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September 25, 2012

Week Three Pick'em Results [Ben]
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I'm too lazy to look, but I wonder if anyone got the GB v. Seattle pick right. Apparently it cost a lot of people a lot of money.

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1 Betting on football must feel like playing the stock market these days

Posted by: t-bird at September 25, 2012 06:59 AM (FcR7P)

2 Why don't you guys ever cover Fantasy Curling? My team is knocking it out of the park this year.

Posted by: Cicero at September 25, 2012 06:59 AM (Jl3/t)

3 HailMaryHector 28 Wait, the frakkin' TROLLS are making bank here? That's it. I'm cutting off the Valu-Rite supply. Must have got some bad stuff in the last batch. No more until a fresh shipment arrives with nothing more than the usual life-threatening impurities.

Posted by: Brother Cavil presents at September 25, 2012 07:00 AM (GBXon)

4 DiT?

Posted by: toby928© for TB at September 25, 2012 07:01 AM (QupBk)

5 Please tell me HailMaryHector is not *that* Hector.

Posted by: logprof at September 25, 2012 07:02 AM (V/U0X)

6 They said on ESPN that $1 billion changed hands over the game last night.

Posted by: Adam at September 25, 2012 07:04 AM (/YJYi)

7 this season is a joke . not sure why to even make any more picks.

Posted by: trailortrash at September 25, 2012 07:04 AM (xllDV)

8 hector, n. a blustering, domineering person hector, v. to act in a blustering, domineering way

Posted by: logprof at September 25, 2012 07:05 AM (V/U0X)

9 I'm not a football fan but have to admit these replacement refs are providing a good deal of entertainment. (See: sidebar pic).

Posted by: kallisto at September 25, 2012 07:06 AM (jm/9g)

10 Hard to get a game such as the Seattle/Green Bay contest right when the replacement zebras are THAT incompetent.

Tough to watch pro football when the officials are high school level competent.

Posted by: Alienated at September 25, 2012 07:06 AM (nAvl4)

11 Anyone live blogging the view appearance?

Posted by: pray for peace at September 25, 2012 07:10 AM (oZfic)

12 Maybe the replacement refs are part of the Romney/Mormon/Free Mason/Stonecutters/Tri-lateral Commission/Illuminiti conspiracy to advance the homosexual agenda?

Posted by: Mallamutt, RINO President for Life at September 25, 2012 11:10 AM (OWjjx)

Of course! Have you seen Aaron's butt?

Posted by: Homosexual Illuminati Freemasons at September 25, 2012 07:12 AM (RD7QR)

13 The current scorecard, know your hash, respond properly:

Hector
+IAze
CX71c
6Lik1
UP3wT

Romney losesbig
c3oPV
hJEXQ

[too many names to list; current is "pray for peace"]
oZfic

Posted by: RoyalOil at September 25, 2012 07:13 AM (imtbm)

14 Hard to get a game such as the Seattle/Green Bay contest right when the replacement zebras are THAT incompetent.

Tough to watch pro football when the officials are high school level competent.

Posted by: Alienated at September 25, 2012 11:06 AM (nAvl4)

Oh, please. Anyone who thinks the usual refs are more competent should look at the clip of the Raiders - Patriots game a few years ago. Tuck rule my ass.

Posted by: huerfano at September 25, 2012 07:15 AM (bAGA/)

15 15 I am running all over this thread like running backs to the Saints defense. Posted by: Mallamutt, RINO President for Life at September 25, 2012 11:12 AM (OWjjx) With the Saints sucking and Obama in office, it really is 1979...

Posted by: cajun carrot at September 25, 2012 07:15 AM (UZQM8)

16 Why Packer fans will whine about the replacement officials, I am interested in hearing how it was their fault Aaron Rodgers got sacked 8 times in the first half and Green Bay scored zero points.

This is the stupidest thing being said about the game. "Mistakes were made in the first half, so they deserve malfeasance in the second half." Really? That's just fucking progtarded.

If the score had been 56-0 Packers, the call would still be wrong. The officials would still be incompetent and/or corrupt.

