Brooking calls final Vikes' score 'classless'

[ilovejerry]

Yep, this 40 year old QB is playing the best football of his career.

yeah go figure...If we would have sacked him a few more times and really beat his head in ..then tractor boy would get happy feet and he come the rocket balls...
just a ugly loss ...could have been worse i suppose could have been D mCnabb

 

[HanD]

I don't believe that it's something teams should do but that is my personal feeling on such things.

I don't like it, I think it's silly, and I think it shows a total lack of character and respect for the game you're being allowed to be part of to do things like that.

That said people are free to do what they want. They're paid professionals are have the right to go out and try and score anytime they want as long as they want to.

I just don't want to hear any Vikings players, or fans, crying and whining about it when it comes back around and happens to them.

And it will. These things always balance themselves out.

QFT. +1

 

[DFWJC]

yeah go figure...If we would have sacked him a few more times and really beat his head in ..then tractor boy would get happy feet and he come the rocket balls...
just a ugly loss ...could have been worse i suppose could have been D mCnabb

lol
Thanks for the perspective.

 

[Vtwin]

Is it just me or would this debate not even be happening if it was 30 years ago?

Maybe I am not remembering things correctly but it seems that this would have been universally accepted as a bush league move "back in the day".

Isn't that why the term "running up the score" even exists?

Having said that. If you are the recipient of such classless, honorless behavior you should just shut up and work to make sure you don't put yourself in the same position again.

The judging should be done by others.

 

[triplets92]

I didn't say that it's classless to "hope a qb gets hit." I am referring to hoping a QB gets injured...that's classless and bush-league.
If you're hoping for anyone to get hurt or celebrating an injury--you need to take a long look in the mirror and assess the quality of your character.

you know what if a qb gets hit hard and i laugh it doesn't mean that my character should be in question and i said "maybe not injured but just hit hard" in my original post. this is football jr and if you get sad whenever a big hit is made then you should probably think about taking up tennis or polo

 

[jimmy40]

you know what if a qb gets hit hard and i laugh it doesn't mean that my character should be in question and i said "maybe not injured but just hit hard" in my original post. this is football jr and if you get sad whenever a big hit is made then you should probably think about taking up tennis or polo

the people crying should play tennis, you can't run up the score.

 

[Chocolate Lab]

Is it just me or would this debate not even be happening if it was 30 years ago?

Maybe I am not remembering things correctly but it seems that this would have been universally accepted as a bush league move "back in the day".

Isn't that why the term "running up the score" even exists?

I was really young 30 years ago, but yeah, I think you're right.

My guess is that so many of our fans defend this because they're mad at the team and in some way they almost enjoyed seeing the team that let them down be punished.

I'll just say this, I'm glad our recent coaches, both Parcells and Wade, have more class than Childress.

 

[supafly]

laying down and taking a piping like we did today is chick like.

And then whining about it, and then defending such whining on the forums. "boohooo my uterus was bruised"

Man up, take the loss like a man. This is football, this is the playoffs. Crying because you allowed them to beat you up makes you look weak and pathetic. Do MMA fighters ***** about getting beaten into submission? Do they say enough is enough? NO THEY DONT, f*ing pansies.

 

[supafly]

Honestly seeing my team complain about another team running up the score is as embarrassing as the score itself.

The only thing classless that took place yesterday was the Cowboys quitting.

respect.

 

[jimmy40]

Do MMA fighters ***** about getting beaten into submission? Do they say enough is enough? NO THEY DONT, f*ing pansies.

don't they tap out?

 

[1rIghtsaidFred]

the people crying should play tennis, you can't run up the score.

I love the tennis analogy, because people really never break it down. You can't run up the score in tennis because there is no clock and a scoring cap. But if the other guy hasn't got a single point on you, which happens often in tennis, does the guy leading start lobbing the ball over and backing off his service because he feels bad for the other guy? NO! You play it out...hard. To the end in every sport, and the score is what it is at the end.

The MMA analogy is a little skewed, because as they are getting the $h^t beat out of them, they tap out and do submit...that's how it ends unless the ref steps in to stop it. The refs don't call off the dogs in Football and you have to play your game to the last whistle.

