Fortunately I don't think I'll have to (0.00 / 0)

deal with any wingnuts whose primary source of information is Faux News and right wing radio. Unfortunately, the Giants/Denver game is only going to be on the NFL Network channel, not regular network TV, so I won't be able to see it. We used to get that channel, but no more - only one person in our family is lucky enough to have a full time job. That's what it's come down to in this country - a full time job with benefits is largely a matter of luck, not hard work, desire, education, skill.

Anyway, in my bitterness over not being able to see the NY/Den game tonight, I hope it's a totally sucky game that I'm glad I missed. Happy Thanksgiving, everybody!

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by: Oaktown Girl @ Thu Nov 26, 2009 at 16:20:51 PM UTC

I'm never really happy about anyone being fired, but... (0.00 / 0)

..I have to admit I dunno crap about football. What was the problem with that Jauron guy? Was he more of a parking meter than playing the game, or what?

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by: Gray @ Thu Nov 26, 2009 at 16:23:44 PM UTC

Its a game. It doesn't matter. (0.00 / 0)

Online sudoku is just as important. Perhaps he could get a real job now.

Does this mark me as an apostate? A heretic?

Not that I havent enjoyed daylong partying, drinking wagering with family and missing the last quarter of 'important' pigskin festivals, but I have no tears for people who have the bizarre luck of 'working' all their lives playing a game.

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by: HousesofProgress @ Thu Nov 26, 2009 at 17:39:42 PM UTC

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I know I'm a heretic (4.00 / 1)

I hear the term "college football" and reach for my revolver. Why should there be professional sports at colleges at all?

According to what I've read, only a handful of college football teams even support themselves, let alone create any value for the university (none do that). The rest are parasites in a time of academic budget cuts and rising tuition.

Let the NFL form and finance its own developmental league.

This is just another example of corporatism. But it's funny seeing progressives screaming for free circuses subsidized by the poor.

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by: Russ @ Fri Nov 27, 2009 at 11:27:38 AM UTC

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Here's a link that kind of summarizes the situation (0.00 / 0)

http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/s...

You'll see that the Bills have a lot more problems than just the head coach. Perhaps a really top notch head coach could have turned the ship around, but Jauron is clearly not that guy, and Bills fans have known that for a long time.

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by: Oaktown Girl @ Thu Nov 26, 2009 at 18:13:49 PM UTC

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The Bills organization looks like the patriots... (0.00 / 0)

...in comparison to the Cleveland Browns' disaster

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by: lord_mike @ Fri Nov 27, 2009 at 06:34:14 AM UTC

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No shit! (4.00 / 1)

Looking at it from an outsider's perspective, the Browns seem like an absolute dumpster fire this season. Ugh. Poor Browns fans!  

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by: Oaktown Girl @ Sat Nov 28, 2009 at 05:02:06 AM UTC

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Jauron (4.00 / 1)

Called runs when he should have passed, passed when he should have ran, blew timeouts because the QB couldn't understand the play-call, oddly opted every time to defer receiving the kick when winning the coin toss to open the game, contributed to stupid personnel moves, and on and on.


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by: Adam Bink @ Fri Nov 27, 2009 at 18:52:04 PM UTC

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Football - Secondary Opiate of the Masses (4.00 / 1)

I'm a recovering Colts fan. Watched them win the Super Bowl and was happy. The following year a bi-partisan coalition of idiots put more than half a billion dollars of our public money into replacing a 25 year old domed stadium that apparently just wasn't big enough. Taxes were raised and countless other public programs were cut so Indianapolis could show how big league it is. Sure, we still have a failing century-old sewer system that dumps raw waste into the river when it rains too much ... but hey ... the Colts are good this year so who cares right?

Haven't watched a game since that Super Bowl win and I don't plan to ever again. But ... I'm missing Peyton Manning in his prime! The Colts are 10-0!

Big Effing Deal.

While most of America focuses on the NFL and various other sports we are circling the drain as a functioning democracy. So call me cranky, or bitter, or a wimp, but I'm done with supporting a sport that siphons off public money while glamorizing the worst of our macho culture. Not to mention putting gazillions of dollars into the coffers of the very media organizations that are being lambasted elsewhere on Open Left.  

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by: Curt Matlock @ Fri Nov 27, 2009 at 14:06:12 PM UTC

Good point re the MSM (0.00 / 0)

Pro sports wouldn't exist in anything remotely like its present form if it hadn't been relentlessly flogged by the corporate media, and for the same reasons this media does everything else we normally deplore.

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by: Russ @ Fri Nov 27, 2009 at 20:16:31 PM UTC

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