We will not follow a 15 win season with three straight losses. Our defense is improved. Honest it is.
14.
geg6
Meh. Don’t really have a dog in that hunt. Don’t really love or hate either team.
I will be watching young David Broder Ezra filling in for Ed Schultz and then Project Runway! Yay!
15.
Omnes Omnibus
@Just Some Fuckhead: I just wanted to get him to say it. Or at least remember the game.
16.
Thoroughly Pizzled
@Omnes Omnibus: Lions. Can’t really hate the Bears or Vikings that much, though.
17.
Gravenstone
Fuck the fucking Bears.
But seriously, how badly can these fucking tools with the NFL Network suck? Just shut your useless holes and get on with the fucking game.
18.
Suffern ACE
@Omnes Omnibus: because there was this packers Super Bowl win. They beat some no name team that doesn’t have a history of winning.
19.
Tom The First
Bears 41. Pack 24. Mini Ditka 63.
20.
Omnes Omnibus
@Gravenstone: You are making me feel better about being stuck with the computer and the radio.
21.
raven
Bear down, Chicago Bears, make every play clear the way to victory.
Bear down, Chicago Bears, put up a fight with a might so fearlessly.
We’ll never forget the way you thrilled the nation with your T formation.
Bear down, Chicago Bears, and let them know why you’re wearing the crown.
You’re the pride and joy of Illinois, Chicago Bears, Bear down.[
You are making me feel better about being stuck with the computer and the radio.
When Michael Irvin is the only one of the five to NOT look like a cokehead, you know ya got a problem.
24.
JWL
The Niners already shook Rodgers steely-eyed confidence, just last Sunday. It can be fairly said that if Rodgers wore one, they wiped the smirk off his face, as well as the dream in his heart borne of the notion that the Pack were on their way to another 13-3 season.
Meh, I am over the superbowl. Go Pack! (Of course, I’m biased by being married to a cheesehead. which means that I had a serious sad after that superbowl)
27.
IrishCC
Now, now JC, my brother is at least as crazy a Stillers fan as you, and I am a Packer fanatic. We watched SBXLV together and had a great game. You needn’t go bitter on Rodgers. You’re bigger than that!
Should have said: Rodgers was disabused of any notion of going 15-1, or 14-2, or whatever record it was the 2011 Pack compiled.
The Niners look- check that, are- pretty solid, but they won’t be sneaking up on anyone this year (which, of course, made last Sunday’s win particularly sweet). I’ll be shocked if they approach winning 13 games this year.
38.
raven
@efgoldman: Bitching about announcers is so fucking stupid.
39.
Omnes Omnibus
@raven: Bitching about bitching about announcers is better?
40.
Just Some Fuckhead
@Omnes Omnibus: I wish you’d stop bitching about people bitching about people bitching about announcers.
@efgoldman: The actual broadcast crew doesn’t seem terrible. I was bitching about the ex-jock tools they had on the bit of pre-game show I saw. Everyone trying to be louder and more obnoxious than the others. And I think Rich Eisen spent too much time in the Boomer Berman school of “Broadcasting”.
@Omnes Omnibus: It was. It was right across from the Adler Brau brewery until they tore the brewery down and built the new cop shop back in the ’70s. Bleier’s was the Wisconsin tavern formula: Liguor in the front, Roman Catholic household in the rear. For many years, the best Friday Fish Fry in Appleton.
61.
raven
@dollared: Huh, I got a really good buddy up there. Couple summers back I went up and rented a Harley and we rode all over the damn state!
62.
Omnes Omnibus
I think this Cobb kid might turn out to be something special.
63.
Thoroughly Pizzled
I’m confused. Aren’t the Bears supposed to have a good run defense?
@raven: I liked him as a returner last year, but now he seems to be a guy who can make things happen whenever he gets the ball in his hands.
66.
techno
How can anyone hate the Packers? Community owned. The best fans on planet earth. A brilliant coach that plays a seriously fun scheme to watch.
