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"Goddamnit, It's hard to be a KC Chiefs Fan."
Love you, too
That is all. Had to vent anonymously. I'm pushing 40, and guess what? I'm now thinking my team will never get it done in my lifetime. I need to stop watching year after year, with my hopes high. It's depressing. I'm not going to watch the AFC championship game. Fuck Rothlisberger and Brady. Aren't those guys like 60 years old? Anyway, Fuck. Thanks for reading.
I read that as KFC Chef fan.
I will google what sportball you are referring too, but later. I am hungry (but not for KFC).
Chin up, Go sports and all that!
I will google what sportball you are referring too, but later. I am hungry (but not for KFC).
Chin up, Go sports and all that!
Jason_K416 said: I live in Philadelphia, a city that went almost 40 years with NO professional sports championship since the Flyers in 77 I think it was. The Phillies are the only ones that have shown any sign of being a decent team anymore, and the Eagles are a fucking choke joke team. There is a saying here, "The Eagles didn't win, the other team just choked harder". Sorry for your Chiefs though, its rough. At least you're not a Cowboys fan though. My poor dad is and, he gets shit if they win the bowl, or if they're 0/16 
I guess that's true. Dallas' loss to Green Bay would be really hard for a Cowboys fan. I should count my blessings with my Chiefs. In my lifetime, we've made the playoffs something like 15 times; seems like we're in contention the majority of the time. We've just always choked. I can't believe we haven't made it to at least one Superbowl.
piederman said: That is all. Had to vent anonymously. I'm pushing 40, and guess what? I'm now thinking my team will never get it done in my lifetime. I need to stop watching year after year, with my hopes high. It's depressing. I'm not going to watch the AFC championship game. Fuck Rothlisberger and Brady. Aren't those guys like 60 years old? Anyway, Fuck. Thanks for reading.
Did they ever lead in this game? It is pretty bad to lose a divisional playoff game when the other team didn't score a touchdown.
Oh well, I'm just glad the Cowboys lost. I can't stand them.
Aaron Rodgers is something else.
JediKnight said:
Did they ever lead in this game? It is pretty bad to lose a divisional playoff game when the other team didn't score a touchdown.
Oh well, I'm just glad the Cowboys lost. I can't stand them.
Aaron Rodgers is something else.
piederman said: That is all. Had to vent anonymously. I'm pushing 40, and guess what? I'm now thinking my team will never get it done in my lifetime. I need to stop watching year after year, with my hopes high. It's depressing. I'm not going to watch the AFC championship game. Fuck Rothlisberger and Brady. Aren't those guys like 60 years old? Anyway, Fuck. Thanks for reading.
Did they ever lead in this game? It is pretty bad to lose a divisional playoff game when the other team didn't score a touchdown.
Oh well, I'm just glad the Cowboys lost. I can't stand them.
Aaron Rodgers is something else.
I'm pretty sure we scored after Pittsburgh's first field goal, so we led 7-3 early in the game. 6 field goals was enough to end our season. Bleh.
piederman said: Fuck Rothlisberger and Brady. Aren't those guys like 60 years old?
Agree with the sentiment here. Does the world really need Pittsburgh or New England in yet another Super Bowl? It's getting tiresome. Parity? A few teams have a top QB and the rest don't, which rather undermines the whole concept, however much the NFL would have you believe otherwise, and is proved by how often the likes of the Pats and Steelers reach the AFC title game.
I watched the Kansas game last night and was actually rooting for an eventual Kansas-Atlanta SB (despite Atlanta knocking my team out on Saturday, but then again Seattle made too many mistakes to deserve to win and were probably too banged up in key positions to have won the SB anyway), because it would guarantee either a new winner in Atlanta or an all but "new" winner, given that Kansas's one title was before I was born.
No one needs another Pats/Steelers/Packers championship - go Falcons!
moreslime said:
Agree with the sentiment here. Does the world really need Pittsburgh or New England in yet another Super Bowl? It's getting tiresome. Parity? A few teams have a top QB and the rest don't, which rather undermines the whole concept, however much the NFL would have you believe otherwise, and is proved by how often the likes of the Pats and Steelers reach the AFC title game.
I watched the Kansas game last night and was actually rooting for an eventual Kansas-Atlanta SB (despite Atlanta knocking my team out on Saturday, but then again Seattle made too many mistakes to deserve to win and were probably too banged up in key positions to have won the SB anyway), because it would guarantee either a new winner in Atlanta or an all but "new" winner, given that Kansas's one title was before I was born.
No one needs another Pats/Steelers/Packers championship - go Falcons!
piederman said: Fuck Rothlisberger and Brady. Aren't those guys like 60 years old?
Agree with the sentiment here. Does the world really need Pittsburgh or New England in yet another Super Bowl? It's getting tiresome. Parity? A few teams have a top QB and the rest don't, which rather undermines the whole concept, however much the NFL would have you believe otherwise, and is proved by how often the likes of the Pats and Steelers reach the AFC title game.
