I pumped for Auburn-Oregon Neither of Us Play Any Defense Title Game tomorrow night.
3.
Parallel 5ths (Jewish Steel)
Wait, no.
Please don’t tell us what you pumped.
4.
de stijl
Louis C.K.’s Hilarious premiere on Comedy Central in a half hour.
5.
Zach
I’ve been pumped for this game since the second match-up a few weeks ago. It’s a nightmare match-up for both teams and is almost always an amazing game.
The downside is that the teams always manage to beat the crap out of each other and either of our teams will have some trouble against New England because of it… although I’m hoping the Jets somehow win so that we can have a game in Baltimore.
Edit: And big ups to the Chiefs for only having 18 minutes time of possession. Not winning home field won’t matter so much, now.
I have a bet with my brother-in-law on the score of that game. He says both teams combined score under in the 75-90 range of points combined, I went for over 100. It’s going to be like a basketball game.
I am actually excited for the AFC games more than the NFC games. Of course I’m nervous the Bears will get their ass kicked by the rejuvenated ‘Hawks (of course the ‘Hawks beat the Bears earlier in the season).
9.
de stijl
I propose a rule that only decent college bowls with top 10 teams get to play in January. Schedule the Go Daddy bowl and the Kraft Fight Hunger bowl in early / mid December where they belong. And no bowl games after the first week of January.
I don’t consider myself that old but I still remember when the minor bowl games were all in December and there were only 6 bowl games in January. New Year’s Day had 5 of the games and the National Championship was played either the 2nd or the 3rd of January.
The rate the NCAA is adding bowl games, I expect every NCAA Division-1 team to be in a bowl game sooner or later. Soon we’ll be having the Championship in February, after the Super Bowl.
17.
mr. whipple
I’m pumped for the Ravens/Stillers game next week.
That should be a kick ass game. Go Stillers! Go Ravens!
I remember when they didn’t have any bowl games after January 1. The first one I remember was the Penn St.–Miami Fiesta Bowl back in 1987. I think that was the first because they made a big deal about it.
It’s simple: the innovator versus the coach who recruited Cam Newton, or, more accurately, who gave Newton asylum after he left the University of Florida under tangled circumstances. That takes a certain amount of coaching intelligence, to be sure — knowing how to bring in a talented quarterback who can outrun the most serious charges as if they were laggard defensive linemen.
Give Newton the ball, and let him run with it or pass it. Encourage him as he runs hipper-dipper through the charges that his father was shopping him around, perhaps against N.C.A.A. rules. Those charges did not stop Newton from winning the Heisman Trophy in December and leading Auburn to an undefeated season.
•
There is a certain amount of genius to being the lucky recipient of all those circumstances. Not a bad tactic, particularly when Chizik has an assistant named Gus Malzahn who has a reputation as an offensive whiz. Malzahn is likely to be hired for a head coaching job one of these days, or months.
7-6 Stillers, two field goals vs. a broken stalemate epic drive in the 2nd half, and then back to brinkmanship.
23.
Mr Stagger Lee
I suspect that, the PR types at the NCAA will notice that few people are talking about BCS championship(hell I bet I can get Portland talk radio, and the discussion will be the Seahawks victory, and maybe 30 minutes of the Ducks), and may consider moving the championship game to at least a couple of days after Jan 1 or before the NFL playoffs.
Schedule the Go Daddy bowl and the Kraft Fight Hunger bowl in early / mid December where they belong. And no bowl games after the first week of January.
Cotton. Sugar. Rose. Orange. These are bowl games. Other games can be played at any time before New Year’s Day.
Vote MikeJ for dictator. I’ll make it happen.
28.
SFAW
A Browns’ fan dilemma, I will go with the Patriots for $200 Alex.
You better, because the F’ing Jets f’ing SUCK, and so does their f’ing scumbag QB, Mark “Dirty” Sanchez. They’re not fit to sniff Peyton Manning’s jock! Or Tom Brady’s! And that goes triple for Rex “Li’l Buddy” Ryan!! The Pats will stuff them, 75-3!
Svensker, burnspbesq –
Whaddaya think? Did I get “The Rant” right?
Holy shit, I just figured out who “jk” really is – he’s Rick Santelli! Think about it:
1) The Rant
2) We all f’ing suck
3) Those other guys all f’ing suck
Last time I checked, the score was still 0-0, and there were still 60 minutes remaining to be played. Stuff happens. Brady could slip on a patch of ice and break something.
Nonononono. Sixteen-team playoff. Ten automatic berths for conference champions (Big East, ACC, SEC, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac 10, MWC, WAC, MAC, Conference USA). Six at-large. First round on campus, at the higher seeded team. Quarters, semis, and championship game at neutral sites. Four consecutive Saturdays, beginning on the second Saturday in December. The NCAA will make more on the football playoffs than it does on the basketball tournament.
This is still a free country and I have a constitutional right to say that the NY Jets are scum, that their head coach is a nauseating obnoxious blowhard, and that the biggest asshole hosts in sports talk radio are diehard Jets fans. No, I’m not Rick Santelli.
Might have gotten one going if Australia hadn’t sucked. The England post-series party lasted longer than most Australian innings.
Maybe during the world cup next month.
36.
SFAW
Stuff happens. Brady could slip on a patch of ice and break something.
“You’ve … you’ve got a nice army base here, Colonel. We wouldn’t want anything to happen to it. ”
“We can guarantee you that not a single armoured division star quarterback, whose jock Mark Sanchez is not fit to sniff, will get done over for fifteen bob a week. “
Tomorrow at 7:45 am – William Kristol live on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal
40.
de stijl
OMFG The infamous Sarah Palin tries to shoot a caribou is on right now.
41.
DPirate
Can someone suggest some websites to google so that I get scantily clad women or trees or sunsets to look at? I’m really tired of the ads I am seeing here (and elsewhere).
Jai guru deva om? or ¡Que linda! Me la traigo a Cuba La reina de la Mar Caribe Quiero sólo visitarla allí Y que triste que no puedo. ¡Vaya! O va, o va or Whatever
I used up all of my Italian vocabulary in my previous message
This is still a free country and I have a constitutional right to say that the NY Jets are scum, that their head coach is a nauseating obnoxious blowhard, and that the biggest asshole hosts in sports talk radio are diehard Jets fans.
Yes, you have a right to say that. In fact you have a right to say that FSM talks to you. The two statements have approximately the same truth value, so knock yourself out.
No, I’m not Rick Santelli.
Yeah, yeah, and Lee Siegel never blogged as Sprezzatura. Me thinks the loo-zah doth protest too much.
Capiche paisan?
Si, capisco, ma io non sono vostro paisan, idiota.
