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Fumesucker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-12-11 03:29 PM Original message |
The reason I don't like football is because I went to a football mad high school.. |
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Dawson Leery (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-12-11 03:33 PM Response to Original message |
1. Where I was raised, the rules were bent often for the football team. |
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apocalypsehow (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-12-11 03:35 PM Response to Original message |
2. And I'll bet you had to walk ten miles to school in ten foot snowdrifts too, huh? |
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Fumesucker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-12-11 03:36 PM Response to Reply #2 |
3. I love you too... |
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apocalypsehow (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-12-11 03:45 PM Response to Reply #3 |
4. Ah, I'll have to Rec your OP for that. Why do you have to go and be so nice? |
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Fumesucker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-12-11 03:47 PM Response to Reply #4 |
5. "It's nice to be nice to the nice." -Major Frank Burns n/t |
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lbrtbell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-12-11 03:56 PM Response to Original message |
6. Football isn't to blame |
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Fumesucker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-12-11 03:58 PM Response to Reply #6 |
7. Tell it to the kid having his head shoved in a toilet by a football player. n/t |
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jberryhill (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-12-11 06:29 PM Response to Reply #7 |
25. +1 |
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Dawson Leery (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-12-11 10:19 PM Response to Reply #7 |
33. It doesn't take much to throw a ball around. |
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sylveste (126 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-13-11 01:23 AM Response to Reply #33 |
39. we should |
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coalition_unwilling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-12-11 04:00 PM Response to Original message |
8. +1,000,000,000 x 1,000,000,000. One of my close friends died |
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Fumesucker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-12-11 04:06 PM Response to Reply #8 |
12. It isn't anything out of the ordinary.. |
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coalition_unwilling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-12-11 04:09 PM Response to Reply #12 |
13. OT somewhat, but one of the highly encouraging things about |
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Fumesucker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-12-11 04:33 PM Response to Reply #13 |
17. OWS just doesn't know what's really important in life.. |
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NOMOREDRUGWAR (319 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-12-11 04:00 PM Response to Original message |
9. Interesting for you to mention Tim Green |
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Fumesucker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-12-11 04:04 PM Response to Reply #9 |
10. OK, all football players are no-necked, testosterone pumped cretins.. |
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NOMOREDRUGWAR (319 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-12-11 05:37 PM Response to Reply #10 |
18. Ryan Fitzpatrick, Bills quarterback scored a 1580 on his SAT(back when it was out of 1600) |
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Fumesucker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-12-11 05:43 PM Response to Reply #18 |
19. Eh, you tried to make me look foolish because I don't follow football.. |
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NOMOREDRUGWAR (319 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-12-11 05:59 PM Response to Reply #19 |
21. Wasn't trying to embarrass you dude... |
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Romulox (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-12-11 04:04 PM Response to Original message |
11. I was a geeky, sickly kid. One thing I've learned as I get older, there are many kinds of I.Q. |
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Fumesucker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-12-11 04:10 PM Response to Reply #11 |
14. Kneesliding is like ballet at 150 mph.. |
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Romulox (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-12-11 04:22 PM Response to Reply #14 |
15. Awesome! |
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hedgehog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-12-11 04:27 PM Response to Reply #15 |
16. I never had the patience to watch football, but my mother insisted the |
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HughBeaumont (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-13-11 10:59 AM Response to Reply #15 |
46. Oh, look, a Browns QB getting sacked. There's a rarity. |
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ProgressiveProfessor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-12-11 05:47 PM Response to Original message |
20. I was also an outlier in HS...though large enough to do so I refused to play football |
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ScreamingMeemie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-12-11 06:13 PM Response to Reply #20 |
22. I just need to correct something...The idea that Columbine was |
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ProgressiveProfessor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-12-11 06:30 PM Response to Reply #22 |
26. There are other versions of the "story" |
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ScreamingMeemie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-12-11 06:34 PM Response to Reply #26 |
27. At least read the book please... That wasn't part of it at all, in this |
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ProgressiveProfessor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-12-11 06:38 PM Response to Reply #27 |
29. I take a look at it but multiple other sources support that the jock culture |
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ScreamingMeemie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-12-11 06:40 PM Response to Reply #29 |
30. Multiple media sources supported that theory. Look at the backgrounds |
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ProgressiveProfessor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-12-11 07:04 PM Response to Reply #30 |
32. Went to get the current URLs for "Tales from the Hellsmouth" |
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apocalypsehow (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-13-11 02:39 AM Response to Reply #32 |
43. "Per my current students" - Comedy gold. |
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ProgressiveProfessor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-13-11 10:54 AM Response to Reply #43 |
45. I actually forgot the word "here", thanks for pointing it out. |
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Fumesucker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-12-11 06:15 PM Response to Reply #20 |
24. Good point about the power being too much too young.. |
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aint_no_life_nowhere (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-12-11 06:14 PM Response to Original message |
23. I'm a Raiders fan, I love football, and I agree with your sentiments |
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Gregorian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-12-11 06:34 PM Response to Original message |
28. To me, football is crude. I like refinement |
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quinnox (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-12-11 06:44 PM Response to Original message |
31. I was no jock, but played pickup games of football in the |
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ScreamingMeemie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-13-11 01:45 AM Response to Reply #31 |
41. Not worth it. |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-12-11 10:34 PM Response to Original message |
34. I grew up in the rural upper midwest and I think all rural areas are HS Football crazy. |
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Blue_In_AK (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-12-11 10:36 PM Response to Original message |
35. I went to high school in Texas. |
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tnlefty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-12-11 11:16 PM Response to Original message |
36. Tell me about it, I grew up in a small North GA town...Ii've been in |
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Fumesucker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-12-11 11:20 PM Response to Reply #36 |
37. I was a lineman for a very brief stint.. |
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Arugula Latte (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-12-11 11:27 PM Response to Original message |
38. I always resented it in high school when we were expected to fawn and faint over football players |
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yewberry (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-13-11 01:33 AM Response to Original message |
40. Completely the oposite. I couldn't care less about football |
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ScreamingMeemie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-13-11 01:47 AM Response to Original message |
42. I went to a high school that had a football team, and a debate team, basketball team |
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B Calm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-13-11 06:02 AM Response to Original message |
44. Hey wait a minute, I played HS football. . |
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madmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-13-11 11:29 AM Response to Original message |
47. We also live in a "football community". My daughter was not into sports at all. She |
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