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Was that a terrible attempt at a joke?

I don't understand the argument that if you didn't go to the school, you can't be a "fan" of the team. My dad is one of the biggest Michigan football fans I know. He never attended a day of classes at the University, however he was recruited to play football there, but he didn't go because he wanted to go somewhere where he could actually start before his senior year. Does it make him less of a fan if he didn't go to school there? As a Michigan alum, I know people who go to school there for four years and treat the game as nothing but a giant sorority mixer. I would rather go to a game and sit next to Jim the truck driver from Lincoln Park that remembers the Rick Leach era, than some frat boy from New Jersey who only came to the school because his dad couldn't get him into Yale. Fans have attachments to teams for all kinds of reasons, and I don't thumb my nose down at someone who is supporting a team I follow just because they didn't actually go to the school As for the college sports vs pro sports argument, obviously the professional players are better, and the games at the pro level exhibit way more skill. The reason why I like college sports so much, especially basketball and football, is because the teams and playing styles are way less vanilla. In college football you have so many different offenses and playing styles where as in the pros everyone plays the exact same way. Even in basketball, a team like Princeton playing a totally different style than a team like Memphis. Also, in college sports the coaches leave a way more noticable imprint on their team than does the average pro coach. Think about all the iconic figures in college coaching and then compare it to the legendary coaches in the pro sports

Oh trust me, some of us darkies fucking love the Red Wings in Detroit. You see a decent number of black and latino fans and supporters of the Wings around. While Detroit is Hockeytown, I have never seen a city go more insane for a team than when the Tigers made their World Series run. I will say this, if the Lions could ever put together a winner I think Detroit would explode with joy. They really are like the prodigal son of Detroit sports.

I've never wondered why they didn't run with Hogan as the "old has-been" have him lose a couple matches to some big name young guys to where he's questioning if he still has it, and then he gets an impromptu title shot when the heel champion goads him and taunts him. The match is your typical Hogan gets his ass kicked for 20 minutes but instead of making the comeback, bootleg,leg drop finish, you have him just keep getting his ass kick and every time he tries to "Hulk up" he gets beat back down, but slowly he starts coming back, and he wins, with like an Axe bomber or something out of the ordinary. I just think seeing Hogan barely eek out a win would humanize the character who has been booked to be Superman for the last 25 years

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbxgizvQl0M Part 1 of the bad ass elimination tag from Raw a few years back. I think this was the one that had a 20 minute over run

Here is one question I have. Why is everyone so sure that Boston is going to beat Detroit come playoff time. Detroit has way more big game experience, they have a hilariously deep bench, and they don't have to run into Lebron James and the 11 Dwarfs come second round. Detroit can throw size at KG, they have the defenders on the perimeter to contain Pierce and/or Allen, and they can play any kind of ball. I think that Detroit is honestly the favorite to win it all, simply because everyone out West is going to be exhausted. I wouldn't be shocked if every single series of every round out West went 7 games. I'm not even joking. Denver, with the way they score, can easily push anyone out West to 7, all the other matchups will be dogfights, and then you get to repeat it again come next round. Meanwhile, Detroit gets a cakewalk to the ECF, while Boston probably has a tougher road. Sure they get the Hawks in round 1. But then you run into a somewhat hot Washington team with Gilbert who can win a game or two by himself or Lebron and the Standarounds in Round 2. Meanwhile , Detroit gets the winner of Orlando-Philadelphia, and Detroit's guards will absolutely murder Jameer Nelson and Keith Bogans or whoever starts at the 2 for Orlando, and the big men will mop up Philly's front line if they play them. As long as Detroit doesn't see Utah in the Finals, I see them winning after going 7 with Boston.

