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NFL Playoffs Open Thread

by Betty Cracker|  January 4, 20147:56 pm| 193 Comments

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KC vs Indy game is pretty exciting! I don’t really care who wins, but I’m half rooting for Indy now just because of their incredible comeback from 28 points down.

I do care who wins the next one: Nawlins Saints, baby! Please feel free to discuss football or whatever.

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  1. 1.

    Baud

    January 4, 2014 at 7:57 pm

    Who dat!

  2. 2.

    Violet

    January 4, 2014 at 7:58 pm

    Just turned on the TV and saw the score for the Indianapolis v Kansas City game. Wow.

  3. 3.

    raven

    January 4, 2014 at 7:59 pm

    ha

  4. 4.

    raven

    January 4, 2014 at 8:00 pm

    @Violet: Even more wow when you know how far down the Colts were. And if you haven’t seen Luck’s td on the fumble. . . you will!

  5. 5.

    JPL

    January 4, 2014 at 8:02 pm

    @raven: The first quarter sucked for the colts.. just wow..
    not over until it’s over though..

  6. 6.

    Baud

    January 4, 2014 at 8:02 pm

    Major fail by KC defense.

  7. 7.

    Corner Stone

    January 4, 2014 at 8:02 pm

    Timely!

  8. 8.

    JPL

    January 4, 2014 at 8:04 pm

    Just wow

  9. 9.

    JPL

    January 4, 2014 at 8:04 pm

    double post .. but Bqhatevwr

  10. 10.

    Violet

    January 4, 2014 at 8:04 pm

    @raven: I heard the announcers talking about it. I’m sure I’ll see the replay on all those key plays.

  11. 11.

    Heliopause

    January 4, 2014 at 8:04 pm

    Congratulations, Coach Reid, you win the Idiotic Clock Management of the Year award.

  12. 12.

    Corner Stone

    January 4, 2014 at 8:04 pm

    Wolfman Jack for the win!

  13. 13.

    Suffern ACE

    January 4, 2014 at 8:04 pm

    Neither of these announcers appears to have watched a football highlight reel since week 3.

  14. 14.

    raven

    January 4, 2014 at 8:05 pm

    @Violet: Last thing they showed just now.

  15. 15.

    PsiFighter37

    January 4, 2014 at 8:05 pm

    Unreal…Indianapolis has no business winning this game. When you have the ball in this era of ludicrous offense, you have to keep scoring points.

    Mainly feel bad for Alex Smith, because he didn’t do anything to lose this game. That said, Andrew Luck…even though he was off, proving how dangerous he is. Hard to believe they basically got Peyton and Luck for 3 decades. I wish my Jets could have that kind of quarterback situation.

  16. 16.

    Violet

    January 4, 2014 at 8:06 pm

    @raven: Yep, just saw it. Looked like rugby.

  17. 17.

    RareSanity

    January 4, 2014 at 8:09 pm

    As a Falcon fan, I can only say that I do not like being put in the position of rooting for the Philadelphia Eagles…but since they are playing the Saints, the opponent of my rival is my friend.

    I hope the Iggles put up 100 points on the Saints and then get their asses handed to them next week.

  18. 18.

    tybee

    January 4, 2014 at 8:09 pm

    fuck the taints.

    and the iggles.

    i’m rooting for injuries.

  19. 19.

    jharp

    January 4, 2014 at 8:11 pm

    To any Kansas City Chiefs fans. My condolences and what an amazing game.

    Big Colts fan. Live close to Lucas Oil.

    But have long liked the Chiefs. Back to the Len Dawson, Ed Podolak, Jan Stenereud and days. And was it Charlie Taylor?

    Damn. Should have taken my son to the game. Less than $100 per ticket. Last one I passed on was the Patriots at Colts when the Colts made another amazing comeback.

    And likely would have gone but hunkering down for the blizzard and had to send my sone back to college as it is supposed to get really bad. Like 12 inches of snow and minus 22

  20. 20.

    Yatsuno

    January 4, 2014 at 8:12 pm

    I’m mostly indifferent, but a friend is an Iggles fan so I’m leaning that way slightly.

    Walked the length of a hallway today. And not a small one.

  21. 21.

    drkrick

    January 4, 2014 at 8:13 pm

    @Heliopause: Didn’t he retire that trophy several years ago?

  22. 22.

    Violet

    January 4, 2014 at 8:13 pm

    @Yatsuno: Congrats! Glad to keep reading of your daily improvement. Sounds like things are going pretty well.

  23. 23.

    RareSanity

    January 4, 2014 at 8:15 pm

    @Yatsuno:

    Good for you..you’re on your way!

    I’ve been mostly absent from here for the past 2 weeks, but I’ve read through some old threads…good to hear your progressing well on your recovery.

  24. 24.

    The Sailor

    January 4, 2014 at 8:15 pm

    Oh, Colts? I’m crazy on you!
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZuW6BH_Vak

  25. 25.

    drkrick

    January 4, 2014 at 8:16 pm

    Pp@jharp: Otis Taylor was the old Chiefs receiver. That team was a joy to watch. And congrats Yatsuno.

