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Old 01-19-2006, 02:12 PM
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Who would you like to see get tackled?

I'm sure many people ( I can't say all, obviously) have seen some sports clip of an American football game where some player just gets smashed by someone else, the kinds of hits that just make you turn away and say "Wow!"

My question is, if you could make that happen to anyone you wanted anytime with no repercussions, who/what/where would it be?





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Old 01-19-2006, 02:50 PM
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George W. Bush.
Kim Jong Il.
Saddam Hussein.
The guy who cut me off in traffic this morning.

All for very different reasons, mind you....
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Old 01-19-2006, 03:19 PM
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Everyone on this forum that answers 'George W. Bush' to this question.
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Old 01-19-2006, 03:23 PM
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Nah. GWB is old hat. No fun tackling him. I vote as tacklees the guys running the corporation in Japan that hunts the whales.
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Old 01-19-2006, 03:23 PM
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The Burger King.
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Old 01-19-2006, 03:26 PM
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The entire cast of Will and Grace.
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Old 01-19-2006, 03:47 PM
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Clay Aiken

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Sean Hannity
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Old 01-19-2006, 05:35 PM
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The Burger King.
Yeah. I keep watching the advert where he does that broken-field run, thinking maybe this time he'll get taken down.

Local (Houston) radio talk host Chris Baker. What an annoying mook.

Or Simon Cowell. Can't stand the smarmy bastard, for some reason.
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Old 01-19-2006, 05:47 PM
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Old 01-19-2006, 05:49 PM
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The guy playing the President on 24. Gang Tackled. Hard. Cleated.
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Old 01-19-2006, 06:02 PM
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I would love to watch Martha Stewart disappear under somebody's defensive line.
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Old 01-19-2006, 07:31 PM
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I'd keep it in the football family: that [pick one: stupid/crooked] ref who nearly threw the Steelers-Colts game last weekend.


Okay, one more. Any of those faceless, gormless movie "critics" (actually, totally shameless blurb whores) whose fatuous words of praise fill up the ads for the lamest flicks. Susan Granger, anybody?
"'The feel-good movie of the ye.."[WHOOMMPPHHH!!]
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Old 01-19-2006, 07:48 PM
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Oprah Winfrey - tackled by a team composed entirely of William "THe Refrigerator" Perry clones.
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Old 01-19-2006, 07:53 PM
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Me.

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Old 01-19-2006, 07:54 PM
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What? No link to this classic tackling commercial?
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Old 01-19-2006, 08:19 PM
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The bitchy red-haired secretary in the office where I work. I want to see only her white, fringed cowboy boots sticking out from under a pile of 300 pound men like a latter-day Wicked Witch of the East, which she is.

Glad I got THAT off my chest...
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Old 01-20-2006, 10:35 AM
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...the OP, for having a great username.

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Old 01-20-2006, 10:37 AM
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Susan Granger, anybody?
Earl Dittman is the new Susan Granger.
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Old 01-20-2006, 11:14 AM
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Old 01-20-2006, 11:55 AM
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Old 01-20-2006, 12:25 PM
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Old 01-20-2006, 02:59 PM
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George W- [WHOOMMPPHHH!!]



Ow......
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Old 01-20-2006, 06:29 PM
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Several hundred people, for whom both space and fear of retaliation prevent an accounting.
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Old 01-20-2006, 06:44 PM
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The Ghost Whisperer.
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Old 01-20-2006, 06:51 PM
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Cervaise, that Earl Dittman slimeball should be tarred, feathered, and chased out of Hollywood...



...and into Burbank, as luck would probably have it.
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Old 01-20-2006, 08:08 PM
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Jennifer Connelly.

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