I need a new NFL team for whom to root!

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I know that loads of other teams are unloading players because of salary cap restraints, but dammit if the 9ers with their awful awful management are doing it in a way that guarantees another 5 years of "rebuilding." Sure, they got *something* for TO, but with Donahue probably in charge of the draft, even with super-talent-evaluator Walsh still on the staff, things are looking stupid.

I guess I'm looking for a disciplined running team and/or a hard defense, something like New England, but I'm wary about jumping onto that bandwagon (even though as a 9er fan, I bleed fairweather anyway).

― Leee the Forty Whiney (Leee), Saturday, 6 March 2004 01:01 (twenty-one years ago)

No Cowboys, no Packers, no Giants (sorry Tad -- Shockey is a dealbreaker).

― Leee the Whiney (Leee), Saturday, 6 March 2004 01:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Detroit Lions! Mooch! Actually we were trying to sign Ahmad Plummer but I think he wanted too much money. No thanks to Champ Bailey driving up the whole market.

Also I think we're trying to sign Tai Streets.

― Broheems (diamond), Saturday, 6 March 2004 01:05 (twenty-one years ago)

if you have no particular hometown allegiance, you practically have to root for the Packers. although that pick that Favre threw against Philly was so horrible as to question whether he had been paid to throw it.

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Saturday, 6 March 2004 01:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Support Jacksonville, make a boob out of yourself, cause a nipple of applause while you feel a right tit, take it to heart, bring the love of your team close to the bosom. Better still, make a clean breast of everything and follow a sport where there is more action and less commercials and time outs (how can you Americans stand it?).

Check out Rugby, Australian Rules, Gaelic Football. No poncy tights and helmets there matey and for an added bonus when the biggest game of the year rolls around you'll remember the champion team and not some fading celebrity trying to attact the attention of an all too easily shocked media away from her dodgy brother.

regards,

REB

PS - Oh sorry, I mean, root for the Miami Dolphins!

― Rik E Boy (Rik E Boy), Saturday, 6 March 2004 01:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Haha Lions are becoming the 9ers of the Midwest. I do like their uniforms!

xpost - sorry I can't deal with the Packers. I know that the smalltown thing is absolutely fab, but I still have too many bad memories of Cheesehead ownage from the late 90s.

― Leee the Whiney (Leee), Saturday, 6 March 2004 01:08 (twenty-one years ago)

follow a sport where there is more action and less commercials and time outs (how can you Americans stand it?)

well, i wish. several years ago on a foxsportsworld promotional weekend they showed a celtic-rangers match that was possibly the most riveting sports event i've ever seen. but i don't really watch enough tube to make that extra money worthwhile.

nothing really rivals the world cup, but on an annual basis i'll take the ncaa tournament and the nhl playoffs over anything...

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Saturday, 6 March 2004 01:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Pardon my considerable ignorance, but what is ncaa? I reckon nhl would be a good to go see live but spotting that flying puck is even harder than spotting a golf ball mid air on television.

As for the world game, it does have it's moments but the only time I want to see diving is at the Olympics. What Rivaldo (I think it was him) did against Turkey was unforgivable - not what you'd expect from a player representing the mighty Brazillians.

American sports fans could do worse than to embrace Australian Rules. A fast paced game with lots of scoring and high marking and the big hits of NFL.

regards,

REB

― Rik E Boy (Rik E Boy), Saturday, 6 March 2004 01:26 (twenty-one years ago)

NCAA = college basketball

― Leee the Whiney (Leee), Saturday, 6 March 2004 01:29 (twenty-one years ago)

I CURSE YOU UNTU YR 7TH GENERATION LEEEEEE

NCAA >>>>> NBA

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Saturday, 6 March 2004 01:36 (twenty-one years ago)

oh wait, i take that back

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Saturday, 6 March 2004 01:36 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm just drunk and defensive and such

and wow the NBA really does suck

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Saturday, 6 March 2004 01:37 (twenty-one years ago)

The Houston Texans. You've got a built-in excuse for when they lose!

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Saturday, 6 March 2004 01:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Montreal Machine.

― maypang (maypang), Saturday, 6 March 2004 01:41 (twenty-one years ago)

no Giants (sorry Tad -- Shockey is a dealbreaker).

but i'm more a jets fan! chad pennington IS the next joe montana, you know!!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Saturday, 6 March 2004 04:42 (twenty-one years ago)

you can't do this, you fool.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Saturday, 6 March 2004 04:43 (twenty-one years ago)

(and i'm phooey on the jints these days anyway ... almost to the point of switching [back] to the eagles)

― judasiscariotbär (llamasfur), Saturday, 6 March 2004 04:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Cheers Leeeeee

regards,

REB

― Rik E Boy (Rik E Boy), Sunday, 7 March 2004 08:42 (twenty-one years ago)

In Australia, football team roots you!

― ipsofacto (ipsofacto), Sunday, 7 March 2004 08:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Spoken like a true fan of the Tennessee TITans.

― Dickerson Pike (Dickerson Pike), Sunday, 7 March 2004 10:45 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.buckleshop.com/images/sfb150.jpg

This btw is a belt buckle. Now I can't decide if I need a garish Saints belt buckle or not--I'm getting season tickets this year and I figure I need some kind of asshole-ish thing to do at every game. I could be Obnoxious Belt Buckle Guy. We already have Saints Elvis and Saints Moses.

― adam (adam), Sunday, 7 March 2004 14:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Also as a Saints fan you get to ride an emotional roller coaster of perhaps-they-won't-embarrass-themselves vs oh-shit-they-did-it-again. Also you can relive last year's GREATEST NFL PLAY EVER IN THE HISTORY OF EVERYTHING EVER EVER EVER in the form of a 75-yard multi-lateral touchdown at the buzzer and then kill yourself at the missed extra point. I scared my dog when that shit went down 'cause I was jumping up and down and yelling like some kind of 6'4" drunken leprachaun. Then I wept bitterly.

― adam (adam), Sunday, 7 March 2004 14:25 (twenty-one years ago)

That was one truly one of the greatest things I've ever witnessed. Pity about the PAT though.

― Broheems (diamond), Monday, 8 March 2004 02:11 (twenty-one years ago)

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