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Sun Feb-07-10 10:03 PM
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So the Saints, the team with the pro-gay pro-choice player, won. Is it a sign from God? |
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Sun Feb-07-10 10:04 PM
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1. They chose their "signs" so we can choose ours! |
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Edited on Sun Feb-07-10 10:11 PM by Behind the Aegis
;) I say "who dat!"
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Sun Feb-07-10 10:06 PM
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3. off to the Greatest Page |
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THAT is a sign of SKITTLES :hi:
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Sun Feb-07-10 10:07 PM
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6. I can't believe I'm recommending a superbowl thread |
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instead of hiding it :blush:
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Sun Feb-07-10 10:07 PM
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7. At least as much as "The tornado totally skipped our house. Praise Jeebus!" |
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"A-course, it went'n smushed up the neighbors all to hell. But they wadn't prayin' hard 'nuff."
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Sun Feb-07-10 10:08 PM
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8. The Saints owner is a Repuke Supporter...reason number 12,456 not to mix politics and sports. |
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Sun Feb-07-10 10:10 PM
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12. It's never about the OWNERS at a time like this. |
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Edited on Sun Feb-07-10 10:11 PM by Ken Burch
Although that's actually a good thing about being a Green Bay Packers fan(which I'm not, but still.)
The Packers are a municipally-owned franchise.
That's right...Vince Lombardi and Bart Starr were working(whether they meant to be or not)for the glory of the socialist cause! (That's a fun thing to say to a Wisconsin Republican if you want to see her or his head explode through their cheese hat.)
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Sun Feb-07-10 10:11 PM
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14. I'm just trying to show that on both teams there are Republicans and Democrats. |
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Sun Feb-07-10 10:18 PM
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25. Are there any Democrats on the Colts? |
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Edited on Sun Feb-07-10 10:43 PM by Ken Burch
It's actually fairly unusual for athletes to have left-of-center politics(people like Kareem Abdul Jabar, Muhammad Ali, Dave Meggyesy(the only player ever cut from an NFL team because of his politics) and Sonny Sixkiller(the University of Washington quarterback who joined the rest of his team in delaying the opening of the second half of the 1972 Spring Alumni Game until the PA announcer read a team statement opposing the Vietnam War)have been the exception rather than the rule.
Remember how the GOP made sure Curt Schilling was out on the hustings for Dubbikins immediately after the 2004 Red Sox World Series victory in order to prevent Sox fan John Kerry from getting any bounce out of that event.
(edited because I realized I was probably going a bit too far about what Indianapolis is like).
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Sun Feb-07-10 10:11 PM
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16. True. But to me it was more about the city of New Orleans, a Dem city, badly |
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in need of some inspiration and hope. The fans there seem to be the best in the NFL and this win was for them.
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Sun Feb-07-10 10:15 PM
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Im happy for them because theyve had it rough. |
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But i could care less that they are a dem city. As a huge sports fan, i never mix it with my politics. God, one of my favorite figures in Football History, Joe Gibbs, spoke at the Republican Convention this year and is in love with God way too much. But he is still a legend to me for DC.
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Sun Feb-07-10 10:16 PM
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21. Indianapolis is a Dem city. ;) |
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Sun Feb-07-10 10:17 PM
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23. And Indiana is a Blue State. |
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Sun Feb-07-10 10:18 PM
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24. But were they hit by a hurricane and the entire city practically destroyed? |
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Sun Feb-07-10 10:21 PM
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26. But they're in Indiana. So it's a wash. ;) |
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Sun Feb-07-10 10:12 PM
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17. what team owner isn't though? |
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Sun Feb-07-10 10:30 PM
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and the owner of the Orioles is a major liberal as well.
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Sun Feb-07-10 10:12 PM
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18. The Dolts QB is also a repuke supporter. |
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The very one who threw a crucial fourth-quarter Pick Six to Tracy Porter -- also the hero of the Vikings game! -- to seal it for the WORLD CHAMPION NEW ORLEANS SAINTS!!!!!!!! :bounce:
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Sun Feb-07-10 10:39 PM
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37. The key points of this game will be remembered as |
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"The Kick...and The Pick!"
