I expect the Cowboys to win. I probably need to mention the Dallas Cowboys and sports culture in the Dallas thread.
Oh lawdy, we ready lol
This the Cowboys year!
It's interesting that 2 of the old New Year's Day bowls - Sugar & Cotton - feature commodities that, in the Antebellum era, were the main cash crops of the slave-centric plantation system; one wonders if the African-American athletes playing those games think about how their ancestors were exploited working to produce these crops.
The players and the owners fvcking hate each other, if you haven't noticed. When the Buffalo player died briefly on the field, the league told them they had five minutes to get back to work. The only reason that the game was canceled is that the players refused to play. It was a rebellion.
That's what "old money" means in the South. The same families that owned the plantations still have that money. And they spend it on football. That's why the SEC teams are so good.
Or maybe they were also wondering why the hell the "ambulance" was a painted over uhaul and farting around waiting for the mom in a life-and-death situation.
That's not the reason; the reason is that the plantations had a lot of big men, and after the Civil War, a lot of them stayed around as itinerant workers or sharecroppers, especially in "freedmen towns" that sprang up on the outskirts of the plantations, and the SEC schools are the flagship universities in the states where most slave-era descendants now live. These players are able to stay close to home so Mama can come to the home games, and to stay where they are better climate-acclimated. Culturally speaking, the HBCUs are a better fit - and indeed is where players of segregation-yesteryear went - but the SEC play is top-level, and ironically, the SEC is a better cultural fit than a flagship school in a non-slave state.
He is the best mediocre QB in the league, LOL.
For a few years in my early adulthood, I was basically a season-ticket holder for my NFL team; I had some friends that were also season-ticket holders (although we were spread out), and we would all go to the games together, so that part wasn't a hassle. However, there was still a 3-hour net "commute time" for a 3-hour game, and I began to consider the bi-weekly games a grind, as opposed to me just being able to turn on the TV at kickoff time. As for my college, walking to/from my dorm to the stadium was nothing, and when I attended a few games as a non-student (which was even more of a hassle), I came to the same conclusion that nothing beats turning on the TV.
So was this post typed out with your hands or your feet? Soccer has, always has had, and always will have a very fatal flaw, and that is the fundamental lack of recognition of what separates humans from the rest of the animal kingdom.
I thought you were gonna say soccer is boring AF compared to NFL Playoffs
