Gotta take advantage of the opportunity they got last night. Go Steelers!
6.
The Moar You Know
Let’s try that again. Fucking iPad.
NINERS!
7.
cathyx
So a lot is riding on this game. I wish it were televised.
8.
passerby
Dear Pittsburgh Steelers,
Please beat the SF 49ers tonight.
We really need your help to achieve and keep #2 seed status because the S.L. Rams (2-12)beat our fat, lazy, bloated, millionaire asses in a game that should have been a cakewalk and we’ve been behind SF for months.
So, please! please!PLEASE! beat ’em like a drum tonight.
Thank you in advance,
The N.O. Saints
p.s.: And thank you KC Chiefs for the study film on how to sack Aaron Rodgers 4 times and defeat a juggernaut like GB. We’ll be putting that film to good use if we make the division playoffs.
9.
Cacti
So which non-dirty Steeler will be “victimized” tonight by the evil rule against helmet to helmet hits?
10.
Comrade Colette Collaboratrice
I couldn’t care less about the Steelers, but I will not be particularly sad if my husband and his friends have to watch their 49ers lose again. The swelled heads were starting to make the living room a bit crowded.
1) Who is the offensive coordinator for the Steelers?
2) Can the Bucs steal him from you?
14.
Villago Delenda Est
OK, for the Seahawks to even imagine getting into the playoffs, the earth needs to swallow up both the Lions and the Falcons and cause them to lose both of their next two games.
That’s just for starters.
I think we can safely assume that the Seahawks will not make the playoffs, which was, after all, pretty obvious in week three.
15.
Baud
@Omnes Omnibus: We’ll see you in the NFC Championship Game! (crosses fingers)
16.
passerby
@Villago Delenda Est: The Saints have the Falcons in the dome next Monday. It’s usually a dust and blood fight but the Saints are favored–plus Brees is on a major roll.
So, be optimistic about 50% of your dream…
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Omnes Omnibus
@passerby: Packers play the Lions on New Year’s Day in Lambeau.
@Baud: I hope not. The Saints are the team that scares me the most. I hope someone else takes them out. OTOH home field would probably be the difference between the two.
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Old Dan and Little Ann
Go Steelers! Win, keep Ben upright, and avoid any more injuries and/or suspensions.
What in the sam-hell is the PGH coaching staff doing putting this man in at QB? He’s limping around like a drugged coyote stuck in a spring trap. Why not just paint a fucking target on him, hang some strip sirloin on his balls and let the wolves loose?
I got no love for the Steelers, but this is a tragedy waiting to happen – this guy is gonna get drilled, and drilled badly, and it ain’t gonna be pretty.
ETA: This is going to be a defensive battle, the game will be determined by turnovers.
48.
Leadpipe
Pauliocrazyhair is stood up.
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trollhattan
I understand Pittsburgh has a defense. They make it to the stadium yet?
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passerby
Man, that Crabtree is sick.
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Joel
Man, if you’re going to go jumbo like that, you need to block, don’t you?
@passerby @cathyx: Try this, caught a couple of out-of-town games on Sunday. It was shaky and fraught with ads, but better than nothing.
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EnfantTerrible
Regarding the blackout, once again, PG&E represents! At least a gas pipeline didn’t explode.
And how come the Niners can’t tackle?
54.
Leadpipe
Cute shoes!
55.
Joel
@EnfantTerrible: Don’t need to, if Roethlisberger keeps throwing ducks like that.
56.
passerby
Who’s/how’s the backup QB for the Stillers??
57.
Maxwel
Is Ben wearing a fat suit?
58.
Killjoy
Very INTeresting first quarter for Big Ben
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Ron
How the hell does he throw that pass too high after having all night to make the throw? goddamn it!
60.
kindness
Niners dudes & dudettes.
They just have to score inside the 20.
2 pic so far.
61.
Svensker
So now you Steeler fans know what it’s like to be a Jet fan.
Ugly, ugly, ugly.
62.
Leadpipe
Alex, Alex, Alex. Try and be adequate.
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a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@Joel: Is he doing his impersonation of Tebow? The “chevrons of mallards” throwing one?* Sounds like it. Heh.
I wish I could remember who wrote this Brady v. Tebow comparison before the game yesterday:
Tom throws spirals that could slide into a mailbox from across a cul de sac. They nestle into receivers’ arms like babies returned to new mothers. Tim throws chevrons of mallards. He has more overthrows than the Arab Spring.
