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You are here: Home / Food & Recipes / Food / NFL Playoffs Open Thread

NFL Playoffs Open Thread

by Betty Cracker|  January 11, 20152:39 pm| 150 Comments

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Better late than never. The Pack needs to get it in gear and defeat the evil Dallas Cowboys. The late game is an all-equine affair, Broncos vs. Colts. I’m just hoping for a good game — no real rooting interest.

Who are you rooting for? Any interesting game day food on tap? I’m making beef on weck later, a Buffalo specialty for my Buffalonian spouse. I don’t make the weck from scratch — I just coat kaiser rolls in kosher salt and caraway seeds. It’s good!

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  1. 1.

    West of the Cascades

    January 11, 2015 at 2:42 pm

    Go Buffalo! Go Bills!! Not sure whether Rex Ryan is a good hire (I hate all things Jets), but it makes a splash and distracts from having the Cowboys on the teevee.

    ETA – for the fifteenth year in a row, my interest in the NFL pretty much stopped the day the Bills were eliminated from the playoffs, so not really rooting for anyone today (don’t like the Cowboys on principle).

  2. 2.

    opiejeanne

    January 11, 2015 at 2:48 pm

    Aw, Romo chipped a nail.

  3. 3.

    raven

    January 11, 2015 at 2:49 pm

    If you can’t enjoy the game without a specific team playing you got issues.

  4. 4.

    jeffreyw

    January 11, 2015 at 2:54 pm

    Thread needs moar pizza!

  5. 5.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    January 11, 2015 at 2:56 pm

    @jeffreyw:

    Nice, but I had pizza with the games yesterday.

  6. 6.

    jeffreyw

    January 11, 2015 at 2:56 pm

    How ’bout them dawgs!

  7. 7.

    JPL

    January 11, 2015 at 2:58 pm

    @Steeplejack (phone): Since I’m a pats fan, I had tums yesterday.

  8. 8.

    Tommy

    January 11, 2015 at 2:58 pm

    @raven: Yeah you got a game with maybe the best RB and QB in the game today playing (not to mention DeMarco & Matthews). Also it is the freaking playoffs. Now I will admit I don’t have much desire to watch a game where it is a 3-10 team playing against a 4-9 team, but two “quality” teams like this, I don’t have to like either team to enjoy watching.

  9. 9.

    jeffreyw

    January 11, 2015 at 2:59 pm

    @Steeplejack (phone): You just need a nice sammich, eh?

  10. 10.

    JPL

    January 11, 2015 at 3:00 pm

    The problem that I have with the Cowboys, is Jerry Jones. I’m for the socialists.

  11. 11.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    January 11, 2015 at 3:01 pm

    @JPL:

    Yeah, they hit the snooze button a few too many times before they finally woke up.

  12. 12.

    JPL

    January 11, 2015 at 3:01 pm

    According to the announcers, we might have just seen the play of the game. Of course, that will be until the next play of the game.

  13. 13.

    raven

    January 11, 2015 at 3:02 pm

    @jeffreyw: Yip

  14. 14.

    Tommy

    January 11, 2015 at 3:03 pm

    @JPL: Yeah I am a fan of and former season ticket holder for the NFL team where it isn’t even PC to use their name. Brother a huge, huge Cowboys fan. I think a 2-year-old could figure out who I am pulling for in this game!

  15. 15.

    MomSense

    January 11, 2015 at 3:03 pm

    We are watching the best game ever. Kids are rolling the ball across the living room floor, puppy bounce runs and slides to grab the ball, and bounces back with ball to the giggles of the adoring crowd.

    Everybody wins!

  16. 16.

    Gin & Tonic

    January 11, 2015 at 3:04 pm

    @JPL: The NFL is all socialism.

  17. 17.

    Amir Khalid

    January 11, 2015 at 3:05 pm

    @jeffreyw:
    Them dawgs is adorable!

  18. 18.

    max

    January 11, 2015 at 3:07 pm

    @Gin & Tonic: The NFL is all socialism.

    For billionaires.

    max
    [‘Like a lot of other things, actually.’]

  19. 19.

    Gin & Tonic

    January 11, 2015 at 3:08 pm

    @Amir Khalid: Need insulin after that picture.

  20. 20.

