American Football

[Crosby87]

So USC dumped their alcoholic coach and fixed everything in 2 weeks? Amazing. That's gotta be it for the guy in Miami after that undressing from paw paw. Chip Kelly to the Canes?

Go Jets! They are going to blitz little tommy and his injured o line like gang bangers!

[Real ale Madrid]

How about that from the Washington Professional Football team!!!!

[Crosby87]

I didn't think the skins had it in em.

Last week was not exactly a banner week for good play. How did Tom And Eli win two super bowls together? They are both awful. Carolina being undefeated is a joke. Let's just fast forward to the Green Bay /NE super bowl and get it over with....only 2 decent teams in the whole league. Cincy will lose in the first round as usual. Denver has no chance. Indy is terrible. Rex is already taking on water in Buffalo. Arizona is over rated. Seattle can't get out of thier own way. Detroit fired Vince Lombardi's grandson yesterday. Miami wins 2 games against terrible opponents and people are talking like they are the 85 Chicago Bears. Houston is a joke, the QB misses the team charter flight to Miami on sunday, has to find a diff flight, gets released yesterday...San Diego and St Louis are both tanking so they can move to Los Angeles. That Dallas coach should be cleaning bathrooms. The Eagles have their wings clipped.
Really down on the NFL right now!

[swinfordfc]

Ok i was tatally depressed 20 mins into that game .... but i was glad i watched it to the end ... totally grossed in it and ys it was a great win but what won it was Breeland running down Doug Martin on the 5 yard line and saving a certain touchdown. They only get a field goal and the Kirk drives them up the field to win the game. great we are 3-4 with Pats next ..... so we be 3-5 lol

The Jets will be in the play offs - they are a good side

Real Ale - whats your team?

[Crosby87]

He's a Pats fan. He cheats at cards so it was an easy choice.

[swinfordfc]

He's a Pats fan. He cheats at cards so it was an easy choice.

;) .... :D ..... :p

[swinfordfc]

Well we all know the skins will lose to the Pats on Sunday week!

[Crosby87]

They are playing the thursday game right? Miami will be back to their losing ways.

[Spudulika]

Check out the ESPN 30 for 30 about the Pete Carroll years at USC....pretty crazy. Snoop Dog hanging out at practice....those guys definitely never went to class one time.

Watched that this morning when I got home (along with the Prince of Penn). I understand Carroll liked the razzmatazz, but Snoop Dogg, he's not even, no, can't explain. Felt Reggie Bush was sold short by the whole lot of them and there are a lot of unanswered questions.

Hoping Notre Dame get a win tonight, Temple are no pushovers but still.

Rugby has become boring so it's over to ESPN Gameday!

Oh, and USC v Cal is tonight!

[Crosby87]

Temple are having a very good year, type of team that give the Irish fits. Georgia screwing the pooch again vs Gators.

I agree with you about Reggie Bush. He was the scapegoat. At least he got to bang Kim K!

[Crosby87]

The ending of the miami duke game might have been the craziest of all time. 8 laterals. I don't even know what to say.
Irish squeek by. Made it as hard as possible on themselves of course.

[Spudulika]

Temple are having a very good year, type of team that give the Irish fits. Georgia screwing the pooch again vs Gators.

I agree with you about Reggie Bush. He was the scapegoat. At least he got to bang Kim K!

I think Reggie was punished enough without having to suffer that though! :-)

I saw the ending to the Miami-Duke game, refs had a thankless task, it was like something from a playground.

ND were lucky to win and on ESPN they were talking about expanding the play off to 8 teams, would be the most logical, though the system is always going to favour the big teams anyway.

Watching Stanford now. McCaffrey has made most of the offence for the ranked team, but WSU are doing great (but need a TD).

[Crosby87]

WSU was so close. Haven't beaten a top ten team since 93 or something. Notre Dame is going to be loaded next year.
Interesting day all around.
Poor Duke fans.

[Real ale Madrid]

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Real Ale - whats your team?[/QUOTE]

I'm a Pats fan - I don't cheat at anything - I'm just better. :)

[Crosby87]

Boomer Esiason says the Jets had their locker room in Foxborough swept for listening devices last weekend! Seriously!

[Town Legend]

The NFL swept the locker room according to sources. The Jets didn't request the locker rooms to be checked. If the NFL were the ones to orchestrate it then that is quite baffling!! They won't admit it but they know the Pats were and probably still are cheating!

[Real ale Madrid]

Wonder if the Raiders bugged the Jets dressing room this week or whats the excuse going to be after this!?

[Crosby87]

That's easy, Fitz got hurt! Geno sucks!
Minny won in Chicago and Cincy won in Pitt? Bizarro world. Giants D is a joke.

[swinfordfc]

NFC East is a joke ......

