneen above. A loudmouth such as yourself would have little comprehension of anything understated.

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FFS man at least make some effort to distance yourself from your statement.

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Like I said.