To Football or politic, THAT IS THE QUESTION.

LOL...

Dammit!!!!!!!!! We miss you!!!!...I hope you know that...

Thanks AR. :) I missed all of you too. :)

You better...lol..

Hey AR congrats on breaking into the top 25 on leaderboard! You Go!

thanks kjm...it is all because of you gals and guys out there that support me, couldn't have done it without any of you...thanks my friend...

You're welcome, BFF!!

lol

LOL...thanks Rachel...

So this thread is only for Republicans to post? Me allowed to post?

SPECTACULARARAB-

Since I'm not now, never have been, nor ever will be a Republican, you are most definitely allowed to post!

Of course knew that but wanted reassurance that I will not be attacked for what I'm about to say.. Neverthless, Thanks for welcoming me.

Thing is-

Everyone was cheering for a favourite football team but mine is this-

Go team Barack Obama.

(hiding under the cover) Y'all not gonna kill me, correct?

ROFL.

Spectaularrarab: Nobody's gonna kill you. Just a piece of advise. You don't really need to waste your time watching the debates, MSNBC will tell you EXACTLY what to think, say and believe early the next morning! LOL!

Since they are on MSNBC, it'll be hard to tell people what to think, when those people have already watched them, right?

Early the next morning? Morning Joe? LOL

You forgot about the SPIN Rachel. Bachman will say "well it rained yesterday so the sky was kind of gray" and then the headlines will read "Bachman insists Sky is NEVER blue in America - All Obama's fault"

LOL, kjm, not sure they're that bad, but, some of them on there are bad, just like all the other "news" channels!

I've watched the first two, and really? No need for spin with some of the things that have come out of a few mouths...Gingrich, especially!!

But, I figure this one will be interesting, see if Romney leans more towards the TP, if Perry shows his true colors, if Santorum drops out right afterwards and if Bachmann is asked (once again) about Palin.

Last one, they rarely gave Paul or Huntsman any time and that was on FOX...let's see how they do.

Early the next morning? Morning Joe? LOL

Should be morning Rachel? You know the other one.

ROFL.

Smile.

kimgirl, Simply will never believe really every word people in Congress say.

Better to look at what makes sense and what doesn't.

Better to look at what makes sense and what doesn't.

Then why are you cheering for "Team Obama???" :P lol

Score one for Mary J! Got a belly laugh out of that! :-)

lol Thanks Spike. Sometimes there's comedy in truth. :P

Repeat ;) LOL

clear forward motion man, clear forward motion.

Karma from that call cost the Pats the perfect season. I even felt a little bad for them on that SB. Just a little. But you got to admit; that was one heck of a pass and catch. But the side effect of such a crazy play is you will have to look at it the rest of your life.

But I have to look at the "immaculate reception" ad naseum so I feel your pain.

Must have been a clear football in his hand too because I didn't see it :)

Nah, I'm a lifelong pats fan, but that was a fumble.

There was stickem on his helmet!

Ahh... stickem. That brings back memories. The Raiders probably lost ten pounds apiece when the league stopped using it.

What, you miss Lester Hayes dumping a bucket of stickem on himself and having the turf stick to his taped up hands, jersey, and helmet?

I loved watching him reapplying the junk to himself on the sidelines in between series.

Why did they outlaw it again? :-)

No Idea :) Can you imagine being the person having to clean out the locker rooms and do the laundry? I think some of the Raiders could have pulled off a Spider Man if they wanted and climbed walls.

Would have made doing the Lambeau Leap interesting for sure.

Unless stickem and clods of grass would have been collectibles?

LOL! Probably would have had to call the paramedics to separate them from the fans and the wall.

Greg, how much did the therapy sessions from that catch cost you ? I know I still have flashbacks from Brady's "incomplete pass" everytime it snows on TV.

