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That's the thing the NFL knows the Jags and Titans have to get one national TV game so they schedule them against each other. How the Browns got two national TV games is mind boggling though. The game's gonna be a sloppy mess since it's supposed to rain all throughout the game tonight but I think they game will be better to watch than a Weeden or Cassel-led Cowboys team. But yeah a Jaguars game and a Titans game will never be interesting to the casual fan. That said the game will be interesting to fantasy fans as I'm sure The Allens (Hurns/Robinson) are on enough fantasy teams to make people care The Browns fanbase dwarfs most teams fanbases, so it isn't that big of a surprise to put them on natnional television. I don't know if they still are, but for a good part of the season more Browns jerseys were sold than any other team. They aren't good, but their following is huge.

It's so rare to find someone that has never seen the films, that I am legitimately looking forward to your take on each one. Empire Strikes Back is the bomb, loved every bit of it. I knew the ending (who doesn't?) but that took nothing away from it. Will probably have to watch it again to clarify but it enters the list of my favourite films ever. Would most people share this view? Now, do i follow on to episode II like 'machete order' says? Empire Strikes Back is a movie I've seen probably 100 times, and I'm always surprised about how damn good it is. It is the perfect 2nd act. My biggest problem with movies these days is that the stakes are never high enough, Empire Strikes Back raises the stakes of the Star Wars franchise higher than any other movie I've ever seen. A New Hope ended with a huge triumph, you felt like the Rebel Alliance had it made. Empire Strikes Back smacks the shit out of the Rebels and leaves them laying face down in the gutter, half dead, and bleeding from the mouth.

I have no idea how it is legal to charge processing fees for things that don't require any processing. I went to a baseball game, and bought the cheapest ticket available online. The processing fee was more than 50% of the price, but if you go to the stadium and buy a ticket you don't pay a processing fee. They don't charge you a processing fee when they actually have to pay someone to process your ticket purchase. They make you pay a processing fee when you use their automated system that saves them from paying an employee. That is the dumbest thing I've ever heard in my life. Ticketmaster is a huge scam, and I'm surprised they haven't gone out of business. That is the definition of price gouging.

It is Dana White's job to make people feel like they are watching a once in a lifetime event. He is trying to get as many people as possible buy his product. His job description should be delusional, shameless, hype beyond any reasonable justification monger. It is what he does. He was bitter, because he spent years telling people that Ronda Rousey is the best thing on two legs, now he has to figure out someone else to conduct his hype train. He's essentially Tony Shiavone calling every Nitro the biggest night in the history of the business. If you belive him, you are the sucker. You can complain that Dana White is a blowhard, but you should also know that the only reason his position exists is to be a blowhard. It is like being mad at a linebacker, because you don't think it's OK to tackle people.

Rousey is by no means a fraud when it comes to rational analysis of her skillset, but the pre-fight hype delivered by the UFC was extreme overkill with its anointment and deification of her as The Ravishing Chosen Once In A Lifetime Unstoppable Elite Athlete Who Could Beat ANY Fighter In Any Weight Class or Discipline. Combine that with the ridiculous media blitz (all the talk show appearances, discussion of a Hollywood biopic, her announcement as starring in the Road House remake), which resulted in a bit of overexposure that was bound to annoy a fair share of people, we're now seeing a reaction against that. I changed majors in college, after starting late to begin with, so I was in entry level classes with freshman when I was about 25. I was in a class about media criticism and about halfway through the lecture a girl raised her hand and asked, "So what you are saying is, that there is no truth in advertising?" She asked it like she was surprised that people were lying to her, and the professor damn near shit himself. He looked at this poor, impressionable, 18 year old like she had just asked him to drop his pants so she could see if he was circumsized. He couldn't believe anyone could possibly be that naive. If you believe anything a fight promotion says about their fighter, you are dumber than that poor girl, and you kind of deserve to be disappointed.

My favorite Larry Homes fight took place in a parking lot.

People carrying on like either Holm is David killing Goliath or Ronda Rousey was exposed are both wrong. Holly Holm is a really good fighter, who beat Ronda Rousey by using her superior boxing to the fullest extent possible. Rousey couldn't box with her, and she lost. Holm wasn't David, she was another giant who wasn't as famous, and didn't have a super cool name like Goliath. Ronda wasn't exposed as a fraud either. She is insanely good at what she does, Holm didn't allow her to do what she does. I think this is an example of people's ignorance when it comes to MMA. Everyone loses, because everyone has a weakness. Chael Sonnen almost beat the best fighter of all time, because his wrestling was better. Chael Sonnen has never beat anyone who was in their prime, but he came as close to beating Anderson Silva as anyone had ever come in the UFC. Silva wasn't exposed, he fought someone who was really good in an area he was average. That is the sport, sometimes you have to fight someone who is better than you at something, it doesn't mean you are a fraud.

