The 2007 NFL Playoffs Thread

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Who will emerge from round 1? Will Rex Grossman get out of Soldier Field alive if he fucks up against whichever low-seeded team plays the Bears? Will Larry Johnson pause to rape each Colts defensive player on his way to the end zone while scoring his 7 TDs?

― spectre (gear), Thursday, 4 January 2007 00:33 (nineteen years ago)

hello!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 4 January 2007 01:21 (nineteen years ago)

Given that Herm's been cornholing LJ all year, I don't know if he'll be able to muster more than a drive-by shocker.

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 4 January 2007 03:04 (nineteen years ago)

REX GROSSMAN SHOULD BE SOLD TO WOLFES FOR FOOD. FUCK HIM AND HIS EYEBROWS.

PS STILL NOT TOM ;_;

― TOMB07 (TOMBOT), Thursday, 4 January 2007 05:46 (nineteen years ago)

he's the martin gramatica of qbs ; (

― spectre (gear), Thursday, 4 January 2007 06:12 (nineteen years ago)

He's not a Grossman, he's a gross, MAN

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Thursday, 4 January 2007 06:16 (nineteen years ago)

January 1, 2007 -- NOT only did Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo never date buxom blonde Jessica Simpson - they never even met. Sources say rumors of Romo and Simpson's fling were the work of Jessica's manager daddy, Joe Simpson, who "lent her name out to Romo in exchange for game tickets." But Jessica's publicist, Cindi Berger, said talk of Joe selling out his daughter is "totally false" and that Romo, who's reportedly dating Carrie Underwood , simply mentioned once that he wanted to meet Jessica. A rep for the Cowboys did not return calls.

― spectre (gear), Thursday, 4 January 2007 06:22 (nineteen years ago)

As I said in September, Bolts v. Bears.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Thursday, 4 January 2007 07:20 (nineteen years ago)

i dont see how the bears could make it to the superbowl.

my picks this weekend:
philly
seattle
indy (they wont lose at home, sorry)
new england

― t0dd swiss (immobilisme), Thursday, 4 January 2007 08:08 (nineteen years ago)

indy is going to lose at home.
the jets will not beat the pats. if the pats lose it will be due to them shooting themselves in the nuts.
seattle/dallas could be the first game ever where both teams find a way to lose.
the giants should steamroll the iggles, but then again there's the coughlin factor where i think the gints would roll over and play dead against the william & mary jv's if the players thought it would get the coach out of their hair next year.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 4 January 2007 14:45 (nineteen years ago)

^^^^^^^^^ all of this is OTM except for the Indy thing, that game is a toss up depending almost entirely if Regular Season Peyton or Playoffs Peyton shows up.

― Allyzay Eisenschefter Pop You To The Extreme (allyzay), Thursday, 4 January 2007 14:57 (nineteen years ago)

MANGINA DENTATA BITCHZ

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 4 January 2007 15:38 (nineteen years ago)

I am really looking forward to the pats shooting themselves in the nuts now

― TOMB07 (TOMBOT), Thursday, 4 January 2007 15:45 (nineteen years ago)

yes, pats please shoot selves in nuts!

so none of you guys think the Saints are going to the SB?

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Thursday, 4 January 2007 16:36 (nineteen years ago)

It's possible, more possible, I think, than the Bears doing it.

― Allyzay Eisenschefter Pop You To The Extreme (allyzay), Thursday, 4 January 2007 16:47 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, I think so, too. Chicago had a really soft regular season schedule. and I really want the Saints in the Super Bowl because then it will be 50% more likely to be fun to watch. also my weird, embarrassing Sean Payton fixation.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Thursday, 4 January 2007 16:50 (nineteen years ago)

i think the jets will not only leave the field defeated but also demoralized. i don't think the bears really have a chance. i see them losing to the giants at solider field.

i can remember before i moved to chicago changing from the orange line to the green line at roosevelt after flying in to midway and being legitimately impressed by the sight of solider field lit up at night. now it looks like someone took a giant dump on it.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 4 January 2007 16:53 (nineteen years ago)

Soldier Field is surreally ridiculous-looking.

I think my whole trying to be a Bears fan thing would have taken better if it weren't for Grossman.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Thursday, 4 January 2007 16:54 (nineteen years ago)

I think the Saints will go Super bowling. They might get freaked out by their success once they get there and muff the game, but I think they'll get there. In the meantime, I'm picking all home teams this weekend.

― Joe Isuzu's Petals (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 4 January 2007 16:55 (nineteen years ago)

eagles over bears

― TOMB07 (TOMBOT), Thursday, 4 January 2007 16:57 (nineteen years ago)

I wouldn't even be able to watch that game on the basis of how ugly those two QBs are. I'd have to boycott.

― Allyzay Eisenschefter Pop You To The Extreme (allyzay), Thursday, 4 January 2007 16:59 (nineteen years ago)

I think my whole trying to be a Bears fan thing would have taken better if it weren't for Grossman.

uhmmmmmm..... last year's kyle orton experience almost turned me off pro football. i'll never be a bears fan but i suppose i'll root for them as long as they aren't playing the pats.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 4 January 2007 17:08 (nineteen years ago)

After rooting for Boise State I need a team with decent uni's to cheer for and I choose the chets.

Dallas vs Seattle is the game to avoid watching at all costs.

― lk (lawrence kansas), Thursday, 4 January 2007 17:39 (nineteen years ago)

so none of you guys think the Saints are going to the SB?

I think they could, but if they do I wouldn't have been right in September, so.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Thursday, 4 January 2007 17:47 (nineteen years ago)

I wouldn't mind seeing Jeff Garcia win the stupor bowl coz then he could be like lol TO and Brownes etc.

― If you fuck with Jimmy Mod, you call down the thunder (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Thursday, 4 January 2007 18:21 (nineteen years ago)

But go saintes and my boy R3gg!3 Bu5h

― If you fuck with Jimmy Mod, you call down the thunder (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Thursday, 4 January 2007 18:22 (nineteen years ago)

That would be some bullshit to pull on poor Donovan McNabb.

― Allyzay Eisenschefter Pop You To The Extreme (allyzay), Thursday, 4 January 2007 18:27 (nineteen years ago)

he should have told his moms to shut the fuck up then!

― If you fuck with Jimmy Mod, you call down the thunder (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Thursday, 4 January 2007 18:35 (nineteen years ago)

after lookin @ seattle's injury list (starting linebacker, cornerbacks, guards and wide receivers all out) i have to give the edge to dallas :'(

i have A FEELING ABOUT INDY dudes. also i know we r bagging on the nfc a lot, but the fact that KC and the nu york jets are in the playoffs speaks ill of the AFC imo!!!!!!!!! chicago's fucked not b/c of grossman (ok it's because of grossman) but because of all the injured dudes on defense.

― SEACREST OUT OF IRAQ! (Adrian Langston), Thursday, 4 January 2007 18:36 (nineteen years ago)

i think the bears should bring back kordell stewart for the playoffs

― spectre (gear), Thursday, 4 January 2007 18:37 (nineteen years ago)

dude can do it alllll!

― spectre (gear), Thursday, 4 January 2007 18:37 (nineteen years ago)

Seattle will basically consist of only Hasselbeck and Alexander for the game, but Tony Romo has been finding a lot of new and unusual ways to fumble recently so who knows.

― Allyzay Eisenschefter Pop You To The Extreme (allyzay), Thursday, 4 January 2007 18:41 (nineteen years ago)

tony romo is thinking about underwood tittays too much. he's getting so annoying i sort of hope the dude turns into mike tomczak

― spectre (gear), Thursday, 4 January 2007 18:42 (nineteen years ago)

oh and rodney harrison out for postseason = lmbo @ pats. i wonder if he's actually a liability at this point due to being a marked man. i sort of wish belichick nothing but ill rn.

― SEACREST OUT OF IRAQ! (Adrian Langston), Thursday, 4 January 2007 18:46 (nineteen years ago)

Romo is a douche, he seems "dumber than a bag of hammers" if you ask me. His eyes are dull little cow eyes, he was all psyched off the bench but now you see the true ProBowler that is Tony Romo, jackass who was a benchwarmer for a reason.

― Allyzay Eisenschefter Pop You To The Extreme (allyzay), Thursday, 4 January 2007 19:35 (nineteen years ago)

tony romo is just jake plummer with a bigger smirk and famous girlfriends.

― spectre (gear), Thursday, 4 January 2007 19:37 (nineteen years ago)

I would rather have Seneca Wallace or Damon Huard or Billy Volek at quarterback than Romo.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Thursday, 4 January 2007 19:49 (nineteen years ago)

Whoa?

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 4 January 2007 19:52 (nineteen years ago)

Tony Romo as Jake Plummer OTM. The Billy Volek and Damon Huard thing is a step too far though.

― Allyzay Eisenschefter Pop You To The Extreme (allyzay), Thursday, 4 January 2007 19:56 (nineteen years ago)

the plummer thing is the same too because it was all about this head coach saying, 'screw what we got, i can turn this turd into a diamond! just you watch!'

― spectre (gear), Thursday, 4 January 2007 19:58 (nineteen years ago)

I'm beginning to think every coach a demented puppet master.

― lk (lawrence kansas), Thursday, 4 January 2007 20:06 (nineteen years ago)

l-r Cutler, Shanahan

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000CR76U8.01._AA240_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

― lk (lawrence kansas), Thursday, 4 January 2007 20:08 (nineteen years ago)

I just saw Drew Brees at my work! I hope too many days off don't make the Saints rusty.

I hate Tony Romo too.

― pj (Henry), Thursday, 4 January 2007 20:13 (nineteen years ago)

are you sean payton?

― lk (lawrence kansas), Thursday, 4 January 2007 20:15 (nineteen years ago)

LOL

― Allyzay Eisenschefter Pop You To The Extreme (allyzay), Thursday, 4 January 2007 20:18 (nineteen years ago)

the plummer thing is the same too because it was all about this head coach saying, 'screw what we got, i can turn this turd into a diamond! just you watch!'

But that turd was a high first round pick. I mean, he may or may not be a turd. I agree with the basic premise that Plummer is unlikely to get to or win a super bowl.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Thursday, 4 January 2007 20:20 (nineteen years ago)

The Billy Volek and Damon Huard thing is a step too far though.

Yeah probably but I'm tired looking at Romo's smug mug.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Thursday, 4 January 2007 20:21 (nineteen years ago)

are you sean payton?
No, he was shopping with his wife and he looked like a typical husband, all shruggy like he didn't feel like being there. I was hoping he'd have her "go long" and he'd throw her a head of lettuce or something.

― pj (Henry), Thursday, 4 January 2007 20:25 (nineteen years ago)

what i hate the most about romo is when he completes a pass and instead of just getting downfield and moving on or even doing something 'aw he's a big kid!' like favre pumping his fist, he smirks and giggles and high fives everybody. totally punchable.

― spectre (gear), Thursday, 4 January 2007 20:27 (nineteen years ago)

man i hope the saints go to teh sb.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 4 January 2007 21:32 (nineteen years ago)

As long as they don't get the dropsies, IT'S ALL GOOD.

― pj (Henry), Thursday, 4 January 2007 21:53 (nineteen years ago)

Saints 47 Chargers 30

― pj (Henry), Thursday, 4 January 2007 21:53 (nineteen years ago)

and Prince does the full monty.

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 4 January 2007 21:54 (nineteen years ago)

and there's an ilx commercial.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Friday, 5 January 2007 01:09 (nineteen years ago)

Oh so hey Jeff garcia is on the cover of SI this week and I got that and was like FUCK JESUS GOD

― Allyzay Eisenschefter Pop You To The Extreme (allyzay), Friday, 5 January 2007 01:57 (nineteen years ago)

lol

http://i.cnn.net/si/si_online/covers/images/2007/0108_large.jpg

― ‘•’u (gear), Friday, 5 January 2007 02:02 (nineteen years ago)

I kind of totally agree with everything Dr. Z says in his picks this week though

― TOMB07 (TOMBOT), Friday, 5 January 2007 02:18 (nineteen years ago)

CURST

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Friday, 5 January 2007 05:10 (nineteen years ago)

Is Garcia wearing silver shoes? nice

― lk (lawrence kansas), Friday, 5 January 2007 14:11 (nineteen years ago)

He is also wearing tights. Girl tights, with a pattern and shit. Stylin'.

― Allyzay Eisenschefter Pop You To The Extreme (allyzay), Friday, 5 January 2007 15:04 (nineteen years ago)

jeff garcia is dressed to play football and to grind with a bro

― ‘•’u (gear), Friday, 5 January 2007 18:24 (nineteen years ago)

I M XCITED

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Saturday, 6 January 2007 17:54 (nineteen years ago)

I have been asked to assist in creating a cover of the NFL Replay song. Huh.

― Allyzay Eisenschefter Pop You To The Extreme (allyzay), Saturday, 6 January 2007 18:48 (nineteen years ago)

WAHT

― If you fuck with Jimmy Mod, you call down the thunder (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Saturday, 6 January 2007 20:41 (nineteen years ago)

Oh man, I kinda wish Ty Law had tried to plow through Peyton instead of dodging him.

― do i have to draw you a diaphragm (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 6 January 2007 22:19 (nineteen years ago)

― If you fuck with Jimmy Mod, you call down the thunder (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Saturday, 6 January 2007 22:19 (nineteen years ago)

― If you fuck with Jimmy Mod, you call down the thunder (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Saturday, 6 January 2007 22:20 (nineteen years ago)

hahahahahahahahaha oh my god NICE JOB, GUYS, NICE JOB.

― Allyzay Eisenschefter Pop You To The Extreme (allyzay), Saturday, 6 January 2007 22:21 (nineteen years ago)

roffle at chiefs.

― hstencil (hstencil), Saturday, 6 January 2007 22:34 (nineteen years ago)

I have no idea what to make of this game. That "drive" from the 2 yd line was EASILY 18x funnier than the way the Bengals totally f'ed up their last drive in their last game, though. I laughed for like 7 minutes straight.

― Allyzay Eisenschefter Pop You To The Extreme (allyzay), Saturday, 6 January 2007 22:58 (nineteen years ago)

I mean ffs that isn't taking a gift horse and looking it in the mouth, that is taking a gift horse and shooting it point blank in it's little horsey face. Then spitting on it.

― Allyzay Eisenschefter Pop You To The Extreme (allyzay), Saturday, 6 January 2007 22:59 (nineteen years ago)

actually roffle at both teams, this is a lousy fucking game.

― hstencil (hstencil), Saturday, 6 January 2007 23:04 (nineteen years ago)

HAHAHAHAHA dear Peyton: Ty Law is not on your team!! He never has been!

― Allyzay Eisenschefter Pop You To The Extreme (allyzay), Saturday, 6 January 2007 23:08 (nineteen years ago)

Yaaayyyy! First down, Chiefs!

― do i have to draw you a diaphragm (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 6 January 2007 23:32 (nineteen years ago)

kinda freaky to see herm edwards and tony dungy in the same room.

― hstencil (hstencil), Sunday, 7 January 2007 00:05 (nineteen years ago)

I M NO LONGER XCITED

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Sunday, 7 January 2007 00:13 (nineteen years ago)

Nobody seriously thought the Chiefs would win did they?

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Sunday, 7 January 2007 00:14 (nineteen years ago)

Trent Green is like the polar opposite of Tom Brady, I figured out. You always feel sorry for Trent Green. Trent Green could win the Super Bowl and there would be some reason to still feel sorry for that dude. OTOH, I genuinely look forward to Brady having the shit sacked out of him tomorrow, a lot.

I kind of hope Deion keeps talking shit about the Colts' D having their makeup come off or whatever, that seems to have unleashed a fucking fury apparently. Well and Bob Sanders coming back.

― TOMB07 (TOMBOT), Sunday, 7 January 2007 00:25 (nineteen years ago)

lawl at "Are you going to invite Ty Law over for dinner tonight?"

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Sunday, 7 January 2007 00:33 (nineteen years ago)

dude, Peyton so wanted to punch that guy when he asked that.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Sunday, 7 January 2007 00:38 (nineteen years ago)

I am pleased that the Colts' defense did well if only because Cris Collinsworth was given further reason to be AMAZED.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Sunday, 7 January 2007 00:38 (nineteen years ago)

Is it just me, or does Al Michaels voice sound a little off?

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Sunday, 7 January 2007 01:02 (nineteen years ago)

Robomichaels?

― do i have to draw you a diaphragm (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 7 January 2007 01:07 (nineteen years ago)

this diet pepsi commercial sucks.

― hstencil (hstencil), Sunday, 7 January 2007 01:17 (nineteen years ago)

ya wai

― If you fuck with Jimmy Mod, you call down the thunder (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Sunday, 7 January 2007 01:21 (nineteen years ago)

lol at matt hasselback "having fun"

― hstencil (hstencil), Sunday, 7 January 2007 01:36 (nineteen years ago)

new Coors Light with Jim Mora! yes!

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Sunday, 7 January 2007 02:01 (nineteen years ago)

NFL telecasts that include shots of flying fish in Seattle market during Seahawk games ... HAHA VERY ORIGINAL NOW STOP IT.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Sunday, 7 January 2007 02:53 (nineteen years ago)

yeah seriously.

the seahawks deserve to lose. fuckers.

― jergins (jergins), Sunday, 7 January 2007 03:26 (nineteen years ago)

John Madden is in a Perry Coma.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Sunday, 7 January 2007 03:58 (nineteen years ago)

Uh. Holy fuck, what an ending.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Sunday, 7 January 2007 04:12 (nineteen years ago)

Holy shit this game. Way to give it away, Romo.

― do i have to draw you a diaphragm (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 7 January 2007 04:13 (nineteen years ago)

Lol I hope he banged carrie underwood coz he ain't gonna now...

― If you fuck with Jimmy Mod, you call down the thunder (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Sunday, 7 January 2007 04:18 (nineteen years ago)

Cris Collinsworth was given further reason to be AMAZED. "

I think Collinsworth was even more amazed by the deep love between Tony Dungy and Herman Edwards.

Romentum has swung the other way. Hype can be a bitch. Romo will get the most crap, but there was plenty of screw ups with Dallas that didn't help.

The Colts offensive gameplan over the Chiefs was quite a bit like the Eagles game. They just got a lead and then ran the ball mixing in with some short passing. They had a 14 play TD drive in that Eagles game where they did not even throw a pass.

― Earl Nash (earlnash), Sunday, 7 January 2007 04:31 (nineteen years ago)

http://preview.cwilcox7.photosite.com/~photos/tn/7546910_1024.ts1168144498000.jpg

― SEACREST OUT OF IRAQ! (Adrian Langston), Sunday, 7 January 2007 05:28 (nineteen years ago)

I think, that despite the hype, it sez a ot for the romo/favre comparison, characterwise, that this dude trying so hard to bootleg for a first down or a TD after fucking up the snap and then FUMBLE OMG WTF BBQ CRYING ON THE FIELD I WANT TO DIE made it almost sad that the cowboys had to lose. I mean like I give a shit, one or the other NFC east teams is moving on after tomorrow and I personally think Coughlin blows all the balls so whatevs but damn dude you play pretty hard and you evidently have that "intangible" that makes it possible to believe in a team on the road in seattle during the playoffs in 2006, and yeah, anyway, for a few seconds there, maybe even a minute, I felt bad for a Cowboy, I wanted a motherfucking Cowboy to get one more chance.

They should make a plushie romo version of that lowsman trophy.
http://www.irrelevantweek.com/Images/lowsman.jpg
I would buy it and put it on my desk. And look at it, and be in ponder mode, whenever I made a mistake in my life.

― TOMB07 (TOMBOT), Sunday, 7 January 2007 07:09 (nineteen years ago)

wait so the cowboys lost? i was so bored i went to see black dice instead.

― hstencil (hstencil), Sunday, 7 January 2007 08:22 (nineteen years ago)

stence, the last 3 minutes of the game was edge of the seat stuff. Then Romo boffed a kick snap and tried to run it in and fumbled on the 2. Oopsies!

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Sunday, 7 January 2007 10:35 (nineteen years ago)

the worst part is that he had progress for the first down, if he hadn't put it on the turf. He didn't have to get the TD!

― TOMB07 (TOMBOT), Sunday, 7 January 2007 17:08 (nineteen years ago)

The phrase "worst part" in that series of events has so many possible definitions.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Sunday, 7 January 2007 17:38 (nineteen years ago)

UH. Boomer Esiason on Eli Manning on CBS's pregame show: "Eli Manning has been playing quarterback like Britney Spears plays mommy: erratically."

WTF? Boomer Esiason creeps me out.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Sunday, 7 January 2007 17:42 (nineteen years ago)

but Tony Romo has been finding a lot of new and unusual ways to fumble recently so who knows.

close enough *bows down*

― Hunter (Hunter), Sunday, 7 January 2007 18:05 (nineteen years ago)

the worst part is that he had progress for the first down

No, I think he was still about a half-yard short.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Sunday, 7 January 2007 18:37 (nineteen years ago)

Did anyone else catch the pregame discussion that basically amounted to "Tom Brady is a bitchy little girl who holds grudges like the way most people hold their children"?? That was hilarious! They were like phrasing it all in this faux-positive "And that's why Brady is a great QB" way but they really needed to point out that he is completely batshit insane and thinks every team that beat him this year "stole" his "codes" and that he's still pissed about the Pro Bowl snub?

― Allyzay Eisenschefter Pop You To The Extreme (allyzay), Sunday, 7 January 2007 18:41 (nineteen years ago)

"Eli Manning has been playing quarterback like Britney Spears plays mommy: erratically."

I find this apt.

― If you fuck with Jimmy Mod, you call down the thunder (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Sunday, 7 January 2007 18:44 (nineteen years ago)

He appears to wear underwear all the time tho :(

― Allyzay Eisenschefter Pop You To The Extreme (allyzay), Sunday, 7 January 2007 18:45 (nineteen years ago)

we are rooting for giants y/n?

― If you fuck with Jimmy Mod, you call down the thunder (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Sunday, 7 January 2007 21:33 (nineteen years ago)

This is the I Don't Know Who I Hate More Bowl.

― do i have to draw you a diaphragm (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 7 January 2007 21:36 (nineteen years ago)

http://us.news2.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070107/capt.sea12501070450.aptopix_cowboys_seahawks_football_sea125.jpg

― ‘•’u (gear), Sunday, 7 January 2007 21:36 (nineteen years ago)

;_;
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― Allyzay Eisenschefter Pop You To The Extreme (allyzay), Sunday, 7 January 2007 22:11 (nineteen years ago)

I mean srsly who does he think he is, Tom Brady?

― Allyzay Eisenschefter Pop You To The Extreme (allyzay), Sunday, 7 January 2007 22:12 (nineteen years ago)

http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/5011/lucyyg6.jpg

― Hunter (Hunter), Sunday, 7 January 2007 22:45 (nineteen years ago)

Dear Brian Dawkins,

WTF was that tackle?? Aggressive cat is aggressive?

sincerely,
me

― Allyzay Eisenschefter Pop You To The Extreme (allyzay), Monday, 8 January 2007 00:29 (nineteen years ago)

y'all know what's comin', right?

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 8 January 2007 00:59 (nineteen years ago)

Coughlin lynched?

― g00blar (gooblar), Monday, 8 January 2007 01:00 (nineteen years ago)

IF I'M GONNA BE BANNED FROM THE NFL BOARD AGAIN, I MAY AS WELL DO IT RIGHT!!

http://www.fantasyfootballfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/03/Jeff-Garcia.jpg

thank you and adios.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 8 January 2007 01:02 (nineteen years ago)

that Dawkins tackle=http://www.exoticnutrition.com/images/flying%20squirrel%203.jpg

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Monday, 8 January 2007 01:05 (nineteen years ago)

lol

― If you fuck with Jimmy Mod, you call down the thunder (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Monday, 8 January 2007 01:12 (nineteen years ago)

Both the Cowboys and the Giants are out!! Sometimes the football gods are kind. Now if someone will please defeat the Ravens all will be good in the world.

― Ice Cream Electric (Ice Cream Electric), Monday, 8 January 2007 01:15 (nineteen years ago)

Shit man at least 20-23 is a more impressive showing than FUCK-ALL to 23. Still: Balls.

― TOMB07 (TOMBOT), Monday, 8 January 2007 01:37 (nineteen years ago)

I WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO SHOW ANYONE MY TIKIMANS AGAIN

― TOMB07 (TOMBOT), Monday, 8 January 2007 01:37 (nineteen years ago)

UPSHOT: PROBABLY NEVER GOING TO HAVE TO LOOK AT COUGHLIN-FACE ON SIDELINES

this season = blue and red in pile on field. cut to old man going "eh?" repeat x8000000000billions.

― TOMB07 (TOMBOT), Monday, 8 January 2007 01:39 (nineteen years ago)

Your wish is my command, Tad.

