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Flaccomania · Joined: 12 Aug 2008 Posts: 16550 Location: Parkville, MD

Does anyone play BSSC football? Playing for the first time this season and games started yesterday. Was pretty fun. Won 44-28 or something like that.
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IrishGreen · Joined: 22 Mar 2007 Posts: 30853 Location: Wisconsin

FF NCAA tourney bracket pick 'em for anyone interested

http://tournament.fantasysports.yahoo.com/t1/register/joinprivategroup_assign_team?GID=133926&P=footballsfuture

PW: footballsfuture
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diamondbull424 · Joined: 02 Dec 2007 Posts: 10018 Location: Baltimore, MD

So anyone catch the newest Hunger Games movie and/or read the books?

I read the books months ago and just saw the movie yesterday. I definitely thought it was a solid movie that lived up to some of the awesome that was the first book.

What I most loved about the movie though was the perspective that they took. The thing I most hated about the Twilight series (yes I read/saw it Very Happy

) was that they kept the central focus so similar to the book- the used Bella's "perspective" as the main vantage point that the viewer saw the film through. A 1st person perspective focused on all things Bella... like the books.

Whereas with the Hunger games we were allowed to see things that weren't included in the books, things that could've only been imagined. It went from the 1st person perspective that we saw in the book and sort of used a hybrid focus between 1st person (Katniss perspective) as well as 3rd person limited, so that we could get a sense of what the surrounding characters were each seeing and experiencing... building depth for their characters.

The book didn't much focus on the Gamemaker and while Caeser Flickerman was important in the book, both characters were so much more important in the execution of the movie. Just as important as the main protagonists if not more IMO. I really LOVED the direction that they took with this, it allowed the story for the movie to be creative in its own way- give the fans even more depth, without sacrificing some of the cannon from the books. It also allowed them to narrow down the characters to strictly the MOST important ones to tell the story... even if the book also carried many important characters.

I thought the movie was Joe Flacco solid. Not elite, not great, but something that you definitely shouldn't be disappointed to spend your money on.

What did you guys think of the book/movie? Or even the hype?
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drd23 · Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2012 6:01 am Post subject:

Haven't read or seen Hunger Games, but I might given the hype around it.

diamondbull424 · Joined: 02 Dec 2007 Posts: 10018 Location: Baltimore, MD

DontTazeMeBro · Joined: 20 Jan 2008 Posts: 20521 Location: 321

You guys voting for the 2000 Ravens in NFL.com's Bracketology? I have like 20 times already.

If anyone doesn't know, we are in the Championship against the 76 Raiders. Here is the link.
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diamondbull424 · Joined: 02 Dec 2007 Posts: 10018 Location: Baltimore, MD

DontTazeMeBro · Joined: 20 Jan 2008 Posts: 20521 Location: 321

Flaccomania · Joined: 12 Aug 2008 Posts: 16550 Location: Parkville, MD

drd23 · Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2012 10:37 pm Post subject:

Everyone needs to vote for Aaron Rodgers for the Madden 13 cover here (over Ray Rice) so that we don't have to take a chance that the Madden Curse isn't real
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diamondbull424 · Joined: 02 Dec 2007 Posts: 10018 Location: Baltimore, MD

DontTazeMeBro · Joined: 20 Jan 2008 Posts: 20521 Location: 321

I voted for Rice. The Madden Curse has become people making a bunch of reaches to keep it alive.
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DontTazeMeBro · Joined: 20 Jan 2008 Posts: 20521 Location: 321

Need your help Ravens Nation. I'm reppin' the Ravens in some sort of Hunger Games thing in TAST. I need everyone to click this link >>>>>>http://www.footballsfuture.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=486472&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0 and post the following

"Sponsor - Baltimore Ravens"

It's supposed to assist me somehow for everyone that does this. Lets go get it.
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DontTazeMeBro · Joined: 20 Jan 2008 Posts: 20521 Location: 321

Advanced to round two. Close call. Got teamed up with the AFC North and had to wait on the Browns rep to show up. Thanks to drd, FlaccoMania, RavensTillIDie, and diamondbull. Someone counted it up and we were top 5 in sponsors. Ball So Hard University showin' out. Everyone who missed it, you can still help out.

Same drill as last time.

diamondbull424 · Joined: 02 Dec 2007 Posts: 10018 Location: Baltimore, MD

I figured I'd quote RavingMadd (the first vote for the 2nd round I saw) and we could do that to make it easier for tallying up purposes. My post should be in the middle or bottom of page 59...