The iPad/iPhone/iPod thread is up to its 4th OT now. Are there novelty games? Yes. Some of them are fun. You'll hear the argument "but they aren't real gamezzzzz" which is bullshit. There are a lot of games for iOS that are deep and worth playing. The thing is I almost always have my iPad with me. I use it to post on GAF, for one. So it's my go-to device when I have a little time during the day to play something.
Is it perfect? No. But I don't think either the DS or the PSP is perfect either.
OK, I am a retard. Nevermind.Look up the definition of "judicious."
I love my android phone but I may need to switch to an iphone because all the good games only go to iOS.
Or complement my phone with an ipad. Maybe my tax return...
Tegra 3 is already on it way, so it worth the wait. Wait for the Transformer Prime Jr which is a tegra 3 tablet for $250I have an iPhone with all these games I never play, but was thinking of getting a tablet. I tried out the Kindle Fire but it's just not functional for what I'd like. Trying to figure out if I should wait for more Tegra3 tabs to hit or look at the less expensive Tegra2s
Candlestick crowd noise explosion heard from the field level at the end of the game:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YFa2yRu7ZQ
http://blog.sfgate.com/opinionshop/...rs-fans-be-concerned-about-hooliganism/?tsp=1I’m posting a letter to the editor from a shocked Saints fan that ran in the Tuesday edition of the San Francisco Chronicle because it deserves a broader community discussion. The letter, written by Don Moses of Mill Valley, describes ugly and profane epithets hurled at him and his two teenage daughters when they went to Saturday’s 49ers game against the New Orleans Saints. Moses decries the combative fan culture. His was not the only letter The Chronicle received from horrified Saints fans.
Another Saints fan who was at the game posted this on a New Orleans life website.
What do you think?
– Lois Kazakoff, deputy editorial page editor
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Ugly side of 49ers’ big game
Letters to the editor, Jan. 17
I’ve lived in the Bay Area for 25 years but have remained a staunch Saints fan with close ties to New Orleans. My family still lives in New Orleans and has held our season tickets since 1967. I “get” the emotion of the game, the moment and the enthusiasm of the 49er fans.
Despite the extraordinary setting at the ’Stick, we were shocked by the hostility, vulgarity and intimidation that rained down on me and my two teenage daughters from the moment we stepped into the parking lots. Yes, we were proudly wearing our Saints colors; that’s what loyal fans do. And yes, we expected some good-natured jeering.
We had vulgarities screamed at us repeatedly in the parking lots and literally nonstop by the hooligans around us in the stands. While walking through the lots we had footballs thrown at us, guys screaming curses in our faces — my daughters asked if I had heard the guy who yelled “your mother’s a whore,” which I had, but couldn’t show a reaction for fear for my daughters’ and my own safety. We finally took to shadowing two cops that were strolling through the lots until we dashed for what we thought would be the relative sanity of the stadium.
The stadium was no better. Every other word from dozens of fans around us was an f-bomb shouted at the top of their lungs. There were seven or eight large 30- to 35-year-old guys directly behind us who cursed and threatened us the entire game. After one string of profanities I turned around to look at them and the most obnoxious and combative of the bunch yelled, “Do not turn around again! Do not ever turn around again” and punctuated it with a profanity. They used gay slurs repeatedly at the husband of a middle-aged couple in front of us, the only other Saints fan in our area, and called his wife a bitch.
One of my daughters asked me, “Why don’t you do something, Daddy?” Do what? Fight 10 guys, call/text security when all those guys behind me would know who would have fingered them?
Leave early? We almost did.
The hostility and threats of violence were a constant throughout our experience. It appeared to be ingrained in the fans’ culture, similar to the hooliganism that destroyed the reputation of English soccer. The long wait for the playoffs, the excitement of a big game? No excuse. I’ve been to big games in venues around the world and believe me, I’ve been a Saints fan my whole life so I certainly know about long playoff waits. The Vikings fans in the tailgate parties before the NFC championship game were eating crayfish and dancing along with the Saints fans — they weren’t threatened, they were having a great time.
Every 49ers fan, the team and it’s owners should be ashamed and embarrassed to wear the red and gold today. They won the game but are losers in every other way.
– Don Moses, Mill Valley
Tegra 3 is already on it way, so it worth the wait. Wait for the Transformer Prime Jr which is a tegra 3 tablet for $250
LOL Fuck outta here, that's nowhere near shit talking for Rolle.
I heard the whole interview, futurevoid even referenced it earlier, it wasn't even close to how the article is making it sound. Tebow-damn the media is a circus.
A Saints fan talks about his terrible experience at Candlestick Park last Saturday:
http://blog.sfgate.com/opinionshop/...rs-fans-be-concerned-about-hooliganism/?tsp=1
Joining the bandwagon huh?NYG @ SF
A Saints fan talks about his terrible experience at Candlestick Park last Saturday:
http://blog.sfgate.com/opinionshop/...rs-fans-be-concerned-about-hooliganism/?tsp=1
Good thing they weren't eating good in the neighborhood, or someone may have gotten shot.A Saints fan talks about his terrible experience at Candlestick Park last Saturday:
http://blog.sfgate.com/opinionshop/...rs-fans-be-concerned-about-hooliganism/?tsp=1
Totally agree with ya but the package that comes with the new asus 7 inch is hard to beat.I definitely like the 7" form factor, so I am really interested in that. But it's hard to trust ASUS with regards to their release dates
Totally agree with ya but the package that comes with the new asus 7 inch is hard to beat.
Joining the bandwagon huh?
