The Weird, Wacky and Awesome World of the NFL - General Banter thread

taidghbaby

nerd69 wrote: »

anyone watching the pro bowl draft no? (i know it sucks but i try to trick myself every year :mad:)

Any of the documentaries / interviews around the probowl are generally quite interesting and a bit of a laugh!

The game itself holds no interest for me really!!

taidghbaby

taidghbaby wrote: »

Any of the documentaries / interviews around the probowl are generally quite interesting and a bit of a laugh!

The game itself holds no interest for me really!!

The game could hold more meaning for a lot of things and the NFL is really missing out by not making it charitable.
Think about this:
Every player picks a charity to support at the pro bowl. If you're a QB and you throw a TD you get 20,000 for your chosen charity. You catch a TD you get 20,000. You get a sack/int it's 20,000. Every player on the winning team get's 10000 for their chosen charity. Lot's of $$$ for good causes.
The NFL has the money to do something like this and it would be very highly regarded on top of all their charitable work anyway. It might even make the game more competitive.

Son Of A Vidic

Deleted User wrote: »

The game could hold more meaning for a lot of things and the NFL is really missing out by not making it charitable.
Think about this:
Every player picks a charity to support at the pro bowl. If you're a QB and you throw a TD you get 20,000 for your chosen charity. You catch a TD you get 20,000. You get a sack/int it's 20,000. Every player on the winning team get's 10000 for their chosen charity. Lot's of $$$ for good causes.
The NFL has the money to do something like this and it would be very highly regarded on top of all their charitable work anyway. It might even make the game more competitive.

I think that's an excellent idea and it would make the game more competitive. Players would be motivated to give it a serious lash when playing for their own charity.

Hazys

Deleted User wrote: »

The game could hold more meaning for a lot of things and the NFL is really missing out by not making it charitable.
Think about this:
Every player picks a charity to support at the pro bowl. If you're a QB and you throw a TD you get 20,000 for your chosen charity. You catch a TD you get 20,000. You get a sack/int it's 20,000. Every player on the winning team get's 10000 for their chosen charity. Lot's of $$$ for good causes.
The NFL has the money to do something like this and it would be very highly regarded on top of all their charitable work anyway. It might even make the game more competitive.

Its funny how much they care about helping breast cancer awareness in October that they completely forget how charitable they can be in months outside of October.

Masked Man

It'll be the last game for Tony Gonzalez, so that adds a little something to it this year.

Syferus

Would love a proper skills competition, if done right it could certainly be revived and developed. At least they're trying something new this year.

Lionbacker

Pretty epic video here from the always fantastic NFL Films.

http://www.nfl.com/videos/nfl-films-presents/0ap2000000316280/NFL-Films-Presents-Best-player-sound-of-2013

Its basically a "best of" version of sound FX throughout the year.

raze_them_all_

Corvus Maximus wrote: »

I think that's an excellent idea and it would make the game more competitive. Players would be motivated to give it a serious lash when playing for their own charity.

No player with a brain ould give the pro bowl a serious lash with the potential of injuries

raze_them_all_

Holy **** the length of that colts playcall

Son Of A Vidic

raze_them_all_ wrote: »

No player with a brain ould give the pro bowl a serious lash with the potential of injuries

Don't take my words so literally, I meant make an effort as opposed to not making an effort. Like the joke of a Pro Bowl we seen in 2012. Players might be willing to break a sweat to raise funds for their favourite charity. And no they don't necessarily have to risk their careers while doing so.

kmart6

raze_them_all_ wrote: »

Holy **** the length of that colts playcall

You realise that was a few edited together right?!

raze_them_all_

kmart6 wrote: »

You realise that was a few edited together right?!

yeah, but assumed one of em was watt on bout the 19 word call?

Morrison J

One of the few good things to come out of the pro bowl:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTtOaDvf8co

kmart6

raze_them_all_ wrote: »

yeah, but assumed one of em was watt on bout the 19 word call?

Nope, he was mic'd up for the Titans game! It's just the way the editors but the whole thing together!

rockonollie

Looking forward to the awkward moment when Robert Mathis sacks Andrew Luck

adrian522

Nobody will be sacking anyone, it will be like flag football except not as physical.

raze_them_all_

I see the raiders cheerleaders are suing the raiders

SantryRed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRqKYXcL-2U

Another bad lip reading!

