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NFL Playoffs (1 Viewer)

SenorXm/Sirius said:
20-0.. And I'm pretty sure GB's offense isn't nearly as explosive as KC's.. So I fear we may not see a SB 1 match-up.
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Looking like a bridge too far for Rodgers and his depleted receiving core. I think he’s done well to get them this far.
 
Higgins86 said:
Looking like a bridge too far for Rodgers and his depleted receiving core. I think he’s done well to get them this far.
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Yep.. 27-0 and the Pack is giving up rushing yardage in CHUCKS.. SF can just run the ball in the 2nd half and put this away.
 
Higgins86 said:
I’m not talking about from a fans perspective I’m talking about how players are judged and nowadays most modern footballers are the top see the champions league as the pinnacle of club football. World Cup is every 4 years and only a small handful of players get a chance to win it. It’s just not comparable especially to a SB.
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I'm sure that if you interview 2,000 professional soccer players from the top clubs all over Europe and ask them, money not being the factor (sure, their salaries are paid by clubs), but in terms of their career dreams, what they would prefer to tell their grandchildren by a bonfire, once they were old and retired:

1. I once won the FIFA World Cup. I got this gold medal as a World Champion.
2. I once won the Champions League with my domestic club.

I GUARANTEE that given the liberty of picking, and if they could pick only one, 95% of the players would pick option 1.

Just look at the person we started this talk about: Lionel Messi. Look at the faces he makes and the tantrums he throws every time he tries and fails again and again to win the FIFA World Cup with Argentina (and the Copa America too, for that matter). Messi has won the Champions League multiple times, and the Ballon d'Or multiple times, still, you can tell how bitter and frustrated he is, because he never won the ultimate prize.

Is it not comparable to a SB? Well, it is.

Over here, we call the SB champs, World Champs. We know it's a misnomer, but our sport is just so overwhelmingly stronger here than anywhere else, that we call our club competition, a world one. I hear that before the diffusion of soccer to the four corners of the planet, before FIFA and the national team competitions were even organized, the Brits used to call their soccer champions, world champions. With American Football, we are in a similar situation. These days, there is an international federation of American Football, but it is still in its infancy and the quality just can't be compared.

So, the thing is:

Biggest accolade (being called World Champ), biggest accomplishment in the career of a soccer player: the FIFA World Cup.
Biggest accolade (being called World Champ), biggest accomplishment in the career of an American Football player: the Super Bowl.

So, yes, they are perfectly comparable.
 
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27-nothing...this is a beat down.
 
SenorXm/Sirius said:
Nope.. Dan Marino was definitely 1 of the greatest QB's in the history of the NFL.. He was GREAT.. He never won a SB... Many baseball fans say Ted Williams was 1 of the greatest baseball players in the history of the game, he never was on a winning WS team.

In teams sports you can NOT label individual greatness on 'winning the big one'.

I'd take Dan Marino over Eli Manning every single time, 1 won zero SB's, 1 won 2.. I'd take the guy with 0 SB's..
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My point exactly.
 
GreatNews2night said:
I'm sure that if you interview 2,000 professional soccer players from the top clubs all over Europe and ask them, money not being the factor (sure, their salaries are paid by clubs), but in terms of their career dreams, what they would prefer to tell their grandchildren by a bonfire, once they were old and retired:

1. I once won the FIFA World Cup. I got this gold medal as a World Champion.
2. I once won the Champions League with my domestic club.

I GUARANTEE that given the liberty of picking, and if they could pick only one, 95% of the players would pick option 1.

Just look at the person we started this talk about: Lionel Messi. Look at the faces he makes and the tantrums he throws every time he tries and fails again and again to win the FIFA World Cup with Argentina (and the Copa America too, for that matter). Messi has won the Champions League multiple times, and the Ballon d'Or multiple times, still, you can tell how bitter and frustrated he is, because he never won the ultimate prize.

Is it not comparable to a SB? Well, it is.

Over here, we call the SB champs, World Champs. We know it's a misnomer, but our sport is just so overwhelmingly stronger here than anywhere else, that we call our club competition, a world one. I hear that before the diffusion of soccer to the four corners of the planet, before FIFA and the national team competitions were even organized, the Brits used to call their soccer champions, world champions. With American Football, we are in a similar situation. These days, there is an international federation of American Football, but it is still in its infancy and the quality just can't be compared.

So, the thing is:

Biggest accolade (being called World Champ), biggest accomplishment in the career of a soccer player: the FIFA World Cup.
Biggest accolade (being called World Champ), biggest accomplishment in the career of an American Football player: the Super Bowl.

So, yes, they are perfectly comparable.
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I’d love to counter but I’m not derailing this anymore lol. Come debate with me and Pete EU in the soccer thread one time.
 
calamity said:
27-nothing...this is a beat down.
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Like the first time they played this season. I never thought that the Packers could beat the 'Niners in SF. In Green Bay, yes, because the refs always help them there. But in SF? Nah.
 
Higgins86 said:
I’d love to counter but I’m not derailing this anymore lol. Come debate with me and Pete EU in the soccer thread one time.
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No, thanks. I know that certain European soccer fans, especially Brits, do have this idea that the Champions League is the most important soccer tournament in the planet... which is absolutely preposterous (and by the way overly Eurocentric) that an European-only club competition can be called more important than a world-wide national team tournament that involves with absolute passion all soccer nations in the entire planet. This arrogant view irritates me, so I won't go there just to hear some arrogant and misguided fans repeat it.

Sure, I don't deny that the quality of play is often higher in the Champions League (which in a way is also in function of the fact that the stakes in the World Cup are so high that games are often more defensive as players are very nervous and cautious), but that's not what I'm getting at. I'm not talking quality of play (sure, certain very rich European soccer teams are able to hire the best players from everywhere so quality-wise they are great), I'm talking prestige, accomplishment, career dream, passion, both for fans and players, and again, there is ABSOLUTELY NO COMPARISON.

