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Yaws posted:When the state you live in doesn't have a team, you tend to pick the close one. I live in northern Iowa so we have a lot of Viking and Packer fans This isn't the case if your state in general has a bit of little brother syndrome.
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How much do you know about Iowa?
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Jan 9, 2015 22:16
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I know it's a flyover state.
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WHOOPS posted:How much do you know about Iowa?  That's about it.
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WHOOPS posted:How much do you know about Iowa? Corn, pigs.
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more or less all you need, but it is little brother as gently caress with Minnesota, which is like the saddest thing ever. Most people are still fans of close teams if only because they're on TV a lot and easy to follow. Most of the state is Packer/Vikings/Chiefs fans with a decent number of Bears fans in the Eastern part. Personally I never felt any more connected to those places than I did to Dallas or anywhere else not in Iowa so gently caress those dumb teams.
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Febreeze posted:Titans longsnapper I bet you the Titans coach (who is that nowadays?) even has to check the depth chart for that guys name.
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MourningView posted:more or less all you need, but it is little brother as gently caress with Minnesota, which is like the saddest thing ever. Most people are still fans of close teams if only because they're on TV a lot and easy to follow. Most of the state is Packer/Vikings/Chiefs fans with a decent number of Bears fans in the Eastern part. Let's play find the worst fan in Iowa!    
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Chichevache posted:I bet you the Titans coach (who is that nowadays?) even has to check the depth chart for that guys name. His name is Beau Brinkley! He went to Mizzou! (he responded to me on twitter after I made the same joke)
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Knyteguy posted:And not just one game of terrible officiating. There were some really bad calls @ Packers and @ Patriots as well. Game changing ones like sketchy touchdowns, 2 point conversions being taken away, and non-converting fourth downs that were good (two of them in the Patriots game IIRC, Ebron and another). The Suh meltdown against Rodgers happened after the lovely circumstances too. The game was lost at that point. You will never, ever convince me that NFL officiating doesn't have an institutional bias for large market teams.
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Top Hats Monthly posted:Let's play find the worst fan in Iowa! lmao no one in iowa cares about hockey or the royals Basketball is probably mostly Bulls fans, but baseball is almost all Cubs/Cards. Althought you could replace the Royals with the Cards there and make more or less the same point.
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Febreeze posted:His name is Beau Brinkley! He went to Mizzou! What did he say?
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Eifert Posting posted:You will never, ever convince me that NFL officiating doesn't have an institutional bias for large market teams. I'll go ahead and try anyways, I guess. There are real numbers to show that isn't true: http://www.nflpenalties.com/ 2014's most-penalized teams: Seattle, Detroit, Buffalo, St. Louis, Denver, Washington, New England (all 120+) 2013's most-penalized: Seattle, Denver, St. Louis, Tampa, San Francisco, Oakland, Houston, Baltimore, Buffalo, Detroit 2014's least-penalized teams: Jacksonville, New Orleans, Miami, Kansas City, Carolina, Green Bay (wow look at all those huuuuuuuuuuuuuuge markets) 2013's least-penalized teams: Miami, Minnesota, Indy, New England, Pittsburgh, Chicago, Carolina, Green Bay The correlation between a team's penalties from one year to the next is pretty high -- 0.46 NFL officiating doesn't benefit large market teams, but it does benefit the home team in a given game, usually to the tune of about 1 flag per game.
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"Heh...collectin' that paycheck!"
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MourningView posted:lmao no one in iowa cares about hockey or the royals I'd imagine this wasn't true early in the 80s, the Royals did a pretty good job of making no one in the world other than a few die hard people in KC care about them for 25 years there.
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Did anyone ever determine what caused him to smug-chuckle?
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CowboyKid posted:Did anyone ever determine what caused him to smug-chuckle? The comedy of the 2013 Jaguars
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CowboyKid posted:Did anyone ever determine what caused him to smug-chuckle? I think it was a missed Jaguars field goal, though I could be misremembering
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Grittybeard posted:I'd imagine this wasn't true early in the 80s, the Royals did a pretty good job of making no one in the world other than a few die hard people in KC care about them for 25 years there. Maybe but I'm relatively sure it's always been mostly Cubs and Cardinals. The AAA team has been associated with the Cubs for a long time and WHO used to broadcast the big league team's games (one of Ronald Regan's first jobs was calling Cubs games for them off a ticker tape that gave him the play by play). And the Cardinals have always been huge all over the midwest and the south because their radio station had one of the strongest signals in the country and covered a huge area (and they won a shitload)
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In my only year living in Iowa it was Cubs and Bears all day every day but I was in Iowa City which got a ton of students from Chicago and its suburbs so my sample size was biased.
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Febreeze posted:Oh right, I forgot about the game when everyone praised his performance and gunslinger throws because of how unusual it was compared to everything Alex Smith normally is, a game that he lost anyway because Andrew Luck proved to be more interesting I also think of seeing Bowe scorch his guy down the sideline and Smith miss the throw that would have ended the comeback and put the game away e2: actually looking at it it was really Bowe's fault, carry on. The throw was a little behind him but he should have been able to get his foot down http://www.nfl.com/videos/kansas-city-chiefs/0ap2000000309135/Dwayne-Bowe-can-t-toe-the-sideline Intruder fucked around with this message at 01:56 on Jan 10, 2015 |
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Chromatic posted:When does his Alex Smith toxx expire? I want an essay on how much he hates him and how it's starting to bleed into his personal life. It ends at either the draft or training camp. I can't remember offhand, I'd have to go back and check, but I'm at work now until 8 am and just on my phone.
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wheez the roux posted:this gif is proof that an image can sound like norm macdonald Heh. Turd Ferguson. It's a funny name.
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TheChirurgeon posted:I'll go ahead and try anyways, I guess. There are real numbers to show that isn't true: http://www.nflpenalties.com/ I don't see Dallas
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Chromatic posted:I have a feeling he carries conversations with his friends(?) the same way he talks to the media after the game. Going fishing with him for an afternoon would probably be exhausting. "Mango Habanero? Oof, that's a little much for me" 
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Cool NIN Shirt posted:"Mango Habanero? Oof, that's a little much for me" The best wing sauce there by miles
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Randandal posted:I don't see Dallas Dallas is dead-center
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Cool NIN Shirt posted:"Mango Habanero? Oof, that's a little much for me" The Red Rifle is a Sweet BBQ kinda guy. When he's feeling dangerous he kicks it up a notch to Mild.
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Chromatic posted:When does his Alex Smith toxx expire? I want an essay on how much he hates him and how it's starting to bleed into his personal life. Training camp. Long, long time from now. But, I'll have a nice post ready!
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Parmesan Basil posted:Training camp. Long, long time from now. But, I'll have a nice post ready!  That will probably deserve its own thread. Chromatic fucked around with this message at 17:51 on Jan 10, 2015 |
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I still think making that Toxx is one of the best things that I have ever done. I'm biased, but... Both him having to hold it in all season long and the eruption that will happen when it's over?  Chromatic posted:That will probably deserve its own thread. 
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Nodoze posted:Alex Smith is terrible and boring He's no Matt Cassel, that's for sure.
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blue squares posted:Dallas is dead-center But the narrative 
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Morons will just argue that it isn't the quantity of penalties, but the importance of them.
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