Your “All Aboard The Band Wagon!” NFC Wild Card Game Open Thread

I’m only human. Well, that’s the excuse I use when I screw up. Not really though but I use that to explain why I almost always cheer for that team that comes out of nowhere and against expectations, plays well or has some sort of uphill battle. Yeah, I’ve cheered for Gonzaga. I’ve cheered for Boise State. Hell, in the early 80’s I cheered for Duke. Look, I hated UNC and Dean Smith that much. The Rams got off to a very quick start this year and I waited for their house to cave in as I knew it inevitably would. Not so fast, dicknugget! They turned out to be an 11-5 team after all. So now I’m all for ’em until they lose and next year I’ll move on to another team that can make me feel as though I can feel. Enough of that let’s head off…TO THE GAME!

Falcons/Rams:

Atlanta seems a wee bit scary to me. After they stumbled here and there they finished up the season at 6-2 with the only losses being against Minny and New Orleans. The O isn’t what it was last year (but still among the league’s best) but the D became a top 10 unit. They also ended the year as #1 in third-down conversions. That’s gonna come in handy today against a L.A. D-line that makes lesser qb’s stain their jorts. The Rams? They’re fun to watch because of a.) Gurley’s talent and b.) their love of the deep ball. This one is a coin flip to me.

If you’re not a football fan there’s oodles of other stuff going on including-

NHL-

The Kings, Bruins, Leafs, Senators (ugh!) and others are icing it tonight.

College Ball-

Oklahoma, (check out Trae Young) Duke, Villanova, Kentucky, Kansas and Gonzaga are on the hardest of courts.

NBA-

Houston and Cleveland and some others can bore you if that’s your thing.

If you’re not into any of that just post pics of girlies or gifs that make you smile. Don’t worry, the commenters are high but the bar isn’t. Go Get ‘Em!

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Doktor Zymm

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LemonJello

Is this some Japanese porn version of Toy Story?

herodotus450

Trailer from the live action movie version of QWOP?

herodotus450

Do the Rams have two D linemen with the names Fox and Brown?

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

And a receiver named Quick and a defensive lineman named Albert Haynesworth Lazy.

Horatio Cornblower

Sneezy’s on the practice squad and Dopey’s playing QB for the Giants.

Doktor Zymm

Matt Ryan Death Drop!

herodotus450

Matt Ryan should really look his old dependable tight end Alge Crumpler here, donchathink?

hippofant

Wow that name’s giving me flashbacks.

herodotus450

Can’t remember if his full name was Algernon or if that was just a dumb thing I made up.

King Hippo

ppl of RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRAM IT!! Are you feeling it in your loins??

litre_cola

Call me George Micheal.

blaxabbath

“Yes!”

-pale Northwesterners shedding seahawks knits.

fleshwound_NPG

people have been slippin all night

FedEx Field 2.0?

Gratliff

Holy fuck. It’s still the first half.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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King Hippo

21-13, 28-20, these are scores that cover the spread nicely.

theeWeeBabySeamus

Agreed.

clint greasewood

Damn Goff’s dad was white, Jorge Posada without the switch-handed power

Col. Duke LaCross

Pees on his hands, too.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

I feel like the DFO pantheon could also use a deity for early/inadvertant whistles.

blaxabbath

Gary?

Horatio Cornblower

Triplette?

Unsurprised

He just sucks.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Hoculette?

blaxabbath

Aurandom?

Doktor Zymm

Should I put truck nuts on my tiny Mazda2? I should put truck nuts on my Mazda2.

blaxabbath

Save the money. Ain’t no hicks ‘round you to find it bothersome.

LemonJello

Can you find a set of 3?

Unsurprised

That sounds like something a San Francisco hipster would do.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Doktor Zymm

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herodotus450

Now with more wasp!

King Hippo

am I bellowing RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRAM IT!! in my living room? Damn Skippy!!

WCS

14 straight wins for WVU. Can’t wait for the inevitable Round of 32 loss.

blaxabbath

The tournament really isn’t as wide open as we advertise. Brackets justvreky on compounding which makes it seem more so.

clint greasewood

“I built this”

-J. Fisher, Nashville, TN

Doktor Zymm

Ficken? Nah, Imma call him Figgin

King Hippo

time to get ball back, too

theeWeeBabySeamus

Yep, that’s right.

Atlanta’s defense looking like 1864 all over again.

RAMMIT!!!!!!!

Spur

RAMMMIITTT Good

King Hippo

BABY BUSTER makes his first playoff touched down!!

