"You can't play your opponent and your own stupidity at the same time." WEEK 20 CHAMPIONSHIP ROUND

Jets at Colts
Vikings at Saints

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COLTS

SAINTS
^^^ could be brett favre's LAST GAME. NO REALLY

Colts
Saints

Last week's picks 1-3 oy!

Colts
Saints
All will be set right this weekend.

how hilarious would a vikes/jets super bowl be

Colts Vikings

i think it will be saints/colts, but i also think each game will be a little too close for comfort

Manning v. Favre would get megasuperduper ratings. xp

I'm still trying to hunt down evidence of Romosheadonfavresshoulder.jpeg

(peterson will have his first good game in a while, but it won't be enough to overcome Favreceptions)

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colts
saints

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3-1 with my picks last weekend.

Vikings
Colts

i don't even know what to think. i will never actually pick the vikings because of a lifetime of paranoia and superstition, but i think we can give them a good game...maybe

i don't know.

anyway i really hope the vikes win, i never thought we could get this close again, even if it is with favre and everyone hates us now.

Colts, Saints

3-1 in round 2, 5-3 playoffs

here's to a Viking funeral and a trip down the river on a burning raft for Farrrrrrve

I'm beginning to wonder if there is a hex on being the "most accurate kicker in NFL history". Kaeding is like the second in line with the drunken kicker from Canada to have that title and then completely bomb in the playoffs.

Scott Norwood was a pretty accurate kicker and in hindsight that was a pretty long kick against the Giants and he never returned, but I wonder if at the time he was "the most accurate kicker in NFL history" when that went down.

Looking at the charts, I'm thinking that Gary Anderson might have been the "most accurate kicker in NFL history" or pretty damn close when he shanked that one for the Vikings a few years back. Most of the guys ahead of him started after 98. Anderson definitely was one of the elite kickers when he shanked that one.

http://www.pro-football-reference.com/leaders/fg_perc_career.htm

You have to wonder.

Don't think Norwood had that title, but he was a probowler when that went down. I know Eddie Murray also remember him shanking a playoff loss for the Lions and he was a probowl caliber kicker too, at least at one point in his career.

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instantly soundtracked in my head with PANTS ON THE GROUND

guys, i think it's saints-colts but i'm also tempted to go on a limb and pick saints-JETS. i was the only person who picked the jets last week (i don't post picks on the board so i can't prove this without giving you guys phone numbers of all my friends so just trust me on this).

I want Saints-Colts, but then I have wanted a lot of things in the past couple of weeks that haven't happened. This is why we can't have nice things, the San Diego Chargers. THIS IS WHY.

you guys were all so upset about that game! you wouldn't have liked to have been with me and my friends, we all openly decided to hate the chargers and pull for a jets win. sorry guys!

i keep trying to spin this jets thing positively -- like, this is nice, they are gonna get screwed for next year because they won't be able to sign FAs and will have low draft spots -- they are tricking their fans into thinking that this is a thing that might last -- they will def be one of the playoff teams that goes 7-9 next year -- but if they make the super bowl i'm going to cry probably

that said... i don't have much in my heart for the chargers or the colts so i'm feeling a bit not up to the challenge of totally rooting for the jets -- i naturally fall towards the underdog anyway

3-5 on PO's, 2-2 last week like everyone else.

Coltes, Saints

i hate the jets but it would be v nice irony if they beat the colts, after the colts deliberately screwed up their perfect season & let jets walk into the playoffs

true

pls colts saints pls

you guys were all so upset about that game! you wouldn't have liked to have been with me and my friends, we all openly decided to hate the chargers and pull for a jets win. sorry guys!

Not remotely surprised!

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wasnt sure where to post this but here's an awesome interview with matt stafford

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100117/COL01/1170458/1049/rss14&template=fullarticle

Q: How cool are you?

A: I don't know. I'm fun to hang out with. I think.

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A push by celebrities, athletes and the first lady encouraging text-message donations for earthquake relief in Haiti has contributed to a fund-raising bonanza for the American Red Cross, which a little over a year ago turned to Congress for a bailout.

As of late Sunday, the organization had collected pledges of $103 million, about $22 million of which came through the text-messaging program. The National Football League’s promotion of text-message donations during its weekend playoff games produced stunning results, with money “coming in at the rate of $500,000 an hour,” said Roger Lowe, a Red Cross spokesman.

