HOT SPORTS TAKES - A man who won't stand for the anthem is an act that we as Americans shouldn't stand for (1 Viewer)

[Ghost Rider]

Yeah, and Bird's career effectively ended after 10 years and Magic Johnson got AIDS, so, good thinking Kravitz.

And neither of those guys ever played as many games over a 6-year stretch as James just did (counting the playoffs). 

 

[Frostillicus]

Always a classic hot take:

“He had the birth of his kid in Atlanta,” Felger said on the television station. “The game was in Miami. I know when you make $30 million a year it ain’t much to get a private jet. (Celtics co-owner) Wyc (Grousbeck) would probably pick it up to fly down at 3 o’clock in Atlanta. It’s about a 90-minute flight to Atlanta. Play the game and come right back.”

 

Despite believing Horford should have skipped out on his wife and child to go play the woeful Miami Heat, Felger did have one disclaimer: “If there were complications then OK, take that all off the table. If the mother or the child or something happened where there were complications, then I totally understand.”

“But if this is a generic child birth?” he added. “Play the game.” 
 
Before finishing his point, Felger revealed he only took one day off from work after the birth of his own daughter. Just to be clear, Horford took the same amount of time. He is expected to practice Tuesday with the Celtics after they return to Boston.

“I would have gone to the game, I would have played in the game,” Felger said. “I like my guys to sort of forsake everything for the team.”

 

[Sebowski]

Eli Manning is overrated and just plain terrible. This guy is famous for having a great QB for a brother and putting together 2 separate 4 game winning streaks. That's it. He only has 2 division titles in 12 years as a starter. 2. "Playoff Eli" is a total myth. He has 4 first round playoff losses. When you lose in the first round you basically lose the whole lot of 4 playoff games that season. Add those up and his playoff record is 8 wins and 16 losses. 16! You might ask: well, if you don't even make the playoffs shouldn't those years count as playoff losses as well? You're right. Add those in too and "Playoff Eli"has 8 wins and 40 playoff losses. 40! The guy is a total hack. He was lucky enough to have championship defenses put him on his back for 2 runs. When that doesn't happen he spends his time going 6-10 or 8-8  while throwing as many picks and TDs. If this guy's name was Bob Smith he'd be bagging groceries.

 

[Bruce Dickinson]

Eli Manning is overrated and just plain terrible. This guy is famous for having a great QB for a brother and putting together 2 separate 4 game winning streaks. That's it. He only has 2 division titles in 12 years as a starter. 2. "Playoff Eli" is a total myth. He has 4 first round playoff losses. When you lose in the first round you basically lose the whole lot of 4 playoff games that season. Add those up and his playoff record is 8 wins and 16 losses. 16! You might ask: well, if you don't even make the playoffs shouldn't those years count as playoff losses as well? You're right. Add those in too and "Playoff Eli"has 8 wins and 40 playoff losses. 40! The guy is a total hack. He was lucky enough to have championship defenses put him on his back for 2 runs. When that doesn't happen he spends his time going 6-10 or 8-8  while throwing as many picks and TDs. If this guy's name was Bob Smith he'd be bagging groceries.

I was wondering why all the snow in my back yard melted suddenly.

 

[Plorfu]

Plus the WR's went to Miami and were topless on a boat.

 

[Bruce Dickinson]

Bump for NBA Finals season

 

[Ramsay Hunt Experience]

We need to bring back @The Sizzler

 

[Capella]

Well, look who turned out to be right.

Man that was a great take. 

 

[Capella]

A few months ago I told my boy I was going to take him to his first NFL game. You should've seen the smile on his face as I showed him tickets to the Niners second preseason game and he realized he was finally going to see exciting NFL action in person for the first time.

The day of the game, he proudly slid on his Adrian Peterson jersey and we went out the door as father and son, ready to see the best athletes in the world play the best game. What we didn't realize is a little part of us wouldn't be coming back home.

