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If a player starts for UVA and no one is there to see it, did he really start?
Back when JJ looked like he was Coach of the year...
If you see no value in doing things the right way, even if others do things the wrong way and, thus far, have gotten away with it, then I suspect none of the obvious things I can respond with are going to sway you.
Since I otherwise have absolutely nothing nice to say about your opinion on this subject, I think it's probably best if I let your comment just stand on its own merits.
^^^This! Worst Dunk Percentage in the nation I would bet.
It did once last year (Oklahoma State). Other than that, no.
Every fanbase has bad apples. A lot of the things Philly fans have done over the years get swept up by the mainstream media and perpetuated. The booing Santa thing happened in 1968, for instance.
That being said, I'm probably the nicest Philly fan you'll meet.
now we can't even make two handed dunks :(
I don't know, Deron Washington Tea-bagging Paulus was awesome. But the dunk that he threw down coming down the Lane against BC was the fiercest dunks I've seen in College Basketball (I know that Hyperbole runs wild when its your team), but I thought there was no way he would reach the rim, let alone tomahawk it. The defender thought about blocking it, but then just ducked outtha way. Scene here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaF0VIhFq7s
Listen to the fans and announcers instantaneously loose their shit. Does Cassell ever get like this anymore?
It's too bad we didn't play Syracuse that year. We could have been the only team to tea bag and sack Paulus.
Idk... people don't really hate the Eagles, they hate Philadelphia fans. They have a reputation for being terrible, however well deserved that may be.
Unless they're fans of PETA, in which case they hate Michael Vick, and tangentially the Eagles for giving him employment. But that's different.
^^THIS! We went NUTS when that happened!
In addition, I hope he brings back the Goodbye Song... That was always the epic part about the end of a game at Lane.
Well yeah, Andrew Luck is pretty good too. But it's not like he doesn't throw interceptions either. If Ford comes in and plays like Peyton Manning, but throws across his body and losses a championship game because of an INT, but wins two other championship games, then I'll be happy.
I was at College Gameday in Atlanta before the '09 Tech/Alabama game. They did a segment on Greg Paulus playing QB for Syracuse and we started a "Teabag Paulus" chant. Herbstreit turned around and gave us a sheepish grin.
"The growing American"
I like that
It's upsetting in multiple ways that we are so injury prone. One, we can't ever see what the full potential of our team actually is, and two, JJ can use injuries as a valid excuse for not winning. A healthy team gives him the opportunity to show if he can or cannot coach when his whole team is available. I am so torn between liking him and thinking that he is just not a very smart technical basketball coach.
I remember being at that game as a student the following year. The reason he was so upset at the foul line was because someone brought a large amount of actual tea bags and passed them out amongst the students and we held them up when he was shooting free throws.
Yeah, for one year. And now they're right back where they were, for the most part.
Growing up around here I was able to ignore all the Redskins-ness everywhere. Then I lived with a guy freshman year whose family had had Skins season tickets since the 1940s or something like that. He was one of the worst human beings I've ever met and he really turned me off to the Redskins as a whole.
Then again, I'm an Eagles fan. So every time they lost and he would get in my face yelling 'EAGLES SUCK' (no matter how the Skins did) it didn't do him any favors.
Also, I guess the non rival thing doesn't apply to me...
edit* People do love to hate the Eagles though, even more than the Redskins I'd say.
Wow. That's almost half a Bucky Hodge right there.
Yes, but this is the case everywhere. For example, I live in Alabama and for some reason the only football the media talks about is Auburn and Alabama. I wish they'd talk about VT!
That's never going to happen. If the majority of an area is one teams fans, than the sports media will cover that team far and above any other. If they don't, they aren't doing their jobs correctly.
Yeah, but you have to win games to get there. I think we all saw how much Manning, at least, means to his team when Indianapolis lost him.
Sometimes I feel the same way.
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I know not every Philly fan is terrible. I expect that the majority of them are actually nice people. That's the tone I was trying to go for with "however well deserved that may be."
I try not to hold a team's fan base against them when I place that team on the "love-hate" continuum. For the most part, I've been successful, with the primary exception being the SEC.