So far, the refs have been jobbing Denver pretty solidly. They should ask for some lube at halftime if this crap keeps up.
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So far, the refs have been jobbing Denver pretty solidly. They should ask for some lube at halftime if this crap keeps up.
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Corner Stone
Go Whoever Isn’t The Harbaughs!
The Dangerman
It’s an all-star crew, but they missed that Pick 6 (I thought the pass interference on the Broncos was a good call). Was a really strange first 6 minutes or so of the game; perhaps everyone will settle now and play some football.
ETA: Perhaps betting the under in this game was a bad call.
gene108
NCSU thumps Duke…my weekend is made :-)
Go whoever…the important game ended well…
JPL
Normally when you trip a player, wouldn’t that be pass interference? Well the announcers are okay with it and we know the announcers are always right.
billgerat
Up in Seattle we’re pretty used to being jobbed by the refs.
I hope the Denver Mannings smear the snot out of the Ravens.
JenJen
GO BALTIMORE! I only say that because I want very badly to win my Pick ‘Em league and it would appear I’m the only one who picked the Ravens.
soonergrunt (nexus 7)
The Refs apparently can’t see white.
Corner Stone
That was a heck of a throw Flacco made earlier. I thought he overthrew him but it took some air out at the end.
cathyx
What does jobbing mean? Never heard of it.
Raven
Nice stop and go.
Raven
@cathyx: Really?
“To be the victim of a conspiracy; to lose a seemingly fair contest because of deceit; to be guaranteed to lose. The term derives from the professional wrestling term “jobber”.”
billgerat
@cathyx:
It means getting snorked.
Studly Pantload, the emotionally unavailable unicorn
I’m not thrilled with the officiating so far, but I’m not ready to go full WATB about it just yet because I don’t see the Broncos unable to overcome those calls this early.
BTB, does this giant, orange foam finger make me look fat?
Bago
You know that phrase “may your life be interesting”?
Yeah. Walked in on my roommate’s corpse last night.
Jon
Fuck right wing money giving Peyton Manning and his right wing pizza fascisti buttboy. Bob fucking Corker. He gives money to Bob fucking Corker!
SiubhanDuinne
@Bago: Jaysus. I hope you mean that figuratively.
If you mean it literally, how terrible and I am so sorry.
Raven
@Jon: White NFL QB’s are rightwingers? Oh noze.
Roger Moore
@Bago:
Wow. Sorry about your roommate, and I hope you’re doing OK, too.
Cacti
Not a fan of either franchise, but I’ve found Peyton Manning insufferable since his days at Tennessee.
0 national titles, 0 heismans, yet somehow gets a street named after him on campus.
I used to love watching Florida beat him like a dirty throw rug.
cathyx
@billgerat: I thought getting snorked means getting drunk.
Corner Stone
@Bago: What was it doing?
Napoleon
And in more proof that Obama is a complete fucking incompetent in negotiating the Treasury Dept has said it will not mint coins to avoid the debt debacle. What a fucking moron. He he doesn’t want to do it fine, but what kind of half wit tells their opponents something like that up front.
Raven
@Napoleon: Go away before I come down there and slap the fucking shit out of you.
Cacti
@Napoleon:
And his DOJ prosecuted Aaron Swartz.
He’s worse than Hitler.
The Dangerman
Dude, it’s hand in the coat, not down the pants.
Corner Stone
Flacco airing it out today.
Studly Pantload, the emotionally unavailable unicorn
@Jon: Unless they’re involved in some sort of dead-girl/live-boy scenario (or Ted Nugent style fuckwittery), I figure I gotta give high-profile entertainers (actors, musicians, athletes, etc.) a bit of slack or it’ll just be me and my Neil Young tracks.
Cacti
@Corner Stone:
“Good things happen when Joe Flacco airs it out.”
-No one
Raven
doh!
billgerat
@cathyx:
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=snorked #1.
Cacti
@efgoldman:
I’d say root like hell for the birds.
Denver has always been a tough venue for the Pats.
Raven
This is MR Big!
Mr Stagger Lee
If the refs are truly screwing the Broncos, I am sure some suits from the NFL will straighten them out, because the networks want a Brady-Manning AFC championship.
Studly Pantload, the emotionally unavailable unicorn
That pass was some fine-assed needle threading.
burnspbesq
@gene108:
Suck my tiny, shriveled, white dick. Wuffies have no shot if Kelly is healthy. And you damn well know it.
Oltrol
@Mr Stagger Lee: I sure don’t, kinda sick of Pats.