King Hippo

as my ex-wife would stay “stop running into all the people!!”

blaxabbath

Hate backseat drivers.

theeWeeBabySeamus

Banner Desert in Mesa, baby. Those assholes.
No shit.

theeWeeBabySeamus

As my ex wife would say…

Please do CPR on me so I can make your life hell for a few more years.

OK, fine…I’ll stop now.

blaxabbath

Gotta learn to tell her no or she’ll walk all over you her whole life.

Unsurprised

He did.

theeWeeBabySeamus

I’ll pass that along.
Oh wait, can’t…she ded.

WCS

Tracksuits are about to knock off Boomer Sooner. The Wolven Sorts are also leading Dook.

blaxabbath

Whose track suits?

theeWeeBabySeamus

I have not turned it on.
We will fuck it up.

blaxabbath

ua lost today at CU. I feel like the pac is absolutely as down this year as they say. The entire conference is hot garbage.

Col. Duke LaCross

You’re right, the Utes are in a full rebuild right now and are looking like world beaters.

blaxabbath

Seriously. There is nothing of value coming out of these squads. If ASU is hit again entering the tourney, they’ll be a big school, live/die by the 3, scrappyand lovable, early run Butler team.

But that’s an enormous IF for ASU, who looks absolutely like a novelty. UA is the underachievers with a few talented guys but no sense of team. UCLA is going to be under the ire of Trump in March, and everyone else will just be non threatening teams.

King Hippo

State’s last win last season was in Cameron, in like mid-late January.

We does have a history of beating/covering against them, no matter how awful.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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blaxabbath

Fucking Country David S Pumpkins

clint greasewood

Liam Neeson has killed more people on transportation than AMTRAK.

Doktor Zymm

Why do people who kill themselves by throwing themselves in front of a train always do it during morning rush hour?

Beastmode Ate My Baby

Evening trains in the Bay Area.

I told you those people were fucked up.

blaxabbath

If I’m suffering through a day and make it to the evening, I’m getting that earned night of sleep.

First thing in the a.m. is when I got the least to lose.

litre_cola

Always suicidal before noon.

Unsurprised

People suck.

Spur
King Hippo

that show is fucking great

blaxabbath

I really appreciate cooking in the winter. In the summer it’s like, yeah just throw me something on some greens. Winter I’m like, the sum of these ingredients is so much better than their rich/hearty components.

BrettFavresColonoscopy

Ok fuck it, I’m going to see Star Wars. Slack me if the Rams Patriot the Falcons.

blaxabbath

Don’t let the first ten minutes turn you off (or a few points during the film).

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

You mean if the Falcons Chiefs it up?

LemonJello

Enjoy!
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Unsurprised

Movie Pass would be great if I didn’t keep finding excuses not to see the three movies I actually am willing to see right now.

But I saw Lady Bird twice, and it’s amazing, so go see that. Or stream it. Or whatever.

blaxabbath

Really? What’s the other two?

Unsurprised

The Shape of Water and I, Tonya. My brother recommended All The Money In The World, so maybe that too. I missed seeing The Killing Of A Sacred Deer so I hope it comes to a second-run theater or else I’ll have to stream that too.

Doktor Zymm

People I trust have said very good things about I, Tonya

ArmedandHammered

What did you think of I,Tonya?

Unsurprised

I haven’t seen The Shape of Water or I, Tonya yet.

fleshwound_NPG

finally rams do a thing

blaxabbath

The ribs turned out great. Such a hit that bybthe time we finished the sides, we weren’t even hungry bc of the grazing.

theeWeeBabySeamus

I’m hungry.
Fuck this game.

Also, I really want to bet ‘Bama, but don’t want to have to root against UGa again.
But if the ironic bet brings the trophy home to Athens…

Shit, so confused. I need alcohol and food.

Yes, in that order.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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King Hippo

no read whatsoevs on the title fixture, will be nice to see the 2 best SEC PAAAAAWWWWWLLLLL sides play w/o Aubie fucking it up.

theeWeeBabySeamus

Bet ‘Bama is the best advice.

Just not sure I can do it.

King Hippo

tonight, 6 January, the Year of Our Lord 2018, life is but a flaccid wee-wee FOAR us all, brothers and sister

theeWeeBabySeamus

Speak for yourself. My plumbing works.

King Hippo

I am talking METAPHORICALLY here. The uselessness.

theeWeeBabySeamus

SHUT THE FUCK UP, DONNY!!!!

BrettFavresColonoscopy

I stand corrected about the Rams being a threat.

Doktor Zymm

Would totally visit Turkmenistan if it wasn’t so expensive. It’s all the fun of a crazy cult of personality dictator, with a smaller risk of imprisonment and death! Seriously, kind of amazed this dude doesn’t get more world attention. His father was even crazier. Maybe I should try to instigate a Twitter fight between this dude and the Cheeto…
https://jalopnik.com/turkmenistan-just-banned-black-cars-because-their-crazy-1821778902

blaxabbath

Zymm, I say with all certainty that you are the most intelligent amongst us.

