Basketball
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raidar has a board full of poasters that would love your round ball thoughts...tell g7 i said hello.
My younger brother goes to Alabama so for the last three seasons, Alabama has been my "other team" in college football.
Friend, you need to get you some of that in your life. It's frickin awesome lol. Obviously I care way more about the Heels, but whether Carolina wins or loses, it's nice watching Alabama mow through ranked opponent after ranked opponent every week.
There is an OOTB basketball thread. The THI basketball board is called radar. It's um... interesting to read.
Can't do it - I can never succumb to the "2nd team" wagon. This was a death sin in our household growing up. I'll spare you.
It doesn't really assuage the pain -- it's just something enjoyable to watch after seeing your real team get smacked.Can't do it - I can never succumb to the "2nd team" wagon. This was a death sin in our household growing up. I'll spare you.
Still though, basketball won the ACC regular season and the ACC Tournament and made the Final Four. Can't exactly be too disappointed with that.
like a damn machine...it's a beautiful thing to watch.
Yes. It's the best. I think Chick should spend the next few weeks over there catching up on all the happenings.
Can't do it - I can never succumb to the "2nd team" wagon. This was a death sin in our household growing up. I'll spare you.
Really! Of all the people to take on a second team, the guy who chastises UNC fans for not yelling loud enough at ballgames is now a pseudo Bama fan? Whoa.
I'm just f*cking with you a little. I get what you're saying. I have several teams - maybe even dozens - that I enjoy watching for various reasons. Of course you know of my love affair with UVa. My wife is a UT girl so we do the Rocky Top thing. I think Saban is the bees knees so I pull for Bama a little. I like Dabo and will pull for Clemson to win the title. I was all in on the Pete Carroll USC dynasty. But I don't think you need to adopt a "secondary" team. I can just watch college football and pull for different teams for different reasons.
So are you saying that this season will be a big disappointment if we don't win the title? I can't get down with that. I want them to win too. But the enjoyment I get out of following the season is too much to turn down because I'm scared of disappointment. Last year was a fun time. I really liked watching the team evolve throughout the season.
I'll go over to MY other team, Clemson, maybe they don't have four grumpy old men over there. The four in here I'd swear were Dook fans by the way they grumble around here.
Ahhhhhhhhh light bulb moment! Since I'm going to win the bet with 71 I have THE perfect avatar for him to use!!!!!!!
Ahhhhhhhhh light bulb moment! Since I'm going to win the bet with 71 I have THE perfect avatar for him to use!!!!!!!
trust you?...what's sad?...watching the godzilla of college football beat down opponents in the best league the last two decades?...they get top five talent, have arguably the best college coach ever, and they don't apologize for being great.
and if they get beat this weekend or any other until the conference title game, it doesn't matter...they are the benchmark.
Yeah okay. But we ALL know the four I'm referring to. When I read some of their crap, the image of coach K pops in my head! That's how bad they get!!
This is correct. It literally doesn't matter. They could have 4 losses and they're getting an invite to the playoffs.
You need to come to Radar and talk some Basketball. Be a nice addition there.
Bro, they're the best team in America every year by leaps and bounds.
Now hear me when I say they really are NOT my "second team." If someone says they have a second team, I assume they mean that they are affected (ecstatic after a win, angry/depressed after a loss) equally if either of those two teams lose. Alabama obviously ain't that for me because they're an acquired team due to family. If they lose, it's not gonna ruin my day or even my hour. It's simply fun to pull for a winner that I have a tie to....rather than just randomly being like "hmm...okay, I'm gonna pull for the Packers." Now that I've got that disclaimer put in writing...
Let me return to my opinion that Alabama is the best team in the country every season, hands down. Look at the buzzsaw season they run through every year in the SEC alone, and then they always man up and play a tough (or at least tough on paper) OOC game like USC this year, Wisconsin last year, etc. You said that if Alabama lost 4 games, they'd still be in the playoff. Well first of all, no, they wouldn't get put in the playoff. But it's a moot point regardless because Alabama is never gonna lose 3 games, let alone 4.
Like gtee said, they're a friggin machine and they just keep on rolling. I'm going to my first game there in two weeks and I'm damn excited.
I think that's an exaggeration, but I wasn't arguing against that.
I said that tongue in cheek, I acknowledge 4 losses and the writers would have to swallow their pride and not put them in. The point was that if there's any semblance of an argument to be made that they should be in the playoffs... they're getting in the playoffs. It's *almost* as if they lose 3 games - the playoffs would be Bama (cuz they're so mighty) and the three teams they lost to (cuz they beat Bama!)
And here is the point I was making in what you quoted. "I'd like to see Bama prove me wrong" as in, I'd like to see them lose 4 games and then (obviously) not get put in the playoffs.
I don't even have anything against Bama. I just get tired of the SEC slurpfest throughout the media. I realize it's somewhat deserved, but it's also somewhat overblown.
Don't you mean - You can't out-cheat Bama.
SEC teams are pros at that. We on the other hand are not; hence we get busted.
We were out last weekend shooting pool and the ultra hot bar wench was sporting an auburn shirt with strategic cuts in it to reveal her ample assets. I ambled up to her (not moseyed or sachayed, but ambled) and i said "if i can prove my dad was the biggest auburn fan ever can i motorboat those awesome breastesses?" She looked at my wife who nodded permission. She said "u can try but i am the biggest auburn fan EVER!" I whipped out my drivers license, revealing my dad named his first born (me) "auburn". I was a motorboatin' mutha fker!
I'm disgusted!!! No one has ever said that in any locker room I've been around!
What a deplorable. I'm shocked - SHOCKED, I tell you - to know that people talk like that. And we weren't even in a lockerroom.
Well at least you asked kindly beforehand. An arrogant icehole (asshole if you don't get the reference) would have just done out of lack of control!
Damn, I guess heelz has been missing out big time!
Davey-Boy is at it again over on Raider . . and some folks wanna call this board a mess.
