Stanley Lombardi
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Yawn. A bi-annual event that leaves out most of the best players in the world. Maybe if you considered the world golf rankings at the end of 2006, you'd see a vast array of countries, with the USA more than holding their own (including 3 of the top 4.)
They also took a game that was played seriously in one country on earth, this one, and made it a true world game. But you're right, Spain is better. I also enjoyed how you failed to mention that the rules are quite different from the rules our players have played with their entire lives.
So...you're citing a one-and-done knockout tournament as evidence of American demise in a sport where the BEST teams only win 55% of their games? Sweet.
When have they ever won? Interesting that USA doesn't quite have the athleticism of other world powers, and both football and soccer are fall sports in this country...I wouldn't mind seeing Reggie Bush if he played soccer 14 hours a day from the time he was 3 years old. The USA is a world power in Under-20 tournaments, but it hasn't translated into the men yet.
Canada, Czech Republic, Sweden, Russia, USA. Pick one. I guarantee they win the next major tournament or Olympics.
Again, if you would check the world rankings, the USA is one of two countries with two players in the world top-10. Andy Roddick is ranked 4th and James Blake is ranked 6th. The other country? Croatia, with players ranked #8 and #10. Although it could be argued that anybody not named Roger Federer sucks at tennis right now. He's unreal.
Your grasping at straws with this one. Americans will be the favorites in every event under 800M, plus decathalon, heptathalon, pole vault, etc. while a smattering of opponents from dozens of other countries will be able to 'steal' a win in certain events every once in a while. Big deal. Does anybody even remember these people ten minutes after their event is over? That includes the Americans.
I defy you to find a more pure athlete than an NFL running back. Or linebacker. Or wide receiver.
Huh? Once again, I'm not afraid to post the evidence for you. Can you find five?
I got out the microscope and the binoculars, smokinandjokin, but I've yet to locate a winner in your very laborious post. A whole bunch of promises and excuses, but the trophies seem to be on somebody else's shelf.
The rules, the tournament set-up, guarantees, rankings, our great junior varsity squad...but no trophy.
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Why are you here?
I believe that this is a board about Buffalo Bills football. I'm glad you're an "avid Bills fan", but I get the feeling you're more
like an "avid troll".
I think this discussion would be better placed in an off-topic category. Please?
Thanks! The topic was meant to place our footbal heroes in a proper athletic perspective. When the American athlete goes against the world, he is shown to be mediocre. No one has refuted that premise in the replies so far. There has been bluster, chest-thumping, conjecture, and (most of all) excuses--but no refutation.
I do think that we as football fans should understand the very small pool of talent that our "stars" compete against. It's akin to competing to be all-league in a talent market the size of Buffalo vs. a talent market the size of L.A. or New York.
Questions like this interest me about sports and culture. If they don't interest you, then just beat your man-boobs like the rest of 'em! And go on to the next topic about the subtleties of the off-tackle slant! Or the ever-enduring fascination with whom we should select in the 4th round...
I'm also here for fun--and I'm enjoying it as you twits bring forward one weak, pathetic reply after another!
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Blue on Blue? More like Smurf Fugger
You boys seem to enjoy being the world's B word!
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You can't be serious. Yeah, the US sucks ass:
Gold metal history for modern summer olympic games. Notice how we've never finished lower than 3rd in the modern summer olympics?
Gold metal history for modern winter olympic games. We're not quite as good at these games, finishing 8th at the lowest.
Our overall average ranking for gold medals in the Olympics is 2.72. Yeah, the US sucks.
If you had read my initial post, I was positive about our our international track teams. It was the big-$$ sports I was mocking. Welcome aboard.
Before I leave, I would like to let you know (any friend would, to keep you from further public embarassment) that gold "medal" is spelled with a 'd.'
We lead the world in over-hyped athletes--and in the least bang for the educational buck!
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Yeah, you already said that, and are ignoring the point. Do you want to start listing the countries that offer better athletes than the states?
Oh, where did I put my world atlas?
Can you make a list of the international competitions our "greats" have won? Don't you see that the rest of the world counts wins, while you are counting pipe dreams. Dream on.
USA wins lately = zero.
Kelly's excuses = (nobody but USA apologists care).
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You mean except for the fact that in almost every spot, the Americans are the guys or team to beat? The Ryder Cup is ALL of Europe. Our basketball teams would kill these teams if we used all our players and they played together as much as their competitors. Think if we use our best baseball players we might win a world competition against another country?
Granted, it's okay if we're not the best in certain sports anymore. It's actually good, for everyone. And surely other countries are catching up in a lot of sports, and that's good, too. But it's still not even remotely close as to who has the most and best athletes overall.
Thanks for your thoughtful reply, Pollyanna. But we have taken our very best into these situations and have not only gotten beat, but hammered. Then we regrouped and got hammered again.
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You mean except for the fact that in almost every spot, the Americans are the guys or team to beat?
You mean except for the fact that in almost every sport, the Americans are the guys who get beat?
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I'm an avid Bills fan, but I'm also a fan of international, Olympic-type sports.
The other day at work a guy said that the only sport the USA is good at any more on the world stage is football. I said that's because football is not on the world stage...
Our golfers get blown away in the Ryder Cup (or whatever it's called where we annually get taken apart by the Europeans).
Our basketball 'dream teams" win internationally, but only in their dreams.
Our baseball could not win an international tournament that began last year.
Our soccer doesn't win
Our hockey doesn't win.
I don't know who our tennis players are anymore.
Track still does well, but not great.
Our "great" football athletes are competing against the fewest people in the world for their positions. If we started to open it up to international competition, our "world's greatest athletes" would be selling shoes, or crack, in Des Moines or Kansas City...
"Impossible," we said about our basketball players, but now they are the world's B word.
