"I cried when I saw the Superdome. I laughed when I saw the Metrodome." NFL WEEK 15 Thread

49ers at Chargers (TNF)
Browns at Bengals
Redskins at Cowboys
Texans at Titans
Jaguars at Colts
Chiefs at Rams
Bills at Dolphins
Eagles at Giants
Lions at Buccaneers
Saints at Ravens
Cardinals at Panthers
Falcons at Seahawks
Broncos at Raiders
Jets at Steelers
Packers at Patriots (SNF)
Bears at Vikings (MNF)

11-5 last week, 130-77 overall

49ers at Chargers (TNF) -- chargers
Browns at Bengals -- browns
Redskins at Cowboys -- cowboys
Texans at Titans -- texas i guess
Jaguars at Colts -- colts
Chiefs at Rams -- chiefs
Bills at Dolphins -- dolphins
Eagles at Giants -- eagles
Lions at Buccaneers -- bucs
Saints at Ravens -- hmm...saints i think
Cardinals at Panthers -- ugh...cards
Falcons at Seahawks -- falcons
Broncos at Raiders -- raiders
Jets at Steelers -- steelers
Packers at Patriots (SNF) -- patriots
Bears at Vikings (MNF) -- bears

11-5 last week, 124-84 on the season

49ers at Chargers (TNF) - Chargers win, coaches start mailing resumes to San Francisco.
Browns at Bengals - Browns
Redskins at Cowboys - The Redskins have collapsed in every conceivable way. So...lolCowboys.
Texans at Titans - Texans
Jaguars at Colts - Taking the Jags to tie up the AFC South with a win here.
Chiefs at Rams - Tentatively picking the Rams while awaiting word of Cassel's status.
Bills at Dolphins - I think Dolphins, which means the Bills will win.
Eagles at Giants - Eagles
Lions at Buccaneers - Bucs
Saints at Ravens - Saints do it.
Cardinals at Panthers - Cards do it (ugly).
Falcons at Seahawks - Despite being on the opposite coast, Falcons on the road.
Broncos at Raiders - Raiders (again, but not by the same margin as before).
Jets at Steelers - Steelers
Packers at Patriots (SNF) - Pats
Bears at Vikings (MNF) - Bears

132-76 on the season, 11-5 last week

49ers at Chargers (TNF) SDSC
Browns at Bengals BROWN
Redskins at Cowboys COW
Texans at Titans TEX
Jaguars at Colts JAG
Chiefs at Rams CHIF
Bills at Dolphins LOLFINS
Eagles at Giants GIG
Lions at Buccaneers LIONS JOEMENTUM
Saints at Ravens STS
Cardinals at Panthers CARD
Falcons at Seahawks FALC
Broncos at Raiders RAID
Jets at Steelers PIT
Packers at Patriots PAT
Bears at Vikings CHI

11-5 / 126-83

49ers at Chargers (TNF) - Chargers
Browns at Bengals - Browns
Redskins at Cowboys - dallas
Texans at Titans - Texans
Jaguars at Colts - jags
Chiefs at Rams - ramz
Bills at Dolphins - bills
Eagles at Giants - giants
Lions at Buccaneers - Bucs
Saints at Ravens - Saints
Cardinals at Panthers - hilarious game - panthers
Falcons at Seahawks - atl
Broncos at Raiders - Raiders
Jets at Steelers - Steelers
Packers at Patriots (SNF) - Pats
Bears at Vikings (MNF) - Bears

