FAN960 general purpose thread

[HOOT]

Oh good a CFL vs NFL debate, was worried a thread about football wouldn't turn into that.

[GGG]

Originally Posted by pylon

It boggles my mind how people can care so much about a CFL football team. The CFL hype is a product of 2 things:

1) TSN making it seem way bigger than it is through false hype.
2) Riders fans, who's lives are so boring and meaningless out on the plain, they have nothing better to do with their time and cheer for what, in reality, amounts to an amateur football team.

Dumb comments by Molberg, but c'mon. Suspending the guy for a month?

Well if you want to watch a leauge that was 10 years ahead (at least) on offensive play calling the CFL is your league. The NFL has only recently caught up to where flutie was.

TSN still gets better ratings for CFL than NFL so despite all the media attention the NFL gets CFL is still the number two sport in Canada

[Erick Estrada]

Originally Posted by pylon

It boggles my mind how people can care so much about a CFL football team. The CFL hype is a product of 2 things:

1) TSN making it seem way bigger than it is through false hype.
2) Riders fans, who's lives are so boring and meaningless out on the plain, they have nothing better to do with their time and cheer for what, in reality, amounts to an amateur football team.

Dumb comments by Molberg, but c'mon. Suspending the guy for a month?

I feel bad for Molberg because he didn't say anything racist or worthy of suspension. Absolutely in poor taste but I don't believe a player on the Riders roster took the comments seriously if they even cared at all. The Sampeders/Riders rivalry is heated this time of year and I am stunned so many have taken his comments seriously. IMO simply a witchhunt buy a mob of hypocrites who at one time made numerous death threats and dumped manure on the lawn of their FG kicker.

[GreenLantern2814]

This is beyond ridiculous. Go to hell Rogers, kirch, or whoever else is responsible for this joke of a decision. I've tolerated you putting out a crap product for nearly two years now, and when your on air talent tries to maybe liven up what is otherwise a nuclear winter of boredom emanating from your station, you suspend him for a month? Never mind that he clearly doesn't want any innocent people to die, and the fact that he qualifies his statements by saying 'no women or children, and not even the full team just four guys', you're too ######ed to take that joke for what it is. A joke.

960, you do understand that he didn't actually attempt to sabotage their aircraft? That he is trying to drum up a little interest for a game that, as I write this, had 5000 tickets still
Available? No, you couldn't be aware of that, because that would
Require you to have some higher brain function, or at the very
Least understand what makes your station money is getting people to listen to it. But I'm sure you've completely forgotten what THAT'S like, 2004 was a
Long time ago.

So in conclusion; as you apparently have no interest in producing products that are remotely interesting, go #### yourself. It won't be hard to not listen to your crap station in the future.

[pepper24]

The suspension is beyond ridiculous. The apology was enough and it should have ended there.

[Erick Estrada]

Originally Posted by pepper24

The suspension is beyond ridiculous. The apology was enough and it should have ended there.

I feel Kelly Kirch is being hypocritical here. He's the one that brought in Richards and he's the one that encourages an edgy show. When you encourage that you are going to have moments and episodes of bad taste and IMO that's all this is. I feel he's throwing Dean under the bus here simply to appease a vocal mob of thin skinned fans. If this comes down from above him then maybe Rogers should look at the guy hiring and encouraging the behaviour.

[Fluffy Bunnies]

Suspended him how? I heard him on air this morning.

Rider fans are a bunch of classless, hyprocitical, imbred, mouth breathers. The Nik Lewis KFC meme, manure on their kicker's lawn, and their general conduct at any football game tells you all you need to know about their sense of morality and good taste.

The apology was all that was needed. It was sincere. The joke was bad. Time to get over it and move on with life, instead of manufacturing fake outrage.

[The Goon]

The suspension is overkill by 1000%. Very sorry to hear that, and I don't even listen to the morning show.

[Erick Estrada]

Originally Posted by moon

No he isn't.

He is doing a good job of showing what morons Prider fans are (especially the losers over at priderfans.com).

It's really not that hard to show them up as a whole they are a bandwagoning mob of uneducated football fans.

[Red John]

Originally Posted by pylon

It boggles my mind how people can care so much about a CFL football team. The CFL hype is a product of 2 things:

1) TSN making it seem way bigger than it is through false hype.
2) Riders fans, who's lives are so boring and meaningless out on the plain, they have nothing better to do with their time and cheer for what, in reality, amounts to an amateur football team.

Dumb comments by Molberg, but c'mon. Suspending the guy for a month?

Couldn't agree more.

The CFL is basically like ECHL hockey. It's a minor professional league, but media has put this idea out there that following it is such a "Canadian thing to do" just like drinking Tim Hortons coffee.

It's no surprise that the biggest cities in the country with the most white collar, wealthy, educated population are the ones that support the CFL the least. They tend to realize it's a marketing scheme and how truly awful the league is.

Seriously? A league with eight teams? One owner owns two different teams? Where referees basically are volunteers (and it shows)? And a GM can sabotage their own team on purpose?

What's hilarious is how people actually believe it's a better brand of football. Here's an idea: let's create a league with six teams, only two downs, a 120 yard field and 13 players on each side. We'll make it wider than its length. You get two points for missing field goals. And no running allowed, only passing and receivers get a 50-yard head start before the snap.

Would you watch that league? Didn't think so.

