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the kid
Trad climber
fayetteville, wv
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Topic Author's Original Post - Sep 12, 2010 - 08:54am PT
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Well i sure the hell am! since pre season began, i have been gearing up for week 1 and beyond..
My Raiders play the Titans today.. Hope Jason Campbell can make it happen this year..
Saints looked good this week- Farve looks 40, LT has something to prove this year..
My pick for the big game: Saints-Jets: Saints will win by 3 or more..
http://www.nfl.com/
Bring it folks..
Kurt (too short for basketball and too skinny for football, thats why i climb rocks) Smith
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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as a Patriots fan since 1961 I've got to say it's going to be an exciting season, already has been... and with Randy Moss' trade it can only get more exciting...
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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How sweet it was watching the UW Huskies quiet the Trojaneum Saturday!
I was pleasantly surprised that we were not accosted on the way out.
I guess the Trojan fans were resigned to their fate. I gotta say they
don't really make much noise there; the place is like a morgue compared to Husky Stadium.
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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No. Even I know that it's still baseball season, and then haw-kee starts.
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Delhi Dog
climber
Good Question...
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Dude we been watching it for awhile now...
Love Barca!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh wait...
you mean that other sport.
Never mind
DD
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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It's amusing that Kurt has it as "My Raiders". A triumph of modern marketing, that some believe that very highly paid, mercenary, professional athletes, other commercial products, and even businesses, are "ours" or "my". We're currently undergoing a marketing campaign, telling us to support "our" Canucks. What a crock!
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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I am tangentially rooting for the SF Giants in the playoffs... but I'm not that into it... I don't like negativity so I won't watch the Yankees though I hope the Rays take the ALCS, who knows...
so I'm done with baseball (which made the really bad decision to extend the season into October) they are the boys of summer not the fellows of fall or the guys of spring, after all. Admittedly, if the BoSox had made it I'd be watching... but they didn't and I'm not.
So it is onto Football, American Football, which will be over soon enough...
...there's no accounting for taste.
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salad
climber
Escondido
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im in a pool with 70 guys where we pick against the spread with confidence. took first last week for 100 bucks, and finished 4th this week. its early, but after week 4 im in first place over all.
as far my bets outside the pool, ive been lucky so far. ive hit 9 of 12 bets, and am 2 of 2 on parlays.
go chargers, go saints, and go reds. death to the phillies!!!
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philo
Trad climber
Somewhere halfway over the rainbow
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Aww Kid, you're a Raiders fan. When did you suffer the head injury?
Al Davis SuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuX!
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ydpl8s
Trad climber
Santa Monica, California
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Just between us Broncos, Chargers and Raiders fans....what's up with the friggin Chiefs? (Chefs)
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August West
Trad climber
Where the wind blows strange
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It's amusing that Kurt has it as "My Raiders". A triumph of modern marketing, that some believe that very highly paid, mercenary, professional athletes, other commercial products, and even businesses, are "ours" or "my". We're currently undergoing a marketing campaign, telling us to support "our" Canucks. What a crock!
Well if you think of football as vicarious warfare (which I think it is), wanting our team to pummel the other team into a pulp is perhaps better than looking for another jingoistic war.
KC, 16-0 baby!
well, maybe not.
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ydpl8s
Trad climber
Santa Monica, California
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KC 16-0 ha! I know only too well, last year Buncos start 6-0, then finish 2-8.......
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the kid
Trad climber
fayetteville, wv
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 8, 2010 - 01:31pm PT
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big monday night match up- jets v vikings..
gonna be a real good game..
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philo
Trad climber
Somewhere halfway over the rainbow
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Good because the Raiders are not playing? Or some other reason? he he
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JEleazarian
Trad climber
Fresno CA
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Well, it's good to know that you and I agree on something controversial, Kurt. I still have fond memories of the Raiders teams circa 1970, when they played an exhibition game each year at Memorial Stadium in Berkeley. The interaction between the typical Raiders fan and the typical Berkeley freak (I was both at that time) was something to behold!
That intersection still exists. When Marshawn Lynch was in his last season at Cal, someone asked him to name his favorite NFL team. He responded that he was from Oakland, so he liked the Raiders. The reporter then asked if he'd ever sat in the Black Hole. Lynch replied, "Look, I said I like the Raiders. I didn't say I was insane."
John
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Tung Gwok
Mountain climber
South Bend, Indiana
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Go Irish (They're pros too. Tuition, room, and board is over 50k).
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Fritz
Trad climber
Hagerman, ID
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Well! As long as we are talking college football:
How-bout them Boise State Broncos??
As a U. of Idaho grad, I used to hate Boise State football.
As a resident of a sparsely-populated state, with very little to be positive about:
I'm darn proud of "them Broncos."
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Yeah, how 'bout dem Broncos? What the heel they doin' ranked in the top 10
playin' in de minors? OK, I'll give 'em 8th or 9th if I'm feelin' generous.
Besides, I got a headache watchin' dat game with that blue field!
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Kalimon
Trad climber
Ridgway, CO
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Yo Kurt,
Nice to know that you are a fellow Raiders fan . . . I'm probably about 10 years older than you and was fortunate to witness some of the classic Biletnikoff, Branch, Casper, Davis, Guy, Matuszak, Toomay, Shell, Sistrunk, Stabler, Tatum, Upshaw, Villapiano . . . et al. action. The Raiders are not fully appreciated and comprehended in the modern football era. They have been a formidable entity, spanning most of football history . . . much has been forgotten by the modern NFL fan. May the Raiders rise again!
Cheers to The Kid!
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Tung Gwok
Mountain climber
South Bend, Indiana
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Kurt, Kalimon, et al,
I am a Chiefs fan from back in the day of the best rivalry in the history of pro football, bar none: Chiefs-Raiders.
Mike Garrett, Lenny Dawson, Otis Taylor (I wore his 89 jersey), Curly Culp, Jan Stenerud, on and on. And I lived in Wisconsin.
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