― Allyzay Eisenschefter Pop You To The Extreme (allyzay), Monday, 8 January 2007 01:41 (nineteen years ago)

also LMAO at flying squirrel

― Allyzay Eisenschefter Pop You To The Extreme (allyzay), Monday, 8 January 2007 01:41 (nineteen years ago)

i was soooooooooooooooooooo pumped during the last few mins of the pats game when belichick was all giddy and skipping around, then he SHOVED THE CAMERA GUYS OUT OF THE WAY TO HUG ERIC MANGINI LOL. he'll probably get a fine, but he's like randy moss - STR8 CASH HOMEY

― SEACREST OUT OF IRAQ! (Adrian Langston), Monday, 8 January 2007 01:42 (nineteen years ago)

that was hilarious, i mean i guess that he actually just wanted to punch a camera man and in no way actually wanted to hug mangina, but that was a good excuse to use to punch a camera man. because those dudes don't even speak to each other. or maybe he was trying to rub his stench on mangina?

― Allyzay Eisenschefter Pop You To The Extreme (allyzay), Monday, 8 January 2007 01:46 (nineteen years ago)

http://us.news2.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070106/capt.nad10401062255.chiefs_colts_football_nad104.jpg

― SEACREST OUT OF IRAQ! (Adrian Langston), Monday, 8 January 2007 01:53 (nineteen years ago)

he actually referred to him as Eric in this week's press conferences, so I'm guessing someone in PR demanded that he quit being a douchebag for the sake of the team's image.

― SEACREST OUT OF IRAQ! (Adrian Langston), Monday, 8 January 2007 02:31 (nineteen years ago)

pr = puerto rico

― SEACREST OUT OF IRAQ! (Adrian Langston), Monday, 8 January 2007 02:31 (nineteen years ago)

He probably listens to Puerto Ricans more than he listens to the Pats organization.

PS Petrino?? LOL

― Allyzay Eisenschefter Pop You To The Extreme (allyzay), Monday, 8 January 2007 02:38 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vt-MUic4U4I

― Allyzay Eisenschefter Pop You To The Extreme (allyzay), Monday, 8 January 2007 02:49 (nineteen years ago)

hearing romo say "i cost the dallas cowboys a playoff win" is so depressing, he sounds like he's at a funeral :'(

― SEACREST OUT OF IRAQ! (Adrian Langston), Monday, 8 January 2007 03:16 (nineteen years ago)

OK this doesn't really belong on this thread but LOL @ stupid ESPN douchehole calling some college player "the physical equivalent of Daunte Culpepper, even though he's only 20!" It's like, uh, hasn't Daunte Culpepper basically been a crippled elderly man for 3 years straight now? WTF does it even mean?

― Allyzay Eisenschefter Pop You To The Extreme (allyzay), Monday, 8 January 2007 04:20 (nineteen years ago)

lol they mustve been talking about jamarcus russell. he has crazy physical gifts but is also certifiably insane, whoever drafts him is gonna have a handful.

i remember a year or two ago at the pro bowl they asked a bunch of players to create a frankenstein quarterback made of various QB parts, and they came up with... the legs of mike vick, the arm of donovan mcnabb, the BRANE of peyton manning, the body of culpep and... the heart of tom brady.

http://images.quizilla.com/M/minisweet12/1043989963_lanetma_ti.gif

― SEACREST OUT OF IRAQ! (Adrian Langston), Monday, 8 January 2007 04:48 (nineteen years ago)

I found out about twenty seconds after hitting submit that they were, indeed, talking about Russell.

The thing about the frankenstein qb is the weirdest thing I've heard in a while and anyway everyone knows you want the heart of DOUG FLUTIE.

― Allyzay Eisenschefter Pop You To The Extreme (allyzay), Monday, 8 January 2007 04:51 (nineteen years ago)

And his foot.

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 8 January 2007 05:09 (nineteen years ago)

the kidneys of Bill Romanowski

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Monday, 8 January 2007 07:59 (nineteen years ago)

the lungs of Phillip Rivers

― Allyzay Eisenschefter Pop You To The Extreme (allyzay), Monday, 8 January 2007 15:09 (nineteen years ago)

brett favre's facial hair

― TOMB07 (TOMBOT), Monday, 8 January 2007 15:11 (nineteen years ago)

but not his digestive system, fucker has heartburns.

― Allyzay Eisenschefter Pop You To The Extreme (allyzay), Monday, 8 January 2007 15:12 (nineteen years ago)

jared lorentzen's portable personal o-line

― TOMB07 (TOMBOT), Monday, 8 January 2007 15:13 (nineteen years ago)

Ben Roethlisberger's blog

― Allyzay Eisenschefter Pop You To The Extreme (allyzay), Monday, 8 January 2007 15:14 (nineteen years ago)

Joe Montana's Jerry Rice

― TOMB07 (TOMBOT), Monday, 8 January 2007 15:16 (nineteen years ago)

LOL

― Allyzay Eisenschefter Pop You To The Extreme (allyzay), Monday, 8 January 2007 15:19 (nineteen years ago)

Terry Bradshaw's cuteness.

― pj (Henry), Monday, 8 January 2007 15:29 (nineteen years ago)

Tony Romo's girlfriends

― Allyzay Eisenschefter Pop You To The Extreme (allyzay), Monday, 8 January 2007 15:31 (nineteen years ago)

Matt Hasslebeck's mom and/or cranium

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Monday, 8 January 2007 15:34 (nineteen years ago)

Donovan McNabb's tears

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Monday, 8 January 2007 15:51 (nineteen years ago)

Jim McMahon's 46 Defense

― TOMB07 (TOMBOT), Monday, 8 January 2007 15:52 (nineteen years ago)

ok now we're going a bit off the path here.

― Allyzay Eisenschefter Pop You To The Extreme (allyzay), Monday, 8 January 2007 15:58 (nineteen years ago)

just a bit

(is Coughlin fired yet?)

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 8 January 2007 15:58 (nineteen years ago)

No but the organization will have "more to say about that in a few days"

― Allyzay Eisenschefter Pop You To The Extreme (allyzay), Monday, 8 January 2007 16:01 (nineteen years ago)

Ha, we're gonna get Mora

― TOMB07 (TOMBOT), Monday, 8 January 2007 16:10 (nineteen years ago)

what chain of events would need to occur for the pats to beat the chargers in san diego next week?

1. LDT, rivers, merriman found in flagrante delicto with a naked cub scout troop.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Monday, 8 January 2007 16:18 (nineteen years ago)

2. Schottenheimer to coach Chargers.

― lk (lawrence kansas), Monday, 8 January 2007 16:20 (nineteen years ago)

(ok, that was funny).

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Monday, 8 January 2007 16:20 (nineteen years ago)

every time I try to access ESPN.com my computer crashes. WTF

― Allyzay Eisenschefter Pop You To The Extreme (allyzay), Monday, 8 January 2007 16:28 (nineteen years ago)

i am such a dingus that i think i almost actually talked myself into believing the pats had a chance based solely on the shottenheimer effect.

pats run defense is going to be exposed for what it is, a bunch of slow aarp candidates who can hit pretty well if you run into their scheme but are woefully unprepared to chase anyone down from sideline to sideline.

i look for the pats to go back to the spread offense again this week and run 4 or 5 wide the whole time.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Monday, 8 January 2007 16:33 (nineteen years ago)

Oh god Brady is going to be such a bitch next week at the press conference, holy crap.

― Allyzay Eisenschefter Pop You To The Extreme (allyzay), Monday, 8 January 2007 16:34 (nineteen years ago)

rip bobby petrino. ;_;

(vick is gonna eat him alive)

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 8 January 2007 17:03 (nineteen years ago)

*embed 'maneater' midi*

if the matchups were the other way around, NE-BALLLLLLIN and IND-SD, i would give NE & IND good chances to win. but as it is i think the home teamz got the advantage. the run defense is fine so long as wilfork and warren are playing.

― SEACREST OUT OF IRAQ! (Adrian Langston), Monday, 8 January 2007 17:13 (nineteen years ago)

ne's biggest problem is san diego's passrush, TROM BADY isnt getting very consistent protection.

― SEACREST OUT OF IRAQ! (Adrian Langston), Monday, 8 January 2007 17:16 (nineteen years ago)

Their biggest problem is my biggest roffles tho.

― Allyzay Eisenschefter Pop You To The Extreme (allyzay), Monday, 8 January 2007 17:24 (nineteen years ago)

i thought this was the biggest roffles

http://www.cbc.ca/gfx/images/sports/photos/2006/06/12/roethlisberger-ben-cp-060612.jpg

― SEACREST OUT OF IRAQ! (Adrian Langston), Monday, 8 January 2007 17:31 (nineteen years ago)

when the game is over and the analysts are trying to see why the pats lost i think it will come down to them not being able to slow down LDT. rookie qb in playoffs vs. belicheck designed d = no cause for alarm. pats spreading out the sd defense and throwing 3 yard hook plays all game will negate the chargers rush. pats throwing some of bronko nagurski's old team mates out there to try to slow down tomlinson will be painful for me to watch.

i predict LDT runs for 184 yards.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Monday, 8 January 2007 17:31 (nineteen years ago)

Ben is only tragedy this year, no roffles :(

― Allyzay Eisenschefter Pop You To The Extreme (allyzay), Monday, 8 January 2007 17:36 (nineteen years ago)

actually if you wanna talk about brady being bitchcakes, remember when schottenheimer dared to suggest last year that the pats' run was coming to an end? brady was consumed with the fury of bees over that shit. and hearing bruschi, warren etc talk up the chargers as the best team in the league i think they're gonna go in there HONGRY. and Hongro. so i think i like the pats' chances. vrabel's elderly, but the defense shouldn't be the problem imo.

― SEACREST OUT OF IRAQ! (Adrian Langston), Monday, 8 January 2007 17:56 (nineteen years ago)

Dude needs to get out of his goddamn house more, he's a complete nutjob. I forgot about that nonsense. How come Brady gets away with being a complete wacko asshole but like Vick and TO...uh never mind, I figured it out.

― Allyzay Eisenschefter Pop You To The Extreme (allyzay), Monday, 8 January 2007 17:58 (nineteen years ago)

It's because he's gay.

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 8 January 2007 18:00 (nineteen years ago)

I know, everyone always gives gay dudes a pass on being drama queens.

― Allyzay Eisenschefter Pop You To The Extreme (allyzay), Monday, 8 January 2007 18:02 (nineteen years ago)

REVERSE SEXISM

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 8 January 2007 18:06 (nineteen years ago)

It's like, it's all ok for them to be like, "Girl, you are so not going to be going out of the house wearing THAT, you look like a Hogette on speed!" but like if I say that I'm being a bitch. Fuck you, Tom Brady.

― Allyzay Eisenschefter Pop You To The Extreme (allyzay), Monday, 8 January 2007 18:08 (nineteen years ago)

Brady should really have a word with Belichick about his sidelines attire. Dude has gone from frumpy old guy to "homeless Bill" in the course of one season.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Monday, 8 January 2007 18:09 (nineteen years ago)

I heard Tom Brady got beat up in a gay bar.

But seriously folks! Why did the Jets blitz on every play? It was simply not working.

― lk (lawrence kansas), Monday, 8 January 2007 18:11 (nineteen years ago)

"Here, coach, I bought you some Kiehl's, I thought you might like it..." *cue Belichick opening bottle of aftershave, drinking it*

xpost because they're the fucking Jets.

― Allyzay Eisenschefter Pop You To The Extreme (allyzay), Monday, 8 January 2007 18:12 (nineteen years ago)

Better question: why the hell did the Jets try that dopey lateral bullshit pass 15 times yesterday, despite the Patriots' continually sniffing it out? Hint to Mangina: if they tip the ball & almost intercept / pick up a fumble the first two times, maybe the third time AIN'T the charm.

Reason for Jets' continually blitzing: their front 4 couldn't get any pressure on Herr Brady, so they were, um, trying to? I think the blitzing might've reduced Brady's time in the pocket enough so that he could only take two sips of champagne before throwing the ball / an o-lineman got bored & let Shaun Ellis have a go.

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 8 January 2007 18:20 (nineteen years ago)

Mangini read that the sporting press expected him to be "cerebral" and play a completely different game than he did when he beat them @ home, so he decided to REVERSERIZE and play almost the exact same game, which the pats are able to recite in their sleep now.

― TOMB07 (TOMBOT), Monday, 8 January 2007 18:25 (nineteen years ago)

my biggest beef with brady is that his mouth looks like an asshole. also his creepy voice which is always cracking. like an asshole.

none of the tardshit that ballplayers say about being disrespected really bugs me, they're all a bunch of goddamn loonies anyway. it's like how captains of industry are all overly aggressive, type a personalities who had absent fathers. it is what it is lol

ps.
http://pr0n.encyclopediadramatica.com/images/a/a5/GayPanther.jpg

― SEACREST OUT OF IRAQ! (Adrian Langston), Monday, 8 January 2007 18:26 (nineteen years ago)

is that vinny testaverde

― Allyzay Eisenschefter Pop You To The Extreme (allyzay), Monday, 8 January 2007 18:39 (nineteen years ago)

the homeless bill look is one of the only things i have left to love unconditionally abt the pats - one time he cut off the sleeves and the hood!

― jhoshea thought-tool of punk (scoopsnoodle), Monday, 8 January 2007 18:41 (nineteen years ago)

I saw the Young Belichek on the sidelines briefly, and I prayed for his gray-hooded soul.

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 8 January 2007 18:54 (nineteen years ago)

his non-wearing of matching sleeveless grey hoodie was a huge disappointment to me.

― jhoshea thought-tool of punk (scoopsnoodle), Monday, 8 January 2007 18:56 (nineteen years ago)

Brady does have an awful voice. a milquetoast serial killer voice!

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Monday, 8 January 2007 19:11 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z56vLyOVBZ4&eurl=

― VALLEY OF BLIZZARDZ (Mr.Que), Monday, 8 January 2007 21:39 (nineteen years ago)

"by dynasty do you mean the soap opera with the crying"

― Allyzay Eisenschefter Pop You To The Extreme (allyzay), Monday, 8 January 2007 21:41 (nineteen years ago)

http://bestmessageboardever.com/uploads/post-18-1168291852.jpg

― SEACREST OUT OF IRAQ! (Adrian Langston), Monday, 8 January 2007 21:45 (nineteen years ago)

http://freeshare.us/127fs271079.jpg

― SEACREST OUT OF IRAQ! (Adrian Langston), Monday, 8 January 2007 21:45 (nineteen years ago)

http://freeshare.us/127fs272990.jpg

― SEACREST OUT OF IRAQ! (Adrian Langston), Monday, 8 January 2007 21:45 (nineteen years ago)

OK DYING LOL THAT'S AMAZING

― Allyzay Eisenschefter Pop You To The Extreme (allyzay), Monday, 8 January 2007 21:46 (nineteen years ago)

roflmbo

― lk (lawrence kansas), Monday, 8 January 2007 21:47 (nineteen years ago)

I loved Aikman's reaction to the tackle too, he like kind of stopped mid-sentence and then just tried to move on, professionally, and Buck was like, "Hey, what do you call that kind of a tackle?" and Aikman tried not to bayonette Buck in the nuts and just kind of grimaced out, "I have no idea what that was about." Cue infuriating Buck snicker.

― Allyzay Eisenschefter Pop You To The Extreme (allyzay), Monday, 8 January 2007 21:50 (nineteen years ago)

was that the point where Aikman did his Borat voice? am i the only one who noticed that? was i high????

― SEACREST OUT OF IRAQ! (Adrian Langston), Monday, 8 January 2007 21:51 (nineteen years ago)

I was in the other room when out of the corner of my eye I saw this dude flying across the TV screen. I was waiting for some reaction from the announcers when Aikman said what a whole nation was thinking.

― lk (lawrence kansas), Monday, 8 January 2007 21:53 (nineteen years ago)

YES he also started speaking in Borat voice for like maybe 5 seconds at one random point, it was bizarre.

― Allyzay Eisenschefter Pop You To The Extreme (allyzay), Monday, 8 January 2007 21:54 (nineteen years ago)

Being around Buck is good for no one.

― Allyzay Eisenschefter Pop You To The Extreme (allyzay), Monday, 8 January 2007 21:54 (nineteen years ago)

http://freeshare.us/127fs277082.jpg

― SEACREST OUT OF IRAQ! (Adrian Langston), Monday, 8 January 2007 21:59 (nineteen years ago)

I can't feel too sore about the Eagles winning even if I think they should die fiery death when McNabb is sidelined (out of fairness to McNabbster), because that shit is amazing.

― Allyzay Eisenschefter Pop You To The Extreme (allyzay), Monday, 8 January 2007 22:00 (nineteen years ago)

keep them comin', aidsy.

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 8 January 2007 22:06 (nineteen years ago)

yes, I loved Aikman's delivery of "I have no idea what that was about."

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Monday, 8 January 2007 22:10 (nineteen years ago)

http://freeshare.us/127fs278568.jpg

― SEACREST OUT OF IRAQ! (Adrian Langston), Monday, 8 January 2007 22:10 (nineteen years ago)

http://freeshare.us/127fs279639.jpg

― SEACREST OUT OF IRAQ! (Adrian Langston), Monday, 8 January 2007 22:11 (nineteen years ago)

http://freeshare.us/127fs28073.jpg

― SEACREST OUT OF IRAQ! (Adrian Langston), Monday, 8 January 2007 22:11 (nineteen years ago)

hahahaha oh my god the church one

― Allyzay Eisenschefter Pop You To The Extreme (allyzay), Monday, 8 January 2007 22:12 (nineteen years ago)

IT WAS ABOUT BEING AMAZING. Tom and I just like looked at each other and busted out LAUGHING when he did that, I just said, "Why did he tackle him like that?" and then it was nonstop roffles. The guy should make that his signature (read: only) move!!

― Allyzay Eisenschefter Pop You To The Extreme (allyzay), Monday, 8 January 2007 22:14 (nineteen years ago)

And there wasn't any need to tackle at all, right? wasn't the runner just going out of bounds anyway? it was perfect.

― lk (lawrence kansas), Monday, 8 January 2007 22:20 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, he was just this short of going out of bounds, it was completely unnecessary.

― Allyzay Eisenschefter Pop You To The Extreme (allyzay), Monday, 8 January 2007 22:23 (nineteen years ago)

from now on it will necessary

― lk (lawrence kansas), Monday, 8 January 2007 22:25 (nineteen years ago)

OTM

― Allyzay Eisenschefter Pop You To The Extreme (allyzay), Monday, 8 January 2007 22:34 (nineteen years ago)

http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/sp/getty/45/full.getty-72907593tl012_new_york_gian_6_01_11_pm.jpg

― ‘•’u (gear), Monday, 8 January 2007 22:35 (nineteen years ago)

that LOOKS like a photoshop yet I don't believe it is.

― Allyzay Eisenschefter Pop You To The Extreme (allyzay), Monday, 8 January 2007 22:36 (nineteen years ago)

[Work images blocked]

Are any of those pics the much beloved No Hands?

― c('°c) (Leee), Monday, 8 January 2007 22:37 (nineteen years ago)

http://freeshare.us/127fs283919.jpg

― SEACREST OUT OF IRAQ! (Adrian Langston), Monday, 8 January 2007 22:40 (nineteen years ago)

hahahahaha

― Allyzay Eisenschefter Pop You To The Extreme (allyzay), Monday, 8 January 2007 22:43 (nineteen years ago)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v212/etienne_saint/neverforget-1-1-1-2.jpg?t=1168310983

― ‘•’u (gear), Monday, 8 January 2007 22:43 (nineteen years ago)

oh my god

― Allyzay Eisenschefter Pop You To The Extreme (allyzay), Monday, 8 January 2007 22:45 (nineteen years ago)

lmbo gear i love you

― SEACREST OUT OF IRAQ! (Adrian Langston), Monday, 8 January 2007 22:46 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know how to embed music onto this here internets message board but someone should embed "I'm Proud To Be An American" onto gear's post.

― Allyzay Eisenschefter Pop You To The Extreme (allyzay), Monday, 8 January 2007 22:48 (nineteen years ago)

The sideline shots of Coughlin during the game were pretty classic. It is almost like he has de-evolved to a high school coach yelling at the QB "THROW IT, THROW IT, GODDAMMIT THROW IT!!!"

― Earl Nash (earlnash), Monday, 8 January 2007 23:42 (nineteen years ago)

is anyone going to photoshop Dawkins into cryingromo.jpg already or what.

― Allyzay Eisenschefter Pop You To The Extreme (allyzay), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 02:00 (nineteen years ago)

wait i changed neverforget.jpg

― ‘•’u (gear), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 02:06 (nineteen years ago)

LOL LOL I didn't know!

― Allyzay Eisenschefter Pop You To The Extreme (allyzay), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 02:08 (nineteen years ago)

that shit is my new desktop

― Allyzay Eisenschefter Pop You To The Extreme (allyzay), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 02:12 (nineteen years ago)

if the rest of the playoffs are as good as round 1 that shit is gonna get crowded

― ‘•’u (gear), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 02:13 (nineteen years ago)

and by 'good' i mean 'filled with as much blubbering and wtf leaping'

― ‘•’u (gear), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 02:13 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axtcDLC_qdo

this video is v. important

― If you fuck with Jimmy Mod, you call down the thunder (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 02:21 (nineteen years ago)

it really advances the discussion

― If you fuck with Jimmy Mod, you call down the thunder (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 02:22 (nineteen years ago)

The Neverforget jpg still needs the Cardinals fan with the "Get a Brain Morans" picture to be perfect.

― Earl Nash (earlnash), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 02:44 (nineteen years ago)

shit ok check now

― ‘•’u (gear), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 02:50 (nineteen years ago)

church Dawkins picture is amazing! I love you people!

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 02:50 (nineteen years ago)

wait wtf Dawkins made his own ridiculous highlight video and then made Rich Eisen watch it with him??! That dude is the bomb

― Allyzay Eisenschefter Pop You To The Extreme (allyzay), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 02:58 (nineteen years ago)

!!!

turning on NFLN right now...

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 02:59 (nineteen years ago)

it's that YouTube link above...it is like 25 minutes long (note: I might be exagerrating) but totally mind-blowing? At least for the first three minutes then you're like OK B-DAWKINS ENOUGH ALREADY.

― Allyzay Eisenschefter Pop You To The Extreme (allyzay), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 03:00 (nineteen years ago)

i notice this past weekend wasn't the first appearance of his flail-fu tackling style

― ‘•’u (gear), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 03:03 (nineteen years ago)

I dibs WEAPON X for next year's fantasy football league. That was like when Kenny Jarmer on our high school team decided his nickname would be KING OF PAIN and suddenly became this amazing cornerback.

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 03:25 (nineteen years ago)

it was the early 80s and synchronicity was still on people's minds

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 03:33 (nineteen years ago)

okay I killed that fucking thread. only 9,342 more to go

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 03:47 (nineteen years ago)

is there a youtube of the flying squirrel tackle anywhere?

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 04:34 (nineteen years ago)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v81/plechazunga/ilx/nohands-dawkins.jpg

― c('°c) (Leee), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 05:28 (nineteen years ago)

O GOD

― If you fuck with Jimmy Mod, you call down the thunder (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 05:29 (nineteen years ago)

i'm so glad I found that Dawkins video

― If you fuck with Jimmy Mod, you call down the thunder (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 05:30 (nineteen years ago)

oh, I get it.

the Dawkins highlights take too long, yes, but then he is super-adorable back in the studio with Rich.

also, apropos of nothing, Pam Oliver is hot.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 05:47 (nineteen years ago)

Pam Oliver is hot

Duh of 2007!

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 05:50 (nineteen years ago)

I must've walked away for the squirrel tackle; someone please post youtube on this thread when it appears.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 06:22 (nineteen years ago)

GIS for "pam oliver"

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 16:38 (nineteen years ago)

http://members.shaw.ca/jnault123/dawkbaby.gif

― SEACREST OUT OF IRAQ! (Adrian Langston), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 16:39 (nineteen years ago)

haha i remember that dawkins video, he hosted total access for like a week. he's an awesome dude and is the main reason I like the eagles more than the other nfceast teams. hollis thomas was the other reason :'(

― SEACREST OUT OF IRAQ! (Adrian Langston), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 16:43 (nineteen years ago)

oh my fucking god the baby

― Allyzay Eisenschefter Pop You To The Extreme (allyzay), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 16:45 (nineteen years ago)

http://scoopsnoodle.com/lix/santorum12.jpg

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 17:12 (nineteen years ago)

NO ROMO NO CREDO

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 17:22 (nineteen years ago)

wow

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 17:24 (nineteen years ago)

SEEMS ROMO HAS NOT ACHIVE MEME STATUS SOOOOOOORRRY

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 17:25 (nineteen years ago)

;_;

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 17:26 (nineteen years ago)

you could work in drunken Jake Gyllenhall from the Oscars between Santorum and the lizard king though. That is a suggestion from Mr. Que btw.

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 17:27 (nineteen years ago)

what is he banned or something

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 17:30 (nineteen years ago)

No I would never ban Mr. Que.

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 17:32 (nineteen years ago)

ok sorry don't cry i put in romo!

http://scoopsnoodle.com/lix/santorum13.jpg

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 17:42 (nineteen years ago)

but hes abt to get his shit pushed in by hueg weaponX!!!

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 17:43 (nineteen years ago)

http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r204/janueswski/Reid.jpg

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 17:46 (nineteen years ago)

http://freeshare.us/127fs275456.jpg

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 17:47 (nineteen years ago)

these all basically rule a lot.

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 17:49 (nineteen years ago)

man, I wish Brian Dawkins WOULD flying-squirrel tackle Jimmy Johnson.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 17:54 (nineteen years ago)

WATCH OUT 4 PORCUPINE HAIR!!!

