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The Giants booted the boyz!!! I am one happy geezer. The last time I rooted for the Giants Fran Tarkinton was the QB. But boy did I make noise today.

And the Chargers sent the Colts on vacation.

I couldn't be happier.

Okay, I could. But my team sucks... so that wasn't gonna happen.

Jeez! It kind of looks like Favre is gonna get a chance to go to another Superbowl. After the last couple of seasons I never would have believed it.

bmwracer wrote:
They were a couple of years back as well... :sweat:

Yup ... but having your football team go undefeated (19-0?), baseball win the WS, and basketball go from nearly last place in previous season to 1st in league the following one .... those peeps from Boston have nothing to complain about this year sports-wise. :doh: :shakehead:

Geezer wrote:The Giants booted the boyz!!! I am one happy geezer. The last time I rooted for the Giants Fran Tarkinton was the QB. But boy did I make noise today.


Jeez! It kind of looks like Favre is gonna get a chance to go to another Superbowl. After the last couple of seasons I never would have believed it.

Yup, I think the Packers exceeded my expectations this year by about ..... 10 more wins. :omg: :headscratch:

This just about ensures that the other "happy geezer" Favre .... will not retire for another 5 years. :beaten:

i won't be satisfied until the pats lose.
even if the colts are already eliminated

adub2adub wrote:Yup ... but having your football team go undefeated (19-0?), baseball win the WS, and basketball go from nearly last place in previous season to 1st in league the following one .... those peeps from Boston have nothing to complain about this year sports-wise. :doh: :shakehead:

Some cities have all the luck. :(

For me, watching the Cowboys get kicked to the curb is the second best thing that can happen at the end of an NFL season.

Manning and the Colts being eliminated was just gravy.

I'm not a Pats fan, but I am a football fan. And man... they really are that good. I like the style of ball that they play, and I like seeing that style played this well. So for now... I have no beef with the idea of the Pats running the table.

Of course, I doubt I'll appreciate their excellence as much next season when they play the Niners.

Geezer wrote:Of course, I doubt I'll appreciate their excellence as much next season when they play the Niners.

LOL.

Maybe the next question to ask is when will the Pats lose?

With the Colts losing, everybody seems to think the Chargers and the NFC Champion will just be road apples for a Super Bowl victory.... :beaten:

bmwracer wrote:
LOL.

Maybe the next question to ask is when will the Pats lose?

With the Colts losing, everybody seems to think the Chargers and the NFC Champion will just be road apples for a Super Bowl victory.... :beaten:

Or... you could just forgo the next 3 weeks and the SuperBowl (including the silly half-time show) and just crown the Pats as the 2008 champions right now!!! :banghead: :doh:

BMW

With the Colts losing, everybody seems to think the Chargers and the NFC Champion will just be road apples for a Super Bowl victory....

Can you blame them?

You can never rule out an upset, but I can't see betting against the Pats right now.

Well, the play-off games this past weekend were pretty interesting.

Packer RB Ryan Grant showed resiliency and no small degree of character when he overcame a disastrous start to rush for over 200 yards and score 3 TDs in Green Bay's blowout win over Seattle. Brett Favre is just one victory away from going to the Super Bowl. Who'd 'uv thunk it at the beginning of the season.

The Giants victory over the Cowboys showed how much New York has improved and how little Dallas has improved since the middle of the season. In T.O.'s post-game press conference, after crying his eyes out for Tony Romo, he said he had always gotten along with his QB's. I'm sure Donovan McNabb and Jeff Garcia would say otherwise. What a jerk!

Jacksonville went toe-to-toe with New England for three quarters before finally succumbing to a superior team. Tom Brady was insanely excellent, and his offensive line deserves much of the credit for his otherworldly performance. The Pats look scary good.

The Chargers beat the defending Super Bowl champs without their QB, their RB, and their TE for a significant part of the game. Michael Turner is more than a capable replacement for LT, and his power-running style was suited to attacking the Colts' quick-but-small defense; Antonio Gates was a non-factor, but the Chargers had other capable receivers to turn to; however, Billy Volek leading the Bolts on their winning TD drive late in the fourth quarter was totally unexpected. To me, Volek's performance was the biggest shocker of the weekend.

shin2 wrote:however, Billy Volek leading the Bolts on their winning TD drive late in the fourth quarter was totally unexpected. To me, Volek's performance was the biggest shocker of the weekend.

Totally.

The Colts defense was rendered ineffective by San Diego and the three costly turnovers did them in, particularly Marvin Harrison's fumble, which completely took the momentum away from the Colts... They probably would've had the Chargers down 14-0 and reeling with two quick scores.

Bleah.

Norm Chow got fired by the Tennessee Titans. If I were Rick Neuheisel, the new UCLA coach, I would go to whatever lengths possible to try and hire Chow as the OC for the Bruins.

UCLA hasn't had a decent OC since Al Borges who was there during Bob Toledo's reign and hasn't had a great OC since Homer Smith who was Terry Donahue's playcaller.

Norm Chow is a great OC. And wouldn't it be great to have him on UCLA's staff so he can go head-to-head against his former team, USC.

The challenge would be if Neuheisel can check his enormous ego and allow Chow to run the offense.

