Your “Rock ‘Em, Then Sock ‘Em” Sunday Night NFL Football Open Thread

I hope that all of you did absolutely wonderfully in your various pursuits through the day. Did you win your game? I’m typing this before my outcome is apparent so I’ll just say that it was an incredible bone-headed/genius move on my part and you can pick the word that applies best. A number of you should have Ben/Brown/Bell in the mix either for your squadoo or against it so there’s more than one reason to take in this tilt. Who will win? Why? How? I have no idea, that’s not my job. Still, TO THE GAME!

Bal/Pit: Reports of Ryan Shazier’s health/recovery are guardedly optimistic at best in these early days but given the kind of shape he was in I’m betting that he comes out of this just fine. It’s just gonna take a while is all. The Steelers game last week was all kinds of rough and tough and maybe dirty and I see no let-up whatsoever tonight. The Ravens D can bring intensity and physicality as well and as often as any team in the league so Pittsburgh best be ready. Baltimore’s big problem lies in the fact that top cb Jimmy Carr tore his Achilles so Mr. Brown gets either Carr or rook Humphrey. I’m guessing the former will go for at least 120. (Jinx!) The other wideout of note on the team-Juju-won’t be engaging in the voodoo he do so Bryant might show out as well. Miracle Whip stockholder Joe Flacco doesn’t have any issues playing within the confines of Heinz Field-over his last 7 he’s 4-3 and has completed 64% of his passes. Given Shazier’s absence, I’m sure he’ll be looking to target his te (whoever that might be) a little more than usual.

It’s all yours…

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WCS

Did the Bears sweep the AFC North? That’d be a very Bears thing to do.

BrettFavresColonoscopy

THEY ARE WHO WE THOUGHT THEY WERE

Spur

Bears have thick coats for the cold weather
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They will if they beat the Browns which means they will lose badly to the Browns.

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Related: It’s possible the Bears finish with four wins and three of them will be over playoff teams.

Viva La Tabula Raza

I haven’t seen any Ravens games this year. I thought they were supposed to have a competent defense.

Spur

is there a chance?

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Ooh, that call gonna play into the paranoid fantasies of Ravens fans quite nicely.

BrettFavresColonoscopy

Between the Bears score and LeVeon Bell putting me over the top in the fantasy playoffs, I don’t know how I’m going to fly with this erection

LemonJello

Ask the cabin crew for one of the lap belt extenders?

Doktor Zymm

Buckle around the base of the erection, it’s the most secure in event of a crash

WCS

Howdy, assholes.

Viva La Tabula Raza

You’ve never met me, but it’s like you’ve known me for years.

WCS

Welcome to the DFO lifestyle, rook.

LemonJello

Heeeeyyyyyy
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Gratliff
Spur

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litre_cola

G’day

Petronel
Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

I need to stop wanting the Browns to go 0-16, because if I want it too much, it won’t happen.

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The Bears will spite you for Christmas.

rockingdog

HOW ABout an Avocado with no seed????
http://www.bbc.com/news/business-42268516

Spur

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Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

At dinner last night they served us avocados with the skin intact, and meant to be eaten. Twas nice.

Spur

well, at least i can try to get my money back next week in FFL.

herodotus450
King Hippo

topical!!

Spur

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King Hippo
Viva La Tabula Raza

This is not starting well for some fans, like me.

Spur

what are the chances of Bell scoring 60 FF points tonight? asking for a friend

BrettFavresColonoscopy

I just need 15, man.

/not the right friend

litre_cola

There you go Spur.

LemonJello

Well, there’s a start.

King Hippo

approximately 12 down!

Doktor Zymm

Goddamn, watching this on a small tv from a distance is almost as bad as watching live. No idea if in or not

litre_cola

Now you know how we feel.

Doktor Zymm

How do you live like this!?

ballsofsteelandfury

He should wax…

BrettFavresColonoscopy

Get the ball to Bell!

Doktor Zymm

Why aren’t Brazil nuts more hilarious?

BrettFavresColonoscopy

The ingrown hairs

Spur
LemonJello

That is a fuck-ton of NOPE all in one place.

Spur

Is if Dec 22nd yet? I need that week off already.

Gratliff

It’s so close, I’m thinking I may just bullshit my way through the next two weeks to get to it

LemonJello

Ref tonight seems more confused than usual…

Spur

Dammit

litre_cola

I had corn totopos, avocado salsa and Christmas cookies for dinner. I am an adult.

King Hippo

had a salted caramel protein/fiber bar and glass of mango juice (physical on Friday)

/am too fat

//so much shame

Shogun Marcus

Bobs Burgers 1 hour Musical Xmas Episode! See yinz later!