Living in Minnesota, I find being a Packer’s fan is not so hard—plenty of them around here. Now the Vikings, there’s a team to hate. This is a team that has thoroughly embarrassed their fans (0-4 in Superbowls, too many men in the huddle, anyone?) Then they extort millions from a state with massive money problems.
Of course, the reason so many people in Minnesota loathe the Vikings is that they are named for some of the most successful people of history—MY tribe (Viking democracy since 936 a.d., most successful democracies on earth in 2012, etc.) We are not bumbling, incompetent, unimaginative losers. Just recently, three men sailed a 36 y.o. Swedish-built 31′ sloop through the Northwest Passage—the first sailboat in recorded history to have accomplished this feat. Now THIS is Viking behavior!
I have a LOT of sympathy for the native americans who are pissed off by the very existence of the Washington “Redskins.”
Well, all else being equal, who would conceivably think Jay Cutler is working at the same level as Aaron Rodgers? One off week against a really good Niners team is not the end of an era.
But seriously, NFL, I am going to take a shovel to that bearded doofus in the blue suit. Just stop. It’s not ‘edgy’. It’s not ‘quirky’. It’s the guy who drives the windowless van.
@Shinobi: Anytime you get one of the premier QBs in a game, the announcers seem to turn into hero worshiping tools. Doesn’t matter which broadcasters or what team – exception being when two headlining QBs square off. Then it seems to swing by the possession.
@zombie rotten mcdonald: I wonder if the absence of Favre will calm him a little with that.
89.
Shinobi
@Gravenstone: It isn’t just the QBs, sometimes it is a certain receiver or defense man. They are always just so impressed with such and so, he’s so athletic, and just really a great all around football player who overcomes all his shortcomings and looks good with his clothes off.
It’s particularly annoying when it is Aaron Rogers but even when it is Matt Forte I am over it. No one wants to hear someone talk about their new crush. Zzzzzz
I confess I am more familiar with the Catapult event.
97.
Triassic Sands
Go Packers. Or Bears. Or Packers and Bears. Knock that yawn off my face.
Having a favorite professional sports team is like having a favorite oil company.
Paraphrasing Hunter Thompson’s response to a question about who he was rooting for in the World Series (if anyone).
Go Exxon-Mobile!!!
98.
nick
Aaron Rodgers on Tim Tebow Christianity:
“I feel like my stance and my desire has always been to follow a quote from St. Francis of Assisi, who said, ‘Preach the gospel at all times. If necessary, use words.’”
Personally, and I think I’d say this even without being a Packers fan, I think he is consistently overrated.
Oh, what’s that the crowd is chanting?
“Bears still suck”?
Why, yes, yes they do.
106.
SmallAxe
Looking forward to more of Cutler’s “Peyton Manning Face” you can never get enough of the sour puss.
Also too, $Ka-Ching$. Bet against a 2 pt+, weekly line move in the NFL seems to pay more often than not.
107.
JCT
OK, as a Cal grad I have to admit to my Aaron Rodgers crush. Just can’t help it.
108.
Svensker
Go Bears. Knock that smirk of Rodgers’ face.
Your QB throws like this and our QB throws like this.
Not a good night for the Bears offense.
109.
SmallAxe
3 sacks for the long haired one damn, A Reggie White night nice
110.
Gravenstone
@Omnes Omnibus: Had me wondering who the fuck Tyrone was earlier.
111.
Omnes Omnibus
@Gravenstone: Momentary flashback to Tyrone Williams, the corner in GB from ’96-’02.
112.
Yutsano
@JCT: I’ll revel in some Pac-12 crushing right along with you. He’s also an insufferable romantic.
113.
dollared
This is awesome. Not only are the Packers winning, but JC has decided to take his frustration out on the NeoLiberal JornoList Army, all of whom deserve to have their ivy league diplomas rolled up, lit on fire and shoved….
True, just hoping Benson will be as consistent now as he was the last three years. He had great night, tonight, though, and the run game overall was clicking.
119.
dollared
@zombie rotten mcdonald: yeah, now they can go 4-12 and still have a perfect record – beat the Vikings and the Bears twice.
raven
YES! Bear down Chicago Bears!
j
But that Bears QB Cutler is a whiney baby who complains about fan noise. Even at home.