Posted by: Achilles at September 25, 2012 07:17 AM (/kI1Q)

17 Packers sucked bad enough so that the refs blew it.
They did not deserve a win.

Posted by: VW Zao at September 25, 2012 07:18 AM (I7O5y)

18 Anyone who thinks the usual refs are more competent should look at the clip of the Raiders - Patriots game a few years ago. Tuck rule my ass. This. Also, I recall Packers fans smugly telling other NFC North fans on a couple of occasions that "if you play well enough the officiating doesn't matter". Funny that they're whining now.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 25, 2012 07:20 AM (B/VB5)

19 Real refs changing the outcome of important games? Never heard of it.

Posted by: Ed "Charlie Gibson" Hochuli at September 25, 2012 07:22 AM (B/VB5)

20 It's just payback for Seattle after that blown Super Bowl call against the Steelers.

Posted by: CDR M at September 25, 2012 07:22 AM (y67bA)

21 Ima gonna use these replacement refs to be voting booth supervisors.

Posted by: Obama at September 25, 2012 07:23 AM (BuYeH)

22 11 Why Packer fans will whine about the replacement officials, I am interested in hearing how it was their fault Aaron Rodgers got sacked 8 times in the first half and Green Bay scored zero points.

Posted by: Mallamutt, RINO President for Life at September 25, 2012 11:10 AM

The same reason that Patriot fans are whining, which to say why ESPN is whining. Refs are supposed to call roughing the passer if a defensive player gives them a dirty look.

Posted by: kbdabear at September 25, 2012 07:24 AM (wwsoB)

23 "Why Packer fans will whine about the replacement officials, I am interested in hearing how it was their fault Aaron Rodgers got sacked 8 times in the first half and Green Bay scored zero points."

Alright Mallamutt, tell us how many points a team should score in the first half so people can bitch about being robbed by an obvious last second call? Or how many sacks in the first half is to many for the last play of the game to matter?
Your argument is ridiculous yet you keep repeating it.

Posted by: lowandslow at September 25, 2012 07:24 AM (GZitp)

24 Hector got his ass dragged around by Achilles, too. Just sayin'. I believe the replacement refs also serve as election judges.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at September 25, 2012 07:25 AM (Ec6wH)

25 Thank goodness for the PGA Tour. Oh, and I stink at pick 'em.

Posted by: Y-not at September 25, 2012 07:26 AM (5H6zj)

26 I wonder if Goodell and the union have a deal already in place, but will be "settled" on the last Sunday in October or the first Sunday in November.

Goodell is an Obama loving PC dickhead, and we know who the unions want to crown president for life

Posted by: kbdabear at September 25, 2012 07:26 AM (wwsoB)

27 The blown call last night? Just noise...

Posted by: cajun carrot at September 25, 2012 07:26 AM (UZQM8)

28 "Know who else said that.....Herm Edwards. But, I guess your smarter than Herm."

Oh for chirst sake, pretty much everyone that got through the sixth grade is smarter then Herm Edwards. Herm Edwards, good fuck'n grief.

Posted by: lowandslow at September 25, 2012 07:26 AM (GZitp)

29 Hey while obama was saying the anti-muslim film was bad bad bad, did he say all the films about Jews being monkeys and drinking the blood of palestinians was also bad bad bad? Yeah I didn't think so

Posted by: Lara Logan at September 25, 2012 07:27 AM (oSFWF)

30 GIVE THE REFEREES ANYTHING THEY WANT!!! TO HELL WITH TICKET PRICES! TO HELL WITH SADDLING THE NFL WITH GUARANTEED PENSIONS ON PART TIME EMPLOYEES! WAH, WAH, WAH!

Posted by: Y-not at September 25, 2012 07:27 AM (5H6zj)

31 Oh for chirst sake, pretty much everyone that got through the sixth grade is smarter then Herm Edwards. Herm Edwards, good fuck'n grief. Posted by: lowandslow at September 25, 2012 11:26 AM (GZitp) Meanwhile.... in Chicago

Posted by: cajun carrot at September 25, 2012 07:27 AM (UZQM8)

32 The important thing is that these fine, muscular athletic men did their best, The score itself is immaterial. What matters is that you were entertained and you made good friends while watching the game.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at September 25, 2012 07:27 AM (Ec6wH)

33 I SUPPORT THE 1%ers OVER THE 0.1%ers!

Posted by: Y-not, principled conservative at September 25, 2012 07:28 AM (5H6zj)

34 Sorry to say as a Jets fan that I can't blame the replacement refs. Sanchez can't read a coverages, doesn't understand check downs and can't hit the broad side of Eva Longoria with a football.

Posted by: kbdabear at September 25, 2012 07:29 AM (wwsoB)

35 The regular refs never made questionable calls. No one ever complained about them. The replacement refs are terrible. Did you see how they breath? The regular refs never breathed like that.

Posted by: polynikes at September 25, 2012 07:30 AM (m2CN7)

36 Posted by: Homosexual Illuminati Freemasons at September 25, 2012 11:12 AM (RD7QR) So. Freaking. Jealous. Of. The. Nic.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD is on Team Alice at September 25, 2012 07:30 AM (VtjlW)

37 Anyone want to start a pool as to when our resident Bears fan navycopyjoe tells us that last night's game was called fairly and the Packers are just crybabies?