  26. 26.

    raven

    January 4, 2014 at 8:16 pm

    @RareSanity: Things are tough on the Flats.

  27. 27.

    Vance Maverick

    January 4, 2014 at 8:16 pm

    Why is the standard “French” transliteration “Geaux”? This would be pronounced Zho. “Gau”, “Gaux”, even “Gueau(x)” might work. Is it that they don’t look French enough?

  28. 28.

    Violet

    January 4, 2014 at 8:16 pm

    They’re showing the starting lineup for the Saints. Who’s this Jed Collins? He’s cute!

  29. 29.

    RareSanity

    January 4, 2014 at 8:18 pm

    @raven:

    You know I’ve been sour on Paul Johnson for quite some time now.

    I wish he’d just leave.

  30. 30.

    raven

    January 4, 2014 at 8:18 pm

    @RareSanity: Did you see the flurry yesterday where it looked like he was wanting out?

  31. 31.

    Violet

    January 4, 2014 at 8:19 pm

    The announcers are saying Drew Brees under-threw the pass. I bet his arm is cold.

  32. 32.

    The Sailor

    January 4, 2014 at 8:19 pm

    @Yatsuno:

    Walked the length of a hallway today. And not a small one.

    One small step, one giant bound.
    Congarats!

  33. 33.

    RareSanity

    January 4, 2014 at 8:21 pm

    @raven:

    Yep.

    I was ecstatic…until he issued a statement adamantly denying it.

    There’s no way he leaves without getting fired, or not having his contract renewed. He knows he’ll never get another job at Div 1-A school.

  34. 34.

    raven

    January 4, 2014 at 8:23 pm

    @RareSanity: Statesboro calls. . .

  35. 35.

    indycat32

    January 4, 2014 at 8:24 pm

    @jharp: I was at the Pats game. I think I spent the entire second half with my eyes closed and my fingers in my ears.

  36. 36.

    Betty Cracker

    January 4, 2014 at 8:24 pm

    @Violet: He sure is!

  37. 37.

    raven

    January 4, 2014 at 8:25 pm

    @RareSanity: Here’s a nice tweet war with GT associate and ESPN.

  38. 38.

    Heliopause

    January 4, 2014 at 8:26 pm

    @drkrick:

    Mike Holmgren was similar. Brilliant coach in many ways but not clue one about managing the clock.

  39. 39.

    RareSanity

    January 4, 2014 at 8:27 pm

    @raven:

    That’s the kind place he needs to be in charge of.

    If Duke and Stanford can compete, there’s no reason Georgia Tech can’t do it as well. We’re talking about a program that won a National Championship in 1991.

  40. 40.

    raven

    January 4, 2014 at 8:27 pm

    @RareSanity: Split :)

  41. 41.

    Steeplejack

    January 4, 2014 at 8:27 pm

    @Yatsuno:

    Keep on keepin’ on. You get released on Monday or Tuesday, right?

  42. 42.

    MomSense

    January 4, 2014 at 8:28 pm

    @Yatsuno:

    Yes!! Congratulations!

  43. 43.

    Violet

    January 4, 2014 at 8:29 pm

    @Betty Cracker: What’s his story? The announcer said he went to Washington State. Never heard of him before.

  44. 44.

    FlipYrWhig

    January 4, 2014 at 8:29 pm

    @PsiFighter37: that intentional grounding call wrecked the entire endgame for KC. I still don’t know how you call a timeout immediately following the 2-minute warning. But that’s Andy Reid for you. Inexplicable final moments.

  45. 45.

    Liberty60

    January 4, 2014 at 8:30 pm

    Non sports related, but did anyone else catch this article in Rolling Stone
    http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/five-economic-reforms-millennials-should-be-fighting-for-20140103

    I’m not sold on all of them, of think they are practical, politically of otherwise- but it is good to see a aggressive push on liberal ideas, rather than a defensive crouch.

    What other aggressive/progressive ideas is anyone hearing about?

  46. 46.

    RareSanity

    January 4, 2014 at 8:30 pm

    @raven:

    Ha…that was awesome!

    That exchange makes me think that there may have been more truth to Johnson wanting to leave than his statement would have us to believe.

    At least I can hope…

  47. 47.

    raven

    January 4, 2014 at 8:30 pm

    @Violet: Well traveled long snapper. Free agent.

  48. 48.

    RareSanity

    January 4, 2014 at 8:31 pm

    @raven:

    EXTRA DOWN!!! EXTRA DOWN!!!

    :-)

  49. 49.

    raven

    January 4, 2014 at 8:31 pm

    @RareSanity: He seemed a little edgy.

  50. 50.

    Violet

    January 4, 2014 at 8:33 pm

    @Liberty60: Interesting article. This was my favorite part:

    You know what else really blows? Wall Street.

    Yeah, baby. Glad to see it in a mainstream publication.

  51. 51.