Tom is the namesake of the NFL’s Brady Rule, which prohibits hitting QBs below the knees. Tim is the namesake behind the NCAA’s Tebow Rule, regarding athletes wearing messages on their eye black
I laughed, loudly and repeatedly. That’s good prose. For a sportswriter. Oh, and FYWP.
Thanks, hope Charlie’s been getting some snaps this week, his stats being so thin and all.
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a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@Old Dan and Little Ann: @BruceFromOhio: I should have known it was Reilly. Who is nothing if not a bit dated, of course. I think Lupica quote it. I kinda liked the rules part best of all.
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Suffern ACE
Emergency generators to run the signage, but no one thought to hook up the actual field lights to it?
74.
Steeplejack
Hmm, power at the game is out again. There must be a free-market solution to this. ’Cause I know there can’t be anything wrong with our infrastructure.
@passerby: Thin stats can *easily* make up for the drugged-coyote-in-a-spring-trap imitation I’ve been watching post points for SF. If they can keep the lights on fer fucks sake.
In PG&E’s view, so long as nothing’s exploding they’re doing just fine, thank you.
That SF doesn’t have 14 already doesn’t speak well for their playoff chances. OTOH Stillers are just painful to watch. You’ve gotta be a fan to admire this team.
83.
Leadpipe
Another testament to shareholder owned public utilities. Have they ever been turned down for a rate hike? What’s the excuse going to be this time around?
84.
Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason
@Steeplejack: Oh, man, I’m laughing so hard I’m crying. I’ve seen it before and I dunno why that joke hits me like that. I guess it’s in the delivery:
Is this goin’ somewhere?
85.
cathyx
@Steeplejack: No cable here. I was monitoring it on NFL.com and was wondering why it was taking so long to come back from a commercial break. So I checked in here and read what happened.
Yeah, Ben looks awful–but then he always lumbers around like that. I’m gonna guess that he plays the rest of the 1st half and if he doesn’t turn the ball over, they’ll leave him in after another pain shot at halftime.
Looks like Will Ferrell out there.
Haha!
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Old Dan and Little Ann
Mendenhall needs to take better care of the ball when he’s running. Cripes!
Yeah. I’m not usually a fan of really cheap humor, but that is pitch perfect. The acting is what sells it.
93.
stinkdaddy
There’s no way Roethlisberger should be in there. Charlie Batch can throw 2 picks – more even! – without jeopardizing the rest of the season. High-ankle sprains are no bullshit. That said, as a Packer fan I still can’t decide if I’d rather the 49ers or Saints get a bye so whatever.
can we talk about Big Ben? He’s the lumpiest … QB I’ve ever seen
And holy crap, Lorenzen was 6’4/315? I knew he was a big dude but those are left tackle measurements.
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DCLaw1
@stinkdaddy: Yeah, those guys are pretty lumpy, but nobody beats the Barbie-doll-like physical impossibility of Ben heaving his torso of mashed potatoes around on those peg legs of his.
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2liberal
harrison supposedly tweeted during the blackout (which i did not see)
If I cant play then can’t nobody play… Lights out!
The DFH’s can’t even run a power grid!! Round up the Occupiers!
97.
Raven
@stinkdaddy: Larry Munson called him Godzilla when hey played at UK.
98.
pete
The later we delay the game, the more tired the east coast team will be. BWAAAAHAHA!
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stinkdaddy
@DCLaw1: It’s funny you mention it, cuz I never paid that much attention to Ben’s legs but looking closer I notice I’m built a lot like him. My legs do better than his above the knee, but they’re pretty spindly below it and we have roughly the same torso. I also tend to get lots of minor ankle, knee, etc. injuries and then turn around and do something like slamming my hand in a car door with no breaks. And I broke my jaw once and I drink too much. I AM ROETHLISBERGER. Weird.
ps. No rapey stuff though.
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Quaker in a Basement
C’mon Ben! Suck less!
101.
stinkdaddy
As a former PG&E customer I’m setting the over/under for total blackouts at 4.5. Who wants some of this action?
