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CA.Timothy
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California
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im guessing you have not watched ESPN in the last 12 months
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 8, 2014 - 08:27am PT
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no i have not watched ESPN? I no longer have TV
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The Larry
climber
Moab, UT
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What are the other parts?
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Wade Icey
Trad climber
www.alohashirtrescue.com
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what is football?
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 8, 2014 - 08:31am PT
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No team loyalty they just go where the money is best. one year you are supposed to hate a guy the next year he is on your team. the realization that many football players are bullies and thugs. they were in highschool and nothing seems to have changed.
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 8, 2014 - 08:33am PT
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look how many rape alligations big ben has. where there is that much smoke there is fire....
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WBraun
climber
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The irony of the American mind.
"I don't have a TV anymore and don't watch TV anymore"
Then they go onto the internet to TMZ ......
lol
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Wade Icey
Trad climber
www.alohashirtrescue.com
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not a sports guy but isn't 'alleged rapist' part of every pro athletes CV? right above 'doper?'
what's TMZ?
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 8, 2014 - 08:40am PT
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a linked news story from my yahoo home page. i clicked it and that is where the video was.
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 8, 2014 - 08:44am PT
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they are not all bad people but a heck of a lot of them seem to be. i used to idolize LT untill I read his book.... total ahole. A few years ago he had the chance to be a hero and help a young girl. he banged her instead.
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TGT
Social climber
So Cal
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NFL = National Felons League
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Dapper Dan
Trad climber
Menlo Park
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I love "I-don't-own-a-TV" guy . They casually drop this little nugget around where ever they go . Bravo !
You can come watch my 64" plasma 3D if you like ...
As for the NFL ... Go Niners!
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The Larry
climber
Moab, UT
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What? Bad people play sports? Bad people become cops? Bad join the priesthood? Bad people teach in our schools?
I think some good people do these things too.
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MikeL
Social climber
Seattle, WA
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There have always been strong distinctions among participating in a sport simply for the doing of it (experience), being a spectator of a sport and living vicariously through others, and being a cognoscenti (a studied observer) of a sport. I think these distinctions existed back even before Grecian times, too.
It's a little difficult to complain about what sports are or aren't when most sports are battle gentrified and celebrated. I believe that's were sports came from, wasn't it? Wouldn't it be less damaging if (like "Rollerball") civilizations were to expunge their nationalistic desires (which are all only too human) through sports? Someone could do a cost-benefit analysis on that, I'd bet.
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Barbarian
climber
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Are NFL teams required to have a dedicated parole officer on staff?
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Fifteen YARDS!!!!
They should have given him the whole nine!
Asolos! He should've had heavy mountain boots, not weeenie wonder walkers. That would have gotten more ink, video, commentary.
Sandlot pussies.
Ray's got a big one coming someday for that punch, but why would someone who got treated like she did marry the d!ckhead? So she can divorce him and get half his damn money.
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HighTraverse
Trad climber
Bay Area
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but why would someone who got treated like she did marry the d!ckhead? So she can divorce him and get half his damn money. you beat me to it.
Whatever her motives to later marry him, his conduct is inexcusable, and likely criminal although you can bet it was the NFL clout that kept it out of court.
Rice and Palmer were arrested for assault after the incident but were cleared of criminal wrongdoing after participating in a program for first-time offenders.
We are surprised that a sport that has become progressively more violent on the field has players that behave violently off the field?
Are there any comparative stats for pro football vs basketball vs baseball vs soccer vs bicycle racing?
Then of course there's ice hockey.
Meh!
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bergbryce
climber
East Bay, CA
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My guess is a statistically significant portion of NFL players do the same thing regularly, this guy just got caught.
Football rewards very active aggression inflicted on others. And as a nation, we love it. Not surprisingly, we love guns and all kinds of other violent $hit too.
I've grown less and less interested in football and it's equally because of what the game represents, the players and all the damn' commercials.
This guy has a few thought provoking points on football, and others that are not so much.
http://www.salon.com/2014/08/31/the_nfls_toxic_lies_here_are_the_worst_excuses_fans_use_to_justify_watching_football/
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