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American Football takes on average about 3 hours to complete and has about 12 minutes of actual ball in play action (The average NFL game contains about 120 actual plays, which take an average of six seconds each. That's 720 seconds of play, or 12 minutes). That means that only 5% of the game is action and 95% of the game is the borefest of standing around, scratching and slapping butts, getting off and on the field and endless commericals for viagra and cialis. You spend 5 seconds watching action by which I mean fat guys in pads and lycra tights pushing each other, then minutes of complete boredom followed after.
The only people who would even dream of objecting to this interpretation of this most boring of sports are Americans, the same way only the Japanese will object to the notion of Sumo Wrestling being boring. But whether its American football or Sumo wrestling, they are both played by fatasses and both are incredibly boring and look incredibly gay, hence will never become popular outside their nations of origin. Its plain and simple and the whole world agrees on it, AMerican football is boring, tedious and a pussy version of rugby.
;D ;D ;D
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plus football players bring home a lot less $$$$ than pro bodybuilders. Have you seen some of the 40 times of pro Bbers? They're faster than most NFL players.
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Hahahaha! That's funny!
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Hear! Hear!
I second this motion.
Have you seen my thread on this very subject?
To Advertisers it is a boon. Mindless idiots glued to little action but countless commercials. The players are in on it with the advertisers and realize it is all just an attempt to snooker Joe Sixpack into spending his last 3 dollars on whatever useless consumable product that is designed to hoo-doo or placate (unbeknownst to Joe Sixpack) the manipulated desires of the manufactured consent.
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A great game, far more compelling than scoreless soccer games and primitive, out of control rugby played by savages.. The only problem is that the delays between plays has been exacerbated by all the commercials.
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Hear! Hear!
I second this motion.
Have you seen my thread on this very subject?
To Advertisers it is a boon. Mindless idiots glued to little action but countless commercials. The players are in on it with the advertisers and realize it is all just an attempt to snooker Joe Sixpack into spending his last 3 dollars on whatever useless consumable product that is designed to hoo-doo or placate (unbeknownst to Joe Sixpack) the manipulated desires of the manufactured consent.
Yeeeess, totally agree ,great minds think alike . ;)
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Soccer is popular only because EXTREMELY POOR PEOPLE everywhere can play it. They roll up socks in duct tape and kick it around. Then they run around a field for 3 hours and score 2 or 3 goals. yeah, talk about exciting ::)
brown people can't afford to play american football, true story.
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dont like it turn over.
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Hear! Hear!
I second this motion.
Have you seen my thread on this very subject?
To Advertisers it is a boon. Mindless idiots glued to little action but countless commercials. The players are in on it with the advertisers and realize it is all just an attempt to snooker Joe Sixpack into spending his last 3 dollars on whatever useless consumable product that is designed to hoo-doo or placate (unbeknownst to Joe Sixpack) the manipulated desires of the manufactured consent.
You are a fucking dullard >:( >:(
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It should be called American handball, because you mostly play with your hands. Then "soccer" could be called football which it really is.
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American Football takes on average about 3 hours to complete and has about 12 minutes of actual ball in play action (The average NFL game contains about 120 actual plays, which take an average of six seconds each. That's 720 seconds of play, or 12 minutes). That means that only 5% of the game is action and 95% of the game is the borefest of standing around, scratching and slapping butts, getting off and on the field and endless commericals for viagra and cialis. You spend 5 seconds watching action by which I mean fat guys in pads and lycra tights pushing each other, then minutes of complete boredom followed after.
The only people who would even dream of objecting to this interpretation of this most boring of sports are Americans, the same way only the Japanese will object to the notion of Sumo Wrestling being boring. But whether its American football or Sumo wrestling, they are both played by fatasses and both are incredibly boring and look incredibly gay, hence will never become popular outside their nations of origin. Its plain and simple and the whole world agrees on it, AMerican football is boring, tedious and a pussy version of rugby.
;D ;D ;D
Yep, guys like Larry Fitzgerald, Ray Lewis, Derrick Brooks, and Brandon Jacobs are real porkers. ::)
Let a rugby guy get drilled by Adrian Wilson and he'll get carted off on a stretcher. Furthermore, football isn't exclusively an American sport as the Canadian Football League is actually older than the National Football League.
Soocer is a borefest in the USA, because we have better things to do than watch guys run around for up to 90 minutes with almost no scoring done. Not to mention the obligatory drama kings overselling injuries to try and pick up cheap penalty.
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In America soccer is for "guys" who aren't man enough to play football.
In America rugby is for drunken frat boys to play at the club level in college.
That is all, dismissed.
