Bender's NFL Live Thread: Conference Championships

1-17-2018

[PGalt]

Thanks for the ping. Good work on the thread. : )

I quit watching all NFL football after the “wardrobe malfunction”. What got me started down that path was the Lions ineptitude. I quite them about 25 years ago. I couldn’t waste my Sundays anymore. They last had a championship in 1957 (I was a 7 year old fan.).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLpfbcXTeo8

[Jim W N]

Do you want to stay on the ping list?

[PGalt]

Thanks for asking, Jim. No, please removing me.

[Jim W N]

You got it.

[Bender2]

Re:

Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya... You killed my father. Prepare to die." https://www.wired.com/wp-content/uploads/blogs/geekdad/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/mp2.gif

[trisham]

LOL! I love it.

[Jim W N]

Why was the Vikes’ #1 scoring defense dominated by the Eagles? I waited a week to try to find some insightful article but couldn’t really find any other than the usual “the Vikes blew it in the playoffs a usual” - stuff like that.

What did the Eagles do that no one the whole year did, or what did the Vikes do that they hadn’t done all year? Below is the best I could come up with - not much really other than maybe it was nothing more than a mental letdown.

https://www.twincities.com/2018/01/21/bob-sansevere-vikings-loss-to-eagles-the-soul-crushingest-of-them-all/

“In the space of one week, the Vikings went from their most impressive playoff win to their worst playoff loss. It was as if the coaches forgot how to coach and the players forgot how to play. They showed impressive mental toughness in the way they beat the New Orleans Saints in the final second last week. Maybe they used it all up. Maybe they still had a miracle hangover and couldn’t get in the proper mind-set for this game.”

Looking forward to what could be a really entertaining Super Bowl - the two top-ranked teams in the NFL (according to the stats I use) - don’t always get that in the Super Bowl.

[jjotto]

One explanation is that the Viqueens game plan assumed Foles couldn’t throw deep, and by the time they figured out he could and a couple longish passes weren’t a fluke, it was too late.

[21twelve]

I grew up in Minnesota, so for two games I was a Vikings fan again! I was looking at all sorts of stuff about Bud Grant, Fran Tarkington, etc.

Bud Grant would often go hunting after Saturday walk-throughs. He was very quick to say that there was more to life than football.

Fran Tarkington was saying that back then they didn’t take the Superbowl seriously. They thought winning the conference was the big thing, and the Superbowl was just a fun thing to do for winning your conference. (I wonder how much of that is true though? Maybe just an excuse to make him feel better??)

I was really hoping the Viking would make it this year. But, perhaps it is best not to get to the Superbowl and lose big. Again.

[Jim W N]

Actually, that makes sense. I really wonder if the Vikes defense simply let down their guard because they didn’t think much of second-stringer Foley. I don’t think Foley fooled just the Vikes, I think Foley fooled everybody.

I didn’t really think of that, but that makes sense.

“Foley fooled ‘em.” Fulton’s folly. “Foley’s folly fooled them”. Could go on and on.

[freedumb2003]

The refs.

They were paid to ensure the finals were the Eagles and NE.

(do I need /sarc?)

[Jim W N]

I have to say, one thing I’ve really enjoyed about a lot of these playoff games like the two last week is the general absence of penalites. That tells me the teams are well coached.

Football with lots of penalties just gets boring.

[big'ol_freeper]

https://www.conservativereview.com/articles/tom-brady-wins-day-lesson-manhood/

[Jim W N]

Love ya Tom and your cute little daughter. Love to see you punch that guy's light out.

Here's Alex Reimer, the REAL annoying little pissant now...

[Jim W N]

“Brady later said he doesn’t hope the radio host is fired. ‘I just said I would certainly hope the guy’s not fired,’ Brady said at Super Bowl Media Day, per Boston.com. ‘I would hate for that to happen’.”

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/football/tom-brady-cuts-interview-host-calls-daughter-pissant-article-1.3785665

Brady’s a stand up guy. I’d want to punch that guy out.

[editor-surveyor]

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The colon just needs some milk of Magnesia, then everything will come out OK.
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[big'ol_freeper]

Brady thanks the troops on the American Forces Network

https://twitter.com/AFNtelevision/status/958732876920512512

[dfwgator]

Go Brady, Go Patriots!

[Jim W N]

[campaignPete R-CT]

Point spreads for week1
Down the page a bit

http://www.footballlocks.com/nfl_lines.shtml

Nothing is particularly interesting