My favorite guy to watch score a touchdown was Barry Sanders. One of the greates RB’s to ever play the game, he kept it very simple. Either the touchdown was histroic or very sentimental and he’d keep the ball, or he’d get in the end zone, hand the ball to the ref, and trot back to the sideline. He knew how good he was and knew the score was expected. Why celebrate what you’re paid to do anyway?
I remember when Rison high-stepped into the end zone when the Packers won their latest title. (Minne fans, since you don’t know what it’s like to ever see your team win, you can skip this part.) It pissed me off! I guess it’s a little different in the SB, but I was hoping for Lombardi-era selfless class. Hell, even Favre holding his helmet high with his goofy-ass grin was acceptable as he was headed back to celebrate with team mates. He wasn’t trying to show up anyone.
BTW, what the hell is that stupid arm twirling thing Culpuppy does after a TD pass?
It sounds like you missed the game this past weekend. I heard that the Vikings beat the Packers pretty solidly, and that Favre threw a bunch of interceptions. You may want to look at a sports website or something to make sure, though.
Didn’t see the game but they just covered “the controversy” on the local 6 PM news complete with replay of “the incident” but with most of Moss’ body tiled out (that weird blurry tiling effect done over naughty bits on broadcast TV - whatever it’s called.)
The guy was dressed, for pete’s sake, and you could still see how he was moving! W’sTFing point of showing it like this?
(I know, I know: corporate CYA - no pun intended!)
The rap group (duo, really, but who the fuck cares) is called the Big Tymers. They had a song called “Get Your Roll On,” in the video for which one of the two rappers did the little roll with his hands.
Since this seems to be the happening thread about the playoffs, a question: is Brett Favre officially over yet? No other quarterback – on any team all the way down to Division I AA – could make a play like that moronic flip and get away with it while retaining any kind of reputation as a serious competitor. Is he retarded? Am I the only person in the world who realized how earth-shatteringly dunderheaded that play was?
First of all, he had like a 50/50 chance at lowering his head and getting a first and goal, and a chance for seven. Second, if that ball had been picked off, the Vikings would have been able to decline the penalty, and at the very least would have gotten possession. Third, he moved his kicker back almost ten yards on an attempt which was subsequently missed. Fourth, it was a fucking playoff game! He intentionally gave up his chance for a first down and committed a penalty to avoid taking a hit in a do-or-die game. I mean, I know people are used to Favre making stupid plays, but this was beyond his typical drug-addled gunslinging stupidity. He hurt his team a thousand times worse than anything Moss did (not that the Moss thing doesn’t translate worse off the field, mind you), and it barely gets mentioned.
And just in case I wasn’t off-topic enough, somebody gave Michael Vick an MVP vote, preventing Manning from winning unanimously. Um, good pick.
Somehow I can’t quite believe that Favre will hang it up. It’s possible, of course, but my gut (and my dread as a Vikings fan) tells me that he won’t be able to accept this kind of performance as his final game. I think he’ll push it another year and it might be one year too many. The cracks are starting to show on Favre. He doesn’t look old yet but I think he will if he plays another year.
I think that illegal pass betrayed something that hasn’t been characteristic of him in the past. He was afraid to take a hit. Three or four years ago- maybe even one year ago, Brett would have put his head down and sailed right into the contact no matter what the price to his body.
Favre’s greatest strength has also always been his greatest weakness and that is his recklessness out of the pocket. Once he starts to scramble he plays like a kid on a playground and is liable to improvise just about anything. He can be breathtakingly undisciplined, unpredictable, brilliant, wild, ill-advised, spectacular and lucky by turns. He’s got one of the greatest cannons any QB has ever owned and sometimes he has too much faith in it, other times he’s been able (even this year) to put the ball into tiny windows that no other QB would even attempt. At his best, Favre is almost indefensible. His ability to keep broken plays alive, escape pressure and keep seeing the field is like no other who has ever played the position. It can lead to ridiculous big plays that he has absolutely no right to make. How many times have we seen him get hit in the backfield, escape, roll one way. roll the other way, then throw up a prayer that somehow nails a reciever in the numbers 40 yards down the field?
At his worst he forces things, he throws picks and he tries to go for the end zone when he should be trying to just get a first down.
Sometimes you see the best and the worst in the same game.
But if there’s one thing that Favre has always had consistently, reliably, game in game out without exception, it’s toughness. His starting streak speaks for itself and it’s not because he hasn’t played hurt.
