Windows 7. Came back to my work PC to see if it would still happen, but no, it was working correctly.
Closed Firefox, came back in, again still working correctly.
Cleared cache and VOILA! its constantly reloading again. But for reason, this time after 51 requests it stopped loading in the background.
So, it looks like once whatever it needed to grab is cached, the issue might go away. I noticed the call out to Google Analytics only comes after it loads an actual page (in this case, most of the requests were after it loaded /forums/). Im wondering if there are references from the index page that reference other pages that are also loading GA.
Im not quite sure why it keeps trying to reload /forums/, but that seems to be the biggest culprit right now