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Tiny tidbits and news niblets from Week 16 of the NFL ...
• You want to know the real genius of Bill Belichick? (Other than that hair.) It's that he has somehow made his team's games boring at the very moment we should be reveling in their streak toward history. The last two Patriots have been mostly uninspiring slogs ... and he seems to have designed it that way. Fortunately, the season finale will be on the NFL Network, so no one will have to watch it.
• We're not going to get into the Packers-Bears game yet ... because we're still too stunned. Such honor to be bestowed in this game ... it's getting its own post later, because someone totally deserves it.
• What a novel concept: When the Giants don't count on Eli Manning to do anything, they win. It's a shame, though; we had been secretly rooting for a Giants collapse. It's hard to turn down yearly collapses from a New York sports team; people completely lose their minds.
• Not a good day for Derek "Horse Balls" Anderson; we're begging them to win this week, because we'd so rather see the Browns in the playoffs than the Titans. No chance for a home game, sadly. If the Browns end up missing the playoffs, do they keep Anderson around for next year, or do they suck it up and do the Quinn handoff? Brady Quinn danceparty, everybody!
• Jamarcus Russell fever, like catch it ... like you can.
• We haven't checked with Drew today ... but we can't imagine Vikings fans are doing backflips. That potential Washington-Seattle first round game seems awfully scary for a Seahawks fan. And if they won that — if they make it, of course — we could have a Redskins-Cowboys playoff game. Excellent.
• We suppose we should be displeased that Arizona won yesterday; it could hurt the draft pick business. But we go through this every year, and we always root for the Buzzsaw late, long after they've been eliminated from the playoffs. (By the way, that 49ers game officially cost them a spot. Grr.) But the Buzzsaw can be at .500 for the first time in nearly a decade with a win next week. Baby steps.
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Nibbles, If we have to work on xmas, that means you do too, motherfucker.
/mad because I can't see the comments, even though the main paige says there are comments on this post
Poor Browns fans. Not only do they lose to the other, shittier Ohio team, their only hope for the playoffs rests in the golden arm of Jim Sorgi.
@Rob Iracane: And in the oh so questionable hands of Crapanso Thorpe.
@The-Mighty-KrilDog: *Craphonso
If Neckbeard wasn't a HOF'er, I'd be more angry right now.
Good thing I asked for a Braylon Edwards jersey for Christmas and not a Derek Anderson one. My god, that was an awful performance yesterday.
Uh, I think Eli had three attempts in the second half, and two of them were intercepted.
He really wants to play squash instead.
"Belichick enters the Olympiastadion."
We will be happy to provide updates on the Pats/Giants game next Sat as it will be televised locally here...lots of records to be broken!
Merry Christmas everyone!
JaMarcus Russell fever, like catch it
I think most of the Jags secondary did
@MitchKayak:
Yeah, Trent Edwards took pretty good care of that game.
Oh, and did you know that ALL the points were scored in the east end zone? I don't think that Fox rammed that down our throats enough.
Elisha living up to "his" name every week!
Don't worry Giants fans...Cooper Manning is warming up in the tunnel.
(I wonder if the Colts would loan Peyton to the Giants next week...and Peyton could lead them to a win over the Pats, spoiling the perfect season. That would be a hell of a way to close out '07)
Belichick isn't celebrating in that picture, it's just that Jim Nantz just asked "Who's the biggest asshole in the NFL?"
We haven't checked with Drew today ...
Check the trunk of my car.
In other news, I won my fantasy league thanks to the Seattle defense - all of whom are now convicted rapists after what they did to that Baltimore offense yesterday.
The Browns won despite the fact that Carson Palmer is officially on the take.
@Crookednose:
Carson learned this one from Chris Henry..
Adrian Peterson = Purple Jesus... Tavaris Jackson = Purple Judas
@Tom_Bradys_Abortion: +1 for your name. Mitt Romney used to agree with me, but now he doesn't.
@Tom_Bradys_Abortion: That doesn't even qualify as homoerotic. That's simply homo
@Analrapist:
Nine in the box makes Purple Jesus cry.
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Happy Petersonmas Eve, everyone!
woo hoo go giants!!!
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