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אַרְיֵה |
True. Back when we lived in the Denver area, Super Bowl day was a great day to go skiing. No crowds at all on the mountain. הרחפת שלי מלאה בצלופחים | |||
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Shall Not Be Infringed |
^^^In NH there are mountains that offer half-price lift tickets on Super Bowl Sunday too!  ____________________________________________________________ If Some is Good, and More is Better.....then Too Much, is Just Enough !! Trump 2024....Make America Great Again! "May Almighty God bless the United States of America" - parabellum 7/26/20 Live Free or Die! | |||
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Professional sports, in general, are meaningless. | |||
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| אַרְיֵה |
That reminds me. We lived in the Denver area in the mid 1980's. Summit County had four ski mountains: Arapahoe, Breckenridge, Copper Mountain, and Keystone. One year they had a "buy one, get one" Ski-The-Summit season pass. Normal price was $600 per person, for unlimited access to any of the four areas. Wife and I got two passes for six hundred bucks. After a few times skiing, my wife said, "the first time we went cost us $300 each. Second time $150. It gets cheaper each time. How many times do we have to go before it's free?" I looked at her and said, "Dearie, you just invented calculus." הרחפת שלי מלאה בצלופחים | |||
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| The Main Thing Is Not To Get Excited  |
What I hate about it? I hate that a Sunday pastime I enjoyed for many wet Washington Januaries has turned into a woke fest and celebrates almost everything I abhor about an indoctrinated culture that thrives on ruination. The upside is that this Jan. I got three cords of mixed fir and madronna split and I'm actually too old for that stuff. _______________________ | |||
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“Professional sports are meaningless”. Well sure, but so is art, any work of fiction, music, sports cars, vacations, the list goes on and on. Humans need shelter, air, food, and water. Everything else is meaningless. Don’t fucking believe me? How about you find yourself starving or without water or in a smoke filled enclosure, all of a sudden everything else becomes meaningless. | |||
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I don't watch any pro sports anymore, but I do follow them to some degree. I stopped watching them for a few reasons (none of them sociopolitical reasons) One reason was there's the game, and everything else. It takes 4-5 hours to play a 1-3 hour game. The Super Bowl had long been the worst offender, 85% of the day is "everything else". Yick. When the game was over I went on line, found a 17 minute highlight video. Then skipped past half time and watched it from there. It was the most enjoyable super bowl I'd seen in years.  The next day I was talking about the game with someone when it hit me that I hadn't actually watched it, yet I was fully informed in the conversation. | |||
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| Ignored facts still exist |
The main issue is the taxpayer money used for these sports. Stadium after stadium is built using taxpayer money. . | |||
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Yep, homeowners get hit, hard. I loathe the commercials, and don’t watch them. I didn’t watch the SB because of them. I also loathe the half time bullshit. Lip synced and just stupid and pointless. What am I doing? I'm talking to an empty telephone | |||
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Related: The Green Bay Packers (many fans here in the Yoop) will pay QB Aaron Jones 11 million dollars for the 2023 season. But, of course 11 million doesn't go as far as it used to!  End of Earth: 2 Miles Upper Peninsula: 4 Miles | |||
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I took a knee again on supporting the NFL. Did not catch a single game again, just kept to doing personal things instead, it was much better as it turned out. I'd tuned into the super bowl a few years back with family to catch the commercials, but now I can pick all that up a few weeks later (and skip the ones I hate) on the net. So, still taking a knee. | |||
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Kind of hard to hate something you have not participated in / watched in over 50 years..... My Native American Name: "Runs with Scissors" | |||
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^^^^^^^ This right here. Can't hate what I don't watch.  "If you’re a leader, you lead the way. Not just on the easy ones; you take the tough ones too…” – MAJ Richard D. Winters (1918-2011), E Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne "Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil... Therefore, as tongues of fire lick up straw and as dry grass sinks down in the flames, so their roots will decay and their flowers blow away like dust; for they have rejected the law of the Lord Almighty and spurned the word of the Holy One of Israel." - Isaiah 5:20,24 | |||
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Plowing straight ahead come what may |
Not having some “cat thread” content  ******************************************************** "we've gotta roll with the punches, learn to play all of our hunches Making the best of what ever comes our way Forget that blind ambition and learn to trust your intuition Plowing straight ahead come what may And theres a cowboy in the jungle" Jimmy Buffet | |||
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I have never been a fan, of football, or whatever, wife, however is, and her office is, so she watches the game, I surf and watch the commercials, couple of things, I realize women have not flown combat till relatively recently, but they did ferry a lot of planes in WW2, which was very important, which seems to have been forgotten, half rijme generally sucks, and this one was not much different, and the commercials, for the most part, were not that great, https://chandlersfirearms.com/chesterfield-armament/ | |||
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quarter MOA visionary |
{snipped} I agree completely. As a kid all we did is play sports - everyday . It helps if you actually participated in a/the sport too. Kids now days just stay inside all day and play video games. It kind of hard to defeat that love but politics will do that. All the focus on "the money" is another way to distance the fan from the sport too. It especially ruined basketball for me. Now it is just Golf and Football a bit of Baseball but mostly Golf. Golf is mostly about performing on the field (course) and if you don't you don't get paid - the way it should be (sans any talk about LIV). | |||
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When I was a kid the NFL was not that popular. My little League coach played for the Bears and did not make a ton of money. No big deal. Followed the Packers and the Bears. Then the money and politcs came in. Ruined the game. | |||
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