King Hippo

I saving that for when mah kid gets back from university

BrettFavresColonoscopy

At the airport trapped with the Flacco

LemonJello

Will Imodium help with that?

King Hippo

es posible that MNF just took every last sperm out of PIT and CIN

Doktor Zymm

Also, can I just say, wtf shitty clippers?

ballsofsteelandfury

I was going to say WTF Redacteds. Didn’t even put up a fight…

Doktor Zymm

Didn’t see the game but I would probably agree. Talking more about their rise into wc consideration

King Hippo

GREAT bumper song from just now!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3yqgRyHkSU

rockingdog

I like it!!!

King Hippo

NBC Sports and I share taste in indie rock, that’s for sure.

litre_cola

That is really good.

Petronel

This Randy Jackson commercial seems several years too late.

Doktor Zymm

Okay, I didn’t forsee Wentz dying on the very eve of the eagles clinching the division, but it does feel very igglesy. It’s what we all knew would happen, just earlier and more poetic than I was expecting

rockingdog

LOL
While i’m waiting for the game to start i’m watching my roommate go crazy play battlefield 4
blowing up boats and stuff on an island map

Spur

no mention of the “Karma” comments from last week when the Steelers hurt someone?

herodotus450

Wentz is hurt, done for the year? It’s like he was drafted by the Browns after all…

BrettFavresColonoscopy

So despite going against monster days from Demariyus, Case Fucking Keenum, Cooper Kupp, Todd Gurley, Jared Cook, Kareem Hunt, and Jamaal Williams, I am only 15 points down with LeVeon left to play.

He’s going to score 14 isn’t he?

litre_cola

“You see ole Nick was far too talented to stay in Philly so he had to head out and see the world so he plied his trade in St. Louis for RAMMIT and that did not go well. He then joined forces with the country’s foremost rib aficionado to Kansas City but that did not go well. but that too did not go as planned so he came back to Philly and will lead them to the promised land once the current starter gets killed because Jason Peters is out for the season!”

Gratliff

Was really expecting to be in higher spirits following the Eagles knocking off one of the best teams in the league

Doktor Zymm

I’m guessing the whole Pyhrric victory factor is in play

Redshirt

Alright, I’m checking out. If I go through a whole night where NBC says how awesome the Steelers is, I’m liable to hurt someone.

Later.

LemonJello

Redshirt’s preferred pre-game flyby for tonight:
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BrettFavresColonoscopy

Attention: we have a Matt Asiata jersey sighting

ballsofsteelandfury

Wake me when we get an Asia Carrera Jersey sighting.

BrettFavresColonoscopy

Not sure I can get that deep

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WE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN AT WAR WITH ASIATA

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Oh! The second most deranged thing I read today was a guy from the UK insisting menstruation happens through the bladder and that tampons are useless because women just need to hold it.

I’m screaming. I really screaming.

Petronel
rockingdog

Wow i didnt realize this video was so violent

Doktor Zymm

I should shove a tampon up his urethra. For science.

Beastmode Ate My Baby

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Petronel

And then make him pass a watermelon the same way.

SCIENCE!

King Hippo

impact of Shazier’s absence? Yinzers will start a MLB who can walk, obvs

rockingdog

and there it is……
Wentz is done for the season.

King Hippo

shit, was hoping to be wrong there

Beastmode Ate My Baby

Crap.

ballsofsteelandfury

Has it been announced? It certainly looked that way.

King Hippo

Rotowire quotes Schechter saying Iggles “fear its an ACL” which one assumes meaning they did the 90% accurate “field test” and are just waiting to confirm in the morning

herodotus450

(Notices a dearth of hockey talk. This is a hockey game open thread idnt it?)
Coyotes playing well and scorelessly tied with Chicago? Not sure if that means the yotes are good or the hawks are finally stuck with a fork, done.

rockingdog

john fox looks like a fisherman who refuses to leave his boat even though the storm of the century is coming

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HT Mina Kimes Twitter

Doktor Zymm

It’s a good think there isn’t an elementary school within half a mile of the senate, Roy Moore will still be able to attend votes once he winds up on the sex offender register

Brick Meathook

There’s three elementary schools, possibly four

Brick Meathook

Here’s what Jerry Lewis would’ve looked like if he was about to be shot in the face:
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Good evening, everyone.

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Viva La Tabula Raza

I guess the author is just plain fed up with always having to cuff his carrot for sexual gratification.

Redshirt

Seriously, whoever hides Trump’s smart phone will get the Nobel Peace Prize.

