Offside Chat Archives (2014-2021)

Jeffrey Edwards76 said:So what?

He catches that egg, and within seconds, he’s gotta find an open man while simultaneously sensing the pressure—because you've got hundreds of people trying to crush him. And yeah, if he actually pulls that off, he still has to hit his target dead-on.

Maybe this is the ultimate combo of athleticism, technique, and IQ—and you're turning it into some amateur hour hobby just because you guys were passing eggs around at 17. Give me a break. 🙏

Holy crap, dude, imagine catching an egg from three yards away while reading the field based on stuff you've been learning since you were ten, all while those big guys have to dodge a few other big guys first, and then when he misses, whatever, but when he hits it perfectly, the whole stadium is eating popcorn and soda and giving a massive standing ovation, man, it's like a dream come true.

Man, I don't know about you guys, but I was just staring at my egg carton earlier thinking about how I seriously need to clear all these out, but honestly, after everything that went down this past summer, I’m just totally chilling and taking it easy 😂

Man, I’ve got a massive pile of paperwork sitting here on my desk and if I actually end up having to glue some of this shit together, what the hell am I even supposed to use? 😕

Jeffrey Edwards76 said:So what?

He catches that egg, and within seconds, he’s gotta find an open man while simultaneously sensing the pressure—because you've got hundreds of people trying to crush him. And yeah, if he actually pulls that off, he still has to hit his target dead-on.

Maybe this is the ultimate combo of athleticism, technique, and IQ—and you're turning it into some amateur hour hobby just because you guys were passing eggs around at 17. Give me a break. 🙏

Go jump in a lake, you absolute troll...
just go back and find my first post regarding passing, which was a response to steelharbor9 specifically about ball distribution... which, as I noted myself, doesn't negate the fact that everything turns into a heavy mass sprinting toward you while defenders try to take you down... 🙏 🤣

No, he's just charging in blindly because he saw me mention football and because I wasn't busy showering the sport with endless praise... 🤣

Forget football, apparently it's suddenly become the most difficult sport in history requiring some sort of superhuman genius to participate... I'd wager Messi's strike from a free kick last week, or a perfectly weighted pass to Ronaldo from fifty yards out, or even Zidane's volley holds more value than every single pass ever made in American football combined... 🤣

Maybe just turn off your notifications when we discuss football, or better yet, let's just stop altogether, since everyone seems so incredibly agitated...

Edit: any sport can be played by mediocre athletes, but being a true genius in soccer requires significantly more than being a genius in football, handball, water polo, basketball, or any other sport where a "ball" is controlled by hand...

man, i think I get what you're driving at, but are you seriously trying to tell me that kicking a ball fifty yards downfield just for some receiver to cushion it with his chest and drop it into a perfect volley for a goal is somehow harder than, I don't know, tossing an egg and catching it with your bare hands??? are you out of your mind, man???

But does poker have a royal flush?

No chance in hell 😂

Robin Fox2 said:Go jump in a lake, you absolute troll...
just go back and find my first post regarding passing, which was a response to steelharbor9 specifically about ball distribution... which, as I noted myself, doesn't negate the fact that everything turns into a heavy mass sprinting toward you while defenders try to take you down... 🙏 🤣

No, he's just charging in blindly because he saw me mention football and because I wasn't busy showering the sport with endless praise... 🤣

Forget football, apparently it's suddenly become the most difficult sport in history requiring some sort of superhuman genius to participate... I'd wager Messi's strike from a free kick last week, or a perfectly weighted pass to Ronaldo from fifty yards out, or even Zidane's volley holds more value than every single pass ever made in American football combined... 🤣

Maybe just turn off your notifications when we discuss football, or better yet, let's just stop altogether, since everyone seems so incredibly agitated...

Edit: any sport can be played by mediocre athletes, but being a true genius in soccer requires significantly more than being a genius in football, handball, water polo, basketball, or any other sport where a "ball" is controlled by hand...

I'm not scrolling back a single page, let alone hunting for your first post. Did you write somewhere that you're a football prodigy and the greatest talent since the dawn of time just because you five were arguing? Yep. You did. Facepalm.

I couldn't care less about football. I just love calling out people who don't know what they're talking about—but hey, that's nothing restlesssurfer97 hasn't already figured out.

