I heard an unsubstantiated rumor from an anonymous source that the National Football League is playing this afternoon.
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I heard an unsubstantiated rumor from an anonymous source that the National Football League is playing this afternoon.
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SiubhanDuinne
Do you have the facts to back that up?
Maude
@SiubhanDuinne:
And he’d better have pictures.
Edit, spell fail.
Kay Shawn
You’re imitating Atrios.
Violet
Has Bobo commented on it yet?
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
Ford Field sounds a bit loud today.
PurpleGirl
@SiubhanDuinne: According to the on-line TV schedule it’s San Diego Chargers at the New York Jets.
I think it sounds like an NFL game on the TeeVee.
I’m tired. I gotta take a nap. (The ventilation fans kept me up half the night, they’ve been extremely loud with heavy vibrations lately.)
Stuckinred
Go Falcons! Go Bears!
2 sacks in a row for the birds!
gbear
Except for the players that are in jail for beating up their girlfriend…
Stuckinred
The atl market has the pack-bikes and sticklers-az as the second games
Arm The Homeless
Juice-Box Jesus vs. the Phins. It’s going to be a long one in
Joe RobbieSun-LifeWhateverthehellitscallednow. Can I haz brown paper bag?r€nato
AZ Cardinals stunning two week long non-losing streak to be broken today by the Stillers.
(Cards had a bye last week…)
PeakVT
@SiubhanDuinne: He has high-level sources, but they all refuse to go on record.
S. cerevisiae
I am steeling myself with Full Sail IPA for the horrible beatdown my Vikings are going to receive at the hands of the hated Pack. With Cook getting his sorry ass thrown in jail Rogers has got to be drooling thinking about our corners.
Gordon, The Big Express Engine
It’s the sport of kings, better than diamond rings…
Short Bus Bully
Hoping for a Seahawks win, girding my loins for the inevitable fall on face, look like assholes on national TV loss that will be forthcoming.
jon
Because of various familial influences, I can claim hereditary rights to be either a Vikings or Packers fan, though I have to check my website and various polls to determine which team will give me more
Electoral Votesenjoyment.Luckily, I have other passions to take up my time.
The Dangerman
Hope y’all caught the end of Wisconsin/MSU last night live; great ending, though I don’t think the call was right (the call WAS right, but I don’t think it was definitive and incontrovertible … it was really, REALLY close one way or the other).
Course, if it had been called no TD, there would have been a riot, but, other than that….
Corner Stone
@The Dangerman: I thought it was clearly a TD, and I was rooting for Wiscy.
Corner Stone
Bottom line, you lose an upset on a last second “Rocket” play, there’s nothing to gripe about.
JWL
Indeed, Tim Tebow begins his march to the induction ceremony in Canton today.
cokane
DOWN WITH PISSBURG
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
@Corner Stone: yep
Yutsano
@Short Bus Bully:
You have faith. How amusing.
Corner Stone
@JWL: Bad footwork and an extra long throwing motion. I’m just not a fan.
But I hope he beats the Fins.
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
@Corner Stone: And he’s a dickhead.
FF SpinCrashBurn
CBS is reporting Oakland will be starting Boller over that guy they just paid a 1st and 2nd draft pick for, Palmer…. What kind of BS is that?!? I mean, I grabbed Palmer as my backup QB since my #1 has a bye week, and Oakland wants him to SIT?!?
The dang fools want to try to win with a QB that has better knowledge of their playbook rather than with a QB with better skills…. Don’t they know that I’ll never get out of my league basement with that philosophy?
Morbo
@The Dangerman: And it would have gone to overtime if Wisconsin’s coach hadn’t been a moron and called timeouts while MSU had the ball.
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
Lions are some chickenshit motherfuckers.
Corner Stone
@Morbo:
I agreed with those timeouts. Better to force a stop and have a chance at winning than go to college overtime.
The D just couldn’t execute.
And again, Wiscy went 4 series where they turned the ball over. Can’t do that against a motivated and talented team like Sparty.
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
@Morbo: Zook punted on Purdue’s 38 yard line in the 3d quarter down 21 points.
PeakVT
There was a big (7.2) earthquake in eastern Turkey earlier today.
Corner Stone
TD Texans big babies!
cmorenc
Well the English Premier League played today and cross-city rival Manchester City administered perhaps the most embarrassing thrashing in history to one of the most formidably legendary teams in all of sports, Manchester United, 6-1.
This is the equivalent of the Pittsburgh Steelers getting destroyed 63-7, or (better analogy) the New York Mets stomping the New York Yankees 15-1. Six goals to one is considered a really severe whipping in soccer.
BTW: nothing against Murikan pro arm-ball, but the rest of the world considers “football” to refer to soccer.
rikyrah
go Bears!
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
@rikyrah: 14-2 berz
jurassicpork
Not for us. My Pats have a bye week.