    BruceFromOhio

    January 4, 2014 at 8:33 pm

    @raven: that was something else. Luck definitely maintained focus throughout.

  52. 52.

    raven

    January 4, 2014 at 8:34 pm

    @RareSanity: I was in Tampa for the Illini-Clemson bowl game that day. People can bitch all they want about the bowls being spread out too much but driving out of Florida after all those games played at one time was a stone bummer!

  53. 53.

    raven

    January 4, 2014 at 8:34 pm

    @RareSanity: I was in Tampa for the Illini-Clemson bowl game that day. People can bitch all they want about the bowls being spread out too much but driving out of Florida after all those games played at one time was a stone bummer!

  54. 54.

    Violet

    January 4, 2014 at 8:34 pm

    @raven: And cute!

  55. 55.

    Villago Delenda Est

    January 4, 2014 at 8:34 pm

    @Yatsuno:

    Gratz on the stroll.

    Yes, I’m utterly indifferent about these games. Just determining who the Seachickens will eventually peck to death.

  56. 56.

    CaseyL

    January 4, 2014 at 8:35 pm

    @Yatsuno: You are bookin’, babe! Major congrats!

    Funny thing about the Colts-Chiefs game. I’d just come back from hiking and checked with my neighbors to see if they were watching. No, they said, the Colts were getting blown out, so they turned off the game. They went out to dinner, I tuned in and watched the Colts win it. Gonna rag my nabes when they get back from dinner, heh!

    Saints-Eagles: No contest; my Seahawks know how to dismantle the Saints, but have never played the Eagles. So I’ll root for the Saints.

  57. 57.

    GHayduke (formerly lojasmo)

    January 4, 2014 at 8:35 pm

    @Yatsuno:

    Don’t give a shit about football.

    Way OT: I always find it funny that I drive, by far, the worst car in our household.

    Union thug wife just got a lightly used Chevy Cruze. Son drives her former car (2006 vue) I picked up a 1996 Subaru Legacy in Seattle (thanks, Yats, for the ride) and drove it home this summer. I’ve put about $1500 into it to make it sturdy and sound (It cost $2225…basically the price of a downpayment on a new car).

    Don’t get me wrong…I love the damn thing, and It does exactly what I want it to (gets through slippery and deep snow like a champ, while still allowing it to be tail-happy when I want it to) but i just am repeatedly amused that I’m driving a shit car.

    This summer I’m putting coilovers and a beefy RSB on the thing. Should be a real hoot.

    Hope I don’t end up in a farmer’s field.

  58. 58.

    RareSanity

    January 4, 2014 at 8:37 pm

    @raven:

    Oh man, I can only imagine how much that sucked…75 can only handle so many cars.

  59. 59.

    raven

    January 4, 2014 at 8:37 pm

    THAT was funny!

  60. 60.

    gwangung

    January 4, 2014 at 8:37 pm

    @GHayduke (formerly lojasmo): OK. That last sentence won you the internets.

  61. 61.

    Baud

    January 4, 2014 at 8:37 pm

    Thanks for the 20 yards, Philly.

  62. 62.

    Violet

    January 4, 2014 at 8:38 pm

    @GHayduke (formerly lojasmo): Just don’t loan your car to your frat brothers to go out for cookies and cigarettes. In West Virginia. You should be okay.

  63. 63.

    ranchandsyrup

    January 4, 2014 at 8:40 pm

    My wife’s post on New Year’s resolutions

    Played golf today for the first time in a year. Good times and laughs. Played better than I expected.

  64. 64.

    raven

    January 4, 2014 at 8:40 pm

    @RareSanity:
    As I look at it there were four that day/night.

  65. 65.

    CaseyL

    January 4, 2014 at 8:42 pm

    ….oops. Philly just intercepted Brees.

  66. 66.

    RareSanity

    January 4, 2014 at 8:43 pm

    Awww yes!

    Let the interceptions flow…

  67. 67.

    jharp

    January 4, 2014 at 8:44 pm

    @drkrick:

    Yep. Otis Taylor. Thanks. He was one of my favorite players. And I remember a great Chiefs/Raiders rivalry back in those days.

    And Jan Stenereud was the only soccer style kicker back then, right?

  68. 68.

    Gravenstone

    January 4, 2014 at 8:45 pm

    Seeing a trial balloon that Steven Seagal might make a run for AZ governor. As if that poor state wasn’t already a mess.

  69. 69.

    Violet

    January 4, 2014 at 8:47 pm

    @Gravenstone: He’s all in with Arpaio. Crazy wingnut, I guess.

  70. 70.

    jharp

    January 4, 2014 at 8:48 pm

    @indycat32:

    I passed on that one and will never forget it.

    Tix were $300 each and my business was shaky at the time.

    It has been quite a run for the Colts the past decade. (Ex Browns fan who relocated circa 1998).

  71. 71.

    raven

    January 4, 2014 at 8:49 pm

    @jharp: Don’t forget Willie Lanier and Bobby Bell.

  72. 72.

