12-09-2012, 02:19 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: Auburn
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Originally Posted by the other one
Out of curiosity, what's the difference? What about a football game is so much more emotional than seeing a friend die?
Inept leaders are everywhere.... And the military has more than its fair share.
I haven't read the book... But a buddy read the after action (military report) on it, and the lack of planning/prep for that mission they were on when it happened.... I've seen people fired for being less ****ed up.
What most people don't realize is that in order for people to win bronze stars and medals of honor.... The situation needs to be ****ed up in order to need crazy heroic actions (most of the time). It starts with training, then mission prep, then patrol actions, etc...
Kind of like a football game. You can't be a hero and lead a crazy comeback unless your team ****ed up the first three quarters.
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Well if you read it, be prepared. The scene where he gets killed is so sad because it was so obvious (in the book) that they were shooting that their own soldiers. He seemed like a great guy. But yea the situation in which he was killed was most certainly ****ed up.
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12-09-2012, 02:20 AM
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#590
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OPEC ****ed up
Join Date: Jan 2011
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Originally Posted by casultytosociety
i figured it had to be pretty late in the fight and round. there's no way you move like that unless you're not all there.
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At that point, Pac was moving in the for kill. Like I said, you gotta watch the replay.
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12-09-2012, 02:21 AM
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Originally Posted by BenderBR
At that point, Pac was moving in the for kill. Like I said, you gotta watch the replay.
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finals :/
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12-09-2012, 02:37 AM
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OPEC ****ed up
Join Date: Jan 2011
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Originally Posted by casultytosociety
finals :/
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Dont worry, I forgot it was tonight until obese joseph texted me to see if I was watching it.
Finals are ****ing my **** up.
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12-09-2012, 02:37 AM
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GOON
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: Auburn
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Saw the KO of manny. Wowzaaaa he got leveled. Don't know enough about boxing to comment on anything else but DAMN. He got floored.
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12-09-2012, 02:38 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: MASSachusetts
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It was so much fap. I'm literally still jittery and shaking because that was so awesome.
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12-09-2012, 02:49 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Yes.
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Originally Posted by Subucni
Well if you read it, be prepared. The scene where he gets killed is so sad because it was so obvious (in the book) that they were shooting that their own soldiers. He seemed like a great guy. But yea the situation in which he was killed was most certainly ****ed up.
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In "band of brothers", there's a scene where a boot scared soldier shoots one of the officers. In "generation kill", there's also a friendly fire scene. Hell, when I would come back from my escapades, I had to call on the radio before the posts could see me, telling them that I was coming.... So they wouldn't shoot me walking back on to base. I've had friendly weapons trained on me, and it's not a fun feeling.... And it *should* be obvious that I'm an American, but people that are nervous and inexperienced are ****ing dangerous.
It's the same with cops at protests, when certain cops go crazy and start beating people or spraying them, even when there's no threat.... Those cops are inexperienced, nervous, and dangerous to everyone.
Oh, and the UFC fight tonight was pretty decent, too.... At one point during the title fight, both dudes had leg locks on each other at the same time. Then later, one dude was doing the splits, still trading blows. ****ing nuts.
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12-09-2012, 02:50 AM
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Join Date: May 2005
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Originally Posted by the other one
Out of curiosity, what's the difference? What about a football game is so much more emotional than seeing a friend die?.
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I'm not saying it's more emotional, i'm saying the way we think about things and deal with things is different between playing a game and being in a physical confrontation/combat.
I know people freeze up and fold under pressure in combat, but just because someone reacts by crying about a football game loss doesn't mean they are going to have the same reaction when in military combat. It's two completely different mindsets.
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12-09-2012, 02:58 AM
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GOON
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: Auburn
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Originally Posted by the other one
In "band of brothers", there's a scene where a boot scared soldier shoots one of the officers. In "generation kill", there's also a friendly fire scene. Hell, when I would come back from my escapades, I had to call on the radio before the posts could see me, telling them that I was coming.... So they wouldn't shoot me walking back on to base. I've had friendly weapons trained on me, and it's not a fun feeling.... And it *should* be obvious that I'm an American, but people that are nervous and inexperienced are ****ing dangerous.
