As far as the Giants/packers, I am rooting for the Packers. While the Giants are a classy organization, I have always rooted for Green bay in the NFC, and how can you not root for Favre.
As far as the patriots/Chargers, I am indifferent. Nothing good can from the game. Either the Patriots win, which for obvious reasons is bad, or they lose and I have to spend the next month listening to meathead former NFL announcers say things like “That is why they play the game,” then we get to spend the next six months psycho-analyzing why the Patriots did not win. As you can see, neither is a desirable outcome.
dougie smooth
It is cooooold here in Wisconsin. My eyelashes iced over last night, just in the few blocks between pubs. I’m hoping the Pack doesn’t turtle like they did at Soldier Field, but there is no bigger poose than Eli.
If we can escape with a win, the Pats are going to get stomped.
UberMitch
Pats red zone defense is exceptional so far.
myiq2xu
I hate the Chargers but not nearly as much as I hate Tom “Tuck-rule” Brady.
I want the Putz to lose today and the Dolts to get creamed in the Super-Duper Bowl.
LiberalTarian
Dang. John Stewart found dead in a hotel room in South Dakota. My mom owned Kingston Trio, #16, and I am sure I wore it out. Then, Bombs Away Dream Babies was one of my first albums. I saw him a couple years ago live. Old old, but still had great fingers and a sweet way with a song.
Rest in peace, John.
myiq2xu
Fuck fuck fuck!
Putz TD
myiq2xu
I give up on trying to keep up with the game. I’ve got some heavy drinking to do.
Jake
Are you kidding me?
Let’s go Injuries!
If someone puts cleats to Rivers’ face the house mate might start to
likenot hate the Pats so much. If someone smears Brady all over the field there will be Nation-wide rejoicing.myiq2xu
So far it’s 3 SD FG’s vs. 2 Putz TD’s
MJ
That’s just wrong.
Half time score
Pats 14
Chargers 9
GO PATS!!!!!!
Scotty
I’d rather listen to the meatheads the entire off season. Go underdogs.
p.a.
Will Pats’ D betray them in 2nd half like in last years CCG? I think they’ll need 31 pts. to win. I’ve been a Pats fan for 35 years. I’m glad we’re the most hated franchise now. No one hates losers. The Pats spent decades being not-hated.
skippy
nothing good can from leaving out verbs, either.
Jake
Nuh-uh. Come to DC and mention the ‘Skins. The hate of those losers burns with the stupid of a thousand copies of Liberal Fascism.
LiberalTarian
Beer. More Beer. Lots more beer. :D
Ninerdave
I thought the Pats game would be a blowout. Good game so far.
Way to get intercepted in the endzone Brady!
Damned at Random
So we’re in Reno last Tuesday and the husband says “They have the Pats by 14” and I say, “take San Diego against the spread” and he bets $50 on SAn Diego TO WIN
Is this grounds for divorce?
Pooh
Nonsense. For example, at my old MNF bar (Sally’s in Dinkytown for the Minneapolitans amongst you), they served free beer during the first quarter. You’re damn right we cheered for injuries.
MNPundit
Dinkytown! Haven’t been there in a while…
Also, if the announcers bother you (and they are all so stupid how can they fail to do so?) just watch it on mute. That’s what I do with baseball.
myiq2xu
No, but he should be made to grovel for at least 6 months, with annual reminders for a decade or two.
The reminders should be as public as possible, when the subject of that year’s play-offs is brought up in a group setting.
zzyzx
I have so little interest in another NY/Boston championship thingie.
Moses
Because he is the Lord of Evil.
GuyFromOhio
Is this grounds for divorce?
No, but it is grounds for giving up gambling for, like, ever.
Go Packers!
GuyFromOhio
Also, if the announcers bother you (and they are all so stupid how can they fail to do so?) just watch it on mute
… and a good collection of cd’s at hand. Usually its U2 or Beethoven, and the kids have come to know most of the ref calls. Except illegal shift, that one always throws us.
rawshark
:-)
MJ
Did anybody ever fall off a barstool and injure themselves? or worse yet spill their drink?
