"Steve Young's face is totally unlined and I have HD, btw" NFL WEEK FOUR [2010]

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THE TRUTH IS IN THE PUDDING

Baltimore @ Pittsburgh → Steelers
Carolina @ New Orleans → Saints
Seattle @ St. Louis → Seahawks
Denver @ Tennessee → Titans
Detroit @ Green Bay → Packers
Cincinnati @ Cleveland → Bengals
New York Jets @ Buffalo → Jets
San Francisco @ Atlanta → Falcons
Arizona @ San Diego → Chargers
Washington @ Philadelphia → Eagles
Indianapolis @ Jacksonville → Colts
Houston @ Oakland → Texans
Chicago @ New York Giants → Bears
New England @ Miami → Dolphins

Last week, 8-8. Overall, 29-19

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/football/nfl/09/27/18game.season.ap/index.html?eref=sihp

polian basically runs the league so id say this is p reliable

11-5 last wk; 29-19 overall

(there are a lot of terrible games this wk)

Baltimore @ Pittsburgh → Steelers
Carolina @ New Orleans → Saints
Seattle @ St. Louis → rams
Denver @ Tennessee → Titans
Detroit @ Green Bay → Packers
Cincinnati @ Cleveland → Bengals
New York Jets @ Buffalo → Jets
San Francisco @ Atlanta → Falcons
Arizona @ San Diego → Chargers
Washington @ Philadelphia → Eagles
Indianapolis @ Jacksonville → Colts
Houston @ Oakland → Texans
Chicago @ New York Giants → giants
New England @ Miami → Dolphins

Worried about player health, but totally excited for 2 more games a season.

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How does he keep getting work???

Baltimore @ Pittsburgh → Steelers
Carolina @ New Orleans → Saints
Seattle @ St. Louis → rams
Denver @ Tennessee → Titans
Detroit @ Green Bay → Packers
Cincinnati @ Cleveland → Bengals
New York Jets @ Buffalo → Jets
San Francisco @ Atlanta → Falcons
Arizona @ San Diego → Chargers
Washington @ Philadelphia → Eagles
Indianapolis @ Jacksonville → Colts
Houston @ Oakland → Oakland
Chicago @ New York Giants → Bears
New England @ Miami → Dolphins

7-9 last week, 22-26 overall ... If I could pick against the Raiders I'd probably be helping myself. I know, I know.

Baltimore @ Pittsburgh → Steelers
Carolina @ New Orleans → Saints
Seattle @ St. Louis → rams
Denver @ Tennessee → Titans
Detroit @ Green Bay → Packers (3 weeks in a row I've been let down by u, DET. Yr not beating GBP regardless, but I have no hope 4 u)
Cincinnati @ Cleveland → Bengals
New York Jets @ Buffalo → Jets
San Francisco @ Atlanta → Falcons
Arizona @ San Diego → Chargers
Washington @ Philadelphia → Eagles (also, ALREADY?)
Indianapolis @ Jacksonville → Colts
Houston @ Oakland → HOU
Chicago @ New York Giants → Bears
New England @ Miami → NE

9-7 last week, 28-20 overall

Worried about player health, but totally excited for 2 more games a season.

Really? There aren't enough garbage games for you already in a 16 game season? Now they're adding two more. Very few teams play well the first two weeks, but now that will be 3 or 4 weeks. Also, teams can clench divisions earlier, and that means more bullshit games at the end of the season too.

I am not totally excited about this. I am not excited at all.

on the money

It'll be a month's worth of the Colts/Jets game.

Fever otm

can i just say the whole situation blows and i loathe the way in which the owners are exercising their power and leveraging the loyalty and good will of the fans?

like, no one is happy about this, but what are we going to do? boycott two weeks? i am pretty much at a loss.

there's nothing anyone can do

sucks ass

the owners in the nfl wield more tyrannical power than the owners of any other sport -- at least in the nba & mlb the owners actually have to pay out the full lives of contracts

the only karmatic retribution is that they're forced to pay rookies obscene salaries but even that comes back to bite fans in the ass eventually

It feels like the owners are using the fans as an excuse to push this through "The fans want more games, and we have to listen to the fans $$$$$$$". I'd like to (probably naively) think fans would rather have good games and less injuries, than more games and a sprawling morass of wounded broken players a la the wounded civil war soldiers in Gone With The Wind.

And honestly, owners can eat a dick as far as fans go. Well, okay Raider owner/ Raider fans ( know there are cool owners out there, so I wont' paint with a broad brush) . They want to ream everyone on ticket prices and then whine and cry about lack of attendance and then propose to rebuild a stadium where the entire lower level is VIP boxes. NFL moneygrubbing ownership and current swath of moneyhungry movie studios have an awful lot in common. (hate people, love money.) And they cite the FAN's interest for the 18 game season. EFF YOU

i have not encountered a fan, media person, or other observer who likes this

Sorry abt crazy rant. I'm back now.

i have not encountered a fan, media person, or other observer who likes this

― call all destroyer, Tuesday, September 28, 2010 1:55 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

yea it's a lot like the 96-team bracket thingy that thank god didnt happen

what was that?

for the ncaa tournament

Oh right...I thought you were talking about the NFL and I'm like "brackets? whaaaa?

