Posting will be light (from me at least) because I am busy pacing and being a basket case.
GO STILLERS!
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Posting will be light (from me at least) because I am busy pacing and being a basket case.
GO STILLERS!
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Paul in KY
John, I’m a Browns fan, so you know what I’m going to say:
‘Rot in Hell, Art Modell!!’
Go Steelers!!!
Mark S.
Oh, are they playing today?
Let’s see, I’ve always hated the Ravens, I hate Roethlisberger, and the Jets have been classless dipshits the past week. I guess I want the Pats to win by default.
joe from Lowell
Think the networks will show any of the feet-related signs in the stands in Foxborough tomorrow?
Michael D.
Perhaps this will calm you down – a nice, sane leader of the RNC has been elec…
Ok, I can’t finish that without laughing.
joe from Lowell
I think it’s funny when teams send a corner blitz at Roethilesberger, and he plants the guy with one hand.
Come on, man! A corner blitz? What do you think is going to happen?
geg6
My John and I have brand new Steeler gear and we’re fired up and ready to go. We’re headed to a party at our local VFW to hang around with a bunch of Islamofascist commie Stiller fans who once infiltrated our glorious military. This, unfortunately, means that they like the swarthy usurper in the White House and worship at the altar of Black and Gold, making them Not Real Americans. If the Stillers lose, we plan to blood libel Sarah Palin by blaming the loss on her.
Mark S.
Does anyone speak matako? What the hell is she talking about on the Tunisia thread?
Paul in KY
@geg6: If y’all lose today (at home), then surely Sarah! will be the reason.
I personally wouldn’t mind 7 million or so pissed off Steeler fans after her greasy ass. Also. Too.
BGinCHI
After NE loses tomorrow, I hope DougJ goes back to his real name. Or he has a contest to see who can come up with a better name for him.
MikeBoyScout
Pro sports is the 21st century opium of our masses.
And today’s game is a high we’ve earned.
GO STILLERS!
billgerat
@Paul in KY:
I was gonna say….I have no great love for the Steelers since they played the Seahawks in the Superbowl, but I absolutely can’t stand the Ravens. I hope there’s a special place in Hell for Art.
Irsay too, but not as much. The NFL should make it a rule that any team that moves must leave the name and records in the vacated city like the Ravens had to.
And I miss the Oilers.
The Dangerman
No dog in the hunt, but I hope the Ref’s let ’em play. No autopsy, no personal foul.
J.W. Hamner
Dude, we still have 3.5 hours until Armageddon. Play some WoW for chissakes. But…
GO RAVENS!
morzer
It must be difficult to be John Cole, waking up naked and shivering at the bottom of a pit and hearing a feline voice growl from the shadows up above:
“It wears the Joe Flacco costume, or it gets the hose again”.
Paul in KY
@billgerat: My sentiments too.
BDR
I know Cole is from the Pittsburgh area, but really, the only worse than rabid Cowboys fans who’ve never been in Texas are rabid Steelers fans who’ve never been in Western Pennsylvania. Guarantee you they’re not Pirate fans.
Go Ravens.
Paul in KY
@morzer: I don’t think Tunch likes Ravens as anything but a tasty snack.
morzer
@Paul in KY:
Hmmm..but who do you think ends up having to play the Ravens when Cole and Tunch do their pre-game skirmish? I am pretty sure Tunch always gets to choose.
khead
Pitt (-3.5)
Paul in KY
@morzer: Great point. Hadn’t thought of that.
Wouldn’t think John wants to piss him off (more than he probably does anyway).
Montysano
On Sunday, 8″ of snow fell in 5 hours here in north Alabama. Today, 8″ of snow remains on the ground. A bad case of Cabin Fever has set in, so we’re thinking “The King’s Speech” might be a fine idea.
RoryBellows
This should be another classic. I’m feeling good about the Ravens.
Ed in NJ
Should be the last weekend we need to talk about the Steelers for the next couple of months. Jets, too.
Tim
JC, question: Do you REALLY, HONESTLY get this neurotic over the football games, or are you wildly exaggerating for humorous effect?
Cause…if it’s the former, you might need to get a life.
