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| TheGooch Mullet Master Yo Gooch, Moron here... how's that for some fucked up shit... Fez is giving you status... Karma sucks, huh? | posted on 02-26-2001 @ 10:12 PM |    | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Oct. 00  | XFL, R.I.P. By Hunter S. Thompson I was going to write a treatise on the Meaning of Life this week, but I put it aside at the last moment when I got a tip that this might be the last chance I'll ever get to write anything about the XFL except an obituary. The doomed league's TV ratings slipped another 25 percent for the weekend -- down 71 percent in the four quick weeks since Opening Day -- and that steep a slide is fatal. If the Dow Jones Index plunged that many points in four weeks, the sidewalks of Wall Street would be littered with the broken bodies of Stockbrokers. Five-hundred people a day would be leaping to their deaths off the Golden Gate bridge. The horrible reality of suddenly being stone broke and homeless is more than most people in this country can handle. They will literally seize up and go mad. Your everyday Nervous Breakdown is nothing compared to the hopeless Craziness of a man who woke up in the morning as a Prince and went to bed as a Toad. That is a guaranteed overweening shock to the Central Nervous System; if you don't go insane from suddenly having to see everything in the world from a point only two inches high, your brain will be churned into cream by having to crawl, head-first, with your eyes open, down a muddy hole in the ground, just to have a place to sleep. Nobody could handle a situation like That. It is Unacceptable. It is worse than any dream that ever happened in the worst and most tortured hallucinations ever suffered by the most pitiful LSD victim. ... I spent a lot of time with Allen Ginsberg, and I have swapped gruesome tales over whiskey at night with William Burroughs, and neither one of them ever even mentioned a vision so horrible as being instantly changed from a rich and powerful human like Donald Trump into a common leaping toad. Yet that is exactly what happens to people in this world who lose 71 percent of their customers in four weeks. They seize up and go crazy. Out of personal loyalty to Jesse Ventura, I tried to watch the XFL "clash" on Saturday, but by halftime my heart was swollen with Hate. It was like watching a Festival of Shame taking place in a blinding rainstorm. Some fool from NBC appeared to have smeared Vaseline on the Camera lens to make it waterproof. It was like watching a game under water and never really knowing the score. A running back would appear on the screen for an instant, then disappear in a mass of mud-caked bodies. A long pass would vanish into a fog-bank and never be seen again. There was no way to tell the officials from the players, except when a yellow flag was thrown and you could see who finally stooped down to pick it up. The weird thing about the XFL is that nobody except Vince McMahon was anxious to see it born, and nobody except the cheerleaders will miss it when it's gone. There is no way to explain why it ever happened at all, except that some cluster of corporate thugs in the TV business figured they were in desperate need of a tax writeoff. It was not even good entertainment, much less good football. Not even a drastic rise in the Lewdness Level can save the League now. That might have worked a few weeks ago, but not now. The sudden appearance of live sex orgies and murderous gang-fights on TV every Sunday would be too much for the public to accept all at once. Not even the Clinton White House would have tolerated it, and Bush would call out the National Guard. There is something far out of whack in a nation that would banish a low-rent spectacle like the XFL from its TV screens, but eagerly looks forward to a public execution at high Noon the next day. It raises disturbing questions.  | ||||
| Calm Your Nut | posted on 02-26-2001 @ 10:16 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Nov. 00 | The xfl is done over with they need to do something crazy to save there asses. Proud to watch over "Mud Juice and Drunken GW" | ||||
King Shit *board owner* | posted on 02-26-2001 @ 10:22 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Veteran Registered: Feb. 01 | I enjoy watching it, but they can't carry the ratings or the attendance needed to sustain its costs  ~Matt/Froy from Jersey The Hell Hole Official Protector of Gay Marco & SwampJunk...if he ever decides to post. Also providing total immunity to Fayth | ||||
| SpiderBob | posted on 02-26-2001 @ 11:26 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Oct. 00 | Froy hit it on the head. I, personally, like the product. Maybe I think it would be better if the Chicago and NY teams were a little better, being the first and third(I believe) markets, for the league. But you know they'll play out the season and will go from there. Rangers Suck!  | ||||
| NewYorkDragons80 | posted on 02-27-2001 @ 5:02 PM | | |||
| Psychopath Registered: Nov. 00 | Yeah, Chi-town is the 3rd market. The XFL can't survive without a TV Contract and they won't have that much longer. Unless the players take a huge paycut, it's over Johnny. Visit this Website New York Dragons Arena Football!!! See their home-opener April 21st against the Toronto Phantoms at the Nassau Coliseum | ||||
| Francine Banger | posted on 02-27-2001 @ 5:42 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Dec. 00 | The Players arent making much to begin with, thats not the problem. They need to add some spice to it. Its too much like the NFL, only inferior. The made such a big deal about No Fair Catches, yet they have other rules that make The No Fair Catches meaningless.  | ||||
| hornygoatweed23 I've Got A Vagina With Teeth. G.O.O.F.B.A.H.G.S. Dragoon Battalion My friends call me Weed | posted on 02-27-2001 @ 11:03 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Jan. 01 | My take on the ratings problem is this - these games are basically geared to men, say, 18-35, and are on a saturday night. Most people (like myself) are out on a saturday night, and most people dont tape games to watch them the next day. That, coupled with the fact that the actual playing of the games is lackluster, doesn't make it a very desireable program to sit home and watch. Personally, I like to watch it, its different, and interesting - apparently many more people disagree (I watch it on TNN on Sundays, by the way). Are there problems to be worked out? Sure are. Will they be? A few attempts might be made, but I don't persoanly think we'll be seeing them on NBC next season unless it manages to become an overnight sensation.  "Groupsex - it does every-body good" Proudly Adopted by Doughboy | ||||
| phlux | posted on 04-02-2002 @ 5:56 PM | | |||
| Hanger-On Registered: Apr. 02 | . | ||||
| Francine Banger | posted on 04-02-2002 @ 6:15 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Dec. 00 | Best 1st Post Ever!! Bring up a 14 month old thread and post a period. Classic stuff.  | ||||
| MrQuotes NO!!! You can't have any smiley faces in your status!!! G.O.O.F.B.A.H.G.S. Missile Command | posted on 04-02-2002 @ 6:17 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Nov. 00 | :confused: :confused: :confused: :confused: :confused: :confused: :confused: :confused:
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| mother shucker | posted on 04-02-2002 @ 9:20 PM | | |||
| Psychopath Registered: Nov. 00 | phlux you...... :mad: I shucked it, and I shucked it, and I shucked it, i'm quite the mother shucker! | ||||
| Tequila Fez claims this land in the name of Portugal! Why worry about the train if it never makes it around the tracks?? IrishAlkey wuz here!!! | posted on 04-02-2002 @ 10:08 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Veteran Registered: Jan. 01 | I think he forgot these  | ||||
| goatweed I've Got A Vagina With Teeth. G.O.O.F.B.A.H.G.S. Dragoon Battalion My friends call me Weed | posted on 04-02-2002 @ 10:53 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Jan. 01 | Jesus, don't these threads get buried?  You can reach me through AIM or email. Feel free to contact me if you have any board questions, techie (PC) questions, or even if you just wanna chat.
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| Drusilla fag-hag | posted on 04-03-2002 @ 2:58 AM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Aug. 01 | he actually searched for this | ||||
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