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Discussion in 'Houston Rockets: Game Action & Roster Moves' started by Hey Now!, Apr 26, 2005.

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  1. Desert Scar

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    Is that really the best you can do?

    Rockets and Boys fan for LIFE.
     
    #21 Desert Scar, Apr 26, 2005
  2. akperez

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    I wasn't trying to get into a testosterone charged peepee match with you...I'm a girl ;). Just stating the obvious. I'll agree to disagree about the Cowpokes......after all, you are a Rockets fan too.
     
    #22 akperez, Apr 26, 2005
  3. MLittle577

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    Listening to the Mavs bradcast last night (I live in Dallas with no cable:( ), Derek Harper and Brian Custer finally gave the Rox props, but one of the play by play guys (Not Rolando Blackman) said, "When Yao goes to his power move, Dampier should FLOP, and try to get an offensive foul called in Yao"

    They are scurred people.......they are scurred!
     
    #23 MLittle577, Apr 26, 2005
  4. rubytuesday

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    don't forget that our lovely Texans beat the cowboys too!!! woohoo!! bragging rights for franchise life!!!!!!!
     
    #24 rubytuesday, Apr 26, 2005
  5. akperez

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    Exactly. Twice at that!

    19-10
    18-0

    :eek:
     
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  6. RocketsPimp

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    Eh, nobody's perfect. :D
     
    #26 RocketsPimp, Apr 26, 2005
  7. Uprising

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    :D This is why I skipped the lecture part of my class. I needed to soak in some of this excitement.

    It feels damn good to beat the city that despises us (Houston) in every way. Way to go Rockets! WHOOP!
     
    #27 Uprising, Apr 26, 2005
  8. GRENDEL

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    I've lived here in Dallas since '99 and I hate most of their sports teams with a passion. The fans have this sense of entitlement and they carry this kind of stuck up attitude without ever having won anything, speaking of the Mavs.


    The Mavs were being talked about as title contenters and I think the truth is starting to show, they are paper "champions"


    On a good note I did convert my wife, grew up in Dallas, into a Houston everything fan, Stros, Rockets, Texans
     
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  9. akperez

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    :D
     
    #29 akperez, Apr 26, 2005
  10. gifford1967

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    Well that makes us even because I've always looked at Dallas like it was something stuck on the bottom of my shoe.


    As for the Rockets- One thing that makes me know in my bones how good they really are is that when we were down by 8 in the 4th last night I never got upset. I KNEW they had the heart and skill to come back and win.
     
    #30 gifford1967, Apr 26, 2005
  11. akperez

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    ditto


    Great feeling isn't it? I was thinking the same thing.
     
    #31 akperez, Apr 26, 2005
  12. rvpals

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    I would say TMac is at a Jordan like level right now. Killing you with big baskets time and time again, while elevates his teammates' play. Sura, Barry, Wesley are not scrubs, they are like necessary pieces of puzzles that help put together the big picture. I know Yao's gonna be special ever since we drafted him.

    The chemistry is just unbelievable, especially the two men game of Yao & TMac.

    I could not have imagine we gelled so early, I was thinking we'll gell the beginning of next season. JVG has done hell of a job prepare the guys and guys are listening and believe in him.
     
    #32 rvpals, Apr 26, 2005
  13. Saint Louis

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    After an Oiler victory over the Cowgirls in the late 70's, Carl Mauck (Oiler center) offered to personally help move every Cowgirl fan living in Houston back to Dallas.
     
    #33 Saint Louis, Apr 26, 2005
  14. rvpals

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    Dallas fans sound exactly like New York fans. Some of these knicks fans still believed the knicks are a good team. Their logic is because these guys like Crawford / Marbury plays for the New York Knicks, so they must be good. New York fans are more stuck up.
     
    #34 rvpals, Apr 26, 2005
  15. Desert Scar

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    Its cool guys. I just never got the anti-Pokes thing from Houston.

    The Boys never stopped the Oilers from anything. Oilers and Pokes have a common enemy in the Pittsburgh Stealers. Hell, the Texans are 2-0 against the Boys, Oiler/Texans should darn right like the Pokes:D

    I never had a problem liking the Pokes, Oilers, and Rockets. When Butt Adams took the team away that left 1 NFL team with the big emotion. Trying to get into the Texans thing, sure I'd route for em against anyone save the Pokes, but ain't got that Luv U Blu feelin for them yet. Hard with the distance.

