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Super Bowl Sunday was the one of the worst sports experiences of my life and for more reasons that any have stated here.
My big difference than most is that I am a Falcons fan(since I was a kid) and also a Pats fan. Been a NE fan since 2000. I lived and died with the Pats winning the SB's and losing them. But, the Falcons are still my home team, so I was rooting for them. And the Pats have multiple SB's and the Falcons none.
So, it seemed like a fun SB. My Falcons get their first SB trophy or Brady gets his fifth. My one hope was that it was a good game and no one was a goat at the end(miss an easy FG, drop a winning TD pass, etc.)
But, who could have seen that coming...25 point and blow it.....Noooooo!!, are you serious?!?!?
There are three types of losses...
1. The other team is just better...the Falcons lost to Denver in the SB in the 90's. They were the better team. I was disappointed, but tipped my hat to them and was over it quickly.
2. You are supposed to win and lose. This is crushing. The Pats lost twice to NY and in nauseating ways.
3. You have a big lead and blow it. The worst. It can be haunting. The Red Sox, Yankees, Braves and Golden State have experienced this in Championships Series and it lingers for a long time.
It's the 3rd quarter and the Falcons have a 28-3 lead. There are four things that have to happen for the Falcons to lose.
1. The Pats have to play good.
2. The Falcons have to play bad.
3. There has to be a miracle catch.
4. And the Falcons have to be stupid.
With that 28-3 lead, the Falcons run the ball only four times the rest of the game? Really? Even with the Pats finally scoring a TD and FG with under 10 minutes to go...the Falcons had the ball with a 28-12 lead. Here is where the stupid starts...
With third down and one to go on about the 40, they opt to pass it. The RB misses his block and Ryan gets sacked and fumbles. What were they thinking? Run the ball, if you don't get it, kick it and they have to go the length of the field twice with under 8 minutes left. So the Pats score.
To the Falcons credit, they moved the ball and Julio Jones makes an incredible catch that at the time seemed to save the SB for the Falcons. With first down at the 22 with 4 minutes left, run the ball three times and run the clock down or make the Pats use their time outs. Then, kick a FG. In these scenarios, the Falcons lead by 11 with about 2:30 left and the Pats have two timeouts left or there is about 3:30 left and the Pats have no timeouts. I really like my chances.
But, nooo, the Falcons have to pass three times, get sacked, get a penalty and an incompletion. I have yet to hear the Head Coach or the Offensive Co. explain this, but I heard Shanahan said he liked their matchups. What? Who cares about your matchups. Run the ball, win the game. It's called strategy.
I think Shanahan became overly arrogant about his offense. Yep, best the in the league. But, he played the last quarter like we needed to be passing a lot. We didn't.
I haven't seen arrogance that bad since the Clinton campaign decided to hardly run in Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. And it lead to a crushing defeat as did this one.
Coaches always tell players to think and play smart. You hate it when a defensive player makes a late hit to keep a drive going when the defense has made a stop. So, here we have a coach not being smart.
And yep, the Pats get their miracle play and win the game.
I cut the game off just as soon as the Pats won. Even though I like them, I couldn't stand to watch the celebration. The announcers were going to make this all about Brady and Belicheck, when in reality, this was all about the Falcons blowing the biggest lead in SB history.
Our state of Georgia is upset and in mourning this week.
We had the Super Bowl trophy in our hands and it was snatched away in the most mind numbing way ever.
Good grief.
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On 2/4/2017 at 7:52 PM, Fireball said:
Oops I don't know why I typed Sophie.
That was Dorothy's mother's name in Leverage.
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I like the look of the show. I like Dorothy. Most of the rest of the characters are uneven. The plot is average.
But, the biggest problem I see with this show is that there is almost no humor.
Oz is a dark world filled with magic and mostly misery. It doesn't seem any different to me that some backwards country in the Middle East.
I'm hanging with it for now because I want to see where it goes, but it's not the most compelling show.
Follow the yellow brick road indeed....more like follow the humorless characters.
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On 1/5/2017 at 8:44 PM, bilgistic said:
Yeah, I don't know. I'll probably record it and watch Shark Tank. As a people, aren't we tired of The Wizard of Oz? Literally just last night, It's Always Sunny riffed on it (well, The Wiz).
Wizard of Oz ripoffs, maybe. The Wizard of Oz, never.
On 1/7/2017 at 10:18 AM, CooperTV said:The Wizard didn't impress me at all so far, and I like Vincent D'Onofrio as an actor.
