I hear the Octomom took all 14 of her kids to LP Field in Nashville and left them there. They’re currently beating the Titans 28-0.
I was kidding about the refs favoring the Steelers, but I’ll be damned if they aren’t doing just that.
How so? They didn’t call a late hit on Woodley but those happen every game.
Fucking refs. On cue they deliver a bullshit call. :mad:
It’s a basic fact of football. You can’t beat a good team AND the refs.
This officiating crew is absolutely in the bag for the Steelers. They just absolutely raped the Vikings with a blatantly fraudulent tripping call to take away a touchdown and hand Pittsburgh the game.
Then Percy takes that touchbown right back on the kickoff return. Take that.
Was that a revenge hit on the official? 
I have to admit, I know little about football. I didn’t grow up with it, and since I never got to wear the flags in school (and thus couldn’t have the ball) I didn’t have any interest. But IHOP gave away miniature football helmets when I was a kid, and I got the Vikings one. So now that I have, in the past few years, been watching football and trying to figure it all out, I have to support the Vikings.
Anyway, nice 88-yard return for a TD.
Ask here or start a thread to fill in the gaps. Lots of football knowledge around here.
Mostly I just don’t know some of the penalties. I just take the commentators’ words for it. It’s an improvement over the first time I tried to watch. It seemed to me that there was a lot of standing around and waiting, and not much playing. I remember I timed a few plays and came up with five or ten seconds of playing and two or three minutes of standing around. (It didn’t help that I had an obnoxious roommate.) Once I started thinking about it as a series of strategic battles, I began to like it.
FWIW I like (not in order) Minnesota because of the childhood connection, Denver because I wanted to live in the Rockies when I was a kid, Green Bay because I like that they play in the snow, New Orleans because I love the city, and Seattle because they’re the home team.
HAH! Favre FINALLY manages for the Vikes the sort of mistake that he did for the Packers in his later years all the time, and it’s gonna cost them!
<grumble grumble> Of course, this means the Steelers will win. :mad:
The officiating has been notably bad this game. You could do a lot worse than take the commentators’ word on that one. They actually do a pretty good job explaining penalties, not so much the strategy.
You can’t even blame Favre. The pass was tipped. In the end one flukey play was the difference in this one (and despite the bad officiating), the Vikings would have won without that play. My only problem is throwing it. They should have been running it, taking care of the ball.
Favre didn’t make a mistake, Taylor just biffed the catch.
It was really the officials who gave Pittsburgh the game, though.
He threw the ball too hard and too high. Should it have ended up as a pick 6. No. But it was a pretty poor pass. But I completely understand the “He can do no wrong” sentiment that comes with Favredom.
And, oddly enough, I didn’t hear a whole lot of “Favre does everything he can to win” talk when he plays the sissy and makes half-assed attempts at tackling on both his fumble and his int.
The Packers finally looked like a good team. Sure it was against the lowly Browns and there were still too many penalties (some of those were more ticky tack calls the refs tend to make on highly penalized teams), but the O Line didn’t give up a sack that I saw, and McCarthy finally realized that he can call more than 15 running plays a game. Good game.
I’ve said nothing to deserve that kind of snark. I made a judgment call about one play.
I apologize. That snark was not intended for you. As a long time Packer fan, I have a sore spot for people who have spent months and years defending Favre’s mistakes on the field. I was merely blathering about that, and in no way meant it to be an attack on you personally. Sorry.
In other news, the Bengals are up by three touchdowns after a quarter and a third, and I have a smile on my face.
Thanks, Hamlet. No worries. I’m just a long way from being a Favre extremist. I generally don’t go for that kind of fandom. I was actually against signing him – not out of rivalry, just thought it was a bad move – but I have to give him credit where it’s due, and he’s been mostly very good. And I think that pass should have been caught, but even more to the point, Childress blew it by throwing at all. Not when we have Adrian Goddamn Peterson.