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04-16-2014 , 06:37 PM

#101

LetsGambool

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Yeah, all it was missing was a sidebar saying "Next: LeBron speaks about the Boston Marathon" and it would be the perfect ESPN clip.

04-16-2014 , 06:41 PM

#102

suzzer99

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I need to know what Dwight Howard has to say about it.

04-16-2014 , 07:23 PM

#103

Dids

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Quote:

Originally Posted by suzzer99

Did you guys watch that video I posted? I thought it was surreal and terrifying and pretty much a perfect illustration to what dvaut has been posting.

ESPN's something of a bad example though, because their business model is basically a professional lack of perspective on EVERYTHING.

If they weren't making far too big a deal of the marathon stuff, they'd just be freaking out about Yasiel Puig or Johnny Football. When I was at a sports bar for lunch the other day they spent like 20 minutes talking about Boston's manager getting tossed for arguing a replay.

04-16-2014 , 07:37 PM

#104

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My favorite ESPN rants are the ones where they complain the media is making a big deal out of nothing. You ARE the media, and it's YOU making the big deal out of nothing! Gotta fill that airtime somehow, I guess.

04-16-2014 , 07:54 PM

#105

suzzer99

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Not just ESPN but that crazy Biden Braveheart-esque speech. Imagine if something much more serious had happened - we'd be going to war by now. The whole sports/patriotism/corporate/consumer synergy is terrifying.

04-16-2014 , 08:03 PM

#106

Terry "Hulk" Hogan

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The Hulkster is proud to see the people of Boston coming together and showing support after a tragedy. That's the Real American way, brother.

04-16-2014 , 08:05 PM

#107

MrWookie

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Hulk, you have a lot of nerve showing up in this thread when wounds from your own works are still raw.

Spoiler:

04-16-2014 , 08:12 PM

#108

MidyMat

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04-16-2014 , 08:17 PM

#109

Terry "Hulk" Hogan

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Brother, everyone knows that photo was a fake. It was doctored by Ted DiBiase in an attempt to discredit the Hulkster. We've been over this before.

Maybe it's easy to roll our eyes at some of the sappy, emotional Boston Strong outpourings. Maybe instead of being so provincial and worrying about four bombing victims, we should be talking about the hundreds of people who die from car accidents everyday. Well I'll tell you one thing, the Hulkster never looks down his nose at ordinary American showing empathy for total strangers in times of crisis. We need more of that, and less cynicism, that's how Real Americans do.

04-16-2014 , 08:20 PM

#110

neg3sd

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Riverman

Publicly financed stadiums are one of the more absurd scams going. Especially NFL. 20 year useful life, 8 dates a year. 160 events, 480m (which is low) - $3m a game is straight up taxpayer to billionaire transfer payments.

I actually agree with this post. Municipalities should be sharing in the profits of sports teams. Overpriced beers and hot dogs.

04-16-2014 , 09:34 PM

#111

JayTeeMe

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Viking's stadium:

Cost $1B

Seats: 65,000

Games/year: 8

Expected life: 35 years

Equals $55 per person that ever attends a game

04-16-2014 , 10:45 PM

#112

drugsarebad

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Re that Sportscenter video and Biden speech: honestly, what would Boston not overcoming two deranged teenagers even look like? What would a less-great, less-murican city do that wouldn't be as #BostonStrong?

04-16-2014 , 10:50 PM

#113

drugsarebad

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Like, would Boston go on a bad downswing movie montage where the whole city stops shaving, quits their jobs, and starts drinking at the local bar at noon? Would we fast forward 20 years and find like a Kingpin-style rude awakening where everyone has hooks for hands and empty liquor bottles on their nightstands because they can't overcome the Tsaranev brothers?

04-16-2014 , 11:25 PM

#114

suzzer99

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They could just go on with their lives like people who don't live in the relatively safe heart of the world empire.

04-17-2014 , 02:43 AM

#115

MrAdvantage

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Quote:

Originally Posted by SenorKeeed

OMG I MESSED WITH THE WRONG CITY PLEASE DON'T HURT ME...

Oh hey where did all you guys go? 6 million people taking the day off to watch TV? Damn you guys are STRONG. BOSTON STRONG

Aren't Ny's mayor and police commissioner Boston Strong?

04-17-2014 , 07:49 PM

#116

champstark

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Quote:

Originally Posted by MrAdvantage

Aren't Ny's mayor and police commissioner Boston Strong?

There's are a reason so many Bostoners move to NYC and not the other way around.

Doing this quickly, but Boston is at best a 3rd tier US city (considering economic, cultural, political, etc. influence).

NYC LA Chicago

SF DC

Miami Seattle Philly maybe Boston

St Louis Atlanta New Orleans

Austin San Diego Las Vegas

Bottom tier: Cleveland and Detroit

probably forgot a few like Houston that have a ton of people but no one gives a **** about

04-17-2014 , 07:56 PM

#117

SenorKeeed

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LA>SF
Atlanta>San Diego
Philly>Austin

You cannot be serious.

04-17-2014 , 07:59 PM

#118

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Does Chicago really belong in the same category as LA and NY?

Keeed: I think he's talking more about importance and not how nice they are, or else obv San Diego ****s on most cities

04-17-2014 , 08:00 PM

#119

Ray Horton

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Nailed that bottom tier though.

04-17-2014 , 08:03 PM

#120

SenorKeeed

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Oh if you're talking cultural influence then its

NYC
LA DC
Chicago San Francisco
Who Cares

04-17-2014 , 08:05 PM

#121

Ray Horton

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Boston and, I don't know, New Orleans maybe right above Who Cares in cultural influence.

04-17-2014 , 08:06 PM

#122

SenorKeeed

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Boston only because there isn't another actual city in all of New England.

04-17-2014 , 08:08 PM

#123

Happy_Fish

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Boston is the East Coast Portland, but without the charm.

04-17-2014 , 08:09 PM

#124

Ray Horton

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Quote:

Originally Posted by SenorKeeed

Boston only because there isn't another actual city in all of New England.

there are townships and villages

those are kinds of cities.

04-17-2014 , 08:11 PM

#125

Ray Horton

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Did you know Boston has the most advanced degree holders per capita in the United States?

If you lived there you probably would.

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