Prog band = Which football team?
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Topic: Prog band = Which football team?
Posted By: Drachen Theaker
Subject: Prog band = Which football team?
Date Posted: September 28 2005 at 19:00
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On another thread Richardh said that if prog bands could be football teams ELP would be Arsenal. Can't see it myself, but it set me thinking. Who would be Chelsea? I think maybe Pink Floyd - made shedloads of money and came from more advantaged backgrounds than much of the competition. Mind you that might be Genesis too  .Dream Theater? Wimbledon - occasionally managed to mix it with the established big boys but lacking in subtlety. I think ELP is Nottingham Forest - once an international giant but a calamatous fall from grace. Apologies if this thread is a mystery to non-British members, but feel free to include teams from anywhere in the world! ------------- "It's 1973, almost dinnertime and I'm 'aving 'oops!" - Gene Hunt |
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Posted By: King of Loss
Date Posted: September 28 2005 at 19:02
DT is Wimbeldon???? I don't think so  More like Chelsea with all the number of hardcore fans 
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Posted By: gdub411
Date Posted: September 28 2005 at 22:08
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Soccer....bah! Nfl football...now that is a sport. VDGG= The Oakland Raiders...The Silver and Black baby. |
Posted By: Manunkind
Date Posted: September 29 2005 at 02:50
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NFL Football? Start. Stop. Start. Stop. Start. Stop. Stop. Stop. Start.
And Asia is Real Madrid ------------- "In war there is no time to teach or learn Zen. Carry a strong stick. Bash your attackers." - Zen Master Ikkyu Sojun |
Posted By: Wolf Spider
Date Posted: September 29 2005 at 02:51
No, DT is real Madrid - all the best players in one team
------------- http://www.lastfm.pl/user/tomash33 - Last.fm |
Posted By: Manunkind
Date Posted: September 29 2005 at 02:55
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But DT can play well ------------- "In war there is no time to teach or learn Zen. Carry a strong stick. Bash your attackers." - Zen Master Ikkyu Sojun |
Posted By: Drachen Theaker
Date Posted: September 29 2005 at 03:07
 Very true! The whole is worth less than the
sum of the parts. ------------- "It's 1973, almost dinnertime and I'm 'aving 'oops!" - Gene Hunt |
Manunkind wrote:Posted By: Wolf Spider
Date Posted: September 29 2005 at 05:33
So Real can play well too - watch it i`m a RM fanboy  ------------- http://www.lastfm.pl/user/tomash33 - Last.fm |
Posted By: Logos
Date Posted: September 29 2005 at 06:52
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Why Americans keep calling that sh*t "football" is beyond me. |
Posted By: Under
Date Posted: September 29 2005 at 07:37
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Yes must be a club like AC and Inter Milan in one. Where ABWH is AC and Group Rabin are Inter. Always considered as a potential Champion, but lately never so exciting to watch anymore.
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Posted By: Under
Date Posted: September 29 2005 at 07:40
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No Genesis must be some small Belgium club, where all the good players run off to big clubs.
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Posted By: NutterAlert
Date Posted: September 29 2005 at 08:21
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I don't know much about footie...
But i'd say VdGG are the England cricket team. Both made truimphant come backs in 2005 and both can now rightly claim to be the best in the World. ------------- Proud to be an un-banned member since 2005 |
Posted By: Under
Date Posted: September 29 2005 at 08:26
Cricket?? Is that the game with the horses?
Just kidding, of course I knwo cricket and about 99% of the people actually playing cricket live in England, so it is not really a big suprise that they are the best of the world.