I suffered hard from that one, two, three punch in the snow. First a punch to the gut from the "tuck", then a cross from the impossible in the snow kick to OT, then the knockout upper cut from the impossible kick in OT. Turned the TV off and went into hermit mode for three days. A little piece of me died that day. For people that say "Its only a game" ..... well ... well ... tell my therapist that !

Must be a Bronco or Colts fan. I wouldn't watch either :)

I am done with horses for a while. One kicked me in the side a month ago and I am still trying to get my ribs to glue back together. One the plus side, it only hurts when I laugh. Or cough. Or sneeze.

A Steeler fan but I live where they also have the Browns and the Bills on TV so we never know which game will be shown. A true Steeler fan would never stoop to watch a Browns or a Bills game. That would be sacrareligious.

with horses LY2K, always watch the ears, if they pull them back get the hell out of the way. lol

I know but either they are getting faster or I am getting slower. And to add insult to injury I had to have a Colts tatto on my side for a nearly a week (although not blue; purple, green, then yellow ) The last 4 years or so they have paid for my doctor's kid's college education.

If I was born 150 years ago out West I wouldn't have made it to 18 I think. Some of us just aren't meant to be cowboys it seems. The hobbies we get into to please women ..... Wait a minute. Now I remember that she took out a couple life insurance policies on me when we met. Nah, surely not ......

We can't get cable on the farm Greg, it stops 4 miles down the road. I was lucky to get one company to put up a satillite for our internet service. It is our only expense we can afford right now. I do miss getting together with friends to watch a Steeler game.

LibY2K, I have 28 horses right now, you want to buy one cheap? :) I have never been hurt by a horse but one of our heifers stomped me good two years ago, two broken ribs and a bruised kidney. It took a year before I felt no pain from the kidney shot. Of course she is gone, she was made into hamburger somewhere. LOL

Dammit!!!!!! that must be nice Infinity...Gotta love them boys!!!!!!no matter what, been a fan since I was knee high and Five yrs old..lol

The horses we have are breaking me in hay, vets and farrier. They cost more then kids in the winter :) I always have to be on guard. She would collecthorses like baseball cards if I didn't remain vigilant. Had to actually sabotage the trailer one time before the Labor Day stock sale. At one time before I had to break bad we had 9 horses on 4 acres. Now down to 4 finally.

that's pretty rough stuff there y2k, owned a few spanish mustangs...horse cost money...

You are killing me infinity...I would love to get down there..hopefully this season...

Cowboys..... the anti-Raiders :) Like the Yankees, you either love them or hate them.

I don't love them :)

LOL...y2k, everyone has their own picks...lol

Although I would like to see the Jerry Jones Cathedral. It has to be something to behold.

Neither football or politics...I'll be trail riding.

Libertarian, I have the same problem with my husband, he keeps telling me about these "great deals" on horses in our area, he's wanted everything from a two week old APHA filly for $3 grand to a 20 year old rescue "free to a good home".

Two of us, two horses, can't ride more than one at a time, just enough pasture for two...I rest my case.

Can't say too much though...I have five saddles for one horse.

True merleliz. They are like popcorn or Pringles to some people, they can't have just one!

At least I'll get something out of that next year, more horses.

Thank God you added the last part, V! I was on a 'Horse Porn' thought track when I was reading the last sentence and....well....uh.....sheesh. Never mind.

LY2K-just when thought you were O.K., you go and talk bad about my Yankees....that is just not right. The Yankees are baseball, everyone else-just a poor reflection....I grew up less than 100 miles north of NYC and my buddies and I would sit around the transistor radio listening to Phil 'Scooter' Rizzuto on the AM Dial. I miss those days. Not sur emany people do that anymore......

Never used to have a problem with the Yankees until they started buying out all the good A's. For a time there it seemed that the A's were the farm club for the Yankees. Don't know how any team can keep up with the big boys in baseball anymore. And the Yankees are the biggest spenders. I think that is one reason that football over took baseball. They have a cap and strive for parity. In baseball you already know who most of the teams that will be in the playoffs are before game one really.

Damn Yankee's.

