Merry Generic Winter Day-Off With No Religious Content

[NotFromHere]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
I totally never got this.

It's OK, I still don't get the appeal of Selma Hayak.

[notcasesensitive]

Originally posted by Anne Elk
Thank you for summarizing so nicely why I hate the Patriots. It sucks that they keep going far in the playoffs every year. I've found that their pearls of tactical wisdom are pathetic.

Yet another team I will be cheering against this weekend. To summaraize, I have one team I am cheering for (Colts), who, conveniently enough are playing against a team I would otherwise cheer against (fucking Ravens). And three teams I am cheering against - Eagles, Patriots and Seahawks.

My guess at this point (and before the results of the games this weekend, even) is it will be a Chargers-Saints Super Bowl. And it goes without saying that whatever AFC team makes it will win.

[bold_n_brazen]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
The Philly fans deserved him to bomb for them after they tried to boo him off the field in his second game when he was getting clobbered (literally, I mean, because the line wasn't protecting him). He should have packed up his toys and gone home and let them have the third-stringer for the rest of the season.

I think it is at least 50-50 that Griese gets the start this weekend.

With all due respect (one football fan to another), the Philly Faithful booed him because they wanted to see AJ Feeley. Who, as you may or may not remember, took the team to the playoffs two years ago after McNabb when down with a broken leg and Koy Detmer went down with something else. Feeley is a strange kind of beloved in my hometown...

I haven't seen the line on the Saints game yet, but I imagine it's in the neighborhood of 3, maybe 3 and a half. I don't expect that it'll be a blow-out.


eta: the line is 6. I'd take that.

[NotFromHere]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
Yet another team I will be cheering against this weekend. To summaraize, I have one team I am cheering for (Colts), who, conveniently enough are playing against a team I would otherwise cheer against (fucking Ravens). And three teams I am cheering against - Eagles, Patriots and Seahawks.

My guess at this point (and before the results of the games this weekend, even) is it will be a Chargers-Saints Super Bowl. And it goes without saying that whatever AFC team makes it will win.

You're rooting for the Bears? The Chicago Bears? Sexy Rexy and Brian Urlacher? Really?
Come on. Root for the underdog. We have 2 corners that were sitting on the couch before we called a week ago.

[Pretty Little Flower]

Pound took something like a schoolboy’s delight in talking about Landis’s lab result, which supposedly showed his testosterone level to be grotesquely above what is typical for most men. Landis has denied taking a prohibited substance and is fighting what could be a two-year ban from cycling. “I mean, it was 11 to 1!” Pound said, referring to Landis’s reported testosterone-to-epitestosterone ratio, a measure used to identify doping. “You’d think he’d be violating every virgin within 100 miles. How does he even get on his bicycle?”

[This from a guy named Dick Pound.]

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/07/ma...idoping.t.html

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And in different news:

The controversy between the International Cycling Union and some of the European federations has continued over the week-end. On Friday, UCI president Pat McQuaid said the following at a New Year's reception, which was broadcast by Dutch TV program NOS: "There is a clash going on at the moment between two cultures. The Anglo-Saxon culture and what I might call the 'Mafia' Western European culture [meaning Belgium, France, Italy and Spain - ed.]. The Western European culture has to some extent, I won't say condoned doping, but because of their culture in life, the way they deal with everything else in life, they accept certain practices.

"The Anglo-Saxon cultures, which would be the Netherlands, Germany, England, Denmark, are the complete opposite. They have a completely different approach to the doping problem. I feel that it's very important that at the end of the day, the Anglo-Saxon approach wins out. If it doesn't, then the sport is doomed."

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news.php?...an07/jan08news

Must all of Western Europe suffer for the sins of the Italians? Hank, what say you?

[Not Bob]

Originally posted by NotFromHere
Come on. Root for the underdog. We have 2 corners that were sitting on the couch before we called a week ago.

Sorry, little sister. I'll take a QB with a Blutarsky rating (even with the burdern of an overrated Brian Urlacher) over those hideous all-green uniforms and Mike Holmgren any day.

But I do like Shaun Alexander, so I won't be crushed if they win, and they did beat the Cowboys.

[Cletus Miller]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
No Mike Brown and no Tommie Harris = so-so defense.

Absolutely. But they're still make plays that result in turnovers. That plus Hester has overcome Rex fucking the dog in more than one game.

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by Sidd Finch
Why is Dallas such a hateful, despicable team? I mean, I hate them because of the Niners-Cowboys rivalry that was so pronounced back in the days when the Niners mattered (and, verily, they shall rise again). And there was the whole Deion Sanders thing.

I know that there are other rivalries -- but still. They seem to attract such virulent hatred from so many quarters. Not to say it's not deserved -- it just worries me, on some level, that we pay them so much attention.


Note: I liked the Cowboys as a kid but I think that had more to do with the cheerleaders, whose photos graced my older brother's Playboy collection.

Well, the whole NFC East that hates them due to division rivalry. So that's three sets of fans that hate them with a passion. (Four if you include Arizona, which got moved to a different division when they realigned the league five years ago.)

For me, it's a Texas football team thing. Back in the day, you were either an Oiler fan or a Dallas fan if you were from Texas and cared about the NFL. Generally, most of the state loves Dallas, but those of us that don't, hate them with a passion. In the six years that Houston didn't have a football team, my team was "whoever's playing Dallas."

The Steelers (I think) hate them due to the seventies rivalry, which is similar to your Niners rivalry.

Then there are invividuals like Michael Irvin, Dieon Sanders and TO that are so very, very easy to hate. Not to mention Jerry Jones.

And that whole self-proclaimed "America's team" thing just pissed people off.

I was raised to hate them by an Oiler fan and a Redskin fan. I think I was taught to boo to Dallas at infancy.

[notcasesensitive]

Originally posted by NotFromHere
You're rooting for the Bears? The Chicago Bears? Sexy Rexy and Brian Urlacher? Really?
Come on. Root for the underdog. We have 2 corners that were sitting on the couch before we called a week ago.

You seem to have forgotten about my trip to Seattle earlier this season. I am nothing without my sour grapes.

I did watch an interview with Alexander this weekend that convinced me that he is a digitally recreated mash-up of Tiki Barber and Michael Strahan. Freaky.

They're underdogs? They are playing against a team with 0.0 rating Grossman and they're underdogs?

[Penske_Account]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
Jerry Jones.

He once treated me to brunch, al fresco (albeit we were all clothed). Seemed like a nice guy, no?

[Cletus Miller]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
No. And I will give you 10-1 odds.

2. Barring a freak injury, there is no chance that Griese starts the game. Griese coming out for the 2d half? Maybe a 1% chance for each QB Rating point below 25 for Rex in the 1st half.

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
I totally never got this.

Me either.

[notcasesensitive]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
Me either.

I agree. But he does a respectable job as a commentator, so I've almost learned not to cringe every time I see him now. And I actually like Moose as a commentator. Phil Sims? Not so much.

[Cletus Miller]

Originally posted by Mr. Man
I'm trying to determine what is worse, a critical game ending mistake or having games with passer ratings of 1.5 and 0.0. Kind of a critical game ending mistake stretched over the course of an entire game.

It was 1.3. And they won that game. At least with the horrible game, you can blame the coach, too, for leaving you in. Romo's all alone in his mistake. Right there with Earnest Byner.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
Rex is horribly inconsistent, but he owns up to everything he does. He doesn't make excuses, blames no one but himself and does so candidly with the media. The latter, of course, isn't going to win any football games, but I give him credit for being a man about it.

you could same the same about PPNYC.