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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.I love their policy of "Specifically invite Patriots fans to join, and then harass every Patriots fan who joins". It's so.... Jets.
By "the board," you mean Patsfans.com? In this thread yes, but in general, no.And the board doesn't do exactly the same thing? Yeah, right!
And the new Jets site, The Hampur, now requires you to log in just to read. A site with just 266 members is now going to prevent lurkers. That'll drive traffic!
By "the board," you mean Patsfans.com? In this thread yes, but in general, no.
Yes, I do mean this board. But with the exception of the Saints fan who posts from time to time, I see mostly antipathy towards posters from other teams until they get banned, which usually is not very long in coming.
Maybe, just maybe, they aren't looking for 'traffic' like most boards are. You can have a decent conversation with that many passionate members.
I see mostly antipathy towards posters from other teams until they get banned, which usually is not very long in coming.
WE are the ones being trolled here, Deus.
You simply are wrong about that. Fans of other teams who post at Patsfans and are respectful vs. trolling/talking trash are treated respectfully in return. This thread, specifically, is one possible exception. (But the thread's title says it all.)Yes, I do mean this board. But with the exception of the Saints fan who posts from time to time, I see mostly antipathy towards posters from other teams until they get banned, which usually is not very long in coming.
You are a fan of the Jets or the Giants — or both, heaven help you — and your weekends this fall have been ruined by calamitous football, the kind that makes you wonder what you did to deserve such a cruel fate. Maybe this Sunday is the day to walk away. Not forever: just for one day.
So take a break from the ritual masochism. Here are some suggestions for better ways to spend your Sunday:
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Really, anything you do will be less boring than watching a couple of lousy teams play ineptly against a couple of other lousy teams. Why not engage in some self-improving activities?
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Read a book. Specifically, “Napoleon: A Life,” by Andrew Roberts. Better yet, get the audio version ... Listening to this tale will not simply distract you. It will remind you what winning feels like.
Yes, Napoleon Bonaparte lost some big ones, too, against some formidable squads. (Like Russia.) ... Napoleon loses so big that he is banished to an island. Yes, whistled not just off the field, but right out of the country. That’s like Roger Goodell telling the Jets and the Giants: “You know what? You guys are done. Hand in the uniforms and head to Bermuda, please.”
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(Go to the opera): Remember, it ain’t over till the fat lady sings. Unless it’s the Jets and the Giants. In which case it’s just over.
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A reasonable alternative to watching the Giants or Jets play on Sunday is to sit on a couch, stare straight forward and do nothing. I don’t mean meditation. Despite what your uncles and grandfathers may think, meditation involves work and therefore is doing something. I am suggesting that for three hours, it would be more worth your while to stare straight ahead, blink occasionally to keep your eyes from drying out, and do nothing. At the end of the three hours, you will have been more productive than Geno Smith or Eli Manning.
Here are some other things that should make a JEST fan feel better than watching the game:
- Eat broken glass
- Stick a red-hot wire in your urethra
- Have intimate relations with Courtney Love
- Summon a demon of some sort or wish for seemingly benign outcomes granted by a supposedly helpful monkey's paw
- Be captured by a group that hates Americans and blink messages back home in Morse code
- Drink hot molten metal
- Drink acid, while dropping acid
- On a weekly basis, VDR all the Sunday morning sermon shows and marathon them to take your mind off things
- On a weekly basis, VDR all the Sunday morning political talk shows and marathon them to take your mind off the sermon shows
- Marathon "Ancient Aliens" and try to figure out how even the guy with the strange hair can explain the New York JEST
- Watch neighborhood kids playing football on the lawn and ponder the difference, if any, between their skills and the JESTs'
- Read long 19th-century Russian novels without having them assigned to you in class
- Undergo surgery without anesthesia
- Drink very hard every Saturday night so you are extremely hung over every Sunday. You still get the pain, but at least you get the binge too.
Seems a little redundant. But we are talking Jets fans here.- Stick a red-hot wire in your urethra
- Have intimate relations with Courtney Love
Seems a little redundant. But we are talking Jets fans here.