It's the same with cops at protests, when certain cops go crazy and start beating people or spraying them, even when there's no threat.... Those cops are inexperienced, nervous, and dangerous to everyone.
Oh, and the UFC fight tonight was pretty decent, too.... At one point during the title fight, both dudes had leg locks on each other at the same time. Then later, one dude was doing the splits, still trading blows. ****ing nuts.
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Yea it's amazing how people can be trained to deal in certain combat situations and the when faced with real life situations, completely meltdown/**** it up.
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12-09-2012, 03:13 AM
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$OG$
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: MASSachusetts
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Sports =/= combat.
Period. No matter how many cliches we draw upon to relate them.
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12-09-2012, 03:56 AM
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Join Date: May 2007
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Originally Posted by black_angus
Being a butthurt ***** over a football game for the rest of your LIFE is not close to being a good thing, and nothing related to it is good.
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I disagree. I think having that kind of passion about a sport and a team is a tremendous thing. I don't get emotional about it now or anything, but the '05 USC game is something I will always remember. The same can be said for any fan who is close to his team and recalls a great memory or a devastating loss. When you carry those losses with you the wins feel that much better.
I guess the one thing I still haven't gotten over is the Music City Screwjob, and that's only because they made a bad call. Of course any fan whose team has played Pittsburgh in January the last decade probably has similar memories.
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I have plenty of personal experience with it. Maybe not football, but baseball and basketball. CFB isnt the end all be all of sports.....which is what some people would have us think. This goes back to the arguments you and I have had.....I know what passion is, I'm a Red Sox fan, I know what it feels like to live and die with a team, I've done that with the Broncos my entire life, I know what its like to have my hero come up short in the final moments of the season, as do you, with Davey.
saying 1 sport is worth more than others is wrong. I know you know you better, because I know you personally, and you're my nig. But lets not go down this road again. CFB is cool, we can all dig it. But getting medieval on people who dont see it through the same light as you do doesnt make them ***** ******s (all though I'll agree, most of them are)....it just gives us a different perspective. Which most sports fans (not just football) desperately need.
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I get what both of you are driving at, and you're both kind of right. There are groups of fans for every sport that display fanaticism and carry their teams with their hearts. But with college football the passion is so widespread and the following is so expansive that it dwarfs other sports in comparison. Yankees/Red Sox is huge, but the vast majority of fans in this rivalry aren't like you or I. They don't feel the loss the next year or even the next week. They get crazy when the teams are good but when they're bad they go to Giants and Pats games. It's not like that with college games though. People will come see teams like LSU and Alabama when they're playing cupcakes. Notre Dame has maintained a 200+ game sellout streak even while fielding a terrible team for a few of those years, and a mediocre team for most of those years. I think the reason for this is that the college teams are just so much more ingrained in the culture of their communities than pro teams. Take this example. A Louisiana kid grows up and commits to Alabama, and a lot of his friends and people from his community create an uproar. But if a Dallas kid grows up, goes to UT, and then plays for the Giants, nobody gives a ****. The only thing I've seen that even comes close to the mass amounts of emotion and hysteria created by college football rivalries is soccer rivalries in Europe.
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Everytime they clapped the board for 10 seconds left, these dudes went HAM throwing hay makers. PacMan got knocked down early in the fight, but that hit Marquez landed was ridiculous. What a ****ing fight, this **** made my ginny tingle.
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I wonder if people will still try to argue that he could beat Mayweather.
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12-09-2012, 04:33 AM
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Goldy
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Yes.
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Originally Posted by kfresh
I'm not saying it's more emotional, i'm saying the way we think about things and deal with things is different between playing a game and being in a physical confrontation/combat.
I know people freeze up and fold under pressure in combat, but just because someone reacts by crying about a football game loss doesn't mean they are going to have the same reaction when in military combat. It's two completely different mindsets.
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Not for me.... Stress is stress, except getting shot at is a total mind**** of stress. Any sense of mental weakness you have only gets magnified in combat, unless you've got ridiculous training to fall back on. I've seen the fog of war totally eclipse normally level-headed dudes.
