USENET as a news source

I recently started reading the newsgroup alt.sports.football.pro.gb-packers again just to get up to speed (I just haven't found the time to keep up this off season). It's been a long time since I've read it yet little seems to have changed over the years.

In a discussion about how horrible the ESPN crew was for last weeks Packer pre-season game...

Theismann is paid by the word.

It sure seems that way sometimes.

And from another thread discussing Gilbert Brown's attempt to play with a ruptured right biceps...

Furthermore, if you want to talk about complete wastes of cap space, CH and QC combined are hosing Dallas to the tune of a what, two, three mil this year? A cardboard cutout of Aikman propped up behind center would be just as effective and much cheaper.

I had forgotten just how much fun USENET can be for this kind of discussion. It's often very childish, but pretty fun to watch especially for something like football where people who like to be annoying have ample chance to do so.