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[Stromageddon]

But you get paid money for it and you get women you ****ing moron

 

[Dylan8]

But you get paid money for it and you get women you ******* moron

I'm a minimalist homosexual.

 

[Greater Gattsby]

Nebz signed my nipple at Southland today.

Was a special moment.

 

[Cody_]

****in oath of a storm

 

[Greater Gattsby]

****in oath of a storm

Haven't got anything. Haven't had anything all day, just a bit of cloud.

 

[Cody_]

Haven't got anything. Haven't had anything all day, just a bit of cloud.

Where are ya Bairnsdale, Mildura??? Lol

 

[Cody_]

Haven't got anything. Haven't had anything all day, just a bit of cloud.

Man it's bloody crazy

 

[NM_Mitchell]

One more bit of criticism until this is a big tick from me. Perhaps make the cuffs a bit smaller, I aim to make them the same thickness as the collar. Other than that, great job bud

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[Greater Gattsby]

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Miiiiint

 

[Greater Gattsby]

Where are ya Bairnsdale, Mildura??? Lol

Mates house in Bentleigh

 

[Fizzler]

Miiiiint

Well it is green

 

[akkaps]

Can someone explain this emoji craze that has swept over BigFooty. I see things like [emoji14] and I have no clue what it means.

 

[Fizzler]

Can someone explain this emoji craze that has swept over BigFooty. I see things like [emoji14] and I have no clue what it means.

How did you do that?

 

[akkaps]

How did you do that?

If I knew, I wouldn't be asking these questions.

 

[Dylan8]

Mates house in Bentleigh

come over m8 im in the East variety of the same suburb

 

[Klim]

How did you do that?

Tapatalk.

 

[NM_Mitchell]

eastern *****

 

[Bryce_Jersey17]

I reckon Bacon Warriors paint template is awesome. It should be up there with them, if not higher.

Isnt that just Mero's version of Carls12's but with gradients for shading?

 

[Bacon Warrior]

Isnt that just Mero's version of Carls12's but with gradients for shading?

My Illustrator template, yes. My Paint template, no. That's original.

 

[Stromageddon]

If we're talking about BigFooty default desktop emoticons, then I'd like to inform you that I'm the reason we have the burn emoticon.

 

[Andonis1997]

If we're talking about BigFooty default desktop emoticons, then I'd like to inform you that I'm the reason we have the burn emoticon.

And Dylan's the reason we have the rainbow.

 

[Greater Gattsby]

come over m8 im in the East variety of the same suburb

And Dylan's the reason we have the rainbow.

And Omegaville was the reason we had the dislike button, which unfortunately, quickly disappeared.

 

[Andonis1997]

And Omegaville was the reason we had the dislike button, which unfortunately, quickly disappeared.

Ahhh, Omega. I wonder what would happen if he came back one day..

 

[NM_Mitchell]

why is College Football in the US so popular?
maggotz ?

 

[maggotz]

why is College Football in the US so popular?
maggotz ?

Actually, like footy, gridiron (our sport, however, evolved from rugby) was played on an amateur level long before anyone thought of turning pro. Some NCAA schools were playing in front of packed stadiums long before there was an NFL. But, unlike footy, amateur teams didn't turn into professional clubs, mainly because the NCAA teams were part of universities and did not want to evolve into professional sports leagues. Kids were there for academics, and received scholarships for athletics to help pay for a college degree. While that's still the case today, it's less about the academics when it comes to football/basketball scholarships.

The NFL in its early days was a ragtag league, a bunch of small businessmen and some ex-collegians who had been playing in front of a few hundred fans as amateurs after college that decided to try and play for pay. They followed NCAA in a sense, trying not to make them mad (because that's where the NFL players were coming from, obviously), which is why, e.g., the NFL instituted an annual draft of college graduates, because there was growing friction between NCAA and pro teams who were signing kids prior to graduation.

The NCAA was the power of gridiron football until about half a century or so ago. And for all of that time the idea was that the amateurs (college kids) were playing for love of sport. After graduation, they played for love of money, which seemed to cheapen things for fans. Kind of a skewed way of looking at it, but that was the way most people felt about NCAA/NFL for the first 30-40 years of NFL. Even CFL was more popular in Canada (and at least as popular in parts of USA) in those early days of NFL.

It wasn't until the 1958 overtime NFL Championship game, which was nationally televised, that popularity in the pro ranks really started taking hold, and that led to the AFL's formation in 1959 (their first season was 1960). Both leagues had national TV deals, and that started to cement the bond between pro football and football fans who traditionally always followed NCAA. Suddenly lots of people were regularly watching the pros and collegians on TV regularly. Pete Rozelle (NFL Commissioner at that time) was a wonderful marketer and was also a big reason for pro football's current popularity. He was one of the main orchestrators of the merger between the leagues, which led to a 26 team NFL in 1970, and the NFL has grown in popularity ever since.

NCAA is still popular because somehow the magic of the college sport didn't diminish with the increase in popularity of the pro sport. We still like watching kids play "for the love of the sport", and I don't think that would ever go away, even if the NFL did.