Your Regularly Scheduled NFL Monday Night Football Game Open Thread

And there’s two more after this one! HAIL SANTA!

Fallout:

-Congrats to Double K-he’s the coach of only the third team with the most wins in the league (tied) that has lost to a team that had the worst record since the merger in 1970.

-Injuries-Godwin is gone with a shredded ACLU, Steelers tight end  Friar Tuck drove himself home after the game(!) and Teddy Ballgame is out of the hospital and into concussion protocol.

-The coaches on TEAM’s good-luck habit of licking each other’s faces after practice every day has come back to haunt them. About seven of them (and counting!) won’t be able to weave their less than adequate magic on the sidelines tomorrow.

-Horatio Alert! UCONN’s women’s basketball has fallen out of the Top Ten for the first time since 2005. Wow, 2005, we were so much younger back then.

-Hippo Alert! The Wolven men’s BB squad is on probation for a year because of some funny business with a recruit’s family and some money from Adidas. Have these clowns not heard of a no-show job at a booster’s car dealership or somesuch? It’s not hard to cheat in college-you can look that up in Wikipedia if you think I’m wrong.

To The Game!

Vikes/Bears:

-As is obligatory when the Bears play in December, one must mention the weather-it’ll be 25F and the winds will be coming out of Valhalla.

-It’s Called “Creeping Socialism”-The Vikes lead the league in sacks with 41 but no player has more than 6-just wait until Minnesota republicans hear about this ‘share the wealth’ scheme.

-Personally, I’ll be cheering for these Nordic warrior people because the Giants have Chicago’s draft pick-two in the Top Ten, one in the stink, baby!

-Still, we must not discount the Vikes habit of playing close games, playing down to the competition and frittering away leads late in the 4th quarter-not exactly a winning formula.

Do your thing.

 

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TheRevanchist

Since I just got home, looking at the scores and such, it seems I may have been better off staying at work all damn night.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

No, no, it was really good, you should totally watch the highlights. Make sure to watch the extended ones, all the way to the end.

[runs off covering mouth, attempting to suppress laughter]

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

I’m watching Korean Love Island and the girl with the big fake bangers appears to be the most popular.

ballsofsteelandfury

That’s surprising….

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Many people are describing this game as the worst one they have ever seen.

Redshirt

The betting line was Minnesota -7. If I’m correct, that ignored PAT attempt just screwed over some people.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

And made some others very, very happy.

ballsofsteelandfury

Wait, why is there no extra point? What if the spread was 7.5?

Mr. Ayo

If the XP doesn’t matter to the final outcome, they don’t do it.

ballsofsteelandfury

That’s crazy because of Rikki’s content above. They can’t do that shit if they’re encouraging/ condoning gambling.

Horatio Cornblower

I’ve said it before and I’m sure I’ll say it again, but you have to be out of your fucking mind to bet serious money on an NFL game.

Dunstan

I think that’s exactly why they DON’T run the XP. That’s pretty much a textbook situation where a team could point shave with no risk.

Also, imagine someone getting hurt on a meaningless extra point play that only got ran because gamblers care.

ballsofsteelandfury

Two Arizona Cardinals got hurt in an attempt to score a meaningless touchdown this season.

By that logic, why was Chicago even attempting to score a meaningless TD?

Dunstan

There’s no clear way to start adjudicating when plays from scrimmage are meaningless — you’d have to start coming up with formulas about how many points down you have to be with X seconds left, how many with Y, etc., and it would be more hassle and confusion than needed. With PATs, you can have a pretty clear bright line rule: if there’s no time left on the clock, and the XP can’t affect the outcome, then it’s meaningless.

Besides, I really don’t have any sympathy for gamblers who think they were “screwed” by not kicking an XP. It’s not like the NFL changed the rules after you placed your bet. You didn’t have a “right” to expect that an XP would be attempted in that situation, any more than you had a right to expect a particular team to cover, or that a team up by a lot would keep its starting QB in so that your over bet would come in.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

DFS points.

Horatio Cornblower

That’s a TD.

Horatio Cornblower

These officials need to be fired.

Redshirt

Actually, I agree with them. He was airborne when he caught the ball and he landed with his feet closer to the one yard line with defenders behind him. I can see why they didn’t call TD.

They still deserved to be fired though.

ballsofsteelandfury

That’s not the rule though. All he has to do is break the plane with possession, which he did.

litre_cola

The theories are too good not to share.

https://twitter.com/AricToler/status/1473091806539751435?s=20

Horatio Cornblower

Those people need to get Covid and die yesterday.

ballsofsteelandfury

This is Monterrey’s trophy now. Two Tigres misses.

Mr. Ayo

DOINK! All over.

Horatio Cornblower

Watch the Giants hire Ryan Pace after Gettleman “retires” at the end of this season.

ballsofsteelandfury

The Women’s Final is going to PKs!

Mr. Ayo

Hola TUDN!

Horatio Cornblower
ballsofsteelandfury

That’s awesome

Horatio Cornblower

Johnny Depp being attacked by wolves after a shitty guitar solo is an ad I can get behind.

Game Time Decision

How did that get approved

Horatio Cornblower

I see you are familiar with neither advertising nor cocaine.

Game Time Decision

Silly me went into IT instead of drugs

BugEyedBoo

Por que no los dos?

Horatio Cornblower

Louis Riddick not holding back in trying to open up another NFL job for himself.

Which, to be fair, he clearly more qualified for than Ryan Pace.

Mr. Ayo

The refs need the National Guard deployed ASAP to make it back to their locker room.

ballsofsteelandfury

It would be great if the Chicago crowd did rain trash on them.

Game Time Decision

Most Bears fans would be winded just getting to field level.

Mr. Ayo

That’s why they call it the Windy City, right?

Last edited 2 years ago by Mr. Ayo
Gumbygirl

I thought Jimmy Graham has basketball hands?

Horatio Cornblower

“He does!”

-Oklahoma Thunder, The

Game Time Decision

Basketball for hands, yes

Mr. Ayo

I call that pass Schrodinger’s pass because it was both on the Mooney and not on the Money when looked at.

Horatio Cornblower

Does one shin equal two feet?

Doktor Zymm

“I wish!”
-Rex Ryan

Mr. Ayo

Straight Red for Kendricks.

Sharkbait

The ol’ Andy Robertson

Horatio Cornblower

We call that one “Going full Xhaka”

ballsofsteelandfury

Is it “Let’s kill Fields” night?

Doktor Zymm

There must have been a mixup in the schedule, Let’s kill fields night was a weekend event for the grounds crew

The Maestro

That was fucking disgusting from Kendricks there.

Last edited 2 years ago by The Maestro
Horatio Cornblower

“And here come the flags!”

/Buddy Cole has entered the chat

No, Buddy, he said flags.

//Buddy Cole has left the chat

Mr. Ayo

Hold up! There’s a bear come back in play.

Horatio Cornblower

/Buddy Cole has re-entered the chat

ballsofsteelandfury

They almost didn’t call that.

That’s some seriously bad officiating.

Doktor Zymm

At least they gave Kendricks a hug and reassured him that they still like him 🙄

Last edited 2 years ago by Doktor Zymm
Horatio Cornblower

The officiating gets worse by the game, it seems

hippofant

Best Bears offensive play all game.

Mr. Ayo

BLEEERGH!!

His knee was never down morans.