Your “Finally!” And “It’s All Over After This?!” Super Bowl Open Thread

Well, somehow we made it. I’m so glad that we didn’t have to turn the car around due to bad behavior. Does everyone know which teams are playing? That’s what I thought. Between that and Hippo’s excellent breakdown of the game I’ve nothing to say about that end of things but I would like to share with you some “behind the scenes” tidbits about this very site that I think you might be interested in. I’m not going to name names…just yet.

Way back in 2007 the founder of this site, a grizzled, PTSD-wracked veteran of 3 tours of the second invasion of Iraq (anyone that has a beef with this version of events can take it up with me in the boardroom tomorrow morning) decided that there should be a new-ish football site. With a ton of moxy and just one good arm he created “Abandon Hope All Ye Football Fans That Enter”. That site was a disaster. I mean, it was right there in the title. Who the hell would want to join? Years later, after his extended recuperation at the St. Tunison Sanitarium For The Hopeless he decided to give it one more go.

It was a super-tough haul, putting this site together with nothing more than used scotch tape and pigeon feathers but he got the damn thing to work. But would Door Flies Open fly? A number of lawyers flocked to the site but it was immediately apparent that as a result, the site lacked “any sense of a moral compass”, according to internet pundits. At that point the site was opened up to almost everyone. Normal people came to the site in the dozens-including yours truly.

What followed was a ton of hard work. Night after night, huddled together in a dumpster underneath a single street lamp, we batted around the questions. “How can we take this site to the next level?” and “Is no one going to throw some pizza crusts in here?-I’m hungry!” and “Could you please not urinate on my pizza crust?”. We learned a lot about each other. Who knew that someone could be triggered by two exclamation marks but not one or three? And the hygiene, OH, THE PERSONAL HYGIENE!

So here we are now. We’ve morphed into a mid-major behemoth of a football-specific website that is bound to knock off a #2 or #3 ranked site as soon as we’re allowed back into the tourney. “Ongoing Pattern of Irregular Prescriptions”, my ass. The Internet is clearly out to get “The Little Site That Could”. We’ll survive and thrive…and maybe, just maybe, I can finally get that $12 Toys R Us coupon I was promised at the outset…

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Horatio Cornblower

If this commercial had a bunch of fat sheep singing “Fat Bottom Girls” you might have had me Honda, but you couldn’t quite pull that trigger could you?

blaxabbath

I thought that was a commercial for Wool.

The Right Reverend Electric Mayhem

Sheep singing Queen. Sure. Why the fuck not?

blaxabbath

Well……you know. Sexual abominations.

Gratliff

Big day for Queen

Doktor Zymm

They need a wider camera angle. I didn’t see any goddamn blocks at all.

Spur

Peyton can’t throw 10 yards downfield.

blaxabbath

You’ll all note that I called out Schofield in my SB50 prediction post…..

Horatio Cornblower

Not if I keep drinking like Prohibition’s coming back at midnight I won’t.

makeitsnowondem

Can’t believe the Broncos are even in the Super Bowl with Schofield, the NFL’s worst starter.

blaxabbath

Can we somehow pair him up against Ginn?

King Hippo

He tried to hold on that sack, but couldn’t even do that right.

Romonobyl

I haven’t seen a pile move like that since the last time I had lunch at Chipotle.

ThePirateSloth

Next up on Who Ya Got: A field of weiner dogs dressed as weiners or a field of business/studious corgis?

The Right Reverend Electric Mayhem

Always bet on black. Labs

King Hippo

I still think it’s gonna take 2 MOAR FGs. This’un not in the barn yet.

Senor Weaselo

You mean it’s not an insurmountable 3 FG lead?

MikeWallaceAndGromit

My laptop battery is dying and I’m too lazy to get off the couch and plug in the charger.

WCS

I kind of want the next snap to sail ten feet over Pey-Pey’s noggin.

The Right Reverend Electric Mayhem

Jesus, does the center even have the strength to get that kind of height?

Sill Bimmons

Producer must be a Steeler fan.

JerBear50

someone bitching about putting ketchup on hot dogs in
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2

1

Sill Bimmons

vvv

The Right Reverend Electric Mayhem

Too late

Romonobyl

I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again…

YOU DON’T PUT KETCHUP ON HOT DOGS!!!!!!!

