The NFL 2011 Thread

Zuwadza · 2011-12-19T18:50:20.000Z

Ok so they’ll use every single opportunity during a game to show advertising, like before AND after a PAT, but during a power outage they’ll show everyone just standing around? Lame. Why not fill the ad quota now?

Shadarr · 2011-12-19T18:56:08.000Z

Because they know half of us are out of the room on our computers already.

Zuwadza · 2011-12-19T19:01:35.000Z

Instead we had to deal with that awful, awful ad-hoc delay-of-game show.

Brandon_Clements · 2011-12-19T19:12:54.000Z

gameoverman:

I like how they’re talking about how they need to play before the ‘medicine’ wears off.

They’ll give the big lummox another shot at halftime.

Sarkus · 2011-12-19T19:20:20.000Z

Brandon Clements:

They’ll give the big lummox another shot at halftime.

From what they’ve been saying, Roethlisberger got a shot but they can’t give him another one of those. That’s probably true of some other guys as well. So the delays could have an impact as the game goes on.

Ben_Roethlisberger · 2011-12-19T19:25:52.000Z

Dude, my ankle fricking kills right now.

robsam · 2011-12-19T19:57:27.000Z

Is ESPN fucking with us right now? Who is this tiny little man reporting zero information from the sidelines?

Incendiary_Lemon · 2011-12-19T19:59:47.000Z

Tin Wisdom:

But can you not see the Hand of The Almighty at work in that schedule? The loss to Detroit is understandable because really, Christians have never done well verses lions.

Quoted for posterity.

robsam · 2011-12-19T20:36:45.000Z

HEY STEELER COACHES AND PLAYERS!!

If a play seems to be heavily loaded to one side of the field, maybe you should have at least one player on the other side to pick up that wide open guy catching passes for huge yardage and/or touchdowns.

Zuwadza · 2011-12-19T20:37:44.000Z

Wow, what a great drive by Alex Smith and the Niners. They are looking like the real deal again today.

robsam · 2011-12-19T21:00:50.000Z

Zuwadza:

Wow, what a great drive by Alex Smith and the Niners. They are looking like the real deal again today.

The Niners are winning games and have the record that I thought the Cowboys would have this season. I’m jealously happy for them, the bastards.

robsam · 2011-12-19T21:03:10.000Z

Woolen Horde:

Jezus, I wake up, turn on NFL Network, and it’s Skip Bayless and some other dude spending forever debating on whether Tebow is getting better.

Fuck it. The guy wins, they talk about him. He loses, they talk about him. I give up. All Fucking Hail Tebow. It’s like brainwashing.

Interesting take on Tebow. Brett won’t like this one bit.

Grantland – 3 Jan 12

Tebow’s Religion: Fair Game

And when we’re done talking about that, let’s discuss how he becomes a better quarterback than Andy Dalton.

Shadarr · 2011-12-19T21:34:21.000Z

Statement game. Woohoo!

Bill_Dungsroman · 2011-12-19T23:00:00.000Z

Ben Roethlisberger:

Dude, my ankle fricking kills right now.

Good. You suck you big fat lummox.

Niners wooo

Also

Not_One_Of_Us · 2011-12-20T02:54:16.000Z

BOOM.

Mark_Asher · 2011-12-20T03:24:37.000Z

robsam:

Interesting take on Tebow. Brett won’t like this one bit.

http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/7369021/fair-game

The article lost me when it veered into religion. I’m not religious and I don’t care at all about Tebow’s faith. I enjoy watching what the Broncos have been doing with Tebow at QB. I’m not interested in hearing what Tebow has to say about his faith and I’m not interested in reading about others dissecting it. It’s boring to me. And it’s certainly not football.

I don’t watch football and look for intellectual paragons. I watch the NFL to see giants walking the earth, crashing into each other.

Guido_Jones · 2011-12-20T05:44:24.000Z

Mark Asher:

The article lost me when it veered into religion.

At the title?

Lorini · 2011-12-20T06:32:55.000Z

P&R; close your eyes

TimJames · 2011-12-20T06:54:23.000Z

Lorini:

P&R; close your eyes

That’s silly. God grants Tebow touchdowns, he gets millions in salary and endorsements, and then rolls those millions into his mission work!

Plus Ferraris and bitches.

Mark_Asher · 2011-12-20T08:36:55.000Z

Guido Jones:

At the title?

I don’t remember the title. I remember a big Grantland at the top of the page.

I read through the first 5-6 paragraphs where it talked about football. Then it got into some kind of religious ideology stuff that was uninteresting to me, something about how it is fair to drag religion into talking about Tebow, because blah blah blah. Thing is, I don’t care if it’s fair. It’s boring. Please don’t stick religion into my football articles.