He is really great in Daredevil, which is a fantastic show. I barely recognized him in this and he looked bored.
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Definitely one of the strangest shows I ever watched. Basically the show was...
...a girl dreams of the baby she doesn't have and then discovers she did have and could find and save him in her dreams.
A lot of disjointed action ensues. A lot of the character's motivations were never really explained. I'm not even sure after the last episode who were the bad guys and good guys.
I feel like I just dreamed it.
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I think all the actors are doing a great job.
Laugh all the time.
Can't believe some of you don't think this is funny.
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I couldn't believe how much I liked it.
I thought it was hysterical. Something new.
Trailer park trash against the snooty rich.
I like how the show doesn't pull any punches on either characterization.
My favorite new show.
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On 11/18/2016 at 11:40 PM, Zuzubee said:
What's next? How about we all start getting smart and deal with facts. On both sides. It's not hard to do. Our discourse has been dumbed down by fake news sites. See it all the time on my feeds. Let's all get smart and not just believe what we want to. This is real, folks! People will be hurt or die if we don't get with it. We are not a stupid country, I hope.
Feeling very frustrated. We are where are due to a tremendous amount of disinformation .
Garbage in garbage out. And here we are.
Have to totally agree. The leftwing elite liberal media of ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC have done a great disservice to our country with their propaganda of the Democrat Party.
Doubt they are going to change though.
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I liked the season more than most, but the overdone violence in ep one was a real turnoff and I think that is biggest reason for the ratings drop off.
My other big complaint is that the gang should have been prepared with all their guns when Negan and the Saviors first came to Alexandria and had it out then. They had the advantage with the walls and could have taken out a lot of them and maybe would have won. Better that than being slaves to them. Of course, this was done for a plot contrivance and is sloppy writing. The group we know would never have gave up that quick.
Carl not shooting Negan was silly too. Why hold back? More plot twisting. Rosita and the one bullet? More dumbness.
And now we have the gang where they should have been many episodes ago. Back to taking care of business.
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On 12/12/2016 at 3:21 AM, spiderpig said:
Believe it or not, I didn't notice a Boots character until reading this board. Must've been refilling my wineglass. Will have to rewind and keep an eye out. (Sorry, Kurl.)
It happened at least once during the ep, but check it out after the credits. They did the same thing with Morgan one season.
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6 hours ago, Gobi said:
For those who really hate Negan, I recommend watching the beginning of the Batman v. Superman movie. JDM gets shot and killed, and only gets to say one word.
Yep, plays Bruce Wayne's father. And guess who played his mother? Maggie, or Lauren Cohen.
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On 11/27/2016 at 10:18 PM, JackONeill said:
I reckon that's where Rick will happen "to find" some guns. But will he ask?
Seems a little late. If he was going to use guns, he had plenty and let Neegan take all of them.
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On 11/25/2016 at 5:29 PM, Ceindreadh said:
Curious. When was the last time the KKK supported or endorsed somebody for a non-racist reason?
How would you know why a group supports someone?
And is the support of BLM racist?
On 11/26/2016 at 7:10 AM, slf said:Black Lives Matter isn't an extremist group. And even if it were, how would that makes Dems racist when racism doesn't factor into the BLM movement?
You must have forgot the chanting BLM group..."burn them like bacon" about white cops. Dems supported them.
Trump doesn't support any racist groups.
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On 11/25/2016 at 7:33 PM, windsprints said:
He will likely never address the fact that he is not the people's choice but the gap keeps widening:
He ran on the Electoral college, not the popular vote. If he had, you don't know that he wouldn't have won the popular vote.
In other news, Hillary hasn't addressed losing the most states and the most counties.
On 11/25/2016 at 8:07 PM, ruby24 said:God, those numbers. This seems so, so wrong every time I look at it. What kind of democracy are we if the person who gets 2 million LESS votes gets handed the presidency anyway?
I wish there was SOME sort of contingency plan in the Constitution for a situation like this, where the gap was this dramatic. Something that said, in the case of a million more votes given to the candidate who lost the EC then...I don't know, some sort of run-off must take place.
For the millionth time, if they had run on the popular vote, they would have run a different campaign.
You don't have rules and then when you lose, decide you don't like those rules.
In the 1960 World Series the Yankees outscored the Pirates by double, but lost 4 games to 3.
