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You are here: Home / Sports / Packers/9ers Open Thread

Packers/9ers Open Thread

by John Cole|  January 12, 20139:13 pm| 164 Comments

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The very oblique angle of this camera feed from Fox, not to mention the fact that the lights are so bright it seems like everyone is glowing, is making this game hard to watch.

Wait- can you be very oblique, or is it a binary construct like unique or being pregnant, in which you either is or isn’t?

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  1. 1.

    Oltrol

    January 12, 2013 at 9:17 pm

    I’m glad the coin thing is over.

  2. 2.

    MikeJ

    January 12, 2013 at 9:18 pm

    Technically oblique shouldn’t have a very, but people who give a shit about stuff that that are annoying and should be ignored.

  3. 3.

    Omnes Omnibus

    January 12, 2013 at 9:18 pm

    Troy Aikman annoys me. He did as a player; he does as an announcer.

  4. 4.

    Schlemizel

    January 12, 2013 at 9:19 pm

    Its more than lighting and camera angle that makes that game hard to watch B-{D

    I assume Tim Tebow has 12 disciples & one is an FB friend who is already suggesting Denver’s loss what the result of trading the sainted one away.

  5. 5.

    Baud

    January 12, 2013 at 9:19 pm

    Go team!

  6. 6.

    The Dangerman

    January 12, 2013 at 9:21 pm

    Oblique, obligate, life goes on, bro.

  7. 7.

    Hill Dweller

    January 12, 2013 at 9:21 pm

    There has been a lot of bad special teams play today.

  8. 8.

    Raven

    January 12, 2013 at 9:24 pm

    They have these adjustments on the television where you can modify the brightness, contrast and stuff like that.

  9. 9.

    Kathy

    January 12, 2013 at 9:24 pm

    Glup, not so good Rodgers! I guess I should have taken the under 300 comments too.

  10. 10.

    David Koch

    January 12, 2013 at 9:26 pm

    I blame obama for the bad broadcast. Clearly he could enforce good camera angles via the FCC.

  11. 11.

    BerkeleyMom

    January 12, 2013 at 9:26 pm

    My 18 year old son is at the game–his first ever pro football game. And he’s having a blast. Go Niners.

  12. 12.

    Kathy

    January 12, 2013 at 9:26 pm

    @efgoldman: This whiner bows to your superior expertise.

  13. 13.

    Raven

    January 12, 2013 at 9:27 pm

    @Kathy: You were not the only one asking!

  14. 14.

    Len

    January 12, 2013 at 9:27 pm

    Gotta cheer for San Francisco in this one. No way I can cheer for a team that comes from the state that elected Scott Walker.

    BTW, I cheered for Baltimore earlier. Seems to have worked.

  15. 15.

    Kathy

    January 12, 2013 at 9:28 pm

    Since there will never be a Super Bowl with the Lions, this Michiganer kindof hopes for a Harbaugh/Harbaugh Ann Arbor Pioneer Super Bowl.

  16. 16.

    Schlemizel

    January 12, 2013 at 9:29 pm

    @Raven:

    I have one on my TV for brightness – I have tried turning it all the way up & the stuff on the TV does not get any brighter. Usually I feel brighter after I have turned it off B-{D

  17. 17.

    Mr Stagger Lee

    January 12, 2013 at 9:29 pm

    @Schlemizel: Speaking of Tebow, how about the dissing of Baby Jesus by the hometown Jax Jags?

  18. 18.

    Raven

    January 12, 2013 at 9:30 pm

    Stupid motherfucker.

  19. 19.

    Raven

    January 12, 2013 at 9:31 pm

    @Schlemizel: Ha!

  20. 20.

    Gravenstone

    January 12, 2013 at 9:32 pm

    This game is going to get very chippy before all is said and done.

  21. 21.

    Mr Stagger Lee

    January 12, 2013 at 9:33 pm

    I hope Alex Smith is upgrading his resume.

  22. 22.

    Omnes Omnibus

    January 12, 2013 at 9:33 pm

    I am not pleased at the moment.

  23. 23.

    The Dangerman

    January 12, 2013 at 9:33 pm

    @Hill Dweller:

    There has been a lot of bad special teams play today.