Bob In Portland
@billgerat: You mean how they beat the Packers?
cathyx
@billgerat: No wonder I don’t know what it means , it’s in the urban dictionary. I only have a suburban dictionary and it wasn’t in there.
Heliopause
Treasury says they won’t do the Coin Trick. That means the Admin has specifically ruled out both of the end-run solutions around the debt ceiling. Good, I say. I’ve been thinking, if the world economy can be crashed by an abstract concept then maybe it ought to be crashed.
gene108
@burnspbesq:
Know way to know it for sure. I’m sure he’d have helped.
Right now I’m just going to savor your limp-dicked sorrow.
cathyx
@efgoldman: It sounds lowfat at least.
Roger Moore
@efgoldman:
Considering you’re supposed to eat a whole bag, I think that qualifies as a meal, not just a snack.
Cacti
@burnspbesq:
Go to hell carolina! Devils and deacs, stand in line.
Cacti
@Heliopause:
If the Pugs want to shut it down, let them. Let them own their intransigence.
James E. Powell
@Heliopause:
I agree. I prefer a direct and conclusive confrontation on the issue.
Raven
Jacob Hester was an animal at LSU.
Roger Moore
@efgoldman:
The thin air probably isn’t helping, either.
billgerat
@Bob In Portland:
Those weren’t real refs that made that call. Talk to Mr. Goodell about that. The league got what they deserved by locking out the real refs.
Studly Pantload, the emotionally unavailable unicorn
OMFG Comcast an emergency test in the middle of a fourth down play in the middle of the effing day! DIAFF twenty times already, you fawking salted-dick munchers.
Heliopause
@Cacti:
@James E. Powell:
I’m a bit disturbed at how readily you agreed with me to crash the world economy.
RossInDetroit, Rational Subjectivist
@Heliopause:
Kthug is all antsy to know what the WH will do. What’s the plan!1?
I’m sure the GOP would like to know as well, so I’m fine with Obama playing those cards close to the gravy stains.
Steelers Wheel
It’s nice that the refs keep letting Seyton Manning into their conferences so that he can tell them how to make the call.
Southern Beale
Unrelated to football but since there’s no open thread: here’s a 1994 letter from ex-presidents Ford, Carter & Reagan to the House of Representatives calling for an assault weapons ban.
Wonder how the Teanuts are gonna justify this?
Raven
@Southern Beale: Hell, these weenies don’t give a shit about football.
Yutsano
@burnspbesq:
“But hold, give every man his due
And every dog his day.”
– Fourteenth Trump
By the national poet of Australia, AB Paterson.
Raven
@efgoldman: Yea, hate these boring 21 to 21 at the half games. How do you stay awake?
Mr Stagger Lee
@efgoldman: If Seattle and Green Bay wins, that will be a fun one. Are they fashioning goat horns for the Denver kicker? I wonder what motivation they gave the 49ers kicker?(speaking of which)
Roger Moore
@Southern Beale:
History’s greatest monster cancels out anything.
Studly Pantload, the emotionally unavailable unicorn
@efgoldman: 21-up at the half ain’t no snoozefest.
David Koch
I blame obummer for the Broncos’ blown coverage.
Raven
@Mr Stagger Lee: The Falcon is fixin to open a can of whoop ass on the morrow!
Heliopause
@efgoldman:
Does this mean I don’t get my Ryancare Voucher?
huckster
@Cacti: Fuckin’A bubba!
Mr Stagger Lee
Norv Turner will be the Offensive Coordinator for the Cleveland Browns. Well at least he can’t do any damage as a OC or can he?
Studly Pantload, the emotionally unavailable unicorn
@efgoldman:
Huh? In Human, please?
Joel
I’m just glad the game isn’t the total shitfest I was expecting it to be.
Yutsano
@Heliopause: If you’re good you might get a cookie. But no healthcare for you.
David Koch
I blame obummer for not using the bully pulpit to prevent this week’s BCS bowl debacle.
Raven
God what a snooozeeee fest!
HinTN
@Napoleon: The halfwit that wants to put the idiot Rs in a box.
billgerat
@Raven:
Spoke too soon.
Raven
@billgerat: Um, can you say. . .facetious.
Oltrol
@Raven: Its lost here.
Raven
@efgoldman: And Champ Bailey was supposed to own Smith. This, grasshopper, is why they play the game.
Gin & Tonic
@efgoldman: There could be, I guess, if Nancy had any talent.
Raven
Bear fans wouldn’t be under the fucking stadium when they kicked off the second half!
Heliopause
Sometimes a returner makes a good return and sometimes coverage is bad. The punt and kick return touchdowns were the latter. With all due respect to Holliday, running through gaps the size of the Bonneville salt flats isn’t the most difficult thing in the world.
billgerat
@Raven:
You must have meant that the same way about the Falcon and that can of whoop ass.
