TroyMcClure

You've obviously never played any position on a football field. Your key word is "pickup". I guess my girlfriend could play in a pickup game. But the football player has to play a real soccer game? Either way, pick up or real, many skilled football players could kick a ball and half jog around while dudes 60yds from them try to chase after the kicked ball and kick it again. I understand soccer. I just don't like it... or hockey.

Sorry for continuing the hijack, dr.r I'm a Bama guy. College football was dead to me right about the time Tebow threw his 2nd td. I was very impressed with Utah, though. They were beasts on defense. I missed the Texas game. Was McCoy good? Did you see the UNC wr a few weeks back. He had 3 tds in the first half. He's absolutely huge. Almost TE like. Shannon Sharpe style. Just awesome. I never watch them, but from what I saw, that guy will be a high pick in a few years. I'll go ona limb and say that Florida will hold OU under 60! Maybe.

You hit the nail on the head! It is a lot more difficult to do those things. That's why they rarely, and this is indisputable, rarely do what they are attempting. I like to see a skilled athlete be totally on point. That is next to impossible in soccer or hockey. So is unison team play.

You do realize the second one is already a rule, right? I think you do. It's a great rule. It harkens back to the early, rugby like days of football's begining. Placekicking has evolved, but you can still do it the old school way. I don't see what's so stupid about this.

Rules are just arbitrary and have no bearing on whether a sport is complex? That is the single dumbest thing ever typed on this site. Not even NBAsuperstar can top that! I have not simplified it. It is... simple. How do you implement strategy without ball control? The answer is that you really can only try. You can never actually do it. Really silly that you cite an obscure rule in football, when you know that like 99% of the rules have a real, practical, easily applicable reason why they are there. Please do the thing you are talking about with football. I'd love to see it.

It's more complex because of the pacing. It is a full court game with goals on opposite ends, true. However, you can actually, really control a basketball. That turns it into something different. It is much more enjoyable to see 4 guys run a break with no dribbling than it is to watch Beckham bend one so a guy can try a header. That would be like watching a basketball game where the only scoring came from alley - oops. Actually, that would be a lot more fun for me to watch! Also, the pivot foot and defender spacing, dribbling rules, illegal picks, legal picks. Free throws, 3 in the key, inbounding rules, shoy clock, etc. There are a ton of others. I used to ref basketball up to jv level and I've inquired about soccer. Other refs tell me that soccer is, by far, the easiest sport to ref. on cost = The Football program at any school usually provides in upwards of 75% of the total revenue for the whole department, though.

Of course it's fast, they are skating for god's sake! As far as cost, baseball because of many factors including tournaments and travel, is actually the most expensive. Hockey is right there, though. Then football. As far as the sport being violent; it is but not to the extent of football. Really watch a game. They skate in circles and occasionally they hit one another near the boards or something. Hockey is a very physically gruelling game. No doubt. But the sport itself is not violent. In fact, they wear a whole lot more padding than football to protect themselves from a skate slash. They get violent when they fight like 6 yr olds, though. This is the lamest thing about hockey. It's just so lame.

Nothing ignorant about what I've said. You, in turn have said nothing. Please explain to me the rules of soccer. It will only take you about 5 minutes, if that. I understand what people think is complex in soccer. I just think they are wrong and ignorant of greater games of intellect. There aren't a whole lot of decisions to be made in soccer. If you can't control the ball consistently, then you really can't implement any kind of strategy. You can try, and I guess the struggle is the beauty, right? Garbage, imo. Soccer is like a caveman game. Primitive brains forming rules to make something tough...Hey, let's not use any hands! Please. It's a simple game for simple people. Sorry if I've offended anyone, but I like complexity and rules in games. Soccer and Hockey just don't cut it. I don't wave the flag on many things, but when it comes to sports, we are the smartest. We have evolved 3 sports to near perfection in just over a hundred years. What has the rest of the world done? Nothing. Perhaps because of isolation, we were able to cultivate these sports. Europe has been much different over the last century. I'm not saying we're better people. We're just better sports people.

Yeah, they aren't evolved enough as a sporting culture to grasp a game like football. I'm really not being rude here, but it's obvious you've never even been to a football practice, much less know what it's like to play. I've played basketball against numerous college and professional players and can hold my own for a while. I played football my whole life, but there is no way that I could do that in football. Not just for the physical limitations either. The game is just too complex, as Dolfan alluded to. It's like when people say that rugby is sooo much tougher. Whatever, I get into it with Euros all the time over this. They just don't get it. Look at it like this, if you are running straight into someone without a helmet, are you going to slow up and move your head to the side, so as to not break your neck? Of course. This obviously lessens impact. A football player feels secure and runs straight through an opponent. It's a much more violent collision. Anyone who played football for any length of time knows this. I don't find soccer even remotely close to "beautiful". It's an ugly game. One of the main allures to the American Sports is the complexity of the games. I find beauty in complexity. In organization. Games being taken to a perfection like baseball and football. Soccer is still the same game it was hundreds of years ago... When people were even dumber. Personally, I like to watch pros actually executing the thing that makes them a pro. Like, I expect to see Chipper take good cuts, Ryan to throw a good ball, Smoove to do the right thing(yeah, right!). I want to see a skilled craftsman doing their job. I don't want to see the one or two guys who get a chance to take a shot on goal, have the moment repeatedly slip away because of the absolute inability to actually control the ball. That just isn't beautiful. Neither is the idea of tying. That is just so, well, so... euro. Sorry if my tone is harsh, but I played football for a long time and it is without doubt, the most complex sport. It's also the most physical. Therein lies the appeal.