    Topped easily by the biggest brain fart by a safety that I’ve ever seen; truly unbelievable. Baltimore covered the spread already or Vegas woulda gone nuts (well, nuttier).

  24. 24.

    Raven

    January 12, 2013 at 9:33 pm

    @Gravenstone: The Packers are not above another Charles Martin move.

  25. 25.

    Raven

    January 12, 2013 at 9:34 pm

    What a stupid caddy commercial.

  26. 26.

    Jewish Steel

    January 12, 2013 at 9:35 pm

    it seems like everyone is glowing, is making this game hard to watch

    You gotta time those drugs, Cole. Thought you were a Deadhead?

  27. 27.

    BGinCHI

    January 12, 2013 at 9:35 pm

    No network is obliquer than Fox.

    /PhD in English

  28. 28.

    Kathy

    January 12, 2013 at 9:36 pm

    @Raven: Thanks :)

  29. 29.

    Raven

    January 12, 2013 at 9:37 pm

    @BGinCHI: oblique,obliqua,obliquaha, la la la life goes on. . .

  30. 30.

    Suffern ACE

    January 12, 2013 at 9:37 pm

    The ball. Please don’t keep giving it away.

  31. 31.

    different-church-lady

    January 12, 2013 at 9:39 pm

    Peyton throws a pick? At the end of a big game? WHOCOULDANODE?

  32. 32.

    Gravenstone

    January 12, 2013 at 9:40 pm

    There’s a nice Butkus moment, hold the ball carrier up so some defensive prick can light him up.

  33. 33.

    Kathy

    January 12, 2013 at 9:40 pm

    Most awesome tweet ever from pourmecoffee:

    God has forsaken the mountain people for betraying his Tebow!

  34. 34.

    Schlemizel

    January 12, 2013 at 9:41 pm

    I have only been watching between periods of the Gopher/Seawolves game – either team playing defense here?

  35. 35.

    Gravenstone

    January 12, 2013 at 9:41 pm

    Sweet toss to Jones. Let the track meet commence.

  36. 36.

    PsiFighter37

    January 12, 2013 at 9:41 pm

    This SF defense has not been stingy at all in a while. They were one of the best units; now they get torched like a second-rate unit.

  37. 37.

    Omnes Omnibus

    January 12, 2013 at 9:41 pm

    This drive looked better.

  38. 38.

    Suffern ACE

    January 12, 2013 at 9:42 pm

    I am wearing a cheese hat for the first time. They must make them out of insulating foam. My head is really warm. I don’t think that’s from the beer.

  39. 39.

    The prophet Nostradumbass

    January 12, 2013 at 9:42 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: three penalties against the 49ers sure helped.

  40. 40.

    Yutsano

    January 12, 2013 at 9:42 pm

    @Kathy: BWAHAHAHAHAHA!! I wonder how they feel about the sinners in Jacksonville about now.

  41. 41.

    Omnes Omnibus

    January 12, 2013 at 9:43 pm

    @Suffern ACE: I do not have such a hat. I haz an envious.

  42. 42.

    Schlemizel

    January 12, 2013 at 9:43 pm

    @Raven:
    good one!
    Plenty of walruses out there on the field, did Paul die & which one is the eggman? Coo – cooka – choo

  43. 43.

    Raven

    January 12, 2013 at 9:44 pm

    @Schlemizel: I am the eggman

  44. 44.

    Kathy

    January 12, 2013 at 9:44 pm

    @Yutsano: His wrath will be mighty! My guess is double diget losses until God’s Tebow reaches retirement age.

  45. 45.

    Raven

    January 12, 2013 at 9:45 pm

    NO CLIP???

  46. 46.

    Suffern ACE

    January 12, 2013 at 9:46 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: I’m drinking new glarus beer as well. Seriously, if I can find these things 600 miles away, I think you can solve that problem by, say, leaving your apartment…

  47. 47.

    Gravenstone

    January 12, 2013 at 9:46 pm

    Oh dear lord, another fucking Die Hard movie?

  48. 48.

    mclaren

    January 12, 2013 at 9:47 pm

    Oblique seems a continuous quality, not a binary state, so I’d say there are degrees of obliqueness, just as there are degrees of opaqueness.

    Unless I’m mistaken, the term “oblique” originally comes from geometry, where an oblique angle refers to any angle which is not normal to the perpendicular. That covers a wide latitude.

