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2019 MINSHEW

GuyIncognito

pressure cooker full of skittles
How have I not seen that Elway clip before?

I didn't even know that was a rule. I know you can't "enhance" the crowd noise like the Vikings always using amplifiers or whatever, but I didn't know that it was against the rules for the crowd itself to be too loud.
 

GuyIncognito

pressure cooker full of skittles
Watching clips of this on youtube apparently it used to happen semi-frequently.

It's kinda quaint seeing all these offenses that I guess had never considered silent counts. If the receivers can't hear the QB then everyone just freaks out.
 

Travis7401

Douglass Tagg
Community Liaison
Watching clips of this on youtube apparently it used to happen semi-frequently.

It's kinda quaint seeing all these offenses that I guess had never considered silent counts. If the receivers can't hear the QB then everyone just freaks out.

Yeah the South Stands in mile high claimed so many victims during that era when a team would end up backed against the end zone. They'd assess a "timeout" penalty against Denver occasionally but it didn't matter, it just made the crowd even more raucous.... and the offense had it even worse when they tried to snap the ball 45 seconds later. It regularly ended in a string of false starts (because Denver's defense also used to make abrupt shifts to simulate a snap, lol).

That's what made me even more angry about PEYTON doing it, because by that point offenses were capable of using silent counts. I honestly think he just liked to hear hisself talked (and liked that the broadcasters talked about his "audibles" every time something went well even though 90% of those were fake audibles). Peyton was obviously only running a "hurry up" offense to cynically limit defensive substitutions as much as possible... then he'd fake audbile and gesticulate for fucking 30 seconds before snapping it with 2 seconds on the play clock like he always intended. I try to explain this to people and they say "oh no, Peyton was always calling the offense and making adjustments." BULLSHIT, you could see the offensive players completely zoned out, just watching the playclock, lol.

I would get especially mad when he would angrily SHUSH the slightly happy home crowd, lol. If you can't handle people barely talking in the stands during a home game, then how are you going to do in New England on the road? (oh I guess we know!)
 

TonyGin&Juice

Sucking off Lawn Guy Land hobos.
Yeah the South Stands in mile high claimed so many victims during that era when a team would end up backed against the end zone. They'd assess a "timeout" penalty against Denver occasionally but it didn't matter, it just made the crowd even more raucous.... and the offense had it even worse when they tried to snap the ball 45 seconds later. It regularly ended in a string of false starts (because Denver's defense also used to make abrupt shifts to simulate a snap, lol).

Are you tom bout the days when Romo would do that bizarre cat whine to fuck with the center and guards?
 

Travis7401

Douglass Tagg
Community Liaison
I think Romo was only there for like 1 year of old mile high. I'm tombout the 80s era ORANGE CRUSH with Mecklenburg at mike linebacker (and everything else), lol.

Jim Gaffigan looking dude playing MLB in the NFL, what a time to be alive. THE ALBINO RHINO!

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Travis7401

Douglass Tagg
Community Liaison
100% True Story Time.

My high school defensive coordinator was a really strange dude and before 10th grade he told me "Son, you'll always be like the 20th best player on the team... so if you ever want to make a contribution you need to embrace special teams (long snapper here I come!) and become like the ALBINO RHINO and learn to play every single position." He then regaled me with tales of his time playing with Mecklenburg in college, lol. He was never the best player, but his versatility to play a bunch of positions meant that a 12th round pick became a decade long starter in the NFL. I heard so many ALBINO RHINO stories for the next 4 years!

So I took his advice and learned to play TE, Tackle, Guard, Center (LONG SNAPPER!), DE, DT, NT, and MLB. I tried OLB early on as well, but by the time I was a senior the 4-4 variant was more like a 4-2-5 because spread offenses were becoming prevalent, so I was too slow to play what was essentially safety/linebacker hybrid.