Blurkee
Superman wears Favre pajamas.
whatsleft
OMG – after numerous bonehead defensive penalties at crucial points by BOTH teams, Plexico Burress just trotted by the GB bench and yelled out “Al Harris can’t cover me”. My SO and I just fell out laughing.
Caidence (fmr. Chris)
it all of a sudden occurs to me that I’ve been planning since forever to go up to Boston to watch the Super Bowl with a friend.
I’m from New York
If the Giants win…
… I’m going to need some body armor
GuyFromOhio
after numerous bonehead defensive penalties at crucial points by BOTH teams
Green Bay’s have been bone-headier, and it’s costing them. So NY is driving with tie score and 4:00 left – it’s now theirs to lose.
myiq2xu
OT @ -4 degrees
That’s not cold, that’s FUCKING COLD!
myiq2xu
BTW – That’s 54 degrees colder than it is outside my place.
myiq2xu
Giants win! 23-20
John S.
Go GIANTS!
That was a crazy game. I hope the Superbowl is more interesting than when the G-Men played the Ravens a few years back. I would SO love for the Giants to crush New England’s dreams…
Ed Drone
Why was Flaxico Burress open so damned often? You’d think after his first 100 yards, they’d mix up the coverage a little, but no, they acted like, “Hell, bet they can’t do that again,” and, of course, they did.
I’m not a fan of any of these teams, but I live in a town without a professional team (I live in DC, for all practical purposes), so what do I know?
Ed
Caidence (fmr. Chris)
Giants win.
…did I mention my uncle is a Wisconsin native with stock in GB. And he’s roughly 250 lbs of muscle?
If Boston doesn’t kill me out of spite, my uncle certainly will.
D-Chance.
[meta] “transferring data from wp.vizu.com…” Is this bringing the whole place to a dead stop for anyone else? I’m having to hit ‘refresh’ two-three times to get it to respond and the rest of the page to load.
As for the game… Green Bay = Obama. Favre brought us hope; but it was squashed underfoot by the New York liberal establishment. We’ve already had a Manning championship team. Now, another Manning, a lesser Manning, wants to be our champion. Dynasty quarterbacking at its worst. Boo-hiss. Go Pats!
myiq2xu
Two weeks from tommorrow I want to see a headline that goes “Patriot’s Perfect Season Comes Up One Game Short.”
myiq2xu
You’re a Mitt Brady fan?
Caidence (fmr. Chris)
Not just that.
www.assoc-amazon.commore often thanvizu.comI’m waiting for pajamas media to put up an announcement saying advertisements are a liberal conspiracy and they need $500,000 in donations to run all of their blogs.
myiq2xu
It just occurred to me that Tom “Tuck-rule” Brady could lose his last game of the year to a Manning for the second year in a row.
zzyzx
Ok, after flirting with rooting for a blackout that will cancel the game, I’m now hoping for a Giants win caused by multiple questionable calls, just to see The Sports Guy’s column afterwards.
LiberalTarian
“Tuck rule”? Is that like Sean Young in Ace Ventura???
myiq2xu
I was watching Comedy Central Presents last night and they had a comedian from Big Cheesy. This show was a few years old, and he started talking about J-Lo. He said something about her being famous for having a big butt. Then he said:
“That’s not a big butt. In Wisconsin that’s a third-grader’s butt.”
Tell your uncle that joke, I’m sure he’ll be amused.
zzyzx
Oh and I’d say I have only a 40% chance of watching the game. Might be time to break out some DVDs and turn it on in the 4th if it’s close.
J. Michael Neal
(Sally’s in Dinkytown for the Minneapolitans amongst you)
Sally’s is in Stadium Village. Dinkytown has The Library and that stupid green “Irish” bar.
myiq2xu
Nah, Tom Terrific doesn’t have anything to tuck back.
demimondian
Don’t worry about it. New England will transcend all that, leading to a people powered win with Hope for Change.
Caidence (fmr. Chris)
lawl. Unfortunately, he’s has Wisconsinite kids, and one of them just had a kid. Fat-ass jokes might not go so well for the next year :)
Oh… and do I say this before he beats the hell out of me, or after he leaves me with a speck of my life, so he finishes the job?
