Fake penalty at what cost?

My egregious foul may not be your egregious foul....that's the rub.

Jeezus effing kee-rist.....

Aren't we past this garbage?

Iron Posted:

“Bakhtiari even admitting that he may have enticed the official to throw the flag.“

With all the bogus calls he started to get for Holding, all he suggested was that the refs may start looking at the defense.

The worst part and what I don't understand is the little ticky tacky penalties that call back awesome plays. People watch football for the excitement and when something big happens everyone is cheering and happy... its exciting to see an amazing catch and yac with the guy dodging tacklers... its exciting to watch a safety blitz in and take down a QB who thinks he is about to launch a bomb. Now every time there is a big great play people holds their breaths waiting for a flag... and you know what, it usually happens... especially if you are one of the hated teams or playing one of the golden teams (NE). It is blatant, it is obvious and it is making this game very difficult to watch. They need to do SOMETHING, the officiating bias and flag happiness is out of control.

Boris posted:

Jeezus effing kee-rist.....

Aren't we past this garbage?

Not anymoreso than Rodgers is no longer elite, need to cut Jimmy Graham,  Fail Mary, and Whitewater Jesus. 

Soccer players never fake anything...they overcome excruciating pain and compound fractures to retake the pitch.

Doesn't the NBA have a "flopping" foul for defenders trying too hard to draw a charge?

Cousins is hoping the NFL doesn't penalize flops.

As a vikings fan I love gamesmanship. Faking to get a penalty is just smart play.

One fan's flop is another fan's sniper drill.

You can never be too prepared

I made a ham sandwich.  It was tasty.

Boris posted:

Jeezus effing kee-rist.....

Aren't we past this garbage?

As someone famously said.....get over it

Has anyone considered how this might effect the children?

Pikes Peak posted:

Boris posted:

Jeezus effing kee-rist.....

Aren't we past this garbage?

As someone famously said.....get over it

 Don Henley?!?

As I'm sure others have said already, assuming the Lions would have scored if they got the ball back instead of the second hands to the face is wildly optimistic.  GB was already in field goal range and one can reasonably assume Crosby makes it, based on %.  That puts GB up.

People point to the penalty as if it directly took points away from DET (which is what Fail Mary did to GB).  The most you can say is it robbed DET of the opportunity to win.  They were doing very little on offense at that point in the game.

It is the NHL that has a penalty for embellishment. I think the NFL and all sports should have something similar. If you are playing the game and try to get a penalty called on your opponent that should be viewed as BS and the fact that the NHL realizes this, is just one more reason to be a hockey fan.

I heard last night that Bahktiari told the ref to watch the Lion's defender because he was getting punched in the throat by the defender. There are photos out there of the Lions defender holding onto Bakh's facemark, as well. Things do have a way of evening out. It is high time that the penalty flags started going the Packer's way. Any viking fan who thinks the Packers get the benefit of the bad calls/ non calls should remember last season's Clay Matthew's sack of Cousins in game two. 

Ask a Viking man to remember?  If they remembered all the Viking history there wouldn't be any Viking fans.

That needs to be the closing post for the Vikings suck thread.

How about a penalty for the QB using his cadence to draw a penalty on the defense. Penaltyception ensues. 

AtTheMurph posted:

It is the NHL that has a penalty for embellishment. I think the NFL and all sports should have something similar. If you are playing the game and try to get a penalty called on your opponent that should be viewed as BS and the fact that the NHL realizes this, is just one more reason to be a hockey fan.

Yup.   Was never a fan of hockey until VGK came to town.   Went to a couple games with friends and got hooked.   Non stop action and no bullshit.  If someone wants to act like a tough guy, they better be a tough guy or they are getting their ass kicked.   Want to be a bitch and flop, get in the box you bitch and think about what you've done.   

Love it.

David Stern made it a point to recommend Gary Bettman as commissioner of the NHL in 1993 right before the NHL was on the verge of exploding in the US and possibly becoming a threat to the NBA. Bettman worked for Stern as an NBA yes man.

Bettman took the job and fucked the NHL into oblivion and onto channels nobody can find. 

Anyone that watched Detroit V Colorado 1987- 1992 will tell you it was a generational hatred rivalry that everyone loved and Stern needed to kill. And Bettman was just the guy to do it. He did. 

Anyone that watched Detroit V Colorado 1987- 1992 will tell you it was a generational hatred rivalry that everyone loved and Stern needed to kill.

Nobody watched Detroit v. Colorado from 1987 to 1992 because the Nordiques didn't relocate to Colorado until 1995.

Bettman has done a lot to screw up the NHL -- the Marty Brodeur Memorial Trapezoid, the idiotic overtime rules and shootout, and the NFL-like attempts to create more offense after the 1994-5 lockout all come to mind -- but if you're going to criticize him, you might want to do it with something not so easily debunked.

Sakic, Yzerman, Foresbrg, Draper, Federov, Lemieux, Roy, Vernon, Ciccarelli, Foote, Konstantinov. 

Those years were All Timers mixed with pure hatred with Slap Shot mixed in. Some of the greatest sports watching in the early 90s  

Stern needed to kill that. He did. Should be a 30 for 30. 

1997 to 2002. You know what I mean. As a hockey fan you get where things started in 96 between Lemiuex and Draper. 

My mistake. 

Shouldn't this be in the Hockey forum instead of the Gilbert Brantley Fan Forum?

For fuck sakes. This is a disposable thread. 

NHL 94 was a huge release for EA sports and Stern knew it. It was a watershed game that Stern knew was coming. 

Fedya will be the first to tell you the pop cultural effect it had based on the movie Swingers. So he unleashed Bettman to kill the NHL out of incompetence. 

Much like the regular season NHL in the US....yawn

I guess you have absolutely no sense of humor, Must be a Gilbert Brantley Fan.

ChilliJon posted:

1997 to 2002. You know what I mean. As a hockey fan you get where things started in 96 between Lemiuex and Draper. 

My mistake. 

Eh, 10 years isn't much.  It means I could have started drinking at 8 years old.

(No Wisconsin drinking jokes, please.)

ChilliJon posted:

For fuck sakes. This is a disposable thread. 

All are.

Except the "Vikings Suck" thread, since the Vikings will always suck.

Who sucks more, the Vikings or their fan base? 

Well, when you consider Jayblo and Nutsack, must be fan base.

I'm still holding out for the Brantley Foster forum -- we can all find out the Secret to His Success

Fedya posted:

ChilliJon posted:

1997 to 2002. You know what I mean. As a hockey fan you get where things started in 96 between Lemiuex and Draper. 

My mistake. 

Eh, 10 years isn't much.  It means I could have started drinking at 8 years old.

(No Wisconsin drinking jokes, please.)

As best I can tell you started drinking well before 8. 

I'd say it's a tie in the embrace the suck state. Both, their suckitude is endless.

ChilliJon posted:

Fedya posted:

ChilliJon posted:

1997 to 2002. You know what I mean. As a hockey fan you get where things started in 96 between Lemiuex and Draper. 

My mistake. 

Eh, 10 years isn't much.  It means I could have started drinking at 8 years old.

(No Wisconsin drinking jokes, please.)

As best I can tell you started drinking well before 8. 

Eh, my first time getting well and truly drunk was when I was studying in Russia.