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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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 Posted - 09/14/2006 : 02:44:23
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What is it about organized, team sports that brings out the oaf in some (many? most?) afictionados of the game. I mean, we all want our team to defeat, humiliate, and possibly hospitalize the opposition, don't we? Of course we do and if we happen to be on that team, we give our team mates every support, even those who are better at it than ourselves.... Don't we...?
Apparently not. quote:
EVANS - A University of Northern Colorado football player, suspected of stabbing a teammate who beat him out for the team's starting punter job, has been kicked off the team and suspended from the school, while police investigate the incident, campus officials said Wednesday.
Mitch Cozad, 21, a sophomore and the team's backup punter, allegedly followed teammate Rafael Mendoza Monday night to the parking lot of his apartment complex, in the 2700 block of Crescent Cove, and attacked him from behind after he got out of his car, said Evans police Lt. Gary Kessler.
So....., now the team has no punter at all. Yay team!!
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
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Edited by - filthy on 09/14/2006 02:45:40
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
 Posted - 09/14/2006 : 03:05:36 [Permalink]
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Punters. Never really part of the team, anyhow. 
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
Here's a link to Moonscape News, and one to its Archive. |
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Cuneiformist
The Imperfectionist
USA
4955 Posts |
Posted - 09/14/2006 : 03:17:00 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by filthy
What is it about organized, team sports that brings out the oaf in some (many? most?) afictionados of the game. I mean, we all want our team to defeat, humiliate, and possibly hospitalize the opposition, don't we? Of course we do and if we happen to be on that team, we give our team mates every support, even those who are better at it than ourselves.... Don't we...?
Apparently not. quote:
EVANS - A University of Northern Colorado football player, suspected of stabbing a teammate who beat him out for the team's starting punter job, has been kicked off the team and suspended from the school, while police investigate the incident, campus officials said Wednesday.
Mitch Cozad, 21, a sophomore and the team's backup punter, allegedly followed teammate Rafael Mendoza Monday night to the parking lot of his apartment complex, in the 2700 block of Crescent Cove, and attacked him from behind after he got out of his car, said Evans police Lt. Gary Kessler.
So....., now the team has no punter at all. Yay team!!
Well, this isn't limited to team sports, filthy. It sounds like this is just a case of Harding Syndrome. |
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
Posted - 09/14/2006 : 03:58:59 [Permalink]
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And it didn't work out all that well for Tanya, did it? You'd think that people would learn from the stupidity of others, but it seems never to happen.
Is our species doomed to drown in the shallow end of the gene pool?
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist!
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R.Wreck
SFN Regular
USA
1191 Posts |
Posted - 09/14/2006 : 17:40:55 [Permalink]
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quote:
Mitch Cozad, 21, a sophomore and the team's backup punter, allegedly followed teammate Rafael Mendoza Monday night to the parking lot of his apartment complex, in the 2700 block of Crescent Cove, and attacked him from behind after he got out of his car, said Evans police Lt. Gary Kessler.
Sounds to me like he was going for the coffin corner.  |
The foundation of morality is to . . . give up pretending to believe that for which there is no evidence, and repeating unintelligible propositions about things beyond the possibliities of knowledge.
T. H. Huxley
The Cattle Prod of Enlightened Compassion
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JohnOAS
SFN Regular
Australia
800 Posts |
Posted - 09/14/2006 : 18:37:50 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by R.Wreck
Sounds to me like he was going for the coffin corner.
If you keep wine in a wine cellars, and beer in beer cellars, where do you keep knives?
Monica Seles.
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 09/14/2006 : 23:28:28 [Permalink]
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As I was looking for an innocent joke to kidnap and convert into one of my silly "Bar Joke 1" space-opera gags, I ran across a page containing this quote:
"Remember! There is no 'I' in 'Team Spirit'!"
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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H. Humbert
SFN Die Hard
USA
4574 Posts |
Posted - 09/14/2006 : 23:43:15 [Permalink]
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That page had some good one liners, Mooner. I burst out laughing when I read this one.
"I can tell you this, they are all sitting 2 inches higher in their seats, because they all just crapped their pants."
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"A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true." --Demosthenes
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pleco
SFN Addict
USA
2998 Posts |
Posted - 09/15/2006 : 00:24:11 [Permalink]
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filthy said:
quote:
You'd think that people would learn from the stupidity of others...
If that were true, then this forum may not have ever existed... |
by Filthy
The neo-con methane machine will soon be running at full fart. |
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Ghost_Skeptic
SFN Regular
Canada
510 Posts |
Posted - 09/15/2006 : 00:27:12 [Permalink]
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My favourite was:
"We need to find a solution, even if it isn't the right one"
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"You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink. / You can send a kid to college but you can't make him think." - B.B. King
History is made by stupid people - The Arrogant Worms
"The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism." - William Osler
"Religion is the natural home of the psychopath" - Pat Condell
"The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter" - Thomas Jefferson |
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
Posted - 09/15/2006 : 02:23:10 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by Ghost_Skeptic
My favourite was:
"We need to find a solution, even if it isn't the right one"
This is the motto of nearly all politicians.
Or as they say around here when stuck behind someone who failed to note the traffic light change or is causing some other, senseless delay: "Do something dammit, if'n it's wrong!"
Thinking about it, and thinking about the way our current government is acting, a "do-nothing" politition might not be such a bad thing after all.... I wonder if Mr. Cozad is a Young Republican.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist!
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chaloobi
SFN Regular
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Posted - 09/18/2006 : 11:23:43 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by filthy
What is it about organized, team sports that brings out the oaf in some (many? most?) afictionados of the game.
It's genetic. Call it the animal in us. |
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