I'm not the one that invented the name "Evil Empire" :)

Awe heck who says you can't root for more than one team? I root for the Broncos and the Vikings. Born in Minnesota but I live in Colorado.

GO BRONCOS

GO VIKINGS

GO AVALANCHE

I'd say GO Rockies, But they are long gone.

Which they did. And hard.

*pssst Greg* Baron doesn't watch sports*

:P LMAO!!!

Yes, you Pats fans surely paid your dues. Enjoy your time. Because when it is over you never know when it will come back. Ask any Raider fan. For that matter, ask any 49er, Bills, Dolphins, etc....

Yep. I remember watching them lose game after game, sitting there in my jersey with my little bowl of chips. This decade has been great for New England sports though. I hate knowing it will come to an end.

And Mary I watched Brady get two turkeys and a strike back in the world series of football! I know what's going on!

Don't know what is in the water up there. Either that or there is nothing for the players to do except practice and study film. :)

And Mary I watched Brady get two turkeys and a strike back in the world series of football! I know what's going on!

Hahahahahahahahaha!!!! My mistake. I'm impressed!!! You are really knowledgeable when it comes to sports!!!! lol

Maybe it is a "cold thing". But explain the Bills and Browns then? :)

Originally from the Rochester, NY area...Bills used to practice (maybe they still do) up the road from my folks house.

Boy

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super bowls

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Didn't you know that's what it stood for???

:-)

It will be ok Greg. Put it on a T shirt and give it to her on your anniversary. She will love you for it :)

Lions, because I'm a Leo....I'm also a closet Lions fan!! (born in Detroit ) :)

Lions52, this might be the year to come out of the closet then :) Those Lions look nasty on the D-line. You have a QB and super reciever. Might be the beginning of something.

Agreed Libertarian

lol I like that kind of change!!! lol

But before changing the channel, I always roll my eyes and say "OH GAWD." Followed by a few choice swear words. :)

It's perfect, we don't have to hope that something else is on tv while we are changing. Football is on!

Nice fish!!....lol...

ESPN - 90%

Pregame rules.

Ok a little over the top; but it still rules as compared to hearing any politician talk.

That's great, greg...but, it's on Food Network!

ESPN - 90%

Quite the possibility, especially if the curling championships are on...

Hope you're not insulting CURLING, Chief! It's AWESOME. My husband wants to put a curling lane (What do they call it, a court?) in my backyard. That would be about $3028350932402 to create ice! Yeah, right!

No, no insult to curling. I know it's ALMOST as popular and well known as football... :)

I love curling and even got hubby into it last winter Olympics!

LOL...

Are you kidding? Roseanne's Nuts is a friggin TRAIN WRECK! It's Hilarious!

I seen it a couple of times you are right...she goes ballistic about them damn wild pigs...lol Trying to save them and capture them and then put them back where she caught them..lol

Nothing like a gardening show...watching Rosanne Bar at her finest..lol...going the F... off on everyone...it only took me a couple of shows and I couldn't stand to hear her voice anymore..lol

Now you know how Tom Arnold must have felt.....

You have to wonder if the money is worth it sometimes :)

Im a Sooner fan when it comes to college....Seminoles used to dominate back in the 90's

they grow corn and play football like there is no tommorow my friend...OU...has been rocking for awhile...lol...

Ok, let me rephrase a part of that, they used to grow corn all the time before the drought...lol..

AmericaRepublic? Are you from Mobilhoma?..............<snicker> HOOK'em! from Austin!

I am a WV fan. I remember one game not too long ago that the Sooners didn't rock so much :)

But the Sooners are going to be tough this year.

Since LSU's quarterback got in a bar brawl a week ago, was arrested for assault and kicked off the team, I don't know how we're going to beat the Ducks! Phoey!

LSU comes to Morgantown this time to play WV. Try to stay ranked in the top 10 at least till then please :)

Ok, y2k.....Let's hope! I noticed WV is rated high this year! Congrats on that.

