Why I love this forum

[Rugby Saint II]

Originally Posted by WillMacKenzie

Who TF is “Coach Pete”?

That was tough to read

Originally Posted by TheOak

That is pretty much how all forums that are active work, with the biggest difference being the aggression/hostility level and general board IQ.

If we all agreed or didn't disagree a thread would be a single post with 127 likes. If someone's opinion is not the popular or majority opinion then they should expect healthy debate from multiple sources.

I have owned and moderated multiple forums from sports, to gaming, to cars... the subject matter changes but the rest is similar.

Debate between people with an open mind is healthy and educational. It gets sideways when people have ownership of an idea, an agenda, or go ad hominem.

I like it here, I know who knows what, who the stat guys are, the theory guys, and who played what... I know who to walk away from because they have a chip, and who to poke at because they have a sense of humor.

Originally Posted by skymike

This board, overall seems to have posters about 20 years older on average, who seem to have jobs, and not live in their mother's basements. But that really doesnt apply to everyone at site-X, just the loudest. You can tell by the 15 year old comic-nerd vocabulary of their prominent members. (I wonder if they still "pwn" each other?) I dont know. It may have changed. I know the political hate was insufferable, even before politics heated up.

It just caught me off guard, because I come from a time, when if you were a Saints fan, anyone else brave enough to be seen in Saints stuff was automatically your friend. The internet, and its ugly, was new to me. I come to this board here and I find grownups who had nothing to prove, and had a sense of humor, and they got mine.

Im different from the rest of the posters here, now, because I know very little of college prospects, if anything. I cant name the whole roster. I dont know the 40-times of each player, or all the various nuances of coverage, zones, etc.

My knowledge is mostly retro- I can name the 84 O-line, and I have a list of the saddest losses in our history- most of my knowledge is historic. Im also interested in stories from our older posters about Tulane stadium, and training camps past. I once had lunch with former Saint All Pro Tommy Myers, who played in the 70s, and he had a wealth of stories, some I cant tell.

As some of you know, I sometimes organize real life events with us-- we've had a crawfish party every year for 10 years. Our tailgate parties in Houston are legendary, and I've traveled with the team from San Francisco to Tampa. Maybe a reason I may be more responsible with my words here, than some people on the internet, is because I expect to be face to face with some of you.

I'm a Brees-ist, and a Payton-ster, and I love Amer'ca. I have friends who disagree with me about everything.

Coach Pete is a proven source of information over recent years and apparently is well connected. There have been dozens of threads wanting to know what makes his insight valuable. The answer is that he's almost always right about each prognostication. It could be a player injury or even just a little insider information. He's been accurate for some time now and has won over the doubters on the SR. I buy into it.

I don't spend any time there unless I just feel the need for more info. They do start threads about media sources. Kind of like one of my favorite posters Who Dat!656. Man, I'm glad he joined! See, we have knowledgeable friendly Saints fan who like to share here and keep it positive.

Do ya'll remember when the server went down a few years back? I spent some miserable time over there because they were my only option. When I was able to get back on the BNG I wrote a scathing thread about my horrendous time there and the jerks who populate the SR. Halo, said he didn't normally run anything non Saints, but that he was letting it stay for the simple reason was that my thread was spot on about the treatment you get over there.