    BTW, if you’re specifically talking about camera angles, the proper term is “Dutch angle.” That’s also vague enough that it has degrees: see the wikipedia article on Dutch angle in cinematography, which defines a Dutch angle as

    The Dutch angle, also known as canted angle, oblique angle or German angle, is a type of camera shot where the camera is tilted off to one side so that the shot is composed with vertical lines at an angle to the side of the frame.

    “Tilted off to the side” admits of enough vagueness that an oblique camera angle can indeed be very oblique. Or, conversely, not very oblique.

  49. 49.

    Schlemizel

    January 12, 2013 at 9:47 pm

    @Suffern ACE:

    Well, over heated brain pans could explain an awful lot about the folks from Wisconsin – a state that actually BRAGS its the birthplace of the Republican Party!

  50. 50.

    Hill Dweller

    January 12, 2013 at 9:47 pm

    @Gravenstone: Die Already

  51. 51.

    Omnes Omnibus

    January 12, 2013 at 9:48 pm

    @Suffern ACE: I prefer to receive such things as gifts. Also too, my Woodson jersey has been serving well so I can’t really complain.

  52. 52.

    Schlemizel

    January 12, 2013 at 9:48 pm

    @Raven:

    Well that explains EVERYTHING!

  53. 53.

    BGinCHI

    January 12, 2013 at 9:49 pm

    @Suffern ACE: Where did you get the New Glarus? You aren’t in WI?

    Something fishy….

  54. 54.

    Mr Stagger Lee

    January 12, 2013 at 9:49 pm

    @different-church-lady: No doubt Eli will comfort him,as he cries crocodile tears.

  55. 55.

    BGinCHI

    January 12, 2013 at 9:50 pm

    @mclaren: Thanks.

    I always get the Dutch angle and German angle mixed up.

  56. 56.

    Suffern ACE

    January 12, 2013 at 9:51 pm

    @BGinCHI: well, you ask your mom for it for christmas, and she goes to the piggly wiggly, and then you drive to pick it up from your sister in Columbus so you’re ready for the playoffs. It helps to have my mom.

  57. 57.

    BGinCHI

    January 12, 2013 at 9:52 pm

    @efgoldman: I don’t get the hate on the Oxford comma. It’s perfectly sensible and useful. It is also incredibly polite and well-dressed.

  58. 58.

    Schlemizel

    January 12, 2013 at 9:54 pm

    @BGinCHI:

    The Dutch angle is to get you high on pot and feed you really good cheese & chocolate.

    The German angle is to claim the Sudetenland sign a deal to neutralize Russia.

    The Dutch angle is much more preferable

  59. 59.

    Omnes Omnibus

    January 12, 2013 at 9:54 pm

    @BGinCHI: Sure, that’s when it is sober. Put a few drinks in it and look out.

  60. 60.

    BGinCHI

    January 12, 2013 at 9:55 pm

    @Suffern ACE: Not being able to get NG outside WI is a serious issue for us in the Chicago area. We cycle up there quite a bit (cyclocross nationals are there this weekend), which allows us to stock up.

    Otherwise we’d probably invade and annex everything up to Dane County.

  61. 61.

    Nerull

    January 12, 2013 at 9:55 pm

    When flushing a QB from the pocket, you should probably have someone in place to tackle him. Just a thought.

  62. 62.

    BGinCHI

    January 12, 2013 at 9:56 pm

    @Schlemizel: Right.

    I figured the German angle was acute. Very acute.

  63. 63.

    Omnes Omnibus

    January 12, 2013 at 9:56 pm

    @BGinCHI: FIB.

  64. 64.

    Gravenstone

    January 12, 2013 at 9:57 pm

    @BGinCHI: As many FIBs come up here over the weekends, you could probably just claim residency.

  65. 65.

    Raven

    January 12, 2013 at 9:57 pm

    @efgoldman: Just looked like a clip. I don’t give a shit who wins this one either.

  66. 66.

    Hill Dweller

    January 12, 2013 at 9:57 pm

    GB can’t get any pressure on Kapernick with their front four. That doesn’t bode well for them.

  67. 67.

    BGinCHI

    January 12, 2013 at 9:58 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: That really smarts.

    Being a regional powerhouse is hard! Sniff.

  68. 68.