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 18:00 (nineteen years ago)

http://bestmessageboardever.com/uploads/post-579-1168294129.jpg
http://freeshare.us/127fs282121.jpg

― SEACREST OUT OF IRAQ! (Adrian Langston), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 18:01 (nineteen years ago)

hahahaha holy shit

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 18:04 (nineteen years ago)

Ade, for serious, it's like you have a divine gift for this shit.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 18:07 (nineteen years ago)

i didnt make any of these btw, i'm just reposting shit i find :[

http://img169.imageshack.us/img169/7730/dawktapezelz4.jpg

― SEACREST OUT OF IRAQ! (Adrian Langston), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 18:16 (nineteen years ago)

oh. we don't have a crush on you anymore, then.

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 18:18 (nineteen years ago)

ha! I feel heartened that there is so much Dawkins-centered creativity out there.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 18:19 (nineteen years ago)

http://scoopsnoodle.com/lix/weaponx.jpg

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 18:20 (nineteen years ago)

aw! it looks like Dawkins is going to give him a big flying-squirrel hug!

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 18:22 (nineteen years ago)

IS OK BUDDY WEAPONX STILL LUVS U!!!

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 18:23 (nineteen years ago)

O SRY I PUSHED UR SHIT IN LIKE THAT :(

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 18:24 (nineteen years ago)

http://bestmessageboardever.com/uploads/post-862-1117472814.jpg

― SEACREST OUT OF IRAQ! (Adrian Langston), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 18:24 (nineteen years ago)

http://scoopsnoodle.com/lix/weaponx.jpg
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ YES

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 18:26 (nineteen years ago)

FAQ: UPDATED

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 18:28 (nineteen years ago)

http://freeshare.us/127fs395227.jpg

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 18:28 (nineteen years ago)

WOW!!!!

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 18:34 (nineteen years ago)

surge lol

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 18:38 (nineteen years ago)

yeh that one's teh best one i think.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 18:39 (nineteen years ago)

hahahaha

― ‘•’u (gear), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 20:09 (nineteen years ago)

This thread is so classic.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 21:59 (nineteen years ago)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v81/plechazunga/ilx/cowher-dawkins.gif

― c('°c) (Leee), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 22:36 (nineteen years ago)

omg awesome!

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 22:48 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.philadelphiaeagles.com/team/teamRosterDetails.jsp?id=260

To understand this six-time Pro Bowl safety, just take a look on the top shelf of his locker. There you will find multiple figurines of his favorite comic book hero, Wolverine, some of which have been provided by his fans. Wolverine is the low-key leader of the X-Men, a comic book action series, an animated cartoon and a main character in three full-length feature films. Wolverine is known for his animal-keen senses that allow him to track his adversaries with great ease, very much like Brian Dawkins hunts down opposing ball carriers and receivers.

― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 00:20 (nineteen years ago)

http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h319/zims666/03-11Fires.jpg

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 03:33 (nineteen years ago)

http://freeshare.us/127fs424669.jpg

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 03:34 (nineteen years ago)

ILNFL has been won.

― If you fuck with Jimmy Mod, you call down the thunder (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 03:45 (nineteen years ago)

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/164/352407817_0a6374934e_o.jpg

― am0n (am0n), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 03:55 (nineteen years ago)

going to hell for making this

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/166/352415969_915fecd32c_o.jpg

― am0n (am0n), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 04:05 (nineteen years ago)

Given the photo's unavailable, I gotta ask: is it really as hot as it looks?

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 04:20 (nineteen years ago)

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/154/352442979_138c0ebe6c_o.jpg

― am0n (am0n), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 04:36 (nineteen years ago)

I VOTE YES!

― If you fuck with Jimmy Mod, you call down the thunder (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 04:43 (nineteen years ago)

I APPROVE OF THIS MESSAGE!

― If you fuck with Jimmy Mod, you call down the thunder (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 04:43 (nineteen years ago)

Not to change the subject, but...

http://kissmesuzy.blogspot.com/2007/01/if-i-see-tony-romo-im-gonna-give-him.html

― If you fuck with Jimmy Mod, you call down the thunder (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 04:46 (nineteen years ago)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v485/milkbar/reno8.gif

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 04:59 (nineteen years ago)

Oh my fucking god I can't decide which of these is the best.

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 15:29 (nineteen years ago)

i can't see any of the ones posted to flickr. :(

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 15:36 (nineteen years ago)

From The VV, via Forks, for lolls:

"Barber's decision to retire at the peak of his game caused quite a stir, but I can't blame the guy for wanting to get out while he can still walk and see straight. Nearly every week various players are carted off the field with a cornucopia of injuries and head traumas; there is an X-ray room in Giants Stadium, right near the players' locker room, presumably because it would be a shame to waste a trip to the hospital if parts of your body were merely ripped, strained, or torn rather than actually broken."

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 16:54 (nineteen years ago)

god wtf is that writer even trying to say

― ‘•’u (gear), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 18:18 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know! There's so much misdirected sarcasm in the last sentence that I can't make heads or tails of it.

― lk (lawrence kansas), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 18:30 (nineteen years ago)

Basically all I'm getting out of that is "HOW DARE THE GIANTS HAVE AN X-RAY MACHINE!!!!!!!!"

― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 18:32 (nineteen years ago)

(Which, you know, cosign; if they get one, I get one.)

― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 18:32 (nineteen years ago)

I'm getting that it actually would be a good thing to waste a trip to the hospital.

― lk (lawrence kansas), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 18:36 (nineteen years ago)

I keep reading "strained" as "stained" and I'm like, that really would be a waste though.

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 18:38 (nineteen years ago)

not if the stain was from repainting the Ravens helmets

― lk (lawrence kansas), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 18:39 (nineteen years ago)

among other things wrong with that quote, it seems in poor taste to be super-snarky about people's bodies being ripped, strained or torn.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 18:56 (nineteen years ago)

It is kind of mind-blowing, like the players WOULDN'T go to the hospital if something was wrong. I mean, are they purposefully misunderstanding the fact that the X-Ray machine is there to check and see if something is broken on a player who thinks it IS "just" a sprain? Or are they just that much of a choad?

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 19:00 (nineteen years ago)

i think the point is that the teams don't care enough about the players to take them to the hospital unless they are actually broken, not just a little bit hurt. but then that doesn't explain why the team would spend the money on an x-ray machine, the requisite renovation to the facility to safely operate one, the cost to operate, etc. that would seem to indicate that the teams do in fact care about the players well being. or maybe they just don't want to pay tolls on the jersey turnpike. i guess what i'm trying to say is that i really don't know what the fucking point is.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 19:09 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah that is basically the point I was trying to make, the facilities are all there not to keep players from going to the hospital but to help diagnose and treat potentially serious injuries? It's like WTF, yes, that is why the on-site ER is there, so they can tell them it is all in their heads and to go back out there and throw the pigskin or whatever the hell. SO WEIRD. PLZ TO HAVE ACTUAL SPORTS FANS START WRITING BOUT THESE THINGS AGAIN :(

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 19:11 (nineteen years ago)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v212/etienne_saint/dawkinspoop.jpg?t=1168459860

― ‘•’u (gear), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 19:11 (nineteen years ago)

I don't think this guy knows why the Giants have an x-ray machine. It's like he discovered a catapult or something next to the locker room.

― lk (lawrence kansas), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 19:14 (nineteen years ago)

Don't tell him the Bucs have a pirate ship in their stadium - he'll freak out.

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 19:19 (nineteen years ago)

hahahahahaaaaaaa

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 19:20 (nineteen years ago)

It's a she writing the piece, not a he and you really should read the rest of that article; it's just about the worst horseshit you've ever seen.

Would you send someone who knows nothing about politics to Washington to do a thought piece on lobbyists? Then why this:

A Crashing Bore: What's so fun about 22 guys in spandex slamming into one another? Along for the ride with Jets and Giants fans
by Emma Span Village Voice - January 9th, 2007

I know that football involves complex, intriguing strategy, out-thinking your opponent in addition to out–pounding the shit out of him. There's a method behind the madness of the mess of collisions, handoffs, passes, tackles, and tangled limbs. I've watched the SportsCenter guys explain this my entire life; I've heard my friends argue about it; I've read books about it.

The problem is that when I actually watch a game, I can't see it. What I see is 22 guys in spandex, many of them larger than my mom's Corolla, crashing into each other as forcefully as possible, pausing for three minutes of beer ads, and repeating. The only exceptions to this are the games I attended in college, when I saw 44 guys crashing into each other.

Football fans are shaking their heads right now and dismissing me as an idiot, and you know what? That's fair. I have the same reaction when people tell me they just find baseball "too slow." The National Football League made roughly $6 billion last year, so it's safe to assume it's doing something right; if I'd grown up watching the game, I don't doubt I'd be counting down the minutes to Monday night, obsessing over my fantasy team, and making terrorist threats to Cablevision for refusing to carry the new NFL Network—but I didn't.

Having tried to get into the sport for years without much success, I haven't been able to make that crucial New York football commitment: Jets or Giants? As both teams played their final home games before slipping into the playoffs, it seemed like the perfect time to give America's de facto national pastime another chance.

To be fair, the Giants' Christmas Eve Holiday Spectacular was not exactly a showcase of the sport's finest qualities. After weeks of squabbling and mini-scandals—Michael Strahan bawling out an ESPN reporter with a mouth full of sandwich, Tiki Barber's early and often discussed retirement, Barber and Jeremy Shockey criticizing head coach Tom Coughlin, everyone else on the East Coast criticizing quarterback Eli Manning—they lost for the sixth time in their last seven games, to the New Orleans Saints, in what could be kindly termed an utter collapse.

There are elements of football that I enjoy, and Reggie Bush illustrated the main one beautifully, though unfortunately he did so for the visiting team. Dodging leviathans, he broke out of the game's torpid, yard-by-yard pace and into invigorating unimpeded runs without crushing anyone or being crushed (thanks, admittedly, to the crushing being done by his teammates). This is, of course, a major part of football, but every time it happens, it feels to me like cheating, though for a good cause—Odysseus outwitting the cyclops. Leon Washington has provided flashes of it for the Jets this season, and when Tiki Barber is on—as he wasn't in the Saints game but emphatically was the following week versus the Redskins—this is exactly what he excels at.

Barber's decision to retire at the peak of his game caused quite a stir, but I can't blame the guy for wanting to get out while he can still walk and see straight. Nearly every week various players are carted off the field with a cornucopia of injuries and head traumas; there is an X-ray room in Giants Stadium, right near the players' locker room, presumably because it would be a shame to waste a trip to the hospital if parts of your body were merely ripped, strained, or torn rather than actually broken.

There are more than 50 players on the Giants' roster, and as you'd expect, it's a diverse bunch. The Friday before Christmas, with the locker room floor strewn with wrapping paper (in addition to the usual jockstraps, towels, and pads), Michael Strahan loudly mocked R.W. McQuarters's briefs ("Calvin Klein ain't no friend of mine!") on the way to the shower, while in the another corner kicker Jay Feely engaged a teammate in animated, erudite philosophical debate about the nature of our "results-driven so ciety."

The team's locker room is peppered with inspirational quotes. "My ego was centered around my teams [sic] success, not my accomplishments— Bill Russell," reads one large sign. (I bet that missing apostrophe has slowly been driving Jay Feely insane for the last two years.) Another declares, "We are what we repeatedly do—excellence is not an act, but a habit." The same could be said of fumbles or interceptions, but never mind.

These sentiments were not much in evidence after the debacle against the Saints (30-7), when players used various combinations of the words "disappointing," "embarrassing," and "humiliating" in their post-game interviews. Tom Coughlin, who looks as if he's in dire need of some Pepcid and a deep-tissue massage even on his best days, said he felt "frustration and some despair" and went on to actually apologize for ruining Christmas.

Few places are quieter than a football locker room after a loss. When Terrell Owens criticized the Cowboys' game plan after a defeat a few weeks ago, analysts—particularly former players, like ESPN's Mark Schlereth—were beside themselves, not so much because he had cast aspersions on his coaches and quarterback but because he had done so while wearing a Santa hat. The slightest sign of levity is on par with wearing a low-cut red dress to a funeral.

Of course all professional athletes are upset after a big loss, and as fans we expect nothing less. It never occurred to me to tell the Mets, after the heartbreaking Game 7 loss to the Cardinals this fall, "Hey, buck up, guys. It's only a game." (It didn't occur to me to tell the Giants that either, but only because many of them were over 300 pounds and irate.) It's "only a game" only when it's not your game.

The Giants Stadium press box, meanwhile, is no place to watch a sporting event. A glass wall protects against the weather but also muffles most of the crowd noise, giving the space an incongruous library-like quietness. Located on the ninth level, it's high enough to make Chris Snee look antlike and requires reporters to either bring high-powered binoculars, follow along on a nearby TV, or as in my case, squint at the knot of players on the field and wonder what the fuck is happening. You can, at least, get a decent view of Fox's automated camera, which swoops over the field on a high-tech track and looks like a hostile alien robot; I kept expecting it to start firing lasers. By the fourth quarter of the Giants-Saints game, this would have been a welcome distraction.

The NFL is, deliberately and very successfully, tailored for television, and as far as I can tell, tailgating is the only real reason to show up in person. You can say what you want about the Meadowlands—that it's a gridlocked eyesore in the middle of a desolate, radioactive swamp, for example—and about the denizens of New Jersey, my native state. But the crowd in East Rutherford knows damn well what to do with a parking lot. We take to wide expanses of asphalt like fish to water.

Any warm and fuzzy feelings of state pride generated by the impressive spectacle of Lot 16 pre-partying, however, had dissipated by the time I finished walking up the Gate B spiral at halftime on the New Year's Eve Jets game. This is the sort of crowd that's fun to drink with but no longer enjoyable once drunk. Flocks of jersey-wearing guys gathered around the middle of the spiral, threw beer bottles, cursed Raiders fans, and chanted, "Show us your tits!" at a flattered but shy Jersey girl a few levels up. (Eventually, the lower-tier crowd segued into a rousing cry of "T-I-T-S! Tits! Tits! Tits!" which, OK guys, points for creativity. But you're still shitheads.)

I've always thought I should try to be a Jets fan; they're underdogs enough that they might offset my Yankees fandom and, in combination with the Nets, help me get into heaven. But they've given me precious little to hang on to over the last few years; it's not so much that they haven't been good, but rather that they've been assiduously dull.

I honestly think I'd love rookie head coach Eric "Man-Genius" Mangini if only I weren't trying to report on him; the pleasant, baby-faced 35-year-old has made politely stonewalling sportswriters into an art form. Well, no—stonewalling sportswriters was already an art form, but in Mangini, it has found its Picasso. It's now entering its blue period. The erstwhile Bill Belichick protégé refuses to speak in soundbites or pithy quotes, which is refreshing in theory but, in practice, profoundly dull (do not ingest a Mangini press conference while driving or operating heavy machinery). He has a wry, Saharan sense of humor, which he rarely allows himself to display; after the Jets' win over the Oakland Raiders gave them a wild-card slot, safety Kerry Rhodes said, "He was happy. He may have smiled twice."

In Chad Pennington (a "Rhodes Scholarship finalist," as broadcasters never tire of reminding us), the Jets have a solid, hardworking quarterback who's also smart enough not to feed the media machine. He has an impressive bearing, though. It's easy to imagine Pennington doing something else—owning his own business, maybe, or running for local office—whereas it's very difficult to imagine the much maligned Eli Manning doing anything other than playing beer pong off of a football field.

With the team coming off a lousy, injury- riddled 4-12 season, and with Chad Pennington rehabbing a shoulder injury, no one expected much from the Jets this season, and they have a bit of a chip on their collective shoulder. "A lot of people outside, they're not with us every day. . . . We know from inside what kind of players we have," said Rhodes, before the Raiders game, in a typical statement. Asked afterward if they'd used the doubters as motivation, he said no: "Of course you're going to hear it, but . . . we didn't care what nobody else thought—we still don't care. We have to play for ourselves."

Wide receiver Laveranues Coles took Mangini's dictum that injuries must not be used as excuses—although I have no idea how a fucking concussion isn't a legitimate excuse—to extremes after the Raiders win. Asked about the brutal hit he'd received in the previous week's Dolphins game, he snapped, "Ask me about the playoffs." The reporter took umbrage and turned away, muttering, "Great, now you're telling me what questions to ask."

"What?!"

"Don't tell me what to ask. Fuck you."

"Fuck you! . . . Yeah, boy, you better get far."

"What are you gonna do, huh?"

At which point the Jets' alert PR staff swooped in and gently hustled the reporter away before he could find out.

"Sorry you had to see that," said Coles, who, incidentally, was wearing a sequined Pink Panther T-shirt throughout the exchange. I debated, but ultimately decided against, asking him to show me his tits.

I watched the playoffs the way the NFL is meant to be watched: on TV, with beer. The length alone made the back-to-back games feel like a real event—seven hours of football (or rather, about three hours of football and roughly four hours of that excruciating Chevy ad featuring John Mellencamp's "Our Country").

On the screen, I could pick up details I'd have missed at the stadium—just how much Eagles QB Jeff Garcia resembles my 45-year-old 11th-grade earth science teacher, for example (you have no idea until he takes off his helmet). Also, reading Jeremy Shockey's lips after a failed play is fun, educational, and perfect for drinking games. The trade-off is enduring Fox's epileptic-fit-inducing on-field graphics, shameless plugs for 24, and random animated-robot prancing on the side of my screen. Whoever directs Fox's sports coverage is suffering from some combination of attention deficit disorder, megalomania, or a severe sugar high.

Jets fans are not optimistic people, and while they were disappointed with their team's 37-16 loss to the Patriots, very few of them seemed surprised. Instead, they were relieved and grateful that the season hadn't been a putrid disaster, as expected. The Pats' Tom Brady, object of passionate yet manly adoration from sportscasters everywhere, ran another excellent game, precisely orchestrated by Belichick. Afterward, the flinty New England coach hurled cameramen out of his way in order to briefly encircle Mangini with his forearms, a perplexing and unfamiliar gesture that bore a superficial resemblance to a hug.

Shortly thereafter, the Giants played a respectable but futile game against the Philadelphia Eagles, who beat them 23-20 in the final seconds.

Eli Manning was unimpressive but, to everyone's visible relief, kept the game from spiraling out of control. The loss left Tom Coughlin's future with the team in doubt, but since he looks to be one more interception away from a massive mental and physical breakdown, perhaps a forced vacation would be for the best. Meanwhile, Tiki Barber survived one last series of crushing blows and, with thoughts of lucrative television contracts dancing in his head, was unable to suppress a smile after the loss. "It's a game," he said afterward, "and now it's done. I'm excited about life."

I'm excited about pitchers and catchers.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Thursday, 11 January 2007 07:00 (nineteen years ago)

oh, and the flying squirrel tackle is finally up on youtube

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Thursday, 11 January 2007 07:02 (nineteen years ago)

I will admit that when I read "it's very difficult to imagine the much maligned Eli Manning doing anything other than playing beer pong off of a football field," I thought of Ally.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Thursday, 11 January 2007 07:05 (nineteen years ago)

Football fans are shaking their heads right now and dismissing me as an idiot, and you know what? That's fair.

I stopped reading here.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Thursday, 11 January 2007 07:14 (nineteen years ago)

This paragraph is pretty OTM though.

― TOMB07 (TOMBOT), Thursday, 11 January 2007 14:51 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/57419

― a_p (a_p), Thursday, 11 January 2007 14:52 (nineteen years ago)

The article is totally all over the place, has no real point, and requires the reader to ignore non-sequiturs or back up and re-read nominally useless details for context every six sentences or less, but Jay Felly yammering about our "results-driven society" is the hidden gem to take away.

― TOMB07 (TOMBOT), Thursday, 11 January 2007 14:58 (nineteen years ago)

I keep thinking Dawkins is doing the Chappelle-Dean "BYAAAAAAAH" as he makes that leap

― TOMB07 (TOMBOT), Thursday, 11 January 2007 14:59 (nineteen years ago)

THIS PART HAS BEEN MELTING MY MIND FOR LIKE 5 MINUTES NOW, WHY WOULD JAY FEELY CARE?? AND IF HE CARED SO MUCH, WHY WOULDN'T HE JUST GO AND FIX IT? ARRRGH.

IT'S LIKE THE ARTICLE WAS WRITTEN BY DR. MORBIUS. I HATE THE VILLAGE VOICE, THIS IS EXACTLY WHY I REFUSED THEIR OFFER OF EASY WORK THAT THEY HOUNDED ME ABOUT FOR 2 YEARS.

THO OTM ABOUT ELI MANNING AND THE BEER PONG, DUDE NEEDS TO STOP SPENDING 2ND HALF OF SEASON DOING THAT SHIT. I KNOW NO ONE ON THE GIANTS CARES ANYMORE BUT COME ON, YOU'RE OFFICIALLY HEADING INTO YOUR "LATE 20S," GROW UP.

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Thursday, 11 January 2007 15:13 (nineteen years ago)

sorry that is in all caps but that is just how much the Jay Feely apostrophe madness blew my mind apart.

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Thursday, 11 January 2007 15:13 (nineteen years ago)

IT'S LIKE THE ARTICLE WAS WRITTEN BY DR. MORBIUS.

*giggle*

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 11 January 2007 15:16 (nineteen years ago)

Also Alex that is one of the funniest things I've ever read in the Onion.

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Thursday, 11 January 2007 15:20 (nineteen years ago)

that Fox robot has got to go, I can't take it anymore

― lk (lawrence kansas), Thursday, 11 January 2007 15:24 (nineteen years ago)

i kinda wish it was saturday so i could watch the pats game tomorrow. i'm antsy.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 11 January 2007 15:50 (nineteen years ago)

I wish it was Friday, or Saturday, or Sunday, or basically any day that would mean it is now "the weekend," but I hate my job.

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Thursday, 11 January 2007 16:04 (nineteen years ago)

i'd take friday or saturday but i still need one day of anticipation. plus there's a show i want to go to saturday night. and likewise on the job-hating front but i'm guessing they'll fire my ass soon enough.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 11 January 2007 16:06 (nineteen years ago)

i pray for firing :(

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Thursday, 11 January 2007 16:07 (nineteen years ago)

You should come up here & work for my helping friendly insurance co, Ally - they'll lay you off in 6 months! (Tho I've been here for 1 year - 2, if you count my co-op - and I'm still waiting for the sweet bliss of release.)

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 11 January 2007 16:12 (nineteen years ago)

Well now it just sounds like you're lying.

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Thursday, 11 January 2007 16:13 (nineteen years ago)

can't wait to see pats ~~lose~~get creamed by san diego.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 11 January 2007 16:38 (nineteen years ago)

If you're working on the business side of things, Ally, I think you're guaranteed a shitcanning within half a year - it might be in the contract. I'm in IT, tho, so I get to linger, since they need someone to train all the offshore resources that will leave in a year while simultaneously fixing their mistakes.

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 11 January 2007 16:45 (nineteen years ago)

Beats playing quarterback...

http://yardism.com/Rex.jpg

― Frank Reich always kind of looked like Scott Bakula to me, btw (rogermexico), Thursday, 11 January 2007 17:48 (nineteen years ago)

The expression on Grossman's face is priceless.

― Ice Cream Electric (Ice Cream Electric), Thursday, 11 January 2007 22:35 (nineteen years ago)

I used to serve up Blizzards (he always ordered Tropical) to Marty Schottenheimer as a 16-year-old Dairy Queen wage slave, so my objectivity is suspect. Despite my earnest wishes, Marty never said, "I'm just going to take this one Blizzard at a time. I'll celebrate the delicious flavor of this one tonight and then start planning for next week's purchase on Monday."
http://www.slate.com/id/2157363/entry/2157511/

― a_p (a_p), Friday, 12 January 2007 01:04 (nineteen years ago)

(yes, slate is lame and stupid, but sullentrop is a bro)

― a_p (a_p), Friday, 12 January 2007 01:04 (nineteen years ago)

I have never tried the Tropical one!

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Friday, 12 January 2007 07:06 (nineteen years ago)

so i'm growing a playoff beard. i haven't shaved since sunday morning and just caught a glimpse of myself in a mirror for the first time in about 31 hours and in that span i've gone from looking "scruffy" to looking "homeless".

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 12 January 2007 19:45 (nineteen years ago)

That tackle is hilarious.

Chad Pennington is a Rhodes Scholarship finalist? That is cool!

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Friday, 12 January 2007 20:43 (nineteen years ago)

doug flutie was a rhodes scholarship finalist too.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:00 (nineteen years ago)

dude is the greatest man who ever lived

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:09 (nineteen years ago)

he put bernie kosar in his place.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:11 (nineteen years ago)

WHOA!!! I just remembered monday in MLK day! when the pats win i'm TOTALLY going on a sunday night bender!!!

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:16 (nineteen years ago)

when the pats LOSE i'm TOTALLY going on a sunday night bender!!!

Whoa me too!