 

[superpunk]

I was really young 30 years ago, but yeah, I think you're right.

My guess is that so many of our fans defend this because they're mad at the team and in some way they almost enjoyed seeing the team that let them down be punished.

I'll just say this, I'm glad our recent coaches, both Parcells and Wade, have more class than Childress.

It was classless. There's no doubt. Everyone knows it.

Brooking didn't need to say anything about it, though.

 

[Chocolate Lab]

It was classless. There's no doubt. Everyone knows it.

Brooking didn't need to say anything about it, though.

Well, judging from the responses, not everyone knows it, SP. Some people seem to think it was really cool. But anyway...

The way I see it, Brooking didn't just whine in the paper about it -- he would've gone over and whipped *** if the refs wouldn't have stopped him.

Everyone's loved what an emotional player he is... This is the other side of that.

 

[gmb85]

I don't really care that they ran up the score. What I don't care for is lieing about the fact that they ran it up. Man up and admit it Vikings.

 

[Givincer]

respect.

Why have respect for a team that lays down and says "mercy, please?"

Please.

 

[JohnnyHopkins]

I don't know why anyone would have a problem with the late score. Who wants their team to be sent into the offseason with the remote possibility of being happy. The only team that should feel that way is the one that wins the Superbowl and there was way too much Cowboy love from the media at the end of this season. If the game was close then the media would have given the Cowboys that media darling status that I can't stand.

This score and this whoopin will be on their minds all offseason, which is good because this team's motivation comes from the players and not the coaches.

 

[fanfromvirginia]

Is it just me or would this debate not even be happening if it was 30 years ago?

Maybe I am not remembering things correctly but it seems that this would have been universally accepted as a bush league move "back in the day".

Isn't that why the term "running up the score" even exists?

Having said that. If you are the recipient of such classless, honorless behavior you should just shut up and work to make sure you don't put yourself in the same position again.

The judging should be done by others.

This is definitely something the older crowd, myself included, feels stronger about because it was a bigger deal when we were young. I think we're watching this informal rule disappear. The under-30 crowd in here doesn't seem to care and, to be honest, these rules differ from sport to sport and over time as well so if going forward people decided not to be offended by this, then so be it. The NFL will survive.

What's interesting to me is that the opposite rule seems to exist in soccer -- it's considered an insult to play less than 100% for the full game. A number of people on this forum honestly believe that and I've got a few European co-workers who feel the exact same way. It's not that they're opposed to sportsmanship it's just that they don't think this applies. And, ever since Belicheat's 'perfect' season (ha!), a number of people in football appear to believe it as well.

That said, I'd love for this to hang in there a little bit longer.

 

[DFWJC]

This score and this whoopin will be on their minds all offseason, which is good because this team's motivation comes from the players and not the coaches.

I agree...and this is true for all 32 NFL teams. For grown men, coaches motivatational tactics work in spurts, but the long term motivation to improve and perform comes from within. This is not Jr High School or even college...these are grown men.

 

[DandyDon]

When did it become ok to run up the score in today's society? I just don't get it?

 

[supafly]

don't they tap out?

The loser taps out, the attacker does not let up EVER, whether the other person is out cold, bleeding profusely, or tapping like a mofo, UNTIL the ref calls the fight.

I love the tennis analogy, because people really never break it down. You can't run up the score in tennis because there is no clock and a scoring cap. But if the other guy hasn't got a single point on you, which happens often in tennis, does the guy leading start lobbing the ball over and backing off his service because he feels bad for the other guy? NO! You play it out...hard. To the end in every sport, and the score is what it is at the end.

The MMA analogy is a little skewed, because as they are getting the $h^t beat out of them, they tap out and do submit...that's how it ends unless the ref steps in to stop it. The refs don't call off the dogs in Football and you have to play your game to the last whistle.

mma is physical, and brutal, its a fight to the finish, as I mentioned before the fighters NEVER let up until the ref calls the fight. Tennis is not quite exact either, there's a finite score that is being played to, whoever reaches it first wins. Baseball would be a better analogy, as anything could happen in that last inning, so you keep playing and running up that score until the very end.