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Football Thread 2012/13 |OT5| One word to rule them all
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Willkiller
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I doubt he'll play tonight. I can see him being used in the Europa though, in our two games we haven't really been in a comfortable enough position to give him a run out.
Broder Salsa
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Makes sense, wait till we're 3 or 4 nil up and give him 25-30 mins to impress. Would love to see Obertan tear up tonight but I think I may be living in a dream world.
Same.
My house mate's playing Taylor Swift's new song and I can't stop singing it. Come at me music buffs. She's so hot.
This is a good picture of her minus the mole -- she looks very pretty here. Still doesn't compare to Alex though.
The_Hitcher89
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Amazing character
Shamed. LIKE IN A SHITAKE.
Willkiller
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I can confirm you're in a dream world. Quick! Go have sex with Scarlett Johansson. The fate of the world depends on it.
I find her extremely cute, completely inoffensive, and loveable.
That is definitely the kind of dream world i'm talking about, with Obertan scoring his 30th goal of the season in the champions league final.
I think I need a lie down.
Willkiller
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I've got a builder in the house doing some work, he just blasted that song. It's utterly fucking ridiculous in a good way.
We were playing FM last night and we had a music channel on the telly in the background; when her song came on I just stopped all FMing and stared at her for the duration of the song. So pretty. Far better looking than that French lass Salazar's posting.
I've got no idea what it is.
The_Hitcher89
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Is Peace Walker worth co-opping all the way through?
I think its completely uprooting a team, a staff and the clubs achievements, and relocating them to another city/state entirely. And hoping that the local fans carry on supporting you
I think its completely uprooting a team, a staff and the clubs achievements, and relocating them to another city/state entirely. And hoping that the local fans carry on supporting you
There's too many Oasis jokes here to actually pick one.
That sounds so dumb.
LabouredSubterfuge
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Honest question: will that link get me 'banned' from work?
Willkiller
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Yes. It's disgusting.
The_Hitcher89
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You mushn't click on it
DO NOT CLICK THAT LINK
Willkiller
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I've actually just been sick from thinking about it.
Vivalaraza
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I'm claiming top spot this weekend. Watch out folks.
I'm hanging in there despite Fergie personally trying to screw me.
It has happened countless times over the years. Usually the fans of the organization will completely drop the team out of hatred for the decision (understandable). Some of the biggest names in American sports though moved at some point or another.
A few big ones nowadays off the top of my head: the LA Dodgers were the Brooklyn Dodgers, the San Francisco Giants were the New York Giants (both of these teams were rivals in NY and remained it in California), the LA Lakers were the Minnesota Lakers, the Baltimore Ravens were the Cleveland Browns (they made a new Cleveland Browns a few years later since the fans were so passionate about having a local team), the Utah Jazz were the New Orleans Jazz.
Sometimes they'll completely re-brand the team and other times they won't. It's more common now to do that then it was in the past (the Tennessee Titans were the Houston Oilers, the Oklahoma City Thunder were the Seattle Supersonics, etc.).
Great co-op game IMO.
LabouredSubterfuge
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Holy shit :lol
I wasn't going to click it anyway but I'm surprised it wasn't just a Rick-roll.
I've been a huge proponent of the college system and the draft, but the negatives of the franchise system don't weigh out the bonuses. Sure, your team might be competitive in a few years, but they might not even exist a few years after that.
That's not sport.
A franchise won't disappear in a 'few years'. It usually takes time for one of the main franchises here to fold.
I live in a bigger market so I've never suffered losing a team. All the teams I cheered for a kid are still here, though some are way more competitive than the others.
I'm close to pulling a Jeff though and abandoning the Miami Dolphins altogether....
Can't they just move to a new town though?
I do like how the American system allows a team to potentially become very successful in short order if they have good and passionate fans. The draft can be a relative crap shoot, but the OKC Thunder made some great picks and went from a bottomdweller in Seattle to a perennial title contender.
The problem with the system here is that the window of opportunity is fairly limited for "small market" teams because nowadays, the superstars all want to move to New York, LA, Boston or Miami, etc. to help their media exposure and endorsement deals.
Even though Orlando is a pretty big, world renowned city, it wasn't big enough to keep Dwight Howard happy.Willkiller
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I played it for the first time earlier in the year, great game but technically it doesn't hold up well at all. Clunky gameplay, awful framerate.
pulga
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ME3 Wii U shot in the head.
Not that easy. The new city has to have a sufficient stadium or arena which small towns/cities will never have or they'll have to build which takes a lot of time, a lot of local government involvement and red tape.
I do like how the American system allows a team to potentially become very successful in short order if they have good and passionate fans. The draft can be a relative crap shoot, but the OKC Thunder made some great picks and went from a bottomdweller in Seattle to a perennial title contender.
The problem with the system here is that the window of opportunity is fairly limited for "small market" teams because nowadays, the superstars all want to move to New York, LA, Boston or Miami, etc. to help their media exposure and endorsement deals.
Dwight Howard is infinitely worse in the way he treated his situation than Lebron. Fact.
Multiple years of bullshit, ego and he wouldn't go to Chicago and play with D Rose because they both have Adidas contracts and he wouldn't get the max endorsement deal since Rose had already been there.
The_Hitcher89
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I'm so happy. I bought ME2 but never played it because I had a PC that was capable of playing ME1, but the PC died when I was like 3 hours in and the franchise fell off the radar for me. Will buy, will see what all the fuss is about
Also, Im'ma buy Tokyo Jungle
There's a lot to it behind the scenes but ultimately the owner of the franchise has to get a deal in place with another city to help build them a field/arena/ballpark and that usually takes at least 1-2 years to complete construction. It's a pretty rare occurrence because there's a lot of red tape. If or when it happens, it's mostly due to relative apathy and poor attendance in the existing location.
You do sometimes see a very passionate group of fans get screwed by an owner who just wants to make a shitload of money with no regard for the fans (the case of the Browns becoming the Ravens), but the league has to approve the sale and they take this into account.
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