HardyBoy
-
Posts
1,637 -
Joined
-
Last visited
Content Type
Gallery
Profiles
Forums
Events
Posts posted by HardyBoy
-
-
What’s the over under?
-
That wasn’t even that hard of a hit right? Like a solid hit, but not crazy by nfl standards. That’s not good that it looks like he’s doing fencing pose easier and easier
-
1
-
-
13 hours ago, SoCal Deek said:
People don’t seem to understand that we have a societal compact. As citizens, we’ve agreed to cede over confrontational authority to the police in a trade for taking the law into our own hands. For our part in this trade we’re expected to treat the police with some level of respect and compliance. Period!
Did you watch the body cam video?!?! I just did…that police officer was completely out of line and should not be responsible for keeping people safe, that was not at all ok.-
1
-
1
-
1
-
1
-
-
5 minutes ago, strive_for_five_guy said:
Just watched the video. As soon as Hill decided to roll his window back up, police had every right to pull him out of the car. Especially w the tinted windows, you don’t know if the guy is grabbing a gun getting ready to shoot the officer or not. Tyreek wants to argue w police rather than show respect, that’s what he’s going to get. No sympathy for the guy.
you might be right on the window tint and safety, but there is no law that says you need to treat anyone with “respect”-
1
-
-
The constant negativity and insane reactions from this fan base are genuinely making it so I am not really excited about the season like I normally would be.
A bunch of entitled, whiny, largely clueless, and certainly misinformed (because you can't possibly have all the info) weirdos that just keep spouting the same things over and over because they don't know how to handle their feelings.
-
1
-
1
-
1
-
1
-
1
-
-
7 minutes ago, Ed_Formerly_of_Roch said:
Why would he want to sign back with the team that cut him for likely from his perception, no good reason?
And not implying Bills didn't have a good reason, but player didn't agree with it.
You also gotta think he heard a lot of stuff from fans too...prob just wants a fresh start
-
45 minutes ago, Fleezoid said:
Which is perpetuated by social media. It creates a mob mentality with its virtual torches and pitchforks. That would have played out differently without that crap.
I hope that's being said with the understanding that is happening everywhere, across spectrums, and while the individual canceling is super lame, there are people getting whipped into a frenzy where it's entire groups of people that are marked as others and the thing that whips them into a frenzy and the groups it's focused on just continuously changes and grows.
-
1
-
-
2 hours ago, Gugny said:
Spare me with the “if you’ve ever played organized sports “ bullsh!t. Give me a break.
I’ve led teams outside of ***** high school scholastics.
Collaboration is fantastic and necessary.
Giving team members a voice is also fantastic and necessary.
Anonymity is weak. And I will double down on my opinion that it ia a recipe for disaster.
Some things work well in the short term.
As quickly as an NFL season goes by, it isn’t short. We all know it doesn’t start with week one and it’s a lot longer than 17 weeks.
This is not organized sports that most of us can relate to. It’s the NFL. It’s an organization (sports/entertainment BUSINESS) chock full of grown men.
Open. Honest. Direct.
But they're not anonymous...the entire team is together in the room and Josh Allen reviews the notes and I'm assuming finalizes them and picks the specific things to bring up to Brady.
To call that process anonymous is not accurate.
-
2
-
1
-
-
19 hours ago, Poleshifter said:
A nice feature of the UFL was the introduction of locally stationed Army personnel at each game. They would chat with a soldier or two at each game.
As an Army veteran, I thought that was very cool.
I would imagine that is what the money the Army paid was to get that to happen... that was paid for, just like the stuff you see at nfl games
-
20 minutes ago, BillsFanForever19 said:
I love when people take a comment that was said weeks ago and already covered and post it like it's fresh news when the person repeats themselves.
I dunno, I've been on this board pretty much all off-season and don't remember it being talked about...and the article I linked was published three hours before I shared it here.
Lol, watch someone searches and posts a screenshot where I was like super active in the thread that potentially existed and have no recollection of it at all!
-
23 minutes ago, GunnerBill said:
Whereas he was telling the team this time last year he would be good for week 1.
Basically I don't believe a word Von says. All he has done since he got here ia spin bull####.
I know, this one is making me way more annoyed than I thought it would... like obviously he wasn't ready to play.
What I'm not sure on is if he knew it at the time and was just saying he was fine...or if he genuinely believed he was fine, because you kinda need that level of self confidence to just make it to D1, let alone the nfl, and looking back upon introspection and reviewing the outcome he realized it was the wrong move.
I really hope it's the second and he learns from this, but totally agree, this makes it hard to trust anything he says...positive thinking is cool and I'm sure he believes in positive manifestation, but maybe he could work on positively manifesting some honest appraisal as well...
-
-
On 7/16/2024 at 1:45 PM, Big Turk said:
Murphy at least was a Sports Anchor on Channel 7 for a long time.
