Favorite non Boston Athletic ?

[gomezcat]

Alf Inge Haaland ...

He never touched him.

 

[Digger44]

Who would be your favorite Athletic who didn't play in Boston?

As in Athletic Supporter??? Probably Nike.

 

[Mike the Brit]

OT: For Seymour and Gomez

No George Best? Shame on you!

Last week I was talking to someone I know and he told me that he knew Best quite well because he is Alex Best's uncle. According to Clive, Best was an extremely nice, simple and straightforward man when he was sober -- but that things were different when he was drunk.

 

[gomezcat]

Re: OT: For Seymour and Gomez

No George Best? Shame on you!

Last week I was talking to someone I know and he told me that he knew Best quite well because he is Alex Best's uncle. According to Clive, Best was an extremely nice, simple and straightforward man when he was sober -- but that things were different when he was drunk.

I'm 35 and as such I never saw him play. Those that did said that he was one of the best United players, along with Duncan Edwards.

 

[Mike the Brit]

Re: OT: For Seymour and Gomez

I'm 35 and as such I never saw him play. Those that did said that he was one of the best United players, along with Duncan Edwards.

I saw him play a lot, both live and on television. Believe me, he was great.

 

[Michigan Dave]

This is probably a bit unfair, since the Pats are the only non-Detroit team I root for (Red Wings, Pistons, Tigers), but it's without a doubt Steve Yzerman. Steve was my hero growing up. I wore #19 because Steve wore #19. Steve Yzerman IS hockey in Detroit.

 

[Crowpointer]

This is probably a bit unfair, since the Pats are the only non-Detroit team I root for (Red Wings, Pistons, Tigers), but it's without a doubt Steve Yzerman. Steve was my hero growing up. I wore #19 because Steve wore #19. Steve Yzerman IS hockey in Detroit.

I know he was a Spartan but I was a big Kirk Gibson fan especially when he was with the Tigers. Come to think of it Detroit also has my favorite non Patriot....Barry Sanders.

 

[Peter Pat]

Shaquille O'Neal. I still have posters and articles of him all over my room at my parent's house. I was such a Shaq fan that when I was around ten I went to Orlando (well Disney World) and had a Shaq-themed birthday party. The only thing missing was Shaq himself! Nowadays I just can't watch the NBA. The play is horrible and most of the players are thugs.

Well you watch the NFL don't you. They just had a Super Bowl where a starting DT was allowed to play after 3 arrests that include having a small arsenal on his premises. Not to mention no NBA team is like Cindy with all there arrests. (Portland as close a few years ago)The NFL police blotter is much longer than the NBA. In fact MLB has a much larger police blotter.

I think you calling the NBA thugs and not MLB or NFL is in some way racist or at least a lack of understanding of the hip hop culture which is very closely tied to the players. Eventhough you were a huge Shaq fan. or maybe since the C's are awful you lost interest. Or because Shaq went to the Lakers and orlando or whatever team you use to root for. Just like Boston fans lose interest in all their teams when they lose over years including the Red Sox.

So since you dont follow the league since the C's lose, or Shaq is in Miami, or whatever you have no idea how great the league is now. The league is full of very upstanding citizens, good classy guys who play the game hard, and play with a great sense of team, and are everything that is right in sports. But you choose to see an African American with tats and corn rolls and label it a "thug league" eventhough NFL and NBA players get into more trouble, do more steroids, are more of show boaters, and way less classy than your average NBA player.

 

[Michigan Dave]

I know he was a Spartan but I was a big Kirk Gibson fan especially when he was with the Tigers. Come to think of it Detroit also has my favorite non Patriot....Barry Sanders.

Collegiate rooting aside, I dislike Gibson because he's not a very good human being. He's a prick, to be more blunt. My dad is a golf pro, and when I was growing up, his range was the place for athletes that stayed in MI year round to learn. Yzerman, most of the Wings, Gibson, etc. were regulars. Gibson was a class A jerk. Yzerman was always accommodating, and great. He'd sign autographs at no end for me (man, I was annoying as a kid) and never asked for any special treatment. He'd pay for the balls he hit, and even paid for a set of clubs we gave his daughter when she was 3. Gibson used to ask to come in the back (this was in the late 90s, after he was done playing), and wouldn't sign for any kids at all.

 

[carolinatony]

Good Ernie Banks story TeamPats
and also
"would not let me have a girl over to my house past 10pm "

My Mom was the same way

 

[patriotspride]

happy gilmore forest gump and peewee herman .

 

[Seymour93]

Alf Inge Haaland ...

Self defence. Hey, no ones's perfect. Especially Van Persie he belongs in prison.

Well you watch the NFL don't you. They just had a Super Bowl where a starting DT was allowed to play after 3 arrests that include having a small arsenal on his premises. Not to mention no NBA team is like Cindy with all there arrests. (Portland as close a few years ago)The NFL police blotter is much longer than the NBA. In fact MLB has a much larger police blotter.

I think you calling the NBA thugs and not MLB or NFL is in some way racist or at least a lack of understanding of the hip hop culture which is very closely tied to the players. Eventhough you were a huge Shaq fan. or maybe since the C's are awful you lost interest. Or because Shaq went to the Lakers and orlando or whatever team you use to root for. Just like Boston fans lose interest in all their teams when they lose over years including the Red Sox.

So since you dont follow the league since the C's lose, or Shaq is in Miami, or whatever you have no idea how great the league is now. The league is full of very upstanding citizens, good classy guys who play the game hard, and play with a great sense of team, and are everything that is right in sports. But you choose to see an African American with tats and corn rolls and label it a "thug league" eventhough NFL and NBA players get into more trouble, do more steroids, are more of show boaters, and way less classy than your average NBA player.

