Your “I Hope You Like Field Goals” NFC Championship Open Thread

Don’t get me wrong-I think this will be a low-scoring, hard-fought tilt with plenty of hits and I’m all for it. What else do I be thinking? To know that we must go… TO THE GAME!

Minnesota/Philadelphia:

At long last more than a few denizens of The City of Brotherly Love will discover what it is like to throw up with a dog mask on their face. There won’t be any whips or the like involved but there could be a police baton or two making an appearance. Jason Kelce has informed the fans that there is some etiquette involved saying, “Remember, take off the mask before you spit on your buddy’s girlfriend. Manners are important!”

Injuries:

Safety Sendejo is out of concussion protocol and Adam Thielen is a go despite having ‘tiny cracks in his spine’.(?!) When you’re made of 100% grit these kinds of injuries are to be expected.

Matchup Mayhem:

Everson Griffin vs. Hal Vaitai: Hooo boy this won’t be pretty. Vaitai was ranked 47th out of 55 lineman in Pass-blocking Efficiency according to PFF. Griffin has 13 sacks so far and 61 pressures. Foles is a pocket passer that needs some protection. Does the qb have two consecutive non-Foles-ian games in him? We shall see…

Stats That Don’t Much Matter:

The Vikes have lost 5 straight NFC Championship games. They also have a 6-2 road record this year. The Eagles are giving up an average of 10.3 points per game at home since late October. Yikes. I guess it’ll come down to which qb makes the fewest mistakes. (shudders when he recalls Keenum’s ‘toss it up, see where it goes’ interception to Marcus Williams last week)

Bring your “A” game fellas and don’t forget to do your stretches!

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Senor Weaselo

Diggs on the sideline… and they didn’t show the Divisional play 28 times? Is that possible?

Spur

what was the Chappelle joke about David Koresh.

“Guy claims to be Jesus and has to wear glasses?”

Romonobyl

Prob had a 3″ dick too.

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Ol’ Stubby, they’d call him.

“Hey Stubby, you startin’ a cult over there?” people would say to him.

Then he killed them all with fire.

King Hippo

somebody did “the pinky wave” the morning he set that fire…

theeWeeBabySeamus

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Pfffffffft.

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Mr. Ayo

Road map to beat the Patriots

theeWeeBabySeamus

Hahahahaha

Redshirt

You didn’t say anything about going veering diagonally to the right.

(turns on 4×4)

blaxabbath

See, Saints?! That’s how you make a tackle on the line!

Doktor Zymm

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theeWeeBabySeamus

He looks tasty.

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If I decide I want to spend the Super Bowl shitfaced, I’ll go to Nisei because at least I’ll like the crowd.

Doktor Zymm

Also the TVs are pretty small so it’s easier to ignore what’s happening. Also, darts if you want to throw sharp objects

Gratliff

Another pick six would make me less nervous

LemonJello

/Foles shrugs. “Okay, I guess?”

Redshirt

Holy shit. I just figured it out.

Trump is Gaston in real life. Its all coming together now.

herodotus450

Is that the guy that stole the bread or the copper who’s chasing him?

Wakezilla

Nah. Gaston is the muscular guy who wants to marry Belle, so when he finds out she has been kidnapped by a beast, he goes to find her.

Dick E. Phuck

“Why don’t you focus on more important things, Stormy? Like me.”

Wakezilla

Nah. Gaston isn’t as crazy and Trump can’t do a pushup

Spur

That was a hit. my speakers crackled. Foles needs to check his helmet for a crack.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Did you just call Nick Foles a butthead?

Spur

Foles got fingered.

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Finger my Foles.

Gratliff

ZACK ERTZ BAY BAY

DontHair

So I’m watching this game on the fox sports app and every other commercial is for the Skip Bayless show on FS1 and I imagine that is on a constant loop in hell

Senor Weaselo

Things that piss me off #751: Using “historical” in place of “historic.”

ballsofsteelandfury

Does Red Sparrow peg politicians? Is that what the movie is about? Isn’t that a little on the nose?

LemonJello

That costs extra. Allegedly.

Viva La Tabula Raza

I wonder if that old guy threw Voltaic piles at the field back in the 1930s.

Doktor Zymm

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Viva La Tabula Raza

I think they’re still using those for IEDs over there.

ThePirateSloth

That’s historical!

Doktor Zymm

Ok, the healthy and excited feeling I had from starting horseback again is wearing off, to be replaced with football watching pessimism and malaise. Time to pop a bottle!

Gatoraids

Willard Scott running the fan shots

ballsofsteelandfury

Dueling old people!

Dick E. Phuck

The duel of the Necromancers!

Dick E. Phuck

Remember, sportswriters will always find a way to create dumb narratives where the Patriots look like scrappy, loveable underdogs.

