Marty B..." I wanted to hit favre in the mouth"

[coogrfan]

soccer moms have bigger balls that what's being shown in this thread.

I really don't know how to respond to this.

The fact that there are apparently a fair number of people who firmly believe that sportsmanship is not merely unimportant, but in fact downright unmanly, leaves me at a loss for words.

 

[jimmy40]

and that would be the fans bending over and taking it?

bet 95% of the fans crying about it weren't even watching it by then.

 

[trickblue]

I really don't know how to respond to this.

The fact that there are apparently a fair number of people who firmly believe that sportsmanship is not merely unimportant, but in fact downright unmanly, leaves me at a loss for words.

It's a sad statement on society in general...

 

[jimmy40]

I really don't know how to respond to this.

The fact that there are apparently a fair number of people who firmly believe that sportsmanship is not merely unimportant, but in fact downright unmanly, leaves me at a loss for words.

sportmanship my ***, big schoolyard bully talking all the noise got punched in the mouth and now wants to cry to the principal. that's what it is.

 

[MartinRamone]

I really don't know how to respond to this.

The fact that there are apparently a fair number of people who firmly believe that sportsmanship is not merely unimportant, but in fact downright unmanly, leaves me at a loss for words.

Sportsmanship ? sportsmanship is playing 100% all game.

 

[superonyx]

Sportsmanship ? sportsmanship is playing 100% all game.

No. Sportsmanship is respecting your opponent. Respecting the game. Its sad because people like you actually think that its alright to disrespect someone just because you can.

How old are you 13?

 

[Maikeru-sama]

Again, if running up the score helps the Vikings, how is it "unsportsmanlike"?

Brad Childress probably wanted to get revenge for Andy Reid and shove it in the nose of the media who gave them no chance.

However, completely DESTROYING the hottest team in the NFC sends a message to the next opponent that you better bring your A game or you will suffer the same fate.

These guys get paid millions of dollars.

I believe you enforce your will on a team as often and as long as you possibly can.

60 minutes of HELL!

 

[SultanOfSix]

sportmanship my ***, big schoolyard bully talking all the noise got punched in the mouth and now wants to cry to the principal. that's what it is.

When did the Cowboys become a big bully?

 

[fanfromvirginia]

Sportsmanship ? sportsmanship is playing 100% all game.

In some sports yes, in others, no. It depends on what sport you're playing, where you're playing it, etc. But sportsmanship is much more than just playing your hardest. Every sport has certain things you're not really supposed to do. Most sports don't have this particular rule but they do have others. The fact of the matter is that running up the score is something that has traditionally been seen as bad sportsmanship in American football. That may be changing but there is no question whatsoever that this a traditional informal rule in football. When it gets broken, people take exception to it. Kids are taught not to do it.

 

[Doomsay]

sportmanship my ***, big schoolyard bully talking all the noise got punched in the mouth and now wants to cry to the principal. that's what it is.

Exactly, tough guy TALKING about punching somebody in the mouth while in the confines of his own locker room. Rather than hiting somebody really hard in the field of play.

 

[Don Corleone]

Maybe Favre reverted back to college football, and thought that he is trying to get more BCS points.

 

[SultanOfSix]

Again, if running up the score helps the Vikings, how is it "unsportsmanlike"?

I'm not sure how it could have helped them. The game was already won unless they let the 'Boys score.

Of course, I could say killing someone helped me too. It still doesn't make it right.

 

[superonyx]

Again, if running up the score helps the Vikings, how is it "unsportsmanlike"?

Brad Childress probably wanted to get revenge for Andy Reid and shove it in the nose of the media who gave them no chance.

However, completely DESTROYING the hottest team in the NFC sends a message to the next opponent that you better bring your A game or you will suffer the same fate.

These guys get paid millions of dollars.

I believe you enforce your will on a team as often and as long as you possibly can.

60 minutes of HELL!

Please explain how running up the score helps the Vikings...How does sending this message to the saints help the vikings? By letting them know they need to play even harder? Doesnt that actually hurt the vikings? Would you want them to underestimate you?

Your logic is weak and flawed. Running a play action pass up almost 30 points with less that 2 minutes to go in the game is not sportsmanship.
Is this really a hard thing to understand? I am amazed that their are so many of you kids that dont understand sportsmanship. Its respect. Thats what its about. That played showed zero respect for the athletes on the other side of the ball. And i cant see how that help anyone.

 

[Maikeru-sama]

It's all about intimidation and enforcing your will on your opponent.

This isn't Pee Wee Football in Texas.

This is Professional Football where guys get paid millions of dollars and equally millions of dollars are on the line every Season.

This is a subject where everyone has their minds made up as to whether it was right or wrong, so I am not going to go back and forth on it.

From my point of view, the Vikings sent a clear message to the folks in New Orleans that they are coming for the NFC Crown and that their "demise was greatly exaggerated".

Not to play Nostradamus, but I am pretty sure if the shoe was on the other side, most Cowboys fans wouldn't have had a problem with it.