And it’s “capisce”, Signor Santelli (OK if I call you “Rico”?). “Capiche” is how the cheese-eating surrender monkeys would say it.
45.
GregB
I’d like to encourage those on the left to show restraint and not jump to conclusions about this horrible incident the same way the political right behaved when that Negroe attacked the young, white John McCain staffer and used a knife to mutilate her face after he flew into a blackety black rage upon seeing her McCain bumper sticker.
It’s the least you can do.
46.
sdstarr
I’m just looking forward to the Seattle Seahawks HOSTING the NFC title game versus Green Bay. It is theoretically possible. Somewhere in the multi-universe.
47.
SFAW
Ooh, lookit all the furriner-talk!
Not that you understood any of it, Scheisskopf.
48.
Mark S.
3 team, 35 player player deal going down in the NBA. The Nets will be Carmelo Anthony and the 2004 Pistons. The Nuggets get some draft picks and a bunch of guys I’ve never heard of (well, I’ve heard of Devin Harris). The Pistons will get a couple packs of chewing gum and the most coveted asset in the NBA, cap relief.
49.
SFAW
I’m just looking forward to the Seattle Seahawks HOSTING the NFC title game versus Green Bay. It is theoretically possible. Somewhere in the multi-universe.
the suns just won a game. over the worst team in the league.
56.
SFAW
And Brady and some black ice. That’s a happy thought.
Nah, I don’t wish that kind of injury on Brady (not even on Peyton). Of course, if Mo Lewis were somehow to get activated by the Jets, who knows what could happen?
57.
SFAW
The Pats are taking the Jets down. Get used to it and go fuck yourself scumbag motherfucker.
Aww, did widdle Rico get his fee-fees hurt? Too bad.
Go have your Momma kiss it and make it better, you candy-ass putz.
Oh, hi! Yeah. While waiting for the Patriots to turn the Jets into cannon fodder, I’ve been a bit busy praying for Kevin Garnett’s speedy recovery. You understand.
60.
Paul
I’m pumped for a Packers/Steelers Super Bowl. Oh, the history! Oh, the humanity…
Also, my neighbor is driving me nuts with his blasted teevee. Can anyone recommend a good (and by good I mean excruciatingly awful) opera that I could share with him? Preferably one with banjos and accordions.
61.
suzanne
@burnspbesq: I’m a Suns fan. Therefore, I am not watching any basketball this season.
62.
Yutsano
@Tattoosydney: I sense salt. And wound. And possibly lemon juice. Also.
Hi hon. I do you favor, part way done.
@suzanne: I said the exact same thing re: Seachickens. I lasted two Sundays.
The NBA? Blecch. I’d rather watch two bad Division 3 teams.
You wanna talk college, or even Euroleague, I am your guy.
Speaking of bad Division 3 teams, break up the Beavers! No, not Oregon State, Caltech. Four wins so far this season! (after a total of one win the previous two seasons) Although their 297-game conference losing streak remains intact, despite a near miss on Saturday against Pomona-Pitzer.
66.
MikeJ
@Tattoosydney: My neighbors in suburban Seattle have no idea why drunken idiots are singing “Engerland, Engerland!”
I don’t think trying to explain cricket would get very far either.
I sense salt. And wound. And possibly lemon juice. Also.
Not really – I’m quite happy the English won, if only because it brings our fat, fatuous, dickhead cricket team down a few pegs. I just wish the English knew when to shut the fuck up.
@eemom: yeah, yeah, death and taxes. The payoff comes with the unknown variables, like Marshawn Lynch and most of the Seattle offensive line scoring on a run up the middle, and how fucking cool is that? Yeah, it ends, just like everything else.
Not opera, but Gorecki’s 3rd (aka Sorrowful Songs). Kinda painful plus it’s about the Holocaust and he’ll start crying and stuff. This works really well if he’s a goy Pole and super-sensitive.
71.
SFAW
Get used to it and go fuck yourself scumbag mother fucker
Which reminded me, yer Momma said “Hi”, but I don’t think she appreciated being called a scumbag.
72.
Yutsano
@Tattoosydney: Check your e-mail, then make that determination. I promise I was nowhere near as mean to you as the guy who called me from the Republic of Michigan. Tax protestors r fun!
Can’t decide which is better, a Patriots/Falcons SB or a Patriots/Bears replay of SB XX with teams more evenly matched. Just have to muddle through all this excess to get there.
Ravens/Steelers, my money is on Russian space junk or a meteor. Either will suffice.
75.
Yutsano
@Tattoosydney: And apparently much more willing to show skin. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. Kudos to the one who said fuck all and posed for the gay mag too.
College ball? With its walk it up the floor 35 second shot clock? Its molases in winter screen rolls? Its sub 40% shooting? Its no-good try-hard white guys?
Thanks for the suggestion, but if he was a super-sensitive goy Pole I doubt there’d be a problem. I’m more of the super-sensitive goy Pole type and lately I don’t need additional things to cry about.
Maybe I’ll just go with The Shaggs or Pat Boone’s In a Metal Mood. But Beverly Sills with a jug band would cheer me up and send the right message.
Maybe he’s a super-sensitive goy Pole who’s let his hearing aid battery go and so he has to turn his TV up really loud. You don’t have to put up with that. I certainly wouldn’t.
If you’re lucky you get him crying really hard. You know like when you’re crying so hard, and you can’t breathe but you still can’t stop, and snot is like coming out of that corner of your eyeball crying. He’s super-sensitive so he has all of that residual guilt.
82.
Steelers R Bradys Bitches aka 2liberal
@burnspbesq:
hill got hurt early tonight with a sprained knee.
83.
Yutsano
@Paul: Klingon opera. I think there are a few performances by bad amateurs on the Net somewhere. That should work.
They have 12, but some of them you don’t want to see with their pants off…
85.
Parallel 5ths (Jewish Steel)
Euroleague, however, intrigues me. If I had the time, I’d like to explore what’s going on there for sure. I love me some 7footers who can shoot. The trapezoidal painted area. Plus, goal-tending, right?
“Yer Momma said “Hi”, but I don’t think she appreciated being called a scumbag.”
Stay classy. Last week was the anniversary of my mom’s death. You are a clueless, smouldering sack of shit.
I insulted the NY Jets. I didn’t make any personal derogatory comments about you, you fucking pussy.
You took my dissing of the Jets and made it personal.
Is your life so fucking empty and devoid of meaning that you feel an irresistible compulsion to insult me personally because I dissed your beloved NY Jets.
What the fuck is your goddamn problem you stupid fucking cocksucker?
Go fuck yourself silly, then drop dead, and rot in Hell you motherfucking scumsucking douchebag.
90.
Ron
I’m looking forward to it too, but I wouldn’t bet any money on either team. but…Go Steelers!