Welcome brother!
Good thing they weren't eating good in the neighborhood, or someone may have gotten shot.
A Saints fan talks about his terrible experience at Candlestick Park last Saturday:
http://blog.sfgate.com/opinionshop/...rs-fans-be-concerned-about-hooliganism/?tsp=1
Don't worry, we keep FMT locked up in a special room.I'll never ride the Niners bandwagon. Probably covered in Alyssa Milano's shit and burnt up joints.
i commented on this on the 49ers mb too. a bad situation but i don't like the end of the letter.
1. it's very unfortunate that this happened with kids around. i don't condone this at all.
2. i would never take my kid to a road playoff game
3. again, while i sympathize with this guy having to deal with that, he can fuck off for saying niners fans should be ashamed. seriously, go fuck yourself dude. i have nothing to do with these guys that talked shit to you but you want me to be ashamed for being a niners fan?
hey i was reading in the paper a few weeks ago that a child molesting rapist was arrested. he was a saints fan. all saints fans should be ashamed of what this man did!
wait, you don't want to be grouped with an asshole who did something that you had no control over as a saints fan??
A Saints fan talks about his terrible experience at Candlestick Park last Saturday:
http://blog.sfgate.com/opinionshop/...rs-fans-be-concerned-about-hooliganism/?tsp=1
Yes, we were proudly wearing our Saints colors; that’s what loyal fans do.
The iPad/iPhone/iPod thread is up to its 4th OT now. Are there novelty games? Yes. Some of them are fun. You'll hear the argument "but they aren't real gamezzzzz" which is bullshit. There are a lot of games for iOS that are deep and worth playing. The thing is I almost always have my iPad with me. I use it to post on GAF, for one. So it's my go-to device when I have a little time during the day to play something.
Is it perfect? No. But I don't think either the DS or the PSP is perfect either.
The media will spin shit into anything just to make it look like a controversial story, especially in a time now.Just watched the Rolle interview. It is sorta sick how writers really take that line out of context for the headline. He acknowledges Alex Smith as a great quarterback and honestly doesn't sound cocky at all. He's really saying exactly what you want to hear from an athlete-at least what most athletes seem to be trained to say.
http://www.giants.com/media-vault/videos/Safety-Antrel-Rolle/e22b0e5d-19d2-4e4e-913a-66cfa3019650
These Saints fans weren't complaining
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRIUls8u_VA
Sounds like a lot people attending their first game.
Just watched the Rolle interview. It is sorta sick how writers really take that line out of context for the headline. He acknowledges Alex Smith as a great quarterback and honestly doesn't sound cocky at all. He's really saying exactly what you want to hear from an athlete-at least what most athletes seem to be trained to say.
http://www.giants.com/media-vault/videos/Safety-Antrel-Rolle/e22b0e5d-19d2-4e4e-913a-66cfa3019650
This shit happens everywhere unfortunately.
I went to a road playoff game at Yankee Stadium wearing my Red Sox gear and wasn't afraid in the slightest. And I heard shit but it wasn't anything like what this dude heard. I realize baseball isn't football but yeah I wouldn't bring two teenage daughters to a football game like that either.
The whole area has seen some pretty bad sport stories though lately with that guy that was in the coma, etc. I thought everyone in California smoked weed. What is this shit?
What a bitch. Was he expecting hugs and free hand jobs going to Candlestick? Its a playoff game where the winner goes to the CC game in a stadium that hasn't seen a playoff game in years and years, from a team who has a very rich tradition in terms of success. No matter what stadium you go to in the NFL, during a game with implications such as that game, you will be harassed if you wear the other team's colors. No reason 49ers fans should be ashamed. The guy should be ashamed for bringing his daughter(s) to the game. Fucking negligence on his part
Speaking of games anyone going to get a Vita?I probably will.
"I think Joe was kind of rattled a little bit by (Houston's) defense," Reed said on SiriusXM NFL Radio on Monday, according to ProFootballTalk. "(The Texans) had a lot of guys in the box on him. And, I mean, they were getting to him. I think a couple times he needed to get rid of the ball. I don't know how much of the play-calling ... but it just didn't look like he had a hold on the offense. ... It was just kind of like (Baltimore's coaches) was telling him to do, throw the ball or get it here, you know, get it to certain guys. And he can't play like that."
Flacco was sacked five times and hurried by Texans defenders more than that in the win. Reed said Tuesday part of the blame for that falls on Baltimore's offensive line.
"[T]he offensive line gotta block better," Reed said, according to ProFootballTalk. "You know, they gotta communicate better, gotta pick up blocks (and) Joe's gotta get the ball out of his hand."
I'm waffling. Eventually I'm sure I'll get one but software for $50 seems absurd. I'll wait for a price drop on the system. At least that's what I say. Then MLB will come out and I'll have to get it.
Ed Reed on Texans pressuring Joe Flaccid
Kills me that they lost this game. I hate flacco. He's the Pau Gasol of the NFL to me.
Yankee fans are pretty tame overall. I've seen one or two fights in the stands but nothing really crazy. I wouldn't, however, where Yankee gear to a Red Sox game.
He's your favorite player?
Ed Reed on Texans pressuring Joe Flaccid
Kills me that they lost this game. I hate flacco. He's the Pau Gasol of the NFL to me.
I wore a pink red sox t-shirt, size ladies medium or something to a Red Sox game. I changed the number to read .233 (instead of 33) and changed the C to a C-. It was 2007 or 2008, the year Varitek really struggled and the Red Sox were flat ass.