    Now someone says (previous thread) the will rout for the Spers after the Rockets because they are from Texas, well those are darn fighting words. Because those SOBs have owned us the last few years, they are standing right in our way from division domination, and MOST of all their fans sound like a bunch of squealing girls, or grown men who have just been neutered, your choice. It wasn’t always that way. Old Spurs wore strait black, had some bad asses in the Ice-Man and Gilmore, a liquored up rocken Hemisphere with those towels--just further makes we want to puke on the current DR to TD to Parker group and their wussified fans so.
     
    #35 Desert Scar, Apr 26, 2005
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    I lived in Dallas during the Rockets championship run in 1995. The hatred and snobbery toward not only the Rockets, but Houston in general, was ridiculous. With everything the Rockets accomplished during that playoff run, they didn't get even a strand of respect from the sports media, or the people (even considering that their own NBA franchise was absolute garbage at the time). To make things worse, my roomates were Mavs fans and made it extremely difficult on me watching all the games. But let me tell you, the last laugh I had was a mighty sweet one.


    Come on Rockets, lets finish these suckers off so we can all bask in the glory of living in the greatest city in Texas!
     
    #36 localalien, Apr 26, 2005
  17. frankblack

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    Amen -

    there wasn't anything sweeter than watching the looks on the Dallas fans' faces last night

    Mark Cuban and the two hillbillies especially

    It's normal for all of us to get swept up in this kind of thing

    - but I for one hope that the 05 Rockets can "stay humble and stay hungry" - that's what they need the most at this point right now
     
    #37 frankblack, Apr 26, 2005
  18. Hey Now!

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    here’s my perspective, after living in this hellhole for 13 of my 33 years: the city of dallas is a giant fraud. but shhhhhh! don’t you dare let that secret out of the bag.

    the entire city is in cahoots protecting that secret, hoping like h-e-double hockey sticks that you won’t notice. but spend a month here – and you’ll notice. it wants to be modern, it wants to be metropolitan, it wants you to love it unabashedly. it’s a city suffering a massive inferiority complex. so, too, do its citizens. they swim in a pool of silicon and aqua net and run on the fuel of white powder – doing anything they can but be true to their own pathetic existences. “look at us!” they scream from their trendy cadillacs. “we’re beautiful! we’re fun! no, no - don’t look at the school book depository – look at me instead! i’m pretty! i’m fun!”

    the whole damn thing is a lie. behind the façade rests the true identity of the city, which is that it has none. it’s a blank slab of concrete run by conservative baptists and populated by white trash rednecks. its local media is a sensationalistic w****, as are most of its citizens. and, of course, these same whores live and die with their sports teams – for most, it’s their only shot at legitimacy. win and the needy zeros get to sweep their own pathetic existences under the bandwagon, wrapping themselves in somebody’s else success because they’re incapable of creating their own. their fans are the ultimate coattail riders and they’ll stick in your face. after all, if they don’t, what else have they got?

    and that is at the root of why it’s so easy to hate their fans, and by extension their teams. frankly, i really don't hate the teams – oh sure, certain players burrow under a layer or two of my skin. it’s easy to despise the mavericks’ closeted owner, who, ever time i see his fat, bloated carcass, i swear, looks like he’s eaten another one of his 38 assistant coaches. but it’s the fans we really hate. i don't want any of them to enjoy a single degree of success. they don’t deserve it. they’re not humble when they do win and they lack integrity – in fact, they’re the worst kind of fan, because for them, it really is life or death. lose and it only reinforces that their entire existence lacks substance.

    but win… and the whole city can claim victory and wear it on its sleeve as a source of individual pride, shoving it down our collective throats.

    bastards!
     
    #38 Hey Now!, Apr 27, 2005
  19. m_cable

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    Ric, you should post more.
     
    #39 m_cable, Apr 27, 2005
  20. LegendZ3

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    Amen! Ric! I really regret coming to this sh!thole for college. Dallas is one of the most boring city I've ever been to, this place has nothing but churches. And most people in Dallas are cocky morons, it's impossible to carry a reasonable conversation with them. I watched the game in a sports bar here in Richardson, and watching the mav fans' faces after T-Mac knock down the game winning 3 was truely priceless.
     
    #40 LegendZ3, Apr 27, 2005
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