We've lived in a lot of places over the years; but mainly the Midwest. There I taught my son family values and a healthy respect for the American flag. We stand during anthems and bow our heads before supper. But now something new has come across our country. Something scary. A surge of selfishness, a typhoon of terribleness. People just don't respect what the flag...what AMERICA stands for anymore. 

Now you all know what happened at the game. Colin Kapernick took a knee during the anthem and then drove a stake right through my son's heart. 

"Daddy why is that man kneeling while the lady sings" he asked. I didn't know what to tell him. Would you? Would anybody? 

"Daddy why is he disrespecting the flag?"

I learned a lesson that day. You shouldn't let professional athletes be heroes to your kid. I need to be more involved. When we got home I hung a flag right outside our front door and now little Adrian sings the anthem every morning before he goes to school. I've never been more proud. 

My boy was so excited to go to the game but isn't much of an NFL fan anymore. He said he can't support somebody taking a knee and personally I think NFL games are becoming huge bores due to all the concussion nonsense. A Bills fan threw a dildo on the field last week and honestly it was refreshing to finally see something that has some balls be on the field.

The NFL has a real problem. Ratings are down, interest is waning and baseball is gaining steam. But if you ask me, there is really only one issue they really need to address. There's only one place they need to start looking if they want to gain their fans back. If they want to gain my son back.

Because if you want your television ratings to stop going down, then your players need to start standing up.

But this one is better. The bold made me  . I was in a groove that day. 

 

[Plorfu]

Maybe it's no coincidence that Aaron Hernandez tragedy happened to Patriots

Spygate and Deflategate fall into those categories, but the one subject they want to skirt more than any other is the violent and tragic career of the late Aaron Hernandez. Perhaps that’s because Hernandez’s draft selection, despite bright red flags everywhere, is a reflection of how winning means everything to the Patriots and no cost is too high.

 

[TobiasFunke]

Maybe it's no coincidence that Aaron Hernandez tragedy happened to Patriots

Just beat me to this one.  The new gold standard?

 

[rockaction]

Just beat me to this one.  The new gold standard?

 Bob, you've done us all justice.  

 

[wazoo11]

They say that life go in cycles. Well, in the tour di france, that couldn't be more true.
 
If you don't what it is, the tour di france is a race where people ride they bikes all over the state. They ride over mountains and through the city and what they tryin to do is go as fast as they can. Whoever is the fastest, that person is declared the winner. It was as wholesome and as simple a sport as they come. That is until some of them people say hey, maybe it is time to cheat.
 
Once there was this guy names Lance Armstrong. If you think about it though, why is he name Armstrong? If he ride he bike all day, shouldn't he name be Legstrong? That should have been the very first clue that something just wasn't right.
 
But I digrest.
 
When he first start racing he was a inspiration. He had overcome cancer of testicle and was now one of the best bicycle racers in all of teh world. He go from maybe losing he life to winning the biggest bike race in history. He go almost right from the operating table to the winners circle. He may have lost a ball but now he was having one.
 
Cycles.
 
So after Lance Armstrong win so many time someone say, hey let's see you blood. He say OK but there was a problem. It look like someone had put all kinds of doping in it. He say no way. It is all hard work. They go back and forth for many years. Finally he decide to call Orpah Wiffrey and say that he had been lyin all along.
 
When you job is to ride you bike, maybe sometime you don't know when to stop peddlin.
 
Nobody could believe it. He had been such a inspiration to everyone and now he name is tarnished. Little boys who ride they bike was like say it ain't so lance. One little boy say that everytime Lance race he would look at the word Schwin on he bike and all he could see was the letters w-i-n. Now when he look at it, all he see is s-i-n. (another boy say he see c-h-i-n)
 
And now here we are today. Lance Armstrong is tryin to get he life back. Once he was a champion but those days are gone. Peoples anger have faded a little and he is not as hated as he once was. Now he is just tryin to be the best he can be and live he life. From sick to champion to hated to regular, like the tour di france, Lance Armstrong life move in cycles.
 
p and s do they have dog bikes