There’s a very strange match going on right now in the English Premier League. Reading led twice against table toppers Manchester United and are currently down 3 – 4 early in the second half. Not so much brilliant forward play as shit defending from both teams, especially the supposedly far superior United.
@JPL:
They probably haven’t made the decision yet. There are contracts and tickets and all that to consider. The players might still want to play. It might be better to get some fan support for the team for a game.
This was a murder suicide and that’s a really awful thing for the team. The coaches must be devastated.
9.
Ted & Hellen
Go Jayhawks, beat WVU.
(Not likely, but thought I’d root for my old school.) :D
I can’t believe they haven’t canceled Sunday’s game yet.
Empty gesture.
I’m not sure cancelling a multi million dollar event which 80,000 people and more have planned their weekend around, is a necessary thing.
Why not just have a moment of silence?
11.
AnotherBruce
@Maude: The Head Coach and the General Manager, Romeo Crennel and Scott Pioli were both there when he pulled the suicide trigger. It happened right as the police showed up.
God stuff like this is just so crushing.
12.
Amir Khalid
@Maude:
I’d have thought that a traumatic event like this would be an automatic cancellation. If I were a Chiefs player, I wouldn’t be in the right frame of mind for a game. And if I were a fan, I’d be in no mood for it either.
@Amir Khalid:
The fans have planned on going to the game. Nothing is going to change what happened. Sometimes it is best to keep going after a tragedy.
15.
catclub
I think Miami should be fined for a poor effort against the Spurs second team. Aren’t the guys on the court supposed to play their best?
16.
? Martin
Well, I’m not getting my hair cut any time soon. My barber is a huge Chiefs fan and was already upset enough by their season.
It’s always tragic. I’ve dealt with 3 suicides this year – 2 being coworkers. Didn’t see either of those coming. It knocks you out of body for about a week.
17.
Amir Khalid
@Maude:
A year or so ago, a football match in the German Bundesliga (the top division) was called off after the match referee had attempted suicide in his hotel room. A sporting event, even if it involves the weekend plans of tens of thousands of fans, is surely not more important than the great tragedy that has happened here. Cancelling the match won’t bring back Belcher or the mother of his child, but it feels wrong to me to carry on as though the football were the most important thing here.
ETA: I think Martin #16 explains why cancelling the match is the right thing to do.
Should the fans decide whether or not the team play? I don’t think so. The coaches witnessed something, they can’t get over and shouldn’t need to prepare a team to play. The NFL needs to step it up and make the decision for folks who not thinking straight. The Panthers are on the way but they can also just fly back to Carolina.
also, too nbc sports is saying the Kansas City mayor wants them to play. Maybe he should suit up.
20.
? Martin
@MikeJ: Foxconn doesn’t have 1/50th the suicide rate as the US educational system.
21.
Raven
GO DAWGS!!!!
22.
Sgaile-beairt
ot but what is it, with upstate ny??? first there was carl paladino, now this newspaper guy with the sexist rrant about movies, who turned the niagara Falls weekly into a Teaparty rant, turns out to be a semi slumlord business riavl of paladino’s…and, get this, a True believer in P.O.E.!!
@Raven: I hope that a few Bama players are nervous nellies.
I’m about ready to chop down some trees. When I first moved to GA, leaves were down around Halloween. Now I’m lucky if they have fallen by Thanksgiving. I figure I have another week because of a lovely oak tree.
27.
Evolving Deep Southerner
@Raven: Hell yes. If Murray’s on, and the O-Line can hold, we can win this God damn game. Whoever wins will beat the Irish like people used to beat their children.
28.
huckster
@Raven: I know, I was Columbia in October, I don’t think I can stand to see that happen again.
29.
ceece
Yay Stanford, goin’ to the Rose Bowl!
and (Andrew) Luck had nothing to do with it.
John Elway didn’t go, Bill Walsh didn’t go, Luck didn’t go, but Coach Shaw and freshman QB Kevin Hogan are headed to Pasadena for New Year’s. Yay!
never in my life did I think Stanford would get 3 BCS bowl games in a row.
30.
Gordon, the Big Express Engine
At MLS cup final tailgate. Flight in from Houston this morning. Go Dynamo!!!!
31.
Raven
@huckster: Whew, that may have been the best thing that could have happened to us.