That flip into the endzone wasn’t just Favre being reckless in his usual way, it was a crack in his touhness. If Brett doesn’t want to take the contact anymore (and who can blame him) then he will absolutely not be the same quarterback.
One more thing the righteous packer fans may like to know. I’ve just been informed via a sports talk show here in Chicago that it’s a long standing tradition for the Green Bay Faithful (and classy!) to moon the opposing teams bus after Lambeau victories. So it seems y’all can dish it out, but can’t take it.
And correct me if I’m wrong but I think Favre left the field without shaking anyone’s hand yesterday. Role model extraordinaire!
And yes, the Bears sucked this year. What in the world is the point of bringing that up?
I haven’t been around the board as much this year, so I probably missed the ton of positive posts made by people like you and Dio about your team. You know, the ones where you cheer your team, or talk about how they are doing, or share positive feedback about a team, kinda like a fan. You know, rooting FOR something rather than ROOTING against something or somebody. The Bears D was pretty good. Hunter Hillenmeyer filled in nicely for Urlacher. It’s good to have Ron Turner back. Posting positive things about a team you like. I musta missed all those and only saw the “Favre Sucks” or “It’s so wonderful that Favre threw four interceptions” posts.
It’s called being a realist and not thinking that every season is a super bowl champ. I haven’t been around the boards PERIOD for months I try not to post too much on the boards much because I get my ass reamed elsewhere for even showing my face…but to celebrate a cocky son of a bitch finally falling off a pedestal, you can bet I’ll be around. It was a pleasure to watch the game with some even keel Packer fans yesterday who admitted their team looked awful.
Ron Turner is a good thing? Yeah…he brought us right into the playoffs last time he was here. Oh wait. yikes. A minimum three more years of suck for the bears.
Let me clarify that last post. How many posts are there in the pit from Broncos fans, Seahawks fans, and Charger fans? Presumably those teams have fans. Their team loses, they suck it up. Packer fans watch their team loses, and they go onto Internet message boards to express that their team has more class, their fans have more class, and they’d rather lose pretty than win ugly. This is bullshit. Brett Favre has grabbed his crotch, done the “throat slash,” and visibly said “fuck!” on live TV closeups. Your guys are dumb jocks, just like all the other teams are dumb jocks. Recent Packers include a guy who raped his babysitter, and a guy who breaks into girls’ homes and shits in their closets. Packers are no better than other teams. Packer fans are no better than other fans.
No, It’s called being a fan not a hater. Even if your team sucks, and I lived through those lean years for GB, root FOR them, not against another team or player. You don’t have to take such joy, and express it so often, when another team or player fails. Of course, it could be because the Bears have been so miserable for so long that they don’t elicit any kind of animosity (closer to pity) from me now, but even back in the 80’s, I thought it was classless to root against the Bears. As big an asshole as “Jimmy Mac” was, I was appalled at what Charles Martin did to him. I was pissed when Payton didn’t get the TD carry in '85 too. But hey, if being a “fan” of the Bears means you have to revel in failures rather than celebrate victories, c’est la vie.
I don’t know what that’s all about, but the board is a little less interesting without you.
Favre is one of those players, like Sweetness, who is generally liked by even Bear fans. Your mileage obviously vaires.
They did look awful. Offense, defense, special teams all stunk up the place. Favre was absolutely horrid, the playcalling was pitiful, and the defense had a hard time tackling. They got beat fair and square. To say otherwise is delusional. But how does that make being an asshole like Moss was, any more understandable?
Ron Turner is a good thing? Yeah…he brought us right into the playoffs last time he was here. Oh wait. yikes. A minimum three more years of suck for the bears.
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Broncos fan checking in. I have some major problems with the way the game was played, but all but one is the coaching and the actions of the players. For example, why the hell didn’t Jake scramble? Why couldn’t they play in the first half like they did in the third quarter? If the rookie CB (Alexander) keeps getting his ass handed to him, why don’t you go double-team Harrison with Alexander and someone else and put Bailey on Wayne for a while? The only officating call I have a problem with was that completed pass to Lelie for the first that was overturned.
Well, time to go to completely rooting for the Steelers for the rest of the playoffs. Man, it would’ve been ugly at school for me if the Broncos did play the Steelers next week.
Those would have been legitimate questions and points. The Packer Fan way would be posting a liturgy of offenses by the opposing team, and suggesting a glowing superiority to the other team’s fans.
I don’t know if it’ll make you feel better, but there was no way to coach the Broncos past the Colts. The Colts are simply better this year.