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Friday, 12 January 2007 22:55 (nineteen years ago)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v502/ibsamantha/Photoshop/dawkbed.gif

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Saturday, 13 January 2007 18:13 (nineteen years ago)

hahahahahahahah

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Saturday, 13 January 2007 18:25 (nineteen years ago)

my picks this weekend:

baltimore
san diego
chicago
new orleans

― t0dd swiss (immobilisme), Saturday, 13 January 2007 21:13 (nineteen years ago)

Weapon X goes old school!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v81/plechazunga/ilx/WEAPONX.jpg

― c('°c) (Leee), Sunday, 14 January 2007 01:51 (nineteen years ago)

I want to kiss Adam Viniteri's feet. 5/5 field goals so bye, bye Baltimore. Good riddance.

― Ice Cream Electric (Ice Cream Electric), Sunday, 14 January 2007 02:54 (nineteen years ago)

oh rex you just came v close to being 0-2 w/an int.

in other news indy rolls despite the annual manning choke job - 2 games 5 ints.

and bears wisely run on 3rd and 5 for the td.

― jhoshea no tee em (scoopsnoodle), Sunday, 14 January 2007 18:15 (nineteen years ago)

no... dad got hosed.

lol clay davis shhhhhhhhhhhhhiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit

― jhoshea no tee em (scoopsnoodle), Sunday, 14 January 2007 18:19 (nineteen years ago)

dear defenses,

learn catching.

― jhoshea no tee em (scoopsnoodle), Sunday, 14 January 2007 18:23 (nineteen years ago)

nice lunge

i am enjoying this game

― jhoshea no tee em (scoopsnoodle), Sunday, 14 January 2007 18:39 (nineteen years ago)

wow nice pass rex grossman

endzone djing not so much

― jhoshea no tee em (scoopsnoodle), Sunday, 14 January 2007 18:44 (nineteen years ago)

Fractions are too much for Joe Buck apparently.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Sunday, 14 January 2007 18:56 (nineteen years ago)

I really wish aikman would punch him in the nuts, just one time.

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Sunday, 14 January 2007 18:57 (nineteen years ago)

so, 5/8 is more than 3/8, right?

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Sunday, 14 January 2007 19:03 (nineteen years ago)

he tasked the math part of his brain w/overflow righteous indignation.

― jhoshea no tee em (scoopsnoodle), Sunday, 14 January 2007 19:09 (nineteen years ago)

hassleback is not looking too sharp today dudes

― jhoshea no tee em (scoopsnoodle), Sunday, 14 January 2007 19:12 (nineteen years ago)

grossmang looks shook after he ass got saaaaaaaaaaaaaacked

― If you fuck with Jimmy Mod, you call down the thunder (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Sunday, 14 January 2007 19:23 (nineteen years ago)

Sean Alexander: not afraid of the end zone.

― hearditonthexico (rogermexico), Sunday, 14 January 2007 20:08 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.magieheim.at/keltica/me/cyberlinks/wind_in_his_hair.jpg

― If you fuck with Jimmy Mod, you call down the thunder (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Sunday, 14 January 2007 20:22 (nineteen years ago)

that was on channel 13 last night!

― hstencil (hstencil), Sunday, 14 January 2007 20:33 (nineteen years ago)

Holmgren is going to kill someone!

― TOMB07 (TOMBOT), Sunday, 14 January 2007 21:24 (nineteen years ago)

OUT IN THE STREETS THEY CALL IT MUUUURRRRRRDEEERRRRRRRRR

― If you fuck with Jimmy Mod, you call down the thunder (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Sunday, 14 January 2007 21:29 (nineteen years ago)

Fuk.

― do i have to draw you a diaphragm (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 14 January 2007 21:30 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.cantstopthebleeding.com/img/marty1120.jpg

HE GOT CRAZY EYE

― If you fuck with Jimmy Mod, you call down the thunder (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Sunday, 14 January 2007 22:17 (nineteen years ago)

Brady's not quite setting the world on fire here, is he?

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Sunday, 14 January 2007 23:01 (nineteen years ago)

I WUD NOT BED AGAINST BRADIE AND BELLICKECK LOL!!!!111

― If you fuck with Jimmy Mod, you call down the thunder (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Sunday, 14 January 2007 23:11 (nineteen years ago)

OOPS!

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 15 January 2007 01:18 (nineteen years ago)

LOLLLLLLLLLL WHO'S READY FOR COLTS-PATS PART 22838689256 LOL LMBOBODLBDBO,L

― SEACREST OUT OF IRAQ! (Adrian Langston), Monday, 15 January 2007 01:18 (nineteen years ago)

O GOD

― If you fuck with Jimmy Mod, you call down the thunder (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Monday, 15 January 2007 01:18 (nineteen years ago)

GOD DAMN IT.

― hearditonthexico (rogermexico), Monday, 15 January 2007 01:19 (nineteen years ago)

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA LOLOLOLOOLOLOLOLOLOLO

― SEACREST OUT OF IRAQ! (Adrian Langston), Monday, 15 January 2007 01:20 (nineteen years ago)

Hi, I'll be over here killing myself.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Monday, 15 January 2007 01:22 (nineteen years ago)

LAME
Props to Ladainian for calling bullshit

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Monday, 15 January 2007 01:24 (nineteen years ago)

This is the worst thing that has ever happened.

― hearditonthexico (rogermexico), Monday, 15 January 2007 01:27 (nineteen years ago)

How many signs of the apocalypse are there?

Go Colts.

― Michael Collie (Sans Sushi), Monday, 15 January 2007 01:43 (nineteen years ago)

http://scoopsnoodle.com/lix/yay.gif

― jhoshea no tee em (scoopsnoodle), Monday, 15 January 2007 02:10 (nineteen years ago)

Poor Marty.

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Monday, 15 January 2007 02:27 (nineteen years ago)

my picks this weekend:

baltimore
san diego

lol @ looserrrrrr

― am0n (am0n), Monday, 15 January 2007 02:52 (nineteen years ago)

daerest sports media,

stop sucking tom brady's dick so hard.

k thx.

― t0dd swiss (immobilisme), Monday, 15 January 2007 03:34 (nineteen years ago)

*muffled response*

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Monday, 15 January 2007 03:47 (nineteen years ago)

LOL FOOTBALL

what was LT so mad about anyway?

― dar1a g (daria g), Monday, 15 January 2007 05:18 (nineteen years ago)

the pats were doing merriman's "light's out" dance after they won the game. in the middle of the field. which is pretty hilarious but honestly i feel really bad for LT and also while i like the pats I really hate them right now. i might even root for the colts next weekend.

― SEACREST OUT OF IRAQ! (Adrian Langston), Monday, 15 January 2007 05:30 (nineteen years ago)

yeah I do feel bad for LT, he's great..
hmm. I don't get why people hate the pats really!

― dar1a g (daria g), Monday, 15 January 2007 06:15 (nineteen years ago)

you don't? are you high? no offense lol.

― SEACREST OUT OF IRAQ! (Adrian Langston), Monday, 15 January 2007 06:17 (nineteen years ago)

pats and ravens were pisspoor this weekend, the former just had turnovers IN their favor rather than against. lol@ dude at bar holding his ravens cap against the tv screen while colts scored final kick. waitress angrily pulled his arm away

― am0n (am0n), Monday, 15 January 2007 06:18 (nineteen years ago)

nah i don't get it but i was living in new england when they won those super bowls and it's like.. it kinda sucks to live in new england especially in january, you look for what bright spots you can

― dar1a g (daria g), Monday, 15 January 2007 06:22 (nineteen years ago)

dudes, I think maybe the fact that I yelled "fuck you Tom Brady" every time he took the field helped the fucking Patriots win because I am being punished for poor fansmanship or something. fuck. poor LT.

I am really happy for Kevin, though.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Monday, 15 January 2007 06:41 (nineteen years ago)

"I would never react like that. I was very upset," Tomlinson said. "When you go to the middle of our field and start doing the dance Shawne Merriman is known for, that is disrespectful. They showed no class and maybe that comes from the head coach."

http://images.dmusic.com/v7/emoticons/sob.gif

― am0n (am0n), Monday, 15 January 2007 06:54 (nineteen years ago)

baltimore just had their strategy blow up in their faces. see the safeties 30 yards off the ball? basically daring indy to bleed the clock and kick field goals...of course you need the BALL to score, but oh well....

― ryan (ryan), Monday, 15 January 2007 07:20 (nineteen years ago)

how dare you mock the bizarre spastic dace of our juiced-up sack guy - he can only use that to taunt you! wtf

whatever, i like tomlinson and i'm sure he was just (justifiably) sick from losing to a team that played like ass all day.

if it wasn't for 3 retarded moves the chargers would've had game in hand: 4th and 11, trying to pick up the muffed punt instead of falling on it, head butt right in front of the ref. there's also all those wasted timeouts in the 2nd half.

― jhoshea no tee em (scoopsnoodle), Monday, 15 January 2007 15:20 (nineteen years ago)

and yeah get a real coach ffs

― jhoshea no tee em (scoopsnoodle), Monday, 15 January 2007 15:33 (nineteen years ago)

Gostkowski: "Game-winning kicks are fun. I haven’t had too many experiences with them. I’m glad it worked out."

― dar1a g (daria g), Monday, 15 January 2007 15:51 (nineteen years ago)

lolz

― jhoshea no tee em (scoopsnoodle), Monday, 15 January 2007 15:54 (nineteen years ago)

fyi: winning is fun

― am0n (am0n), Monday, 15 January 2007 16:53 (nineteen years ago)

I root for whoever is winning in the fourth quarter so I'm happy more often.

― pj (Henry), Monday, 15 January 2007 17:17 (nineteen years ago)

retroactively root for winnaz

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Monday, 15 January 2007 17:19 (nineteen years ago)

if the chargers had won the game i would have been pretty much okay with any of the four remaining teams winning the super bowl (though obv i want the bears to win ahead of all the others). but if the pats win again, ugh.

plz let the colts win next weekend. plz let the bears win too, but if they lose, let n.o. stomp over whoever comes out of the afc (esp if it's the pats).

― ‘•’u (gear), Monday, 15 January 2007 18:03 (nineteen years ago)

I hope Peyton Manning eats Tom Brady on Sunday.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Monday, 15 January 2007 18:19 (nineteen years ago)

I'd want to root for Manning a lot more if he'd stop shilling for EVERY single product ever.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 15 January 2007 18:22 (nineteen years ago)

I like seeing Peyton Manning shilling for stuff because it's the only time he smiles. but I have boring Manning-love.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Monday, 15 January 2007 18:23 (nineteen years ago)

sry dudes this is looking like a patriots stumble ass backward into another superbowl win type of thing, no? book manning for three interceptions next week, bringing his 3 game total to 8. and then of course the ceremonial crushing of whoever the nfc sees fit offer up.

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Monday, 15 January 2007 18:28 (nineteen years ago)

maybe everyone will predict that and the Colts will get mad and pull off the upset, a la Ravens game!

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Monday, 15 January 2007 18:33 (nineteen years ago)

is this being played in foxbro?

― ‘•’u (gear), Monday, 15 January 2007 18:41 (nineteen years ago)

I like seeing Peyton Manning shilling for stuff because it's the only time he smiles. but I have boring Manning-love.

Is that so, horseshoe?

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 15 January 2007 18:41 (nineteen years ago)

order of preference for SB win: chicago>>>>>>nawlins>>>>>indy>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>brady eats bad sushi and is unable to play because he's in a coma>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>pats

― ‘•’u (gear), Monday, 15 January 2007 18:42 (nineteen years ago)

no, gear, it's being played in the RCA Dome!

PP, maybe I root for Peyton Manning's team, maybe?

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Monday, 15 January 2007 18:46 (nineteen years ago)

preference:
patz>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>nola>>>bears>>>>>indy

likelihood:
patz>indy>>>>>nola>bears

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Monday, 15 January 2007 18:51 (nineteen years ago)

Gawd, it IS looking like a Pats Bears superbowl isn't it?
Maybe i go see Kiki and Herb instead of eating nachos in February.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Monday, 15 January 2007 18:56 (nineteen years ago)

stop crowning the Patriots' ass already!

I would love to see Tony Dungy gracious in victory versus Belicheck evil and troglodytic in defeat.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Monday, 15 January 2007 19:00 (nineteen years ago)

book manning for three interceptions next week

How many should I book Brady for? Because he also fucking sucks, but he's #1 sporting press BJ recipient for the 6th year in a row. I mean sure LT got MVP but we all REALLY know the star of all football is ever-so-cool-in-the-pocket Tom Brady, three rings and oops a pick right into the arms of another charger. don't mention that, or that belichick's vaunted ability to knock out number one seeds is pretty much based entirely on games decided by last minute field goals, let's spend another thirty minutes talking up the fucking unstoppable unbelievable pats who, uh, can't actually beat the Colts anymore guys, that was two years ago. People hate the Pats because they are the most overhyped team in the history of the league. We are tired of hearing about yr dynasty of kickers. Brady is not actually the perfect QB. People want to see the pats lose because it means we get to stop hearing about them. Shilling for everything ever vs. being shilled for by every football commentator ever. "Montana-like!" Uh.

Anyway. I really hope XLI does not blow as hard as these playoffs have.

― TOMB07 (TOMBOT), Monday, 15 January 2007 19:01 (nineteen years ago)

Brady isn't exactly someone who throws picks with great regularity. He had a bad game yesterday, but before that he had many games in a row with no picks whatsoever.

I guess I will root for New Orleans now so that we can magically fix their broken city.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Monday, 15 January 2007 19:05 (nineteen years ago)

i would basically be happy with any super bowl combination that does not include the pats. i mean obv they're a great team, though; they downed teams led by kurt warner, jake delhomme, and a nauseous donovan mcnabb.

― ‘•’u (gear), Monday, 15 January 2007 19:05 (nineteen years ago)

Brady threw 4 picks the last time the Pats met the Colts, in the regular season. who does NE even have besides Brady? Rodney Harrison's still out, right? they don't have Ty Law. who's going to pick Peyton off?

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Monday, 15 January 2007 19:09 (nineteen years ago)

what's the rule on replays, btw? i thought schottenheimer should have challenged on that one fumble that the receiver never had possession, not that the ground caused the fumble. can a coach challenge on one point and can the refs then check it out and see they were wrong on another point and overturn it for a reason other than the challenge?

― ‘•’u (gear), Monday, 15 January 2007 19:12 (nineteen years ago)

also, way upthread, lawrence kanasas OTM:

that Fox robot has got to go, I can't take it anymore

I also hate Fox's videogame camera angles; I can never tell what's going on when they do that shit. also, Tony Siragusa. in short: fuck you, Fox.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Monday, 15 January 2007 19:17 (nineteen years ago)

weird moment in the bears game yesterday, on that grossman pass in the first quarter that was nearly picked off.

aikman: what a great pass by rex grossman

(10 seconds later)

aikman: the bears are really lucky that grossman pass wasn't picked off.

― ‘•’u (gear), Monday, 15 January 2007 19:19 (nineteen years ago)

hmm. pats not unstoppable! but, the other teams esp top seeds seem to be usually fucking up enough to lose the game. and it's like if the pats inc. brady fuck up, which they do, the other team fucks up more esp. under pressure in the last few minutes of the half/game, so why get pissed at the pats.

i don't know what to expect next week out, but uh, they lost to the jets last time they met in the regular season, they lost to the chargers (disastrously) last year in regular season.. and?

― dar1a g (daria g), Monday, 15 January 2007 19:22 (nineteen years ago)

well brady had a bad game, but manning is almost always bad in the playoffs. which is something i usually don't put too much stock in, but the pattern is pretty hard to ignore at this point. indy's season always ends w/him shitting the bed. which is not to say he couldn't have a great game next week. i just doubt he will.

as for the press love of brady, they like winning, they like to say he just wins. what're you gonna do? they're retarded glory hounds. brady has come up big in some big games and he's dug his way out of a hole of his own making a few times and he's a few handed to him (like yesterday). and he's kinda a lame dude.

but anyone who hates brady more than manning is bonkerz - at least he doesn't throw his teammates under the bus when he fucks up.

and, uh, belichick is obv v good at his job.

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Monday, 15 January 2007 19:27 (nineteen years ago)

I don't think anyone is pissed at the Pats for winning; people are pissed at the Pats for being completely ungracious winners year in and year out and even poorer losers, and for the fact that they get a complete pass by the entirety of the press despite this. It tends to lead people who aren't already fans of the team to really hate the team in question. LT basically OTM in calling them out esp. Belichick except he did come off like a crybaby ;_;

Colts-Nawlins FYI.

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Monday, 15 January 2007 19:32 (nineteen years ago)

Also TS calling out a crappy kicker who started the fight vs pissing and moaning that the other team "stole" your signals because they, like, watched your previous games? I mean, c'mon, they're both huge girly assholes. Peyton is just generally a more "likeable" character than Patrick Bateman Brady.

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Monday, 15 January 2007 19:33 (nineteen years ago)

people don't dispute that Belichick is a smart coach, they find him basically unrelatable as a human being because his a giant asshole and not in a charming way like Bill Parcells.

LT was basically OTM, but Deion Sanders was weirdly OTM also when he commented that Tomlinson shouldn't have called himself "classy" in comparison with the Patriots. even if everyone knows it's true.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Monday, 15 January 2007 19:34 (nineteen years ago)

actually the "basically relatable as a human being" thing is also why I prefer Manning to Brady.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Monday, 15 January 2007 19:34 (nineteen years ago)

who's going to pick Peyton off?

asante samuel led the league in interceptions. the pats d is really good - the o not so much, their receiving core is a joke (and the main reason for brady's subpar season).

what's the rule on replays, btw?

it doesn't matter what you challenge, they review the whole play.

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Monday, 15 January 2007 19:35 (nineteen years ago)

OTM about Manning always being pretty bad in the playoffs, except he and Brady had same comnplete % and same # of intercepts yesterday and it's just hilarious that the game recaps are the 3 Manning ints over and over and like no mention of the Brady ones. I guess it is kind of funnier to show how Bmore kept sonning Manning yet did absolutely jack all with it :D

xpost haha yeah I don't know why he pointed out that he was classy. WEIRD.

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Monday, 15 January 2007 19:37 (nineteen years ago)

I think he was still kind of disbelieving that his team managed to lose given the game he had. people probably shouldn't be held superaccountable for the things they say the day they lose a playoff game. I do feel really bad for him...it would have been awesome watching him run in the Super Bowl.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Monday, 15 January 2007 19:39 (nineteen years ago)

also, sorry to keep harping on how much I hate Brady (seriously, I wish I could get over it), but I don't think this: as for the press love of brady, they like winning, they like to say he just wins. entirely accounts for why male sportscasters seem obsessed with Brady. he's like this screen on which they project really kind of gross insecurity/hero-worship and that's not really his fault, but it always, alway makes me want to puke.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Monday, 15 January 2007 19:44 (nineteen years ago)

yeah the tombradydoesitagianisms were particularly ridiculous yesterday - he had an awful game, including that crazy interception/fumble play on one of his BIG FOURTH QUARTER DRIVES. he was so off i was starting to wonder if he's injured or something.

also i vaguely remember more manning blaming his teammates instances than just the vanderjeck thing.

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Monday, 15 January 2007 19:46 (nineteen years ago)

even in the huddle he seems to be scolding them sometimes ala marino. also his reactions to dropped passes, miscommunications =/ the positive body language of a GREAT LEADER LIKE TOM BRADY.

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Monday, 15 January 2007 19:49 (nineteen years ago)

on a happier note, I love the Jim Mora "PLAYOFFS?!?!" Coors Light commercial more every time I see it.

xpost re Manning: I don't think he's scolding them, just calling plays. also his reactions to mistakes are scary, but I read that as part of his whole during-the-game perfectionist personality. and I seriously wish he'd lighten up on the field; I think he'd probably be unbeatable if he did. but I maintain that off the field he seems nice and normal. of course, I am the biggest cap'n-save-a-Manning ever.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Monday, 15 January 2007 19:52 (nineteen years ago)

LT is all right but why they let merriman do that stupid dance all season long anyway? what's the class in that? it's bad form, funny to watch as a fan but has an air of.. lack of discipline + overconfidence

― dar1a g (daria g), Monday, 15 January 2007 19:53 (nineteen years ago)

ROID RAGE

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Monday, 15 January 2007 19:56 (nineteen years ago)

i sound like such a tool, but.. "he just wins" is about it, i mean, it's not luck, it's not magic, to keep winning championships at that level. he didn't have a great game sunday but also it didn't seem like they rattled him quite enough to shut down the passing game, and it sure seemed like marty s. was the one making the real killer bad decisions

― dar1a g (daria g), Monday, 15 January 2007 20:00 (nineteen years ago)

I don't get why the talking heads are making so much of Marty taking that time out yesterday. In the scope of things, that might be #10 in the list of why the Chargers lost to the Pats. Ironically, if they would have played Martyball and just tried to pound the rock instead of trying to pass as much, they probably would have won. SD had killed the Pats on the ground with both LT and Turner. I think Schottenheimer's biggest msistake was on thenext to last drive getting 6 yards on the first play running with LT and then passing the next two downs with like four minutes left on the clock. That was a way bigger mistake than throwing the flag, but neither are as stupid as the penalty on the extra point right before halftime, the two dumb fumbles, Rivers taking that sack 15 yards back costing them a field goal try and Jammer letting Gaffney get away for another twenty yards after the catch on NE's last drive. Marty throwing that flag is pretty insignifigant by comparison. SD should have just tried to run the ball much more and I think they counted on Rivers a bit too much.

Bob Kraft must have a freakin' mojo hand or is sacrificing virgins under Gillette stadium, as the Pats have had more flukey luck in the playoffs in the past half dozen years than any team in the history of the game.

The game kind of reminded me a bit of Pittsburgh's loss to the NE in the AFC Championship game a few years ago, where the Steelers played better but did stupid stuff and let the game slip away to the Pats late.

As I thought might be the case, the Colts getting back Dallas Clark has been really big. That catch for the first down at the end of the game was excellent.

I don't think Peyton Manning has gone that overboard trying to blame everyone else for his failures, in fact I think Manning has taken more than his fair share of abuse since he was in college about not being able to win the big game. The guy has won plenty and you can say pretty much saved the franchise in Indy, but that isn't the interesting story.

― Earl Nash (earlnash), Monday, 15 January 2007 20:04 (nineteen years ago)

no, you don't sound like a tool, dar1a, but Brady-loving sportscasters frequently do. I dunno, there's such a core of self-loathing, man I wish I could be a pro-athlete babe-scoring uber-man in so many sportscasters that their love for Brady can't help but seem indecent.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Monday, 15 January 2007 20:04 (nineteen years ago)

Earl Nash 1st paragraph TOTALLY OTM

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Monday, 15 January 2007 20:06 (nineteen years ago)

Ironically, if they would have played Martyball and just tried to pound the rock instead of trying to pass as much, they probably would have won. SD had killed the Pats on the ground with both LT and Turner.

yeah, otm, I don't know why LT didn't get the ball a lot more, pats d never figured out how to stop him

― dar1a g (daria g), Monday, 15 January 2007 20:10 (nineteen years ago)

that 2nd & 4 in the fourth stood out as particularly wtf to me too. but all the mental errors the chargers made warrant mentioning too (wasted timeout included) - cause they would've won if they'd been a little more with it (despite the lame play calling).

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Monday, 15 January 2007 20:18 (nineteen years ago)

"he was so off i was starting to wonder if he's injured or something."

i've been wondering this all year. he has been listed as having an injured shoulder but Belichick is so mysterious with injuries and shit that who knows.

― SEACREST OUT OF IRAQ! (Adrian Langston), Monday, 15 January 2007 20:20 (nineteen years ago)

the kind of errors that teh patz SIMPLY DO NOT MAKE!!! THEY JUST WIN!!!

(sry dudez)

xp to myself

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Monday, 15 January 2007 20:22 (nineteen years ago)

yeah he had some other games like this one earlier in the year

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Monday, 15 January 2007 20:23 (nineteen years ago)

Much as i enjoy watching the Bolts, they were really ineptly coached in that game, so many times that the game was up for grabs and poor playcalling, clock management and challenges botch their chances... i guess I'm just saying OTM Earl Nash again.

cosine on dallas clark being a big up for the colts; I don't really think it's a fait accompli that they lose to the Pats, but i DO think the winner of that game steamrolls either Chi or St Looie.

We were talking last night about how basically appropriate it would be for the Patriots to destroy New Orleans in Florida; it's 2005 all over again.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Monday, 15 January 2007 20:23 (nineteen years ago)

Also: why is Coughlin still not fired? Can we get that shit over, please?

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Monday, 15 January 2007 20:28 (nineteen years ago)

here is something i don't understand: all year the media's been making a big deal abt how marty handed off the play calling duties to his coordinators oh lookit him now he's not even wearing a headset!!!. then after the game when asked abt the 4th and 11 he's all i was just trying to be aggressive. so was he calling the plays or not wtf???

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Monday, 15 January 2007 20:31 (nineteen years ago)

they renewed him forks lol

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Monday, 15 January 2007 20:32 (nineteen years ago)

"Also: why is Coughlin still not fired?"

My guess is that the Giants front office thinks they will have better options (maybe Cowher) in a year for the head coach than what is currently available if Coughlin doesn't pan out. There was also something in the players exit interviews that most of them really liked Coughlin and wanted him back for another season.

I'm more of the thinking that it was more dumb luck with injuries that brought the Giants down than coaching. The dumb penalties have been a big problem with the NYG's for years, it is not something new. I don't think that gets fixed until you change out a bunch of players.