    Villago Delenda Est

    January 11, 2015 at 3:08 pm

    FOUR solid reasons to hate the Cowboys:

    1. Jerry Jones.

    2. “America’s Team”

    3. Beat the Rams and prevented them from getting into the playoffs somewhere back in the 70’s.

    4. The Outlaw Joisey Whale.

  21. 21.

    jeffreyw

    January 11, 2015 at 3:09 pm

    @Amir Khalid: Mrs J tells me they are a terrier – dachshund cross. They are cute as buttons!

  22. 22.

    Tree With Water

    January 11, 2015 at 3:10 pm

    The Cowboys continue to get they calls- which is not to say that Packer lineman who killed the drive didn’t act the bonehead.

  23. 23.

    Betty Cracker

    January 11, 2015 at 3:19 pm

    Lord what a sloppy game!

  24. 24.

    JordanRules

    January 11, 2015 at 3:24 pm

    Seattle is going to play against a hurt QB either way I guess.

    I wish I could put a Christie blocker on my tele during the game.

  25. 25.

    Tree With Water

    January 11, 2015 at 3:33 pm

    @JordanRules: I bet Rupert Murdoch is way ahead of you- no more live shots of republican politicians humping the leg of any NFL owners.

  26. 26.

    Violet

    January 11, 2015 at 3:40 pm

    The Pack needs to get it in gear and defeat the evil Dallas Cowboys.

    Yes. This.

  27. 27.

    raven

    January 11, 2015 at 3:40 pm

    @Violet: Fuck the Packers.

  28. 28.

    Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)

    January 11, 2015 at 3:42 pm

    Gophers and Badgers still scoreless after the first period. Hoping to make it fifteen in a row over Bucky.

  29. 29.

    Tommy

    January 11, 2015 at 3:45 pm

    What a pass. My gosh Rodgers is really, really good. A pleasure to watch play, even though I am nothing close to a Green Bay fan.

  30. 30.

    JordanRules

    January 11, 2015 at 3:47 pm

    Damn Rodgers!

  31. 31.

    Mnemosyne (iPad Mini)

    January 11, 2015 at 3:48 pm

    Reading a book (“Crucial Conversations”) to help me prepare for an upcoming unpleasant conversation with one of my co-workers. It’s actually really interesting — much better than the last book my boss recommended.

  32. 32.

    PaulW

    January 11, 2015 at 3:53 pm

    @Villago Delenda Est:

    joisey whale. I honestly hadn’t seen that one yet. good call. :)

  33. 33.

    Betty Cracker

    January 11, 2015 at 3:54 pm

    Are you fucking kidding me?

  34. 34.

    Betty Cracker

    January 11, 2015 at 3:55 pm

    No way will they overturn that call. Nor should they.

  35. 35.

    Morbo

    January 11, 2015 at 3:57 pm

    @Betty Cracker: If Calvin Johnson’s catch that coined “completing the process” was incomplete then that’s incomplete. But no, I’m not bitter.

  36. 36.

    Betty Cracker

    January 11, 2015 at 3:58 pm

    GTFO!

  37. 37.

    JordanRules

    January 11, 2015 at 3:58 pm

    @Betty Cracker: Wow. I’m surprised.

  38. 38.

    raven

    January 11, 2015 at 3:58 pm

    Now everyone can quit their fucking whining about the refs and Dallas.

  39. 39.

    Tommy

    January 11, 2015 at 3:58 pm

    @Betty Cracker: Well Fox’s expert says it wasn’t a catch. If that isn’t a catch then I don’t know what is. And by football move isn’t it a “football move” to pull the ball down, move it to one hand, and extend towards to the end zone. I HATE the Cowboys, but I HATE even more terrible calls (or maybe rules) like this.

  40. 40.

    Tree With Water

    January 11, 2015 at 3:59 pm

    I don’t like the Cowboys, and have always thought Tony Romo to be a strictly decent QB throughout his career. But I’ll give him this- he is one tough SOB.

    Well, Dallas didn’t get the call on that 4th down play. So much for my conspiracy innuendo.

  41. 41.

    raven

    January 11, 2015 at 4:00 pm

    @Tommy: Rule not call, people have referenced the Calvin Johnson call against the Bears and it was the same.

  42. 42.

    JPL

    January 11, 2015 at 4:03 pm

    Was there a magic camera angle that I missed? I picked an unfortunate time to take a p..break.

  43. 43.

    Tommy

    January 11, 2015 at 4:03 pm

    @raven: I know, why I mentioned it. But isn’t it a “football” move to bring the ball down from a jump catch, to one hand, take a step, and dive towards the end zone?

