37 minutes ago, hputenis said:

What should they have done differently?  It seems like they are really trying to educate Desean, they've fined him, and they released statements that were super critical of what he did.  Do you think he should have been cut?  

No my issue is they said he was punished without saying what the punishment is. 

8 minutes ago, BDawk_ASamuel said:

The Tom Hanks part that comes up in the comments is interesting. My friend's dad was at a bar in Chicago a few years ago and struck up a conversation with a minor actor who has done some TV stuff. According to him, for whatever it's worth, the rumor around the inner circles within that community is that Hanks among others is connected to some shady stuff having to do with underage sex rings, etc. I don't know how valid that rumor is, but it was weird to see that one tweet with the photo he posted several years ago. 

 

6 minutes ago, ManuManu said:

Ernest Givens. That was a fun offense to watch. 

Tecmo Super Bowl is my all-time favorite video game as people could probably surmise from my avatar. My crowning achievement as a young gamer was beating my friends with Steve Grogan and the Patriots to win the Super Bowl. 

I thought it was Ernest Givens.  I was thinking it didnt sound right but I was mixing him up with Earnest Byner.

I loved Tecmo Bowl too.  I play Tecmo Bowl Throwback sometimes.  I ran with Randall all over the place and just threw bombs to Calvin Williams and Fred Barnett.

25 minutes ago, BDawk_ASamuel said:

Eight years ago isn't that long ago, so I disagree with him there. Cooper should have been cut, but Vick really saved him and rallied around him to get him forgiveness with the locker room. I still think this DeSean deal came out of pure ignorance and stupidity rather than hatred. I'm Jewish and this whole thing bothers me, but I can forgive DeSean for ignorance and hope that he learns from it. Malik on the other hand pisses me off more. He doubled down and warrants being off the team probably more so than DeSean. I have no interest or care for that dude as a player or human-being.    

This. Malik Jackson is showing he’s a true POS on Instagram. Literally in every one of his messages back to people he comes off like an ahole. Like one girl he told her 11 dollar meal is the same as his but his has better quality. Like wtf why even respond 

34 minutes ago, bpac55 said:

Off topic, has anyone been reading about the Wayfair child trafficking conspiracy?  I don't believe it but some really shady things with cabinets they are selling for $10-$15k and all of them have female names that match missing children.  Unique names, not Jill and Betty.  

Working in hospitality, I can tell you that we are surrounded by child trafficking, it's really scary.  A lot of your local value hotels are where these things go down.

I don't believe a word of it. There is no way a company that large and public is involved in a trafficking ring and not a single soul has said anything about it. This is PizzaGate part 2

9 minutes ago, BDawk_ASamuel said:

The Tom Hanks part that comes up in the comments is interesting. My friend's dad was at a bar in Chicago a few years ago and struck up a conversation with a minor actor who has done some TV stuff. According to him, for whatever it's worth, the rumor around the inner circles within that community is that Hanks among others is connected to some shady stuff having to do with underage sex rings, etc. I don't know how valid that rumor is, but it was weird to see that one tweet with the photo he posted several years ago. 

I also rarely believe any of these things. If you look at all the people "implicated" according to these internet nutjobs it is literally almost every famous Hollywood actor/actress, every famous musician, etc. One or two would be believable, but at this point they're trying to say like 100+ of the most famous people in america are involved in sex trafficking. And not a single person says a thing except a bunch of whack jobs on twitter and reddit. Yea, ok. People have way too much time on their hands with this stuff

10 minutes ago, hputenis said:

Yea, that’s how I look back at it. At the time I was young, dumb and it was clearance at Marshall’s or something 

1 minute ago, LeanMeanGM said:

Yea, that’s how I look back at it. At the time I was young, dumb and it was clearance at Marshall’s or something 

The important thing is that you had a Starter jacket. In the 90s, that meant something. 

