Famine, Flood, and Lackluster Quarterbacking: A Deconstruction of Narrativity in Football

[PhillyB]

This is what you do for fun?

I drink beer(s) for fun. 

Thats why you are super smart and I'm a drunk dumbass always looking for a fight. 

Maybe I should start reading more so the next time I'm drunk at the bar and someone wants to fight I can be all "do you even paleolithic raft bro?"

yeah but only for purpose of shitposting on the internet about it while drinking beer. academia provides you with some good-ass insults

[UpstatePanther]

I'm not sure yet - is this the Fug the Colts weekly thread?

nope. that wont be until @SCP graces us with his smack thread. im looking forward to this weeks. and dammit he better make sure that cleaning lady loses a finger if she so much as touches that helmet this week!

[zacka77ack]

hmmm... for fun read kon-tiki, an account of experimental history/anthropology (a couple scientists create a paleolithic raft and test the hypothesis that people could've migrated across the pacific to populate the americas. adventurous and highly entertaining read. also check out history wars, a very readable edited collection of essays on conflict over historical representation in museums, focusing in particular on the 1990s conflict over the smithsonian's enola gay exhibit. it ties nicely into the theoretical aspect of this post, actually. also think about reading richard  anti-intellectualism in the american life, a seminal text for any political/cultural historian. and if you get the chance read the follow-up, susan jacoby's the age of american unreason (and review it for me, i own it but haven't read it yet)

Kon-tiki and History Wars look good.  Hofstadter may be a bit heavy for beach reading.  Thanks.

[PhillyB]

Kon-tiki and History Wars look good.  Hofstadter may be a bit heavy for beach reading.  Thanks.

it's incredibly dense and could possibly be an improvement at left guard for the colts imo

[zacka77ack]

yeah but only for purpose of shitposting on the internet about it while drinking beer. academia provides you with some good-ass insults

You're basically a modern day Voltaire.  Satire and all.

[PhillyB]

You're basically a modern day Voltaire.  Satire and all.

that's very candide of you

[Moorgan]

hmmm... for fun read kon-tiki, an account of experimental history/anthropology (a couple scientists create a paleolithic raft and test the hypothesis that people could've migrated across the pacific to populate the americas.) adventurous and highly entertaining read.

I find it terribly strange that someone was just telling me about this recently. Terribly strange. There may have been a documentary made about it recently or something. It's bothering me to try and figure out where the hell I heard about this.

[zacka77ack]

I find it terribly strange that someone was just telling me about this recently. Terribly strange. There may have been a documentary made about it recently or something. It's bothering me to try and figure out where the hell I heard about this.

it was made into a movie a couple years ago.

[PhillyB]

I find it terribly strange that someone was just telling me about this recently. Terribly strange. There may have been a documentary made about it recently or something. It's bothering me to try and figure out where the hell I heard about this.

human diaspora theories make the news every couple of years when some new evidence is found and shakes everything up, and the kon-tiki experiment is usually brought up since it's the biggest pop culture reference that everyone gets. by contrast mentioning the solutrean migration hypothesis will get blank stares

[Moorgan]

human diaspora theories make the news every couple of years when some new evidence is found and shakes everything up, and the kon-tiki experiment is usually brought up since it's the biggest pop culture reference that everyone gets. by contrast mentioning the solutrean migration hypothesis will get blank stares

stares blankly

[UKPanther94]

Last time we were on Monday Night Football we saw a defense completely destroy a wounded QB along with its pathetic O-Line to the tune of 9 (iirc) sacks along with several turnovers. I sure hope we could throw that in Indys direction this time. You'd expect people like Allen and Short to feast on whatever they call that O-line

[SCP]

Hey Philly, I just found Alicejandra Lastra on Twitter.  Oh and great work as usual.

@MensHumor: You betta werk!

https://t.co/1GYMGa0Llo

[Razeyfingers]

Hey Philly, I just found Alicejandra Lastra on Twitter.  Oh and great work as usual.

@MensHumor: You betta werk!

https://t.co/1GYMGa0Llo

aww thats cute look at the similarities of my sig and that vine. . . . poor kid

[bigskypanthersguy]

SCP is like a combination of the sensibilities of Patrick McManus, Mark Twain, and the Kissing Suzy Kolber version of Rex Ryan.

You've got a Hemingway/Paul Harvey/and perhaps a bit of Hitchens or Dawkins without the prominent atheistic overtones vibe going on. 

The Huddle's becoming a literary sanctuary...who'd've thought? :P

Edited October 30, 2015 by bigskypanthersguy
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