Other games (2024/25)

[Mattoon]

2 minutes ago, Kid Icarus said:

 

Dying at that

 

Sounds absolutely awful, but presumably they were deserved winners? That's the thing with this Real Madrid side, it's been years and years that they've won like this, without them deserving it, without them giving a shit. 

 

When they won in 2017 it was on the big screen at a festival I was at in Barcelona and it genuinely ruined the mood

 

They'll always be remembered for Jordan, but that team had Rodman, pippen, Kerr, Kukoč, they were just stacked across the court.

[54]

13 minutes ago, Mike said:

 

The best way to describe the Bulls of that era is to steal a bit from Marvel. They were beyond good. They were inevitable. You never ever felt like you had the best of them. Being ahead in a game felt like keeping their seat warm and being ahead in a series didn't feel like having an advantage. it felt like being on the precipice of history. They were undeniable. They had answers for every question and contingencies for anything anyone could throw at them. They could beat anyone, anywhere. Home and Away meant nothing.

At the center of it all was him. I will never as long as I live see an athlete as undeniable as him. Supporting a team he devoured was like being psychotic. It broke you every year.

 

When my dad was a young man, he used to be wild and out of control. Fighting, drinking, fucking, all of that. We used to ask him why he was like that, and his answer was simple. "It didn't matter, I was going to die in Vietnam". Supporting an NBA team in the mid 90's was the same way, superficially. Had a good season? You're going to lose to Chicago. Best team you've ever seen in your shirt? You're going to lose to Chicago. In October, you knew what was going to happen in June. It would have been freeing, if it wasn't so god damn inevitable. All roads led to the meat grinder.

 

It can never be overstated how horrific they were.

Out of interest, are the Bulls still universally hated, like Man United are despite by their own standards not having had much success recently? 

 

That shit would take generations to pass before the hatred subsided in the general population if that happened here

[Ameritoon]

9 minutes ago, Mattoon said:

 

I loved watching that Bulls team, got me into Basketball and playing at college level (yes I'm that old) albeit in England. Truly were a sight to behold, just pure domination, shame the Bears team have never lived up to that standard bar a brief moment in the 1985/86 season.

 

Not a shame at all really

[Mike]

Properly fucked my mood, that.

 

@Kid Icarus tell me about the 12 point lead, you motherfucker.

[Nucasol]

Francoist pigs.

[Kid Icarus]

Just now, Mattoon said:

 

They'll always be remembered for Jordan, but that team had Rodman, pippen, Kerr, Kukoč, they were just stacked across the court.

 

 

Definitely, the talent is undeniable, I just didn't know whether (like Real Madrid) their talent dragged them to wins, or they were just always incredible. 

 

The Last Dance is possibly my favourite documentary of all time and I'm not even into basketball 

[Mike]

Just now, 54 said:

Out of interest, are the Bulls still universally hated, like Man United are despite by their own standards not having had much success recently? 

 

That shit would take generations to pass before the hatred subsided in the general population if that happened here

 

D-Rose moved the needle back to the middle. It was impossible to hate Rose, and even as a Knicks fan his knee injury was devastating.

 

 

[LionOfGosforth]

Just now, Mike said:

Properly fucked my mood, that.

 

@Kid Icarus tell me about the 12 point lead, you motherfucker.

 

I'll say this, never have I watched back any of the games from the second half of that season. Man Utd home, was there, that was enough. Liverpool away, fuck that. Blackburn and Forest away when you knew it was over, you couldn't pay me to watch it back. Shame, that team deserved so much more. Man Utd were Schmeichel, Keane and Cantona in those final 15 or so games, they were fucking superhuman.

[The College Dropout]

5 minutes ago, TRon said:

 

Still seems mad that he was their manager not so long ago.

Rumour has it he got the Madrid job a second time after a call to Flo to ask about getting players on loan for Everton and then the idea was born. 
 

It seemed bonkers at the time. Like Flo had become senile and boring someone on the way down.  Both Perez and Carlo have an understanding of the sport that can’t be expressed in words. 

[Disco]

Fl

[bobloblaw]

3 minutes ago, 54 said:

Out of interest, are the Bulls still universally hated, like Man United are despite by their own standards not having had much success recently? 

 

That shit would take generations to pass before the hatred subsided in the general population if that happened here

 

I don't think anyone really hates the Bulls.  The Celtics and Lakers have won way more, and the Spurs and Golden State have been much more recent dynasties. 

[Kid Icarus]

2 minutes ago, Mike said:

Properly fucked my mood, that.

 

@Kid Icarus tell me about the 12 point lead, you motherfucker.

I was 11 years old, but I've still not experienced anything worse than Batty (76), Fenton (86), Fenton (89)

 

Like having someone pour boiling water onto your brain. 

[Mattoon]

5 minutes ago, Ameritoon said:

 

Not a shame at all really

 

That Bears team of the mid 80s was quality, Walter Payton was my first sporting hero, its been nothing but pain since

[Mike]

Just now, bobloblaw said:

 

I don't think anyone really hates the Bulls

 

[bobloblaw]

2 minutes ago, Mike said:

 

 

I guess knicks fans... but do you hate Jordan more than the Celtics?

 

EDIT: Knicks fans probably hate everybody.

 

 

Edited June 1, 2024 by bobloblaw

[Mike]

Just now, bobloblaw said:

 

 

I guess knicks fans... but do you hate Jordan more than the Celtics?

 

I exercise my Boston hate in the Bronx. The Celtics are like a cute hate my grandparents instilled in me. I despise Jordan.

[The College Dropout]

3 minutes ago, Disco said:

Fl

Don Flo to you.  
 

Dortmund awful from set pieces. They let 5’8 Carvajal have 2 great chances from corners.  And Nacho with another.  
 

Shit way to lose a final.  

[bobloblaw]

3 minutes ago, Mike said:

 

I exercise my Boston hate in the Bronx. The Celtics are like a cute hate my grandparents instilled in me. I despise Jordan.

 

I get it, as a Packers fan I still hate Denver and John Elway for that Super Bowl.

[Superior Acuña]

 

[Vedder]

6 minutes ago, Kid Icarus said:

I was 11 years old, but I've still not experienced anything worse than Batty (76), Fenton (86), Fenton (89)

 

Like having someone pour boiling water onto your brain. 

My first away game, I was also 11 years old. Vivid memories of loads of Blackburn fans being dicks after the game which confused me as I thought everyone hated Man Utd!

[Kid Icarus]

12 minutes ago, Vedder said:

My first away game, I was also 11 years old. Vivid memories of loads of Blackburn fans being dicks after the game which confused me as I thought everyone hated Man Utd!

It's no good having PTSD at 11 over football like.  My mind refuses to fully remember how convinced I was that we'd win when Batty scored.I know that it's protecting me from a level of pain it knows I can't stand. 

 

 

Edited June 1, 2024 by Kid Icarus

[Pablo123]

1 hour ago, Disco said:

They dominated in a different way. Seem to remember absolutely no one getting shots off against them. (Probably absolutely horseshit if you watched it back though)

They were really solid and lethal on the counter. 

[Nine]

Imagine back in summer 2019, Joselu leaves for Alaves and someone tells you in 5 years time he will be holding up a champions league winners medal in a Madrid shirt  Football is mental.

[nufcjb]

2 hours ago, Kid Icarus said:

I was 11 years old, but I've still not experienced anything worse than Batty (76), Fenton (86), Fenton (89)

 

Like having someone pour boiling water onto your brain. 

Wish someone would ask him wheher he would take back scoring those goals and have us winning the title instead..

[GideonShandy]

On a good day and with a full squad available, we would be competitive with either one of those finalists.