49ers at Chargers (TNF)- Chargers but I think the Niners could give them a decent game.
Browns at Bengals - Browns, the Bengals are in the land of the lost. I don't get some of Cincy fans thinking dumping Carson Palmer would be the 'fix' for what is wrong. Oh well, if they go that way I'm sure Minnesota or some other borderline decent club that needs a somewhat competant QB who I wouldn't suprise all the sudden gets very good again will be happy. Good luck trying to win with some dregs or bringing back Kitna or some other damn Mike Brown foolishness.
Redskins at Cowboys - Cowboys I suppose.
Texans at Titans- Who knows...both of these clubs fell of the wall hard about 5 weeks into the season and haven't got their mojo back. Give me the Texans, as they might be able to build a 2 score lead early.
Jaguars at Colts- the Jville and Indy games have been really physicial over the past years. I'm taking the Colts at home, but I won't be suprised if the Jags win.
Chiefs at Rams- I'll take the Chiefs even if the Brodster is the qb.
Bills at Dolphins- I'll take the Dolphins, but if the Bills get up a td or two early they will win.
Eagles at Giants- Giants, as the Eagles defense is getting knicked up.
Lions at Buccaneers- Bucs but the Lions could make this one interesting.
Saints at Ravens- It's a bigger game for the Ravens, as I think NO is probably a bit safer for the wild card than the rest. I'm taking the Ravens as they are due to win a big one. If they lose this one, I don't know. It will be interesting to see how NO does in this one.
Cardinals at Panthers- Ugly and Fugly -- give me Arizona.
Falcons at Seahawks- Falcons but Seattle can be trap city.
Broncos at Raiders- Broncos are making the Bengals look like the Pats in the effort dept., give me the Silver and Black to win.
Jets at Steelers- Jets are going down in flames. Steelers are pretty banged up but it is much funnier watching the Jets fall apart. Pittsburgh to win.
Packers at Patriots (SNF) - Pats, until proven wrong...which I don't know can happen at this point.
Bears at Vikings (MNF)- I'm taking the Bears, but this one could get weird.

Last week 11-5, for the year 139-69

It was a pretty weird start to the year on who was any good, but really, it has gotten much more predictable for the last 4-6 weeks.

TRIPGATE DAY 3

http://sports.espn.go.com/new-york/nfl/news/story?id=5919573

That dude must make some serious change to even want to hang around or the Jets are back paying him in some other way, as 25K fine and a few week suspension is pretty freaking steep.

Pro Football Talk reported that Patrick Ramsey is one of the options the [Vikings are] considering, but Frazier didn’t get into specific names.

This just keeps getting better and better.

hahah where did this week's thread title originate?

49ers at Chargers (TNF) - bolts
Browns at Bengals - bengals
Redskins at Cowboys - boys
Texans at Titans - texans
Jaguars at Colts - jags
Chiefs at Rams - chiefs
Bills at Dolphins - fins
Eagles at Giants - giants
Lions at Buccaneers - bucs
Saints at Ravens - saints
Cardinals at Panthers - cards
Falcons at Seahawks - falcons
Broncos at Raiders - raiders
Jets at Steelers - steelers
Packers at Patriots (SNF) - pats
Bears at Vikings (MNF) - bears

11-5 last week, 125-83 overall

wow everyone was 11-5

I cried when I saw the Superdome.
I laughed when I saw the Metrodome.

If New Madrid ever manages to hit St. Louis, I'll be all like "The Rams moved from Los Angeles?"

― http://tinyurl.com/ccccccccccccccccc (Pleasant Plains), Monday, December 13, 2010 1:29 PM

It was sourced from in-house.

http://i.imgur.com/3hyM0.jpg

hahah

http://sports.espn.go.com/new-york/nfl/news/story?id=5922926

Tannenbaum said Alosi acted alone, that he wasn't told by anyone in the organization to instruct players to stand in a line. Addressing the media Monday, Alosi claimed he wasn't instructed by anyone to create a human wall.

Cumberland backed that stance when asked if anyone else asked him to stand in the line. "Just Sal," he said.

Tannenbaum and coach Rex Ryan both insisted Monday that the players aren't coached to do that.

bullshit

total bullshit.

lol @ bert flacco!

bullshit bullshit bullshit

Jets are so full of shit

And now the dude has been suspended indefinitely? I kind of feel like ppl are going a little nuts over this now...like do we really want the guy's whole career for this?

he's a classic fall guy--working in the nfl sucks

RARRR this makes me angry

don't feel too bad for him, he's probably an asshole

^^^

yeah, you're right. Christ we're talking about the Jets, wtf am I getting so bunged up about.

Sal Alosi's dad killed Jimmy Hoffa with his bare fucking knees.

the ryan family is poisonous, man

capturing the ryans

joining evil ex pats/jets/broncs team videographer steve scarnecchia, its been a year of bad, out-of-control staffers. slike, "hey coaches, nobody thinks your deniability is that plausible."

