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Im in the blue part of the pie!

Definitely blue part.

I’m so happy the Pats lost!!!!

Can’t weight for Brady’s wife to have a meltdown again.

Definitely in the blue. No Cheetahs in the Superbowl!

I’m in the blue. Cam Newton is just amazing.

Blue for me. Brady was guilty as far as I’m concerned.

icenutz wrote:

I’m in the blue. Cam Newton is just amazing.

I like the way Cam plays except the constant celebrating. Can’t he just make a play and walk off the field one time? I guess that is one thing I really like about Brady…..

-J.

I like the Broncos, but I wanted the Pats to loose sooooo much more.

Jon Jordan wrote:

I like the way Cam plays except the constant celebrating. Can’t he just make a play and walk off the field one time? I guess that is one thing I really like about Brady…..

I’m not a fan of sports celebrating, but somehow Cam is different to me. He looks like he is having so much dang fun out there all the time! I don’t perceive it as an “attention, look at me” type of thing with Cam. I perceive it as “I absolutely love this team, these fans, and my job, so I’m going to have a blast doing it all!”

In someway he is just different, his celebrating is not the same at Terrell Owens, Chad Johnson, and tons of other people out there.

The pie chart is about right, funny because it’s funny and funny because it’s true. I have to admit, though, that it’s only because I envy the Pats and how they put a winning product on the field. Not sure there are a lot who could honestly say that they wouldn’t want to add Brady to their team if they could.

In honesty even though I have no attachment to Carolina, I just want them (and Cam Newton) to win it all. Totally agree with the others, it’s great to see a player who’s not celebrating to be a jerk and to taunt, but just because he gets it. He’s getting payed to play a game and he clearly loves it.

Grouse

I wish people would loosen up on sports celebrations. Whether it’s football or baseball, it’s just a bunch of grown men playing a kid’s game.

Baseball is the worst though. Hit a 98 mph fastball 500 feet to win a baseball game? Bascially accomplishing something that literally a few hundred people in the world can do? Well you better not celebrate dagnamit! If you run too slow or too fast around those bases then prepare to get a 95 mph fastball in the back tomorrow night.

It completely baffles me that it’s ‘not okay’ to celebrate homeruns, but it is okay to throw a baseball as hard as you can at a defenseless person. Complete idiocy.

Let these kids have fun, football, baseball, who cares. This is an instructional video on how celebrations should be handled in football.

The best ones start at about 1:50. I think ‘the bicycle’ is the best.

One of the reasons I like Zach Parise is he doesn’t even like the fly by the bench and high five everyone. He just does it to be a team player.

growing up in Western NE, totally a Broncos fan….

What I hate about the celebrations is when they celebrate things that are part of their job and are not critical. For instance a linebacker tackled a running back on 1st down after a 3 to 4 gain yard. Really? That is your job get up and get ready for the next play.

On 4th and 5 in a tight game and you tackle them after a 3 yard gain okay I get that.

For me this applies to all sports just using football as an example.

I don’t care for some of the real wild celebrations that someone had to coreogragh to get it done. Fist bumping, high five, fist in the air, touchdown signal, etc. is ok in my book. I don’t think it is any worse than what goes on in some of the hunting shows where the celebration gets a little out of hand as far as I’m concerned.

I’ll take Cam and the Panthers (or anyone!) over the cheating Patriots any day!

Definitely blue here… not so much for any particular player… more like Bellicheat for me. I too think Cam is just having fun… he celebrates even the little things… but isn’t that what life is all about Also love his cadence….. Readyyyyyyyy………… and you better be !!!

The Patriots are the NFL’S version of the Yankees and I enjoyed watching them lose. It would be nice to see Peyton Manning win a Superbowl and go out on top. Watching Cam go up against Denvers defense should be entertaining.

As far as celebrations does anyone remember the first time we played Seattle? We were down like thirty something to zip and Patterson returned a kickoff for a td. He started high stepping around the ten, danced, jumped in the stands etc… You would’ve thought he just won the Superbowl. Another example of a guy with million dollar talent paired with a ten cent brain.

So,……..this isn’t a poll on a “NEW FISHING LEAGUE”

In regards to philtickelson’s comment about drilling a player with a fastball because he showboated, I agree that is stupid and frustrating. I love baseball and all the quirks and tradition but some of the “unwritten rules” are just plain stupid.

Typically one of those “unwritten rules” is hitting a batter to prove a point. It’s done a lot and quite a few older veteran players/managers/announcers still agree with the practice. I have two problems with that.