    Gravenstone

    January 4, 2014 at 8:52 pm

    @Violet: Fortunately Arpaio should be shuffling off the mortal coil some day soon. Being 80+ and an inveterate asshole has to be pushing him close to the edge.

  73. 73.

    Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)

    January 4, 2014 at 8:55 pm

    @jharp:

    And Jan Stenereud was the only soccer style kicker back then, right?

    Nope. Pete Gogolak was the first soccer-style kicker. He preceded Stenerud by three years. Pete’s brother, Charlie, was kicking a year before Stenerud went pro, too.

  74. 74.

    Yatsuno

    January 4, 2014 at 8:56 pm

    @Gravenstone: Another situation where the cannoli is letting me down.

    And Philly shanks the kick!

  75. 75.

    Suffern ACE

    January 4, 2014 at 8:57 pm

    @Gravenstone: he’s older than john McCain.

    Sadly, that police force is probably 3 generations deep in Arapio successors. As long as someone on that force is willing to go make the extra effort to falsely arrest politicians, I don’t see anyone controlling it.

  76. 76.

    indycat32

    January 4, 2014 at 8:58 pm

    @jharp: I had season tickets that year, but gave them up after the first year at Lucas Oil. Going to the game alone isn’t nearly as much fun as watching on TV with family and friends.

  77. 77.

    jharp

    January 4, 2014 at 8:59 pm

    @Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again):

    Memory is failing me. I was thinking Gogolak was a running back.

  78. 78.

    Baud

    January 4, 2014 at 9:04 pm

    Dammit, Jimmy.

  79. 79.

    raven

    January 4, 2014 at 9:06 pm

    @Baud: I think he’s down.

  80. 80.

    Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)

    January 4, 2014 at 9:06 pm

    @jharp:

    He was a bit…small…to play anything but placekicker. :D

    I just checked, and found that Garo Yepremian became a pro in 1966, also a year ahead of Stenerud.

    I’ll say, though, that Stenerud was the best of that early group of sidewinders- IMO, anyway.

  81. 81.

    Baud

    January 4, 2014 at 9:07 pm

    @raven:
    Yeah, but is it indisputable?

    Yes!

  82. 82.

    raven

    January 4, 2014 at 9:08 pm

    @Baud: yup,

    my duck gumbo brought luck

  83. 83.

    jharp

    January 4, 2014 at 9:08 pm

    @indycat32:

    Not to mention that season tix for a family of four in the club seats are now $1,000 a game.

  84. 84.

    Betty Cracker

    January 4, 2014 at 9:13 pm

    @raven: I’ve had a lot of different types of gumbo, but never duck!

  85. 85.

    Baud

    January 4, 2014 at 9:16 pm

    @raven:

    Keep eating.

  86. 86.

    Yatsuno

    January 4, 2014 at 9:18 pm

    @Betty Cracker: Anything that walks, crawls, swims, or flies, can go into gumbo. Alligator is quite tasty.

  87. 87.

    raven

    January 4, 2014 at 9:19 pm

    @Betty Cracker: This was from John Besh’s cookbook. It’s time consuming to get a good percentage of the fat off but it seemed to be worth it.

  88. 88.

    Baud

    January 4, 2014 at 9:21 pm

    What the hell, Drew!

  89. 89.

    raven

    January 4, 2014 at 9:21 pm

    The Besh Gumbo Ever

    Warning, it’s from Garden and Gun.

  90. 90.

    Schlemizel

    January 4, 2014 at 9:25 pm

    There are a small handful of NFL teams I care about – I cheer for their humiliation as often as possible. KC is one of those teams.

    The tears . . . they taste like honey . . . my god they are sweet

  91. 91.

    Betty Cracker

    January 4, 2014 at 9:27 pm

    @Yatsuno: Never had gator gumbo, but my stepmother makes awesome fried gator.

  92. 92.

    raven

    January 4, 2014 at 9:29 pm

    @Yatsuno :There is also the lenten Gumbo z’herbes.

  93. 93.

    Schlemizel

    January 4, 2014 at 9:30 pm

    BTW – will the Taints cause any life altering injuries this playoff season or will the publicity over their past behavior inhibit them from really crippling players?

  94. 94.

    Baud

    January 4, 2014 at 9:30 pm

    Goddammit

  95. 95.

    raven

    January 4, 2014 at 9:32 pm

    @Schlemizel: oh quit

  96. 96.

    Yatsuno

    January 4, 2014 at 9:33 pm

    @Betty Cracker: Loves me some fried gator too. Amazingly enough, we could get that in my little cow town where I went to college. Gator is tasty. Different, but tasty.

  97. 97.

    Omnes Omnibus

    January 4, 2014 at 9:35 pm

    @raven: From the guy who still complains about Charles Martin? The Saints were doing this quite recently.

    ETA: And on the Saints part, it was team policy.

  98. 98.

    Baud

    January 4, 2014 at 9:38 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    They paid their debt to society.

  99. 99.

    Omnes Omnibus

    January 4, 2014 at 9:40 pm

    @Baud: I don’t fault Vikes fans for being upset. They don’t get many shots at the Super Bowl.

