Obscene, Violent Gesture?!

[Pat Riot]

What’s an “NFL”?

[Wild Eagle]

4 hours ago, Rye Miles #13621 said:

It was only a few players , the majority of them were never into the whole kneeling thing and neither were the coaches! It was the NFL top brass that ignored the people. They haven’t knelt for the Anthem for quite a few years.

All it takes for evil to prevail is for good men to stand by and do nothing.  Enjoy the game.  Just remember that none of the other players said or did anything about the "few".

[Rye Miles #13621]

34 minutes ago, Wild Eagle said:

All it takes for evil to prevail is for good men to stand by and do nothing.  Enjoy the game.  Just remember that none of the other players said or did anything about the "few".

How do you know they didn’t? Were you present in the locker rooms or at  practice, you don’t know what happened behind the scenes and yes I will enjoy the games! 

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

23 hours ago, Matthew Duncan said:

I heard a Jeep driver say Bronco owners drink Bud Lite.  Obscene or true?  🫣

He would be gutted in record time if he said that to my daughter.  She bought her "Bronco Billy" in about 1982 and has restored it once or twice  since then.  Even had it repainted another time.  She also has a Subaru Forester (?) with all wheel drive, but it was useless after the recent hurricane because of insufficient ground clearance when the mountain fell on their access road.

 

Billy came through for her.

Edited November 25 by Forty Rod SASS 3935

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

15 hours ago, Rye Miles #13621 said:

Fine that’s your choice to not watch but I still enjoy a good football game !

So do I.  There are five or six high schools in the area that meet that "need".

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

15 hours ago, Cypress Sun said:

 

At $45,000,000 a year....yer right.

That's a lot of money to pay to see someone else play a kid's game.  

[Texas Maverick]

On 11/24/2024 at 2:07 PM, Rye Miles #13621 said:

You know they don’t kneel anymore, just sayin’……..🙄

Couldn't say since I no longer watch them. They have already shown their true colors and I am not interested in wasting my time on some guys who think their political opinion matters. They should have stayed with what they are getting paid big bucks for and that is playing a kids game. I can get along just fine not watching them.

 

TM

Edited November 25 by Texas Maverick

[Texas Maverick]

21 hours ago, Capt. R. Hugh Kidnme said:

Remind me once more, what's the NFL?????

Now For Losers

 

TM

[Texas Maverick]

16 hours ago, Cypress Sun said:

 

Is that Ken's or Barbie"s?

Barbie's, she divorced Ken and took all his possessions. 

 

TM

[Subdeacon Joe]

A question for all the "I ain't watched the NFL since (pick a date or event)!" types.  Do you write the NFL at least once during the season to say why you don't watch?  And why you boycott products that advertise during the games?

Edited November 25 by Subdeacon Joe

[Cypress Sun]

2 hours ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said:

That's a lot of money to pay to see someone else play a kid's game.  

 

If some company (teams are companies) wants to pay me an obscene amount of money to play a kid's game, heck...I'd do it. I can't blame him.

 

BTW, the highest paid player in MLB is Shohei Otani @ $70,000,000 a year. 

 

[Redleg Reilly, SASS #46372]

20 minutes ago, Subdeacon Joe said:

A question for all the "I ain't watched the NFL since (pucj a date or event)!" types.  Do you write the NFL at least once during the season to say why you don't watch?  And why you boycott products that advertise during the games?

Yes I do.  I write the commissioner at the start of each NFL season, explaining why I won't watch his version of football.  I have gotten rid of anything that had something to do with any NFL team.  I have also written a number of companies who advertise during games - but that is limited to what ads I see now since I have no idea who is currently advertising with the NFL as it is hard to know if you don't watch.

 

Funny thing is back in the '70s and '80s when stationed in West Germany, the commercials were blanked out so the Army wouldn't look to show any preference to advertisers.  Every once in a while, they would miss an ad - and we would talk about that ad a lot more than the game.

[Subdeacon Joe]

7 minutes ago, Redleg Reilly, SASS #46372 said:

Yes I do.  I write the commissioner at the start of each NFL season, explaining why I won't watch his version of football.  I have gotten rid of anything that had something to do with any NFL team.  I have also written a number of companies who advertise during games - but that is limited to what ads I see now since I have no idea who is currently advertising with the NFL as it is hard to know if you don't watch.

 

That puts you in the tiny part of 1% who do.  

[Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770]

42 minutes ago, Subdeacon Joe said:

A question for all the "I ain't watched the NFL since (pucj a date or event)!" types.  Do you write the NFL at least once during the season to say why you don't watch?  And why you boycott products that advertise during the games?

Reasonable question. No I don't. Because I've NEVER watched sports of ANY kind. I have no interest in football, basketball, baseball, hockey, soccer, NASCAR, or wrestling. Okay, I used to watch wrestling, but I stopped when Hulk Hogan retired. 

