What did you do in sparetime, before getting ofp?

[WKK Gimbal 0]

I can't remember...

[Grey Fox 0]

Watch T.V., play with power tools, go rifle shooting, and play the great American version of football.

[Grey Fox 0]

And don't forget those "illegal" fireworks. It is the American way to go to Mexico and use the fireworks over here.

[KingBeast 0]

There is an American version of football?? And its great??

[Aculaud 0]

I'm busy studying right now. I'm a homeschooler, so i'm getting my diploma right now. Other than that, i draw (i'll post something iv done one of these times), i like biking, going to see live music....cant really think of anything else.

[Grey Fox 0]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (KingBeast @ April 23 2002,18:46)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">There is an American version of football?? And its great??  <span id='postcolor'>

Of course it is great. Hell no one will admit it but baseball as a national passtime has been replaced by football. Anyway what is great about it is uncalled for physical violence by tackling the guy with the ball and anyone else on the other team. The best part is that I'm bigger than anyone else I play against. Not only that but being fast helps a lot too. Can any other Americans better explain the joys of American football?

Edit: We call European football "Soccer" over here. I have no idea how that name came around.

[GFX707 0]

come play rugby, tough guy. You'd cry your eyes out

[KingBeast 0]

"American Football" Is essentially rugby for girls, although the name is null and void because the ball isnt generally kicked using your foot.

It should be called "American toned down rugby with lots of cheerleaders and money"

[GFX707 0]

and makeup

[Die Alive 0]

I would like to see a rugby player try to throw a ball 50 yards at a sprinting receiver while being blitzed from 2 sides.

-=Die Alive=-

[KingBeast 0]

Tackle in American Football (notice the padding, helmet etc and the girl)

Tackle in Rugby (note the lack of any form of padding and the expression on the 3rd mans face that says "Im going to stamp on your head until it collapses")

[USSoldier11B 0]

Most of my time was devoted to looking at porn.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">"American Football" Is essentially rugby for girls, although the name is null and void because the ball isnt generally kicked using your foot. <span id='postcolor'>

Uhhhh...American football players suffer much greater injuries than Rugby players. Mainly due to the fact that there is no blocking in Rugby. Not to rip on Rugby. It is a sport for those of us who are too small to play American Football. I rather enjoy Rugby, but I like American Football equally. Go Broncos!

[Antichrist 0]

2 Die Alive

They can't do cause its gonna be forward pass, but if they were allowed they could throw it more than that

U've never seen Zinzan Brooke play

[KingBeast 0]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (USSoldier11B @ April 24 2002,03:12)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Most of my time was devoted to looking at porn.  

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">"American Football" Is essentially rugby for girls, although the name is null and void because the ball isnt generally kicked using your foot. <span id='postcolor'>

Uhhhh...American football players suffer much greater injuries than Rugby players. Mainly due to the fact that there is no blocking in Rugby. Not to rip on Rugby. It is a sport for those of us who are too small to play American Football. I rather enjoy Rugby, but I like American Football equally. Go Broncos!<span id='postcolor'>

Hmm if you think rugby players are "small" maybe you havent really seen any real rugby players

Seems like all of the American Footballers are slim athletic fresh faced college boys.

Whereas it seems like a lot of Rugby players are old grizzled scar ridden skinheads. lol

[Die Alive 0]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (KingBeast @ April 23 2002,20:58)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Tackle in Rugby (note the lack of any form of padding and the expression on the 3rd mans face that says "Im going to stamp on your head until it collapses")<span id='postcolor'>

I've played american football for 5 years (before I got in a car crash that left both my knees almost useless) and I've gotten hit in the chest that made my helmet almost fly off my head.  Then there's all these helmet to helmet hits, I had my share of those (after one of these, my spine flet like it was burning).  In the end, both games are brutal to the body and mind.  Sure you can play for a few years, but start taking blows to the head, and then your retierment years are spent drooling like a vegtable.  Sometimes I wonder how boxers can keep taking hits to the head and keep going back into the ring.