Indeed a Sooner through and through....lol...hookem horns...lol...yeah...lol

GO DAWGS!!

Forget NFL, or POTUS,

my acronym is DVR!

Jeff?

I'm not mentally retarded, so I don't watch football.

You consider me mentally retarded? :(

i am truly sorry, but when I see a football stadium, built with tax subsidies or tax forgiveness, and then I turn around and see a hospital that was not built, a school that was not built, a child that was not fed, a museum that was not built, a disease that was not researched, a young adult that does not get to go to college, i cannot help but think our priorities are all out of whack. Big time.

If people want to do this with their own money, then let the owners pay for the stadium WITHOUT any taxpayer help. there are way too many important things we need to spend money and give tax breaks to than football, baseball, basketball, anything of that sort.

THAT is government waste at is most callous.

On the other hand, twenty-two man groping at each other other over the possession of an inflated bladder has never struck me as entertainment.

I would likely die of heart failure if i ever heard the general public have a rally in favor of a new museum or orchestra hall. Or if a cancer researcher were ever held up as a hero, instead of one of these ball throwing circus acts.

Five years from now, what difference will it make who through what sphere in to what location? Five years from now, that same money could have been used to cure some illness.

Again, we have whacked priorities.

All work and no play makes society wither away!

Agreed. We have played for too long. Can we get some real work done now?

I completely agree, Jeff.

I'm always a little confused when people I know who turn on the nightly news for the sole purpose of seeing the sports highlights also complain when the same news show features a bit of celebrity gossip. Aren't sports highlights basically the same thing: a bunch of people who are famous for no really good reason doing stuff that doesn't really matter?

That said, I won't be watching either, though I would watch ANY president's speech before I would watch a sporting event.

And isn't it funny how some people who proclaim that CEOs don't DESERVE a million dollar salary have absolutely no problem with Payton Manning making $15.8 mil for ONE SEASON!

Hypocracy at it's FINEST! LOL!!!!

kjmgirl

That is before he renegotiates his contract- they are estimating he will earn in the 25 million range for 1 season.

Damn underpaid athletes. /SARC

See there, Ronin, now you have me feeling sorry for him!

I feel sorry for Payton Manning having to play all of those years for a few paultry million. Must have been a real nightmare dragging himself to work every day playing a sport that most of us do for free.

Ok, all sarcastic remarks aside. If the Colts want to pay him that much- then more power to him. I do feel sorry for the fans- the team will need to make up the difference somewhere. I wonder how much more they will have to charge for tickets, jerseys, etc?

I can understand what the Colts fans are feeling. I almost quit the Steelers Nation after what they inked Big Ben for. I am glad I didn't. Seems that Ben's contract is very modest by comparison. (I just wish he was as well.)

And yet, a sports venue of any type employs a myriad of people and generates a huge amount of tax revenue. I don't feel sorry for any pro athelete that is unhappy with their salary, but neither will I begrudge them what they earn. BTW, they all have agents that make a living off these atheletes and they have people working for them in support positions that all have jobs and all these people are also generating tax revenue.

I'm not saying that a sports venue is more important than a hospital, but they do employee and or affect a huge amount of people and their income. Worthy of some thought rather than scatching the surface and turning up one's nose.

**Yawn** Progressives need to come up with some new material. After two years this is getting stale.

If the GOP or the Tea Party is giving a speech on opening day I will still be watching football. We have a year and and three months to listen to this crap. But only one opening day in that time. If you taped Obama's last few speeches just watch them again; it will be the same. Enjoy some football and save your energy for the coming election. You will need it :)

Libertarian - didn't you see my article calling for Impeaching Bush for STILL being acting President 2 1/2 years into Obama's term?

Nope, but I will go look now :) I have to figure out how to track people I want to. I didn't even know Greg had this one up until I saw a reference in DA. I have been just plucking from the scrolling bar or the top seeds. And they are starting to all sound the same to me and kind of shrill; like a far away siren getting closer :) Who knows how loud the whine will be this time next year :)

Lets see... Teabaggers. Check. Party of No. Check. Heartless. Check. Racists and bigots . Check. Implied theocrisy. Check. Koch brothers. Check.