I've mentioned this before, but when I was a kid growing up in Columbus Ohio, my family was NUTS over OSU football and basketball to the point that I almost had it rammed down my throat. Every family gathering turned into another session of the men huddled in front of the TV yelling at it over whichever ball game was being played while the women sat and gossiped over people that I didn't know, many of them being relatives that were dead long before I was alive . Add to that my Dad's constant watching sports on TV, caused me to develop a healthy dislike for it. 

I don't like sports, and I consider my life that much fuller for it. I refuse to be one of the millions of sheeple that blindly follow something so trivial with such rabid ferver.

Flame Suit on. 

Edited November 25 by Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770

[Rye Miles #13621]

11 minutes ago, Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770 said:

Reasonable question. No I don't. Because I've NEVER watched sports of ANY kind. I have no interest in football, basketball, baseball, hockey, soccer, NASCAR, or wrestling. Okay, I used to watch wrestling, but I stopped when Hulk Hogan retired. 

I've mentioned this before, but when I was a kid growing up in Columbus Ohio, my family was NUTS over OSU football and basketball to the point that I almost had it rammed down my throat. Every family gathering turned into another session of the men huddled in front of the TV yelling at it over whichever ball game was being played while the women sat and gossiped over people that I didn't know, many of them being relatives that were dead long before I was alive . Add to that my Dad's constant watching sports on TV, caused me to develop a healthy dislike for it. 

I don't like sports, and I consider my life that much fuller for it. I refuse to be one of the millions of sheeple that blindly follow something so trivial with such rabid ferver.

Flame Suit on. 

That’s funny because I consider my life fuller with sports especially baseball. Went to games as a kid with my dad, played little league. Played some football and followed my kids when they played and took them to games. Some of the best memories I have is going to a MLB game with my dad and my kids. To each his own. I’m not obsessed with sports but I do enjoy a good game of baseball and football. 

[Blackwater 53393]

I watched my first NFL game this year, yesterday.

I just haven’t gotten into it this year.

 

I played baseball, football, and tennis in high school and juggled them with holding down a job.  Dropped football first because of a very intense disagreement with a coach!

 

I dropped baseball, although I hated to, when it began to interfere with my job.

 

I continued to play tennis, since it was played right after school and I could be at work on time unless we traveled.

 

I also raced on many weekends and kept some kind of hotrod around from before I could drive legally.

 

Team sports is a great way to teach personal discipline and responsibility as well as co-operation and mutual respect.
 

I coached youth baseball and basketball and administered a youth athletics program for my community and was District Director for the midstate baseball franchise as well!  All this while holding down a not so regular job, running a three, and sometimes as many as six, car drag racing team.

 

Yeah!! I’m into sports!! AND MUSIC!! And anything mechanical, including my guns and motorcycles!

 

 

[Wild Eagle]

19 hours ago, Rye Miles #13621 said:

How do you know they didn’t? Were you present in the locker rooms or at  practice, you don’t know what happened behind the scenes and yes I will enjoy the games! 

Because the few that did got called out by the press and ostracized for it.  Also, there were only a few that didn't participate in the kneeling.

 

There are a lot of young kids out there today that have been told their entire life that they are evil monsters and the country they live in is also evil.  Not for something that they did, but because 200 years ago someone that they are not in any way affiliated with did something that was completely legal and entirely socially acceptable at the time.  About 160 years ago we changed the way we think.  We made many things socially unacceptable and sometimes illegal.  But the youth of today are still being told that they are responsible for what happened 200 years ago.  Their teachers, the legacy media, social media, the activists, and SJW's, and in this case the NFL, united to make them feel responsible for it, made them feel ashamed of who they are and where they live, made to feel that their lives are unimportant, and the world would be better off without them in it.  It's time to stop shaming the youth of today for what happened 200 years ago.  Kneeling on the flag was about hate and hating the country and youth of today.  Most of us here are older and much stronger emotionally than an 18-year-old is, it doesn't bother us as much, but when you're young it matters to you what others think of you.  That's why I don't and will not watch the NFL.  I don't want to finance this behavior.

[Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770]

5 hours ago, Rye Miles #13621 said:

That’s funny because I consider my life fuller with sports especially baseball. Went to games as a kid with my dad, played little league. Played some football and followed my kids when they played and took them to games. Some of the best memories I have is going to a MLB game with my dad and my kids. To each his own. I’m not obsessed with sports but I do enjoy a good game of baseball and football. 

I played sports as a kid. My parents signed me up for it. I played baseball in elementary school, got hit in the mouth with a pitch. I played football, I made a really good Defensive Tackle, but it just didn't do anything for me. 

