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all-Rush mixtape posted:Do people just not know who Jamie Horowitz is? He's the Darkseid of modern sports media. I do know who he is and just skimmed over his name. He deserves a second at the very least, so seconding Jamie Horowitz.
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poo poo, this thing, right. It makes sense to me to cut off voting at the 3+ Seconds line. So, here we go: Special contest: Dan Snyder Memorial Douchievement Award of Excellence Penn State Fans Cavauro Bill Belichick Darren Rovell Chargers Front Office Penn State Fans The Pennsylvania State University (commonly referred to as Penn State or PSU) is a public, land-grant, research-intensive university with campuses and facilities throughout Pennsylvania. Penn State's mascot is the Nittany Lion, a representation of a type of mountain lion that once roamed what is now University Park. The school's official colors, now blue and white, were originally black and dark pink. Penn State participates in the NCAA Division I FBS and in the Big Ten Conference for most sports. Despite widespread success in the overall athletic program, however, the school is best known for its football team, which draws a very large following. Penn State's Beaver Stadium has the second largest seating capacity of any stadium in the nation, with an official capacity of 106,572 slightly behind Michigan Stadium with an official capacity of 107,601. For decades, the football team was led by coach Joe Paterno. Paterno was in a close competition with Bobby Bowden, the head coach for Florida State, for the most wins ever in Division I-A (now the FBS) history. This competition effectively ended with Paterno still leading following Bowden's retirement after the 2010 Gator Bowl. In 2007, he was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame. Paterno amassed 409 victories over his career, the most in NCAA Division 1 history. After the child sex abuse scandal involving his former defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky broke in full in November 2011, Paterno announced that he would retire at the end of the season. However, on November 9, the Penn State Board of Trustees rejected this disclosure and terminated his contract, effective immediately. An investigation conducted by former FBI director Louis Freeh concluded in July 2012 that Paterno concealed facts relating to Sandusky's sexual abuse of young boys. The investigation also uncovered information that Paterno may have persuaded university officials not to report Sandusky to authorities in 2001. A report composed by the law firm King & Spalding and commissioned by the Paterno family has disputed his involvement in the alleged coverup and accused Freeh of making unsupported conclusions. On July 23, 2012, the NCAA vacated all of Penn State's wins from 1998 through 2011 as part of its punishment for the child sex abuse scandal, eliminating 111 of the games Paterno had coached and won, dropping him from first to 12th on the list of winningest NCAA football coaches. State senator Jake Corman and state treasurer Rob McCord launched a lawsuit against the NCAA in January 2013 to overturn the sanctions on Penn State, on the basis that Freeh had been actively collaborating with the NCAA and that due process had not been followed, and as part of the settlement the NCAA reversed its decision on January 16, 2015 and restored the 111 wins to Paterno's record. Paterno died of complications from lung cancer on January 22, 2012, only two months after being fired by the university. Many Penn State fans prefer the narrative promoted by Jake Corman and Rob McCord: that Paterno was innocent of wrongdoing. Of course, Paterno's innocence (or guilt) have never been determined in a court of law: all we have is the facts that were made public, Freeh's conclusions, the accusations against Freeh, and a settlement in which the NCAA essentially capitulated rather than engaging in additional years of litigation. I'll let others elaborate on how douchebaggy Penn State's fan base is: as far as I understand it, the denial of Paterno's role in the scandal is the essential point. There's also something about a Penn State trustee, a statue, and "so-called victims"? Cavauro Somethingawful.com user 'Cavauro' is allegedly a douchebag. Presumably because of his role in subverting and attempting to make a mockery of this august contest by deliberately packing it with Bengals players, he has been nominated for the lifetime achievement award. Technically, he meets all three of the core criteria for the award: the douchebaggery in question is football-related, right? Bill Belichick William Stephen Belichick (born April 16, 1952) is an American football coach who