Your NFC North Not-Showdown Thursday Night Football Open Thread

Can you smell the weekend? What does it smell like? For some that experience that thing called “seasons”, it may have the odour of raking leaves. For you youngsters out there, perhaps the aroma of a failed bar pickup is invading your nostrils. For others, perhaps a trip to Bed, Bath And Beyond is stinking up your soon-to-be  Saturday afternoon. My weekend is beginning to smell like delicious, delicious ‘by myself-ness’. So sweet… TO THE GAME!

Chi/GB-So it’s come to this. The Bears versus the Packers. Your narrative will be all about the history of this matchup because this game isn’t compelling. Despite the Pack missing rb’s Lacy and Starks, cb Shields, te Cook, wr Adams and a sense of purpose, they should pull this out. The 4th-rate backfield of recently-signed Knile Davis and recently-converted wr Ty Montgomery should get things done against a Bears D that gave up the ghost long before All Hallows Eve. With 5 losses at this point, the Bears are staring at a 1-7 mark heading into their bye-bye week because they get Minny next time around. The rarest of all sports-related phrases can now be uttered by the denizens of Chicago-“Well, at least we have the Cubs”.

There you have it-TYPE LIKE THE WONDERFUL RAGAMUFFINS YOU ARE!

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Sill Bimmons

womp womp

Spur

Aaron Rodgers loves to wrestle greasy hairy Bears.

Fronkenshteen

Christ. Mason Crosby is gonna kill me tonight.

King Hippo

what is the goddamned point of trying to draw them offside? and then, what is the goddamned point of burning a timeout??

Sill Bimmons

COME ON COBBDOWN

Fronkenshteen

Get in the fucking end zone.

Sill Bimmons

When all else fails, chuck it up and pray foar BLEERGH!

Brocky

I voted early today.

Should I attempt to troll on Facebook and say that it’s my 3rd time this election,

Or should I say that my candidate’s name doesn’t rhyme with CHUMP!

WCS

just prooving this electon is riged by croocked hillary SAD! #MAGA

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Plan A.

aceg

Ugh… go home Jeem, you’re drunk.

aceg

Ugh… Phil. Why am I NOT drunk yet??

Spur

Is Kevin White still broken?

Duchess

Was he ever fixed?

WCS

Proudly representing WVU on the IR!

Spur

Is that Larry King?

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He’s been at all three games in the same seat. I prefer seeing him on every pitch infinitely more than Marlins Man.

theeWeeBabySeamus

Yup. Always in the same spot. Kinda like Bernie.
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BrettFavresColonoscopy

Old Man David Ross > Old Man Brian Hoyer

jjfozz

So is the Cubs bandwagon already overloaded? Now that the Blowjays are out, I could care even less abut baseball, but I enjoy judging other people.

theeWeeBabySeamus

Is it wrong that I’m more interested in DaU/UVa than the rest of this abortion of pro sports?

theeWeeBabySeamus

ooops…drunkish typo.
VT

Sill Bimmons

Does Hoyer have a ridiculous nickname or are we stuck with HOYERFLOAT, HOYERSACK, HOYERCEPTION, et&c?

Trevor Semen

I’m home alone, and I saw my sister’s state test scores sitting on the table (she’s almost 11), and I saw that she has the exact same fucking problem I have. She scores astonishingly high in both math and reading, but her writing scores are barely average, just like me. Does anyone know why the fuck this is? I looked it up and the first page of Google gave me jack shit, and I’m pretty sure a couple of you guys have careers in education. I would probably ask the same question if it was someone that wasn’t me, because it just seems kind of odd.

Trevor Semen

I don’t mean to waste anybody’s time or sound like an asshole, if my comment comes across as anything other than curiosity.

Trevor Semen

I meant to say if my comment comes across as anything other than curiosity, i apologize.

Shogun Marcus

Schools don’t tend to emphasize writing as they have to teach to teh tests, which are memorization, like reading and math. It’s like any muscle, it needs work. Write moar.