Posted by: kbdabear at September 25, 2012 07:31 AM (wwsoB)

38 "I would say more than..........zero. Which is what Green Bay scored. Zero."

Well there you go, let's the rules state that you must score in the first half for anyone to question the calls in the second half. Hell let's do one better, let's strip a team of it's ability to challenge a call in the second half unless they score in the first half. We'll call it the Mallamutt Rule.

Posted by: lowandslow at September 25, 2012 07:33 AM (GZitp)

39 I am running all over this thread like running backs to the Saints defense.

-----

Heh..... I ALMOST turned that game off.

Posted by: fixerupper at September 25, 2012 07:33 AM (C8hzL)

40 @47: But the Packers *are* crybabies, just not as much as the Patriots. Roughly 100% of the rules changes over the last 10 years were to make it illegal to play defense against Tom Brady.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 25, 2012 07:33 AM (B/VB5)

41 Being a Jet fan I don't have a dog in this fight, my season is already over ( if it was ever on ).

Posted by: Lara Logan at September 25, 2012 07:34 AM (oSFWF)

The NFL is going to die under the weight of its own regulations. It shouldn't BE that hard to officiate an NFL game, and it should be possible for refs to make bad calls, even ones that can change the outcome of a game.

Instead, the league is trying to protect everyone from getting booboos, and trying to use technology to eliminate mistakes. Well, what we're seeing is that technology simply makes the mistakes more obvious.

It's become a boring game, and that's almost impossible to do, given the nature of what it is supposed to be.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 25, 2012 07:34 AM (TOk1P)

43 Only shlubs pay for shit they never watch, or don't enjoy after the fact. Everyone gives me "the eye" when i tell them I don't have TV... I use Zune and Netflix, have never regretted it yet. Almost paid the $90 for NFL pass on my play station, glad I skipped out this year. Saints suck cause of the ban and the refs are even worse.

Posted by: cajun carrot at September 25, 2012 07:34 AM (UZQM8)

44 As terrible as the replacement refs have been the last 2 weeks, they are still doing a better job than Obama, Hillary and the State Department. Their bad calls didn't cause 4 Americans to die in Libya.

Posted by: Dobby at September 25, 2012 07:35 AM (62yHA)

45 44 Sorry to say as a Jets fan that I can't blame the replacement refs. Sanchez can't read a coverages, doesn't understand check downs and can't hit the broad side of Eva Longoria with a football. Posted by: kbdabear at September 25, 2012 11:29 AM (wwsoB) It's all Tebow's fault though I'm sure...

Posted by: cajun carrot at September 25, 2012 07:35 AM (UZQM8)

46 Scoring a whopping 13 points. Yeah. Well if I hadn't have been late on week one.

Posted by: MikeTheMoose Regular! With Full Stomping Power! at September 25, 2012 07:36 AM (0q2P7)

47 Those Packers sure know their way around the tight end.

Posted by: Mc Queery at September 25, 2012 07:37 AM (xXhWA)

48 40 GIVE THE REFEREES ANYTHING THEY WANT!!! TO HELL WITH TICKET PRICES! TO HELL WITH SADDLING THE NFL WITH GUARANTEED PENSIONS ON PART TIME EMPLOYEES! WAH, WAH, WAH!

Posted by: Y-not at September 25, 2012 11:27 AM (5H6zj)

What really sucks though is that the Ref's position is going to get stronger every week. And that's why they'll make ridiculous demands like pay us for the weeks we didn't work. Fuck the refs but fuck the Bloombergian tyrant Goodell too. A pox on both their houses.

Posted by: buzzion - Free Kratos at September 25, 2012 07:37 AM (GULKT)

49 Instead, the league is trying to protect ~~everyone from getting booboos,~~ itself from getting sued into oblivion over head injuries. FIFY. I am vaguely sympathetic to the claims by the players for past injuries in the game as I have an uncle who is in the HoF and who wound up being a junkie because he played back in the day when the players got shot up on the sidelines with morphine and then put back in. But only vaguely. Look, it's a hard game where huge men are hitting it each at great speed. It's inherently dangerous. There is no possible way to make the game safe. It can't and won't happen. It's not possible.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD is on Team Alice at September 25, 2012 07:37 AM (VtjlW)

Tough to watch pro football when the officials are high school level competent.

*Cough* College football *cough*

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at September 25, 2012 07:37 AM (d0Tfm)

51 Roughly 100% of the rules changes over the last 10 years were to make it illegal to play defense against Tom Brady.Posted by: Ian S. at September 25, 2012 11:33 AM (B/VB5)

100%? Really??