91.
frosty
@burnspbesq: Wow!! An SCIAA reference (did I get the letters right?) I once got remonstrated for inappropriate cheering at a Claremont-Mudd Stags game, to wit:
We eat Wheaties!
We are fit!
The other team doesn’t!
They eat (clap clap)
Sh……redded wheat!
frosty +1
92.
Yutsano
@Ron: There are a shit ton of folks who are kicking themselves right now for not betting on the Seahacks yesterday. If you had laid down a C note, you’d be rather pleased with the results.
93.
KG
@burnspbesq: Big West basketball, Long Beach State is 4-0 in conference after a rough non-conference schedule. Good shot at making the tournament. Sure, it’s not Division 3, but then again, it is the Big West, so, not that far away.
Though I do love me some Lakers basketball. It’d be nice if they got their shit together at some point, but hey, could be worse… I could be something that resembles a Clippers fan.
The most exciting pro baller in LA is Blake Griffin.
/stirring the pot
99.
KG
@Yutsano: no, I’ve actually met one, one of my boys from high school is a legit Clippers fan.
100.
KG
@handy: Griffin is a hell of a player, I’m hoping the Clippers Curse doesn’t turn him into Danny Manning.
101.
SFAW
jk –
Time to go back on your meds, bucko.
You took my dissing of the Jets and made it personal.
No, I took your dissing of the Jets and, in my own inimitable fashion, pointed out how fucking empty your life is, and how fucking angry you are about something as inconsequential as the AFC playoffs, and made fun of that, because you’re a fucking joke. Of course, you’re also practiced at the art of projection. (“Empty life” and so forth)
What the fuck is your goddamn problem you stupid fucking cocksucker?
Just tired of dealing with morons like you.
Go fuck yourself silly, then drop dead, and rot in Hell you motherfucking scumsucking douchebag.
Normally, I’d try to oblige such a nicely-worded request, but part of it is physically impossible for me (I’ve never been mistaken for John C. Holmes, although I’m sure you have, tough guy), and the rotting in Hell part will probably have to wait a little while longer. But I’ll keep you posted, because FSM knows, you’re a caring and concerned individual.
Ciao!
102.
SFAW
frosty –
Thanks, but which one are you talkin’ ’bout? (Not that I’d ever get to use it again, but it’s good to know what works.)
The best players in the NBA have their most fun, and get their best results, playing for a college coach.
What do you mean? Most college coaches flame out in the NBA (Pitino, Calipari, to name a few). Or are you talking about playing in the Olympics for Coach K? Yeah, I guess Kobe and LeBron had fun beating up on Angola, but I don’t know if they’d list it as their best results.
105.
SFAW
The best players in the NBA have their most fun, and get their best results, playing for a college coach.
Sorry, I hate to disagree with a fellow Jets fan, but I think Mark S. is right on this one.
The best fundamental basketball in the world today is played in the WNBA.
I think that’s probably been true for awhile. But I ain’t an expert.
You are a low rent asshole who lacks any sense of perspective or proportionality.
Before you make assumptions about the value of someone else’s life, take a look in the mirror.
Given the content and style of your posts, your use of the word moron is clearly self-referential.
Up yours.
108.
SFAW
@morzer:
Nah, he’s just (apparently) royally pissed at me.
I’ve been trying to figure out what would get me that pissed – including whether I’d get bent about someone doing the Dozens on me. Would this fat guy go nutzoid over my own (late) Mom getting dissed? I’d like to think not. But that’s just me, and I’m apparently a motherfucking scumsucking douchebag. At least I’m not a pencil-necked geek.
It’s probably frustrated man-love for Mark Sanchez. A classic case of bitterness born from rejection, methinks. The fire of passion has scorched deep in his marrow.
Sorry, but the “I know you are, but what am I?” retort is even lame for seven-year-olds, which is approximately where your mental and emotional development currently lies.
Moron? Yeah, maybe I am. But I’d venture that my intellect is still light-years ahead of yours, SFB – even with half my brain tied behind my back.
And I don’t generally make assumptions, I just go on the evidence available. And the evidence shows that – unless you’re doing all this as a parody troll, which I tend to doubt – that you’re someone who hates the Jets so much, that your derangement comes through in your posts magnificently. Sorry if you can’t see it – recognition of the problem is the first step towards solution.
I understand your concern, don’t blame you. FWIW, I’m actually fairly chill at the moment. If I weren’t, my posts would be more like those of some other guy here. (Although maybe they are anyway?)
Thanks, I’ll try not to go overboard.
118.
Morbo
@Thoroughly Pizzled: Here I was about to say that sounded like a good Onion headline…
119.
SFAW
Besides, we all know you’re doing it with coconuts.
???
120.
Ron
@Yutsano: Uh, yeah, I think if I were betting I woulda taken the Hawks +10, but it’s not clear.
The fundamentals of the WNBA are clear and easy to admire because it moves so damn slow. And with a shooting percentage in the 30s? That means 7 out of 10 shots go clank! Next your going to tell me how much you admire a crisp bounce pass. That’s not basketball your watching, it’s kitsch.
You’ve been watching too much Lakers if you think it’s all iso all the time. The triangle is a grinding thing esp with an aging superstar. Those latter day Bulls teams were like trench warfare near the end there.
NBA players do things your college and WNBA players could never do on practically every play.
Plus, I once had this experience with a girl who was sort of a chunky Diana Taurasi…
Momma said “Hi”, but I don’t think she appreciated being called a scumbag.
Well, duh. Instead of F’ing your own M, your F’ing his, and instead of you being the scumbag, it’s his M. Really nice twist. And I’m sorry I got into this discussion, seeing what level of discourse it descended to in a couple of other posts.
You ass, I kept reading that article thinking that Sanchez was going to turn into some prima donna Hollywood douche, and now I’m moved. There might be tears, and dammit, I now have 2 horses in the AFC. (Go Stillers!)
Speaking of tears, anyone notice Boehner conspicuously not crying about what happened Saturday morning?
132.
Yutsano
@freelancer: That’s now at least two decent things I can think of that have come out of USC. Their band is still a bunch of pompous jackasses though.
133.
J. Michael Neal
It turns out that, in addition to having been born on 9/11/01, the 9-year old girl yesterday was also the granddaughter of Dallas Green, an executive for the Philadelphia Phillies and their manager when they won the World Series in 1980. Her father is a scout for the LA dodgers.
134.
Yutsano
@J. Michael Neal: I had to tell a friend of mine in Afghanistan about the girl. He knew about the federal judge and noted that the shooter is eligible for the death penalty because of that. But like me the girl’s death disturbed him more. I think his having a two year old son kind of made it hit home.
If you can play like the Spirit of Troy, you get to be pompous. It ain’t bragging if you can back it up.
