Forum Replies Created
-
AuthorPosts
-
ZooeyModeratorI’d like a Center, too. I’ve wanted a center for 3 years. I hoped Jones was going to be that guy, but there are no Jones Sightings.
If he doesn’t take the job next year, I’m guessing he’s a goner.
ZooeyModeratorIf they lose again, I just hope it isn’t until Seattle. I think that’s definitely possible. And, no, I think this team will remain focused. There are some vets who have been waiting to play for a winner, and they’re going to want this very badly.
Yeah, me too. It would be a letdown to lose to Arizona. Losing to Seattle in Seattle wouldn’t be that disappointing, but to have put together a couple of really good games in a row (and 3 of 4 with a near miss), and make us all hope that we are seeing something to carry us into next year with real hopes…well, I think a loss to Arizona would be deflating.
Depends on HOW, of course, but beating Arizona would salvage the season for me, I think.
ZooeyModeratorPretty good. I like Chris Long a lot.
Well, why don’t you marry him, then?
ZooeyModeratorI feel their pain.
And…it makes me laugh.
ZooeyModeratorjoemad wrote:
I heard Young talk about this on his weekly segment on local SF radio. Sid Gillman tied Young’s legs with a rope to avoid Young from scrambling.SY: Well, I was throwing the ball a lot (at BYU), so I had some concepts that were taught to me by (quarterbacks coach) Mike Holmgren in college. But I also ran around like crazy. Ironically, it was in the USFL with (Hall-of-Fame coach) Sid Gillman. People don’t remember that Sid Gillman was my coach. He was an old crotchety guy, but he was the first one to basically say, ‘You can’t just run around.’ … I remember, he literally tied my feet up. He got a rope and said ‘OK, you can’t go anywhere. What are you going to do? You can’t move. What’s your next plan?’ So that got me thinking about that.
I think tying Young up and leaving him out there facing the D was a good idea. I mean I don’t know about the qb mechanics part of it, I just know he deserved it. Then, of course, they screwed up and untied him.
I was living in LA when the USFL was invented, and I had season tickets to the LA Express, the team that signed Steve Young to an eye-popping $40 million deal (payable over 40 years). I was present at a game where he passed for over 300 yards, and rushed for over 100 yards. That guy was good. Of course, the Bucs couldn’t do anything with him.
ZooeyModeratorThe issue isn’t currently creating any ill will, let alone dividing the board.
Back to the topic: I did not know that the disuse of the name was official for ANY newspaper or media outlet. I thought only a handful of people had chosen to disuse it.
There are a couple of papers in the Pacific Northwest that quit using the term 15 – 20 years ago (and other Indian nicknames), long before the issue became a national topic of conversation in the past decade. Interesting.
ZooeyModeratorRally behind Hill
But they don’t play good football
Lights go on; now defense stout.
December 5, 2014 at 12:59 am in reply to: The fact that Rams seldom win in DC makes this a big game. #13035ZooeyModeratorHere’s hoping the Washington team is in the middle of dysfunctional mess with Gruden maybe bailing out and the Rams win in a rout.
It REALLY would cause the NFL to take notice if the Rams won two routs in a row…
I could live with that.
December 4, 2014 at 6:45 pm in reply to: controversy: a few fans dropping the Rams because of the WRs's Ferguson gesture #13022ZooeyModeratorAfrican Americans know in their bones and long past refutation that they remain, decade after decade, vulnerable to prejudicial police harassment and violence. They have lived their lives being harassed by cops and watching people who look like them die. That shared experience is surely what our African American WRs were testifying to.
That was very well said.
To me that interpretation of their intent was obvious.
But it was missed by everybody on the Comments boards around the web.
I keep forgetting that white people in America generally just have no idea what it’s like to be black in this country. And they were out there in force connecting the entire Rams organization to the endorsement of looting and violence, brainwashed as they were by Liberal lies about Brown’s innocence. That’s what the issue was as far as they were concerned. To them, all the protesters are just “thugs,” and the policemen heroes. I saw one comment where a guy called the protesters in Ferguson “animals,” and it wasn’t one of those venom-laden racist diatribe things. The tone of it was just oblivious. I’m sure the author would be offended if he had been told he was racist. Mike Ditka is the latest guy to publicly miss the entire point. And HE ought to know better having lived a more integrated life than most whites.