    Omnes Omnibus

    January 12, 2013 at 9:58 pm

    @Gravenstone: Of course you know what separates a cheesehead from a dickhead, right?

  69. 69.

    BGinCHI

    January 12, 2013 at 9:59 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: Hey, seriously, get your ass out to the pro race at the nationals tomorrow. Not sure what time, but look it up.

    Epic race.

  70. 70.

    cmorenc

    January 12, 2013 at 9:59 pm

    Bears. OK, so I know they’re out of the playoffs but I like saying that: “Bears”.

  71. 71.

    Gex

    January 12, 2013 at 9:59 pm

    So the GF’s port infection was the bad news for the day. The positive angle is that the Vancomycin went down again and that’s her best shot to fight that. Just thankful to get to night time. Nights always seem to be the easiest part of the day.

    Our checklist for tomorrow is to have a better day than today.

    Nurses and nurse’s assistants are angels. Simply wonderful people. We have had a handful of them stay past their shift to make sure the GF gets the attention they want her to have. This one said she won’t leave until GF gets her third dose of Vanco today or she won’t be able to sleep tonight.

    God love ’em.

  72. 72.

    Yutsano

    January 12, 2013 at 10:00 pm

    @Nerull: Pfft. Where’s the dramatic tension in that?

  73. 73.

    Omnes Omnibus

    January 12, 2013 at 10:03 pm

    @BGinCHI: I’ll see what I can do.

  74. 74.

    Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason

    January 12, 2013 at 10:03 pm

    @Gravenstone: And our new Die Hard movie, like every one made any more, is in two colors: Orange and Cyan. Watch the trailers for awhile.

    OK, sometimes it’s orange and blue.

  75. 75.

    BGinCHI

    January 12, 2013 at 10:04 pm

    @efgoldman: You mentioned in our first session that your father was a quiet man.

    Could you say a bit more about that?

  76. 76.

    Yutsano

    January 12, 2013 at 10:05 pm

    OT: Jeebus on a unicycle this crying wolf shit about SS is gonna get cut by Obama and ZOMG CAT FOOD COMMISSION!! is getting really old. I just got an e-mail that says he’s gonna do it for sure this time! We mean it!

  77. 77.

    BGinCHI

    January 12, 2013 at 10:06 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: You won’t be sorry.

    Bring a cow bell.

  78. 78.

    BGinCHI

    January 12, 2013 at 10:07 pm

    @Yutsano: You need to unsubscribe to that and subscribe to a vodka tonic.

  79. 79.

    Baud

    January 12, 2013 at 10:07 pm

    @Yutsano:

    I just got an e-mail that says he’s gonna do it for sure this time! We mean it!

    Hope it wasn’t family.

  80. 80.

    Schlemizel

    January 12, 2013 at 10:07 pm

    @BGinCHI:

    Poland didn’t think it was so cute!

  81. 81.

    Gravenstone

    January 12, 2013 at 10:08 pm

    Billie Piper on Graham Norton just now. Purrrrr

  82. 82.

    Omnes Omnibus

    January 12, 2013 at 10:08 pm

    @BGinCHI:

    Bring a cow bell.

    Oddly, I don’t just have one lying about the place. You would think that years of skiing in Austria would have caused me to get one, but no.

  83. 83.

    BGinCHI

    January 12, 2013 at 10:08 pm

    @efgoldman: Your rant on the Oxford comma seemed to cover over some deeper anger issues.

    It was meant to be funny but as with so many things I do it just didn’t work.

  84. 84.

    Schlemizel

    January 12, 2013 at 10:09 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    I assume Lake Michigan

  85. 85.

    different-church-lady

    January 12, 2013 at 10:09 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    Of course you know what separates a cheesehead from a dickhead, right?

    Cheese?

  86. 86.

    BGinCHI

    January 12, 2013 at 10:09 pm

    @Schlemizel: That was no angle…it was a straight line.

  87. 87.

    Svensker

    January 12, 2013 at 10:10 pm

    @Gex:

    Good grief. What’s going on? Whatever it is, hope you get through it OK. First step, a good night.

  88. 88.

    BGinCHI

    January 12, 2013 at 10:10 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: Get one on the way. You live in Wisconsin.

  89. 89.