Not bad, I give it a B+ But next time throw something in about enslaving the poor and whoring out to corporations. And mention something being the fault of Bush. Lost points for no mention of "Fascists". Nice use of Dominionism though. Gave you extra credit for being on top of the latest talking point. Pretty good effort but you can do better.

Gave you extra credit for being on top of the latest talking point.

Now that's the type of pile of crap response we expect from the Teabaggers. Totally vapid and laughable. Talking points? No, those are the realities of what you have become (or rather always have been). Corporate shills living in trailer parks. Propping up the top hoping some of what they got will trickle down to you.

And how can you seriously blame anything on Bush? Anyone with any sense knows he had next to nothing to do with either foreign or domestic policy during his 8 years. His name is but a symbol. But this new version of GOP/TP suffers from much deeper in-breeding. They follow Limbaugh far more than any elected official. They have been taught that logic and fact are poison and to be avoided at all cost. In fact thinking itself is bad. Bachmann says essentially that when she is on the stump. She might as well be selling the idea of frontal lobotomies for all.

All problems are simple and require only simplistic solutions, it is the overuse of the application of thought that has supposedly brought us to this place (/s). Intellectualism run wild! That is of course idiocy but the repetitive way it is taught implants this as the truth (realize that the average Limbaugh listener is absorbing several hundred hours of his BS a year). And of course there has to be someone to blame for all of our ills and so by default that is now Obama and anyone of the liberal persuasion. That is just the usual petty politics but it keeps us from dealing with the real issues (which we cannot even agree on anymore).

As for talking point I get both the GOP and Dem versions via email several times a week. But the GOP generates far more of these and they are far more vicious. And they have also proven to be far more untrue. Check any fact check site you like.

TEABAGGER? From someone whose name is LIBERTARIAN!!! HAHAHAHA!!!

Thanks for the laugh on a dreary Friday!

Keep your infighting to yourselves.

I just found a way to stop the left from blaming Bush all the time. If the GOP would start blaming Bush then progressives would defend him :)

I don't doubt that Libertarians sound like the far right to most progressives in this neighborhood. They are so far out in left field anyone, even a moderate or blue dog dem would sound far right wing to them.

But they do have a reason to not like libertarians. When it comes to smaller government we lead the way. And that is the polar opposite to progressive ideology. When Reagan was president I had more problems with the right then I did the left. But most of the true liberals have left the democratic party they by far are the greater evil. Progressive, socialist, tomaytoe, tomaughto. So if I have to pick between the old school GOP or the morphing into socialism Democratic party I choose niether; I choose the new republicans. At least they are talking fiscal conservativism and reading the constitution. And voting against the Patriot Act. And voting against increased taxation. And voting against increasing regulatory control of industry and society.

Infighting? Actually the GOP and Libertarians have not been closer. We will fight amoung ourselves after we remove the clear and present danger.

Seems like you have soem re-reg's coming after you LY2K. Nicely explained, not that it will help them look outside their self-constructed box.

Name callers, CAPS'N'!!!, .... all just blah blah blah to me :) Never let it get under my skin anymore. I have come to accept that I am in the minority in these parts so I don't have as long a leash as the majority. I won't be baited anymore. I sure could though; I am a very creative "crap slinger" (years of practice in the service and even a genetic disposition or a gift if you would ). I could give Eminem some competition if we wrote instead of rapped :) But it is just as funny when they start losing it anyways. In my crueler days I would act innocent and dumb with a straight face and let the really stupid tell me the way things were.

On the upside, no one hates the Cardinals :) Maybe they can get a rival even. I remember when they could light it up. But everyone else could light it up against them too. You did make a SB though. Even the Chargers haven't pulled that one off yet.