Morrisseeee

SantryRed wrote: »

Another bad lip reading!

............just picking myself up off the ground now, that's fuppin hilarious

Bill: mmmmm............you smell good, what is it, pine ?

Mathis : "I'm a nervous wreck !" (...ing machine LOL)

skeleton_boy

http://www.paddypower.com/bet/novelty-betting/sports-novelties/wwe

Richard Sherman priced at 300/1 to win the royal rumble this weekend :pac:

johnmcdnl

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HW4J-RiCZ2Q

Feel free to remove if it's a repost but pretty damn funny

Syferus

Been mainlining ESPN docs lately, most in the 30 for 30 series. Haven't seen one I didn't enjoyed yet. Even the weaker ones relatively speaking are engaging and memorable, though I'm sure we all know that by now!

At its best the ESPN films exceed even what NFL Films produce, mainly because there's such a diverse range of styles in the ESPN docs whereas the NFL Films adhere to a (excellent) house style in most cases.

It always has amazed me how American film-makers can make excellent sports documentaries but poor, over-the-top attempts at regular documentaries while British (and to a lesser degree Irish) film-makers have excelled at history, social and nature documentaries.

ITV's Sports Stories strand seems to be reaching for a higher standard in sports documentaries, Keane v. Vieira was excellent and I'm hearing good things about this weeks' Christ Eubank-Michael Watson documentary. The Ronan O'Gara doc on here a few weeks ago was so excellent.

It's a golden age for sports documentaries.

Syferus

Syferus wrote: »

It always has amazed me how American film-makers can make excellent sports documentaries but poor, over-the-top attempts at regular documentaries while British (and to a lesser degree Irish) film-makers have excelled at history, social and nature documentaries..

I dunno, hard to beat a Ken Burns documentary, his Civil War series from 1990 is the best I've seen.

Itssoeasy

I see the pro bowl is blacked out on gamepass. I mean I knew it would be but still it just gives me one more reason to not watch this televised popularity contest. I'll watch football all day and night but not this years pro bowl.

Syferus

Deleted User wrote: »

I dunno, hard to beat a Ken Burns documentary, his Civil War series from 1990 is the best I've seen.

PBS are the exception to the rule, though, and a lot of the style of their documentaries have taken cues from earlier BBC series like Civilisation. PBS does have a tendency towards producing very static, dry documentariesm though. I enjoy them but when you see the inventiveness and use of the format elsewhere you'd wish they'd step out of their niche more often. HBO have a few good documentaries themselves, but the consistent quality isn't close to what groups like BBC's Natural History Unit or BBC4 produce.

Anyways, I'll shamefully admit one of the 30 for 30 docs I haven't got around to watching yet is Roll Tide/War Eagle. Got a stitched together copy of it from Youtube a while back but nothing better turned up (ahem) and I never watched it. Found the 720p version of it on the US iTunes store for 99c and I said what the hell. Looking forward to it.

mikemac1

Nothing weird, wacky and awesome here, just a quick reference guide

mikemac1

Blast from the past, anyone remember the discussion about Alshon Jeffrey before he got drafted. Heavily criticised over his conditioning and he went to the Bears with the 45th pick

This

To beast :cool:

kmart6

The 1 minute highlights package on Sky Sports this morning was enough to justify my decision not to watch the Pro Bowl!

Son Of A Vidic

kmart6 wrote: »

The 1 minute highlights package on Sky Sports this morning was enough to justify my decision not to watch the Pro Bowl!

I actually saw the first half and it was the most physical Pro Bowl I've seen in years. It did seem like an effort was being made. No nobody was getting laid out, but it certainly was nothing like the crap I saw back in 2012. I can't speak for the second half though....................because I fell asleep.:pac:

GoldFour4

Corvus Maximus wrote: »

I actually saw the first half and it was the most physical Pro Bowl I've seen in years. It did seem like an effort was being made. No nobody was getting laid out, but it certainly was nothing like the crap I saw back in 2012. I can't speak for the second half though....................because I fell asleep.:pac:

Yeah I only watched up until Desean Jacksons td catch but it was the most physical I've seen in years. The defense was genuinely trying to make stops. The low scoreline compared to other years would seem to agree with this.