This weeks title looks like a line that would fit in some old Dylan tune.

Millen is brutal

If the Chargers don't re-sign Vincent Jackson I am gonna be BUMMED.

Um, Vincent Jackson's kinda cuet...

WAHT

Shanahan is benching McNabb this weekend and starting Grossman. RIP Redskins.

Shannahan's really bucking for the naughty list this Christmas

http://sfist.com/attachments/Christopher%20Rogers/rex_fuckitimgoingdeep.jpg

Another one

WAHT

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/columnist/hiestand-tv/2010-12-16-nfl-music-soundtrack_N.htm?csp=34sports&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+UsatodaycomSports-TopStories+%28Sports+-+Top+Stories%29

A new kind of NFL scoring: adding music to TV game coverage.

Don't laugh. Fox will formally announce today that it will do that on its regional Arizona Cardinals-Carolina Panthers game Sunday (1 p.m. ET) after an unannounced test on last week's Seattle Seahawks-San Francisco 49ers game. Fox Sports President Eric Shanks on whether such soundtracks will pop up on Fox's upcoming Super Bowl: "It's a possibility."

Given you're bombarded with mood-prompting music in TV shows, ads and movies — and in stadiums and arenas during games — it's seems inevitable that sideline shots of, say, Bill Belichick could end up being accentuated by Lady Gaga's Poker Face. That's Jay-Z's I Know What Girls Like taking us inside the heads of kickers who just made game-winning field goals. Cue It's Raining Men as players run out of tunnels. Everything going wrong for a team? Who you gonna call?Ghostbusters!

Fox's Shanks says game playlists could include famous artists — "the rule is you use it just once and don't edit it" — but will also draw on original medleys. For Sunday's game, Fox has 15 new cuts from James Cardoni, who has composed music for the prime-time show CSI.

But having cuts you'd hear in movies, like spooky chords when babysitters find out the calls are coming from inside the house, is one thing. Knowing when to use them is another. "This is all in the execution," Shanks says. "Just like music in movies, you have to use it at the right times. And imagine trying to score a movie the first time you're seeing it." Plus, he says, announcers during last week's test game needed to get their groove on "to get a feel whether to keep talking or let the music build the suspense or drama for the next play."

Asked if NFL games might cross-promote Fox movies by using their theme songs, Shanks says "We haven't gotten that far, but that's really interesting. Have an NFL '70s night when American Idol has a '70s night? Maybe there's cross-promotion there." And purists really shouldn't write off this idea until, say, they see a holding replay set to Your Cheatin' Heart.

FUCK YOU FOX

As long as the only song they ever ever use is the intro to "Jump Into the Fire" by Nilsson, I'll be all right with this.

what an awful idea

Maybe the "Layla" coda whenever the Ravens win on an overtime interception.

18-game season. Musically enhanced games on television. Blah blah blah.

If the NFL keeps going this direction, I guarantee college ball is going to resurge in popularity.

Worst idea ever.

i would say i'm surprised but the nba allows arenas to play actual songs during games too so matter of time i guess

And of course it's FOX. You know what'd be even more awesome? One of those scroll screens running down one side that shows everyone's tweets or texts about the game, like they do on that late night music video show on Fuse that shows ppls OMg TeXTS Abt FaV3 mUzIK!!!!! And then everyone gets their own loaded gun to put in their mouth.

FFS people. Come on.

They should put a chip in the ball and make it stream tracers like they did in the NHL.

Or maybe let the players come up with their own nicknames for teh backs of their jerseys – O WAIT.