    Omnes Omnibus

    January 12, 2013 at 10:11 pm

    @Schlemizel: The Illinois border.

  90. 90.

    Schlemizel

    January 12, 2013 at 10:15 pm

    @Gex:

    Thinking good thoughts for you guys. Hope things turn around and she is doing better very soon

    Having had more than my fair share of contact with nurses I concur. They are much more important to regular care that the doctors but they get way less respect than they deserve. Worse is that over the last 25-30 years they have been reduced in numbers so that they have much larger work loads while having their pay and benefits cut. This causes poorer care and must be very stressful for the nurses.

  91. 91.

    BGinCHI

    January 12, 2013 at 10:15 pm

    @efgoldman: I would think the semi-colon would be where the big arguments are. There’s some real subjectivity there.

  92. 92.

    Mike the dealer

    January 12, 2013 at 10:16 pm

    @efgoldman:

    45 was the total, hit it at the half, one more score and I win, otherwise I push and keep my money.

  93. 93.

    Jewish Steel

    January 12, 2013 at 10:18 pm

    @BGinCHI:

    It’s a feel thing for me. But if I don’t hold myself in check I will punctuate like it’s the 18th C.

  94. 94.

    Suffern ACE

    January 12, 2013 at 10:20 pm

    Thank god. I don’t think I could take being beaten by Moss.

  95. 95.

    Schlemizel

    January 12, 2013 at 10:20 pm

    @BGinCHI:

    I don’t have many fights with the semicolons at work but a couple of the full strength colons give me headaches.

  96. 96.

    Hill Dweller

    January 12, 2013 at 10:21 pm

    @Gravenstone: Horse face.

  97. 97.

    Bobby Thomson

    January 12, 2013 at 10:24 pm

    @efgoldman:

    My HS AP writing teacher, back in the dark ages of fountain pens and poodle skirts, taught us not to use it. I write business letters for a living, and the troll who does QC insists on it. I taught the whole correspondence group not to use it, then about two years in this clown comes along and says “oh yes, you will.” Pah.

    It’s not the QC guy’s fault your high school teacher was incompetent.

  98. 98.

    Gex

    January 12, 2013 at 10:27 pm

    @Schlemizel: I think we wouldn’t be having this port problem if doctors had any idea what it is like to give care at the nursing level.

    When the cancer stuff started up, the doctor mentioned ports, but really didn’t go into any depth. But why should he? It is no inconvenience to him if it takes up to a dozen pokes to get an IV in or get a blood draw.

    By the time we had a lull in treatments and we did get the port in, it really had no time to heal up before all this hit. The person who talked us into the port was a nurse. It should have been a no-brainer for the GF who has always had trouble getting IVs.

  99. 99.

    Gex

    January 12, 2013 at 10:32 pm

    @Svensker: Hard to sum up briefly, but I’ll try.

    At the end of December she received her first dose of chemo for her second course of chemo treatments. Dosing chemo is tricky, the upshot of which is she was given way too much. The damage to the immune system allowed some nasty infections to set in and landed us in the hospital. It’s been a real nightmare of trying to get the immune system back online, fight the infections with antibacterials/antivirals/antifungals. We had just had a few days where the blood work looked good and some symptoms were abating when we had a slide today from her port getting infected.

    The poor kid is going through hell. Makes the normal level of chemo side effects look like a walk in the park.

  100. 100.

    Suffern ACE

    January 12, 2013 at 10:34 pm

    Moving on to lefse. There has to be luck in lefse.

  101. 101.

    Schlemizel

    January 12, 2013 at 10:34 pm

    @Gex:

    Oh god, thats awful. THe problems that landed me in ER on xmas day were caused by a doctor who didn’t do his job.

    Worse, I decided to go to a different doctor so I had to get my records – I found several significant inaccuracies in them including that I refused treatment when the treatment was something the doctor said I shouldn’t do and he didn’t provide alternatives.

    Hopefully this will be her low point & things will get better from here. I hit bottom a couple of times, once when I thought it couldn’t get any worse & then it did. Hopefully you and some of those nurses can get her through.

  102. 102.

    PsiFighter37

    January 12, 2013 at 10:36 pm

    Jesus Christ, Kaepernick can run. Once he gets moving, he has got some WHEELS.

  103. 103.

