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Shawne MerrimanShawne Merriman

The Steelers must start fast and take the Foxborough crowd out of the game to beat the Patriots

For one, it's going to be tough. It's one of the toughest environments I had a chance of playing throughout my career... they need to jump out fast. I mean, the first quarter or two, take the win out of the crowd. Once that happens, now they're on the playing field.

The Steelers did not start fast; they were trailing 17-6 at halftime and lost 36-17. The Patriots dominated from the start.

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Jan 18, 2017
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Bill Belichick intentionally messes up social media app names to mess with the media

This is the second time that Belichick has intentionally messed up two apps. I think that Belichick knows a lot more about social media than he's letting on... Belichick pretends to not know what Facebook is... he's just absolutely fucking with the media and just putting on this show like, oh, I don't know what any of this is. And meanwhile, he goes out behind the curtain. He's got five cell phones and he immediately checks all his players' accounts.

Belichick continued this 'bit' for years, consistently misnaming platforms like 'Instachat,' supporting the theory that it's a deliberate part of his persona.
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Jan 18, 2017
#14859
Big CatBig Cat

Aaron Rodgers is trying to 'cuck' Brett Favre's legacy

Uncoachable. He's now trying to cuck Brett Favre's legacy like a kid just running around back there. Brett Favre was the ultimate draw something up in the dirt. It's like the last thing that Brett Favre has. He was an old school gunslinger. Just go out there and I'll hit you. And now Aaron Rodgers is taking that from him.

Rodgers has often been compared to Favre in this regard, though he generally played with much higher efficiency and fewer turnovers, eventually surpassing most of Favre's franchise records.
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Jan 18, 2017
#14862
Big CatBig Cat

LeBron James pretends he doesn't care about the Warriors, but he cares deeply

LeBron said, no, we're not rivals. He basically just said, I don't want to talk about that. I don't care about the Warriors. They can do their thing. Meanwhile, I'm pretty sure LeBron made them put up a big poster right outside their locker room when they went to Cleveland earlier in the year, like the block and all that stuff. So classic LeBron. He's just pretending like he doesn't care, even though he cares deeply.

LeBron's rivalry with the Warriors during the 2010s is widely considered one of the greatest in NBA history, confirming he likely cared significantly more than he admitted.

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Shawne MerrimanShawne Merriman

I am officially unretired and would return to the NFL if a contender offered $10 million

If I had a good opportunity I want to play I want to play with a team that I have an opportunity to go win a championship because that's the only part of my career that is missing you know I'm missing the ring so if I had an opportunity to get a ring of course I go back in a second.

Merriman never returned to the NFL after this statement.
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Toronto does not support the Bills like Buffalo does and is a boring environment

It felt like we were playing somewhere in Europe or somewhere in a foreign country. They didn't really support the team. I never saw a stadium so dead and so boring when a team played in Toronto. They just didn't support the Bills like they did when they played in Buffalo.

The Bills Toronto Series was widely panned and eventually cancelled in 2014, supporting Merriman's observation about the lack of local enthusiasm.
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Shawne MerrimanShawne Merriman

Los Angeles is not ready to support two NFL teams

I don't think L.A. is ready for two football teams. They're still trying to get their feet on their own with the Rams, even though they didn't play well this last year... they don't show up until halftime.

This has been a persistent narrative, with the Chargers struggling to build a fan base in LA for years, often playing in stadiums filled with opposing fans.

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