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Thread ID: 10314 | Posts: 11 | Started: 2003-10-07
2003-10-07 13:20 | User Profile
October 5, Sunday afternoon: a week after L'Affaire Limbaugh. The NFL is anxious to allay all Americans' sudden suspicions that blacks might be a special social-promotion priority of the league. They want the fans to understand that the NFL is color-blind....iss all about the [I]game[/I], dawg.
So every national reporter and league shill swallows hard, pop on their blinders and report that Donovan McNabb has just definitively answered the mad racist Limbaugh's baseless charges - on the field, with a commanding win. Except that, ummm, he was actually 16-30 for a measly 157 yards with 2 picks to go with his lone td; the Philly victory was built on an interception return td and a 19-yard run from scrimmage following a key 15-yard roughing penalty on Washington; and that victory was more like [I]time ran out on a Washington comeback [/I] (that fell short due to a failed 2-point attempt at 27-25.)
Hmmm. America might need another reminder that [I]Negro supermen are your natural superiors.[/I] Cut to last night, Monday Nite Football, Indianapolis at Tampa. The 'homecoming' game of Indy's black coach Tony Dungy who received all the focus of the pre game hype. Tampa up 35-14, 3:52 left in the 4th quarter. Peyton Manning leads Colts back in one of the greatest comebacks in recent gridiron history: 21 points in under four minutes. It is one of the great quarterback performances of the current era.
Tie game, five minutes into overtime. Colts line up for a 40-yard field goal: Vanderjagt's kick sails wide. And here the NFL went to work. With no guarantee Indy would even get the ball again, and their window to provide a precious lesson-to-America about [I]how naturally great black-coached teams are [/I] closing, the zebras - instructed along with Tampa's ownership & front office that, for the good of a multi-racial America, Dungy's team would be awarded any game that was close or tied - call Tampa's aptly-named Simeon Rice for "leaping". 15 yard penalty, automatic first down. Colts re-try the kick, kick caroms between uprights, Tony Dungy's Colts win.
The onfield interview with both Dungy & Manning takes an odd tack, however. The bit o' crumpet conducting the interview frames all her questions to emphasize what a great coaching coup for Dungy the just-completed victory was. Manning, who has just accomplished an incredible feat powered totally by his arm - [I]a week after coming off a SIX-td game[/I] - is asked to sum up the greatness of Dungy, a lifetime defensive coordinator who has next to zero input into the passing game and whose vaunted defense put him in a 35-14 hole to begin with. No one suggests that Manning's arm has pulled Dungy's lackluster chestnuts out of the fire.
By the way, you read that personal-foul right: "leaping". A 35-35 overtime game is awarded to the visiting team on a 'penalty' that I have never seen called under [I]any [/I] game conditions in 30+ years of watching pro and college football. The defender was flagged, and the game decided, for jumping up and trying to tip the trajectory of a field-goal kick.
Tampa coach Jon Gruden and gm Rich McKay both downplay the importance of the penalty. Neither plan to protest the game, even though the Bucs are a returning Super Bowl champion now 2 games behind in their own division, and traditionally coaches and gms fight like dogs for every yard, let alone every victory. McKay comments that no one in his office has found a single instance of "leaping" being called on a player [I]in NFL history[/I]. But he's not much bothered. He got the phone call over the weekend, no doubt: [I]win big or we're giving it to Dungy - it's the "right" thing to do, after all. Gotta send the right message about black qbs and coaches, so people don't think we're "desirous of their doing well".[/I]
Even if we have to invent an entirely new kind of penalty in overtime to do it.
2003-10-07 14:07 | User Profile
IR, if the NFL can't get their inadequate, inferior black QB's into the Super Bowl, they'll settle for a black coach, like Dungy. Black head coach Herman Edwards of the dismal NY Jets is already a lost cause, so look for more Dungy propaganda in the coming weeks. Remember, Dungy was coach of the Bucs the year before the Bucs went on to win the SB 37 in 2002-2003 season. The NFL just missed their chance but they may fix the rest of this seasons Colt's games to acheive their egalitarian dreams. Last night's MNF game between the Colts and Bucs was exciting, but there were numerous bogus penalities called. However, White QB's Manning and Johnson showed the world who should be QB'ing teams with their superb performances last night.
