BS: NFL

Subject: BS: NFL
From: Raptor
Date: 14 Dec 05 - 06:41 PM

Predictions?

I'd like to see the Steelers go far and the Colts loose.

And if you don't like the sport create a new thread called "blow it out your ass", And leave us to discuss what we like!

Raptor

Subject: RE: BS: NFL
From: Bobert
Date: 14 Dec 05 - 07:53 PM

Colts going to win the AFC, Rap...

Sorry...

NFC is up in the air...

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: NFL
From: gnu
Date: 14 Dec 05 - 07:57 PM

Hehehehe... go Pats!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: NFL
From: gnu
Date: 14 Dec 05 - 08:01 PM

BTW.... did you like that cover of Brady on SI in contrast with his ONCE IN A LIFETIME spat with the refs when he got called for "blocking back" on Sunday. Fucking hilarious!!!! The one time that he wasn't a sportsman! I nearly busted a gut! Timing is everything. (Oh... he did block straight up... bad call.)

Subject: RE: BS: NFL
From: Raptor
Date: 14 Dec 05 - 08:50 PM

Gnu
What was that issue date?
The last one I got was dec 5 with Texas football on the cover.

Have they ever last issues on you?

Raptor

Subject: RE: BS: NFL
From: Peace
Date: 14 Dec 05 - 09:21 PM

"Blow it out your ass": Just wondering if--just wondering mind you--if it would be acceptable to do a conversion by having the ball balanced on . . . naw, guess not. But if the game was won by a single point, AND the conversion was accomplished in that manner, wow, huh? Wouldn't that be a finish?

Subject: RE: BS: NFL
From: gnu
Date: 15 Dec 05 - 10:13 AM

Raptor... I dunno. I saw it on TV on Pats Gameday last Sunday.

Subject: RE: BS: NFL
From: Pseudolus
Date: 15 Dec 05 - 10:37 AM

The Colts are the real deal. The only question is whether it will be an undefeated season or simply a Super Bowl Championship. The NFC is playing for second place.

Frank

Subject: RE: BS: NFL
From: Raptor
Date: 15 Dec 05 - 10:41 AM

I e-mailed SI about it so I guess I find out later!

I hopeing my team, 49ers come in last again to draft Reggie Bush. He played with Alex Smith and by the time Smith Matures we'll be great again!

I wouldn't hate the colts so much but you know Payton had some say in Eli's snubbing of the Chargers last year and I hate that kind of primadonna bullshit!

Who's your team?

Raptor

Subject: RE: BS: NFL
From: Pseudolus
Date: 15 Dec 05 - 11:55 AM

My team? Hmmm, should I say this out loud? OK, I'll admit it, I'm an Eagles fan. Have been since I was little. I've seen some really bad teams come and go around here but this year's is the most dissappointing. We went from a return trip to the Super Bowl to being an also ran in a bad conference! Tough Year. Hopefully we'll be back kickin next year.

Peyton Manning is the quarterback on my fantasy team so I like him a lot but I especially like his commercials where he becomes the fan.


Frank

Subject: RE: BS: NFL
From: Rapparee
Date: 15 Dec 05 - 02:09 PM

Yay! for the Massillon Bulldogs!

Subject: RE: BS: NFL
From: gnu
Date: 15 Dec 05 - 02:42 PM

I must say that P. Manning is a wonder to watch in hurryup... amazing stuff.

Subject: RE: BS: NFL
From: maire-aine
Date: 15 Dec 05 - 07:30 PM

Go Steelers! They're the team I identify with (my Dad came from east of Pittsburgh), since the Detroit Lions had ANOTHER miserable season.

Maryanne

Subject: RE: BS: NFL
From: Bobert
Date: 15 Dec 05 - 07:49 PM

Well, I've been a 'Skins fan since I was 'bout 13 and playin' Falls Church Boys Club ball and out team was up in D.C. playin' and Sam Baker, the Redskins place kicker and Eddie LaBaron, the Redskins quarterback showed up at the game and signed everyone's pads....

Oh, that was such a great day... I was a wide reciever back then an' caught a touchdown pass with Sam Baker and Eddie LaBaron watchin'.... Also, while playin' linebacker in the same game looked down and there in the middle of the field was a silver dollar!!! I still have the silver dollar but the pads, ahhhhh, have gone off to that big pile of football pads in the sky.....