102.
stinkdaddy
Wow, Ben’s mechanics are totally shot. He isn’t lifting his back leg at all. With him like this everything’s going to be thrown short, just like it would with Batch, and if he gets hit in the leg some really ugly, beginning-of-2012-in-jeopardy kinda shit could go down.
I don’t get it.
103.
stinkdaddy
@2liberal: Shawn Merriman beat him to it, and was more contextually appropriate as well.
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Old Dan and Little Ann
Well there’s the first fucking HORRIBLE call tonight.
105.
stinkdaddy
Hello, phantom fair catch signal. I didn’t realize the NCAA halo had made it to the NFL.
Pittsburgh deserves to lose this game for letting this guy continue to play. I dunno who the fuck thought it was a good idea to leave this damaged, lumbering man in at QB, but they need a good smack across the back of the head.
Wait! I know! Hold off until there’s like 4 minutes left and your down by nine or twelve instead of six, THEN put in your backup! Bitch at how he loses the game for you because he can’t make up for the impossible stupidity at play in the first 56 minutes!
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Quaker in a Basement
Ben is not Tebow. Ben cannot go out there and suck for 55 minutes and then expect a miracle.
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stinkdaddy
Ben’s throwing a lot better after the half. Wonder if they shot him up again or what? The difference is pretty drastic- all of a sudden he isn’t throwing flatfooted.
110.
Bill D.
Sorry John…
GO NINERS!
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Corner Stone
@stinkdaddy: They put the big gauge needle in there at halftime.
Hell yeah he got juiced.
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Paul
C’mon, Ben, I know you can do it. Packers home field advantage is on the line here.
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SFAW
Next: Nancy SMASH restores power!
She was going to, until the TeaBaggers decided it might be seen as benefitting the Demoncrats, so they had Orange Julius postpone the vote until tomorrow, at which point they can blame the Dems for making them delay things, because, well, SHUT UP! THAT’S WHY!
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2liberal
go SF , remember you are fighting to give the Patriots the home field advantage !
@stinkdaddy: Seconded. And it pisses me off to no end that the booth won’t shut the fuck up about anything, but fail to discuss that interference call that overturned a fumble. Now a guy jumps and is penalized which leads to seven points. Fuck. And now Moore’s down. Ugh.
It’s a rockem-sockem game between two evenly matched teams – small wonder we are all tearing our hair out.
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stinkdaddy
Eat it, Saints. Works for me I guess.
129.
gentlewind
Just wondering how you can root for the Steelers when they have someone who should be in jail for assault and rape at the helm? I’m a staunch Bears fan but if my QB did what yours did, I would root for the Packers before rooting for the Bears.
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Leadpipe
Why is the sausage shaped man still playing?
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The prophet Nostradumbass
Down goes the statue, again.
132.
Suffern ACE
@Paul: It won’t matter. 49ers and Iggles will be in the NFC championship game.
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burnspbesq
Good news and bad news, football fans.
The good news is that you won’t have to listen to Craig James on ESPN any more. He’s resigning.
The bad news is that he’s resigning to run for the Republican nomination for the Senate in Texas. And he might just win.
@burnspbesq: The bad news is that he’s resigning to run for the Republican nomination for the Senate in Texas. And he might just win.
Will ESPN be doing fundraisers or is that just a fox thing?
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EnfantTerrible
“49ers and Iggles will be in the NFC championship game”
Given that that Niners need a Garmin to find the end zone in the first half, I’m not so sure about that.
137.
Suffern ACE
@burnspbesq: Why can’t it be Gruden? I really find him annoying on MNF.
138.
Wannabe Speechwriter
In your face Cole!!!
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cokane
FUCK YA SUCK A BIG ONE PISSBURGERS
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The prophet Nostradumbass
@Suffern ACE: Chucky? He’ll be your friend to the end.
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Erik Vanderhoff
Ahem: Ha ha.
Thank you.
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Ron
That was just ugly. As I said elsewhere, they better play better than this or they will be one and done in the playoffs.
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kindness
Green Bay is still the team to beat this year, and I’m a Niner fan.
Note to future tax attorneys: if you client is hiding $12,000 from the IRS, it’s not a smart idea to fax me direct evidence your client is hiding $12,000 from the IRS.
But what about the Corzine defense: I simply do not know where that money is.
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Yutsano
@James E. Powell: Nice part is that won’t fly: the CPA showed me exactly where it is (it’s in an escrow account) and it’s readily accessible. He screwed his client six ways to Sunday and tried to intimidate me into not doing anything with it. BZZT!!
