# NFL Week 15 **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [December 17, 2010, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-15/564529 "2010-12-17T17:27:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2010, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-15/564529/121 "2010-12-21T00:17:32Z")
You’ll still be able to hear the commentators praise Favre the entire time, which is the most important part of the event anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2010, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-15/564529/122 "2010-12-21T00:41:46Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > Matt Flynn didn’t have a great game either and looked every bit like a backup at the end. It might be more accurate to say that he looked every bit like a quarterback making his first NFL start at the end. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2010, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-15/564529/123 "2010-12-21T01:33:59Z")
Favre is starting, and there is no snow on the field or in the air. Sure looks fucking cold, though. ---
**Author:** ![Hamlet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hamlet/32/2818_2.png) [@Hamlet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamlet)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2010, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-15/564529/124 "2010-12-21T01:46:02Z")
> [@Frank](#): > > Favre is starting, and there is no snow on the field or in the air. Sure looks fucking cold, though. Favre is starting? Are they going to pull him and put in Webb after the first play? ---
**Author:** ![Implicit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Implicit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Implicit)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2010, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-15/564529/125 "2010-12-21T01:50:58Z")
> [@Hamlet](#): > > Favre is starting? Are they going to pull him and put in Webb after the first play? Nope, he made some short throws and they drove down the field for a TD. Poor tackling by the Bears helped. ---
**Author:** ![Philster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/13edae/32.png) [@Philster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philster)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2010, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-15/564529/126 "2010-12-21T01:57:26Z")
> [@Hal\_Briston](#): > > My thoughts on the Giants game… > > First and foremost: Fuck. > > That said, it’s not the end of the world – they’ll still make the playoffs, and hopefully they’ll get a chance to smack the smug out of the Scumbirds in January. > > Ironically, that win helped me immensely in my pool, as it gave a loss to my biggest divisional rival (and set up a pivotal Week 17 match between the two of us). > > Finally, there is one nice thing that comes out of Vick’s success – it was just a few short months ago that so many Eagles fans screamed and wailed about the horror of their team now having such a terrible person as their backup QB. Now they’re sporting his jersey and chanting “MVP”. Thanks for showing your hypocritical douche colors, folks – we all knew you had it in you. Please, go ahead and tell us all about Philly demographics. They are the same Vick haters now as then. There are people who have staked there anti-Vick position and won’t budge. It’s just drowned out by fans screaming over good football now. Here’s a novel idea: Suck up the loss without lobbing insults at Philadelphia fans. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2010, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-15/564529/127 "2010-12-21T02:09:21Z")
> [@Frank](#): > > Favre is starting, and there is no snow on the field or in the air. Sure looks fucking cold, though. It’s actually not really all that cold - at least not as cold as it was last week. It’s like in the teens. Below freezing, but not bitter, sub-zero cold. Nothing Favre didn’t play in a thousand times on that other team. They were saying the field’s not frozen either - softer than the turf at the Metrodome, I heard the Vikings radio crew say. After all the noise about the unsafe conditions, they aren’t really turning out to be that terrible after all. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2010, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-15/564529/128 "2010-12-21T02:19:31Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > They were saying the field’s not frozen either - softer than the turf at the Metrodome, I heard the Vikings radio crew say. After all the noise about the unsafe conditions, they aren’t really turning out to be that terrible after all. Yeah, so far my “sloppy play” prediction was wrong. Looks like just another game to me. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2010, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-15/564529/129 "2010-12-21T02:38:32Z")
Looks like Wooten has just ended Favre’s career. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2010, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-15/564529/130 "2010-12-21T02:41:36Z")
That was a really half-assed effort by Bryant McKinney letting that rookie get around him. No excuse for that. ---
**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2010, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-15/564529/131 "2010-12-21T03:07:28Z")
Awesome. A hail Mary with no receivers in the end zone. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2010, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-15/564529/132 "2010-12-21T03:09:53Z")
Looks like the field is getting worse as the game goes on. It also looks like there’s some sort of wintry mix / freezing rain / light snow falling now, making for strange frosty footprints on the turf. ---
**Author:** ![Mince](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecd19e/32.png) [@Mince](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mince)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2010, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-15/564529/133 "2010-12-21T03:21:04Z")
Chris Carter; Bud Grant. Are the Vikings celebrating their four Super Bowl failures? ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2010, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-15/564529/134 "2010-12-21T03:26:03Z")
Chris Carter never failed in a Superbowl. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2010, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-15/564529/135 "2010-12-21T03:28:57Z")
They can call it a “head injury” all their little hearts desire, but when Favre came off the field, his right arm was not moving one inch. ---
**Author:** ![Implicit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Implicit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Implicit)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2010, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-15/564529/136 "2010-12-21T03:30:35Z")
There goes Hester! ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2010, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-15/564529/137 "2010-12-21T03:31:49Z")
It’s almost like the Vikings felt bad for stopping him the last time and just let him go. ---
**Author:** ![Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airman_Doors_USAF)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2010, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-15/564529/138 "2010-12-21T03:34:20Z")
Stick a fork in the Vikings, they’re done. Oh, and commence the whining. I can’t wait for the post-season wrap-up about how the Vikings were cheated in every single game by the zebras. It’s almost as good in review as it is in real time. ---
**Author:** ![Mince](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecd19e/32.png) [@Mince](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mince)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2010, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-15/564529/139 "2010-12-21T03:35:22Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > Chris Carter never failed in a Superbowl. Neither have I, but I celebrate the Vikings’ four Super Bowl failures. ---
**Author:** ![Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airman_Doors_USAF)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2010, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-15/564529/140 "2010-12-21T04:26:00Z")
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