Your host will be pulling for the Chargers because my mother hates the Jetrs because she was a Colts fan and has never forgiven Joe Namath.
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Your host will be pulling for the Chargers because my mother hates the Jetrs because she was a Colts fan and has never forgiven Joe Namath.
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MattR
John, I don’t care what your mother taught you. How can you root against Coach Tunch?
AhabTRuler
Did you mean ‘puling‘?
Giant Douche or Turd Sandwich
Namath guaranteed it and Unitas failed.
Max
Let’s go Chargers, Let’s go!
On Chargers related info: As a Bills fan, I always liked Doug Flutie, but to see him campaign for Brown in MA makes me not so much anymore.
The Grand Panjandrum
I was the only kid in my entire high school who believed the Jets would win. Couldn’t wait to get back to school to collect on the bets I’d made. mmmmmmm … it was delicious.
Comrade Mary
Whenever I think of Namath, I think of that pantyhose commercial.
Also: Joe gets creamed.
Jim
OT: John McCain calls from 1973 to defend Sarah Palin
licensed to kill time
@Jim:
I think McCain confuses hysterical mocking laughter with “hysterical attacks” there.
Emma
John, that gives a whole new meaning to “family feud”!
asiangrrlMN
Go Chargers!
And, shut up Grampy McCain.
Oh, and, Jerome Boger = YUM!
Max
OT for the non-football people…
If you missed it this morning, Obama’s speech this morning at Vermont Baptist was one of his best.
http://thisweekwithbarackobama.blogspot.com/2010/01/president-obamas-speech-at-vermont.html
Worth a watch.
Also, too. Happy Birthday Michelle!
HRA
@Jim:
Oh oh – “hysterical” That will certainly bring some remarks out.
Glad the Vikings won. I pick the the Jets solely on being from NY. I have no enthusiasm for this game.
Go Vikings for next week.
asiangrrlMN
@Max: Thanks. Will watch this. I love listening to our prez. And, I’m assuming that you’re wishing our First Lady a happy birthday.
P.S. I am rooting for lots of penalties in the late game because I love Jerome’s voice.
handy
@Comrade Mary:
They actually aired that?!
Svensker
Go Jets (At least don’t get killed….please)
Quiddity
The Chargers are the big favorite, but I would like to see the Jets win. They were fun to watch when they beat the Bengals and I’m impressed at the team effort to compensate for a novice QB.
Max
@asiangrrlMN: Congrats to your Vikes. Still anti-Favre and would a ring warm you to him?
John Smallberries
Teams to hate:
NY Jets
NE Patriots
Baltimore Colts
Buffalo Bills
basically any team in the AFC East, except the (formerly) glorious Miami Dolphins.
who won the first NFL game I ever saw in person, over the Pittsburgh Steelers in a preseason game.
Jim
I can’t even pick a team to root against here, much less for. Kind of the way I feel about this whole post-season.
General Winfield Stuck
I will be glad when feetsball is over, so we can concentrate on the real sport of College Basketball, and later Baseball.
Max
@General Winfield Stuck: eeek! I’ve been waiting for you to leave the Glenzilla / BTD thread.
What is the linky to your hummingbird pictures for purchase site. I’m thinking about getting a hummingbird tattoo and if I remember, you have some stunning photographs.
Vappid
Sorry for the OT from the foosball, did the WoW peeps decide on the guild Also Too, on Eitrigg? I made a character over there, but only one online in that guild at the moment.
ihop
@ john smallberries
hey, how’s john bigbooty? that bastard owes me money.
Kobie
@John Smallberries: Sub in the Dolphins for the Bills and the Cowboys for the Colts, and my list is the same as yours! : )
M. Bouffant
Does either team intend to score?
EDIT (A minute or so later): Typed that just to get something to happen.
J.W. Hamner
Well, one favorite should lose… though as much as I love Rex Ryan from his Baltimore days, it would really gall me to see his Jets do better than the Ravens.
Betsy
Jets need to get their act together pretty soon.
Betsy
@M. Bouffant:
Excellent. Now ask if the Jets are going to score, please.
PTirebiter
@John Smallberries:
“Face it, once you get this deep into the medulla oblongata, everything pretty much looks the same.” BB
max
Your host will be pulling for the Chargers because my mother hates the Jetrs because she was a Colts fan and has never forgiven Joe Namath.
Strangely enough, while I like plucky underdogs, I’m rooting for the Chargers as well, because I want them to beat the (modern) Colts next week.
max
[‘Those Manning kids bug me.’]
J.
