Cole Deschain |
I'm not really big on sports, but since I hail from Steelers county, what would be the stats for The Terrible Towel?
Won their division (which, since it's 50%Browns and Bengals, is...not the accomplishment it could be).
Not to be ignored going into the postseason, but flying low in a year where the Patriots have been their boring, consistent selves eating up page count about another snore-worthy dominance of the AFC East, the Cowboys have risen from the dead so I can resume hating them in a meaningful way, and the Raiders, Chiefs, and Broncos all jockeyed for position in the AFC West- which was, for a while there, the only interesting conference before the Broncos slipped up and turned it into a neck and neck race between the Raiders and the Chiefs.
Basically, the Steelers have been playing well, but not particularly spectacularly.
Wei Ji the Learner |
Well, due to the once-more [redacted] climate, the Faketriots will probably win the Superbowl with more Belicheating. Because that's a thing that happens when certain [redacted] happen to be [redacted].
Then we turn our attentions to the NFC North, the division no one wants to really win...
Syrus Terrigan |
Think I finally did enough digging to read through your redacts, Wei Ji. I think I get it.
Anyhow -- Waytago, Pittsburgh!! Yay, Falcons!! Yay, Green Bay (twice!!)!!
And, of course, the Patriots won! Woot! (They better play better than they did Saturday, though -- the Steelers aren't gonna slip up so much.)
GM Niles |
Random Thoughts:
1) Robert Kraft deserves an effing medal for trolling Goodell so hard. I LOVE next level trolling like that.
2) The Falcons can lose every game every year until eternity and it still wouldn't be enough for me.
3) Best game ever. Seriously. Best football game I've ever watched.
4) Joe Buck called two of the greatest catches in SB history, and sucked both times.
5) Atlanta and Alabama lost in the championship game at the last second after blowing a lead...2016 wasn't all bad.
GM Niles |
LOL. See my above post about trolling. Epic next level trolling is acceptable, this however is base mediocrity.
Cole Deschain |
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Aberzombie wrote:My dislike for both teams is pretty equal. The "f$%* you" to Goodell was pretty sweet though.AZ, I thought you were a Saints fan.
Look, some of us (right-thinking, good, honorable people who wake up everyday to make the world a better and happier place) hate the Patriots, some of us hate the Falcons, and so on for every team...
But if you follow NFL Football, you hate Goodell. It's quite simple.
As I told someone on Phagebook, "My hate for the Patriots is tribal, my hate for Goodell is institutional."
Wei Ji the Learner |
I despise the Faketriots and Belicheat because that is what they are. And they brag about it and when they get caught they get a slap on the wrist and then we're supposed to *like* them BECAUSE.
I don't quite loathe the Denver Buckos because they have an unfair competitive advantage in Mile High.
I do not care for the Aint's after they went from 'classy' to 'sassy'.
The Bears need to remain in hibernation indefinitely until they get enough new blood at all levels.
The Packers *organizationally* are my favorite (the only share-holder team in the NFL? AWESOME) but from a team level they usually end up grabbing some of the scuzziest folks out there (lowest bid?)
Any team that's moved in the history of their franchise (and not a temporary thing for maintenance/stadium building, that gets a 'pass) is also on the WTF list.
This includes the Waders, the Lambs, the Cardinals off the top of my head plus many more.
Are we mad at Goodell because he's trying to make a garden out of the bag of fertilizer he's been handed by the owners?
Syrus Terrigan |
I seriously doubt that anyone in Foxboro is terribly concerned about who likes them or doesn't. But that's easy for me to say, since I can easily ignore Kraft's [redacted] rhetoric -- I didn't pick the team for any [redacted] associations, or [redacted] sentiment. I picked 'em because they were supposed to lose a game in the waybackwhen. I'm glad they have been winning so consistently these past several years.
And my displeasure with Goodell is contingent upon an instance of what appears, to me, to be a heavy-handed non-solution to an event that can't be proven to have actually happened, coupled with some instances of obvious mishandling of discipline in the face of reprehensible conduct on the part of players across the league. Fortunately, things in that whole category at least appear to be improved. I'm willing to give him a greater "benefit of a doubt", as it were, since he definitely has a tough job and might be trying to "garden" well -- but a lot of that limited goodwill hinges on the fact that the Lombardi went to the team I root for first just some short days ago.
Yep. I'm biased.
Nevertheless, my passion for the game is decreasing, mostly because I'd rather roll dice and cast spells with my imagination. Too much unfortunate baggage with the NFL these days (much of it right in line with what you said, Wei Ji), and the University of Tennessee at Knoxville apparently can't get a great thing going . . . .
GM Niles |
Right now I don't follow any thing but college. I'm not optimistic about my home town's college team's record being better or even worse than last year's.
Well, my Ducks (Alma Mater) put up 77 last week...so that's something. They have a real test this week vs Nebraska.
I'm very cautiously optimistic.
The Hometown team (LSU) started exceptionally well vs BYU, and I'm really expecting them to challenge the SEC this year (Unlike the previous 4-5 years).
GM Niles |
Remember that time they got walloped by the Chiefs and everyone predicted the downfall of the Patriots and then they went ahead and won two more Superbowls since then.
Yeah, Trent Dilfer remembers.
Syrus Terrigan |
Defense looked solid till Hightower got hurt. And then Amendola went into the concussion protocol.
*sigh*
Gillislee and Gilmore played very well, though.
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That 3rd-round rookie for KC, though! Hunt is his name, right? Weapon of Mass Yardage, that guy. Good for them!
Still gotta see what the Raiders can do, though . . . . (Yeah, my expectations for the Chargers and Broncos are a bit low . . . .)
Theconiel |
Theconiel,
I think you mean when Hell freezes over...not just thaws in one spot.
Anyways, East Carolina might not be puff game in some respects...but overall, it is.
The last time I used that phrase, the other person reminded me that according to Dante's Inferno, the ninth circle of Hell is frozen. I, too, had read it, so I rephrased. I figured that in this crowd, almost everyone will have read Dante's Divine Comedy, so I just went directly to the "ninth circle thaws" version.
:-)