I was kinda hoping Matt Bove would have gotten it...no idea if he has any play by play experience, but I think he could be awesome at it.
-
1
-
1
-
-
18 hours ago, SCBills said:
Beane has shown he will cut guys who he gave guaranteed money to, so I could see Smoot or Collins if they can’t show they are effective/returned to form - even though they both have some guaranteed money on their contracts.
Martin cut wouldn’t be surprising at all to me. I think that’s a legitimate battle for punter.
Safety, Defensive End and depth Cornerback remain the only places I could see a move made.
Ideally Hyde comes back on an inexpensive one year contract and rounds out the Safety room to help hold it down while Bishop learns the ropes.
We have significant draft capital, but with so many potential big contract decisions coming up, along with a new JA contract extension to up his AAV, I think Beane has his sights set on going into next years draft loaded up to backfill the roster.
I hope Hyde retires
-
It won't potentially just be on regular TV over there?
-
1 hour ago, Dablitzkrieg said:
If he was hit by a car tonight, I wouldn't blink. He may be one of the biggest POS human beings on earth. Eff him
Even if it's a result of him having serious mental health issues as a result of playing the sport we all so excitedly cheer for?
I mean it really does seem like there might be a steep cost to the players for playing this sport and I know I'm making an assumption, but if he has significant CTE, does that change anything in terms of your opinion? I'm not excusing his behavior at all and many of his actions likely impacted the lives of people negatively forever, it's awful. Just if he's suffering from dementia, which I'm not saying he is, just that it's possible, and he got that dementia by playing a sport that we all cheered for...I dunno, like I get your perspective and point of view and I'm n it trying to tell you to change it, it just feels like this might be the cost some players pay for playing the sport and we're part of the machine as fans that ultimately churns out people that end up in these types of situations that otherwise would have not faced potential life changing brain trauma and subsequent dementia
-
1
-
1
-
-
1 hour ago, TheWeatherMan said:
It’s worth it, it’s in Munich during Oktoberfest!
Oh, so the sabres are going to be in Europe all week leading up to the games in Prague?! Just checked New Jersey and they are the flyers in their last preseason game Oct 3rd in Philly...the Sabres are about to Jaguar this thing!
-
1 hour ago, thenorthremembers said:
I am sorry but Firefighting and Police work is not the same as who you take to bed.
Why, because one is a choice and the other isn't?
I'm not here to decide what groups are worthy to be allowed to have their own sports leagues and which are not.
While we're at it, I think we should get rid of this message board and replace it with a single board for fans of all teams...why do we need a specific team board, it's super exclusionary.
People who are minorities, like gay people, like police and firefighters, like fans of individual teams like to form social groups where they can do shared social activities and hobbies together because they have things in common.
There was a Greek social club down the street from me when I lived in Boston right by my bus stop...a bunch of older guys sitting around playing dominoes...if the Boston town council had money put aside for funding social groups or for helping older people with social opportunities and someone from that club reached out asking for a grant/help promoting their club and they gave them some money and posted a blog post about the club on their website...and people went all, why isn't there a white non-immigrant American club?!
-
3 minutes ago, thenorthremembers said:
So you're saying it'd be taken well if someone started the National Straight White Men's Flag Football League as long as it allowed all genders, all races, and all sexual preferences? No, it would be looked at as a racist, misogynistic group of men trying to show their superiority. The difference here is exclusivity by accepted societal norms is considered fine.
I am sorry but Firefighting and Police work is not the same as who you take to bed.
Whatever the case, not a hill I am looking to die on.
Ok, you know when people say happy holidays and then it turns into a "war on christmas" and then people say, well this is "a Christian country"...
But people don't go around saying that normally, it's just kind of I guess implied or assumed by a lot people apparently...
You don't need to start a white straight football league, it's implied as that is the majority...please understand that, it's an important thing...there are differences when the majority labels something that is implied already and it's not cool when done in response to a minority group trying to gain validation and awareness, especially when that group is marginalized..."well this is a straight country" is how that comes across
-
2
-
1
-
-
2 minutes ago, thenorthremembers said:
My guess is those leagues have players of all races, and sexual preferences.
Ok, well I'm sure the flag football league is open to players of all races and professions.
Also, the flag football league is open to all sexual preferences.
Cool, so we good with starting a petition to get rid of police and firefighter only sports leagues so we can be consistent, or you all agree that would be ridiculous and perhaps we can stop being hypocritical?
-
1
-
-
1 minute ago, thenorthremembers said:
Couldn't care less about who someone shares their life with. Just kind of odd that the meaning of the word inclusive has now been changed to exclusive.
After this thread dies I won't give it a second thought. But could you imagine the uproar if someone started the National Straight Mens Football League?
Cool, get rid of police and firefighter sports leagues then.