Caidence (fmr. Chris)
Yeah, Mass. has gotten good at Transcension. Their ex-governor has demonstrated to them how to transcend facts. That’s some pretty damn good transcending.
myiq2xu
It depends on how much you like pain.
Caidence (fmr. Chris)
I’m very concerned about politics, I spend a lot of time on a certain blog’s comments section, and I’m resisting voting for Clinton. Where does that rate me?
demimondian
Transcendent.
SenderC
I see only one loser tonight — The Heartland. Yes, The Heartland, loved by candidates in the primaries, despised by this year’s Super Bowl God. With no Heartland teams left in playoffs, we return to pond hockey in the North Heartland, high school basketball in the Central Heartland and gator wrestling in the South Heartland. There’s always next season (NASCAR, of course)!
LiberalTarian
Bwahaha. But, for the rest of us, no rest for the wicked.
myiq2xu
The reason for that is called having “too much fun.”
attaturk
You can be a Bear, Viking or Lion fan.
myiq2xu
You could want Mary for yourself.
Sensitive Pony Tailed Girly Man
Fans of Professional Football around the World were the big winners, back on Jan 6th, when the Washington Crybaby Johnnies were eliminated. Why the League would admit Amateurs into their Showcase remains a Mystery.
Less mysterious is why they allowed that other NFC East Amateur Hour Edition in. Even though we’ve been watching this rerun repeatedly for a decade and a half, nothing tops watching Dallas go out with a whimper.
All that’s left now is the Coronation. Sometimes you don’t realize History is unfolding right before your eyes. In this case we all saw it coming way back in September. Enjoy it. Your Grandkids are going to love it as you describe the Greatest Team the NFL has ever seen.
Mike @ work
We have a name for people who bring up the tuck rule in NE, we call them Raider’s fans.
Bobby Boy
I am so glad the Packers lost! What made it especially sweet was that they lost at Lambeau Field on a Bret Favre interception. I am so sick and tired of hearing all that crap about the Packers, hallowed Lambeau Field, the frozen tundra, Vinve Lombardi, blahblahblah…Do you think that Lambeau Field or the Packers really mean anything that special to any other NFL fan rooting for their own team? Screw the Packers! And screw all those annoying cheeseheads. Let them spend the rest of the year whining and sobbing and kvetching over whether number 4 will return next season. What the f**k else do they have to do up there, anyways?
Bob In Pacifica
LiberalTarian,
I saw John Stewart at the Boarding House in SF probably thirty years ago. Great. Maybe 25 years ago I sent him a tape of some of my songs. He was polite, wrote me a two or three-page typewritten letter that railed against the music industry among other things. All the crap that we complain about today he had first-hand knowledge of back then. He was a good man.
bob
As a 49er fan, it saddens me some to see Brady being on the threshold of being the undeniable greatest QB ever. The only thing that still makes me give it to Montana is that he won with the 81 Niners. I’m sorry, Steeler fans, but that overrated brainfree moron Bradshaw could NEVER have won on that team. The Steelers were simply so good on both sides of the ball that ANY decent quarterback could have won with them. Don’t believe me? Ok, trade for Staubach, who wins. Staubach, I guarantee. Bradshaw would have been on the bench, because that bumpkin NEVER could have fit in with Landry’s computer driven system. How about Archie Manning? Who wins, the Manning led Steelers, or Bradshaw leading his TRUE hometown team, the Saints? For crissakes, Steve freakin’ DEBERG could have won with the 75 Steelers. Think Montana would have only won 4 with HIS true hometown team? Oh,Please. Two great running backs, two great wide receivers, a great offensive line and a great defense. If you want to tout Chuck Noll, I’m with ya, the man turned the Steelers from a joke to a power. But imagine what he could have done with a truly great quarterback. Having said all that, Brady is an asshole, true. He is insufferable, true. He is a motherfuckingdogassrepublican piece of shit. But he is on the edge of being the greatest QB ever, and denying that makes you simply prejudiced.
bob
Oh and Pats fans? Having been through twenty years of having my team called fags by people whose teams my Niners were beating the shit out of, enjoy being hated, because being able to say, “yeah, but we beat the shit out of YOU 49-ZIP, sucka” is SCHWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEET.
