18
Oct
Stillers Halftime Thread
Can someone please explain how that was a first and ten at the end of the half, because it sure as hell looks to me like the Browns got royally screwed there.
And the NFL has to do something about what is and is not a catch. Here on planet earth, if you catch the ball, tuck it in, both knees hit the ground, your ass hits the ground, your back hits the ground, you roll twice while maintaining possession, and then the ball comes out as you are getting up to celebrate three seconds later, it is a catch.
You Don't Say
I just wanna know: is Troy OK?
Joel
Eli Manning fumbles the ball! Love it. Back to being good ol’ Eli again.
Dave L
1. Bad camera angle.
2. Ward never had a firm grip on the ball; it was on the ground on the first foll, and came out on the second. But I’d say the call could have gone either way – maybe the replay crew wanted to make up for the first down call.
Gooner
I may be wrong, but I recall hearing that the 10 yards includes on the chain links. The extension of the poll to which the link is attached is beyond 10 yards. It looked like that was the case to me. I don’t care for either team so I have no bias in the decision.
Halffasthero
Looking like the Vikes will go 6-0 heading to Steely McBeam town if they keep up their game.
Giants getting their lunch eaten by the Saints who are surprising me. Can’t say I am sorry to see a NY team lose.
Rick DuPuis
I have bitterly opposed instant replay since the infamous “tuck” game in January 2002. The officials took away a playoff win for Oakland that day. I don’t know what happened to the “conclusive evidence” theory that the NFL says is needed to overturn field rulings. Instant replay disrupts games and officials continually to make incomprehensible rulings and reversals. Damn, I hate replay.
And while we’re at it, I hate the NFL blackout rule and Brett Favre.
Pug
Couldn’t agree more about what is a catch. I think the new rule requires the receiver to maintain possession until the next snap or it is an incomplete pass.
Svensker
Geez, I’m not a huge Giants fan and had hoped that N.O. would win today, but this is a slaughter. Gints are playing like a junior high team. And that’s an insult to junior high teams.
Brick Oven Bill
Perhaps if the NFL referees were not such a bunch of sexists, they would make better calls. Note that all of the NFL referees are male.
Halffasthero
@Svensker:
Slaughter pretty much sums it up. I was only score watching. Is NO really that lethal or is NY just doing that badly today?
Zam
God fuck the Giants today. Their D has given me -5 points in fantasy.
Brick Oven Bill
If we are going to put females on submarines, surely the NFL can stop their misogynist practice of denying women employment just because they do not have a thingee.
Equality in the NFL is far easier to accommodate than equality in the submarine force, as there is lots and lots of room in NFL stadiums to construct seperate bathrooms for female NFL referees. In submarines, space is at a premium, and is already spoken for. Where will these ladies pee? In the condensation drains?
smiley
@Halffasthero: It’s a combination of Drew Brees having a great game (334 yds, 4TDs so far, 13 min left to play) and a much improved Saints defense (Manning (164 yds, 1 TD).
asiangrrlMN
I would like to add that when a runner is tackled and on the ground, the whistle needs to blown within a few seconds, not a minute or two later.
I would have Adrian Peterson’s baby—that’s how much I love him. Aaaaaah! His ankle better be ok.
licensed to kill time
Y’all are watching football, maybe you haven’t seen this?
Balloon boy case was a hoax
Michael “I haz the certs!” Gass will be shattered. Maybe the helicopters weren’t joking, but the family was.
Halffasthero
@asiangrrlMN: Peterson just let off with a great run, didn’t he?
And please tell me he didn’t just get hurt…
Demo Woman
@Zam: Giants have a defense?
Svensker
@Halffasthero:
Yes.
DarrenG
The camera shot on the 4th down measurement had an angle that resulted in a lot of parallax. Notice that none of the Brownie players standing over it complained…
@asiangrrl: The NFL has made a deliberate effort to get the refs to blow whistles slower, since anything that happens after a whistle is non-reviewable.
NobodySpecial
If there’s a team with less class than Green Bay, I’ve never seen them.
Warren Terra
@ licensed to kill time
A helicopter told me that this latest Balloon Boy development just proves that there’s nothing even slightly humorous about it all, and only a Bad Person could think there was.
asiangrrlMN
@Halffasthero: Argh! And now Percy Harvin! Gah.
@DarrenG: Yes. However, the play has to be over sometime.
Svensker
Thank God it’s time for the Jets game to start. I don’t think I could take anymore of this pitiable showing the Giants are making. Pathetic does not cover it.
JenJen
Sigh. And down go my Bengals. :-(
Can Minnesota’s defense get its shizz together? The Ravens are going to win this freaking game! Grrrrr.