Raven
@Gin & Tonic: She didn’t need no stinkin talent.
start walkin. . .
Raven
@billgerat: Hell no, look for Julio down by the goal line!!!
Raven
@Heliopause: I have this really great picture of me in front of the big sign at the flats in 66!
Mr Stagger Lee
@Raven: Well the Falcons are due for a playoff win,(and Chris Clemons being out is going to hurt the Legion Of Boom)we will see if it will be this year, and yes many Seahawks fans are talking a little bit more smack than they should.
David Koch
speaking of snooozeeee fest, Zero Dark Boring.
Don’t waste your time, it was a bore. They include every extraneous detail and stretch every scene that it bloats the film to a running time of 2 hours and 36 minutes. Its as if the film had no editor and they left in every frame they filmed. By the 2 hour mark I started to fall asleep and had to actively try to stay awake.
I was puzzled to why it received positive reviews, and wondered what they saw that made me so drowsy. So I went home and looked up Roger Ebert’s review, and he confirmed my view, saying, “There isn’t a whole lot of plot — basically, just that Maya thinks she is right, and she is.” That was it. No plot. Just one long scene after another stapled together, until it sunk of it’s own weight.
Raven
@efgoldman: Bah. The one and only Bear game I got to go to in Soldier was Walter’s last game (lost to Seattle). They got the seat cleaned off but the snow was still in the aisles and under your feet and it was about 10 degrees. We bbq’d before the game and hung in the lot for a couple of hours after. of course, I was NOT sober in those days!
Raven
@Mr Stagger Lee: Hate to see a Dawg get hurt but I’ll make an exception for this game.
Badmoodman
I think things are being evened out by the officials.
Raven
Ellerbee ain’t a bad Dawg neither, wait till Jarvis gets to the bigs.
Bob In Portland
@billgerat: Whatever, as a Niner fan I hate and fear the Seahawks. Hope they don’t wake up in Atlanta.
David Koch
Did Baltimore hire Diebold to do the officiating?
Vanya
Denver and Manning just got jobbed on that “fumble”. Although I’m sure Oakland fans will think the refs were correct this time, that sure looked like the tuck rule.
Raven
@Vanya: I’m not a Denver or Raider fan and the call was correct.
Just Some Fuckhead
can we have a new football open thread. this one sucks
Hail Seyton
Refs really want to determine the outcome of this one.
Hail Seyton
Refs are adamant that they will decide this one.
Villago Delenda Est
@Bob In Portland:
Good. Be afraid. VERY afraid.
Uncle Ebeneezer
Holy shit!! (Flacco just launched a deep TD)
lol chikinburd
Because when you think huge vertical passing attack, you think Joe Flacco.
Raven
Yea, boring as a mofo.
Svensker
Holy moly!
David Koch
Did one of Obummer’s Droooooooones deliver that bomb?
Joel
Manning face!
Legalize
This game is bananas.
Raven
Pussies!
Wag
Crap.
The Dangerman
Rahim Moore, meet unemployment line.
JenJen
Thank you, Gods of Football. WHAT A GAME
Badmoodman
I played DB in college and that may have been the dumbest/worst coverage I’ve ever seen in that situation.
Raven
Secondary play like that NO FUCKING body can bitch about the officials.
salvage
WTF? It’s possible to get a touchdown in 30 seconds.
Now I really want the Ravens win.
Raven
@salvage: They did it right before the half as well.
Bubblegum Tate
Denver has evidently decided it has played enough football for one season and is packing it in.
Goddamn Ravens.
weaselone
Hmmm. Looks like playing too conservatively might actually be what costs the Broncos the game, not the refs.
Suffern ACE
That’s why its great to have a running game, so you can run out the clock. Oh, wait!
Nerull
Seriously? You have Payton Manning, 30 seconds, and two timeouts and you kneel??
Nerull
They did tell the broncos this was the playoffs, right? I don’t think they’re aware.
PsiFighter37
Refs are still busy screwing the Broncos over. And these are supposed to be the best refs from the regular season? What a fucking joke.
Studly Pantload, the emotionally unavailable unicorn
OK, I’m now officially pissed at the officials.
Still doesn’t get Fox off the hook for running out the last 30 of regulation.
Raven
Horseshit. His hand was under the goddamn ball. What fucking loser crybabies.
Raven
There whiny bitches.
Studly Pantload, the emotionally unavailable unicorn
@Raven: I’m talkin’ ’bout the call against Bailey. The catch was a catch, & I didn’t understand where Dierdorf was coming from on expecting that call overturned.
