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Booger got a lot of nerve to talk when he's doing so bad professionally.

absolutely murdered him

No I didn't read it to verify it's true I just hate her.

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ESPN Sources: The NBA is suspending Golden State’s Draymond Green indefinitely. pic.twitter.com/CNaIXavM0C

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) December 14, 2023

Draymond has been ejected after flagrant foul on Nurkić pic.twitter.com/RmrLU5tdw8

— Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) December 13, 2023

Yes, it's Draymond Green for like the 30th time just assaulting another player. He also tries, in true NBA fashion, to comedically flop afterwards as if that face came out of nowhere and just hit him.

What a great league

First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win. Then, several years after you've won, a former Queens Park Rangers midfielder inexplicably tries to fight you again in an attempt to promote his podcast. Like a catchy maxim ripped from the pages of the philosophy books that he has almost certainly only skim-read, the tale of Joey Barton can be interpreted pretty much however you want.

Perhaps the first reaction to the former Rangers substitute's latest wave of attention-seeking is also the most natural: ignore, starve of oxygen, move on. Partly this is because his motivations for railing against female pundits in men's football are so cynically transparent.

Why engage on the merest rational level with someone operating entirely outside the bounds of reason? This is, in many ways, the rhetorical equivalent of Barton's dismissal for QPR against Manchester City on the final day of the 2011-12 season: a blur of unfocused, indiscriminate anger, a last desperate attempt to drag someone else down into the filth with him before he disappears down the tunnel and into oblivion.

Of course, this goes far deeper than one 41‑year‑old former Bristol Rovers manager (win ratio 37.1%) and his crumpled onanistic desire to feel something again. Not least because of the way he has broadened out his generic criticism to specific broadcasters, who have then had to face the wrath of his 2.7 million social media followers. And not least because of the additional emotional labour that many women in football have felt obliged to perform in the days since: defending their positions, defending their colleagues, defending their right simply to earn a living against a loud lunatic fringe with seemingly inexhaustible reserves of time, self-hatred and burner accounts.

Enough now. This is a male problem, and to be quite honest men have been shirking the hard work on this for far too long. And it is very specifically a football problem, even if, in his shameless grift, the 11-minute one-cap wonder is clearly channelling the same far-right talking points as more seasoned online contrarians such as Andrew Tate and Russell Brand and that Tory MP with the Rick Parfitt wig whose name I always forget.

Since its earliest days football has always been a Petri dish of bruised and broken masculinity, conceived from first principles as a place where men gather to perform and prove themselves. Where the constraints and compromises of wider society did not apply. Where -- from the terrace ruck to the Premier League s*x party -- overt masculinity has always been rewarded rather than reined in. And though the sport is more diverse than it has ever been, a safer space for women than it has ever been, that culture persists; perhaps not so much in the glass-flecked alleyway but in the fan forum, the newspaper comments section, the sternly worded legal injunction protecting the identity of the latest footballer accused of sexual violence.

For the ex-footballer, flung unceremoniously from the carousel, now on the outside looking in, the values and certainties that helped them to thrive in this world now offer precious little protection. Perhaps this is why so many former footballers find themselves vulnerable to financial scams or conspiracy theories, convinced that the same special essence that slipped them free of the chains of society can help them do so again.

How does Matt Le Tissier end up sharing bizarre and antisemitic 9/11 conspiracies? Why does Iker Casillas think the moon landings were faked? How does Rickie Lambert end up going on marches against the "15-minute city" and sharing something called the "Great Awakening Theory"? How does Barton become a champion of the disgraced "alt-right" fantasist Alex Jones?

Very little of the actual content is worth addressing in any kind of detail, but there is a common worldview at work here: not coherent by any stretch but devastatingly clear in its emotional impetus, its determination to see darkened enemies everywhere. The world is not what we were told it was. We were all lied to. And I -- the disaffected middle-aged man, society's last permissible victim -- am the last hope against the total collapse of humanity.

Why would Barton try to rebrand himself in the cloaks of mainstream far-right populism? Perhaps the more operative question is: why wouldn't he? This is a man whose lust for controversy and attention has been indulged and encouraged at every turn: often by a largely middle-class media for whom the ability to quote fortune-cookie fragments of Nietzsche or Viktor Frankl was interpreted as some kind of noble redemption arc.

Remember the concerted attempts around a decade ago to reposition this convicted criminal as some kind of misunderstood urchin intellectual? The book deal, the simpering coverage, the romanticisation of his violent past, the Question Time invitation. "If I'm somewhere and there's four really ugly girls, I'm thinking: 'She's not the worst,'" he told a Ukip politician on the programme. Who could possibly have seen this bright young man becoming a rent‑a‑misogynist on Elon Musk's platform?

So, yes: by all means ignore Barton if you must. If that's what helps you get through the day. But by the same token something really quite sinister is happening here, a gathering movement of disaffected young men emboldened by our current political moment, of which Barton is merely an opportunistic symptom.

It begins with a throwaway comment about women on the telly. With an easily muted jibe at the Lionesses. History tells us it never ends that way.

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Last night KC Chiefs were playing the Buffalo Bills. There was 1:25 left, and KC is at the 50. Here is the play.

https://old.reddit.com/r/nfl/comments/18fhx5f/highlight_chiefs_go_ahead_touchdown_wiped_away_by

You might notice one guy standing on the blue line, looking back at the center. You might notice his whole team is behind him. If you didn't, the refs did and brought back the cool play. This caused Patrick Mahomes to spiral.

Mahomes is seen yelling, bordering on tears immediately after.

Another angle

After the game when the QB's shake hands he tells the opposing QB it's the "worst fricking call I've ever seen"

After having some time to think it over, Mahomes then doubles down in the post game interview.

