Dallas Cowboys get slaughtered by the New Orleans Saints

[snooch]

Last year the Saints were at the bottom of the NFL, this year the owner revamps the team with no-name players, a shaky quarterback with possibilities and drafts a killer running back. Plus he hired a promising new coach who works magic wherever he goes.

This year (after an up and down first quarter of the season) the Cowboys are on fire and are beating everyone in sight.

Along come the Saints and knock the shit out of my Cowboys. I used to like the Saints. They were the team that never won but you used to cheer for when they did(unless they beat your team). Not this year. Exept for the Bears(who have major reliability problems at the QB position and rely on defence to win) they are the best team in the NFC conference. And way under the salary cap. This means that next year they will be even better.

I didn't expect the Cowboys to win it all, but I expected better than this.

[SlavikSvensk]

haha not gonna get much traction for this topic with these boys ;)

[snooch]

I know. I just had to vent somewhere where I don't get some unoriginal asshole yelling Who Dat Gonna Beat Dem Saints at me.

[Esox Lucius]

means nothing to me but i will pretend the saints are liverpool or glasgow rangers. ****in cunts **** the saints!!!

[SlavikSvensk]

means nothing to me but i will pretend the saints are liverpool or glasgow rangers. ****in cunts **** the saints!!!

though americans never get that heated or personal about sports, except for boston and new york with baseball... :(

[Richierush]

im glad im english then cause i love it

[snooch]

though americans never get that heated or personal about sports, except for boston and new york with baseball... :(

They get that way in Philadelphia with football(NFL). I moved there from Texas when I was 15 and showed up to first day at school with a Dallas Cowboys jersey and ended up in 3 fights that day(none of which I instigated). The guy who started the last one said he was sure I was a nice person but had to rough me up as a matter of principal. He was the worst of the bunch too. He broke my nose. He did help me up afterwards and I ended up good buddies with him a year later. He's one of the guys who throws batteries at the other team at Eagles games.

[digitalboy]

hey snooch, i'm up on my american football. Watch it on 5 every sunday and monday.

i like the 'steelers' myself. Great Superbowl Win!.:)

[SlavikSvensk]

oddly, the other scot i know who likes american football also likes the steelers...

i grew up in new england, so i'm a patriots fan. but im more into college. my alma mater, the glorious university of michigan, is #3 this year and will prob end up #2

[snooch]

Too bad the Steelers are shit this year. They lost alot of key players this past year after the Superbowl and are one of the worst in the league this year. That's a shame too as I love their coach and quarterback.

[snooch]

oddly, the other scot i know who likes american football also likes the steelers...

i grew up in new england, so i'm a patriots fan. but im more into college. my alma mater, the glorious university of michigan, is #3 this year and will prob end up #2

Too bad the Patriots aren't their usual selves this year. I have two fantasy football teams and have Brady on both as a primary qb. He has been playing shit lately.

For college football, I'm obviously a Texas fan as I live in Austin(capital and home of the University of Texas for those who don't know). We started well but the loss to the dastardly Texas A+M cost us dearly in the standards. That team is obsessive about beating us to the point of having the words "beat Texas" in their fight song. They build their team around the principle of winning at least one game a year- Texas vs. Texas A+M. Kinda like Michigan/ Michigan State.

[wenna]

i quite like watching football, but the rules totally baffle me?

[Numeric]

i don't follow American Football or understand the rules...

but nice one for starting the thread snooch, it's interesting to hear about what other sports folk are into, and ofcourse we mainly discuss the English Premiership on this board and nothing much else, it's great to have a bit of variety, especially as this is a truely international forum...

[SlavikSvensk]

my favorite sport is american football, followed by regular football (prem and international), followed by baseball

[Richierush]

i hate the word soccer

[SlavikSvensk]

you guys made it up :)

[Insomnia]

I loved it when i was in my teens, used to follow The Redskins..

[SlavikSvensk]

i didn't even know it played over there much...is it tough to follow? i don't mean that as a dig but it's an endlessly complicated game and i wonder how easy it is to pick up if you didn't grow up with it...

[Esox Lucius]

i've watched a bit of nfl in the early hours of the morning when i am still awake, it's looks an interesting game but dont understand it a lot.

[Will]

I remember watching a bit of the superbowl a couple of years back and thought it was deathly boring, the build up was more interesting and in football the build up to big games seems interminable. I remember Samuel L Jackson saying there was something wrong with a game where they don't score after watching a Liverpool game (back in the days of Houllier, so I can understand him not being that impressed!), but they didn't score for ages in that superbowl either.

I mean I'm used to end to end football, a sport where they move a few yards forward at a time just doesn't do it for me. And I heard they made the game less defensive too to make it more interesting, I can't imagine what it must have been like before...

Hollywood films gave me the impression american sports were interesting, but then when I actually watched them I didn't really like any of them and American football seems the worst of the bunch.

We did come up with the word soccer, but we don't use it though! Idiots aside.