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So the best baseball players of my lifetime are Barry Bonds, A-Rod, Ken Griffey Jr., and Roger Clemens. Griffey is probably the only one who will get in the hall of fame, and that is why we can't have nice things.

You clearly don't understand how things like this work. There was some controversy about a Jay-Z/Beyonce tour a couple of years ago, because the tickets were priced so high. I believe all of those shows sold out. The price point for a ticket is generally the highest price they can charge, but still sell out. If the Dixie Chicks are your favorite band, and they may never go on tour again, odds are people are going to pay those prices. I wanted to go to the Atlanta Outkast show that finished off their last(hopefully not final) tour. The tickets were reasonable, but they were also gone as soon as they went on sale. They could have charged triple, and I think they'd have sold out just as quickly. They are a lot of people's favorite rap group, and they don't tour often. They could have charged any damn thing.

For me, its that the CTE issue has been raised and you see guys walking with canes has elevated my personal awareness. Not saying its not a damn dangerous game and people get hurt, but knowing that and seeing the results more and more, it takes the "romance" out of a guy staying too long. . . . . and with Manning specifically its not like this is the first time its been mentioned. Especially since he admits to not having feeling in parts of his fingers. I guess, but every single player in the NFL is getting hit in the head over and over again. Who is the Bronco's starting left guard? That guy is in far more danger than Peyton Manning when it comes to CTE. Manning is an old ass quarterback, who has been terrible this season, he isn't an invalid. He isn't in any more danger than anyone else.

I like how Peyton Manning playing football is morally wrong, like all those other dudes who are shortening their lives is fine and dandy. There have been two lacerated kidneys this season, and no one blinked an eye. Peyton Manning tears a plantar fascia, and he's going to die on the field.

I'm pretty sure that would be illegal. If he wants to play and someone wants to pay him, the NFL can't tell him no. If all the teams get together and decide to not sign him, that is collusion. This has nothing to do with ethics, and everything to do with supply and demand. His skills are in demand, and he's willing to supply them. That is how the economy works.

Serra GSP is #1 until some other journeyman fighter beats the best fighter on the planet by 1st round knockout. He won his titleshot on a reality show. In the rematch GSP beat his ass like he stole something...because he stole something. If they fought 1,000 times, I don't see Serra winning twice. He took full advantage of the only opportunity he'd ever have to be a champion, and beat someone who was clearly better than him in every way. Holm beat the hell out of someone who she is clearly a better boxer than, this isn't the same.

I can base this on my English speaking, viewing from afar, non-informed, observations, but isn't Marufuji one of those guys that New Japan inexplicably loves? Any time I've seen him wrestle in New Japan, he's seemingly been put over higher than any other outisder I remember. I'd probably rather have Shiozaki in New Japan, because I think he's a better wrestler, but Marufuji would probably be really good in New Japan. They need some fresh matches, and for better or worse Marufuji wrestles a fairly unique style. It could be fun to see how he could shake things up going into next year.

I think the story of this match was what happens when one fighter has a gameplan and the other doesn't. The story of every other Rousey fight was her opponent trying to match her aggression and getting steamrolled. Holm's coaches basically did the exact opposite. They had her back all the way up, and stay as far away as possible, and used Rousey's aggression against her. Rousey had no idea what to do. Her footwork was terrible, she had no idea how to cut the cage off when Holm was moving away. Her head movement was non existent and Holm was able to locate her chin every time she moved into range. When Rousey went back to her corner, her coaches told her she was doing great and Hom had "nothing, but that left hand." That left hand was battering her like a piece of fried chicken, and they didn't think it was a big deal. There was some discussion in the 30 for 30 thread about whether or not Tyson could have ever beat Holyfield. Tyson's fighting style was similar to Rousey in the sense that both needed to find a way to fight in the proverbial phone booth. Tyson, especially young Tyson, had incredible head movement and footwork that allowed him to get inside without taking too much punishment. Rousey's head movement and footwork was so terrible, that I have no idea how she improves enough in time to win a rematch. She won't ever beat Holm if she just walks straight in with a stationary chin like she did the other night. Holm doesn't have to be Floyd Mayweather(I don't think we'll be talking about that any more) defensively, she just has to move away and let Rousey walk right into her left hand. That was a masterful fight from Holm and her trainers, and a huge debacle for Ronda Rousey and her trainers.