If it’s the latter, I’m there with you. Having grown up and lived most of my life in the dead (and I do mean DEAD) center of the country, I remain an Oklahoma Sooner football and Kansas Jayhawk basketball fan, and enjoy following the games. BUT there is little that is more pathetic than the over the top, get a life already, sort of psycho/obsessive fandom displayed by the spittle-spraying Boston Red Sox fans where I now live. It’s kind of sad.
It’s fun and diverting to follow sports, but if that’s all one thinks or talks about or emotionally invests in…wow…and that’s the impression I get from a lot of RS fans here.
Barb (formerly Gex)
@joe from Lowell: Back when Daunte Culpepper didn’t entirely suck, I loved when a corner blitz ended up with a tiny cornerback just bouncing off of him.
hildebrand
Today was bottling day in the great home brewing experiment (this is my first stab at the home brewing bit). Now the hard part – waiting two weeks for bottle conditioning.
mr. whipple
Dood, you got it in the bag. Relax.
That said, this is gonna be some smashmouth football.
Redshift
@Mark S.: I don’t think anyone does. Do not look too long into the abyss…
Loneoak
Gonna cook me up a nice pot of red beans and rice for the Packers game. Clay Matthews is going to murder some fools.
BGinCHI
@Loneoak: Go Pack!
jeffreyw
Unless I hit a snag, it’ll be cream of asparagus, potato, cheese, and bacon soup.
PS
@Michael D.: Remove the vowels from his name and you have:
RNC PR BS
[via asiangrrrlMN at TBogg’s place, who got it from Agnes who got it from Jim …]
morzer
Ravens, Falcons, Bears and Patriots to advance.
I’d like to see the Ravens, Packers, Seahawks and the Peppermint Toesuckers advance, but it is as it is.
hitchhiker
Maybe I’m just in a bad mood this morning, but finding a stupid racist joke in my mailbox from my stupid racist older brother pissed me off enough to follow it to the bottom and see who started it. Turns out the sender was employed at L-3 Communications. Who dat?
The dumbass used his work email to forward said stupid racist joke. I think I’m breaking the rules in telling you all about it, because the very last thing in the email (now forwarded to god knows how many inboxes) is this:
Oops!
What is the highly confidential information that our correspondent saw fit to pass along to those of us who are not foreign persons?
A joke that begins like this:
The L-3 Communications employee who sent this garbage out is named Gary Nason. The joke ends this way:
Our homeland security dollars at work.
Steelers R Bradys Bitches aka 2liberal
Go Ratbirds! Lose, but cause lots of injuries! Especially to anyone with a first name like Troy.
WyldPirate
@joe from Lowell:
With Roethelsberger? Perhaps a pending sexual assault case.
Yutsano
@WyldPirate: What I really wanna know is what idiot father let Roethlisberger get close enough to actually pop the question. Though I suppose this could be a psy-op by his agent to try and get him back into respectability. And yes said affianced is unnamed.
morzer
@Yutsano:
Rumors say she has beautiful big brown eyes and a bell round her neck.
matoko_chan
Anyone not into meatpuppets bashing each others brains out in the name of sport should go see The Black Swan.
Again.
its amazing.
Barb (formerly Gex)
@Yutsano: Are you sure consent was involved in the engagement? He doesn’t seem to require that in a partner.
Yutsano
@morzer: Cudlip. :)
@Barb (formerly Gex): Should said female actually exist, I’m more interested in what kind of father lets a man with a long reputation of disrespectful conduct towards women anywhere near his daughter. Star-struck or just disinterested I guess. The third option is absent.
morzer
@Yutsano:
Shhh. You’ll make Matoko Roethlisberger blush. She doesn’t want people to know just yet.
Mark S.
@Barb (formerly Gex):
Are those off-duty cops who guarded the door going to be the best men?
Yutsano
@morzer: Oops. My bad. Guess I’ll just slink off into the nothingness now.
Besides which, I feel slightly bad. I caught her in a moment of intellectual laziness and can’t really follow up on it as I’m preparing to leave for the weekend. It promises to be kinda fun for me too.
freelancer
@matoko_chan:
How about in the name of blasphemy?
morzer
@Mark S.:
Might be hard to find bridesmaids as well. I wonder whether they’ll conscript the cheerleaders? And what would the pay be? Double time? Triple time? Octuple time?
morzer
@Yutsano:
A moment of intellectual laziness? My dear sir, she’s had a lifetime of it!