Raven
@Studly Pantload, the emotionally unavailable unicorn: They’ve been wrong all day.
eta And I’m reacting to the torrent of whining about how the Broncos are being screwed. Cole started it.
Raven
Pick 6 Packers!
eric k
if they had called Stokley’s not a catch I think The Denver fans would have burned the place down
Gravenstone
Pick six, see ya rook.
Mr Stagger Lee
Oh btw Sam Shields of the Packers just intercepted a Kapernick
pass for a touchdown
Raven
@Mr Stagger Lee: Little slow on that.
Raven
Denver fans want to bitch it should be about there secondary.
Raven
Englerbert looks rattled
Oltrol
@Raven: That’s for sure.
Mr Stagger Lee
@Raven: Yes the hazards of typing and watching the plus switching channels.
Raven
@Mr Stagger Lee: I got the PIP goin on.
Raven
Rook redeems. . .but lose the antics.
Raven
Well well well
Raven
@efgoldman: More like Jack Armstrong, he didn’t take a knee.
Studly Pantload, the emotionally unavailable unicorn
Double overtime. Looks like I picked the wrong weekend to stop biting the cats’ toenails.
Raven
@efgoldman: UGH
“Colin Kaepernick, the astounding young QB for the 49ers, is now being criticized for having so many tats on his arms — and they’re mostly Bible verses!”
PsiFighter37
That was a real shit pass by Peyton. Something I’d expect Brett Favre to do, not him.
billgerat
Well, there goes my hopes for a Manning-Wilson match up.
Raven
@PsiFighter37: Xin Loi mofos!
FridayNext
RAVENS!!!!!!!!
Mr Stagger Lee
@Raven: Well according to Leviticus that is a no no.
Hill Dweller
@PsiFighter37: How can anyone be surprised when Peyton Manning throws an interception during a pressure situation in the playoffs?
Raven
@billgerat: We’ll take care of the second half of that tomorrow!
Cacti
I knew if anyone could screw this game up it was Peyton Manning. Get the guy out of doors in the playoffs, and he wilts like a flower.
Gator chomp for you Peyton.
Raven
@Mr Stagger Lee: Who’s he play for?
PsiFighter37
@Raven: Not a Broncos fan (had to put up with the stinker that the Jets threw up this season), but I do think the refs had some stinkers.
That said, the loss is all on Peyton…he’s gotta know his limitations at this point in his career. He can’t rocket it on the run like Aaron Rodgers can.
Raven
@PsiFighter37: And the Denver secondary.
Kathy
Awesome Game! Not to complain or anything but we need a new thread for NFC game
Raven
@Kathy: I don’t think anyone around here has the keys.
Joel
I’m rooting for Randy.
Comrade Jake
Never thought I’d see Flacco outplay Manning, but there it was.
Kathy
@Raven: sadly you are right. Anyone want an over/under on the length of this thread? I say over 300.
Comrade Jake
Enjoy the pizza, Peyton.
Eric
Peyton is on the hook for the last pass, but Denver’s secondary should get the blame for the loss, simply inept
Mr Stagger Lee
@Raven: Team YHWH!!!! They have a good head coach in Moses, I think his QB is Joshua. Old School ballers!
Baud
@Comrade Jake:
LOL.
Mr Stagger Lee
@efgoldman: Is there a bit of a smile coming from Eli? Sweet catch by Jones!
Raven
@Mr Stagger Lee: Wasn’t it!
Nerull
TIL yanking someone down by the face mask is incidental contact.
Gravenstone
Much improved over that 3 and out shit, fellas.
Nerull
Today I learned that yanking someone down by the face mask is incidental contact.
PsiFighter37
You can’t muff punts like that in the playoffs…
Gravenstone
Looks like Cobb will be back on punt returns next series…
Mr Stagger Lee
Where will Alex Smith be the QB, next year? At least he has a future unlike Tebow,did you see the diss that the Jags gave Baby Jesus?
Cermet
Once more Cole acts out as a child – this thread should have been titled the Denver-Ravens Play-off but since the steelers lost out to the Ravens, once again Cole becomes a baby.
Dierderp
The officiating was bad enough, but the hyperbole of Dierdorf was the worst crime against humanity ever, even including prehistory, when warlords worse than fifty Hitlers ate babies and gang-raped grandmothers to death every day. I switched it to spanish after he said a near one handed catch by a Raven was “a thing of beauty” .
I guess it means something that everyone who hears him call a game is certain he hates their team, but I wonder why they think we want to hear his pathetic schtick.