Football: Entertainment vs Results (5 Viewers)

Menace

Senior Member
Apr 22, 2005
3,988
#22
I would be pissed if my team played entertaining football and lost but I would also be also pissed if my team played boring football all match long but at least they won, so being happy for a while or being happy for the rest of the week, I would chose the latter.
 

Dan

Back & Quack
Mar 9, 2004
9,290
#23
++ [ originally posted by swag ] ++


'Entertainment' is for losers left with nothing else to offer their fans. :D
Yeah, Roma playing entertaining football is a myth.. its just really because they actually concede so many the match itself is entertaining. Their coach cannot co-ordinate their defence so he tells them to throw everything forward and hope to rely on the individual talent of their defenders to save the team. The fans just make up that they play entertaining football to condole themselves.

Ps. You are from La.. Doors fan?
 

swag

L'autista
Administrator
Sep 23, 2003
84,790
#24
++ [ originally posted by Dan ] ++
Yeah, Roma playing entertaining football is a myth.
But as a club, they're entertaining alright. You never know from week to week whether Totti will be suspended for five games, whether their fans will be locked out of the next match due to idiocy, etc. Kind of like professional wrestling entertainment in that sense I suppose. ;)

Ps. You are from La.. Doors fan?
Nope, SF. Doors are alright.

FWIW, a quick compare & contrast primer for people not familiar with the goegraphy and sociology of Cali:

SF: 400 miles/650 km north of LA (the difference between Vermont and Ohio)
LA: ditto, but to the south

SF: gays in the Castro
LA: gays in West Hollywood

LA: superficial people with lots of plastic surgery
SF: many ugly people with too much body hair (and that's just the women ;) ) that could use plastic surgery

LA: the Doors
SF: the Dead :yuck:

LA: "What a Hollywood sleazeball."
SF: "What a Silicon Valley dork."

SF: "We hate LA! Let's split the state in half!"
LA: "Check out my new Hummer, dude."

SF: "Let's crush our sports rivals to the south!"
LA: "Dude, where's my football team?"

LA beachwear: String bikini and tanning lotion
SF beachwear: thermally insulated wetsuit, shark repellent
 

Dan

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Mar 9, 2004
9,290
#25
++ [ originally posted by swag ] ++


But as a club, they're entertaining alright. You never know from week to week whether Totti will be suspended for five games, whether their fans will be locked out of the next match due to idiocy, etc. Kind of like professional wrestling entertainment in that sense I suppose. ;)



Nope, SF. Doors are alright.

FWIW, a quick compare & contrast primer for people not familiar with the goegraphy and sociology of Cali:

SF: 400 miles/650 km north of LA (the difference between Vermont and Ohio)
LA: ditto, but to the south

SF: gays in the Castro
LA: gays in West Hollywood

LA: superficial people with lots of plastic surgery
SF: many ugly people with too much body hair (and that's just the women ;) ) that could use plastic surgery

LA: the Doors
SF: the Dead :yuck:

LA: "What a Hollywood sleazeball."
SF: "What a Silicon Valley dork."

SF: "We hate LA! Let's split the state in half!"
LA: "Check out my new Hummer, dude."

SF: "Let's crush our sports rivals to the south!"
LA: "Didn't we have a football team or two before around here?"
its like watching a soap opera. My kingdom for a reality TV show in the roma dressing room.

Wrestling in ameirca is perhaps the most saddest thing ever. are there people who really believe its real???

i could of sworn you came from LA. My bad, anyway, thanks for the american trivia. Thats really gonna help me chatting up chicks. ;) If I may also suck up to you, you have a good vocabluary. What does superficial mean?:D
 

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Excellent
Mar 6, 2005
6,223
#26
Results of course.. but if the desired result does not happen, I would be slightly reassured if my team played well..

++ [ originally posted by Dan ] ++

Wrestling in ameirca is perhaps the most saddest thing ever. are there people who really believe its real???
I used to watch wrestling, like 5 years ago.. What's the deal with it now? Who's the Arab terrorist they have in there to brainwash the audience even more? :(
 

Dan

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Mar 9, 2004
9,290
#27
++ [ originally posted by BAH_Bianconero ] ++
Results of course.. but if the desired result does not happen, I would be slightly reassured if my team played well..



I used to watch wrestling, like 5 years ago.. What's the deal with it now? Who's the Arab terrorist they have in there to brainwash the audience even more? :(
That is EXACTLY what i thought the other day...

ill tell you a story:

I had my friend over and he left yesterday (arrived at london airport.. christ that was close as we were debating whether he should of gone early today or that evening the other week) and we always play the WWE wrestling computer game which is absolute class.. we go over to a friends house and dont have too much too do and we turn on the television and I couldnt believe my eyes... there was the biggest stereotype ever of someone from the arabic world. A big alarm bell rang in my head and something really said: If a TV show is willing to exploit the problems that America currently has with the middle east in order to make some money with their shows.. then ****. I also came to the conclusion that the WWE uses stereotype characters.. We will be able to see a gay guy, a KKK member, and some sort of animal wannabe freak on that show very soon if it continues to use cliches as characters. I mean, since we already have a guy whose claim to greatness is being a latino, and a big superhero wannabe..

