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Posted by Mike Pennell (Member # 1692) on 09-07-2003, 04:25 AM:
 
With the season starting what teams do you call your own? I know its almost a political subject with some, but who's your team?

Go Cowboys!!! You can stop the laughter its a rebuilding season!
 

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Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 09-07-2003, 07:02 AM:
 
New York Jets - Things are not looking to good. They are still my team of choice. J-E-T-S JETS JETS JETS

Someone let Rachel know the Patriots got their blocks knocked off today.----then duck.

[ 09-07-2003, 06:05 PM: Message edited by: Bob Maar ]
 

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Posted by Rachel Gilardi (Member # 1016) on 09-07-2003, 10:36 AM:
 
PATRIOTS...even though I live in Packers land now.
 

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Posted by Brad Haven (Member # 954) on 09-07-2003, 10:41 AM:
 
the fremantle dockers!
 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 09-07-2003, 07:34 PM:
 
Broncos.... the ones who beat Green Bay Packers in what I thought was one of the best Super Bowl games ever. Hell it was one of the best FOOTBALL games ever, not just Superbowl!
 

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Posted by William T. Parr (Member # 677) on 09-07-2003, 07:45 PM:
 
Oh Well Even though I was born and raised in Texas, I Hate the Cowboys. I am a Cheesehead all the way, even though they lost today.
 

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Posted by Paul G. Thompson (Member # 655) on 09-07-2003, 07:54 PM:
 
BAH!

Football is a strange game. It is the only game I know of that a bunch of dudes line up and bend over. Then you have some idiot running behind them and sniffing everybody's butts. Then someone reaches between the legs of a guy in the center and comes up with a ball. Then he throws the damn thing down the field and all the guys chase after the one with a ball. They grab him, throw him on the ground, and grope him. Then someone blows a whistle.

Very strange game indeed.
 

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Posted by Claude S. Ayakawa (Member # 1401) on 09-07-2003, 08:23 PM:
 
We do not have a professional football team based here in our island state of Hawaii but we do have a fine college team, the University of Hawaii "Warriors". They belong to the WAC tournament and is expected to do very well again this year under their coach, June Jones. The Warriors were rock bottom in the league before Jones took over but tied for 1st during the first season after he took over. He just signed a five year $400,000.00 per year contract a few days ago and getting more money than the president of the university. I am not sure but I think he is getting more money than the governor per year making him the highest paid state employee.

-Claude
 

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Posted by Robert E. Allen (Member # 1351) on 09-07-2003, 08:25 PM:
 
If I were to have an NFL team to call mine it would be the Seahawks. But I've pretty much given up on pro ball as it has become sterile. You can just about predict what they are going to do. I'll take the local high school team or college football over the NFL anytime.
 

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Posted by Paul G. Thompson (Member # 655) on 09-07-2003, 08:41 PM:
 
When it comes down to it, I have lost most of my interest in professional sports. They are paid too much, some are not very smart (just a strong back) and too commercialized.
 

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Posted by Sam Hunter (Member # 1119) on 09-07-2003, 08:56 PM:
 
Yeah, but its sure fun to drink beer and hoot and holler with!!!
A louisiana CHEESEHEAD!
 

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Posted by Rachel Gilardi (Member # 1016) on 09-07-2003, 09:49 PM:
 
HAHA the Packers lost!!! Oh wait, I'll get my head chopped off for that here... Darn Packers make in impossible to go into Green Bay on Sundays.
 

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Posted by Jason Burroughs (Member # 68) on 09-07-2003, 10:00 PM:
 
I'm not a big fan of pro-football and don't condider myself a Dallas Cowboys fan, I do hope they win. I guess rooting for the home team thing..

On the other hand in college football.. GO SOONERS! Was nice to see that White as able to finish the game this year. Hopefully that streak will continue.

Boomer Sooner!
 

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Posted by William Hooper (Member # 71) on 09-08-2003, 01:57 AM:
 
There is not a dime's worth of difference between spectator sports & soap operas. I got the time, patience, & couch-flattened behind for neither of them.
 

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Posted by John Carpenter (Member # 1488) on 09-08-2003, 11:41 AM:
 
You cant expect much, coming from a guy in Gainesville, but Florida Gators Football is the best. Although I dont like the pros for pretty much the same reasons stated above (way overpaid and overhyped) I love college football Saturdays! Teams are always changing as students come and go. As for me I will always bleed orange and blue... and I guess this is the one thing Steven (from cross town Regal) and I can agree on
 

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Posted by Michael Schaffer (Member # 1204) on 09-08-2003, 12:44 PM:
 
Why do people here call this strange sport with the funny costumes "football" when there is
- no ball but an egg
- the egg is carried under the arm most of the time and rarely kicked

Shouldn`t it be more aptly called "armpit egg" rather than "football"?
 

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Posted by Sam Hunter (Member # 1119) on 09-08-2003, 02:32 PM:
 
Schaffer said

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Why do people here call this strange sport with the funny costumes

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The forerunner of American football may have been a game played by the ancient Greeks, called harpaston. In this game there was no limit to the number of players. The object was to move a ball across a goal line by kicking it, throwing it, or running with it. Classical literature contains detailed accounts of the game, including its rougher elements, such as ferocious tackling.

Most modern versions of football originated in England, where a form of the game was known in the 12th century. In subsequent centuries football became so popular that various English monarchs, including Edward II and Henry VI, forbade the game because it took interest away from the military sport of archery. By the middle of the 19th century, football had split into two distinct entities. Still popular today, these two sports were soccer and rugby. American football evolved from these two sports. The sport called soccer in the United States is still known as football throughout much of the world.

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Shouldn`t it be more aptly called "armpit egg" rather than "football"?

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ROTFL! Michael, I like that!

Well, if basketball involves a basket, baseball--some bases, and volleyball--well, a volley, then why did the old powers-that-be not name the game known in the USA as football "fieldball?" Or "passball?" After all, the "armpit egg" is being run with or hurled down the field most of the time; the foot only makes contact with the ball during kickoffs and field goal attempts. IMHO, the game known as "football" outside the USA is more deserving of the term, since, after all, the ball is principally propelled by feet (well, save for a head butt or two).

Just my two cents from a resident of a city some say is being held hostage by a mediocre (American) football team...
 

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Posted by R. Andrew Diercks (Member # 1725) on 09-10-2003, 12:12 AM:
 
Looks like I'm lonely at this point

GO NINERRRRS!!!!! Been a San Fran fan since I first saw the game as a todler. Then it was the gold helmets I liked, or so mom says.

Last season saw my first live game and loved it. It is officially an annual trip. Only way to see it is at home...3Com park. Long travel for an Iowa boy but well worth it. I even got the quarterback god's autograph last year, none other than Joe Montana. Highlight of my year, maybe life, but the wife and kids might prefer other events as highlights.


 

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