SageAgainstTheMachine

So now writing poetry is considered unmanly? I know you're messing around to a certain extent, but our society's view of masculinity is seriously askew.

I don't know about Lindell. He's been more accurate than anybody from short range, but that doesn't exactly separate him from the pack because most guys hit around 85% or better from inside 40. So when it comes down to the long ones, I can definitely think of more than 10 other guys I want to be kicking my game winning FG.

Well a guy (especially a 14 year old hormonal guy) can still get an erection even if he doesn't want one. In any case, it's statutory rape.

Dude, I don't mean to insult your prose because it was pretty good....but your poetry is 100 times better. Spectacular. You really seem to have a natural knack for rhyme scheme and flow. I'm assuming you're an amateur (just because not too many people are professional poets), but this is something you seem to have a talent for, even if I've just seen a small sample size. Have you been published?

Man, I really gotta get me some Fleggaard What's Fleggaard?

That's a good point.

Hey man, I just try to be a nice guy...out in the real world and here. If you have some need to mock me when I'm trying to be nice, then so be it...I won't further interfere with you. Just know that calling people things like "idiot" when they don't provoke you casts a very negative light on your personality.

I can see Owens and Evans being comparable to Bruce and Holt...but you lost me when you compared Faulk to Rhodes and Warner to Edwards. Most importantly, I believe our coaching staff is simply too conservative to recreate The Greatest Show on Turf. In the past, their aim has been possession of the ball more than rapid movement up the field. Not that that's necessarily a bad thing, it just doesn't engender truly dynamic offenses.

Did you notice how I was being polite and civil to you? Generally, that illicits a polite and civil response in return. But instead, I get insults. Mature. By the way, the person seeking advice was kind enough to acknowledge that my opinion isn't worthless.

Thanks, plenz. It sounds like your kids have a lot of character and you should be proud of that. This is the sort of kid that will probably get picked on a lot by his peers, and the fact that your children have befriended him without any prompting speaks volumes about them.

I respectfully disagree. Surely, I can't provide as much insight as the parents on this board...but worthless? You can provide logic without actually having experience something.

I don't know what you have against me, but it seems like you've always got a bone to pick. I'm not 18. Anyway, are we back to this thing where you insinuate my opinion is worthless because of my age? If you read my first post, you'll note that I suggest plenz should definitely get to know the kid before he encourages the friendship. Heck, I had several neighborhood friends who were all 3-5 years older than me when I was a kid...there really weren't any kids my age on the block. We had fun, they liked beating me at basketball. They were my heroes, I was their little sidekick. I'm still in contact with a couple of them. I didn't say plenz shouldn't be careful, I just said that he shouldn't automatically shun what might be a nice relationship.

Oh come on geeeeze, I remember very well being a horny-ass 13 year old. It means that you start taking longer showers and secretly downloading porn, not "experimenting" with the kids down the street.

But what's the problem with an age gap, as long as the 13 year old is a nice, harmless kid? Kids should learn how to interact with those not immediately within their own social circle, it's an important skill as an adult. Get to know the kid and make sure he isn't trouble (given his backgroud, he might have issues). If you don't detect anything suspicious, then I don't see the harm in your kids having a friend that's a few years older. In fact, if the kid indeed has Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, his maturity level may be closer to that of an 8 or 10 year old. That might explain the friendship in the first place.

But people aren't upset about the fact that he wants to play. They're upset that he's retired, then unretired, then retired, then unretired, then retired, then unretired, then retired, and now might unretire again. He's jerking people around, including his own family and the team that was loyal to him for 18 seasons, all the while basking in the glory of the mainstream sports media sucking his dick every day. That is the source of the resentment. Nobody wants him to retire because he's too old, they want him to retire because that's what he said he was going to do 4 separate times.

It's a place for sick people, but that's beside the point.

Oh snap!

Thanks, that is very interesting. We all think of football players as guys who live, die, breathe football...but I guess not everybody can be that way. I guess it sort of speaks to his lack of a killer instinct.

Yeah, but it was for Memorial Day. The supervisor could have thought to himself "Well, that's a little gaudy." But he should never have asked her to take it down.

Wow that supervisor is a giant douchebag. Hopefully it's just him and not hospital policy.

Yeah? What's his name?

Isaac Bruce...nobody appreciates just how great his career has been.

Nah, I say we can still point the finger. Starks intentionally attempted to hurt a person (a police officer no less). None of our guys did that.

Hold on a second. I have inside information that he has received plenty of interest and that he is weighing his options. He's trying to decide between the Vikings and the Panthers and he's having a really difficult time with it. Now, I'm not calling you a liar, but since we both have conflicting inside information one of us has to be wrong. Like you, I could post information to make myself more credible but I choose not to. This is a very interesting scenario. Two people with equally sound, yet opposite, inside information. I think JP is throwing one of us for a loop!

Yeah Owensmania, it's almost bikini season. You'd better go with a Brazilian.