(January 21, 2015 at 12:00 am)SteelCurtain Wrote:

(January 20, 2015 at 11:56 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: You'd win a bunch too, if you were stuck in such a pathetic division. :p

Right! With the likes of the Bills, Jets, and Dolphins scratching together 10 wins a season between them...

I know, right? The real question is - with a schedule like that, how'd they manage to lose 4 games?

Quote:There is also an unofficial code to fighting that many new to the sport don't understand.

Maybe in the old days but now? Each team has a designated goon and about 3-4 minutes into any game when each team puts its 4th line out for their first shift and the goons line up against each other you know there will be a highly scripted "fight" as soon as the puck is dropped. These "fights" between two helmeted and heavily padded individuals are usually little more than dances in which they hold each other with one hand and hit each other in the helmet with the other. I usually take the opportunity to go take a leak. If I want to watch wrestling I'll watch wrestling.

Real fights, where guys are actually pissed at each other about something that happened on the ice, are a rarity.

(January 20, 2015 at 9:46 pm)Tiberius Wrote: It seems most American football fans I meet love to shit talk about the other team and take it to the extreme (as in the example I quoted).

As has already been noted, the example you quoted was a joke, not a serious expression of emotion, and used exaggeration for effect. You liked that post, so I had assumed you had took it aboard, but here you're acting like it was serious. What gives?

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(January 20, 2015 at 11:56 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote:

(January 20, 2015 at 11:40 pm)SteelCurtain Wrote: The Pats have enemies everywhere, because they freaking win so much.

You'd win a bunch too, if you were stuck in such a pathetic division. :p

Ya know? The NFC East is competitive year in and year out. I might rag on the 'Skins or especially the Eagles, but it's historically been a strong goddamned division.

(January 21, 2015 at 12:44 am)Parkers Tan Wrote: Ya know? The NFC East is competitive year in and year out. I might rag on the 'Skins or especially the Eagles, but it's historically been a strong goddamned division.

True, most years there's 2 or 3 decent teams and the division matchups tend to be competitive. Can't stand any of the teams, but I have to give them all some degree of respect. Yes, even the skins (Hi, Bria ).

The AFC East? When was the last time the Bills, Jets, or Fins were really competitive? The division title is more or less a gimme for the Patsies.

Fights in hockey used to be a way to protect skill players from cheap shots and rough play, but the NHL has improved its rules regarding such actions. Fights now seem to happen as much out of boredom as anything else. I would like to see the NHL work harder to eliminate it from the game completely, but it seems as if the sport is already moving in that direction.

(January 21, 2015 at 6:49 am)Tonus Wrote: Fights in hockey used to be a way to protect skill players from cheap shots and rough play, but the NHL has improved its rules regarding such actions. Fights now seem to happen as much out of boredom as anything else. I would like to see the NHL work harder to eliminate it from the game completely, but it seems as if the sport is already moving in that direction.

Does not matter why they happen. Still childish. It isn't a boxing match.

Contact sports should not involve being a fucking prick.

When I was a kid, I played pick up football on my playground on my street. I sucked but sometimes I got lucky. I finally beat this bully on a pass play, caught the ball and out ran him to the end zone. The asshole was pissed that I beat him, shoved me with one hand which propelled me onto the basketball court causing me to skid across it which tore up the skin on my hands and arms.

Our male species no matter the issue sucks at civil conflict resolution.

Teststerone's a hell of a drug.

(January 21, 2015 at 10:28 am)SteelCurtain Wrote: Teststerone's a hell of a drug.

Religion is the art of making excuses to be on top.

(January 21, 2015 at 9:47 am)Brian37 Wrote: Does not matter why they happen. Still childish. It isn't a boxing match.

Contact sports should not involve being a fucking prick.

I agree, but that's an attitude that is only very slowly being removed from sports in general, at least here in the USA. There is still a lot of admiration for people who are successful because they are such sore losers, and there is still admiration for people who will "do anything to win," even if that involves bending or breaking the rules.

But it is being removed. At least in part due to a growing understanding of how brain injuries can make for shorter and more miserable lives, sports are working to rein in behavior that used to be celebrated. Fights in hockey are much less common than they used to be, and more and more teams are no longer keeping players whose only contribution to a game is to pummel other players.

Even more reason to hate the Pats.

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/201...-inflated/

Pro Football Talk Wrote:According to Chris Mortensen of ESPN.com, the NFL has found that 11 of the 12 football used by the New England Patriots in Sunday’s AFC Championship game against the Indianapolis Colts were under-inflated by two pounds each.
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Per NFL rules, the footballs must be inflated between 12.5-13.5 pounds per square inch of air pressure.

It seems pretty improbable that mere happenstance would result in 11 of the 12 footballs being under-inflated without outside factors. While the blame for the deflated footballs has yet to be assigned, the Patriots won’t get much in the way of benefit of the doubt due to previous issues.