What's the big deal about being a player in the NFL?

[LeftyFingerPop]

What...you catch a ball? Woooooooooo! I can catch a football.

What...you run a play, you hit some guy? What...what's the big fucking deal. I can do that.

They act like you have to be some great athlete to do this stuff, but remember, you get a few seconds between plays to catch your breath.

Buncha overpaid whiners and pussies if you ask me.

[JVS]

1. If you're so fucking good at it, why don't you go do it and make the money?

[LeftyFingerPop]

3. Don't fuck with me.

[SoxFan]

2. Yeah, that's what I told Richard Seymour when I met him

Pffft. So he's 6'4" with zero body fat. I could kick his ass...

[LeftyFingerPop]

4. What does body fat have to do with it?

They put on one sock at a time, just like I do.

[SoxFan]

18. That's what I'm sayin, dude

[LeftyFingerPop]

21. Damn straight.

[Uzybone]

5. I don't see NFL players posting about how your job sucks

Looks to me like you are the whiner. They are very well paid, but thats because there are people ready to pay to watch them entertain us. Don't let it pinch you.

[LeftyFingerPop]

6. Shit, they get paid millions for playing a goddamn game.

They are doing nothing that I couldn't do.

[LanternWaste]

68. Most of them get paid for doing nothing you couldn't do...

Most of them get paid for doing nothing you couldn't do-- difference being, they do it well.

[LeftyFingerPop]

72. I could do it nearly as well...It's not that difficult. n/t

[LanternWaste]

76. I'm sure you could.

I'm sure you could...

[flvegan]

7. I've worked out alongside few of the NFL fellas off season.

Those guys make me look like one major wuss.

[LeftyFingerPop]

9. An un-named NFL player ran into me in a bar without saying excuse me...

I knocked him on his ass like he was made of strawberry jello. They ain't as bad as they look.

[flvegan]

11. And then you woke up.

on edit: oh yeah, and stop roughing the kicker.

[LeftyFingerPop]

12. What do you mean?

[SoxFan]

20. Seriously, they are scary specimens

My brother has played pick-up hockey with guys on the University of New Hampshire team; this is like playing playground ball with the North Carolina starting lineup. Several of the guys have gone on to play professionally, and at that level, the speed, reflexes, and strength are just at a completely different level.

[LeftyFingerPop]

22. Put 'em in a streetfight and most of them fold like lawnchairs.

[coyotespaw]

8. I don't doubt that you could do it once, maybe twice a week.

But to do it five days a week for practice: then to do it against people that aren't your team-mates, guys that don't give a good god damn whether or not you walk off the field or if you're carried off. That is a different story. Even if you could do that, do you honestly believe you could do that with forty to fifty thousand fans chanting against you? It's easy to sit on your ass and say that you could do it; but it's another thing to step up and live that moment week after week.

[LeftyFingerPop]

10. I used to run full speed into my garage door, head first, just for kicks.

I could certainly play a "game".

[flvegan]

13. That explains things.

[LeftyFingerPop]

14. Explains what flvegan?

[coyotespaw]

15. Congratulations...

you win the "Internet Tough Guy" award for the week. Treasure it always, along with your mental victories over people that actually exert themselves for a living.

[LeftyFingerPop]

16. You have no idea what I have done.

[coyotespaw]

17. I know that you're enough of a jack-ass to brag about

running headlong into your garage door. I think that says enough about you, boy genius.

[LeftyFingerPop]

19. You don't know me...what's your problem?

[coyotespaw]

23. I have no problem; I'm just not sure what your issue is...

I'm curious about why you feel the need to shit on people that have an appreciable talent. Maybe you should see a professional about your inferiority complex.

[LeftyFingerPop]

24. Listen...I'm not shitting on anyone. Sure, they have talent...

but they are not doing anything that a large population of males could not do to a reasonable degree.

[coyotespaw]

32. Sure, but as I've said...

the difference is that they can do it on a daily basis, against people that do it on a daily basis. Anybody can throw down in a pick-up game in their backyard. To do it over and over again against the best there is is what sets them apart from us. Anybody can sing karaoke in a bar, but to stand up in front of thousands and sing for four hours is an entirely different thing.

[LeftyFingerPop]

33. That's a bunch of crap.

It is all the same...whether you do it in front of thousands of people or not.

[coyotespaw]

38. That is the single most idiotic thing I've heard in the past five years...

and considering that I work in a bar full of drunken idiots, that says a lot. It's one thing to do something, it's entirely something different to do it while a crowd is watching; and an entirely different thing to do it under a hostile crowd.

[LeftyFingerPop]

39. Like I said, you know nothing about me, or what I have done.

[coyotespaw]

41. And since you keep repeating that instead of saying what you've done...

other than running into your garage door head-first (which isn't that impressive.) There's really nothing else other than a massive case of sour grapes to chalk your pissy attitude to.

[LeftyFingerPop]

42. See post #40

[coyotespaw]

53. I googled it Junior, but nothing came up...

and I checked my watch; your fifteen minutes is up. Whine, piss, bitch and moan all you want; the best you can do is confirm your own irrelevance. I seriously hope that you do something more with your life other than complain about how much better other people have had better luck than you.

