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Post by RanDaddy on Jan 10, 2016 10:02:21 GMT -5
...did anyone else watch that "game"? I'm not sure I've ever seen anything like it before?
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Post by IMG Public Relations on Jan 10, 2016 10:15:22 GMT -5
I did not, don't like either team. As for the outcome, other than the final score I'm not sure there were any winners last night or this morning. My Bengals friends are all bitchy and my Steelers friends are all assholes.
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Post by Trad on Jan 11, 2016 10:32:42 GMT -5
You have Bengals friends? Do you live in Cinci now?
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Post by IMG Public Relations on Jan 11, 2016 11:20:45 GMT -5
It's my Charleston roots. Lots of "Who Dey" on Facebook until Saturday night.
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Post by Trad on Jan 11, 2016 14:40:13 GMT -5
Maybe it's a generational thing, but I'm not sure I know a single person from Charleston who roots for the Bengals. Tons of Reds fans, but in football I don't really know anyone who favors Cinci.
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Post by IMG Public Relations on Jan 11, 2016 15:30:30 GMT -5
I've got them in Charleston, South Charleston, Dunbar, Teays Valley,...all over the Kanawha Valley, as well as the losers who ended up in Huntington. I also have a good representation of Steelers, Redskins, and others in my list. During my actual awareness time growing up there (1980-93) I never really felt there was a dominant pro football team. Didn't hurt that neither AFC team was gangbusters in the 80's. Agree on the Reds, as WVAH tv and 58 WCHS plastered the area with them.
I never had a hard-core rooting interest in any team before the Panthers were announced as an expansion franchise, but when I started paying attention as a teen I lined up with Buddy Ryan's Eagles. Loved the offense with Randall Cunningham and the 46 D. Yeah, Buddy was an asshole, but I liked that.
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Post by HuffNfeffeR on Jan 11, 2016 15:38:56 GMT -5
Yeah I grew up in the valley and I have lots of Cinct friends. I agree it's not to the Reds level, but still a lot.
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Post by Trad on Jan 11, 2016 16:10:07 GMT -5
Well, I'm of the age where people chose their teams in the late 60s or early 70s. What I noticed when I moved to Charleston was the front-running. The Browns probably had the most fans (but not majority support)as some people went with their Dad's team and the Bengals didn't even exist until 1968, but teams like the Cowboys, Steelers, Raiders and Dolphins had a lot of fans.
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Post by IMG Public Relations on Jan 11, 2016 17:04:58 GMT -5
I know one person, maybe two (his father) in Charleston who still likes the Dolphins. Cowboys and Steelers will always have a bandwagon ebb and flow, and as long as Charleston has housing projects the Raiders will have support....
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Post by RanDaddy on Jan 11, 2016 19:08:35 GMT -5
I still like the Steelers, but I decided back in the mid 90's when Carolina got the Panthers I was going to be a Panthers fan. I've been one through thick and thin and am still one today.
In case y'all haven't figured me out...I ain't a fair-weather fan!
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Post by IMG Public Relations on Jan 11, 2016 19:20:22 GMT -5
There's been a lot of thin over the years, so we enjoy the thick when we can get it. (That sounded gayer than Big Bang Theory.)
I'm 99% certain I was the first Panthers fan in Morgantown. I got several questions during the 94 spring semester as to why I was wearing the t-shirt of a team that didn't play yet. We still have the Biederlack Panthers blanket my wife got me for our first Christmas when we were dating.
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Post by matt on Jan 11, 2016 20:55:07 GMT -5
I'm a Steelers fan.... that game was awful.
It reminded me of the NHL in all of the bad ways. The refs did a poor job, I think, but I also don't really think it should have been their job. The NFL needs to fix its rules to get rid of the thuggery and ridiculousness.
I think that the NHL would be better if they did not allow fighting and if they had/enforced rules against unnecessary violence. Same with the NFL. They need to just eject any player that shoves someone. Issue penalties for the vulgar back and forth and taunting. The coaches and teams need fined for unsportsmanlike conduct by their teams. The refs should not have to pull players away from each other. The refs should not have to stand at midfield during warmups. The refs shouldn't have to warn players and call ticky-tack fouls in order to prevent egregious fouls later on. If players fight, the refs need to eject them from the game. Fuck this bullshit. Its not a WWF wrestlemania whatever. Its a football game. Emotion and passion are possible without violence and thuggery.
The game was ugly and awful. I am glad that the Bengals lost, because fuck those fucks, but absolutely did not feel any of the joy that might otherwise have accompanied "my team winning."
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Post by prestonco on Jan 11, 2016 21:30:16 GMT -5
I have the exact opposite opinion as Matt. Based on what I've learned from this site, I therefore think he's at least a pussy and possibly gay.
I enjoyed all the shit talking, personal foul penalties, the part where Cincinnati decided it was better to fight the Steelers than actually win the game that they already had won. It was great.
I'm so over the whole class thing in just about every sport, but especially the NFL. Let's take a look at the rap sheet of some former and current heroes.
Jamis Winston: rapist
Big Ben: serial rapist
Aarons Hernandez: murderer
Ray Lewis: double murderer
Ray Rice: woman-beater
Adrian Peterson: child-beater
Pacman Jones: has punched multiple women in the face and paralyzed another guy after shooting up a strip club.
The list could go on and on...
I know that the majority of players in the NFL aren't world class shitbags and fall a lot closer to the "decent guy" category, but many of them are a product of their violent past, violent present, and hero worship that makes them almost infallible from 16 to 30. I say let them be who they are on the field too. Sports is just entertainment and the spectacle of Cincinnati's implosion made an otherwise boring game fun to watch.
I have no doubt that I'd feel differently if I gave a fuck about either the Steelers and the Bengals. Then my post might sound a little like Matt's. But in a game where I have no rooting interest (which is pretty much all professional sports), let them be the gladiators that they've been trained to be.
Also, mark my words, the NFL is going to hand out a bunch of fines, suspensions, get on its soapbox about class and all that...then make sure the Bengals and Steelers games are in primetime next year.
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Post by matt on Jan 11, 2016 21:41:30 GMT -5
Also, mark my words, the NFL is going to hand out a bunch of fines, suspensions, get on its soapbox about class and all that...then make sure the Bengals and Steelers games are in primetime next year. Yup. |
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Post by sdot on Jan 12, 2016 8:39:54 GMT -5
Well I guess there's not much else to say about that.
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