…aaaaand season over…
If you guys need me I’ll be jumping off a bridge somewhere.
Roethlisberger should retire.
So it comes down to depending on the Cleveland Browns to help out. I hope all the good karma I’ve thrown out at the Browns this year pays off. If not, well, Pittsburgh had loads of opportunities this year and they squandered them. I want them to make the playoffs, of course, but if they don’t back in it’s completely deserved.
Fitchner has done a much better job planning games than I anticipated; Butler, unfortunately, has done much worse. No matter what happens next week it’s time for a new DC.
He’s still one of the better QBs in the league. His passing skills are ridiculous.
Oh god, if Roethlisberger retires, the rats are lead by a poor man’s Michael Vick, and the Bengals hire Hue Jackson as HC… oh god I’m almost there.
This sucks. I wanted my youngest son’s Colts to get in. Go Mayfield!
I loved watching Nix celebrating his short lived relevance with an amazing first down pose after a fake punt, only to find out that he didn’t, in fact, get the first down. It’s up there with the Bears’ Lamar Houston tearing his ACL after celebrating a sack in a game that the Bears were losing by 25 points.
Wonder if the Browns would lie down to keep the Steelers out?
No. Not even a remote chance of that. They have a chance to end the season on a significant winning streak, the coaching staff is playing for their jobs, and who knows how the players themselves feel, but there’s no less animosity towards the illegitimate entity than there is to Pittsburgh.
The Browns will save your season.
It’s a shame it’s come down to that, but seriously, I called 7-9 this year and it’s good to see them have a legitimate shot at 8. Hopefully next year they’ll remain competitive.
As for the “illegitimate entity”, I’d think you’d hate them more. I know I would, given the totality of the circumstances.
I do. That’s why I won’t even call them by their name. They don’t deserve to be a franchise and their existence is a black mark on sports.
I hate the Steelers, but in a way where I respect your existence and your franchise. I hate the illegitimate entity was something that brings shame on the world for existing. I hope to be good enough again that the Browns vs Steelers is a rivalry. Whereas I hope the illegitimate entity ceases to be after all of the gonnorrhea’d up baltimore fans take some antibiotics and come to their senses.
Well, I’m not a Steelers fan. But just wondering.
How do you feel about the NBA team formerly known as the SuperSonics?
As a former Sonics fan I place 100% of the blame at the hands of the petulant man-child Howard Schultz. He’s a loathsome floor-scraping creature that will die an agonizing, prolonged death involving an improbable amount of vomiting.
But I don’t think Seattle got hosed by the NBA as an organization quite as badly as the NFL hosed Cleveland.
I don’t follow basketball much and I’m not familiar with it. If you want to hear why what Modell did to Cleveland is relatively unique in sports (as far as I’m aware), I rant here
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and here.
Also here but mostly the same stuff a little rantier.
Note that I feel the same way about it as you do. Modell took that rivalry away from Steelers fans, too.
This link isn’t working, Beef.
And so, this is it. There’s little chance Pittsburgh loses this game so it’s up to Cleveland to handle the Rats and confirm their resurrection with their first winning record in essentially forever. Baker Mayfield, as it turns out, isn’t a cancer or a joke. Over the last half of the season he’s been arguably the best quarterback in the league. The Browns are 6-1 in their last 7. They have a real shot at this, no matter what the pundits say.
So get it done, Cleveland. I’m rooting for you, both out of self-interest and so that you can once more be seen as real rivals to Pittsburgh and not just doormats.
As for the Steelers, if they don’t make it it’s entirely their fault, and bad on them for it. All that talent, wasted. It doesn’t help when the defensive coordinator speaks well of the threat created by a player that’s been on the IR for weeks and may never play again. It’s like he’s not even doing his job. That was quite a window into his preparation, let me tell you.
Anyway, I’m off to the game, my Christmas present to myself. Good luck, Cleveland, and fuck the damn Ratbirds.