Tangent Thread - Lifetime Edition

Ha. Not sure I've seen perfectly civil albeit off topic discussion moved from a shed topic to a tangent thread before. I guess we weren't swearing or calling people names enough. Pick up your game f#ckers  :lol:

 
JJ Husker said:
Ha. Not sure I've seen perfectly civil albeit off topic discussion moved from a shed topic to a tangent thread before. I guess we weren't swearing or calling people names enough. Pick up your game f#ckers  :lol:
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I didn't even realize it got moved!

Could you imagine if someone complained that it was off topic in the woodshed?  Hahaha

 
teachercd said:
I didn't even realize it got moved!

Could you imagine if someone complained that it was off topic in the woodshed?  Hahaha
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Hey now, just because it's the Shed doesn't mean someone can't take a thread off topic.  :cop:

I think we're generally pretty lax about tangents happening in most of these threads, but a full on discussion about smoking pizzas in a thread reserved for P&R douschebaggery IS a little too off topic, and it was more than a page of posts.

SO TAKE THAT TEACH.

 
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Enhance said:
Hey now, just because it's the Shed doesn't mean someone can't take a thread off topic.  :cop:

I think we're generally pretty lax about tangents happening in most of these threads, but a full on discussion about smoking pizzas in a thread reserved for P&R douschebaggery IS a little too off topic, and it was more than a page of posts.

SO TAKE THAT TEACH.
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Ha!

It was a lot of posts!  Ha

 
Hilltop said:
If you want to live somewhere that people are told what and when to do something throughout every aspect of their lives, feel free to move to communist country.    
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I'm honestly trying to find a modern day Republican who is not a hypocrite.  They always play the "Constitution" card until they don't. Maybe you're that 1% who isn't a hypocrite..  So you're ok with gay marriage, flag burning, a women's right to her body, and the right to protest, right?

 
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Hilltop said:
I am paying attention, I just have a very different opinion.  I believe a good portion of our media is being paid to narrate a message a certain way from multiple interests.  I believe the virus is bad but that we as a society are going to have to learn to live with it.  I believe we need to move forward before our economy gets to a point it can't.  I believe our societies mental health is going downhill quickly.  Imo, this will have a larger effect than the virus will on our overall population.  I believe sports, work, and every day life returning would go a long ways towards fixing those problems.  Football, and sports in general, returning would mean more to this country than many people understand imo.    
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You want to move forward? Then be responsible. Wear masks. Isolate. Test, test, test. Contract trace. Dedicate resources to isolating and containing this disease. We haven't done that. At all. Many, many, many other nations with less resources than America have done that, and they're recovering.  We aren't recovering, and in fact we're going backwards.

The truth?  There won't be football this fall, and it's not because of "the party trying to get into the White House." It's because the guy in the White House is a buffoon, propped up by other buffoons, and they've completely screwed this up.  They didn't listen to experts. They didn't have a plan at all.  All that isolating and "closing down" we just did was for nothing. "Opening up" was a huge, huge mistake. People not wearing masks is a huge, huge mistake.

Today the European Union banned travelers from America. The United States accounts for one quarter of all known positive COVID cases. We account for one quarter of all known COVID deaths - and there's great evidence that our deaths are underreported.

It is not surprising, however, to hear people continually calling for the US to move forward, to continue on, to have sports for entertainment of all things, because the most-watched cable "news" network has been pumping that into peoples' ears for months. At first they called it a hoax, then they claimed it was a liberal conspiracy, and now they're declaring Mission Accomplished, and people are just eating it up.

 
CyHawk said:
I am all for racial equality in sports. Lets start now.

In the 2019 census, 60% of the population is white, 18% hispanic, 15% black, and 6% asian (1% other)

Out of the 85 football scholarships (NCAA) or roster spots (NFL) available, equality means that:

    51 will go to white people

    15 will go to Hispanics

    13 will go to blacks

    5 will go to Asians

    1 will be something else

In the NFL and College, the starting offense and defense there will be:

   7 whites

   2 Hispanics

   2 Blacks

   Statistically, and to be fair, there may not be room for Asians or "others"

In college basketball and the NBA, of the 5 that are on the court at any given time

   3 will be white

   1 will be hispanic

   1 will be black

Do we really want equality?
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BigRedBuster said:
We have about two weeks till practice starts.

What the sports media needs to do is at that point, talk football.  I don't want to be into the second week in September and still talking about the COVID delay.  It happened.  It sucked. So much of it was stupid.  But...it happened.  Let's get over it and start talking about football the way it normally is...about players, schemes, potential starters, when the blackshirts are going to be handed out, what's happening with the teams on our schedules...etc.

I'm just so sick of all of this.  We need normal football reporting and talk.
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good point - I guess this should extend to everyday life as well.  Yes there is a virus and yes it is an issue.  We all have our opinions on how it should be handled - but for the love of god can everybody (mostly media) start focusing on every other aspect of our world.

 
GBRFAN said:
good point - I guess this should extend to everyday life as well.  Yes there is a virus and yes it is an issue.  We all have our opinions on how it should be handled - but for the love of god can everybody (mostly media) start focusing on every other aspect of our world.
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As many Americans die of coronavirus every two days as died in the 9/11 attacks. 

I'd say that's still pretty huge news.

 
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