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| Author: | Smarmystein [ Wed Sep 09, 2015 12:05 pm ] |
| Post subject: | 9/9: Dan's writing it getting worse! |
Just make up something cutesy for first and last sentence then throw shit in the middle..... By Dan Bernstein CBSChicago.com Senior Columnist Scandals are elaborate sand castles, impressive yet fleeting. Again they have been built on the shores while the NFL has been away from the action since the Super Bowl concluded, in fact immediately and unceasingly thereafter. One beside another in a long line, each with additions tacked on in the weeks without football, drying slowly in the summer sun. And they are not long for this earth. There are waves building. Thursday night brings the crest of it, and the rest crashes home Sunday to wash us in our national distraction. We have felt it all approaching, and it’s here. For those attached to the home team, the weeks of practices and depth charts finally culminate in familiar collisions, more meaningful and explosive than those presented by the increasingly silly exhibitions. Rosters have been pared, selected for size and speed, as the physics now go from theoretical to tangible. Temptation from the possibility of success always trumps confronting the alternative in the minds of hopeful fans – heart over head for now at least – and a league designed for competitive equality reaps the rewards of generational faith as the gates swing open and turnstiles spin. More objective observers may have appetites whetted for other opportunities, noting a half-point imbalance one way or the other, or a curiosity amid the posted win totals. Civic loyalty has nothing on the more mercenary instincts, however. We have heard it for weeks in casual conversations at work, at the gym and at the bar, and have absorbed the advertisements luring our eyes and ears with the promises of millions of dollars. Indeed, Fantasy Football deserves a more apt name at this point, having become at least as real as the game both for fans and the NFL itself. It should come as no surprise that such an ownership-dominant business model has made owners of its consumers, empowering them by commodifying interchangeable players and making all games more important to everyone invested. Stadiums themselves are glittering, crackling monuments to postmodern irony, providing bandwidth so attendees can track results everywhere else, as massive screens replicate the living rooms the thousands paid handsomely to relinquish for the day. Tickets have never been more expensive, and the fans ostensibly there to be in the moment have never been less present. Soon football will be everywhere, and always in the Red Zone. If it’s not your team, it’s someone on one of your other teams, as they are all your teams. Anything that has occurred in a federal courtroom or at an office conference-table soon becomes an afterthought, subsumed and overwhelmed by young men destroying each other for our amusement in staccato bursts of violent athleticism. For some of us, watching the game played at the highest level itself is satisfying enough. Others crave action on the action to make it more personally visceral. It’s all spectacular entertainment regardless, commanding our time and attention. At once mortally human and gloriously inhumane, football returns to arenas and airwaves to divert us from previous pursuits. It is a sea of money and power. The tide is coming in. |
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| Author: | Seacrest [ Wed Sep 09, 2015 12:29 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 9/9: Dan's writing it getting worse! |
No matter what anyone says, Tim Baffoe's Bio is the best thing on that site. |
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| Author: | redskingreg [ Wed Sep 09, 2015 12:34 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 9/9: Dan's writing it getting worse! |
Smarmystein wrote: Anything that has occurred in a federal courtroom or at an office conference-table soon becomes an afterthought, subsumed and overwhelmed by young men destroying each other for our amusement in staccato bursts of violent athleticism. For some of us, watching the game played at the highest level itself is satisfying enough. Others crave action on the action to make it more personally visceral. Why is no one thanking the lawyers?!?!?!? |
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| Author: | Regular Reader [ Wed Sep 09, 2015 12:48 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 9/9: Dan's writing it getting worse! |
That kind of crap should be reserved for the idiots that run year-round Christmas stores. |
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| Author: | Score is doomed [ Wed Sep 09, 2015 1:08 pm ] |
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Sounds like something from The Onion. |
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| Author: | Don Tiny [ Wed Sep 09, 2015 1:17 pm ] |
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I suggest he wrote that purely to use the word "subsumed" ... which, frankly, isn't the worst reason to put out a few paragraphs of sports dreck. |
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| Author: | bigfan [ Wed Sep 09, 2015 1:25 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 9/9: Dan's writing it getting worse! |
Regular Reader wrote: That kind of crap should be reserved for the idiots that run year-round Christmas stores. I know one exists in Cutlers hometown...and guessing if there is an actual North Pole, AK...they got one there too....then the guy in the Souther hemisphere ready to capture the market when the polarity of the earth changes and he tries to convince everyone it is really South....anyone else? |
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| Author: | Tad Queasy [ Wed Sep 09, 2015 1:40 pm ] |
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1:35 Dan: Give your opinion! Don't claim to represent some nebulous constituency!