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Originally Posted by Subucni
Yea it's amazing how people can be trained to deal in certain combat situations and the when faced with real life situations, completely meltdown/**** it up.
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Ummm.... I know of exactly zero combat vets who have meltdowns in normal life.... The only stuff they have to deal with is anger. Not saying you're wrong, but my sample size is pretty hefty.
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Originally Posted by Fat_Joe
Sports =/= combat.
Period. No matter how many cliches we draw upon to relate them.
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They are extremely different, but there's certainly parallels..... i.e. teamwork and physical exhaustion.
End state of this post: [shrug]. I still wouldn't trust that guy in a firefight. Yeah, it's just my opinion, and I may be completely wrong about him, because my opinion about this is based solely on my own experiences and studies. I recognize my scope is very small, so my dealings may not even be the norm.
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12-09-2012, 09:11 AM
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Troll_Extraordinaire
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Homewood, IL
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Originally Posted by SmartyJones
I disagree. I think having that kind of passion about a sport and a team is a tremendous thing. I don't get emotional about it now or anything, but the '05 USC game is something I will always remember. The same can be said for any fan who is close to his team and recalls a great memory or a devastating loss. When you carry those losses with you the wins feel that much better.
I guess the one thing I still haven't gotten over is the Music City Screwjob, and that's only because they made a bad call. Of course any fan whose team has played Pittsburgh in January the last decade probably has similar memories.
I get what both of you are driving at, and you're both kind of right. There are groups of fans for every sport that display fanaticism and carry their teams with their hearts. But with college football the passion is so widespread and the following is so expansive that it dwarfs other sports in comparison. Yankees/Red Sox is huge, but the vast majority of fans in this rivalry aren't like you or I. They don't feel the loss the next year or even the next week. They get crazy when the teams are good but when they're bad they go to Giants and Pats games. It's not like that with college games though. People will come see teams like LSU and Alabama when they're playing cupcakes. Notre Dame has maintained a 200+ game sellout streak even while fielding a terrible team for a few of those years, and a mediocre team for most of those years. I think the reason for this is that the college teams are just so much more ingrained in the culture of their communities than pro teams. Take this example. A Louisiana kid grows up and commits to Alabama, and a lot of his friends and people from his community create an uproar. But if a Dallas kid grows up, goes to UT, and then plays for the Giants, nobody gives a ****. The only thing I've seen that even comes close to the mass amounts of emotion and hysteria created by college football rivalries is soccer rivalries in Europe.
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I wonder if people will still try to argue that he could beat Mayweather.
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Don't be an idiot. 3-4yrs ago when that fight would have been relevant, he very well could have. Unfortunately, mayweather ducked him for so long that neither guy is in their prime any more.
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12-09-2012, 09:12 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: 352
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Mayweather would tool Pacquiao.
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12-09-2012, 09:17 AM
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Troll_Extraordinaire
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Homewood, IL
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the fight would be **** now.
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12-09-2012, 11:07 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: OH - IO
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Originally Posted by casultytosociety
i figured it had to be pretty late in the fight and round. there's no way you move like that unless you're not all there.
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Pac was winning the fight and he was going for a kill shot. he got sloppy and opened himself up and thats what happened. the last 2 rounds he was looking to knock marquez out.
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Mayweather would tool Pacquiao.
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fight is pointless and would be a **** dick fight anyway. everyone is so sick of their bull**** and i think more people would honestly rather see a pac v. marquez 5 at this point
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12-09-2012, 11:45 AM
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12-09-2012, 11:47 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2005
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so what happened top gruden?
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12-09-2012, 11:59 AM
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My mom just texted me that my so cousin who lives with my grandma next door (he's like 30, lol) just raised a 5x8 battle flag, a POW flag, and a Gadsen flag
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12-09-2012, 12:02 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: 352
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so what happened top gruden?
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That is Jon Gruden in a Butch Jones mask.
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12-09-2012, 12:06 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2008
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My mom just texted me that my so cousin who lives with my grandma next door (he's like 30, lol) just raised a 5x8 battle flag, a POW flag, and a Gadsen flag
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What is his productive mission in life?
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