  44. 44.

    raven

    January 11, 2015 at 4:04 pm

    @Tommy: Here’s the CJ call.

  45. 45.

    raven

    January 11, 2015 at 4:04 pm

    @Tommy: Not when the ball hits the ground.

  46. 46.

    Violet

    January 11, 2015 at 4:05 pm

    @raven: Can’t be for the Cowboys. No way.

  47. 47.

    raven

    January 11, 2015 at 4:05 pm

    @JPL: Not really.

  48. 48.

    Violet

    January 11, 2015 at 4:06 pm

    @Tree With Water: Have they shown Christie yet?

  49. 49.

    raven

    January 11, 2015 at 4:06 pm

    @Violet: Bear fans hate all things Green Bay.

  50. 50.

    dedc79

    January 11, 2015 at 4:07 pm

    This is still my favorite completion reversal.

  51. 51.

    Tree With Water

    January 11, 2015 at 4:07 pm

    What a splendid afternoon it will be if the Cowboys get beat.

  52. 52.

    Violet

    January 11, 2015 at 4:08 pm

    @raven: I get it. My dislike of the Cowboys comes from the same sort of thing.

  53. 53.

    raven

    January 11, 2015 at 4:08 pm

    Unfuckingreal stupidity by Cobb.

  54. 54.

    JPL

    January 11, 2015 at 4:09 pm

    Ah.. Celebrating to early.. As long as they win, really who cares.

  55. 55.

    raven

    January 11, 2015 at 4:09 pm

    @Violet: Yea I don’t really care, it’s a fun game.

  56. 56.

    Tree With Water

    January 11, 2015 at 4:11 pm

    Thank you, Green Bay Packers.

  57. 57.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    January 11, 2015 at 4:12 pm

    @Mnemosyne (iPad Mini):

    That is a very good book.

  58. 58.

    Violet

    January 11, 2015 at 4:12 pm

    @raven: I don’t care either. Was eating lunch and doing a crossword and totally missed a Green Bay touchdown. Looked up, and “Hey, when did they get that touchdown?”

    At least the game wasn’t boring.

  59. 59.

    jharp

    January 11, 2015 at 4:13 pm

    What a beautiful way for Dallas to lose the game.

    I’m only sorry they didn’t put the camera on that fucking asshole Jerry Jones. Would love to have seen him and Christie pouting and whining about the officiating.

  60. 60.

    Violet

    January 11, 2015 at 4:13 pm

    So no video of His Large Bridgeness jumping up and down with the rich NFL owner?

  61. 61.

    Heliopause

    January 11, 2015 at 4:15 pm

    So the key to next week will be the Seattle pass rush. Dallas put precious little pressure on a nearly crippled quarterback and it cost them in the end.

  62. 62.

    Betty Cracker

    January 11, 2015 at 4:15 pm

    God, I hate DirectTV’s stupid Rob Lowe ad campaign.

  63. 63.

    Gravenstone

    January 11, 2015 at 4:16 pm

    And once again Dez Bryant gets to rant all over the field, sans helmet and not draw the penalty. Hope he has a miserable off season.

  64. 64.

    Mnemosyne (iPad Mini)

    January 11, 2015 at 4:17 pm

    @Steeplejack (phone):

    I bought it on my Kindle last night because I was getting so stressed out about this upcoming conversation. (Short version: we have a project we work on together every year and I have the same problems with her every year, but she refuses to change.) I’m about halfway through it and it’s already given me some really good ideas for how to refine what I want to say so we can work better together. The project is non-optional (I asked) so it’s either have this conversation or have the two of us sniping at each other for two months straight.

  65. 65.

    Mustang Bobby

    January 11, 2015 at 4:21 pm

    Glad the Packers won, and now have a tough choice next weekend since my brother lives and breathes the Seahawks and I want to keep peace in the family.

    My other brother lives in Baltimore so I don’t have to worry about annoying him.

  66. 66.

    Tree With Water

    January 11, 2015 at 4:22 pm

    No laws were broken, but can anyone explain why the CBS NFL pre-game show just plugged the new Clint Eastwood film? It stars Bradley Cooper, apparently. I mean, they’re minutes away from kicking off a broadcast in a divisional playoff game, and suddenly- very suddenly- it’s like it’s intermission in a movie theatre. It was almost as weird as listening to Al Michaels and Chris Collingsworth performing fellatio on Roger Goodell during yesterday’s Pats-Ravens broadcast.

