Randy Lerner Losing Popularity At Aston Villa

[The Gipper]

Snooker:

[Kosar_For_President]

@the-gipper said:

Now, you know, snooker and pool are not the same game, though they are similar.

Snooker is played on a bigger table, and the balls are different. Half the snooker balls are usually red, and they are pocketed in different order. I do not believe snooker plays the typical "8 ball" or "9 ball games" that pool players play.

Dude, I LIVED in England for 3 years. Snooker was on TV 3 times a week.

[slowburn]

Does the game have anything to do with the term "snookered" i.e wasted, trashed, drunk, shtfaced?

[miktoxic]

@slowburn said:

Does the game have anything to do with the term "snookered" i.e wasted, trashed, drunk, shtfaced?

i think snookered means getting 'taken' or 'ripped off'. you're think of snockered.

i used to run 5 miles a day when in the army. one day i went to our bases' soccer game against some civilian team. i knew most of the players on the team so they asked me to fill-in for a guy that was going to be late that way they wouldn't forfeit the game. hadn't play a lick of soccer ever in my life but they basically yelled telling me what to do as not to blow anything. i probably played 15 minutes and was more tired and exhausted after those 15 minutes than any 5 mile run or obstacle course we used to do.

BUT saying all that.....it's still gay.

[slowburn]

Could be why you never seee a pro soccer player with a beer gut. they all look leaned out which probably

adds to their perceived gayness. Not that there is anything wrong with that

JERRY: Y'know I hear that all the time.

ELAINE: Hear what?

JERRY: That I'm gay. People think I'm gay.

ELAINE: Yeah, you know people ask me that about you, too.

JERRY: Yeah, 'cuz I'm single, I'm thin and I'm neat.

[DieHardBrownsFan]

@miktoxic said:

i think snookered means getting 'taken' or 'ripped off'. you're think of snockered.

i used to run 5 miles a day when in the army. one day i went to our bases' soccer game against some civilian team. i knew most of the players on the team so they asked me to fill-in for a guy that was going to be late that way they wouldn't forfeit the game. hadn't play a lick of soccer ever in my life but they basically yelled telling me what to do as not to blow anything. i probably played 15 minutes and was more tired and exhausted after those 15 minutes than any 5 mile run or obstacle course we used to do.

BUT saying all that.....it's still gay.

I played Rugby in Okinawa when I was in the Navy. No padding, no time outs, 10 minute "half" time. Exhausting. Got busted up good my first game, needed 25 stitches in my forehead.

[Kosar_For_President]

@diehardbrownsfan said:

I played Rugby in Okinawa when I was in the Navy. No padding, no time outs, 10 minute "half" time. Exhausting. Got busted up good my first game, needed 25 stitches in my forehead.

That's because you Navy girls had your nails done before the game.

[The Gipper]

@kosar_for_president said:

Dude, I LIVED in England for 3 years. Snooker was on TV 3 times a week.

Well, then I guess you do know that it is different. By the way, I believe you can probably find pool on TV 3 times a week here, on like ESPN2 late at night.

[The Gipper]

@miktoxic said:

i think snookered means getting 'taken' or 'ripped off'. you're think of snockered.

i used to run 5 miles a day when in the army. one day i went to our bases' soccer game against some civilian team. i knew most of the players on the team so they asked me to fill-in for a guy that was going to be late that way they wouldn't forfeit the game. hadn't play a lick of soccer ever in my life but they basically yelled telling me what to do as not to blow anything. i probably played 15 minutes and was more tired and exhausted after those 15 minutes than any 5 mile run or obstacle course we used to do.

BUT saying all that.....it's still gay.

Well, certainly it is a very aerobic sport, that is why gym teachers back in the mid to late 70s started having kids here play it. It would get them doing a lot of running in a situation that was more palatable than just telling gym class to go run up the road a mile then come back.

That is what we did in the 60s. There was no soccer played at my school or in our gym classes. We had to just frickin run. I would have probably preferred soccer to the "Brookside run" that we had to do. (We had to run out the rear of our schoolyard to back streets that led to a golf course about a mile down the road, then turn around and run back to the school).

In terms of just watching the sport, the bastardized version known as "Indoor Soccer" is, to me, more entertaining, because it gets right to the action around the goal, and eliminates all the mid field meandering that goes on. Plus, indoors the ball bounces off the walls instead of going out of bounds so there is a bit of a different strategy associated with that.

[AVFC]

Guy's

Can anyone explain why Randy Lerner doesn't give TV interviews or attend live press conferences. Apparantly he had a bad experience during an interview a few years back resultng in him not doing any more (maybe something to do with his divorce).

Anyway he employed this muppet Mcleish against 90% of the fan wishes and then threw him into the press conference on his own with no explanation of reasoning for his appointment.

Also have the Browns had any experience of General Krulak who has been spouting a load of bland PR crap at us for the last few years.

[hoorta]

Zombo said:

You are entitled to think Baseball is boring. I wholeheartedly disagree. Either way, it doesn't make soccer any less gay.