148.
CaliCat
Haha! Go fucking Niners!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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CaliCat
Steelers are 0 for Harbaugh. Oh my damn.
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Cermet
As a Ravens fan I am extremely unhappy that the Steelers lost AND further hurt their QB. The Ravens do not and had better not keep the second seed and NEED to be a road team so they get exactly what they deserve – defeated as the pretenders they fully are.
What a joke they are (3-4 on the road.) If they get all home games and end up meeting and (gasp) beating the Steelers it will be a travesty! Those jokers do not deserve or are they a real quality team thanks to the loser couch coach and poor QB.
Steelers fans – you have a great coach (really – I’d trade any day)BUT you need to complain that your QB does NOT run the team – the coach does! (yes, I hate Ben’s activities off field but on field he is one of the best and should have been setting -at least the last quarter! when all was lost.)
This was just ugly (Steeler fan here.) I’ve felt all year that we are not a real-deal team (like the Packers.) Now I just wish there was SOME team out there that I could hope will keep the trophy from going back to Green Bay.
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cathyx
Nope. Not on TV here.
Tom
Glad MNF is back after a week hiatus.
Baud
As a Who Dat, I say GO STEELERS!!!
The Moar YounKnow
Screw that noise.
NINERS!
Ron
Gotta take advantage of the opportunity they got last night. Go Steelers!
The Moar You Know
Let’s try that again. Fucking iPad.
NINERS!
cathyx
So a lot is riding on this game. I wish it were televised.
passerby
Dear Pittsburgh Steelers,
Please beat the SF 49ers tonight.
We really need your help to achieve and keep #2 seed status because the S.L. Rams (2-12)beat our fat, lazy, bloated, millionaire asses in a game that should have been a cakewalk and we’ve been behind SF for months.
So, please! please! PLEASE! beat ’em like a drum tonight.
Thank you in advance,
The N.O. Saints
p.s.: And thank you KC Chiefs for the study film on how to sack Aaron Rodgers 4 times and defeat a juggernaut like GB. We’ll be putting that film to good use if we make the division playoffs.
Cacti
So which non-dirty Steeler will be “victimized” tonight by the evil rule against helmet to helmet hits?
Comrade Colette Collaboratrice
I couldn’t care less about the Steelers, but I will not be particularly sad if my husband and his friends have to watch their 49ers lose again. The swelled heads were starting to make the living room a bit crowded.
Omnes Omnibus
@Baud: Packers fans say “Go Steelers!” as well.
passerby
@cathyx:
Me too. Don’t have cable so I paid NFL.com for Audio Pass and I just follow along on the Game Center graphics. Meh, better than nothing.
PaulW
two questions:
1) Who is the offensive coordinator for the Steelers?
2) Can the Bucs steal him from you?
Villago Delenda Est
OK, for the Seahawks to even imagine getting into the playoffs, the earth needs to swallow up both the Lions and the Falcons and cause them to lose both of their next two games.
That’s just for starters.
I think we can safely assume that the Seahawks will not make the playoffs, which was, after all, pretty obvious in week three.
Baud
@Omnes Omnibus: We’ll see you in the NFC Championship Game! (crosses fingers)
passerby
@Villago Delenda Est: The Saints have the Falcons in the dome next Monday. It’s usually a dust and blood fight but the Saints are favored–plus Brees is on a major roll.
So, be optimistic about 50% of your dream…
Omnes Omnibus
@passerby: Packers play the Lions on New Year’s Day in Lambeau.
@Baud: I hope not. The Saints are the team that scares me the most. I hope someone else takes them out. OTOH home field would probably be the difference between the two.
Old Dan and Little Ann
Go Steelers! Win, keep Ben upright, and avoid any more injuries and/or suspensions.
cokane
BURN IN HELL ROTHLISBERGER
Baud
POWER OUTAGE!!!
passerby
@cathyx:
Psst. Cathyx click on this link–it’s a live stream of tonite’s game.
Thoroughly Pizzled
Hines Ward!
http://youtu.be/-yh6SriAjdE
Baud
@Omnes Omnibus: I feel the same way about the Packers. It would be a hell of a game, though.