Looks like I opened up a can of worms here. You missed the point where I said the play is terrible. Games are ending in 70-65 scores because all the guys with headbands and cornrolls just want to dunk or shoot a three.

Does this ever happen in the NFL? A supposed superstar of the league sucker punches another guy in the middle of a game. Carmelo Anthony symbolizes everything that is wrong with the NBA. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAygvjLQt3g

Or this? Have any NFL players ever rushed the stands and started throwing haymakers at random fans? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXCw1bLm6UA

The NBA is losing fans fast. The ratings for the playoffs are abysmal compared to years past. Stern has admitted there is a huge problem hence the dress code and heavy handed suspensions. I heard on the radio one day that they're thinking about abandoning suburban and rural America all together in favour of Europe.

 

[Fanfrom1960]

happy gilmore forest gump and peewee herman .

peewee herman wih the special popcorn cup at the movie theatre? Is this Patriots Planet?

 

[patriotspride]

peewee herman wih the special popcorn cup at the movie theatre? Is this Patriots Planet?

lol lol lol

 

[Peter Pat]

Self defence. Hey, no ones's perfect. Especially Van Persie he belongs in prison.



Looks like I opened up a can of worms here. You missed the point where I said the play is terrible. Games are ending in 70-65 scores because all the guys with headbands and cornrolls just want to dunk or shoot a three.

Does this ever happen in the NFL? A supposed superstar of the league sucker punches another guy in the middle of a game. Carmelo Anthony symbolizes everything that is wrong with the NBA. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAygvjLQt3g

Or this? Have any NFL players ever rushed the stands and started throwing haymakers at random fans? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXCw1bLm6UA

The NBA is losing fans fast. The ratings for the playoffs are abysmal compared to years past. Stern has admitted there is a huge problem hence the dress code and heavy handed suspensions. I heard on the radio one day that they're thinking about abandoning suburban and rural America all together in favour of Europe.

Yes the NBA has an image problem, and I think its because the majority of their players are black. So Stern has to be concsious of the white middle America audiance. You don't see what an NFL Player looks like, because he is wearing padding and a uniform, a NBA player is in shorts and tank top, so yu see every tat and every scar. Football players out of uniform have many more tats and have cornrolls, and everything else.

Scoing is not down. Very few games end 80-75 anymore, the handcheck rules, and other changes has opened up the NBA for scoring.

NFL players constantly throw cheap shots and punches at eachother. But they were pads so its not as big a deal. You are right no NFL player has run into the stands, because sidelines are so far back, the NBA stands are on top of the players. MLB has had several incidents of players going into the stand, I remember a Texas pitcher throwing a bullpen chair at fan in a melee.

Also the ratings are down, but the ratings are down in every sport except football. No one watched the World Series. In fact no one watches any baseball unless the teams are the Yankees, Red Sox, or Cubs. No one watched the WS the year before either. That is a sport being carried by 2 teams.

The NBA is arguably the 2nd most popular sport in the US behind football, there are several indications that it is more popular than Basbeall nationwide, where when you leave NY or Boston, no one cares or watches. You have to remember the Celtics stink, so no one in Boston cares about the NBA, but if you leave Boston it is a very visable sport. the reverse is true for baseball, I travel a lot for work, and you never hear people talk about, watch or care about baseball anywhere else in the country except NY and Boston.

The bottom line is the NBA is less of a thug league than MLB and the NFL. yet you have no problems watching ether of those, or for some reason you don't consider them thug leagues also.

 

[patsfan13]

Mike Singletary and Jim Brown.

 

[tedylb]

Two Winners: Magic Johnson & Jerry Rice

 

[Fanfrom1960]

Mike Singletary and Jim Brown.

Yeah, I forgot to mention Jim Brown. How could I forget him. I've mentioned it before here, but before the Patriots were born, and before the Giants were televised into New England, the Cleveland Browns were, I guess because they were the best team in the late 40s and early 50s. So, pre-Patriots, they were my favorite team, and Jim Brown was definitely #1. Never a runner close to him before or since. When he retired early to go play with Raquel Welch (in the movies), I was really disappointed.

Did you get to watch Brown when he was playing?

Jim Brown, Steve Young and Joe Montana.

 

[pheenix11]

Walter Payton: He wrote a letter back to me when I was a little kid. He wrote it on some restaurant stationary so you could tell he took the time to do it himself. He was a great guy.

Jim Plunkett: I was a Raiders fan when I was a kid and liked his comeback story and I was the only one I knew who predicted that the 83 Raiders would beat the Redskins.

Dan Marino: He was just God when I was a kid.

Don Mattingly: I was the only kid in my school who knew he was better than Wade Boggs.

 

[Seymour93]

The bottom line is the NBA is less of a thug league than MLB and the NFL. yet you have no problems watching ether of those, or for some reason you don't consider them thug leagues also.

I disagree. In the NFL you have 32 teams with 53 players plus a practice squad. You're bound to get a few bad apples. In the NBA you have around 30 teams and around 12 players a team. The number of arrests per league is similiar yet the NFL has many many more players. The NFL doesn't make superstars out of its thugs either. The Carmelo Anthony's and Allen Iverson's and of the NFL aren't in TV commericals. As for baseball it's been in decline for longer than the NBA has. I still think it's the #2 sport in America. The Texas Rangers have just the same amount of buzz as the Mavericks even though the NBA franchise, recently, has been much more successful. I go to Rangers games every summer meanwhile I haven't been to a Mavericks game since they had Shaun Bradley and Jason Kidd. Fair game to you for liking the NBA, but it's just not for me anymore.