American Football (NFL, College, etc.)

Colts win an absolutely ugly game over the Browns, 10-6. :bleh:

Saints lose again, 23-20, to the Bucs. :victory: :applaud:

Falcons beat the Chargers, 22-16.

I think it's more than safe to say that the Chargers are done.

Steelers roll Pats 33-10.

:dancing:

^ They'd better beat the Cowboys next week.

bmwracer wrote:^ They'd better beat the Cowboys next week.

I hope they do, but, as far as the Steelers' playoff situation goes, it's easily the least important game left on their schedule.

If we lose to the Cowboys, but beat the Ravens the following week, I'd take that over the reverse situation, for sure.

pearl jam wrote:Steelers roll Pats 33-10.

:dancing:

:grumble: the pats lost again:bleh:
but Im glad the steelers won :mrgreen: its too bad

suzzy wrote: :grumble: the pats lost again:bleh:
but Im glad the steelers won :mrgreen: its too bad

Well since they played each other, the only thing you could've hoped for is a tie, if you didn't want either to lose. :P

Chargers finally find a team they can beat, routing the Raiders, 34-7.

USC beats UCLA, 28-7.

I'm surprised 'SC didn't roll up the score and make or beat the spread... UCLA plays like an undisciplined high school team.

And that's a complement.

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Oklahoma is socking it to Mizzou, 38-7, at the half. :sweat:

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Florida beat 'Bama, 31-20...

And Tim Tebow does his "Kurt Warner standing on a pulpit" imitation: "....I wanna thank Jesus Christ... God Bless You..." :shakehead:

There should be a separation between church and sport.

This will be an unsatisfying post-season. Is one loss Florida more deserving to be in the BCS championship game than, say, one loss Texas? Yes, Texas is not the conference champion, but that's due to some weird tie breaking rule. Both beat No 1 teams on neutral fields. Texas lost to a ranked team; Florida lost to an unranked team. However, Florida's loss no longer matters, and Texas's win over Oklahoma doesn't matter either.

I rather them settle this on the field rather than through "style points" and the idea that losing early is better than losing late. Any system that encourages humiliating your opponent to improve your rankings is severely flawed.

The above is just MHO.

Madoka wrote:This will be an unsatisfying post-season. Is one loss Florida more deserving to be in the BCS championship game than, say, one loss Texas? Yes, Texas is not the conference champion, but that's due to some weird tie breaking rule. Both beat No 1 teams on neutral fields. Texas lost to a ranked team; Florida lost to an unranked team. However, Florida's loss no longer matters, and Texas's win over Oklahoma doesn't matter either.

I rather them settle this on the field rather than through "style points" and the idea that losing early is better than losing late. Any system that encourages humiliating your opponent to improve your rankings is severely flawed.

The above is just MHO.

And don't think anyone is really happy with the system. Every year it's just complaints after complaints. You would think that by now they would have said, "you know maybe we should change this". And I'm fine with Texas not being in the conference championship game, they lost to Texas Tech, a division rival, a game that they should have won.

Jav_sol wrote:And I'm fine with Texas not being in the conference championship game, they lost to Texas Tech, a division rival, a game that they should have won.

But then Oklahoma lost to Texas, a division rival, whom they should have defeated as the No 1 team at the time.

Madoka wrote:
But then Oklahoma lost to Texas, a division rival, whom they should have defeated as the No 1 team at the time.

Losing to Texas is not as bad as losing to Texas Tech. Texas Tech got spanked by Oklahoma, I mean that game wasn't even close. That's why I'm ok with Oklahoma playing the conference championship game.

We just need to switch to a playoff system... :victory:

The BCS is a money and publicity-grubbing sham.

bmwracer wrote:We just need to switch to a playoff system... :victory:

The BCS is a money and publicity-grubbing sham.

True. There's playoffs for basketball but none for football, makes no sense.

Jav_sol wrote:True. There's playoffs for basketball but none for football, makes no sense.

Yup.

Time for Obama to step in. :beaten:

Colts rout the Bengals, 35-3.

Saints beat the Falcons, 29-25. :grumble:

Giants stumble against the Eagles at home, 20-14. :shakehead:

Way to go 'Niners, knock of the Jets 24-14 :woot:

bmwracer wrote:Giants stumble against the Eagles at home, 20-14. :shakehead:

It's hard to win when one of your (Giants) best players shoots himself off the team. :doh: :grumble:


No matter, Giants will get over this tough loss and win their division as Romo and the 'Boys go down to Pitt, 20-13 .... :dancing: :applaud:

adub2adub wrote:It's hard to win when one of your (Giants) best players shoots himself off the team. :doh: :grumble:

That's debatable.

Besides they won last weekend without him. :)

Always good to see the Plowboys lose and more so to see TO melt down afterwards.

Priceless. :hehe: :rofl:

EDIT: Congrats to the Cardinals for winning their first division title since 1975. :victory: :applaud: