Weirddave: Something strange this week happened.

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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First, the Steelers won. Not convincingly, but it was a win.

Second, the Ravens lost. To a team that had almost as many points as yards.

That puts the Steelers only two games back, with the tiebreaker against the Ravens, AND with the weakest second-half schedule in the league.

Dude, this is surreal, but the Steelers still have a shot. If they come back and win the division you will NEVER live it down. :smiley:

[sub]That’s not to say that it will happen, but geez…what the hell is going on this year?[/sub]

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I’d like to point out that they don’t have the tiebreaker at all- that’ll be decided when the two teams meet week 17.

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Yeah, but the Ravens have to win that game, against the team that smoked them in Week 1. And if they play anything like tonight, it won’t even be close.

Anyway, we’ll see. This is shaping up to be a weird ending to the season. The Bungles in 2nd? Whodathunkit?

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And that was definitely the strangest game I’ve ever seen. They gain 122 total yards and score 33 points? Impossible!

I’ll hold off on any predictions until I see how Kyle Boller is health wise.

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Dude, if our defense plays like it did tonight, Maddox and company won’t score a point.

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I agree. My last effort at prognosticating turned out quite badly.

But damn, how is it that I can even suggest that the Steelers have a chance with a straight face at this point in the season with a 3-6 record?

This may be the strangest season I’ve ever seen, even stranger than the year that the Ravens won the Super Bowl. Like, how the hell did THAT happen? :wink:

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[Minor hijack]I can tell you’ve been living amongst the PA Dutch, given your thread title.

Kinda like: Throw the horse over the fence some hay. Or, smear me all over with jelly a piece of bread.[/Minor hijack]

Take care, Brother. :smiley:

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As I walk through the valley where I harvest my grain, I take a look at my wife and realize she’s very plain…

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Dangit, the one Sunday all season I have to spend driving, and it’s the Sunday when the entire NFL goes nuts. My Falcons actually won a game today, and I was driving through Kentucky at the time instead of sitting on the couch with beer in hand. Sheesh.

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Hell, even the Redskins won.

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*But if I finish all of my chores and you finish thine
Then tonight we’re gonna party like it’s 1699 *

I know! I still don’t understand why Ray Rhodes didn’t blitz like crazy; it’s worked for everyone else against the Redskins lately. But Ramsey spent almost the entire game on his feet, and I think that’ll help him deal with it better for a couple games, anyway, when opponents return to the blitz.

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Lions won. Sure, it was against the Bears, and it was ugly as hell, but it was still their second win in a row… :eek:

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If Akers kicks five field goals, and Bubba Franks scores a TD, and Ahman Green is stuffed, and Donald Driver gets a TD or 150 yards, and McNabb throws for at least 100 yards, and Green Bay puts up over 30 points and Philadephia puts up no more than 15, then, THEN I will win my game in two fantasy leagues and the two people tied in first place with me will both lose and I’ll be in sole possession of first place in each league.

It’s theoretically possible. I’m going to watch the game tonight with an Excel spreadsheet open tallying the scores for all of those games after each play.

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From Sunspot.net.

Well, it was fun while it lasted.

sigh

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No phones, no lights, no motorcars, / Not a single luxury.
Like Robinson Crusoe, / As primitive as can be.
We’re spending most our entire lives
In this Amish paradise.
There’s no time for sin or vice
In this Amish paradise.

IMnshO, the Skins just haven’t been the same ever since Joe Gibbs retired. And then when the ancient Jack Kent Cooke cashed out, Dan Snyder just hasn’t run the team the same way.

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Oh yeah, surreal.
pretends she knows what’s going on
Really the only part of that I understood was the Weird Al Yankovich reference.

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Y’see, there’s this game called football. And it’s used by the mind-controllers to distract the masses from their desperate plight.

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Oh, and beer is mixed in, too.

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And scantily-clad women. Don’t forget that, Jonathan.

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Hitchin’ up the buggy, churnin’ lots of butter
Raised a barn on Monday, soon I’ll raise another
Think you’re really rightous? Think you’re pure in heart?
Well, I know I’m a million times as humble as thou art
I’m the pious guy the little Amlettes wanna be like
On my knees day and night scorin’ points for the afterlife
So don’t be vain and don’t be whiny
Or else, my brother, I might just have to get medieval on your heinie

Oh, and go Steelers!