ETA: Holy crap, Favre to Rice, long! Come ON Vikings!
asiangrrlMN
Crap. Just—crap. Baltimore takes the lead (barring PAT disaster) with 3:30 to go.
debit
One thing that never changes with the Vikes; they lead going into the half, they come out complacent and get sloppy. Sloppy sloppy, sloppy. Grrrr.
ETA: Oh but then that pass. Goodness.
Halffasthero
And then, depression set in.
Wholesale defensive collapse. They seemed to have forgotten how to play.
Just Some Fuckhead
Shit, the Ravens made it a game.
DarrenG
Bah. Not that I wanted the Ravens to win, but I sense another week of Favre hagiographies ahead.
smiley
Looks like the Saints might hang 50+ on the Giants. 48-20 with 7 minutes left.
@asiangrrlMN: What happened to Harvin?
Lesley
John Cole, is this what Tunch would say?
madmommy
@smiley:
Sweeeet!
licensed to kill time
@Warren Terra:
I must be a {{{Very}}} Bad Person,then ;-) Watch out for those talking helicopters-they ain’t joking!
asiangrrlMN
@smiley: He came in with a bad left shoulder, and he got hammered on it today. Sucky.
Vikes back up by two with less than two to play.
jeffreyw
Halftime snack
debit
Oh shit. I got a bad feeling. A really bad feeling.
smiley
@smiley:
@madmommy:
Well, maybe not. Brees is done for the day.
General Winfield Stuck
Couldn’t watch the game here, but as Charlie Browns youst to say, why you do that Lucy.
asiangrrlMN
@debit: That the Vikes defense will collapse like a flan when the oven door is slammed shut? Yeah, me, too.
@jeffreyw: Oh.my.god. You are killing me.
Holy shit. How does the Raven kicker miss that kick????? Whew.
debit
OH MY GOD. HE MISSED.
JenJen
Thank you FSM, particularly the one in charge of field goal kicks!
You go to hell! You go to hell and you die, Baltimore Ravens!
asiangrrlMN
@debit: Cannot believe it!
@JenJen: You crack me up.
My choices in the second game: Philly at Oakland or Tennessee at New England. Yeah, they’re both gonna be great games, I’m sure.
debit
@asiangrrlMN: I know! I am still waiting for the stink of failure to permeate the Twin Cities, but right now I guess it’s confined to the Raven’s locker room. I actually feel for the kicker. Glad he missed it, but feel bad for him.
Tennessee at New England looks like it’s gonna be painful. Cold and wet and painful.
JenJen
@asiangrrlMN: Hey now! The only team I hate more than the Steelers are the Ravens!
:-)
You Don't Say
OMG. I hate the Ravens and even I feel bad for them … or at least their kicker.
Nasty weather in New England. Hmmmm. May screw with my bet.
asiangrrlMN
@debit: That’s because you’re a softhearted DFH, like me. I felt bad for him, too. Don’t worry. The Vikes will fuck it up somehow. They always do.
@JenJen: I just love how enthusiastic you are in your hatred of the Ravens.
And, snow in Boston? That’s fucking football! (I want snow. Now I haz a sad).
JenJen
@asiangrrlMN: Imagine how awesome I felt this time last week when my beloved Bengals had just finished smacking those Ravens around.
Since there is no joy in Cincy tonight, I shall take solace in watching the Ravens extend their losing streak to THREE! The schaden, it freuds itself.
Steelers? Welcome back to a first-place tie.
asiangrrlMN
@JenJen:
I am totally stealing this. Heh.
Rick DuPuis
The Ravens worked their tails off to catch the Vikes. Then, after loosing the lead, they march down the field into FG range at the end. After all that, the game falls into the hands (or foot) of the only non-athelete on the Ravens roster. Missed FG. It’s almost criminal. Plus, we’ll have to put up with another week of “Favre is a god”.
Favre is the most overrated player in the history of the NFL.
madmommy
Oh, looky! The Oilers are playing the Patsies. And yes, it looks to be a cold, wet, painful game indeed!
Christian
The ghost of Lombardi is with him, sloppy 2nd halves or no. It’s the only explanation.
Also fuck the haters. :D
eemom
dunno if the PTB allow non-football comments on this thread, but here is some scary shit:
http://www.washingtonmonthly.c.....020491.php
In a nutshell, the Secret Service is so overwhelmed by all the freaks who talk about killing Obama that they don’t have time to do their other work. And they allude (indirectly) to fuckwads like Limbaugh and Beck possibly inspiring talking lunatics into becoming acting lunatics.