Politically Lost
GO NINERS!!!!!!!
passerby
Cathyx, looks like my link to video stream is either in moderation or cyber heaven or somewhere.
I’m going to try again.
Link to Stream
If not here’s the cut and paste version:
http://www.firstrowsports.tv/watch/98922/1/watch-san-francisco-49ers-vs-pittsburgh-steelers.html
passerby
Hey Cathyx.
This is my 3rd attempt to pass this on. A link to video stream for tonite’s game.
http://www.firstrowsports.tv/watch/98922/1/watch-san-francisco-49ers-vs-pittsburgh-steelers.html
Baud
Chris Berman is treating the power outage as if it’s another 9/11.
Scott P.
Cole:
It’s “49ers” or “Niners,” but never “9ers”
handy
niners
Villago Delenda Est
@Baud:
Oh, the humanity!
MoeLarryAndJesus
When the lights went out Big Ben went prowling for a cheerleader.
Joel
Lights out, San Diego!
passerby
@Omnes Omnibus:
Bet Lions are grateful for the study tape, too.
Leadpipe
Rothlisberger goes down early.
Leadpipe
@MoeLarryAndJesus: No his posse was not allowed near the field to corral her.
pragmatism
I saw a monkey riding a dog like a horse in the pre game show. My life feels more complete somehow.
tulip
And the lights go out at the Stick, way to represent SF.
There’s a metaphor in there somewhere…
Omnes Omnibus
@pragmatism: Is it on YouTube yet?
passerby
Hey, Cathyx, I’m trying to share a link to a video stream of the game and it won’t post. When I hit submit the comment goes no where (3x).
So I try this:
Copy and paste this
firstrowsports.tv/watch/98922/1/watch-san-francisco-49ers-vs-pittsburgh-steelers.html
And then include this as the prefix: http://www.
It’s called First Row Sports
pragmatism
http://m.youtube.com/index?desktop_uri=%2F&gl=US#/watch?v=eFAAHdQhV94
passerby
Yay Mike Wallace! (The good MW.)
The prophet Nostradumbass
Interception! Nice throw,Ben!
Joel
countdown to injury-based excuses in 3.. 2.. 1..
Leadpipe
Nice pass! First one over six yards is picked off.
Erik Vanderhoff
Steelers drool, Niners rule!
Nalbar
Let me save John some trouble,
OMG, did you see that call by the officials, it suxours. Steelers get robbed again!
BruceFromOhio
What in the sam-hell is the PGH coaching staff doing putting this man in at QB? He’s limping around like a drugged coyote stuck in a spring trap. Why not just paint a fucking target on him, hang some strip sirloin on his balls and let the wolves loose?
I got no love for the Steelers, but this is a tragedy waiting to happen – this guy is gonna get drilled, and drilled badly, and it ain’t gonna be pretty.
ETA: This is going to be a defensive battle, the game will be determined by turnovers.
Leadpipe
Pauliocrazyhair is stood up.
trollhattan
I understand Pittsburgh has a defense. They make it to the stadium yet?
passerby
Man, that Crabtree is sick.
Joel
Man, if you’re going to go jumbo like that, you need to block, don’t you?
BruceFromOhio
@passerby @cathyx: Try this, caught a couple of out-of-town games on Sunday. It was shaky and fraught with ads, but better than nothing.
EnfantTerrible
Regarding the blackout, once again, PG&E represents! At least a gas pipeline didn’t explode.
And how come the Niners can’t tackle?
Leadpipe
Cute shoes!
Joel
@EnfantTerrible: Don’t need to, if Roethlisberger keeps throwing ducks like that.
passerby
Who’s/how’s the backup QB for the Stillers??
Maxwel
Is Ben wearing a fat suit?
Killjoy
Very INTeresting first quarter for Big Ben
Ron
How the hell does he throw that pass too high after having all night to make the throw? goddamn it!
kindness
Niners dudes & dudettes.
They just have to score inside the 20.
2 pic so far.
Svensker
So now you Steeler fans know what it’s like to be a Jet fan.
Ugly, ugly, ugly.
Leadpipe
Alex, Alex, Alex. Try and be adequate.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@Joel: Is he doing his impersonation of Tebow? The “chevrons of mallards” throwing one?* Sounds like it. Heh.
I wish I could remember who wrote this Brady v. Tebow comparison before the game yesterday:
I laughed, loudly and repeatedly. That’s good prose. For a sportswriter. Oh, and FYWP.