    ETA: I do, however, fault Vikes fans for being Vikes fans.

  100. 100.

    indycat32

    January 4, 2014 at 9:42 pm

    @jharp: $640 for one season ticket and that was nowhere near club seats. That was two car payments and I just couldn’t see it. Jim Irsay has enough money, he didn’t need mine too.

  101. 101.

    Baud

    January 4, 2014 at 9:42 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    Few teams do.

  102. 102.

    Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)

    January 4, 2014 at 9:42 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    From the guy who still complains about Charles Martin?

    Oh, good burn!

  103. 103.

    Violet

    January 4, 2014 at 9:43 pm

    I had to step away from the TV for awhile. Just got back. This is a really close game from looking at the score. Is it playing that way?

  104. 104.

    Baud

    January 4, 2014 at 9:44 pm

    @Violet:

    Ds are playing well. Saints hurt by two turnovers.

  105. 105.

    Schlemizel

    January 4, 2014 at 9:45 pm

    @Baud:

    Tell that to the guys who will have physical problems the rest of their lives because they were targeted. The game eats men alive without goons going out of their way to cause damage.

  106. 106.

    raven

    January 4, 2014 at 9:45 pm

    @Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again): Yea, fuck both of you.

  107. 107.

    Omnes Omnibus

    January 4, 2014 at 9:46 pm

    @Baud: Exactly, that is why when they got close and the Saints bounty policy was a part of them losing in the NFC Championship game, I don’t fault Vikes fans for carrying a grudge for a while.

  108. 108.

    trollhattan

    January 4, 2014 at 9:47 pm

    @raven:

    Garden and Gun?! Quite the concept, reminds me of the gun and doll show that used to come here annually.

  109. 109.

    Baud

    January 4, 2014 at 9:49 pm

    @Schlemizel:

    Like who? Last I saw, Farve had moved on. Who else are you thinking of?

  110. 110.

    Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)

    January 4, 2014 at 9:50 pm

    @raven:

    My, my, this reaction over a game that your Bears won! I’d just hate to see what wrath would emerge if the subject of a certain touchdown pass thrown by Don Majkowski was raised.

  111. 111.

    Baud

    January 4, 2014 at 9:51 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    I don’t fault them. But I question how things would have been different if Saints had used a permitted incentive program.

  112. 112.

    raven

    January 4, 2014 at 9:51 pm

    Most of the players who were the targets of questionable hits by the Saints, including Brett Favre and Kurt Warner, claimed the bounties were merely part of the game.[7] However, several former players interviewed by Sports Illustrated said that while payments for good hits and sacks were indeed considered part of the game, bounties for intentionally injuring opponents violated an unwritten code.
    However on July 26, 2012, Vilma and seven witnesses from the Saints testified in front of a federal judge in New Orleans that Goodell got his facts wrong, and there was no bounty scheme. [8] At least one legal expert agreed that Goodell had overstepped his authority. [9]

  113. 113.

    Omnes Omnibus

    January 4, 2014 at 9:51 pm

    @Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again): Chester Marcol’s TD in 1980.

  114. 114.

    Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)

    January 4, 2014 at 9:53 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    Or last Sunday.

  115. 115.

    Omnes Omnibus

    January 4, 2014 at 9:53 pm

    @Baud: Hell, I was rooting for the Saints in that game. Fuck the Vikings.

    @Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again): God, it was great to see both Rodgers and Cobb back on the field and healthy.

  116. 116.

    Baud

    January 4, 2014 at 9:54 pm

    @raven:

    I remember the bounty investigation became a bit of a clusterfuck after the coaches were suspended. Not sure exactly how it all shook out.

  117. 117.

    Betty Cracker

    January 4, 2014 at 9:56 pm

    @Yatsuno: It’s good if it’s made right. In the hands of an unskilled cook, it’s like fishy pencil erasers.

  118. 118.

    Baud

    January 4, 2014 at 9:56 pm

    Saints D playing their best game all year. Hope the offense can hold up their end.

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    Omnes Omnibus

    January 4, 2014 at 9:57 pm

    @Betty Cracker:

    it’s like fishy pencil erasers.

    I’ve had frog legs like that. Except they were garlicky too.

  120. 120.

    raven

    January 4, 2014 at 9:58 pm

    @Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again): Oh yea like fuck you is some big ass reaction.

  121. 121.

    kindness

    January 4, 2014 at 9:58 pm

    I can’t believe the Chiefs lost. They owned the Eagles the first half. I want the Saints to win this one because I want them to face Seattle next week.

    Go Niners!

  122. 122.

    Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)

    January 4, 2014 at 10:00 pm

    @raven:

    I heard somewhere that there’s a bonus clause in Cutler’s new contract that gives him a pretty new training bra.

  123. 123.

    Baud

    January 4, 2014 at 10:01 pm

    TD!

  124. 124.

    raven

    January 4, 2014 at 10:01 pm

    @Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again): Rogers won’t like that.

  125. 125.

    Betty Cracker

    January 4, 2014 at 10:02 pm

    @Baud: W00t!