He was 100% right too. I started several varsity games at center and guard as a sophomore (and got killed) because of injuries to older players. I started the first 2 games as a junior at center before getting injured. As a senior I played Tackle early in the season and then switched numbers and played TE for the end of the year due to injury to the starter. On defense I ended up playing half the year as MLB and half the year as NT, depending on who was hurt and where I was less of a liability! If I had stuck with my preferred position (TE) I would have started maybe 4 games after our starter got hurt. I was basically the Douglass Tagg of my generation... Loathsome AF, but willing!

I took this lesson into my reel life too! It's tough because the world values specialists. Specialization is awesome if you're the best at something, but specialists miss out on a lot of less than ideal opportunities that a generalist will have access to. At my current company I definitely have a strong area, but I also made it a point to learn how to be at least adequate at every aspect of our business.
 

Travis7401

Douglass Tagg
Community Liaison
Close! I graduated in 4 years but I heard that extra year of stories because I was the creepy guy who hung around practice in my letter jacket after I graduated to "help" because I couldn't let go of my glory days.
 

TonyGin&Juice

Sucking off Lawn Guy Land hobos.
I think Romo was only there for like 1 year of old mile high. I'm tombout the 80s era ORANGE CRUSH with Mecklenburg at mike linebacker (and everything else), lol.

Jim Gaffigan looking dude playing MLB in the NFL, what a time to be alive. THE ALBINO RHINO!

JUq3qtHL_400x400.jpg

Ah yes, I thought that might have been the era you were referring to and not the Superb Owl losing years.
 

Southpaw

Fuckface
Utopia Moderator
How was he out so long? What did he do to his heel? Damn

Sure hope he stays healthy for a while. I'm a huge fan, but damn he's missed two full seasons basically.
 

bruin

Well-Known Member
Heel injury coming off an achilles. Has been basically “day to day” since week 1. KC has kept it on the DL major. Probably will only play 40% of snaps. Brought a long slowly.

Also, Tony Gonzalez is going in the ring of honor. Arrowhead gonna burn to the ground.
 

Travis7401

Douglass Tagg
Community Liaison
everything gives you cancer, but burnt ends check multiple cancer boxes!

Then again I was talking to this hippie dietitian and she was going on and on about the dangers of NITRATES in ma'hot dogs, lunch meat, shit like that... I need to just eat #salads instead. Salads with lots of greens, not that shitty iceberg lettuce. Since I'm not the type to take advice with a grain assault. I look it up and a cup of SPINACH has like as much nitrates as 10 hot dogs. My #Salad has so many nitrates! So next time I talk to this hippie I ask her about the nitrates in spinach... and she tells me "the nitrates in spinach are ok because all of the vitamin C in the spinach effectively cancels out the negative effects of the nitrates"

Fair enough, so now I just eat a hot dog and then eat an orange? ORALE!
 
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hayvis

Will-Gnome Member
everything gives you cancer, but burnt ends check multiple cancer boxes!

Then again I was talking to this hippie dietitian and she was going on and on about the dangers of NITRATES in ma'hot dogs, lunch meat, shit like that... I need to just eat #salads instead. Salads with lots of greens, not that shitty iceberg lettuce. Since I'm not the type to take advice with a grain assault. I look it up and a cup of SPINACH has like as much nitrates as 10 hot dogs. My #Salad has so many nitrates! So next time I talk to this hippie I ask her about the nitrates in spinach... and she tells me "the nitrates in spinach are ok because all of the vitamin C in the spinach effectively cancels out the negative effects of the nitrates"

Fair enough, so now I just eat a hot dog and then eat an orange? ORALE!
Fuck. I eat a shit ton of spinach.
 

Southpaw

Fuckface
Utopia Moderator
Pretty impressive watching him dink and dunk down the field and not get impatient. You know that was the Chargers plan. Sit back and don’t give him any big plays. He just taking what they give him.
 

Southpaw

Fuckface
Utopia Moderator
Rivers vying for dat MVP. That throw he made on 4th down the last drive to Benjamin against Man 2 deep with the rush in his face.

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They didn't block 95 all night. That shit was comical.
 
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