So, here are y thoughts on Muammer Gaddafi’s assassination, which will no doubt make me a few more enemies of the Obamabotic Left.
Linkmeister
Ahem. There’s also a World Series game for those of us who don’t care much about what a character in a John D.Macdonald book called “the thump and sprawl industry”.
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
@jurassicpork: (although, to be fair to the incumbent President, Mr. Obama was at least more serious and proactive about Qaddafi than another President I can name.).
Corner Stone
TD Texans bizzatches!
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
@Linkmeister: Bye.
Arm The Homeless
This is hilariously inept. I certainly hope that whatever draft pick the Dolphins get after this season that they remember this embarrassing showing.
JWL
@Corner Stone: If comments could drip, mine concerning Tebow would be dripping sarcasm.
I’m looking forward to him forgetting his surroundings, and showing off his famous collegiate “jump-shot/pass” move against an NFL defensive line. Not even God will be able to help him at that moment.
Amir Khalid
@cmorenc:
This is a good thing, and not just because I’m no United fan. Some big-name clubs have suffered severe defeats this season, including my own — sob! — Liverpool. One can hope it leads to a more open season in the Prem this time out, rather than yet another parade to the title for Manchester United while the same few other clubs scrap for places in Europe.
ETA: We don’t need to apologize when we talk about our football in a football open thread. As long as they don’t rag on our football, we don’t rag on theirs. Heck, I wouldn’t mind at all if an Aussie commenter were to talk about their footy here.
The Dangerman
@Morbo:
Yup; odd call, though I can almost understand trying to steal a win on the road via punt block, but obviously a high risk proposition.
With UO and UW going down, say hello to an NC game with Boise State. I guess we’ll get to see if they can play with the Big Boys (LSU looks unstoppable).
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
@The Dangerman: Bama will beat them by 2 touchdowns.
Yutsano
@The Dangerman:
They’ll get screwed out of it somehow. Trust me. The SEC didn’t go throwing its weight around this last year to allow upstarts like those Idaho hicks to come in and muck up their game.
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
@cmorenc:
City got 3 goals from the 89th minute through the end of added time? United had 10 men on the pitch from the 47th minute?
I’m not all that impressed.
arguingwithsignposts
@jurassicpork:
Well, considering that Obama said absolutely nothing about “hailing” the _lynching_, despite your and the Guardian’s misleading characterizations of his comments, I couldn’t possibly imagine why they’d be upset.
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
@Yutsano: It doesn’t matter to the SEC who they beat to win it all.
Corner Stone
@JWL: Yes, I was down with that.
I’ve been of the opinion that Tebow has no business being in the NFL, much less starting as QB.
Guy’s a stud athlete, just a hot mess fundamentally. And the days where a Steve Young or a Flutie could be unorthodox and still succeed are rapidly fading, given the absolute speed and athleticism of NFL defenses today.
FlipYrWhig
The bit I saw of the Dolphins last week had to have been the worst-played football I’ve seen since the last gasp of Randall Cunningham with the Iggles.
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
@Corner Stone: And he’s a dickhead.
FlipYrWhig
@Corner Stone: IMHO Tebow should be used like Kordell Stewart was.
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
@FlipYrWhig: Like a kord of firewood.
FlipYrWhig
@arguingwithsignposts: They might also be upset because the self-promoting “jurassicpork” has been spamming every comment thread in sight for what has to be close to a decade at this point.
Corner Stone
Texans 20 – 0 at the half biznatchies!
Corner Stone
@FlipYrWhig:
More of a proto TE than a slot receiver, but I doubt he can sustain a block if needed.
Don’t get me wrong, I think Tebow is a physical specimen, just not an NFL player.
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
@Corner Stone:
So it will be about…Hmmm…20 minutes until it’s 20-10 and you start telling us how shitty they really are.
Chris from Arlington, VA
Pittsburgh Steelers’ Aaron Smith has been placed on IR. This might well be the end of his career. In his prime, I would say he was the best player on that defense – and that’s saying something. But age and injury have caught up with him, I think.
All the best to Smith, and time for Ziggy Hood to take over.
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
@Corner Stone: And he’s. . .
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
Falcon’s are up in Stafford’d grill big time.
JPL
@Raven (formerly stuckinred): Well go falcons.. BTW.. not sure if SiubhanDuinne mentioned it earlier but she had a great idea of gathering local Atlanta area bj folks to drive to Athens and invade your territory.
Amir Khalid
@Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again):
Even if they’re a man down because of a red card, United definitely shouldn’t have collapsed in the last few minutes like that. Sir must be furious. He’ll have turned the hairdryer on full blast in the dressing room post-match.
Corner Stone
@Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again): If they blow this lead against a very mediocre Titans team then they deserve a dressing down.
Just reporting the score. Bizziwitch.