I hope you understand that no one is disputing those things. It seems by your tone that you don't though. Brooking did take away any chance at victory. He had a simple assignment and could not perform it. if he stays with the te, we either get a sack or a check down. He was trying to do Lofton's job and we lost any chance of stealing a victory. Brooking is just beyond pedestrian. A special player makes a play when given the chance and doesn't miss basic assignments. Brooking missed the mark on both counts. That was the singular point i was making about the game. Your second reason has a whole lot to do with Brooking, by the way.

I agree with blitzing, AHF, but the call was sound, imo. The players were not. If Brooking does the job he's paid millions of dollars to, it's a different situation. Lofton had his responsibility covered. I'm still too disgusted to get into why we lost (there were a number of reasons), but the play in discussion is all about Keith Brooking being one of, if not the most overrated defensive players to ever step on a field. He was horrible 10 years ago, he was horrible when moronic players, looking at stats, voted him to pro bowls, and he's horrible now. He is both soft and stupid. Just a terrible player. Pulling a guy down 7 yards downfield as he's running over you, aren't exactly the tackles I'd like to see from a LB, but that's just me, you know?To be honest, maybe it was good that he was exposed in such a way. I'm not just reacting here. I've always felt this way about him. He's just, and I hate this term, I really do, but he's just a scrub of the highest order. I never thought he tried as hard as was portrayed. He has never liked contact and that's sort of like a receiver who doesn't like to catch. He's just terrible... and stupid on a football level, as everyone now knows.

What makes you think they can afford interns? And who would work for the ASG without pay? Does it really help a resume if the company you interned for lost millions of dollars a year? JK, but really?

That is it. That's why he has control issues dribbling as well.

To answer your question, teke: No, I did not believe they could win so often. Still don't to some extent. It's a long season. But it's nice to be playing this competently.

So, you've been a member for 6 + years and this is the first you've heard of Hotlanta's attitude? You call him a troll, yet you never post and felt the need to do so over... what exactly? Seriously, that's like the 1,000th "hotlanta is a troll" post. It's really lame. Focus on what he says, not what you think you know about what he's thinking.

I'm going to miss most of that one. I'm a big Favre fan. And I haven't really watched Miami much this year. That's the game for me. All of the games are at channelsurfing.net, though.

Woo Hoo! Man, that was close. Just as we won, Carolina kicked a game winner. Could have been really good. Arizona is still a good bet.

I've never seen that little elf before. I know most of the Refs by name, too. That was one of, if not the worst job of officiating, that I've ever seen. First, they didn't make a call on the field after Turner's run. Then they allowed the Rams to lobby them. Then they said it was a fumble. Then, with clear evidence in the booth to overturn, he rules that it was a fumble. I'm disgusted. I can't stand it when the integrity of the game is ruined because of incompetence. I almost want to turn off the tv. Just disgusted. Even more so because Turner should have switched the football to his outside arm in the open field. It's a basic thing that is taught for this very reason. We're about to lose this game and be forced to go to Chicago or to Minnesota again. This sucks. One more, WTF is the line judge? We have had very few penalties all year. Then, within a matter of plays, we had two false starts on different te's? WTF? We're getting jobbed here. To be fair though, we have had very good officiating all years, save the play against the Eagles. Still, I'm absolutely efiing enraged. It was either type or bust my damn tv.

I feel the same way. Actually though, they have basically identical stats over the last 5 years or so. It's a matter of when you get the hits in baseball. Manny has had a much greater impact for his teams. I'm not wishing injury on anyone, but if the Yanks had 4 or 5 guys go down with acl injuries, I think the world would collectively say " serves them right", no?

We can move this discussion later. For now, you are right. He is the second coming. But he better get a lot done before 2012!lol! I like the geaux saints thing! I'm a big Marino fan, though. I hope they win and he falls just short of the mark.

Just think about the "existence doesn't make sense" part. Really, think about it. It's a quantum physics thing, but is a basic concept to understand. The earth is finite. Once you get to outer space, there is no end. It's impossible. It's not like in a cartoon where Bugs Bunny hits a brick wall in space. It can't end. Existence just doesn't make scientific sense. If say, a god created a universe... where was he when he created it? So, from that angle you can see how the idea of a god or multiple gods just seems so silly and earthbound. The universe is huge, man. So huge that it doesn't end.

He said what? He probably loves the Eagles, too! Last year's roster was worse than this one. The subtraction of Childress and the maturation of Horford and Marvin alone make this year's better.

Most of the plays. LOL! Like we have an abundance.

As long as he coaches, there will be disapointment on some level. Just imagine a really good team like Utah. Now imagine if Woody coached them.

Because existence makes no sense and the idea of a God makes even less sense. But that's just my opinion. To each their own... god that is.