ZooeyModerator<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>Zooey wrote:</div>
3. Billy Waddy against the Cowboys2. Flipper Anderson against the Giants
1. Isaac Bruce against the Titans.
I don’t care about acrobatics, or all this nancy boy spectacle stuff.
Those are the three Best Catches I ever saw.
Why do you hate Ricky Proehl ?
w
vI think because I watched that catch with exhausted relief rather than a paroxysm of joy.
ZooeyModerator3. Billy Waddy against the Cowboys
2. Flipper Anderson against the Giants
1. Isaac Bruce against the Titans.
I don’t care about acrobatics, or all this nancy boy spectacle stuff.
Those are the three Best Catches I ever saw.
December 3, 2014 at 9:44 pm in reply to: controversy: a few fans dropping the Rams because of the WRs's Ferguson gesture #12947ZooeyModerator“At any rate, what is the ‘point’ of telling Demoff
or Fisher they are gonna give a salute to the troops,
or pray, or give the hands up gesture ? What is
the point of informing the boss about that?I mean, i know they can if they want to, but
why should they feel ‘obligated’ to ?”I guess the “point” would be simply a matter of courtesy. I don’t believe anyone said that the players had any obligation to inform team of their intentions. I do, however, feel that it would have been a show of courtesy and respect for the organization from which you draw your millions of dollars to give them a heads up. We’re talking about a two way street here. The team has had the players’ backs since the event. At least publicly. Would it be too much too expect that the players might give that same consideration? And, for that matter, their actions could prove to have repercussions for their teammates as well. Teammates that had no part of their actions or even knew of it. Would it be too much to suggest that the five players simply take into consideration what consequences their actions could have on their employers or their teammates and weigh the advisability of those actions? Media outlets around the country and many fans (I’ve had conversations with many who know that I am a Rams’ fan) are not separating the actions of five players from the team. It was the St. Louis Rams that did it. No one is arguing their right to do what they did. But I don’t think it is an outrageous notion that they could’ve shown their employer and teammates a little more respect and consideration than to draw them unknowingly into their protest.
This is pure conjecture because I obviously don’t know what was going through the minds of those 5 players, how long beforehand it was premeditated, and what, exactly, they thought they were doing, but I just don’t think they expected it to become this…Thing.
And – I may be wrong – but I suspect that if the St. L PD hadn’t complained about it publicly, that it WOULDN’T have become this…Thing.
As for people who think it’s The St. Louis RAMS who did that, and that it was “in support of thuggery” and so on…well, they aren’t trying very hard to exercise critical thinking on the issue, are they? Seriously.
It doesn’t make any difference because all those people who are experiencing the Outrage D’Jour will be distracted by the next squirrel to dart across the headlines, anyway.
Really, I think this whole thing is blown way out of proportion by the police department and a gaggle of Side With Authority types. Nothing happened on Sunday other than the Rams slaughtered the Raiders 52 – 0.
December 2, 2014 at 6:36 pm in reply to: controversy: a few fans dropping the Rams because of the WRs's Ferguson gesture #12881ZooeyModeratorHere’s the thing that strikes me about the aftermath of this. It seems like everybody is talking about this action as if it is a referendum on the Michael Brown incident, and I really don’t think it is. I don’t think the Rams players or the protesters in Ferguson are motivated as much by Michael Brown himself as they are by the reality that black people are abused by police routinely. On the news sites in particular most of the anger centers on the “Michael Brown was a thug” version of events, and so the Rams are supporting thugs and promoting thuggery. It is entirely tone deaf to the situation to frame it in that light – even if Michael Brown was a thug (and I don’t know; I didn’t follow the story). Either way, the story is a lightning rod for the more pervasive problem of racial profiling and that’s why people are out on the streets.
December 2, 2014 at 8:43 am in reply to: who remembers the poster Jeff? He passed away a couple of weeks ago #12841ZooeyModeratorHe was a good poster, and I enjoyed his company. I have always been sorry he didn’t keep posting with us, but now I know why.
RIP JeffM.
December 2, 2014 at 1:14 am in reply to: controversy: a few fans dropping the Rams because of the WRs's Ferguson gesture #12833ZooeyModeratorWow. Some UGLY stuff going on out there on the internet over this. Probably would have been on any of the previous boards we used to frequent, too. It’s kind of startling, when I think about it, that it isn’t happening on this board. Unique group of posters, here.
ZooeyModeratorI hate the Raiders.
November 26, 2014 at 11:09 am in reply to: I will be gone for 4 days with limited access starting tomorrow #12555ZooeyModeratorAll the best.