Golden State and Atlanta both have NBA titles, although Atlanta's came while they were based in St. Louis

There's a Skyline Chili still there, I stop there everytime i'm in town to visit the family

How do you get Ice T and Snoop Dogg confused? I mean even if you think all black people look alike those are probably the two black guys who look the least alike

Why do so many people make these generalized assertions that everyone who has a child when they are not married and under the age of 21 and without a college degree is automatically a welfare queen. My parents weren't married when I was born, hell they didn't get married until I was 4 years old. They were both younger than I am now( My mom was 22 and my dad was 21). Neither one at the time had their college degree, but they both now have very successful careers. At times, when I was younger we didn't have a lot of money, but really how many 21-25 year olds do with all the debt that they incur by going to college and whatnot. I would say even though my parents didn't stay together, they put one son through college, have another one in school now, and my sister is in her last year of high school. I have numerous friends, most of them very successful even at our age, that don't have one parent with an education past high school. 25-30 years ago, people were not going to college in the numbers they are now and society turned out just fine. If you want to solve some of the problems in America, fix the inequalities in wealth distribution in this country, stop wasting billions upon billions of dollars fighting across the world, "saving democracy", and please actually fund some of the schools in the urban areas, because there is a pretty strong chance that the more education and opportunities someone has, the less likely they are to commit crime. Horrible legislative acts like the No Child Left Behind, which in some cases, takes funding away from under performing schools, are doing more to contribute to the problems in society, than some 20 year old guy knocking up his girlfriend when the condom breaks

I'm a tad late to the party, but do you even understand the fact that one of your basic arguments, that someone not be $100,000 in debt before they have a child pretty much goes against your idea that everyone go to some sort of post secondary educational institution for at least two years. Who exactly is going to pay for this, and even better, do you even realize that most people who go to college, end up in tens of thousands of dollars in debt, solely because they decided to go to college. After four years in undergrad at the most expensive in-state public school in the country and probably another three more years of law school, I'm looking at about $60,000 to $70,000 dollars of student loan debt, and that is with a large scholarship to law school. And also, why should we impose these absurd standards on people if they want to have children, you do realize that the government really has no place to tell people when, and under what conditions they can have children. Reproduction is a natural right of all able human beings. If the people aren't suitable parents afterwards, then there are already measures in place that at least see to it that children get somewhat adequate health care, and a K-12 education is "free" for every child in America. My last and most important point, is that you can't cherry pick and predict if someone is going to be a good or a bad parent. Sure, good financial standing and a good education make it more probable that someone will be better able to provide for their children, but some of the most screwed up people I know are the children of doctors, lawyers, teachers, etc.

this just screams discrimination... I mean you cannot turn down someone at a restaurant for the sole fact that they are fat, that is just totally wrong and the state legislature should be shot for putting this through

I disagree, people act like the average fan sits around and analyzes the fact that Jeff Hardy lost to Orton at Royal Rumble and would therefore shit on a subsequent title reign. In actuality, the average wrestling fan is fucking retarded and wouldn't even care that he lost to Orton if he beat him a month from now. Smart fans put too much stock into shit like this. If Hardy won the belt tomorrow, that most likely, would not affect Wrestlemania buyrates

That doesn't mean shit though, who wants to play in Memphis?

The West is going to be an all out war now, but the Lakers might have just made themselves the favorite. My question is , is this year's Western Conference the deepest conference top to bottom that anyone can remember? I mean can you say that any team in the East outside of Boston or Detroit would beat a team like Portland or Houston in the playoffs and those teams are fighting for a playoff spot with winning percentages over .550. I think both of those teams are better than Cleveland and Toronto as well as Orlando. The Western playoffs right now would be New Orleans vs Golden State, Phoenix and Denver, Dallas and the Lakers, and Utah against the Spurs. Those are some absolutely awesome matchups and I honestly just want the postseason to start right now.

No, the quarterback and running backs would literally probably get killed. People don't understand that the increased speed in college effectively killed the traditional option attack, and the spread option can be contained, slowed down, by teams with great defensive speed. Now taking this logic to the NFL where everyone at every position defensively is way faster, then I would say no, especially since most pro style qb's are not fast enough to run that kind of offense anyway

Nothing will ever be funnier than Tayshaun Prince's Briarwood Ford and Wallside Windows double whammy