Sill Bimmons

^^^

Horatio Cornblower

Unless you’re under age 8, in which case I’ll just figure you’re from Flint and drank lead-laced water.

Spur

Let’s go pick 6.

Doktor Zymm

Let’s go back to not believing in the Panthers. Maybe then they’ll start playing better to prove us wrong.

blaxabbath

I think “you know, maybe the Panthers aren’t so bad” then I hear the Cortland Finnagen was in on a play.

Sill Bimmons

WHY IS MUSTARD A KETCHUP MUSTARD IS NOT A KETCHUP WHAT THE FUCK

The Right Reverend Electric Mayhem

True.

Shogun Marcus

I am putting in as much effort paying attention as these teams are trying to win.
This league needs an enema!
/partyhorn

Spur

The Panthers are straight up fucking themselves over.

ballsofsteelandfury

Wasn’t it super obvious the Denver defensive end lined up offside? I mean, it was blatant.

Senor Weaselo

Aqib Talib for all the penalties.

King Hippo

TJ Ward should not have gotten into Von’s post-game Molly at the half.

WhyEaglesWhy

The Hall of Fame Game gets earlier every year.

Horatio Cornblower

“He threw it so hard that Ted Ginn could not make the catch.”

Phil Simms, refusing the blame the QB for anything, ever.

blaxabbath

Bet Ginn was the fastest guy off the field there.

ThePirateSloth
makeitsnowondem

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Recovery Whiskey

Derp level plaid

WCS

YOU GET A DERP AND YOU GET A DERP AND YOU GET A DERP

blaxabbath

If Cam spent more time studying and less time dancing, he wouldn’t have thrown that pick.

ThursdaySkyGoddess

Camcepfumberdonksrecover

Sill Bimmons

mother pus bucket

The Maestro

WELLLLLLLLP

Doktor Zymm

So….that just happened. In the Super Bowl.

Senor Weaselo

Yakety Sax!

King Hippo

Late McManus 55-yarder for a 22-20 win?

Horatio Cornblower

If Jerry Richardson’s O face was ever to be seen in public the universe would collapse back in on itself.

blaxabbath

Jerry Richardson looks like a very old baby.

Bortleback

Who is made of rubber

Doktor Zymm

There’s still a large glass of win left in this bottle, but tempted to switch to Gin

Senor Weaselo

Win and gin?

Sill Bimmons

Stick with the win.

The kids all talk about how good it is.

Romonobyl

Any bourble around?

The Right Reverend Electric Mayhem

No, bourble is something you get into.

WCS

Is that 2003 vintage win?

theeWeeBabySeamus

Panthers have had their fill of Gin(n).
They likely are out of win.

Sill Bimmons

Slow developing shit like that ain’t gonna work against this D.

blaxabbath

Ted Ginn does not deserve a SB ring. Ever.

Doktor Zymm

If the Panthers win, Cam should get his too, for the amazing feat of making him look decent.

WhyEaglesWhy

That was the most Ted Ginn play ever.

Wakezilla

Hell of a catch

The Maestro

PHILLY BROWN Y’ALL

Recovery Whiskey

Measty

Horatio Cornblower

Holy shit, that catch was insane.

Romonobyl

Does anybody remember the cat herding commercial from ages ago? Now THAT was funny.

Recovery Whiskey

When you brung in a herd of short hairs … Aint a feeling like it in the world

King Hippo

Last commercial I recall truly enjoying

Senor Weaselo

Butterfinger commercials have gone downill since the Bart and Homer days.

WhyEaglesWhy

I’m afraid that no obvious MVP candidate for the Broncos means Peyton is in play. Imagine an MVP QB with a negative TD/INT ratio.

WCS

LEADERSHIP GRIT INTANGIBLES OMAHAS FETUS PARTS

King Hippo

JEEBUS, how ya let him fucking catch that shit? Who do you think you are, the Lions prevent unit??

Horatio Cornblower

Miller or Ware.

JerBear50

Every time Peyton looks at his old SB MVP trophy, he should send a check to Dominic Rhodes.

WCS

X-Men: Apocalypse might be incredible, but sweet Lord that commercial was stale piss.

Spur

Psylocke without a booty is criminal

Sill Bimmons

This Bai shit is like battery acid in your stomach.

Even at half-strength it’s fucking killing me.

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