“I need a better word than ‘unprecedented’ or ‘amazing’ to describe what’s happened with the text-message program,” Mr. Lowe said.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/19/us/19charity.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

maybe people don't suck that much

nice :D now back to hoping favre's head gets taken off.

btw championship round sounds too britishes for nfl

the saints/vikes should be a great game. going to be really really interesting to see how the vikes D matches up.

basically, it probably comes down to our defensive line.

the vikes D is basically predicated on getting good pressure from the four down lineman without doing a ton of blitzing schemes. in games where our front four have been shut-down, the defense frankly can look pathetic...when we get good pressure, like in the dallas game for instance or against green bay this year, we can basically make a high powered offense look like shit....

i think this is sort of a trait of the tampa 2 in general, like you give up stuff in the middle to tight ends and slot receivers while not giving away the big gains and shutting down the run....so then you just need like one sack or negative play for a loss to basically kill a drive...

we beat the saints last year but that team wasn't nearly as good as they are playing this year, and their D wasn't nearly as good.

and after all the talk about favre some of the real key players for us might be dudes like bennie sapp, jamarca sanford, and tyrell johnson who have been problematic for us in the secondary

yeah if vikings d-line plays like they did on sunday, i think they'll beat the saints. cowboys' o-line looked solid all year but go so so sonned on sunday.

Colts
Saints

You know it makes sense.

http://deadspin.com/5452816/the-best-place-to-get-in-a-bar-fight-this-sunday

told u guize this existed

damn that's the place my friend at work always talks about from when he lived in NYC..some regulars came to visit him once and go to the vikes, these crazy brooklyn dudes that somehow grew up loving the vikes cuzza their dad...

hah walked by that place a million times had no idea of its pedigree

ok schef i believe you finally! that's weird

I found an place in Prague that has fellow Saints fans, but they're kinda prickish. They were calling Warner a sissy after he got hurt from that big hit last week. I hope a bunch of Vikes fans don't show up this week.

i still don't believe the schef - it's a potemkin bar

i was the only person who picked the jets last week (i don't post picks on the board so i can't prove this without giving you guys phone numbers of all my friends so just trust me on this).

― everyone kills people (the schef (adam schefter ha ha))

damn, I forgot to post my picks last week, but I am 7-1 in my friend's playoff pool, and in 2nd place out of about 25 ppl. I bet on the Jets to make the spread, and took the under (which was 40 pts I believe)

anyway, I think I'm going Saints/Colts this week, but I have a bad feeling about the Vikings.

I kinda love that Rex Ryan sent a game ball to Marty Schottenheimer!

jets +7.5 = easiest money you'll make all year

ehhh

3) childress - the 12 man thing was just inexcusable...fuck.

i haven't read that much postgame stuff, but did anyone find out which player wasn't supposed to be in the huddle? this prob wasn't childress' fault -- i don't think head coaches control package personnel on the field. i might be wrong but it's more likely that one of the wrs/tes fucked up here, unless the play got in late or w/e and there was scrambling

according to florio it was tahi, the fullback

makes sense

there were like half a dozen of those that were just like, what, how is this not being called *shakes fist unto heavens*

xps yeah i dunno, all those last-minute and red zone fuck-ups seemed so normally vikingsesque SOP they just seemed normal tbh

fucking tahi, the most useless player in the NFL

yeah i found the blog post where florio got that from, but no one they talked to (childress and hutch) said exactly HOW it happened. i'm not clear on how substitutions work in general tbh--i guess the play gets radioed in and assistant coaches tell their guys to go on the field and then either those guys or the qb (who also has the play) would tell other guys to leave the field?

tahi probably wanted to be in there to do his patented "bumble around and get in adrian peterson's way" move...or maybe his other go-to "1 yard screen pass" move

my guess is that they wanted a formation without a fullback, and tahi, assuming that they were just going to be running the clock out, ran into the huddle because he had been in most of the drive

feeling like i am marcellus wallace and the jets being in the super bowl was the equivalent of me being ass raped by some rednecks, and peyty is bruce willis who saved me with a katana, and maybe i used to hate the guy enough to kill him (watch indy games just to laugh if he gets sacked), but now we are cool.

**rootin' for the colts super bowl xliv **

aw that is beautiful

i love this line:

After Sunday's game, Favre staggered to the podium, an abrasion between his eyes, welts on his forehead and tears in his eyes from the beating he took at the hands of the Saints

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/playoffs/2009/news/story?id=4857006

he's coming back imo

"I told him go home and lick your wounds and I'll do the same and we'll catch up down the road," Childress said.

god there's just something about this dude that puts the worst possible image in my head when it comes to phrases like that

he's making 12 million a year and just had the best season of his career - he's definitely coming back

Omar, what could possibly give you a bad feeling about this man?