136.
Yutsano
@burnspbesq: Grambling University called. They accept your challenge.
(Honestly, I’m not sure that’s fair. HBCU bands are a total different level.)
137.
NobodySpecial
I give Jets fans a break. I mean, what else have they got to be proud of? The Nyets? Plus, you know, like Bruce said, “New Jersey in the morning like a lunar landscape”.
138.
SFAW
frosty –
That’s the one I thought, just figured it was better to confirm.
Sorry for dragging you (so to speak) into the love fest. It does seem to have been taken to the next level, as the sports guys would say.
I’ve taken my ‘Ludes today, so I’ll probably be a little more mellow.
139.
SFAW
I give Jets fans a break. I mean, what else have they got to be proud of?
Bruce Coslet? Some guy sending pictures of his naughty bits to some woman? (Not saying who that guy is, outta respect for asiangrrlMN, but he has some French-sounding last name that even HE mispronounces.)
On the plus side, I liked Keyshawn, wish he was still playing (although keeping him the same age as he useta wuz).
140.
SFAW
Plus, I once had this experience with a girl who was sort of a chunky Diana Taurasi…
No fair! Chunky Bobo probably has no idea who she is.
That said, I guess I’m envious. (Just don’t tell Mrs. SFAW I said that, OK?)
141.
SadOldVet
I’m pumped for the Ravens/Stillers game next week.
Aiden lost his courageous battle last Thursday. Before the Jets’ game last Sunday against the Buffalo Bills, the Jets honored him with a moment of silence.
Holy crap, no more knocking on the Jets or Sanchez. I regret that they’ll get pounded by the Patriots, but Mark Sanchez gets mad props for brightening the last days of a little kid.
144.
SFAW
Holy crap, no more knocking on the Jets or Sanchez.
While what Sanchez did was certainly high-class, that should not make him (or the Jets) immune from criticism or trash-talk. Yes, I’m being serious.
Since the above comment is probably getting met with a “WTF?”, given last night’s pitched battle(s), I’ll explain why I wrote it:
I see it as the other side of the coin from Elliott Spitzer. Spitzer did a great job as NY AG. Should those accomplishments get ignored because of the scandal which drove him from the Governor’s job? I don’t think so.
Should Sanchez’s or the Jets’ on-field performance get ignored because he is, and some of the rest of the team may be, great person(s). I don’t think so. (BTW, that’s not a snark-like “I don’t THINK so!”)
OK, time to get off the soapbox, and back to being an asshole.
While what Sanchez did was certainly high-class, that should not make him (or the Jets) immune from criticism or trash-talk.
Criticism is fair (“that throw was WEAK, who the hell was he throwing to?”), but “yer mother” and “stupid, obnoxious” trash comments just don’t hold in light of that story. There simply isn’t enough good shit happening in the world, so when it’s discovered, it’s got to be elevated, defended, admired. C’mon, even a cold-hearted SOB like you has to admit that Sanchez did something good there. How many selfish millionaire pricks in the NFL could learn something humbling and defining from such actions?
If you’re going to be an asshole to, about or because of someone, at the very least be accurate. Or stand ready to be ridiculed and then ignored, or worse.
Should Sanchez’s or the Jets’ on-field performance get ignored because he is, and some of the rest of the team may be, great person(s). I don’t think so.
Agreed. Braylon Edwards, for example, does not get a pass, literally or figuratively.
146.
SFAW
Bruce –
I meant criticism for his on-field stuff, not the off-field stuff. Sorry that I left that out of my comment. Not sure if it changes your reply, but I wanted to clarify.
C’mon, even a cold-hearted SOB like you
I’m only cold-hearted when it comes to Republicans and their bullshit. Well, maybe one other time.
has to admit that Sanchez did something good there.
I agree. I thought that my “what Sanchez did was certainly high-class” conveyed that. Did you think I was joking or being snarky? I wasn’t. So is there a beef here? Or is this just a holdover from last night’s flame wars? Or what?
147.
And the Horse He Rode In on
Cravens and Stealers – can both teams lose, please
Has the bloghost started complaining about how massively the refs are cheating in favor of the Ravens?
Yutsano
Pumped what? Your muscles? Your stomach? :)
Mark S.
I pumped for Auburn-Oregon Neither of Us Play Any Defense Title Game tomorrow night.
Parallel 5ths (Jewish Steel)
Wait, no.
Please don’t tell us what you pumped.
de stijl
Louis C.K.’s Hilarious premiere on Comedy Central in a half hour.
Zach
I’ve been pumped for this game since the second match-up a few weeks ago. It’s a nightmare match-up for both teams and is almost always an amazing game.
The downside is that the teams always manage to beat the crap out of each other and either of our teams will have some trouble against New England because of it… although I’m hoping the Jets somehow win so that we can have a game in Baltimore.
Edit: And big ups to the Chiefs for only having 18 minutes time of possession. Not winning home field won’t matter so much, now.
Yutsano
@Mark S.: QUACK!!
I also luv how the media is totally homerizing Auburn. I hope the Ducks pay attention here and romp all over them.
cathyx
I hope the Steeler game isn’t on pay TV like the ducks game.
smith
@Mark S.:
I have a bet with my brother-in-law on the score of that game. He says both teams combined score under in the 75-90 range of points combined, I went for over 100. It’s going to be like a basketball game.
I am actually excited for the AFC games more than the NFC games. Of course I’m nervous the Bears will get their ass kicked by the rejuvenated ‘Hawks (of course the ‘Hawks beat the Bears earlier in the season).
de stijl
I propose a rule that only decent college bowls with top 10 teams get to play in January. Schedule the Go Daddy bowl and the Kraft Fight Hunger bowl in early / mid December where they belong. And no bowl games after the first week of January.
de stijl
@Parallel 5ths (Jewish Steel):
Too late. The Pos-T-Vac is already out of the bag.
Mr Stagger Lee
A Browns’ fan dilemma, I will go with the Patriots for $200 Alex. Oh Btw HOW ABOUT THE SEAHAWKS!!!!
freelancer
@de stijl:
It’s his best hour yet.
Mark S.
@smith:
Wow, I think it’s going to be high scoring, but 100 is a ton of points! Better hope it goes into OT.
Mark S.
@de stijl:
I had to look that up, though I suspected . . .
smith
@Mark S.:
Watch the game be 7-3 or 10-7 just to make everyone’s heads spin.
Note: Speaking of OT, I am glad they changed the OT rules for the NFL even if it’s only for the playoffs.
smith
@de stijl:
I don’t consider myself that old but I still remember when the minor bowl games were all in December and there were only 6 bowl games in January. New Year’s Day had 5 of the games and the National Championship was played either the 2nd or the 3rd of January.