  67. 67.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    January 11, 2015 at 4:22 pm

    @Mnemosyne (iPad Mini):

    Good luck. I found it invaluable for talking with low-social-skills programmers who didn’t want to talk at all (or who wouldn’t admit there was any problem to start with, much less with them).

  68. 68.

    Baud

    January 11, 2015 at 4:23 pm

    @Tree With Water:

    Usually, it’s because they’re getting paid to.

  69. 69.

    Len

    January 11, 2015 at 4:23 pm

    I believe I am through with the NFL for this year. What’s the point when games are decided by the officials and not the players?

  70. 70.

    Mnemosyne (iPad Mini)

    January 11, 2015 at 4:23 pm

    @Tree With Water:

    It was an ad. Why they decided to stop things to show an ad (other than because they were paid to do it), I don’t know.

  71. 71.

    catclub

    January 11, 2015 at 4:27 pm

    @raven: Did the ball hit the ground? I saw him cupping his hand under the ball as his hand hit the ground.

  72. 72.

    Mnemosyne (iPad Mini)

    January 11, 2015 at 4:28 pm

    @Steeplejack (phone):

    It’s especially tricky because she’s a manager (though I don’t report to her) and I’m not. Luckily, our mutual boss is pretty big on flattening the hierarchy, so any protestations that she’s a manager so I should do what she says without questioning her decisions will fall on deaf ears.

    All right. I should probably get back to reading the book and finishing my laundry rather than goofing around on here.

  73. 73.

    hitchhiker

    January 11, 2015 at 4:30 pm

    Oh, lord. My entire family in northern Michigan are gonna hate me when the Pack gets beat by the Hawks next week.

    This is the matchup I’ve been hoping all season didn’t happen! For my 90 year old mom, a Super Bowl for the team she’s been crazy about all her life would be insanely great . . . but I don’t think Green Bay can beat Seattle.

  74. 74.

    raven

    January 11, 2015 at 4:32 pm

    Lotta shit I don’t like about Dallas but Jason Garrett has class.

  75. 75.

    jharp

    January 11, 2015 at 4:34 pm

    @Len:

    The officials called it right. It was an incomplete pass.

    There is little doubt what happened and the rule is quite clear.

  76. 76.

    Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)

    January 11, 2015 at 4:34 pm

    Gophers down 1-0 after two periods. Time for the big comeback.

  77. 77.

    raven

    January 11, 2015 at 4:34 pm

    @catclub: Lot of people did but that’s not what the officials saw.

  78. 78.

    Betty Cracker

    January 11, 2015 at 4:40 pm

    I’d forgotten Aqib Talib plays for the Broncos, the rat-bastard. Now I’m rooting for the Colts.

  79. 79.

    Goblue72

    January 11, 2015 at 4:44 pm

    I wanted DAL over GB, then DAL over SEA.

    IND over DEN, then NE over IND.

    Then NE over DAL in the SB.

  80. 80.

    Brendan in Charlotte

    January 11, 2015 at 4:47 pm

    @Betty Cracker: I hate ALL DirecTV’s ad campaigns…

  81. 81.

    Heliopause

    January 11, 2015 at 4:49 pm

    @jharp:

    Agreed, the call reversal was correct, but I’m wondering if they will revisit the rule interpretation in the offseason. Seems a little punitive in cases like this. It even has a name, the “Megatron Rule.”

  82. 82.

    Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism

    January 11, 2015 at 4:49 pm

    @Brendan in Charlotte: And then there was the Fox News “Call Dish and tell them you want us back!” ad in the middle of the DAL/GB game.

  83. 83.

    JPL

    January 11, 2015 at 4:49 pm

    @Goblue72: So you were hoping for a scenario that had to do with a fat governor singing or something.

  84. 84.

    Goblue72

    January 11, 2015 at 4:56 pm

    @JPL: more like a SB not featuring the Seachickens. But whatevs. To be the best you gotta beat the best.

  85. 85.

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

    January 11, 2015 at 4:56 pm

    @raven:

    I didn’t like the rule when it was used against Johnson, and I don’t like it now. That should have been a catch. And you know where my loyalties lie.

  86. 86.

    raven

    January 11, 2015 at 4:57 pm

    @Heliopause: The Calvin call was 5 years ago and it’s the same rule now.

