Broward83

fuck it, I'm bored.

....okay, so maybe I left myself open for that one. That also reminds me of JA's rant on ATH today, saying how the LA / DC game was only a crowd of 17k even though it's home to all this Mexican soccer fandom, and all I could think of was he might be right, but they aren't going to come up and see fucking LA / DC. If the pairing would've been different and you had LA / Pachuca, I could've seen a stronger crowd coming up.. or if Chivas showed up in the Superliga... it would've been a higher attendance figure. ...having to pick though, I'd choose Chivas over America, don't know why though.

I'm not a huge Soccer nut, but I don't think most MLS teams even play something that could be considered European style football. Fans of the EPL (like my g/f's brother) constantly rag on the MLS for the shoddy mid-field play and how slow the game gets. As far as Mexican football, I hate it. Watching Pachuca/Houston was all that more affirming.. or the Morellia/Houston game in which the majority of the last twenty minutes was any and every defender for Morellia deciding to hack at Ngwenye and knock him down to the ground. The constant dives.. the dirty play, I don't find it all that compelling. Why America doesn't like soccer? No clue...

in for the 27th

Oh my God! And they didn't even show the solo... After seeing that video, I cant wait for this game to come out! That looks so ridiculously hard to pull off. I let a guy that I work with listen to "Through the Fire and Flames" yesterday, because he had never heard of Dragonforce. Upon hearing the opening guitar riff, he said fuck this. That's gold Jerry, gold!

Yes. ...now I can only hope for Beckham and the Galaxy to beat Pachuca to make me a happy man. I'm still livid over Ching hitting the fucking side post and then Ngwenye pulling some bullshit by trying to sneak the ball past Pachuca's goalie with some soft little loft kick that easily got blocked.

Yeah, they take pride in it... just how Dana this morning on First Take was making a point to remind people that its "TnA".. going on like: "Lest we forget, this is TNA...I mean, all I'm saying is.. T..N...A... take it for what you will"

anyone mind posting a link to that Filho / Doerksen fight?

The 25th or 26th would be good for me...

They (the fans) called Pacman a little bitch...

Like the title says. I'll kick it off with the sleeper cartoon hit: Bo, MJ and Gretzky.

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I was going to assume that, but yeah.. thanks for the clarification.

Where's the league at?

That count went from 7 to 5 seconds. That was a fast count dammit!

Morrison's music seems more Hendrix like than it does Doors like...

Fucking disgusting, seriously.

so yeah, whats the official site of the new TWR game?

I don't really agree with how high Texas is. Getting ripped by K-State then just laying an egg at DKR against AnM was harmful enough, but then barely hanging on against Iowa doesn't make them a top five team. I'd say top ten, maybe seven or eight.

How does it take away from the game being played? How does it detract from your enjoyment of the game, beyond the extent that artificial surfaces detract from football? Because when watching a game, I'd like to be able to focus on the game and not the fucking smurf blue field that the teams play on. You look at the rest of football and it's a green field. I don't care if its artificial or not, that's not the point I was making. The blue field is a fucking gimmick that gets people talking about BSU and honestly, up until their big run last year.. its mainly "Oh, yeah.. those guys that play on the blue field." Nothing about an actual player or about how good the team is.. just the field. What makes green plastic better than blue plastic? Everyone can tell it's fake grass. And who cares about playing in "middle of nowhere Idaho"? Do you have similar qualms about college football being played in middle-of-nowhere Provo, or middle-of-nowhere Champaign, middle-of-nowhere Iowa City, middle-of-nowhere College Station, middle-of-nowhere College Park, middle-of-nowhere Pullman, or middle-of-nowhere Lafayette, to name a few? What a stupid pair of things to be hung up on. Rolleyes. Qualms? No. Play the game wherever you really want to fucking play the game...just not on a gimmicked field. Honestly, of all the cities you mentioned trying to make your "point", the only one I wouldn't go to is College Station. Mainly because I have problems with a city that refuses business' to build within its limits if they won't conform by changing their color scheme. (If you didn't know, any business that has an orange/white color scheme is forced to change it to maroon/white because of their hatred of UT or as they like to refer to Austin, TU. Whataburger, Home Depot and others have had to do this in order to open up in College Station. Hooters told 'em fuck off, and didn't build) Oh yeah, and how the city condones acts of vandalism to anything that is UT (ripping off chrome horns, tearing off bumper stickers and replacing them with AnM ones) ..oh, and most of the state pretty much regards College Station to nothing more than a city of cultists. I'm standing by my theory that college sports make you stupid. As you've pointed out on your own.

Thor. Rationalization to be made at a later time.

Yeah, I could see them going with the Pac 10. I just feel if ISU does get plucked from the Big 12, there's going to be a huge shifting in conferences, because I'd see either Arkansas or Houston getting added, which would cause either the SEC or Conference USA to shuffle around and it'd just be a huge clusterfuck.

That's the thing though, people are penalized for the conferences they belong to. That's the way it's been and how it'll continue to be because if you give me an undefeated Boise State out of the WAC with a one or two loss team from the SEC, ACC or Big 12, chances are I'll go with the latter team over Boise simply due to the level of competition played. Them not rolling over and dying doesn't prove to me how their not a small time school. All that proves is they've got talent on both sides of the ball and played the game with a chip on their shoulder. As far as the lauding them and that, I mean as far as how their this great team, how their an uncrowned champion and all that bullshit. I just think before more people get on the BSU bandwagon, lets just see if they can repeat last years performance. If a BCS bowl or a high-end bowl game becomes the norm at BSU, then yeah... lets move 'em into a bigger conference and see how they do. Until then, lets not get blinded by their great performance over OU.

I can accept that Boise beat Oklahoma. Trust me... but if you're going to tell me that they "owned" Oklahoma, then yeah, you're wrong. Owning them would've been holding on to the massive lead they had to begin with and not having to claw back to take the game into overtime and win it then. Boise is a good program, I haven't really said otherwise... but why should they be put on such a high pedestal for playing in a weak conference?

Call me an idiot all you want...doesn't change the fact that no matter how much I hate Oklahoma, I can say that Boise's meltdown and eventual lucky win over OU doesn't really prove to me that they'd be such a huge draw for the Big 12 or any BCS conference. Honestly, if BSU was such a great program.. if they are this up and coming juggernaut of a program, why haven't they been invited in by any of the other conferences? If you put them in the Big 12, yeah.. they go into the North. Wow... let them beat up on the dregs of an already weak division that outside of a fluke win by Colorado and K-State in the conference title game, get crushed by the likes of AnM, Oklahoma and Texas. Then what does that really do for the Big 12? Wow, we got rid of a school that really doesn't have a chance of getting into the title game with a school that could, but would get beat in the title game. All for what? So we can have the state of Idaho to recruit in? Yeah, that makes sense. Boise is a good program and I think that yeah, they did get shafted last year in not being able to play for a national title, but that doesn't prove to me they belong in a BCS conference. Why don't we put this on hold until they make it a bit of a tradition to at least play in meaningful bowl games. As far as the field comment? It's a fucking gimmick that takes away from the game. I want to watch a game on green grass or turf, not on a blue fucking field in the middle of nowhere Idaho. Yeah, I'm an idiot.