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
@JPL: Indeed she did.
Yutsano
@Raven (formerly stuckinred): Only who they risk losing to, amirite?
arguingwithsignposts
Are the Falcons still called the “dirty birds”?
FlipYrWhig
@Corner Stone: I sort of like the idea of a combo H-back/QB. Like a modified Jim “Crash” Jensen.
Morbo
Terry Bradshaw almost sounded hurt that Tebow hasn’t scored 4 touchdowns.
Corner Stone
TD Texans bizztothewiz!
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
@Corner Stone:
Probably true, but not really my point. You have a history of dressing them down any time another team scores on them. Or whenever they have to settle for a field goal.
So, ya see, whenever I see you starting to crow about the Texans, I am amused.
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
@Yutsano: Boise State was better than Georgia and it showed. They are not better than either LSU or Bama and it would show as well.
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
@arguingwithsignposts: That shit was tired the day they started it.
The Dangerman
They should lock Tebow in a room and show nothing but Steve Young film (ok, Young had Rice and a whole lot more, but that would be my model … well, a youong Elle McPherson would be MY model, but now I’m just getting picky).
S. cerevisiae
I flipped over to the Bears-Bucs game and didn’t realize they were playing in London until they showed Stonehenge
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
Matt Ryan just blew an ankle.
Corner Stone
@Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again):
No I don’t you fucking douchebag. Check yourself.
S. cerevisiae
Which is the bigger bucket of suck – Seahawks vs. Browns or Dolphins vs. Broncos?
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
@S. cerevisiae: The fight between Corner Stone and Temporarily Max McGee?
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
Ryan comes back in from the locker room and scorches the Lion’s for 49 yards!
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
@Corner Stone:
I don’t need to check. I’ve seen you do it many times over the last, what, three seasons? The Texans get up and you get really cocky about it, but anything suggesting the possibility of a loss occurs and you bail. And you don’t bail subtly, either. When you bail you scream, “Fuck you Texans!”
Call me any name in the book. At this point you’ve tossed so many personal insults at me that they no longer carry any weight. In fact, the insults are even more predictable than your soon-to-be flagging relationship with your team.
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
@Raven (formerly stuckinred):
Yeah, yeah…
This Lions-Falcons game hasn’t been the greatest game ever played, either.
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
Ah, there goes Megatron. That guy’s pretty good.
Corner Stone
@Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again): I root for the Texans, When they lose a winnable game I get upset.
Go fuck yourself if you don’t like it.
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
@Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again): Pends on how ya look at it.
For example 52 yard run for Turner!
Corner Stone
INT TD Texans bizzes!
Yutsano
@S. cerevisiae:
Depends…do you prefer ground glass or anthrax on your meal of tire rims?
The Seahacks manage to tie. Woot.
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
@Raven (formerly stuckinred):
I’m neutral about it- hell I don’t mind seeing the Lions lose, just for the sake of the Pack’s lead in the division- but it’s been a sloppy game with absolutely no flow to it.
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
@Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again): Disruptive defenses.
S. cerevisiae
@Yutsano: Although I am in no position to talk, I think even sacrificing a goat to Odin will not save my Vikings today.
Yutsano
@S. cerevisiae:
I saw what you did there.
JPL
@Raven (formerly stuckinred): So was that legit? Can you intentionally injure someone? I didn’t see a flag.
also, too.. I think it is to late for the Lions player to do the sign of the cross himself
Steve
Anyone who isn’t rooting for the Lions this year must be part of the 1%.
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
@JPL: Nope, just part of the game.
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
@Steve: Horseshit.
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
@Corner Stone:
Well, I disagree that you only get upset after a loss- I’ve seen you get upset and throw in the towel on a number of occasions when they’re winning.
And who says I don’t like it? I’m teasing you about it the same way I tease my sister when she starts bitching in the middle of a play that ends in a Packers’ TD.
This one is for you. Note the line “Life can never be exactly what we want it to be…”.
Out. See ya after the Packers demolish the Queens.
JPL
@Raven (formerly stuckinred): asshole..
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
@JPL: I’m not sure who you mean but there was nothing dirty about that tackle. As far as me, yea, you’re probably right.
JPL
@Raven (formerly stuckinred): It looked like he was going after the knee and then to kneel and bless himself with the sign of the cross was weak.. IMO
also, too.. if there is a god, he has more important things than football. There’s an election today in Tunesia..
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
@JPL: I think he was reacting to the seriousness of the injury. That was no Jack Tatum move, tackling low is tackling low.
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
@Steve:
Screw that, Steve. Fourth generation Packers fan here, and all four generations were born and raised in Michigan- the first two in metro Gladstone.
It’s nice to see the Lions playing much better than in the recent past, but…
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
@Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again): Go Bears!