What fun do you purpose? Is the sultry siren of ‘Sota joining you?
joe from Lowell
@Mark S.:
As always, “Ha ha ha! Puny hu-mans!”
Yutsano
@morzer: Nah, just a jaunt to the folks’ ranch for the weekend. Roads in the mountains are wide open so I’m in no hurry as to departure time. Four hour drive and I’m there. And AAA in case things go boingo on the trip.
And I really want to choke Makoto’s brain on the notion that there are Americans who indeed have studied the Islamic world and understand the dynamics of what may indeed be happening in Tunisia. And honestly I see a shit ton of bullshit being thrown around by a lot of folks.
morzer
@Yutsano:
Choked Matoko Brain? An interesting dish, but where will you find the major ingredient?
WyldPirate
@Yutsano:
Big Ben is like a lot of dudes, particularly jocks. He gets liqoured-up, little head starts over-ruling the big one and trouble ensues.
As to your question, sometimes, some chicks dig bad boys and daddy can’t keep them away from ’em. Then you’ve got Kanye’s girls–the Golddiggers.
It’s a hazardous world out there for those pro athletes. Can’t even chase some leg without being a little paranoid. At least I hope Big Ben is a little paranoid now and has maybe learned what the word “no” means. I think he is all out of “strikes” at this point.
Punchy
matoko seems….concerned.
Paul in KY
@morzer: Octuple time will get people to do many, many things they wouldn’t normally.
morzer
@Punchy:
Is “concerned” the new “sociopathic”?
Polar Bear Squares
John I love this blog. But I’m kinda glad you’re a Steelers fan. Seeing how I hate the Steelers (Cowboys fan … I puke everytime I see that smug punk Sexualmisconduct-berger) I think it’s good to see people you respect to have flaws. And being a Steeler fan is a HUGE flaw. Keeps you off a pedestal.
I can’t root for them but I wish you all the best of luck. At least your team is still in the hunt.
Many blessings.
PBS
Ron
Well, I got beer for the game today. I think probably both Ravens fans and Steelers fans feel like alcohol and/or antacids are necessary for these games. Our household is going doubly crazy today since my wife is from Green Bay originally and has no doubts as to who she is rooting for. (What we do if somehow there is a Packers – Steelers superbowl has yet to be determined)
Batocchio
Yeah, I’ll be feeling the same way during the Packers game later tonight. Good luck to the Steelers! Beat the Ravens and the Pats! (Or the Jets if there’s an upset.)
Svensker
@morzer:
Ha ha ha. Good one.
(Too bad your team didn’t make the playoffs.)
stuckinred
Anybody have a Stressless recliner?
Yutsano
@Svensker: Mine did. Whether they should have is another debate for another time. But seeing the 12th man flag on top of the Space Needle told this thing has now gone too damn far. I’d be totally okay if they lost tomorrow.
Svensker
@Yutsano:
Nah, it’s all good. I think it would be great if the Hawks advanced and you gotta give the 12th Man credit — the team has sucked so long but the fans hang in.
I’m just hoping somebody knocks out Dr. Faust’s team before the SB — I’m just afraid it’s not going to be the Jetties tomorrow.
morzer
@Svensker:
I agree it was not a feet which I expected from the Peppermint Toesuckers.
J. Michael Neal
ODIs are a decidedly inferior form of cricket, but there’s a fabulous one coming to its end down in South Africa. The South African tail seems to have bailed out the middle of the order. They need four runs with eight overs and two wickets left. India needs some big time bowling, starting right now.
J. Michael Neal
Oooh, and there goes Morne Morkel. Three runs, or one last wicket.
S. cerevisiae
@Polar Bear Squares: Drew Pearson pushed off!
S. cerevisiae
@stuckinred: No, but I want one. They are ridiculously comfortable.
J.A.F. Rusty Shackleford
How long do you think it will take the wingnuts to attack Ron Reagan?
J. Michael Neal
@S. cerevisiae: God, I hate shootouts. That said, I think we played better than you did last night. The officiating was brutal, and I think it hurt us, but it was so bad that I’m not sure of that.