Sill Bimmons

My sister is a reading/communications specialist.

I’ll ask next time I see her.

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I don’t know if it’s changed since I was a kid, but writing scoring on tests like that is pretty rigid in terms of looking for specific things that aren’t absolutely necessary for what a lot of people would consider good writing. Even I didn’t get the highest score on writing sections when I’d max out on other verbal sections.

Duchess

Dyslexia?

Trevor Semen

Almost certainly not. Our reading scores are all well beyond the 99th percentile.

jjfozz

I was a journalist major, copywriter, etc. Writing is a tough skill to teach, and I honestly think some people are able to communicate better via speech than with words.

My college was big on writing, lots of essay tests.

I think it’s repetition and having a solid teacher. She sounds super smart, good luck!

Doktor Zymm

Writing is usually the only section that’s scored by hand. Find out the criterion they grade on, and she can probably learn those and write to the test. There will still be variation by individual grader, but if she gets the basic structure they want correct that’s most of it.

Trevor Semen

Are you fine with me sounding a bit like a braggart? I just spent 25 minutes typing only about 3 sentences because I didn’t want to sound like a dick in those three sentences.

Doktor Zymm

Clay Matthews….always creepy

Fronkenshteen

That forehead. He looks like Worf’s cousin on A Very Special Star Trek: The Next Generation.

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I always describe him as a store-brand Midwestern Tarzan.

Doktor Zymm

I know Chicago is supposed to be a good football town, but I only saw 2 Bears jerseys today. Yes, your team is horrible and one of your normally shitty baseball teams is doing goods, but SHAME SHAME ON YOU.

jjfozz

I am watching this game, I’m also going outside to drink Bulleitt Rye and smoke an Aroma de Cuba.

Anyone in this house fucks with me, and there’s gonna be blood on the fucking moon.

Doktor Zymm

Cheers.

King Hippo

Throw to Cameron Meredith, motherfucker

Doktor Zymm

I’m sleepy and wish to go to bed early. I assume the Bears will not bother making this a game, in accordance with my wishes.

BrettFavresColonoscopy

Go Cubs Go

jjfozz

ITS THE BLACK AND BLUE DIVISION JESUS CHRIST ALMIGHTY FUCK!

No one fucking cares.

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When you have nothing interesting to say, just say something anyway!

King Hippo

Now c’mon fozz, these were some hard hittin’ teams some 30-odd years ago…

Sill Bimmons

That’s the major plus to the NFLN broadcast–fewer shitty CBS Promos.

herodotus450

Alleged color rush or free hockey game of the week between two teams I don’t care about, hmm…

King Hippo

So…why not go for THAT 4th and 4?? Same calculus, were in FG range the first damned time. A pro kicker easily makes a 47-yarder 8 times out of 10.

WCS

Mike McCarthy is just Andy Reid with a Super Bowl.

King Hippo

True bit of trivia, each man last saw his dick in 1992.

Sill Bimmons

GAWTTA CHEW SOME CLAWCK

Brocky

Hold on floyd there.

Bears are incompetent enough, GB won’t need the refs help tonight

JustStopDude

I won a toilet plunger as a door prize. So many annoying sales presentation.

Brocky

Never underestimate the value of a good plunger.

Jokes aside, that’s one household item that people hold on to far long than they should.

Sill Bimmons

???

Sill Bimmons

!!!

herodotus450

‽‽‽

theeWeeBabySeamus

Sill Bimmons

56MillilitersOfFury is starting Jay Cutler this week.

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I am not confident of victory.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh
Sill Bimmons

Short answer: No, with an “if.”

Long answer: Yes, with a “but.”

Brocky

Hey nfl, how bout you make teams wear throwbacks on the tnf? Ya know?

theeWeeBabySeamus

This is going to sound odd, but I will always have be indebted to HaHa Clinton-Dix. Even as my father was declining to the Parkinson’s Dementia, hearing that name always made him laugh. Laughing was rare in those days, so we took whenever/wherever we could find it.