  87. 87.

    opiejeanne

    January 11, 2015 at 4:58 pm

    @Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism: We saw that ad yesterday. during the Seahawks game. Really annoying.

  88. 88.

    Violet

    January 11, 2015 at 5:09 pm

    Any interesting game day food on tap? I’m making beef on weck later, a Buffalo specialty for my Buffalonian spouse. I don’t make the weck from scratch — I just coat kaiser rolls in kosher salt and caraway seeds. It’s good!

    I always have queso and guac at the Super Bowl. Other than that, no special food. Might do some guac tonight for the Golden Globes, which is my favorite awards show to watch.

  89. 89.

    raven

    January 11, 2015 at 5:12 pm

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

  90. 90.

    Goblue72

    January 11, 2015 at 5:15 pm

    Korean style fried chicken wings.

  91. 91.

    Villago Delenda Est

    January 11, 2015 at 5:22 pm

    @Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism: Fuck the fascist filth of Faux Noise.

  92. 92.

    Villago Delenda Est

    January 11, 2015 at 5:25 pm

    @PaulW: I think TBOGG came up with that first, but at any rate I picked it up from him. The spelling change to simulate the accent was something that one of us on BJ came up with, best I can tell.

  93. 93.

    BruceFromOhio

    January 11, 2015 at 5:25 pm

    Omaha! Omaha!

    Craft brew, MrsFromOhio’s baked chicken strips, and a nice salad.

    And the pagan tree is getting un-decorated, with a trip to the garden panned for later, after football.

  94. 94.

    SWMBO

    January 11, 2015 at 5:26 pm

    @PaulW: This was originally from Tbogg, I think.

    http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2012/08/28/the-outlaw-jersey-whale/

  95. 95.

    Villago Delenda Est

    January 11, 2015 at 5:27 pm

    As to the late game, well, it’s all about what flavor of horse flesh the Seahawks will dine on in the Superbowl, should one of them get past the Belichicks.

  96. 96.

    BruceFromOhio

    January 11, 2015 at 5:28 pm

    @Goblue72: Too much DAL. Adios, muchachos, so not sad to see you go. My sole regret is not seeing Jerry Jones spontaneously combust.

  97. 97.

    Brendan in Charlotte

    January 11, 2015 at 5:30 pm

    @Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism: @Villago Delenda Est: @opiejeanne: My response to the ad while sitting in the bar watching the Panthers loss: “Why? Without Fox everyone with Dish Network just got smarter.” Got quite a few laughs.

  98. 98.

    WereBear

    January 11, 2015 at 5:30 pm

    @Mnemosyne (iPad Mini): thanks for recc! Checking it out.

  99. 99.

    S. cerevisiae

    January 11, 2015 at 5:31 pm

    @Villago Delenda Est: Drew Pearson pushed off!

  100. 100.

    Brendan in Charlotte

    January 11, 2015 at 5:31 pm

    @efgoldman: Amen! As a Bills fan, the first person I’d hire to coach my team is the former coach of the only team in the division we crush on a regular basis…NOT.

  101. 101.

    Brendan in Charlotte

    January 11, 2015 at 5:35 pm

    As to the late game, well, it’s all about what flavor of horse flesh the Seahawks will dine on in the Superbowl, should one of them get past the Belichickscheats.

    FTFY

  102. 102.

    FourTen

    January 11, 2015 at 5:37 pm

    Today was a win-win for me since it was guaranteed that one of my two least favorite teams lost.

  103. 103.

    raven

    January 11, 2015 at 5:42 pm

    Freakout coming on the lack of US bigwig in Paris today.

  104. 104.

    Mr Stagger Lee

    January 11, 2015 at 5:44 pm

    Any time the Cowboys lose, it is good for America, I want Jerry Jones cry like a punk. Oh BTW is those odious NewsMaxx ads replaced by Wonkette? Praise the FSM.

  105. 105.

    Betty Cracker

    January 11, 2015 at 5:45 pm

    @raven: I’m surprised anyone thought PBO would go. Lots of logistics involved in that.

  106. 106.

    JPL

    January 11, 2015 at 5:45 pm

    @raven:
    Freakout coming ……

    fixed it

  107. 107.

    bk

    January 11, 2015 at 5:47 pm

    @raven: Eric Holder was there. The freakout exacta.

  108. 108.

    BruceFromOhio

    January 11, 2015 at 5:47 pm

    Oh, Adam. You had ONE job, Adam, just ONE job today.