2 minutes ago, LeanMeanGM said:

Yea, that’s how I look back at it. At the time I was young, dumb and it was clearance at Marshall’s or something 

I actually believe i have the same one in my moms house but eagles. They were cool jackets but once we moved to az i never really got to wear it lol 

7 minutes ago, devpool said:

I don't believe a word of it. There is no way a company that large and public is involved in a trafficking ring and not a single soul has said anything about it. This is PizzaGate part 2

I also rarely believe any of these things. If you look at all the people "implicated" according to these internet nutjobs it is literally almost every famous Hollywood actor/actress, every famous musician, etc. One or two would be believable, but at this point they're trying to say like 100+ of the most famous people in america are involved in sex trafficking. And not a single person says a thing except a bunch of whack jobs on twitter and reddit. Yea, ok. People have way too much time on their hands with this stuff

I think a majority of the theories are nothing more than conspiracy theories, but I do think the theory that there are underground sex rings involving significant celebrities/political figures holds water. I mean we basically saw that with Epstein and if you watch the NetFlix documentary they did on him, it implicates Prince Andrew with some pretty damning evidence. I do think there is something going on, but I don't know to what degree and how big it is. There was always rumors that the movie "Eyes Wide Shut" was Stanley Kubrick's way of divulging what was going in within the Hollywood circles. 

8 minutes ago, devpool said:

I don't believe a word of it. There is no way a company that large and public is involved in a trafficking ring and not a single soul has said anything about it. This is PizzaGate part 2

I also rarely believe any of these things. If you look at all the people "implicated" according to these internet nutjobs it is literally almost every famous Hollywood actor/actress, every famous musician, etc. One or two would be believable, but at this point they're trying to say like 100+ of the most famous people in america are involved in sex trafficking. And not a single person says a thing except a bunch of whack jobs on twitter and reddit. Yea, ok. People have way too much time on their hands with this stuff

What's PizzaGate?

I think our large, public companies probably do unimaginable bad things.  Hiding in plain site is pretty easy for them.

6 minutes ago, ManuManu said:

The important thing is that you had a Starter jacket. In the 90s, that meant something. 

I had a UNC Tarheels one.  You couldn't take that thing off me.

22 minutes ago, bpac55 said:

Haywood Jeffries too.

Why the Houston Texans didn't utilize the Oilers color scheme is beyond me.  This would look so great IMO.

Because the Adams family wouldn’t let them. The Texans wanted to do Oilers but the Adams said no, that belongs to the Titans. F the Adams. 

2 minutes ago, bpac55 said:

What's PizzaGate?

I think our large, public companies probably do unimaginable bad things.  Hiding in plain site is pretty easy for them.

An asbolutely ridiculous theory that some pizza restaurant was a cover up for a child sex trafficking ring run by the clintons or some other democratic politician. They were saying different toppings were different traits for kids or some other BS. This wayfair thing is literally the exact premise, and it has been explained multiple times in those twitter threads why some sellers do that with their items but these nutjobs are always so entrenched they'll shout down literally any form of reason. 

13 minutes ago, LeanMeanGM said:

Yea, that’s how I look back at it. At the time I was young, dumb and it was clearance at Marshall’s or something 

I'm the biggest hypocrite ever.  I had a starter Georgia Tech jacket because I liked the Yellowjacket  😂

2 minutes ago, devpool said:

An asbolutely ridiculous theory that some pizza restaurant was a cover up for a child sex trafficking ring run by the clintons or some other democratic politician. They were saying different toppings were different traits for kids or some other BS. This wayfair thing is literally the exact premise, and it has been explained multiple times in those twitter threads why some sellers do that with their items but these nutjobs are always so entrenched they'll shout down literally any form of reason. 

I didn't see the explanations to be honest and I scrolled quite a bit.  Care to share?  I just find it strange that all of the products have names that are the same as missing girls...exotic names to boot.  I'll admit, I've never heard of the missings girls but they are and it could be just an enormously wild coincidence.  

With that being said, we the public put far too much trust in any of these organizations, the media and our government.  We are blind to so much corruption all around us. 

This was my all-time favorite coat. I remember saving up my allowance to get it from Foot Locker. It was a big day for me.

4 hours ago, eagle45 said:

Alright....180 from the politics.  3 questions for everyone.

1.  Why are you an Eagles fan?

2. Why did you first join the original version of the boards?

3. Why do you still spend this much time posting on the boards?

If we're still doing this...

1. My dad bought season tickets in 1965. He took me to my first game in October of '68. I fell in love with it immediately, so much so that he bought an extra ticket the following year just for me. Have been a hardcore season ticket holder ever since. My father is now 88 years old and doesn't attend all the home games anymore, but I never miss. Until this year, that is. Too much going on for it to be worth the hassle to try to attend in person. 