BruceFromOhio
@passerby: Charlie Batch, Dennis Dixon. Charlie has done well when I’ve seen him play.
Old Dan and Little Ann
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q): That’s from a heinous Mike Lupica article this week. Okay, how about drive that didn’t result in a pic.
BruceFromOhio
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q): Your chevron source. Cute, if dated.
ETA: Again with the fucking lights? Did anyone let the grounds keeper know there was fucking game on tonight, and to reset the Gaia-damned timer?
The prophet Nostradumbass
PG&E strike again!
Quaker in a Basement
OK, Ben. See all those guys wearing jerseys that look the same as yours?
Throw it to one of them this time.
Ron
Steelers are lucky the 49ers have no red zone offense. (and now the power is out again.)
EnfantTerrible
C’mon, Candlestick! Pay your utility bill!
passerby
@BruceFromOhio:
Thanks, hope Charlie’s been getting some snaps this week, his stats being so thin and all.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@Old Dan and Little Ann: @BruceFromOhio: I should have known it was Reilly. Who is nothing if not a bit dated, of course. I think Lupica quote it. I kinda liked the rules part best of all.
Suffern ACE
Emergency generators to run the signage, but no one thought to hook up the actual field lights to it?
Steeplejack
Hmm, power at the game is out again. There must be a free-market solution to this. ’Cause I know there can’t be anything wrong with our infrastructure.
Anyway, while we’re waiting, sorta reminds me of this joke.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@BruceFromOhio: It is rather a comic touch, no?
DCLaw1
While the power’s out, can we talk about Big Ben? He’s the lumpiest, most stick-legged QB I’ve ever seen. Looks like Will Ferrell out there.
fasteddie9318
FUCKING BULLSHIT WHY DOES OBAMA KEEP CUTTING THE POWER TO CANDLESTICK PARK? DOES HE HATE AMERICA THAT MUCH?
BruceFromOhio
@passerby: Thin stats can *easily* make up for the drugged-coyote-in-a-spring-trap imitation I’ve been watching post points for SF. If they can keep the lights on fer fucks sake.
Steeplejack
@cathyx:
Just to cover the obvious, it’s on ESPN, not one of the networks.
Apologies if you don’t have cable.
cokane
FUCK YA WORTHLISBERGER
cathyx
I think they should call the game and play it in Pittsburgh where they still have electricity.
trollhattan
@EnfantTerrible:
In PG&E’s view, so long as nothing’s exploding they’re doing just fine, thank you.
That SF doesn’t have 14 already doesn’t speak well for their playoff chances. OTOH Stillers are just painful to watch. You’ve gotta be a fan to admire this team.
Leadpipe
Another testament to shareholder owned public utilities. Have they ever been turned down for a rate hike? What’s the excuse going to be this time around?
Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason
@Steeplejack: Oh, man, I’m laughing so hard I’m crying. I’ve seen it before and I dunno why that joke hits me like that. I guess it’s in the delivery:
cathyx
@Steeplejack: No cable here. I was monitoring it on NFL.com and was wondering why it was taking so long to come back from a commercial break. So I checked in here and read what happened.
The Dangerman
@trollhattan:
Check out this animated GIF:
http://blog.sfgate.com/49ers/files/2011/12/ZOMG-TRANSFORMER.gif
Now, there wasn’t a blaze that took out a good portion of the city, so your point remains valid.
trollhattan
@fasteddie9318:
Heh, indoozle. Obama is an NFL hatah because he likes the hippitihop NBA, also, too. “No power for you!”
Next: Nancy SMASH restores power!
BruceFromOhio
How about a chevron of double-A’s and free flashlights? Or is it just too Gaia-damned ironic to have repeated blackouts in park called “Candlestick”?
C’mon, crew, wind the fucking rubberband or feed the squirrels or whatever.
trollhattan
@The Dangerman:
Now that’s a amazing vid.
passerby
@BruceFromOhio:
Yeah, Ben looks awful–but then he always lumbers around like that. I’m gonna guess that he plays the rest of the 1st half and if he doesn’t turn the ball over, they’ll leave him in after another pain shot at halftime.
Haha!
Old Dan and Little Ann
Mendenhall needs to take better care of the ball when he’s running. Cripes!