Just so you guys understand the level of stupidity on display here: I don't like tennis. It's boring. I can watch it until it hits "30-all." By that logic, I should go over to Reddit and explain to them why their sport sucks just because I find it dull. And man, when I was 17, I used to hit the ball over the net all the time. Get it? They spend their entire lives learning how to throw it back over that net. And always into the same field. Wow. Pure spectacle right there.🙏

Alright, now try explaining to me what's "more valuable" in soccer, acting like I've never watched a single game. There are tons of better things in soccer. In football, I value seeing a guy get leveled by two giants and pop right back up a second later because he's too proud to stay down—unlike those soft players who trip over the 16-yard line. Or when someone hits the wall ninety times and then finally scores, making the whole Dallas Cowboys stadium jump out of their seats.🙂

Jeffrey Edwards76 said:I'm not scrolling back a single page, let alone hunting for your first post. Did you write somewhere that you're a football prodigy and the greatest talent since the dawn of time just because you five were arguing? Yep. You did. Facepalm.

I couldn't care less about football. I just love calling out people who don't know what they're talking about—but hey, that's nothing restlesssurfer97 hasn't already figured out.

Just so you guys understand the level of stupidity on display here: I don't like tennis. It's boring. I can watch it until it hits "30-all." By that logic, I should go over to Reddit and explain to them why their sport sucks just because I find it dull. And man, when I was 17, I used to hit the ball over the net all the time. Get it? They spend their entire lives learning how to throw it back over that net. And always into the same field. Wow. Pure spectacle right there.🙏

Alright, now try explaining to me what's "more valuable" in soccer, acting like I've never watched a single game. There are tons of better things in soccer. In football, I value seeing a guy get leveled by two giants and pop right back up a second later because he's too proud to stay down—unlike those soft players who trip over the 16-yard line. Or when someone hits the wall ninety times and then finally scores, making the whole Dallas Cowboys stadium jump out of their seats.🙂

you’re preaching to the choir, man, total parachute moment right there 🙏 🙏

We all knew that a long time ago, and now you’re finally just admitting it. ☕

If you aren't interested, why bother commenting at all? You might want to actually catch up on the thread first—read the exchange between me and Samsung, which was perfectly civil until Zillow decided to jump in, and now you... It’s quite bold to barge into the middle of a debate, claiming you have no idea what we’re even talking about, only to critique things that weren't even said. Rather than just posting nonsense, try reading the context so you don't end up making ridiculous claims that I've clearly never made, such as saying football is the easiest sport on earth or that I could play it professionally without breaking a sweat...

And yes, I did state that I am the greatest football prodigy to ever live because my ball handling skills are simply unmatched, truly 👋 😂

Jeffrey Edwards76 is basically just playing games with everyone else's lives and molding them however he wants 😂

Robin Fox2 said:If you aren't interested, why bother commenting at all? You might want to actually catch up on the thread first—read the exchange between me and Samsung, which was perfectly civil until Zillow decided to jump in, and now you... It’s quite bold to barge into the middle of a debate, claiming you have no idea what we’re even talking about, only to critique things that weren't even said. Rather than just posting nonsense, try reading the context so you don't end up making ridiculous claims that I've clearly never made, such as saying football is the easiest sport on earth or that I could play it professionally without breaking a sweat...

And yes, I did state that I am the greatest football prodigy to ever live because my ball handling skills are simply unmatched, truly 👋 😂

So, I went back to the start of this thread. Aside from the fact that you have one decent point that I won't rub in your face (☕), your whole thing starts with "my friend brought the ball," and from that moment on, you do nothing but ramble on about how easy it is to control or throw an egg. Then you wrap it up with "either average athletes can play this or you guys are football geniuses"—what exactly are you implying there? Honestly, I don't get it, so walk me through what you meant by that?

What am I even supposed to say at this point? Samsung claimed they were struggling just to catch the ball, whereas my take was that I was both throwing and catching without any real trouble—nothing more, nothing less. Then ZZ chimed in with, "You're talking nonsense, that's hard." So, here is my rebuttal to ZZ's assertion—that it’s impossible for us to have been passing the ball back and forth, or that I'm lying, or that I imagined the whole thing because you supposedly need to be an elite athlete to complete a pass with this ball at X meters... the reality is that when we were "passing," we were actually just tossing it wildly everywhere and nobody was actually catching it; it was just dropping. I mean, something has to be true, because it's physically impossible for someone who isn't a pro athlete to throw an American football 20 yards accurately into someone's hands, and I distinctly remember us messing around with that ball. I didn't imagine it, and I have no reason to lie (well, maybe I do, but let's assume for the sake of this story that I don't)... which would obviously mean I'm some kind of undiscovered football prodigy, along with everyone else who was tossing that ball around back then.