And, my husband who’s a gun owner says the ammo suppliers on the internet are all out of stock.
God bless America.
Earl
@Rick DuPuis: Sure he is. But we got him…
Kiril
The Saints have now beaten every team in New York. HOODAT!
debit
I cannot describe what Bud Light Golden Wheat looks like to me, but needless to say, I wouldn’t purchase it even if I did like beer. And I still hate Randy Moss, even after all these years.
Jack
Non-deep thoughts:
The Titans are really, really, really that bad.
The Saints are really, really, really that good. Damn it.
Jack
@debit:
Heh. Two for Moss in almost as many minutes. Yeah!
debit
@Jack: I know. I shake my tiny fist in impotent rage in his general direction.
Oh man. That’s a demoralizing interception if ever I’ve seen one.
Demo Woman
@debit: He’s a darn good player.
D-Chance.
What a boring day.
Only thing that could save it is a 21 to 28 point second half in the Seattle game.
Otherwise, this has been a waste of time and money. Everything else has been belly up.
debit
@Demo Woman: Oh, no argument there. He just behaved like a spoiled brat arrogant asshole when he was here in Minnesota.
Demo Woman
The Patriots blew the game against Denver. Even though Brady appears to be getting into a rhythm, the Pats will not be a match for the Saints next month. If the game were played in New England and if there’s a blizzard, maybe. Unfortunately they play in New Orleans.
melissa
Little Bitsy is in the finals for last week. Yahoo!
So close they need a recount.
melissa
Little Bitsy is in the finals for last week. Yahoo!
So close they need a recount.
D-Chance.
BTW, this New England-Tennessee game is embarrassing.
Can they re-choose sides at half to make it more competitive like they do in the schoolyard?
Demo Woman
@debit: Agreed. His contract with NE must have a keep your mouth shut clause.
The NE/Ten game is just sad.
aimai
What about those of us who don’t watch football??? Can’t we have a thread, for flying spaghetti monster’s sake?
aimai
asiangrrlMN
@debit: Seconded. Damn him. I was glad to see him go, no matter how good a player her was/is.
debit
@D-Chance.: & @Demo Woman: Yeah, it’s pretty sad. I think it’s time to turn off the tv and jump on the bike before it gets dark.
Jack
@debit:
As a many year Pats fan and a fantasy owner of Moss, I’m very happy today.
Very happy.
Jack
@Demo Woman:
I think it’s environment. The Pats did the same with Dillon. Turned a problem player into a team producer. Randy Moss throws blocks now…
Jack
4 Pats TDs this quarter. Fates forfend, the Titans suck.
Svensker
Crikey. Chris Jenkins goes down with a bad knee injury.
Demo Woman
@melissa: Wahoo
When will they know for sure? Until there is confirmation, make sure we keep voting.
I’m a NE fan and I think Brady should sit the second half.
Cat Lady
Where are all the “they’re running up the score” haters now? WAAAAHHHH! Oh, not for NO? Only for the Pats? I get it.
Cat Lady +3
MikeJ
It’s funny that Huracán v River Plate can be as entertaining as it is in a year that Argentina barely squeaks into the World Cup.
I feel as if I should contribute something to these football threads.
Nethead Jay
@Demo Woman: I am so looking forward to that game. Hope they stomp all over them like they did with the Giants tonight.
smiley
The local PBS station is now showing “The Great Escape”. Even though I’ve seen it elevenity million times, I have it on in the background rather that the Patriots/Oilers game. At least there’s some drama there.
mr. whipple
Does it matter, though? I don’t think even Clevelanders care.
Legalize
And the Bungles take a dump. I don’t know why I didn’t pick up a different Defense this week. I plaid Drew Brees AND the Giants D. Silly.
Legalize
Oh, and looks like A-Rod’s pay check is even causing the Angles players to feel so bad about things, that they forget how to play defense. :)
SiubhanDuinne
@aimai. Gratefully seconded. Thank FSM for your post, I thought I was the only one in this community who paid NO attention to football. Even when the Falcons are playing. (There IS still a team called the Atlanta Falcons yes?)
arguingwithsignposts
@SiubhanDuinne:
There’s a balloon boy joke in there somewhere, but I’m too tired to see it. Still, the … helicopters … aren’t … joking … about … football.
When are you going to send us your credenza?
dfd
The Falcons play my Bears tonight. Woot!
Midnight Marauder
Holy hell, the Titans are terrible. They don’t deserve to wear the throwback Oilers jerseys. It’s a shame how Kerry Collins and Co. are besmirching the legacy of such greats as Billy “White Shoes” Johnson and Warren Moon with their atrocious “performance” this afternoon.