    Omnes Omnibus

    January 12, 2013 at 10:36 pm

    @Suffern ACE: Put the lefse down. It is not helping.

  104. 104.

    Suffern ACE

    January 12, 2013 at 10:37 pm

    @Suffern ACE: and now we’re putting it back in the fridge. It is probably Viking food anyway.

  105. 105.

    Schlemizel

    January 12, 2013 at 10:37 pm

    I have to ask again – are either of these two teams playing defense?

  106. 106.

    The prophet Nostradumbass

    January 12, 2013 at 10:37 pm

    Now that was a nice play there by the Niners.

  107. 107.

    Tangent of 90

    January 12, 2013 at 10:38 pm

    Kaepernick seems pretty awesome in this contest

  108. 108.

    Svensker

    January 12, 2013 at 10:38 pm

    @Gex:

    Oh, honey, I’m so sorry. Best wishes for balance and healing and loving helpers in the meantime.

  109. 109.

    Fluke bucket

    January 12, 2013 at 10:39 pm

    @PsiFighter37: no shit. I had no idea he was that fast.

  110. 110.

    Comrade Jake

    January 12, 2013 at 10:39 pm

    Kaepernick is still running.

  111. 111.

    Joel

    January 12, 2013 at 10:39 pm

    We need some Randy Moss touchdowns.

    One clap!

  112. 112.

    Svensker

    January 12, 2013 at 10:41 pm

    @Suffern ACE: :

    and now we’re putting it back in the fridge. It is probably Viking food anyway.

    No. Lefse and lutefisk are why the Vikings left, looking for edible food. (What was lefse made out of before they discovered potatoes?)

  113. 113.

    Mr Stagger Lee

    January 12, 2013 at 10:41 pm

    Maybe the Raiders can use Alex Smith,or the Chiefs, the Jags.
    Or maybe the Jets!

  114. 114.

    Raven

    January 12, 2013 at 10:42 pm

    @Svensker: Ever had Kumla?

  115. 115.

    Jewish Steel

    January 12, 2013 at 10:43 pm

    How tall is Kaepernick? He appears to tower over the other players.

  116. 116.

    Schlemizel

    January 12, 2013 at 10:44 pm

    BTW Gopher mens game ended with a 7-1 win
    Watched the women sweep ND with a 6-3 win, only the second time in 30 some games they have given up 3 goals! They are now 22-0 this season

    Turned it over to the foosball game, looks like the punters are getting a lot of pine time

  117. 117.

    Suffern ACE

    January 12, 2013 at 10:46 pm

    @Jewish Steel: the packers are kind of a short team.

  118. 118.

    The prophet Nostradumbass

    January 12, 2013 at 10:46 pm

    @Jewish Steel: he’s 6’5″, according to the 49ers.

  119. 119.

    Comrade Jake

    January 12, 2013 at 10:48 pm

    @Jewish Steel:

    He’s 6’8″, according to the Packers.

  120. 120.

    Suffern ACE

    January 12, 2013 at 10:49 pm

    @The prophet Nostradumbass: the standard packer size is 6’2″. Which happens to be the height of Rogers.
    http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444812704577605332672610546.html

  121. 121.

    Omnes Omnibus

    January 12, 2013 at 10:51 pm

    This is not going well.

  122. 122.

    PsiFighter37

    January 12, 2013 at 10:51 pm

    49er offense is just punishing the Packer defense now. Think the Packers have to score next possession or we can call it a game.

  123. 123.

    Svensker

    January 12, 2013 at 10:51 pm

    @Raven:

    Ever had Kumla?

    Nope. Had to google it. Doesn’t sound too bad. My knowledge of Swedish food is mostly based on recipes that came over in the 1890s (and since, from Ikea). Growing up in Seattle I had Norwegian friends and they had lefse but never saw kumla.

    It’s funny, one of the favorite old Swedish dishes we had in Seattle was potato sausage (potatoes, meat and spices ground and stuffed into guts, then boiled). I went to a Swedish festival here in Toronto — with real, modern Swedes — and none of them had ever heard of potato sausage. An old fashioned thing, I guess. One of the few Swedish foods, outside the baked stuff, that I really love. May have to buy a meat grinder so I can make my own.

  124. 124.

    Comrade Jake

    January 12, 2013 at 10:51 pm

    Yeah I’d say this Kaepernick kid is a gamer, eh?