Say, you have a final game featuring Liverpool vs. Bayern Munich. You'll have ONE fraction of that country's faithful, the Liverpool fans, rooting for Liverpool when most other fans will be rooting against them (I can't imagine Arsenal, Manchester United, Chelsea fans etc rooting for Liverpool), the same being true in Germany. So, yeah, people will watch the game... but other than those two fan bases, they won't go berserk about it.

Compare to a FIFA World Cup Final between, say, France and Italy, and then look at the entire nation dressed in their team's color, decorations everything, literally MILLIONS of people glued to the screens and flocking to the streets in wild celebration for each victory, in something that captures the imagination and the passions of the entire nation for a continuous month, and then once one of the nations wins it, the celebrations again gather MILLIONS of people and fill the streets for several days with wild crowds pouring from everywhere...

I've seen those crowds, my friend. I've been part of those.

Again, there is absolutely NO comparison.
 
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The SB is gonna be a shoot out? That's fun. Wonder what the under/over will be. Over 50?
 
Jimmy G has 6 pass attempts? Lol wow
 
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This actually could be a good Super Bowl. San Frans Defense is quality...they actually cover receivers in the secondary instead of just letting them run to open spots. They have both a run game and a passing game. And I think their offense is a few notches better than the Chiefs defense. I think San Fran will actually win this one.
 
Higgins86 said:
Jimmy G has 6 pass attempts? Lol wow
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Havent had much of a need. I think the difference between Garapallo and Tannehill is that if Garrapallo needs to throw, he can.
 
VanceMack said:
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This actually could be a good Super Bowl. San Frans Defense is quality...they actually cover receivers in the secondary instead of just letting them run to open spots. They have both a run game and a passing game. And I think their offense is a few notches better than the Chiefs defense. I think San Fran will actually win this one.
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This meme is absolutely hilarious!!! Well done!

SF-KC will be a great SB. Can't wait.
 
Casper said:
If you mean the stadium then yes, the city, nope
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I only visited Kansas City once in my lifetime, and on one of the two days I spent there, there was a Chiefs game going on. My hotel was located on the Kansas side of the metropolitan area and instead of watching from my room, I thought it would be more fun to go to a sports bar, and it was packed with Chiefs fans, of course.

I don't think the residents of Kansas City, Kansas, feel any less proprietary regarding their NFL franchise than the residents of Kansas City, Missouri.

By the way, the team is not called The Kansas City Missouri Chiefs. It is simply called the Kansas City Chiefs.

Similarly, like I said, no resident of New York City refrains from rooting for the Giants or the Jets because they play across the river in New Jersey.

Fan bases don't necessarily follow city or state borders, and smart teams want to multiply rather than to restrict their markets.

So, I'm sure that if we were to ask the question to the Chiefs owners, marketing directors, and PR departments, they would unanimously say that they proudly represent both Kansas City, Missouri, and Kansas City, Kansas, plus the metropolitan area, and plus everybody else at driving distance and beyond who cares to give them the honor of rooting for their team.

These teams near borders won't build their stadiums exactly on the border line because it would complicate taxes. They will need to be entirely inside a state/city/county, but they will often identify themselves as representatives of larger areas.
 
Higgins86 said:
Jimmy G has 6 pass attempts? Lol wow
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And 48 yards. :shock:

4 rushing TD's on 275 yards running with 2 field goals has to be the weirdest 34 points scored all year.
 
Holy cow! One might think that this game is not over. I still think it's too little too late because one more score by the 'Niners will put this out of reach, but certainly the Packers are putting up a fight, now, down two scores with more than 8 minutes to go.
 
34-20

Makes you wonder if....maybe---nah. Right?
 
GreatNews2night said:
I only visited Kansas City once in my lifetime, and on one of the two days I spent there, there was a Chiefs game going on. My hotel was located on the Kansas side of the metropolitan area and instead of watching from my room, I thought it would be more fun to go to a sports bar, and it was packed with Chiefs fans, of course.

I don't think the residents of Kansas City, Kansas, feel any less proprietary regarding their NFL franchise than the residents of Kansas City, Missouri.

By the way, the team is not called The Kansas City Missouri Chiefs. It is simply called the Kansas City Chiefs.

Similarly, like I said, no resident of New York City refrains from rooting for the Giants or the Jets because they play across the river in New Jersey.

Fan bases don't necessarily follow city or state borders, and smart teams want to multiply rather than to restrict their markets.

So, I'm sure that if we were to ask the question to the Chiefs owners, marketing directors, and PR departments, they would unanimously say that they proudly represent both Kansas City, Missouri, and Kansas City, Kansas, plus the metropolitan area, and plus everybody else at driving distance and beyond who cares to give them the honor of rooting for their team.

These teams near borders won't build their stadiums exactly on the border line because it would complicate taxes. They will need to be entirely inside a state/city/county, but they will often identify themselves as representatives of larger areas.
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I lived there for nearly 6 years, so I know the situation well
 
Rodgers has just passed Favre in franchise post-season TDs. Nice. I like Rodgers and dislike Favre.
 
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I heard people in Miami, Ohio are Dolphans.


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ecofarm said:
I heard people in Miami, Ohio are Dolphans.


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LOL.

Similarly, residents of Paris, Texas, are passionate supporters of the French soccer team Paris St-Germain.

New England residents are not really fans of the NFL franchise the Patriots. They much prefer to root for English soccer teams Liverpool, Arsenal, Manchester United, Tottenham, Manchester City, etc.
 
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Sherman intercepts Rodgers. Looks like that's game.
 
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