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2 minutes ago, Pixel said:
I don't think anyone is claiming illegal voting happened. I think they are investigating possible hacking into the electronic machines. There is very little evidence of any actual voter fraud historically at all, but tampering with computers? That's rampant in every industry and throughout the world. Voting machines are not immune.
Well, first it was paper ballots are a problem, then it was chads, now it's computers.
It seems to only be a problem when Dems lose.
And do you think any illegals voted? And how many?
1 minute ago, Pixel said:1) Nobody is FOR abortion. Nobody is just willy nilly having abortions for the fun of it or for convenience. Also, abortion accounts for only 3% of what Planned Parenthood does. 97% is women's health issues. Your insistence on trying to paint these issues with a broad brush and closed mind makes it obvious that trying to argue with you is an exercise in futility.
Your characterization is a broad brush. If you wants abortions legal, then you are for it. And some do have them for convenience.
Never said anything about the percentage of PP services offered.
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3 minutes ago, theredhead77 said:
Great, then don't have an abortion (if you're female). If you're male you shouldn't have sex with any woman who shares a different view. Because it's not you decision at all.
And since you believe the unborn are worth saving, what do you do to ensure the abused children, the children in foster care, the loved but hungry children, the loved but homeless children are taken care of? Or does your belief end once it's no longer a fetus and now a legal baby.
The people that have babies are responsible for them. I take responsibility for the one's I have.
I think it's called personal responsibility.
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5 minutes ago, theredhead77 said:
If you can't do more than call people who are protesting crybabies perhaps you should take a high school or community college Civics or Government class to learn how things are supposed to work and more about these protections.
Well, we have colleges having therapy dogs, coloring, screaming sessions and playdoh for those unable to accept the outcome of the election.
Sounds like crybabies to me.
And the protests were staged and not organic.
3 minutes ago, Pixel said:Well, that's just your opinion, which you are entitled to but I am not required to share, particularly since it is a blanket statement that doesn't begin to cover the complexity of family planning, health, and social issues. The fact is that the pill has nothing to do with the unborn. It prevents a pregnancy from happening, among treating other non-pregnancy related hormonal issues for women.
As was your opinion to be for abortion.
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2 minutes ago, theredhead77 said:
We are also utilizing the protections already written into the law to ensure that every vote was counted and demand protections (again that are written into the law) be enacted.
Didn't the liberal news media and liberals laugh at the thought that illegal voting went on and challenging the outcome was ludicrous?
Now that they lost, liberals want to protest and challenge the results.
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12 minutes ago, Pixel said:
Um, no. Not without a prescription. Many people cannot afford a visit to a doctor because they don't have insurance. This, among many other reasons, is why Planned Parenthood is so important and worth saving.
I think the unborn are worth saving. Not sure PP shares that opinion.
1 minute ago, theredhead77 said:Are we upset that a politically inexperienced demagogue and his Christian Extremist Vice President are shaping up to take America right back to the 60s by appointing anti-choice SCOTUS justices and white supremacists to his cabinet? Damn straight. Are we crying? Nope. We are using our First Amendment right to speak out against this. To voice our opinions (which are as valid as yours) and use actual facts (that are not opinions) to defend our points.
Nope, that's all opinions.
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On 11/18/2016 at 9:58 PM, Duke Silver said:
You hit on something here... Trump supporters I encounter, online & IRL are so damn defensive from the outset, like a child who knows they got caught doing something wrong. It's striking to me how pretty much all Trump supporters/surrogates I've ever seen on various network shows are angry, belligerent fucks who sneer at everything.
Even now, after victory...they follow the leader (see: the news that Trump is planning a "victory tour" of the states he won). It's reality tv....or maybe more apropos: like an athlete dancing in front of a vanquished opponent. It's bizarre, and I think says something about the psychology of these people. I'm not a pysch expert by a longshot, so what it says, I'm not sure of the clinical way to describe it.
I've only seen plenty of angry libs, antagonistic libs, hateful libs and violent liberal protests.
Mostly just crybabies because they lost the election.
17 hours ago, theredhead77 said:You can't get the Pill without a prescription or an IUD or things beyond condoms (or foam and the like) without a doctor. If you don't have insurance it's expensive. Cheaper than a baby, but still expensive. Condom's aren't 100%. The Pill isn't just for birth control.
How do you feel about Viagra being covered by insurance (including insurance supplemented by the government)? After all, anyone can order a penis pump (oh, some of which are covered by insurance). Does the government really need to provide Viagra and penis pumps? And why?
So people are so pathetic they can't go to the doctor. Really?