The rate the NCAA is adding bowl games, I expect every NCAA Division-1 team to be in a bowl game sooner or later. Soon we’ll be having the Championship in February, after the Super Bowl.
mr. whipple
That should be a kick ass game. Go Stillers! Go Ravens!
Ah fuck it, I can’t wish either of ’em luck.
Mark S.
@smith:
I remember when they didn’t have any bowl games after January 1. The first one I remember was the Penn St.–Miami Fiesta Bowl back in 1987. I think that was the first because they made a big deal about it.
stuckinred
@Yutsano: Homerizing, did you read the NYT this morning?
and this
de stijl
@smith:
(Shakes arthritic fist ineffectually)
Hey! You damn Danica Patricks! Get off my lawn!
de stijl
I’m pumped for Louis C.K. right friggin’ NOW!
freelancer
7-6 Stillers, two field goals vs. a broken stalemate epic drive in the 2nd half, and then back to brinkmanship.
Mr Stagger Lee
I suspect that, the PR types at the NCAA will notice that few people are talking about BCS championship(hell I bet I can get Portland talk radio, and the discussion will be the Seahawks victory, and maybe 30 minutes of the Ducks), and may consider moving the championship game to at least a couple of days after Jan 1 or before the NFL playoffs.
freelancer
@de stijl:
Look out for this line:
“Hey, Wendell, shut it down, this lady had to wait for a bit!”
de stijl
@freelancer:
I’m a bit meh so far. It’s no Chewed Up. Plus, it’s bleeped.
burnspbesq
Congrats to Maryland on a fine effort. The terrapin stew will be ready momentarily.
MikeJ
@de stijl:
Cotton. Sugar. Rose. Orange. These are bowl games. Other games can be played at any time before New Year’s Day.
Vote MikeJ for dictator. I’ll make it happen.
SFAW
You better, because the F’ing Jets f’ing SUCK, and so does their f’ing scumbag QB, Mark “Dirty” Sanchez. They’re not fit to sniff Peyton Manning’s jock! Or Tom Brady’s! And that goes triple for Rex “Li’l Buddy” Ryan!! The Pats will stuff them, 75-3!
Svensker, burnspbesq –
Whaddaya think? Did I get “The Rant” right?
Holy shit, I just figured out who “jk” really is – he’s Rick Santelli! Think about it:
1) The Rant
2) We all f’ing suck
3) Those other guys all f’ing suck
Sound familiar?
burnspbesq
@SFAW:
Well done.
Last time I checked, the score was still 0-0, and there were still 60 minutes remaining to be played. Stuff happens. Brady could slip on a patch of ice and break something.
burnspbesq
Are there no basketball fans on this blog?
Mark S.
Shorter Instadouche in the WSJ:
Disclaimer: may not actually be what the douchebag said.
MikeJ
@burnspbesq: I’m just disappointed we couldn’t get a good cricket thread going for the Ashes.
burnspbesq
@MikeJ:
Nonononono. Sixteen-team playoff. Ten automatic berths for conference champions (Big East, ACC, SEC, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac 10, MWC, WAC, MAC, Conference USA). Six at-large. First round on campus, at the higher seeded team. Quarters, semis, and championship game at neutral sites. Four consecutive Saturdays, beginning on the second Saturday in December. The NCAA will make more on the football playoffs than it does on the basketball tournament.
jk
@SFAW:
This is still a free country and I have a constitutional right to say that the NY Jets are scum, that their head coach is a nauseating obnoxious blowhard, and that the biggest asshole hosts in sports talk radio are diehard Jets fans. No, I’m not Rick Santelli.
Capiche paisan?
burnspbesq
@MikeJ:
Might have gotten one going if Australia hadn’t sucked. The England post-series party lasted longer than most Australian innings.
Maybe during the world cup next month.
SFAW
“You’ve … you’ve got a nice army base here, Colonel. We wouldn’t want anything to happen to it. ”
“We can guarantee you that not a single
armoured divisionstar quarterback, whose jock Mark Sanchez is not fit to sniff, will get done over for fifteen bob a week. “burnspbesq
@jk:
Sì, abbiamo capito che sei un asino
eemom
football will be over soon.
jk
Reminder
Tomorrow at 7:45 am – William Kristol live on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal
de stijl
OMFG The infamous Sarah Palin tries to shoot a caribou is on right now.
DPirate
Can someone suggest some websites to google so that I get scantily clad women or trees or sunsets to look at? I’m really tired of the ads I am seeing here (and elsewhere).
jk
@burnspbesq:
Jai guru deva om? or ¡Que linda! Me la traigo a Cuba La reina de la Mar Caribe Quiero sólo visitarla allí Y que triste que no puedo. ¡Vaya! O va, o va or Whatever
I used up all of my Italian vocabulary in my previous message
burnspbesq
@jk:
Quel dommage.
SFAW
Yes, you have a right to say that. In fact you have a right to say that FSM talks to you. The two statements have approximately the same truth value, so knock yourself out.
Yeah, yeah, and Lee Siegel never blogged as Sprezzatura. Me thinks the loo-zah doth protest too much.
Si, capisco, ma io non sono vostro paisan, idiota.
And it’s “capisce”, Signor Santelli (OK if I call you “Rico”?). “Capiche” is how the cheese-eating surrender monkeys would say it.
GregB
I’d like to encourage those on the left to show restraint and not jump to conclusions about this horrible incident the same way the political right behaved when that Negroe attacked the young, white John McCain staffer and used a knife to mutilate her face after he flew into a blackety black rage upon seeing her McCain bumper sticker.
It’s the least you can do.
sdstarr
I’m just looking forward to the Seattle Seahawks HOSTING the NFC title game versus Green Bay. It is theoretically possible. Somewhere in the multi-universe.
SFAW
Ooh, lookit all the furriner-talk!
Not that you understood any of it, Scheisskopf.
Mark S.
3 team, 35 player player deal going down in the NBA. The Nets will be Carmelo Anthony and the 2004 Pistons. The Nuggets get some draft picks and a bunch of guys I’ve never heard of (well, I’ve heard of Devin Harris). The Pistons will get a couple packs of chewing gum and the most coveted asset in the NBA, cap relief.
SFAW
No, it isn’t, because the J-E-T-S suck!
Parallel 5ths (Jewish Steel)
January 9th, 2011 at 10:38 pm
@burnspbesq
“Are there no basketball fans on this blog?”
True to stereotype, here I am.
Svensker
@SFAW:
Excellent work. Rexy would be proud.
And Brady and some black ice. That’s a happy thought. Sweet dreams, all!
jk
@SFAW:
The Pats are taking the Jets down. Get used to it and go fuck yourself scumbag motherfucker.
Steelers R Bradys Bitches aka 2liberal
I think I am pulling for the Stillers over the ratbirds.