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| Author: | Franky T [ Wed Sep 09, 2015 1:59 pm ] |
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but when all the Ferguson stuff was happening wasn't the SJW bemoaning the judicial system as having an inherent racial bias? Now Brandon Marshall dares to infer that the same justice system may be biased and he's an idiot who needs to produce empirical evidence to support his position? Gotcha. |
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| Author: | badrogue17 [ Wed Sep 09, 2015 2:07 pm ] |
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Can't wait for CH or DiC to take apart Lil Danny's writing. |
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| Author: | Dignified Rube [ Wed Sep 09, 2015 3:01 pm ] |
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Wow, someone from Birmingham called Dan on his idiotic comment about wanting to wall-in the South. Black murderous violence in Chicago is OK to Dan, where there were more than 30 shootings and 6 murders over Labor Day weekend, but because some Christians are denying gays birth-certificates in the South that's reason to excommunicate them all. Dan should be fired for what he said. It's not defensible on any level and shows him to be the bigot. What a hypocrite. |
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| Author: | SpiralStairs [ Wed Sep 09, 2015 3:09 pm ] |
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Dignified Rube wrote: Wow, someone from Birmingham called Dan on his idiotic comment about wanting to wall-in the South. Black murderous violence in Chicago is OK to Dan, where there were more than 30 shootings and 6 murders over Labor Day weekend, but because some Christians are denying gays birth-certificates in the South that's reason to excommunicate them all. Dan should be fired for what he said. It's not defensible on any level and shows him to be the bigot. What a hypocrite. 
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| Author: | Hawg Ass [ Wed Sep 09, 2015 3:09 pm ] |
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bigfan wrote: Regular Reader wrote: That kind of crap should be reserved for the idiots that run year-round Christmas stores. I know one exists in Cutlers hometown...and guessing if there is an actual North Pole, AK...they got one there too....then the guy in the Souther hemisphere ready to capture the market when the polarity of the earth changes and he tries to convince everyone it is really South....anyone else? I know there is one off of 43 or 41 here as you go north. |
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| Author: | Regular Reader [ Wed Sep 09, 2015 3:12 pm ] |
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Hawg Ass wrote: bigfan wrote: Regular Reader wrote: That kind of crap should be reserved for the idiots that run year-round Christmas stores. I know one exists in Cutlers hometown...and guessing if there is an actual North Pole, AK...they got one there too....then the guy in the Souther hemisphere ready to capture the market when the polarity of the earth changes and he tries to convince everyone it is really South....anyone else? I know there is one off of 43 or 41 here as you go north. There used to be (still is?) one in the Houston Galleria Mall. Right next to the ice skating rink. Texans 
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| Author: | Dignified Rube [ Wed Sep 09, 2015 3:19 pm ] |
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SpiralStairs wrote: Dignified Rube wrote: Wow, someone from Birmingham called Dan on his idiotic comment about wanting to wall-in the South. Black murderous violence in Chicago is OK to Dan, where there were more than 30 shootings and 6 murders over Labor Day weekend, but because some Christians are denying gays birth-certificates in the South that's reason to excommunicate them all. Dan should be fired for what he said. It's not defensible on any level and shows him to be the bigot. What a hypocrite. These officials who have risked going to jail on principle for their religious beliefs are the ones that should be applauded. All the gays can go to hell and you can too. |
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| Author: | Brick [ Wed Sep 09, 2015 3:19 pm ] |
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Add another one to the illustrious CSFMB God Squad! |
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| Author: | Curious Hair [ Wed Sep 09, 2015 3:20 pm ] |
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Dignified Rube wrote: All the gays can go to hell and you can too. huh |
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| Author: | Douchebag [ Wed Sep 09, 2015 3:23 pm ] |
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Boilermaker Rick wrote: Add another one to the illustrious CSFMB God Squad! Seacrest Scooter Dignified Rube Quite a threesome |
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| Author: | bigfan [ Wed Sep 09, 2015 3:24 pm ] |
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Boilermaker Rick wrote: Add another one to the illustrious CSFMB God Squad! T shirts? |
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| Author: | Smarmystein [ Wed Sep 09, 2015 3:25 pm ] |
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Boilermaker Rick wrote: Add another one to the illustrious CSFMB God Squad! of course...only you would know who would qualify Rick. 