is the head coach of the New England Patriots of the National Football League. Belichick has extensive authority over the Patriots' football operations, effectively making him the general manager of the team as well. He was previously the head coach of the Cleveland Browns. After being named head coach of the Jets in early 2000, Belichick resigned after only one day on the job to accept the head coaching job for the New England Patriots. Belichick has led the Patriots to 14 AFC East division titles and 11 appearances in the AFC Championship Game. He was named the AP NFL Coach of the Year for the 2003, 2007, and 2010 seasons. Since then, he has coached the Patriots to seven Super Bowl appearances. His teams won Super Bowls XXXVI, XXXVIII, XXXIX, XLIX, and LI and lost Super Bowls XLII and XLVI. Belichick's appearance in Super Bowl LI broke the tie of six Super Bowls as a head coach that was shared with Don Shula, as well as being a record tenth participation in a Super Bowl in any capacity, overtaking the tie of nine that he shared with Dan Reeves. This also tied him with Neal Dahlen for the most Super Bowl wins in any capacity with seven. In addition, the appearance in Super Bowl LI was the Patriots' ninth Super Bowl appearance in franchise history, which is the most of any team. Belichick is the NFL's longest-tenured active head coach, and currently ranks fourth all-time in regular season coaching wins in the NFL at 237, and first in playoff coaching wins with 26. He completed his 40th season as an NFL coach in 2014 and won his fifth Super Bowl as a head coach following the 2016 season, surpassing former Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Chuck Noll as the only head coach to win five Super Bowls. He is one of only five head coaches with four or more titles in NFL history. He is also the only head coach in NFL history to win three Super Bowl championships in a four-year span. The 2007 New England Patriots videotaping controversy, widely dubbed "Spygate" refers to an incident during the National Football League's (NFL) 2007 season when the New England Patriots were disciplined by the league for videotaping New York Jets' defensive coaches' signals from an unauthorized location during a September 9, 2007 game. Videotaping opposing coaches is not illegal in the NFL de jure, but there are designated areas allowed by the league to do such taping. Because the Patriots were instead videotaping the Jets' coaches from their own sideline during the game, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell deemed it to be in violation of league rules, stating that the act represented a calculated and deliberate attempt to avoid long-standing rules designed to encourage fair play and promote honest competition on the playing field. After an investigation, the NFL fined Patriots head coach Bill Belichick $500,000 (the maximum allowed by the league and the largest fine ever imposed on a coach in the league's 87-year history) for his role in the incident, fined the Patriots $250,000, and docked the team their original first-round selection in the 2008 NFL Draft which would have been the 31st pick of the draft. The fine garnered significant media attention for being the "maximum amount" an individual could be fined. As part of their probe into the allegations, the NFL required the Patriots to turn over all notes and tapes relating to the taping of opponents' defensive signals; the Patriots did not want the video tapes to leave their facilities, in turn league officials went to Patriots athletic facilities and proceeded to smash the tapes, by order of Goodell. This action was criticized on February 1, 2008 – 2 days before Super Bowl XLII — by U.S. Senator Arlen Specter, who requested to meet with Goodell. After meeting with Goodell on February 13, 2008 Specter reported that Goodell told him that Belichick had been engaged in the practice since he became head coach of the Patriots in 2000. Belichick said he believed he was operating within the rules as long as the tape was not used during the same game. Following the incident and its fallout, Belichick led the Patriots to a perfect 16–0 regular season record, and was awarded the 2007 NFL Coach of the Year Award, as voted on by the Associated Press. In an interview, A Song of Ice and Fire author George R.R. Martin called the Patriots the "Lannisters" of the NFL. And in a blog post dated March 15, 2013, Martin wrote, "what a vile thing is Evil Little Bill. ... Man has absolutely no loyalty to anyone. Watch and see, when Tom Brady's talents start to fade – and they will, it happens to all of them – Evil Little Bill will ship him out as well." In a 2012 interview, Star Wars novelist Drew Karpyshyn named Belichick the NFL personality most