Steeplejack
@Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason:
Yeah. I’m not usually a fan of really cheap humor, but that is pitch perfect. The acting is what sells it.
stinkdaddy
There’s no way Roethlisberger should be in there. Charlie Batch can throw 2 picks – more even! – without jeopardizing the rest of the season. High-ankle sprains are no bullshit. That said, as a Packer fan I still can’t decide if I’d rather the 49ers or Saints get a bye so whatever.
Can I introduce you to my bros, JaMarcus and Jared?
And holy crap, Lorenzen was 6’4/315? I knew he was a big dude but those are left tackle measurements.
DCLaw1
@stinkdaddy: Yeah, those guys are pretty lumpy, but nobody beats the Barbie-doll-like physical impossibility of Ben heaving his torso of mashed potatoes around on those peg legs of his.
2liberal
harrison supposedly tweeted during the blackout (which i did not see)
i hope the stillers lose but still a funny tweet.
Turgidson
@tulip:
The DFH’s can’t even run a power grid!! Round up the Occupiers!
Raven
@stinkdaddy: Larry Munson called him Godzilla when hey played at UK.
pete
The later we delay the game, the more tired the east coast team will be. BWAAAAHAHA!
stinkdaddy
@DCLaw1: It’s funny you mention it, cuz I never paid that much attention to Ben’s legs but looking closer I notice I’m built a lot like him. My legs do better than his above the knee, but they’re pretty spindly below it and we have roughly the same torso. I also tend to get lots of minor ankle, knee, etc. injuries and then turn around and do something like slamming my hand in a car door with no breaks. And I broke my jaw once and I drink too much. I AM ROETHLISBERGER. Weird.
ps. No rapey stuff though.
Quaker in a Basement
C’mon Ben! Suck less!
stinkdaddy
As a former PG&E customer I’m setting the over/under for total blackouts at 4.5. Who wants some of this action?
stinkdaddy
Wow, Ben’s mechanics are totally shot. He isn’t lifting his back leg at all. With him like this everything’s going to be thrown short, just like it would with Batch, and if he gets hit in the leg some really ugly, beginning-of-2012-in-jeopardy kinda shit could go down.
I don’t get it.
stinkdaddy
@2liberal: Shawn Merriman beat him to it, and was more contextually appropriate as well.
Old Dan and Little Ann
Well there’s the first fucking HORRIBLE call tonight.
stinkdaddy
Hello, phantom fair catch signal. I didn’t realize the NCAA halo had made it to the NFL.
Leadpipe
@Nalbar: There it is.
BruceFromOhio
Pittsburgh deserves to lose this game for letting this guy continue to play. I dunno who the fuck thought it was a good idea to leave this damaged, lumbering man in at QB, but they need a good smack across the back of the head.
Wait! I know! Hold off until there’s like 4 minutes left and your down by nine or twelve instead of six, THEN put in your backup! Bitch at how he loses the game for you because he can’t make up for the impossible stupidity at play in the first 56 minutes!
Quaker in a Basement
Ben is not Tebow. Ben cannot go out there and suck for 55 minutes and then expect a miracle.
stinkdaddy
Ben’s throwing a lot better after the half. Wonder if they shot him up again or what? The difference is pretty drastic- all of a sudden he isn’t throwing flatfooted.
Bill D.
Sorry John…
GO NINERS!
Corner Stone
@stinkdaddy: They put the big gauge needle in there at halftime.
Hell yeah he got juiced.
Paul
C’mon, Ben, I know you can do it. Packers home field advantage is on the line here.
SFAW
She was going to, until the TeaBaggers decided it might be seen as benefitting the Demoncrats, so they had Orange Julius postpone the vote until tomorrow, at which point they can blame the Dems for making them delay things, because, well, SHUT UP! THAT’S WHY!
2liberal
go SF , remember you are fighting to give the Patriots the home field advantage !
The prophet Nostradumbass
Touchdown Niners!
BruceFromOhio
@stinkdaddy: *Some*one is throwing better, and it sure as fuck ain’t the PIT offense.
SFAW
I’ll get back to you in about an hour or so.
BruceFromOhio
I’m getting the munchies, maybe its time to warm up one of those tasty turnovers.
The prophet Nostradumbass
How long until Roethlisberger throws another INT?
