The South - Not The Thread It Deserves, But The Thread It Needs Right Now

[Marivauder]

FOOTBALL YEAH!!!

My team lost 2-0 this weekend

[teds]

+1 tech?

[Don Peyote]

FOOTBALL YEAH!!!

My team lost 2-0 this weekend

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/16453721.stm

[Opti]

you guys like handegg too?? sounds like your team is called sheffield wtd which division are they in, east coast?

[Don Peyote]

you guys like handegg too?? sounds like your team is called sheffield wtd which division are they in, east coast?

West Coast

It's near FUCK YOU OPTI

[Zev]

(if anyone doesn't watch football, MUFC are probably the biggest club in the world, while blackburn are fucking terrible)

Yeah but United against Blackburn and then newcastle were utterly fucking terrible, today on the other hand against bolton we're pretty good.

And on topic, I Think, once the allies did eventually come into it most people thought death would have 'mopped' the floor with solar but solar are doing pretty fucking epic right now.

[Centra]

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[Don Peyote]

Oh god I just remembered the last time we had a discussion about sport in EOU back on topic now

[Don Peyote]

So how bout that AAA hmm



beep boop

[Arrador]

Numbers advantage: xDeathx
Allies advantage: xDeathx (Goons, White Noise, Red Alliance, Pandemic Legion, Northern Coalition., etc have all showed up to help them at various times during the conflict)
Isk advantage: xDeathx
Supers advantage: xDeathx
Agitated to start the conflict: xDeathx

But yeah, xDeathx is totally the underdog in that fight. Makes sense (if you're retarded). Hey, the Broncos were the underdog against the Steelers going into the NFL playoffs last week... uh oh, here comes Pandemic Legion poster logic... UNTIL THEY STARTED WINNING AND THEN THEY WEREN'T UNDERDOGS ANYMORE DURR.

Yo haters, Teak is right this time. Deal with it.

[Marivauder]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/16453721.stm

Where's that multiple smug picture when you need it

[Don Peyote]

You're missing the point, we're two places above Wednesday

This is all we need

[Arrador]

The 'underdog' is usually whomever is getting the living shit beaten out of them. Numbers? Technically xdeath has more but SOLAR gets more in fleet - which brings you to inevitable conclusions about activity levels. Allies? Again, xdeath has more but SOLAR's are far far better (and one bomber fleet by WN and one by Goons don't count). Isk? I'm pretty certain both alliances are really fucking loaded. Supers? Death has more but doesn't put many in fleet, now yes Pl and NCdot are here but that doesn't seem to be stop SOLAR either (didn't you see those dead Nyx this morning?)

So yes, on paper xdeath has the advantages stacked in his favor but it's become painfully obvious that xdeath is simply that. A paper tiger. And SOLAR is most clearly not. So I might ask you again, who's the 'underdog' here?

erm no, the underdog is generally the one people would expect to lose from the outset. let's use a real life comparison, mufc vs blackburn, blackburn were definitely the underdogs going into the game, and they ended the game being the victorious underdogs. by all normal measures, solar were the underdogs. saying groups like IRC and -a- are helping, if anything makes your argument more invalid.

(if anyone doesn't watch football, MUFC are probably the biggest club in the world, while blackburn are fucking terrible)

And a drunk irish is right. Who knew? Review the threads when this conflict started. Solar gets robbed of 900 bil, and the defector joins xdeath. Solar resets xdeath. Solar was painted as the underdog due to xdeath's isk fountain/pile, supers, and numbers they could bring to a fight.

[Adri]

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[teds]

stop posting stupid handegg pictures and JESUS CHRIST THAT SHIT IS NOT FOOTBALL

[Centra]

I just found out that soccer games don't have cheerleaders.

Go Niners.

[teds]

yes but on the other hand we have more than 'run at man, take break HERE IS ADVERT'

[Centra]

All you have is run at ball.

[Some Market Dude]

lol soccer is so bad

that's why soccer fans get shitfaced and beat the snot out of each other, it's the only thing that makes the game interesting and exciting

[Don Peyote]

lol soccer is so bad

that's why soccer fans get shitfaced and beat the snot out of each other, it's the only thing that makes the game interesting and exciting

Nah, stuff like this makes the game worth watching

[Sezja]

Handegg > Povertyball


Deal with it eurofags

[Flinx]

Handegg > Povertyball


Deal with it eurofags

Povertyball? I guess you haven't seen the wage bills

[zodt]

Ape hoop > Hand Egg

[Arrador]

Povertyball? I guess you haven't seen the wage bills

I guess you haven't seen the salary of handegg players, and why every single university in the US has a handegg team.