Hyperbole does not win the argument here.

Posted by: Sean Bannion at September 25, 2012 07:37 AM (sbV1u)

52 Posted by: Dobby at September 25, 2012 11:35 AM (62yHA) Give it time... I'm sure they'll swing a shitty game into an excuse for one of their fuck ups.

Posted by: cajun carrot at September 25, 2012 07:37 AM (UZQM8)

53 "Math....its not just for budgets.

Posted by: Mallamutt, RINO President for Life at September 25, 2012 11:34 AM (OWjjx)"

Math? Really? Are you about done making an ass out of yourself this morning?

Posted by: lowandslow at September 25, 2012 07:37 AM (GZitp)

54 Lizzy Warren just released an "I am a witch" commercial. Just can't let that bone go.

Posted by: MikeTheMoose Regular! With Full Stomping Power! at September 25, 2012 07:38 AM (0q2P7)

55 I'll mostly repeat a post I made earlier today on PFT, but this time directed at Mallamutt:

Could you possibly make a more intellectually flaccid argument if you tried?

Here, let me make your exact argument in reverse. "The seahawks could only muster 7 points through the first 59:52 of the game. They could have scored on any number of possessions throughout the game, so to rely on a desperation heave to win the game is pathetic. They should vacate this win because they did not play well enough through the rest of the game to earn it."

By your libtarded logic, a team should only be able to gripe about a galactically bad call to end a game if they have scored on every offensive possession throughout the game, surrendered no sacks, and currently lead 63-0. Have I got that about right?

Posted by: Killface at September 25, 2012 07:38 AM (R8kIj)

56 OT, but read this. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/howard-fineman/barack-obama-floating-like-a-butterfly_b_1911017.html Coming from Howard Fineman? Wow. This thing ain't over yet. All of the conventional battle lines are being redrawn. Libs are attacking O. Conservatives are attacking R. Pigs are flying , and hell is freezing over.

Posted by: Interested Party at September 25, 2012 07:38 AM (m1NGX)

57 I wish we had instant replay.

Posted by: Jim Joyce at September 25, 2012 07:38 AM (Ec6wH)

58 I prefer Fantasy Solitaire.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at September 25, 2012 07:38 AM (ffEoX)

59 Probably the Jooos somehow. It's always da Joooos.

Posted by: Reality Unchecked at September 25, 2012 07:39 AM (/YJYi)

60 FOXBOROUGH, Mass. -- New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick on Monday said he did not mean to disrespect the official whose shirt he grabbed as the official was running off the field No but you really wanted to kick him in the balls right, Bill?

Posted by: Lara Logan at September 25, 2012 07:39 AM (oSFWF)

61 @61: I find college football unwatchable pretty much because the players are super-sloppy, let alone the officials and clock operators and everything else. Something like 1% of college players ever even get a sniff at the NFL, and it's obvious why when watching even top-ranked teams.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 25, 2012 07:39 AM (B/VB5)

62 Something like 1% of college players ever even get a sniff at the NFL, and it's obvious why when watching even top-ranked teams.Posted by: Ian S. at September 25, 2012 11:39 AM (B/VB5)

Amen. I don't understand college football fever.

Posted by: Sean Bannion at September 25, 2012 07:40 AM (sbV1u)

63 It's all Tebow's fault though I'm sure... Posted by: cajun carrot at September 25, 2012 11:35 AM

Absolutely. The Sanchize gets hurt feelings easily and cannot play well unless the sportswriters and fans all agree that he's another John Elway

Posted by: kbdabear at September 25, 2012 07:40 AM (wwsoB)

64 It's football, guys. Horrible, yes, but still just football.

Now folks are leaving the blog over this shit? Jesus wept.

Posted by: eastvalleyphx says fuck islam at September 25, 2012 07:41 AM (GRvW4)

65 I say put a sniper on each end... teams that attempt a hail mary w/ 0:00 remaining will have the ball sniped, same goes for field goals.

Posted by: cajun carrot at September 25, 2012 07:41 AM (UZQM8)

66 Go fuck yourself. I am done with this fucking blog. Congratulations asshat.....you win. Posted by: Mallamutt, RINO President for Life at September 25, 2012 11:39 AM (OWjjx) Hey calm down, the guy your fighting with is not even a regular. At least I don't recognize him?

Posted by: Lara Logan at September 25, 2012 07:41 AM (oSFWF)

67 @67

Injuin Liz like my high cheekbones, but mostly my black bone.

Posted by: Injuin Blackfoot Barry, The One Who Eats Dogs at September 25, 2012 07:41 AM (wR+pz)

There is no possible way to make the game safe. It can't and won't happen. It's not possible.

