Indy Fan - - Keeping it Classy

[Mikey]

Andrew Luck unexpectedly announces retirement during pre-season game. Colt fans boo him off the field.

Nice

[FiatLux]

A true Stanford Man.


He'll have plenty of time now to be interviewed by Jon Wilner for Wilner's next Stanford fanzine.

[Softball Bat]

I wonder what Jim Mora would say about the fans?













sick in the head

[Dr_Phibes]

Analytics tells us Colts win the Superbowl

[Mikey]

A true Stanford Man.


He'll have plenty of time now to be interviewed by Jon Wilner for Wilner's next Stanford fanzine.

And in the meantime, Kal will have another losing season and get beaten by Stanford for the tenth consecutive year.



One of these days it will only be grandpas who will remember the last time the embearassments took the axe.

How does a school with a $2.8 billion budget and enrollment of over 40,000 undergrads keep getting rolled on a regular basis by a school with barely 7,000 students?
Ponderous.

[Carson]

Reality smack will never not be fresh.

Go back to watching those parking deck security monitors, milton.

[Screw_Michigan]

I was watching the Miami vs. Florida game last night when the news broke. I was surprised. Then, after watching a very good program on college football by ESPN, I watched Sportscenter, and I was angry. Why did ESPN feel the need to "break" that story during the game? Luck apparently had plans to announce his decision to retire after he had told his team and not during the game. Such bullshit from the news media. It is a fucking retirement. Can't wait another 15 hours to be reported?

That's not how news works, you god forsaken moron.

"Holy shit, Andrew Luck is retiring!"

"This is such huge news, let's wait 15 hours to report it!"

Sincerely,
Only you, 88braincells.

[Kierland]

Good god you are a whiny cunt. It’s called news, not history, for a reason.
Fucking fascists.

[FiatLux]

[Screw_Michigan]

That ^^^ is the reason most of the people on the planet have no respect for people in the news “business”. You run rough shod over everyone for your own benefit. Luck’s retirement would have been as “huge news” today as it was last night. It was his news. Not ESPN’s. Complete horse shit.

Feel free to remove your head from your ass at any time.

[smackaholic]

Didn't know a fukking thing about Luck 2 minutes ago, beyond being a QB for the dolts.

Now that I am all wikied-up on him, looks like he's a fairly bright person. That being the case, he properly assessed that allowing very large people to run into him at full speed any longer didn't make much sense.

Sucks for dolt fan. Sucks for his orthopedic surgeon.

Doesn't suck for him.

I suspect he has spent the last 7 years putting his financial nest into good order. He will likely take a job with a network somewhere and live a reasonably healthy life.

Why others don't do the same escapes me. You would think at some point they'd realize the next snap could result in them being snapped, making their remaining 40 or 50 years shittier than they need to be.

I get the whole competitive instinct and all, but at some point, you'd think that other instinct, self-preservation, would step in and bitch slap competitive into next week.

[Screw_Michigan]

I get the whole competitive instinct and all, but at some point, you'd think that other instinct, self-preservation, would step in and bitch slap competitive into next week.

We know, you're not very bright.

[smackaholic]

So, what you are saying, is continuing to get hammered by large balck dudes, on a regular basis, is "very bright"?

I can see how you might think that.

[Softball Bat]

Didn't know a fukking thing about Luck 2 minutes ago, beyond being a QB for the dolts.

Now that I am all wikied-up on him, looks like he's a fairly bright person. That being the case, he properly assessed that allowing very large people to run into him at full speed any longer didn't make much sense.

Sucks for dolt fan. Sucks for his orthopedic surgeon.

Doesn't suck for him.

I suspect he has spent the last 7 years putting his financial nest into good order. He will likely take a job with a network somewhere and live a reasonably healthy life.

Why others don't do the same escapes me. You would think at some point they'd realize the next snap could result in them being snapped, making their remaining 40 or 50 years shittier than they need to be.

I get the whole competitive instinct and all, but at some point, you'd think that other instinct, self-preservation, would step in and bitch slap competitive into next week.

