That’s fair, tradition is just tough to break and coaches needed to see the the hard data to prove them wrong I guess. Falling short of fourth down is also a good way to fuck around and lose winnable games too so you gotta make sure you got the guys and the plays to do it.
It’s the spirit of the game. Football is about imposing your will on your opponent, physically, mentally, it’s all part of it, you kick their ass and then remind them that you’re happy to keep doing it by talking a little shit afterwards, it’s demoralizing after a while, your opponent starts to feel inferior, then the game becomes smooth sailing because they just wanna get off the field and go home.
Well I'm certainly not offended by it. The "heat of a competitive contact sport" thing doesn't really mean much to me. Why do some players seemingly never taunt anybody and others do it all the time? It's not like it's like wildly outside of somebodies control. At the very least, don't actually finger wag at somebody. That's not instinctual at all. That's your brain processing the fact that you want to show a guy up, and then you doing it. Guarantee if he spends the 1.5 seconds to turn his body and he finger wags to his own sideline, no flag is coming out. Just like a guarantee if you pound your chest staring at the end zone, instead of pounding your chest standing over another player and staring down at him, it won't get flagged.
Yup, and it wasn't me. Think you might be barking up the wrong tree on that one.
Still a bit situational though.
Because Boston markets and black people typically don't go well together. You can pretty much ask anybody who lives in that area or has been to that area about the racial divide because Boston Irish Catholics and black people. I'm certainly not the only person who thinks this or sees this.
Team rivalries would certainly still exist. Individual player rivalries perhaps not so much, though I don't see those as prevalent in the NFL anyways.Would rivalries exist without some form of what they’re calling “taunting” now? Saw something back in the 2000’s that was flagged for taunting which was very clearly taunting… but now?
Jesus Christ you are robotic as fuck, you’re like Ben Shapiro on these boards, but whatever helps you sleep at night.
It wasn’t you? You’re so full of shit lol.
I mean if you think taunting is instinctual, then we were certainly raised different ways, or at the very least, taught football very differently. I'll obviously be sleeping just fine. I'm not the one getting flagged and potentially fined for taunting. It's the players that will sleep with less money for lack of self control, not me.
Naw.. if i can talk shit to you and fk up your game cause youre mentally weak, im gonna do it every single time. Its like when we were growing up, we are gonna make you cry every single day when you come outside till you prove to us that you not a crybaby no more.
one single highschool program do not make hundreds of millions though neither does a college program..
Personality makes rivalries imo.. without ravens and steelers personalties, it wouldnt even be considered a rivalry tbh. Look at us vs titans now!! Those two games last season because of the players taunting and all that confirmed the rivalry
And that's fine. Sounds like we'll see a lot of the perceived "mentally weak" guys chuckling this year when they got the free 15 yards from the guys who still think this is their backyard. I think the tissues are more likely to be passed around those who are crying to the refs when the yellow comes out.
Most of them don't, correct. Most NFL teams don't individually make hundreds of millions either. But as an industry, they blow that away.
Im sure every nfl team makes hundreds of millions a year..well maybe not all but majority of them
Well, competitiveness mostly makes rivalries. You can talk as much as you want and hit as much as you want, but if the games aren't competitive, only one side is going to think its a rivalry.
