1pm Open Thread: Win One for the Gimper
On ESPN’s Countdown this morning, Sal Pal said that
Now that we are well into the final quarter of the NFL regular season, the schedule is littered with teams long since exposed for the frauds that they are. As a consequence, the quality of the games can get a little dicey. Among the early slate today, only two games– Eagles-Giants and Falcons-Saints–don’t involve at least one genuinely crappy team. Enjoy your afternoon and party like the judge granted your injunction. Hey barkeep, hot wings and StarCaps are on me!
[ HTs: Glauber, Are You Serious Sports ]
Tags: Cowboys minus Marion the Barbarian equals no f'n way, free the StarCap Six, open threads
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December 7th, 2008 at 12:44 pm
Kellen Winslow thinks Plax is a soldier
December 7th, 2008 at 12:46 pm
BEN GOT SUIT OF ARMOR NOW. MUCH BETTER THAN PADS
December 7th, 2008 at 12:47 pm
Haven’t Cleveland fans suffered enough?!?
http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=3752018
December 7th, 2008 at 12:52 pm
CLANK CLANK CLANK
December 7th, 2008 at 12:56 pm
Don’t believe it, Ben. And even if it did happen, at least with Marty you suffer after making the playoffs, not from the middle of September on, which I guess would be an improvement.
December 7th, 2008 at 12:57 pm
The Buffalo Bills would like to remind you that having to play their division rival warm weather wimps in a toronto dome in december is an outrage. Despite the fact that they organised the game and the league had nothing to do with it.
/but we didn’t know the Dolphins would be good this year!
December 7th, 2008 at 12:58 pm
Dick Stockton’s head looks like a bad peach.
December 7th, 2008 at 12:58 pm
There is as much chance of Marty going to the Browns as Bear Grylls getting hurt in Antartica…
oh…
http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/TV/12/07/bear.grylls.injured/index.html
December 7th, 2008 at 1:02 pm
Favre will throw for 350+ and 4 TDs to reaffirm his status as the #1 gunslinger in town.
December 7th, 2008 at 1:06 pm
Silky with the day’s first INT, and then he gets planted by Urlacher. Honor du-al, won by Urlacher.
December 7th, 2008 at 1:06 pm
This Packers fan wonders what happened to the supposed good secondary…
December 7th, 2008 at 1:15 pm
Anyone and anything can be overated when they play in the NFC north
December 7th, 2008 at 1:24 pm
Guess that includes the Vikings D too, cuz DETROIT is driving on them
December 7th, 2008 at 1:28 pm
Damn it, why does my mom insist on calling right after kickoff every sunday?
…no, I’m sorry, no mom, now is not a good time…no don’t call me later, sunday is pretty much a right-off…yes the whole of sunday…because I’m either having sex or watching football…yes I did say sex…ok I’ll speak to you tomorrow…ok…ok mom…ok, hi to Cindy…bye now…
December 7th, 2008 at 1:32 pm
@Sanchez: Wow, that must be awkward when she calls when you’re not watching football.
December 7th, 2008 at 1:39 pm
I think Andy Reid just made a smart timeout. Am I still drunk?
December 7th, 2008 at 1:40 pm
…(pant)…hi mom…(pant)…no now is not a good time…because it’s anal god damnit!!!
December 7th, 2008 at 1:47 pm
Answering the phone during anal is pretty degrading.
December 7th, 2008 at 1:47 pm
@Sanchez – Dare I even ask if you are giving or receiving….
December 7th, 2008 at 1:48 pm
DOUBLEREDZONEFUMBLEKAKKE!
December 7th, 2008 at 1:49 pm
+1 Waldo
December 7th, 2008 at 1:55 pm
Does Reid hate Westbrook? I ask cuz he keeps running Westbrook right up the middle
December 7th, 2008 at 2:10 pm
Gosder Charilus with a dive at Jared Allens knee’s, someone’s gonna be lighter in the waller this week. And Allen might be hurt, ruh roh.
December 7th, 2008 at 2:11 pm
I like how NFL Network didn’t even try to give a corny TV show theme to the Saints-Bears game.
December 7th, 2008 at 2:15 pm
The Giants decided to take the day off.
December 7th, 2008 at 2:16 pm
It’s Tarvaris time!
December 7th, 2008 at 2:33 pm
Anyone and anything can be overated when they play in the NFC north
Are you the top or the bottom in your relationship of misery with Staubachlvr?
December 7th, 2008 at 2:34 pm
Ape, tell me you got a screen grab of the Joker at the Superdome with a ‘Kill the Falcons’ sign. It made zero sense on multiple levels but did remind me to get my wife a blu-ray player for Christmas.
December 7th, 2008 at 2:34 pm
Hey Fox crew, instead of saying how awesome of a coach Rod Marinelli is, why not point out how terrible both of those 4th down play calls were? Just sayin’…
December 7th, 2008 at 2:38 pm
@Canada Dry
I was thinking the same thing. I mean, you have an undersized center against 2 of the biggest, best DTs in the game… QB sneak, of course, that’s the call!
