Who Will Go The Farthest?

[Heera Singh]

k.. first of all... all u soccer fanatics... go home... bahahaha.. this is a HOCKEY thread... wooooooohooooooooo...

secondly... don't matter how well sens do in the regular season... y'all know that Leafs are gonna boot out sens in the playoffs jus like they done 4 of the last 5 seasons ... or somethin like that... so u sens fans can go all buck u want for the regular season.. come post season ya'll gonna be sh*ttin in ur pants 'cause ya'll know leafs gonna whoop ur butts...

bahahaha...

[Manleen Kaur]

right ... u think that heera... keeeeeeep thinking that... loll

[Sabre Sword]

Chelseeeaaaa

Ive bin 4 chelsea ever since the russian beelionaaire took ovah

[prabjit singh khalsa]

Oilers may have never done well in the previous playoffs but this year they gonna kill!!!!!

[prabjit singh khalsa]

Oilers may have never done well in the previous playoffs but this year they gonna kill!!!!!

[prabjit singh khalsa]

Oilers may have never done well in the previous playoffs but this year they gonna kill!!!!!

[simmal tree]

WOOHOO MINNESOTA NORTH STARSS !!!

QUEBEC NORDIQUES !!!!

VANCOUVER GRIZZLIES !!!!

WINNIPEG JETS !!!

WOO HOOOOO........

[buddasingh]

if you could only hear what your favourite players say off the ice or field...--

OK kids, make sure you enjoy it, but once your 25 you're cut off.... This is what one of the greatest, most talented sports fans ever ended up posting on sikhsangat after he was finished getting his own kicks out of being a fan.... (BTW --GO REVOLUTIONARIES!!)

-- Noam Chomsky in Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media

Now there are other media too whose basic social role is quite different: it's diversion. There's the real mass media-the kinds that are aimed at, you know, Joe Six Pack -- that kind. The purpose of those media is just to dull people's brains.

This is an oversimplification, but for the eighty percent or whatever they are, the main thing is to divert them. To get them to watch National Football League. And to worry about "Mother With Child With Six Heads," or whatever you pick up on the supermarket stands and so on. Or look at astrology. Or get involved in fundamentalist stuff or something or other. Just get them away. Get them away from things that matter. And for that it's important to reduce their capacity to think.

Take, say, sports -- that's another crucial example of the indoctrination system, in my view. For one thing because it -- you know, it offers people something to pay attention to that's of no importance. [audience laughs] That keeps them from worrying about -- [applause] keeps them from worrying about things that matter to their lives that they might have some idea of doing something about. And in fact it's striking to see the intelligence that's used by ordinary people in [discussions of] sports [as opposed to political and social issues]. I mean, you listen to radio stations where people call in -- they have the most exotic information [more laughter] and understanding about all kind of arcane issues. And the press undoubtedly does a lot with this.

You know, I remember in high school, already I was pretty old. I suddenly asked myself at one point, why do I care if my high school team wins the football game? [laugbter] I mean, I don't know anybody on the team, you know? [audience roars] I mean, they have nothing to do with me, I mean, why I am cheering for my team? It doesn't mean any -- it doesn't make sense. But the point is, it does make sense: it's a way of building up irrational attitudes of submission to authority, and group cohesion behind leadership elements -- in fact, it's training in irrational jingoism. That's also a feature of competitive sports. I think if you look closely at these things, I think, typically, they do have functions, and that's why energy is devoted to supporting them and creating a basis for them and advertisers are willing to pay for them and so on.

-- Noam Chomsky in Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media

[Jaspaul Singh]

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riiiiiiiteee.... so anyway ..........

since we are all at it ...

GO JAS GOOOO !!!!

i got a hockey game this weekend .. :nihungsmile:

so lets all do it together now ....

GOOOOOO JASSSSS GOOOOOOOOO !!!!

[simmal tree]

GOOOOO................. PAAL THERAA AARTAA ...

JO JAN THUMREE BHAGAT KARANTHAY THIN KAY KAAJ SAVAARTHAA........