OJ Simpson: Football Great, Murder Suspect, and Convicted Felon, Dead at 76
Famous for being a football player, movie star, and pitchman before becoming infamous for being acquitted of the murder of his ex-wife and Ron Goldman
Famous for being a football player, movie star, and pitchman before becoming infamous for being acquitted of the murder of his ex-wife and Ron Goldman
Should the Utah Utes football team lose she would “detonate the nuclear reactor that is located in the University of Utah causing a mass destruction.”
The Washington Commanders exist now.
The fear among my stamp of college football fans is that the tournament awards the game and not the campaign, and makes everything worse
Just another fan’s opinion on how to weave College Football’s bowl tradition with a more robust playoff system.
No, football did not prevent bad things. Could not have. But I submit that football made them bearable in a way they might not have been
A better understanding of the toll football takes on its players might convince you: American Football should be abolished.
Tennessee State football player Christion Abercrombie in critical condition after head injury necessitated emergency brain surgery, according to reports.
To investigate further, Leonie Rösner and Nicole Krämer at the University of Duisburg-Essen in Germany created a fake website for German football fans, and recruited users from a local university.
They then planted a false news story on the site stating that people would no longer be allowed to stand up at football matches. At the time, the idea of banning standing terraces in stadiums was a hot discussion topic in Germany. The researchers then let participants loose on the site’s forum.
Half of these could comment without registering, whereas the others had to use their Facebook accounts to do so. To some participants, all commenters appeared anonymous, while others saw Facebook profiles for everyone.
The forum was also manipulated so that some saw a civil discussion, whereas others were greeted with an atmosphere rich in offensive words, sarcasm, insults and slander – and many exclamation marks.
Rösner and Krämer found that language used by people who were anonymous was not necessarily more aggressive than with people who could be identified. On its own, anonymity is not usually enough to turn people into trolls.
What does seem to make people mean, though, is the behaviour of those around them. The tone set by other commenters was linked to the likelihood that a participant would use aggressive language to support their points
From: Fake football website reveals what makes us become nasty trolls | New Scientist
Coming up on the last week of the regular season, coming up on the Fantasy Football version of The Big Game.
Another week where the team that got the 2nd most points for the week went up against the team that got the 1st most, and the team that got the 2nd least was playing against the team that came in dead last.
Funny how stuff like that happens.