Patrick Mahomes: “I've played seven years in the National Football League and never had offensive offsides called.” “Let us play the game.”

For those that aren't football fans, this is how the chiefs won the Superbowl last year:

Note only WR's can get offensive offsides called, and they tend not to because well... it's not that hard to know you shouldn't be looking back at the ball.

He even goes on to say it impacted Kelce's HOF career

The ref weighed in after saying that a warning wasn't given because the guy was so far forward the official who stands at the line couldn't even see the ball because of Toney.

!football

Poocastle thought they were the new Chelsea

Not so fast literally everyone else!

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Last Thursday, the Cowgirls won a thriller against the Seahawks, 41-35. TE Jake Ferguson scored the winning TD, running a nice route and beating safety Jamal Adams in the endzone. After the play, New York Jets beat writer, Connor Hughes, was quick to show off his amazing journ*lism skills by dunking on the former Jet, replying "Yikes" to a highlight of the play. After the game, Jamal Adams saw this tweet, and quipped back at the journo, posting a picture of the guy's wife and saying "Yikes".

As per usual, Redditors were quick to defend m'lady, calling for the player to be cut for his disgusting actions - here are some threads with a few highlights, nearly everyone is pooping on him lol:

https://old.reddit.com/r/nfl/comments/18chazr/jamal_adams_explains_socialmedia_post_about_jets

https://old.reddit.com/r/Seahawks/comments/188n114/jamal_adams_prez_on_x

https://old.reddit.com/r/Seahawks/comments/188pjtt/fann_in_response_to_jamal_going_after_a_reporters

“I think my wife is hot. So we're not that different, Jamal. We're both constantly fricking up.”

Lol this is great

That's a smooth line.

"He's always said some smart things toward my play, if I do make a mistake."

Jamal, I'm not sure you understand what sports reporters do for a living.

Ah yes, posting "Yikes" is fantastic journ*lism.

Adams doesn't deserve to be a Seahawk.

Ps am I supposed to think she's ugly? I'm legit confused. Your face looks like it got hit by a bus and you're talking shit?

https://a.espncdn.com/combiner/i

Mfer looks like an RPG character that didn't have any points left to put into intelligence because he spent them all on neck.

I wish I had more than one upmarsey to give this one. Normally I don't much like making fun of anyone's appearance, but "spent them all on neck" was too funny.

Reddit on!

And yes, she's mid at best.

Now that is truly vile reaction. It's time to move on from Jamal.

Even the coach, talked to him about the incident, and this absolute Chad said "When they go low, I go lower"

Anyways, this guy would easily on my All-Drama NFL team, the guys a beauty

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Wtf https://t.co/E7GKDiTZAf

— Erling Haaland (@ErlingHaaland) December 3, 2023

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the Chiefs might still lose (inshallah) but if they don't they have the refs to thank yet again

McCaffrey tried to sell it 😅

📺: #SFvsPHI on FOX
📱: Stream on #NFLPlus https://t.co/xvCjbLUIcN pic.twitter.com/Rwn7t6tb4x

— NFL (@NFL) December 3, 2023

That booger-eating buffoon just did at Texas in three years what A&M has failed to accomplish in 25 years.

It really is about to happen. Like clockwork.

Screw Snakey for allowing Texas to recruit as an SEC team for three years while playing a G5 schedule for three years.

People keep posting "The Big 12 is garbage......" but somehow, it hasn't made us any better. The Horns beat Alabama at their home this year; they just won the Big 12 Championship; and, they are a Florida State loss from having a shot at the National Championship. In literature we would use the following words to describe what this means for us: omen, foreshadowing, foreboding, harbinger, ... etc.

10 year plan. So crazy how we had tu dead to rights and didn't stay vigilant about stopping them from joining. I would wager Sharpe knew the whole time.

Now we are about to watch them do what we should have done.

https://texags.com/forums/5/topics/3428896

This is the Pandora's Box many of us warned you about. Defend it all you want, just remember who told you so, and get an XXL bottle of lube from now on.

https://texags.com/forums/5/topics/3428732

Winning the ACC undefeated, this is a joke. They had to pick between Bama and Texas. That was legitimately difficult due to Bama's **** up in week2. And instead of making the difficult call, they shafted FSU

It is absolutely ridiculously stupid that the college football playoff does not work like every other darn playoff in the world. Super Bowl, World Series, college World Series if you get in on a wildcard or original, and you win out, you win out. That's exactly the way college football should work. And whether that's giving every conference a chance or what I don't know but this pick and choose bull**** is just that bull*****

https://texags.com/forums/5/topics/3428595

What a joke. 100% due to media bias and not actual performance on the field.

Explain how a 1 loss BDF is better than the ACC? Such a slap in the face to the other 104 men on the FSU team.

https://texags.com/forums/5/topics/3428786

Big Ten literally changed their rules so OSU could make the BIGCG and qualify for the Playoff.

It took rule changes for A&M to be left out.

It took ESPN leaving out an undefeated P5 conference champion (unprecedented) for Texas to get in.

Tells you everything you need to know.

https://texags.com/forums/5/topics/3428622

I know it's obvious but tu is winning.

We look like fools once again.

They are in the CFP and we are in a downward trajectory.

All because we couldn't get out of our own way. This happened long ago when we went with a jogging buddy over Urban Meyer.

https://texags.com/forums/5/topics/3428337

If they played Bama today they'd lose by sixty. It took a homer bailout call to beat Houston and a complete collapse by KSU that gave them the game or they'd have three losses.

For all the talk and bravado about not caring about the Sips, here is another thread whining about the Sips

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