SageAgainstTheMachine

The first thing he needs to do is hire a better web designer.

What, are you a triple jumper? Measure out 5 yards on your floor, take a look at it, then come back and tell us how you can do it in 2 strides while running normally in full pads while trying to protect a football. By the way, here's a highlight clip of Marshawn from college (if you don't like this one, there are plenty of others from the NFL). You can plainly see that he takes about 2.5 or 3 strides for every 5 yards in open space. By the way, RBs are taught to take relatively short choppy strides when defenders are in the area. You can't cut effectively if you're just all-out sprinting.

Angels and Demons was basically Tom Hanks running around, while explaining the plot of the story to the audience. Contrary to what people thought, Dan Brown's stories just don't translate very well to film. Entertaining film? Yes Quality film? No

Fair enough. However, I do have to disagree with you that Tiger Woods isn't an athlete. This certainly doesn't go for most golfers, but he would school 99% of the world at most sports, not just golf.

Why are those not sports? Here's how I would define "sport"...Any competitive game in which success is dependent upon physical superiority. Sports like golf and bowling simply measure different physical capabilities. Golf measures strength, accuracy, touch, muscle memory. Football measures strength, speed agility, etc. If you attempted to beat Tiger Woods at golf, you'd have about as much success as you had trying to tackle Marshawn Lynch. How is one less of a sport than the other?

I, too, am staunchly against abortion. I've never understood the "woman's right to choose" argument...is it a woman's right to murder her baby 1 minute after it is born? Of course not, so why is it legal to kill it 5 months before it's born? Anybody who believes life begins at birth didn't pay very good attention in biology class. The morning after pill, and other things like that? Well, that's a gray area for me. I guess I consider those just another form of contraception, like a condom. Unfortunately, hell is probably not a real place, so who knows if baby murderers ever do have to face justice? By the way, I'm not condoning the murder of Tiller...not one bit...but the "good doctor" was complicit in thousands of murders during his life. Just my opinion.

A guy walks into a bar with a toad sitting on his head. The bartender asks, "Where did that thing come from?". Toad says, "Just started off as a wart on my ass and kept growing."

So now writing poetry is considered unmanly? I know you're messing around to a certain extent, but our society's view of masculinity is seriously askew.

I don't know about Lindell. He's been more accurate than anybody from short range, but that doesn't exactly separate him from the pack because most guys hit around 85% or better from inside 40. So when it comes down to the long ones, I can definitely think of more than 10 other guys I want to be kicking my game winning FG.

Well a guy (especially a 14 year old hormonal guy) can still get an erection even if he doesn't want one. In any case, it's statutory rape.

Dude, I don't mean to insult your prose because it was pretty good....but your poetry is 100 times better. Spectacular. You really seem to have a natural knack for rhyme scheme and flow. I'm assuming you're an amateur (just because not too many people are professional poets), but this is something you seem to have a talent for, even if I've just seen a small sample size. Have you been published?

Man, I really gotta get me some Fleggaard What's Fleggaard?

That's a good point.

Hey man, I just try to be a nice guy...out in the real world and here. If you have some need to mock me when I'm trying to be nice, then so be it...I won't further interfere with you. Just know that calling people things like "idiot" when they don't provoke you casts a very negative light on your personality.

I can see Owens and Evans being comparable to Bruce and Holt...but you lost me when you compared Faulk to Rhodes and Warner to Edwards. Most importantly, I believe our coaching staff is simply too conservative to recreate The Greatest Show on Turf. In the past, their aim has been possession of the ball more than rapid movement up the field. Not that that's necessarily a bad thing, it just doesn't engender truly dynamic offenses.

Did you notice how I was being polite and civil to you? Generally, that illicits a polite and civil response in return. But instead, I get insults. Mature. By the way, the person seeking advice was kind enough to acknowledge that my opinion isn't worthless.

Thanks, plenz. It sounds like your kids have a lot of character and you should be proud of that. This is the sort of kid that will probably get picked on a lot by his peers, and the fact that your children have befriended him without any prompting speaks volumes about them.

I respectfully disagree. Surely, I can't provide as much insight as the parents on this board...but worthless? You can provide logic without actually having experience something.

I don't know what you have against me, but it seems like you've always got a bone to pick. I'm not 18. Anyway, are we back to this thing where you insinuate my opinion is worthless because of my age? If you read my first post, you'll note that I suggest plenz should definitely get to know the kid before he encourages the friendship. Heck, I had several neighborhood friends who were all 3-5 years older than me when I was a kid...there really weren't any kids my age on the block. We had fun, they liked beating me at basketball. They were my heroes, I was their little sidekick. I'm still in contact with a couple of them. I didn't say plenz shouldn't be careful, I just said that he shouldn't automatically shun what might be a nice relationship.

Oh come on geeeeze, I remember very well being a horny-ass 13 year old. It means that you start taking longer showers and secretly downloading porn, not "experimenting" with the kids down the street.

But what's the problem with an age gap, as long as the 13 year old is a nice, harmless kid? Kids should learn how to interact with those not immediately within their own social circle, it's an important skill as an adult. Get to know the kid and make sure he isn't trouble (given his backgroud, he might have issues). If you don't detect anything suspicious, then I don't see the harm in your kids having a friend that's a few years older. In fact, if the kid indeed has Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, his maturity level may be closer to that of an 8 or 10 year old. That might explain the friendship in the first place.

But people aren't upset about the fact that he wants to play. They're upset that he's retired, then unretired, then retired, then unretired, then retired, then unretired, then retired, and now might unretire again. He's jerking people around, including his own family and the team that was loyal to him for 18 seasons, all the while basking in the glory of the mainstream sports media sucking his dick every day. That is the source of the resentment. Nobody wants him to retire because he's too old, they want him to retire because that's what he said he was going to do 4 separate times.

It's a place for sick people, but that's beside the point.

Oh snap!

Thanks, that is very interesting. We all think of football players as guys who live, die, breathe football...but I guess not everybody can be that way. I guess it sort of speaks to his lack of a killer instinct.