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Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: September 29 2005 at 09:01
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Wouldn't that mean that Notts Forest have split up and are no longer talking to each other? Also, Wimbledon are now AFC Wimbledon and are in the Ryman Premier! |
Posted By: Wolf Spider
Date Posted: September 29 2005 at 09:12
NFL is as sh*tty as sh*tty sport can be.  ------------- http://www.lastfm.pl/user/tomash33 - Last.fm |
Posted By: Syzygy
Date Posted: September 29 2005 at 09:13
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[QUOTE=Drachen Theaker] If Dream Theater are Wimbledon, which one's Vinny Jones? Given Alex Lifeson's recent punch up with the plods, perhaps Rush are the prog Wimbledon. ------------- 'Like so many of you I've got my doubts about how much to contribute to the already rich among us...' Robert Wyatt, Gloria Gloom |
Posted By: Wolf Spider
Date Posted: September 29 2005 at 09:19
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If prog rock is Wimledon(i mean the tennis tournament) then DT would be Maria Sharapova or Daniela Hantuchova
------------- http://www.lastfm.pl/user/tomash33 - Last.fm |
Posted By: Mnemosyne
Date Posted: September 29 2005 at 11:15
NFL is nothing but a big money factory... I don't enjoy violent sports... ------------- I'm a Man-Owl-Fish. Creator-Observer-Muse. |
Posted By: Drachen Theaker
Date Posted: September 29 2005 at 11:30
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Well Forest are having an absolute 'Love Beach' of a season so far!
Maybe Phil Collins was the prog Vinnie Jones. A similar amount of hair and often managed to lower the tone with his uncomplicated style. ------------- "It's 1973, almost dinnertime and I'm 'aving 'oops!" - Gene Hunt |
Posted By: DEzerov
Date Posted: September 29 2005 at 11:41
And in the words of Rodney King, "Can't we all just get along?"   ------------- The moon is made by some lame cooper and you can see the idiot has no idea about moons at all - Nikolay Gogol |
Posted By: Wolf Spider
Date Posted: September 29 2005 at 11:50
Sure
we can, I just don`t like this sport and the fact I don`t like it
doesn`t mean everybody has to agree with me or stop playing NFL ------------- http://www.lastfm.pl/user/tomash33 - Last.fm |
Posted By: Manunkind
Date Posted: September 29 2005 at 11:57
NO! ------------- "In war there is no time to teach or learn Zen. Carry a strong stick. Bash your attackers." - Zen Master Ikkyu Sojun |
Posted By: Wolf Spider
Date Posted: September 29 2005 at 12:00
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Is that a small wink I see there Manukind?
------------- http://www.lastfm.pl/user/tomash33 - Last.fm |
Posted By: Manunkind
Date Posted: September 29 2005 at 12:15
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NO! ------------- "In war there is no time to teach or learn Zen. Carry a strong stick. Bash your attackers." - Zen Master Ikkyu Sojun |
Posted By: Winters
Date Posted: September 29 2005 at 12:53
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Genesis is Ajax Amsterdam... Once they were they best, today they just suck... ------------- No workie? Restartie! |
Posted By: Under
Date Posted: September 29 2005 at 14:46
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Tonight my favorite club just lost in the UEFA cup. I must say they played like Boyzone trying to play Close to the Edge.
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Posted By: Cygnus X-1
Date Posted: September 29 2005 at 15:53
Yes would be Real Madrid (all the best players)  ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Bodins/?chartstyle=DarkSide5Big"> 
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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: September 29 2005 at 17:16
| haha i think Dream Theatre would be more like the united states soccer/football league where its exciting for awhile but then you realize that its a watered down version of the real thing like european football/soccer or better prog music. |
Posted By: eduardossc
Date Posted: October 13 2005 at 09:09
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Pink Floyd and YES = Real Madrid, Manchester, Dallas Cowboys, NY Yankees, LA Lakers, MILAN AC (Too much attention and not necesarily the best) Genesis, Gentle Giant, Jethro Tull, Crimson, ELP = Barcelona, Arsenal, 49ers (Less publicity, less dogmas around but always surprising with overlooked quality)
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Posted By: Phil
Date Posted: October 13 2005 at 09:27
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Yes are the only band with enough members past and present to actually field a football (soccer) team. Genesis would get thrashed as they keep getting players sent off...then there were three.... |
Posted By: RaphaelT
Date Posted: October 13 2005 at 15:54
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I bet if there was a game between contemporary English Prog Team (their best forward is Steve Wilson) and Polish Prog Team the score would be better than yesterday England - Poland game (at least it should be a draw, only if the English were lucky). Polish Prog bands are better than Polish soccer clubs. ------------- yet you still have time! |
Posted By: RaphaelT
Date Posted: October 13 2005 at 15:55
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And btw I hate it that everytime we Europeans discuss soccer here some American has to claim superiority of NFL - that's just pointless. ------------- yet you still have time! |