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Max'sKansasCity
Full moon fever
Ill do a 2x bet on tonights game, taking the NY Giants and getting 4 1/2 points
NEW YORK GIANTS 50.5 +180
DALLAS COWBOYS -4.5 -220
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Winning Ugly VXII
Not to state the obvious but,Dallas can't close out games this year,even with double digit leads with less than 5 minutes to go. They keep finding new ways to lose by less than a touchdown. This time,the line could not protect for a field goal attempt,allowing a defender to split in between two linemen to block / deflect the field goal attempt. I'm not going to even get into what happened during the previous 4 and a half minutes. Horrible. It pretty much wipes out any of the positive things that they did during the first 55 minutes of the game.
Actually " sand bagging " is commonly used in golf .Quote
Edith Grove
"Sand bagging"?
Ain't that a racing term?
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Winning Ugly VXII
Not to state the obvious but,Dallas can't close out games this year,even with double digit leads with less than 5 minutes to go. They keep finding new ways to lose by less than a touchdown. This time,the line could not protect for a field goal attempt,allowing a defender to split in between two linemen to block / deflect the field goal attempt. I'm not going to even get into what happened during the previous 4 and a half minutes. Horrible. It pretty much wipes out any of the positive things that they did during the first 55 minutes of the game.
no like everyone told you dallas can't beat a good team. good teams find a way to win no matter what. sorry you weren't playing the ST LOUIS RAMS
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boston2006Actually " sand bagging " is commonly used in golf .Quote
Edith Grove
"Sand bagging"?
Ain't that a racing term?
A typical sand bagger will miss a short putt in order to retain or raise his /her handicap.
For those of you who are not familiar with a golfers handicap , it refers to the number of strokes one golfer needs to make him / her a scratch golfer . In other words , par on most courses is 72 . Your average score for the last 10 rounds is 86 ergo your handicap is 14 . Handicaps are used to even the field . If I were a 7 handicap and I were to play someone with a 4 handicap he / she would give me 3 shots on the 3 hardest holes ( 1 on each hole )as determined by the golf course .
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keefriffhard4life
no like everyone told you dallas can't beat a good team. good teams find a way to win no matter what. sorry you weren't playing the ST LOUIS RAMS
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Winning Ugly VXII
Not to state the obvious but,Dallas can't close out games this year,even with double digit leads with less than 5 minutes to go. They keep finding new ways to lose by less than a touchdown. This time,the line could not protect for a field goal attempt,allowing a defender to split in between two linemen to block / deflect the field goal attempt. I'm not going to even get into what happened during the previous 4 and a half minutes. Horrible. It pretty much wipes out any of the positive things that they did during the first 55 minutes of the game.
no like everyone told you dallas can't beat a good team. good teams find a way to win no matter what. sorry you weren't playing the ST LOUIS RAMS
What ever the reason it happens, it does happen... Dallas seems to blow it at this time of year regualarly... things to remember/consider when betting. I dont bet every week every game, I save my money (money not lost is money earned)(at least saved) and wait for games that "smell" right, and then I bet2X... and last night smelled right.
Eli needed a win, Romo seems to be the choke king when he needs to make a good pass, Eli dosnt want to hear it from his brother- he will make that pass and NY needed that win. Plus plus.... it all sounded like a good bet to me. Of course it was a good, close, fun to watch, entertaining game... and of course when romo needed to hit that one-on-one receiver to clinch it at the end... he missed... and today I am enjoying fried chicken.Quote
boston2006Actually " sand bagging " is commonly used in golf .Quote
Edith Grove
"Sand bagging"?
Ain't that a racing term?
A typical sand bagger will miss a short putt in order to retain or raise his /her handicap.
For those of you who are not familiar with a golfers handicap , it refers to the number of strokes one golfer needs to make him / her a scratch golfer . In other words , par on most courses is 72 . Your average score for the last 10 rounds is 86 ergo your handicap is 14 . Handicaps are used to even the field . If I were a 7 handicap and I were to play someone with a 4 handicap he / she would give me 3 shots on the 3 hardest holes ( 1 on each hole )as determined by the golf course .
Good explaination for non golfers.... I am more of a flogger than a golfer.. I wish I could say something as cool as "I am a 3 handicap" or "someday I will shoot my age".... but alas.... anyway
Golfing does not really explain/logic the origin. There are sand traps in golf, but not sand bags. That term is used across a number of things, including telling lies about ones handicap (which is not cool)... but I have also heard it used in sales contest and... etc etc... hmmmm I dont know....
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maybe it goes back to using sand bags to protect a home from a flood. Putting out sand bags will/may keep the flood away and make the house (appear) seem safe from high water, but really it is just the sand bags/sand bagging.... but... heck I dont know.
Yeah, I like the urban dictionary.. it is kind like that SNL skit "common knowledge" usually has some good, funny answers, but on this one, wow, talk about all over the board, they even had some that made no sense ... e.g. green week? what is that?
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NoCode0680
At least it was an exciting game, and entertaining with all the scoring. Tonight's game promises to be another "Irrelevant Bowl" with the 2-10 Rams at the 5-7 Seahawks. I think I might catch up on my DVR instead of watching that.
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Max'sKansasCity
Anyway it is odd that there is not really a good origin of the phrase "sand bagging".
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btw- Why do people care so much about defending romo? I am not judging here, I honestly wonder why care so much about him? What makes people care? .... e.g. There are seom players I might defend (a little bit anyway, no one who I go on and on and paragraph after paragrapgh etc etc ad naseum,... but I would defend them a lil) but they have to have done something big.