― Earl Nash (earlnash), Monday, 15 January 2007 20:44 (nineteen years ago)

how about a minor theme of the weekend being big name linebackerz disappearing and/or getting manhandled by o-lineman: Urlacher, Merriman and Ray Lewis(had a lot of tackles but no big ones[also, i less think he's overrated than past his prime a bit) collectively.

Brady gets credit for that one deep, PERFECT throw to Caldwell. otherwise, he shouldve had 5 picks prolly.

― Jimmy_tango (Jimmy_tango), Monday, 15 January 2007 21:17 (nineteen years ago)

i thought merriman acquitted himself well. they were dropping him into coverage a lot and when they did rush him he was being held like CRAZY. urlacher didn't have his best game but i think his responsibilities have changed with the d-line injuries. ray-ray's well past his prime but what else is gnu~

― SEACREST OUT OF IRAQ! (Adrian Langston), Monday, 15 January 2007 21:30 (nineteen years ago)

also yeah i've heard the theory that the giants resigned coughlin so they could tank 07 and make a run at cowher. which i wish the falcons thought of.

― SEACREST OUT OF IRAQ! (Adrian Langston), Monday, 15 January 2007 21:35 (nineteen years ago)

I was playing poker @ Foxwoods last night / this morning w/ way too many FUCK YEAH PASTIES LOL FAG fans. I got money from them tho, eventually, so :) :) :). Also, the one SD fan (dunno if he was rooting for the Bolts or the spread) was even more of a lunkhead daterape bro than the others - dude, keep yr cards ON the table. And it's OCHO CINCO, not OCHO CANKO or whatever the fuck your Somerville ass was saying.

PS re: yesterday's results - ;_______;

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 15 January 2007 21:35 (nineteen years ago)

then after the game when asked abt the 4th and 11 he's all i was just trying to be aggressive. so was he calling the plays or not wtf???

He is still in charge of situational strategy, but he didn't pick the play. He only chose to go for it. Also, Cameron wanted to go for it too, so it's kinda moot.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Monday, 15 January 2007 21:43 (nineteen years ago)

"The game kind of reminded me a bit of Pittsburgh's loss to the NE in the AFC Championship game a few years ago, where the Steelers played better but did stupid stuff and let the game slip away to the Pats late."

The game where the Patriots were leading 24-3 at halftime and the Steelers had 4 TOs to the Pats 0. Yeah exactly alike.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 15 January 2007 23:35 (nineteen years ago)

lol sonned

― SEACREST OUT OF IRAQ! (Adrian Langston), Monday, 15 January 2007 23:48 (nineteen years ago)

Actually now I am thinking you might have been talking about the 2001 game where the Pats led 14-3 at halftime (still 4 TOs to 0) and the Pats had the two special teams TDs and Brady got hurt, but I still don't remember the Steelers exactly "outplaying" them.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 00:01 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, that's the one that bledsoe came in and won. apparently he broke down and cried afterwards (;_;)

― SEACREST OUT OF IRAQ! (Adrian Langston), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 00:31 (nineteen years ago)

that Fox robot has got to go, I can't take it anymore

lol. i think fox is also behind scooter the 3-d cgi baseball

also:

http://www.ross-photo.com/images-loc-places/fox-nfl.jpg

― am0n (am0n), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 00:54 (nineteen years ago)

^looks like the set of running man

― am0n (am0n), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 00:56 (nineteen years ago)

ok, let me preface this by saying that i am, in fact, drunk, but fuck the chargers. you don't want the pats doing merriman's dance? THEN FUCKING WIN THE GAME. pats will beat the colts and then win the superbowl and i will be loving it while the rest of you are eating your own livers.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 01:22 (nineteen years ago)

amen

― am0n (am0n), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 01:37 (nineteen years ago)

I suppose you'll be eating creme brulee or anything that involves chocolate.

― TOMB07 (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 01:39 (nineteen years ago)

If indy+NO go to XLI it'll be totally extra historymakin' funtimes 'cause that means a Dome Team HAS to win

― TOMB07 (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 01:40 (nineteen years ago)

did any of you all think about THAT

― TOMB07 (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 01:40 (nineteen years ago)

LDT is a crybaby.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 01:41 (nineteen years ago)

tom, i didn't think of that because while both teams are more talented, neither is going to win.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 01:42 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.automatpictures.com/images/film_stills/runningman.jpg

― am0n (am0n), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 01:49 (nineteen years ago)

I hope the Pats lose by 30 points, as they deserve to.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 02:28 (nineteen years ago)

oh ok this is what i was thinking of:

Following the Colts' 2006 playoff loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers, Manning drew criticism for post-game statements that seemed to shift the blame to his offensive line. Manning stated that, "I'm trying to be a good teammate here.... let's just say we had some problems with protection." Manning was sacked five times in that game.

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 03:54 (nineteen years ago)

WINNAH!!!

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 04:02 (nineteen years ago)

I feel secure knowing that the commissioners' office will not be afraid to force the issue in at least one of the upcoming championship games to avoid the ratings debacle that a pats-bears XLI would be. You'd get better nielsens with a fucking broncos-redskins rematch.

― TOMB07 (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 05:06 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I've been advocating beating their offensive line with sticks for a while now. Still doesn't really acquit Coughlin, who should go ahead and start fucking benching these dudes when they fuck up.

Also we already had the Manning comments about the protection debate last year, and I went on the record as saying I was kind of on his side there, he was pissed at the reporter and said something (that was true) that he probably would've phrased better had he not been pissed. Whatevs tho--not really making the argument that Manning isn't a bitch, he's an NFL QB for god's sake, just that he is certainly a generally more likeable than Creepy McBrady up in Boston. Even the Cowboys got backlash in the '90s and you cannot be telling me that Aikman wasn't a more charming character than either of these two. It's not helping the Pats in the hates sweepstakes that their QB and Coach are both kind of reminiscent of serial killers.

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 05:22 (nineteen years ago)

IT IS TAKING A LOT OF WILLPOWER TO NOT POINT OUT THAT EVEN COWBOYS FANS I KNOW ARE PERFECTLY WILLING TO ADMIT/SYMPATHISE WITH WHY THEIR TEAM IS SO BAD AND HATED ;_1

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 05:24 (nineteen years ago)

ally how did you manage to find the only cowboy fans with any introspection whatsoever, these people want to kill the dixie chicks

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 05:34 (nineteen years ago)

well okay they booed them but still.

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 05:35 (nineteen years ago)

football fans with capabilities for introspection and self-awareness may seem rare on the whole, but by frequenting establishments that charge more than $2.50 per Bud Light (stadiums excepted obviously) you discover that the most fervent idiots are generally absent, leaving small pockets of geeks who would rather discuss parity issues, Michael Lewis and team owners' historical proclivities vs. saying the same three or four words (or even just letters) out loud over and over.

― TOMB07 (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 14:15 (nineteen years ago)

who was it who was saying that coaching is overrated in the nfl? a disciplined, well-coached team wouldn't have made these mistakes.

and yes allyzay, i know why the pats are hated but i do not care. as stated before i was there for the 1-15 years, the years where tommy hodson was considered a bright light for the franchise, the victor kiam years, the years where james busch orthwein was threatening to move the team to st. louis every other week. so having been through that crap you would be insane if you think i'm going to give a shit whether anyone likes the franchise or not.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 14:24 (nineteen years ago)

fuck, i just realized i will be missing the bears game sunday. and if my flight is on time i'll miss the first 10 minutes of the pats game and i'll STILL have to watch it at a bar at o'hare and pay $37 for a crappy bottle of domestic beer.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 14:28 (nineteen years ago)

ha, which computer do you use while drunk that turns you back into otto midnight?

― TOMB07 (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 14:31 (nineteen years ago)

http://espn.starwave.com/media/nfl/2005/0211/photo/a_brady_ft.jpg

whatevs let's be cool just a bit of fun etc

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 14:31 (nineteen years ago)

ha! i was wondering why my laptop was showing all these messages i read as unread.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 14:36 (nineteen years ago)

dr kevin/mr midnight

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 14:41 (nineteen years ago)

midnight at the o-aaaaaaaa-sis
put your camel to bed......

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 14:44 (nineteen years ago)

parents in town for wedding + Saints NFC CHAMPIONSHIP this weekend = good times!
They can watch my son pretend he's Reggie Bush and jump in the laundry pile.

― pj (Henry), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 15:09 (nineteen years ago)

yes i will be dvr'ing all playoffs, daughter's choir concert is at 3 pm sunday, then probably going out for fancy palestinian food, haha priorities.

tom i watch all games in company of me and 8 y.o. son, he is very introspective about football as well, mostly due to his proclivity for liking whatever team is gonna get jacked up most. i do not go out to watch games here in wisconsin for reasons you described very well.

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 15:16 (nineteen years ago)

for the record my son does not really like the dixie chicks either, but not for political reasons

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 15:21 (nineteen years ago)

wait kevin will you be in nyc next weekend?

one last time, with feeling:

http://www.daveblog.org/storage/dawkins-zeppelin.jpg

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 15:40 (nineteen years ago)

no, going to memphis, coming back sunday afternoon. won't be in nyc again until march.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 15:41 (nineteen years ago)

ah okay, have fun in memphis! i've never been. ;_;

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 15:57 (nineteen years ago)

i'm going record shopping and seeing some friends bands. and damaging my liver, surely.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:01 (nineteen years ago)

AGREED

― sunny successor agrees: gay dad always trumps slutty mom (katharine), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:11 (nineteen years ago)

http://i.a.cnn.net./si/multimedia/photo_gallery/0701/gallery.nfl.surprises/images/coaches.jpg

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:20 (nineteen years ago)

I'm going with the Colts next weekend. I keep thinking the Pats (like the Steelers last year) are destined by destiny but then I mentally picture Belichick and I need to cry.

I hate the Ravens but I'm still in awe that Stover is still kicking 50 yard + field goals with seemingly little effort.

― lk (lawrence kansas), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:27 (nineteen years ago)

so it'll be a Saints/Colts Super Bowl = domesday scenario

― lk (lawrence kansas), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:29 (nineteen years ago)

he's rushing home to cut the sleeves off the hoodie

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:29 (nineteen years ago)

ha! I've never seen Tony Dungy look so disapproving!

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:57 (nineteen years ago)

that's his "oh your name is darth vader now?" face

― TOMB07 (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 17:10 (nineteen years ago)

"Damn son, take a shower already!"

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 17:11 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.cbc.ca/gfx/topstory/sports/belichick_bill050206.jpg

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 17:18 (nineteen years ago)

He looks so carefree & fun with his hair feathered out like that.

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 17:22 (nineteen years ago)

"Damn son, take a shower already!"

haa he is a grimy looking dude. change yr hoodie at least

― am0n (am0n), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 17:24 (nineteen years ago)

I'm definitely thinking 2001 when Bledsoe came off the bench and threw that late TD. If I remember right and I haven't checked anything out, Pittsburgh was killing them on time of possession running the ball and up by a couple of scores. It was a low scoring game, but I think they were up by at least a TD and FG. It finally looked like Kordell had won a big game, then they muffed a punt return which turned into a NE TD, Brady got shook up and Bledsoe threw a late TD to either tie or win the game. I think Troy Brown or someone else may have taken a punt back for a TD in that game too. Either way, they gave a bunch of points away to the Pats.

2001 was really fluky, as there was also the Raiders snow game and Martz being a fool not running the ball in the second half. I think Brady only threw for like 160 yards and won the SB MVP.

I guess LT only got 8 touches in the second half against NE. Knowing that now, SD was monumentally stupid in their second half planning in that game.

― Earl Nash (earlnash), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 18:04 (nineteen years ago)

Either way, they gave a bunch of points away to the Pats.

flip side of that coin is that the pats took a bunch of points away from the steelers.

I guess LT only got 8 touches in the second half against NE.

THANK YOU MARTY!!!!

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 18:06 (nineteen years ago)

really, only 8 touches? the more i think about that the more confounding it seems. after the first run by LDT where he bounced outside for 10 yards i remember thinking "this is going to be a looooong game."

huh. 8 touches. the one dude the pats had absolutely no answer for and he only gets it 8 times in the second half. if any gm tries to hire marty for anything other than rebuilding the season ticket holders should hold an intervention. or a lynching.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 18:09 (nineteen years ago)

if any owner tries to hire marty for anything other than GM, you mean

― TOMB07 (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 18:14 (nineteen years ago)

i think history shows marty is a decent coach until it's win or go home. he'd be a good choice for a team like detroit who probably don't know how to win regular season games and shouldn't even think about playoffs.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 18:35 (nineteen years ago)

I thought the Chargers' gameplan was basically flawless apart from the 4th and 11 in the first quarter. If dudes catch balls and don't be stupid, it's not a close football game.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 19:24 (nineteen years ago)

two plays killed it for SD: eric parker's muff and that dude's headbutt

― ‘•’u (gear), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 19:26 (nineteen years ago)

and don't be stupid,

this goes back to coaching. plus i'd say only giving LDT 8 touches in the 2nd half is a pretty big flaw. as were the two pass attempts on after the pats tied the game.

did anyone read tuesday morning quarterback today? i loved the part where the chargers were celebrating on the sideline when they went up by 8 points.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 19:28 (nineteen years ago)

biggest play was the fumble after the interception. if the dude had knocked it down the chargers would've won the game since it was 4th down and all. but he went for the pick and let troy brown strip him. bad move. knock it down on fourth.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 19:29 (nineteen years ago)

i'm still not 100% the d-back had possession of the int. could be wrong.

― ‘•’u (gear), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 19:31 (nineteen years ago)

OMG MARTY SCHOTTENHEIMER POSTS TO ILNFL!!!!!

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 19:32 (nineteen years ago)

after the first run by LDT where he bounced outside for 10 yards i remember thinking "this is going to be a looooong game."

yeah, i thought the same pretty much - how are they going to stop him? answer: schottenheimer factor

― dar1a g (daria g), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 19:36 (nineteen years ago)

this goes back to coaching. plus i'd say only giving LDT 8 touches in the 2nd half is a pretty big flaw. as were the two pass attempts on after the pats tied the game.

OTM. You're up by a TD with the 4th quarter winding down. You need to kill the clock. You have the best running back in the NFL. This is as basic as coaching gets.

― NoTimeBeforeTime (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 19:48 (nineteen years ago)

they ran right at tully banta-cain all day and he couldn't shed the blocks at all. i'm sure the colts will try to exploit him in the same manner next week. i think the pats will probably try to do the same thing the ravens did with keeping the safeties 20 yards off the line in an attempt to eliminate the deep play, the pats db's have always had trouble covering those guys. i'm not so sure the pats interior defense will be able to hold the colts to 15 points however.

this is exactly the type of game where i'll miss willie mcginnest the most. the linebackers are going to be tested all day, they'll have to cover a lot of ground and they'll likely be on the field a lot as i expect the colts to have an advantage in time of possession. it would be nice to have willie come in at a crucial time after getting a few plays rest on the sidelines. other than vrabel none of the lb's have taken that role of a player who steps up and makes big plays at big times.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 19:49 (nineteen years ago)

You have the best running back in the NFL. This is as basic as coaching gets.

If he had done this and it had failed, he would be crucified 100x more than he is now.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 20:05 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, because the extra nails really would've smarted.

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 20:06 (nineteen years ago)

If he had done this and it had failed, he would be crucified 100x more than he is now.

you are insane if you believe that. plus, i sincerely doubt he'd fail. first run went for five yards and at that point LDT and his back up (i forget his name, tucker?) were averaging five and half yards per carry. the pats couldn't stop the run all day. they didn't stop the run on the first play of that drive. if you want to pass on 3rd down i can almost see it (though not really) but to pass on 2nd and 3rd? lunacy.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 20:08 (nineteen years ago)

He'd be crucified for not letting the league's MVP carry the ball down the stretch?

― NoTimeBeforeTime (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 20:10 (nineteen years ago)

you are insane if you believe that.

Perhaps you don't watch every Charger game like I do and read every article about the Chargers like I do. This is exactly what he did against the Ravens this year, several times last year, and against the Jets in the playoffs. Every time the press destroyed him for not mixing in some passing. "Oh, it's Martyball... three runs and a punt."

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 20:16 (nineteen years ago)

I mean I completely agree that he should have run the ball more, I am talking purely about press reaction.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 20:17 (nineteen years ago)

perhaps. but again, it goes back to i don't think the patriots could stop LDT 3 times in a row. but thankfully for pats fans everywhere we'll never know for sure.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 20:19 (nineteen years ago)

pats game vs. colts is in jeopardy because i don't think i stand my goddamn playoff beard for one more day. it itches like a motherfucker.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 21:06 (nineteen years ago)

polyphonic otm, tho he still should've ran LT more. i wondered if the crazy going for it on 4th and 11 was him trying to show that this was the NU MARTY.

― SEACREST OUT OF IRAQ! (Adrian Langston), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 21:15 (nineteen years ago)

i wondered if the crazy going for it on 4th and 11 was him trying to show that this was the NU MARTY.

I think the fact that Kaeding has a relatively weak leg and was kicking into the wind had something to do with it. All I know is that, in Madden, I go for it every single time in that scenario!

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 21:18 (nineteen years ago)

but in 2004 against the jets didn't he run LDT like right up the gut into the strongest part of the jets d? a jets d that was way more stout than this pats defense? and wasn't it in the rain? i still think it's insane that they didn't go back to that off tackle run that the pats couldn't stop.

i mean, there's no doubt marty was going to get nailed in the press if they lost no matter what. the 14-2 regular season record vs his 5-12 playoff record means it's an easy story for lazy writers to write. but i still think the pats would've lost if he'd handed the ball off.

xpost- marty said something about "wanting to be aggressive" in a press conference. i don't know if 4th and 11 is the time to do it but whatevs.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 21:22 (nineteen years ago)

Heavy rain that had been forecast didn't materialize, although there was a steady rain during most of the first quarter.

Technically, it was Cam Cameron who chose to do that, not Marty. I think we're all agreed that they needed to run the ball more and exploit the Pats run D in the 4th quarter.

I was wrong about the length of Kaeding's kick in the Jets game... it was only 40 yards. Not sure about what plays Cameron called in that one, it was a while ago.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 21:38 (nineteen years ago)

I really think the pats are screwed.

ps. http://www.tristatepunk.com/willdavidian/images/vickfinger.png

― SEACREST OUT OF IRAQ! (Adrian Langston), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 01:55 (nineteen years ago)

I like that look everyone is giving him in that shot, like "Oh hell no you did not just do that, are you retarded"

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 03:37 (nineteen years ago)

that is totally the look they're giving him; that is hilarious!

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 04:44 (nineteen years ago)

i like that he's obv directing the bird toward those two guys.

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 16:22 (nineteen years ago)

like maybe they beat him up in a club one time or something.

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 16:22 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, they apologized and are moved on, no need to give them the finger

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 16:28 (nineteen years ago)

am moved on...

― If you fuck with Jimmy Mod, you call down the thunder (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 17:02 (nineteen years ago)

THERE ARE TWO OF THEM

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 17:17 (nineteen years ago)

http://patriotworld.com/ImagesTC05a/planeteers.jpg

GO PATZ!!!

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 17:39 (nineteen years ago)

http://patriotworld.com/ImagesTC05a/planeteers.jpg

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 17:40 (nineteen years ago)

that can't be foxboro, there are no solo cups full of booze and there is grass in the picture.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 17:40 (nineteen years ago)

it's nice how the pink red sox cap makes a cameo

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 17:45 (nineteen years ago)

I hate--HATE--people who wear things like that. Not red sox and patriots gear, though that's pretty much something that turns my face the other way as well, but the wearing-the-wrong-color thing. WTF is the point of wearing these things if you're going to buy blatantly the wrong color?

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 17:48 (nineteen years ago)

the pink ones were sold with the proceeds going to fight breast cancer. i'm as pro-boobie and anti-cancer as the next guy but this still isn't ok.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 17:50 (nineteen years ago)

there is something abt that hat that so epitomizes mass girlz...

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 17:54 (nineteen years ago)

one thing i do not miss about new england: mass girls.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 17:56 (nineteen years ago)

not all of the pink ones benefit breast cancer (maybe all of the RS ones do? Not sure but def not all of the pink jerseys and hats for all of the teams), and even so just give your money to a charity and stop wanting something in return that you can flaunt around to prove how awesome you are. JERKFACES.

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 17:57 (nineteen years ago)

when I hung out in Mass we used to just call everyone massholes. It was funny because like everyone I was hanging with there besides myself and one friend were from Massachusetts so we were like uh why are they joining in on the massholes thing?

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 17:57 (nineteen years ago)

what's the difference between a moose and a girl from danvers?

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 17:58 (nineteen years ago)

i don't know, what IS the difference between a moose and a girl from danvers?

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 18:01 (nineteen years ago)

the flannel shirt.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 18:02 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.silverpersians.com/Miss_Wings_LX.jpg http://www.middletonsoccer.com/PhotoPages/photogallery/DIT%202004/U16%20Boys%20Middleton%20E3%20United%20Champions%20DIT%202004.jpg

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 18:07 (nineteen years ago)

ok wtf ILX with gay ass stupid html deleter. whatever, those are GIS for "danvers girl"

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 18:07 (nineteen years ago)

danvers, ma.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 18:09 (nineteen years ago)

YA BRAH

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 18:13 (nineteen years ago)

i like how they built the state mental home in danvers on top of a huge fucking hill then clear cut the forest around it and shone kleig lights on it at night giving it an even creepier vibe.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 18:15 (nineteen years ago)

WICKED FRICKIN AWESOME

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 18:16 (nineteen years ago)

that one soccer dudes mohawk is wicked off center

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 18:17 (nineteen years ago)

god, i had a mohawk when i was 15. what a fucking tool.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 18:21 (nineteen years ago)

oh come on mohawks are so f'n sweet - even in their current fashiony wtf incarnation they kinda warm my heart.

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 18:24 (nineteen years ago)

mohawk time line: indians>punks>jocks>gays>metrosexuals

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 18:26 (nineteen years ago)

i have nothing against them, i was just thinking about myself at 15, 5' 10" 105 lbs., upper body of a 10-year old girl and a f'ing mohawk. tool.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 18:27 (nineteen years ago)

yes but this is why there was a punk rock to make tool into cool, no?

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 18:29 (nineteen years ago)

mohawk time line: indians>punks>jocks>gays>metrosexuals

u forgot something: ww2 soldiers.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 18:38 (nineteen years ago)

really?

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 18:46 (nineteen years ago)

yes, there was also the addition of punk rock but no, that did not help in turning tool to cool.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 18:46 (nineteen years ago)

oh come on man, now repeate after me I HAD MOAHWK WHEN 15 I WAS A COOL BAD ASS YEAH!!!

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 19:01 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.weirdspot.com/images/uploads/1mohawk.jpg

this is u right?

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 19:04 (nineteen years ago)

All the dudes he is giving the finger to are totally wearing Vick shirts, too, that is also good.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 19:06 (nineteen years ago)

mindfuck!

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 19:22 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.onlinedid.com/products/wwii_us/80035/80035-1.jpg

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 19:36 (nineteen years ago)

wikipedia: The Mohawk is often thought to have been worn by the Mahican and Mohawk tribes, but this is in fact a misnomer; it is believed that the Wyandot were in fact the first Native American tribe to wear the hairstyle, but early French explorers mistook them for the Mohawk tribe.
During World War II, members of the Allied Airborne soldiers (specifically the 101st Airborne Division - the "Screaming Eagles") shaved their hair into Mohawks.[1][2]
The Clonycavan Man, a 2300-year-old male bog body found near Dublin, Ireland was found to be wearing a Mohawk, held together with plant oil and pine resin imported from southwestern France or Spain.

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 19:37 (nineteen years ago)

clonycavanman>indians>screamingeagles>punks>jocks>gays>metrosexuals

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 19:39 (nineteen years ago)

lol @ frohawk

― am0n (am0n), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 19:40 (nineteen years ago)

my uncle in the mid sixties was ordered by his high school to cut his shaggy hair immediately so because he is a wiseass cut it into a mohawk.

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 19:47 (nineteen years ago)

clonycavanman>indians>screamingeagles>unclesteve>punks>jocks>gays>metrosexuals

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 19:47 (nineteen years ago)

lmbo @ DANVAHS

" when I hung out in Mass we used to just call everyone massholes. It was funny because like everyone I was hanging with there besides myself and one friend were from Massachusetts so we were like uh why are they joining in on the massholes thing?

-- AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyza...) (webmail), January 17th, 2007 12:57 PM. (allyzay) (later) (link) (admin) (userip)"

it's kind of a sick point of pride.

― SEACREST OUT OF IRAQ! (Adrian Langston), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 21:26 (nineteen years ago)

srsly, it's the whole "taking-ownership-of-the-slur-removes-it's-meaning" thing. plus, in eastern mass anyway, anyone from west of worcester (or, phonetically, westuh wistuh) is kind of suspect anyway so we don't give a fuck what you think.

getting out of that parochial little backwater was the best thing i ever did.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 21:39 (nineteen years ago)

"mailto:e." wtf?

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 21:41 (nineteen years ago)

i meant to mention that! wtf dude?

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 21:43 (nineteen years ago)

i have no idea!!!!!!!!! maybe it happens when you end your sentence with "e.", like this: e.

