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Again, why is this different? by potatohouse

I sure hope you aren't about to tell me that Rock's House doesn't contain repetitive themes and conversations. Or that, get this, you personally participate in them. Can you imagine a place where the same jokes were recycled about the program and coaches over and over?

No the difference seems to be that this topic personally bothers you. You take great offense at anyone who poses a pessimistic hypothesis about football in the fall. And by and large, people aren't even speaking in absolutes. They are offering opinions. "I don't see." "Would be surprising." "Wonder what the odds." "Could." I just asked you about this in the backroom and you referred to these people as shitbirds. Decorum? Please.

I get that this could be personal to you and very upsetting. But your attempted censorship of such discussions when they are not materially different from the thousands of other guesses and opinions that make up the lifeblood of this forum is unseemly.