Half of Samoa seems to be playing nose tackle in the NFL, and they just heard about the sport yesterday.
Think about this, provincial American slobs and wimps, when you diss soccer players, track athletes, et. al.-- if the entire world cared about football, our hero Nate Clemen$ (or Clement$ or Clement or however he wants it spelled/pronounced) would likely be playing semi-pro in Peoria.
Big fish in a small pond.
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I think Jim Leonhard is good.
"Good" is not confined to any color. Cablelady, as always, gets it.
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Saying that black male athletes are generally faster runners than white male athletes is no less true than saying that men on average are taller than women. It's fact. It's not racist. No more so than saying most dry cleaners in the U.S. are owned and operated by Chinese Americans.
"Men on the average are taller than women" is not racist. We are making progress.
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Haha i didnt know i was a race-monger. Better go shave my head.
Not necessary. Just stop writing what color a person happens to be. It's so simple, but you guys just can't seem to break the addiction.
Keep your hair.
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Chill out man, he's not being racist. Just mentioning a player's skin color doesn't mean you're a racist person. Jim Leonard is the typical white backup safety, a guy who overcomes a lack of size/athletic ability to play in the NFL. There, I said it. It's not being racist, it's just something you see a lot. And this is a Bills talk forum, we don't need people preaching life's values on it.
If you say, "He's a backup safety, a guy who overcomes a lack of size/athletic ability to play in the NFL," it isn't racist. To throw "white" in the sentence just before the word "backup" is racist.
But it's heartwarming to see two of you race-mongers having a public display of affection for one another. Touching.
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I thought I smelled a prick... What's your damn issue? I could've sworn the basis of this nation was freedom of speech, I can't say that Jim Leonhard wont' stay? He sucks first of all, and when did I say he was slow? Call me racist or whatever the hell if you want to, any oversensitive retard who takes shots at someone over the internet isn't gonna bother me.
It is definitely bothering you. You are way back on your heels, on the defensive. You are easy prey.
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How can I perpetuate racism if my favorite sport consists of probably 70% black people... screw it I'm not getting in to a pointless debate with oversensitive people.
This is called retreat, but to be kind we'll call it "cutting your losses." This is the first wisdom you've shown today. Remember, if it's slow you mean, spell it s-l-o-w. Isn't this easy!
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Well most certainly you're holier than me because you can point that out and criticize me! Keep your thoughts to yourself regarding people here buddy it's unnecessary to point that out, it's a fact of life it isn't hurting anyones feelings. Black players are more prominent at safety and that my friend is true. Name the fastest white person alive? Exactly.
Then just say, "Slow," if slow is what you mean. See, wasn't that easy! You'll get your point across and not perpetuate racism, all at the same time!!!
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That was one of my problems... I like Leonhard a lot, but I don't see one punt return for a great return doing much for one decent white safety. This isn't about race, it really is about a great player changing this. Let's hope for great depth at OLINE and DLINE.
Anybody who mentions race in this context is, de facto, racist. This board is crawlin' with your kind. You can't give one significant reason for mentioning race in this regard. Until you stop, you perpetuate.
And don't lay the holier-than-thou tag on me. I am just sick unto death about hearing what color people are. WTF does this have to do with whether or not Leonhard stays or goes?
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It takes more than "heart" alone to make a pro football roster for 5 straight years under 3 different head coach regimes.
Wow. Wisdom is what's under 'Kelso's Helmet.'
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he was the best player by far in that game (both teams)
Despite rooting for the Chargers, I couldn't help but notice that the best player in the game was Tom Brady. .
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This isn't baseball-you go into the HOF as a football player, no hat, no uniform. Willis is going in the same way I did-with an admission ticket.
Classic!
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The Bills got a 1983 draft pick--which turned into Jim Kelly-- by trading what player in 1978?
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Will Willis want to go into the 'Hall' as a Buffalo Bill or a Toronto Bill??
Which 3 or more cities his child support checks are adressed to will be botherin' his mind too much for him to contemplate any other geography.
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I stand corrected--
This classic thread definitely reveals what a pathetic loser IBTG81 is. But one person remains convinced that IBTG81 is not gullible, nor star-struck.
Now let the sympathy votes flood in for this pathetic, gullible, star-struck loser who slandered Bledsoe--on the say-so of a person he'd never seen before. Have at it, bleeding hearts!
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My boss is a die hard Giants fan. She said if they won last night, we can dress casual today. So, I wore my McGahee royal blue jersey.
We had a new employee start today. She saw my jersey and asked if I was a Bills fan. I said yes, and she is too (she grew up in Rochester).
Anyway, she used to be a flight attendant. She told me 4 years ago, Drew was on one of the planes she was working on. He was sitting in first class. She then told me that a fan walked up to Bledsoe and asked him for an autograph. He said no, he was too tired. He proceeded to eat peanuts and throw the shells all over the floor, and also demanded that all of his alcohol be free (which she said they were allowed to comp, but because he was being an ass, they refused).
Good job Drew. Your benching(three different times) couldn't have happened to a nicer person.
"Rack him!" This is a classic thread...
IBTG81 tried to tell us the inside scoop--that Bledsoe is an as*hole. Turns out we know nothing about Bledsoe--but we find out what a pathetic, gullible, starstruck loser that IBTG81 is.
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Football sucks...
in The Stadium Wall Archives
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We're a non-factor in hockey, haven't won in baseball, have seen our "best athletes in the world" from the NBA embarassed annually for years and years now. I would call all of these facts. Which of these facts am I not fathoming?
Deion Sanders as a striker is conjecture. Brian Moorman is a fast punter, but never appeared on anything other than a division 2 or 3 college level in track. These are figments.
I fathom facts, and you fathom figments. But we both fathom.