I think the cheeseheads will yell their lungs out.
Just Some Fuckhead
How awesome would it be if Rodgers could travel down the field into the future and knock the smirk off his own face? I’d watch that.
Thoroughly Pizzled
The Packers must suffer, but the Bears mustn’t be too good. Rooting for an ugly, embarrassing game.
Omnes Omnibus
Cole, why the Rodgers hate?
Turgidson
Go Bears.
Also, go Rodgers (on my fantasy team). This is confusing.
But, first and foremost. Go Bears. I can recover from a ffb loss, it’s early yet.
var
Da Bears.
raven
Cutler played at Vandy and Roger’s brother is there now. He will be crushed here in Athens next week.
Just Some Fuckhead
@Omnes Omnibus:
SBXLV
raven
@Omnes Omnibus: Because he plays for the fucking Packers!
Omnes Omnibus
@Thoroughly Pizzled: Vikings or Lions fan?
tulip
@Omnes Omnibus:
Exactly.
Rodgers is awesome.
Suffern ACE
We will not follow a 15 win season with three straight losses. Our defense is improved. Honest it is.
geg6
Meh. Don’t really have a dog in that hunt. Don’t really love or hate either team.
I will be watching
young David BroderEzra filling in for Ed Schultz and then Project Runway! Yay!Omnes Omnibus
@Just Some Fuckhead: I just wanted to get him to say it. Or at least remember the game.
Thoroughly Pizzled
@Omnes Omnibus: Lions. Can’t really hate the Bears or Vikings that much, though.
Gravenstone
Fuck the fucking Bears.
But seriously, how badly can these fucking tools with the NFL Network suck? Just shut your useless holes and get on with the fucking game.
Suffern ACE
@Omnes Omnibus: because there was this packers Super Bowl win. They beat some no name team that doesn’t have a history of winning.
Tom The First
Bears 41. Pack 24. Mini Ditka 63.
Omnes Omnibus
@Gravenstone: You are making me feel better about being stuck with the computer and the radio.
raven
Bear down, Chicago Bears, make every play clear the way to victory.
Bear down, Chicago Bears, put up a fight with a might so fearlessly.
We’ll never forget the way you thrilled the nation with your T formation.
Bear down, Chicago Bears, and let them know why you’re wearing the crown.
You’re the pride and joy of Illinois, Chicago Bears, Bear down.[
Omnes Omnibus
Woodson jersey on. I am ready.
Just Some Fuckhead
@Omnes Omnibus:
When Michael Irvin is the only one of the five to NOT look like a cokehead, you know ya got a problem.
JWL
The Niners already shook Rodgers steely-eyed confidence, just last Sunday. It can be fairly said that if Rodgers wore one, they wiped the smirk off his face, as well as the dream in his heart borne of the notion that the Pack were on their way to another 13-3 season.
Omnes Omnibus
@Just Some Fuckhead: Awesome.
Ron
Meh, I am over the superbowl. Go Pack! (Of course, I’m biased by being married to a cheesehead. which means that I had a serious sad after that superbowl)
IrishCC
Now, now JC, my brother is at least as crazy a Stillers fan as you, and I am a Packer fanatic. We watched SBXLV together and had a great game. You needn’t go bitter on Rodgers. You’re bigger than that!
SmallAxe
@Just Some Fuckhead:
Brilliant indeed.
I’m on the Pack, heavy line move, open at 7 now down to 5 heavy people money coming on Da Bears, I’ll stick with the sharps on this one.
raven
Fuck yes, know his dick in the dirt!
Dexter's new approach
Got the Ziti in the oven, some cheap USA water beer to start with Belgiums on the ready. Should be a fun game to watch. Too bad NFL Network blows.
Bears!
raven
Knock
JWL
If I were inclined to risk money on a football game*, I’d bet the Bears tonight.
*Think hung-over field goal kickers.
Thoroughly Pizzled
Cedric Benson isn’t very good.
