Pats Fan: Why I'm giving up on the NFL (The MMQB w/ Peter King)

Patriot Missile said:

Just a classic game for sure.

I still get anxious watching games. Like somehow the outcome might be different.

I tense up every time Hightower makes that stop at the 1 vs Lynch. I don't care how many times I've watched it.

The Butler int is still a euphoric experience.

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I have watched that Butler interception a 1000 times and still wonder how the hell did he bumped into the receiver and still caught that ball. That has to be the best interception I have ever seen in the 40 years I have watched football. No stakes were higher than that.

Tony2046 said:

I have watched that Butler interception a 1000 times and still wonder how the hell did he bumped into the receiver and still caught that ball. That has to be the best interception I have ever seen in the 40 years I have watched football. No stakes were higher than that.

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If you watch carefully, and it happens so fast it's hard to see, Butler's left arm goes underneath the receiver's right arm, and across his chest. Basically, his speed lets him grab the ball and steer it into himself while pushing the receiver's right arm up, and his body away.

Gwedd said:

If you watch carefully, and it happens so fast it's hard to see, Butler's left arm goes underneath the receiver's right arm, and across his chest. Basically, his speed lets him grab the ball and steer it into himself while pushing the receiver's right arm up, and his body away.

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I saw that but catching a ball while bumping into a receiver, in the end zone, with the super bowl on the line is just unbelievable. I don't care what Butler does this year, and I hope he is great, but his name is cemented in Patriot history forever. It was just a once in a life time interception.

Now please excuse me because I am going to watch it again. haha

Tony2046 said:

I saw that but catching a ball while bumping into a receiver, in the end zone, with the super bowl on the line is just unbelievable. I don't care what Butler does this year, and I hope he is great, but his name is cemented in Patriot history forever. It was just a once in a life time interception.

Now please excuse me because I am going to watch it again. haha

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It's considered a rub route but what I find amazing is he held on after a collision. One of the best ever. Best defensive post season play ever followed up by Mike Jones 1 yard stop in 2000.

Tony2046 said:

I have watched that Butler interception a 1000 times and still wonder how the hell did he bumped into the receiver and still caught that ball.

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Because he was going for the ball all the way -- 100-percent focused on playing the ball and not the man.

I probably shouldn't post... but I have to admit I'm in a bit of shock...

We've got people here that seem to understand and favor the notion that the ideal gas law sufficiently explains PSI readings in deflategate. And some of these same people believe through some mystical, magical, hoodoo abilities- humans are somehow a zero load species on the planet.

Logic cannot reconcile this. I'm floored. I never really connected with the "I can't even" meme until just now. But I can't... I can't even...

(Let's face it, this thread was going to the political forum anyway. But there's definitely a narrative throughline that needs checking in our script department. Even Michael Bay would wonder about consistency of characters here.)

Talking about the weather is generally considered lighthearted small talk.
Until you say…. GLOBAL WARMING.

Then it instantaneously transforms into SERIOUS ****ING BUSINESS PEOPLE

WEATHER: GET HYPE

Gwedd said:

Man-caused climate change has been shot down by every working climatoligist.

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You, Sir, are more gullible than a Ravens fan.

i did climate change, it was me

I am climate change!!!!!

I wish the climate of this thread would change...

Hmmmm. Man contributes about 4% overall (MAX) to the climate change per say.
Mother nature and our universe kinda like does the rest.
Been that way for awhile now. Like millions of years.
Have to agree with Gweed on this one.
If you truly believe man has a major affect on the earths climate could some one please make my
summer clear and sunny on the weekends......please......
P.S. Remember back in the 70's a new ICE AGE was the hot controversy. Oh well.

Sounds like something I'd write. I feel the same way. I used to be obsessed with MLB, but the strikes and the steroid witch hunt just turned the league dull. When the Sox blamed Francona, I had enough. I still root for the Sox, but I watch a handful of games a year (if that) and can't name a single bench player.

Sadly, I feel the same coming for the NFL and Patriots. I feel once belichick retires, I'm out. I'm no longer loyal to Kraft, and tired of the moron fans and media who refuse to accept the team is just good.

Gwedd said:

Man-caused climate change has been shot down by every working climatoligist.

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This is just incorrect. The vast majority of climate scientists agree that climate change is largely driven by man. The exact percentage varies from survey to survey, I've seen as low as the high 70s and as high as the high 90s, but never anything short of a substantial majority. However you feel about the science itself, the clear consensus among working climatologists is the opposite of what you're claiming.



The same consensus exists on an institutional level. NASA, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Chemical Society, the American Geophysical Union, the American Medical Association, the American Meteorological Society, the American Physical Society, the The Geological Society of America, and the U.S. National Academy of Sciences all agree that man has a significant role in climate change.

http://climate.nasa.gov/scientific-consensus/

Anyway, that's all I have to say on this subject. Nobody's going to be convinced either way on this thread, so I don't see any further discussion here being productive.

Stick a propane tank up Goodell's chocolata expressway and light a friggin' match...now THAT'S my idea of global warming....

I have some bad news.

Our Sun is middle-aged and will gradually heat up to the point the oceans and atmosphere will be boiled away in about a half billion years, then more probable than not be swallowed up as the Sun expands into a red giant.

But we have a little more time.

Another thread that helps with filling up that precious ignore list. That's why I hate when "political" stuff invades the main board. Once you say a bunch of horseshit I can't unsee it and will apply your lack of thought and reading comprehension to all your future postings (i.e. "a the climate change denier, who cares what he says")

Bobsyouruncle said:

Whoa buddy, let's not jump to conclusions. First off the most likely explanation for the extinction of dinosaurs (or really anything bad) is that Tom Brady caused it. He hasn't even denied it, and he won't let us see his phone texts- pretty suspicious. I expect Kraft will hold a press conference tomorrow admitting it.

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Winner x 5