[LeftyFingerPop]

54. What are you trying to tell me here?

[coyotespaw]

56. I'm saying that inconsequential twits

that have nothing better to do with their time but try to piss upwards at those that have risen above them, like you, are beneath me. Piss on someone else's tree, junior; thou art ignored.

[LeftyFingerPop]

58. You might want to read downthread. n/t

[Bake]

67. Can you throw a perfect spiral 60 yards?

While 1000+ pounds of defensive backs are trying to turn you into a greasy spot in the turf? And put the pass right in the arms of your receiver who is running at top speed? And being chased by somebody just as fast as he is?

Bake

[LeftyFingerPop]

69. Yes Bake, I can...

Yes I can.

[Bake]

73. Well hell, then! Good for ya!

:hi:

Bake

[Dr. Strange]

70. I can throw a perfect spiral 60 yards.

Assuming I don't have to do it all at once. Like maybe four spirals going 15 yards each.

[LeftyFingerPop]

71. Fucking hell!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[Dr. Strange]

75. Aren't you sober yet?

:hi:

[LeftyFingerPop]

77. I haven't been sober since the Johnson administration.

:hi:

[Dr. Strange]

25. You know what sport is tough? Curling.

And not that Olympic crap--I'm talking full contact curling. Taking a broom in the solar plexus really lets you know you're alive. Except when it makes you lose consciousness.

[no name no slogan]

26. Yeah, taking one of those stones to the balls can be very painful

I gave up curling after that happened the second time.

[Dr. Strange]

47. I read about your case in Painful Sports Injuries Monthly.

My condolences.

[flvegan]

27. No part of your hairstyle is a sport, Britney.

[Dr. Strange]

30. You're just jealous...

because there are no mashed potatoes involved in curling.

[flvegan]

31. Of course not.

It's played on ice, and far to cold to stick your...well, you know.

[BeachBaby]

28. Sounds like you have experience.

Do tell. PLEASE.

[Dr. Strange]

36. The sport has since been outlawed...

so I'm not at liberty to say too much more.

[LeftyFingerPop]

29. I was playing badminton once a took a racket to the balls...

64 stitches. Now there's a man's game.

[Dr. Strange]

48. Keep taking rackets there...

and it won't be a MAN's game anymore.

[LeftyFingerPop]

49. My testes do not define me.

[Dr. Strange]

50. Oh yes they do.

Mostly behind your back, though, when you're not looking.

[LeftyFingerPop]

51. Those are not testes. They are 'roids.

[jobycom]

34. Anyone hear Tony Kornheiser's comments a few weeks back?

During the Sunday night game, out of the blue, he said "Let's face it, if these guys were born anywhere else, they'd be lifting furniture for a living." None of his co-hosts went anywhere near the comment. :rofl:

[LeftyFingerPop]

35. Man, ain't that the truth.

Being large is only part of it.

[petronius]

37. If I may make a suggestion, why don't you try being a world-famous violinist

or a top level theoretical physicist instead? NFL work is often outdoors, and sometimes it rains...

[LeftyFingerPop]

40. Have you ever heard of Amedio Polmardo?

'Nuff said.

[petronius]

64. No

:shrug:

[LeftyFingerPop]

66. Exactly. I rest my case.

[Missy Vixen]

43. Let's see here

One in 15,000 young men who ever turn out for football make the NFL.

Fifty percent of the NFL draft choices wash out of the league -- in other words, they don't make the teams they're drafted for.

The average NFL career (for those who actually make a team) is four years. That's right. Four years. One must play ten seasons to qualify for an NFL pension.

The injury stats: One hundred percent of NFL players are injured during an average season. NFL players also seem to have an above-average pain tolerance; they're in pain most of the time.

When NFL players take the field, the game is exponentially faster than it is at the college level. In other words, it's put up or shut up time. On most college teams, there's one guy who's excellent; the rest are perhaps talented. EVERY guy on an NFL team is the "excellent" guy. The competition to stay on a team is brutal.

In the meantime, you can catch a football, huh? Please feel free to walk on at free agent day with any team in the league. I'll bet you don't make it more than five minutes.

Julie

[LeftyFingerPop]

44. That's a bunch of crap, where in the world did you get those stats?

:rofl:

[Missy Vixen]

62. Try nfl.com

I also write for a well-known (and nationally quoted) Seahawks fan blog.

Julie

[LeftyFingerPop]

63. What's a "blog"

[BeachBaby]

45. I used to babysit Wes Hopkins' daughter.

Believe me, he's no wuss. :)

[LeftyFingerPop]

46. He was highly overrated.

We used to work out together at The Mango Gym.

Bad knees.

[LeftyFingerPop]

52. My OP was complete horse shit.

Thank you.

[Iggo]

55. That was fun.

Thank you.

[LeftyFingerPop]

57. Yes it was good...

Thanks for reading it and have a good morning! :toast:

[Robeson]

59. Yeah, I got that....

...amazing how some don't.

[LeftyFingerPop]

60. I know...

and Good Morning Robeson. :hi:

[Robeson]

61. And to you, too, philboy....

...:hi:

[backwoodsbob]

65. to be series for a minute

Know Ahmad Bradshaw...backup rb/kickoff guy for the giants.He's a backup and I wouldn't fight him if I had him in the dark,from behind,with a baseball bat

[NJmaverick]

74. The big difference is they get all the women