Speaking of Neuheisel, I think in three years he will either have UCLA in the top 10 or on probation.

shin2 wrote:Norm Chow is a great OC. And wouldn't it be great to have him on UCLA's staff so he can go head-to-head against his former team, USC.

I think UCLA will go after Chow just for the irony of it all. :hehe:

Speaking of Neuheisel, I think in three years he will either have UCLA in the top 10 or on probation.

LOL.

I'll vote for the former. :victory:

From Yahoo! Sports:

Former 49er Stubblefield pleads guilty in BALCO case

By PAUL ELIAS, Associated Press Writer

Former NFL defensive lineman Dana Stubblefield has pleaded guilty to lying to investigators in the BALCO steroids case.

Stubblefield was charged with perjury earlier today, becoming the first football player accused in the case.

Stubblefield, a three-time Pro Bowler who testified before the BALCO grand jury in November 2003, is charged with lying to federal agents about his alleged use of performance enhancing drugs.

The charges unsealed in federal court in San Francisco allege Stubblefield made false statements to an Internal Revenue Service Agent when he allegedly said he had not used steroids linked to the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative and denied receiving performance enhancing drugs from BALCO founder Victor Conte.

Stubblefield is the latest target in a federal investigation that has spanned five years and ensnared several elite athletes and members of the Burlingame-based steroids distribution ring, including Conte, who served four months in prison.

Barry Bonds, the former San Francisco Giant and baseball's career home run king, has pleaded not guilty to perjury and obstruction of justice charges and is awaiting trial.

Stubblefield played on the defensive line for the San Francisco 49ers, Washington Redskins and Oakland Raiders from 1993-2003, and was the NFL defensive player of the year in 1997 while with the 49ers.

He was one of three players fined by the NFL for testing positive for the designer steroid THG, but he was not suspended because THG was not added to the NFL's banned substance list until after the tests were conducted.

Yeah, I've been listening to the coverage of Stubby's case on the radio all morning.

He's still a very popular guy up here, and truth to tell... one of my all time favorite players.

I've been able to blow off most of the hub-bub about the juiceing scandles becasue I'm not a baseball fan. But this one's kind of kicked my mood in the crotch.

Geezer wrote:Yeah, I've been listening to the coverage of Stubby's case on the radio all morning.

He's still a very popular guy up here, and truth to tell... one of my all time favorite players.

I've been able to blow off most of the hub-bub about the juiceing scandles becasue I'm not a baseball fan. But this one's kind of kicked my mood in the crotch.

IF there were full transparency (don't sweat, juicers, it ain't gonna happen) on the use of illegal ergogenic substances, I think a lot of people would be shocked at how pervasive and entrenched the use of these substances are from the professional level to the collegiate level to the high school level, and not just in athletics. And anybody who thinks drug testing and federal indictments are gonna put a stop to illegal ergogenic use is naive. Unfortunately, like taxes, it's not going to disappear.

Philip Rivers and Antonio Gates are listed as doubtful for Sunday's game vs. the Pats. If Billy Volek leads the Chargers to victory against New England, it will be the biggest upset of the century (albeit we're only eight years into it). If Philip Rivers is able to play and the Chargers win, it will still be the biggest upset of the century.

Down here in San Diego, Bolts fans are exceedingly optimistic about their team's chances. I don't know if it's blind allegiance, blind hope, or just being blind to whom they're playing. . . . I suspect the rest of the country has the Patriots already in the Super Bowl.

Personally, I would like to see San Diego win although I know so many things would have to happen for that to happen.

But there's, I dunno, a sentimental part of me that would like to see the Patriots remain undefeated, go to the Super Bowl, play the Packers, and lose on the final play of the game when Brett Favre throws a TD pass, whereupon he retires then and there, thus becoming the greatest legend in NFL history.

OK, enough wishful thinking for one day.

You Charger fans are just being homers ... there's no chance they win, and I'd be doubtful of them even if everyone was 100% ... :bonk:

..but I'd like to see the Chargers win cause I despise the Pats :banghead:

adub2adub wrote:You Charger fans are just being homers ... there's no chance they win

You're probably right, but everytime I read something like this, I'm reminded of Jan.12, 1969, Vegas had the 13-1 Colts an 18 1/2 point favorite over the Jets. Final score = Jets 16, Colts 7 [/list:u]

gaijinmark wrote: You're probably right, but everytime I read something like this, I'm reminded of Jan.12, 1969, Vegas had the 13-1 Colts an 18 1/2 point favorite over the Jets. Final score = Jets 16, Colts 7 [/list:u]

Yea, but that's a loooong time ago. Plus, big upsets happen every playoffs ... but never against a 17-0 team and possibly the most dominate offense ever.

shin2 wrote:But there's, I dunno, a sentimental part of me that would like to see the Patriots remain undefeated, go to the Super Bowl, play the Packers, and lose on the final play of the game when Brett Favre throws a TD pass, whereupon he retires then and there, thus becoming the greatest legend in NFL history.

I expect the Pats to play the Pack in the Super Bowl...

And I hope the Pack wins...

Not by the uber-fantasy scenario you're talking about, but by the Pats tempting fate one too many times and having it catch up with them on the biggest stage in (American) Pro Sports: The Super Bowl... And front of a national audience.

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