-
1
-
-
5 hours ago, LeGOATski said:
Absolutely. This is not a social thing, as far as I can tell. Maybe I'm wrong, but it seems this is supposed to be a competitive league.
It's the National Gay Flag Football League.
As far as I know, they already have national competitive leagues that are open to everyone.
Since that's the case, the rest of your post, while being a totally valid point, is not relevant to this conversation.
Dude, what are you talking about?!
There are like 256 teams in this league, you think it's a freaking top level high level competition thing?!
You all are getting your nuts twisted up over a largely social beer league for people who have historically not been welcome in social beer leagues, and the Bills tossing some money to help get it off the ground in Buffalo and use their name to help more people be aware it exists...like perhaps it's time to truly evaluate why this stuff is so triggering.
All this ignorant backlash so many people automatically have had to this proves so clearly why something like this needs to exist.
From the Boston league page (all skill levels encouraged to participate)
-
1
-
1
-
1
-
1
-
-
19 minutes ago, LeGOATski said:
Thanks for sharing. It's obviously a point of contention, but there's no real barrier.
Like when leagues were racially segregated back in the day. There was a literal barrier that caused the need to create a black league and black universities.
When segregation ended, there was still contention, but that went away over the years.
That's the path I thought the contention with LGBTQ players was taking as well. There's no barrier here that justifies a need to create a separate league. They need to coexist in order to move forward.
Creating a separate league is going backwards.
I mean people like to hang out together with other people who they have things in common with. I don't think that's going backwards, I think that's totally natural.
So the issue isn't the league existing, right like gay bars are a thing, it's a social place where you can meet people you might be interested in talking to and maybe forming a closer relationship...this flag football league sounds largely like a social kickball league at most levels, where I know a few people who met one another playing kickball and got married, I think a social flag football league where if you are gay you might have a better chance to find a partner is totally a reasonable and fair thing that I don't think we really need to discuss further in terms of if it is something valid, it clearly is from a social hangout having fun hanging out with people you have stuff in common with perspective.
So that leaves the higher levels of the league, like what I imagine being the highly competitive levels that will maybe even get to play a championship game on the field at the stadium because of this. Is your point about going backwards more about why are the Bills putting money behind this and not other flag football leagues?
I have an explanation based on my experience working at a big corporation, just want to see that makes sense in terms of where I'm leading this convo?
-
2 hours ago, GunnerBill said:
I mean it is literally one news article on the Bills website announcing a link up trying to drum up awareness for potential players and sponsors. They are not saying "oh and boyst must come and watch while wearing a pride flag and a feather boa" or "you won't be allowed into a Bills game next year without proof you participated in a gay flag football game."
It is one post on a website. If that is too "in your face" that's a you problem.
I don't want to speak for others eapecially that I'm debating, but I think that for the vast majority of people in this thread that sound like they are against the league, I am getting the sense that likely don't actually have an issue with there being a league.
Also, I don't think you need to justify or defend why a league like that should exist. People arguing that point and not listening to the answer aren't going to change their mind and I think you did an excellent job explaining it earlier in the thread. Like you have your experience, people saying your first hand experience is wrong and that you're not thinking or feeling the things that you're feeling or have felt/worried about in your head, feels a bit gaslight, though I'm not getting the sense it's actually intentional, just might be a valid time for you to quote Stanely from the far superior US version on The Office and drop a "did I stutter?"
Quick aside, when I lived in Fort Lauderdale, my wife and I actually lived in Wilton Manors for 7 years (annoying I feel the need to preface that with "my wife") and it is such a cool and amazing place and just seeing people who in a lot of situations might feel judged and marginalized being able to sit and just talk at a restaurant and hearing them fully and genuinely laugh. There actually was a flag football team that used to practice in a park I used to walk to in my neighborhood and they were pretty good and I'm assuming they were all or majority gay.
Before I get to my point, I do think that my favorite misconception I've seen in this thread is about how people are joking that this league would be super popular with gay guys because all the athletes would be super in shape and classicaly attractive, and I don't think that's necessarily the case from my understanding...the hidden benefit of being a marginalized minority group in some ways is that societal norms haven't really been forced onto them, including unrealistic beauty standards...I think there is a significantly wider range of what attractive is and so many different ways to express oneself, which is so different from what it is like in the mainstream society, especially for girls...shoot, talking about grooming, we've be grooming girls for eating disorders since at least 1955.
Alright, my main point...I think it might be interesting to talk about virtue signaling, DEI and the difference between fluff corporate bs where it's just like slogans on a helmet vs actual meaningful stuff that can come from people within corporations demanding change and working together to speak truth to power through employee resource groups that lead a lot of this stuff in actually meaningful ways.
Tua Contract Question
in The Stadium Wall
Posted
I don’t think that’s right about guaranteed money not counting if someone retires