Wakezilla

Tom Brady is old! They’re the underdog because they have white players!

LemonJello

I want their charter to wander into a Air Defense Exclusion Zone and take a pair of AIM-120 AMRAAMS.

Redshirt

Hey, Beauty and the Beast! The real one, not the real one.

Wakezilla

The live version was bad. The story being stupid didn’t help

Spur

Red Sparrow: That’s how that got Trump

King Hippo

alright, stupid morning column is written. Can hate watch and drank the rest of the way on mute

Spur
Sharkbait

It stinks!

Dick E. Phuck

We’ve come a long way. The original Death Wish was about Charles Bronson finding excuses to shoot Black People.

Viva La Tabula Raza

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The Maestro

I’m just waiting for Nick Foles to update this classic moment.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQo6zt3bWlM

Spur

good times.

herodotus450

Remaking Death Wish with that guy?

Gatoraids

Death wish doesn’t work without the stache

Redshirt

Death Wish: Die Hard at Home

Viva La Tabula Raza

God, did they really have to remake that? At least it looks like he goes after the actual perps and not just random muggers on the street.

Spur

This will only make the Eagles collapse all that much sweeter?

Romonobyl

I wonder if Andrew Sendejo attended a high school with a significant Latino population.

ThePirateSloth

Someone check on Drew

WCS

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Doktor Zymm

You know, watching the game on a stupid delay and reading these comments makes all this very anti-climactic

Romonobyl

Spoiler
Patriots won.

theeWeeBabySeamus

All of my exes just learned to fake it in those cases and…

Oh wait, I just re-read your comment. Never mind.

Spur

Football is a dumb game. On to the NBA and curling.

Viva La Tabula Raza

Kawhi out indefinitely certainly makes me sad.

Spur

i think Pop should shut it all down and try for a top 10 pick.

Viva La Tabula Raza

Maybe this youthful cohort will gel around Aldridge as the season progresses. Hope springs eternal.

Spur

Patty has been ass. Forbes should be getting more minutes

LemonJello

That sounds worse than suicide.

King Hippo

DEFINITELY

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Ugh. Still angry about the Patriots. Need something to take the edge off.

Dick E. Phuck

Have you tried edging?

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Not sure I can ragejack my way out of this one.

Gratliff

You just need to jack it harder

King Hippo

that’s just fucking sad

BrettFavresColonoscopy

Hmmmm home field might actually mean something in the playoffs

Mr. Ayo

The Gang Takes A Lead

Gratliff

YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

ballsofsteelandfury

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theeWeeBabySeamus

Yeah, someone had that one chambered.
LMFAO.

Dick E. Phuck

All I know is that Tom Brady and Bill Belichick had to overcome a great deal of adversity to get to this point.

Gatoraids

You mean the patriots overcame great diversity

Dick E. Phuck

That too.

blaxabbath

Do you guy have Honda I Like It commercials?

King Hippo

God, I wish I had the freedom and money to go on like a 6-month vacation.

theeWeeBabySeamus

You can come stay in the guest room if you want.

herodotus450

[opens briefcase with football helmet, baseball bat]
Maybe I can interest you in our “CTE Package.” It will certainly feel like 6 months…

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Hey has anybody watched LA to Vegas? What did you think?

Mr. Ayo

It’s alright. The stewardess is hot.

LemonJello

You’re not missing anything.

BrettFavresColonoscopy

I think it’s funny. Predictable sometimes but decent ensemble work.

King Hippo

the lead actor seems just as punchable as he was in that preachy lawyer show

ballsofsteelandfury

I really like it.

Gratliff

It looked so bad. Can it actually be not bad?

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

I feel like you could ad “watching Patriots victories” to the array of things in this DirecTV commercial.

blaxabbath

Who are all these people dropping their pizzas?

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

People who are trying to get Andy Reid to stop chasing them.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

This is probably the best joke I will make today.

BrettFavresColonoscopy

Drink more

Spur

come on Vikings. this is weak. Don’t make me have to root for the Pats.

King Hippo

yep, Philly and its 0% chance to beat the P*ts will win in a walk, instead of Minny and its 20% chance

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This is a compelling case for me just get shitfaced with the TV off in two weeks.

King Hippo

I am trying to convince the ppls

Doktor Zymm

Shouldn’t their HOA fine them for poor lawn maintenance?

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

On the radio they said the new sod is the same color as the older stuff. Apparently they weren’t counting on getting fact-checked.

Mr. Ayo

They’re both green! Ish.

Gratliff

WHY AM I STILL ANXIOUS?

Doktor Zymm

Bad batch of weed?

theeWeeBabySeamus

Because you’re not stupid and know this game has a long way to go?

Mr. Ayo

Because you touch yourself?