PaulW
Go Bulls! Beat Rutgers!
Or something like that.Suffern Ace
@raven: That’s the kind of raunchy sentiment that should be banned in polite company. Although there is porn for that.
raven
@Or something like that.Suffern Ace: I meant knock.
JWL
Should have said: Rodgers was disabused of any notion of going 15-1, or 14-2, or whatever record it was the 2011 Pack compiled.
The Niners look- check that, are- pretty solid, but they won’t be sneaking up on anyone this year (which, of course, made last Sunday’s win particularly sweet). I’ll be shocked if they approach winning 13 games this year.
raven
@efgoldman: Bitching about announcers is so fucking stupid.
Omnes Omnibus
@raven: Bitching about bitching about announcers is better?
Just Some Fuckhead
@Omnes Omnibus: I wish you’d stop bitching about people bitching about people bitching about announcers.
Omnes Omnibus
@Just Some Fuckhead: I wish you’d stop…. This joke isn’t funny anymore.
Gravenstone
@efgoldman: The actual broadcast crew doesn’t seem terrible. I was bitching about the ex-jock tools they had on the bit of pre-game show I saw. Everyone trying to be louder and more obnoxious than the others. And I think Rich Eisen spent too much time in the Boomer Berman school of “Broadcasting”.
raven
turn it off
Omnes Omnibus
@Thoroughly Pizzled: Care to revisit that thought?
Just Some Fuckhead
@Omnes Omnibus:
That’s never stopped me before.
Yutsano
@geg6: In situations like these I go with cuter/less douchebaggy QB. Therefore Go Pack.
Side note: when I was home for Labour Day my father described Rodgers as a good country boy. I giggled, seeing as he’s from Southern California.
SiubhanDuinne
@raven:
Who’s?
raven
@Yutsano: And went to Cal!
Omnes Omnibus
@Just Some Fuckhead: A fair point. Carry on, then, in your own inimitable way.
raven
@SiubhanDuinne: It was the correction of a typo.
dollared
John, be nice or we’ll take Rocky Bleier back.
Thoroughly Pizzled
@Omnes Omnibus: Yeah, I need to stop making predictions about anything.
Omnes Omnibus
@dollared: I had a beer in his old house. It was(is?) a bar in Appleton.
raven
@Thoroughly Pizzled: He’s a bum.
Omnes Omnibus
Finally, some points.
Just Some Fuckhead
The Packers seem like nice boys.
raven
@Just Some Fuckhead: Yea and Charles Martin was a sweetheart.
Donut
@raven:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tj5aW0tj3mE&feature=youtube_gdata_player
raven
@Donut: Byte it.
dollared
@Omnes Omnibus: It was. It was right across from the Adler Brau brewery until they tore the brewery down and built the new cop shop back in the ’70s. Bleier’s was the Wisconsin tavern formula: Liguor in the front, Roman Catholic household in the rear. For many years, the best Friday Fish Fry in Appleton.
raven
@dollared: Huh, I got a really good buddy up there. Couple summers back I went up and rented a Harley and we rode all over the damn state!
Omnes Omnibus
I think this Cobb kid might turn out to be something special.
Thoroughly Pizzled
I’m confused. Aren’t the Bears supposed to have a good run defense?
raven
@Omnes Omnibus: He was awesome at Kentucky.
Omnes Omnibus
@raven: I liked him as a returner last year, but now he seems to be a guy who can make things happen whenever he gets the ball in his hands.
techno
How can anyone hate the Packers? Community owned. The best fans on planet earth. A brilliant coach that plays a seriously fun scheme to watch.
Living in Minnesota, I find being a Packer’s fan is not so hard—plenty of them around here. Now the Vikings, there’s a team to hate. This is a team that has thoroughly embarrassed their fans (0-4 in Superbowls, too many men in the huddle, anyone?) Then they extort millions from a state with massive money problems.