  125. 125.

    Schlemizel

    January 12, 2013 at 10:52 pm

    @Svensker:

    Mostly graham or whole wheat flours, the potato probably made the texture more pleasant as well as changing the flavor.

    @Raven:
    Like so many of the potato or flour fillers poor people eat they are proof that butter and sour cream make everything tasty!

    Still its one of the oddities that so many places have their flat breads Lefse, tortilla, Chapati (in India), Pita and a bunch more

  126. 126.

    Schlemizel

    January 12, 2013 at 10:56 pm

    @Svensker:

    Had a Norwegian co-worker who vacationed there one year & visited relatives. He asked them about lutefisk and was told “Hell, we haven’t eaten that crap since we got refrigeration!”

    I think a lot of the foods we think of as ‘from the old country’ really were made not because people enjoyed them but because it was what was required to survive. And folks in the old country don’t miss them at all!

  127. 127.

    Svensker

    January 12, 2013 at 10:56 pm

    Looks like the Harbough bros are a winning combo. I’m bailing. Best to all. Save some sour cream and butter for me for the morning, with good coffee!

  128. 128.

    Jewish Steel

    January 12, 2013 at 10:57 pm

    ‘Sa tall dude.

    Can I also note that it just occurred to me that Joe Buck is about my age and that means I might have to listen to that sanctimonious fuck for the rest of my days.

  129. 129.

    Suffern ACE

    January 12, 2013 at 10:57 pm

    Ok, that’s enough drops for Cobb. Bring back the other fumbler.

  130. 130.

    Gravenstone

    January 12, 2013 at 10:57 pm

    Oh for fucking fucksakes, will you people hold onto the damned ball?

  131. 131.

    Nerull

    January 12, 2013 at 10:58 pm

    We seem to have forgotten how to catch kickoffs.

  132. 132.

    Nerull

    January 12, 2013 at 11:04 pm

    Screw AIG

  133. 133.

    Suffern ACE

    January 12, 2013 at 11:04 pm

    Well, they certainly are playing like the fourth best team in the NFC I thought they were.

  134. 134.

    The prophet Nostradumbass

    January 12, 2013 at 11:04 pm

    @Jewish Steel: Joe Buck is the Joe Lieberman of football announcers.

  135. 135.

    Gravenstone

    January 12, 2013 at 11:11 pm

    /facepalm

    And goodnight Gracie

  136. 136.

    Batocchio

    January 12, 2013 at 11:13 pm

    Fuck, it’s over. WTB defense. Will settle for only a decent run defense.

  137. 137.

    Nerull

    January 12, 2013 at 11:13 pm

    And another year of maybe next year.

  138. 138.

    Suffern ACE

    January 12, 2013 at 11:14 pm

    Well we just needed someone to run the ball, someone to passblock, and someone to stop the run and kicker and we coulda been a contender.

  139. 139.

    PsiFighter37

    January 12, 2013 at 11:15 pm

    There’s the game.

    As someone who doesn’t have a horse in the playoffs, who do the Niners want next week? The Falcons away, or the Seahawks at home? I don’t think you ever hear people say a team would rather face the top seed on the road, but the Hawks absolutely creamed the Niners last time they played. That said, I know that Seattle’s homefield is absolutely deafening and about as intimidating a place to play. Maybe it would be better in Candlestick?

  140. 140.

    Nerull

    January 12, 2013 at 11:15 pm

    @Batocchio: An offensive line that can stop pass rushes would be nice too, so we can stop letting the other team beat the shit out of Rodgers every single game.

  141. 141.

    Omnes Omnibus

    January 12, 2013 at 11:16 pm

    Fuck.

  142. 142.

    Joel

    January 12, 2013 at 11:16 pm

    Good night, Packers. Good night, aggrieved Aaron Rodgers.

  143. 143.

    Joel

    January 12, 2013 at 11:17 pm

    @The prophet Nostradumbass: My hypothesis was that Joe Buck was brought on board to make Tim McCarver look less stupid. Perhaps it was the opposite.

  144. 144.

    Schlemizel

    January 12, 2013 at 11:18 pm

    Ran into Bill Clinton the other day

    I asked him how Hillary’s head was

    He said, “not bad, better than Monica’s actually”

  145. 145.