^ this could easily be a TRON promotional tie-in
xpost

Well, they should put a chip in the ball, but not for that reason. But it would be great for goal line decisions.

they should let the viewers vote on which play should be run next

lol

how can you throw that? dude. for real

fuckin' http://i54.tinypic.com/1j14s2.jpg

you could watch someone refreshing this thread from 20 feet away and know what happened in the game by all the hatcat.jpgs

tell me that's the end of b. favre (apart from dick pix)

http://i54.tinypic.com/1j14s2.jpg

i would just abt die if i ever saw hatcat.jpegs in a computer lab or somewhere

aw, lovie's face looks frostbitten

favre was knocked down earlier in case you missed walter cronkite's announcement

it's too bad HEY RICK doesn't do his twitter hours on CNN anymore, we could get a bunch of people to keep tweeting him pix of hatcat and maybe he would put them on tv

i mean it's CNN, what else have they got to do. hatcat/spitzer

As much fun as the last 8 minutes of the Giants/Eagles game was to watch, I don't ever need to see it recapped again ffs. They did it about 300 times today.

no -- it is never enough

Very disappointed to find out twitter.com/hatcat does not indeed belong to hatcat, but rather some girl named Hattie who has only ever tweeted one time. WAHTAWASTE

they should spend the mnf halftime recapping CMON MAN

With everything going on, did Tebow show any promise at all yesterday? I saw he busted off a run and stats wise it wasn't terrible (or great), but it looks like they didn't have the ball much.

He was okay

Has Tebow smoothed out his throwing motion at all or does it still look like he is shotputting the ball?

tebow looks like a future scott mitchell w/modest scampering ability

NEVER KICK IT TO HESTER

Got to give some hustle points to the Vikings on that one, they got back on Hester and kept him out of the endzone.

i'd like to see webb throw, i dunno

jesus fucking christ

NEVER KICK IT..

oh wait

HESTER HESTER HESTER

No flag, c'mon man!

DON'T KICK IT TO DEVIN HESTER

just don't do it

YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

HESTER

chris warcraft busy shoppin on amazon, didn't hear that you should NEVER KICK TO HESTER

i'm putting it at 50-1 that devin hester still finds a way to return a punt for a TD tonight

― return of the nakh (J0rdan S.), Monday, December 20, 2010 5:16 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_71IfWZjTEr4/SLapGvD901I/AAAAAAAAAew/WtLPkEA1U9k/s400/NOTaPlayersCoach.jpg

KICK IT OUT OF BOUNDS!
KICK IT OUT OF BOUNDS!
KICK IT OUT OF BOUNDS!

feel like half of hester's returns have been called by mike tirico

DON'T KICK TO HIM! JEEMINY CHRISTMAS!

hahahaha how did somebody in the stands make up a sign that fast "JOE NAMATH, JOE MONTANA, JOE WEBB"

i hope joe theismann doesn't get his feelings hurt

Love the fight song

"LOL, vikings, let's win this game"

I want snow goddamn it

It should have Joe Kapp being Minnesota.

All the dudes playing in short sleeves are heroes.

http://www.vikingstickets.com/img/players/52.jpg

Now that is a football helmet.

So how is that http://i54.tinypic.com/1j14s2.jpg trade looking now?

Who exactly did the Broncos choose with those picks? I haven't been able to figure it out. It looks like they might have traded some off.

Not a whole lot of people gave the Bears a shot at winning their division, but at 10-4 it is done.

They are 6-1 on the road.

That said, I still think the Bears and Jets game will have a playoff feel. If the Bears win out they will get a first week bye, as they have the tie-breaker over the Eagles.

So how is that Culter trade looking now?

If you're just judging it on the QBs, I think Orton has outplayed http://i54.tinypic.com/1j14s2.jpg over the last two years pretty handily.

http://i54.tinypic.com/2462vyx.jpg

yeah if mcdaniels had hit on those picks it would be a totally different deal

Here's what the Broncos got: starting quarterback Kyle Orton, starting outside linebacker Robert Ayers, first-round receiver Demaryius Thomas, third-round receiver Eric Decker, one-half of tight end Richard Quinn (Bears' draft pick plus one more to get him) and one-third of quarterback Tim Tebow (draft pick plus two more).

Read more: Klis: Bounty of http://i54.tinypic.com/1j14s2.jpg deal now in place - The Denver Post http://www.denverpost.com/broncos/ci_15000235#ixzz18irevfX7
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Fuck the Denver Post to death.

Its official I love outdoor snow games

Hoping the Timberwolves latch on to this idea.

Imagine if they had snow baseball!