NFL Football

[monkeypox]

Woohoo! Go Steelers! *waves Terrible Towel with one hand and shakes big "we're number 1" foamy hand with the other while wearing black and gold hard hat*

I think the team is off to a pretty good start. As long as Davenport can manage to stay out of jail, we might have a chance. Miscreant or not, dude's like Juggernaut from the X-Men on offense.

[kateln]

mrsbowling said:

OOH, Redksins have got to be THE MOST FRUSTRATING football viewing EVER. I love them. And want to beat them up with baseball bats at the same time. It is agonizing to watch them. I'm actually scared of them playing the 0-6 Cardinals Sunday because last year some team with no wins managed to beat us at home.

I feel the number one problem is the playcalling by Al Saunders. I hate that Gibbs turned it over to him. I think the team has sucked since then.

I also don't like Clinton Portis. I know, I'm going to be struck by lightening now.

Marry me.

Portis can be an awesome player, when he wants to be. It's just...damn it. Want to be!

[sugaree]

monkeypox said:

Woohoo! Go Steelers! *waves Terrible Towel with one hand and shakes big "we're number 1" foamy hand with the other while wearing black and gold hard hat*

I think the team is off to a pretty good start. As long as Davenport can manage to stay out of jail, we might have a chance. Miscreant or not, dude's like Juggernaut from the X-Men on offense.

Yeah, but for me it was painful to wave goodbye to the Bus and welcome the domestic-disturbin' Dump Truck. The Steelers are such a collection of human interest stories. You have Charlie Batch sponsoring youth sports in his hometown, Hines Ward fighting for acceptance for mixed-race kids in East Asia, Troy Polumalu keeping his religion, Willie Parker's long determined crawl to stardom--and then you get a guy known off-field chiefly for pooping where he shouldn't. I really can't watch him on the field without thinking of poop.

[heyalice]

A FOOTBALL THREAD!! SQWEEE!!
Giants fan here. Hated Tiki Barber and glad he's gone even though he did help the team. Calling out Eli and the coach was a punk bitch move. I love that Eli seems to be the complete opposite of his brother, Mr. Cool versus Mr. Intensity. I sometimes get the feeling he really doesn't want to play football.
I'm stinkin' up the joint in my football pool, 3 last week and 6 this week.

[prada]

I agree sugaree, I'm not a Najee fan either. I mean, he IS a good player, but seriously, he's a chump! Who does he think he's playing for, the Bengals?!? Ugh! Besides him, I love our team. I think we have a great group of guys who have integrity and real love for the game.

[sugaree]

Yeah, I miss the Bus and I long for Antwan Randle-el to return. They are great players and decent men to boot. The Pittsburgh Steelers: in the unlikely position of bringing back the Grecian ideal of the athlete. Body, brains, and a heightened social conscience.

Once, I was watching a Monday night game, with those little studio bits with the players introducing themselves and telling what college they had played for. The Steelers were all smiling, friendly, personable, clean-cut boys-next-door. The guys are the other team were straight up sullen shift-eyed thugs. It cracked me up.

[prada]

I knooooow!!! I always feel so much pride watching them play! I WISH Antwaan would return too, but there is no way. I think the Rooney's do such a great job recruting players. And how about all the unsung heroes on our team? Keisel, Aaron Smith, James Farrior and many other players that don't get the respect they deserve! I am loving our draft picks, Sepulveda, Gay Woodley, GREAT additions!

There's a GREAT article on ESPN.com about Willie Parker's childhood and why he came to be the way he is. He has a tattoo next to his heart in honor of his best friend who was killed in a drive by and he says that everytime he holds the football, his friend Marty is a part of it. It seriously made me cry!!

[scarletprincess]

How awesome is this?

Bills' Kevin Everett showing "great movement in his legs."

[sugaree]

That's fabulous. I doubt he'll play professionally again, but he is only 24. The possibility might be there.

[Malle Babbe]

prada said:

I agree sugaree, I'm not a Najee fan either. I mean, he IS a good player, but seriously, he's a chump! Who does he think he's playing for, the Bengals?!? Ugh! Besides him, I love our team. I think we have a great group of guys who have integrity and real love for the game.

When I first heard this, I winced. The Steelers overall seem like folks who have their respective acts together; even Roethlisberger got a clue after breaking a little old lady's windshield with his face!

And a big "ew!" on that detail MonkeyPox...