On the flip side, it is nice to see Tom Brady and the Pats rounding back into form as midseason approaches. It’s going to be one hell of a playoff battle in the AFC East between the Patriots, Dolphins, and Jets.
Kit Smith
@mr. whipple: Oh, we Browns fans care, but it’s hard to work up a proper head of steam over a blown call that probably wouldn’t change the outcome of the game. I came expecting the Browns to lose, and was actually impressed that they seemed to have some semblance of an offense today.
I’m pretty sure the “incomplete pass” that came after the ridiculous 4th down “conversion” was the refs giving Cleveland a make-up call.
What would be nice is if we could have a quarterback who had finesse and accuracy but didn’t scramble or screen to the tight end every time the pocket started to look shaky. Anderson can take the hits, but by god the number of plays where we could get more yardage if he threw it a yard ahead of the receiver instead of a yard behind is ridiculous.
Legalize
I love that CBS broke away from the Oilers* / Pats game to a “more competitive” JETS / Bills game. I LOLed.
______
Demo Woman
My station switched from NE to the Jets cuz the NE game wasn’t competitive. Duh! The game hasn’t been competitive for quite a while.
SiubhanDuinne
@arguingwithsignposts 6:21 pm
Damn. I knew I should have sent my credenza by registered mail. I hate it when the helicopters laugh at me.
BTW… I am… STILL… not… a dick.
smiley
OT: I posted this somewhere last night but I don’t remember if it was here or at one of my other haunts. Sorry if repeat if it was here. This photo reminds me of The West Wing episode where Bartlett and his male staff are playing basketball, I believe on Pennsylvania Ave., and Bartlett brings in a 7 foot player, from Duke who proceeds to swat down every shot that Josh, Toby, et al, make. Reggie played at Duke. Is this administration trying to imitate The West Wing?
mr. whipple
What would be really nice is if they didn’t need 6 offensive linemen who still couldn’t keep Anderson from being sacked.
eemom
@SiubhanDuinne:
Thirded. Ghod, I thought I was the only one.
General Winfield Stuck
@Kit Smith:
As a Browns fan, I fear the problem with the team lies with the ownership, not that they are bad people, but the length of fail in a city that has a legacy of win like football in Cleveland, has to be systemic in how the club is managed from the ownership imho. They have had several top notch QB prospects in the past 10 years of so, and have ruined every one of them.
This is rule one for a winning franchise, or how well they develop young quarterbacks, and they have failed miserably at that. They have had decent coaches during this time as well, so I think they need new ownership. Just an opinion of a lifelong fan and follower of the team.
asiangrrlMN
And yet, I still have the Pats – Oilers game. I mean, I love snow, but that is ridiculous.
Fortunately, I have the more competitive Philly/Oak game as well. Go black and silver!
South of I-10
I am so happy to be home. There is only so much crazy I can deal with in one day.
mr. whipple
It’s ok, this weekend they hired Bernie Kosar, so there will be an immediate turnaround using his extensive business accumen. (rolling eyes)
SiubhanDuinne
@smiley 6:33 pm
I think of this administration every time I watch The West Wing!
bago
You sports fans are interrupting my dinner.
scarshapedstar
Thank god. We get to play the Vikings in the Dome, too. Every year our record gets tarnished when our boys have to play in some frozen fucking wasteland, like Napoleon invading Russia. Shove your igloos up your asses, all you yankees and upper midwesterners – this year you gotta play fair!
WHO DAT SAY DEY GONNA BEAT DEM SAINTS! WHO DAT! WHO DAT!
Demo Woman
@asiangrrlMN: Watching it snow in NE, made me a tad homesick for my roots. It’s suppose to freeze here tonight also. The Buffalo/Jets game isn’t to bad though.
General Winfield Stuck
@mr. whipple:
Nearly every season the past decade, I usually just say wait till next year before the season even begins. Declarations of Pre-disappointment is much easier on the nerves I find.
asiangrrlMN
@scarshapedstar: Play fair? Not our fault you Southerners are wimps when it comes to the cold and snow. Yes, I know I’m a hypocrite because we have the Metrodome, but we could play outside if need be.
Demo Woman, I want the snow, but the game is ugly.
Guster
It’s baseball season already?
arguingwithsignposts
So, totally OT for those non-football folks in the thread, but did we ever establish which Michael Gass/Balloon Boy words get put in the lexicon (assuming it’s editable at this point).
I’m nominating the following:
The Helicopters Weren’t Joking (possible tag addition)
I’m faxing my credenza
Balloon Boy
Ellipses
I know I’m missing some.