Wait? Cardinals? Out of Chattanooga? What?

Sorry-I had to do it......I know, I know, I live in Bills territory, 4 times the bridesmaid, nevet the bride......

You still have that play off game against the Houston Oilers to fall back on. I think that was one of the main reasons they moved and changed their name :)

Cardinals --- Don't even laugh

I feel your pain, Owl.

Falcons---Don't even laugh....

Hey, one of the teams is even worker owned.

Ahhh, the NFL. The ultimate example of the benefits of socialism

LOL... Yeah, except that when you want to leave, there's no one standing on a wall with a rifle, waiting to take you out.

You have GOT to be kidding me! How was it a CoH violation? Compared to the articles/titles I've seen here nearly every day, there was nothing at all offensive about it! Is it worth arguing about, or just start another?

Newsvine - Get silenced here!

Insane greg totallly insane, sorry my friend I heard about it and can't believe it..

true..lol but its the point behind it...hope you had a good weekend though guess we will just have to convert this one and keep trucking

That's good to know, I am just so frustrated about the whole damn thing..look forward to your new post as always

Afternoon AR. I see you are lamenting the latest tragedy. Fear not my friend we have faced these storms before and weathered them well.

Hello all.......good to see some of my friends here. I know you will all be Cheering on the GreenBay Packers with me tomorrow!!!!!!!! Hah.

I am actually cheering for Manning to get another muscle pull or something. It is so pleasing to see Colts fans so dismayed. I know I am a terrible person. But for 50 million MF"N dollars I better see the FKNG Lombardi Trophy in Indy every year.

Sorry to hear that Greg. No more than 'Violates CoH' as an explanation? Was it Sally? Can you appeal? That was a lot of fun, I wonder which touchy-feely-douchecanoe of the lunatic left complained about it?

I am surprised it lasted this long to tell the truth. The last one didn't, did it? Good luck on the new one, Greg. We do need a nest sometimes :) It would be a shame if we have to go private group or something. Maybe even Meta.

Meta is something that is about Newsvine, not about 'the news'. Supposedly. They have a location for Meta. The 'Not News' tab, but it won't show up on the Top News Tracker.

Manning might be done for a long time. Nerves are slow healers; I know from experience. One time I had some beverages and fell asleep on the couch with my head propped up. Because my shoulder was already pissed off from my job at the time this finished it off. I had hurt a nerve. After the week of pain (and cussing without much sleep) it finally stopped hurting. I soon realised I had lost serious strength in one of my muscles. I could still lift palm down or palm up but couldn't hardly raise my arm palm sideways. Couldn't even lift a soda out of the fridge without grabbing it palm down on the top or twisting it sideways and palm up. I learned to make sure lids were on tight :) It slowly returned to normal after 3 years or so. I also went head first off a horse about 4 years ago and lost my sense of smell; I had pissed off the nerves that connect nose to brain. It is slowly getting better. To this day about half of the receptors get their signals through to the brain. Since most smells are composed of tens of thousands of receptors flicking thier "on - off" switches so your brain can say "rose" you can't imagine how stuff smells to me now. Some things are close but many are beyond describing because they absolutely smell like things I have never smelled before. I have no reference for them.

So my long winded medical auto-biography explains my experiences with nerves. I don't have access the the doctors Manning does I am sure :) But the brain and nerves are kind of unfixable no matter the doctor. Only the body can fix them sometimes. And it is through very slow regeneration.

I'm still struggling to see through my tears of laughter, and cleaning the bottled water from my keyboard (I got the water-proof kind after my last exo-nasal incident). After days of reading some of the meanest insults, and being called all manner of names, I was overcome with spasms of laughter upon reading Spikegary's post at #29.12 and perhaps one of the funniest words I have seen in print in this venue...."douchecanoe". Don't know why that got me laughing exactly but I suppose my feeling is: why be hurtful, when you can be funny instead?

Much as I'd love to claim it, I saw it here on NV a couple years back.....

A classic then!