32.
Raven
“Little people can’t block big people,” Grantham said. “When you have big people, you don’t have to commit all your defensive backs to the run game. You can play what I call a seven-and-a-half-man box. You got the extra half guy in the secondary because your guys up front can seal off gaps and hold the point.
33.
JPL
Cole’s team is winning. There will be a party tonight on the blog.
34.
Raven
@JPL: Man, it’s on the “D” channel. Took me forever to find it!
35.
MikeJ
@ceece: Always nice to see a junior college do well.
36.
ET
DRoooollllll TIDE ROLL!!!!!
37.
Raven
Oh swell, Lundquist and Danielson.
38.
Raven
Aite, I can’t fuck with no blog shit during this one, I’m out. Fuck Alabama, GO DAWGS!
Watching the Sooners pissing around instead of putting away the horny toads drove me to atomic silliness.
By time time they won it was too late.
40.
CaseyL
Sorry about this, but I’m taking advantage of the Open Thread to let the Seattle BJers know I’m going to be a bit late to tonight’s meetup. A dear friend is in the hospital with total kidney failure, and he’d rather I stopped by after his daily dialysis rather than during. I likely won’t make it to the meetup before 8:30, and possibly later than that :(
41.
madmommy
Roll Tide! No one but a die hard Irish fan thinks ND has a snowball’s chance against either of these teams.
42.
Ben W
6-6 record? Check.
Blown out last week by Georgia? Check.
Miami self-eliminated themselves from the postseason? Check.
Tech playing tonight for the ACC title? Priceless.
GO JACKETS!
43.
aspasia
In re first post: some of us out here are NOT bored by the prospect of the Big Ten championship game, no matter how hard ESPN has worked to ignore the conference.
44.
madmommy
@efgoldman:
Yeah, I know. But ND just did not look that good to me in their last game. They don’t play as tough a schedule either. Of course this is only my opinion, and you know what they say about opinions :)
45.
Mr Stagger Lee
On one hand I and tired of the SEC pwning the BCS(playoffs NOW!!) but with big media’s overt flogging of Notre Dame. I will either ROLL TIDE or Go Dawgs in the BCS championship. Oh BTW, that was a weird scene in Columbus, last week, Jim Tressel being cheered, yet he was responsible for the Buckeyes not even being considered for the BCS,they are on probation. Oh BTW(part two) Tressel is being considered for the Tennessee job
46.
Mr Stagger Lee
@Mr Stagger Lee: Yikes, That first sentence should have read
On one hand I am tired of the SEC pwning the BCS (PLAYOFFS NOW!!!)
mea culpa
mea culpa
mea maximum culpa.
47.
Dee Loralei
My beloved Sooners managed to win today against the Horned Toads. And wow Georgie just scored against Bama.
@CaseyL: Come when you can or be with your friend. We’ll be thinking about you though!
50.
JPL
GA is looking good!
51.
Svensker
Dang. Great play by the Alabama QB and then next play, he bombs.
52.
Raven
And I thought we were playing Alabama and not Auburn. Cheapshot motherfucker.
53.
madmommy
@Raven:
Completely agree-no call for that sort of play at alll! Glad the QB walked away from it.
54.
Evolving Deep Southerner
@Raven: @Raven: I really am reluctant to whine about “roughness”-type penalties, but that no-call was grievous. I’m glad it’s dominating the halftime chat.
55.
burnspbesq
Shite. Two atrocious misses by Donovan and Magee, and Houston makes LA pay.
@aspasia: Not so much bored as disappointed that Purdue didn’t do better this season and that Ohio State is allowed to play for the Big 10 championship.
60.
burnspbesq
Gonzalez with the equalizer.
61.
burnspbesq
2-1 Galaxy. Donovan PK.
62.
JPL
holy shit…
63.
SiubhanDuinne
WOOOOT!!!
64.
Throwin Stones
Just for Raven: Go Dawgs!
65.
Hill Dweller
Alabama’s special teams have been awful. The got a delay of game penalty on their fake punt; blew the coverage/missed the eligible receiver on Georgia’s fake punt; and gave up a blocked field goal.
Also too, their heralded O-line hasn’t been able to consistently pass protect thus far.
@Raven: Thanks! Georgia played there hearts out, no shame in their loss.
82.