Now the Vikings can go into the NFC Championship Game with the Mantra of "We completely destroyed the hottest team in the NFC and maybe the NFL, so we can beat anybody"

Again, 60 Minutes of Hell!

 

[Don Corleone]

Not to play Nostradamus, but I am pretty sure if the shoe was on the other side, most Cowboys fans wouldn't have had a problem with it.

Again, 60 Minutes of Hell!

That's just the thing. Tom Landry never did it. Jimmy Johnson did, and our coaches since haven't done it.

To me, it is classless.

Look at New Orleans. They have 45 points as of the middle of the 3rd quarter last night, and could have hung 70+ on the Cardinals.

Brees said it best, "We were just trying to get out of there healthy."

FTR, I did have a problem when Jimmy Johnson pulled the same thing...and yes, our players did get a lot of cheap shots in the early to mid 90's, and even the late 90's as a result.

Karma is a *****.

 

[coogrfan]

I'm pretty sure if the shoe was on the other foot there would be no need to have this conversation.

Case in point-the last two weeks. Dallas had Philly down by 20+ points thru three qtrs on both occasions, and didn't score a single point in the 4th qtr of either game. If Wade wouldn't run it up on Philly (the Boys bitterest rival and nemesis for the last decade) what reason is there to assume they would have done so against the Vikes?

 

[Maikeru-sama]

That's just the thing. Tom Landry never did it. Jimmy Johnson did, and our coaches since haven't done it.

To me, it is classless.

Look at New Orleans. They have 45 points as of the middle of the 3rd quarter last night, and could have hung 70+ on the Cardinals.

Brees said it best, "We were just trying to get out of there healthy."

FTR, I did have a problem when Jimmy Johnson pulled the same thing...and yes, our players did get a lot of cheap shots in the early to mid 90's, and even the late 90's as a result.

Karma is a *****.

Jimmy Johnson did do it.

As a matter of fact, many people had a problem with Jimmy Johnson at Miami because he did do it.

I remember the game where he completely destroyed Notre Dame and that was the last game for Notre Dame's Head Coach.

Folks, "Margin of Victory" was just recently removed the BCS equation.

Running up the score is more common then some folks want to admit.

 

[MartinRamone]

No. Sportsmanship is respecting your opponent. Respecting the game. Its sad because people like you actually think that its alright to disrespect someone just because you can.

How old are you 13?

I am 22, thanks for asking. What are you talking about disrepecting someone ? its a game, if you dont want the other to embarrass you, just try to stop them. The cowboys disrespected themselves by playing so poorly and most of all they disrespected us the fans and we should be mad at them and not at the Vikings for showing us how bad we played, they helped us to make JJ see that things are very wrong and if we lost by 10 points it might not have happened. Having mercy is not sportsmanship, at least for me.

fanfromvirginia: i have followed NFL since 2000 since its very unpopular here, being this issue one of the things that makes it unpopular. And you are right, the only team that i seen "running up the score" were the Pats few years ago, and i thought it could change the NFL making it even better. I am more used to football ( not american football ), rugby and basketball and in all those sports players get booed if they slow down an dont run up the score, its a bigger joy to destroy the other team and barely beating them.

 

[Biggems]

I agree with what Troy said. If you dont want to be scored on, stop them.


This is the NFL. These are grown men who make lots of money. They get paid to play 60 minutes of regulation football, plus sudden death on occasion. You go all out for that 60 minutes and all scoring is fair game.

As much as I hate Favre and dislike the Vikings.....I have absolutely no issue with what they did.

Instead all of my ire is aimed at our OL, Suisham, Romo, and our tackling. Most of Romo's issues were caused by the lack of success by our OL. My main issues with Romo are the INT that he didn't need to throw and the two occasions when he could have run for a 1st down, but instead tforced passes that resulted in incompletions. I am not so upset over the fumbles.

I am with Hos on this. I hate kickers. I say keep Beuhler as our KO specialist and PAT kicker, but other than that, we either go for it or punt on 4th down every single time next year. It couldnt be any worse than it was this season. Who knows we may actually score a few more TDs.

Our OL was atrocious. We havent blocked that bad in a very long time. Ironically, we were still able to move the ball down the field. However, because of the poor blocking, we were unable to give Romo the time to go vertical. That really hurt our offense.

Our D has been our bread and butter lately, but today, they tackled horribly. We had great coverage on both of the deep TDs to Rice, but we didn't tackle at all. Had we tackled better, I feel we could have held them out of the endzone on 3 of those TDs. We still lose, but not by as much.

At any rate, I am not upset with Minnesota running up the score. In fact, had they gotten the ball back, I would have wanted them to try to score again. IMO, mercy is a slap in the face, when you are playing pro sports.

 

[Teren_Kanan]

i liked what Aikman said "you don't like it? do something about it" -- don't ***** if your D isn't playing hard and you get scored on.

This.