General Winfield Stuck
@Guster:
Not in our esteemed blog hosts world. There’s only Pro Football season, and Pro Football off season.
SIA aka ScreaminginAtlanta
@eemom: Fourthed. zzzzzz….
Demo Woman
@scarshapedstar:
The Falcons
smiley
@South of I-10: As a former member of a family were a middle aged mom ran away because she was afraid she couldn’t take care of her children anymore, I understand. As someone who was once married to the daughter of an “out patient” paranoid schizophrenic who showed up at our door unannounced one day, I understand.
mr. whipple
That’s unusual for Cleveland fans. If you listen to Cleveland sports radio, fans will be calling and predicting Super Bowl if the Browns win a preseason game. They continue to fill the stands for a crap product. It’s inexplicable how they have any fans left at all.
Demo Woman
@arguingwithsignposts: Gass was the best troll ever.. I’m faxing my credenza was pretty funny but my vote would be for the helicopters.
arguingwithsignposts
@Demo Woman:
Oh, I forgot about the condensation!
scarshapedstar
Hey, how you supposed to catch a football with numb fingers? Down here, we have lovely weather year-round… okay, maybe 90 degrees and 100% humidity ain’t lovely, but there’s not too much of that during football season. Still, we play indoors like civilized people (and out of the goodness of our hearts!), whereas Gillette Field typically requires snowplows to be stationed on the sidelines. Also.
debit
So I return from my ride and the first thing I see is the score and then a Titan’s turnover. This is just painful.
General Winfield Stuck
@mr. whipple:
I’ve lived in the desert SW for the past 12 years. Rarely see a game on teevee. Distance has it’s effects and when Modell sold out to Baltimore, the once burning spirit has never come back, though I hope it does one day. I’m still a fan, but a largely disinterested one at present.
Cat Lady
What’s a team supposed to do when the other team can’t stop them? Treat it like a practice squad, that’s what I say. They’re all professionals.
Demo Woman
@debit: Most of the CBS stations have switched games. There’s only 5 minutes left so the game should end soon.
Demo Woman
@arguingwithsignposts: I was wiping tears away reading Gass. I can’t remember when I laughed so much.
The Lexicon word should be GASS..
asiangrrlMN
@scarshapedstar: You don’t need your fingers in order to catch a ball! You just LOOK the ball into your dead stumps and cradle it to your barely-beating heart!
Demo Woman, here in MN, they decided we NEEDED to see the whole freaking game. I mean, I love snow, but turn away already! Sheesh.
Mark S.
What I can’t believe is that Tennessee had the best record in the NFL last year.
debit
And I hear boos as the Pats take a knee. What, 59 to 0 isn’t enough? Sheesh.
Thlayli
OK, to understand what happened in the Saints-Giants game, you need to know this:
The Giants don’t blitz.
They rush four, and drop everyone else back into coverage. The front four are good enough to make this work against most teams. However, the Saints’ O-line completely controlled the Giants’ D-line, which allowed Brees to sit in the pocket and throw into the seams. He did a very good job of that.
Mark S.
@arguingwithsignposts:
Bonofides
Could this be our Michael Gass?
asiangrrlMN
@Mark S.: Friend him and see if he writes…with…ellipses….
arguingwithsignposts
@Mark S.:
that definitely looks like someone who would be faxing his credenza and bragging … about … his … EOD
smiley
@Thlayli: So, is that a philosophical thing or a stubborn philosophical thing. Brees had all day to pick them apart.
arguingwithsignposts
@asiangrrlMN: Should we ask to see his countertops? That’s a lot of cross-memeification there. I think the helicopters will have a sad.
jeffreyw
I was born in a cross-fire hurricane
And I howled at my ma in the driving rain,
But its all right now, in fact, its a Gass!
But its all right. Im jumpin jack flash,
Its a Gass! Gass! Gass!
Mark S.
@asiangrrlMN:
I could pretend I’m Mark Sanford.
scarshapedstar
The Giants don’t blitz.
I don’t think the Saints would have gotten 500 yards if the Giants were blitzing, but instead of the long bombs to Colston you’d have seen more short passes to Jeremy Shockey, the best damn tight end in the league. The Saints are not only good, they’re balanced, and that score would have been 20-55 without that stupid roughing the passer call bringing back Sharper’s interception+TD.
WHODAT!
John O
Sorry, John, but the only game that matters this week is the (indisputably better than the Steelers) Bears v. Falcons game.