― SEACREST OUT OF IRAQ! (Adrian Langston), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 21:53 (nineteen years ago)

― SEACREST OUT OF IRAQ! (Adrian Langston), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 21:54 (nineteen years ago)

mailtoe?

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 21:54 (nineteen years ago)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v55/Calzaer/FINALBEAVERREALLY.jpg

― SEACREST OUT OF IRAQ! (Adrian Langston), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 21:55 (nineteen years ago)

I blame the fact that ILX has lost its fucking mind today.

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 22:42 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, I think it's telling that there wasn't a huge amount of ILNFL posting on the day ILX lost its fucking mind.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 22:47 (nineteen years ago)

Yall mean ILE? I don't read that wasteland, can someone provide a recap?

― c('°c) (Leee), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 22:53 (nineteen years ago)

you do not want one

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 22:54 (nineteen years ago)

no i want a recap too, i dont read ilx anymore

― SEACREST OUT OF IRAQ! (Adrian Langston), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 23:09 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.evilshare.com/c769509c-f7cf-1029-b2ec-00a0c993e9d6

― TOMB07 (TOMBOT), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 23:17 (nineteen years ago)

^recap

― TOMB07 (TOMBOT), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 23:18 (nineteen years ago)

I have never had sex.
POPPAGE
DEAR NABISCO

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 23:23 (nineteen years ago)

Peyton Pouts (Yes,IreadFarkFarktoo)

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 23:54 (nineteen years ago)

RECAP:
LOUIS JAGGER REVEALED TO BE KYLE MACLACHLAN
ADAM BEALES REVEALED TO BE DENNIS HOPPER WITH A VAGINA
IN JOHN HUGHES'S PRODUCTION OF BLUE VELVET
DOES THIS HELP

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Thursday, 18 January 2007 00:20 (nineteen years ago)

i shaved the playoff beard this morning but left the 'stache so i'm guessing that means the pats game goes to overtime? if they lose it's on me. but i was getting so itchy!

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 18 January 2007 20:39 (nineteen years ago)

when I hung out in Mass we used to just call everyone massholes.

i learned that one from the maintenance guy at my apt. building in providence, RI. he had a point

― dar1a g (daria g), Thursday, 18 January 2007 23:00 (nineteen years ago)

Still got my playoff beard. I'm thinking about shaving down to a moustache for Super Bowl Sunday when I'm presented with my FFB Championship Trophy. Gotta have something for the pictures, y'know.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 18 January 2007 23:29 (nineteen years ago)

haha like providence is some wonderful golden world; i spent a lot of time in little rhody during college (two roommates grew up in barrington), i've spent my time at cumbuhland fahms, those guys can be wicked ahssholes too

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Friday, 19 January 2007 01:20 (nineteen years ago)

hhahhahahaha flu!

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Friday, 19 January 2007 06:09 (nineteen years ago)

i HAD A FEELING that the colts were gonna dominate this game, but after nick harper's dum commentz i think the pats win it imo.

ps. http://www.websurfnicaragua.com/images/random/fu.jpg

― SEACREST OUT OF IRAQ! (Adrian Langston), Friday, 19 January 2007 09:44 (nineteen years ago)

I'm thinking about shaving down to a moustache for Super Bowl Sunday

i'm going to tennessee this weekend to see two bands that a total of 8 friends are in, i've been instructed not to shave:

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a88/roebots/MoustachesOverMemphis.jpg

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 19 January 2007 14:36 (nineteen years ago)

everyone absolutely everyone on the tv is picking the colts wtf? what happened to their love of tom brady just winning?

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Friday, 19 January 2007 14:58 (nineteen years ago)

indy's postseason d is really being overrated here: first they stack the line daring kc to beat them in the air and hermedwards politely declines; then baltimore has no offense anyway; now peoples all omg they've really stepped it up.

not say they can't win, but they're gonna have to put up some points.

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Friday, 19 January 2007 15:03 (nineteen years ago)

it's somehow "peyton's time" whatever the fuck that means. last night i had a flashback to 2001 and this pats team really reminds me of that one. no name receivers (ricochet caldwell and jabar gaffney instead of troy brown and david patten), under-rated line that didn't start to gel until late in the season, corey dillon instead of antoine smith as the plodding rb who won't bust one for more than a 20 yard gain, and a defensive secondary that is suspect against a more talented opponent. though this secondary isn't nearly as talented as the one that featured lawyer milloy, ty law, tebucky jones, and otis smith.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 19 January 2007 15:09 (nineteen years ago)

Your entire team has the flu, you jagbags or whatever that word was. Of course everyone is picking the Colts. Also: the Colts have already proven they can beat your team multiple x so they no longer have the "Oh can't beat the Pats" stigma going on, which helps people be more willing to pick them.

also:
indy's postseason d is really being overrated here: first they stack the line daring kc to beat them in the air and hermedwards politely declines; then baltimore has no offense anyway; now peoples all omg they've really stepped it up.

dude this is retarded. I mean, I'm not saying either team played wonderfully at all (obviously) but it is pretty obvious that their d is a completely different unit right now than it was just 3 weeks ago. Like, impressively so. And I think everyone has accepted the fact that the play of their d alone is NOT enough to beat the Pats--everyone I've heard previewing the game has stressed that part of the equation is that no one thinks Peyton is going to have three terrible games in a row (note: I'm not sure what this theory is exactly based on).

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Friday, 19 January 2007 15:20 (nineteen years ago)

no i'm pretty sure their d didn't just get good all the sudden. maybe they're playing better but hermedwards/flacidravens had a lot to do w/it.

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Friday, 19 January 2007 15:26 (nineteen years ago)

If Herr Brady decides to play catch w/ the secondary like he has this postseason (except When It Counts, of course, because he Turns It On during Clutch Time), the Colts' D will be just fine.

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 19 January 2007 15:29 (nineteen years ago)

post season ints
brady 3
manning 5

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Friday, 19 January 2007 15:32 (nineteen years ago)

If Herr Brady decides to play catch w/ the secondary like he has this postseason (except When It Counts, of course, because he Turns It On during Clutch Time), the Colts' D will be just fine.

you could say the same about manning. especially when you look at their historical records in the playoffs. i'm less worried about the colts than i was about the chargers and i (correctly) talked myself into believing that the pats would win. i think it will be a great game, too bad i'm going to miss most of it.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 19 January 2007 15:34 (nineteen years ago)

To be clear, one of those Manning INTs was really a thrown punt.

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 19 January 2007 15:42 (nineteen years ago)

neither team will win, NFC team gets a bye in SB, Prince just shreds for four hours, AMERICA WINS

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Friday, 19 January 2007 15:48 (nineteen years ago)

HAIKUNYM OTM

― say it with blood diamonds (a_p), Friday, 19 January 2007 15:52 (nineteen years ago)

man i'd take that.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 19 January 2007 16:10 (nineteen years ago)

The Saints going all the way will be like the end of Ghostbusters 2. Sunday can't come fast enough.

― adam (adam), Friday, 19 January 2007 16:27 (nineteen years ago)

i guess it's supposed to be windy and snowy here on sunday? does that help the bears as taking away from the passing game hurts the saints more than the bears? i already figured new orleans to run the ball at the bears.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 19 January 2007 16:34 (nineteen years ago)

I hope to see Deuce hammering away at the Bears' line punctuated by Reggie theatrics and short passes to Colston etc. I also hope to see Jamaal Brown rip Urlacher in half like First of the North Star or something.

― adam (adam), Friday, 19 January 2007 16:42 (nineteen years ago)

didn't the saints lead the league in 20+ yard passes this season - big part of their o, no?

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Friday, 19 January 2007 16:51 (nineteen years ago)

An important question raised on Chicago radio this week, probably by douchey Mike North because my iPod wasn't working: "If the Saints are so godlike and unstoppable, how do they have six losses this year?"

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Friday, 19 January 2007 17:09 (nineteen years ago)

uhm, didn't the bears lose to the DOLPHINS??!?!?? the MIAMI DOLL FINS???!?!?!?!?

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 19 January 2007 17:28 (nineteen years ago)

i don't think people find them so godlike and unstoppable - more like the bears are highly suspicious.

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Friday, 19 January 2007 17:29 (nineteen years ago)

okay but i never said that the bears weren't suspect in many ways; part of that is due to injury (RIP Tommie Harris, the true key to Cover 2) and part of it is due to the well-known offensive struggles.

all i am saying is that the saints got their issues too is all i'm saying.

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Friday, 19 January 2007 17:33 (nineteen years ago)

RIP Tommie Harris, the true key to Cover 2

OTM. defense hasn't been the same since he went down.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 19 January 2007 17:37 (nineteen years ago)

hhoray we are hub arkush

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Friday, 19 January 2007 17:46 (nineteen years ago)

the bears have a v good shot - i am declaring both of these games to be TOSS-UPS!

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Friday, 19 January 2007 17:51 (nineteen years ago)

but maybe not really patz n saints still favored by me.

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Friday, 19 January 2007 17:52 (nineteen years ago)

i am babbling

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Friday, 19 January 2007 17:53 (nineteen years ago)

re: colts d
I have been stuck watching like a good 75% of their games or more thanks to very heavy national game representation + being friends with Colts fans. Trust me, their D has turned it up 100%.

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Friday, 19 January 2007 18:00 (nineteen years ago)

i'm so tired of these two teams though

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Friday, 19 January 2007 18:04 (nineteen years ago)

it's like, a chore to even think about any of them.

"HEY TOM BRADY, WHERE DID YOU GET THOSE RECEIVERS? ON EBAY?"

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Friday, 19 January 2007 18:06 (nineteen years ago)

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/070119
BIll Simmons is actually pretty good today, but he fails to understand the true reason everyone hates the Patriots: BILL SIMMONS.

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Friday, 19 January 2007 18:11 (nineteen years ago)

eh, guess it's possible i just have a hard time believing they could flip the switch after being so bad all year.

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Friday, 19 January 2007 18:14 (nineteen years ago)

I think what we should believe is that they've been faking being bad all year long, because that's the only thing that truly makes sense.

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Friday, 19 January 2007 18:26 (nineteen years ago)

BIll Simmons is actually pretty good today,

i refuse to believe this.

i think it will be bears v pats in super bowl and you know who i think will win that.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 19 January 2007 18:28 (nineteen years ago)

kevin OTM, I read it and think you are on crack cocaine dearest Haikunym.

also the pats would obviously win that, thank god that has about a 1% chance of happening. Also: I would boycott that game.

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Friday, 19 January 2007 18:35 (nineteen years ago)

saints 35 brs 17

― pj (Henry), Friday, 19 January 2007 18:36 (nineteen years ago)

otm

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Friday, 19 January 2007 18:40 (nineteen years ago)

oh man, i don't like this:

5. What will be the big headline on Monday?

Jaworski: The Colts go to the Super Bowl after defeating the Patriots and handing Belichick and Brady their first AFC Championship Game loss.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 19 January 2007 18:46 (nineteen years ago)

i actually respect jaworski's opinion and shit.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 19 January 2007 18:46 (nineteen years ago)

The part I like about that Simmons piece: his acknowledging that everyone hates the Patriots now, and that they are basically the Yankees. The part I didn't like: see above (his refusal to connect the hatred to the Brady/Belichek dicksuckery).

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Friday, 19 January 2007 18:50 (nineteen years ago)

i do think simmons makes a good point abt why pats fans have a hard time understanding why people hate the patriots so - the whole thing is just so absurdly, delightfully improbable it's like u hate the patriots? the ones who play in foxboro? the most pitiful team eva? rilly?

but of course non-fans were busy not paying any attention to the shitty pats all those years.

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Friday, 19 January 2007 18:51 (nineteen years ago)

JUST CAUSE THE PATZ ARE A DYNASTY DOESNT MEAN THEYRE THE YANKEES WHO ARE EXTRA HATEFUL FOR MANY REASONS **** IT IS OK TO HATE THE PATS BUT THERE HAVE BEEN MANY DYNASTIES AND NONE OF THEM ARE THE YANKEES EXCEPT THE YANKEES OK!!!!

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Friday, 19 January 2007 18:53 (nineteen years ago)

I MEAN USE SOME DISCERNMENT FFS PEOPLE

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Friday, 19 January 2007 18:55 (nineteen years ago)

he says something like, "but the pats just plug no-name guys in and they do well!" as if he forgets the lessons of aaron small, shawn chacon, and bernie williams (since 2000)

― ‘•’u (gear), Friday, 19 January 2007 18:56 (nineteen years ago)

his acknowledging that everyone hates the Patriots now, and that they are basically the Yankees.

i don't see this. i think maybe the steelers of the '70s are a more apt comparison but whatever. and as far as the belibrady dicksuckery, what can they do about that?

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 19 January 2007 18:57 (nineteen years ago)

I JUST CHANGED MY RETURN FLIGHT FROM MEMPHIS, I WILL MISS ALL OF THE BEARS GAME BUT GET HOME IN TIME FOR PATS/COLTS!!!! ALL HAIL ME!!!!

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 19 January 2007 18:58 (nineteen years ago)

i think the fact that belicheck is not "cuddly" anymore and tom brady has that vacant jock personality doesn't help either. i know being cuddly doesn't win super bowls, obv, or lovie would have won 3 by now. i'm going to assume the pats will win it all this year and pray for other results.

― ‘•’u (gear), Friday, 19 January 2007 18:58 (nineteen years ago)

saints 35 brs 17

-- pj (frenchcurv...), January 19th, 2007 12:36 PM. (Henry) (later)

Yes.

― do i have to draw you a diaphragm (Rock Hardy), Friday, 19 January 2007 18:59 (nineteen years ago)

bernie williams is far from a no-name. plus the guys the pats plug in are usually cast offs, LIKE THE OLD TIME CELTICS.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 19 January 2007 19:00 (nineteen years ago)

bernie williams is obv not a no-name, but he hasn't been "good" since 2000.

― ‘•’u (gear), Friday, 19 January 2007 19:01 (nineteen years ago)

NICE1 KEVIN

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Friday, 19 January 2007 19:02 (nineteen years ago)

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
i do think simmons makes a good point abt why pats fans have a hard time understanding why people hate the patriots so - the whole thing is just so absurdly, delightfully improbable it's like u hate the patriots? the ones who play in foxboro? the most pitiful team eva? rilly?
but of course non-fans were busy not paying any attention to the shitty pats all those years.

-- jhoshea (totalwizar...) (webmail), Today 12:51 PM. (scoopsnoodle) (later) (link)

OTM x 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 19 January 2007 19:02 (nineteen years ago)

gear you are describing the yankees post-dynasty anyway

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Friday, 19 January 2007 19:03 (nineteen years ago)

in the 6 seasons from 2001 to last year bernie hit over .280 3 times, over .300 twice, had an OPS over .750 5 times and had an OPS over league average all but one year. yeah his skills are declining but he's as old as vinnie testaverde for christ's sake.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 19 January 2007 19:05 (nineteen years ago)

yeah that's right, yankees haven't won since YEAR TWO THOUSAND.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 19 January 2007 19:06 (nineteen years ago)

(said in same sing-song cadence as NINETEEN EIGHTEEN.)

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 19 January 2007 19:06 (nineteen years ago)

he also makes like $1b a year

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Friday, 19 January 2007 19:08 (nineteen years ago)

i need some lunch, my orbit around rational behavior is becoming more and more elliptical.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 19 January 2007 19:09 (nineteen years ago)

bernie's an empty uniform! but so are the rest of them these days. i don't want to argue about the yankees, i hope they get contracted.

― ‘•’u (gear), Friday, 19 January 2007 19:11 (nineteen years ago)

ILNFL RAPED BY OBNOXIOUS BOSTONIANZ

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Friday, 19 January 2007 19:12 (nineteen years ago)

I'd just like to point out that I hated the Patriots long before the Belichick years and am well aware of how pathetic they used to be.

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Friday, 19 January 2007 19:25 (nineteen years ago)

i had simmering dislike pre-TB/BB, maybe because of victor kiam

― ‘•’u (gear), Friday, 19 January 2007 19:27 (nineteen years ago)

And no way in hell are the Yankees and Patriots even remotely the same thing, Simmons is a fuckbag. Maybe Yankees/Cowboys are equatable.

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Friday, 19 January 2007 19:27 (nineteen years ago)

ally why u hate pats so much :(

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Friday, 19 January 2007 19:34 (nineteen years ago)

Because I hated their uniforms when I was 7, and it's stuck ever since.

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Friday, 19 January 2007 19:40 (nineteen years ago)

maybe because of victor kiam

yeah, he had that effect on most of new england actually.

Because I hated their uniforms when I was 7, and it's stuck ever since.

you are dead to me now.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 19 January 2007 19:43 (nineteen years ago)

Ally are you denying that people all over the U.S. hate the Patriots the same way they hate the Yankees, just on principle, and that part of the reason for this is the fact that the Patriots have won several championships? Because y'know maybe I am not cornering the market on crack cocaine after all.

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Friday, 19 January 2007 19:46 (nineteen years ago)

Which is not to say that I don't agree about Simmons' fuckbaggery. I have gone on record against him before (Yard Work as my witness). I just thought this column had a surprising amount of introspection from old girl.

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Friday, 19 January 2007 19:49 (nineteen years ago)

i remember when the yankees won in '96, everyone seemed to be rooting for them. maybe because the braves were, at that point, the yankees of the NL.

― ‘•’u (gear), Friday, 19 January 2007 19:49 (nineteen years ago)

In 1996 my head exploded because I couldn't root for either one of those team.

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Friday, 19 January 2007 19:50 (nineteen years ago)

No, I'm not saying that people don't just hate the Patriots on principle for winning several championships, I'm saying that I don't think it is comparable, or as ingrained, as the Yankees or Cowboys hatred. That comes from sustained, multiple periods of dominance!

xpost the Braves, now that is a team I can get behind hating.

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Friday, 19 January 2007 19:50 (nineteen years ago)

Because I hated their uniforms when I was 7, and it's stuck ever since.

while completely wrong-headed, this is actually pretty funny.

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Friday, 19 January 2007 19:53 (nineteen years ago)

i think the general sports-viewing public is tolerant of two championships from a team, but once they start rolling after that, the tide turns.

― ‘•’u (gear), Friday, 19 January 2007 19:53 (nineteen years ago)

I think it's more the arrogance than the dominance. Cowboys have also been the suck and so have Yankees sometimes. But if either team (or its fanbase) had ever just said 'you know what, let's not be assholes about this', they'd have a lot better time. A lot of people also just like Teams That Win, and so the Pats have a lot of nat'l fans who happen to be all dirtbaggy about it. Nothing like a Patriots fan in like Idaho or whatever!

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Friday, 19 January 2007 19:54 (nineteen years ago)

it's always nice when i go out somewhere and i meet a texans fan

― ‘•’u (gear), Friday, 19 January 2007 19:56 (nineteen years ago)

"I also hope to see Jamaal Brown rip Urlacher in half like First of the North Star or something."

lmbo!

also the pats are a lot more like the niners to me than the Steelers, though obviously much less dominant. i have always despised the niners btw, which is why this patriots team is becoming so frustrating.

― SEACREST OUT OF IRAQ! (Adrian Langston), Friday, 19 January 2007 19:57 (nineteen years ago)

i think the only team which is horrible which no one feels any pity for is the raiders, right?

― ‘•’u (gear), Friday, 19 January 2007 19:57 (nineteen years ago)

also >:( @ braves h8

― SEACREST OUT OF IRAQ! (Adrian Langston), Friday, 19 January 2007 19:57 (nineteen years ago)

i used to hate the braves but i started to like them more because of julio franco

― ‘•’u (gear), Friday, 19 January 2007 19:59 (nineteen years ago)

Neither the Yankees nor the Cowboys organizations have really struck me as being assholes, though bandwagon fans basically are.

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Friday, 19 January 2007 20:02 (nineteen years ago)

in mlb i think the bosox organization is maybe the most assholish, though the yanks are close.

― ‘•’u (gear), Friday, 19 January 2007 20:06 (nineteen years ago)

the cubs are the dumbest, though ; (

― ‘•’u (gear), Friday, 19 January 2007 20:06 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.pro-football-reference.com/blog/wordpress/?p=236

The Colts’ defense
Posted by Doug on Thursday, January 18, 2007

Is there any hope that the Colts can continue to play defense the way they have in the postseason (14 points allowed in two games) instead of the way they did during the regular season (an average of 22.5 points per game)?

Is there any precedent for this kind of defensive turnaround in the postseason? To investigate, I checked all playoff teams since 1978 who were below average defensively during the regular season (in terms of points allowed per game) and then won two playoff games on the strength of their defense. Here are the closest matches I could come up with:

================+===========+===========+===========+
TM YR PPG | Game 1 | Game 2 | Game 3 |
================+===========+===========+===========+
ram 1989 21.5 | phi 21- 7 | nyg 19-13 | sfo 3-30 |
hou 1979 20.7 | den 13- 7 | sdg 17-14 | pit 13-27 |
buf 1991 19.9 | kan 37-14 | den 10- 7 | was 24-37 |
cin 1988 20.6 | sea 21-13 | buf 21-10 | sfo 16-20 |
hou 1978 18.6 | mia 17- 9 | nwe 31-14 | pit 5-34 |
================+===========+===========+===========+

― SEACREST OUT OF IRAQ! (Adrian Langston), Friday, 19 January 2007 20:09 (nineteen years ago)

Nothing like a Patriots fan in like Idaho or whatever!

you can't blame the kraft family or belibrady because the team elicits more loyalty than the geography does.

and i don't know about the bosox org being more assholish than the yanquis. but dear god the bandwagon jumpers who claim to be "long-time fans" drive me insane. where were they when butch hobson was running the team into the ground?

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 19 January 2007 20:12 (nineteen years ago)

I don't think he meant "Mass-based person who has moved to Idaho" with that disparagement.

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Friday, 19 January 2007 20:14 (nineteen years ago)

well who are people from idaho supposed to root for? seahawks?

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 19 January 2007 20:17 (nineteen years ago)

current meme that is driving me crazy: bob sanders is what's making the colts defense so awesome. he's a good player and i like watching him, but he's not magically making everyone tackle properly nor is he making adjustments to the scheme. haikunym otm about tommie harris, which is why the success of indy's defense is probz hella unsustainable - their 3-technique tackle is BOOGER MCFARLAND lmbo.

― SEACREST OUT OF IRAQ! (Adrian Langston), Friday, 19 January 2007 20:17 (nineteen years ago)

oh, and i finally read the simmons column. the only thing in there that made me roffle was the youtube link to rally in san diego with LDT in the "BRADY SUCKS" chant. who was talking about showing no class?

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 19 January 2007 20:19 (nineteen years ago)

also >:( @ braves h8

SRSLY. Is there any reason to hate the Braves which is actually the Braves' fault? Or is that irrelevant?

― do i have to draw you a diaphragm (Rock Hardy), Friday, 19 January 2007 20:19 (nineteen years ago)

they haven't really been playing like a tampa 2 team though, especially on the line of scrimmage.

― SEACREST OUT OF IRAQ! (Adrian Langston), Friday, 19 January 2007 20:19 (nineteen years ago)

the braves are more the bills of the NL imo since they never actually win shit.

― SEACREST OUT OF IRAQ! (Adrian Langston), Friday, 19 January 2007 20:20 (nineteen years ago)

For the record: I grew up in Oregon before there was a Seahawks and was an L.A. Rams fan. When the Seahawks appeared none of us rooted for them because, y'know, SEATTLE SUCKS.

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Friday, 19 January 2007 20:22 (nineteen years ago)

i loved those montana/rice/young 49ers teams - partially because my whole extended family on both sides is from n california and are rabid 9ers fans (my aunt worked for them - she has a super bowl ring! i have worn it!), but also because they played such beautiful, innovative, exciting football - and did it for so long. such an antidote to the boring parcells smashmouthisms of the day.

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Friday, 19 January 2007 20:25 (nineteen years ago)

i'm pukin on u rn

― SEACREST OUT OF IRAQ! (Adrian Langston), Friday, 19 January 2007 20:26 (nineteen years ago)

remember that awesome game between the young-led niners and the kelly-led bills? i don't remember the score, i just remember the teams combined for something like 1000 yds of offense.

― ‘•’u (gear), Friday, 19 January 2007 20:28 (nineteen years ago)

WTF kind of drugs are you people all on today, there are definitely reasons to hate the Braves that involve their team, for starters their owner!!

Also people from Idaho should root for the Cardinals.

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Friday, 19 January 2007 20:34 (nineteen years ago)

That is never going to happen.

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Friday, 19 January 2007 20:37 (nineteen years ago)

RODEO

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Friday, 19 January 2007 20:38 (nineteen years ago)

Hey I have a weird question, did someone here buy me a Christmas gift? I have one lone football related Xmas gift that no one has owned up to, and didn't come with a card or anything. I figured this would be my last shot at trying to thank someone.

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Friday, 19 January 2007 20:39 (nineteen years ago)

Also, if you did do this, how the hell did you get my address? WEEEIRD.

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Friday, 19 January 2007 20:39 (nineteen years ago)

no mystery gifting from me but that reminds me, i still have an xmas present to wrap and ship.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 19 January 2007 20:40 (nineteen years ago)

wasn't me

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Friday, 19 January 2007 20:41 (nineteen years ago)

what was it?

