The 2012 NFL thread

Te'o can f*** off and do what he wants. The whole confusing story is stupid. He's clearly involved and was not taken advantage of, though I'm not not gonna bother too much caring about it.

Problem as I see it is, Notre Dame, and every football-driven institution, exists in a fantasy universe of booster cult worship and money-driven goals. High school football is not even exempt, and the NFL should certainly not be.
Why does a story about a possibly gay Mormon linebacker, and his team losing miserably in one of the most boring bowl games ever, get so much rabid national and media attention, but the culture of rape-and-cover by universities, all the way up to their highest levels of leadership, gets buried?

Why does a player like Ray Lewis who, at the very least was marginally complicit in the murder of 2 people, get a pass, and is then allowed to privately compensate the affected families, then gets to retire as a hero and will assuredly end up in the Hall of Fame?

I love football, but when the excitement of it comes to me at the expense of others, it's tarnished and filthy.

Te'o lied about a girl. Big deal. It's not the story that demands headlines.

The world over, we've forced our athletes to become heroes, and it's so wrong.


Edited by *frinspar* - January 18 2013 at 03:26

Vick's strength with the deep ball definitely helps, but I just don't see it happening. To even consider it, he would have to restructure his contract. 

Thing with Vick is, Kelly hates negative plays. He wants the ball out quick and he blames the qb for sacks. Those are the worst parts of Vick's game. 

JJLehto wrote: No no this time I actually wasn't trying to piss you off and meant it. Your epic fanboyism has clouded your grasp of English anyway and missed "even if sometimes wrong" thus...the reputation isn't completely deserved. Or ill call you a yinser again and say go hook up with slutty Sheetz chicks you seem to respond better to it. f**kin chip kelly....ugh the NFC East will be the NFC DIV I at this rate. I gripe, but I can live with how the NFL is but please let these whack college offenses fail. They really are a joke and I don't want it poisoning the NFL.

I think it's a mistake to think that Chip Kelly's offense in the NFL will be similar to his offense in college. The parts of his game which you'll see in the NFL are the parts which you already see in the NFL as implemented by the Patriots and those which will be a part of his conditioning program and practice programs.

No no this time I actually wasn't trying to piss you off and meant it.
Your epic fanboyism has clouded your grasp of English anyway and missed "even if sometimes wrong" thus...the reputation isn't completely deserved.
Or ill call you a yinser again and say go hook up with slutty Sheetz chicks you seem to respond better to it.


f**kin chip kelly....ugh the NFC East will be the NFC DIV I at this rate. I gripe, but I can live with how the NFL is but please let these whack college offenses fail. They really are a joke and I don't want it poisoning the NFL.

I don't get what you're saying at all.  I assume it's more idiocy designed to piss me off.  Harrison is the only one you could say has a bad reputation and that's been handed to him by limp-wristed sissies unwilling to uphold the hard-hitting traditions of the game.  How does someone who clearly was involved (you can't have a gf you've never met) in making up a dead girlfriend story fit in with any organization's rep (other than maybe Marvin Lewis' Bungles who once had a year with more arrests than wins)?  Also, isn't teo a lineman? 

Yeah....Falcons finally got their W but really, they blew that game.
Sure, Ryan made 2 big throws when it counted, kudos, but could also argue it was known he'd try some deep balls...and Seattle's D still allowed it.

Ah well, was an awesome game.

Hopefully a great final round coming up

Philadelphia hires Chip Kelly as their new coach.

http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/8849699/chip-kelly-bolts-oregon-ducks-coach-philadelphia-eagles

So uh...Tom Brady messed with Texas....

I just don't want the Niners going to the SB.  Living in NorCal, it's all you hear about.  Kaepernick this, Harbaugh that.  It gets old real fast and I'm convinced that most of the people I hear it from would probably be the same way with the Raiders if they were worth a damn.