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Hear! Hear!
I second this motion.
Have you seen my thread on this very subject?
To Advertisers it is a boon. Mindless idiots glued to little action but countless commercials. The players are in on it with the advertisers and realize it is all just an attempt to snooker Joe Sixpack into spending his last 3 dollars on whatever useless consumable product that is designed to hoo-doo or placate (unbeknownst to Joe Sixpack) the manipulated desires of the manufactured consent.
LOL. Get off your Noam Chomsky high horse, TA. ;)
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I love how all rugby girls feel they have to try and cut down football to defend rugby. if football is so terrible why is it becoming mainstream in so many more countries now?
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When i play tackle football , im hurt for like 5 days after that.... but i could play soccer everyday and feel no where close the soreness...
hahah @ ppl trying to make fun of football....football rulez
GO G-MENNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!
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Well I am lucky to have played both Football and Rugby. Football and the Div II level and Rugby at the USA Div I level, which is one level below Super League. I played guard while in college and tight-head prop for my Rugby squad.
I've been involved in this argument since I first steped foot on the pitch and it's similar to the MMA vs Boxing debate. In other words complete bullshit.
Both sports require top level, well-rounded athletes. Anyone that says differently is the same guy sniffing butts from sideline and never played anything.
Football is more of a physical chess match. We had to learn hundreds of plays and variations and make pre-snap calls as well as mid-play rotations. Rugby required much less thinking but more reaction. Because you can't block or be in front if the ball you have to be aware of the field at all times because one or two wrong passes and you go from offense to defense and must completely change your position and play style.
I loved playing football and love playing Rugby today, but they are very different sports. Living in the US, most American don't realize how big Rugby to the rest of the World. But still 100+ million people watching the Superbowl says a lot too.
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you guys need to get a life or enjoy whatever is left of it....hope this helps
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Nothing beats watching 20 guys fondle each other in a scrum that moves two feet over the course of 10 seconds, then is reset and done again because the ball came out the side and not the back. ::)
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Yep, guys like Larry Fitzgerald, Ray Lewis, Derrick Brooks, and Brandon Jacobs are real porkers. ::)
Let a rugby guy get drilled by Adrian Wilson and he'll get carted off on a stretcher. Furthermore, football isn't exclusively an American sport as the Canadian Football League is actually older than the National Football League.
Soocer is a borefest in the USA, because we have better things to do than watch guys run around for up to 90 minutes with almost no scoring done. Not to mention the obligatory drama kings overselling injuries to try and pick up cheap penalty.
Amen brother!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Football is more of a physical chess match. We had to learn hundreds of plays and variations and make pre-snap calls as well as mid-play rotations. Rugby required much less thinking but more reaction. Because you can't block or be in front if the ball you have to be aware of the field at all times because one or two wrong passes and you go from offense to defense and must completely change your position and play style.
Have played both and that's about right. Rugby's got that unplanned constant action and frenzy that's also typical of earlier sports like soccer. Football's more strategic and measured, especially the US pro version. Rugby equipment or lackthereof relative to football is essentially something like early football with leather helmets before all the enhancements in protection.
The heavier guys still have to be in somewhat better shape and lighter to play rugby because of the constant flow. There's still room for some preplanned plays, for example plays off the scrum which is like the line of scrimmage.
As far as injuries, you're going to get more bones broken in football given the heavier weights including additional weight of the equipment and greater bursts of speed over shorter periods of time. More gashes, cuts and gouging in a more primal sport like Rugby that hasn't got a lot of protection.
Lots of similarities tho, as you'd expect since football evolved from from Rugby and Soccer in Canada and the US. Japan also plays college football.
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I love how all rugby girls feel they have to try and cut down football to defend rugby. if football is so terrible why is it becoming mainstream in so many more countries now?
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its not getting mainstream anywhere, only american ex pats and a few handfull of weirdos will ever follow it outside of the US... football(soccer) is the only sport that matters in every country barring america and canada, and it does have a lot to do with bein able to be played by the very poor, all u need is a ball and thats it.
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American Football takes on average about 3 hours to complete and has about 12 minutes of actual ball in play action (The average NFL game contains about 120 actual plays, which take an average of six seconds each. That's 720 seconds of play, or 12 minutes). That means that only 5% of the game is action and 95% of the game is the borefest of standing around, scratching and slapping butts, getting off and on the field and endless commericals for viagra and cialis. You spend 5 seconds watching action by which I mean fat guys in pads and lycra tights pushing each other, then minutes of complete boredom followed after.