I hear that old man lebeau has revamped his defense, causing brady and belichick to lose sleep at night. Or possibly not.
I am still irrationally exuberant about the Patriots this year.
Tattoosydney
@burnspbesq:
I fix for you.
Steelers R Bradys Bitches aka 2liberal
@burnspbesq:
the suns just won a game. over the worst team in the league.
SFAW
Nah, I don’t wish that kind of injury on Brady (not even on Peyton). Of course, if Mo Lewis were somehow to get activated by the Jets, who knows what could happen?
SFAW
Aww, did widdle Rico get his fee-fees hurt? Too bad.
Go have your Momma kiss it and make it better, you candy-ass putz.
handy
@Mark S.:
I will, as they say in Sadlynaut land, Trust The Shorter and stay on the boat, thank you very much.
Lysana
@burnspbesq:
Oh, hi! Yeah. While waiting for the Patriots to turn the Jets into cannon fodder, I’ve been a bit busy praying for Kevin Garnett’s speedy recovery. You understand.
Paul
I’m pumped for a Packers/Steelers Super Bowl. Oh, the history! Oh, the humanity…
Also, my neighbor is driving me nuts with his blasted teevee. Can anyone recommend a good (and by good I mean excruciatingly awful) opera that I could share with him? Preferably one with banjos and accordions.
suzanne
@burnspbesq: I’m a Suns fan. Therefore, I am not watching any basketball this season.
Yutsano
@Tattoosydney: I sense salt. And wound. And possibly lemon juice. Also.
Hi hon. I do you favor, part way done.
@suzanne: I said the exact same thing re: Seachickens. I lasted two Sundays.
handy
@Paul:
How can the Stillers play the Pack in the Superbowl when the Pats beat the Ravens in the AFC :-P
BruceFromOhio
@mr. whipple: I’m looking forward to the crushed dreams and dashed hopes of either when they hit Foxboro. Muhuhuhahaha
burnspbesq
@Lysana:
The NBA? Blecch. I’d rather watch two bad Division 3 teams.
You wanna talk college, or even Euroleague, I am your guy.
Speaking of bad Division 3 teams, break up the Beavers! No, not Oregon State, Caltech. Four wins so far this season! (after a total of one win the previous two seasons) Although their 297-game conference losing streak remains intact, despite a near miss on Saturday against Pomona-Pitzer.
MikeJ
@Tattoosydney: My neighbors in suburban Seattle have no idea why drunken idiots are singing “Engerland, Engerland!”
I don’t think trying to explain cricket would get very far either.
burnspbesq
@suzanne:
Yeah, but even when the Suns suck, you still get to watch Steve Nash and Grant Hill. Life’s little pleasures etc.
Tattoosydney
@Yutsano:
Not really – I’m quite happy the English won, if only because it brings our fat, fatuous, dickhead cricket team down a few pegs. I just wish the English knew when to shut the fuck up.
Should I be scared?
BruceFromOhio
@eemom: yeah, yeah, death and taxes. The payoff comes with the unknown variables, like Marshawn Lynch and most of the Seattle offensive line scoring on a run up the middle, and how fucking cool is that? Yeah, it ends, just like everything else.
de stijl
@Paul:
Not opera, but Gorecki’s 3rd (aka Sorrowful Songs). Kinda painful plus it’s about the Holocaust and he’ll start crying and stuff. This works really well if he’s a goy Pole and super-sensitive.
SFAW
Which reminded me, yer Momma said “Hi”, but I don’t think she appreciated being called a scumbag.
Yutsano
@Tattoosydney: Check your e-mail, then make that determination. I promise I was nowhere near as mean to you as the guy who called me from the Republic of Michigan. Tax protestors r fun!
Tattoosydney
@Yutsano:
And the English cricket team is cuter than the Aussie team on the whole…
ETA: Both links have NSFW photos
BruceFromOhio
Can’t decide which is better, a Patriots/Falcons SB or a Patriots/Bears replay of SB XX with teams more evenly matched. Just have to muddle through all this excess to get there.
Ravens/Steelers, my money is on Russian space junk or a meteor. Either will suffice.
Yutsano
@Tattoosydney: And apparently much more willing to show skin. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. Kudos to the one who said fuck all and posed for the gay mag too.
BruceFromOhio
@Tattoosydney: Cricket teams only have one guy?
Parallel 5ths (Jewish Steel)
@burnspbesq
College ball? With its walk it up the floor 35 second shot clock? Its molases in winter screen rolls? Its sub 40% shooting? Its no-good try-hard white guys?
Puh-leze.
Paul
@de stijl:
Thanks for the suggestion, but if he was a super-sensitive goy Pole I doubt there’d be a problem. I’m more of the super-sensitive goy Pole type and lately I don’t need additional things to cry about.
Maybe I’ll just go with The Shaggs or Pat Boone’s In a Metal Mood. But Beverly Sills with a jug band would cheer me up and send the right message.
Yutsano
@Paul:
Is that even legal?
Paul
@handy:
A man can dream. And the odds are better than the Powerball.
de stijl
@Paul:
Maybe he’s a super-sensitive goy Pole who’s let his hearing aid battery go and so he has to turn his TV up really loud. You don’t have to put up with that. I certainly wouldn’t.
If you’re lucky you get him crying really hard. You know like when you’re crying so hard, and you can’t breathe but you still can’t stop, and snot is like coming out of that corner of your eyeball crying. He’s super-sensitive so he has all of that residual guilt.
Steelers R Bradys Bitches aka 2liberal
@burnspbesq:
hill got hurt early tonight with a sprained knee.
Yutsano
@Paul: Klingon opera. I think there are a few performances by bad amateurs on the Net somewhere. That should work.
Tattoosydney
@BruceFromOhio:
They have 12, but some of them you don’t want to see with their pants off…
Parallel 5ths (Jewish Steel)
Euroleague, however, intrigues me. If I had the time, I’d like to explore what’s going on there for sure. I love me some 7footers who can shoot. The trapezoidal painted area. Plus, goal-tending, right?
freelancer
@Tattoosydney:
TS, most people on the planet, you don’t want to see with their pants off. Just sayin’.
Tattoosydney
@freelancer:
Very very true.
Paul
@Yutsano:
Amateur Klingon opera. Brilliant! But almost certainly illegal.
@de stijl:
The very image takes the edge off, somehow.
jk
@SFAW:
“Yer Momma said “Hi”, but I don’t think she appreciated being called a scumbag.”
Stay classy. Last week was the anniversary of my mom’s death. You are a clueless, smouldering sack of shit.
I insulted the NY Jets. I didn’t make any personal derogatory comments about you, you fucking pussy.
You took my dissing of the Jets and made it personal.