Insurance companies can cover whatever they want. What gov't insurance are you talking about?
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On 11/19/2016 at 11:08 AM, DollEyes said:
Not necessarily. Hillary probably had the same opposition research about Sanders that the Republicans did, but she chose not to use it because Sanders wasn't the nominee; otoh, knowing Trump, his temperament, the company he keeps, his fan base and his/their allergic reaction to sanity, if Sanders was the nominee, chances are Trump not only wouldn't have shown such restraint, he would have crushed Sanders and thought nothing of it.
I respectfully disagree. For one thing, while I agree that the Democratic party is in trouble, the Republican party has problems of its own. True, they may be the majority for now, but that also means that when things go wrong, which they inevitably will, it's on them. As for racism, it's true there are a few extremists in Black Lives Matter, but the vast majority I've seen have been respectful and peaceful. Trump campaigned and won-the Electoral College, anyway-based on exploiting peoples' fears and scapegoating innocent people based on their color and/or their religion because of them and it has gotten even worse since the election, with numerous reports about Muslim women having their hijabs ripped off, Black students being taunted with racist hate speech and Latino children being bullied by their White classmates with "Build that wall!", to literally name a few, but I don't see any of the so-called "non-racist" Republicans complaining too much, if at all, about those incidents, except for Trump's lukewarm response on 60 Minutes: "Don't do it," which was neither constructive, comforting nor Presidential. That some of Trump's supporters voted for President Obama at least once makes their ignorance even worse.
Because Trump's campaign/ Electoral victory has not only encouraged hate, it's weaponized it, it's no wonder that people of all ages are literally taking to the streets because of it. I say, to quote NJ senator Cory Booker, "Thank God for the protesters." Not the idiots who are vandalizing property; I'm talking about the vast majority who are peacefully exercising their First Amendment rights. Because of Trump, his rhetoric and his minions, these people are legitimately scared for their families, their freedom and their lives. If it wasn't for the constant hate-mongering of Trump and his ilk pandering to the lowest common denominator, these people probably wouldn't be protesting in the first place. The Democrats may have their faults, but the Republicans need to clean their own house before they criticize ours.
Trump won the election by standing up to libs, the elite media and political correctness. The racism charge would have been leveled any of our candidates and is a liberal playbook maneuver always used.
And the incidents of so-called bullying by conservatives are isolated and mostly phony. While pre-arranged liberal protests are violent and viciously divisive and vulgar.
And what are they protesting and what do they hope to achieve? A legal election that they lost. Nothing will come of it, so they have no point other than being crybabies.
And the so-called hatemongering pales in comparison to the hateful comments I have seen against Trump and his supporters.
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On 11/18/2016 at 6:55 PM, Ceindreadh said:
I'm sure you don't believe you're a racist. Personally though, I tend to use the KKK as a racism detector. If they say something is good, then more than likely it's racist. So maybe you and Trump and all his supporters aren't actually racist, but guess what, you're racist enough for one of the most racist organisations in your country so it amounts to pretty much the same thing.
Belief is not necessary. I knew who I am. You don't.
And one can find all kinds of extremist groups who support the Dems. BLM matter did. Does that make all Dems racist?
And a group may support someone for any reason which may be unrelated to your point.
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On 11/18/2016 at 8:56 PM, slf said:
And what did the emails show?
That her and cohorts knew those emails were a problem and were looking for ways to get rid of them.
On 11/9/2016 at 10:19 PM, Constantinople said:Small states are largely ignored anyway since few are swing states. New Hampshire might be the the only one, and thanks to holding the first primary every 4 years, it already gets enough attention.
That's the point. NH, Maine, Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico and Utah were all in the conversation. In a popular vote, they would never be mentioned. Why deny them their time in the limelight and give all power to the big states?
On 11/14/2016 at 1:09 PM, crayon78 said:You know what else would help with that? Continued access to birth control.
I think anyone can go to any drugstore or Walmart and get all the birth control they want.
Does the gov't really need to provide this and why?
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On 11/18/2016 at 10:45 PM, slf said:
How can you be sure? And in what way are they manufactured?
They all started the next day in only 5 or 6 big cities. Obviously planned and organized. Common sense.
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Enjoyed it enough to continue watching. The three time jumps was a little hard to follow. It reminds of another American show from last year that seems to be the same plot.
It's funny to see the Governor, with an English accent, with Lydia from Breaking Bad. The ironic thing is that I just got through watching the BB finale with a friend who had never seen it.