And it’s always nice to see the men get a win up in Grand Forks. Ugly, ugly incident at the end of the second period, though.
stuckinred
@S. cerevisiae: They have a sale where you get $200 with a $50 donation to united way. That would make their cheapest one about $1200.
J. Michael Neal
And Munaf Patel gets Parnell to cut the ball to point. India survives, and the South Africans have no one to blame but themselves. Oh, and the refs, for giving Johan Botha out for lbw when the ball never hit the pad.
matoko_chan
@freelancer: oh my bad…..let me rephrase.
is that bettah?
Cliff
@hildebrand:
simple solution to a coming problem …
When you want to sample one early .. Don’t.
When you want to go buy a case of beer cause this batch isn’t done? Don’t!
Buy another Fermenter instead (and stay sober for period X; X being the time it takes to piss away a sustainable brewery.).
http://www.austinhomebrew.com/index.php?cPath=178_53
morzer
@matoko_chan:
So, what caused your concussion then?
arguingwithsignposts
FYWP FYWP!
MoeLarryAndJesus
@hitchhiker:
That joke sounds like a variation of an old Cheech & Chong routine. But they were funny.
arguingwithsignposts
doc-u-mentary-heaven-dot-com is a great site. check it out. remove all the hyphens. And FYWP again.
techno
@stuckinred:
Yeah, we have two in the house. The best product out of Norway BY FAR. Why do you ask?
matoko_chan
.
SRSLY? name one…..there arent any IMHO.
because when muslims are democratically empowered to vote, they will vote for more islam, not less.
that seems gobsmackingly obvious to me.
Svensker
@morzer:
Sexy Rexy’s favorite sandwich? Five dollar foot long, acourse.
Apparently Billy Belichick’s favorite sandwich, both at home and on the job, is the one someone else has been eatin’ on.
adolphus
Great, the Baltimore Murderers versus the Pittsburgh Rapists. I wonder if the in-stadium jail will have a players’ section and a rocket-docket to arraign between quarters.
Go Ravens.
stuckinred
@techno: I’m shoppin. My people are from Stevanger.
Which has nothing to do with anything.
arguingwithsignposts
@matoko_chan:
Oh, shit. Your world is destroyed. A single counter-example is enough in mathematics, right? cudlip.
Paul in KY
@matoko_chan: I agree that when muslims have the chance to vote in free elections, they tend to vote for governments that will explicitly maintain the religous hegemony of Islam.
I personally don’t think you’re going out on a limb when you say that.
Sam Hutcheson
In the yearly contest between the Accessories To Double Murder and the Serial Rapists I think I have to default to the Accessories.
stuckinred
Go Falcons, Go Bears!!!!
S. cerevisiae
@J. Michael Neal: We’ll see how the rematch goes tonight. I am actually watching the rebroadcast of the Gopher-Sioux men’s game on the NHL network, it is one of the few chances I get to see a game on TV out here. I never mind seeing North Dakota get beat.
Sixers
Ravens 24 Steelers 21.
techno
@stuckinred:
Those Stressless are incredibly well made. Make certain you shop long enough to get one that fits you since they all come in an assortment of sizes.
One of our Stressless is 12 years old and the leather looks brand new. It is so buttery soft that our cat will sit almost nowhere else in the house–princess that she is.
FlipYrWhig
Is Ben Roethlisberger the least handsome quarterback ever to play the game? His face looks like one of the potatoes at the bottom of the bin. And it looked that way before the motorcycle accident too.
stuckinred
@techno: Thx, I’m over 6′ and I looked at their large and it seemed groovy. One issue, is a smaller person (wife) going to be ok in a bigger chair?
eemom
so, I have deducerated that this game today is the last chance for the Stealers, which is John’s team, to stay in the…… top four?
I haz that right?
arguingwithsignposts
@FlipYrWhig: I think there’s an Oakland QB who fairs worse. can’t recall his name atm.
stuckinred
@FlipYrWhig: Never saw YA huh?
Yutsano
@arguingwithsignposts: Gradkowski? He’s not THAT bad looking. Though there could be arguments made both ways.
techno
@stuckinred:
Get the wife one too. Because while she will be able to sit on your big chair, she will never know why you like it. A chair that fits is VERY important (as the Stressless sales honeys will be happy to tell you.)
stuckinred
@eemom: Sort of, the NFL playoffs are single elimination. You lose you go home. Right now there are 8 teams left, tomorrow at 7 there will be 4. Two of which will have the initials, Bears and Falcons!
