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I was told by reputable expert that the xfl was acceptable football
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coconono posted:I was told by reputable expert that the xfl was acceptable football it seriously depends on which teams are playing
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Feb 10, 2020 02:26
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I'd like to apologize for today.
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Feb 10, 2020 02:28
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as someone who watched like, 90% of the xfl this weekend, it's totally watchable. xavier's recovering from surgery and seems like a company guy, so it doesn't shock me he made a very brief social media post about a wwe-adjacent thing.
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Feb 10, 2020 02:28
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Is American football even fun to watch? I heard it's like watching the last 2 minutes of a basketball game with all the timeouts, except that's the entire game. All I know of it is from this 1995-era PC game called NFL Math that made you do arithmetic and depending on your results your team would do good or not, and when you win a season it lets you print a certificate where "<name> led the Arizona Cardinals to victory in NFL Math" Good times.
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Feb 10, 2020 02:28
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That's obviously gonna be subjective. I'd say that when a football game is going and doesn't stop much it can be pretty fun. When they're constantly stopping play for ad breaks and sponsor plugs though it is unbearable to me.
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Feb 10, 2020 02:37
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American Footbal is what you get when rich people retool a game about pushing and shoving from one end of a field to the other into a TV show. They even have built in commercial breaks and stuff. Its a good mix of personality, tactical play, athleticism and carnage. The problem is you've got a vocal minority of cis dudes that are desperately resistant to changing anything and football is one of them. Anyway, ELP is just clattering the meal tin against the zoo's cages https://twitter.com/elpwrestling/status/1226679184216481793
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Feb 10, 2020 02:39
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davidbix posted:I'd like to apologize for today. It's not your fault
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Feb 10, 2020 02:41
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davidbix posted:I'd like to apologize for today. I can only assume these two posts are related.
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Feb 10, 2020 02:49
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XFL has some kind of rules to make the game faster, right?Jerusalem posted:I can only assume these two posts are related. You're right. Bix outed himself as a Nickelback fan and has spent the whole day passionately defending them AND Three Doors Down.
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Feb 10, 2020 02:52
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american football is a turn-based strategy game, not an action game. you can keep your turn going by repeatedly achieving a goal and/or score points by reaching the ultimate goal
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Feb 10, 2020 02:54
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Football as an TBS makes surprising sense.
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Feb 10, 2020 03:04
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Neodoomium posted:https://twitter.com/tjpw2013/status/1226521172566654981 As an ESL teacher, (currently in Korea not Japan, although I did do a year in Yokohama), watching these non-English speakers try to do promos in English warms my heart. You can see her trying, you can see her using the words and grammar she knows, and you can see her trying to use all that to create something cool, (the top 3 Kaiju thing). God bless you Shoko Nakajima.
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Feb 10, 2020 03:11
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As far as the XFL goes the only thing you need to know is PJ Walker is cool.
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Feb 10, 2020 03:18
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The evil has been defeated, Cody Hall's been kicked out of DDT for his tweet https://twitter.com/ddtpro_eng/status/1226686190079725568
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Feb 10, 2020 03:23
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Fuckin' lol Wasn't that the only place booking him
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Feb 10, 2020 03:25
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BrigadierSensible posted:As an ESL teacher, (currently in Korea not Japan, although I did do a year in Yokohama), watching these non-English speakers try to do promos in English warms my heart. Every single one of them has been delightful. The English DDT account guy has noted that none of them ever get around to actually promoting the show, which is hilarious.
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Feb 10, 2020 03:25
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lmao, loving cody. dude is all look and zero talent/charisma. the only things he inherited from his dad are his frame and penchant for partying like an rear end in a top hat
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Feb 10, 2020 03:26
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This leaves only Dragon Gate at this point? I can't remember if he was kicked out of BJW yet.
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Feb 10, 2020 03:27
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The Cody Hall Gets Kicked Out Of Every Promotion World Tour 2020
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Feb 10, 2020 03:30
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Neodoomium posted:Every single one of them has been delightful. The English DDT account guy has noted that none of them ever get around to actually promoting the show, which is hilarious. That is something else I saw. The girls mostly seem nervous and shy speaking in front of the cameras. I put that down to having to speak in a language they barely know, but could also be because they don't get to cut these kind of promos very often.
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Feb 10, 2020 03:35
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People tempted to compare this to Low Ki: At least Low Ki was a good wrestler sometimes. Cody sucked, has always sucked, had a famous last name via his dad that helped him get booked despite that, and still hosed it up everywhere he went anyway. It's really been a sight to see
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Feb 10, 2020 03:37
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SunshineDanceParty posted:As far as the XFL goes the only thing you need to know is PJ Walker is cool. He's just incredible, indeed.
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Feb 10, 2020 03:37
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Mr. Carlisle posted:The Cody Hall Gets Kicked Out Of Every Promotion World Tour 2020 It's literally baffling to me that he hasn't had an extended run in TNA by now. The hired Del Rio like five times!
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Feb 10, 2020 03:40
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flashy_mcflash posted:It's literally baffling to me that he hasn't had an extended run in TNA by now. The hired Del Rio like five times! Woah reading your post I just had a moment where I felt like TNA had been closed down for a while now and was just reminded it is in fact still running Having AEW to look forward to every week has made every other promotion kinda fade away in my mind and they've all been replaced with Judas on repeat
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Feb 10, 2020 03:45
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flashy_mcflash posted:It's literally baffling to me that he hasn't had an extended run in TNA by now. The hired Del Rio like five times! Yeah Samoa Joe doesn't even work there anymore, its not like there's beef.