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Max'sKansasCity
Anyway it is odd that there is not really a good origin of the phrase "sand bagging".
Drag racers were using that back in the Fifties.
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Max'sKansasCity
btw- Why do people care so much about defending romo? I am not judging here, I honestly wonder why care so much about him? What makes people care? .... e.g. There are seom players I might defend (a little bit anyway, no one who I go on and on and paragraph after paragrapgh etc etc ad naseum,... but I would defend them a lil) but they have to have done something big.
I personally don't like him, but sometimes I think he gets saddled with blame unnecessarily. But this was after years of people blaming everybody BUT him. For a long time people blamed coaches, receivers, even Jessica Simpson, for Romo's mistakes, I guess because he was young. Even when he did wrong, he could do no wrong. But now that he's a veteran the honeymoon is kind of over, and those years of excuses and protection have come back with a vengeance. And now things that are out of his control are put on him, which is why I think quite a few people defend him. It sort of went to one extreme to another.
I think many Cowboys fans have gotten a little tired of him, or at least the ones I know. They defended him and defended him, and so far that big payoff that would have justified it hasn't come, and doesn't appear to be on the horizon anytime soon. I mentioned the Jessica Simpson thing. It's ridiculous, but true. Fans were more willing to believe that Jessica Simpson cursed Tony Romo than admit that he had bad games. Now some people (not all) would rather blame Romo for everything instead of taking a long look at the team as a whole.
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NoCode0680
At least it was an exciting game, and entertaining with all the scoring. Tonight's game promises to be another "Irrelevant Bowl" with the 2-10 Rams at the 5-7 Seahawks. I think I might catch up on my DVR instead of watching that.
No kidding.... talk about a snore fest... too bad the NFL has not perfected the adjustable schedule for these late season prime time games.... I am in the mood for a game that matters... and this aint it.
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Max'sKansasCity
Watching Montana State play Sam Houston in the NCAA FCS CHAMPOIONSHIP- QUARTERFINAL on ESPN right now.... and grumbling/mumbling to myself about why????.... why ....... why the muthafk cant they fkn hold a muthafkn playoff in the BCfknS ????? WTF!!!??? WHY!!!!! WHAT IS THE ISSUE???!!! I hate collge football now. It is pointless... Having LSU playfkn Alabama AGAIN (FKN AGAIN!!!!!!! AFTER LOSING ALREADY THIS YEAR TO LSU ....AT HOME NO LESS!!!!!) for a fictitious National Championship... that is just STOOPID!!!!!!!
The only bowl I will watch (probably a lie) this year is Stanford vs OSU.
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Winning Ugly VXII
Not to state the obvious but,Dallas can't close out games this year,even with double digit leads with less than 5 minutes to go. They keep finding new ways to lose by less than a touchdown. This time,the line could not protect for a field goal attempt,allowing a defender to split in between two linemen to block / deflect the field goal attempt. I'm not going to even get into what happened during the previous 4 and a half minutes. Horrible. It pretty much wipes out any of the positive things that they did during the first 55 minutes of the game.
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NoCode0680
It actually does lead to some unintentional entertainment though. You get to watch ESPN try to hype the game up, and pretend it is important when they know it isn't.
Like last week, it was the 4-7 Chargers against the 3-8 Jaguars, the stadium was half empty (and almost completely empty in the 4th quarter) yet they're still trying to hype up the game like it was the Super Bowl. Gruden and Jaws will try to hype up players, usually calling them one of the best of all time, and a bunch of other BS. It's pretty hysterical.
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Winning Ugly VXII
Not to state the obvious but,Dallas can't close out games this year,even with double digit leads with less than 5 minutes to go. They keep finding new ways to lose by less than a touchdown. This time,the line could not protect for a field goal attempt,allowing a defender to split in between two linemen to block / deflect the field goal attempt. I'm not going to even get into what happened during the previous 4 and a half minutes. Horrible. It pretty much wipes out any of the positive things that they did during the first 55 minutes of the game.
It's DALLAS. Why would you expect anything else?
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Winning Ugly VXII
Not to state the obvious but,Dallas can't close out games this year,even with double digit leads with less than 5 minutes to go. They keep finding new ways to lose by less than a touchdown. This time,the line could not protect for a field goal attempt,allowing a defender to split in between two linemen to block / deflect the field goal attempt. I'm not going to even get into what happened during the previous 4 and a half minutes. Horrible. It pretty much wipes out any of the positive things that they did during the first 55 minutes of the game.
It's DALLAS. Why would you expect anything else?
Well,in their 51 prior seasons,they blew a fourth quarter lead of 12 points or more TWO times total. This year,in less than one full season,they have done it THREE times already. They have already eclipsed the combined 51 year total in less than 1 year : 13 games !!!! I didn't expect that. It's a huge red flag that something is wrong with the way these situations are being handled.
I honestly didn't expect the blocked / deflected field goal either. That hasn't happened to Dallas in a long while. It's one thing after another.
Cool man... It is always cool to have a connection like that. Cheers to you and michael.Quote
keefriffhard4life
on a different note i'm happy michael robinson scored a TD this week for seattle. he was the starting QB at varina high school when i was there
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Max'sKansasCityCool man... It is always cool to have a connection like that. Cheers to you and michael.Quote
keefriffhard4life
on a different note i'm happy michael robinson scored a TD this week for seattle. he was the starting QB at varina high school when i was there