Make it so ??

theeWeeBabySeamus

She really is pretty damned smart.
It kinda pisses me off, actually.

Doktor Zymm

😀 😀 😀 😛

WCS

Actually, the previous Dear Leader wasn’t his dad. The current Dear Leader was actually previous Dear Leader’s dentist. Adds to the crazy.

Doktor Zymm

Damn, I was just sort of assuming this shit was hereditary.

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I just remembered the guy at KSK who claimed he measured the volume of his penis and that it was 56 milliliters of fury. That’s what the Rams are tonight.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

56! For some reason I couldn’t remember the actual number.

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Someone used it as a handle for a while. It was just too hilarious for someone not to embrace it.

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No but I remember a time when he talked about having gigantic balls.

Doktor Zymm

The metric system is hard, brah

blaxabbath

I do not recall this piece.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

– Trent Green, when confronted by his wife about his side chick.

Doktor Zymm

It was from the mailbag

Unsurprised

Sill?

blaxabbath

Really the only difference between 8-8 Jeff Fischer and 11-5 young gun Sean McVay is getting ARI’s number and another outside div win.

NFL can be fickle*

*offer not valid in Cleveland

theeWeeBabySeamus

Oh look, Austin Hooper finally remembered how to catch a ball.
That would have been nice when he was on my FF roster….like any fucking week!!!!!

LemonJello

Hooper’s response, and I quote:
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Doktor Zymm

About the only reason I would want to visit North Korea is to see the Mass Games

King Hippo

misspell “graves?”

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Why would she go to North Korea when she could just go to Cleveland?

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litre_cola

That, and the crazy pyramid hotel.

blaxabbath

I’m a huge proponent of gobbling down as much local food as I can when I visit ANYWHERE.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

That’s not really an option there.

Doktor Zymm

Note : Not a WW2 movie cause we’re supposed to be cool with Nazis now

Gratliff

Luckily, morality didn’t exist until WW2, so we don’t have to worry about the fact that WWI was just one massive gray area.

Beastmode Ate My Baby

Of course, then came Korea and we weren’t exactly above-board there, so we just erased it from the history books.

King Hippo

yup, nuttin’ but M*A*S*H!

blaxabbath

Seriously, MASH was fiction….and took place in a fictional war.

Beastmode Ate My Baby

Kind of. The (superior) movie was basically about Vietnam. The series itself brought some awareness to the fact that Korea existed, but it was never going to get into the history of the war itself.

King Hippo

I watched it when I was like 6, so my recall is quite sketch

theeWeeBabySeamus

I think I need to stop fucking up Hippo’s bets.
I’ve noticed that when I don’t follow him, he wins >75%.

When I follow him….it’s zero.

My apologies Hippo. I will stop fucking up your bets from now on.

Doktor Zymm

Could you cut out this global warming too? And stop creating conflict in the Middle East?

theeWeeBabySeamus

My feet are currently frozen, so no.

litre_cola

It is warmer here than there by a bunch. Climate change is fine.

Beastmode Ate My Baby

You won’t be saying that when the food stocks run out.

litre_cola

Oh trust me, it is not fine. Was -20 C here last week, and 10 C today. Things are a changin.

Beastmode Ate My Baby

Stop falling for Chinese hoaxes, Dok! Our president is,like, a really, really smart genius who says it’s all fake, so…

King Hippo

nah, I am just like the purgatory of ppls. I have made probably close to 100 bets this fall/winter, and am within $60 (even with the juice) of the $2500 I put in.

fleshwound_NPG

WAR: THE MOVIE

LemonJello

But this one has General Zod AND Thor on the same side? I is confuzed.

Beastmode Ate My Baby

oh look another war movie yay

King Hippo

everyone shld do as me and just say “fuck teh cinema”

Beastmode Ate My Baby

Did that years ago.

King Hippo

see, I like this guy

theeWeeBabySeamus

He still buys shitty 80s DVDs tho.
Trust me.

King Hippo

can’t be afraid of the contact like that

clint greasewood
Gratliff

Midlife Ricis

LemonJello

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King Hippo

Whitworth is a really good LT

Doktor Zymm

Appropriately enough considering the amount of RAMMIT going on, this wine I’m drinking is unwooded

King Hippo

#Rope4All

litre_cola

RAMMIT TD and we haz game.

King Hippo

I am destined to never has moneys

theeWeeBabySeamus

Kinda needing 19 unanswered over here at this point, but sure.