Pienaar (WR) Jags (OL) Distin (OL) Anichebe (OL) Heitinga (OL) Hibbert (OL) Naismith (TE) Jelavic (WR) Fellaini (WR) -----------------------------------------------Neville (QB) ----------------------------------------------Coleman (FB) -----------------------------------------------Baines (HB) Howard (K/P)
Baines is totally a Wes Welker type WR if I've ever seen one. Neville as QB is a good call though -- he'd be like Peyton with a thousand audibles before the snap. Plus everyone would want backup QB Barkley to start instead.
So I'm going to get into NFL...I like Seattle Seahawks...is that a decent choice?
Depends how much you think you are going to get into it. If you plan on ever seeing a game in person why not pick a team in a warm place where you can have a nice vacation? Just don't pick Miami unless you like being shot while stuck in gridlocked traffic.
Cultures are the same everywhere. I'm an American Everton fan. The anti-NFL posters here are *exactly* like the anti-"soccer" posters on American sports message boards. You can literally change a word or two and the posts are interchangeable. American board: "Soccer is stupid. The players are all sissies who run around in shorts. Nothing ever happens." English board: "American football is stupid. The players are all sissies who run around in pads. Nothing ever happens."
This x1000. I am glad someone else has noticed this. The complaints really are identical and equally pointless and wrong headed.
Disagree with that a bit. Being in the Navy I have spent time in several parts of the country and New England was the only one that led me to hate the ways of the Pats and the Red Sox (along with the Yankee's). And in fact, it was the decentness of the fans that lead me to adopting the Seattle teams as my second set of teams up there.
As I mentioned, the volume is turned down when the teams aren't good. Seattle has a reputation as being one of the most long suffering towns in the US for pro sports success. They are the least threatening fan-base of any team. If you are going to like any set of fans other than your own they are a likely candidate. (That said a few posts ago people were having a pop at Seattle for being insufferable hipsters.)
You don't hear a lot of people complaining about Cleveland fans now for this same kind of reason -- give Cleveland three SB in five years and I bet you start hearing about arrogant Cleveland fans. Of course we'll never find out because god hates Cleveland. Oakland fans are insufferable but you hardly hear anything about them these days because the team is so anonymous. Even Cowboys fans are relatively mute these days. Who gave a seconds thought to how annoying Notre Dame fans were in the last 10 years until they were in the BCS Championship?
I hardly ever heard anyone talk about Boston fans being so terrible before their recent run of Championships -- in fact they had a little of that "America's team" vibe about them with the Sox not having won in so long and the curse. Most neutrals wanted them to beat the Yankees the year they came back from 0-3. Most people were supporting the Pats as huge underdogs v. the Rams. Then they started winning (and were no longer underdogs) and all of a sudden the fans became the worst and neutrals hated them as much as the Yankees.