Of course, the reason so many people in Minnesota loathe the Vikings is that they are named for some of the most successful people of history—MY tribe (Viking democracy since 936 a.d., most successful democracies on earth in 2012, etc.) We are not bumbling, incompetent, unimaginative losers. Just recently, three men sailed a 36 y.o. Swedish-built 31′ sloop through the Northwest Passage—the first sailboat in recorded history to have accomplished this feat. Now THIS is Viking behavior!
I have a LOT of sympathy for the native americans who are pissed off by the very existence of the Washington “Redskins.”
zombie rotten mcdonald
Doesn’t seem to be going Cole’s way.
Well, all else being equal, who would conceivably think Jay Cutler is working at the same level as Aaron Rodgers? One off week against a really good Niners team is not the end of an era.
mainmati
So far, pretty tight defensive game. I’m for Packers, the only Sochialist football franchise in the USA.
raven
@techno: FUCK THE PACKERS
zombie rotten mcdonald
It’s smashmouth football.
But seriously, NFL, I am going to take a shovel to that bearded doofus in the blue suit. Just stop. It’s not ‘edgy’. It’s not ‘quirky’. It’s the guy who drives the windowless van.
zombie rotten mcdonald
@techno:
Good on ya, dood.
zombie rotten mcdonald
FAKE FIELD GOAL. LOL
Gravenstone
Wonder if Cutler is second guessing his decision to call out the Packers D during the week?
Thoroughly Pizzled
@techno: Um, congratulations?
raven
@Omnes Omnibus: Not a surprise that it would take a year to get your sealegs. Julio Jones is going to be a monster this year and AJ Green too.
Omnes Omnibus
That was unexpected. I suppose that was the point. Ever so cool.
raven
@Gravenstone: Please, these dudes don’t need that high school shit, this is business.
zombie rotten mcdonald
@Gravenstone:
What could possibly go wrong with that strategy?
LOL, perhaps he was taking advice from the Rmoney campaign.
Shinobi
I’m really surprised these announcers manage to talk so much with Aaron Roger’s dick in their mouths. Just stop.
ugh. Interception.
raven
Let’s go to the DVR, see ya at 5 am!
Donut
This has been a tough coupla minutes for you Bears fans.
Sucks to be you. As usual.
Gravenstone
@raven: They’re still stoning his pouting ass, regardless of the motivation.
raven
@Gravenstone: yea, it’s called the NFL.
Omnes Omnibus
Tyrone!
Gravenstone
@Shinobi: Anytime you get one of the premier QBs in a game, the announcers seem to turn into hero worshiping tools. Doesn’t matter which broadcasters or what team – exception being when two headlining QBs square off. Then it seems to swing by the possession.
zombie rotten mcdonald
@Gravenstone:
Troy Aikman is always willing to let his Packer hatred fly.
burnspbesq
OT: Are you ready for some hockey?
Sucks being you. NHL owners voted unanimously to lock out the players if a deal can’t be reached by the weekend.
http://espn.go.com/nhl/story/_/id/8374747/nhl-commissioner-gary-bettman-receives-unanimous-vote-owners-support-league-imposed-lockout
Omnes Omnibus
@zombie rotten mcdonald: I wonder if the absence of Favre will calm him a little with that.
Shinobi
@Gravenstone: It isn’t just the QBs, sometimes it is a certain receiver or defense man. They are always just so impressed with such and so, he’s so athletic, and just really a great all around football player who overcomes all his shortcomings and looks good with his clothes off.
It’s particularly annoying when it is Aaron Rogers but even when it is Matt Forte I am over it. No one wants to hear someone talk about their new crush. Zzzzzz
zombie rotten mcdonald
I do like the commentators who seem to be all channeling Jennifer Granholm.
Nerull
I’ve yet to watch a sport where fluffing doesn’t happen.
zombie rotten mcdonald
Also, Cee-Lo’s opening was WAY better than Redneck Doofus. It even channeled a little Ramones.
zombie rotten mcdonald
@Nerull:
Cat-juggling?
Omnes Omnibus
@zombie rotten mcdonald: FFS, if you don’t fluff the cats, they won’t come out from behind the couch so you can juggle them. Think before you speak.
