football lola what i like to do is fake my way through the defensive line past all the blockers (or not past them, whichever). the play shapes me before i have time to ask the questions, "where am i? who am i, isn't this a boy game?" but wouldn't women's football be a complete bore to watch on tv? ... sidenote: i am more like bonnie blair than glenda good-witch. 000507 ... Gareth What I like to do is run quickly at the defence with the ball, whack it from 40 yards, see it bend like a sexy banana and bulge the net, then scream "Roberto Carlos !" Yes !! 010124 ... dannyH She had been feeling lonely even before the conversation had turned to football. Putting on the smile she used as a wall against attention that was not concern she drifted off into her own little world. 010521 ... bob football is stupid I think that people make to big of a deal over football.Like at school it is the main sport everone is always talking about football. It is the lamest game all it is is a bunch of over grown joks tring to run down the field hitting each other how much fun is that? 010720 ... grendel catharsis is the fun (at least if you have an aggressive personality) you can take out all that rage in a sanctined manner in a regulated environment and have large numbers of people cheer for you and if you're really good at it you can make obscene amounts of money for it too makes we wish i had gotten along with more of the players when i was in school, i'd be a hellish linebacker to try and get past but then this is why i did my occasional stints as a bar bouncer 010720 ... Norm I love this sport. During the seasons I'm not playing I hurt myself so much and beat up other people. I gotta get all my anger out on the field or its coming out on all the little shits that say they hate football, senseless. I like the solid hits, touchdowns are over rated I'd rather be picking up the guy, who's just about to be in the endzone getting his precious touchdown, and throwing him 5 yards back, rather than walking over a simple white line. 010827 ... Fire&Roses The dull humming of the crowd as they talk to each other is loud. The sun has gone down and an autumn chill is in the air. The lights from the field are bright as day. The band beats out pulsing rythmic music. We dance. We laugh. We talk and sing and smile. This is our freedom. These chilly autumn nights when the world is only us. We buy our pixie stix laugh at our jokes. Just a few friends and some sugar. The game it self is just an excuse to be there with the crowd. Just an excuse to sit together and laugh. An excuse to forget about your trig quiz. A way to forget the misery of the week. A way to let your body unwind and free your mind of it's burdens. To smile and have no cares. To not worry about what will happen in the next minute, or even the next hour, week, month, or year. To live only for that moment of bliss. This is our freedom. 010928 ... unhinged i hate football 011014 ... Norm We're Trojans, we're Trojans, we're far from our home! when people see us they leave us alone. We drink to get drunk! we smoke to get high! We're Trojans, we're Trojans so fuck off and die! 011105 ... nocturnal football is the single greatest sport in the world. soccer's close, but football's more fun to watch. 011105 ... I Hate Football Football Sucks So Bad It Isn't Even Funny 021223 ... Black Hole Wannabe "I would pay to play in this game." --Raider linebacker (and former Bronco) Bill Romanowski before yesterday's Week 15 matchup 021223 ... Jesus Christ. How pathetic. 021223 ... Black Hole Wannabe JC. Rumor has always had it that you're a big pigskin fan--what gives? I mean, the whole Touchdown Jesus thing at Dame, and all. 021224 ... oldephebe I'm all tingly with anticipation Finally! Pre-season football! Yeah Baby! 030811 ... oldephebe among this cabal of sages and dreamers are there no rabid or at least marginally intrested football fans..wait being marginally interested would would pretty much exclude one from being numbered in the reams and roll call of football fandom..okay so are there at least any who watch at least one game a week..??? ... 030919 ... oldephebe no? 030920 ... oldephebe eagles and greebay tonight on monday night footaball..i'll have to mute al michael's insipid attempts at erudition, wit and footballspeak..he's managed to even blunt the ebullience of madden..i'll probably watch tv and listen to the howling sagacious tones of merle reese and the serviceable asides of former eagles wide reciever mike quick.. al michaels really should be put out to pasture..orgo back to baseball..that was his real forte.. ... 031110 ... oldephebe umm..yeah this is way late..eagles win..last second heroics by donovan, deuce, mitchell (the clown reciever who is a little better than mediorcre on his best day..yet is given to gyrations of narcissistic megalomania..OK so did megalomania really need to be modified by narcissistic?..probably not..)and the usually anemic, querelous pinkston.. oh and offensive coordinator brad childress's invigorating play calls..the defense of course..sorry about brets thumb but we'll take a win where we can get it.. ... 031113 ... oE well sir - i'm a little gun shy about about waving the banner of hysterical fandom..w/r/t the whole eagles playoff/superbowl chances..'cause well..the eagles kinda have a tendency to sputter, and stutter and self destruct in the big games..despite detroit spanking the rams..brett farve looks like his heroic old self..and ah then you got the pats and the chiefs and..geez i dunno..i hope we can get it together with or w/o westbrook... later, 031228 ... Habitual Perceiver #314 all the americans commenting here have to understand that football is the game in which 22 men kick a ball around at opposing goals. Soccer is not the correct name ... neither is football the correct name for the well padded highly organised version of rugby that folks from the US play ... that is american football as far as im concerned. Afford this nomenclature some respect ... after all, football is the number one world sport ... the sport that captivates the hearts of people ranging from brazilian peasents to european dignitaries because of its simplicity, freedom and beauty ... and because the principle body part used is actually the foot ... hence football, i'm afraid handball is also already taken ... how about stopball since the ball is hardly ever in play in the american game what with the continual halting of precedings 031229 ... Habitual Perceiver #314 men and women i meant to say of course ... the american ladies seem to have the right idea 031229 ... oE don't think the cultural chasm will ever be breached..you do your thing and we'll do ours..oh and i happen to love soccer..i played it in jr.high and highschool..and a little intramural with some internatonal students in college..against the international players i had to adjust to the more agressive style..but yeah love soccer 031229 ... oldephebe NFC championship..the eagles and NC i hope the pats beat peyton manning and his reciever corps flagrant, garish and kinda obtuse freddy mitchell made the catch of a lifetime...4th and 26..he can wear his furs and expectorate his gibble de gee and posture flamboyantly..with his inadvertant approximations of vuadeville parodies of the "african american gait..and slavish obsequiousness and so forth" he made the catch... ... 040114 ... oldephebe oh and howard eskin still sucks..wolf man rat king..wearer of rodential fur..sniffer of professional athelets anuses and pruner of scrotums. Howard Eskin a genious of rodential cunning much like govenor ed rendell. In both cases they only climb the citadels of influence and power because of obtuse minions who are more than happy to enroll in the roll pages and congregations of fawning celebrity worshippers..cult of charisma and all that....braaa-aaaccckkk! 040114 ... Azz Yes, I agree - football is the game player 90% with the foot. The american game should be called American Rugby Football or something. I mean, whats the point in putting on all those pads unless you're scared to get hurt. Rugby all the way! Three cheers to all the England squad and especially Wilkinson and Johnson, sad to have the latter leave the international game. 040126 ... oE rugby's a ruff sport, we played it in highschool... i think the world is large enough for the two to exist and be enjoyed. 040126 ... Azz Too right. 040127 ... think planning on watching the superbowl? planning on having rights? see what cbs is up to at www.moveon.org thanks for your time, and pardon my miniature spamming of the kingdom of blue 040127 ... blister she's no friend of football. a great line. use it anytime. 040911 ... AVAN eagles vs steelers the eagles might lose if westbrook doesn't play 041104 ... oE donovan mcnabb was masterful the other night for the eagles on monday nightah FOOTballah ... 041117 what's it to you? who go blather from