How Many Of Us look forward to the start of the Pro Football Season?????? - Page 2

I liked watching football, and playing baseball, that was the extent of my (outdoor) sports ; ) In the 70s was Cowboys all the way, Roger Staubach and Tom Landry. Tony Dorset came along, was a good runner too, but turned not to be as good as he thought. Staubach had been pulverized so many times he finally had to step aside(which he did rather gracefully) Danny White was a great QB too(if you ever looked at his stats, he made the Pro-Bowl a number of times) but after Staubach left, and Dorset thought he WAS the team, it all fell apart sadly, and White took a beating.

I didn't watch much, and for a couple years mid 80s was working Sundays and Monday nights and only had a few minutes glimpse of the Superbowl (when someone would sneak a TV into the break room)

I had lost interest in Dallas and followed 49ers Montana for a few years(had seen him do some really great drives against Dallas in the 70s), but they dumped him, and I watched him in KC awhile, I guess after they drpped him, I no longer had much interest in any of it.

Mid 90s while living in Nashville they got a team named the Titans, which perked my interest for a while, had a great QB in Steve McNair. Their first year there they went (I think it was) to the Super Bowl, played the closest game it had ever seen, ONE YARD away from winning, really great game, even though they lost, they returned to Nashville as heros. Then Nashville started cutting the roster to pinch a few bucks, and dumped McNair, and didn't even try to draft Peyton Manning, which together pretty much turned me off of them.
I'd catch Mannings game occasionally but had largely lost much interest in the whole show.

I've been in Oklahoma for 6 years now, with 2 stations...PBS, and uhmmm, PBS, which has no Football, ohwell, I don't really miss it, I've got my memories ; )

One more fan of "Da Bears" here. Bears all the way!

I've been in Oklahoma for 6 years now, with 2 stations...PBS, and uhmmm, PBS, which has no Football, ohwell, I don't really miss it, I've got my memories ; )

Not to really hijack but just a slight detour; When I lived in S.E. Kansas years ago, a CB radio friend of mine had his cable shut off as they were doing a budget redo. (him -his wife) He got tired of not having TV so he studied a ham electronics book at the local library and with a 7' piece of 1"x2" and some coathangers cut to length, ended up with a home made high powered TV antenna. I went to his house and the antenna was setting on his porch in a chair and he could pull in stations from Wichita about 100 miles away.

At first I thought it was a fluke but he picked it up and changed direction and pulled in stations from Kansas City, also about 100 miles away. Being that you play with electronics it would be an easy thing to make your own antenna so you wouldn't have to suffer with just PBS. Let Google be your friend,,,

I enjoy local HS football the best. But I do live in kinda a special place for that! My local team won the TEXAS 5A Division 1 (the BIG school division) championship last year in what was supposed to be a rebuilding year. With a great group of returning core starters they are definitely in the discussion about who is the best HS team in the nation. I'd love to see a 4 or 8 team playoff on THAT!!! I think TV revenues would earn some VERY rich returns to the schools, too.

Next would be Pro ball, even with all the overpaid primadonnas, it is pretty entertaining.

College ball could be good, but I have a couple problems with it: ONE: it seems more & more like it's the SEC on one level, and the rest of the nation two or three tiers below them. TWO: Seems many games are utter blowouts & teams are compelled to run up the score rather than get their freshmen experience simply cuz they don't want to drop in the polls.

And Dem Saints whooped that Raider derriere last night!! LOL

23-0 with the starters and held on to win 28-20.

Preseason, I know, but very very promising.

Originally Posted by parrothead

One more fan of "Da Bears" here. Bears all the way!

Think back a ways, do you remember the "Black and Blues Brothers" era of the Bears?
I've still got an origional poster of them.

Big Blue fan here going back to the Craig Morton days...blehhhhh. I think we dumped him on the Broncos at some point and then we dumped on the Broncos a few years later. Sorry KZ couldnt resist

Lots of respect for you scrapping, its tough to pull for those types of teams year after year. When they win though its all the more sweeter.