  126. 126.

    Betty Cracker

    January 4, 2014 at 10:03 pm

    @Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again): Tee-hee!

  127. 127.

    Baud

    January 4, 2014 at 10:03 pm

    @Betty Cracker:

    It seemed to come out of nowhere. Al Michaels seemed surprised.

  128. 128.

    Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)

    January 4, 2014 at 10:05 pm

    @raven:

    I’ll take a gay quarterback who gets the job done any day over one who leaves a game because he broke one of his Lee Press-On Nails.

  129. 129.

    raven

    January 4, 2014 at 10:06 pm

    @Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again): You’ll take him alright.

  130. 130.

    El Caganer

    January 4, 2014 at 10:08 pm

    @kindness: Well,shit, it was easy for them to own the Eagles. Considering that they were playing the Colts.

  131. 131.

    Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)

    January 4, 2014 at 10:09 pm

    @raven:

    Maybe I will. Is it wrong?

    You know I kid. I reserve the real spiteful stuff for the Vikings and their fans, as should we all.

  132. 132.

    raven

    January 4, 2014 at 10:10 pm

    @Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again): Don’t mean nuthin. Two mediocre teams played last week and one gave the game to the other.

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    Spike

    January 4, 2014 at 10:13 pm

    How many more years will it take Andy Reid to figure out that 2nd half timeouts are worth more than 5 yards?

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    Omnes Omnibus

    January 4, 2014 at 10:15 pm

    @Spike: Twelve?

  135. 135.

    ? Martin

    January 4, 2014 at 10:16 pm

    We’ll be watching SF at Green Bay tomorrow. Neighbor is a former 49er cheerleader and at this moment she’s thankful to no longer be one. Supposed to be high of 3, low of -19, and a moderate chance of snow.

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    Yatsuno

    January 4, 2014 at 10:17 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: Being generous there, Yer Honour. I was thinking the twelfth of never.

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    Omnes Omnibus

    January 4, 2014 at 10:17 pm

    @? Martin: Ice Bowl II.

  138. 138.

    ? Martin

    January 4, 2014 at 10:19 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: Yeah, stupid to be playing when it’s that cold, but I suppose Green Bay would want it no other way.

  139. 139.

    raven

    January 4, 2014 at 10:19 pm

    @? Martin: NFL cheerleaders don’t travel.

  140. 140.

    Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)

    January 4, 2014 at 10:19 pm

    @raven:

    I don’t know if either team is mediocre- I think they both suffered through some pretty key injuries. Before Rodgers went down, I thought the Packers looked good to roll through with only one more loss (in Detroit on Thanksgiving). I thought the Bears had the stuff to make it as a wildcard team, but then Peanut Tillman went down.

  141. 141.

    Baud

    January 4, 2014 at 10:20 pm

    I like this new power game the Saints are featuring.

    ETA: Would still like another TD. D has given up some last minute touchdowns this year. Don’t want to put them in that position again.

  142. 142.

    raven

    January 4, 2014 at 10:21 pm

    @Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again): I knew Cobb would kill the Bears and it goes without saying Rogers is the best there is.

  143. 143.

    Omnes Omnibus

    January 4, 2014 at 10:22 pm

    @Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again): I agree.

  144. 144.

    Baud

    January 4, 2014 at 10:24 pm

    Dumb ass commercial.

  145. 145.

    raven

    January 4, 2014 at 10:25 pm

    @Baud: The Fatty Fisherman Face one is great.

  146. 146.

    Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)

    January 4, 2014 at 10:26 pm

    @raven:

    That wasn’t Cobb, that was John Kuhn getting a chip block on Julius Peppers. He doesn’t get that block, then Rodgers is sacked before Cobb clears Conte.

  147. 147.

    Betty Cracker

    January 4, 2014 at 10:27 pm

    Oh man, what a hit! I hope Lewis is okay…

  148. 148.

    Omnes Omnibus

    January 4, 2014 at 10:29 pm

    @efgoldman: Damn right. I used to play in a rugby tournament in Green Bay in January. My team played in regular kit. Shirt, shorts, and socks. Damn, that was cold.

  149. 149.

    dedc79

    January 4, 2014 at 10:31 pm

    How about we collectively boycott watching NFL games until they stop going to commercial both before and after kickoffs?

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    Yatsuno

    January 4, 2014 at 10:32 pm

    @Betty Cracker: They were yapping about concussions and I was wincing. I hope not.

    And the Iggles just made it interesting…

  151. 151.

    Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)

    January 4, 2014 at 10:38 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    That’s nuts. Neither football nor its English parent were meant to be played in the weather typical of the northern tier of the U.S. in January or February. Hell, the weather for the Ice Bowl was atypical for Green Bay on New Years Eve. The schedule has been getting stretched in the wrong direction.

  152. 152.