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sorry matt. vikings are good. a colts/vikings super bowl would have been dynamite

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oops

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One day later and down from my adrenaline high, I'm kind of torn about Favre continuing. On one hand, great 2009, still physically fit, lotsa money to be made. On the other hand, there's only one thing he can do to guarantee he never gets the shit beaten out of him on a football field again.

btw this thread's title was mad prophetic wrt to the vikes

"this will haunt us"

One day later and down from my adrenaline high, I'm kind of torn about Favre continuing. On one hand, great 2009, still physically fit, lotsa money to be made. On the other hand, there's only one thing he can do to guarantee he never gets the shit beaten out of him on a football field again.

I don't see any argument for him retiring in this paragraph

??

Retiring is the one thing he can do to guarantee etc etc

joek

regardless, he's not gonna retire

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Brett Favre's return for another season is "highly unlikely, but it has been an awesome year," the Minnesota Vikings quarterback told ESPN's Ed Werder after the Vikings' loss to the New Orleans Saints in the NFC Championship Game on Sunday.
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he's going to fake retire so he wont have to deal with training camp and preseason, then come out of the woodwork again when the season's about to start

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Favre wasn't quite ready to make a decision on his future immediately following the loss, but he said he wouldn't take long to make his plans known this time.
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I'M LIKE A KID IN THE CANDY STORE THAT THEY PRESUMABLY HAVE AT WILLY WONKA'S CHOCOLATE FACTORY THAT IS LARGE AND FULL OF GREAT CANDIES

LOL Princirens!

now that i think about it, i dont really feel that bad for vikings fans. you guys have a good, well-run team that's going to continue to contend with or without favre; this year was just the tip of the iceberg. i'm saving all my pity for bears fans.

you guys have a good, well-run team that's going to continue to contend with or without favre

...as long as you don't waste a first round draft pick on Jimmy Clausen.

as predictable as an ill-timed Brett Favre interception:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urutCaKyw4E

Tracy Porter's new pac-man haircut:
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OH SHIT was THAT what that was; that is AWESOME

CBS urged to scrap Tebow ad
http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/playoffs/2009/news/story?id=4857753

Because he sucks?

maybe i'm wrong about this, but i think the saints' strategy -- which admittedly worked against boys & vikes (kind of) -- of blitz peyton like crazy and try and knock the shit out of him sounds like a kamikaze suicide pact to me. he shreds the blitz so, so well. i feel like the best way to beat him is to (relatively) sit back and try and make him force balls into coverage. i don't think he's the kind of QB that you want making split-second decisions with a bunch of guys in one-on-one coverage.

yeah, i was thinking about this and i kind of agree. the only way they're going to stop him is by getting an INT or two and i would think the best way to go about that is by creating confusion with coverage. he did throw a couple more picks this year and i'm wondering if maybe garcon and collie had something to do with that--miscommunications and whatnot.

re-read this thread for some reason, so so so so so many lols -- i really, really can't wait for ilnfl season

who the hell was ponger12 (was it c*n*k*l*)????

also was surprised to see zvookster itt! would be a welcome addition to ilnfl

anyway

http://www.mixedmartialarts.com/?go=forum_framed.posts&forum=2&thread=1584335&page=1&pc=4

― real bears playing hockey (polyphonic), Friday, January 22, 2010 3:07 AM (5 months ago) Bookmark

^^^ FUNNY AS SHIT. Thanks for the memories. I needed a laugh. Football season can't come soon enough.

jets +7.5 = easiest money you'll make all year

― Mr. Snrub, Thursday, January 21, 2010 5:55 PM (3 days ago)

OK this is why I quit gambling.

i can't wait for ilnfl season myself. is favre retiring already or will there be an espn special covering it in prime time for the entire month of august?

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THE NON-DECISION

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he is clearly never retiring

WHOS WHO!

― supra-max (ice cr?m), Sunday, January 24, 2010 10:47 PM (5 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lol

brees looks fine - from a lady standpoint, as much as you'd like to call me a "lady standpoint", his scar is a plus because why? mystery.

― everyone kills people (the schef (adam schefter ha ha)), Monday, January 25, 2010 1:46 AM (10 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

every so often the phrase "as much as you'd like to call me a 'lady standpoint'" gets in my head and makes me lol and lol

lol yes