2. Not really sure. I think it's officially sometime in 2004 but I may have been a member before then. I used to participate on message boards on Prodigy and on AOL, so I guess it was natural to gravitate to the message board that was affiliated with the team's website.

3. As pathetic as it may sound, I have nothing better to do. Eagles football has become my lifelong passion. 

8 minutes ago, bpac55 said:

I didn't see the explanations to be honest and I scrolled quite a bit.  Care to share?  I just find it strange that all of the products have names that are the same as missing girls...exotic names to boot.  I'll admit, I've never heard of the missings girls but they are and it could be just an enormously wild coincidence.  

With that being said, we the public put far too much trust in any of these organizations, the media and our government.  We are blind to so much corruption all around us. 

The gist of it is that rather than say an item is sold out the seller will make it an outrageous price and put a stock photo so shoppers don't see them. IIRC ThinkGeek used to do something similar when they first started out.

Here's an example of how ridiculous these people are: one person saw one of the cabinets say something like "name 5" or whatever and instead of assuming the thing had 5 shelves, they immediately assumed 5 was the age. Then some other person commented and with what almost sounded like a same thought "maybe it just means it has 5 shelves" and then followed that up with something like "the age might be in the beginning of the price, $12,499".

Absolute Fin lunacy 

 

EDIT: To further emphasize how stupid it is, it's yet another theory formulated on the Fing cesspool that is reddit. 

2 minutes ago, devpool said:

The gist of it is that rather than say an item is sold out the seller will make it an outrageous price and put a stock photo so shoppers don't see them. IIRC ThinkGeek used to do something similar when they first started out.

Here's an example of how ridiculous these people are: one person saw one of the cabinets say something like "name 5" or whatever and instead of assuming the thing had 5 shelves, they immediately assumed 5 was the age. Then some other person commented and with what almost sounded like a same thought "maybe it just means it has 5 shelves" and then followed that up with something like "the age might be in the beginning of the price, $12,499".

Absolute Fin lunacy 

Yea, there are some ridiculous stretches in there trying to uncover things.  The name thing is what gets me though.  Every single one that is an absurd price matches the name of a missing child.  File cabinets and pillows.  That's fishy and definitely makes you scratch your head.

3 minutes ago, bpac55 said:

Yea, there are some ridiculous stretches in there trying to uncover things.  The name thing is what gets me though.  Every single one that is an absurd price matches the name of a missing child.  File cabinets and pillows.  That's fishy and definitely makes you scratch your head.

I mean, tragically, hundreds of thousands of kids are kidnapped/missing every year. Names are going to match, no matter how exotic we think they are

1 hour ago, ManuManu said:

We were kids. It’s ok to have a secondary team then. 

I'm kind of embarrassed that I was also a fan of the Raiders and then the Dolphins when I was in grade school. The thing is, the Eagles were so irrelevant back then that just about every kid rooted for a team other than the Eagles. You'd be looked at as an oddball if you somehow were exclusively an Eagles fan.

2 minutes ago, FranklinFldEBUpper said:

I'm kind of embarrassed that I was also a fan of the Raiders and then the Dolphins when I was in grade school. The thing is, the Eagles were so irrelevant back then that just about every kid rooted for a team other than the Eagles. You'd be looked at as an oddball if you somehow were exclusively an Eagles fan.

Yep. I liked the 49ers until I was in high school 

2 minutes ago, FranklinFldEBUpper said:

I'm kind of embarrassed that I was also a fan of the Raiders and then the Dolphins when I was in grade school. The thing is, the Eagles were so irrelevant back then that just about every kid rooted for a team other than the Eagles. You'd be looked at as an oddball if you somehow were exclusively an Eagles fan.

Don’t feel embarrassed my brother was a Dolphins fan for like three or four years when we were younger because he like the colors

The only thing embarrassing about liking or wearing another teams gear is growing up and still doing it. I still have a semi-friend that’s a Packers/Lakers/Red Wings/Yankees fan. 

4 minutes ago, LeanMeanGM said:

The only thing embarrassing about liking or wearing another teams gear is growing up and still doing it. I still have a semi-friend that’s a Packers/Lakers/Red Wings/Yankees fan. 

I have a friend who is a Braves/Cowboys/penguins fan. Yep... all philly rivals and that’s exactly why.