dmchicago said:

stlcharcoal said:

Acn said:

There are much better ways to spend 4+ hours than watching oversized men in small pants spend around 15 minutes trying to injure and/or inflict permanent brain damage on each other.

Yep.....you got it.

We had Rams tickets until the late 90's and I once timed how much time they were actually in play / moving on the field.  We would leave home at 9:30'ish to catch a tour bus over there about 11am.  Game would start at noon and run through 3:00-3:30.  Bus would get back around 4:30, so we were home around 5:00.  So it was a 7.5 hr day and about $500 spent for the four of us to see them in-play for a total of SEVEN MINUTES.  I imagine some games are more, but this one was seven freakin minutes on a 60 minute "play" clock. 

You think that's bad?

I know a bunch of guys that spend thousands of dollars on a cooking contraption that cooks so slowly, sometimes it takes overnight and half the next day just for the food to be done!

Then they sit down for 15 minutes to eat it!

lousubcap said:

@sctdg - The good 'ol New York Football Giants.  Charley Conerly, Del Shofner, Pat Summerall, Don Chandler and several more I don't recall.  As you note-true smash mouth football.  To this day the team is the New York Football Giants for me (and for the younger crowd) that's because New York also had a baseball team called the Giants...relocated to San Francisco in 1958.  Dang, I'm an old sports junkie.  

Lifelong Eagles fan, a tough business to be in with so many let downs & disappointments.  Like many I’ve left the NFL behind, even with all their success this year I only managed to watch one regular season game, just too many more interesting things to do with my time these days.  I have tuned in for the playoffs though and of course will watch Sunday.  Asked my buddy the other day what if the unlikely scenario occurs & they win, what will become of the fans?  I think a large part of their identity is tied up in losing (& I say their as in the dopes you see on the news & in so many videos making horse’s asses of themselves) that they may actually suffer a setback if it ends.  I like the Pats, always have, & with the exception of Superbowl 39 where they played/beat the Eagles I’m always pulling for them, I find their run of success to be brilliant so much so that it has sucked some of the fun out of it at least from my vantage point; if they win on Sunday one-third of Brady’s 6 fingers will be covered in rings at the expense of my team, then I guess he’ll start on his second hand .

I never bought into ‘their success comes by cheating’ theory either.  Do they cheat, yea probably.  Do the other 31 teams also cheat, yea probably.  How can you really be pissed at a team that just does football better than yours

Retro said:

henapple said:

Back in my day..... Lmfao 

LMAO--one thing about being old?
EVERYTHING young guys are still trying to figure out us old guys have already done--and done enough that we're good at them.
Bedroom-Barroom-BBQ included.
LMAO--the things young guys are still trying to figure and and perfect - we've been there and done that hundreds or thousands of times.
Us old guys? We were taught to respect the wisdom and experience of the generation before us.
Young guys now days are raised to hide their inadequacies behind disrespect. 
World is a changing.

Retro said:

henapple said:

Back in my day..... Lmfao 

LMAO--one thing about being old?
EVERYTHING young guys are still trying to figure out us old guys have already done--and done enough that we're good at them.
Bedroom-Barroom-BBQ included.
LMAO--the things young guys are still trying to figure and and perfect - we've been there and done that hundreds or thousands of times.
Us old guys? We were taught to respect the wisdom and experience of the generation before us.
Young guys now days are raised to hide their inadequacies behind disrespect. 
World is a changing.

Griffin said:

That a lot of people are going to be disappointed in the whole thing. The game and the commercials and are going to be surprisingly shocked by it. Almost like they don't remember how much of a let down it was last year. Or the year before. Or the one before that. Just a big marketing job hyped up in order to make money.

I'll just take the opportunity to have a few beers and catch up with some old friends that I only get to see a few times a year due to hectic schedules. Sitting outside watching the kids run around.

fishlessman said:

Griffin said:

That a lot of people are going to be disappointed in the whole thing. The game and the commercials and are going to be surprisingly shocked by it. Almost like they don't remember how much of a let down it was last year. Or the year before. Or the one before that. Just a big marketing job hyped up in order to make money.

I'll just take the opportunity to have a few beers and catch up with some old friends that I only get to see a few times a year due to hectic schedules. Sitting outside watching the kids run around.

last year was one of the best come from behind wins ive ever seen in the nfl