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Feb 10, 2020 03:45
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Cody being a total entitled shithead makes watching him get dunked on by other wrestlers and kicked out by promotions so dang satisfying though
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Feb 10, 2020 03:46
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Seeing somebody not live up to their potential is sad, even if they don't deserve to live up to their potential because they're shitheads. Of course maybe he never had any actual potential in the first place and we're just projecting.
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Feb 10, 2020 04:27
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Book Cody Hall to the dishwasher at TGI Friday's
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Feb 10, 2020 04:27
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it’s garbage that Chuck doesn’t get to do any promos. look at his raw skill. https://twitter.com/gentlemansooc/status/1226698248246583297?s=21 let him say “poo poo” coward tony
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Feb 10, 2020 04:34
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Schneider Heim posted:Is American football even fun to watch? I heard it's like watching the last 2 minutes of a basketball game with all the timeouts, except that's the entire game. Yes, but it's better if you are watching something like Red Zone where you can watch 8-9 games at once and skip out on all the other nonsense. The game is solid, the strategy is interesting, and if you are invested (GO CHEFS!  )All sports are improved if you cut out most of the extraneous nonsense. Even soccer, which I love, has a lot of "downtime" when no one can get close to threatening a goal. I can watch a DVR-ed soccer match in 30 minutes just by utilizing the 30-second skip until something happens. If I could start watching a baseball game by reading a scorecard player by player until I want to watch video of an At Bat I would.
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Feb 10, 2020 04:44
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Mr. Carlisle posted:Woah reading your post I just had a moment where I felt like TNA had been closed down for a while now and was just reminded it is in fact still running i stumbled on just last week they had a spectacular match between TJP and El Hijo del Vikingo only noted this because Vikingo should've been in AEW yesterday https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JePb4TivF2w
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Feb 10, 2020 04:58
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As a non-American I find football the easiest to watch. Baseball is just baffling to me. It seems like a sport designed so that nothing fun ever happens. Firstly, the bat is round so almost nobody can hit the loving ball and on the off chance that someone does manage to get one out into the field, all the fielders have giant gloves on so it's pretty much guaranteed anything remotely close to them will be caught easily. Taking the gloves away would improve the sport immensely.
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Feb 10, 2020 05:09
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Crapple! posted:As a non-American I find football the easiest to watch. Baseball is just baffling to me. It seems like a sport designed so that nothing fun ever happens. Firstly, the bat is round so almost nobody can hit the loving ball and on the off chance that someone does manage to get one out into the field, all the fielders have giant gloves on so it's pretty much guaranteed anything remotely close to them will be caught easily. Taking the gloves away would improve the sport immensely. This is some fumble dimension poo poo, and I love it!
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Feb 10, 2020 05:20
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I think about how pro-wrestling has ruined real sports for me, just watching a basketball game in its entirety is some tedious poo poo for me (and the Philippines is utterly crazy for basketball). It gets worse when a team is lagging by 20 points, might as well change the channel. On the other end of the spectrum, boxing/MMA with its surprise finishes make me feel like I didn't get my money's worth. I only watch pro-wrestling and sports anime now.
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Feb 10, 2020 05:24
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Baseball is great because it's a nesting doll of games in games. Each half-inning is a reset, those are made up of multiple pitcher/batter duels, and the best hitters only succeed 30% of the time. It's also a game better suited to radio than tv. There's a reason I enjoy baseball when I have the time to keep score for the entire match vs just watching it passively.
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Feb 10, 2020 05:27
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Schneider Heim posted:I think about how pro-wrestling has ruined real sports for me, just watching a basketball game in its entirety is some tedious poo poo for me (and the Philippines is utterly crazy for basketball). It gets worse when a team is lagging by 20 points, might as well change the channel. The point of watching basketball isn't a sporting competition. The point of watching basketball is to watch people with absurd genetics style on each other in the silliest of ways. Which doesn't put it that far from pro wrestling, actually.
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Feb 10, 2020 05:38
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TTBF posted:That's obviously gonna be subjective. I'd say that when a football game is going and doesn't stop much it can be pretty fun. When they're constantly stopping play for ad breaks and sponsor plugs though it is unbearable to me. As a rugby guy, I did once attempt to watch a handegg game, and honestly, I found it completely unwatchable. In fact, I find most American sports coverage unbearable, because it just feels like the game itself is there to interrupt seemingly endless ad breaks. It's loving poo poo-tier garbage poo poo.
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Feb 10, 2020 05:57
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Crapple! posted:As a non-American I find football the easiest to watch. Baseball is just baffling to me. It seems like a sport designed so that nothing fun ever happens. Firstly, the bat is round so almost nobody can hit the loving ball and on the off chance that someone does manage to get one out into the field, all the fielders have giant gloves on so it's pretty much guaranteed anything remotely close to them will be caught easily. Taking the gloves away would improve the sport immensely. Baseball is by design a game where success is the exception rather than the rule. It's also really hard to watch if you can't invest in the battle of wits and arms between the pitcher and batter. Which is not made easier by the fact that there is WAY TOO MUCH loving BASEBALL!
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The best "real" sport is Test Cricket. Yes, it lasts for 5 days. Yes, there are sometimes no winners after said 5 days. Fight me!
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