OK, I haven’t depressed you guys like this in what…a week at least?

theeWeeBabySeamus

Wow, great grammar tWBS. smgdh.

theeWeeBabySeamus

Post surgical Ronald. I like it…I think.
Though I would ask for ID.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

I was hoping just a different marketing approach in a different country.

Brocky

No roughing on matthews for helmet to helmet there, or throwing the qb to the ground after the pass?

I mean I know it’s hoyer but cmon

Shogun Marcus

Minus the pants, this is the most regular looking color rush thankfully.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Minus the pants

I consider these marching orders.

Sill Bimmons

These guys on NHL Tonight could put a room full of coke addicts and drums to sleep.

Shogun Marcus

THIS IS THE BULLSHIT I SPOKE OF! KILL IT WITH ALL THE FIRE!

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh
Sill Bimmons

So many people out there with no idea how terrifying New York used to be.

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The small bears seem to have contempt for the idea they can’t score runs.

Spur

I believe the term for a small bear is Otter.

King Hippo

“Ah wish ah could quit yewww.”

– Frank Beamer, apparently

BrettFavresColonoscopy

Bears + 9.5? Don’t mind if I do.

http://www.hulu.com/watch/10310

Spur

Bears + 9.5

I have no idea how to do that math to get into WordPress.

Spur

Hola

Is this the Boise State Game Thread?!

King Hippo

I for one, am ready FOAR some mediocre football. And I wish Love Ya Blue (ie, the Not Small Bears) well in the immaterial sporting contest.

Go Hoyer Country, so I feel S-M-R-T for fading them (as a result of Balls’ shaming) in Survivor.

WCS

That’s So Fleury

King Hippo

Your kid had some massive diarrhea, huh?

Sill Bimmons

Where do you think he winds up?

I’m predicting it will be the Kings.

King Hippo

what are they offering? a half-eaten Pop-Tart?

Sill Bimmons

Stick to CAWLEDGE Wolfy Boy.

theeWeeBabySeamus

HEY!!!!!

herodotus450

I heard he and Jimmy Howard are going upstate to that farm for goalies where they just get to skate around without fear of anyone jostling their water bottles.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Nice.

hippofant

This game’s going to be fucking terrible, isn’t it?

King Hippo

CHUH CHUH

theeWeeBabySeamus

Three words…
T. N. F.
/might not know the definition of “word”

Spur

Consume liquor.

theeWeeBabySeamus

Kung Pao Shrimp and homemade eggrolls tonight. Eat your hearts out.
And I totally didn’t make the smoke alarm go off, so shut up.
Time to add alcohol to the mix.
Back in a bit.

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Ursa major or ursa minor tonight? Y’all know my choice.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

My brother in law pointed out that his Bears were in prime position to be drafting a quarterback next spring. I told him they’re going to have to suck a lot harder if they’re going to catch the Browns.

Brocky

http://i38.tinypic.com/iodcm8.jpg

What I think of when I see verizon guy

JustStopDude

Drinking two Chinese, a Japanese, and three Polish customers under the table at sales symposium. God help me.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Body weight should give you the edge on the Asians but God save you vs. the Poles.

Shogun Marcus

As a Pole, I do agree.

theeWeeBabySeamus

My pole is also in agreement.

Duchess

OK two things that have been killing my time… Mafi 3 is buggy as hell but still pretty damn interesting story… Also if you have not watch HarmonQuest it is hilarious and can make anyone think “Hey Dungeons and Dragons looks kind of fun.”

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh
WCS

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STANLEY CUP REMATCH

Sill Bimmons

No Tanger = No Power Play

ALXMAC

Yeah cute kid!!! BOO the Pens.

ArmedandHammered

I love that smile. Such a cute kid.

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