TruffleShuffle

i'll probably just post in here since every time i post in a bears thread i get accused of trolling and someone (often a mod) takes a potshot at the eagles.

this man speaks the truth.

awesome

yeah or he might do what he did with the mathis/napoli tandem and give a vastly inferior player like reggie willits way too much playing time over soriano.

no i just meant that the packers tend to be a good team (.559 winning percentage). same can be said for the bears (.579) and vikings (.551). to me that's the reason that those three teams have big rivalries with each other, while nobody really cares about the lions (.456).

"technically"? do some [expletive] research before you decide to insert yourself in a decades-old rivalry and pretend to know what should constitute a rivalry and why anyone should care regardless of the fact you have zero investment. jesus [expletive] christ truffle you're the one posting a video of something that happened 25 years ago as "why we hate the packers." here are some other really big rivalries in football: -eagles vs cowboys -eagles vs giants -cowboys vs giants -cowboys vs redskins -cowboys vs everyone else in the nfl that has been around a long time -giants vs jets -vikings vs bears -vikings vs packers -49ers vs rams -dolphins vs jets -patriots vs jets -colts vs patriots i guess -bengals vs browns -steelers vs browns -steelers vs ravens -steelers vs eagles -broncos vs raiders -chiefs vs raiders -chiefs vs broncos -chiefs vs rams you may notice that most of these teams: -play in the same division -have playing football for a really long time -have been facing each other at least once a year, and in many cases twice a year, for decades now -have been good enough to contend for divisions, such that the games against divisional opponents take on added importance. -are geographically close to each other. from what i could decipher of your psychotic ranting, you seem to think that i'm saying this shouldn't constitute a rivalry and i have no idea what sort of history these teams do. they've played eleventy billion times in the past, and in many cases they have important games, like all three of them this year. i'm sure there has been lots of cheap shots and trash talk and controversy between them, but in almost every rivalry where teams have faced each other at least once a year for decades, and each team has a history of winning pretty regularly, there ends up being a big rivalry.

do tell. Why do I hate the Packers? Because thats how my father brought me up . Why does he hate them? It's what his father brought him up to do. Why do Bears fans in general hate the Packers' date=' i.e. when did the formations of the rivalry begin? Some would say it started back in 1924 when a Bears player and a Packers player were ejected for fighting on the field. The teams never liked each other. George Halas was famous for his disdain of the Packers. It has nothing to do with teams being in the same division for a long time. And it has nothing to do with the Packers being better more often, considering the Bears hold the all time head to head record. That 1941 playoff game that everyone is mentioning, was held in Chicago and drew 43,000 people. The next week the Bears played the Giants in Chicago for the championship and it drew 14,000. It's a rivalry fueled by hate that has been around since they started playing each other[/quote'] ok. the video posted was a video of two packer cheap shots from the 1980s and was prefaced with the phrase: "for the kids, who dont know why we hate the packers:" i don't think that two cheap shots are the reason that bears fans hate the packers. but technically you're right, if you weren't born in the chicago area and raised as a bears fan then you probably would not hate the packers. unless you were born in minnesota and raised as a vikings fan. also, i never said anything about the packers being better more often, you apparently made that up from what i posted.

i like him if for no other reason than he doesn't give traditional manager-speak answers to kaplan's dumbass questions.

do tell.

you're right, it was probably those couple of plays like 30 years ago and before those things happened, bears fans actually were quite fond of the packers.

also because they've been in the same division as the bears forever and they're usually good.

scioscia has such a chubb for mathis' catching skills and hated napoli's glove, which is why they were way closer to splitting time then they should have been. it's too bad that they couldn't have gotten wells in there with gary matthews jr and torii hunter to have an OF full of truly dumb contracts.

troll more.

ok now i have to cheer for a packer blowout.

the senators' tv announcers (the color analyst is dennis potvin) have a breathtaking mixture of homerism and stupidity. i'm not sure i've ever heard worse analysis of what is going on in a game than their commentary in the third period. they repeatedly accused the flyers of cheap shots and dirty hits - after it was 5-2 giroux laid a big hit on a senator and potvin said that it was the first hit he's ever made (comical) and started a huge brawl (clean hitting no longer okay with a 3 goal lead). in all of the dirty play by the flyers, they ended up with like 3 or 4 PP in the third period while the team that was getting its ass kicked and gooning it up, ottawa, had none. then the play by play guy suggested that the flyers' fighters were avoiding the sens' goons even though our only goon (shelley) fought chris neil and [expletive] giroux and carter dropped the gloves with fighters.

That's exactly what I was thinking. apparently we aren't the only ones who think so: http://cdn.bleacherreport.net/images_root/slides/photos/000/628/822/AlDavisIsAGhoulorisittheotherwayaround1_display_image.jpg?1294997253 and that's from at least a couple of years ago i think. the photos taken recently are much more frightening.

what does this even mean?

those teams have their own reporter because they live like 5 minutes away from the team they report on. ed werder is from dallas and sal paolantonio has been in philly forever. the bears would have a higher profile if they had offensive stars. they've had some pretty good offensive players but nobody that you'd really consider to be a league-wide star at a skill position. i'm pretty sure that if they had a walter payton right now, people would be more interested in them.

uh oh... ramirez has a patient eye, not a great physique, questionable glove and is brown... @thekapman is gonna hate this guy.

i was a Man U fan for a few years just because of him. i loved when he kung fu kicked that racist crystal palace supporter. every sport needs more of that type of fun, stars attacking hateful bigots.

i'd be thrilled to death if he ended up as good as shane victorino.

good Lord, al davis looks like that thing from tales from the crypt.

"As a competitor my entire life this is the hardest decision that I've ever faced, but it's not fair to me, my family or the Kansas City Royals that I attempt to pitch anymore. I came into this game as a starting pitcher and unfortunately my health, more accurately, my shoulder, has deteriorated to the point where surgery would be the only option and at this stage of my life I would prefer to call it a career rather than to attempt to pitch in relief for the final year of my contract." That's Meche statement... I bet MLBPA will file something saying Meche should get some of that $12 mil cuz of injury-related issues or some type of excuse... I mean isn't that how Albert Belle was getting his money even though he was retired cuz of his injury? I mean Bobby Bonilla this year is getting paid by the Mets every year for the next 25 years (by buying out last year of his contract). I mean that contract was guaranteed, but retiring void that contract somehow? I just can't see how the owner will get to keep that $12 mil to himself... albert belle was forced to retire because he had a degenerative hip that was only going to get worse. bobby bonilla has nothing to do with this; the mets decided to pay him later rather than pay him at the time the money was due (and bonilla agreed because it was a sweet deal for him). he didn't just walk away, the mets struck a deal with him that made him go away. meche has the option to get surgery and attempt to come back and pitch some more; he is choosing not to do that.

lol

what the crap is the MLBPA going to do? file a grievance of non-payment of a player who voluntarily decided to stop playing? force him at gunpoint to play another year?