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Lol spot on about the Boston stereotype.

Honestly, the weird random shit Warren drops in threads is worse to me than anything ECN does. But its Warren lol.

I gotta admit, after not reading the entire thread, i lol'd when I saw cheeky kunt.

I like ECN. I called him a [expletive]ing retard the other day but he's one of my favorite posters on here. There's been way worse on here before him.

Ah shit, there goes the only other republican. It was nice not being the villain this time though.

I think they are. They could go as high as number 2 behind NE. All depends on how Palmer plays. They have the best running back in the conference though so he's going to get even more touches with a new QB.

In regards to contraction, the idea will obviously work. A talent like Kevin Love doesn't deserve to be rotting away up there where they have no idea what they're doing. Same goes for CP3.

He's going to be great. Loved him coming out of Mizzou and thought you guys got a steal with him. He'll be on that elite level within 2 seasons.

That was some serious holding right there lol.

That stiff arm was nice. Revis is lucky he held onto Marshall's jersey.

Ray Rice for Megatron..should I do it?

Anyone wanna move this to media?

Notification center is raw. I like Newstand but I agree, the hype over iMessage is way too much. They should've made it more similar to bbm.

Did you not see my point about ending situations like what Melo did last year? Owners like Robert Sarver are bitching and crying but all he had to do was re-sign Amare rather than choose Warrick. Frye and Childress and he wouldn't be complaining all that much. Then you have Dan Gilbert. I don't know how many different trades were on the table to bring in a second star to play alongside LBJ. Names like Amare and other great players but then you go out and get Antawn Jamison? Its no wonder he left...which is why Cleveland is in the position they're in now. If you give up JJ Hickson...JJ Hickson in one of the deals (wasn't he the guy they wouldn't let go?) LeBron probably wins a ring and is still in a Cavs uniform. Toronto had a shot to get Rudy Gay and put him next to Bosh. Does that make them instant contenders? No, but it makes them a top team in the East in the past. Instead they chose Andrea [expletive]ing Bargnani. Portland [expletive]ed up drafting Oden over Durant but they ended up building through the draft and if B. Roy was healthy and at his peak they'd be a contender in the West. They aren't some luxurious destination for players but they have a competent front office. Memphis gives up Pau Gasol in what at time time was an absolute rape but now look who's in the conference semi's with a great shot to become a contender these next couple seasons. Detroit, after making such brilliant moves earlier in the decade, decided they didn't have patience to wait till 2010 and gave absurd deals to Ben Gordon and Charlie V and now they are where they are. Atlanta, aside from giving Joe Johnson that contract, has also built a very good team that almost made the conference finals this year through the draft and trades. Point is..if you draft well you're going to have a shot down the road. Hell, even the Clippers got it right and they'll always be the Lakers' little brother in that city. It also comes down to the front office. Yeah, Pat Riley is a hell of a GM, but there are plenty of other great GM's out there. At the end of the day, if a franchise shows a commitment to winning, spending the necessary money to do so and competent management, players are going to see that put aside the big city bullshit. OKC is the perfect example. Durant sees what they're doing there, he see's the young core they've drafted and knows the future there is bright. He could've easily said na I wanna go play in a bigger market. How many big name FA's were flocking to the Knicks during the 2000's? That's the biggest market in the NBA aside from maybe, maybe LA. It all happened once they got a functioning front office that shit got straightened out and players started seeing the direction they were headed in. Blaming the big market team is a cop out IMO for bad front office and personnel choices made by certain teams.

Fish is definitely right that a lot of them just want to be out there to say that they were there. Also, if you go on youtube its not hard to see that a lot of the people out there have no clue about what they're protesting. Instead of sitting out there, doing nothing at all why not go out and do your best to at least look for a job and quit bitching and doing nothing productive. Sitting there isn't going to get you employed.

