Originally Posted by snaggs

Strange thing to be surprised by.

well, considering bird has more ppg. i guess he had a lot of injuries?

 

Originally Posted by slizza420

Wow Romo went that late? The difference between Romo and Brady fantasy wise is only about 5 ppg.

There are only a handful of true feature backs left in the league. If I were you I would've drafted CJ2K Darren McFaddy or Megatron at that spot.

Vick is a super value pick at 38 or whatever it's ridiculous that he's going so late this year. People sure have short memories. D Jax gonna kill it this year.

i was hoping to get calvin with the 7th pick but he went 5th..when healthy i think mcfadden is 1 of the best fantasy guys in the league but he literally never stays healthy...i was gonna pick chris johnson but he scares me also so i just went with brady and said fuck it...it does scare me that their o line is not protecting him...somehow fred jackson was still there for me in the beginning of the 3rd round so i think that was an absolute steal..its a ppr league btw

6 pts for td passes

5 ppg difference might not sound like a lot but it adds up...in our league last year rogers had 485 pts and eli had 330

Ya if td passes are worth the same amount as scoring a td then he's most def worth taking 7th. Fred Jackson should be a ppr beast!

That type of format gives Stafford a lot more value as well.

 

Originally Posted by slizza420

Ya if td passes are worth the same amount as scoring a td then he's most def worth taking 7th. Fred Jackson should be a ppr beast!

That type of format gives Stafford a lot more value as well.

stafford was the 10th overall pick i our draft and the 4th qb taken..little weird and surprising that 4 qbs went in the 1st round

The man hurt his back because he decided he would build his mother a new driveway by himself.

 

Originally Posted by Jsup

whats the story behind him and his daughter? never heard anything about that

Long story short

He had a kid out of wedlock and other than financial obligations he was never there for her in his life.

Basically, he punked out on his own kid emotionally, physically and psychologically.

Good stuff...class act.

 

Originally Posted by Prestonluv

Long story short

He had a kid out of wedlock and other than financial obligations he was never there for her in his life.

Basically, he punked out on his own kid emotionally, physically and psychologically.

Good stuff...class act.

lol give me a fuckin break.

how the fuck do you know he ignored the kid? U read one article about it or some shit? That stuff isn't our business anyways it's not like he denied the kid or some shit.

I WANT links to a kid saying Larry Joe Bird ruined my life. And if that's the worst thing you can say about the guy it's pretty lol to say he's like a bad guy or something. Magic Johnson got hiv cheating on his wife we don't discredit all the good he's done since cuz he went a lil wild in the 80's or whatever.

even if true as if he's the only guy to ever not "be there emotionally" for his kid. Shit ask half the people on this board. If that's the worst u can say about him, then whatever.

there are more articles about it if you search. but here is just one tidbit about the living hoops legend. class act i tell ya, he could learn about it from his daughter imo.

its one thing to make poor decisions and mistakes as a parent and learn from them. This dude pretty much ignored his daughter for 20 years.


http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vau...62/5/index.htm

High-profile white athletes have certainly had their share of paternity cases. Larry Bird is an out-of-wedlock father who has not sought a close relationship with his child. In 1975, after enrolling at Indiana State, Bird married his high school sweetheart, Janet Condra. They divorced on Oct. 31, 1976, but on Aug. 14, 1977, Janet gave birth to a daughter, Corrie. Initially Bird denied he was the father and rejected Janet's request for $40 a week in support. But he admitted paternity after a blood test and, before his rookie season with the Celtics, in 1979, agreed to set up an account from which monthly support checks could be drawn until Come turned 18.

Now a 20-year-old junior at Indiana State majoring in elementary education, Corrie is unmistakably her father's daughter, from her aquiline nose to her penetrating eyes to her sandy blonde hair. With prodding, she even confesses to having a reliable outside shot. But what she doesn't have, and what she has wanted for two decades, she says, is a relationship with Bird that goes beyond physical resemblance and financial support. "When I was younger, I would send him letters, and my mom would send him my school pictures and report cards," she says. "We would send them certified mail to make sure he received them, but he just didn't respond."

When Bird took the Pacers' coaching job last spring and moved just an hour from his daughter's apartment, Corrie was optimistic that their relationship would improve. "I went to see the Pacers play earlier this season, and I went down to talk to Dinah [Bird's wife of eight years] and see their kids. [He] looked over and saw me holding [Bird's daughter, five-year-old] Mariah, but he just kind of smiled awkwardly. I didn't get to talk to him, though."

Corrie grew up with the ability to separate Larry Bird the basketball player from Larry Bird the absent father. Her bedroom was a shrine to Bird, its walls covered with clippings, posters and Celtics memorabilia. (Even now, Corrie's black Ford bears a newly attached Pacers license-plate bracket.) When Corrie made the basketball team at Northview High in Brazil, Ind., her choice of uniform number 33 was an easy one. "It sounds corny, but it kind of made me feel closer to him when I played," she says. "I put one of his old high school jerseys in my gym bag as a good-luck charm."

Overlooking the high school graduation that Bird did not attend and all the times he was playing golf in Terre Haute but never made the 20-minute drive to see her, Corrie holds out hope of an ongoing relationship with her dad. "I've never gotten so mad that I haven't wanted to see him," she says.

Bird declined comment for this story. But on April 17 he visited with Corrie for the first time since taking over the Pacers. Dinah left a pair of tickets for Corrie and a friend to attend the Pacers' last home game of the regular season, and after the game Bird talked with Corrie. "I was really happy to go to the game," says Corrie. "Dad seemed interested in what I had to say. He walked me to my car, and he hugged me. I hope I can see more of him now."

 

Originally Posted by SyphonSoul

preston never made a mistake in his life! lets hear it for Preston!!

you fucking kidding me?

a mistake is something you do a few times and learn from.

larry was a non existent parent for 20 years. thats more a personality trait than a mistake.

a kid with an ex wife was not good enough for him but kids with his current wife were....thats how i read the situation

larry bird has always been a weird dude...i remember hearing some interviews from his teammates in boston and they said he never talked about anything other then basketball...like literally never talked about women, movies, music or anything other then basketball...

his father also killed himself when larry was young so who knows how that has affected his personality...no one knows the exact situation with his kid...maybe he thought the women was trying to pin a kid on him as her lottery ticket, or maybe he knew the kid was his and hes a terrible person for neglecting her for her entire life

plenty of athletes/musicians are terrible people or do terrible things and people still love them...i have no idea what larry bird is like a person, if i had to guess though id say he fucked up royally with this situation and is a deadbeat dad...hes still my favorite basketball player of all time and he was a muuuuuuch better player in his prime then dirk could ever be imo

oh shit i just read that article that preston posted and it turns out she wasnt a random woman and he knew it was his kid but just decided to be a scumbag...thats fucked up...he still went in the locker room during a 3 pt contest and asked everyone with a serious face "whos coming in 2nd?" then he went on to easily win

lol ur a joke sometimes pluv... So he wasn't the best father to one kid, cry me a fucking river... omg he was such a bad father he put me thru college and supported me financially his whole life but wasn't always there. Give me a fuckin break. Plenty of people didn't get a single penny from their father. Doesn't make him a bad person, tons of guys who have the same situation. Is it admirable? Nah not really, but it's not like he didn't do anything for the damn kid. Who knows what circumstances were affecting this shit, pretty unfair to just take the daughters or moms word for everything. fuck that article.

and fuck u kelly kip u think jason kidd is a good guy u hebitch modafucka

whose the better father, Larry Bird or Karl Malone?

shutup faggot