Raven
“If you love anything about competitive sports, anything at all, you had to love this game. “That was a great football game by both teams, and they could have won today the same as us,” said Nick Saban, the hard-driving Alabama coach. “It came down to the last play.”
83.
Ron
Right now I’m watching Nebraska get their asses whupped by the Badgers. My wife is from Wisconsin so that makes her happy.
84.
4jkb4ia
Pitt salvaged the season, and is going to a bowl. I will watch it even if it is the Meineke Car Care Bowl.
OK John, this is more important than you driving me crazy, or vice versa. I’m worried about you. Remember that even if you lose today, if Roethlisberger comes back you still have a good chance at a wild card. Also too, the line is even. If you have to, call your girlfriend on the phone.
85.
4jkb4ia
This year it’s the “Meineke Car Care of Texas” , matching Big 10 and Big 12 teams. That looks like a new iteration of the Texas Bowl.
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Felonius Monk
Wisc vs Neb (8 PM) — Yawn!
PurpleGirl
Who are the Eers?
Maude
The KC Chiefs are having a very rough day.
JPL
@Maude: I can’t believe they haven’t canceled Sunday’s game yet.
Felonius Monk
@PurpleGirl:
Misterpuff
@PurpleGirl: The Mountain Ears?
Amir Khalid
There’s a very strange match going on right now in the English Premier League. Reading led twice against table toppers Manchester United and are currently down 3 – 4 early in the second half. Not so much brilliant forward play as shit defending from both teams, especially the supposedly far superior United.
Maude
@JPL:
They probably haven’t made the decision yet. There are contracts and tickets and all that to consider. The players might still want to play. It might be better to get some fan support for the team for a game.
This was a murder suicide and that’s a really awful thing for the team. The coaches must be devastated.
Ted & Hellen
Go Jayhawks, beat WVU.
(Not likely, but thought I’d root for my old school.) :D
Ted & Hellen
@JPL:
Empty gesture.
I’m not sure cancelling a multi million dollar event which 80,000 people and more have planned their weekend around, is a necessary thing.
Why not just have a moment of silence?
AnotherBruce
@Maude: The Head Coach and the General Manager, Romeo Crennel and Scott Pioli were both there when he pulled the suicide trigger. It happened right as the police showed up.
God stuff like this is just so crushing.
Amir Khalid
@Maude:
I’d have thought that a traumatic event like this would be an automatic cancellation. If I were a Chiefs player, I wouldn’t be in the right frame of mind for a game. And if I were a fan, I’d be in no mood for it either.
Maude
@AnotherBruce:
I would never get over it.
Also in Wyoming, the guy who killed two then himself.
For the KC Chiefs, there’s no comfort.
Maude
@Amir Khalid:
The fans have planned on going to the game. Nothing is going to change what happened. Sometimes it is best to keep going after a tragedy.
catclub
I think Miami should be fined for a poor effort against the Spurs second team. Aren’t the guys on the court supposed to play their best?
? Martin
Well, I’m not getting my hair cut any time soon. My barber is a huge Chiefs fan and was already upset enough by their season.
It’s always tragic. I’ve dealt with 3 suicides this year – 2 being coworkers. Didn’t see either of those coming. It knocks you out of body for about a week.
Amir Khalid
@Maude:
A year or so ago, a football match in the German Bundesliga (the top division) was called off after the match referee had attempted suicide in his hotel room. A sporting event, even if it involves the weekend plans of tens of thousands of fans, is surely not more important than the great tragedy that has happened here. Cancelling the match won’t bring back Belcher or the mother of his child, but it feels wrong to me to carry on as though the football were the most important thing here.
ETA: I think Martin #16 explains why cancelling the match is the right thing to do.
MikeJ
@? Martin: You work at Foxconn?
JPL
Should the fans decide whether or not the team play? I don’t think so. The coaches witnessed something, they can’t get over and shouldn’t need to prepare a team to play. The NFL needs to step it up and make the decision for folks who not thinking straight. The Panthers are on the way but they can also just fly back to Carolina.
also, too nbc sports is saying the Kansas City mayor wants them to play. Maybe he should suit up.
? Martin
@MikeJ: Foxconn doesn’t have 1/50th the suicide rate as the US educational system.
Raven
GO DAWGS!!!!
