Merry Generic Winter Day-Off With No Religious Content

[Sidd Finch]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
The press put him way up on a pedestal. They didn't compare him to Montana. They had him in the Steve Young generation. And yes, at the time they said he was better than Young. Typical "best QB to never have won a Super Bowl" coverage for at least 5 years in a row.

Now I'm sure he is able to cry himself to sleep on a giant, gold-plated pillah. Hed!

"Best QB never to have won a Super Bowl" is like "hottest paralegal to get called ugly by Thurgreed". If you can't win the big one, who cares?

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by Sidd Finch
Huh. I thought it was the thing teams did to San Francisco when they got bored of gaining yards on the pass.


eta: But we will rise again!

On the rare occassions where we're leading at some point in the fourth quarter, we will try the "run" on three consecutive downs in the name of something called "clock management". Inevitably, we'll be forced to punt the football back to the other team, who will inevitably, eradicate whatever lead we happened to have had.

It leads this football fan to wonder if the middle ground of the "screen pass" could achieve the "clock management" goal without the predictable run up the middle into a gagillion defensive players who knew exactly where the running back would be.

[patentparanyc]

Originally posted by Sidd Finch
"Best QB never to have won a Super Bowl" is like "hottest paralegal to get called ugly by Thurgreed". If you can't win the big one, who cares?

I've made it into your football vernacular? Really, Sidd, I'm touched.

Side note: Why does Sbux have Valentine's Day stuff out already? I am just coming off of a Christmas Hangover it is wayyy tooo soon for that shit.

[notcasesensitive]

Originally posted by Sidd Finch
"Best QB never to have won a Super Bowl" is like "hottest paralegal to get called ugly by Thurgreed". If you can't win the big one, who cares?

Yeah. Unfortunately then he went and won himself a couple of Super Bowls. Ask a Green Bay fan or two how they feel about John Elway. Or Denver generally.


(or better yet, live with a Green Bay fan and then draft Javon Walker to your fantasy team after he became a Bronco and see how well that goes over.)

[Mr. Man]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
from my friends who go to Lions games I hear that the worst- absolute worst- visiting fans are when the Packers are here. Drunk fight starters.

Maybe every team has some asshole fans and some polite fans?

I was thinking more about home field fans. I often cringe at away game Packer fans, especially the clowns I was sitting next to at the SF game this year. Embarassing.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
On the rare occassions where we're leading at some point in the fourth quarter, we will try the "run" on three consecutive downs for something called "clock management". Inevitably, we'll be forced to punt the football back to the other team, who will inevitably, eradicate whatever lead we happened to have had.

It leads this football fan to wonder if the middle ground of the "screen pass" could achieve the "clock management" goal without the predictable run up the middle into a gagillion defensive players who knew exactly where the running back would be.

you remember the 2 quaterbacks the Lions had last year? the ones who weren't even good enough to play for the Lions- well they BOTH started for other teams that won way more games than the Lions. One of them is playing next week.

It is in bad taste for anyone here to complain about their football team.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
Ask a Green Bay fan or two how they feel about John Elway. Or Denver generally.

I think we should ask a Cleveland fan.

[Mr. Man]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
Yeah. Unfortunately then he went and won himself a couple of Super Bowls. Ask a Green Bay fan or two how they feel about John Elway. Or Denver generally.


(or better yet, live with a Green Bay fan and then draft Javon Walker to your fantasy team after he became a Bronco and see how well that goes over.)

I can't believe you brought that shit up, again.

[patentparanyc]

Originally posted by Mr. Man
I can't believe you brought that shit up, again.

should we all leave? I'm sorry.

[Mr. Man]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
I will never understand why that was such a big deal. Ever. It was like he actually pulled his pants down. Can anyone explain why we should have cared?

TM

I cared because I thought it was funny. Just like the TO sharpie thing and cheerleader dance.

It's not Randy's fault that Ron Wolf phoned in his "legendary" career in 1994 after finding a cast off quarterback and up and coming coach and didn't bother picking Randy up when he had the chance.

[notcasesensitive]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
you remember the 2 quaterbacks the Lions had last year? the ones who weren't even good enough to play for the Lions- well they BOTH started for other teams that won way more games than the Lions. One of them is playing next week.

It is in bad taste for anyone here to complain about their football team.

You are supposed to start complaining about front office/coaching at this point. I beleive that Matt Millan is the target of choice.

If it makes you feel any better, I loved (LOVED!) the Lions' week 17 performance. Even if it lost them the first pick of the draft, it was the right thing to do.

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
Maybe every team has some asshole fans and some polite fans?

Oh yeah? I suppose next you're going to saythat maybe every city has some assholes and some polite residents? Or every political party has some assholes and some intelligent, civil, committed adherents?

Grow up, Man. My God, it's like you're from Boston.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
TOTD

I like this line of posts, but find the concept a tad derivative, NTTAWWT.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by Adder
The Yankees were America's team before the Braves (who I also hate).

I have never heard of them referred to this way by anyone from this country. Not once.

Originally posted by Adder
And again briefly after 9/11.

Thanks, but I think we both know that this really doesn't count.

TM

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by Mr. Man
I was thinking more about home field fans. I often cringe at away game Packer fans, especially the clowns I was sitting next to at the SF game this year. Embarassing.

Of the games I went to this year:

Tampa Bay fans: I don't recall seeing any of them, but then it was pre-season. Who the hell travels for preseason?

Eagles fans: No singing that I recall. Seemed nice enough, though the very, very large man in the Westbrook jersey sitting a few rows in front of me was sort of discombobulating when compared to the size of Westbrook himself. (Texans lost)

Redskins fans: Decent enough. A fight broke out in my section between two Texans fans about relative obnoxoiusness. I sort of took the obnoxious guy's side, because he's a regular and the complainer was a newbie. I never saw the obnoxious guy at a game again. I guess he either moved or they revoked his tickets. (Texans lost)

Dolphins fans: Had a funny conversation with a few of the Dolphins fans on the way out of the stadium. We were comparing how bad our relative teams were. "No, we're much worse than you are." "You have no idea how bad we are." (Texans won)

Jaguars fans: We see them every year. Division rivals. Nothing we can't handle. (Texas beat the shit out of them)

Bills fans: There were a LOT of them, which I thought was surprising cosidering how far we are from Buffalo. They were pretty loud, but not too obnoxious, and the game was a depressingly close one. (Texans lost)

Titans fans: This one is hard to judge because of the Vince Young Factor. The fans weren't necessarily for Tennessee and the hated and dispised Bud Adams, but they were rooting very loudly for Vince Young. (Texans lost in the most depressing way I've ever seen. And I've seen a lot of Texans losses.)

(Note: I missed the Indianapolis game, but the fans have been notoroiusly loud and obnoxious. It breaks my heart I missed this. (Texans won))

Cleveland fans: Non factor in the game. There were a few sitting around me, but not enough so I noticed much. It wasn't a great game, the teams weren't very good. (Texans won)