So did R. Kelly

This is such a strange reaction to someone who was the first quarterback taken in the NFL draft based purely on the fact that he was so damn likeable.

I think the general success of George Foreman and Larry Holmes' comebacks encouraged a lot of fighters that they "still had it". Nobody remembers Joe Frazier fighting Jumbo Cummings. The 90s heavyweight scene is a good reminder at how far boxing had regressed. Larry Holmes was a legitimate top-10 all-time heavyweight, and after a few tuneup fights he faced a prime juiced-to-the-gills Holyfield at the age of 43 and made the young lion look like crap. Larry Holmes could ugly up a fight with anyone. At that point in his career, all he really had was that jab, and it gave a lot of guys fits. I remember going to our neighborhood fight parties(I lived in a neighborhood where just about all of the adults had done some boxing) and being bored out of my mind watching him win fights while out ever throwing his right hand. All the old dudes were trying to tell me and my friends how Holmes was teaching these young boys a lesson, but man those fights were ugly.

My best Eddy memory was when me and my best friend bought tickets to Raw, only for there to be a snow storm the day of the show. The snow was bad enough that Metro shut down, and we'd have to drive into DC in order to get to the show. We were huge wrestling fans, therefore we got into my friends Hyundai Accent and decided to drive to the Verizon Center. We spun out, full 360 degrees, three different times, but we made it to the show. We got there and the arena was next to empty, so they moved us down to the floor. That Raw was the Raw where Eddy Guerrero won the battle royal that got him the title shot against Brock Lesnar at No Way Out. After the show, Eddy walked down the aisle shook all of our hands and thanked us for braving the weather and coming to the show. I was a huge fan of Eddy before that, but that moment made me feel better about being a wrestling fan than any other moment in my life. R.I.P. Eddy, I'll never forget the day you made me feel like risking my life to see you wrestle was 100% worth it.

Billy Gunn is someone even wrestlers think is huge though. He just doesn't come off like it on TV for some reason. I was listening to an Austin podcast with Kevin Nash, who is an incredibly large human being, and he was describing how him and Sean Waltman became friends. Apparently Mr. Perfect pulled a rib on Waltman and then convinced him it was the Smoking Gunns who did it. Waltman then put superglue in their cowboy hats, and hilarity ensued. Nash was saying, I had to respect someone Waltman's size fucking with people the Smoking Gunn's size. He even said something to the effect of, "when Billy Gunn walks up on you, you don't realize just how big he is until he's right in front of you." He said it like, of all guys in the locker room to fuck with based purely on size, Billy Gunn is one of the last people you'd want a problem with.

This has more to do with you than with him though. We can't just make up consequences based on what random message board posters think. He went through the courts, and his employers disipline protocols, and he's allowed to play. The entire world could think he doesn't deserve to play, but thankfully that isn't how decisions are made. There is a process. The process is imperfect, but once someone goes through the process it is over. We can't throw out the process because some asshole still has a fun job at the end.

The thing I think he lost the most was the basic boxing fundamentals. When he was young his footwork and head movement were phenomenal. He was an incredible athlete who cared about boxing much more than we probably give him credit for. With that said, some people, Holyfield included, have concrete chins. Holyfield was knocked silly by plenty of people, but he's only been finished twice. He was one of those guys who could just stand there and take punishment despite the fact that he should have been finished. Do you watch MMA? If not, you should watch this fight between Mirko Cro Cop and Mark Hunt. Cro Cop was braining people with high kicks for a few years, and it seemed like he could knock out anyone. Mark Hunt stood in front of Cro Cop and took all of those head kicks like they were nothing. Some dudes just won't go away. Holyfield was one of those dudes who wouldn't go away.

I'm not taking it this far. What Hardy did was reprehensible. He's been punished in every, possible, legal way. They had to walk backAfter that all you have are bad feelings about him, which are understandable. You don't have to like him, or anything he does. That doesn't mean that he shouldn't be allowed to do his job.

This isn't about people getting away with things. This is about people continuing to work after they've been punished. I just think people should be able to continue making a living after they've paid the price for what they've done. I don't really even see why that is controversial. Greg Hardy is a professional football player, that is his job. It is what he is most qualified to do. He should be allowed to do it, because he has been punished as severely as he could legally be punished. That is not getting away with anything, that is the exact opposite.