Packers/Ravens/Jets QB: Aaron Rodgers RB: Ray Rice WR: Greg Jennings WR: Anquan Boldin WR: Jordy nelson TE: Jermichael Finley LT: D. Ferguson LG: Brandon Moore C: Mangold RG: Josh Sitton RT: Oher DE: Haloti Ngata DT: BJ Raji DE: Ryan pickett OLB: Terrell Suggs MLB: Ray Lewis MLB: Desmond Bishop OLB: Clay Matthews CB: Tramon Williams CB: Darrelle Revis S: Ed Reed S: Nick Collins

http://c580019.r19.cf2.rackcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/kyle-boller-carrie-prejean.jpg Poor guy was living the life..[expletive]ing that whenever he wanted and just going to practice during the week, holding a clipboard on Sundays.

Good thing I have McFadden on my fantasy team. He's going to get a ton of carries.

I disagree. It shouldn't be the NBA's responsibility to make sure teams are getting talent. Its up to those front offices to make the right personnel decisions. The league has never been able to do that and IMO this is the closest they will ever get to it. Every team besides maybe Milwaukee and Toronto off the top of my head have a star player Another problem is letting a player hold a franchise hostage like Carmelo did last season. They have to find a way to eliminate that because nothing good comes out of it.

Number 5 in attendance? Not to mention, every time we came to town I'm sure it was that teams highest attendance. I'm not gonna turn this into a Heat vs. anyone thing though because that's not what it is. You're just a [expletive]ing retard.

This is all on Stern and the owners. Over the past 20 + years they've created the problem due to overexpansion and letting weak ownership groups become included into an 'exclusive' club they can't really afford and it's now coming home to roost. The best owners/franchises in the league are being held hostage by the worst IMO. There are all these mumblings coming out where the Heat are the root of the problem, or the process that led to the Heat becoming what they are. Didn't the NBA just have it's best season since MJ was playing? If some of these teams have the problems they say they do where they will lose less money by not playing then the system is clearly messed up along with the deals they've struck and the fact that the markets they operate in do not have the want/need/ability to support their franchise. Moves like these are why we are where we are today (this is nothing against those franchise's or fanbases either): -Vancouver to Memphis. That team should have never left in the first place, but the problem was made worse by a move to stick a club in the 2nd largest town in TENNESSEE...c'mon -Let Charlotte's garbage owner move to NO who used to have a team and never supported it. They don't support sports period and if the NFL allowed Benson..the Saints would've been gone years ago. The Hornets are now owned by the League -Then another super move, hey lets put another team where one just failed miserably! Enter, the Charlotte Bobcats. To be honest, clubs like New Orleans, Sacramento, Minnesota and Milwaukee might need to bite the dust and move the Grizzlies to Seattle. Again, nothing against those fanbases but it needs to happen or we'll be right back to where we are today when the next deal expires. The NBA is just not well run, PERIOD. Another example is League Pass. Huge piece of shit. You can't even get all the games on HD through Comcast. Meanwhile MLB is giving you "Extra Innings" in HD with a home and away telecast on any system imaginable. Point is, the owners have run this thing into the ground and that's why we are where we are right now.

The league needs contraction regardless.

Thursday: San Diego St @ Air Force USC @ California Friday: Hawaii @ San Jose St Saturday: LSU @ Tennessee Alabama @ Ole Miss Oklahoma @ Kansas Indiana @ Wisconsin Boise St @ Colorado St Oklahoma St @ Texas Stanford @ Washington St Clemson @ Maryland Arizona St @ Oregon Michigan @ Michigan St Georgia Tech @ Virginia South Carolina @ Mississippi St Ohio State @ Illinois Kansas St @ Texas Tech Virginia Tech @ Wake Forest Baylor @ Texas A&M Florida @ Auburn Utah @ Pittsburgh Miami @ North Carolina Northwestern @ Iowa Navy @ Rutgers Purdue @ Penn St

Na..ECN gon ECN.

^^LOL @ Finley not being top 5. He's arguably the best in the game. And when did Rodgers start crying when things weren't going our way?