112 thoughts on “Your Sunday Football Open Thread

  1. My idiot neighbor (and I use "idiot" in the clinical sense) has deliberately or accidentally awakened me four days in a row. If he does it again tomorrow, I can legally kill him, right?

  2. Smokey, just now, watching the game in London: "There are a lot of people in the stands. Did they pay them?"

  3. HOCKEY REMINDER: Vodka has asked me to remind anyone who signed up for Fantasy Hockey that A. You need to confirm your team if you haven't already (ESPN had some email wonkiness, so if you never saw your invite, check your spam/trash folders). B. Our draft is tomorrow night at 9:30pmEST.

  4. "Gee, why isn't there a strong football market in Los Angeles?"

    "Hey, let's schedule a game with a start time of 6:30 AM Pacific time!"

  5. My options are Giants at Bills or Raiders at Bears. I think I'm just gonna watch SVU all day until the Colts game.

    Edit: Except FUCK, I don't have that game here.

        1. The NFL has gotten tricksy, so you can't trust any time they tell you in advance. They are pretty much the world's worst boyfriend at this point.

  6. NY Giants at Buffalo

    Cleveland at San Diego

    Green Bay at San Francisco

    …fuck it, maybe today is the day I finally clean my apartment

    1. Watching Packer games with my mother (and back in the 70s and 80s, the Packers sucked) was, at times, genuinely frightening. The swearing. The jumping on the couch. The throwing of things at the tv. The high-pitched keening. This is why, although I will occasionally let out a whoop when good things happen, I mostly confine my negative game feelings to glowering and muttering and leaving the room.

          1. If there's any good news to give you, it's that the rest of the NFC East isn't exactly looking amazing.

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  7. Come on, Fleener! Fleen me! (Also, "Hasselbeck is spry for the age of 40" is an actual thing they just said on television.)

  8. Martellus Bennett seems to think Jay Cutler gets criticized too much, and here is what he actually said:

    "They threw rocks at Jesus, and Jesus was an excellent guy who did a lot of awesome stuff."

        1. Snarky joke. She's a bubble-headed anti-vaxxer who announced she was writing a book almost 2 years before the release date, so they started a column making fun of her. Now the comments have become sort of the Wonkville of Gawker, since it's their only reliable daily feature.

  9. Dear every Broncos fan in Denver today, please, PLEASE, for the love of all that is holy, stop chanting IN-COM-PLETE EVERY FUCKING TIME! Thank you and go fuck yourselves.

  10. After that TD, a reminder of another real quote, this from Mike McCarthy:

    "John Kuhn is smart, has a lot of grit. Fundamentally sound in what he's asked to do. A real student of the game. A real pro's pro."

    It's literally the coach version of word salad.

  11. I see my second-favorite team isn't doing any better than what is technically still my first favorite. Thank God for the Pirates…

    1. If the Browns lose to a last-minute drive then the Browns fans around here are going to be impossible to deal with for the next week.

  12. I need Drew Brees to have a really big night tonight. Like maybe getting my team's first touchdown of the week.

      1. Yeah, it's really odd, hard to get used to. Kind of like seeing Brett Favre in a Vikings jersey or Peyton Manning as a Bronco.

    1. Drew Brees won the game on a 80-yard TD pass in OT after a Saints missed 30-yard FG, putting me 6.4 ahead with Detroit's maybe-drunk kicker on the other side tomorrow night against the Seahawks. MIRACLES MIGHT ACTUALLY BE REAL

  13. AW SHIT.

    My dogs won't wait any longer, so if this game goes into OT I'll have to see what happens on SportsCenter. That is, unless (as snowpointsecret notes) both teams continue to suck. BBL,,,

    1. Some of the replies, OTOH, are hilarious:

      @GregAbbott_TX congrats. You are the most embarrassing Texas governor since our last one. Take a bow.

      @GregAbbott_TX also for future reference though your attention to detail doesn't seem to be laser sharp it's @dallascowboys

      @GregAbbott_TX @cowboy You are an embarrassment to Texas… so are the Cowgirls. *snickers*

      Hee hee hee…

  14. Day 1: Blasting his original rap music (to be clear, he is a 30-year-old white guy)
    Day 2: Knocked on door till I woke up, asked to "borrow" cigarette
    Day 3: Tossed furniture around inside and out for an hour because, apparently, his brother stole money from him and lost it gambling (on what is unclear). Apologized later for noise and tossing my shit across driveway, but he was mad, yaknow?
    Day 4: Spent 45 minutes hammering something in bathroom (wall adjoins my apt where bed is).
    I'm not sure what will happen tomorrow (other than me killing him).

  15. Sweet Georgia Brown! I heard once that, in Texas, someone defended himself (after killing someone) by saying "He needed killing." The judge allowed it.

    "Borrow" a cigarette? Go fuck a duck, dude.

  16. You're the best!

    I hope to be able to get that box together for you and Smokey some time next week or so. I just have to figure out how to ship pork roll safely :)

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