Sgaile-beairt
ot but what is it, with upstate ny??? first there was carl paladino, now this newspaper guy with the sexist rrant about movies, who turned the niagara Falls weekly into a Teaparty rant, turns out to be a semi slumlord business riavl of paladino’s…and, get this, a True believer in P.O.E.!!
http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2012/11/19/niagara-falls-reporter-and-gynophobia/
Raven
@efgoldman: I’ve been working in the yard and trying to remain calm as possible. I’m nervous as a cat crappin ground glass.
huckster
@Raven: THANK GOD I AINT THE ONLY ONE!!
Please let A. Murray be accurate today. Hunker down DAWGS!
Raven
@huckster: Our O line is the key.
JPL
@Raven: I hope that a few Bama players are nervous nellies.
I’m about ready to chop down some trees. When I first moved to GA, leaves were down around Halloween. Now I’m lucky if they have fallen by Thanksgiving. I figure I have another week because of a lovely oak tree.
Evolving Deep Southerner
@Raven: Hell yes. If Murray’s on, and the O-Line can hold, we can win this God damn game. Whoever wins will beat the Irish like people used to beat their children.
huckster
@Raven: I know, I was Columbia in October, I don’t think I can stand to see that happen again.
ceece
Yay Stanford, goin’ to the Rose Bowl!
and (Andrew) Luck had nothing to do with it.
John Elway didn’t go, Bill Walsh didn’t go, Luck didn’t go, but Coach Shaw and freshman QB Kevin Hogan are headed to Pasadena for New Year’s. Yay!
never in my life did I think Stanford would get 3 BCS bowl games in a row.
Gordon, the Big Express Engine
At MLS cup final tailgate. Flight in from Houston this morning. Go Dynamo!!!!
Raven
@huckster: Whew, that may have been the best thing that could have happened to us.
Raven
“Little people can’t block big people,” Grantham said. “When you have big people, you don’t have to commit all your defensive backs to the run game. You can play what I call a seven-and-a-half-man box. You got the extra half guy in the secondary because your guys up front can seal off gaps and hold the point.
JPL
Cole’s team is winning. There will be a party tonight on the blog.
Raven
@JPL: Man, it’s on the “D” channel. Took me forever to find it!
MikeJ
@ceece: Always nice to see a junior college do well.
ET
DRoooollllll TIDE ROLL!!!!!
Raven
Oh swell, Lundquist and Danielson.
Raven
Aite, I can’t fuck with no blog shit during this one, I’m out. Fuck Alabama, GO DAWGS!
Downpuppy
Watching the Sooners pissing around instead of putting away the horny toads drove me to atomic silliness.
By time time they won it was too late.
CaseyL
Sorry about this, but I’m taking advantage of the Open Thread to let the Seattle BJers know I’m going to be a bit late to tonight’s meetup. A dear friend is in the hospital with total kidney failure, and he’d rather I stopped by after his daily dialysis rather than during. I likely won’t make it to the meetup before 8:30, and possibly later than that :(
madmommy
Roll Tide! No one but a die hard Irish fan thinks ND has a snowball’s chance against either of these teams.
Ben W
6-6 record? Check.
Blown out last week by Georgia? Check.
Miami self-eliminated themselves from the postseason? Check.
Tech playing tonight for the ACC title? Priceless.
GO JACKETS!
aspasia
In re first post: some of us out here are NOT bored by the prospect of the Big Ten championship game, no matter how hard ESPN has worked to ignore the conference.
madmommy
@efgoldman:
Yeah, I know. But ND just did not look that good to me in their last game. They don’t play as tough a schedule either. Of course this is only my opinion, and you know what they say about opinions :)
Mr Stagger Lee
On one hand I and tired of the SEC pwning the BCS(playoffs NOW!!) but with big media’s overt flogging of Notre Dame. I will either ROLL TIDE or Go Dawgs in the BCS championship. Oh BTW, that was a weird scene in Columbus, last week, Jim Tressel being cheered, yet he was responsible for the Buckeyes not even being considered for the BCS,they are on probation. Oh BTW(part two) Tressel is being considered for the Tennessee job
Mr Stagger Lee
@Mr Stagger Lee: Yikes, That first sentence should have read
Dee Loralei
My beloved Sooners managed to win today against the Horned Toads. And wow Georgie just scored against Bama.