Is your life so fucking empty and devoid of meaning that you feel an irresistible compulsion to insult me personally because I dissed your beloved NY Jets.
What the fuck is your goddamn problem you stupid fucking cocksucker?
Go fuck yourself silly, then drop dead, and rot in Hell you motherfucking scumsucking douchebag.
Ron
I’m looking forward to it too, but I wouldn’t bet any money on either team. but…Go Steelers!
frosty
@burnspbesq: Wow!! An SCIAA reference (did I get the letters right?) I once got remonstrated for inappropriate cheering at a Claremont-Mudd Stags game, to wit:
We eat Wheaties!
We are fit!
The other team doesn’t!
They eat (clap clap)
Sh……redded wheat!
frosty +1
Yutsano
@Ron: There are a shit ton of folks who are kicking themselves right now for not betting on the Seahacks yesterday. If you had laid down a C note, you’d be rather pleased with the results.
KG
@burnspbesq: Big West basketball, Long Beach State is 4-0 in conference after a rough non-conference schedule. Good shot at making the tournament. Sure, it’s not Division 3, but then again, it is the Big West, so, not that far away.
Though I do love me some Lakers basketball. It’d be nice if they got their shit together at some point, but hey, could be worse… I could be something that resembles a Clippers fan.
Yutsano
@KG:
Ha! I scoff at you good sir. You and I are both aware there is no such animal on this Earth.
burnspbesq
@Parallel 5ths (Jewish Steel):
The NBA, where every “play” is a thinly disguised iso and defense is a word with even less meaning than “conservative?”
Barf.
The best players in the NBA have their most fun, and get their best results, playing for a college coach.
The best fundamental basketball in the world today is played in the WNBA.
KG
@frosty: hahaha, I almost got in a fight in the bleachers of a SCIAC women’s water polo game when my sister played at La Verne. Those were the days.
frosty
@SFAW: Hell, in all my decades, I never heard that comeback. FTW, baby!!
handy
@KG:
The most exciting pro baller in LA is Blake Griffin.
/stirring the pot
KG
@Yutsano: no, I’ve actually met one, one of my boys from high school is a legit Clippers fan.
KG
@handy: Griffin is a hell of a player, I’m hoping the Clippers Curse doesn’t turn him into Danny Manning.
SFAW
jk –
Time to go back on your meds, bucko.
No, I took your dissing of the Jets and, in my own inimitable fashion, pointed out how fucking empty your life is, and how fucking angry you are about something as inconsequential as the AFC playoffs, and made fun of that, because you’re a fucking joke. Of course, you’re also practiced at the art of projection. (“Empty life” and so forth)
Just tired of dealing with morons like you.
Normally, I’d try to oblige such a nicely-worded request, but part of it is physically impossible for me (I’ve never been mistaken for John C. Holmes, although I’m sure you have, tough guy), and the rotting in Hell part will probably have to wait a little while longer. But I’ll keep you posted, because FSM knows, you’re a caring and concerned individual.
Ciao!
SFAW
frosty –
Thanks, but which one are you talkin’ ’bout? (Not that I’d ever get to use it again, but it’s good to know what works.)
Morbo
@Paul: Don’t sell the bagpipes short. I happen to think this is damn good, but if you turn it up just during the wind instruments it could be pretty irritating.
Mark S.
@handy:
Blake Griffin is the man. I can’t wait until his contract is up and he can go play for a real team.
@burnspbesq:
What do you mean? Most college coaches flame out in the NBA (Pitino, Calipari, to name a few). Or are you talking about playing in the Olympics for Coach K? Yeah, I guess Kobe and LeBron had fun beating up on Angola, but I don’t know if they’d list it as their best results.
SFAW
Sorry, I hate to disagree with a fellow Jets fan, but I think Mark S. is right on this one.
I think that’s probably been true for awhile. But I ain’t an expert.
morzer
@SFAW:
I see that jk is busily making friends and influencing people again.
jk
@SFAW:
You are a low rent asshole who lacks any sense of perspective or proportionality.
Before you make assumptions about the value of someone else’s life, take a look in the mirror.
Given the content and style of your posts, your use of the word moron is clearly self-referential.
Up yours.
SFAW
@morzer:
Nah, he’s just (apparently) royally pissed at me.
I’ve been trying to figure out what would get me that pissed – including whether I’d get bent about someone doing the Dozens on me. Would this fat guy go nutzoid over my own (late) Mom getting dissed? I’d like to think not. But that’s just me, and I’m apparently a motherfucking scumsucking douchebag. At least I’m not a pencil-necked geek.
Thoroughly Pizzled
Fatal Staples Center Collapse Brings Merciful Early End to Clippers Game
morzer
@SFAW:
It’s probably frustrated man-love for Mark Sanchez. A classic case of bitterness born from rejection, methinks. The fire of passion has scorched deep in his marrow.
handy
@Thoroughly Pizzled:
Hah, “For more on this miraculous story…”
freelancer
@jk:
@SFAW:
Chill the fuck out, please. Both of you.
SFAW
jk –
Sorry, but the “I know you are, but what am I?” retort is even lame for seven-year-olds, which is approximately where your mental and emotional development currently lies.
Moron? Yeah, maybe I am. But I’d venture that my intellect is still light-years ahead of yours, SFB – even with half my brain tied behind my back.
And I don’t generally make assumptions, I just go on the evidence available. And the evidence shows that – unless you’re doing all this as a parody troll, which I tend to doubt – that you’re someone who hates the Jets so much, that your derangement comes through in your posts magnificently. Sorry if you can’t see it – recognition of the problem is the first step towards solution.
Gotta go, I’m off to kick some puppies.
morzer
@jk:
Careful, lad, or he’ll taunt you again.
Besides, we all know you’re doing it with coconuts.
Yutsano
@morzer: Oh I get it. We’re taking a Tim-JC unrequited love thang. Lovely.
handy
@Thoroughly Pizzled:
Actually that whole clip is full of win.
SFAW
freelancer –
I understand your concern, don’t blame you. FWIW, I’m actually fairly chill at the moment. If I weren’t, my posts would be more like those of some other guy here. (Although maybe they are anyway?)
Thanks, I’ll try not to go overboard.
Morbo
@Thoroughly Pizzled: Here I was about to say that sounded like a good Onion headline…
SFAW
???
Ron
@Yutsano: Uh, yeah, I think if I were betting I woulda taken the Hawks +10, but it’s not clear.
morzer
@SFAW:
Monty Python, Holy Grail.
“You’re doing it with coconuts!”
SFAW
morzer –
Thanks, thought it might be that, but I didn’t remember the line.
Must be getting (more) senile. Shit.
burnspbesq
@jk:
Off the deep end much?