The only people who would even dream of objecting to this interpretation of this most boring of sports are Americans, the same way only the Japanese will object to the notion of Sumo Wrestling being boring. But whether its American football or Sumo wrestling, they are both played by fatasses and both are incredibly boring and look incredibly gay, hence will never become popular outside their nations of origin. Its plain and simple and the whole world agrees on it, AMerican football is boring, tedious and a pussy version of rugby.
;D ;D ;D
Hhahahahah and bodybuilding is gay ::). Hahahahha now do golf Drama Queen so we can have a coach meltdown in this thread.
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its not getting mainstream anywhere, only american ex pats and a few handfull of weirdos will ever follow it outside of the US... football(soccer) is the only sport that matters in every country barring america and canada, and it does have a lot to do with bein able to be played by the very poor, all u need is a ball and thats it.
I am also not aware of it becoming more mainstream worldwide, it is really an American thing with a few fans worldwide. Only reason I knew it was the superbowl was as American TV said so, I don't think anyone follows it here at all.
As you said, only soccer really is the worldwide sport.
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American football: very large powerful men doing exceptional athletic things at very quick and fast speeds. A game suited for American fans who like the sudden impact of controlled violence.
Played D-1 for 4 years and a little Rugby during off season for football. So have a taste for both. Where I was born Rugby is number one, also played by powerful 230lb men. No doubt about it, American football requires a lot more thinking and strategy than most other sports. So many football games are lost by mental mistakes than anything else. Can be near an intellectual pursuit, when played at it's best.
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American Football takes on average about 3 hours to complete and has about 12 minutes of actual ball in play action (The average NFL game contains about 120 actual plays, which take an average of six seconds each. That's 720 seconds of play, or 12 minutes). That means that only 5% of the game is action and 95% of the game is the borefest of standing around, scratching and slapping butts, getting off and on the field and endless commericals for viagra and cialis. You spend 5 seconds watching action by which I mean fat guys in pads and lycra tights pushing each other, then minutes of complete boredom followed after.
The only people who would even dream of objecting to this interpretation of this most boring of sports are Americans, the same way only the Japanese will object to the notion of Sumo Wrestling being boring. But whether its American football or Sumo wrestling, they are both played by fatasses and both are incredibly boring and look incredibly gay, hence will never become popular outside their nations of origin. Its plain and simple and the whole world agrees on it, AMerican football is boring, tedious and a pussy version of rugby.
;D ;D ;D
Rugby players are inferior athletes to NFL players. Same with soccer players.
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Well I am lucky to have played both Football and Rugby. Football and the Div II level and Rugby at the USA Div I level, which is one level below Super League. I played guard while in college and tight-head prop for my Rugby squad.
I've been involved in this argument since I first steped foot on the pitch and it's similar to the MMA vs Boxing debate. In other words complete bullshit.
Both sports require top level, well-rounded athletes. Anyone that says differently is the same guy sniffing butts from sideline and never played anything.
Football is more of a physical chess match. We had to learn hundreds of plays and variations and make pre-snap calls as well as mid-play rotations. Rugby required much less thinking but more reaction. Because you can't block or be in front if the ball you have to be aware of the field at all times because one or two wrong passes and you go from offense to defense and must completely change your position and play style.
I loved playing football and love playing Rugby today, but they are very different sports. Living in the US, most American don't realize how big Rugby to the rest of the World. But still 100+ million people watching the Superbowl says a lot too.
I played both. The level of athlete needed in the NFL is much greater than in rugby. Why dont these Rugby players come try out for an NFL team and make millions?
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its not getting mainstream anywhere, only american ex pats and a few handfull of weirdos will ever follow it outside of the US... football(soccer) is the only sport that matters in every country barring america and canada, and it does have a lot to do with bein able to be played by the very poor, all u need is a ball and thats it.
False, every game the NFL has played overseas has been a sellout. Also, football is huge in America and is catching on in other countries. Soccer is boring and the athletes are not top notch. Not a single soccer player could make it in the NFL.
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Sorry to say that American football is not doing that well oversea's with the folding of the NFL Europe teams. A big blow to the future of the sport over there. And the vast majority of the people going to those game were American service men or Americans working oversea's and never to a sellout crowds. Those once a year NFL games in London (Mexico and Japan sometimes included) are over hyped and quite a few attending are let in free anyway. Get enough drunk Brit's and they will go anywhere.
Same with the Arena football in the U.S., folding as it did. That was a great learning experience for some future NFL players. Almost like every play was in the red zone. Canada has the CFL which is more like minor play football.
Australian Rules Football can be enjoyable to watch. Wide open style with more attention on the "foot" in football.
