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Another from the archives: JoeMP vs BBI on Eli/Favre/Sanchez

Sean : 1/31/2023 11:40 am
Man, this was some of the glory days of BBI. Wish some of these guys would come back.
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JoeMP who later was  
LawrenceTaylor56 : 1/31/2023 11:42 am : link
MarshallOnMontana was my favorite poster. He was kind of like Go Terps before he was here.

Wealth of basketball knowledge, and I always chuckled everytime he dropped the word "dwarfage". But like Terps, ultimately he took one too many stands where he didn't want to back down drom and figured it wasn't worth the hassle anymore.
Joe  
DanMetroMan : 1/31/2023 11:43 am : link
once famously told me he had 1. Never tried Chinese food 2. Never eaten birthday cake because it was gross that people blew out the candles.
Joey Nickels!!!  
mort christenson : 1/31/2023 11:45 am : link
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Cam Newton turning out to be not all that great  
widmerseyebrow : 1/31/2023 12:07 pm : link
was too much for him to bear.
Was it him who loved Chris Pratt  
UConn4523 : 1/31/2023 12:10 pm : link
and gushed over how much his movies grossed? I found those threads to be hilarious because the languages he used was like he was describing LeBron on the court.
RE: Cam Newton turning out to be not all that great  
UConn4523 : 1/31/2023 12:13 pm : link
In comment 16020741 widmerseyebrow said:
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was too much for him to bear.


“Doing things we’ve never seen before” was him, right? My memory sucks when it comes to who said what on this site.
My favorite of Joey Nickles' dipshit takes  
Greg from LI : 1/31/2023 12:19 pm : link
Was when he insisted that the only reason why anyone would prefer hockey to basketball was racism.

He actually posted a lot of good stuff with his "around the NFL" type posts that provided quality info on other teams, particularly from other divisions that we didn't discuss much. But, when he was stupid, he was pedal-to-the-metal 200 MPH stupid.
RE: RE: Cam Newton turning out to be not all that great  
Greg from LI : 1/31/2023 12:19 pm : link
In comment 16020748 UConn4523 said:
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was too much for him to bear.



“Doing things we’ve never seen before” was him, right? My memory sucks when it comes to who said what on this site.


Yes, that was absolutely him.
His Payton Manning - Brett Favre comparisons were classic  
DieHard : 1/31/2023 12:20 pm : link
Payton throws a back-breaking INT in a playoff game = Payton chokes in a big spot once again.

Favre throws a back-breaking INT in a playoff game = Favre merely made an "aggressive decision."
RE: His Payton Manning - Brett Favre comparisons were classic  
UConn4523 : 1/31/2023 12:26 pm : link
In comment 16020763 DieHard said:
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Payton throws a back-breaking INT in a playoff game = Payton chokes in a big spot once again.

Favre throws a back-breaking INT in a playoff game = Favre merely made an "aggressive decision."


Lol. He reminds me of a guy I went to college with who would only describe athletes by their athletic prowess and features. Guys who didn’t have some crazy physique or standout physical attribute were definitely not as good even if they were.
some classic threads  
Osi Osi Osi OyOyOy : 1/31/2023 12:27 pm : link
Joey Nickels was one of those posters that would drive so much traffic onto certain threads. Kind of like Go Terps as someone mentioned above, although different styles for sure. One of my favorite posters ever on this site.
RE: some classic threads  
Sean : 1/31/2023 12:29 pm : link
In comment 16020772 Osi Osi Osi OyOyOy said:
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Joey Nickels was one of those posters that would drive so much traffic onto certain threads. Kind of like Go Terps as someone mentioned above, although different styles for sure. One of my favorite posters ever on this site.

Joey & Terps are missed massively. Drove good discussion. Hope they return one day.
Reading that thread...  
Greg from LI : 1/31/2023 12:31 pm : link
Definitely wish Cam in MO was still around. He was great.
Joe will go...  
FatMan in Charlotte : 1/31/2023 12:31 pm : link
to his grave convinced that Samuel dropped an "easy" INT that would have ended the SB. He's sounded upset through the years that a guy who barely touched a ball should have picked it off 9 out of 10 times and we just happened to luck out on that 10% miniscule chance.

Such a terrible take and he's still convinced it is true!
He also got very mad whenever anyone would point out  
Greg from LI : 1/31/2023 12:33 pm : link
that Samuel landed out of bounds anyway.
RE: Reading that thread...  
Osi Osi Osi OyOyOy : 1/31/2023 12:44 pm : link
In comment 16020778 Greg from LI said:
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Definitely wish Cam in MO was still around. He was great.


Very funny guy. Definitely miss him and some others on that thread.

Re-reading that, I forgot how dug into his stance Joe could get. Entertaining stuff for sure.