    Batocchio

    January 12, 2013 at 11:20 pm

    @Nerull:

    Yeah, that too. I knew San Fran would probably be hard to beat, but no reason to help them out this much…

  146. 146.

    Schlemizel

    January 12, 2013 at 11:22 pm

    @efgoldman:

    I just figured after Green Bays performance bad jokes were appropriate

  147. 147.

    The prophet Nostradumbass

    January 12, 2013 at 11:24 pm

    Forty Niners

    Warning: video may be hazardous.

  148. 148.

    Joel

    January 12, 2013 at 11:27 pm

    @The prophet Nostradumbass: The Juice Crew, they are not.

  149. 149.

    Schlemizel

    January 12, 2013 at 11:29 pm

    @efgoldman:

    I really don’t care about the NFL any more, I did at one time.

    I have a cousin who actually played for the Packers. He quit though when they hired some guy named Lombardi. In the cousins own words “He expected us to show up sober for the games!”

  150. 150.

    The prophet Nostradumbass

    January 12, 2013 at 11:30 pm

    That was one terrible pass interference call.

  151. 151.

    Suffern ACE

    January 12, 2013 at 11:30 pm

    Oh shut up with the “the fact that they got this far is impressive” crap. These aren’t the jaguars…

  152. 152.

    Schlemizel

    January 12, 2013 at 11:33 pm

    @Schlemizel:

    But of course at the time they played 8 games a season. He considered himself a truck driver since thats what he did most of the year & how he made most of his money

  153. 153.

    Ron

    January 12, 2013 at 11:40 pm

    Kaepernick sure looked great tonight, although the Packers D helped him look good.

  154. 154.

    Schlemizel

    January 12, 2013 at 11:43 pm

    @efgoldman:

    Maybe it was 12, I thought it was 8 but I was fairly young. Seems like they were done before Christmas. Maybe mid-December?

  155. 155.

    Donut

    January 12, 2013 at 11:44 pm

    Enjoy that, Bears fans, just don’t forget, your shitty team still sucks (more).

    And: Jay Cutler.

    Off to polish off the last of the booze now.

  156. 156.

    Donut

    January 12, 2013 at 11:47 pm

    @Ron:

    The Pack obviously could have played better all around, but come on, give the young man his due. Guy played an excellent game. Got to hand it to him.

  157. 157.

    billgerat

    January 12, 2013 at 11:47 pm

    @efgoldman:

    ‘Bout how I figure it.

  158. 158.

    Schlemizel

    January 12, 2013 at 11:49 pm

    @Donut:

    I think if there was any handing it tonight is was Kupernick Kuperhicekn ah, THAT guy handing GB their asses

  159. 159.

    Ron

    January 12, 2013 at 11:55 pm

    @Donut: He did play very well but the Packers defense looked awful.

  160. 160.

    patrick II

    January 12, 2013 at 11:57 pm

    @Donut:

    and Jay Cutler

    What really hurts about the “Jay Culter” jibe is that I have been thrilled to have him. He is the best quarterback the Bears have had (with the exception of about two McMahon years) since the 1950’s. The Bear passing records he is surpassing are sixty years old.

  161. 161.

    Schlemizel

    January 12, 2013 at 11:58 pm

    @efgoldman:

    Yeah, I remember the first Stuper Bowl but no NFL championship game before that. I don’t think many people paid a lot of attention around me about the NFL then. I can remember the Rose Bowl always being a big deal. Family always came over on NY day & watched several bowl games but the only one that really mattered was the Rose. Probably because we were in a Big 10 city.

    Even after the Vikings arrived I still don’t think they were as big a deal as college ball until they won the NFL championship game in 69. That and the total irrelevancy of the Gopher football program caused a shift in interest

  162. 162.

    Jewish Steel

    January 13, 2013 at 12:07 am

    @The prophet Nostradumbass: Well put.

  163. 163.

    Donut

    January 13, 2013 at 12:13 am

    @patrick II:

    I lashed out in pain. It was a low blow. I kinda feel bad I did that.

    Kinda.

  164. 164.

    kindness

    January 13, 2013 at 12:51 am

    Now that game was fun. The morning was too. Tomorrow I’m more interested in the New England game. I don’t think I’d like to see a Harbawl superbowl.

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