[Checkbox Poll]

i like both football and soccer

[Lorren Canada]

erm no, the underdog is generally the one people would expect to lose from the outset.

So you'd rather base your definition off the way things are supposed to be, not off reality? While I would disagree with that, you still have to reckon with the fact that by your definition xdeath are still the underdogs. I guarantee you if you'd asked Murzilka two months ago who would win in a war between xdeath and SOLAR he'd say xdeath would get a whooping.

edit: New NFL record set by Brady @ Co with five touchdowns in the first half

also mad props to the 49ers

[Mr Coloredshirt]

i like both football and soccer

shut up clearly there can only be one

[Magere]

Clearly the greatest sport of all time is Starcrahahahaha

[Night]

However, Goons are a politically complicated matter among Russians and calling on us to help might not help them that much in the long run due to the political fallout.

Genuine curiosity: why are these things true?

[Don Peyote]

I guess you haven't seen the salary of handegg players, and why every single university in the US has a handegg team.

Do they make $175,000/week? And this isn't for the standout talent, this is for pretty much all of Manchester City's players. I could fact check and be certain but I'm pretty sure City pay upwards of £10 Million a week in wages. I know the Superbowl is the most commercial sporting event on the planet and all, but If handegg players on average make a lot more than footballers I'll be very surprised

[Mr Coloredshirt]

Do they make $175,000/week? And this isn't for the standout talent, this is for pretty much all of Manchester City's players. I could fact check and be certain but I'm pretty sure City pay upwards of £10 Million a week in wages. I know the Superbowl is the most commercial sporting event on the planet and all, but If handegg players on average make a lot more than footballers I'll be very surprised

http://www.therichest.org/sports/hig...-players-2011/

1. Peyton Manning

Indianapolis Colts
Quarterback
2011 Salary: $23 million

paupers, the lot.



compared to football:
http://www.therichest.org/sports/hig...tball-players/

No. 1 David Beckham

Net worth: £135 million or $219 million – according to 2011 Sunday Times UK Rich List
May 2010 to May 2011 Earnings: $40 million
Current Club:Los Angeles Galaxy

also from reading wikipedia i understand NFL had a salary cap of $120 million per team 2011, which is obviously something only poor countries would do.

[Malcore]

It's a poor comparison due to team salary caps.

[Lorren Canada]

And the fact that Manning has always chosen the Colts (or more accurately team loyalty) over whatever salary he might get.

[Grath]

Thats an old contract, last year, he got that much just as a signing bonus, the 'hand egg' payment rules are probably just as weird to you as the breaks they take, the salaries are staged over time in odd ways because the Teams are forced to function under an artificial cap on the salary, each team can only 'spend' so much on players per year.

So they structure the contracts to pay out silly sums over the course of a contract, and Manning is a bad example, due to team loyalties. He'll literally sign for nothing compared to his counterparts so the team can afford to keep him on board (even though they're going to trade him to avoid paying him a 28 million dollar singing bonus this year).

Soccer salaries are more akin to how baseball is ran over here, and watching the movie Moneyball, even if you don't really like baseball, can give you some insight into how close they come (they have/had no cap).

[Centra]

Who's got it better than US?

NOOOO-BODY!

[Agathor]

Who's got it better than US?

NOOOO-BODY!

Cuba?

[Arrador]

Yo, My piddly ass city's handegg stadium can hold twice as many people as most soccer stadiums in europe. Oh, and its just for university level play.

Shit fuck me sideways: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...ms_by_capacity vs http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...ms_by_capacity

stadium in my piddly ass city maxes out at 84,000 and was filled to max in 2005. Get fucked.

[progodlegend]

also from reading wikipedia i understand NFL had a salary cap of $120 million per team 2011, which is obviously something only poor countries would do.

The hard Salary Cap is for the most part the reason the NFL is the only highly competitive professional sports league in the world. It's the reason soccer nor any other sport can supplant football in America, and its what make's the NFL the best pro league in the world. Nothing is more compelling than when a team can be 2-14 in 2009, and then be 10-6 2 years later and in the playoffs. The salary cap is what makes a game between 2 random teams(that aren't top 4 in the league) watchable and interesting, even if you aren't interested in them. Nothing is more boring, and more damaging to the sport, than having the same 3 or 4 teams dominate the league every single year just because they happened to be owned by richer people than the other teams. Man City's short rise to the top is a prime example of why the EPL sucks.