2003-10-07 14:31 | User Profile
You know, I wish that one of these White guys, in their last season, close to retirement and financially secure, when asked a stupid question like this...
is asked to sum up the greatness of Dungy, a lifetime defensive coordinator who has next to zero input into the passing game and whose vaunted defense put him in a 35-14 hole to begin with.
on live TV would suddenly fall to his knees on the field in front of said Negro worship-object and with all due sarcasm proclaim 'dat he sho 'nuff is da bestest coach he evah done seen and 'dat his tossin' arm just done been insp-I-red by all dat fine coachin' an' stuff.
Go out with a bang and all that...
2003-10-07 14:42 | User Profile
I was astonished to hear a white commentator refer to him as St. Tony Dungee several years ago.
This was done sarcastically when Dungee was being fired by Tampa Bay and it was being treated as the greatest interracial crime since Emmet Till was given more chain then he could swim with.
2003-10-07 15:39 | User Profile
Though the sanctification of Dungy is nauseating, regarding the game in question, I don't believe this particular conspiracy theory holds any water at all.
The game was horribly officiated all around for its entirety and the author of this piece neglects to mention the bogus roughing-the-punter penalty in overtime which handed Tampa a golden opportunity to win the game.
2003-10-07 19:54 | User Profile
I can understand bad calls, blown calls. Heck, I can even appreciate a zebra or two with money on the game - why should hulking black felons make all the money?
But this was a flag that had never been thrown in an NFL game ever before. I mean, what are the odds that a ref (and a dusky ref at that) is going to have the encyclopedic memory required to see a fg try and [I]immediately reference [/I] an antiquated, never-before-called penalty?
On the other hand, if the league was going to keep a black coach undefeated they would almost have to focus on a field-goal attempt as the play to throw a fixed flag on: it's just bodies hurtling at each other, there are a million "infractions" you could single out, but I reiterate:
a) penalty never called on anyone before, ever
b) called in nationally-televised overtime tie between two legitimate SB contenders on a indisputably missed fg try on behalf of the VISITORS
I'll wait for the Bannister verdict, but I say the league fixed the outcome.
2003-10-07 20:17 | User Profile
[QUOTE]I'll wait for the Bannister verdict, but I say the league fixed the outcome.[/QUOTE]
It wouldn't be the first time IR that's for sure. I think many football games, college and professional, are fixed. That leaping 'penalty' last night was a real doozy though. There were other bizarre penalties last night against both Tampa Bay and Indianapolis.
2003-10-07 20:33 | User Profile
I think it's pertinent to ask... was the flag thrown immediately after the foul or was it thrown after it was clear that the field goal was sailing awry...
I seem to recall it was thrown rather late, which might bolster the conspiracy, but I still feel if the refs were determined to help the Colts, they would never have called that dubious roughing-the-kicker at midfield, which gave Tampa a clear 2nd lease on the game.
2003-10-08 03:24 | User Profile
I wanted to post on this right after the game. But I was too busy. So I waited until I was done with work today. I had a feeling Il Ragno would fire off something on this bit of theater the NFL presented us with. I have to say that I side with Il Ragno on this. It wouldn't be too far a stretch to believe that several parties were told that IF IT IS CLOSE, try and give it to Dungy. The penalty was the most ridiculous I've ever seen. You have the league saying today that it was the right call. It's never been called before. Guys jump all the time to psych the kicker. Never does any good outside Pop Warner. They either hit it or they don't. Most of the game was played fair. But once it became close, all bets were off and the league took control. At least there's a good chance.
