Agree. Makes it hard to have a substantive convo about football when the convo is torpedoed by "he sucks, he's ugly, he's terrible..." comments that pull the entire convo down.
We may all be Hawks fans, but when emotion, and emotional attachment / resentment toward a player or coach trumps any reasonable effort to DISCUSS anything, the quality of discourse suffers greatly.
There's a place for everything, and sehawks.net can accommodate emotion based, opinion driven discussion as well as more analysis driven conversation. Those things don't necessarily always play well together.
Could be as simple as a 'chalk talk' thread, where proper analysis of the game and player performance drives conversation and then, via contributions of forum members, becomes a basis from which varying opinion may even be drawn. The same players and games would be discussed, just from a less emotional angle.