Mannely will Retire

[anotheridiot]

after 16 seasons of flawless longsnapping, Patrick Mannely will retire a bear today.

Patrick Mannelly to retire from Bears after 16 seasons - chicagotribune.com

Doesnt mean much to most, but it was classy to not cut or release him.

 

[Peter Gozintite]

Well throw this season down the crapper.... Is the punter going to take the snap from under center, or are we just going to complete skip all parts of the kicking game?

 

[JoeyTourettes]

All good things must come to an end... And we are slowly and surely letting go of the past! Patrick Mannely was a great Bear.
But he will only be missed when/if there is a bad snap. Then, people (I'm sure on this board) and around the Bears Universe- the sky will fall, and call out the new LS as "the worst" and "should be cut" and somewhere round that time someone will make a comment about how the Bears somehow "didn't treat him right" and should have convinced him to stay and the Bears were cheap and should have offered more money...blah.
#socialcommentary
Go Bears!

 

[nebearsfan70]

All good things must come to an end... And we are slowly and surely letting go of the past! Patrick Mannely was a great Bear.
But he will only be missed when/if there is a bad snap. Then, people (I'm sure on this board) and around the Bears Universe- the sky will fall, and call out the new LS as "the worst" and "should be cut" and somewhere round that time someone will make a comment about how the Bears somehow "didn't treat him right" and should have convinced him to stay and the Bears were cheap and should have offered more money...blah.
#socialcommentary
Go Bears!

Have you always been a cynic? Does this somehow make you feel better about yourself?

Your shtick is getting old.

 

[NCChiFan]

Props for a great career.

 

[richig07]

Have you always been a cynic? Does this somehow make you feel better about yourself?

Your shtick is getting old.

Just a want to be contrarian who thinks to highly of himself.

I don't know if he's trolling or for real. Every time I make up my mind, he goes sideways on me. Either way, he's a strange poster.

 

[nebearsfan70]

Just a want to be contrarian who thinks to highly of himself.

I don't know if he's trolling or for real. Every time I make up my mind, he goes sideways on me. Either way, he's a strange poster.

He has D I N G U S written all over him.

 

[richig07]

He has D I N G U S written all over him.

For sure, but sometimes it's weird because it doesn't seem like it. It's like half the time it is total dingus material, but then the other half he changes his attitude.

But yeah, I agree. The "Go Bears!" at the end of every post is a dead give away. I mean, shit… it is 2014. The DiceDominator hay day was back in what? The mid-2000's? 2008 from what I remember was a huge Dice year on the ESPN Bears boards. The Kyle Orton season where we lost the division the final week and missed the playoffs in Houston. I would have hoped by now that he had gotten even better at the trolling. He was the master then, and now he appears to be riding even a little more stealth. Came on strong, but now doing a good job of making me double think it.

As long as you realize he's trolling, it's pretty funny.

 

[nebearsfan70]

For sure, but sometimes it's weird because it doesn't seem like it. It's like half the time it is total dingus material, but then the other half he changes his attitude.

But yeah, I agree. The "Go Bears!" at the end of every post is a dead give away. I mean, shit… it is 2014. The DiceDominator hay day was back in what? The mid-2000's? 2008 from what I remember was a huge Dice year on the ESPN Bears boards. The Kyle Orton season where we lost the division the final week and missed the playoffs in Houston. I would have hoped by now that he had gotten even better at the trolling. He was the master then, and now he appears to be riding even a little more stealth. Came on strong, but now doing a good job of making me double think it.

As long as you realize he's trolling, it's pretty funny.

Those were good times. The ESPN boards were quite entertaining... And yes, I realize he is trolling. I just want to prod him every-now-and-then to get a response, like I do with BS.


Hopefully this will be an epic season for the Bears. I think they surprise a lot of people and take the NFCN.

Damn my homerism!

 

[JoeyTourettes]

Hey Guys... I'm not Dingus (what a stupid name btw) or anyone else you think I am. I have no idea who these people are. I'm just a Bears fan, and have a different opinion then some. I love the Bears, but I'm not going to blow smoke or agree with some lame populist opinion.
Get used to me... I'm not trolling. play along, join the conversation, share an opinion, ignore, whatever you feel you need to do, but this talking about me like I can't see it is just odd. It's like high school bs. Here's an idea- Just ask me... talk to me... use your words- you can work a keyboard...let's try that.

I will probably share some different things- Like the cake post (and if you actually read it- there was a point there- about how comment sections can get out of hand) If you don't want to- great- that's fine.

GO Bears! < (I don't do that to be snarky or a troll, that's just a reminder that we are all on the same side here... we all want to the Bears to do well) I wish we had some games to talk about! This shit is getting stupid.

 

[richig07]

Hey Guys... I'm not Dingus (what a stupid name btw) or anyone else you think I am. I have no idea who these people are. I'm just a Bears fan, and have a different opinion then some. I love the Bears, but I'm not going to blow smoke or agree with some lame populist opinion.
Get used to me... I'm not trolling. play along, join the conversation, share an opinion, ignore, whatever you feel you need to do, but this talking about me like I can't see it is just odd. It's like high school bs. Here's an idea- Just ask me... talk to me... use your words- you can work a keyboard...let's try that.

I will probably share some different things- Like the cake post (and if you actually read it- there was a point there- about how comment sections can get out of hand) If you don't want to- great- that's fine.

GO Bears! < (I don't do that to be snarky or a troll, that's just a reminder that we are all on the same side here... we all want to the Bears to do well) I wish we had some games to talk about! This shit is getting stupid.

Exactly what Dingus would say… to a cue.

 

[nebearsfan70]

Exactly what Dingus would say… to a cue.

I noticed that as well.

 

[leomaz]

It wasn't is he retiring, it was always when he would announce it for me.