Or something like that.Suffern Ace
So who has Mathsay on their fantasy squad in at QB this week?
zombie rotten mcdonald
@Omnes Omnibus:
I confess I am more familiar with the Catapult event.
Triassic Sands
Go Packers. Or Bears. Or Packers and Bears. Knock that yawn off my face.
Paraphrasing Hunter Thompson’s response to a question about who he was rooting for in the World Series (if anyone).
Go Exxon-Mobile!!!
nick
Aaron Rodgers on Tim Tebow Christianity:
“I feel like my stance and my desire has always been to follow a quote from St. Francis of Assisi, who said, ‘Preach the gospel at all times. If necessary, use words.’”
http://offthebench.nbcsports.com/2011/11/30/aaron-rodgers-on-tim-tebow-religion-controversy-i-believe-in-letting-my-actions-speak-about-the-kind-of-character-i-have/
zombie rotten mcdonald
@nick:
Any Given Sunday, Gawd hates half the teams.
Omnes Omnibus
Woodson!
Donut
Oh, hello Donald.
Omnes Omnibus
@Donut: That was nice to see.
Or something like that.Suffern Ace
I think the packers might have figured out cutler.
Omnes Omnibus
I want to apologize to Tramon Williams for f-ing up his name earlier. 2 INTs tonight – nice.
Donut
@Or something like that.Suffern Ace:
Personally, and I think I’d say this even without being a Packers fan, I think he is consistently overrated.
Oh, what’s that the crowd is chanting?
“Bears still suck”?
Why, yes, yes they do.
SmallAxe
Looking forward to more of Cutler’s “Peyton Manning Face” you can never get enough of the sour puss.
Also too, $Ka-Ching$. Bet against a 2 pt+, weekly line move in the NFL seems to pay more often than not.
JCT
OK, as a Cal grad I have to admit to my Aaron Rodgers crush. Just can’t help it.
Svensker
Your QB throws like this and our QB throws like this.
Not a good night for the Bears offense.
SmallAxe
3 sacks for the long haired one damn, A Reggie White night nice
Gravenstone
@Omnes Omnibus: Had me wondering who the fuck Tyrone was earlier.
Omnes Omnibus
@Gravenstone: Momentary flashback to Tyrone Williams, the corner in GB from ’96-’02.
Yutsano
@JCT: I’ll revel in some Pac-12 crushing right along with you. He’s also an insufferable romantic.
dollared
This is awesome. Not only are the Packers winning, but JC has decided to take his frustration out on the NeoLiberal JornoList Army, all of whom deserve to have their ivy league diplomas rolled up, lit on fire and shoved….
Omnes Omnibus
Another interception. Damn.
Donut
@Omnes Omnibus:
No worries. McCarthy improves to a 9-5 record vs Lovie Smith. Excellent to get the win, but Rodgers and receivers have got some shit to work on.
zombie rotten mcdonald
it’s always good to watch the Packers beat the Bears.
Omnes Omnibus
@Donut: It was nice to see 100+ yards rushing without Rodgers name being in the mix. And the D? 5 sacks and 4 INTs? Nice night.
Donut
@Omnes Omnibus:
True, just hoping Benson will be as consistent now as he was the last three years. He had great night, tonight, though, and the run game overall was clicking.
dollared
@zombie rotten mcdonald: yeah, now they can go 4-12 and still have a perfect record – beat the Vikings and the Bears twice.
zombie rotten mcdonald
@dollared:
Don’t let me disrupt your fantasy.
Or something like that.Suffern Ace
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-09-11/sports/ct-spt-0912-bears-chicago–20120912_1_tramon-williams-brandon-marshall-packers
Is there a Sullivan award for sports analysts making wildly wrong predictions?
Comrade Carter
I guess Aaron Rodgers is twice, well, much more than twice, the Quarterback the Bears have. Eh?
zombie rotten mcdonald
The Totally Random Football Stylings of Jay Cutler.
Temporarily Max McGee (Soon Enought To Be Andy K Again)
@Omnes Omnibus:
The defense was outstanding.
@raven:
Don’t look, man!