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| Author: | Brick [ Wed Sep 09, 2015 3:26 pm ] |
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bigfan wrote: Boilermaker Rick wrote: Add another one to the illustrious CSFMB God Squad! T shirts?
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| Author: | Brick [ Wed Sep 09, 2015 3:26 pm ] |
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Smarmystein wrote: Boilermaker Rick wrote: Add another one to the illustrious CSFMB God Squad! of course...only you would know who would qualify Rick. |
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| Author: | Don Tiny [ Wed Sep 09, 2015 3:32 pm ] |
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Douchebag wrote: Boilermaker Rick wrote: Add another one to the illustrious CSFMB God Squad! Seacrest Scooter Dignified Rube Quite a threesome Their combined IQ vs Shreve Bowling avg - which is higher? |
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| Author: | Dignified Rube [ Wed Sep 09, 2015 3:38 pm ] |
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Don Tiny wrote: Douchebag wrote: Boilermaker Rick wrote: Add another one to the illustrious CSFMB God Squad! Seacrest Scooter Dignified Rube Quite a threesome Their combined IQ vs Shreve Bowling avg - which is higher? There are no greater fools than you atheists and those who ridicule God-fearing people. |
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| Author: | SpiralStairs [ Wed Sep 09, 2015 3:48 pm ] |
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Dignified Rube wrote: These officials who have risked going to jail on principle for their religious beliefs are the ones that should be applauded. All the gays can go to hell and you can too. Hey what's with the attitude? I just thought you might be interested in a cool picture of a baby. |
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| Author: | Don Tiny [ Wed Sep 09, 2015 3:49 pm ] |
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| Author: | Beebo [ Wed Sep 09, 2015 3:50 pm ] |
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That sounds like it escaped from the Skip Bayless' paean of purple prose. |
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| Author: | Seacrest [ Wed Sep 09, 2015 3:50 pm ] |
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Don Tiny wrote: Douchebag wrote: Boilermaker Rick wrote: Add another one to the illustrious CSFMB God Squad! Seacrest Scooter Dignified Rube Quite a threesome Their combined IQ vs Shreve Bowling avg - which is higher? Thanks to Douchebag and Don for always reading what I post. Even though you can't understand most of it and can only rebut with insults.
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| Author: | Dignified Rube [ Wed Sep 09, 2015 3:56 pm ] |
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SpiralStairs wrote: Dignified Rube wrote: These officials who have risked going to jail on principle for their religious beliefs are the ones that should be applauded. All the gays can go to hell and you can too. Hey what's with the attitude? I just thought you might be interested in a cool picture of a baby. If you're going to pick a fight with a big bad Bear like me, then prepared to get mauled. You're not even in my league. |
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| Author: | Don Tiny [ Wed Sep 09, 2015 4:02 pm ] |
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How long has Flood Brothers been advertising on the 670 stream? |
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