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This reminds me of theory that Trump is a volcel (has chosen to never fuck) because he thinks it’s gross.

Viva La Tabula Raza

I’m sure the women he’s screwed would agree with him about the gross part.

Redshirt

I feel sorry for the mothers of Trump’s children, because they had to have sex with him. Maybe.

Doktor Zymm

It took me way too little time to figure out that meant voluntarily celibate and not something to do with voles, which are fine rodents and shouldn’t be maligned

Viva La Tabula Raza

I have a 27 year old nephew that thinks any kind of physical contact is gross; when he sees his mom kissing his dad he’s all “Ewwww!” But he’s got high spectrum Asperger’s and off-the-chart IQ, probably even a higher IQ than Trump.

ballsofsteelandfury

Is his name Sheldon?

Viva La Tabula Raza

Should be. But he’s a molecular biologist not a physicist. Working on his PhD at UConn.

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I would hope his aversion to physical contact doesn’t translate to a lack of compassion.

Viva La Tabula Raza

Complete opposite. He loves animals and also plans on curing cancer. I wouldn’t put it past him.

ballsofsteelandfury

This is so hilariously delusional, I can’t make a joke about it.

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This isn’t even half as deranged as the most deranged thing I read today: a very long rambling attack on a woman by a guy 100% believing that virgin–and only virgin–vaginas double the size of a man’s penis.

ballsofsteelandfury

WTF?

You need to reevaluate your reading material…

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I know.

Doktor Zymm

They used to believe that having sex with a virgin cured syphilis so this is actually not that crazy. Also, less likely to spread a whole lotta syphilis

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Honestly, as a woman you should pretend your vagina is a magic penis enlarger because believing in magic is fun.

Doktor Zymm

Eh, in the short and temporary term it kinda does work that way. Maybe dude just has some weird erection issues?

King Hippo

Similar beliefs re AIDS were held in remote areas of the globe, which made pandemic control quite difficult

Doktor Zymm

This man will never be elected to the senate, he’s overlooking the easy option of molesting little girls!

Doktor Zymm

How are the various spinal and head injuries from Monday doing?

Shogun Marcus

Shazier still hospitalized, but was helicoptered to home hospital. Had spinal stabilization surgery.

Doktor Zymm

I heard he’s got some leg motion, but damn that was messed up. I wonder how Johnny Knox is doing?

Spur

Savage has the sense of taste again! working on the other 4.

LemonJello

Trent Green still can’t get too close to a microwave oven or he’ll piss himself and forget his name for half an hour.

Redshirt

Shazier is slowly making progress but it’ll be a long road.

Cincy has at least 10% of the team out with injuries from last week today.

Doktor Zymm

Doesn’t draining a swamp take out all the water, but leave the scum behind?

Spur

Fuck the Steelers!
In fact fuck all the teams from Pennsylvania. Fuck the Eagles, 76ers, Steelers, Penn State, Pitt…..

Redshirt

Don’t forget the city of Breezewood. Forcing all I-70 traffic to enter your tourist trap! Its extortion!

Redshirt

Normally Crapbirds/KHAAAAAAAAAN!!!!…er….PITTSBURRRRRRRRRGH!!! would be an easy choice for rooting for the meteor, but knowing the Steelers they would hit the meteor in the northern polar axis, sending it spinning helplessly into the vast nothingness of space while saying they prefer the Extinction Level Events like Gamma Bursts because they are aren’t as violent as meteor strikes.

Shogun Marcus

I asked last MNF. I ask again as it’s still AFC north:
Ejections O/U?
Unsprots frags O/U?

litre_cola

No, no these guys respect each other.

Doktor Zymm

Roy Moore getting elected could be the start of a big tourism campaign for Alabama. “Think you have to go all the way to Thailand to molest children? Think again! Think Alabama!”

Shogun Marcus

Gary Glitter really wishes he would’ve known this when he was a thing.

Viva La Tabula Raza

I thought Rush Limbaugh found that particular paradise down Caribbean way…

Spur

someone needs to chop block all the Seattle Defense players. When’s Cincy or Steelers playing them?

https://twitter.com/SamZComedy/status/940019222285045760

Redshirt

All Cincy good defense headhunters aren’t healthy. Steelers were quite thorough last week.

Beastmode Ate My Baby

Well, not Nazair Jones. Because he wasn’t playing today.

Viva La Tabula Raza

I generally don’t root for the Ravens, but I will tonight.

litre_cola

I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.

Redshirt

I’m rooting for a tie, only because both teams can’t lose.

Doktor Zymm

I’m rooting for a polka dotted bow tie, cause I like dots

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