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Man, I was just thinking about how back in the day, we used to play that game "Telephone." You know, just a small group of maybe seven or eight people, one whispers something—like, "It started raining"—to the next person, and it travels down the line until the last person says it out loud, and usually, it turns into something totally ridiculous, like "The mouse died." We’d all just lose it laughing because of how much it changed. But as you get older, you realize life actually works exactly like that game. It's like what we've been seeing with the Miami team lately; everyone is playing Telephone. Everyone thinks they know what's going on, everyone’s guessing, and everyone acts like an expert during these massive arguments, but honestly? Nobody has a clue. My advice? Just don't comment on things if you don't actually know what's happening. There's this old saying from Jerry Maguire that fits perfectly right now: "Word on the street in Miami is that you're all passing smoke under the table." That goes for the folks acting like geniuses regarding the management over at McDonald's when they really only have a high school vocational degree, like being an auto mechanic or something.
hiddencyclist5 said:The East Coast crowd wasn't whistling because of some flares or stuff on the track; they whistle when the ref stops play or gives someone a two-minute penalty... 🙂
With Des Moines, it wasn't just some joke. The truth is they were confiscating gum, labels, everything under the sun. I mean, maybe they actually think people are smuggling pyrotechnics inside packs of gum or something. 🤣
And as for today's stoppage and that ice breaking... honestly, I don't think there's any fear left. John Doe wouldn't have the guts to stop a Hajduk Split game. The Demons and the Black Knights aren't even that huge fan groups, so John Doe knows none of them will show up at his doorstep. Meanwhile, we all know that if one of our crazies knocks on his door holding an AK-47... 😂 😂 PSYCHIATRY 1950! So yeah, no fear here. 😍
Yeah, sure, just go read what regular people are saying on news sites or even right here in this little corner of the web, then you'll see why the whistling started... and the other thing is pretty simple. Just because his last name is John Doe doesn't mean he isn't scared to call a game. He could just do it with gusto and who's gonna stop him? Then we can all sit here on the forums crying about how "this shouldn't have happened to us" because we're so tough, smelling like cheap beer, ready to snap someone's leg and beat them with a shovel. 😉
Jamie Gomez2 said:But what if it was a probe... say, right in the middle of a game... and then everyone realizes it's happening at a few other stadiums too... What would you guys think about that???
😁 haha man, what are you even talking about now? I honestly don't think anyone caught your drift there.
John Brown30 said:no clue🤷
there was this other group of Americans who thought they were God's gift to the world, and look how that turned out for them now☕
it's true, you've gotta be smart about this. if you push too hard, it just backfires on everyone else and ends up turning them against us instead... yeah, exactly...
Jonathan Lewis3 said:It shouldn't get cut short just because there's one flare incident. You don't honestly expect those hooligans to light five flares and chuck them onto the pitch, right?
The timing will probably be right around the 60-minute mark, but honestly, it doesn't really matter if the flare goes off before a goal or after. It’s all the same. Maybe the ref won't tolerate even a single flare—like, say, we have a flare incident at 60 minutes, then someone lights two more at 75, and the ref sees that and calls the whole thing off... I mean, who knows what the tolerance level is going to be, but I guess you're probably right about that part. 🙂
So, I’ve been sitting here thinking about that whole mess where they shut down the California vs. San Francisco game because of the flares. Honestly, we’re usually the ones lighting them up the most—it’s just how we roll—so I can't help but wonder how this whole thing is going to blow back on us. It feels like a big deal because once that line is crossed, there’s no going back. It’s like when a High School Football Team starts getting rowdy; the first flare is just a warning, but the second one? That’s when the refs pull the plug. Last time, we got chewed out by the league over some flare issues, and I’m honestly not even sure how things escalated that far. Now, I’m genuinely wondering what happens if they *don't* stop a game next time. I could see a scenario where Columbus just ends up taking a 0-3 loss because everything went sideways. Does anyone else even think about what we can actually do about this? Like, is anyone even asking those questions?