It was almost as disgusting as having to listen to Chris Collinsworth Sunday. He went on with the usual crapola dictated by his masters in the media. How sport is so far ahead of the rest of society when it comes to race, and so on. Why is sports so far ahead, Chris? Because we've let sports become dominated by blacks? It's really dominated by jews. That's real story of sports. The whole Fox crew in the booth at the Philly game was doing their best to point out how Donovan was doing a fantastic job. But he wasn't. Back at the FNC, Terry Bradshaw had the balls to come out and say it. Donovan McNabb averaging 5 yds. per pass isn't going to cut it. We'll see how the league sets things up for black coaches and QB's for the rest of the season. It will probably take some time for things to go the way they want. IF a 'plan' is put in the works. The looks on the faces of the other guys in the studio when Bradshaw fired off both barrels regarding McNabb was priceless. Bradshaw has some stones. He's probably pissed over what happened when Limbaugh told some of the truth. The guys next to Terry looked like they were about to check their watches to see what time it was.
Back to Monday's fiasco. I don't want to take away from Manning. ABC and the league did that during the post game interviews. But there may be some truth to the idea that the league decided there would be string pulling if the game were close. No one expected Manning and crew to come back like that. But there it was. Close. OT. Missed FG. Leaping. Let's try it again. Now we can rub the winning coach in the faces of the great unwashed.
Don't think there couldn't be set ups. Back at the start of the '01 baseball season I had heard the rumor about baseball looking for a black player to break the season HR record. Story was Bud Selig had decided that it would bring blacks back into the game, get them interested. Bonds did break the record. People called me a nut, including a few here at OD. But I had gotten the story from people who would hear this stuff. They deal with the folks in charge. They would probably kill me if they knew I posted this stuff. Look at what MLB is doing now. Funding "academies" in cities like LA, for black kids. No whites allowed. They're doing it all over the country. They say it's an answer to the academies in Latin America that are churning out ballplayers that end up in the majors in the US. No one seems to be worried that kids from Latin America, drilled from age 6 might keep white kids out of the game. The league is concerned about blacks. With the Basketball academies in Europe producing NBA caliber players by the dozen it makes me wonder what will be done about that? Will the number of European players continue to rise? Will the league put a cap on Europeans because they are taking jobs away from black players :crybaby: ? Will they ignore great white players from Europe? I'm only half joking.
Yes, I think that there is something foul smelling about Monday's game. That penalty was ridiculous. Watch films from other games. You'll see guys doing the same thing as Simian, I mean, Simeon Rice. Everyone ignores it.
It's almost like the official was on the lookout for this. Because you know it will probably happen. (Something always does. You could call holding on almost every play if you wanted to) I still think Doug Williams's Superbowl win was fixed. Watch the game. Where in the heck are the pass defenders? All of a sudden, they're playing 20 yds. off their man. All of them. Williams didn't even get the team there. It was Schroeder all season. Then he found himself conveniently on the bench, so Williams could begin his march to glory. It would be funny to have John Facenda come back from the grave, and hear him wail about fixed games, jews ruining sports, and more. I know Il Ragno knows who Facenda was.
2003-10-08 05:34 | User Profile
Indeed I do; the voice of NFL Films before Harry Kalas inherited the throne.
I remember beingone of the doubters on that aforementioned thread...and I was the one who started it, having found it [I]odd to say the least [/I] that, in the wake of a strike that broke the bending straw of fans' lifelong connection to the game of baseball, all of a sudden every offensive record that hadn't been approached in decades began falling in bunches....to 38-year-old hitters who'd never come [I]near [/I] the same numbers when they were [I]28[/I].
That "tweaking" of the game into something tv/youth market-friendly (nonstop offense, postage-stamp-sized strike zone, trash talk, 'racism' controversies, MTV graphics and promos, smarmy boothmen slinging Negro phrases in attempt to 'reach the kids') is actually less frightening and offensive than the idea that something as organic as the simple integrity of a game played by fixed, unchanging rules could be manipulated by men willing to amend and alter the game, the rules and the playing environment (like bringing the fences in and having balls manufactured in the Third World where no one can verify they're built to 'rabbit' specifications) into becoming an instrument for social re-education.
2003-10-08 07:31 | User Profile
One of the most nauseating let's-pump-up-the-nigras comments I've heard was when one of those ass-kissing shills said that Dungy was the "genius" responsible for creating the champion Tampa team, and all Gruden did was come along and take the credit from da brutha.