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That, I think, is what sport is all about. If you follow a sport it becomes a thread which runs through your life and provides memories and narrative and meaning and context. Sport becomes a kind of companion, part of the richness and texture of lived experience. At the same time, you could argue that sport is the only thing on television that is real. The things you are watching happen are actually happening right now, as you watch. So much modern reality is mediated, packaged, predigested. This is obviously true for all forms of drama, but it is more subtly true of news and current affairs, where the effects can be more pernicious, because we’re seeing an image of the world which makes claim to be the real world. Sport isn’t like that. It is clearly artificial: it happens within a determined frame and a clear set of rules and in that sense is as mediated as human experience can be. But within that frame, when you’re watching live sport, you are watching reality as it really happens. It is perhaps the only completely, inarguably true thing you can see on TV. These events, which define the lives of the athletes taking part, are taking place while you watch.

You can have intense moments of feeling watching sport, just as you can have through reading or through drama or through art. The meanings it gives are both individual, because nobody else has seen exactly the things you’ve seen, and collective, because anyone with an interest in the sport has similar experiences, similar memories, and is connected to them, and to you, as a result. Esports give me none of that, which is the reason they can mean so much to people who play them, but nothing at all to me. And so although thinking about esports hasn’t made me get into esports – to be honest, if anything it has put me off – at least it’s made me realise where those thousands of hours have gone, and why. So thank you, esports. But also, respectfully, no thanks. I’m dancing with the one what brung me.

3rd and Long wrote: Mon Nov 24, 2025 2:39 pm Raiders fans have literally been born and reached legal drinking age while this dogshit franchise is still trying to get their shit straight.

That's beyond pathetic

Willmark wrote: Mon Nov 24, 2025 5:48 pmWe've been bad since November 30th 1986.

Tatum wrote: Mon Nov 24, 2025 7:10 pm so you're saying that we've sucked since before the Salary Cap started?

Willmark wrote: Mon Nov 24, 2025 5:48 pm We've been bad since November 30th 1986. At this point the next metric like that isn't drinking age, it is being able to collect Social Security.

Tatum wrote: Mon Nov 24, 2025 7:10 pm so you're saying that we've sucked since before the Salary Cap started?

SuperRaider wrote: Mon Nov 24, 2025 11:38 pm Have to remember Gruden/ Gannon years…we were one of the best teams during that time;

Sold My Soul wrote: Wed Nov 26, 2025 9:24 pm Pretty sure Davis and Gray are butt bangers....

https://justblogbaby.com/amy-trask-name ... -tom-brady

GoodTimeCharlie wrote: Wed Nov 26, 2025 11:18 pm Oh for fck sake, Jim fcking Gray?!? Biggest pencil-necked shit-weasel to ever be connected to sports. He’s the real life version of this fcking guy…

The one on the left.

Alright man, yeah, we are fcking cursed.

ELCAraiderfan wrote: Thu Nov 27, 2025 12:59 am The Raiders (I was going to say 'we' are cursed but I will not give this pos owner/org any of myself anymore)
The Raiders are cursed because Al Davis left his son or whatever that thing is as owner of this team. Until that thing dies or is forced out this abomination of this once great franchise is not going to change.

Plus if one really thinks about it the Raiders except for 4 short Gruden years around 2000 the Raiders have been lousy since the late 80's....or as I've said for years since Ron Wolf left. After that the Raiders fell to less than the great team they were in the 60's, 70's & 80's. The evidence is right in front of everyone if all would just look. After Wolf left the org has been mediocre to the worst org in football except for 4 very short years a quarter century ago.

I give them no more of my time, energy or support. I've given too much since 1967, they owe me and all of us now to get rid of that pos owner and what I've been reading brady and that pos influencer jim gray who is a complete asshole and is exactly as represented in the photo above, just evil pos.

GoodTimeCharlie wrote: Wed Nov 26, 2025 11:18 pm Oh for fck sake, Jim fcking Gray?!? Biggest pencil-necked shit-weasel to ever be connected to sports. He’s the real life version of this fcking guy…

The one on the left.

Alright man, yeah, we are fcking cursed.

ELCAraiderfan wrote: Thu Nov 27, 2025 12:59 am The Raiders (I was going to say 'we' are cursed but I will not give this pos owner/org any of myself anymore)
The Raiders are cursed because Al Davis left his son or whatever that thing is as owner of this team. Until that thing dies or is forced out this abomination of this once great franchise is not going to change.

Plus if one really thinks about it the Raiders except for 4 short Gruden years around 2000 the Raiders have been lousy since the late 80's....or as I've said for years since Ron Wolf left. After that the Raiders fell to less than the great team they were in the 60's, 70's & 80's. The evidence is right in front of everyone if all would just look. After Wolf left the org has been mediocre to the worst org in football except for 4 very short years a quarter century ago.

I give them no more of my time, energy or support. I've given too much since 1967, they owe me and all of us now to get rid of that pos owner and what I've been reading brady and that pos influencer jim gray who is a complete asshole and is exactly as represented in the photo above, just evil pos.

ToastPatterson wrote: Wed Nov 26, 2025 10:34 pm IMHO these are the Raider teams since 1985 that were legit contenders.

1990
1993
2000
2001
2002

Five seasons out of forty...

I never believed in that 2016 team for some reason even before Derek went down.