"Let's run around a field with sweaty European guys in shorts and kick a ball around ... but you can't use your hands! And if anyone touches you, fall down hold your knee and cry!"

Zombo

Sorry- you want to talk about gay, I give you golf- which IMHO isn't a sport at all- it's a skill, like bowling. One look at John Daley should tell you that.

BTW, those sweaty little guys can out run and outskill those big bad NFL players. I'd wager you a C note most of the strikers on World Cup teams can run 4.4 40s.

FWIW, true story- Chris Collinsworth and a bunch of the Bengals were at a local Cinti watering hole and ran into a group of those sweaty little soccer guys, and talk got around to you sweaty little soccer guys aren't s**t, we can take you in soccer. Game on- well when the sweaty little soccer guys were up 9-0 in the first half, the Big Bad Bengals quit. And that was just some podunk club team.

Z, it's gonna change, is changing. Elite athletes in America gravitated to the major sports. I played competitive tennis because I wasn't good enough to make the varsity football or basketball teams- but now- Lord Almighty, guys like Raphael Nadal and Roger Federer take a backseat to no one in athleticism. So show me the $$$ and the athletes will follow. You can make a very good living playing in the English Premier League.

[The Gipper]

@avfc said:

Guy's

Can anyone explain why Randy Lerner doesn't give TV interviews or attend live press conferences. Apparantly he had a bad experience during an interview a few years back resultng in him not doing any more (maybe something to do with his divorce).

Anyway he employed this muppet Mcleish against 90% of the fan wishes and then threw him into the press conference on his own with no explanation of reasoning for his appointment.

Also have the Browns had any experience of General Krulak who has been spouting a load of bland PR crap at us for the last few years.

Have you seen The King's Speech? Well, he may not have the exact same type of disorder as King "Bertie" did, but he approaches that. He is extremely shy and reticent and does have some sort of malady or issue that affects him with his public speaking. He is bright enough to know that he should not be his own spokesperson.

[The Gipper]

@hoorta said:

Sorry- you want to talk about gay, I give you golf- which IMHO isn't a sport at all- it's a skill, like bowling. One look at John Daley should tell you that.

BTW, those sweaty little guys can out run and outskill those big bad NFL players. I'd wager you a C note most of the strikers on World Cup teams can run 4.4 40s.

Sorry, Hoorta, but it isn't about which sports players are more aerobically fit. It is about which game is more entertaining to watch. I suspect ice dancers and ballerinas are also more aerobically fit than either football players or soccer players. A lot of women like to watch those.

FWIW, true story- Chris Collinsworth and a bunch of the Bengals were at a local Cinti watering hole and ran into a group of those sweaty little soccer guys, and talk got around to you sweaty little soccer guys aren't s**t, we can take you in soccer. Game on- well when the sweaty little soccer guys were up 9-0 in the first half, the Big Bad Bengals quit. And that was just some podunk club team.

Well, aside from the fact that the intellect of those Bengals has always been a question mark, how well do you think those sweaty little soccer guys would have fared in a game of tackle football against those Bengals? Football players are not going to beat soccer players, or baseball players, or basketball players, or snooker players or ice dancers at their own game....but tell me how many of those guys are going to beat the football players at football?

Z, it's gonna change, is changing. Elite athletes in America gravitated to the major sports. I played competitive tennis because I wasn't good enough to make the varsity football or basketball teams- but now- Lord Almighty, guys like Raphael Nadal and Roger Federer take a backseat to no one in athleticism. So show me the $$$ and the athletes will follow. You can make a very good living playing in the English Premier League.

And there is nothing wrong with that. But just don't try to push soccer down our throats. I will occasionally tune in for a bit for a soccer match....just like I would a golf tournament, or tennis tournament, or anything else. And, FYI, I attended the college of the reigning NCAA Soccer Division 1 champions. And that is a big deal. But just don't say that soccer is a major league sport yet.

[hoorta]

@the-gipper said:

Sorry, Hoorta, but it isn't about which sports players are more aerobically fit. It is about which game is more entertaining to watch. I suspect ice dancers and ballerinas are also more aerobically fit than either football players or soccer players. A lot of women like to watch those.

And there is nothing wrong with that. But just don't try to push soccer down our throats. I will occasionally tune in for a bit for a soccer match....just like I would a golf tournament, or tennis tournament, or anything else. And, FYI, I attended the college of the reigning NCAA Soccer Division 1 champions. And that is a big deal. But just don't say that soccer is a major league sport yet.

1) That IMO is why soccer isn't more popular- the entertainment value. ( Like I said, I played competitive tennis for years, but I can't hardly force myself to watch the entire Wimbledon final.) Add in the low scoring- and the advertisers hate it- unlike NFL football which has those made for beer commercial breaks in the action.

2) I'm not trying to push soccer on anyone, and yes I totally agree it's not a major league sport in the USA- yet. May never be with the dominance of NFL football. And if some guys want to think it's gay that's OK too.