bob_barron

If your team moves, it's considered acceptable to switch to another team.

Why do I ask for it? Before every game, I get myself hyped up big time running around screaming Who Dat. I play several versions of House of the Rising Sun and When The Saints Go Marching In, and then finish off by playing The Saints Are Coming from the Saints' first game back at the Superdome. This usually involves me throwing things and whipping myself into a frenzy. My neighbour must be deaf or have a sound-proof apartment. Whenever they score a TD (+ extra point), I yell: TOUCHDOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWN SAINTS at the top of my lungs and play Blur's Song #2. Since I'm following the game at NFL.com and am a play behind, I watch the ticker on TV obsessively to try to figure out what kind of play happened. And if the Saints win, I play the song New Orleans. If they lose, I want to kill myself. And I always wear my Saints hat and Reggie Bush jersey. Geaux Saints!

I get so nervous watching the Saints on TV and I have my own pre, in-game and post-game rituals, that I wouldn't enjoy watching it with other people or in a bar. If they're not on, I enjoy tracking the game on my computer.

Comapring two men in federal prison to a scrambling QB is not a valid comparison.

If the player performs, I end up becoming a fan. So I didn't have to start liking Peca and Blake. Or Glavine.

Once again, it isn't going to happen. So it's a moot point. It's not a moot point at all. The fact that you would ditch your beloved football team because they signed a scrambling QB is just idiotic and shows that in the end, you're not a true fan. Regarding 909's point- I didn't even know people took US soccer seriously enough that it has rivalries. If your team signed a Mexican player, you could be angry and still not like the guy, but you should still root for the team. I admit that I dropped the Knicks when they traded Ewing. My Knicks fandom had been slowly declining, and seeing how they treated their franchise player and one of the greatest to wear the uniform disgusted me, and I realised I could never get emotionally attached to them again. They were dead to me for all I cared. So I became a Nets fan and have been so ever since and will continue to be one. I didn't watch them a lot last year b/c of Memphis, but I still get emotionally invested into their games.

The Leafs have signed Michael Peca and Jason Blake in recent years, and I'm still a fan. The Saints traded for Shockey, who I hated. The Braves brought back Tom Glavine. I miss Quinn, wish they had never fired him. I'd still root for a team, no matter who they signed and if the player performed, I'd probably end up rooting for him. I'm now a Shockey fan. Regarding Glavine, fuck him, I still don't like him.

I agree with Brooklyn Zoo. Dumping your team because they hired a scrambler is just stupid. The Saints could draft anyone, provided they're still in Louisiana, I'd be going crazy for their games every Sunday.

She's a maaaaaaaaaaaan baby.

Let the guy post in sports and current events. As I've said before, if you think he's such a plague on the board, then ban him. It's not his fault that people don't use the ignore button and trip over themselves trying to say how they disagree with him

Cash died on 9/12. Ritter died on 9/11.

It's supposed to be decent but lesser Coens. 77% at rottentomatoes, 57 at meta.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080912/ap_en_mo/people_ebert