Looks like it’s just me and you, @Svensker. :-(
Though either way I’m a winner. (Am rooting for the Jets in my heart, but took the Chargers in the football pool.)
asiangrrlMN
@Max: Yes to the first and no to the second.
General Winfield Stuck
@Max: That was a fun thread wasn’t it. :)
Here is my Hummer Heaven blog, but it is inoperable because I am now printing my own photos. And only 8.5 by eleven prints and I haven’t gotten around to updating my pay pal account as such.
But on my flickr account, I have many more hummer photos to choose from on my photostream, for a total price of 14 bucks for 8.5 by 11 prints. And anyone from BJ, I would send the print to you, and then you could send payment if you liked it.
I would need to have a mailing address though, and I think my email address is active on my flickr profile page. If not, let me know, if you decide to buy one.
Uriel
Probably OT (not sure how open open is here)- but I just posted this in the apocalyptic glenzillia thread, and figured the chances of anyone finding it there were roughly the same as…. I don’t know, something very unlikely happening. (Not feeling all that clever today.)
But, I just wanted to mention where it might actually be seen:
@John Cole:
You need to be careful about that- pain isn’t the only issue, there’s also the associated inflammation and involvement of other muscles due to the pain, especially in an area so central to movement and such.
Disclosure: I’m not a doctor, but I did once have a rib crack badly the sternum. I didn’t take pain pills cause of the effects, and within a week, I had shooting pains all along that side of my body and lost the strength in my tricep to even lift a 16 oz. can of peas. It took a full year, with lots of painful phisical therapy, before I even regained 50% of my strength in that arm.
So, you know- caution.
Max
@General Winfield Stuck: Thank you. If my urge keeps up, you’ll be hearing from me.
ihop
what’s ironic is that faneca’s bitching about a rookie quarterback aimed at roethlisberger is coming to fruition with sanchez.
burnspbesq
At least this game’s not over at the half. However, it will be if the Jets’ offensive line doesn’t make a statement on the first possession of the third quarter.
AnotherBruce
@Giant Douche or Turd Sandwich:
Dood, this is America, get your Super Bowl history right or we’ll have to banish you to Canadian football. Johnny Unitas was injured that season and didn’t play in that game. Earl Morrall was the QB for the Colts.
MattR
Can someone please, please photoshop that black Jets sweater vest onto a picture of Tunch?
Svensker
Intentional fumble? WTF? Go Jets!
Andy K
@AnotherBruce:
Actually, Unitas did play in that game. He came in after (former Muskegon Big Red) Earl Morrall went 6 for 17 with 3 picks.
Unitas was 11/24, 110 yds, 0 TDS, 1 Int.
ihop
gahh, this game is horrible but i can’t tear my eyes away.
all the games this weekend have sucked (except for the fans of the winners) and i wish at least one good game to watch.
burnspbesq
If the Jets get a TD out of this possession, this gets very interesting.
asiangrrlMN
@burnspbesq: Nope. Still not interesting.
MattR
@asiangrrlMN: How about now?
ihop
potentially laying the biggest egg i will have ever seen in decades of nfl watching.
well, at least the chargers have that going for them.
chrome agnomen
my second career, at age 60–place kicker for the chargers.
asiangrrlMN
@MattR: Yeah, I guess. I just have no real rooting interest in this game except for cheering on Jerome Boger.
burnspbesq
San Diego has taken several dumb penalities today, but that one really takes the cake.
asiangrrlMN
OK, I have gotten interested again in the game.
MattR
@asiangrrlMN: Fair enough. But how about now? :)
EDIT: Darn. A few seconds too slow.
burnspbesq
The Jets need one first down.
scarshapedstar
See ya in Miami, Colts!
WHO DAT!!!!!!!!!!!
Lex
Then your mother is a gentlewoman of taste, discernment and quality. Which I never doubted even before reading this post.
SFAW
While I, known to regale my kids with stories about Teh Greatest Upset In Super Bowl History, both pulled for the Jets today, and am basking in the pleasant afterglow of their tremenjous win over the Chargers.
And it’s Earl Morrall, and maybe Don Shula, whom your mother should not have forgiven, not Namath.
And somewhat OT, but: being an old fart, I’m still not convinced that Peyton is better than Johnny U. (But then again, no one has ever confused me with Parcells or Belichick, vis-a-vis football knowledge.)
J-E-T-S! Jets-Jets-JETS !!!
Damn, that felt good.
SFAW
John –
As a side note, it’s probably good that Baltimore didn’t have an NHL team that year. Your mother might never have recovered.
SFAW
No doubt this is true, but not for the reason you seem to be proposing.