1. There’s nothing manly or adult-like about it. A batter has no choice-he has to stand in the box and receive pitches, then make a decision in a fraction of a second. So when you’re that pitcher throwing at his upper back, are you really proud that you got some “revenge” for your team when you have all those advantages?

2. It’s usually not a fight where the right people or “guilty” parties are the ones getting the retribution. Pitchers will throw at hitters for a litany of reasons, such as show-boating, sliding with spikes up, bunting and breaking up a no-hitter, etc. Typically the reasoning is to stand up and defend your team and show you’re not going to take it. However what you see often is Player A offends Player B or his team, and either Player B or his team takes it out on random player.

Kind of a long rant unrelated to the original post but it’s always bugged me. Let’s say Kurt Suzuki has a somewhat hard slide at any given base and an opposing player gets hurt a little. Are we willing to lose Miguel Sano later in the inning or game because the vengeful team/pitcher decided to throw at our best player?

Doesn’t make any sense to me.

I’m not a fan of sports celebrating, but somehow Cam is different to me. He looks like he is having so much dang fun out there all the time! I don’t perceive it as an “attention, look at me” type of thing with Cam. I perceive it as “I absolutely love this team, these fans, and my job, so I’m going to have a blast doing it all!”

In someway he is just different, his celebrating is not the same at Terrell Owens, Chad Johnson, and tons of other people out there.
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mnrabbit wrote:

<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>Jon Jordan wrote:</div>
I like the way Cam plays except the constant celebrating. Can’t he just make a play and walk off the field one time? I guess that is one thing I really like about Brady…..

I’m not a fan of sports celebrating, but somehow Cam is different to me. He looks like he is having so much dang fun out there all the time! I don’t perceive it as an “attention, look at me” type of thing with Cam. I perceive it as “I absolutely love this team, these fans, and my job, so I’m going to have a blast doing it all!”

In someway he is just different, his celebrating is not the same at Terrell Owens, Chad Johnson, and tons of other people out there.

I agree with this, he reminds of Favre with how much fun he has out there….

Now I dislike the guy even more!

“I’ve said this since Day One,” Newton said. “I’m an African-American quarterback that scares people because they haven’t seen nothing that they can compare me to”.

Ummmm, how about Randall Cunningham for starters….

-J.

Somewhere Russel Wilson is just shaking his head….and polishing his super bowl ring.

Jon Jordan wrote:

Now I dislike the guy even more!

“I’ve said this since Day One,” Newton said. “I’m an African-American quarterback that scares people because they haven’t seen nothing that they can compare me to”.

Ummmm, how about Randall Cunningham for starters….

-J.

They are definitely both black quarterbacks with running skills and a strong arm, so I’ll give you that. But 6’4″ and 215 lbs is a lot different than 6’5″ 250. Especially when the 250 pound dude can run as well(or better) than the 215 lb dude. Through their first five years here’s how they stack up.

Rushing yards per year: Randall = 500, Cam = 650.
Passing yards per year: Randall = 2387(53% completion), Cam = 3652(59% completion).

So yeah, they are like both black and can run well for a QB, but Cam is honestly in another league thus far in his career while ALSO being A LOT bigger.

Finding other quarterbacks of similar stature provides a pretty short list:
Daunte Culpepper
Donovan McNabb(although not nearly as tall)
*Likely forgetting some other QBs.

In reality, Daunte Culpepper is a much better comp to Newton than Cunningham is at this point in their careers. Problem is, after Culpepper’s 5th year he was a complete non-entity in the NFL. Culpepper also had the benefit of throwing the ball to a top 3 receiver in the history of the NFL.

It’s honestly pretty awesome watching Newton go to work, and I don’t think there’s another QB like him in the league, black, white, brown, yellow or any other color of the rainbow.

The point is his statement shows what an arrogant A$$ the guy is. (or appears to be)

-J.

He might be too young or arrogant to remember Doug Williams…. Again, a guy with a ring…

Jon Jordan wrote:

The point is his statement shows what an arrogant A$$ the guy is. (or appears to be)

-J.

First game I watched with him was the before last, and the way he had to take a fake knee, then take a fake knee, oh and then take another knee to end the game. Then wonder why the d-line rushed on the next knee.
Arrogant is right. Last thing I want my kids to watch is something like that.

I’ll have no trouble not even watching the game.

Don’t care if Manning wins and rides off into the sunset.