P.S: playoffs, for you Europeans, is a thing in sports where the top teams from the regular season, get placed into a tournament to decide who the champion is, instead of just having the top team from the regular season be the champion. Yet another way in which you make the whole league incredibly boring. Oh look, 2 teams are pretty much the only contenders with 2 weeks to go in the season, oh look 1 team won out with 6 games to go, I guess those 6 games really mean fuck all don't they.

[penifSMASH]

Cricket is the one true sport

JAI HIND

[Konev]

Cricket is the one true sport

JAI HIND

dunno which is worse, cricket or baseball.

and just a small bit of fuel for the fire that im predicting will rage.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sD_8prYOxo

[Ymir]

FOOTBALL YEAH!!!

My team lost 2-0 this weekend

And mine doesn´t fucking win Stoke on home ground ... in fact they dont win ANYONE on home ground.... fuck.

And they have have a 35m pound bricklayer mistaken for a pro footballer..... fuck.

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[Mr Coloredshirt]

P.S: playoffs, for you Europeans, is a thing in sports where the top teams from the regular season, get placed into a tournament to decide who the champion is, instead of just having the top team from the regular season be the champion. Yet another way in which you make the whole league incredibly boring. Oh look, 2 teams are pretty much the only contenders with 2 weeks to go in the season, oh look 1 team won out with 6 games to go, I guess those 6 games really mean fuck all don't they.

You mean like Champion's League?

[Malaclypse]

You mean like Champion's League?

Don't forget the Europe's League, too.

And champions of both leagues meet for the UEFA Super Cup. Cleary soocer ends when the national league seasons are done. Can't you see that, Mr Shirt?

[Dysphonia]

Americans talking about football (You know, the one with feet), make me sad .

[progodlegend]

You mean like Champion's League?

I'm sorry, I was unaware the Champion's league was a consistent professional league, with the same teams in it every year, like a normal pro league, rather than just a cup (I know it's essentially a playoff for the top teams in each league, but no that's not the same, and further proving my point, it usually is the same team's in it every year ).

You know whats a cool league La liga, my favorite teams are Real Madrid and Barcelona, my favorite players are Messi and Ronaldo, how bout you guys?

[Ricky]

I'm sorry, I was unaware the Champion's league was a consistent professional league, with the same teams in it every year, like a normal pro league, rather than just a cup (I like the idea of Champion's league, but no that's not the same, and further proving my point, it usually is the same team's in it every year ).

You know whats a cool league La liga, my favorite teams are Real Madrid and Barcelona, my favorite players are Messi and Ronaldo, how bout you guys?

Champions league is not the same team each year,

its the top 1-4 or less from the different national leagues depending on the Uefa ranks UK got like 4 teams, denmark 1 if they lucky 2

Though you cant rly compare it to the playoffs of NFL or like, there simply to big a different in how the teams can afford shit as there are no rules about salary's and the like in EU,

[Loremaster680]

The underdog is not the person that is losing but rather the person who the professionals assume will lose when ther is a fight. I think most people would have seen all the factors and assumed XiX would have won.

Solar really suprised me though, and i think the PL/NCdot vs Stainwagon/Gypsie is a really good matchup. Too bad its just a proxy fight.

[Mr Coloredshirt]

I'm sorry, I was unaware the Champion's league was a consistent professional league, with the same teams in it every year, like a normal pro league, rather than just a cup (I know it's essentially a playoff for the top teams in each league, but no that's not the same, and further proving my point, it usually is the same team's in it every year ).

You know whats a cool league La liga, my favorite teams are Real Madrid and Barcelona, my favorite players are Messi and Ronaldo, how bout you guys?

I have genuinely no idea what you're on about but you seem to not really know anything about football, a sport I don't watch anymore or care about so whatever I guess.

[Manny]

Shut the fuck up eurofags before we come spread some freedom on your ass.

[progodlegend]

Shut the fuck up eurofags before we come spread some freedom on your ass.

Hold me back Manny, if I have to correct one more European faggot on why soccer fucking sucks then I'm going to grab my spear tipped American Flag, and javelin the fuck out of the first weird looking pussy I see with an accent.