likely to become a Sith. "Stealing signals in the Super Bowl? Total Sith move. The guy is always looking for every advantage; he's cunning and crafty and amoral. That may sound like an insult, but I’d love to have him coaching [my favorite team] the Chargers." Darren Rovell Darren Rovell (born in 1978) is a sports business analyst who re-joined ESPN in June 2012. He won an Emmy in 2008 for his contribution to NBC's 2008 election coverage. Leperflesh posted:I hereby Nominate: In November 2009, Rovell made controversial remarks in an article regarding an American athlete, Meb Keflezighi, the first American to win a New York City Marathon since 1982, by suggesting that he was a ringer. He later apologized. On November 17, 2011, Rovell sent a tweet to his followers on Twitter, asking them to come forward with stories about how their businesses were losing money during the 2011 NBA lockout. A high school senior named "Tim," annoyed with Rovell's behavior at the time, created a fake name and email account, telling Rovell online that he owned an escort service in New York frequented by NBA players, which was losing 30% of its business. Rovell failed to verify the authenticity, and ran the story in a CNBC column. "Tim" came forward with the story months later to the website Deadspin, because, he said, "he's just such a [expletive] on twitter all the time [I] just got fed up." Deadspin made Rovell aware of his mistake. On the same day, Rovell released an apology on CNBC saying, "there will always be people out there who want their 15 minutes of fame and not really care how they get there." Note: the NBA incident was not football related, but his super-ironic comment is relevant to his overall douchebaggy character. In the October 2012 ESPN 30 for 30 episode entitled "Broke" and in a written piece on ESPN.com, Rovell made several incorrect statements about the NFL Players Association's Financial Advisor Program. Even after the NFLPA's attempts to correct the falsehoods with ESPN fact checkers, Rovell's inaccurate comments were included (and remain) in the documentary. His written article was altered to reflect the truth, but without an editor's note to indicate the correction. Chargers Front Office The "Los Angeles" Chargers are an NFL football team formerly located in San Diego, California. The Chargers front office consists of several members of the Spanos family, as well as a bunch of other administrators, media personnel, clerks, lawyers, etc. etc. etc. a neat cape posted:Chargers FO for trying to gently caress Joey Bosa out of his contract and fining Eric Weddle for watching his daughter perform at halftime of a game instead of being in the locker room during a game we won handily. HOW TO VOTE Please vote for ONE nominee. The normal voting rules apply, so giving some coherent justification for your vote makes it worth 3 points instead of 1. I will disregard reasoning that is unambigiously and wholly outside the bounds of the contest: for example, if your only stated reason for voting for Rovell is because of a basketball comment, I'd have to disregard this because the award is about football. On the other hand, vague reasoning is fine: if you vote for Rovell because "he is a jerk" I have to accept that as being possibly related to football jerkiness and therefore qualified. This means it's stupidly easy to get your vote to be worth 3 points and if you can't manage it, you're just being super lazy. Voting will last until either nobody is still voting, or some time on Friday, whichever comes first. Whichever nominee gets the most points wins. Go!
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Congratulations on a tremendous campaign. You have to help with an unbelievable slanted and negative media and have come out beautifully. You have proven to be the ultimate competitor fighter. Your leadership is amazing. I have always had tremendous respect for you for the toughness and perseverance you have displayed over the past year is remarkable. Hopefully tomorrow’s election, the results will give the opportunity to make America great again. Best wishes for great results tomorrow, Bill Belichick ___ And also him for his cheating, too.
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Aug 7, 2017 20:16
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I think the Sandusky was probably the worst sports scandal of all time so Penn State gets my vote for enabling the hell out of that poo poo.
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Aug 7, 2017 20:19
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Bill Belichick
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I was going to give it to Belichick, but the culture of hero worship surrounding PSU fans is too strong to pass up.
