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The King is Dead. Long Live the King

He....can't be That good? Can he?

https://vine.co/v/MVhpXPJtpE7 Matt Scott. All he does is vomit and throw touchdowns, son.

On to fucking Sheffield,  man

Started just so I have an excuse to post this wonderful GIF of Eli after his final derp of the night:

Players started reporting to camp today.

Football.

/eagerly awaits 1500 articles about Cutler having no excuses, the team lacking an identity without Urlacher, and Hub Arkush shitting on any positive reports about Kyle Long.

Anybody but me see this? I thought it was good. Not as good as the first, but definitely better than the second.  I do wonder when the superhero bubble is going to burst, though. I love comics as much as anyone, and even I'm getting weary of trying to keep up.

The discussion over The Dark Knight Rises has me thinking we should just discuss comic book and superhero movies in general in one thread.

As I see it, there are two main eras of superhero films: Pre-Christopher Nolan and the Christopher Nolan Era, where the emphasis on realism lent respectability back to both the DC franchises and the new Marvel Universe.

In the pre-Nolan Era there were definitely some good films like Superman 1&2, X-Men 2, and Spiderman 2, and a couple of decent ones like X-Men and the original Burton Batman. Then there were mostly the clunkers. Some just weird like Batman Returns and others absolutely terrible, like the Fantastic Four Films, X-Men 3 and Spiderman 3, and, worst of all, the Schumacher Batman films.

Not to say that all of the new era movies are good. Superman Returns was a very visually impressive and even more boring film. The second Hulk still kinda sucked.

All that said, here's my top ten

1. The Dark Knight Rises
2. The Dark Knight
3. Iron Man
4. Batman Begins
5. Captain America
6. Avengers
7. Superman
8. Superman II
9. Spiderman II
10. X-Men II

I should add that I limited this to live action films, as Mask of the Phantasm would otherwise make the list. I still haven't seen X-Men First Class, which got good reviews, just because I was so embittered over the awfulness of X3 after the brilliance of X2 that I can't quite forgive the franchise.

You may all hurl your nerd insults now.

Manning heads to Denver. Bring on the Tebow angst. Who will trade for Timmy? Miami (they've failed miserably at everything lately, why not sell out and bring in a shitty QB for dipshit Florida fans), Jacksonville?, Cleveland?

Because I somehow missed the news that Fatty finally got his ass cut: http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/03/01/bears-cut-frank-omiyale/. So long, Frank. Hopefully Emery will be better than Angelo if only in that his stupid pride won't force him to constantly give opportunities to shitty players in order to justify the money he spent on them. I honestly can't remember a more useless free agent signing in Bears history.

Might as well get this thing up and running well before game time. Football.

Probably about time to get this thread simmerin'. Also because I wanted a place to post this interesting article http://thegazette.com/2011/06/11/special-report-how-pass-interference-a-jawbreaker-punch-and-tossed-apples-nearly-canned-the-iowa-illinois-football-rivalry/ , about how Illinois and Iowa quit playing each other in football for 15 years from 1952-1967 because of a riotous game involving an Illinois player punching an Iowa fan and Iowa fans pelting the Illini and the officials with fruit.

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Bump...

http://www.secondcityhockey.com/2011/5/19/2179924/corey-crawford-gets-a-3-year-extension

Doesn't this move signify that a new thread should start?

I defer to a real hockey fan, you know, one who has watched them all his life, and didn't come back within the last 3-4 years, and therefore knows shit about the sport.

Your move, SKO.

I got this, TEC.

I won't get excited about this team until they win the world championship.

Might as well enjoy it while we can. Splooge for his 2 run homer in the first inning.

Rosters:
http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/CHC/2000.shtml

http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/CHC/2006.shtml

Since I can't find one thread to collect all of these:

Sam Fuld goes 4 for 6 and only misses the cycle because he hit a double instead of a single in the 9th. Not only is the kid supremely talented, he's unselfish and passed on a meaningless individual accomplishment in order to do what was best for the team. Meanwhile, Hendry's golden acquisition Matt Garza is sporting an ERA in the Shawn Estes area code and doesn't even have any wins.

Nice choice, Jim. Sam could be playing center field right now instead of the fat scrub that can't even steal a base.

Hopefully no Rashied Davis overtime heroics are needed.

I'm nherdy enough to read alot of this shit but I'd like more recommendations. I like ancient/medieval stuff mostly and for that you can't top Steven Pressfield. He's got Gates of Fire, which is a very realistic retelling of the story of Thermopylae that makes 300 look like absolute horseshit, plus Tides of War about the Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta, Virtues of War about Alexander the Great, The Afghan Campaign which is a rather brutal and bloody account of a little known guerrilla war that Alexander's troops fought in Afghanistan, and Last of the Amazons which basically takes a little snippet in Plutarch about a long-ago invasion of Athens by the Amazons and fleshes it out into an incredibly engrossing tale about the difference between civilization and savagery. The thing I like is his absolutely amazing attention to detail and his use of guys like Herodotus and Thucydides, but his ability to fill in the gaps with his own ideas is incredible. For instance, in Last of the Amazons he studied the Sioux Indians and other Great Plains tribes in order to help him develop a realistic description of horse-based cultures. There's not one I wouldn't recommend, but Gates is definitely the must-read of the group.

Bernard Conwell has some awesome medieval stuff. He's most famous for the Sharpe's books about the Napoleonic War but I've read some of his books about Arthurian Britain and just read Agincourt and enjoyed them more.

Michael Shaara's Killer Angels is obviously the gold standard for American military historical fiction, but his son Jeff's stuff is mostly dry and really just a poor imitation of his dad.

Anyone read those or have any good recommendations?

VOTE! Justice must be served.

I'm not even sure how this is supposed to work, actually, now that I've set it up. Oh well.