WSR Gridiron Report

Somebody give us some good news! Reading today's board we are very limited at QB. Our players aren't strong/out of shape. Now we've got players not participating in Spring drills.

I'm really hoping the players we have are healthy, STAY healthy and that some of last year's redshirts and some of this year's incoming freshman are ready to contribute. We need to pray Scott is able to play every game this year.

They're going out to help people....for free. They aren't getting anything from the University while they're there. When they come back there is no guarantee they get their scholi back. If they do come back they are more mature emotionally. Why would anyone attack someone over that? Btw, judging by BYU's success playing 24yoa men vs 18-20yoa boys...I'd say its effective.

Daleks that's the stupid post I have ever seen on this board. Keep telling urself u aren't a bigot if it makes u sleep better at night, but u are. Calling kids out because of their religion, is just pathetic, get a life man, really.

One of the best offensive lines we had at Arizona came during the Tomey years when he was stockpiling 25 and 26 years olds like Ryan Turley and Jose Portilla, followed by Edwin Mulitalo. The only thing I have to say about it is I don't understand how they decide when to go. I don't think I've ever seen an LDS kid go on a mission after finishing college and I wonder why not? If it is in part a sacrifice of the comforts of life, it would be more meaningful then I would think before embarking on the earnings phase of life? Or is it supposed to be part of the learning process? Don't know. Interesting that some take a mission and many others do not.

I know its unpopular opinion but what I was saying is, I don't really agree with the idea of Missionary work in the first place. That goes for any Religion or culture for that matter. Every person is entitled to their own culture and be proud of it. Its not racist for me to be proud of my Irish and Norwegian culture. But when you have people from one culture try and change someone else's, I think that is a sinister thing, the Polynesian people have a very rich long history and it’s a shame it has been hijacked by the convicted con man Joe Smith. That goes for all the other indigenous cultures that Christian Missionaries have ruined over the last 500 years or so.

That is what bothers me when people fall all over Tim Tebow and say what a great guy he is, and he is, a good teammate and a good citizen, but his pension for trying to change other people into his own belief system is a sinister and terrible thing in my option.

Sorry, I try ready hard not talk about anything on here but football.

Poli Sci guy can't refuse....

The presumption that indigenous peoples were somehow better off without external influence is PC B.S., IMO. There are cultures all over the world that would still be living in huts, not have antibiotics, clean water or food preservation or ... WINE!

The Polynesians for example, were extremely primitive until the 19th century. They had an almost retarded language with an extremely limited vocabulary, no schools, no medicine, religious beliefs that included cannibalism....

That does not excuse any of the atrocities one group did to another - but most every culture has consistently fought wars among themselves, with neighbors and with people from across the ocean.

Religion is no different. Christian and Islamic missionaries brought ideas and education from other places, albeit with bad religion. Existing religions were no better; human sacrifice, tightly closed social structures with limited freedoms etc....

Ultimately the exchange of ideas, cultures and development of relationships is universal and merely a development of the social evolution of the human race. It has all sorts of problems (like any other part of our evolution) but it is unavoidable.

Gotta get back to Facebook now....

Isn't this a sports blog?

Sorry beat oregon, you must have us confused with the brian dead jocks on some other site. The erudite, urbane and keen observers on this site are in fact a salon of ideas, opinions and solutions to all of the worlds malady's. In fact, I believe our name is changing to 'Wildcat Think Tank' and we will soon have multiple boards for Molecular Gastronomy, Post Modern Art, Jazz, Keynesian Economics and my personal favorite; an Adam Smith/Alexis De Tocqueville/Emerson/Thoreau board discussing early 19th century American economics within the framework of transcendentalism. That one is sure to ignite some intense arguments...and stir the pot!

And now our culture is trying to destroy indigenous European cultures by introducing American football to them on many levels.

Oh, the horror.

And not only the NFL, coaches from every level are in on a ground floor teaching Europeans of all nationalities the intricacies of our greatest Sunday based religion. Jeff Scurran is on his mission right now in Italy deceiving Italians, having them switch their allegiance from a rounded object of worship to one that is shaped like an oblate speriod.

Where all this will end, no one quite knows, but though the intentions seem pure, it is probably true that Europeans will someday spend most Sundays swilling weak, light beer and munching nacho chips.

The degrading of civilization is upon us!