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Post by rick on Feb 3, 2015 16:23:59 GMT -5
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Post by erik on Feb 3, 2015 17:43:46 GMT -5
Maybe I'm really dumb (always a possibility), but I don't care much for this outrageous manifestation of the worst that capitalism has to offer; it's just a lot of hyped-up attempts to part one from one's money. I'd feel that way even if the game itself were a rout for one team or the other; and in this case, it wasn't decided until there were only twenty seconds left in regulation.
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Post by Dianna on Feb 3, 2015 22:51:37 GMT -5
the strangest game I've ever seen.
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Post by Dianna on Feb 3, 2015 23:04:40 GMT -5
oh and The Brady Bunch Snickers commercial was the funniest IMO
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Post by erik on Feb 3, 2015 23:30:44 GMT -5
The NFL hasn't had a really great 2014, even with this particular Super Bowl being the most watched TV event ever (or so they say). Players beating up spouses, initiating corporal punishment on their kids, and footballs (supposedly) being deflated--all of that was quite ridiculous.
But I'm more than a little angry at the NFL for its 20-year program of playing graba** with Los Angeles when it comes to putting, or not putting, a franchise back in our part of the world. They have been using L.A. as leverage to force other cities to build new stadiums on the taxpayers' dole or risk losing their teams to us, but they refuse to actually put a team here because we will not pony up any taxpayers money for it. And suddenly, just when Rams owner Stan Kroenke comes up with this huge proposal to turn the former Hollywood Park racetrack in Inglewood (just south of the Forum) into the site of a new NFL stadium, with the very real possibility that the Rams could be coming home to Los Angeles, twenty years after they (and the Raiders), vacated, NFL "kommisar" Roger Goodell shudders at the thought of upsetting the fans in St. Louis, who basically, with the help of former owner Georgia Frontiere, stole the Rams out from under us in 1994.
And don't let anyone tell you that we can't support an NFL franchise, especially if it's the Rams, because there's too many other things to do around here, and we have the Lakers, Clippers, Dodgers, Angels, Kings, Ducks, and the Galaxy. That's garbage! We'll support an NFL franchise. What we won't support, and I can guarantee you this, is another couple of years of Goodell's bulls***!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 4, 2015 10:19:24 GMT -5
Erik, the disastrous experience of the Super Bowl in NJ is a microcosm of that you are talking about... The NFL refused to pay any of the expenses and most of the hosting areas were stuck with huge clean up bills. Just one reason why the NFL (or Spousal Abuse League as I call it) is by far my least favorite sports organization.
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Post by erik on Feb 4, 2015 18:23:46 GMT -5
Quote by robertaxel re. NFL:
There are a lot of things that are wrong with the NFL, really. The league itself has tax-exempt status, which is why it is so obscenely profitable, what with the value of the elite teams (Dallas; New England, etc.) and the TV contracts, which add up to something like $10 billion. Another is that they seem to allow their players, especially the top ones, to get away with things like wife-beating, corporal punishment, and generally thuggish behavior--simply because they can, they're supposedly the top sports league here in America. And yet they are squandering an extra three billion dollars by not being here in Los Angeles. They, and Goodell in particular, can be so f***ing stupid about business at times, even without all the bad stuff.
But what does it say about us as a country that we worship wrongdoers in sports or entertainment?
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Post by Dianna on Feb 4, 2015 22:58:00 GMT -5
Erik, .. they are providing a service and we or they , the fans give them the power. Personally, I'd never want to be famous.. an athlete, artist, actor whatever.. sure there are examples to uphold or being a role model.. and the ones you speak of, I am sure get a lot of pressure to be perfect, and when they screw up they lose endorsements and have their names dragged through the mud.. It's this pedestal we put other human being on...
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