Yeah the 96 team idea would have been bad news.

i don't even know what to say about this but here you go:

At some point, Dallas Cowboys rookie wide receiver Dez Bryant was going to get his comeuppance. Teammate Roy Williams all but guaranteed that during training camp.

Bryant made national news in training camp when he refused to carry Williams' pads after practice -- bucking the trend of veteran NFL players hazing rookies. Bryant later said he didn't know about such tradition.

"I'm not doing it," Bryant said then. "I feel like I was drafted to play football, not carry another player's pads."

Williams excused it, saying then that Bryant, who received $8.3 million in guaranteed money from his rookie contract, would just have to take the team out to dinner and and get him some new shoes.

Well, that dinner happened Monday night. The final tab: $54,896.

Bryant took the offensive players out to Pappas Bros. Steakhouse. Williams, however, made sure Bryant got the message, inviting defensive players as well.

And guess who was left holding the bill afterward.

"They got the young fella," said Bryant's adviser, David Wells. "What could he say? He had to pay it unless he wanted to wash dishes for a month."

Players ordered basically everything on the menu and even took home bottles of wine.

After checking out the 90-page winebook, it's anybody's guess if anybody took home a bottle of Chateau Latour for $9,000. It's also possible a few players ordered a bottle of PlumpJack Reserve for $600.

No word from Bryant or Williams about the evening ... yet.

lol

he should've just refused to pay!!

what was gonna happen?

that's always one of the most dickish things that routinely happens on all pro sports teams

yeah i mean if they had kept it in the sub-10k range that's one thing, but this was nuts

"offensive players" lol

Baltimore @ Pittsburgh → steelers
Carolina @ New Orleans → saints
Seattle @ St. Louis → rams
Denver @ Tennessee → titans
Detroit @ Green Bay → pack
Cincinnati @ Cleveland → browns
New York Jets @ Buffalo → jets
San Francisco @ Atlanta → falcons
Arizona @ San Diego → bolts
Washington @ Philadelphia → eagles
Indianapolis @ Jacksonville → colts
Houston @ Oakland → raiders
Chicago @ New York Giants → bears
New England @ Miami → fins

8-8 last week, 28-20 overall

otm...$54,896 is really not practical joke level anymore

And in these troubled economic times, just how funny is $54,896... hurm, Gucci-wearing football players? (peers over reading glasses)

I guarantee he wishes he could go back and just carry the damn shoulderpads now.

i really would not want to be a rookie wr on the cowboys in dez's third year on the team

So if my math skills are correct, with a 53-man roster that translates to over $1,000 a person!! What the hell kinda restaurant sells food that expensive?

I think there are plenty of restaurants that could figure out a way to charge $1000 a person if someone told them about the loljoke to run up as big a bill as possible

Baltimore @ Pittsburgh → steelers
Carolina @ New Orleans → saints
Seattle @ St. Louis → seahawks
Denver @ Tennessee → titans
Detroit @ Green Bay → packers
Cincinnati @ Cleveland → bengals
New York Jets @ Buffalo → jets
San Francisco @ Atlanta → falcons
Arizona @ San Diego → chargers
Washington @ Philadelphia → eagles
Indianapolis @ Jacksonville → colts
Houston @ Oakland → texans
Chicago @ New York Giants → bears
New England @ Miami → patriots, unfortunately.

6-10 last week, an ugly 14-18 overall.

So, CBS has the Denver/Tennessee game, and the Ravens/Steelers game at 10am PST.

I really really really really don't want to go to a bar on Sunday morning. Again.

Please, CBS - save me from my AT&T U-verse hell and deliver me a Ravens game at home. Please.

What the fuck
http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news?slug=ap-jaguars-osgood
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP)—Jacksonville receiver Kassim Osgood leapt out a second-floor window to escape a gun-wielding man who attacked him and a 19-year-old Jaguars cheerleader, according to police.
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BUSTED

yeah dating a cheerleader 11 years your younger is kinda nasty

General rule of thumb is the 10+ yr age gap becomes decidedly less creepy when the girl leaves her teens. Also: Florida be crazy.

8-8 last week, 28-19 overall

Baltimore @ Pittsburgh → feeling the ravens this week
Carolina @ New Orleans → saints
Seattle @ St. Louis → seahawks
Denver @ Tennessee → titans i hope
Detroit @ Green Bay → pack
Cincinnati @ Cleveland → bengals
New York Jets @ Buffalo → jets
San Francisco @ Atlanta → falcons, rip singletary
Arizona @ San Diego → chargers
Washington @ Philadelphia → eagles, mcnabb sadface
Indianapolis @ Jacksonville → colts
Houston @ Oakland → texans
Chicago @ New York Giants → BEARS
New England @ Miami → i would like to say miami but it will be the pats

btw i realize this is vv serious business but i kinda lolled at osgood likely being all "wtf?!" while these two are shooting at each other and getting the hell outta there.