Dad and I went to a few Columbus Jets baseball games. He enjoyed them more than I did. My Grandpa took me to a few OSU football games. We always left early because he'd get P.O.ed that they were losing.

I just can't understand getting wrapped up in watching somebody else do something. Especially as invested as some people get into it. 

I know I've told this before: When I was stationed in Massatoshits, if one of the local teams, (Celtics, Patriots, Red Sox) lost a game, all it took was to mention that they lost to have a couple of the Marine Reserves on duty jump up ready to throw hands over it. 

I've been to Cowboy shoots on the days of University of Arizona games, and seen people pack up to leave after the third stage of a five stage Shoot so that they could go home and watch the game. I was flabbergasted. 

I know that we've had this same discussion before, Rye. I'm glad that you enjoy it, I don't, and I never will under how people can get so involved in it to the point that their lives are consumed by it. Sometimes it seems like they've become a hivemind, like the Borg. Or ants. Or bees. 

Maybe it's just me being contrary, I'm good at that, but I don't need the accomplishments of other people to give meaning to MY life.

Edited November 25 by Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770

[Rye Miles #13621]

30 minutes ago, Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770 said:

I played sports as a kid. My parents signed me up for it. I played baseball in elementary school, got hit in the mouth with a pitch. I played football, I made a really good Defensive Tackle, but it just didn't do anything for me. 

Dad and I went to a few Columbus Jets baseball games. He enjoyed them more than I did. My Grandpa took me to a few OSU football games. We always left early because he'd get P.O.ed that they were losing.

I just can't understand getting wrapped up in watching somebody else do something. Especially as invested as some people get into it. 

I know I've told this before: When I was stationed in Massatoshits, if one of the local teams, (Celtics, Patriots, Red Sox) lost a game, all it took was to mention that they lost to have a couple of the Marine Reserves on duty jump up ready to throw hands over it. 

I've been to Cowboy shoots on the days of University of Arizona games, and seen people pack up to leave after the third stage of a five stage Shoot so that they could go home and watch the game. I was flabbergasted. 

I know that we've had this same discussion before, Rye. I'm glad that you enjoy it, I don't, and I never will under how people can get so involved in it to the point that their lives are consumed by it. Sometimes it seems like they've become a hivemind, like the Borg. Or ants. Or bees. 

Maybe it's just me being contrary, I'm good at that, but I don't need the accomplishments of other people to give meaning to MY life.

Oh I agree, some people go so overboard that it shows they have no life! I enjoy watching sports like I’ve said especially baseball but my life is not consumed by it. 

[ORNERY OAF]

This is called the "Buddy Christ"

It's a joke/cultural thing from the movie Dogma...look like that..Patrick Mahones is actually a very religious man.

Edited November 26 by ORNERY OAF

[Smokin Gator SASS #29736]

If I had never participated in a sport and had very little knowledge about the sport I wouldn't be surprised that I couldn't recognize the ability it takes to perform at a high level in it. Or my lack of enjoyment watching others do it. My enjoyment of watching pro sports went downhill gradually over the years as players began all the chest thumping, look at me behavior. Especially when they're losing by 3 touchdowns .  If a player makes a once in a lifetime great play or the game winning play, sure, celebrate all you want. 

[Chickasaw Bill SASS #70001]

way too busy , taking care of family and trying to get by 

 

  CB 

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

21 hours ago, Subdeacon Joe said:

 

That puts you in the tiny part of 1% who do.  

Unfortunately that's true.  I used to write about four letters a day to politicians, sponsors, team officials. newscasters, left wing actors and other artificial people.  I only got a handful responses.  Two stand out, both California Senators:

 

Barbara Boxer, who always sent the same auto letter thanking me for my support.  I NEVER supported her on ANYTHING.

 

Dianne Feinstein, who always send a personal letter (From her or a staff lacky, but always over her signature) addressing my letter in such a way it that convinced me that someone had actually read it.  I never got the answer I wanted, but at least I got a decent and almost friendly response.

 

While I have no respect whatsoever for Boxer, I have to admit that I believe Feinstein would have been someone I could talk to...and I do respect her for that.  She was a person like Tip O'Neil who got along with "the other side" without being a horses as patoot.

[Texas Maverick]

On 11/24/2024 at 2:07 PM, Rye Miles #13621 said:

You know they don’t kneel anymore, just sayin’……..🙄

Have to take your word for it. Once was enough for me. It showed me where they stand in their beliefs for out country. I have a coffee mug that says it all. "I love my country but it is the government I am scared of"

 

TM

[Subdeacon Joe]

22 hours ago, Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770 said:

Reasonable question. No I don't. Because I've NEVER watched sports of ANY kind. I have no interest in football, basketball, baseball, hockey, soccer, NASCAR, or wrestling.