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Nothing beats watching 20 guys fondle each other in a scrum that moves two feet over the course of 10 seconds, then is reset and done again because the ball came out the side and not the back. ::)
haha! ;D
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dont try to compare Rugby to NFL Football, its not even close.
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dont try to compare Rugby to NFL Football, its not even close.
Obviously they're worth comparing, football came from rugby, even the ball.
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Both are different sports so cant compare.
Specificity.
All 3 at the highest level are great for fans.
However i dont see american football in the Olympics :)
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Obviously they're worth comparing, football came from rugby, even the ball.
sorry pump but youre wrong again. you personally can compare the two all you like, the similarities end at the glaringly obvious fortuantely.
basketball came from a peach basket on a wall, you wanna compare that to the NBA go ahead ::)
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Sorry to say that American football is not doing that well oversea's with the folding of the NFL Europe teams. A big blow to the future of the sport over there. And the vast majority of the people going to those game were American service men or Americans working oversea's and never to a sellout crowds. Those once a year NFL games in London (Mexico and Japan sometimes included) are over hyped and quite a few attending are let in free anyway. Get enough drunk Brit's and they will go anywhere.
Same with the Arena football in the U.S., folding as it did. That was a great learning experience for some future NFL players. Almost like every play was in the red zone. Canada has the CFL which is more like minor play football.
Australian Rules Football can be enjoyable to watch. Wide open style with more attention on the "foot" in football.
European football teams are not NFL teams, and the athletes are not even close to as good.
The facts are this:
The NFL games that have happened abroad recently have been sold out. Tickets were sold out, so your comment about people being let in free is inaccurate as of recently
Football is a sport that makes a lot of money and people here in the US love to play it and to watch it. We don't really care what the Brits think about it. To us soccer is boring to you football is boring, who cares?
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sorry pump but youre wrong again. you personally can compare the two all you like, the similarities end at the glaringly obvious fortuantely.
You're uninformed; learn the history. There are quite a few similarities because of the strong historical link. Where the &&^% do you think foot from football came from? Kicking's been marginalized now in today's NFL but it came from rugby and soccer. The first ever football game was played between Montreal and Boston colleges. Montreal brought the rugby influence, Boston a modified version of soccer involving drop-kicking and catching the ball that no other American colleges wanted to play.
The goalposts are virtually the same in rugby and football, so is the ball. That dropkick that Belichik and Flutie did a few years ago came right from the CFL (which has retained more kicking)and rugby influence you idiot. :D
basketball came from a peach basket on a wall, you wanna compare that to the NBA go ahead
Man you sound dumb-basketball was invented by a Canadian living in Mass, using peach baskets. Ya in fact the peach baskets and idea of getting the ball thru is the same as NBA genius, the baskets are just fancier LOL you didn't know that?
Canada has the CFL which is more like minor play football
Your typical myopic American know-nothing. It's akin to top college football, at least. 4 guys from Toronto will be in the NFL next year, and Buffalo's trying to get in to Toronto because it's a major sports venue with a 20 year old stadium that's still better technically than most NFL stadiums.
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You're uninformed; learn the history. There are quite a few similarities because of the strong historical link. Where the &&^% do you think foot from football came from? Kicking's been marginalized now in today's NFL but it came from rugby and soccer. The first ever football game was played between Montreal and Boston colleges. Montreal brought the rugby influence, Boston a modified version of soccer involving drop-kicking and catching the ball that no other American colleges wanted to play.
you're ignorant and youre comprehension is lacking.
no one is arguing that american football did not derive from rugby, i hope i dont have to explain in laymans terms everyones posts for you.
a historical link does not equal a legitimate comparison in current times with regard to American Football and Rugby sorry. if you want to compare the two using..like i said earlier, the simplistic glaringly obvious then go a head, you may find a few similarities but to compare the two at this stage of the evolution of American Football would be foolish. American Football has evolved away from Rugby so much so that a comparison would of the two now would be ridiculous.
Man you sound dumb-basketball was invented by a Canadian living in Mass, using peach baskets. Ya in fact the peach baskets and idea of getting the ball thru is the same as NBA genius, the baskets are just fancier LOL you didn't know that?
you are a moron. my statement about basketball basketball came from a peach basket on a wall, you wanna compare that to the NBA go ahead ::)
went right over your head.. ::)
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you're ignorant and youre comprehension is lacking.
no one is arguing that american football did not derive from rugby, i hope i dont have to explain in laymans terms everyones posts for you.
a historical link does not equal a legitimate comparison in current times with regard to American Football and Rugby sorry. if you want to compare the two using..like i said earlier, the simplistic glaringly obvious then go a head, you may find a few similarities but to compare the two at this stage of the evolution of American Football would be foolish. American Football has evolved away from Rugby so much so that a comparison would of the two now would be ridiculous.
you are a moron. my statement about basketball went right over your head.. ::)
I didn't mind educating you despite your meltdown, you didn't know any of it, nor did anyone else here. ;)
You have trouble expressing yourself, and end up writing things that you then claim later you didn't mean. I put you in your place on basketball based on what you wrote-go back and reread what you wrote.
