NFL - Are You Ready For Some Football?! - 2010 Offseason

[Zopperoni]

Obviously I didn't grow up with them as I did the Canucks. All I ask is that LT retires with them. Then I'll have no complaints about the coming Rivers era.

What if they did it Larry Allen-style?

[Ben Kenobi]

And the Bears also dumped him like a sack of crap.

Flutie got two years of starts with the Chargers. I'd argue Brees and Rivers are better QBs because of him.

[Koyaanisqatsi]

They also dumped him like a sack of crap. The Bolts are the only team to take a chance on him, who allowed him to start.

Oh, so the Bills are your favorite team then. The team that took a real chance on him by bringing him back from CFL hell and made him their starter, and with whom he has more games played, attempts, completions, yards, and touchdowns than any other team in the NFL. As opposed to the Chargers, who basically brought in a QB that had been proven to be pretty good in Buffalo, used him for a year, then turned him into a backup.

Or maybe it's got more to do with the place, not the numbers, and you're referring to all the memorable moments Flutie had in southern California, like when he threw that hail mary against the University of Miami, or risking his reputation to cross picket lines and play, or when he hit the first drop kick the NFL had seen in over sixty years.

[SlowwHand]

I would enjoy some time in hell, if that definition is the CFL. It's not like they aren't paid pretty well to play a game. Maybe it's not the NFL, but it isn't spreading concrete either.

[Ben Kenobi]

Oh, so the Bills are your favorite team then. The team that took a real chance on him by bringing him back from CFL hell and made him their starter, and with whom he has more games played, attempts, completions, yards, and touchdowns than any other team in the NFL.

As indeed they were. But then that whole Music city Miracle fiasco was complete trash soured me off the Bills.

As opposed to the Chargers, who basically brought in a QB that had been proven to be pretty good in Buffalo, used him for a year, then turned him into a backup.

Yep. That's when I got hooked on the Chargers.

Or maybe it's got more to do with the place, not the numbers, and you're referring to all the memorable moments Flutie had in southern California, like when he threw that hail mary against the University of Miami, or risking his reputation to cross picket lines and play, or when he hit the first drop kick the NFL had seen in over sixty years.

Sorry, I can't be a fan of a team of cheaters. If the Patriots recognised true talent, they would have made him their starter back in the 80s.

[Ben Kenobi]

I would enjoy some time in hell, if that definition is the CFL. It's not like they aren't paid pretty well to play a game. Maybe it's not the NFL, but it isn't spreading concrete either.

You play in Saskatoon in December, and that's just one of three uncovered stadiums in the prairies. If you are in the west as he was, you play 3 games every year out there.

[Ming]

I'm sure coal miners would give their left lung to play football, even in Saskatoon in December, vs digging coal.

[-Jrabbit]

So basically, you're a Flutie fan, Ben. How tall are you?

[SlowwHand]

I'm a dwarf fan. I toss those little bastards if I can catch one. They've learned to watch out for me though.
My reputation precedes me among the severely height-challenged.

[Imran Siddiqui]

The Music City Miracle soured you on the Bills?!! WTF? Now you are just making **** up... so San Diego has never benefited from a blown call?

[Ben Kenobi]

So basically, you're a Flutie fan, Ben. How tall are you?

5'5''.

Imran, what soured me off the Bills is that they had Rob Johnson starting that playoff game, and not Flutie who took them to the playoffs.

[MRT144]

The Music City Miracle soured you on the Bills?!! WTF? Now you are just making **** up... so San Diego has never benefited from a blown call?

I don't even get how that would sour someone on a team.

[rah]

And the Bears also dumped him like a sack of crap.

Actually DA COACH was one of his biggest supporters and kept him around a lot longer than the fans in Chicago wanted. But losing a playoff game is not good for longevity with a team. (with not a lot of positives to balance it out)

[Ben Kenobi]

Well looking at it from a Bears perspective, you gave up way too soon on him. Imagine the Chargers dumping Rivers after the loss in 2004?

[rah]

Rivers had considerably more positives so that's not exactly a good comparison.
Hmm young and tall vs old and short.