  109. 109.

    raven

    January 11, 2015 at 5:47 pm

    @Betty Cracker: Jake Tapper did and now it’s the headline on CNN’c site.

  110. 110.

    JPL

    January 11, 2015 at 5:48 pm

    This game surprises me. I assumed that Denver would run all over the Colts but apparently not.

  111. 111.

    JPL

    January 11, 2015 at 5:49 pm

    @BruceFromOhio: He doesn’t miss often.

  112. 112.

    Elizabelle

    January 11, 2015 at 5:50 pm

    May we have a fresh thread? Preferably not focusing on Jeb! Bush?

    And it might be fun to watch the Golden Globes together later.

    Who won the football games today?

    ETA: Why yes. I have become a bossy bitch.

  113. 113.

    BruceFromOhio

    January 11, 2015 at 5:52 pm

    @raven: Argh. Hey, CNN! Where the fuck were all the suits when they were burying the kids at Sandy Hook? Or Columbine? Or Oklahoma City? STFU whydoncha.

  114. 114.

    p.a.

    January 11, 2015 at 5:53 pm

    @efgoldman: Rexie goes from 1 quarterback-less team to another. If he had waited he could’ve got a D C job somewhere with good weather.

  115. 115.

    raven

    January 11, 2015 at 5:53 pm

    @Elizabelle: Since it is’t even halftime of the second game and this thread was very late, you got nothin.

  116. 116.

    BruceFromOhio

    January 11, 2015 at 5:53 pm

    @JPL: He is one of the best, so this is very rare, and may come back to haunt them later.

  117. 117.

    raven

    January 11, 2015 at 5:55 pm

    @efgoldman: Yea yea and the refs were out to get the Packers. . . oh wait.

  118. 118.

    Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism

    January 11, 2015 at 5:55 pm

    @JPL: They had trouble with the Colts in the regular season.

  119. 119.

    Elizabelle

    January 11, 2015 at 5:57 pm

    @raven:

    A pic of MomSense’s new doggy? Text optional? Anything?

  120. 120.

    raven

    January 11, 2015 at 5:59 pm

    @Elizabelle: Bring it! jeffw has some great pup pics upstream.

  121. 121.

    raven

    January 11, 2015 at 5:59 pm

    @efgoldman: Life is a stone motherfucker.

  122. 122.

    Elizabelle

    January 11, 2015 at 6:00 pm

    Anne Laurie to the rescue. Fresh open thread.

    Play on.

    @raven: I’ll look for that. JeffW’s puppies are always enchanting.

  123. 123.

    raven

    January 11, 2015 at 6:03 pm

    @Elizabelle: This is one.

  124. 124.

    Elizabelle

    January 11, 2015 at 6:29 pm

    @raven: I want.

  125. 125.

    opiejeanne

    January 11, 2015 at 7:06 pm

    OMAHA?!

    Heard that a lot last year.

  126. 126.

    Mike E

    January 11, 2015 at 7:12 pm

    @opiejeanne: Aaron Rodgers audible, today: New York bozo

  127. 127.

    Len

    January 11, 2015 at 7:14 pm

    @jharp:

    You are correct. The officials did call it right. Then the challenge flag was thrown and the review officials reversed the ruling by the officials.

    The winner of this game was determined before it even started.

    Oh, wanna know about the so-called Super Bowl? It’ll be Seattle and New England. The Pats will win. They already had a meeting and it has already been decided.

    Excuse me, but I gotta go put my aluminum foil hat on now.

  128. 128.

    opiejeanne

    January 11, 2015 at 7:15 pm

    @Mike E: Yes! He says he’s got 120 minutes left. some of us think he’ll only need 60.

  129. 129.

    Omnes Omnibus

    January 11, 2015 at 7:16 pm

    @Len:

    Excuse me, but I gotta go put my aluminum foil hat on now.

    That would be a good idea.

  130. 130.

    opiejeanne

    January 11, 2015 at 7:17 pm

    @Len: The reversal was based on the Megatron rule. Maybe they need to change it, but it’s A Rule.

  131. 131.

    opiejeanne

    January 11, 2015 at 7:18 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: This site really needs a “like” button.

  132. 132.

    BruceFromOhio

    January 11, 2015 at 7:36 pm

    Your entire season comes down to three inches. That has to sting.

  133. 133.

    p.a.

    January 11, 2015 at 7:43 pm

    What rules will the MFL (Manning Football League) change after this (probable) loss to help him next year?