Been a 'Skins fan ever since... Even during my hiipiest of my hippie years, Sunday afternoon was 'Skins football... Antiwar rally??? I might be late to it... Start without me...

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: NFL
From: Rapparee
Date: 16 Dec 05 - 09:08 AM

And the Brooklyn Dodgers! Yay!

Subject: RE: BS: NFL
From: gnu
Date: 17 Dec 05 - 05:41 AM

I think Dallas at Washington will be the "best" game this weekend. Games with rivalries always seem to be hard to predict.

Saturday, Dec. 17

Tampa Bay at New England 1:30 p.m.
Kansas City at N.Y. Giants 5:00 p.m.
Denver at Buffalo 8:30 p.m.

Sunday, Dec. 18

Arizona at Houston 1:00 p.m.
Carolina at New Orleans (Baton Rouge, LA) 1:00 p.m.
N.Y. Jets at Miami 1:00 p.m.
Philadelphia at St. Louis 1:00 p.m
Pittsburgh at Minnesota 1:00 p.m.
San Diego at Indianapolis 1:00 p.m.
Seattle at Tennessee 1:00 p.m.
San Francisco at Jacksonville 1:00 p.m.
Cincinnati at Detroit 4:05 p.m.
Cleveland at Oakland 4:05 p.m.
Dallas at Washington 4:15 p.m.
Atlanta at Chicago 8:30 p.m.

Monday, Dec. 19

Green Bay at Baltimore 9:00 p.m.

Subject: RE: BS: NFL
From: Raptor
Date: 17 Dec 05 - 09:44 AM

I had tickets to Denver at Buffalo Tonight, but I have a busy sunday so I had to give them up, And Buffalo is cold on a Oct. afternoon. A Dec. Night whould be freezing!

Raptor

Subject: RE: BS: NFL
From: JedMarum
Date: 18 Dec 05 - 02:53 AM

I predict Condiwill be commissioner of the NFL someday

Subject: RE: BS: NFL
From: Strollin' Johnny
Date: 18 Dec 05 - 09:10 AM

Sport??? Line Dancing Puffs.

Subject: RE: BS: NFL
From: Donuel
Date: 18 Dec 05 - 09:38 AM

Back in Sept I picked the Colts for the SB.

Once I predicted the final exact score of the SB and was right.

But I was always on the wrong side when it came to the Bills.
They killed my percentage.

Subject: RE: BS: NFL
From: Severn
Date: 18 Dec 05 - 10:05 AM

I've been a 'Skins fan since the days of Sam Baker and Eddie LeBaron (Doug Flutie-sized at best).....and Gene Brito, Dickie James, Joe Scudero and that bunch. 1957. Some bleak days as a football equivalent of the woeful Senators, but they weren't worthy of a Broadway Musical.

I don't particularly like their front office management any more than I do that of the Orioles (I might like the Nationals ownership, if they had any), but I knew them before the tradition o winning set by Allen and Gibbs that these people here bemoan, and I still begrudgingly pull for them.

I, too, see nothing to quite match the Colts this year from the NFC, so hope for a Colts-Pats rematch and a Manning Brothers shootout just for entertainment value.

Subject: RE: BS: NFL
From: Rapparee
Date: 18 Dec 05 - 10:08 AM

Somehow, the vision of the Manning Brothers dressed in black Stetsons and black dusters, six-guns and shotguns in hand, strolling down a football field, is a bit distressing.

Subject: RE: BS: NFL
From: freightdawg
Date: 18 Dec 05 - 10:53 PM

Well, the '72 Dolphins can pop the cork on another bottle of Champagne. The Colts gave it a good ride and 13 wins in one season is incredible.

Will anyone ever go undefeated in a 16 game season?

Freightdawg

Subject: RE: BS: NFL
From: ranger1
Date: 19 Dec 05 - 10:12 AM

I'm a Pats fan and their defense is healthy once again. Look out Peyton, McGinest, Seymour, Wilfork, Colvin and company have sacks with your name on them! I'm hoping for a Patriots/Seahawks Superbowl, personally.

Subject: RE: BS: NFL
From: gnu
Date: 19 Dec 05 - 10:50 AM

I agree, ranger1. The Pat's defense is getting back up to speed. Colvin was definitely back on the ball Saturday!!

