The Nation's Tears: Volume II

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Al Zarilla

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One time, about 20 years ago, I was in Vegas during football season and watched the Pats game at a Sports Book. They had every game on these individual TV's at your seat that you could pick the channel to watch. They must have had some sort of direct feed from the network because there were no commercials at all. During the times when commercials would be aired to the country, this feed was showing what the truck would be seeing at the game, however the TD was switching cameras. Practically every break was filled with shots of the crowd, invariably on the best looking women or the ones with the largest breasts or most ample cleavage.
I think 8slim is exactly right that when the game wasn't active -- and if you've ever been to an NFL game in person, you know how much time that is -- the cameras were almost certainly aimed at women.
ABC was famous for that kind of thing doing college football games in the 80s and 90s . Besides what you said, I swear they even seemed to scan the crowd for women who weren't sitting quite modestly enough and zero in on that. Then, all of the PC stuff happened. Life was simpler back then.
 

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Pamela Anderson and Jenn Sterger to name a few were discovered by the roving eye of a few cameramen.
Wait, what? Whoa. From her wiki bio:

In 1989, Anderson attended a BC Lions Canadian Football League game at the BC Place Stadium in Vancouver,[13] where she was featured on the Jumbotron while wearing a Labatt's Beer T-shirt.[13] The brewing company hired Anderson briefly as a spokesmodel.[13] Inspired by that event, her then-boyfriend Dan Ilicic produced a poster of her image, entitled the Blue Zone Girl.[14]

Anderson appeared as the cover girl on Playboy magazine's October 1989 issue. She moved to Los Angeles to further pursue a modeling career. Playboy subsequently chose her as Playmate of the Month in their February 1990 issue, in which she appeared in the centerfold photo.
Had no idea. I remembered Sterger but that was before my time. And the CFL, of all places!
 

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World Cup cameramen have their PhD’s in the art of hottie hunting. Add a less PC society to an international tournament and you have another great reason to watch this summer. IIRC there was an entire thread dedicated to this.
 

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World Cup cameramen have their PhD’s in the art of hottie hunting. Add a less PC society to an international tournament and you have another great reason to watch this summer. IIRC there was an entire thread dedicated to this.
You could have left off the first two words. I do a lot of events with camera ops. When left to their own devices, they use the zoom feature to max advantage.
 

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Leaving in a bit to the studio :)
Eagles friend shared this, blew it out with a 1000 word breakdown of its inaccuracies. He went to the Brady's MAGA hat defense on why 'fuck the Patriots' after I told him to hate them for at least accurate reasons. I'll take that as a win. This video has the most salt I've ever fucking seen, any realm. Oh my fucking god.

lol boo hoo

I think if Drunk History did Pats-gate, it'd be more accurate than this video.

I managed to make it all the way to "the Pats were caught red handed deflating balls" as a stated fact, before I closed it.
 
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I had forgotten the Belichick was "coach" of the Jets twice. I always remember the "I resign HC of NYJ", but forgot about the Belichick as HC with Parcells as consultant when Parcells first left the Patriots and before the settlement was reached on compensation.

 

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Had no idea that George Allen went back to the Rams and got fired in the preseason.
 

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I don't. They can choose to think of it as they blew the biggest lead ever, or they can choose to look at it as the Pats had the greatest comeback ever. They're allowed to celebrate that.

IMO, Arthur Blank is choosing to take it as an insult. I do feel badly for him, but only because I saw him get so excited and ready to celebrate only to watch it all fall apart, and that sad look on his face will be on every DVD or youtube video about that game forever. But I don't feel bad for him because the Pats celebrated their amazing comeback.
 

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"You didn't have to do that"

Well Arthur, you didn't have to go down to the sideline in the 4th quarter to get your face time and celebrate and all that jazz.
 

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Maybe Arthur Blank should win a fucking Super Bowl so he can ensure that a nonoffensive number of diamonds are used.
 

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It’s stupud because his team’s identity is incidental to the larger point of the number, which is that they came back from 28-3 to win. I mean, I get why it’s unpleasant for him to be reminded of, but it’s not really about the Falcons, per se.

I mean, taken to it’s logical extreme, Blank is advocating for having all Super Bowl rings bear no mention of the games themselves because it will invariably be an unpleasant reminder to the losing team.
 

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At least in a few years the Falcons will get to be the $600 "question" on Jeopardy in the category Brady Championship Victims. ($200 will be "They are the only team Brady beat in two Super Bowls")
 

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It’s stupud because his team’s identity is incidental to the larger point of the number, which is that they came back from 28-3 to win. I mean, I get why it’s unpleasant for him to be reminded of, but it’s not really about the Falcons, per se.

I mean, taken to it’s logical extreme, Blank is advocating for having all Super Bowl rings bear no mention of the games themselves because it will invariably be an unpleasant reminder to the losing team.
Someone needs to tell Arthur that it's both better and worse than he thinks: the Patriots don't give a fuck about the Atlanta Falcons.
 

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At least in a few years the Falcons will get to be the $600 "question" on Jeopardy in the category Brady Championship Victims. ($200 will be "They are the only team Brady beat in two Super Bowls")
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At least in a few years the Falcons will get to be the $600 "question" on Jeopardy in the category Brady Championship Victims. ($200 will be "They are the only team Brady beat in two Super Bowls")
Hmm, what are you saying about this Sunday?
 

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At least in a few years the Falcons will get to be the $600 "question" on Jeopardy in the category Brady Championship Victims. ($200 will be "They are the only team Brady beat in two Super Bowls")
There was a pro football category tonight that was untouched until the end of Double Jeopardy. The three nerds whiffed on every questions. In fact, none of the three even offered an answer to any of the questions. A few of the answers were, “who are the Dallas Cowboys”, “what are offsetting penalties,” “what is a fair catch.”

Alex handled the situation with great humor and more aplomb than Arthur Blank.
 

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Wife who evokes the Eve as Adam’s Rib narrative. It’s as if he cloned himself in a female form.

Suck it, Arthur. 28-3 is here to stay. Wear it better than that Zoot Suit.
 

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At least in a few years the Falcons will get to be the $600 "question" on Jeopardy in the category Brady Championship Victims. ($200 will be "They are the only team Brady beat in two Super Bowls")
So you're saying there's no way the Rams, Seahawks or Panthers make it to Super Bowl LIII?
 

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At least in a few years the Falcons will get to be the $600 "question" on Jeopardy in the category Brady Championship Victims. ($200 will be "They are the only team Brady beat in two Super Bowls")
But no one will get the question right.

There was a pro football category tonight that was untouched until the end of Double Jeopardy. The three nerds whiffed on every questions. In fact, none of the three even offered an answer to any of the questions. A few of the answers were, “who are the Dallas Cowboys”, “what are offsetting penalties,” “what is a fair catch.”

Alex handled the situation with great humor and more aplomb than Arthur Blank.
Here it is. From yesterday. These people say they are AMERICANS!!

https://www.sbnation.com/lookit/2018/2/1/16962098/jeopardy-football-category-alex-trebek-i-will-die




 

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So you're saying there's no way the Rams, Seahawks or Panthers make it to Super Bowl LIII?
Yup.
Taking out the entire NFC North one at a time over the next four years and then when he's run out of fingers and thumbs he hands the job over to Luke Falk.
 

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Arthur Blank, I'm guessing, is the only Democrat (or at least "most Democrat") owner of an NFL team. His contributions to blue candidates trails only Kraft, and Kraft has made clear his affection for he-who-should-not-be-named.

Blank is also a graduate of Stuyvesant High School in New York, which my son also attended.

So he's okay by me.
 

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