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Shocked Jed York didn't make the cut. I want to vote for Rovell but his campaign churns along. Therefore, I have to lock in PSU Fans. Look, every fanbase turns a bit of a blind eye to their team's missteps in the name of loyalty. That being said, there are some firm limits to what is defendable and how far one should go to defend them. For the first line in the sans, rape is past that line. Child rape is further past it. Systemic child rape is mile beyond it. Knowingly tolerating a child rapist, especially one that is using his status in the program to gain more access to vulnerable children, just because he helped your team win a lot, is INSANE. For the second line in the sand, you can basically defend the idea that JoePa's wins should not have been vacated. Don't claim the NCAA is on a witch hunt. Don't excuse Sandusky (I hope no one did this) or Paterno because "someone was notified." Don't villify the celebrated QB turned assitant who turned in Sandusky. Don't blame the victims of loving consistent child rape. Don't harass those victims. Don't pretend like wins or Paterno's legacy are worth selling your soul. I don't mind PSU. The current program is cool, the school is nice, and I know a lot of personable fans. None of that makes up for how absolutely lovely so much of their fanbase is. The most vocal fans are usually the ones that have no actual affiliation to PSU aside from living in PA, so their stolid douchiness is 100% by choice. Their decision to prop up Paterno's son, then turning on him as a quitter when he couldn't follow through on a lawsuit with the NCAA, speaks volumes avbout how they don't care about the truth: they just want the winningest coach, no punishments, and no one to mention how vile what happened was. gently caress anyone and everyone that cries foul for PSU and not for a generation of chuld victims.
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Aug 7, 2017 20:55
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As someone with 6 relatives that have graduated from Penn State they've earned a douchechievement award.
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Aug 7, 2017 21:00
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Voting for Cavauro because Bengals bitch.
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Aug 7, 2017 21:28
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Cavauro is a jerk.
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Cavauro You ran this whole thing really well Leperflesh. After Bens Tiny Weenus decided not to run things this year I was concerned about how goons would fight over evil vs douchy. And even in the face of Cavauro throwing in fist fulls of Bengals players (none got past the first round. As is tradition) you nailed this one.
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Thank you for your kind words, CyberPingu. Running things like this can be fun, even if it's also sometimes annoying. I like spreadsheets.
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PSU fans for Penn State trustee Albert Lord "running out of sympathy for 35 yr old, so-called victims with 7 digit net worth." He also feels "the notion that there can be only one point of view with respect to all this stuff [the raping of young children for years], and trustees at Penn State should toe a line that reflects the politically correct point of view, is symptomatic of what ails us." Also not football related, but apparently that guy owns a student loan company, so he's basically the devil.
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Aug 7, 2017 23:01
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PSU fans For representing the absolute worst aspects of a fan base.
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Hunt11 posted:PSU fans For representing the absolute worst aspects of a fan base.
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Rhythmically denies wrongdoing PSU Fans by an extra mile.
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PSU fans no doubt deserve this, but while PSU’s reputation is essentially forever irreparably tarnished to anyone living outside that area and it is pretty easy not to suffer its fans in most parts of the country, we all suffer from Belichick and his reign of terror.
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PSU fans are literally apologists for institutionalized pedophilia because MY COLLEGE FOOTBALL. They hero worship an old dead rear end in a top hat who looked at evidence of child rape and went "meh." I don't usually go for mass awards but HOLY gently caress did they all earn this.
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Aug 8, 2017 12:14
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I for one am glad this contest established that no Bengals are douches and now the matter is forever settled. PSU fans
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I was probably going to vote for Belichick but that one poster who was all "I don't know if a political opinion should be a valid reason for adding PSU fans to the contest" changed my mind. gently caress PSU fans. It's okay to drop out of a fandom if it becomes toxic, just because they're "your team" doesn't mean you have to defend actual factual child rape you goddamn morons.
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PSU Fans so we can stop ruining our weekends thinking about them.