Svensker
@Sgaile-beairt:
Precious bodily fluids! Gen.Ripper lives. Eeek.
Yutsano
@CaseyL: Come when you can or be with your friend. We’ll be thinking about you though!
JPL
GA is looking good!
Svensker
Dang. Great play by the Alabama QB and then next play, he bombs.
Raven
And I thought we were playing Alabama and not Auburn. Cheapshot motherfucker.
madmommy
@Raven:
Completely agree-no call for that sort of play at alll! Glad the QB walked away from it.
Evolving Deep Southerner
@Raven: @Raven: I really am reluctant to whine about “roughness”-type penalties, but that no-call was grievous. I’m glad it’s dominating the halftime chat.
burnspbesq
Shite. Two atrocious misses by Donovan and Magee, and Houston makes LA pay.
Raven
@Evolving Deep Southerner: I had no problem on the one on us.
Raven
We’ve got to keep the ball more, the D is getting worn down.
Raven
@Evolving Deep Southerner: I see you are multi-bloggin!
Felonius Monk
@aspasia: Not so much bored as disappointed that Purdue didn’t do better this season and that Ohio State is allowed to play for the Big 10 championship.
burnspbesq
Gonzalez with the equalizer.
burnspbesq
2-1 Galaxy. Donovan PK.
JPL
holy shit…
SiubhanDuinne
WOOOOT!!!
Throwin Stones
Just for Raven: Go Dawgs!
Hill Dweller
Alabama’s special teams have been awful. The got a delay of game penalty on their fake punt; blew the coverage/missed the eligible receiver on Georgia’s fake punt; and gave up a blocked field goal.
Also too, their heralded O-line hasn’t been able to consistently pass protect thus far.
John O
Hats off to that AL drive. Ran it pretty much up GA’s asses.
Go Dwags. I’m tired of AL.
Felonius Monk
I’m sure that now that the Mountaineers have kinda humiliated Kansas, our dear Mr. Cole has gone back to sleep. Pleasant dreams, John.
Felonius Monk
@Raven: Hell, I’ll be supportive too.
Go Dawgs — Win One for the Raven!
Raven
@Hill Dweller: Yea and they really need that pass protection don’t they?
John O
AL is running it up GA’s ass and it’s up to GA to get their hands dirty gettin’ it out.
JPL
I’m pretty sick of these bama players that think they are a bowling bowl.. They are still losing though.
also, too.. maybe not losing
James E. Powell
Georgia defense just cannot tackle. Alabama’s RBs are pushing them five yards or more after contact.
Mary
Georgia’s mascot is an abomination of dogdom and whoever bred him should be jailed for animal cruelty.
Mr Stagger Lee
CBS has sucky slow motion, but it looks like the ball hit the ground.
Raven
It’s great to be a Georgia Bulldog!
Raven
@Mary: Fuck you.
Mr Stagger Lee
Is there a sportsradio station in Atlanta with good smack talk?
I would love to hear the comments.
Raven
@Mr Stagger Lee: 680 the fan
http://www.680thefan.com/index.php
in Athens
960 the Ref
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
@Raven:
Like the Packers in the ’60 title game, the Bulldogs didn’t lose- they just ran out of time.
Raven
@Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again): With all the yardage on the ground by Bama I’m still awfully proud of them Dawgs.
Mr Stagger Lee
@Raven: Thanks! Georgia played there hearts out, no shame in their loss.
Raven
“If you love anything about competitive sports, anything at all, you had to love this game. “That was a great football game by both teams, and they could have won today the same as us,” said Nick Saban, the hard-driving Alabama coach. “It came down to the last play.”
Ron
Right now I’m watching Nebraska get their asses whupped by the Badgers. My wife is from Wisconsin so that makes her happy.
4jkb4ia
Pitt salvaged the season, and is going to a bowl. I will watch it even if it is the Meineke Car Care Bowl.
OK John, this is more important than you driving me crazy, or vice versa. I’m worried about you. Remember that even if you lose today, if Roethlisberger comes back you still have a good chance at a wild card. Also too, the line is even. If you have to, call your girlfriend on the phone.
4jkb4ia
This year it’s the “Meineke Car Care of Texas” , matching Big 10 and Big 12 teams. That looks like a new iteration of the Texas Bowl.