The Swamp

Gunpowder wrote: ↑Wed Apr 10, 2024 9:49 am To be fair, before everyone got hard for McCarthy, I watched him expecting to be like meh but instead I was like oh wait this guy might be really good

sancarlos wrote: ↑Tue Apr 16, 2024 9:12 pm Fuck this guy.

Tom 1860 wrote: ↑Wed Apr 17, 2024 12:38 pm So, how does Aaron Rogers command a huddle or strengthen a locker room when talking so much shite?

Is professional sport so win/money focused that no one else calls him out or at least takes the piss out of him all the time.

Nonlinear FC wrote: ↑Wed Apr 17, 2024 1:15 pm Yeah, I think unless some guy goes full on racist, all the other stuff is pretty much *shrug emoji*

Jerloma wrote: ↑Wed Apr 17, 2024 3:53 pm Plus, Woody Johnson is a huge Trumpy so shit like that probably gets him rock hard.

The Sybian wrote: ↑Wed Apr 17, 2024 4:58 pm

Jerloma wrote: ↑Wed Apr 17, 2024 3:53 pm Plus, Woody Johnson is a huge Trumpy so shit like that probably gets him rock hard.

Umm, Woody is the heir to the Johnson & Johnson company, so I don't think he is a big fan of vaccine conspiracy theory talk. While he did enough for Trump to get the Ambassador to the UK gig, I'm sure he donated a fortune for the tax cuts. I don't get the sense he is MAGA at all.

Johnson claimed the event, in which Trump vowed to keep billionaires’ taxes low, was “unbelievable,” and pointed out that the reported $50 million haul was about twice what President Joe Biden–accompanied by former presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton– reaped through a Manhattan fundraiser last week.

The one hundred or so attendees, Johnson added, were “very appreciative of what Trump is giving up to do this, to save America.”

When asked what Trump told him and the other donors, Johnson didn’t relent on praise for the former president.

“I think it was one of the best speeches. You know, each one gets better and better,” Johnson said, rehashing some of the same points that appear in Trump’s campaign speeches. Trump will be “a lot better” in a second term, Johnson argued, “because he knows what he’s doing now.”

Johnson then described what he believed the former president’s character to be.

“He’s extremely compassionate, and people don’t know that. He’s extremely funny; I think people are starting to appreciate his sense of humor,” claimed the New York Jets owner, who gave a pro-Trump super PAC $1 million last April and has since been working to get other billionaires on the same page.

Pruitt IV wrote: ↑Wed Apr 17, 2024 7:27 pm Yeah - I think that funding the Trump campaign pretty much puts you in the MAGA camp.

Gunpowder wrote: ↑Wed Apr 17, 2024 1:09 pm

Tom 1860 wrote: ↑Wed Apr 17, 2024 12:38 pm So, how does Aaron Rogers command a huddle or strengthen a locker room when talking so much shite?

Is professional sport so win/money focused that no one else calls him out or at least takes the piss out of him all the time.

Because they want to win football games

Tom 1860 wrote: ↑Thu Apr 18, 2024 8:45 am

Gunpowder wrote: ↑Wed Apr 17, 2024 1:09 pm

Tom 1860 wrote: ↑Wed Apr 17, 2024 12:38 pm So, how does Aaron Rogers command a huddle or strengthen a locker room when talking so much shite?

Is professional sport so win/money focused that no one else calls him out or at least takes the piss out of him all the time.

Because they want to win football games

In a rugby or football (soccer) changing room in Europe, Aaron Rogers, best player on the team or not, he would be copping all kinds of shite/banter from fellow players and I wonder whether he doesn't get this in the US or it is simply water of a Duck's back and he isn't a huge ego kind of guy.

Gunpowder wrote: ↑Thu Apr 18, 2024 9:19 am Random NFL player you had never heard of before just seeing his name while stat-surfing:

• Donald Hollas

govmentchedda wrote: ↑Thu Apr 18, 2024 8:48 am

Tom 1860 wrote: ↑Thu Apr 18, 2024 8:45 am

Gunpowder wrote: ↑Wed Apr 17, 2024 1:09 pm

Tom 1860 wrote: ↑Wed Apr 17, 2024 12:38 pm So, how does Aaron Rogers command a huddle or strengthen a locker room when talking so much shite?

Is professional sport so win/money focused that no one else calls him out or at least takes the piss out of him all the time.

Because they want to win football games

In a rugby or football (soccer) changing room in Europe, Aaron Rogers, best player on the team or not, he would be copping all kinds of shite/banter from fellow players and I wonder whether he doesn't get this in the US or it is simply water of a Duck's back and he isn't a huge ego kind of guy.

Think of an Aaron Rodgers locker room like a Cristiano Ronaldo locker room.

Gunpowder wrote: ↑Thu Apr 18, 2024 9:19 am Random NFL player you had never heard of before just seeing his name while stat-surfing:

• Donald Hollas

L-Jam3 wrote: ↑Thu Apr 18, 2024 10:20 am In Rodgers’ defense, doesn’t every top of the top athlete have a massive ego? It seems like it’s necessary to have to get to the highest level.

L-Jam3 wrote: ↑Thu Apr 18, 2024 10:20 am In Rodgers’ defense, doesn’t every top of the top athlete have a massive ego? It seems like it’s necessary to have to get to the highest level. Even dudes like Gretzky probably thought all his teammates were trash at times; he just had the self-awareness to keep it to himself.

Tom 1860 wrote: ↑Thu Apr 18, 2024 3:28 pm

L-Jam3 wrote: ↑Thu Apr 18, 2024 10:20 am In Rodgers’ defense, doesn’t every top of the top athlete have a massive ego? It seems like it’s necessary to have to get to the highest level. Even dudes like Gretzky probably thought all his teammates were trash at times; he just had the self-awareness to keep it to himself.

I will gave it a go to try find it, but there is a brilliant story about ex England footballer player Chris Waddle, joining the coaching staff at Hull(?) and simply giving up because the technical ability of the players was so poor comparatively to him on the training pitch, that he could not tolerate the gap in talent and left after a single training session.