I'm amazed at all the people with the idiotic jokes and cracks, especially the one about "Heaven needed a 15-yard penalty", that kind of stuff is just ignorant and disrespectful. A 24 year old in the prime of his life gets murdered( no matter what way you cut it, this way a burglary-murder) while defending his young family, and all people want to look at is the negative, and they aren't even negative facts, they are negative assumptions. We don't know all the facts. Could Taylor have been a drug dealing gang-banging thug despite having that whole NFL career thing going for him? Possibly? Or could he have been a young man who like all of us, realized he had to grow up and mature, had a promising career, and lost his life protecting his family? Possibly. From what I have gathered from people that knew Sean Taylor is that he's changed and grown up as a person and left some friends behind. Also, this "Sean Taylor is a thug" stuff has got to stop. We don't know he was a thug? He pulled a gun on three real "thugs" who stole some property that belonged to him. That's it. He got a DUI that was eventually thrown out of court for various reasons including improper police procedure and probably a bit of racial profiling. Sean Taylor didn't grow up poor and fatherless. He grew up in a family, a seemingly pretty normal family, hell, he probably grew up in a family just like mine. Antrel Rolle said it best, that Sean had left his friends behind down in Miami, he was doing different things with his life than them, and some of those individuals were hating on him for doing that. I'm a young middle class black male and I've had friends who dealt drugs and were "thugs". Fortunately, they were good friends who didn't have the opportunities that I had, but they also didn't turn on me when I decided to go to college. One of the saddest parts about this is the people who use his play on the football field as an indicator of how he was as a normal everyday person. Did people assume Ronnie Lott, or Jack Tatum, were thugs because they were hard hitting safeties? No! I ever read one article based out of a paper in Idaho, that said you could expect this because Taylor was living with his girlfriend( his probably financially well off, prep-school(just like him), college athlete sweetheart) that he had been with since high school. This writer(who I can't name since I can't find the link to the article) alluded to the fact that if Sean Taylor was married and had a child in wedlock that he would be alive. Then people are blaming this on hip-hop. Firstly, most of hip hop culture is consumed by white suburban young males. Secondly, Cranking that Soulja Boy isn't the reason why schools in the inner cities are in disarray and people in places like Detroit can't get jobs. They have shitty schools and live in poverty because all those people who are quick to blame hip hop for urban crime, are the same assholes who look down upon these people instead of looking at the bigger picture.

I think that Kentucky will move up to like about 9 or so because lets face it.... they have to be above Va. Tech in the rankings, and also I think you put LSU at 5, because of all the one loss teams, you have to look at the fact that they lost on the road in triple overtime against a pretty good team. This season is just proving more and more that a playoff would be loads of fun.

4th down LSU, gotta have this one

I think that Isiah gets a horrible rap as a GM. Sure he signed Jerome James to a contract worth approximately about as much the GNP of France, but he took a team that was both old AND terrible, and turned them into a young, somewhat deep(although they all play similar positions), potential laden playoff contending team, and people say he is a bad GM. He is a better GM than about half of the NBA, and I would even say that outside of Joe Dumars and John Paxson, what player turned GM has been better over the last 5 years as far as making moves ?

I still think this whole thing is fucking retarded. I know of a guy who literally killed someone in cold blood, and was eligible for parole in like 20 months, yet America wants to vilify someone for killing dogs (albeit, I will admit very brutally). To me dogfighting isn't really that big of a deal, and is in many ways basically an adult version of using a magnifying glass to kill aunts, expect the only difference is PETA does not give a fuck about non mammalian organisms. Seriously, everyone take a step back, a human being is going to jail for at least a year, and losing his entire career, over the fact that he fought dogs, the same animals that run in front of cars, and even, occasionally bite, maul, kill, each other, as well as human beings almost every day

I don't understand how people are able to sit around with a straight face and say that someone should go to jail for multiple years for dogfighting when people have done worse things to HUMAN BEINGS. People have sexually assaulted women and children and gotten out in 6 months, yet Michael Vick is facing years in jail for something , that while terrible, pales in comparison to any of these things. Leonard Little killed a woman drunk driving and he is walking around free as can be. Isn't there some hypocrisy in that ?

Basically, the PS3 version is shit, but I guess the 360 version runs at a faster rate, and has all of the new quirks that they added to the game... Either way with sports games you are paying full price for a roster update, minor additions because since EA has the rights to both pro and college football, they don't have any competition to make grand changes to a game

My question is, how exactly do you make the fact that HHH is Vince's son-in-law for real. I mean he was already married to Steph in storyline and well its no big secret that hes married to her in real-life. I mean it would not be so far fetched that they reconciled during his injury or something. What exactly would be the premise of the feud. Kennedy hates his sister's husband for some reason but not the dad who abandoned him like 30 years ago