I watched the Kansas game last night and was actually rooting for an eventual Kansas-Atlanta SB (despite Atlanta knocking my team out on Saturday, but then again Seattle made too many mistakes to deserve to win and were probably too banged up in key positions to have won the SB anyway), because it would guarantee either a new winner in Atlanta or an all but "new" winner, given that Kansas's one title was before I was born.
No one needs another Pats/Steelers/Packers championship - go Falcons!
I agree wholeheartedly. At least Manning retired last year. I wish Big Ben and Mr. Deflategate would follow suit.
Is the NFL popular in the UK? I know that Goodell would love to have create a team over there; it's a long term goal for the franchise.
Yes, the NFL is quite popular over here, as we always sell out the International Series games. I first watched it in the 1980s when I was at school - I'd watch Channel 4's weekly highlights package on Sunday evenings and then (just about) manage to tune into the American Forces Network on the radio to listen to live commentaries afterwards. However, overall that initial burst turned out to be a bit of a fad that lived and then died. Our football went through a rough time in the 1980s and so a lot of people temporarily saw the NFL as an alternative, but that began to change when England reached the World Cup semi-final in 1990 and so the same people then decided they didn't need this American game anymore and returned to our own. However, it persisted as a cult sport for some years and grew from there to its current (decent) level of popularity.
Nonetheless, I'm not alone in wondering if a franchise might be a step too far, given that the International games are in effect one-offs, while a franchise would require everyone to turn out for eight games a year, every year, year in and year out, if it was to work.
Incidentally, my support for Seattle goes back to the Dave Krieg/Steve Largent/Curt Warner days (don't mention that overpaid cretin Brian Bosworth), when they always seemed to be the dark horse pick for the Super Bowl, although of course that never quite happened. They were playing the Raiders in the first game of highlights I saw and, as my step-brother already followed the Raiders, I picked Seattle. I'd love to claim, given my generation and music tastes, that it's in fact a nod to grunge, but I'm afraid my reason for following the Seahawks is actually as trivial as I've just explained...
Nonetheless, I'm not alone in wondering if a franchise might be a step too far, given that the International games are in effect one-offs, while a franchise would require everyone to turn out for eight games a year, every year, year in and year out, if it was to work.
Incidentally, my support for Seattle goes back to the Dave Krieg/Steve Largent/Curt Warner days (don't mention that overpaid cretin Brian Bosworth), when they always seemed to be the dark horse pick for the Super Bowl, although of course that never quite happened. They were playing the Raiders in the first game of highlights I saw and, as my step-brother already followed the Raiders, I picked Seattle. I'd love to claim, given my generation and music tastes, that it's in fact a nod to grunge, but I'm afraid my reason for following the Seahawks is actually as trivial as I've just explained...
moreslime said: Yes, the NFL is quite popular over here, as we always sell out the International Series games. I first watched it in the 1980s when I was at school - I'd watch Channel 4's weekly highlights package on Sunday evenings and then (just about) manage to tune into the American Forces Network on the radio to listen to live commentaries afterwards. However, overall that initial burst turned out to be a bit of a fad that lived and then died. Our football went through a rough time in the 1980s and so a lot of people temporarily saw the NFL as an alternative, but that began to change when England reached the World Cup semi-final in 1990 and so the same people then decided they didn't need this American game anymore and returned to our own. However, it persisted as a cult sport for some years and grew from there to its current (decent) level of popularity.
Nonetheless, I'm not alone in wondering if a franchise might be a step too far, given that the International games are in effect one-offs, while a franchise would require everyone to turn out for eight games a year, every year, year in and year out, if it was to work.
Incidentally, my support for Seattle goes back to the Dave Krieg/Steve Largent/Curt Warner days (don't mention that overpaid cretin Brian Bosworth), when they always seemed to be the dark horse pick for the Super Bowl, although of course that never quite happened. They were playing the Raiders in the first game of highlights I saw and, as my step-brother already followed the Raiders, I picked Seattle. I'd love to claim, given my generation and music tastes, that it's in fact a nod to grunge, but I'm afraid my reason for following the Seahawks is actually as trivial as I've just explained...
Nonetheless, I'm not alone in wondering if a franchise might be a step too far, given that the International games are in effect one-offs, while a franchise would require everyone to turn out for eight games a year, every year, year in and year out, if it was to work.
Incidentally, my support for Seattle goes back to the Dave Krieg/Steve Largent/Curt Warner days (don't mention that overpaid cretin Brian Bosworth), when they always seemed to be the dark horse pick for the Super Bowl, although of course that never quite happened. They were playing the Raiders in the first game of highlights I saw and, as my step-brother already followed the Raiders, I picked Seattle. I'd love to claim, given my generation and music tastes, that it's in fact a nod to grunge, but I'm afraid my reason for following the Seahawks is actually as trivial as I've just explained...
Interesting. You ever been to any of the games at Wembley?