BGinCHI
@stuckinred: One of my uncles was a stressless recliner.
He was also a lurker and a loiterer.
matoko_chan
@arguingwithsignposts: not a counter-example, sry.
there can certainly be islamic democracies based on enlightenment concepts.
Iraq is an example.
Shariah in the constitution, religious political parties, and the mullahs and imams still function as government advisors.
you FAIL again.
old harpy patrol — 0
matoko_chan — aleph nought
Paul in KY
@FlipYrWhig: I loved it when Terry Bradshaw was commenting in the wake of his Georgia pillaging & said that all those girls flocking around him aren’t doing it because of his noble countenance.
Paul in KY
@arguingwithsignposts: Maybe Kenny Stabler? He looked like a alcoholic hobo (late in his career).
stuckinred
@techno: We spent a good bit of dough on a sofa that still doesn’t cut it for me. We’d have to do it in phases.
Yutsano
@Paul in KY: And that may yet go down as the smartest thing that man has ever said.
stuckinred
@BGinCHI: The car wash on Lexinton road used to have a sign that said, “No Loitering, No Hanging Around”. It wasn’t far from our Down Town sign, classic city indeed!
Ailuridae
@WyldPirate:
With each successive comment you reveal yourself to be more of an ass hole.
techno
@stuckinred:
OK. Let her have the couch. I understand Stressless chairs are expensive, but they are an investment. And since bad chairs can lead to bad backs, we talking about potential REAL cost savings here. This is especially true for guys over 6′ tall.
stuckinred
@techno: Since I broke my in 1975 I guess I gets first dibs!
merrinc
@hitchhiker:
You reported him, right? I’d bet real money there’s company policy which strictly forbids that kind of nonsense. My husband works for a large utility which has been known to march former employees out of the building after doing a mass forward with one’s work email. I’m not usually a narc but I have zero tolerance for being included with eleventy billion other people on anything whether it’s a racist joke or a recipe or wishes for world peace.
Speaking of stupid emails, the chiropractor I saw a couple of times last spring put me on his mailing list. I usually hit delete and move on but I noticed the one I received yesterday invited me to his class on “Restoring America’s Constitution.” Geez, put a black guy in the White House and suddenly everybody’s a fucking constitutional expert. And yeah, I’ve already made a note to find a new chiro next time my back goes out.
Cliff
@merrinc:
this is a perfect time to send(Re:Email) a nice note explaining the free market to him, and why he won’t be getting more of your $$$
FlipYrWhig
@stuckinred: I dunno. YA Tittle still looks dignified, like an ancient Roman. Young Bradshaw kind of looks like Favre. Roethlisberger’s head looks like a Nerf ball that’s been left out in the rain. Lumpy, pocked, and asymmetrical.
Old Dan and Little Ann
ETK 10 minutes. Here we go Steelers!
asiangrrlMN
@PS: That’s so freaking funny because I posted it here, too, at some point last night. Heh.
@morzer: Sultry siren of ‘Sota? Melikey!
Whazzup, bitchez? Stillers and the Pack today, Bears and the Jets tomorrow (for whom I am rooting–not necessarily who I think will win).
morzer
@asiangrrlMN:
Ravens, Pack, Winged Tuna, Peppermint Toesuckers are the rootees for me. But I reckon that only the Ravens will come through.
And sultry siren of ‘Sota is well deserved.
arguingwithsignposts
Oakland QB was the guy with the pig nose and pockmarked face. Gack, why can’t I think of his name?
asiangrrlMN
@morzer: Winged Tuna? Seattle Seahawks? Nice. I really like Peppermint Toesuckers. And, aw, shucks. Blush. Thanks. See ya in the new thread.
@arguingwithsignposts: Oh, shit. I know who you mean. I can see his face, but I can’t remember his name.
Paul in KY
@arguingwithsignposts: Jim Plunkett maybe?
arguingwithsignposts
Plunkett, yes, that’s him.
Thanks
Paul in KY
@arguingwithsignposts: I am a font of trivial knowledge ;-)
lost in GA
Sweet.