    Omnes Omnibus

    January 4, 2014 at 10:40 pm

    @efgoldman: No, I didn’t like it. I was a pretty boy skill player. My hands would be so cold that on the few occasions that the ball did get out to me I had to try to catch it with my forearms and chest. Also, I blocked a “punt” during one game in the tournament one year. It was like getting hit in the face with a rock – blood everywhere from my lips and nose. That was actually kind of cool – later, at the party.

  153. 153.

    Gin & Tonic

    January 4, 2014 at 10:40 pm

    @efgoldman: Like Yatsuno, I was always in the band

    Although I’d imagine at -19 or whatever, keeping, say, a clarinet from freezing to your lips would be quite a chore.

  154. 154.

    raven

    January 4, 2014 at 10:42 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: Ever play the UGA RFC Blind Pigs?

  155. 155.

    jharp

    January 4, 2014 at 10:46 pm

    @indycat32:

    Very fun time to be a Colts fan. My family and I have really enjoyed the Colts since moving to central Indiana in the late 90’s.

    And my son has had had Peyton Manning sign a football and his “game day jersey” football card.

  156. 156.

    Yatsuno

    January 4, 2014 at 10:48 pm

    @efgoldman: Heh. Wuss. Freeze your damn lips to the mouthpiece like a real brass player.

    @Gin & Tonic:

    Although I’d imagine at -19 or whatever, keeping, say, a clarinet from freezing to your lips would be quite a chore.

    Clarinets have it easy. The only thing that could really freeze is the reed, and if that is constantly in your mouth it’ll be fine. Brass players though, we got it rough. My mouthpiece froze to my face once. That was NOT fun.

  157. 157.

    Omnes Omnibus

    January 4, 2014 at 10:48 pm

    @raven: Nope. I played in college (and as a small D-III we weren’t ever going against a school like that) and at Ft Sill and in Germany while in the Army.

  158. 158.

    Betty Cracker

    January 4, 2014 at 10:48 pm

    Need a TD now, Mr. Brees.

  159. 159.

    Baud

    January 4, 2014 at 10:51 pm

    TD, not a field goal, please.

  160. 160.

    raven

    January 4, 2014 at 10:52 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: They are just a club and play all kinds of opponents. Just wonderin.

  161. 161.

    Baud

    January 4, 2014 at 10:53 pm

    Ugh.

  162. 162.

    Gin & Tonic

    January 4, 2014 at 10:54 pm

    @Yatsuno: Interesting. I’ve not played either, but my daughter played clarinet for a while (before going double-reed) and my son trumpet, and just from observing the embouchure I’d have thought it would be harder for a brass mouthpiece to freeze in place.

  163. 163.

    Omnes Omnibus

    January 4, 2014 at 10:55 pm

    @raven: It’s a fun game. If I lived in a bigger city, I would look for a club with an over-40 team. And probably move inside to play flanker instead of wing.

  164. 164.

    Omnes Omnibus

    January 4, 2014 at 10:56 pm

    @Gin & Tonic: Consider the tongue on flagpole scene from A Christmas Story.

  165. 165.

    raven

    January 4, 2014 at 10:56 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: Actually the Blind Pigs are the alum team. With the rods on my spine it wasn’t a game for me but I was a “social” member back in my drankin days.

  166. 166.

    Suffern ACE

    January 4, 2014 at 10:57 pm

    @jharp: enjoy your run while you have it. The farm it was traded for the unproductive Trent Richardson. Your team will be treading water for a bit.

  167. 167.

    Amir Khalid

    January 4, 2014 at 10:58 pm

    @dedc79:
    I don’t know what your American football was like before television came along, but it seems designed for commercial breaks. A head coach decides the tactics for each play and then communicates it to the players on the field. The ball goes dead at the end of the play, and then the officials gather to make a ruling on what happened. Every change of possession requires the substitution of all 22 players on the field. When all this has to happen at the end of every play, of course there’s time for commercials, time that that the broadcaster gets to sell for a lot of money.

    As I remember, the American broadcaster for the 1994 World Cup, in proper football, wanted the matches played in quarters rather than halves so that it could sell time in three commercial breaks per match rather than just one. To its credit, FIFA said no.

  168. 168.

    RareSanity

    January 4, 2014 at 10:59 pm

    @efgoldman:

    If it was up to me, they’d have outlawed domes (for football or baseball) before the first one was built.

    The only people that speak positively of “playing in the elements” are media types and fans…usually the fans are the ones located in areas where there is no choice but to play in said “elements”. I have a hard time believing you’d hear much about fans in San Diego or Miami talking about how upset they are that their teams don’t play “in the elements”.

    The only time you hear players talking positively about it is when they are playing it up for fans or media types. Playing in “the elements” absolutely sucks…all of your extremities hurt, you can’t think straight, the ball is hard and slick, and it makes breathing more difficult.

    I’d take 80 degrees and sunny…or a dome…every day of the week, and twice on Sunday…as it were.

  169. 169.

    Yatsuno

    January 4, 2014 at 11:00 pm

    @Gin & Tonic: There is no metal on the mouthpiece of the clarinet except for maybe the ligature. Brass mouthpieces are all metal, that sucks the heat away like no one’s business. And the lips can’t really generate enough heat to keep the brass mouthpiece from freezing. The end result is when it’s butt ass cold playing brass ain’t fun.

