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marmar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-01-09 08:34 PM
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Yet another announcer calling the Super Bowl the biggest sporting event in the world......
...... Compared to the World Cup, it's a little league game. American self-obsession knows no bounds.


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JeffR Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-01-09 08:35 PM
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1. It's what we do.
Why?

Because WE'RE NUMBER ONE! USA! USA!! USA!!!

(Too lazy to add the snarkasm smilie.)

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htuttle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-01-09 08:36 PM
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2. But, but...the Super Bowl is the biggest 'FOOTBALL' event in the world!
Yeah, I'm being intentionally dense...:rofl:

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Gman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-01-09 08:38 PM
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3. That's the same mentality that gave us war in Iraq
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BlooInBloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-01-09 08:38 PM
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4. WAAHHH!!!! Look at me! I'm a true progressive! I can't stand football and basketball!!!
hahahahah!
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marmar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-01-09 08:39 PM
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6. I love football and basketball.....I can't stand hubris.
n/t
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Dennis Donovan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-01-09 08:40 PM
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8. What sports are progressives supposed to like?
:shrug::D;)
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BlooInBloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-01-09 08:41 PM
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10. (a) None, (b) Anything either primarily foreign, or else little-known, (c) none.
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Dennis Donovan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-01-09 08:44 PM
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14. I'm still holding out for Calvinball to become a professional sport...


:D
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whoneedstickets Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-01-09 08:44 PM
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13. Amateur Sports!
Amateur Sports! Sports are great when we participate or when we watch people compete who do so for the love of sports. But if you're sitting on you ever-widening backside swilling beer, howling at some overpaid egotist who would be willing to break every rule in the book to get a better free-agent contract then do you REALLY love sports?
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-02-09 03:15 AM
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27. If you REALLY love sports, you don't give much thought to someone's salary
Indeed, in team sports, you don't give too much thought at all to individuals, except in the context of what they can do for the ball club.



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cherish44 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-02-09 03:25 AM
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30. Yeah but in certain areas of this country
being a good college football player is the only hope a person of color can have to get even a smidgen of respect from white people
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vadawg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-01-09 08:45 PM
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16. Scandanavian Womens Beach Volleyball
greatest spectator sport on the planet.
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NightWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-01-09 08:39 PM
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5. so a football announcer says that a football game is important?
well, duh.

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Elwood P Dowd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-01-09 08:40 PM
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7. Nothing like watching a 0-0 game played by midgets to get your juices flowing.
:puke:
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itsrobert Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-01-09 08:40 PM
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9. Do you have anything else to gripe about?
BFD! Big Fuckin' Deal! Aren't you special.
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marmar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-01-09 08:43 PM
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11. Sorry. I'll clear my post with you first next time before I post it.....
:freak:
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itsrobert Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-01-09 08:44 PM
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15. You'll be better served
Good call. Just PM me. Thanks.
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Drunken Irishman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-01-09 08:44 PM
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12. The horror!!!!!!!
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madeline_con Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-01-09 08:45 PM
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17. Some people have never been anywhere, so they're unaware of
the rest of the world, except as something to be made fun of, exploited or bombed.
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Davis_X_Machina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-01-09 08:48 PM
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18. World Cup's quadrennial... n/t
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CLANG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-01-09 08:52 PM
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19. maybe it is the biggest sporting event in "his" (small) world.
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TheCowsCameHome Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-01-09 09:03 PM
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20. Because he's making his living off of it.
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flvegan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-01-09 09:07 PM
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21. Americans also think that *this* is football.
It's American football, but that's as far as it goes.
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enlightenment Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-01-09 09:27 PM
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22. Well, let's be honest . . .
in terms of popularity, the most popular game is cricket . . .

So sayth a footie fan, who loves her club even if they are (still) wallowing in the Championship (Up the Blades!)
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depakid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-01-09 09:30 PM
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23. No one gives a shit about it in Australia, that's for sure
Even though for the 1st time ever- there's an Aussie playing in it.
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ConcernedCanuk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-02-09 12:42 AM
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24. Super bowl - is that like a big toilet?
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Elwood P Dowd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-02-09 02:51 AM
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25. Yes, and The World Cup is a big outhouse
that often ends in a boring 0-0 tie. After which, the little boys kick around a little ball into a net. The little boys who kick the most balls into the little net win a big trophy that looks like a big dick.
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Divine Discontent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-02-09 03:02 AM
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26. hey you noticed it looked like a dick, don't make it sound like it's a bad thing that it
Edited on Mon Feb-02-09 03:03 AM by Divine Discontent
therefore looks like one to you! there's no shame in it (I think it looks like a gold Drumstick ice cream cone, but don't let that stop you from making your macho-bs questionable comment)
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cherish44 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-02-09 03:17 AM
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28. The world cup is probably a bigger deal overall in the rest of the world
But yeah soccer is for pansies ya know GOD BLESS AMERICA! :sarcasm:
BTW crazed soccer fans make the even the craziest American sports fans look like 4 year olds playing Duck, Duck, Goose...I seriously feared for my life when I went to a soccer match in the UK.
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Elwood P Dowd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-02-09 03:26 AM
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31. Soccer players kick, scream, and fall on the ground complaining of pain.
Sounds like a sport the republicans would be good at.
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LSdemocrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-02-09 03:23 AM
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29. Is that the thing were grown "men" dive to the ground and cry like babies at the slightest touch?
You know the thing that the Italian diving team won a few years ago?
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Elwood P Dowd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-02-09 03:29 AM
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32. You have figured out soccer.
A bunch of little spoiled brats kicking a ball around and then falling on the ground in pain. The ultimate republican sport.
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