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Friday, 19 January 2007 20:43 (nineteen years ago)

It was a Giants-themed Christmas ornament!!

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Friday, 19 January 2007 20:44 (nineteen years ago)

also LMAO at no one mentioning Laker or Celtic hate here, it's totally the same thing as Yankee/Cowboy hate.

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Friday, 19 January 2007 20:45 (nineteen years ago)

I do not have a tree, so I sat it on the bookshelf.

xpost that's because basketball is gay and criminal

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Friday, 19 January 2007 20:45 (nineteen years ago)

the celtics hate has sort of dried up, right? i mean the only thing keeping it going is dudes like simmons bringing up kevin mchale when they talk about armenian genocide or something.

― ‘•’u (gear), Friday, 19 January 2007 20:48 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, i can see equating the c's to the yankees (i.e. one true dynasty, the most successful team coinciding with an overall rise in popularity of the sport, later success and a steady stream of great players) but i'd really wish the goddamn celtics would start winning again. it's been 15 years since they were any good and 20 since they were good enough to threaten for a title.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 19 January 2007 20:50 (nineteen years ago)

mchale had the greatest low post moves ever and would still average over 25 ppg today if he were in his prime.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 19 January 2007 20:51 (nineteen years ago)

yes but he is basketball frankenstein's monster so would be relentlessly hunted by today's media-savvy mobs

anyway take this talk to ilhoops, wouldn't want to upset ally with talk about gay criminals, must keep talking about football players who are all hetero gentlemen philosopher/farmers

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Friday, 19 January 2007 21:01 (nineteen years ago)

Except for Tom Brady, who is a homosexual serial killer.

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Friday, 19 January 2007 21:03 (nineteen years ago)

oh snap I forgot

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Friday, 19 January 2007 21:04 (nineteen years ago)

oh and brett favre, who is indestructible father christmas and an inbred drug addict

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Friday, 19 January 2007 21:04 (nineteen years ago)

And Rex Grossman and Eli Manning--alcoholics.

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Friday, 19 January 2007 21:06 (nineteen years ago)

yes but he is basketball frankenstein's monster so would be relentlessly hunted by today's media-savvy mobs

true. did you ever hear the story of why mchale always played like shit in milwaukee? don nelson used to fly in mchale's college roommate from minnesota and they'd go out and tear up the town the night before a game. mchale would be useless on the floor.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 19 January 2007 21:06 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, and Ray Lewis killed some bitches or something like that. Perhaps this gentleman farmer idea only applies to Drew Brees.

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Friday, 19 January 2007 21:07 (nineteen years ago)

remember that awesome game between the young-led niners and the kelly-led bills? i don't remember the score, i just remember the teams combined for something like 1000 yds of offense.

I remember that game! Niners lost by a field goal, I think final score was 34-31, probably too low, but it was in the 30s for both teams.

Also:

(my aunt worked for them - she has a super bowl ring! i have worn it!)

jhoshea is my new buddy! OMG!!!

― c('°c) (Leee), Friday, 19 January 2007 21:08 (nineteen years ago)

^^that was the last good move don nelson ever made!

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Friday, 19 January 2007 21:10 (nineteen years ago)

omg chi kevin!!! Is that McHale/Nelly story 4 real? I LOVE MY COACH EVEN MORE.

XPOST b quiet u!!! >=(

― c('°c) (Leee), Friday, 19 January 2007 21:11 (nineteen years ago)

yes, that story is for real. nellie told it at mchale's retirement. the dude's name was "Big Joe".

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 19 January 2007 21:14 (nineteen years ago)

LOLZ!!!

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Friday, 19 January 2007 21:30 (nineteen years ago)

FU GUYZ BASKETBALL IS TEH BEST

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Friday, 19 January 2007 21:30 (nineteen years ago)

once the superbowl ring falls in to my cousin's hands it's as good as mine - this is my plan.

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Friday, 19 January 2007 21:31 (nineteen years ago)

also, the reason the c's traded rick robey was because him and bird used to go out and paint the town red on a regular basis.

xpost- don't be nuts.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 19 January 2007 21:31 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.worth1000.com/web/media/9102/gollum4.jpg

― ‘•’u (gear), Friday, 19 January 2007 21:35 (nineteen years ago)

the mental image of bird and robey make the rounds of early 80's boston bars is too heartwarming

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Friday, 19 January 2007 21:36 (nineteen years ago)

where do you figure they went? i know daisy buchanan's was notorious for the sox and their groupies hanging out there. and didn't bird bust a finger in a bar fight in f'ing CHARLESTOWN during the playoffs one year? wtf was he doing in charlestown in the early/mid 80s? there's only one valid excuse and i don't think he had that kind of problem.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 19 January 2007 21:44 (nineteen years ago)

saints look awful.

― hstencil (hstencil), Sunday, 21 January 2007 21:23 (nineteen years ago)

Brees better put on that glove for round 2. That last completion to Copper is the first really good throw he's made.

― do i have to draw you a diaphragm (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 21 January 2007 21:30 (nineteen years ago)

Okay, that drive was the real Saints.

― do i have to draw you a diaphragm (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 21 January 2007 21:31 (nineteen years ago)

yeah way to wake up, dudes.

― hstencil (hstencil), Sunday, 21 January 2007 21:34 (nineteen years ago)

ya reggie

― hstencil (hstencil), Sunday, 21 January 2007 21:56 (nineteen years ago)

That was beautiful.

― do i have to draw you a diaphragm (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 21 January 2007 22:02 (nineteen years ago)

aw fuck that pass shouldve been intercepted instead saints just got raped

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Sunday, 21 January 2007 22:36 (nineteen years ago)

and now the fumble

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Sunday, 21 January 2007 22:41 (nineteen years ago)

td game over :(

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Sunday, 21 January 2007 22:45 (nineteen years ago)

congrats, bears. saints didn't really play well, bears d was a lot tougher than the pundits thought they'd be.

― hstencil (hstencil), Sunday, 21 January 2007 22:59 (nineteen years ago)

Now for the real game.

― DougD (DougD), Sunday, 21 January 2007 23:06 (nineteen years ago)

Fuck. Huge disappointment. Saints played one good quarter.

― do i have to draw you a diaphragm (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 21 January 2007 23:19 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.tonnix.net/buck.jpg

^^fuck this guy

― am0n (am0n), Sunday, 21 January 2007 23:19 (nineteen years ago)

uggghhh god.

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Sunday, 21 January 2007 23:40 (nineteen years ago)

It's weird cos I do really like Lovie Smith but I hate just about every member of the Bears to some degree. Sigh.

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Sunday, 21 January 2007 23:40 (nineteen years ago)

i can't hate on thomas jones, i like him. i still have a bit of sympathy for the bears from my time in chi-town, but i really wanted katrina team of destiny to win. ;_;

― hstencil (hstencil), Sunday, 21 January 2007 23:53 (nineteen years ago)

http://imgserv1.imagehigh.com/files/ih000001/24008_nothefather.gif

― ‘•’u (gear), Monday, 22 January 2007 00:03 (eighteen years ago)

also during the pregame n.o. segment w/TB when he was doing the 'who dat' dance, i thought he said 'god i am such a homo' but i think he said 'homer'.

― ‘•’u (gear), Monday, 22 January 2007 00:05 (eighteen years ago)

the hell was that ridiculous pats TD! good lord

― dar1a g (daria g), Monday, 22 January 2007 00:06 (eighteen years ago)

The Pats are always SO FUCKING LUCKY!!!

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Monday, 22 January 2007 00:28 (eighteen years ago)

Why does everybody hate Joe Buck? He seems to me like a real nice man. (shrug)

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Monday, 22 January 2007 00:29 (eighteen years ago)

uh.

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 22 January 2007 00:31 (eighteen years ago)

I am so bummed about my saints. argh.

― pj (Henry), Monday, 22 January 2007 00:36 (eighteen years ago)

wow

― ‘•’u (gear), Monday, 22 January 2007 00:43 (eighteen years ago)

worst superbowl ever

― If you fuck with Jimmy Mod, you call down the thunder (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Monday, 22 January 2007 00:49 (eighteen years ago)

It's weird cos I do really like Lovie Smith but I hate just about every member of the Bears to some degree.

OTM. guys, I am so bummed.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Monday, 22 January 2007 00:52 (eighteen years ago)

don't worry everyone, they'll probably lose to the patriots in two weeks

― ‘•’u (gear), Monday, 22 January 2007 00:55 (eighteen years ago)

no, they better destroy the patriots.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Monday, 22 January 2007 00:57 (eighteen years ago)

me so sad.....

― Fetchboy (Felcher), Monday, 22 January 2007 01:22 (eighteen years ago)

fucking bitch ass play calling after they got out of coltes territory...

― If you fuck with Jimmy Mod, you call down the thunder (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Monday, 22 January 2007 01:23 (eighteen years ago)

that call on the michael lewis fumble shouldve been overturned.
just like that colston hail mary catch at the end of the second half last week was for real.

― Fetchboy (Felcher), Monday, 22 January 2007 01:24 (eighteen years ago)

Incidentally, is anyone else grossed out by that Best Buy ad that's like "you're on a MISSION to get a new High Def TV" while slowly panning over a doughy Average Guy transported by consumer lust? His smile is so... greedy or something. I can't deal with it.

I only mention this here because it plays like five times in every fucking playoff game.

― DougD (DougD), Monday, 22 January 2007 01:34 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah that colston fumble call was some serious bullshit

Saints woulda lost anyway tho...

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Monday, 22 January 2007 01:36 (eighteen years ago)

Bah, Lewis I mean

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Monday, 22 January 2007 01:39 (eighteen years ago)

hmm

― ‘•’u (gear), Monday, 22 January 2007 02:00 (eighteen years ago)

I'm sorry I doubted you, Peyton; that was awesome!

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Monday, 22 January 2007 02:01 (eighteen years ago)

― If you fuck with Jimmy Mod, you call down the thunder (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Monday, 22 January 2007 02:01 (eighteen years ago)

fuck.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Monday, 22 January 2007 02:02 (eighteen years ago)

Why the "hmm", Couch? You don't think there was anything the least bit iffy about that call?

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Monday, 22 January 2007 02:26 (eighteen years ago)

who's couch? i was hmm-ing the colts comeback.

― ‘•’u (gear), Monday, 22 January 2007 02:27 (eighteen years ago)

haha, whoops!

― attack all monsters (skowly), Monday, 22 January 2007 02:41 (eighteen years ago)

'the king of the comebacks' BARF

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Monday, 22 January 2007 03:14 (eighteen years ago)

― If you fuck with Jimmy Mod, you call down the thunder (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Monday, 22 January 2007 03:17 (eighteen years ago)

: D

― ‘•’u (gear), Monday, 22 January 2007 03:18 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.colts.com/images/player_photos/Jackson_Marlin.jpg MARLIN JACKSON YOU ARE MY SUPER BOWL MVP

― TOMBO7 (TOMBOT), Monday, 22 January 2007 03:18 (eighteen years ago)

all midwest sb.

peyton just patted belichek's belly.

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 22 January 2007 03:18 (eighteen years ago)

http://media.scout.com/Media/Image/27/270285.jpg

― ‘•’u (gear), Monday, 22 January 2007 03:19 (eighteen years ago)

U GUYS I AM SO HAPPY!!!!!!!

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Monday, 22 January 2007 03:19 (eighteen years ago)

― dar1a g (daria g), Monday, 22 January 2007 03:19 (eighteen years ago)

OH MY FUCKING GOD :D :D

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Monday, 22 January 2007 03:20 (eighteen years ago)

UM I THINK WE ALL KNOW WHO THE REAL KING OF THE COMEBACKS IS!!! SUCK IT, BRADY!!!!!

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Monday, 22 January 2007 03:20 (eighteen years ago)

(sorry, dar1a and Kevin, you are both very nice and deserve a better team)

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Monday, 22 January 2007 03:21 (eighteen years ago)

"it's okay bill, they're not saying 'boo' they're saying 'looooser'"

― ‘•’u (gear), Monday, 22 January 2007 03:21 (eighteen years ago)

THE SECOND THAT INTERCEPT HAPPENED WAS THE HAPPIEST MOMENT OF MY LIFE (SORRY, HUSBAND, OUR WEDDING JUST DOESN'T COMPARE RIGHT NOW)

xpost yeah sorry dudes. Kevin do not buy the pistol!!!

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Monday, 22 January 2007 03:21 (eighteen years ago)

pwntriots ;------(

― am0n (am0n), Monday, 22 January 2007 03:21 (eighteen years ago)

I still don't get the hate, and.. pats are a good team! they got that far didn't they? i didn't watch most of second half as had a feeling this wasn't going our way, so i decided to focus on updating my resume to get a new job

― dar1a g (daria g), Monday, 22 January 2007 03:22 (eighteen years ago)

YAYYYYYY, at least one New Orleans person gets to be happee today!

― do i have to draw you a diaphragm (Rock Hardy), Monday, 22 January 2007 03:23 (eighteen years ago)

that was one damn good game.

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Monday, 22 January 2007 03:23 (eighteen years ago)

Patriots fans? They don’t deserve a win. They’re me-too turds, who’ve played their whole lives “close-to-the-vest,” championing risk-averse entertainment like Buffalo Tom or Letters to Cleo. But now that their squad has won three of the last five Super Bowls, they walk around like they had a role in it all. It’s not hard spotting them. Look for the guy at the bar in the soft cotton Patagonia hiking jacket wearing a distressed baseball cap, nursing a Sam Adams, talking about his law school payments, his mortgage, and his med-student wife’s excellent cooking. Then look again four hours later as he’s drunkenly weeping into his cellphone, “Beth!!!!!!!” Their highest aspiration is either to litigate a case where someone poorer than them loses the rest of their money, or turn on the TV one night and see a little of themselves in a character in a David E. Kelley drama. Wait, that was only the white-collar fans I was talking about. The rest of them just want to fuck Johnny Damon’s ex-wife, then get her to maybe buy them a convertible.

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 22 January 2007 03:26 (eighteen years ago)

man when did sports become about making up more shit to hate on

― dar1a g (daria g), Monday, 22 January 2007 03:28 (eighteen years ago)

when was sports not about making up shit to hate on?!!?

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 22 January 2007 03:30 (eighteen years ago)

in all honesty, dar1a, I do hate Belicheck and Brady, but I'm mostly relieved for Peyton Manning and happy for Tony Dungy right now.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Monday, 22 January 2007 03:30 (eighteen years ago)

I am also drunk, which makes me more full of hate than usual.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Monday, 22 January 2007 03:31 (eighteen years ago)

I WOULD HAS SELF-INFLICTED LACERATIONS WITH ALL THESE PLAYOFFS GAMES

― TOMBO7 (TOMBOT), Monday, 22 January 2007 03:35 (eighteen years ago)

I don't know, I really wanted to see the Pats win but beyond that.. fail to get the hate for Brady, really can't recall him doing anything obnoxious.. Belicheck seems rather brusque and unfuzzy but 1) seems not unusual among coaches and 2) this is New England, see #1

― dar1a g (daria g), Monday, 22 January 2007 03:36 (eighteen years ago)

seriously wtf all these matchups were so ugly and/or totally stressful I'm kind of just glad it's all over

― TOMBO7 (TOMBOT), Monday, 22 January 2007 03:37 (eighteen years ago)

ban dar1a

― If you fuck with Jimmy Mod, you call down the thunder (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Monday, 22 January 2007 03:37 (eighteen years ago)

http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/6091/vincedancelf5.gif

― ‘•’u (gear), Monday, 22 January 2007 03:38 (eighteen years ago)

Oh I do not want to get into the "everyone explain why they dislike the Pats" thing again. Some of the reasons are pretty shitty just hatin' whoever is up reasons, some of the reasons are perfectly valid reasons. Just like any kind of dislike of a team or a player in sports.

Tho jorel, where the hell is that thing from?? What a weird quote. Though Letters to Cleo is pretty terrible.

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Monday, 22 January 2007 03:40 (eighteen years ago)

letters to cleo had kay hanley who was josie's singing voice in josie + pussycats

― If you fuck with Jimmy Mod, you call down the thunder (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Monday, 22 January 2007 03:41 (eighteen years ago)

yeah i get stressed abt big games, which is silly but cannot help. at least i got some of my resume updated today. it'd be more stress if i had two weeks to be like OMG can they win another super bowl what if they lose, etc.

― dar1a g (daria g), Monday, 22 January 2007 03:42 (eighteen years ago)

Dude I know that, who the hell do you think you are talking to. It's me!!

xpost yeah at least you got the resume done, I still haven't done that myself :( I was just happy to see a brief shot of Eli during the game, he's been sitting at home for weeks :(

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Monday, 22 January 2007 03:43 (eighteen years ago)

actually what i do wonder is, if i studied more (thx NFL network!) where i was getting a better in depth sense of the strategy/game plan behind what's happening on the field.. would it be easier to foresee the outcome beyond "oh shit I have a bad vibe about this game" which I did once Indy got that TD to start off the second half.

― dar1a g (daria g), Monday, 22 January 2007 03:45 (eighteen years ago)

it's from here, allyzay. roffles, tho some of it is for some pretty obscure reasons (his typical pats fan i posted upthread actually reminds me of a few people i know in the boston area).

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 22 January 2007 03:56 (eighteen years ago)

lines like this:

Shockey's off-season exercise regiment consists of trying to impregnate many of the community fire hydrants in Enid, Oklahoma, and scowling at anyone who'll dare tell him to refasten his bib overalls.

make me wonder if i should reconsider the whole hatin' vice thing.

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 22 January 2007 03:57 (eighteen years ago)

Tom OTM; I stress-ate everything that wasn't nailed down in my apartment over the course of the two games today.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Monday, 22 January 2007 04:00 (eighteen years ago)

i thought the bears were toast after reggie's TD, but i think his backflip pissed them off.

― ‘•’u (gear), Monday, 22 January 2007 04:01 (eighteen years ago)

damn that colts/pats game was awesome to watch

― M@tt He1g3s0n: oh u mad cuz im stylin on u (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 22 January 2007 04:10 (eighteen years ago)

lmao @

7:33 PM, 21 Jan 07 locked user Mr. Snrub by ��u (http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:0UgRyYJ3vf38CM:http://www.deadspin.com/sports/joebuckunplugged.jpg)

― am0n (am0n), Monday, 22 January 2007 04:11 (eighteen years ago)

it was awesome til they choked. gah

the saints game was just painful, i feel bad for them

― am0n (am0n), Monday, 22 January 2007 04:13 (eighteen years ago)

oh hey guys i'm deleting ilnfl forever just fyi

― aidsy (PUNXSUTAWNEY PENIS), Monday, 22 January 2007 04:23 (eighteen years ago)

how many times did they trade off scoring drives in 2nd half? if pats d could've just stopped one of those, srsly. i can't blame brady for this

damn. what sucks worse than going to a job you're sick of on a monday w/another bs meeting, it's going to a job you're sick of in snow and ice on a monday w/bs meeting.. after yr team just got knocked out of the playoffs. arrg

― dar1a g (daria g), Monday, 22 January 2007 04:30 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah I was wondering, what the fuck is this yellow shit? Is it something I said?

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Monday, 22 January 2007 04:32 (eighteen years ago)

OH GOD THAT GAME WAS NOT GOOD FOR ME :(

THAT IS ALL

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Monday, 22 January 2007 04:55 (eighteen years ago)

AND NOW I AM WATCHING FIREWALL WTF

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Monday, 22 January 2007 04:56 (eighteen years ago)

THIS NEW CLUTCH PEYTON MANNING RUINED MY SUNDAY

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Monday, 22 January 2007 04:59 (eighteen years ago)

wtf endless elaborate techo plans then harrison ford just kllls the shit out of them at the end call the police dude wtf

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Monday, 22 January 2007 05:14 (eighteen years ago)

I'm a huge Pats fan and I am very sad right now.

me ----> 8'>(

― Matt Olken (Moodles), Monday, 22 January 2007 05:18 (eighteen years ago)

OMG THAT WAS SO AWESOME YAYAYAYA

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Monday, 22 January 2007 05:20 (eighteen years ago)

wait there is actually a movie called firewall?

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Monday, 22 January 2007 05:41 (eighteen years ago)

make me wonder if i should reconsider the whole hatin' vice thing

Not until they learn the difference between "regiment" and "regimen." Assmonkeys.

Also YAY DUNGIES.

wait there is actually a movie called firewall?

Yes it is AIR FORCE ONE on a server.

― hearditonthexico (rogermexico), Monday, 22 January 2007 05:46 (eighteen years ago)

UGH

Biggest comeback win ever in the AFC championship ...

Brady chokes on the last two drives ...

Even when the Pats were up 21-3, was anybody getting flashbacks to Indy-Pittsburgh last year? I was.

― NoTimeBeforeTime (Barry Bruner), Monday, 22 January 2007 08:55 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, and the current baseball equivalent of the Pats is the A's, (except for Brady = Jeter) with Belichick in the Billy Beane role. Come on, don't pretend that the whole sports world wouldn't hate the A's if they won championships.

― NoTimeBeforeTime (Barry Bruner), Monday, 22 January 2007 08:58 (eighteen years ago)

when pats were up 21-3 I was still feeling really NOT good about the game

oh well, it was a good day for manning. maybe he'll get to be in some commercials and stuff now

― dar1a g (daria g), Monday, 22 January 2007 13:59 (eighteen years ago)

i was stuck on a plane for most of both games, i've been too tired/disillusioned to read recaps of the pats game but it sounds like they blew it. was it players or coaches? thanks to ally for the txt msg updates while i was stuck on the tarmac. although for all i know you were just making things up.

a perfectly shitty ending to a perfectly shitty weekend where not one god damn thing went right for me.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Monday, 22 January 2007 14:26 (eighteen years ago)

Caldwell dropping all those passes really looked bad. It also looked like Brady was letting the pressure get to him, though I still can't figure out what the Colts did to shut down the run game.

you guys locked down harrison all day but were somehow not able to stop DAN KLECKO. or Dallas Clark! After the half Peyton & Moore must have figured Harrison & Wayne were mostly a lost cause so they just started using them to open up the inside, take the Pats' fastest backs and force them to chase go routes down the sideline, letting the white dudes get it in the middle of the field and pick up bunches of yards after the catch.

― TOMBO7 (TOMBOT), Monday, 22 January 2007 15:10 (eighteen years ago)

i just got out of morning report and still haven't seen any reports of the game but i almost threw a beer bottle at the tv after ricochet caldwell's second clanger.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Monday, 22 January 2007 15:13 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, and the current baseball equivalent of the Pats is the A's, (except for Brady = Jeter)

no, pats r not small market team with limited fixed income. pats income is fixed by choice.

― If you fuck with Jimmy Mod, you call down the thunder (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Monday, 22 January 2007 15:13 (eighteen years ago)

also, in checking my receipts it appears i blew $120 on airport booze yesterday.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Monday, 22 January 2007 15:14 (eighteen years ago)

championing risk-averse entertainment like Buffalo Tom or Letters to Cleo.

that's hitting below the belt man.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Monday, 22 January 2007 15:15 (eighteen years ago)

pats income is fixed by choice.

pats spending, rather

― If you fuck with Jimmy Mod, you call down the thunder (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Monday, 22 January 2007 15:18 (eighteen years ago)

i knew the saints were gonna lose when i went to the store before the game and they were out of Rotel. Still, it didn't have to happen so painfully.

― Fetchboy (Felcher), Monday, 22 January 2007 15:51 (eighteen years ago)

What HAPPENED to the Saints?

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Monday, 22 January 2007 16:33 (eighteen years ago)

Drew Brees looked really psyched out after the safety. I felt so bad for them; it was embarrassing toward the end.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Monday, 22 January 2007 16:34 (eighteen years ago)

What HAPPENED to the Saints?

After some consideration, I think the only real answer to that is
http://www.chicagobears.com/uploads/photos/perm/main/JPPGGLHBLNHC/maynard_inside.jpg

― TOMBO7 (TOMBOT), Monday, 22 January 2007 16:51 (eighteen years ago)

Drafted by Jim Fassel so he could break the worst record ever in SB XXXV

― TOMBO7 (TOMBOT), Monday, 22 January 2007 16:53 (eighteen years ago)

http://img296.imageshack.us/img296/4828/theeyes2zq.jpg

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Monday, 22 January 2007 17:01 (eighteen years ago)

OH GOD I CAN SEE FOREVER

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Monday, 22 January 2007 17:01 (eighteen years ago)

I'm a little surprised people are just now noticing reche's bugeyes! I thought that was a little odd looking back when they got killed by the Jets, but whatever! I feel sorry for him!

― TOMBO7 (TOMBOT), Monday, 22 January 2007 17:05 (eighteen years ago)

haha they kept showing his eyes over and over again. it's like he's looking into Tom Brady's soul and doesn't like what he sees.

― lk (lawrence kansas), Monday, 22 January 2007 17:08 (eighteen years ago)

OH GOD THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE HE HAS KILLED...IT HAUNTS MY NIGHTMARES...

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Monday, 22 January 2007 17:11 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.gatorzone.com/football/images/bioimg2001/jersey/Caldwell_R-jersey.jpg

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Monday, 22 January 2007 17:15 (eighteen years ago)

heh. I thought it was his, damn, Belichick is going to eat my liver look.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Monday, 22 January 2007 17:15 (eighteen years ago)

"I can't catch that guy's passes! Do you realize what he's done? What he's GOING to do?!?!?!?"