    There is a cheat however. I used to keep my tuba mouthpiece in my mouth. Yes that is possible.

    @efgoldman: Plastic mouthpieces sound like shit. When I was section leader I specifically forbade them.

    And the Iggles just took the lead back!

  170. 170.

    Gin & Tonic

    January 4, 2014 at 11:01 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: You don’t play a trumpet with your tongue.

  171. 171.

    Omnes Omnibus

    January 4, 2014 at 11:01 pm

    @Suffern ACE: It wasn’t the Hershel Walker trade.

  172. 172.

    Baud

    January 4, 2014 at 11:03 pm

    Lordy. Well, enough time for Brees. If the Saints don’t win, they really don’t deserve to win.

  173. 173.

    raven

    January 4, 2014 at 11:06 pm

    @Baud: The xtra 15 will help.

  174. 174.

    Omnes Omnibus

    January 4, 2014 at 11:06 pm

    @Gin & Tonic: Lips stick too. Or so I am told. At one Thanksgiving dinner with my family, a straw poll indicated that every female family member had tested the tongue on metal thing. None of the male family members had. The results were exactly the opposite with licking a nine volt battery’s posts. I am not sure what this says.

  175. 175.

    Baud

    January 4, 2014 at 11:10 pm

    This is the game.

  176. 176.

    Betty Cracker

    January 4, 2014 at 11:10 pm

    Come ON, Saints!

  177. 177.

    Gin & Tonic

    January 4, 2014 at 11:11 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: I have also done the 9-volt battery, but not the flagpole/parking meter.

  178. 178.

    Omnes Omnibus

    January 4, 2014 at 11:13 pm

    @Gin & Tonic: You are a guy, right? I wonder what causes this difference – if my family poll is indeed indicative of something.

  179. 179.

    Suffern ACE

    January 4, 2014 at 11:14 pm

    Ugh. The giggles should just let them score at this point

  180. 180.

    Betty Cracker

    January 4, 2014 at 11:15 pm

    Damn. So close.

  181. 181.

    Gin & Tonic

    January 4, 2014 at 11:16 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: I am.

  182. 182.

    RareSanity

    January 4, 2014 at 11:17 pm

    @Amir Khalid:

    It’s a little of both.

    The game lends itself well to television because there is a natural stoppage after each play, as opposed to the constant motion of soccer, basketball, or hockey. In addition, the American networks pay billions of dollars for the broadcast rights for both professional and college football.

    There is only one reason broadcasters pay money for anything…to air programs, which allow them show commercials.

    It is still my theory that the nature of soccer…and it not being friendly to commercial breaks…is the reason it will never see any large scale television adoption in the US. It’s not enough for US broadcasters just to have billboards all over the field and patches all over the players…there must be commercials.

    Even NASCAR races have commercial breaks…that’s just how it works in the US.

  183. 183.

    Baud

    January 4, 2014 at 11:19 pm

    I could never be a kicker.

  184. 184.

    raven

    January 4, 2014 at 11:19 pm

    Nnnnnnnunnnnn

  185. 185.

    Baud

    January 4, 2014 at 11:20 pm

    Yes!

  186. 186.

    raven

    January 4, 2014 at 11:20 pm

    money

  187. 187.

    Betty Cracker

    January 4, 2014 at 11:20 pm

    Saints win! Saints win! Saints win!

  188. 188.

    Baud

    January 4, 2014 at 11:20 pm

    Bless you boys!

  189. 189.

    Suffern ACE

    January 4, 2014 at 11:22 pm

    sigh. Like most people, I’ve always wanted to move to Philadelphia. I hope the city makes it though this rare, unexpected loss.

  190. 190.

    Tripod

    January 4, 2014 at 11:33 pm

    @raven:

    That Chiefs offense is over rated because Stram was mic’d and Dawson had a long career on HBO, but damn, that defense was something else. In addition to Bell and Buchanan, Willie Lanier, Curly Culp and Emmitt Thomas are all in the Hall of Fame.

  191. 191.

    Amir Khalid

    January 4, 2014 at 11:35 pm

    @RareSanity:
    That’s definitely true of US broadcasters. But European, Asian and (I think) African broadcasters never even considered demanding for their commercial benefit that football be played in quarters. Partly because the sport is thus, as you say; but also partly because the legacy broadcasters on these continents were state-owned and not so dependent on commercials, so that the weight of tradition doesn’t allow the commercial broadcasters who’ve come up in the past few decades to demand it either.

  192. 192.

    Steve T.

    January 5, 2014 at 12:08 am

    @Vance Maverick:

    It’s pronounced “GO,” and it’s not Parisian French, it’s Cajun French.

  193. 193.

    Radio One

    January 5, 2014 at 12:55 am

    the ultimate fate for the Philadelphia Eagles is that they will be a fairly consistent good football team that will never win the Super Bowl in our own lifetimes or in our children’s lifetimes.

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