[Real ale Madrid]

NFC East is a joke ......

Its not even worse than the AFC South!

[swinfordfc]

Its not even worse than the AFC South!

Yea ... its close though! :)

[Crosby87]

Broncos trade for 49ers TE Davis....pretty good move. Shocked they beat the Packers so easily btw.
Good games in college and pros this weekend. Really good.

[Crosby87]

The first College Football Playoff ranking is out.
Clemson
Lsu
Osu
Bama
Notre Dame.

Now, im the biggest Notre Dame subway alumni fan in the world. And i recognize their one loss is to the team the committee seems to think is the best in the country in Clemmer. But is it really fair for them to be ahead of undefeateds Baylor, Mich St, and Texas Christian? And is the winner of Texas Christian and Baylor going to leapfrog ND anyway?
That's the question Jimmy.

[Real ale Madrid]

Watched last nights UCLA / Washington St game this afternoon for the want of something to do! - great game! Wash St won with a TD with 3 seconds to go - I watch far too much ACC ball when there are games like this going around every week.

Looking forward to the Pats / Giants later. The 9.00 / 9.30 slot on a Sunday night is perfect for watching games. Pats looking to secure a 15th successive winning regular season if they get to 9 wins tonight. I wonder if any other team in history has achieved that?

[swinfordfc]

Watched last nights UCLA / Washington St game this afternoon for the want of something to do! - great game! Wash St won with a TD with 3 seconds to go - I watch far too much ACC ball when there are games like this going around every week.

Looking forward to the Pats / Giants later. The 9.00 / 9.30 slot on a Sunday night is perfect for watching games. Pats looking to secure a 15th successive winning regular season if they get to 9 wins tonight. I wonder if any other team in history has achieved that?

I hope they destroyed the Giants tonight .....

[Real ale Madrid]

I hope they destroyed the Giants tonight .....

Needless to say the Giants are a bit of a bogey team for NE - confident of winning but its not a forgone conclusion - it should be close enough.

Washington Professional Football team doing well against what is now surely the worst DEF in NFL history

[Crosby87]

Giants look better than recently if nothing else.

Peyton just broke Favres record.

Ben brings back the steelers, bradford hurt for philly.....manziel sucks.

[BonnieShels]

We are getting spanked by the Chiefs.

Eesh.

Only horse left for me tonight is a team I hate playing a team I loathe.

Go Giants! For now.

[Real ale Madrid]

Speechless. Amazing. GO PATS!

[swinfordfc]

Hard to know where the Redskins really lie - but they are alot better than the last numbers of years ...... But still have a good bit to go ..... Still think the Giants will in the East by a margin ..... Great game the Pats/Giants game

[Crosby87]

What a barn burner on tap 2night. Titans Jags. Yuck.

[Real ale Madrid]

Just about to settle down to BC @ ND at Fenway - think Galway are playing Dublin in a hurling exhibition at the venue tomorrow.

Hope BC knock ND out of the playoff picture.

Just saw Mich State knock off Ohio State - close game, tough on Ohio, but they never did enough at home.

[Crosby87]

Ok Real. Lets have it out. :o
BC is horrid. This nonsense is only keeping Notre Dame from being relevant on Jan 1.

[Real ale Madrid]

At one stage halfway through the 3rd quarter Boston College had forced more turnovers (5) than had 1st downs (4). Then they made a few big plays and if they had found a bit of rhythm earlier could have easily caused an upset.

Looking forward to Vikings/Packers later. Think the Packers could be done.

[Crosby87]

Glad OSU lost.
Yeah lots of peeps taking the Vikings today. Gonna be cold outside.

[swinfordfc]

Well the Packers shows the Vikings how to play ball ..... and Cam and the Panthers are no. 1 in nfl with Tom and Pats no. 1 in the afl

The giants will now walk away with the east and might cause a suprise in the play offs. What happen to the jets yestarday?

[Crosby87]

Jets suck again. No edge pass rush.
If Dallas win out they can still win the nfc east. I think they will beat Carolina on Turkey day.
Bills a trendy pick 2night vs ailing Pats.

[BonnieShels]

Jets suck again. No edge pass rush.
If Dallas win out they can still win the nfc east. I think they will beat Carolina on Turkey day.
Bills a trendy pick 2night vs ailing Pats.

Damn officials.

No way they would have gotten a TD on the next play but who knows... damn officials.

Big one for Brock this weekend. I can't wait. AS much as I love the Broncos, I hate the Pats more. So getting up exhausted on Monday morning will be somewhat easier if we win.

[Real ale Madrid]

Big one for Brock this weekend. I can't wait. AS much as I love the Broncos, I hate the Pats more. So getting up exhausted on Monday morning will be somewhat easier if we win.