[Die Alive 0]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (KingBeast @ April 23 2002,21:46)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Seems like all of the American Footballers are slim athletic fresh faced college boys.<span id='postcolor'>

I hardly call being 350+ pounds and 6foot6inches slim. (look at half the players on the offense and they're all over 300)

-=Die Alive=-

[timmy 0]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Die Alive @ April 23 2002,09:48)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (KingBeast @ April 23 2002,20:58)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Tackle in Rugby (note the lack of any form of padding and the expression on the 3rd mans face that says "Im going to stamp on your head until it collapses")<span id='postcolor'>

I've played american football for 5 years (before I got in a car crash that left both my knees almost useless) and I've gotten hit in the chest that made my helmet almost fly off my head.  Then there's all these helmet to helmet hits, I had my share of those (after one of these, my spine flet like it was burning).  In the end, both games are brutal to the body and mind.  Sure you can play for a few years, but start taking blows to the head, and then your retierment years are spent drooling like a vegtable.  Sometimes I wonder how boxers can keep taking hits to the head and keep going back into the ring.<span id='postcolor'>

yea no shit. i start on my football team in highschool, and i hate football practice more than anything in the whole entire wide world. Good players now use helmets more as a deadly weapon that as protection. Ive been knocked out countless times from helmet to helmet hits. And being blocked into the ground and smooshed by 3 300lb 6'6" black guys is no treat either. Nor is runing dozens of laps around the field in 100 degrees F(39 deg.C) while wearing 20lbs of pads. We currently just got off spring training, which lasted a month. But we go back to summer training on june 21, 3 weeks after schools out. We have 4 hour practices on monday and wendnesday, and we have an 8 hour "football camp" practice on friday. Its from 11 to 7, but they do feed us. In the south,unfourtunatley, most people take football way to seriously, our coach is one of those people.

[timmy 0]

o, and to answer your question gimbal. I did nothing before ofp, errm...besides going to football practice.

[advocatexxx 0]

Baseball still attracts almost twice as many fans as American Football.

I have no opinion on this game, and I don't see the big fuss about Superbowl.

I just love it how Americans view everything as a "World Championship".

When in baseball they are playing the final games, they call it "The World Series", and the team that wins gets the title "World Champion", yet the fact remains they're only American champions, not world. If I'm not mistaken, Japanese invented baseball centuries ago, and they are still best at it. Remember the last summer olympics ? Guess who won in baseball ? They pitted the best of American baseball players against the Japanese and these yanks got their ass whopped.

World Champions my ass. They should stop exaggerating facts.

I still think Soccer (the real football) is one of the best sports in the world. And the fact thhat American media constantly picks on Soccer showing it to be boring and pointless only proves how pathetic many people in this patriotic country are.

[timmy 0]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (advocatexxx @ April 23 2002,10:13)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">I still think Soccer (the real football) is one of the best sports in the world.  And the fact thhat American media constantly picks on Soccer showing it to be boring and pointless only proves how pathetic many people in this patriotic country are.<span id='postcolor'>

name one time when the media picked on soccer. Ive personally have got nothing against it, because i also play lacrosse which is somewhat like soccer,slightly different field and rules though. O, and lacrosse has its share of hard hits to, like being blindsided in the side of the head with a 4 foot metal pole.

[SKULLS_Viper 0]

Just play other games .I like hockey more then any other sport.So i say go Avs!There basicly the only team in Colorado, thats good.But the Broncos were good when we had John Elway.

Other things i do, is go shooting with my dad (and boy is he sharp!Got a sharp shooting badge when he was in the army) and i cant think of any thing else other then watch Cable TV and also i go indoor climbing in Thorton when i got nothen else to do and lifting weights, thats basicly it and i did these before and after i got Operation Flashpoint.

[USSoldier11B 0]

Love the Avs?

[advocatexxx 0]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">name one time when the media picked on soccer<span id='postcolor'>

Uhm, most recently an episode of the Simpsons where they went to see a soccer game, in which they shouted many insulting remarks at how boring it is. I know the Simpsons are a parody show, so no harm done, but King of the Hill is a more serious show, and even there they showed soccer to be a sport played solely by girls. When Bobby wanted to switch from playing american Football and go for soccer his father almost caught a heart attack and tried very hard to discourage him.

Minor examples but true. Just 2 examples out of many when american media tried to bash it simply because they can't stand the fact that soccer is more popular than this American football, which seems to be played by the dumbest of people.

BTW, don't even get me started on wrestling. WWF and all that stuff. That is the most pathetic show. People beating each other with chairs, objects and such. No wonder kids go and hurt themselves at home. Buncha musculine actors with rough redneck voices. And media goes on to call The Rock the next Arnold ? Please. The guy's eyebrows are better trimmed than those of supermodels. Up close he look very, and I say very gay.

[advocatexxx 0]

LOL!

As far as ice hockey in America is concerned, it is by far the most hilarious thing. Americans try so hard to be the best at everything, yet 90% of their ice hockey players have European names.

I can totally imagine European immigrant who can't even speak English get offered a citizenship because he has something this country wants.

Nothing and I say nothing in this country is without a sense of irony.

[ralphwiggum 6]

silence! Go Lakers!

and if you seen American football players they are anywhere from slim like Joe Montana to big ppl like line backers(or whatever they are called)