I sat and thought about the Pats and Titans game and what happened last year down in the Dallas area with a girls high school basketball game. What type of person does that. ats_suck:
Check the NFL forum for this discussion. This is the NFL, not pee-wee football. If you don't like it, stop it.
I don't think there's any such thing, especially in pro sports. The object of any game is to score, if you can't stop the other team it's your own fault. Don't complain, either stop them, get someone who can stop them or don't play them next time.
agree with the points posted: a- nfl forum. b- professional not pop warner. there is no mercy rule. if you can't field a team to stop it, you're going to be embarrassed. edit: also brady didn't stay in too long. he's been off. and this is the best practice to get him back in form. deal with it.
uhm, a professional sports match where players are paid and expected to perform to their utmost abilities and a school match simply meant to teach kids about competition and sportsmanship simply aren't comparable, and any attempt to do so is intellectually dishonest. for the Pats, you have to play most of the game, you can't expect that the Titans aren't going to not be able to stop you. they scored 45 points in the first half, that isn't running up the score, that's simply playing the game. they only scored 14 in the second half, both TD's in the third quarter. again, that's not running up the score. running up the score can inherently only occur towards the end of the game when it is obviously out of reach and over, and you are still piling it on. considering the Pats didn't score at all in the 4th Quarter, which is when you can only run it up, they didn't. basically, this thread is simply stupid in both its premise and comparrison.
What kind of person cares if a bunch of millionaire athletes get embarrassed? If the gets got murdered like that, I wouldn't blame the other team for how bad mine is.
Why is it only in football that fans complain about running up the score? In a 10-0 baseball game you never hear people calling for the winning team's batter to not swing. You know why? Because it's professional sports, not Little League, and they're paid to hit the ball/run the ball/pass the ball, and on the defensive side, stop the other team from scoring. If they can't do that, oh no, they may have to cry themselves to sleep on their pillows made of cash.
no, but Baseball has its own unwritten rules when the score is out of hand, like not stealing bases. of course you don't stop swinging in baseball, and you can't pull your players because if a team comes back you can't put them back in, but there are some aspects to the game that are curbed out of gamesmanship in baseball. in football, at some point you pull your starters, just like in basketball, for one, to keep them getting injured unnecessarily, and two, their services are no longer needed. if your bench players can continue to score, the opponent has no gripe. but if you keep your starters in, than you are running up the score. so, unlike baseball, football and basketball can take players out to prevent this, because they have the option of putting them back in. but all sports have their own way of dealing with this, just because they aren't identical doesn't mean it doesn't occur.
Refs had mercy on Titans by not counting a safety and spotting ball one. Score could have easily been 61-0 OUCH
The patriots have absolutely zero class for abusing the titans like that. And Brady is only trying to put more points for his fantasy league.
I know, huh? They should have pulled all 11 starters on offense in the second quarter. Did you actually see the game? Or is your statement based on a glance at the final score?
There are alot of knowledgeable Jets fans on this site. From the few posts I've read of yours this week, you're not one of them.
If by that you mean he's not knowledgeable, you're right. If by that you mean he's not a Jets fan, you're also right. This is the 2nd thread I've seen with someone bitching about the Patriots in that game. When you've got your QB finally clicking with the offense in a way he hasn't done all season, you're not going to pull him in the first half. He left at the right time. If anything, and I really hate to say this, I give Belichick credit for pulling Brady when he did. The guy had 6 TDs early in the 3rd quarter. Does anyone actually think he WOULDN'T have gotten the single game passing TD record if he had stayed in for 2 more series?