I’m on the verge of doing something remarkable today: Right now I am 0-10 ATS in a pool of 6 male family members. Even back in the days where we just picked the winners, nobody ever once either lost or won all the games in a single week.
The bad news is that I have 2 confidence points on NE.
But I still have a great shot at Worst Week Ever in a 20+ year-old pool.
asiangrrlMN
@Mark S.: Oh my god. He…would…love…that!
@arguingwithsignposts: I think we need to see his credenza.
@jeffreyw: Nice! How about more food pr0n from you?
madmommy
@asiangrrlMN:
This should be the slogan of some cold weather team! Of course the Vikings can’t use it, but maybe the Bears??
Now please excuse me for a minute as I recover from laughing so hard at that that I snorted iced tea up my nose.
jeffreyw
@asiangrrlMN:
Developing a real fondness for cheese in the crust pizza.
SiubhanDuinne
@Mark S. 7:23 pm
No doubt… Whatsoever…
burnspbesq
@smiley:
The best part of that was that the ringer was played by Juwan Howard, who was on the Michigan team that Duke beat for the national championship in 1992. It wasn’t exactly an acting challenge for him to sort of mumble “Duke” under his breath.
thomas Levenson
Break up the Raiders!
And I’ve never seen a mercy call like that non safety in the last minutes of the Pats-Oilers game. Keep that 61 off the board.
Not that I mind…the quality of mercy is not strained (which is why I’m always picking those lumps out of the gravy).
asiangrrlMN
@madmommy: Ooops! Sorry about that. I should add, “And then take off running on legs you can’t feel and can only trust are still there.”
@jeffreyw: That is simply sinful. I was already craving pizza, and this just pushed me over the top. I’m going to browse the rest of your photo set now so I can torture myself. I may comment. My username is deliquescentdreams so you won’t be startled if you see me.
Demo Woman
The Bills/Jets game is never gonna end…
Jack
PS: Go Bills! Heh.
You Don't Say
That was a catch!
Demo Woman
@You Don’t Say: It worked out okay..
ksecus
Camera angles are decieving dude.
I saw it in person and it was a first down.
4jkb4ia
Pitt is ranked!
You Don't Say
I hate Faith Hill.
Congrats to the Bills. I am having one of my best ever betting weekends. Four for four. Go Falcons, and I’ll be five for five.
4jkb4ia
@Demo Woman:
Brutal game made bearable by decent quality announcers. If Sanchez has an average day they win. Dan Fouts told us that Joe Namath had 6 interceptions once.
Demo Woman
@4jkb4ia: Does Sanchez really have a problem playing in the cold? It’s going to be a long season if he does.
jeffreyw
@asiangrrlMN:
Just added some more to the set, welcome to comment, or to name those snacks I’m unable to.
Bob In Pacifica
A bad day all-around for NY. Out here on the coast the Niners were off and the Raiders inexplicably beat the Eagles.
The foulest, most despicable slice of humanity, after those people who listen regularly to Limbaugh, are Raiders fans. After the team gets its ass kicked for a month they win one game and Raiders fans are strutting around, insulting the fans of all other teams. Just ridiculous.
Meanwhile, yeah, the current version of what is a catch in football is bizarre. Of course, since the Niners no longer throw passes in its current offense it’s not a matter of great concern for us.
asiangrrlMN
@jeffreyw: That’s good because I already started to comment. I can’t believe how good it all looks!
madmommy
Jeez, the Phillies are up 4-0 on the Dodgers in the first freaking inning. If the Dodgers don’t get it together they will not be able to enact sweet revenge on the Evil Empire.
Martin
Wow, Dodgers are off to a brutal start. 4-0 in the bottom of the first, one out.
Jay in Oregon
Hello all, just checking in.
I had to take my wife to the emergency room at 3 AM on Friday because she was in such pain that she could barely stand up straight.
She had surgery on Friday, and we’ve been home for a couple of hours. She’s resting in the other room.
Oddly enough, it was kind of nice. We put whatever issues we’re trying to work out on hold, and I was just able to be loving and supportive for three days.
Her mother is flying in tomorrow (no MIL jokes here; I love her mom!) so she’ll have someone else to pamper her for the next two weeks.
Svensker
@Demo Woman:
The kid is really struggling. If he had showed up for half the game the Jets would have won going away, even with all the stupid penalties.
4jkb4ia
@Demo Woman:
You can’t tell. He didn’t play extensively in what I would consider the cold his whole college career. 10/18 at Washington State maybe.
The wind was a factor more than the cold maybe.
Martin
Good to hear. Funny how many problems can be put on hold or put away when serious problem surface. People forget that.