 

Which is a very different thing than the  "Well, I stopped watching (sport) when (event)!  Ain't never gonna watch again!!!!"  Not liking something is just not liking something. Stopping watching something you enjoy because of something a person or organization did is another matter.

16 hours ago, Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770 said:

I just can't understand getting wrapped up in watching somebody else do something.

 

My wife and I will sometimes get caught up in a game on television,  fist pumps and shouting, "YES!" or "Great catch!  Wrong team,  but Great Catch!" at a particularly good play. But it ends with the game.   

 

1 hour ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said:

Dianne Feinstein, who always send a personal letter (From her or a staff lacky, but always over her signature) addressing my letter in such a way it that convinced me that someone had actually read it.  I never got the answer I wanted, but at least I got a decent and almost friendly response.

 

That was about the only thing that I admired about her.  Even the time whoever sent it made the mistake of sending me both the  "Thank you for your support" and "We will have to agree to disagree" emails.  The "support" email included a couple of paragraphs about why she was at that time putting some of her anti-gun legislation on the back burner and details on some of her "common sense" bills.  Written tests a Philadelphia Lawyer couldn't pass  and practical tests that a Camp Perry champion couldn't pass.

 

Babs "I'm too importanttobe called Ma'am" Boxer  was a piece of work.  Her office was one of the ones that sent me the letter telling me that I should stop writing and calling because that worthy knew what was best for me,  didn't need nor want outside opinions,  especially opposing opinions.

[Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770]

9 minutes ago, Subdeacon Joe said:

My wife and I will sometimes get caught up in a game on television,  fist pumps and shouting, "YES!" or "Great catch!  Wrong team,  but Great Catch!" at a particularly good play. But it ends with the game.   

I can understand something like that. We do the same watching our shows. I'm referring to the guys that come into work Monday crowing about how "WE" did in the game yesterday. Or the guy that wears a team jersey everywhere. The guy that paints his car or house, (I've seen both, but houses I've seen were in the Boston area, notice a pattern there?) in team colors. 

In short, people who's entire life seems to revolve around being a fan.

[Stump Water]

32 minutes ago, Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770 said:

In short, people who's entire life seems to revolve around being a fan.

 

In the 90's I was invited to ten days of deer hunting somewhere north of Atlanta, Michigan.  During "THE football game" Saturday afternoon I was the only one in the woods.  That's some fan dedication.

[Cyrus Cassidy #45437]

On 11/24/2024 at 2:07 PM, Rye Miles #13621 said:

You know they don’t kneel anymore, just sayin’……..🙄

Oh, yes they do.  They just do it in the locker room.  The TV networks stopped airing the kneeling but now they do it in the locker room.

Edited November 26 by Cyrus Cassidy #45437

[Rye Miles #13621]

59 minutes ago, Cyrus Cassidy #45437 said:

Oh, yes they do.  They just do it in the locker room.  The TV networks stopped airing the kneeling but now they do it in the locker room.

No they don’t! First of all it was only a handful of them a few years ago. There’s coaches and owners that forbid them kneeling. If you have proof that they’re all kneeling in the locker room please show us!🙄

 

I don’t suppose you’ve seen them doing the Trump dance in the end zone! That seems pretty American to me!🇺🇸
 

https://www.sportskeeda.com/nfl/what-nfl-national-anthem-policy-say-kneeling-all-need-know

Edited November 26 by Rye Miles #13621

[Subdeacon Joe]

 

[Rye Miles #13621]

1 hour ago, Subdeacon Joe said:

 

Wow 🤩 

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

On 11/26/2024 at 9:14 AM, Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770 said:

I can understand something like that. We do the same watching our shows. I'm referring to the guys that come into work Monday crowing about how "WE" did in the game yesterday. Or the guy that wears a team jersey everywhere. The guy that paints his car or house, (I've seen both, but houses I've seen were in the Boston area, notice a pattern there?) in team colors. 

In short, people who's entire life seems to revolve around being a fan.

"We won, we won, we won!"  

 

You weren't even in the game, maybe not even in the state.  You watched!  And your opinions don't matter to me any more than mine matter to you, so I don't want to hear all your phony crowing about it.  Just shut up when you're around me. 

 

NOTICE:  If I offended anyone, I didn't do it on purpose but you take it any way you want to.  And I won't be offended even a little bit at your reactions to it  as long as you don't attack my country, our military, my religion, or my family and friends.

Edited November 28 by Forty Rod SASS 3935

[Subdeacon Joe]

1 hour ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said:

We won, we won, we won!"  

 

 

More like,  "OMYGAWD!!! THE #@#&@!*$$% Raiders WON!  How'd they do that?  Satan must be selling ice skates!"

[Cypress Sun]

Without human rivalry, there wouldn't be any sports.

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

11 hours ago, Cypress Sun said:

Without human rivalry, there wouldn't be any sports.

And why is this a bad thing?