  134. 134.

    Scott Alloway

    January 11, 2015 at 7:45 pm

    I watched the Denver-Indy game, as as 40+ year Patsies fan, hoping to see Peyton Manning do his thing. I’ve always admired the man as a QB, and today I saw YA Tittle, bloodied, on the turf, at the end of his career. No, Peyton wasn’t physically beaten, but the QB I saw today was not the one I enjoyed watching in the past. Is it over for him? Hope not. I want Peyton to go out with dignity, not with missed throws, unmade opportunities and without a chance to win at the last second. His deserves a positive ending, even if it’s a tight loss. Best to you, Peyton.

  135. 135.

    The Sailor

    January 11, 2015 at 7:49 pm

    Pretty convincing win for the Colts.

  136. 136.

    Betty Cracker

    January 11, 2015 at 7:51 pm

    @Scott Alloway: He had a helluva run, and that’s probably his last game. Hall of Famer without question.

  137. 137.

    p.a.

    January 11, 2015 at 7:51 pm

    One and DONE

  138. 138.

    David Koch

    January 11, 2015 at 7:52 pm

    HA – Nationwide wasn’t on Peyton’s side

  139. 139.

    Betty Cracker

    January 11, 2015 at 7:57 pm

    @p.a.: Brady is more handsome too.

  140. 140.

    Scott Alloway

    January 11, 2015 at 8:03 pm

    @Betty Cracker: I agree on the HOF.. But at my age, I’ve seen too many end-of-an era people – in sports, theater, politics, et alia. Makes me saddened for some reason when the time comes. Guess it’s coming to grips with my own mortality.

  141. 141.

    Tree With Water

    January 11, 2015 at 8:13 pm

    @S. cerevisiae: Most NFL fans are familiar with ‘the catch’- Montana to Dwight Clark- but very few are aware that Drew Pearson nearly burned the Niners on the Cowboys final possession, on the same crossing pattern that won their divisional game the week before.

  142. 142.

    Corner Stone

    January 11, 2015 at 8:50 pm

    @efgoldman: He’ll either take a couple year break in the booth, then coach, or go straight to QB or OC coach somewhere.
    He can’t be seriously thinking of taking a live snap next year.

  143. 143.

    Corner Stone

    January 11, 2015 at 9:21 pm

    @efgoldman: I kind of agree. He’s shown a complete lack of giving any other QB one snap that he didn’t have to absolutely begrudge them. So how the F is he going to help make any offense better?
    But. He does know every wrinkle of every team’s D he goes up against.
    Whatever he does, he won’t go away. He likes the sponsorship money deals way too much to just walk away, no matter how much coin he has.
    He’ll be with us for a while.

  144. 144.

    Mike E

    January 11, 2015 at 9:22 pm

    @efgoldman: Simms commits teevee malpractice on a weekly basis. IMO Aikman is quite good, balanced and keeps his gaffs to a minimum. I see Manning as a quasi Jimmy Stewart, but more right wing…he has a bright future in the GOP.

  145. 145.

    Gravenstone

    January 11, 2015 at 9:31 pm

    Christie’s reaction to the Dez Bryant overturn. (click through to embiggen)

  146. 146.

    p.a.

    January 11, 2015 at 9:43 pm

    @Mike E: Maybe doing the studio thing a la Boomer, Harrison… From all I’ve heard he really is a family man who would rather do a weekend commute to NY or LA rather than chase games across the NFL. And he sure as hell should not need the $$$.

  147. 147.

    Len

    January 11, 2015 at 10:12 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    I was kidding. I actually don’t own a hat made of aluminum foil.

    I’m not naive enough, though, to believe that the NFL is not big business and, like every other big business, they manage their business in ways that are most beneficial to themselves.

  148. 148.

    yodecat

    January 12, 2015 at 1:06 am

    @Tommy: The call was more or less correct. Read the rules. Stupid rule as its. It’s is self contradictory the way I see it.

    I am very disappointed, but so it goes. I’m looking forward to next year!

    But: we was robbed.

  149. 149.

    Villago Delenda Est

    January 12, 2015 at 3:55 am

    @BruceFromOhio: Football is a game of inches.

  150. 150.

    Mack

    January 12, 2015 at 9:35 am

    That was a catch. Period. And I really like the Pack.

    Glad to see the Broncos eliminated, never was a big Peyton fan. That said, the right four teams are still in it.

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