Figured I would put this up before the emails start coming in. I’ll be rooting for the Cards and the Ravens.
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Figured I would put this up before the emails start coming in. I’ll be rooting for the Cards and the Ravens.
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Zam
Fuck the Cardinals
schooner
How can a Steelers fan root for the Ravens?????
JenJen
Let’s go Saints! Let’s go Colts!
I’m AFC North all the way, Cole, but the Colts are still my regional team with the Bengals out. I’d be rooting for the Steelers in this position, but, fuck the Ravens, I just can’t do it. That’s for you, Art Modell.
ETA: This has nothing to do with football or any other damned thing, but a friend just sent this video of a high school band’s rendition of “Don’t Stop Believin'” and it’s so painful I simply must share it with all.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/07/graduation-band-performs_n_415200.html
Yutsano
@Zam: A to the fucking Men on that. I’m all about the Saints today.
drillfork
This is great, but I’d kinda like to see the Colts win anyway:
http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/colts_to_rest_starters_for
While I believe the Colts screwed their fans by punting their perfect season, the media reaction to it has been way over the top. Plus if the Colts go all the way, it’s the ultimate FU to those sad old men of the ’72 Dolphins.
That said, I’m a Vikings fan.
And that said, I think the Chargers have the best team this year…
Cheryl from Maryland
Go and win Saints. Go and loose Dallas.
Kevin K.
After being a Cards fan for years, I switched to the Jets. I couldn’t take the years of FAIL and the switch to the West meant I’d hardly see them here in NY. That did it for me. Felt okay about switching to the Jets because they’re a hometown team and I was a fan when I was a kid.
So, yeah, I guess I’m rooting for the Cards, but a small part of me wants them to lose badly so I don’t feel awful about abandoning them (watching them make it to the Super Bowl last year while the Jets didn’t even make the playoffs was rough). Plus, Warner gives me the creeps and every time he loses an angel gets its wings torn off.
Don’t really care who wins tonight’s game, but tomorrow I want the Cowboys to get stomped and, obviously, I want the Jets to win.
Notorious P.A.T.
@drillfork:
That is hilarious )
Demo Woman
My gut feeling says the home teams win today and the home teams lose tomorrow.
The ravens are going to have a tough time winning just on the run.
demkat620
I want to see the Saints win it all.
Who dat?
Ailuridae
I’m cheering for the Saints despite
1) Being a Dallas fan and a Saints win eliminating any chance to host a the NFC Championship
2) Thinking Kurt Warner is one of the most underappreciated players in NFL history.
jeffreyw
mmm…pizza!
pepper jack rolled into the crust
DBrown
@JenJen: Yet the owner of the colts did the same thing – tried to blackmail the people of Baltimore and when they refused – he took the team away (with the name!) The Colt’s owner is far worse than Model. Please, hate both or neither.
Toast
Right, so logically, the Jets…
(And I say that as a Jets fan)
terry chay
@schooner: It’s easy. Steelers aren’t in the playoffs and the teams are almost mirror images of each other.
Now if you are a Browns fan, OTOH…
I think the only team I’m rooting against is Dallas. But in general I have a problem with some of these high scoring shoot-outs—I don’t mind blowouts (like the Ravens-Patriots), just shoot-outs (like the Cards-Packers). Sure they’re exciting, but it’s starting to resemble college ball.
They either need to call more offense pass interference or repeal the Mel Blount rule.
SGEW
@Kevin K.: You couldn’t take years of fail, so you switched to the Jets?!
Glutton for punishment, you are.
[ETA: see, also, Toast, above]
jeffreyw
football sucks without a nice pizza
pizza sucks without cheese rolled into the crust
madmommy
Geaux Saints!!!
jeffreyw
mmm…pizza
JenJen
@Ailuridae: I’ll say this much about Kurt Warner: He’s a good guy, and represents the NFL well.
In my old, high-flyin’ jet-settin’ hotel executive job, I often had to greet NFL teams when they arrived at our hotels. Depending on the team (ie, Steelers fans are rabid, nationwide), fans would somehow get word of where the teams were staying, and line up in the lobby waiting for their buses to pull up. Kurt Warner is the player who stands out the most for me, because, he wouldn’t leave that lobby until every single autograph was signed, and every single fan who wanted a photo with him got their wish. He’d take time with everyone, just chit-chatting and shaking hands, while other players rushed to the elevators. An hour after arrival, there’s Kurt, smiling and enjoying himself with the fans, in a fancy hotel lobby. As icing on the cake, he’s respectful and kind to hotel staff, and has a terrific reputation as an AWESOME tipper.
He really made an impression on me, the many times I had the pleasure of watching him work a rope line, and as little kids would wait for him with these sad looks on their faces, I would always say to them, “Don’t worry. Mr. Warner will sign your card, I promise you!”