4jkb4ia
@Jay in Oregon:
Good luck to your wife.
asiangrrlMN
@Jay in Oregon: Sorry to hear about your wife, but it’s good that the two of you were able to see what’s important at the moment. I am sending strong vibes to the both of you. Keep us posted.
P.S. Go Phillies!
Svensker
@Jay in Oregon:
Yikes, Jay. Hope everything is OK. All good thoughts heading your way.
Morbo
OK, time to get rid of Bironas in FFB. That was pretty brutal to watch, the box score barely even captures it. The Lions game was also pretty brutal; they actually had an offensive lineman playing on the D-line because of so many damn injuries.
Demo Woman
@Jay in Oregon: I’m glad that she’s feeling better. It sounds like a couple of rough days.
CaseyL
Boy oh boy, not only was Balloon Boy a hoax, but now law enforcement is hinting that one of the media outlets following the story so obsessively was in on the con: :
[The sherrif] didn’t name the media outlet, but said it was a show that blurs “the line between entertainment and news.” It wasn’t clear whether the deal was signed before or after the alleged hoax, or whether that media outlet was a possible conspirator.
Any guesses which show he’s talking about?
This story promises to be a gift that keeps on giving!
CaseyL
Damn, the link didn’t work.
Let’s try again:
CaseyL
AARRRGHGHGH.
Here it is, just copy-&-pasted:
http://www.seattlepi.com/natio.....n_boy.html
asiangrrlMN
@CaseyL: Are you serious? Oh, boy. Now THAT would be news. Just skimmed your link. Unbelievable.
You Don't Say
@Jay in Oregon: Best to you and your wife. Hope she gets well soon.
@CaseyL: Great balloon boy news! Can’t wait to find out which show was in on the stunt.
MMM
Shut up, you American. You Americans, all you do is talk, and talk, and say “let me tell you something” and “I just wanna say.”
SiubhanDuinne
@Jay in Oregon: Best to you and your wife. I’m glad you were there for her during what must have been a scary time—and glad she’s doing better now. Thank you for keeping us posted. I hope you’ll continue to.
SiubhanDuinne
@MMM
WUT ? ? ? ? ?
asiangrrlMN
@SiubhanDuinne: I’m glad I’m not the only one with that thought. Except, I thought, “WTF?”
Demo Woman
@SiubhanDuinne: Sounds like the new and improved GASS.
AhabTRuler
@SiubhanDuinne: From here, about 6:30.
AhabTRuler
Also: The Salmon Mousse!
Jason Bylinowski
@asiangrrlMN: That’s vintage Monty Python, from The Meaning of Life I believe.
General Winfield Stuck
@MMM:
Lemme tell you something, all we want to do is dance, dance, dance. Don’t you watch teevee in crazyland.
SiubhanDuinne
@AhabTRuler, Jason Bylinowski: Thanks! I should have caught that.
General Winfield Stuck
@Jason Bylinowski:
LOL, never know what’s next in BJ land.
Mark S.
Well, geez, I should fucking hope so. Do we have special prisons for six-year-olds, or do we just put them in the general population?
AhabTRuler
@Mark S.: SuperMax the little fuckers…solitary…23 hrs…a day…helicopters…not laughing…pie…pie…pie…
SiubhanDuinne
@asiangrrlMN
O/T but did you see my post about the very black kitteh this morning? Was very early in Cole’s CBS Sunday Morning thread. I was thinking about you:-)
asiangrrlMN
Well, that explains it. I don’t like Monty Python.
*Ducks and flees the room.
Kit Smith
Yeah, I hear a lot of people saying the problem with the Browns is ownership. I hear Mr. Lerner cares much more about his beloved communist kickball team in Columbus than the Browns. :( Out of curiosity, I wonder how exactly better ownership would have an impact on the team beyond hiring the GM and Mangenius… still not sold on him yet, but I’m not calling for his ouster either.
While the O-line we had certainly didn’t do us any favors, a lot of those problems we have are indirectly related to Anderson’s inability to put a soft touch on a ball. If we could screen or he could throw short passes, we wouldn’t have to worry about 5, 6, 7 or 8 guys in the box on those rushes and blitzes. We just don’t do anything to get rid of the ball or force the defense to respond to a short passing game. When they don’t worry about the short passing game, it makes getting the time to throw a long one down the field to open up the short game and the running game a lot harder to do.
Svensker
@Mark S.:
We could always send them to Gitmo and crush their testicles. Dick Cheney would like that.
arguingwithsignposts
@Mark S.:
I think the sheriff is waiting on their credenzas. This is all, of course … not funny … no helicopters … laughed.
burnspbesq
@Kit Smith:
I wise man, I’d say. At least the Crew win more than once a month.
arguingwithsignposts
@asiangrrlMN:
*Ducks and flees the room.