People need to remember it is only the CFL. It's a good example of why Americans just point and laugh at Canada sometimes. It isn't worth filling up the airwaves with, in which case this entire suspension controversy could have been avoided.

Don't hear people on the radio talking about the AHL or the WNBA or stuff like that often in Canada. Same should go for the Comedy Football League.

Attending a CFL game is great for taking the family out for a nice afternoon and having a barbecue. But it shouldn't be given major radio or media attention like the NHL, NFL, etc.

That's the real problem here.

[sclitheroe]

Originally Posted by Erick Estrada

I feel bad for Molberg because he didn't say anything racist or worthy of suspension.

This time.

http://forum.calgarypuck.com/showthread.php?t=57547

Regardless, this time and last people here have declared him to be of sound character, so one has to assume the apologies are sincere, and its a case of the mouth outrunning the brain from time to time.

[nik-]

Yeah, Tim Horton's is a good comparison for the CFL. Swallowing a subpar product out of misguided patriotism.

[OldDutch]

Originally Posted by pylon

It boggles my mind how people can care so much about a CFL football team. The CFL hype is a product of 2 things:

1) TSN making it seem way bigger than it is through false hype.
2) Riders fans, who's lives are so boring and meaningless out on the plain, they have nothing better to do with their time and cheer for what, in reality, amounts to an amateur football team.

Dumb comments by Molberg, but c'mon. Suspending the guy for a month?

Thank you. My motto for the CFL: It's great when the stamps win, but hey, if they lose it's just the CFL *shrug*

[RedMileDJ]

Just brutal.

I didn't realize how many people disliked the CFL on here. Sure it's not the NFL, but it is fun to watch and take in a game here and there. I don't think it deserves some of these comments.

BTW: I know little to nothing about the CFL, but I'm still a fan and try to watch a game here and there. I guess I'm patriotic like that, and like to support Canadian sports.

To add: I'm not suggesting any of you are unpatriotic, because of your dislike for the CFL.

[pylon]

Originally Posted by Red John

Couldn't agree more.

The CFL is basically like ECHL hockey. It's a minor professional league, but media has put this idea out there that following it is such a "Canadian thing to do" just like drinking Tim Hortons coffee.

It's no surprise that the biggest cities in the country with the most white collar, wealthy, educated population are the ones that support the CFL the least. They tend to realize it's a marketing scheme and how truly awful the league is.

Seriously? A league with eight teams? One owner owns two different teams? Where referees basically are volunteers (and it shows)? And a GM can sabotage their own team on purpose?

What's hilarious is how people actually believe it's a better brand of football. Here's an idea: let's create a league with six teams, only two downs, a 120 yard field and 13 players on each side. We'll make it wider than its length. You get two points for missing field goals. And no running allowed, only passing and receivers get a 50-yard head start before the snap.

Would you watch that league? Didn't think so.

People need to remember it is only the CFL. It's a good example of why Americans just point and laugh at Canada sometimes. It isn't worth filling up the airwaves with, in which case this entire suspension controversy could have been avoided.

Don't hear people on the radio talking about the AHL or the WNBA or stuff like that often in Canada. Same should go for the Comedy Football League.

Attending a CFL game is great for taking the family out for a nice afternoon and having a barbecue. But it shouldn't be given major radio or media attention like the NHL, NFL, etc.

That's the real problem here.

This^^^
Couldn't have said it better myself.

You can debate which league has better rules until you are blue in the face. But once you attend an NFL game in person, (and I recommend sitting no more than 10 rows from the sideline to grasp it.) you will grasp how incredibly inferior both the game and athletes are up here.

Any league that has a 1 in 8 chance in winning a championship every year isn't a league, it is a division.

I will watch a CFL game if I don't have anything to do around the house. But once something more pressing comes up like cutting my toenails, or inspecting my cutlery for water spots....unfortunately it has to take a back seat.

[MissTeeks]

People who rag on the CFL really grind my gears. Oops, wrong thread.

[moon]

Originally Posted by Red John

It's no surprise that the biggest cities in the country with the most white collar, wealthy, educated population are the ones that support the CFL the least. They tend to realize it's a marketing scheme and how truly awful the league is.

That's not true.

Unless you only consider Toronto as "most white collar, wealthy, educated population" cities.

[Fluffy Bunnies]

I really wish the Fan would talk less (ie none)CFL and more NFL and (hell any) English Premier League.

The CFL is a gong show to put it mildly. All the reasons outlined above and their import rule that makes teams take in inferior Canadian "athletes" is stupid. Im also waiting for the day a team wins the Grey Cup on a missed field goal. The rouge rule is terrible and showcases the CFL for what it really is: a bush league.

If the CFL wants to be taken seriously, they need to switch over to American football rules and abolish domestic player quotas. I long for the what the CFL could be, but definitely not what it is now: laughable.

[moon]

Originally Posted by pylon

But once you attend an NFL game in person, (and I recommend sitting no more than 10 rows from the sideline to grasp it.) you will grasp how incredibly inferior both the game and athletes are up here.

I have been to an NFL game and it didn't change my opinion of the CFL at all.

[moon]

Originally Posted by sclitheroe

This time.

http://forum.calgarypuck.com/showthread.php?t=57547

Regardless, this time and last people here have declared him to be of sound character, so one has to assume the apologies are sincere, and its a case of the mouth outrunning the brain from time to time.

Those are seriously the comments that you are whining about in this thread?