However, the secondary is still not up to snuff. When a small rookie cornerback (Hobbs) is your top producer and Peyton, operating the best hurry-up offense ever seen, has weapons at nearly every eligible position, only the defense can win the game. The Chargers did just that yesterday. Masterful defensive coordiation by the coaching staff. Can the Pat's defense do the same thing? I would say yes, but, on any given day....

A prediction : Watch for Evans in the backfield when the Pats meet the Colts.... I have a hunch he will be a "secret weapon" in the first half, maybe even longer, resting Dillon, Faulk, and Pass as necessary.

Subject: RE: BS: NFL
From: Pseudolus
Date: 19 Dec 05 - 12:03 PM

The worst thing that could have happened to the rest of the NFL happened yesterday when the Colts lost. They can now put the undefeated thing behind them, relax and reload for the playoffs. the only hope that the rest of the NFL including the Patriots has is believing in the myth that Peyton can't win the big game or perhaps an injury or two. aside from that, we'll all be doing the same thing on February 5th, watching the commercials!

Frank

Subject: RE: BS: NFL
From: gnu
Date: 19 Dec 05 - 01:42 PM

I wish we could get all the good commercials. Unfortunately, the Canadian broadcaster will cut many of them and we will end up watching the same Canadian Tire commercial umpteen times.

No doubt Peyton can win. As for the Pats, 14 injuries were listed last week and they still did okay.

Subject: RE: BS: NFL
From: ranger1
Date: 20 Dec 05 - 10:23 AM

A lot of football is psychology, and the Chargers beating the Colts in Indianapolis has put to rest the "undefeated" myth. And Belichick is a master at using psychlogy on the field.

Subject: RE: BS: NFL
From: Pseudolus
Date: 20 Dec 05 - 12:37 PM

A lot has been said about the New England defense and how it has come around the last three games. I'd like to remind the Pats fans that they have played against J.P. Losman, Brooks Bollinger and Chris Simms who are not now and may never be household names as far as QB's are concerned. The Pats secondary is suspect at best and I for one don't expect to see them in the Championship game, but if they make it that far, Manning will take em apart...IMHO.


Frank

Subject: RE: BS: NFL
From: gnu
Date: 20 Dec 05 - 07:55 PM

ranger1 is correct. I suspect Bill will throw Evans and Pass at the Indy offense.... then Dillon and Faulk in the red zone. Having cut down the time that Peyton has the ball, the most dynamic defense ever to take the field (Iron Curtain don't count; I said dynamic - I am not foolish) will not be rattled by Peyton's, albeit, amazing prowess in hurry-up, but, rather, will throw it's usual myriad of looks and give it's secondary the break needed to thwart the aerial dominence of the Colts before it can establish itself.

Or not.

Can't wait. No matter what, it's gonna be one hell of a game.... 3 points? My money is on THE V!!

Subject: RE: BS: NFL
From: Raptor
Date: 21 Dec 05 - 09:37 AM

Go Seahawks!!!!!
In leu of my Niners!!!!!

Raptor

I have no respect for any Manning, Payton and Archey should have told Ely not to be such a suck on draft day. If ely was a Charger mabey the Colts would still have thier streak!

Subject: RE: BS: NFL
From: gnu
Date: 21 Dec 05 - 12:00 PM

We shall see at 16:15 EST on Saturday... Colts at Seahawks... should be a good game.

Subject: RE: BS: NFL
From: Rapparee
Date: 22 Dec 05 - 08:57 AM

> Q: What do you call 47 people sitting around a TV watching the Super Bowl?
> A: The Buffalo Bills.
>
> Q: What do the Buffalo Bills and Billy Graham have in common?
> A: The both can make 70,000 people stand up and yell "Jesus Christ".
Substitute any team/coach you want. I will.

Q: How do you keep a Buffalo Bill out of your yard?
A: Put up goal posts.

Q: What do you call a Buffalo Bill with a Super Bowl ring?
A: A thief.

Q: Why was Mike Mularkey upset when the Buffalo Bills play book was stolen?
A: Because he hadn't finished coloring it.

Q: What's the difference between the Buffalo Bills and a dollar bill?
A: You can still get four quarters out of a dollar.

Q: How do the Buffalo Bills count to 10?
A: 0-1, 0-2, 0-3, 0-4, 0-5, 0-6, 0-7, 0-8, 0-9, 0-10

Q: How many Buffalo Bills does it take to win a Super Bowl?
A: Nobody knows and we may never find out.