Here’s a chill pill, and here’s a bottle of water. You know what to do. I hope.
burnspbesq
@KG:
I’ve never quite understood why both the men’s and women’s teams at Pomona are the Sagehens. Shouldn’t the men be Sageroosters, or something?
SFAW
I dunno, if SpongeBob can have “Mermaid Man”, then anything is possible.
I can’t believe I just wrote that. Please don’t tell my kids, they’ll think I’m an even bigger dork than they already do.
Parallel 5ths (Jewish Steel)
@burnspbesq:
The fundamentals of the WNBA are clear and easy to admire because it moves so damn slow. And with a shooting percentage in the 30s? That means 7 out of 10 shots go clank! Next your going to tell me how much you admire a crisp bounce pass. That’s not basketball your watching, it’s kitsch.
You’ve been watching too much Lakers if you think it’s all iso all the time. The triangle is a grinding thing esp with an aging superstar. Those latter day Bulls teams were like trench warfare near the end there.
NBA players do things your college and WNBA players could never do on practically every play.
Plus, I once had this experience with a girl who was sort of a chunky Diana Taurasi…
Yutsano
@SFAW: They’re kids. That’s their job.
Oh and a little something to mull over, yeah that Mark Sanchez is a total tool.
frosty
@SFAW: This one:
Turning “scumbag MF” into
Well, duh. Instead of F’ing your own M, your F’ing his, and instead of you being the scumbag, it’s his M. Really nice twist. And I’m sorry I got into this discussion, seeing what level of discourse it descended to in a couple of other posts.
morzer
@Yutsano:
Yup, we need more denunciations of these people. Who do they think they are, showing humanity and compassion to dying children?
Seriously, mad props to Sanchez for this, whatever happens to him in the playoffs or the NFL.
Yutsano
@morzer: Honestly, if there’s a smart enough woman out there, she marries that guy. He just has good dad written all over him.
freelancer
@Yutsano:
You ass, I kept reading that article thinking that Sanchez was going to turn into some prima donna Hollywood douche, and now I’m moved. There might be tears, and dammit, I now have 2 horses in the AFC. (Go Stillers!)
Speaking of tears, anyone notice Boehner conspicuously not crying about what happened Saturday morning?
Yutsano
@freelancer: That’s now at least two decent things I can think of that have come out of USC. Their band is still a bunch of pompous jackasses though.
J. Michael Neal
It turns out that, in addition to having been born on 9/11/01, the 9-year old girl yesterday was also the granddaughter of Dallas Green, an executive for the Philadelphia Phillies and their manager when they won the World Series in 1980. Her father is a scout for the LA dodgers.
Yutsano
@J. Michael Neal: I had to tell a friend of mine in Afghanistan about the girl. He knew about the federal judge and noted that the shooter is eligible for the death penalty because of that. But like me the girl’s death disturbed him more. I think his having a two year old son kind of made it hit home.
burnspbesq
@Yutsano:
If you can play like the Spirit of Troy, you get to be pompous. It ain’t bragging if you can back it up.
Yutsano
@burnspbesq: Grambling University called. They accept your challenge.
(Honestly, I’m not sure that’s fair. HBCU bands are a total different level.)
NobodySpecial
I give Jets fans a break. I mean, what else have they got to be proud of? The Nyets? Plus, you know, like Bruce said, “New Jersey in the morning like a lunar landscape”.
SFAW
frosty –
That’s the one I thought, just figured it was better to confirm.
Sorry for dragging you (so to speak) into the love fest. It does seem to have been taken to the next level, as the sports guys would say.
I’ve taken my ‘Ludes today, so I’ll probably be a little more mellow.
SFAW
Bruce Coslet? Some guy sending pictures of his naughty bits to some woman? (Not saying who that guy is, outta respect for asiangrrlMN, but he has some French-sounding last name that even HE mispronounces.)
On the plus side, I liked Keyshawn, wish he was still playing (although keeping him the same age as he useta wuz).
SFAW
No fair! Chunky Bobo probably has no idea who she is.
That said, I guess I’m envious. (Just don’t tell Mrs. SFAW I said that, OK?)
SadOldVet
I’m pumped for the Ravens/Stillers game next week.
Are you sure that you did not mean the Stealers?
Svensker
@Yutsano:
Well, that had me bawling my eyes out. Sweet Jesus.
BruceFromOhio
@Yutsano:
Holy crap, no more knocking on the Jets or Sanchez. I regret that they’ll get pounded by the Patriots, but Mark Sanchez gets mad props for brightening the last days of a little kid.
SFAW
While what Sanchez did was certainly high-class, that should not make him (or the Jets) immune from criticism or trash-talk. Yes, I’m being serious.
Since the above comment is probably getting met with a “WTF?”, given last night’s pitched battle(s), I’ll explain why I wrote it:
I see it as the other side of the coin from Elliott Spitzer. Spitzer did a great job as NY AG. Should those accomplishments get ignored because of the scandal which drove him from the Governor’s job? I don’t think so.
Should Sanchez’s or the Jets’ on-field performance get ignored because he is, and some of the rest of the team may be, great person(s). I don’t think so. (BTW, that’s not a snark-like “I don’t THINK so!”)
OK, time to get off the soapbox, and back to being an asshole.
BruceFromOhio
@SFAW:
Criticism is fair (“that throw was WEAK, who the hell was he throwing to?”), but “yer mother” and “stupid, obnoxious” trash comments just don’t hold in light of that story. There simply isn’t enough good shit happening in the world, so when it’s discovered, it’s got to be elevated, defended, admired. C’mon, even a cold-hearted SOB like you has to admit that Sanchez did something good there. How many selfish millionaire pricks in the NFL could learn something humbling and defining from such actions?
If you’re going to be an asshole to, about or because of someone, at the very least be accurate. Or stand ready to be ridiculed and then ignored, or worse.
Agreed. Braylon Edwards, for example, does not get a pass, literally or figuratively.
SFAW
Bruce –
I meant criticism for his on-field stuff, not the off-field stuff. Sorry that I left that out of my comment. Not sure if it changes your reply, but I wanted to clarify.
I’m only cold-hearted when it comes to Republicans and their bullshit. Well, maybe one other time.
I agree. I thought that my “what Sanchez did was certainly high-class” conveyed that. Did you think I was joking or being snarky? I wasn’t. So is there a beef here? Or is this just a holdover from last night’s flame wars? Or what?
And the Horse He Rode In on
Cravens and Stealers – can both teams lose, please
Has the bloghost started complaining about how massively the refs are cheating in favor of the Ravens?
Go SeaChickens
BruceFromOhio
@SFAW: Oh, no, no beef. I’m just being a prick, and standing up for someone(s) who did something worthy. Your thoughts on the Jets are well-known.