Occasional Puzzle: Department of NFL Mind Games

I heard you mental midgets like puzzles, despite obviously not ever being able to get to the end of the Candyland board. Lucky for you, I found something interesting while looking for pizzas leftover from NFL meetings in the dumpsters behind the future NFL headquarters (aka the White House). I brought it back through time with me, and perhaps you can decode it for me so that I can raid your fridges while you’re distracted.

It had a front intro page, but there was some leftover chocolate pudding on it, so I just ate the whole thing. I managed to remember the gist of it though: the NFL Mind Games team brought together five groups of NFL-related people, had them all hang out in their groups in the same room, to see if there were common mindsets among them. At the end of the session, they had them write down the first thing that came to their mind at the time. Now, these were all on individual note cards, and they kind of got all jumbled up during the temporal journey, so you’ll have to sort them all back together and figure out if there’s a common theme when it comes to thinking about the NFL.

Notecards:

  • Jed York – Crank
  • Jake Plummer – Herman’s
  • Victor Cruz – Dense
  • Jason Whitlock – Paper
  • Joe Montana – Pumpkin
  • Joe Buck – Pigskin
  • Jerry Jones – Mine
  • Jason Pierre-Paul – Difficult
  • Adam Schefter – QB hit
  • Ian Eagle – Bouncing
  • Jimmy Haslam – Shut your mouth
  • Doug Flutie – Bucket
  • Eli Manning – Not Easy
  • Chris Mortensen – Santa
  • Al Michaels – Brass
  • Trent Green – Injury
  • Odell Beckham Jr – Impossible
  • Mike Tirico – Kicked
  • Jim Isray – Graphite
  • Kenny Albert – Deflated
  • Peter King – Hackie
  • Prince Amukamara – Tough
  • Dan Marino – Hilton
  • Jerry Richardson – Cam
  • Mike Florio – Money
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Cuntler

I am starting to think you people are a bunch of nerds.

ballsofsteelandfury

Are we getting a Rikki-type hidden solution so we all can know how dumb we are?

Old School Zero

NSZ passed out muttering something about how easy it is to steal from Raiders fans, so he’s no help, but I think I’ll post something in the thread below to help out.

BrettFavresColonoscopy

I’m sorry, the card says Moops.

Sill Bimmons

X + 1 = 2.

Solve for X.

Not one of you morons has gotten this one right yet.

King Hippo

to be fair, I have never been shy about my being a moe-ron

montythisseemsstrangetome

There are 10 kinds of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don’t.

Old School Zero

There are two kinds of people in this world: those comfortable extrapolating from incomplete data

King Hippo

items found in the breeding pens?

Covalent Blonde

I am pretty sure Eli Manning finds most things to be “not easy.”

“Hey, Coop, I can’t get the Ziploc baggy to Ziploc. Can you lend a hand?”
–Eli

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

SPOILER/PROGRESS

Head, Hard, Sack, Balls

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Which leaves: Crank, Mine, Cam, Graphite, and Shut Your Mouth

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

SHAFT

Old School Zero

One more step…

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Damnit, why the hell can’t I ever finish your puzzles? Somebody call Big Jim Slade.

Old School Zero

You figured out five things that five groups of five people were thinking about, but what does that tell you about the common theme among NFL thinking?

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Dick dick dick dick dick dick dick

How many dicks is that?

A lot.

ballsofsteelandfury

+37

Old School Zero

It’s not a puzzle, it’s a dick joke!

ballsofsteelandfury

They all have Tourette’s!

Old School Zero

It goes a little something like this: Five groups, each have their own theme based off the five words given by them:

NY Giants Players: Hard
NFL Owners: Shaft
Former NFL QB’s: Head
NFL Broadcasters: Balls
Dumb NFL Writers: Sack

You put those five words together, and it turns out everybody in the NFL is thinking about penises.

Sill Bimmons

Most obvious puzzle yet.

It’s clearly “The.”

montythisseemsstrangetome

Quit being such a dick, NSZ.

Horatio Cornblower

I played around with this for a bit but had to rush because I heard rustling in my basement refrigerator.

Is it Balls of Steel?

ballsofsteelandfury

Is it: Getting a Grip?