December 7th, 2008 at 2:39 pm
Nope. Missed that sign. Hopefully one of the photogs in the Superdome caught it.
December 7th, 2008 at 2:51 pm
I’ve never seen a quarterback one-hop as many receivers in the flat as McNabb has today.
December 7th, 2008 at 2:54 pm
And THAT’S why “Danieal” is still the most manly Manning in the NFL.
December 7th, 2008 at 2:57 pm
@Ape: Clearly you’ve missed every other McNabb game in the last 10 years.
December 7th, 2008 at 2:59 pm
Sweet Jesus effing shit, Akers. I will cut you.
December 7th, 2008 at 2:59 pm
was there another blocked FG in the Giants/Eagles? 3 in one game?
December 7th, 2008 at 3:01 pm
Yeah the Giants got a piece of another one and it went short.
December 7th, 2008 at 3:05 pm
Watching football instead of studying for exams…
/parents are paying roughly $40k/yr.
December 7th, 2008 at 3:09 pm
“David Garrard is not going to point to his passer rating with pride the way he does his….his….his attire. He is a nattily dressed young man”
And this has been fashion hour, featuring gay Greg Gumbel.
December 7th, 2008 at 3:12 pm
Watching football and I owe $100k in student loans…
/parents had another kid and my college funds turned into diaper money
December 7th, 2008 at 3:12 pm
@’thersfan
Join the club. Although Akerlof’s lemons market is eerily analogous to games televised by the NFL…
Higher education… weeeee
December 7th, 2008 at 3:14 pm
I’m grading shitty college papers by students wasting my time and their parents’ and/or governments’ money, so I think we have all bases covered here, pedagogically speaking.
December 7th, 2008 at 3:18 pm
Woah. We covered Akerlof in Game Theory this past week. Economics FTW!
December 7th, 2008 at 3:19 pm
@Slothrop: Why does your avatar look yonic to me?
In any case, I’m happy to never have homework again, unless I get employer-paid masters degree.
December 7th, 2008 at 3:26 pm
Here’s a taste of irony: Asante is “Thank You” in Swahili.
December 7th, 2008 at 3:26 pm
yonic?
it’s Berke Breathed’s “Gesunheit,’ a painting he did when he was in high school. The art teacher saw it and said, ‘That’s disgusting. Youre going to be rich.’
December 7th, 2008 at 3:27 pm
Fucking hell, Eli throws it right at Dawkins, but Asante blunders in at the last second to fuck it all up.
December 7th, 2008 at 3:28 pm
Yonic is the opposite of phallic.
December 7th, 2008 at 3:31 pm
Brah, I think he just called you a pussy.
/drunk
December 7th, 2008 at 3:31 pm
I hear Gus Frerotte has done his best to remind everyone that he is indeed, Gus Frerotte…
December 7th, 2008 at 3:33 pm
ah. learn something everyday. I’d always heard that as ‘gyno-centric.’
December 7th, 2008 at 3:37 pm
@placekickerholder:
I may, or may not, have been implying that.
But my main point is that I need to get laid post haste, since his avatar looks like the female reproductive system to me.
December 7th, 2008 at 3:40 pm
@DavidtheUnderpantsGnome:
You’re telling me. I think your avatar looks like the female reproductive system.
December 7th, 2008 at 3:41 pm
And looking at a larger copy of the pic, it’s a spacesuited astronaut with a broken faceplate?
December 7th, 2008 at 3:44 pm
@placekickerholder:
Well then I have some nude pics of Bea Arthur you might be interested in. Granted, she doesn’t dye her hair in such a patriotic manner, but that full beard is plenty to chew on.
December 7th, 2008 at 3:51 pm
Please send your Fantasy Football/Sex Advice questions to DavidtheUnderpantsGnome and placekickerholder.
December 7th, 2008 at 3:52 pm
Tarvaris jackson is back up in your ass with the resurrection.
December 7th, 2008 at 3:54 pm
/currently cancelling my penthouse forum subscription
December 7th, 2008 at 3:56 pm
Chris Johnson is taking a metaphorical dump on the Browns’ collective chest.
December 7th, 2008 at 4:02 pm
Wow its a good thing the Eagles only play well in 1 out of 4 games
December 7th, 2008 at 4:02 pm
Thank you, Eagles. You collective minxes.
December 7th, 2008 at 4:20 pm
I can’t wait to hear what Antony from West Orange has to say about this.
December 7th, 2008 at 4:37 pm
Skål Vikings. I was sure they’d lose, but happy they didn’t. Maybe this Detroit Lions team has the right stuff to run the table in reverse.
December 7th, 2008 at 4:51 pm
@Gino: At the rate Green Bay is going, I’m not so sure.
June 22nd, 2009 at 1:37 pm
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