― TOMBO7 (TOMBOT), Monday, 22 January 2007 17:15 (eighteen years ago)

OH GOD HOW CAN I CATCH PASSES THROWN BY HE WITH SO MUCH BLOOD ON HIS HANDS...I HAD NO IDEA...'

haha xpost!!

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Monday, 22 January 2007 17:16 (eighteen years ago)

"i guess doing all that speed at the truck stop outside of crown point has affected my hand-eye coordination."

seriously, that one where he was wide open? broke my heart.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Monday, 22 January 2007 17:17 (eighteen years ago)

yeah, he and brady 2nd half looked a lot like manning and harrison 1st half. Such a weird total reversal.

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Monday, 22 January 2007 17:18 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.chargers-stats.com/2002new/caldwell.jpg

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Monday, 22 January 2007 17:18 (eighteen years ago)

oh well maybe the patz will finally be inspired to get some real receivers for once

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Monday, 22 January 2007 17:19 (eighteen years ago)

seriously. and apparently they need to do this via a trade or free agency because the last few dudes haven't exactly worked out (hi dere chad jackson and bethel johnson).

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Monday, 22 January 2007 17:23 (eighteen years ago)

Who?

― If you fuck with Jimmy Mod, you call down the thunder (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Monday, 22 January 2007 17:24 (eighteen years ago)

can we rename this thread the 2007 Crips v. Bloods Disarmed Thread? subtitle: get these scary black men off my TV!

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Monday, 22 January 2007 17:36 (eighteen years ago)

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/100/366061274_17fc75cd76_o.png

― TOMBO7 (TOMBOT), Monday, 22 January 2007 17:40 (eighteen years ago)

haha:

tony dungy = crip (HE WEARS BLUE)

-- max (), January 22nd, 2007.

from ILM

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Monday, 22 January 2007 17:44 (eighteen years ago)

bethel johnson, 2nd round pick (45th overall), wr out of texas a&m. cut before camp this year. signed with the browns as a return man and i think he's out of football.

chad jackson, 2nd round pick (36th overall, 4th pick of 2nd round, traded up to get him) wr from florida. was in the dog house with belicheck most of the pre-season, "injured" most of the regular season.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Monday, 22 January 2007 17:44 (eighteen years ago)

oh well maybe the patz will finally be inspired to get some real receivers for once

really! i don't know, maybe belichek thinks they fit a role on the offense and yeah ok but not if they DROP passes at critical moments

― dar1a g (daria g), Monday, 22 January 2007 17:47 (eighteen years ago)

tombot, that rules

― dar1a g (daria g), Monday, 22 January 2007 17:48 (eighteen years ago)

oh yeah, johnson was 2003 i think and jackson was 2006.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Monday, 22 January 2007 17:48 (eighteen years ago)

Cripps is the Browns return man, I don't think Bethel ever played a down (unless on some special teams coverage)

YES CRIPPS, NOT CRIBBS. RUSH WILL SHOW YOU PC TYPES WAHT IS UP

― lk (lawrence kansas), Monday, 22 January 2007 17:49 (eighteen years ago)

I don't think Bethel ever played a down (unless on some special teams coverage)

yeah, i remember watching some early browns games looking for him and never saw him hence the speculation that he was out of football.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Monday, 22 January 2007 17:50 (eighteen years ago)

hee. from Page 2:

Reche Caldwell clearly stunned by loss, everything

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Monday, 22 January 2007 18:17 (eighteen years ago)

is the picture illustration from Pg 2 a photoshop or just the most amazing photo ever??

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Monday, 22 January 2007 18:30 (eighteen years ago)

Also: DJ Gallo's piece is vindictive and meanspirited and completely hilarious.

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Monday, 22 January 2007 18:32 (eighteen years ago)

you mean because of the dude who looks like he's standing on Belichick's and Brady's shoulders?

http://espn.go.com/i/page2/topstory/01222007_pg2.jpg

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Monday, 22 January 2007 18:34 (eighteen years ago)

yeah, for some reason this:

Quotations always need their proper context. But sometimes they're better without context. This is one of those cases. Following the game Sunday, Peyton Manning said: "I don't get into monkeys." Now, you can Google that phrase and find the AP article with the full quote and what prompted it. Or you can just imagine we live in a world in which a reporter asked Manning after reaching his first Super Bowl: "Dude, I hear you're into monkeys." I suggest the latter.

keeps making me crack up. Manning seemed so flustered in the press conference that he couldn't quite get idiomatic expressions right.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Monday, 22 January 2007 18:36 (eighteen years ago)

WTF was Jim Nance saying at the end?

TO THOSE OF YOU WHO THOUGHT PEYTON WOULD NEVER MAKE IT TO THE SUPER BOWL. YOU WERE WRONG!!!

― lk (lawrence kansas), Monday, 22 January 2007 18:44 (eighteen years ago)

standing on shoulders is cracking me up. Maybe that guy is into monkeys.

xpost yeah! I thought that quote was fucking weird too! "To those of you, the naysayers, the people who said Peyton would never make it to the Super Bowl, never be in the big game....(insert a lot of uhhhhhh pausing wait I didn't actually have a clever line here)...YOU WERE WRONG!!" It's like, uh, snap?

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Monday, 22 January 2007 18:46 (eighteen years ago)

OK actually these games were full of nothing but weird post-game interviews.

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Monday, 22 January 2007 18:48 (eighteen years ago)

yeah that is most def a photoshop

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Monday, 22 January 2007 18:49 (eighteen years ago)

i mean, seriously, who out there was saying PEYTON MANNING just doesn't have the skillz to make it to the Super Bowl

xpost

― lk (lawrence kansas), Monday, 22 January 2007 18:49 (eighteen years ago)

People into monkeys, presumably.

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Monday, 22 January 2007 18:55 (eighteen years ago)

At least we don't have to see pictures of bombed-out looking New Orleans homes on ESPN for the next two weeks...

― vingt regards (vignt_regards), Monday, 22 January 2007 18:56 (eighteen years ago)

http://img159.imageshack.us/img159/1490/peyton7iv.jpg

courtesy of Brian Miller on the DC thread

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Monday, 22 January 2007 19:01 (eighteen years ago)

xpost
yeah, because it's not like people are still dealing with that shit on a daily basis.

― Fetchboy (Felcher), Monday, 22 January 2007 19:10 (eighteen years ago)

What, no mention of Irsay AND Dungee giving it up to The Man Upstairs (because He's the one what made Rico-che get all bug-eyed and Falcon-wideout-y on those wide-open pass plays)?

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 22 January 2007 19:15 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/americans_wondering_what

xpost Tony Dungy thanks god for every single game, even the ones he loses, dude.

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Monday, 22 January 2007 19:16 (eighteen years ago)

well fetchboy, the fact that i'm glad doesn't have so much to do with people are still, a year and a half later, dealing with the aftermath so much as it takes away the laziest story a sports journalist could make. instead we settle for the second laziest, the redemption of manning, followed closely by the racial component of the head coaches before, 10 days from now they switch gears and start writing about how the bears are the most unrespected 13-3 team to ever be in the superbowl.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Monday, 22 January 2007 19:18 (eighteen years ago)

Oh Dungy (sorry about the EE).

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 22 January 2007 19:23 (eighteen years ago)

http://img296.imageshack.us/img296/4828/theeyes2zq.jpg

http://www.voccoquan.com/images/wilbanks%20mug%20shot.jpg

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 22 January 2007 19:26 (eighteen years ago)

"journalists" in being lazy and boring and irritating shocker.

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Monday, 22 January 2007 19:30 (eighteen years ago)

What, no mention of Irsay AND Dungee giving it up to The Man Upstairs (because He's the one what made Rico-che get all bug-eyed and Falcon-wideout-y on those wide-open pass plays)?

-- David R. (quoteidio...), January 22nd, 2007 7:15 PM. (popshots75`) (later) (userip)

as a friend of mine from indy kindly pointed out via ichat: "we're hoosiers. it's what we do."

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 22 January 2007 19:39 (eighteen years ago)

Will somebody please remove this annoying fucking yellow box??? Please???

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 02:47 (eighteen years ago)

I'm sorry. For... um... whatever it was that I did.

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 03:10 (eighteen years ago)

http://img72.imageshack.us/img72/1672/fullmetaljacket15kt.jpg

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 03:16 (eighteen years ago)

http://img246.imageshack.us/img246/4563/savingprivateryan23ju.jpg

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 03:17 (eighteen years ago)

http://img413.imageshack.us/img413/220/doonescald9xa.jpg

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 03:45 (eighteen years ago)

hahahaha omg

Hey, Snrub, I removed the box--whoever did it was just giving you some shit about the Joe Buck thing, no harm intended.

― Allyzay doesnt get into the monkeys or vindications (allyzay), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 05:24 (eighteen years ago)

Caldwell dropping all those passes really looked bad. It also looked like Brady was letting the pressure get to him, though I still can't figure out what the Colts did to shut down the run game.
you guys locked down harrison all day but were somehow not able to stop DAN KLECKO. or Dallas Clark! After the half Peyton & Moore must have figured Harrison & Wayne were mostly a lost cause so they just started using them to open up the inside, take the Pats' fastest backs and force them to chase go routes down the sideline, letting the white dudes get it in the middle of the field and pick up bunches of yards after the catch.

-- TOMBO7 (tombo...), January 22nd, 2007 10:10 AM. (TOMBOT) (later) (admin)

yeah they were getting killed in the middle of the field. clark on vrabel is a much more forgiving matchup for the colts than hobbs or samuel. indy used a lot more no huddle in the second half too and they really raped the bejeezus outta NE. dudes just were not coming off the ball, and the d-line getting gassed (and the offense not sustaining drives) just makes the pokey LBs & safeties more vulnerable. they could really use a Lance Briggs or Adalius Thomas. also it'd be nice if tom brady wasn't a HUEG CHOKER LOLOLOL

i think the most frustrating thing abt this game is that i was ready for indy to win yet it started all dominant and gave me false hope. so there is the disappointed part of me, but also the part of me that has grown to despise all other NE fans (except kev, u my dogg) and their boundless arrogance and is a little bit delighted it ended this way.

― aidsy (PUNXSUTAWNEY PENIS), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 13:11 (eighteen years ago)

they could really use a Lance Briggs

i don't think the pats will spend the money on him that some other team undoubtedly will. but it would be nice to have colvin and briggs on the field at the same time. tully banta-cain is a decent player and a great pick up for a 7th round pick but he has the speed and stamina of the defensive lineman that he was.

i'm looking for the pats to blow up their team in the offseason and pretty much start from scratch again. apart from the dline starters and possibly tedy bruschi i don't think anyone on defense is guaranteed a roster spot next year. and bruschi would probably be at kraft's insistance. just as he's promised troy brown a job when he's done playing i think bruschi is one of the guys kraft wants as a "patriot for life".

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 14:43 (eighteen years ago)

also using bizarro gadget stunts in the red zone seems to help Peyton get over his demons by about 570%. I bet we could've beat Florida back in the day if Fulmer had the guts/brains to pull some shit like that.

― TOMBO7 (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 14:44 (eighteen years ago)

bet we could've beat Florida back in the day if Fulmer had the guts/brains to pull some shit like that.

what position did you play tom?

going to the airport sunday my cab driver's son was peyton's fraternity brother for four years. i tried to hold my tongue for fear that he'd take me to the memphis airport via little rock or something.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 14:54 (eighteen years ago)

I played Trombone

― TOMBO7 (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 14:57 (eighteen years ago)

what? you solo'd on the tombone?

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 14:58 (eighteen years ago)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/40/Openingt.jpg/180px-Openingt.jpg

― TOMBO7 (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 14:59 (eighteen years ago)

I don't think peyton ever actually pledged, so your cabdriver is full of shit

― TOMBO7 (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 15:02 (eighteen years ago)

he hung out with some of those sigma rapist chi idiots but I never heard of him actually belonging to one or the other. he definitely never lived in a frat house

― TOMBO7 (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 15:03 (eighteen years ago)

TAKE THAT CAB DRIVER

― Allyzay doesnt get into the monkeys or vindications (allyzay), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 15:04 (eighteen years ago)

I actually think greek involvement is discouraged for athletes at UT! I can't remember a single guy or girl who played in either the womens' bball team or the football team who was hellenic-affiliated, and I kept up with that shit, because I hated greeks with ten thousand degrees of burning hate from my hate gland

― TOMBO7 (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 15:05 (eighteen years ago)

it may be because all frats and sororities at UTK are completely and totally segregated, which seems like a bad idea if you're trying to build a team for playing the football or the basketball

― TOMBO7 (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 15:06 (eighteen years ago)

dirtbag cabbie in untruth telling shockah!

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 15:08 (eighteen years ago)

Then wait, what was the deal with your burning hatred screeds against Peyton Manning when I first met you? Do you even remember the number of fights I got into with you on this topic? If he wasn't in a frat then what the fuck dude?

― Allyzay doesnt get into the monkeys or vindications (allyzay), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 15:24 (eighteen years ago)

he was in the rich white kids secret society that ran shit

― TOMBO7 (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 15:32 (eighteen years ago)

not a frat per se because it also was comprised of academic and administrative staff and women

― TOMBO7 (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 15:33 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah in no way is that crazier-sounding than the cab driver.

― Allyzay doesnt get into the monkeys or vindications (allyzay), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 15:35 (eighteen years ago)

cabbie was also telling me about playing high school football in memphis in the early '60s. "'course we didn't play against any colored boys, it was still seg'gated then. the nigras has they own schools. it was a diffint tahme."

i love a thick mid-south accent. not so much on scummy borderline racist cabbies but on big eyed girls at the bar? can't be beat.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 15:43 (eighteen years ago)

http://dailybeacon.utk.edu/printarticle.php?articleid=30753

― TOMBO7 (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 15:46 (eighteen years ago)

Group members say the society meets in secret to discuss ideas, but makes no decisions affecting UT.

wait wait wait... a group of college kids get together for idle chatter? STOP THE PRESSES!!!

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 15:49 (eighteen years ago)

I KNOW RITE

― TOMBO7 (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 15:50 (eighteen years ago)

briggs and rosie would TEAR SHIT UP. and yeah, tully's just too damn slow, s'why they had alexander on the field for most of the game. vrabel needs to be phased out of starting duty.

i think kraft in particular would've loved to keep a ton of guys as pats for life - milloy, vinatieri, mcginest - and if there wasn't a salary cap he would've paid out the ass to do so. i think the pats-are-sofa-king-cheap meme is a tiny bit overstated, i mean they paid rodney more than anyone in the league wanted to by a significant margin. i'm getting more and more nervous about asante samuel though. maybe he's overperforming cuz it's a contract year, but C'MON. the d-line is probz the best in the league, except maybe for san diego, and they're ALL YOUNG. seymour's your oldest guy and he's just entering his prime. that's something to be super stoked about. hobbs has been awesome. there's a lot of young talent there.

(haha i'm doing exactly what i hate the most abt pats fans now, where they act like everyone cares about the minutiae of their team and that dan koppen getting an extension is news that everyone needs to know and that every new fourth-string role player is another cog in the brilliant belichickian machine and blah blah bloo bloo)

― aidsy (PUNXSUTAWNEY PENIS), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 15:55 (eighteen years ago)

Tom, I'm glad someone else at UTK has taken up your paranoid ramblings for future generations to come.

xpost dude the pats are still pretty well under the salary cap. I mean, they're not in Eagles territory but they aren't exactly the Falcons either (btw wtf do the Falcons spend all that money on?).

― Allyzay doesnt get into the monkeys or vindications (allyzay), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 15:57 (eighteen years ago)

Kirkland, Carmack win close vote
Knight Stivender - Staff Writer
Friday, April 11, 1997 issue
Click here to print
Hawkeye's erupted last night as Tennessee Now members learned their party had swept the top SGA seats of president and vice president.
James Kirkland and Tausha Carmack are the new leaders of the undergraduate student body.
Kirkland won the presidency with 1,534 votes to Student Voice presidential candidate Travis Wright's 1,258.

Party of Darkness presidential hopeful Tom Millar took third place with 120 votes, and 30 voters wrote in Peyton Manning, giving the quarterback fourth place.

― TOMBO7 (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 16:00 (eighteen years ago)

ally - peerless price.

― aidsy (PUNXSUTAWNEY PENIS), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 16:00 (eighteen years ago)

vrabel needs to be phased out of starting duty.

no, they need to keep vrabel inside at this point. i think he could take on the role roman phifer had as the veteran who's lost a step (or 10) but still gets by on experience or intuition or whatever you want to call it.

unless i missed an extension i think richard seymour's contract is up this year too.

i think the pats-are-sofa-king-cheap meme is a tiny bit overstated, i mean they paid rodney more than anyone in the league wanted to by a significant margin

yeah, i know they'll pay for talent, look at the contract they put down for rosey colvin. but i think briggs is such a dominant player someone will greatly overpay for his services. and that's one thing i don't expect from belicheck and pioli.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 16:01 (eighteen years ago)

hahaha peerless price

I would've voted for Peyton in that race :P

― Allyzay doesnt get into the monkeys or vindications (allyzay), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 16:05 (eighteen years ago)

seriously he's still taking up like 10 million in space. i don't think his cap hit is off the books until next year. also i don't understand cap shit that well but i think the pats' situation is a little misunderstood, cf. this bit from the blobe (i meant to type globe but blobe makes sense too) last week:

And as for the millions in cap space, I’ve been doing some research on this area and believe I’ve uncovered some interesting information in regards to the team’s cap spending that sheds a little bit of a different light on things. Because the team had such high cash spending the previous two years — with the top-level Tom Brady and Richard Seymour deals leading the way — the Patriots project to be one of a handful of teams who will actually be penalized by the league as part of the new CBA, and I believe will lose some cap space in a future season (possibly 2007) because of that. The Colts are also part of the small handful of teams who I think will be penalized; it’s sort of like the luxury tax in baseball. I believe the Patriots would do a service to their fans by explaining this intricacy of the salary cap — assuming I have it correct — because I sense there is a perception out there that the team is not spending compared to other teams. In actuality, they’ve spent to a level that is actually going to penalize them.

― aidsy (PUNXSUTAWNEY PENIS), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 16:08 (eighteen years ago)

a dominant LB is also worth less than a dominant, say, QB or DL.

http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/6378468

The defining player of Patriots coach Bill Belichick's career is Lawrence Taylor, the outside linebacker he coached when he was on Bill Parcells' staff with the New York Giants. Belichick learned with the Giants that players like Taylor, who truly changed the game, are so rare that they're worth every penny a team spends on them. Belichick has decided with this group of Patriots that two such players exist, quarterback Tom Brady and defensive lineman Richard Seymour, and then he's found a second tier of players who — while they haven't earned the kind of money Brady and Seymour have — got bigger paychecks in New England than they would have received elsewhere. New England even gave lineman Billy Yates a $400,000 salary, making him the highest-paid practice squad player in league history.

maybe we should make an all-purpose pats/massholes thread to spare everyone else

― aidsy (PUNXSUTAWNEY PENIS), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 16:12 (eighteen years ago)

That's weird and doesn't make very good sense, I've not heard of that before. I know that they DIDN'T have as much room under the salary cap a few years ago because of a couple of those deals, and the way the contracts were structured is part of why they DO have so much space now, but I'd never heard of this at all??? As long as they were under the salary cap, why would they be penalized?

― Allyzay doesnt get into the monkeys or vindications (allyzay), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 16:13 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.toadking.com/6x9=42/itisamystery.gif

― aidsy (PUNXSUTAWNEY PENIS), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 16:15 (eighteen years ago)

I take it all back, the Eagles are the smartest team in the league.

― Allyzay doesnt get into the monkeys or vindications (allyzay), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 16:20 (eighteen years ago)

who wrote that article from the globe? was it michael reiss? because his column is on-line only and, apparently, has not vetting process because it's always filled with corrections, retractions, and clarifications.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 16:34 (eighteen years ago)

yeah it reiss, i think it was actually just a mailbag column or some shit.

― aidsy (PUNXSUTAWNEY PENIS), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 16:55 (eighteen years ago)

then i'll give it a week before i believe it. he has spread more incorrect information regarding the cap in general and the pats cap in particular that i'm surprised he still draws a paycheck.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 17:10 (eighteen years ago)

well he kind of admits that it's probably all in his head, i just thought it was an interesting wrinkle. i'm sure he doesn't know shit about shit.

― aidsy (PUNXSUTAWNEY PENIS), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 17:20 (eighteen years ago)

He is no Adam Schefter.

― Allyzay doesnt get into the monkeys or vindications (allyzay), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 17:33 (eighteen years ago)

well that's kind of unfair, Adam Schefter controls the information age

― TOMBO7 (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 17:40 (eighteen years ago)

Just three days ago he was saying that Bill Parcells was staying on as the Cowboys coach, though. SOME INFORMATION AGE.

― Allyzay doesnt get into the monkeys or vindications (allyzay), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 17:43 (eighteen years ago)

he was the person of 2006, he's totally lost in this crazy world he didn't create of 2007

― say it with blood diamonds (a_p), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 18:00 (eighteen years ago)

http://images.nfl.com/photos/img9947907.jpg
^^^^^^^^^ ok did not know there was ANOTHER hilarious man in this pic

― Allyzay doesnt get into the monkeys or vindications (allyzay), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 21:16 (eighteen years ago)

i think rex is way cuter than peyton

― phil-two (phil-two), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 21:22 (eighteen years ago)

That's crazy.

― Allyzay doesnt get into the monkeys or vindications (allyzay), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 21:23 (eighteen years ago)

i think joe torre is cuter than peyton.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 21:25 (eighteen years ago)

OK now THAT is crazy.

― Allyzay doesnt get into the monkeys or vindications (allyzay), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 21:26 (eighteen years ago)

Joe Torre is like the one coach/manager/#1 guy type guy who looks more evil and sleep/sun/food deprived than Belichick.

― Allyzay doesnt get into the monkeys or vindications (allyzay), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 21:26 (eighteen years ago)

sexy rexy!

― phil-two (phil-two), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 21:29 (eighteen years ago)

I thought the nickname was supposed to be ironic, like, um, Broadway Joe.

― Allyzay doesnt get into the monkeys or vindications (allyzay), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 21:31 (eighteen years ago)

torre looks like the kind of guy who if you told me he blew out a knee in 1964 and became an enforcer for the mob instead of a baseball player, i would have no problems believing you.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 21:36 (eighteen years ago)

But that doesn't make a guy very cute.

― Allyzay doesnt get into the monkeys or vindications (allyzay), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 21:37 (eighteen years ago)

yes, which makes my opinion of peyton that much more evident.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 21:39 (eighteen years ago)

But no less crazy.

― Allyzay doesnt get into the monkeys or vindications (allyzay), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 21:40 (eighteen years ago)

what madness is this? Rex Grossman is profoundly unattractive. Joe Torre? Look, I know he doesn't have a buttchin or fifteen bodies in the basement, but Peyton Manning is adorable.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 21:48 (eighteen years ago)

This is yet another example of dudes all lovefesting on totally unattractive-to-ladies dudes, it happens all the time. It is kind of profound, sometimes.

― Allyzay doesnt get into the monkeys or vindications (allyzay), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 21:51 (eighteen years ago)

are you honestly saying that given the chance, no strings attached, if it were somehow ok with your spouse/sig other, that you would not take to bed and ravish joe torre?

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 21:53 (eighteen years ago)

Is he going to pay me?

― Allyzay doesnt get into the monkeys or vindications (allyzay), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 21:55 (eighteen years ago)

Don Zimmer brings teh hotttness

― lk (lawrence kansas), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 21:57 (eighteen years ago)

joey ramone.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 21:58 (eighteen years ago)

i mean, well rex was pretty awful looking in college with bad haircuts and all, but now he's just so adorable i want to pinch his cheeks!

― phil-two (phil-two), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 22:03 (eighteen years ago)

I suppose technically he's not the worst looking person ever but eyebrows! also, he looks so dim.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 22:09 (eighteen years ago)

He has the fattest face I've ever seen on a thin man.

― Allyzay doesnt get into the monkeys or vindications (allyzay), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 22:16 (eighteen years ago)

http://espn.go.com/i/magazine/new/bracket_guest.jpg

― roger goodell (gear), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 22:25 (eighteen years ago)

agaghaignobaogh no no do not want

― Allyzay doesnt get into the monkeys or vindications (allyzay), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 22:26 (eighteen years ago)

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c97/effyoutoo/heroes.jpg

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 22:57 (eighteen years ago)

http://blogs.trb.com/news/weather/weblog/wgnweather/CSL012407.jpg

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 25 January 2007 15:07 (eighteen years ago)

Are they going to put another headband around the Picasso statue?

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 25 January 2007 15:21 (eighteen years ago)

http://img114.imageshack.us/img114/9513/27455398pn3.jpg
-- fuck yr face blogger (a|e...), February 5th, 2007 4:15 PM. (a_p) (later) (link)

The gift that keeps on giving...

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 5 February 2007 22:33 (eighteen years ago)

that is just the best

― Allyzay doesnt get into the monkeys or vindications (allyzay), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 16:50 (eighteen years ago)

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