American Football (NFL, College, etc.)

gaijinmark wrote:I hope those yellow helmets were just a one time thing. They look like they got their heads dipped in mustard. :bleh:

They were a 2 time thing, actually. They also wore them for their first home game of the season in Week 2 vs. Buffalo, also a lopsided victory.

bmwracer wrote:
LOL.

The Pats will have them for lunch later in the season at Foxborough.

They might. :sweat: If so, I hope we can return the favor in the playoffs, like we did to the Colts in '05 and the Pats did to us in '04! :fingerscrossed:

After a short lull on upset news, a big one today: number one Ohio State falls to unranked Illinois, 28-21. :hehe:

No love for the Mizzou Tigers eh?
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Big 12 is where it's at :mrgreen: We just won today which makes us 9-1. I wonder what we will be ranked next :hehe: KU needs to lose! :beatyou:

Missouri?

Are they a Division I team? :beaten:

I should talk: UCLA is stinking up the PAC10 from coast-to-coast. :bleh:

bmwracer wrote:Missouri?

Are they a Division I team? :beaten:

I should talk: UCLA is stinking up the PAC10 from coast-to-coast. :bleh:

Haha, lol its an outlook like that is gonna cause everyone to say WTF when we win it :naughty: Ranked 7 before today's game, not sure if we will go up though. We played rather shitty even though it was a win. Your team is UCLA then?

atskv9 wrote:Haha, lol its an outlook like that is gonna cause everyone to say WTF when we win it :naughty: Ranked 7 before today's game, not sure if we will go up though. We played rather shitty even though it was a win. Your team is UCLA then?

Sadly, yes. :ashamed:



Basketball season has begun.....! :beaten:

Looks like LSU will retake the top spot in the BCS with a 58-10 wipeout of Louisiana Tech...

atskv9 wrote:No love for the Mizzou Tigers eh?

Missouri is having a stellar season; I've been impressed whenever I've caught them on TV. They have a huge game with Kansas upcoming, and the winner of that game will probably face Oklahoma in the Big 12 championship game. Big games with major BCS implications.

Don't know how long you've been a Mizzou fan, but until the last few years, the Tigers have been one of those programs that for decades should have done better than they did. You'd probably have to go all the way back to the Dan Devine era to find the last time Missouri has been a consistent winner over any appreciable length of time.

Ohio State finally plays a good football team. . .and loses.

Tim Tebow is a freak of nature.

Cal stumbles again in a contest they had a good chance at winning.

It's obvious USC has a lot of talent, and it's obvious they don't play up to their talent level all the time.

Hawaii hangs on to remain undefeated. Boise State looms on the horizon--that should be a helluva game.

Notre Dame loses to an Air Force team that plays hard, executes well, and doesn't have near the talent the Irish have.

Nebraska takes out its frustrations on K-State. It might be too little too late to save Callahan's job though.

It's too bad Darren McFadden doesn't play for a better football team. In a season of so many terrific college RBs, I think he's the best of the bunch.

November is the best month for college football fans. So many important games, so many traditional rivalries, so much at stake.

shin2 wrote:Ohio State finally plays a good football team. . .and loses.

LOL. Now that I think about it and look at their schedule... Yeah. :)

Cal stumbles again in a contest they had a good chance at winning.

The throwback uniforms didn't help 'em. :beaten:

Hmm, no commentary from shin2 on his Chargers... They're hurting for whatever reason. :sweat:

Browns lead the Steelers, 14-6, in the first half.... Go Browns!! :woot:

Dang it, Browns couldn't hold off the Steelers after taking a 21-6 lead, so they lose 31-28.

On a happier note, the Saints lose to the previously winless Rams, 37-29. :victory:

Miami remains winless, losing to the Bills, 13-10.

Looks like this Miami team might go into the record books, going 0-16, to complement the 14-0 Dolphin team of 1972. :hehe:

Chargers luck out big time after nearly blowing a 23-point lead against the Colts and win 23-21, after Adam Vinateri misses an easy field goal to win the game.

Totally bizarre game. :shakehead: :crazy:

Woof! For a while there I thought the Chargers had blown it.

But they came away with a win against the evil colts.

Now to lay in a large enough stock of adult beverages to help me get through tomorrow night's national embarassment. ie. The Niners vs. the Seahawks.

Geezer wrote:Woof! For a while there I thought the Chargers had blown it.

They should've blown it if it weren't for Vinateri missing that 29-yarder.

I think it shows how mediocre the Chargers appear to have become to eke out a win after blowing a 23-point lead and Manning having the worst passing day (six picks) of his career...

Take out Sproles two returns for TDs and the offense was only able to generate one TD. :shakehead:

Now to lay in a large enough stock of adult beverages to help me get through tomorrow night's national embarassment. ie. The Niners vs. the Seahawks.

Augh.

Another reason which I'm glad not to have cable.

Seahawks skunk the Niners, 24-0. :sweat: :shakehead:

How the Niners have even two wins is beyond me... :(

Niners sunk the Niners. The Seahawks should be embarassed that they only put up 24 against that pack of sad sacks.

And truth to tell, if you look at those first two wins, the Niners didn't deserve either of them.

The Niners are bad on the level of the original Tampa Bay Buccs. The Aints, and the worst of the Bengals teams.

Oh yeah, and they traded away next year's first round draft choice to the Pats. (Got Joe Staley, a good looking rookie OT) So the Pats will have one of the top two draft picks next year.

The Chargers/Colts game has to be one of the most mind-boggling football games I have seen. There were so many bizarre events which occurred in that game, particularly in the the final few minutes, that it was like the perfect storm of bizarreness.

For a team that went into this season being touted as one of the elite, the Chargers are in deep shit.

For the upteenth time this year, Norv Turner defended his playcalling and trotted out a number of excuses why the offense is struggling.

For the upteenth time this year, Philip Rivers said he didn't play well and that he would work hard to get better.

For the upteenth time this year LaDainian Tomlinson was bewildered and downcast.

The offensive line play has been lousy; the QB play has been terrible; the wide receiver play has been inconsistent; the RB play has been unremarkable; the playcalling has been woeful.

The defense was fortunate that Payton Manning had the worst game of his pro career; that said, they still allowed a ton of yards and gave up three TDs. And of course in the previous week they allowed a one-dimensional football team to gash them into humiliation.

The Chargers acknowledged team leaders in recent years were Drew Brees and Donnie Edwards; neither is there now, and no one has filled the void. LT tries to lead the offense by example, but he's personally struggling this year. Shawne Merriman wants to be a leader, but he's just all hot air.

And as far as the coaches are concerned. . .the two coordinators from last year who were effective sideline generals are no longer there, and the new head coach. . .well, Norv Turner's track record as a head coach is not exactly a model of success.

Unless the Chargers, who have a lot of physical talent, are able to figure out how to correct their subpar performances in games soon, it's easy to see this team disintegrating into a bunch of finger-pointing, backbiting me-not-we individuals.

The one thing they have going for them is that they play in the weakest division in the AFC.

You must feel better after that. :)

Breathe deeply now. :)

bmwracer wrote:You must feel better after that. :)

Breathe deeply now. :)

It was, figuratively speaking, a good colonic cleansing.

Speaking of crap, do the Niners and Dolphins play each other this year? (Just kidding, Geezer)