What's so Manly about American Football? - Page 2

glatt · 10-26-2009, 04:40 PM

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Originally Posted by lumberjim

this

My son is never playing football.

lookout123 · 10-26-2009, 04:42 PM

here's some of the ugly. Of course whoever made the first video included some soccer fights which are notoriously wussfests.

lookout123 · 10-26-2009, 04:45 PM

and here is one of the most amazing bits of skill ever.

and some more

lumberjim · 10-26-2009, 04:59 PM

oh fuck, lookout. how about a broken bone gore douchechill warning on that!?

Griff · 10-26-2009, 05:51 PM

I didn't find the Cambell/Lambert goal line collision, but for sheer terror you can't touch Theisman/Taylor.

lumberjim · 10-26-2009, 05:54 PM

seen that....saw it live.....not watching it again today, thanks.

Griff · 10-26-2009, 06:01 PM

Me too. It physically hurts to watch that. I remember getting blindsided by a replay I didn't see coming...

Shawnee123 · 10-26-2009, 06:03 PM

I almost threw up.

Damn.

monster · 10-26-2009, 06:46 PM

I'm not saying soccer's any more manly, just I really find football like a huge pantomime. A wussy girly pantomime. They even have girly hair. And knickerbockers. And they need a break every ten seconds. To restyle it. :p

lumberjim · 10-26-2009, 06:56 PM

this is a troll you're perpetrating. we all know it, but we enjoy it just the same.

monster · 10-26-2009, 07:45 PM

good. I'm in one of those moods today. But damn, I'm sure I could take it more seriously if they didn't look so silly. I'm really trying to get into this whole football lark, you know ...when in Rome and all that.....

Cloud · 10-26-2009, 08:08 PM

"perpetrating a troll"? is that, like, a hanging offense?

jinx · 10-26-2009, 08:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by monster

I'm not saying soccer's any more manly, just I really find football like a huge pantomime. A wussy girly pantomime. They even have girly hair. And knickerbockers. And they need a break every ten seconds. To restyle it. :p

Go to one of the pee wee games Ive been going to all season - the sound of these 10 year olds smashing into each other is bone chilling. And they hurt each other... wind knocked out, teeth knocked out.... coach picks them up, dusts them off, smacks them in the head and they GET BACK OUT THERE!! Tougher than woodpecker lips these little kids are, I tell ya.

Cloud · 10-26-2009, 08:44 PM

the hazards of football, an article:

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2..._fact_gladwell

Quote:

There were men with aching knees and backs and hands, from all those years of playing football. But their real problem was with their heads, the one part of their body that got hit over and over again.

“Lately, I’ve tried to break it down,” Turley said. “I remember, every season, multiple occasions where I’d hit someone so hard that my eyes went cross-eyed, and they wouldn’t come uncrossed for a full series of plays. You are just out there, trying to hit the guy in the middle, because there are three of them. You don’t remember much. There are the cases where you hit a guy and you’d get into a collision where everything goes off.

monster · 10-26-2009, 08:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Cloud

"perpetrating a troll"? is that, like, a hanging offense?

well it's about time something was well hung around here, cause those footballers sure ain't.

btw "Peewee" is not manly. Who TF thought that was a good name? it cracks me up that the hockey players go from mini-mite to mite to squirt to peewee -whiich is middle school age-

10-26-2009, 04:42 PM	#17
lookout123 changed his status to single Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Right behind you. No, the other side. Posts: 10,308	here's some of the ugly. Of course whoever made the first video included some soccer fights which are notoriously wussfests. __________________ Getting knocked down is no sin, it's not getting back up that's the sin

10-26-2009, 04:45 PM	#18
lookout123 changed his status to single Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Right behind you. No, the other side. Posts: 10,308	and here is one of the most amazing bits of skill ever. and some more __________________ Getting knocked down is no sin, it's not getting back up that's the sin

10-26-2009, 04:59 PM	#19
lumberjim I can hear my ears Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 25,571	oh fuck, lookout. how about a broken bone gore douchechill warning on that!? __________________ This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality Embrace this moment, remember We are eternal, all this pain is an illusion ~MJKeenan

10-26-2009, 05:51 PM	#20
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	broken bone gore douchechill warning I didn't find the Cambell/Lambert goal line collision, but for sheer terror you can't touch Theisman/Taylor. __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

10-26-2009, 05:54 PM	#21
lumberjim I can hear my ears Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 25,571	seen that....saw it live.....not watching it again today, thanks. __________________ This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality Embrace this moment, remember We are eternal, all this pain is an illusion ~MJKeenan

10-26-2009, 06:01 PM	#22
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	Me too. It physically hurts to watch that. I remember getting blindsided by a replay I didn't see coming... __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

10-26-2009, 06:03 PM	#23
Shawnee123 Why, you're a regular Alfred E Einstein, ain't ya? Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 21,206	I almost threw up. Damn. __________________ A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones who need the advice. --Bill Cosby

10-26-2009, 06:46 PM	#24
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	I'm not saying soccer's any more manly, just I really find football like a huge pantomime. A wussy girly pantomime. They even have girly hair. And knickerbockers. And they need a break every ten seconds. To restyle it. :p __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

10-26-2009, 06:56 PM	#25
lumberjim I can hear my ears Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 25,571	this is a troll you're perpetrating. we all know it, but we enjoy it just the same. __________________ This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality Embrace this moment, remember We are eternal, all this pain is an illusion ~MJKeenan

10-26-2009, 07:45 PM	#26
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	good. I'm in one of those moods today. But damn, I'm sure I could take it more seriously if they didn't look so silly. I'm really trying to get into this whole football lark, you know ...when in Rome and all that..... __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

10-26-2009, 08:08 PM	#27
Cloud ... Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 8,360	"perpetrating a troll"? is that, like, a hanging offense? __________________ "Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards!"

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