But ah, you know, the good thing is, that it takes my mind off the horrific events that happened the last September the fifteenth when everything went to… Because, this Robert Blake thing, I don't give a fuck one way or the other. I just like watching it. Where as the September fifteenth thing [these are not typos], woah, that- that’s scary. That was when it came- that is when it actually- that’s the first time I watched something and got scared, on the news. You know? Because, ah, it happened right here. You know what I mean? and ah- ah. I- I think we all remember where we were when we first heard about it. We where… watching the TV. … That's not much of a story but that's what we'll be telling our grandkids. You’re sayin’, “I remember, yes, I was watching the TV and then I was switching the channels and it was on all the channels!” But it was scary. You didn’t know what to do. You remember that? You’re just, ah, for four five days you’re just, “What the fuck am I supposed to do? Is it all right to go down to K-Mart? I don’t know.” You didn't know what to do... you go- you're just all in shock and everything. And you go, “What do I? I’m all freaked out.” And then you figure it out. You go, “Hey! I figured it out! I know what I’m gonna do. I’m gonna buy a flag!” You figure it out. You know? “Fuck it. I- Imma get me two, three flags. Put one in my house. Let them try that horseshit again. Let them try that shit now! I got me a flag!” Also it shows which side of the issue you stand on. Yeah. So people know now, where I stand on this whole fucking thing. I am for the building full of people... and I'm against the plane with the insane people on it. This flag will show people that. Well, I tell you man, if any fucking Arab mother fucker ever came at me with a bunch of goddamn dynamite on him, first thing I'd do is throw away the fucking flag. I'd go, “I don't know where the fuck that come from. That's not my flag. I usually tote around a Arab flag, to tell you the truth!” Anything to live, you know? Not dying, that's what I'm going for. I wanna not die. [laughs] That was the scariest part of nine-eleven, ah- ah, because it was you. You're, "Goddamn. I- I- I- What the hell? I could die. ‘Cause, ah. Where did it happen? Here? I live here." You know? Because, in the other, it’s- usually it's another place, you know, and you don't give a fuck. But, you know, like for years I’ve been watching the TV and I'll turn it on and it'll be like, "Today in Rwanda, three hundred thousand people where--" CLICK. ... I'm gonna watch Matlock or something. I miss Matlock man, that guy was... He should defend Robert Blake. Why the hell can't he get back on the TV? I have to watch crazy young people. But that nine-fifteen, man, that was some scary shit. Because, also, I think it scared us because it- it introduced new ways that we could die. You know, and you don’t want to hear that. There's enough ways to die. When, ah, when they come up with new ones, that's a scary fucking thing. You know? You go, “How's that work again? Now, I could be in my office, ah, typing on my typewriter, and an airplane can hit me? I never heard that one.” They go “Yeah, they just came up with that last month. That's a new one, they figured it out.” “Goddamn, I didn't know that one. I got a typewriter there.” And then right after that, all kinds of new ways, they tell you every goddamn day a new way to die. They say like, “Hey, ah, anthrax, you heard about that?” I said, “I don’t know, I thought it was about cows or something.” “No, no anthrax, that- you can die, it's a new way for you to die!” You go, “How's that work?” They go, “Well have you ever, ah, opened an… envelope?” “Yeah, I've been known to open an envelope.” “Well, you're in a high risk group then! You could die from that! They just came out- that's the new thing.” Crazy shit. Smallpox, I said, fuck you can't die- I know you can't die from Smallpox. They eradicated that fifty years ago. No, guy kept a bottle. He kept a bottle and then he- and then he lost it. Goddamn, why would you keep a bottle of fucking smallpox? You go, “All right, we got it eradicated, only this one bottle left. Let’s flush it down the toilet, and then there'll be one less fucking way for us to die… Hey, or I can keep it! Put it on the end table and impress girls with it. Scare people, hey look at that!” And then one day it's like, "Where the fuck's that bottle of smallpox? I misplaced it, goddamn I know I had it. And then I had that party for all them Arabs… and now I can't find it!" [laughs] I went to a fucking airport and they wanted to search me. I said, "I'm not a fucking Arab! What the fuck are you talking about?" So I showed the guy my- my- my pa- my passport. A non-Arab passport. I go, “That’s me. I’m not the Arab. I'm the guy the Arab could kill.” He wanted to search me. --Norm

Since I get them every Sunday, I root for the Giants and the Jets. I'm happy if they win, but I'm not emotionally invested in them, that if they lose, it effects me. Football's more fun when the local teams do well. Because the Saints never make the playoffs, I do get more into the local teams come playoff season. I flipped a shit when the Giants won, thought that was cool. During Katrina when they threatened the Saints might move, I said I'd be a Giants fan if the Saints left Louisiana.

It's not that they couldn't find a distributor. Overture Films is a new studio started this year, so looking to make a splash, they paid a lot of money to distribute it. The film was made by a money mark studio. They fund star vehicles made on the cheap, and make money off of selling off the rights. Many of them go straight to video. 88 Minutes did not rock, IIRC. That's what pisses me off. DeNiro and Pacino pair up for the first time, and it's directed by Jon fucking Avent? Why not make it a real "event" and get a real director? Re-team with Michael Mann, or get Peter Berg to make something splashy. Not this goof. Prior to 88 Minutes, he had been doing TV pilots and TV movies. After seeing it's going to be on 2,000 screens I think Burn can do 13 mil.

That's how Saints fans feel most years.

I thought Porter was a Bears fan and/or Chargers. Sass was also a Raiders fan. I've always suffered with the Saints

I agree, I don't think he should've said the more qualified part, but it doesn't sound like what he said was that bad. How can Obama push for change, and then put a Clinton on the ticket, who had been attacking him for months on end?

Cage attended Glory By Honor in New York last year. Wikipedia says reasons unexplained. I remember when I heard it had Mickey Rourke, Necro and Ernest Miller and read the plot, I thought the whole thing was some weird joke by Aranofsky. But he's going to get an Oscar nod out of this, that's crazy.

To placate NY Untouchable, I think Obama should've dropped out and conceded to Hillary. Who had September 11 in the Joe Biden says something stupid pool?

I think I drew them without arms too. I can't believe y'all remember that, my grandma has it framed.

I've been following this movie for a while. It was intially supposed to star Nicholas Cage, but he dropped out. It's been getting rave reviews from every critic I've read and I'm excited that it found a distributor. Plus, Necro is in it.

Dennis Hopper's been killing it this summer with Elegy and Hell Ride.

I think that I remember that. I'm almost positive that I have that magazine stored away at my parents' house. Is it the one with Ron Simmons on the cover? I don't know who was on the cover. I just remember my grandma and I were at the corner store skimming through WCW magazine since some special WCW magazine they had wasn't on sale, and I freaked out, seeing my picture. Next to my crude drawing, is an awesome portrait of Windham, and one of Vader,=.