Re: NFL Chat 4 : Wed Aug 18, 2010 8:04 pm  

Brett says this year will actually be his last! Does anybody believe him?

Re: NFL Chat 4 : Wed Aug 18, 2010 8:45 pm  

ST_CONROY wrote:

Brett says this year will actually be his last! Does anybody believe him?

To be honest if I was the Vikings I wouldnt want this again next year so he may not have a choice.

Of course he will sign for the Lions after training camp after crying like a little girl in his retirement press confrence only days before.........

I just hope he can walk away from the game himself and not be forced out by injury because he doesnt deserve that after the career hes had! Annoying as he may be

Re: NFL Chat 4 : Thu Aug 19, 2010 9:05 am  

ST_CONROY wrote:

Brett says this year will actually be his last! Does anybody believe him?

No.

Re: NFL Chat 4 : Thu Aug 19, 2010 10:03 am  

LFCRhino wrote:

To be honest if I was the Vikings I wouldnt want this again next year so he may not have a choice.

To be fair to Brett this is hardly his fault this year. He never retired, it was merely speculation about his ankle not being fully recovered and then the Vikes sent three players to coax him back. They obviously really wanted him and a big part of this years media circus lays on the shoulders of the Vikings.

LFCRhino wrote:

I just hope he can walk away from the game himself and not be forced out by injury because he doesnt deserve that after the career hes had! Annoying as he may be

His consecutive start record is unreal, and given he has played 19 years it is crazy he has never suffered an injury particularly given how bad our line was in some of his years.

Re: NFL Chat 4 : Thu Aug 19, 2010 2:29 pm  

ST_CONROY wrote:

To be fair to Brett this is hardly his fault this year. He never retired, it was merely speculation about his ankle not being fully recovered and then the Vikes sent three players to coax him back. They obviously really wanted him and a big part of this years media circus lays on the shoulders of the Vikings.

His consecutive start record is unreal, and given he has played 19 years it is crazy he has never suffered an injury particularly given how bad our line was in some of his years.

285 in a row I believe and he'll be on 301 if he makes it through the season.

Re: NFL Chat 4 : Thu Aug 19, 2010 2:54 pm  

Dead Man Walking wrote:

285 in a row I believe and he'll be on 301 if he makes it through the season.

Yeah correct. 285 is the record for any position (IIRC i read a while back that 270 was the previous highest incidently set by a Vikings player in the 60-70's) although if you count play-offs he is on 309. Peyton is 2nd for QB's with 192 (210 including play-offs).

Re: NFL Chat 4 : Thu Aug 19, 2010 6:29 pm  

Anyone watch College Football?

If so do you know if there is anywhere over here where you can get college apparel?

Re: NFL Chat 4 : Thu Aug 19, 2010 7:35 pm  

Harrigan wrote:

Anyone watch College Football?

If so do you know if there is anywhere over here where you can get college apparel?

Really like College Football and used to watch it all the time when i had ESPN. Really tempted to get ESPN back again when the season starts just for that reason.

As for apparel, i don't really think there is anywhere over here so your only option is to import it or get it off ebay.

Whos your team? Mine are the Florida State Seminoles (Christian Ponder (QB) should go round 1 in the draft next year).

Re: NFL Chat 4 : Thu Aug 19, 2010 8:25 pm  

ST_CONROY wrote:

Really like College Football and used to watch it all the time when i had ESPN. Really tempted to get ESPN back again when the season starts just for that reason.

As for apparel, i don't really think there is anywhere over here so your only option is to import it or get it off ebay.

Whos your team? Mine are the Florida State Seminoles (Christian Ponder (QB) should go round 1 in the draft next year).

UF are mine... and no, not just because of the last few years

I have been going to Florida on family holidays (not just Orlando either) since I was 3 and have spent pushing a year of my life there all in all so I picked up a lot off TV. As the Gators were the "biggest" team in Florida I suppose thats where I got them from.

I might just wait until I go back over this season and buy my stuff then. I have a Gators polo but wanted a few more things. Save on the stupid import charge of $30 they add on FFS.

Re: NFL Chat 4 : Thu Aug 19, 2010 8:37 pm  

I wouldn't mind knowing a good store for college football shirts, wouldn't mind one of the new Miami shirts, it's quality apart from the numbers.

Harrigan wrote:

I might just wait until I go back over this season and buy my stuff then. I have a Gators polo but wanted a few more things. Save on the stupid import charge of $30 they add on FFS.

It was $50 import charge for an $11 Adalius Thomas/Ben Watson shirt so surprisingly, I didn't order