Also it's "your" not "youre" you uneducated jackass.
Hope this helps. ;)
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I didn't mind educating you despite your meltdown. ;) I put you in your place on basketball, based on what you wrote-go back and reread. I don't think you're at all good at articulating WTF you actually mean and had to go on what you wrote.
Also it's "your" not "youre" you uneducated jackass LOL.
Hope this helps. ;)
understandably you relegate to simple spelling errors now that thats all you have left after being proven wrong, its an obvious act of desperation ;)
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Actually body88, European football teams were sponsored, advised and supported by the NFL. It was not a money making effort for the teams or the NFL it's self. Main reason the NFL withdrew from it. A few players from the European teams have played in the NFL over here. Most of those crowd numbers (sellouts) are mocked up to look good.
Atheist: Would not be too concerned with Pumpster, he always seems to have a weak view on most things, but always wants to come across as the expert. And when proven wrong, will resort to name calling and other petty things. He does act like a 5 year old at time. And yes, he is very desperate to be noticed and feel superior to others.
Pumpster is the reason so many good people no longer post on the Training board. Since he became a mod (or God in his own mind) over there he will delete, or change, peoples post if they give a opposite view than his. He is quite fond of using the overworked term "meltdown" on others. Also big on others spelling, yet half the time uses a lower case i for personal nouns, among other things. Rumor he may drink a bit. But who knows. He is retired in Phoenix now, I have heard.
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Pumpster is the reason so many good people no longer post on the Training board. Since he became a mod (or God in his own mind) over there he will delete, or change, peoples post if they give a opposite view than his. He is quite fond of using the overworked term "meltdown" on others. Also big on others spelling, yet half the time uses a lower case i for personal nouns, among other things. Rumor he may drink a bit. But who knows. He is retired in Phoenix now, I have heard.
Brutal self-ownage considering that "jpm" is on the training board daily LOL. He's there to learn from moi. I correct his silly assumptions on training as often as i offer fixes to his horrible grammar. It's like shooting fish in a barrel. I'm in his mind big-time, as seen with his daily stalking and inability to stick to the topic at hand. He can't stop obsessing on me. :-*
Actually body88, European football teams were sponsored, advised and supported by the NFL. It was not a money making effort for the teams or the NFL it's self. Main reason the NFL withdrew from it. A few players from the European teams have played in the NFL over here. Most of those crowd numbers (sellouts) are mocked up to look good.
"jpm" the pompous know-all setting everyone straight here ROFL the true dummies never realize that the joke is them. ;D I love "jpm" he's priceless but doesn't know it LOL
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understandably you relegate to simple spelling errors now that thats all you have left after being proven wrong, its an obvious act of desperation ;)
Trainwreck
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Trainwreck
Enough of your crap. Your finished on this board until you stop being a douche to everyone with a different opinion than you. It's funny that your claims of unfair treatment on this board (when not a single post of yours has ever been deleted) have been proven to be a joke considering your reputation of modding on the training board. Take it up with Ron, the community has spoken and you are not welcome here anymore
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Pumpsters last post just confirmed how really stupid he really is. But than again he is too dumb to understand that. Only have to check some of his past desperate and insecure rantings. And just plan spite and envy of others.
Pumpster never knew what a "V" bar was, for example. Among other styles and forms of working out. Had to explain to him, very slowly, that there was really a thing as a exercise "V" bar. Even gave him a course in BB'ing 101 for the grumpy old man. Felt it was my duty to help my elders. But he forgets easily now-a-days.
Please seek help Pumpster, about that mental problem of yours. Or is your problem from a bottle? Very old drunks lose their charm after awhile. OH ya, happy to inform you about the NFL. How is that minor football play going with the CFL? And might I say thanks for deleting another of my post on the training board this morning. Bless you old timer.
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Enough of your crap. Your finished on this board until you stop being a douche to everyone with a different opinion than you. It's funny that your claims of unfair treatment on this board (when not a single post of yours has ever been deleted) have been proven to be a joke considering your reputation of modding on the training board. Take it up with Ron, the community has spoken and you are not welcome here anymore
Good decision.