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WampaLord posted:I was probably going to vote for Belichick but that one poster who was all "I don't know if a political opinion should be a valid reason for adding PSU fans to the contest" changed my mind. By all means vote for PSU because they are awful but I’m 90% certain you misread that post. He was criticizing people for voting for Brady, Belichick, etc. on the basis of their support of Trump, which was distinct from his insane apologetics for PSU fans.
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King Hong Kong posted:By all means vote for PSU because they are awful but I’m 90% certain you misread that post. He was criticizing people for voting for Brady, Belichick, etc. on the basis of their support of Trump, which was distinct from his insane apologetics for PSU fans. Nit Wit Dog poo poo posted:Voting for someone in this competition because they don't believe in your political views is stupid. This was posted after a bunch of seconding for PSU fans happened and not as a response to someone saying "I'm voting for Belichick because he loves Trump"
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WampaLord posted:This was posted after a bunch of seconding for PSU fans happened and not as a response to someone saying "I'm voting for Belichick because he loves Trump" I left it at 90% because there is always the possibility for someone to be unexpectedly stupid. But otherwise you are reading way too much into the immediate context. People had been nominating Brady and Belichick within a few posts of that and part of the logic for that was Trump. Meanwhile, no one’s vote for PSU had anything to do with politics and he made it clear he was talking about two different things when he said “as well.” This should be obvious. I don’t know why I’m bothering to clarify someone else’s bad opinions but here I am.
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I think that is probably two different disagreeable opinions in one post, rather than someone confusing disagreement with PSU fans as being a "political opinion," although I can't be certain of that. Current vote tally: Penn State Fans 33 Bill Belichick 10 Cavauro 7 Darren Rovell 0 Chargers FO 0
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I graduated from Penn State. I root for Penn State football. I interact with Penn State fans. Penn State Fans. I present as evidence: During the Rose Bowl, at a PSU alumni watch party, one of the bartenders danced around on the bar with a giant Paterno head when PSU was steamrolling USC in the 3rd. Nobody else seemed to have a problem with it. Edit: This is mostly selfish because I'm super tired of being lumped in with them by both sides. Fifty Three fucked around with this message at 20:24 on Aug 8, 2017 |
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Leperflesh posted:I think that is probably two different disagreeable opinions in one post, rather than someone confusing disagreement with PSU fans as being a "political opinion,"... This. Child rape is bad. Not all PSU fans support Jerry Sandusky or Joe Paterno. And not related to that topic at all... Saying someone is a douche because they don't follow your political viewpoints is something I think is dumb. That's it. Jeez, some of you read way too much into poo poo. I'm not going to argue this point anymore because I'm terrible at debating and arguing, nor do I enjoy doing either. Sorry. Anyway, my pick is Bill Belichick.
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Are you jerks done voting or did you just lose track of this thread because it fell off the first page of your bookmarked threads
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i speak on behalf of the rest of the subforum in a large amount of locked-in one point votes for myself
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e: poo poo I'll change that. PSU Fans don't need my vote, and Rovell should not go voteless here.
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Penn State fans are scummy scum. Imagine a world where they devoted their energy to making amends for Sandusky's crimes. That would be a nice world.
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I already voted, but any excuse to repost this Jerry Sandusky: I’ll Never Forget All The Things Joe Paterno Did For Mequote:"I think it's safe to say I wouldn't have been able to lead the life I've led, wouldn't have grown into the man I've become, if it hadn't been for his leadership. I can't even begin to imagine what would have become of me if not for Joe Paterno."
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Penn State Fans Wins the Dan Snyder Memorial Douchievement Award of Excellence! Final tally:  Penn State's Fans join these other dochebags in immortal douchebaggery, and are forevermore banned from participating in the Douchebag of the Year contest:
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Thanks go to everyone who participated. I'm sorry for everything I did wrong. Please take this opportunity to tell me what you want me to do differently next year: I may ignore you but suggestions are welcome regardless. You may also abuse me for my failings, I can take it. Also someone go make the 2017 tracking thread, because I'm not gonna.
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