94 thoughts on “Football Open Thread: Count to 8

  1. It's so weird to look at the fantasy match-up and see Aaron Rodgers on the other side. Please don't kill me too much while you beat the Panthers?

  2. Football is still a thing? I remember there being something about a Detroit cats thing and a Transformer paired up with a hot Nickelback, but I thought it was just a fad.

    1. Don't be silly, Detroit doesn't have football. That was just a play they did for George Plimpton back in the '50s. Hockey, you guys have hockey.

  3. The NFL/Fox is doing a big thing for the anniversary of Pearl Harbor. The 74th anniversary. That seems very random. Wonder how much the Army is paying them.

    1. Was out for a smoke. So.. ugh.They did an Army remembrance of Pearl Harbor a month before the actual 74th anniversary of Pearl Harbor, when everyone who died in that were Navy. That is holy shit stupid.

      1. No, they did a 2 minute advertisement for the TWO HOUR Salute to Pearl Harbor that they are planning for December 6 (which, I am not a history expert, but I feel like that's not the day that FDR talked about?).

        1. December 6th is my birthday. December 7th 1941 is a date which will live in infamy. December 6th unleashed a really terrible person into the world, but not Pearl Harbor level terrible.

          1. "Hey I know! Let's do this big thing for Pearl Harbor on the wrong day! That will totally cover up that the DOD is paying for this shit!"

          2. The worst part is that they really played up that they were doing it on 12/6, with no reference to the actual date of the attack. I'm pretty sure by next year you will have to argue at length to convince people that the Pearl Harbor attack actually happened on 12/7. But, congrats, your birthday is now the official NFL-approved Pearl Harbor Day!

    1. Jimmy Hoffa is D.B. Cooper and living in Havanna. My friend Fizzy totally schooled me on the subject when we were high as hell on edibles.

  4. Wow, Monday night (San Diego/Chicago) looks like a snooze fest. Go Chargers!

    No, really, I'm serious: go to Carson, soon!

    1. Do. Not. Want.

      Not because it would affect me so much: I'm #steelersforlife. I just don't want San Diegans to hate LA more than they already do…

      1. I don't hate LA. It's just that the Spanos family, which owns the Chargers, wants a $500M contribution from the taxpayers to build a new stadium. They could take the team to Schenectady or Portland or Honolulu or any place else, as long as our civic leaders and citizens can be educated to think of San Diego as a worthwhile place regardless of which sportsball teams call it "home."

    1. Back-to-back awful games coming out of the bye? Yeah, my hope for the Packers has gotten a lot lower lately. I've never looked forward to a game with the Lions more than I am now.

    1. I am turning it off out of fear I am jinxing them. Also, because the dearth of beer and Viagra ads on Sky Sports is weirding me out.

      1. Watching on FOX… There's an odd lack of beer and Viagra ads there, too. But maybe I'm just too annoyed and not paying attention to commercials.

          1. They may have flashed it up on RedZone without me realizing it because I was in a fetal position. I take full responsibility. My bad.

        1. Seriously?! Fuck! He and his entire fucking family should have been banned from football for life, along with everyone else involved.

    1. Whew! If the Vikings had lost that game because Teddy got knocked out I would have been soooooo very pissed. I thought Vikes' coach Mike Zimmer was going to punt Rams' coach Jeff Fisher after the game. (He should have.)

      (Psssst… by the way, the Vikings and Packers are now tied for first in the NFC North. I'll enjoy it while it lasts.)

        1. It's okay, Packers get the Vikings twice, they can settle it soon enough. Also a Lions game is coming up so that'll help get things back on track.

      1. Better idea: Get the TD to Cobb and a conversion to tie the game, getting 6 bonus points for going over 100 yards (he finished at 99 ffs), then Packers get a stop in OT then kick a field goal to win and get your kicker those points. Win-win?

        1. Brilliant! Just make it a 50+ yarder in OT and you've got a deal.

          Wait, that would mean that the Packers win. No, sorry, deal's off. 😉

          1. Vikings would still control their own destiny since they can beat the Packers twice, for what it's worth. It won't happen that way, of course, but you can still dream 😉

          2. Give me one week to relish! My QB might be dead by now! (Please, no, come back Teddy! You're our only hope!)

          1. They did beat the 'Aints today, which might mean something? (I really don't care about the South divisions in either conference.)

    1. Looks like a good one. Go Mighty Couchgoats! (Sorry, monk.[I screwed that up the first time.])

      SparkleKarens vs Scrapple Heap looks like a good one, also, too. It might come down to the Iggles D/ST.

    1. 1. Bernie!
      2. Emmanuel
      3. Kernel

      Wait, is this one of those Fuck, Marry, Kill things? Cuz, uh…

      Also, too, Black & Decker 0.5‑Amp Detail Power Sander MS800B libel!

        1. Taking that same hand he had just used to sexually harass my mother, he goes over to the vat of mashed potatoes and scoops up a fistful. Then he goes to the gravy vat, dips his bare-handed potato fist in there, and licks it all up. One napkin later and the visit was over.

          Should I laugh or be disgusted? Or both?

        2. Then the hand dropped and he just casually rested it on her ass like no big deal.

          Mom?

          (I wish I was kidding. My mom has always had the creepy habit of putting her arm around my waist and her hand gets a little too low, IYKWIMAITYD.)

      1. Also, AFAIK, Ben Carson doesn't have any policy ideas except "handwavey whatever the GOP platform tells me I'm for" All he is is his biography.

  5. JFC I break my no-football-watching-vow just in time to see some Bronco named Taliban egregiously poke one of the Colts in the eye, on camera, eliciting a penalty that snuffs any chance at a comeback. Nice one, idjit!

  6. Couchgoats down 29 before the Monday night game, really unlikely to come back from that. Good game, pretty amazing to put up a score where 10 TDs aren't enough to be close to it.

  7. Smokey just said, during the Cowboys' kickoff, "Please just field this cleanly." That's how low her expectations are.

    1. Karma does seem to be catching up with your QBs, though. (Although I guess real karma for Ben would be a severely torn groin muscle.)

      1. I am really hoping that Landry Jones is a decent human being and that he can play well enough to start. IF that happens, my Steelers license plate frame goes back on my car (I took that the fuck off after the Vick signiing) and I will start wearing my team's shirts again…

  8. Yeah, what the announcer said…but if the NFL were really going to get fucking serious about domestic violence–fuck, about violent criminals on team rosters in general–it would have done so after Ray Rice. Fewer feel-good PSA's and more suspensions and bans would be more like it, Goodell…

    /you can start with Pig Pen
    /FFS

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