Still.. WHO DAT! Go Saints!
jeffreyw
mmm…cheese crust pizza
Toast
Rooting for the Saints big time. I can’t imagine how anyone could root against them, frankly.
Torn on the Colts. I love Peyton and would normally back him, but if the Ravens pull off the upset then my Jets have a shot at a home playoff game.
Cowboys, without question. I fucking Loathe Brett Favre.
And then, to cap off the weekend, my J-E-T-S are gonna shock the world.
Kevin K.
@SGEW:
Right? Well, I had to go with a local team and there was no way in hell I was going with the Giants (see: Cards fan).
CynDee
@jeffreyw: Arrrgh! Have you no mercy?
O please, send it to us! We’ll eat it old and cold. Just send!!
JenJen
@DBrown: I’m not particularly a fan of either team, but I give in to the Colts out of local loyalty. Also, at least 75% of my friends are Hoosiers. There is that.
mr. whipple
Ditto.
And fuck the Cowboys with their ‘America’s Team’ pomposity.
JenJen
Umm, OMG, Hightower.
Midnight Marauder
Wow. First play, to the house. If you took the under on this one, you are an idiot.
+1
Chuck Butcher
Ummm, Browns fan – Ravens when hell freezes over and the GOP has sense.
Kevin K.
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JenJen
@Kevin K.: You got it, Kevin. Thanks for the link!
DBrown
@JenJen: Ok – makes sense. While I’m a Ravens fan, I do like the Colts approch but wish they used a local name.
James K Polk, Esq.
Kurt Warner Cheered On By Wire-Haired Man-Goblin
smiley
@Midnight Marauder: I liked the way the Saints marched right down the field to answer. Now Warner got picked.
ETA: Oops. it was a fumble, not an interception.
MattR
@Midnight Marauder: This game was actually the classic under since everyone expects it to be high scoring (OK, not starting out that way) This game has the highest over for a playoff game in recorded history (20 years)
gwangung
@MattR: Oh, definitely not starting that way.
(Actually, would be fine if either team won; I’ve been back to Arizona recently, so I can let it slide by for a few months).
Nethead Jay
Woohoo, touchdown Saints!! Man what a start…
Kobie
@DBrown: But the Colts owner who did that is dead.
pattonbt
Im just glad I can actually watch some games (am here down under and its ridicualously early Sunday morning).
This game is tough for me, both teams are great stories and have great players. But having grown up in St Louis I can never wish for good things for the Cardinals as long as Bidwell owns the team. I love the current team, but I hate bidwell. He’s the worst owner in professional sports (well, maybe Al Davis has finally surpassed him now) and he doesnt deserve any team accomplishments.
And the Saints are a great story, hard to not want them to win. So Geaux Saints.
So for me, Saints, San Diego, Indy, Vikings. Then Saints / San Diego super bowl and I wouldnt care who won.
Kobie
Go Colts. The Ravens are simply a detestable franchise. The statute of limitations is up on anything wrong the Colts did, and I like Pey-Pey.
Go Vikings. As irritating as the Brett Favre Media Fellatio Festival is, the Cowboys and their “America’s Team” nonsense can blow me.
Geaux Saints, although I wouldn’t be heartbroken if they lost.
Go Chargers. Fuck the Jets. Fuck them sideways with a rusty spatula.
<—- Bills fan
Morbo
Go, Saints (except for Jeremy Shockey)!
asiangrrlMN
I’m getting whiplash watching this game.
@jeffreyw: Between these pics and the animal pic on the last thread, you’re killing me!
@drillfork: So, you are basically for every team? Go Vikes!
@Morbo: Actually, ditto this.
BC
Drew Brees has brought so much to NOLA, just seems a shame if it ends today.
You Don't Say
The, the, the … Ravens?!? How can you root for the, gulp, Ravens?! It’s the pain meds, isn’t it?
Go Colts!
jeffreyw
@asiangrrlMN: With kindness, I hope. LOL
Ed Drone
As a resident of the DC area, a wasteland with only one professional sports team (the Caps), I don’t have a dog in this race (I’d have said “fight,” but that brings up Michael Vick, and, well, you know….) but I have this soft spot in my heart for the Saints, can’t stand the Cowboys, sort of like the Cards, and have ignored the Jets since the NY team that matters to we who hope without hope for the Redskins is the Giants.
My wife’s God-daughter lives in Baltimore, where she goes to school (but lives in our basement some of the time), so I recognize the Ravens as a sort-of-rootable team.
Who does that leave? The Colts? Please! I remember the midnight trucks and ignominious departure, so there’s no love lost there. The Chargers and the Vikings don’t move me much, though I recognize that Bret Favre is an object of some disagreement, so I’m neither this way or that about him or his team.
So I’m thinking the Saints (sentimental choice since Katrina) and the Ravens (as close to a local team as is still in the playoffs).