Q: What do the Buffalo Bills and possums have in common?
A: Both play dead at home and get killed on the road!

Subject: RE: BS: NFL
From: gnu
Date: 22 Dec 05 - 10:08 AM

Hey, Rap. The Bills went to four SB's not all that long ago. When you make jokes like those, I get all choked up.

Subject: RE: BS: NFL
From: Raptor
Date: 22 Dec 05 - 11:03 AM

Who's your NFL team Rap?

Subject: RE: BS: NFL
From: gnu
Date: 23 Dec 05 - 07:03 AM

Refresh for 'aire.

Subject: RE: BS: NFL
From: Raptor
Date: 23 Dec 05 - 08:48 AM

Sad news about Tony Dungy's son!

Subject: RE: BS: NFL
From: Raptor
Date: 27 Dec 05 - 09:04 AM

Yeaaaa Seahawks!

Subject: RE: BS: NFL
From: gnu
Date: 27 Dec 05 - 09:49 AM

Quite a game, indeed. Seattle was impressive. This week, I am looking forward to the old rivalry game with Dolphins at Pats. Weather will be a big factor as Williams hit his stride this past weekend. Can't wait for the IR's.

Subject: RE: BS: NFL
From: ranger1
Date: 27 Dec 05 - 10:13 AM

I'm a little worried about Bruschi and Samuel. The Pats can't afford to have any of the defense hurt at this point. And, with a Chritmas aside, my beloved got me a Patriots page-a-day calendar. He knows me so well!

Subject: RE: BS: NFL
From: gnu
Date: 27 Dec 05 - 11:05 AM

Bruschi walked out of the locker room on his own after the game. What happened to Samuel?

Subject: RE: BS: NFL
From: gnu
Date: 02 Jan 06 - 07:54 AM

So it wasn't much of a game. Pats third string on the field. But... what about Flutie!!!

Subject: RE: BS: NFL
From: Once Famous
Date: 02 Jan 06 - 05:33 PM

The best defense in the NFL will go all the way.

Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you...........The Chicago Bears

Subject: RE: BS: NFL
From: ranger1
Date: 02 Jan 06 - 06:48 PM

I have to agree with you about the Bears having one of the top defenses, they hauled in a lot of points for me on my fantasy team.

Gnu, that was a pretty dull game except for Flutie's drop-kick extra point. It was almost as good as Vinetieri's touchdown pass last year. It's always fun to see what rabbits Belichick pulls out of his hat.

Subject: RE: BS: NFL
From: Raptor
Date: 03 Jan 06 - 09:03 AM

Da Bearz

Subject: RE: BS: NFL
From: gnu
Date: 07 Jan 06 - 10:57 AM

A new season is almost here. My picks are :

Washington at Tampa Bay.......... W
Jacksonville at New England...... NE

Sunday, Jan. 8

Carolina at N.Y. Giants.......... NY
Pittsburgh at Cincinnati......... P

Subject: RE: BS: NFL
From: ranger1
Date: 07 Jan 06 - 11:25 AM

I'm with you on all but the 'skins/Bucs game. I think the Bucs just might pull it off.

Subject: RE: BS: NFL
From: gnu
Date: 07 Jan 06 - 01:35 PM

I think there may be more who might agree R1, but, some of MY best friends are Skins fans. You might even know someone who is a Skins fan.... hehehehe.

Seriously, I just believe in Washington because they are playing with such heart and determination. I shall continue to cheer for them until it gets downs to the nitty gritty.

So many great stories of adversity and character this year. A friend of mine today suggested a Colts-Giants game might be interesting.

Anyway. I have the pizza in the oven and the beer in the fridge and none of my rowdy friends are coming over... are you ready?

Subject: RE: BS: NFL
From: Severn
Date: 07 Jan 06 - 04:49 PM

Ready here!

Subject: RE: BS: NFL
From: ranger1
Date: 07 Jan 06 - 05:33 PM

We have a very important family birthday party to attend tonight, so I will be missing the Pats game. Boo! Hiss! The ironic thing is, the surprise honoree will also not be overly impressed that she has to be at the party during the game.

As for the Skins/Bucs game, I will readily admit right here and now that my pick is probably wrong, judging from the score as of 10 minutes ago.