To draw a parallel to the tennis comparison you made, if someone came up to you tomorrow and claimed you couldn't hit a ball over the net, you'd tell them to get lost... which doesn't mean you'd hit it better, faster, or harder than Roger Federer, it just means anyone with even a shred of athletic ability can do the same thing.

Jeffrey Edwards76 said:So, I went back to the start of this thread. Aside from the fact that you have one decent point that I won't rub in your face (☕), your whole thing starts with "my friend brought the ball," and from that moment on, you do nothing but ramble on about how easy it is to control or throw an egg. Then you wrap it up with "either average athletes can play this or you guys are football geniuses"—what exactly are you implying there? Honestly, I don't get it, so walk me through what you meant by that?

But wait, where did Delko actually say he was a genius or that sports are garbage? Seriously? I think you guys just put those words in his mouth.

He basically just stated his opinion that it felt easier—or at least seemed that way to him—to toss or catch a football compared to a round ball, though he did include a disclaimer that things would definitely get way harder in a real game situation.

I don't really feel like scrolling all the way back through the thread, but since I was part of that conversation, I'm pretty sure I remember how it went down. Aside from the fact that it eventually turned into a joke, I don't think there was any disrespect toward either sport in the discussion.

Robin Fox2 said:What am I even supposed to say at this point? Samsung claimed they were struggling just to catch the ball, whereas my take was that I was both throwing and catching without any real trouble—nothing more, nothing less. Then ZZ chimed in with, "You're talking nonsense, that's hard." So, here is my rebuttal to ZZ's assertion—that it’s impossible for us to have been passing the ball back and forth, or that I'm lying, or that I imagined the whole thing because you supposedly need to be an elite athlete to complete a pass with this ball at X meters... the reality is that when we were "passing," we were actually just tossing it wildly everywhere and nobody was actually catching it; it was just dropping. I mean, something has to be true, because it's physically impossible for someone who isn't a pro athlete to throw an American football 20 yards accurately into someone's hands, and I distinctly remember us messing around with that ball. I didn't imagine it, and I have no reason to lie (well, maybe I do, but let's assume for the sake of this story that I don't)... which would obviously mean I'm some kind of undiscovered football prodigy, along with everyone else who was tossing that ball around back then.

To draw a parallel to the tennis comparison you made, if someone came up to you tomorrow and claimed you couldn't hit a ball over the net, you'd tell them to get lost... which doesn't mean you'd hit it better, faster, or harder than Roger Federer, it just means anyone with even a shred of athletic ability can do the same thing.

Yeah, that's about like me saying I know how to clear a tennis net, or that I can juggle a soccer ball 100 times. Seriously, it's that stupid.

So what's even the point of your observation? 🤣 That it's easier to handle an egg than a round ball? Is that it?

If that's the case, you probably shouldn't be posting about how one corner kick is worth more than 100 passes (man, football...), or how any average athlete could play it, because these posts just sound like constant condescension. 🤷

Jeffrey Edwards76 said:Yeah, that's about like me saying I know how to clear a tennis net, or that I can juggle a soccer ball 100 times. Seriously, it's that stupid.

So what's even the point of your observation? 🤣 That it's easier to handle an egg than a round ball? Is that it?

If that's the case, you probably shouldn't be posting about how one corner kick is worth more than 100 passes (man, football...), or how any average athlete could play it, because these posts just sound like constant condescension. 🤷

everyone is just 👋

just a couple of reality checks and everyone will fall back into line, anyway I'm hitting the sack now 👋

If Kenov were playing in the NFL, what would his nickname be?

Eric Odellko 😂

By the way, man, I know you’re just trolling us; at first, I actually thought you were being serious, but once you mentioned you guys were just messing around and tossing it fifty yards at a time, the whole thing became crystal clear.

Even seasoned pros like NFL QBs often struggle to hit those kinds of distances, and I was just reading that Joe Flacco, who is widely considered to have one of the strongest arms in the league, holds a record of about sixty yards.

But here you are, chucking it thirty, forty, fifty yards like it's nothing, probably aiming at a fly on the wall.

Alright, can we please stop ganging up on Delko already? 🙄

Man, just when I thought things were finally settling down, I get hit with another one of those crazy dreams that honestly felt way too personal 😂