The prophet Nostradumbass
@BruceFromOhio:
There you go.
stinkdaddy
Mr. Smith goes to Roethslington.
BruceFromOhio
@The prophet Nostradumbass: No throwing necessary, the SF D just stopped by to pick it up, all fresh-like.
ETA: Un. Motherfucking. Believable. Done here.
Leadpipe
@The prophet Nostradumbass: Fumble work for ya.
stinkdaddy
Phantom leverage? That call was atrocious.
Old Dan and Little Ann
@stinkdaddy: Seconded. And it pisses me off to no end that the booth won’t shut the fuck up about anything, but fail to discuss that interference call that overturned a fumble. Now a guy jumps and is penalized which leads to seven points. Fuck. And now Moore’s down. Ugh.
The prophet Nostradumbass
@stinkdaddy: That was pretty weak.
EnfantTerrible
It’s a rockem-sockem game between two evenly matched teams – small wonder we are all tearing our hair out.
stinkdaddy
Eat it, Saints. Works for me I guess.
gentlewind
Just wondering how you can root for the Steelers when they have someone who should be in jail for assault and rape at the helm? I’m a staunch Bears fan but if my QB did what yours did, I would root for the Packers before rooting for the Bears.
Leadpipe
Why is the sausage shaped man still playing?
The prophet Nostradumbass
Down goes the statue, again.
Suffern ACE
@Paul: It won’t matter. 49ers and Iggles will be in the NFC championship game.
burnspbesq
Good news and bad news, football fans.
The good news is that you won’t have to listen to Craig James on ESPN any more. He’s resigning.
The bad news is that he’s resigning to run for the Republican nomination for the Senate in Texas. And he might just win.
burnspbesq
@Suffern ACE:
Iggles?
Where can I get some of what you’re smoking?
Leadpipe
@burnspbesq: The bad news is that he’s resigning to run for the Republican nomination for the Senate in Texas. And he might just win.
Will ESPN be doing fundraisers or is that just a fox thing?
EnfantTerrible
“49ers and Iggles will be in the NFC championship game”
Given that that Niners need a Garmin to find the end zone in the first half, I’m not so sure about that.
Suffern ACE
@burnspbesq: Why can’t it be Gruden? I really find him annoying on MNF.
Wannabe Speechwriter
In your face Cole!!!
cokane
FUCK YA SUCK A BIG ONE PISSBURGERS
The prophet Nostradumbass
@Suffern ACE: Chucky? He’ll be your friend to the end.
Erik Vanderhoff
Ahem: Ha ha.
Thank you.
Ron
That was just ugly. As I said elsewhere, they better play better than this or they will be one and done in the playoffs.
kindness
Green Bay is still the team to beat this year, and I’m a Niner fan.
burnspbesq
@Leadpipe:
“Will ESPN be doing fundraisers or is that just a fox thing?”
I wouldn’t think so.
Yutsano
@burnspbesq: Open thread goodness:
Something from my Facebook wall:
James E. Powell
@Yutsano:
But what about the Corzine defense: I simply do not know where that money is.
Yutsano
@James E. Powell: Nice part is that won’t fly: the CPA showed me exactly where it is (it’s in an escrow account) and it’s readily accessible. He screwed his client six ways to Sunday and tried to intimidate me into not doing anything with it. BZZT!!
CaliCat
Haha! Go fucking Niners!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
CaliCat
Steelers are 0 for Harbaugh. Oh my damn.
Cermet
As a Ravens fan I am extremely unhappy that the Steelers lost AND further hurt their QB. The Ravens do not and had better not keep the second seed and NEED to be a road team so they get exactly what they deserve – defeated as the pretenders they fully are.
What a joke they are (3-4 on the road.) If they get all home games and end up meeting and (gasp) beating the Steelers it will be a travesty! Those jokers do not deserve or are they a real quality team thanks to the loser
couchcoach and poor QB.Steelers fans – you have a great coach (really – I’d trade any day)BUT you need to complain that your QB does NOT run the team – the coach does! (yes, I hate Ben’s activities off field but on field he is one of the best and should have been setting -at least the last quarter! when all was lost.)
Uncle Ebeneezer
This was just ugly (Steeler fan here.) I’ve felt all year that we are not a real-deal team (like the Packers.) Now I just wish there was SOME team out there that I could hope will keep the trophy from going back to Green Bay.