Well, we all have flaws. :D
Ash Can
@CaseyL: LOL! It would be a hoot if it were a Fox outlet. Coming as it would on the heels of various folks at the WH publicly calling bullshit on Fox, it’d be perfect.
arguingwithsignposts
@Jay in Oregon:
Hope things are better. Grab what is good. It’s a shame that emergencies make us appreciate the good things.
SiubhanDuinne
@Mark S. / 9:20 pm
In Michael Moore’s new movie there’s a whole section about privatizing juvie prisons, with a judge all too willing to give ridiculously harsh sentences (for a cut, of course). I think it was in Wilkes-Barre, PA. Chilling. Even the helicopters aren’t laughing at that.
As for the show that might have been in on Balloon Hoaxer Parents’ plan, doesn’t it sound like one of those Inside Edition or Access Hollywood type programs? I’d love it to be Wolf Blitzer or Greta van Cesspool or someone like that, but I suspect it’s going to be one of the obvious tabloidy offerings.
Thadeus Horne
@Brick Oven Bill: Oh, Bill…...fuck you.
arguingwithsignposts
@SiubhanDuinne:
hadn’t heard that one before. FTW.
Thadeus Horne
@licensed to kill time: Where’s the goddamned paper work?
burnspbesq
At the risk of beating a dead horse, can I just say that the BCS is a complete joke. Neither Boise State, Cincy, nor Iowa is better than USC.
SiubhanDuinne
@arguingwithsignposts
Thanks!
Mark S.
@SiubhanDuinne:
I haven’t seen Moore’s new movie, but I had heard about that judge. I hope there’s a special place in hell for him. Of all the sleazy ways to make money.
Who the fuck ever came up with privatizing prisons in the first place?
General Winfield Stuck
@asiangrrlMN:
Me neither. I can take British humor in small doses, but that’s about it. Was a SNL original cast fanatic at the time though.
asiangrrlMN
@General Winfield Stuck: I like some Brit humor—the dry biting type. I do not like the silly, slapstick kind of humor.
General Winfield Stuck
@asiangrrlMN:
Yes, I like Michael Caine type of humor in some of his movies, like Children of Men as Jasper, which I just ordered a DVD from Walmart, but the prat fall slapstick kind not my thing either.
Cheryl from Maryland
I … Hate … Dan …Snyder … and ...Vinnie … Ceruto.
To make my day even worse, we try to watch the film Synedoche, NY. Gave up after 1/2 hour—the only good thing was a new term for badness—green poop.
Please, Bears vs. Falcons and MPFC, improve my day!
MMM
It’s all very well to laugh at the military, but when one considers the meaning of life, it is a struggle between alternative viewpoints of life itself. And without the ability to defend one’s own viewpoint against other, perhaps more aggressive ideologies, then reasonableness and moderation could quite simply disappear.
True, not my words….
scarshapedstar
@Thadeus Horne:
The man likes his pie. Leave him alone.
Yutsano
I am going to pretend this day of football never happened. That is all.
CaseyL
@Ash Can: Wouldn’t it, though? But I think SiubhanDuinne @188 is right, and most likely it’s one of the intentionally infotainment shows.
Anne Laurie
@Mark S.:
The judge’s original defense, IIRC, is that the “kids” he was selling up the river were teenagers! And what sensible parent doesn’t hate their teenage children, and wish that the kindly state could remove their sullen, spotty, back-talking selves far away from our civil society? ! ?
Of course the judge did not phrase his reasoning quite so bluntly, and yet he still had to ‘walk back’ his defense when it turned out that the potential jury pool was insufficiently sympathetic to this line of reasoning.
Thlayli
@smiley:
It’s a stubborn thing in that they never adjusted.
***
@scarshapedstar:
“Stupid”? Vilma hit Eli forehead-to-forehead. Even Ed Hochuli can get that call right.
***
@Kit Smith:
Personally, I think he cares about his communist kickball team in Birmingham, England (who beat Chelsea this weekend) more than either of the others ;)
BruceFromOhio
@mr. whipple:
It’s inexplicable how they have any fans left at all.
Easy. Crappy football is better than no football. 1996-1999 was like trying to breathe underwater.
If you don’t like ‘em, don’t watch ‘em!
Chinn Romney
If NO were playing the Washington Crybabies you’d be hearing it sure enough. But I think the Saint’s opponent this week was a real live NFL team, populated with a roster of Men.