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
metro Gladstone, as opposed to rural Gladstone? (:
Joel
Arian Foster went large for my fantasy squad today. Too bad I have 1/2 my team on byes, and Deangelo Williams, Doug Baldwin and Nate Washington are all horrible.
Joel
Suck for Luck getting interesting with Miami likely to win their first of the season against woeful Denver.
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
@Joel: You mean the baby jesus din’t save the day?
Joel
@Raven (formerly stuckinred): I call him evangelical Flutie.
different-church-lady
Are we obligated to talk about football if football is mentioned in the open thread title, or is open open?
Not that I’m against talking about football, but I wanna ask about something else.
Gordon, The Big Express Engine
Arian Foster: Fantasy Football God
Gordon, The Big Express Engine
@Raven (formerly stuckinred): He is saving the day…
Here comes the jump pass!!!!
Morbo
@Joel: Nate Washington and Ryan Torain, feeling your pain.
Gordon, The Big Express Engine
@different-church-lady: It is okay if you want to talk about Tim Tebow…
Corner Stone
Big Baby Jesus bringin’ it late!
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
@different-church-lady: Rules, in a knife fight?
asiangrrlMN
Man, I suck at predicting games. Oh well. Coffee and breakfast for me as I await the slaughter of my Vikes.
JPL
@Raven (formerly stuckinred): Okay..we can be asses also,too but our play was accidental
different-church-lady
@Gordon, The Big Express Engine: No. More different. Even more different from football than Ochocinco.
And what is ochocinco supposed to signify anyway? The number of yards he’s gonna have this season?
JPL
ugh…ugh..ugh
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
@JPL: tipped!
JPL
@Raven (formerly stuckinred): one more play..
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
@JPL: yes
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
@different-church-lady: 86 in Spanish, it’s his legal name.
different-church-lady
Okay, screw the other stuff: here’s my proposed solution for overtime.
The thing people don’t like about overtime is that the first chance to score is based not on any kind of skill, but a coin toss. In hockey you have a faceoff, in basketball you have a tip-off, and in baseball each team has one turn.
So, here’s my idea. No coin toss. The football is placed on the 50 yard line. Each team lines up at their own 40. On the referee’s whistle, both teams go for the ball. Whoever comes up with it gets first possession.
Genius, I’m telling you…
S. cerevisiae
I’m already liking this Ponder kid. Nice pass!
different-church-lady
@Raven (formerly stuckinred): 86? I doubt he’s gonna have that many yards this year.
Gordon, The Big Express Engine
@different-church-lady: got it, so you want to discuss the first year Tim Tebow will be eligible for the Hall of Fame?
Tim Tebow: Great Denver Bronco or Greatest Denver Bronco? Please discuss.
different-church-lady
Screw football: let’s talk about the Miami Dolphins instead.
Yutsano
@asiangrrlMN: Seachickens losing is a safe bet. I have a feeling Carroll will soon be joining the ranks of the unemployed.
Hi hon. Heading out to cut my hairs in a bit.
@Raven (formerly stuckinred):
85 actually. And really eight-five in Spanish. 85 in Spanish is ochentaecinco.
/pedant. The affectation of his annoys me.
different-church-lady
@Yutsano: 85 yards this year might be more achievable.
JPL
@different-church-lady: They could have won and where would that leave them in the contest for Luck? Only one team can win that contest and Miami is certainly in contention.
JPL
BTW..how do they determine who gets the first pick if their are several teams contending?
Mark B.
@different-church-lady: You’re describing a rugby scrum. And those guys don’t even wear helmets.
Joel
@different-church-lady: As a Patriots fan, it pisses me off that they are so obviously sucking for Luck this year. I suppose its fair, but in a few years we’ll be talking about the Dolphins’ stranglehold on the AFC East. Unless Luck pulls an Eli on them.
different-church-lady
@Joel:
Young man, all you need do is put that on a bumper sticker and you’ve punched your ticket out of this hell hole.
different-church-lady
@JPL: The Great Wiki sees all, knows all.
Looks like there’s no lottery system, just lots of tiebreakers.
JWL
Having mocked him up-thread, a tip of the hat to Mr. Tebow. It wasn’t pretty, be he was the winning QB today.
Batocchio
Woooot! Rodgers to Jennings, wide open!
handy
How about that Seahawks-Browns game! What a barn burner!
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
@Raven (formerly stuckinred):
Grandma was from Gladstone, proper, and Grandpa was from suburban Kipling.
different-church-lady
@different-church-lady:
FTFM.
different-church-lady
Based on today’s events in New Orleans, Tennessee and Cleveland, I’d say your source was wrong.
DanielX
All too true, at least in New Orleans. If I hadn’t read the local press this morning, I’d have suspected that the actual Colts had been replaced by Slippery Rock State. Was the massacre of the not-so-innocent…it’s why we sing the blues for those men who wear horseshoes, to paraphrase a local performer.