Not to mention the obvious brainwashing in making that guy a ****ing prick to help turn the audience against people of that origin.. sick if you ask me.
 

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Excellent
Mar 6, 2005
6,223
#28
++ [ originally posted by Dan ] ++


That is EXACTLY what i thought the other day...

ill tell you a story:

I had my friend over and he left yesterday (arrived at london airport.. christ that was close as we were debating whether he should of gone early today or that evening the other week) and we always play the WWE wrestling computer game which is absolute class.. we go over to a friends house and dont have too much too do and we turn on the television and I couldnt believe my eyes... there was the biggest stereotype ever of someone from the arabic world. A big alarm bell rang in my head and something really said: If a TV show is willing to exploit the problems that America currently has with the middle east in order to make some money with their shows.. then ****. I also came to the conclusion that the WWE uses stereotype characters.. We will be able to see a gay guy, a KKK member, and some sort of animal wannabe freak on that show very soon if it continues to use cliches as characters. I mean, since we already have a guy whose claim to greatness is being a latino, and a big superhero wannabe..

Not to mention the obvious brainwashing in making that guy a ****ing prick to help turn the audience against people of that origin.. sick if you ask me.
:fero: That's right.. He even has a stereotypish name.. I googled him:

Muhammad Hassan

They might as well have given him the "I represent what you should all think of Arabs and/or Muslims" championship belt..
 

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Excellent
Mar 6, 2005
6,223
#29
++ [ originally posted by Dan ] ++


That is EXACTLY what i thought the other day...

ill tell you a story:

I had my friend over and he left yesterday (arrived at london airport.. christ that was close as we were debating whether he should of gone early today or that evening the other week) and we always play the WWE wrestling computer game which is absolute class.. we go over to a friends house and dont have too much too do and we turn on the television and I couldnt believe my eyes... there was the biggest stereotype ever of someone from the arabic world. A big alarm bell rang in my head and something really said: If a TV show is willing to exploit the problems that America currently has with the middle east in order to make some money with their shows.. then ****. I also came to the conclusion that the WWE uses stereotype characters.. We will be able to see a gay guy, a KKK member, and some sort of animal wannabe freak on that show very soon if it continues to use cliches as characters. I mean, since we already have a guy whose claim to greatness is being a latino, and a big superhero wannabe..

Not to mention the obvious brainwashing in making that guy a ****ing prick to help turn the audience against people of that origin.. sick if you ask me.
There's already a gay guy: Rico..

I play the game too.. :) (bootleg of course..)
 

Dan

Back & Quack
Mar 9, 2004
9,290
#31
indeed. Not to mention the audience cheering: USA! USA! when he appeared.. I could absolutely not believe it.
 

Dan

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Mar 9, 2004
9,290
#32
++ [ originally posted by BAH_Bianconero ] ++


There's already a gay guy: Rico..

I play the game too.. :) (bootleg of course..)

I must say, the game really is good fun though :D

Rico is gay? thats new. Its more soap opera with a hint of men in underwear 'fighting' more then anything.
 

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Excellent
Mar 6, 2005
6,223
#33
++ [ originally posted by Dan ] ++
indeed. Not to mention the audience cheering: USA! USA! when he appeared.. I could absolutely not believe it.
Yeah... This thing's not new though, unfortunately.. I remember seeing an old WCW match where it seemed like Captain America and his sidekick USA Boy were up against some Canadian team.. Idiots screaming," USA USA", through the whole duration of the match..
 

Azzurri7

Pinturicchio
Moderator
Dec 16, 2003
72,692
#36
++ [ originally posted by Paolo_Montero ] ++
Juve might play the most boring brand of football known to man, but at the end of the day I'll still watch them week in, week out if possible. Playing good football is just a bonus.. and only if you continue to win things.
Well Said, Tom.
 

adams

Junior Member
Mar 5, 2005
450
#38
++ [ originally posted by BAH_Bianconero ] ++


:fero: That's right.. He even has a stereotypish name.. I googled him:

Muhammad Hassan

They might as well have given him the "I represent what you should all think of Arabs and/or Muslims" championship belt..
There used to be a sikh on the show but he left. I think he sued them after they took his turban and spit in it and threw cigarettes in it and such. And this wasnt even on stage, it was in the back in the locker rooms.

The WWE demographic is not exactly the creme a la creme of american society
 

Bjerknes

"Top Economist"
Mar 16, 2004
116,237
#40
++ [ originally posted by adams ] ++

The WWE demographic is not exactly the creme a la creme of american society
The people who enjoy that shit are the "crap de la crap" of our society. Along with the Nascar freaks, I really do not understand what is wrong with those people. Thank God most Americans are a lot more savory than those folks.
 

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