4jkb4ia
I exult. After all the doubt directed at Tom Coughlin, Eli Manning, and this entire franchise as recently as December, this is absolute vindication.
OTOH New England-Green Bay would have been a classic game and would not have had the rather silly story line of repeating the last game of the season.
4jkb4ia
I didn’t remember a Sally’s in Dinkytown either, but the bars I went to were on the other side of the river.
Sensitive Pony Tailed Girly Man
It’s almost impossible to watch this stuff on television. If there’s separation between the two teams early – either way – I’m shutting it down. Even though it’s history in the making I think I’ll just read about it after the fact, instead of having it dribble out in 1-2 minute increments, sandwiched in between 12 minutes of commercials over the course of 4 hours.
Grumpy Code Monkey
I haven’t watched a down of pro football in years because the coverage sucks so much.
Best way to watch American football on TV? Find a Spanish-language channel. I watched the ’96 Super Bowl from off the coast of Mexico on a drill ship. That was the most entertaining football commentary I’d ever heard, and I couldn’t understand a word of it.
Michael Keyes
Does anyone know if the Giants will be the “away team” at the Super Bowl?
I am a hard core Packers fan but have to say that the Giants, and Eli in particular, were the better team. They deserve to win so no petulant anger at the result on my part. (Nor would I have a tendency to rub it in, in public, at least.)
Since I was a Pats fan from the earliest beginnings in the ’60s while in college, I have to root for them, but I am very impressed with Eli. (You will note no one calls Brady by one first name.)
jp2
“While the Giants are a classy organization…”
Their team captain is one of the least classy guys in the NFL. Anyone who holds out from their draft team is a bonafide low-life.
Sensitive Pony Tailed Girly Man
I’m sure that if there was a Peyton Brady also playing in the NFL that we’d be calling him Tom. And actually if you simply said “Tom Terrific” an awful lot of folks would know exactly who you talking about.
Sensitive Pony Tailed Girly Man
Tom Terrific is going to love that SW weather. So is Moss. (People don’t call him Randy because they might think you’re talking about Randy Cross. That’s tricky bidness as it stands).
Material this good really should be saved for Michael D.’s next “Hey, the Sun came up!” post. But I guess he’s on Holiday.
Sensitive Pony Tailed Girly Man
Tell the truth Michael Keyes, when I said Tom Terrific was going to love the SW, you knew exactly who I was talking about.
If I said “Eli is going to love the SW most people would think “what, they’re going to do another Clint Western, this time in the States? Tres Cool! I didn’t even know Eli Wallach was still alive.”
Okay, I’ll shutup now.
Sensitive Pony Tailed Girly Man
Sorry I lied. I just noticed that I went 3 posts without slagging the Washington Redskins and that is totally unacceptable. I hear that they stink at Golf too, despite all the extra practice they get at it.
Okay, I feel much better and this time I mean it when I say I’m ceasing and desisting right now.
rawshark
Dude, get over it. The Raiders lost. They lost the year after too. What’s your excuse for that?
You people are all hung up over a rule put in place by the competition committee but you vent at the opposing team. What’s that all about? It ain’t like the situation didn’t fit the rule or that the refs blew the call. You got blindsided by a rule no one but the refs knew was even on the books. Ain’t the Pats or Brady’s fault. Move on.
The Pale Scot
I wouldn’t turn the game off until the end. The Giants specialize in torturing their fans, important games are always won or lost in the last 4 minutes, no matter how far down or up they may get, they will win or lose by 3.
myiq2xu
Dude! In the Black Hole we still lament the “Immaculate Reception.”
Hypatia
Poetic justice, wasn’t it? Tradition requires a season/game ending interception from Favre, and he did not fail us. Thanks for the memories, Brett.
I might have been rooting for him if I hadn’t tuned in to Charlie Rose last Friday and listened to Peter King rambling on about Favre, an American hero that the folks can identify with, etc., etc.