I have to say the game I’m watching is full of action without much in the way of defense — Reggie Bush’s TD was aided by some of the sloppiest tackling I’ve ever seen, but was a thing of beauty anyway.
That’s about it. I’m recovering from cardiac catheterization and stent installations the last three days, so don’t want to get TOO worked up.
Ed
smiley
@Ed Drone:
No, you don’t. Good luck with all that. Go Saints!
Toast
@Kobie – Harsh, dude! As a Jets fan, I’d pull for the Bills if the situation were reversed. (The Dolphins or Patriots? Not so much.)
MattR
@Ed Drone: Take care of yourself and feel better.
Your comment did remind me of one of my favorite, and little known, college names, the College of Notre Dame of Maryland (aka CONDOM).
Kobie
@Toast: I don’t root for division rivals once my team is out, except in extremely rare cases. I just can’t do it.
MattR
The New Orleans offense can do no wrong and that was a heckuvajob by Henderson to adjust to that last throw and catch it for a TD.
Toast
@Kobie: Yeah, most football fans I know tend to follow that rule.
Nethead Jay
*Jaw drops* Fuuuuuuuuuuck, did the Saints really just do that. That’s one hell of a play call from Sean Peyton.
MattR
@Kobie: The real question is what would it take for you to root for a divisional rival? How close a friend/family member would have to be playing for the Pats before you could root for them to beat the Bills?
EDIT: OMG did Warner just get rocked. I think we may have just witnessed the last play of his career.
JenJen
OUCH Kurt Warner! That didn’t look good.
Morbo
At this rate the Saints are going to turn it into a laugher.
Nethead Jay
@JenJen: Yeah, that was a giant hit he took
asiangrrlMN
@Ed Drone: Take it easy, please. I am glad that you aren’t too invested in any of the games.
@jeffreyw: With food/animal envy! Though, I have two snoozing kittehs on my lap, so it’s all good.
MattR
@MattR:
OK, so maybe the over is the right bet. The way this game is going, it would not shock me to see them score 9 points in the last minute of the first half to go over 57.
Lisa K.
GO SAINTS!!!!!!!!!
I have a hard time actually cheering for anybody in the AFC right now, but Satan is preferable to Manning, so…Go Ravens, I guess.
MattR
I just realized that this blog should be rooting for the jets to win the Super Bowl since Rex Ryan is essentially the Tunch of coaches.
Robin G.
I find this to be a, ah, somewhat weak game defensively.
gbbalto
Back when the Pats were going 19-1, I sat in a Balto tavern full of drunken people in purple jerseys as they shouted for the Stillers to crush the Pats. There are enemies and there are Enemies…
ajr22
OT but football related. If you haven’t read the GQ article about Marvin Harrison I strongly recommend checking it out. Some good journalism for a change.
Kobie
@MattR: If the Patriots, Jets or Dolphins were playing the Cowboys in the Super Bowl, I would probably root for the AFC East rep. That’s probably about it. And I don’t care if my brother was playing for the Patriots, I could NEVER root for them to beat Buffalo.
New Yorker
Aaaand that’s enough. Time to dig into my Business Week that came in the mail today.
I guess I was wrong about New Orleans looking flat going into the playoffs.
Nethead Jay
Wooooot, Reggie Bush returns the kick all the way to the house :D
Who dat!!!
mcd410x
Was that Charles Heston out there cause the Ariz punt coverage team parted like the Red Sea
Robin G.
Can the Cards just plead “Uncle!” here and let the game end early? Besides, I’m ready to see the Ravens attack the faux-Colts and deal Manning some sort of injury (preferably spiritual).
JK
Fuck the New Orleans Saints
Lisa K.
Who Dat!
Woo-hoo Saints!!!!!! All the way, baby!!!!
Lisa K.
@MattR:
Tunch should kill you for that.
PTirebiter
@mr. whipple:
I couldn’t care less that you choose to hate the Cowboys, no matter who they’re playing, but I’m really sick of hearing this dumb-ass meme as a reason. A producer at NFL films coined the nickname, a CBS announcer co-opted it, and it stuck.
Tom Landry openly discouraged it’s use to no avail.
So unless you looked up pomposity in your Dick Cheney Guide to fungible words: go fuck your own ignorant self.
No reflection on the Steelers, whom I’ve always liked unless they’re playing the ‘Boys.
Lisa K.
@PTirebiter:
I hate the Cowboys because Jerry Jones is an asshole myself.
PTirebiter
@Lisa K.:
No shortage of asshole owners in the NFL, Art Rooney was one in a million. At least it’s better than the America’s team bullshit.
Brett
Fuck yeah, Saints! It was just beautiful watching them get their mojo back and drive right the fuck over the Cardinals.
I’m not too happy about the Colts-Ravens game, though.