Would love to see a post 2011 SB thread for his comments. I'm sure that one changed the minds of a lot of people when it came to Eli.
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SFGFNCGiantsFan : 1/31/2023 12:49 pm : link
Joe's NBA knowledge was next level. But man...he was stubborn AF in that thread.
He was good poster and went all the way back to the AOL  
Metnut : 1/31/2023 12:52 pm : link
Giants message board before BBI really got going.

Smart guy and a good poster, but like others said, he'd take these positions on random things and triple down on them to the point where it would get insane.
5 cent fights  
lono801 : 1/31/2023 12:56 pm : link
.  
Kyle in NY : 1/31/2023 1:01 pm : link
I remember this one well. Joe would drive me nuts at times. But the forum and the discourse was at its best in these days. We've lost too many interesting posters
Odd.. I remember loving Joe as a poster but I went at him pretty good  
Andy in Halifax : 1/31/2023 1:12 pm : link
on that thread.

But I was right, that drive late in the first half vs Dallas in the playoff game was indeed legendary.
RE: RE: some classic threads  
djm : 1/31/2023 1:30 pm : link
In comment 16020774 Sean said:
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Joey Nickels was one of those posters that would drive so much traffic onto certain threads. Kind of like Go Terps as someone mentioned above, although different styles for sure. One of my favorite posters ever on this site.


Joey & Terps are missed massively. Drove good discussion. Hope they return one day.


Same here. I'd welcome them back with open arms...virtually of course.
RE: RE: Cam Newton turning out to be not all that great  
widmerseyebrow : 1/31/2023 1:35 pm : link
In comment 16020748 UConn4523 said:
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was too much for him to bear.



“Doing things we’ve never seen before” was him, right? My memory sucks when it comes to who said what on this site.


Yep that's the guy.

He tried too hard to bait people into arguments for my taste. I remember he had moved on to trying to get people to argue with him about Andrew Wiggins. No one cared enough to respond and he left soon after.
RE: My favorite of Joey Nickles' dipshit takes  
BigBlueShock : 1/31/2023 1:40 pm : link
In comment 16020760 Greg from LI said:
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Was when he insisted that the only reason why anyone would prefer hockey to basketball was racism.

He actually posted a lot of good stuff with his "around the NFL" type posts that provided quality info on other teams, particularly from other divisions that we didn't discuss much. But, when he was stupid, he was pedal-to-the-metal 200 MPH stupid.

Yep. I hated hockey because too many white dudes play it and since they are white, they aren’t the best athletes in the world and he only watches sports with the best athletes in the world, lol
RE: RE: My favorite of Joey Nickles' dipshit takes  
BigBlueShock : 1/31/2023 1:42 pm : link
In comment 16020867 BigBlueShock said:
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Was when he insisted that the only reason why anyone would prefer hockey to basketball was racism.

He actually posted a lot of good stuff with his "around the NFL" type posts that provided quality info on other teams, particularly from other divisions that we didn't discuss much. But, when he was stupid, he was pedal-to-the-metal 200 MPH stupid.


Yep. I hated hockey because too many white dudes play it and since they are white, they aren’t the best athletes in the world and he only watches sports with the best athletes in the world, lol

Ugh. HE hated hockey, not I.
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Racer : 1/31/2023 1:48 pm : link
In comment 16020809 Kyle in NY said:
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I remember this one well. Joe would drive me nuts at times. But the forum and the discourse was at its best in these days. We've lost too many interesting posters


Were they interesting or were they court jesters due to self-esteem issues?
RE: RE: My favorite of Joey Nickles' dipshit takes  
Greg from LI : 1/31/2023 1:56 pm : link
In comment 16020867 BigBlueShock said:
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Yep. I hated hockey because too many white dudes play it and since they are white, they aren’t the best athletes in the world and he only watches sports with the best athletes in the world, lol


He'd also rattle on about "hockey players only come from a handful of countries but basketball players come from everywhere, therefore the talent level in the NBA is so much higher than the NHL".

Which conveniently elides the fact that the NBA talent pool is almost exclusively populated by men much taller than average, and thus is much smaller than the potential pool of hockey players.
RE: Was it him who loved Chris Pratt  
Osi Osi Osi OyOyOy : 1/31/2023 2:01 pm : link
In comment 16020745 UConn4523 said:
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and gushed over how much his movies grossed? I found those threads to be hilarious because the languages he used was like he was describing LeBron on the court.


Sigh, didn't want to admit it but that was me so might as well. I didn't "love" Chris Pratt, I was just so impressed that the chubby goofy dude from Parks and Rec was the highest grossing Hollywood lead actor for a stretch there.