A few thoughts about this post...

1. Yes, Luck is smart. He scored a 37 on his wonderlic, and that is very high.

2. Did he just now realize that having large men slam into him could be detrimental to his future well-being? It seems to me that this is something football players know going in, and they accept the risk. As we all know, it only takes ONE hit to do the damage. And that hit could occur in week one of your rookie season.

3. 10 days before the start of the season, he pulls the plug? I think there were other routes to take that could have put him on the shelf for a while and still leave open the possibility of a return.

4. A calf injury? Leg injury? This is the fatal blow to his career? What is his injury, really? This leg deal seems a bit mysterious. I suspect there might be something deeper going on that we haven't yet been informed of.

5. QBs back in the day made a fraction of what Luck made -- and they got the piss hammered out of them. So yeah... Andrew walked. So it goes...

[Wolfman]

I recall Jim Brown hanging them up while he was on top. Smart move.
http://www.sportshistorytoday.com/jim-b ... y-14-1966/

[Shlomart Ben Yisrael]

I suspect it was hinted to him that he'd be competing for the starting position and he said "Fuck all that nonsense".
Don't rule out a man's pride.

[FiatLux]

bump

[Softball Bat]

I recall Jim Brown hanging them up while he was on top. Smart move.
http://www.sportshistorytoday.com/jim-b ... y-14-1966/

But when was Andrew Luck ever on top?


Jim Brown went out as the greatest ever at his position, and appeared to still have game left in the tank.
He left in good health, went on to star in movies, was culturally significant, and was an iconic figure.

Andrew Luck will forever be known as the guy who said no mas.

Unfulfilled potential.

He won 4 playoff games (and lost 4) -- and never made a Super Bowl.
Threw for 126 yds and 2 picks in his only conference title game appearance.
A 45 - 7 beatdown.

No mas.




Luck's got his $$, his health, and the little wife.

Bravo!

[smackaholic]

Luck's got his $$, his health, and the little wife.

Bravo!

And that, my friend, is all that matters.

Andrew

Good point mentioning JB.

He is the posterboy for going out on top. He absolutely ruled the NFL. No one came close.

And right in the middle of it, he realized that sooner or later, Butkus was gonna get lucky and break something on him that might involve spending the rest of his days with a bad limp. So he said fukk it. I'm goin' to Hollywood!!! Where da white wimins at?

Rack the fukk outta Jim!!!!!

Who else is there that did the same?

Not many.

Gale Sayers comes to mind, but his retirement might have been forced by injury.

[Mikey]

Bump



Cattouse is still feeling that collision.

[Smackie Chan]

Not sure how much his smarts had to do with it, but luck (common noun, not proper) and Irsay's benevolence lets him keep $24M the Dolts could've rightfully recouped from him.

[smackaholic]

One could argue that leaving his team high and dry is a shitty thing to do, but ya know what?

Fukk'em.

If the new guy played better, they'd drop him like a hot potato.

My guess is he was considering quiting after last season, but figured he'd see how things started this year. Obviously, they arent going as well as he hoped, so he threw in the towel.

The idea that any athlete owes anything to "the fans" is BS. He owes nothing to them or the team.

That being said, I must admit that watching grandpa Brady stack trophies like cord wood is fun. I am guessing that Gisel's cooch is the fountain of youth.

It doesn't suck one bit, being that dude.

How long do you think he can keep it going? Is a 45 year old Tom Brady taking snaps a possibility?

[Mikey]

I'd enjoy seeing him get snapped in half by a large angry charging defensive lineman.

[smackaholic]

Wouldn't bother me to see it either.

It's fun to watch him defy father time and yet it would be fun to watch him get snapped in two for being so insolent.

And then, he'd go home and get healed by Gisel.

Like I said. It's good to be TB. Even if he gets turned into a skidmark in the astroturf.

[Softball Bat]

Orenthal is "disappointed" because he had picked A. Luck for his fantasy team.

lol









Btw, disappointed...