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The Road to Glendale: NFL Playoffs discussion
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 (January 20, 2015 at 12:18 am)Parkers Tan Wrote: If the Patriots played Al-Qaeda, I'd have to flip a coin to figure out who to root for. Being relatively new to American football, I find the hate people seem to hold for other teams is really bizarre. Football rivalries I get, but comments like the one above are really odd to me.  (January 20, 2015 at 1:56 am)Tiberius Wrote:(January 20, 2015 at 12:18 am)Parkers Tan Wrote: If the Patriots played Al-Qaeda, I'd have to flip a coin to figure out who to root for. Well, it's a joke, using exaggeration for effect. I don't really hate his team as much as I do jihadis.  RE: The Road to Glendale: NFL Playoffs discussion
January 20, 2015 at 11:18 am
(This post was last modified: January 20, 2015 at 11:20 am by SteelCurtain.)
(January 20, 2015 at 12:34 am)Minimalist Wrote: Do what I do when the Flyers play the Penguins. Root for injuries! HEY!  (January 20, 2015 at 11:11 am)Parkers Tan Wrote:For me, it's really fucking close...(January 20, 2015 at 1:56 am)Tiberius Wrote: Being relatively new to American football, I find the hate people seem to hold for other teams is really bizarre. Football rivalries I get, but comments like the one above are really odd to me.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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Wait, what? I thought the Patriots were jihadis.
 (January 20, 2015 at 11:18 am)SteelCurtain Wrote:(January 20, 2015 at 12:34 am)Minimalist Wrote: Do what I do when the Flyers play the Penguins. Root for injuries! I know people joke about that, but in all seriousness that is someone's job. I hate Dallas(just from a fan rivalry point, but not seriously enough to want someone's job to end). Frankly I also hate the fighting in Hockey, it gets ratings, but that really sends a bad message in sports in general. It is why fans fight in stadiums, and sickos get so religious about it, there have been soccer fans who have murdered their own team's players for losing a game. I think sports is ok, it is a reflection of our evolutionary competition, but no one really needs to take it so seriously. (January 20, 2015 at 11:42 am)Brian37 Wrote:(January 20, 2015 at 11:18 am)SteelCurtain Wrote: HEY! Fuck the 'Skins. 
As a Packers fan. I think this is the only time in my life where I'm rooting for the patriots.
In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
- Thomas Jefferson
The Seahawks are a much better story, too.
Who wants to reward the cold, calculated, emotionless precision of Bellechick/Brady? He's already got Giselle! At some point you're just greedy.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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And of course, another reason to root against the Seahawks is that they have god on their side. At least two or three players credited god with helping them win, and they had a big prayer circle after the game (which included some Packers, who I assume decided they had some sins to confess after god punished them with a soul-crushing loss). Russell Wilson actually thanked god and THEN his teammates. Maybe he figured that if he gave god a prominent enough spot on the list, the Super Bowl will go much better.
I can just imagine god in heaven, about to flip a coin to decide if he should cure everyone's cancer or eliminate pollution from the world, and suddenly he stops and realizes that the Seahawks are about to lose. "Fuck those starving kids, RUSSELL WILSON NEEDS ME!!!"
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould RE: The Road to Glendale: NFL Playoffs discussion
January 20, 2015 at 12:44 pm
(This post was last modified: January 20, 2015 at 12:44 pm by FatAndFaithless.)
(January 20, 2015 at 12:43 pm)Tonus Wrote: "Fuck those starving kids, RUSSELL WILSON NEEDS ME!!!" "I BET SATAN THEY'D BEAT THE SPREAD, I AIN'T LOSING CONTROL OF THE CATHOLICS TO HIM AGAIN."
In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
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