ZooeyModeratorThis season has had the worst officiating I remember seeing… since the Replacement Refs season, anyway.
November 23, 2014 at 7:32 pm in reply to: Rams can't overcome their own mistakes… (Chargers game reactions thread) #12388ZooeyModeratorLooked like a Coming of Age game for the team until….
ZooeyModeratorZooey wrote:
I haven’t read that. Why don’t the PD guys mention that?I don;t know. Anyway it’s all very confusing.
I still say it would/will come down to numbers. Billionaires care more about money than their personal feelings.
ZooeyModeratorI haven’t read that. Why don’t the PD guys mention that?
ZooeyModeratorZooey wrote:
@JoeStrauss
I think in February, the Rams are going to file an application to move. Now, that’s to say they’re going to actually move.STLRamsforever
NFL is not happy with the way SK is conducting business and Rams relocation is NOT on the NFLs agenda. Other owners besides Chargers are not warm to SK moving.
crewe
CM just reported on ESPN. Looks like Stan wouldn’t have votes even if he did try to move.
These reports are BS.
Okay. But how so?
What can Stan possibly be doing to irritate the NFL? He’s a businessman conducting business the same way any of the other businessmen owners in the NFL would do it. And the one defining characteristic of Stan’s “business” so far is that nobody knows what’s going on. It’s all on the quiet, outside the media spotlight.
That’s EXACTLY how the NFL would WANT him to conduct business.
Furthermore, there is nothing to vote on. There are not numbers yet. Businessmen make decisions after looking at numbers.
ZooeyModeratorWell.
I looked it up, too.
I just didn’t find it.
ZooeyModeratorZooey wrote:
I just take the season one game at a time. You can’t live in the past, and you can’t worry about the future. Just give 110% each and every week and leave it all out on the sofa.Yes but our problems with you stem pretty much from your notorious off-the-coach scandals.
I’m getting mixed messages.
I thought you said the problem was that I was ON the coach.
ZooeyModeratorI just take the season one game at a time. You can’t live in the past, and you can’t worry about the future. Just give 110% each and every week and leave it all out on the sofa.
ZooeyModeratorWell if the Chargers Center
cant go, I might very well favor the Rams.w
vAre you accounting for the fact that McQuaide is questionable, though?
ZooeyModeratorZooey wrote:
I didn’t go to that much effort before coming to the same conclusion. I just looked at the standings and saw that the Rams lost head-to-head to a bunch of the teams ahead of them in the standings, and saw the difference in wins/losses, and realized the odds are quite remote.And that’s without even considering the odds of the Rams ending the regular season on a 7-game winning streak with the last game in notorious Seattle where the Hawks will certainly have something on the line.
It isn’t happening.
I’m very sorry, Zooey–but if you don’t put it through the playoff machine it isn’t real. Those are simply your opinions. I have hard data. I have charts and stuff. And there is always the famous PA Ram “hunch”. I am bringing real solid stuff to the table here—and if anyone wants stock tips I can find some internet thing to help me pick those too.
This is not the 1970s anymore.
I can go onto the internet and take scientific polls that will tell me what kind of rock band I am.
It’s all there in this crazy cyberspace thing. Before that all we had was the Magic 8 Ball.
But anyway–yeah–I agree with you. Playoffs are a fantasy. But a winning season?
Very possible.
And that would be pretty cool.
Whatever.
I don’t need to waste my time on some website to know I’m Lady Gaga.
ZooeyModeratorI didn’t go to that much effort before coming to the same conclusion. I just looked at the standings and saw that the Rams lost head-to-head to a bunch of the teams ahead of them in the standings, and saw the difference in wins/losses, and realized the odds are quite remote.
And that’s without even considering the odds of the Rams ending the regular season on a 7-game winning streak with the last game in notorious Seattle where the Hawks will certainly have something on the line.
It isn’t happening.
ZooeyModeratorMcLeod also was glad to see that there was no correspondence from the National Football League in his locker stall on Wednesday. That’s usually the day players are notified if they have been fined.
He should check a few lockers over.
They probably fined Sims for it.
November 19, 2014 at 12:42 pm in reply to: multi-media from the Denver game (highlights, Fisher post-game, etc.) #12158ZooeyModeratorRelive the Rams dominant victory over the Broncos.
That was nice. But, really. The video spent as much time on the national anthem highlights as it did the game highlights.
-
AuthorPosts