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Sun Feb-07-10 10:22 PM
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All I heard about was Dubya sitting in the owner's box at Cowboys Stadium. Two weeks ago, Fox showed Poppy and Babs in the owner's box at the Superdome, "guests of owner Tom Benson." You can't mix politics and sports.
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Sun Feb-07-10 10:08 PM
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9. Well they're owned by a right-winger. So... |
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Sun Feb-07-10 10:11 PM
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15. So are all the teams other than Green Bay. |
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Which is owned by the people of Green Bay.
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Sun Feb-07-10 10:15 PM
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New England is owned by Robert Kraft, who has given to Republicans - but mostly supports Democrats. The Steelers owner turned out to be a big Obama supporter. Arthur Blank of the Falcons is fairly Democratic. Jim Irsay of the Colts has given to Democrats, so hardly a right-winger. That's just off the top of my head.
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Sun Feb-07-10 10:22 PM
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28. OK...those were news to me. |
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I thought the Pats were still owned by the "Let's show 'em our Patriot Missiles" guy.
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Sun Feb-07-10 10:24 PM
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31. But you're right. Most NFL team owners are right-wingers. |
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Sun Feb-07-10 10:30 PM
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Which is why they're trying to break the players' union again. |
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Thing I've never understood is this...why do so many people bitch about player salaries when none of them EVER complain about how insanely rich the OWNERS get?
The players are overpaid, but at least they actually DO something for the money. All the damn owners do is sit in luxury boxes and scream at people. And half the time they're deliberately trying to make their teams worse so they can sell them to somebody else.
Really, we need municipal ownership for ALL professional sports franchises.
It would change the dynamic of the franchises, it would require them to give something back to the community in exchange for all the community gives to THEM(at the moment, pro sports is the ONLY industry anywhere that gets all its infrastructure build at public expense)and would make it possible for more of the community to actually be able to afford to see the games.
I know it's not gonna happen anytime soon, but it would cut the arrogance and the aristocracy factor down by a megaton.
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Sun Feb-07-10 10:32 PM
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35. Bob Kraft of the Patriots certainly is not. |
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Sun Feb-07-10 10:32 PM
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36. I know. I listed him as one of those that weren't. |
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Sun Feb-07-10 10:17 PM
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22. Not Dan Rooney, owner of the Steelers |
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Huge Obama backer and now the Ambassador to Ireland.
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Sun Feb-07-10 10:21 PM
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27. OK...didn't know that. |
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Sun Feb-07-10 10:08 PM
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Damn! If I'd known I might have watched! You're kidding? Is it true? THE SAINTS???????
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Sun Feb-07-10 10:10 PM
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13. Of course it is. God wouldn't go against the Saints! |
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But why did it take God so long?
I suppose Manning is going to get religion now to offset any possible favoritism by God.
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Sun Feb-07-10 10:12 PM
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19. Although some of the ACTUAL saints might be feeling a bit conflicted about this. |
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Especially St. Augustine, who had a lot of issues with this aspect of the Church's teachings.
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Sun Feb-07-10 10:30 PM
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August 29, 2005, New Orleans was devastated by Katrina and an aloof Republicon evangelical controlled government. Three years later they brought this nation to the brink of financial collapse, near depression or worse.
Ring in 2009 under new leadership, a working government and now a proud city supporting their team, the New Orleans Saints.
It's also sweet b/c I made a straight-up bet on the game with a Rep. friend. How sweet it will be to take money from this often backwards un-American person.
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Sun Feb-07-10 10:32 PM
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And God said "let there be gay marriage, and let tightened jaws and asses unclench over it."
It is a sign from God.
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Mon Feb-08-10 01:08 AM
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38. The link within that link had a good comment, clearly stated I thought.... |
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If Britney Spears can party it up in Vegas with one of her boys and go get married on a whim and annul her marriage the next day, why can't a loving same sex couple tie the knot? How could our society grant more rights to a heterosexual one night stand wedding in Vegas than a gay couple that has been together for 3, 5, 10 years of true love?
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Mon Feb-08-10 03:19 AM
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39. Gays are always a sign from God. |
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