Forget about it Bonnie - Brock Osburger or what ever his name is against Bill Belicheat? - get your sleep!

Why do you hate the Pats anyway - you're not from New York!

Really looking forward to Boys v Panthers tonight. Should be good one!

[Crosby87]

That's a pick em! Dallas was actually favored on monday by a pt. Imagine....a 3 -7 team favored over a 10-0 team...

College football is funny....they have 40 bowls to fill this year and not enough .500 teams (who shouldn't be going to bowls at all). There might be some bowls with two 5-7 teams. Horrid.

[Real ale Madrid]

That's a pick em! Dallas was actually favored on monday by a pt. Imagine....a 3 -7 team favored over a 10-0 team...


Good opportunity for a bet? - even with Romo, Dallas were 4-4 at home last year.

[Crosby87]

Really? Didnt know that.
Tough call. Dallas needs it more obviously. I bet on the Lions thank God. Thinking about letting it ride on Cowgirls.

[Real ale Madrid]

What about ND? Down in the college rankings. Happy thanksgiving Crosby btw.

[Crosby87]

Thanks.
Yeah ND needs some things to happen. Iowa losing in Nebraska would be helpful.

[Crosby87]

Irish downed on last second field goal. I'm ok with it. Red shirt in DeShawn starting at QB. Frosh at RB. Frosh kicker.
With the injured players coming back...South Bend will be fascinating at spring practice. If Malik stays...you could have 2 top notch QBs.
I'm ok with it.

[Real ale Madrid]

Patriots downed in OT by Broncos. I'm ok with it. 10-1 but No Edelman, No Amendola, No Lewis and No Gronk? Brady is good but he not winning a playoff game without at least 2 of those 4.

[swinfordfc]

Are they out for long is the question?

Wow - I know the East sucks but the Redskins are top of it - Thats just nuts - they defense were great last night - the giants only had Beckham to go to - but he a genius with some of his catches - that touchdown was un-real!

Because of that win though - the Cowgirls and Eagles are still in it!

[SkStu]

Osweiler was "clutch" when it mattered on a number of 3rd and longs.
Patriots run defense was a shambles.

[Crosby87]

Looks like Gronk is only going to miss a week if that. Brady was so ****ed...I hate him but what a competitor. Giselle recorded this thing on her phone of him in a turkey costume jumping out of a leaf pile and scaring his kids. it was pretty funny. Its on youtube. His little girl invites the Turkey in.

Anyway, some burning questions.

New England is in a weird spot. They don't run the ball at all, the injuries are piling up, can they still continue to win? It's hard to see how.

What about Denver now? If Peyton is Ok at some point do they keep him on the bench? He says he wants to play next season too.

Kansas City had 3 starting OLs go down on Sunday, all 5 guys switched positions and they still beat Buffalo. Ben got another concussion for Pitt. The whole league is hurt.

Its unanimous between everyone...fans, coaches, league brass, players...the officiating is horrid. Sunday may have been a low point. The 49ers got so screwed. These guys cant even get the reviews right. You have the ex director of officials working for Fox telling Jim and Troy Aikman that he doesn't no what to say anymore.

Someone said on the radio yesterday that it would be better for Carolina if they lost a game, as the undefeated thing becomes a distraction. I don't disagree.

And last, I know the Giants are terrible but how about that catch by Odell in the end zone? Is he the best reviever in the NFL? I could do without his BS but he has some hands that guy. Good God. Giants Jets on Sunday. WFAN is promising the world's largest tailgate with some things roasting that are not suitable for vegetarians.

[BonnieShels]

Forget about it Bonnie - Brock Osburger or what ever his name is against Bill Belicheat? - get your sleep!

Why do you hate the Pats anyway - you're not from New York!


nom nom nom nom nom :)

Hate them because they are just thoroughly dislikable. Same with the Cowboys and Washington Professional Team. And the Habs and Rangers while we're at it.



Patriots downed in OT by Broncos. I'm ok with it. 10-1 but No Edelman, No Amendola, No Lewis and No Gronk? Brady is good but he not winning a playoff game without at least 2 of those 4.

Hopefully not. :)


Are they out for long is the question?

Wow - I know the East sucks but the Redskins are top of it - Thats just nuts - they defense were great last night - the giants only had Beckham to go to - but he a genius with some of his catches - that touchdown was un-real!

Because of that win though - the Cowgirls and Eagles are still in it!

That catch was unbelievable. Even my mother was amazed by it.


The Patriots are perfect no more! They've lost to Broncos. Thoughts?

Hopefully they'll start dropping like a stone.


Osweiler was "clutch" when it mattered on a number of 3rd and longs.
Patriots run defense was a shambles.

I HATE the term clutch. Awful.