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This isn't really journalism, but I loved this letter to the editor:quote:Was anyone else appalled by the unsportsmanlike conduct of the Seattle Seahawks and their fans, juiced on noise, which surely creates as big an advantage over an opponent as any performance enhancing drug and which, to their shame, NFL officials turn the same blind eye they have to concussions and drugs ("Seattle states case loudly, clearly in rout," Sports, Sept. 16)? http://www.sfgate.com/opinion/letterstoeditor/article/Letters-to-the-editor-Sept-17-4819523.php
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morestuff posted:This isn't really journalism, but I loved this letter to the editor: Someone followed it up: quote:I couldn’t agree more with “Unsportsmanlike conduct in Seattle” (Letters, Sept. 17). It's so retarded and these are the type of people who have more time than sense.
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Sep 21, 2013 20:32
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I read both of those very sarcastically.
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Sep 21, 2013 20:46
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Point Reyes Station is all old white people. The Palo Alto one may have been in jest, but I can assure you Point Reyes Station is devoid of the wit necessary to write that in jest.
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Sep 21, 2013 21:04
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Spoeank posted:Point Reyes Station is all old white people. The Palo Alto one may have been in jest, but I can assure you Point Reyes Station is devoid of the wit necessary to write that in jest. Is it not possible that whoever wrote it just put in Point Reyes Station because everyone knows its full of old people? On the other hand, "letters to the editor" sections are almost always full of completely out of touch old people regardless of the topic, so its entirely possible that this is genuine.
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The B_36 posted:Is it not possible that whoever wrote it just put in Point Reyes Station because everyone knows its full of old people? Yeah, why would someone with wit and/or sense write a letter to the editor anyway? :just blog it: e: oh right blogs are old fashioned now :just tweet it:
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Sep 21, 2013 21:32
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It's all about snail mail these days, get with the times.
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Sep 21, 2013 23:01
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Mozi posted:It's all about snail mail these days, get with the times. I send carrier pigeons to voice my displeasure with the media
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Sep 21, 2013 23:24
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uublog posted:I send carrier pigeons to voice my displeasure with the media Telegram, bro. Mr. Reilly STOP Your columns are terrible poo poo STOP Please cease immediately END
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Sep 22, 2013 00:01
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morestuff posted:This isn't really journalism, but I loved this letter to the editor: Remember the good old days when players didn't wear skirts and defenses could tackle and... oh https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uc9Eii21hyE http://www.nfl.com/rulebook/penaltysummaries quote:Loss of team time out(s) or five-yard penalty on the defense for excessive crowd noise. 
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Sep 22, 2013 04:26
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So the rule is just against the unruly Lion fans?
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Sep 22, 2013 12:19
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uublog posted:I send carrier pigeons to voice my displeasure with the media I sent a smoke signal to Rick Reilly.
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Sep 22, 2013 14:25
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Kalli posted:Remember the good old days when players didn't wear skirts and defenses could tackle and... oh I knew I remembered this being enforced in an NFL game when I was younger, but everyone told me that no such penalty existed.
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Sep 23, 2013 03:33
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God what a bullshit rule. This isn't golf. Also, I had no idea it existed until that post. Has it been called more recently?
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Sep 23, 2013 12:58
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vikingstrike posted:God what a bullshit rule. This isn't golf. Also, I had no idea it existed until that post. Has it been called more recently?
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Sep 23, 2013 14:37
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It apparently was removed in 2007, but is still on their summary of penalties page now.
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Sep 23, 2013 14:43
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vikingstrike posted:God what a bullshit rule. This isn't golf. Also, I had no idea it existed until that post. Has it been called more recently? Golf and tennis would be greatly improved by screaming fans. Also there would be snipers strategically scattered about to pick off anyone that yells "get in the hole" at golf.
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Sep 24, 2013 05:52
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Sash! posted:Golf and tennis would be greatly improved by screaming fans.
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Sep 24, 2013 07:08
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Josh Lyman posted:There's no problem with constant noise. The problem is silence randomly interrupted by sound. If the same thing happened when a baseball player was trying to hit or quarterback trying to throw or a kicker trying to make a field goal or a basketball player trying to shoot a free throw, they'd all gently caress up too. Some basketball team really should try to get their fans to do this for opponent free throws.
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Mornacale posted:Some basketball team really should try to get their fans to do this for opponent free throws.
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Sep 24, 2013 08:23
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Josh Lyman posted:Unfortunately, people are stupid and think that waving poo poo around and yelling will be distracting, ignoring the evolutionary capacity of humans to filter out white noise. 
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Sep 24, 2013 13:01
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That's the opposite of white noise  (also that's literally white noise)
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Sep 24, 2013 13:40
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Look at this person in need of a serious rear end kicking:quote:To the great people of Cleveland: Look, you gave us Harvey Pekar, and apparently you’ve got a world-class orchestra. But facts are facts, and since your city is, even now, synonymous with Akron-born LeBron James, let’s look at the curse of Cleveland sports from his perspective. Between the Browns, the Indians, and the Cavaliers, Cleveland last celebrated a title four years before LeBron’s mother was born—that’s a combined 152 seasons of futility. James ditched the Cavs not because he was the Whore of Akron but because he was the Oracle of Ohio. In his formative years, he witnessed Cleveland teams su≠er The Drive (John Elway beating the Browns in 1987), The Fumble (Earnest Byner sabotaging the Browns in 1988), The Shot (Michael Jordan murdering the Cavs in 1989), and then The Move, when Art Modell decided Cleveland was such a hole he’d rather field his team in Baltimore. [b[James surely knew that if he stayed in Ohio, some kind of ridiculous fate would befall him—The Hangnail, The Cramp, or maybe The Aneurysm. Hence: The Decision.[/b[ http://www.gq.com/entertainment/sports/201310/worst-sports-franchises-teams-of-all-time#ixzz2g0iRpEcd Yeah way to ignore the Browns 8 NFL titles, dickwad. The whole  ness in this post is unmatched.
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Reilly is doubling down on that lovely Redskins column http://espn.go.com/blog/rick-reilly-go-fish/post/_/id/1272/rick-reilly-mailbag-sept-25-2013
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Jackie D posted:Reilly is doubling down on that lovely Redskins column
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Sep 26, 2013 16:16
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Jackie D posted:Reilly is doubling down on that lovely Redskins column Bomani Jones used his 30 seconds of face time on ATH Tuesday to do a take on this (http://espn.go.com/espnradio/play?id=9718439 just jump to the last minute), by comparing it to how Washington just handled Hispanic heritage week.
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FuzzySkinner posted:Yeah way to ignore the Browns 8 NFL titles, dickwad. This just means he's like every other non-Browns fan on earth.
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MourningView posted:This just means he's like every other non-Browns fan on earth. And I don't know what you're expecting from a slideshow titled The 20 Worst Sports Franchises of All Time, anyway.
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morestuff posted:And I don't know what you're expecting from a slideshow titled The 20 Worst Sports Franchises of All Time, anyway. The Post: the latest embarrassment in Cleveland.
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Sep 26, 2013 16:55
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FuzzySkinner posted:Look at this person in need of a serious rear end kicking: quote:The whole
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Moe_Rahn posted:Well, yeah, it's a GQ article. I expect only the most reasonable and articulated columns from my frothy passive-aggressively macho alterna-hetero rags. Seriously though the purpose of that column is to drag attention from readers who don't normally read GQ. Its the opinion of a person who probably knows sports but isnt at all familiar with the sports writing world. Mission accomplished. We could probably say the same about Reilly's role at ESPN, since I think their readership is down and he seems to be trolling these days.
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No one on earth cares about professional football titles pre-Super Bowl except for Browns and Lions fans.
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This is just something I've always seemed to wonder about, but it seems like the NFL, out of all the original sports, is least concerned with it's own history. As far as they're concerned, if it was in the pre-SB era, it didn't happen. The early history of pro football in the US is actually real interesting, so this is just another thing to add to my "I hate the NFL" pile, but, hey.
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Fag Boy Jim posted:This is just something I've always seemed to wonder about, but it seems like the NFL, out of all the original sports, is least concerned with it's own history. As far as they're concerned, if it was in the pre-SB era, it didn't happen. The early history of pro football in the US is actually real interesting, so this is just another thing to add to my "I hate the NFL" pile, but, hey. I think the NFL is extremely concerned with branding itself as a National Event, so anything that might distract from the glorious uniqueness of the Super Bowl is cast aside. The Super Bowl is a two-week party for corporations followed by a night where everyone in the world can watch several hours of commercials, not just the name for the 50ish most recent NFL championship games.
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Fag Boy Jim posted:This is just something I've always seemed to wonder about, but it seems like the NFL, out of all the original sports, is least concerned with it's own history. As far as they're concerned, if it was in the pre-SB era, it didn't happen. The early history of pro football in the US is actually real interesting, so this is just another thing to add to my "I hate the NFL" pile, but, hey. Major League Baseball does this too for the pre World Series era. In both cases there was a real expansion on the competitiveness and professionalism of professional football/baseball that occurred before and through the transition. Professional football wasn't the premier football league in the US until at least the mid to late 50's. Professional football was a dirty place for ex college players to keep on playing. Super Bowl l is a decent demarcation of the "Modern Era" for professional football although the change probably happened in the 10 years before.
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MourningView posted:No one on earth cares about professional football titles pre-Super Bowl except for Browns and Lions fans. I care
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MourningView posted:No one on earth cares about professional football titles pre-Super Bowl except for Browns and Lions fans. Eagles fans, too.
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MourningView posted:No one on earth cares about professional football titles pre-Super Bowl except for Browns and Lions fans. And only the most insecure Browns fans do anyway.
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It's really Bears and Packers fans who care. Lions fans are well-acquainted with failure and know how pathetic it is to bring up titles won before Barack Obama was born.
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Jackie D posted:Reilly is doubling down on that lovely Redskins column No matter how many times I try I can't bring myself to finish reading this thing.
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