Who else is sick of the Football analogies in regard to the 'war'?

[Philosoraptor]

Republicans are always using football terms when speaking of their beloved wars, 'go long, go deep', 'don't turn tail in the fourth quarter', 'level the playing field', 'do you want to have an away game or a home game'?, 'support the troops', etc., they've been doing this from the very beginning and it gets more offensive to me every day.

dick cheney yesterday: "It's game time".

republicans use these football and baseball terms constantly, and I do believe that they actually think of the whole horror AS A BLOODY FOOTBALL GAME, to be 'won', or 'lost', to leave Iraq would be 'defeat', or 'surrender' even, come on already.

'Victory' is employed an awful lot, and 'winning', as in we are winning the war/game.

I guess in the old days people saw it as a giant chess board, a king, a queen, knights, bishops and above all, pawns. Our soldiers, on the ground, are the living pawns, dying to protect their king and his many bishops and rooks.

But football is more modern and hip, men go orgasmic at super bowl time, they place billions on bets, and they too win and lose, they get depressed when their team 'loses the game', and they scream like crazy when one of their team scores a touchdown.

So now they see this so called war as a literal game, and they see the people who are dying as scores, and the soldiers are handicapped, and the nameless, faceless innocent Iraqis are the away team, and the American people are the home team, and numbers are crunched, statistics are collected, plays are called, referees scream at team owners, coaches scream at referees, hot dogs are sold, beer flows like a river, like the blood.

It's Rome all over again, the crowd screams for entertainment and satisfaction, the gladiators and the lions and the victims get tortured and bleed and fight and die and the high brows sit in the best seats and hold a thumb up or down and it's all a huge, bloody game. We sit in the cheap seats and scream.

[YOY]

1. Amazing that most sports analogies come from Republicans

I guess their base really DOES need to have shit dumbed down for them.

[no_hypocrisy]

2. The purpose is to abstract the war in order to remove the horrors of

the rape of humanity. By making it a game, you have simple concepts of "winning" and "losing", and slogans like "We're Number One!". Think of the games from the 60s like Stratego and Battleship. Teaching war games to kids. This is not that much far removed.

[bryant69]

3. Football is largely harmless; war, not so much.

Imagine a war which everyone won
Permanent holiday in endless sun
Peace without wisdom, one steals to achieve
Relentlessly, pretending to believe
Attitudes are materialistic, positive or frankly realistic
Which is terribly old-fashioned, isn't it?
Or isn't it?

. . . Let's pretend we won a war
Like a football match, ten-nil the score
Anything's possible, we're on the same side
Or otherwise on trial for our lives
- Pet Shop Boys - DJ Culture.

Bryant
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[leftofthedial]

4. it's third and long in EyeRack

the OIL isn't yet locked up, so we can't leave yet

but it's one down early for a hail mary pass

[Buzz Clik]

5. Get used to it -- they aren't going away.

A huge fraction of football terms are from war.

So it goes...

[bunkerbuster1]

6. I've heard Howard Dean use it... albeit (I think) appropriately

He was speaking about strategic campaigning, and the need to be "on offense."

that's a bit simplistic perhaps, but it's understandable.

It's a whole other thing when you're talking about war.

[Buzz Clik]

8. When speakers use football analogies, they're simply trying to relate.

Joe Lunchbox knows football, so put stuff in terms of football. He won't get it if you start talking in terms of quantum theory or stochastic modeling.

[Virginia Dare]

7. I was sick of it from day one..

when we started the invasion the MSM was treating it like it was the fucking super bowl or something. :puke:

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

9. The "trophy" will be another wall dedicated to another lost war.

Or, some other monument for the politicians to stand in front of when they gin up for the next futile attempt to "protect" us.

[The2ndWheel]

10. 1997 is the "old days"?

http://www.amazon.com/Grand-Chessboard-American-Geostrategic-Imperatives/dp/0465027261

War, a game, time filler until we get the infrastructure to control the resources(both human and not) that we need for an actual global empire...it's all the same really.

[genie_weenie]

11. The Baseball one really pissed me off, since the

dishonorable congressman shimkus is a Cardnials fan.

Go Cubs.

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/02/shimkus-cubbies/

[blueworld]

12. Have pity - what other macho grunting can they do?

Hunting analogies after the Big Dick shot his friend in the face on a canned hunt & then tried to hide behind a lady's skirt?

College memories that don't involve dressing up as a cheerleader?

Actual military service reminiscences that don't involve a rubber turkey?

Intense physical exercise, like bike riding, after you run down a cop in the UK? That one reminded me of the commercial where the jogger hits a plastic deer...

All night sex? Ah, ha, ha, ha!
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[Deb]

13. Did you catch the Kansas GOP Rep on Washington Journal?

He made the "Home Game vs Away Game" analogy this morning.

I can't wrap my brain around the total disrespect they have for our troops. :mad:

[KansDem]

14. I grew weary of "football analogies" when they were just that..."football analogies"

Used to watch football and baseball and listen to the LA Lakers on radio when I was in my teens. Then came the era of the "color man," the mouthy-Madden types who insisted they fill every second of every 3-hour broadcast with endless drivel. I got tired of the seemingly never-ending succession of worthless stats and the "what is the player/coach thinking" musings, as well as the "up close and personal" mini-bios that became popular in the Olympics during the 1980s. Add to that the "what were you thinking?" questions to the "I was thinking I had to win" answers of the "greatest athlete du jour" interviews. What a waste of time and mind!

And if this was bad enough, I particularly resent it when these sports analogies are applied to anything other than sports.

[underpants]

15. None of these d-bags ever played sports, it shows

There is a story about how brutal W was in Yale intermural basketball which shows more about how bad he was at playing more than anything.

The point that is important is that the first thing that everyone who ever played individual/team organized/backyard games/sports or anything is that you NEVER ASSUME THE OPPONENT ISN'T GOING TO SHOW UP you always expect the worst and prepare for everything.

These are nerds. Face it look at the entire upper level of the right NERDS weird sit in their room and talk to no one nerds. Socially unfit and physically inept. This is a major reason they like W so much-to them he is the starting quarterback , the studly superjock that they finally get to hang around with.