The gunman took Putnal’s cell phone and tackled her as she tried to flee. When he ordered the couple to sit on the floor, she escaped downstairs in her parents’ home and grabbed a gun, police said. They shot at each other and both missed.

Osgood, meanwhile, jammed a chair under the door, jumped out a window to the lawn below and ran to a neighbor’s house to call police.

This is my favorite line from the whole story: They shot at each other and both missed.

9-7 last week, 26-24 overall

Baltimore @ Pittsburgh → steelers
Carolina @ New Orleans → saints
Seattle @ St. Louis → seahawks
Denver @ Tennessee → titans
Detroit @ Green Bay → packers
Cincinnati @ Cleveland → bengals
New York Jets @ Buffalo → jets
San Francisco @ Atlanta → 9ers
Arizona @ San Diego → chargers
Washington @ Philadelphia → eagles
Indianapolis @ Jacksonville → colts
Houston @ Oakland → texans
Chicago @ New York Giants → giants
New England @ Miami → fins

try not to be jealous but I'm attending the clash of the titans - rams vs squawks

that game made me more angrier than professional sports should. that's why I made sure not to post to this thread last night!

ugh.

lol, ally

Seriously, WTF is wrong with this guy? Richard Curtis and his horrible 10:10 climate change film

Beast Mode is taking his talents to Seattle, as if the Seahawks didn't have enough Golden Bears already.

wtf is going on with that thread, i am so lost right now, why are there automated hatcats

omg i can barely breathe looking at that thread tho

there are automated hatcats because of tony romo

it all makes sense

how tho! that is amazing, who did this!

r.i.p. dolphins special teams coach btw

You know, we really ARE some hilarious japesters, you guys.

<3 for all time, ILNFL

schef i thought it was you, i was going to email you and ask if you could turn every mention of andy reid into pokercat.jpg

this had nothing to do with me! i am so entertained right now!

http://images.chron.com/blogs/askacat/hatcat.JPG

ahem

:D

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nitsuh [.]http://images.chron.com/blogs/askacat/hatcat.JPG

k im done

romohttp://images.chron.com/blogs/askacat/hatcat.JPGromohttp://images.chron.com/blogs/askacat/hatcat.JPG

http://www.theonion.com/articles/tony-romos-mouth-sore-from-talking-about-tender-ar,17854/

nice work team.

according to the latest power ranking bullshit john clayton thinks the jets are the #1 team in the nfl

lynch for a fourth and conditional seems like a helluva trade for a team with no rb. could be the one element that helps seattle lose fewer games than the rest of the nfc west this year. definitely worth the gamble at that cost.

also, i suddenly find myself feeling a lot more sympathetically towards tonyhttp://images.chron.com/blogs/askacat/hatcat.JPGthan i used to. anyone called tonyhttp://images.chron.com/blogs/askacat/hatcat.JPGcan't be all bad.

according to the latest power ranking bullshit john clayton thinks the jets are the #1 team in the nfl

ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

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so sam bradford's kind of for real, huh?

I hope so, cause I'm riding him through the rest of the season in 14 Deep.

You know's who's for real though?

Really for real?

Romo.

Tony.

Romo.

Booo where'd hatcat go?

Romo?

it's the punctuation

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it's like candymanhttp://images.chron.com/blogs/askacat/hatcat.JPG

http://images.chron.com/blogs/askacat/hatcat.JPG http://i53.tinypic.com/rlceas.jpg

http://images.chron.com/blogs/askacat/hatcat.JPG http://images.chron.com/blogs/askacat/hatcat.JPG

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http://images.chron.com/blogs/askacat/hatcat.JPG http://images.chron.com/blogs/askacat/hatcat.JPG

http://images.chron.com/blogs/askacat/hatcat.JPGromohttp://images.chron.com/blogs/askacat/hatcat.JPG

Yay

I was afraid for a minute that Tonyhttp://images.chron.com/blogs/askacat/hatcat.JPGwas gone forever and that would have made me sad if Tonyhttp://images.chron.com/blogs/askacat/hatcat.JPGwas gone forever because who would we laugh at if Tonyhttp://images.chron.com/blogs/askacat/hatcat.JPGwas gone forever?

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what are you doing to make it so the SWAG cat doesn't come up?

what are *you* doing so that the SWAG cat comes up?

I'm just typing R.o.m.o

(minus the punctuation of course)

Tonyhttp://images.chron.com/blogs/askacat/hatcat.JPG

tonyhttp://images.chron.com/blogs/askacat/hatcat.JPG

\(o_O)/http://images.chron.com/blogs/askacat/hatcat.JPG

How did you do SwagCat?

i don't know

i don't want swag cat

original hat cat is the most funny

Good. I don't want swagcat either. (spits on the ground)http://images.chron.com/blogs/askacat/hatcat.JPGromohttp://images.chron.com/blogs/askacat/hatcat.JPG

I think someone changed the code back after complaints were made after "swag" appeared to the orig pic

Democracy in action!