I think I called him the "biggest actor in hollywood at the moment" though, which is a cringeworthy take looking back on it. But I was just happy for the dude more than anything.
Osi  
Sean : 1/31/2023 2:05 pm : link
Didn’t you say Joe was posting somewhere else these days. I always wonder where these fans go. Maybe the team Reddit boards.
he used to post on a basketball site  
Osi Osi Osi OyOyOy : 1/31/2023 2:14 pm : link
that I occasionally visit. I figured out immediately it was him based on the posting style, it was obvious. But I don't keep in touch with him or anything. All I know is that I can confirm he was posting on that site around a year ago.
There was a poster LatHarv83  
Sean : 1/31/2023 2:23 pm : link
Who posted periodically here from like 2016-2018. I always felt this guy was Joe, maybe he came back under the radar. But like you say Osi, his posting style was very familiar. I liked a thread below which he (maybe) got into a debate about RB value.
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christian : 1/31/2023 4:08 pm : link
There have been a handful of posters through the years who were dead set on their views and sometimes argued them beyond reason. JoeMP and GT are good examples.

The good far outweighed the bad to me and I wish both guys were still active posters.

They debated for football. Brought their own ideas and defended their views.

That’s a far more meaningful contribution than the mall cops who only post about what topics are/not allowed, and actually never debate football.
I'd love a Terps return  
Greg from LI : 1/31/2023 4:13 pm : link
Joey'd be ok too, but there's a lot more chaff to separate from the wheat where he is concerned.
Lots of good posters  
an_idol_mind : 1/31/2023 4:23 pm : link
get dug in on one thing and become insufferable. It's an unfortunate trend.
love the archives....  
BillKo : 1/31/2023 4:33 pm : link
....mostly to see if I'm in there and what I wrote!!!!
RE: love the archives....  
SomeFan : 1/31/2023 4:42 pm : link
In comment 16021109 BillKo said:
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....mostly to see if I'm in there and what I wrote!!!!
You motivated me to see what I said in the two linked threads. I could not have been more wrong in each. This was not sort of wrong. My take was the exact opposite from what actually happened.
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SFGFNCGiantsFan : 1/31/2023 6:33 pm : link
Joe..
SanFranGiantsFan : 2/1/2010 11:12 pm : link
why do you always feel the need to bring up Eli when talking about Favre, as in belittling Eli-who BTW beat Favre on the road to the SB 25 months ago-to make your point about Favre?

SFGF
JoeMP2003 : 2/1/2010 11:14 pm : link
Im bringing up Eli because sometimes thats what you have to do to make your point to Giants fans

And i asked a simple question. Was what Favre did last week as bad as Eli in say 05 vs Carolina or 08 vs the Eagles? Its not an eli thing so much as it is does 1 bad throw equal as bad a game as getting your ass handed to you for 60 minutes?

We seem to have some here who think it is just as bad and i think they're clueless

I miss Joe, even though he was batshit cray cray on that thread.
RE: love the archives...  
chick310 : 1/31/2023 10:33 pm : link
In comment 16021109 BillKo said:
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....mostly to see if I'm in there and what I wrote!!!!


And to verify if it was altered or not. You never know.
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chick310 : 1/31/2023 10:43 pm : link
In comment 16021062 christian said:
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There have been a handful of posters through the years who were dead set on their views and sometimes argued them beyond reason. JoeMP and GT are good examples.

The good far outweighed the bad to me and I wish both guys were still active posters.

They debated for football. Brought their own ideas and defended their views.

That’s a far more meaningful contribution than the mall cops who only post about what topics are/not allowed, and actually never debate football.


The debating was good. Even if it had an edge to it, it was good.

That doesn’t exist any longer. The minority opinion, the opinion against the grain, the non group-think viewpoint, the get off the fence statement.

It kept you honest and on your toes if you wanted to step into the fray and mix it up.



Geez  
figgy2989 : 2/1/2023 9:20 am : link
That was a great read. I forgot how good some of those battles were with Joe.
If it weren't for that thread,  
Kmed6000 : 2/1/2023 9:23 am : link
you could have convinced me that Joe and Terps were the same people. They were both stubborn aholes that thought they were the smartest guy in the room and couldn't wait to everyone. They both also had a weird following of posters that believed their nonsense and would back up everything they said.

Joe could be entertaining because he loved going at people. Both added "fire" and "activity" to the board, so I'm sure they're missed.
RE: If it weren't for that thread,  
figgy2989 : 2/1/2023 9:31 am : link
In comment 16021676 Kmed6000 said:
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you could have convinced me that Joe and Terps were the same people. They were both stubborn aholes that thought they were the smartest guy in the room and couldn't wait to everyone. They both also had a weird following of posters that believed their nonsense and would back up everything they said.

Joe could be entertaining because he loved going at people. Both added "fire" and "activity" to the board, so I'm sure they're missed.


Most football arguments, Joe was on an island by himself and he loved that. Terps has a cult following (still to this day), some of which openly advocated for him to be the GM of the Giants. You can't make that shit up.
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