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.
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.
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]
I’m watching Korean Love Island and the girl with the big fake bangers appears to be the most popular.
That’s surprising….
Many people are describing this game as the worst one they have ever seen.
The betting line was Minnesota -7. If I’m correct, that ignored PAT attempt just screwed over some people.
And made some others very, very happy.
Wait, why is there no extra point? What if the spread was 7.5?
If the XP doesn’t matter to the final outcome, they don’t do it.
That’s crazy because of Rikki’s content above. They can’t do that shit if they’re encouraging/ condoning gambling.
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.
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.
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?
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.
DFS points.
That’s a TD.
These officials need to be fired.
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.
That’s not the rule though. All he has to do is break the plane with possession, which he did.
The theories are too good not to share.
https://twitter.com/AricToler/status/1473091806539751435?s=20
Those people need to get Covid and die yesterday.
This is Monterrey’s trophy now. Two Tigres misses.
DOINK! All over.
Watch the Giants hire Ryan Pace after Gettleman “retires” at the end of this season.
The Women’s Final is going to PKs!
Hola TUDN!
Mina Kimes rules
https://twitter.com/minakimes/status/1473139018661519370
That’s awesome
Johnny Depp being attacked by wolves after a shitty guitar solo is an ad I can get behind.
How did that get approved
I see you are familiar with neither advertising nor cocaine.
Silly me went into IT instead of drugs
Por que no los dos?
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.
The refs need the National Guard deployed ASAP to make it back to their locker room.
It would be great if the Chicago crowd did rain trash on them.
Most Bears fans would be winded just getting to field level.
That’s why they call it the Windy City, right?
I thought Jimmy Graham has basketball hands?
“He does!”
-Oklahoma Thunder, The
Basketball for hands, yes
I call that pass Schrodinger’s pass because it was both on the Mooney and not on the Money when looked at.
Does one shin equal two feet?
“I wish!”
-Rex Ryan
Straight Red for Kendricks.
The ol’ Andy Robertson
We call that one “Going full Xhaka”
Is it “Let’s kill Fields” night?
There must have been a mixup in the schedule, Let’s kill fields night was a weekend event for the grounds crew
That was fucking disgusting from Kendricks there.
“And here come the flags!”
/Buddy Cole has entered the chat
No, Buddy, he said flags.
//Buddy Cole has left the chat
Hold up! There’s a bear come back in play.
/Buddy Cole has re-entered the chat
They almost didn’t call that.
That’s some seriously bad officiating.
At least they gave Kendricks a hug and reassured him that they still like him 🙄
The officiating gets worse by the game, it seems
Best Bears offensive play all game.
BLEEERGH!!
His knee was never down morans.