I tend to disagree. I saw a guy on some late night show (could've been Carson, it's been a while) that was showing off this material he'd developed to replace the hard pads. He took a baseball bat to a shlub's shin that was covered in it, with no damage or pain.

I'm wondering why the uniforms and the tech that goes into them isn't keeping up with the physicality of the players.

And don't get me started on why the NFL isn't using the GPS chip to determine the postition of the ball on the field.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at September 25, 2012 07:42 AM (d0Tfm)

69 Now folks are leaving the blog over this shit? Jesus wept. Posted by: eastvalleyphx says fuck islam at September 25, 2012 11:41 AM (GRvW4) I am told we are also a smart military blog...

Posted by: cajun carrot at September 25, 2012 07:42 AM (UZQM8)

70 Well got 22 points. Is that good?

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at September 25, 2012 07:42 AM (WXoUE)

60 -

Yeah, that would be why they're trying to protect everyone from booboos. It's funny hearing announcers talk about hits, saying "that should be a penalty" when somebody's elbow or shoulder pad makes contact with the other guy.

Really? CBS, are YOU worried about being added to the class action suit?

Just shut up and call the game. And if they decide they're going to have to start using downy pillows to tackle, eventually no one will care. Until then though, people are going to get hit, and they're going to get hurt. That's the game.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 25, 2012 07:42 AM (TOk1P)

72 11 Why Packer fans will whine about the replacement officials, I am interested in hearing how it was their fault Aaron Rodgers got sacked 8 times in the first half and Green Bay scored zero points.

Posted by: Mallamutt, RINO President for Life at September 25, 2012 11:10 AM

I got sacked 6 times, because the replacements are racists too!

Posted by: Michael Vick at September 25, 2012 07:43 AM (wwsoB)

73 "Go fuck yourself. I am done with this fucking blog.

Congratulations asshat.....you win.

Posted by: Mallamutt, RINO President for Life at September 25, 2012 11:39 AM (OWjjx)"

Don't forget your ball.

Posted by: lowandslow at September 25, 2012 07:43 AM (GZitp)

74 20 Oh, please. Anyone who thinks the usual refs are more competent should look atthe clip of the Raiders - Patriots game a fewyears ago. Tuck rule my ass. Touchdown Celtics. (From earlier thread)

Posted by: rickb223 at September 25, 2012 07:43 AM (GFM2b)

75 So proud to live, so proud to lie!

Posted by: Elizabeth "Two Dogs Fucking" Warren at September 25, 2012 07:43 AM (Ly3kt)

76 Enough of this serious fighting and shit. Time for a real question. Hannah Storm, sober, a few cocktails, or blind drunk? I'd do it sober.

Posted by: Adam at September 25, 2012 07:43 AM (/YJYi)

77 Hannah Storm. Not even with Ace's dick.

Posted by: eastvalleyphx says fuck islam at September 25, 2012 07:44 AM (GRvW4)

78 Has anyone heard whether or not CenturyLink Field security was able to find the real Enrico Palazzo? I hope he's OK.

Posted by: Gristle Encased Head at September 25, 2012 07:44 AM (+lsX1)

79 Have we had a chicken-choking update?

Posted by: USA at September 25, 2012 07:45 AM (RIg+t)

80 Have we had a chicken-choking update?

Posted by: USA at September 25, 2012 11:45 AM (RIg+t)

I've BEEN out.

Posted by: eastvalleyphx says fuck islam at September 25, 2012 07:45 AM (GRvW4)

81 Yeesh. People need to have a drink at lunch and loosen up. We'll get rid of Bambi, football will survive this season, and life will rock along. Relax and regard the trees.

Posted by: Homosexual Illuminati Freemasons at September 25, 2012 07:45 AM (RD7QR)

Enough of this serious fighting and shit. Time for a real question. Hannah Storm, sober, a few cocktails, or blind drunk? I'd do it sober.

Even better: Erin Anderson. I'd have to be surgically removed.

And she can dance...

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at September 25, 2012 07:46 AM (d0Tfm)

83 And don't get me started on why the NFL isn't using the GPS chip to determine the postition of the ball on the field.Posted by: BackwardsBoy at September 25, 2012 11:42 AM (d0Tfm)

Because knowing Goddell, he would probably buy the version that's only accurate to within plus or minus 3 yards.

Posted by: Sean Bannion at September 25, 2012 07:46 AM (sbV1u)

84 And don't take advice from gay conspirators.

Posted by: joncelli at September 25, 2012 07:46 AM (RD7QR)

85 Hannah Storm is a terribel candidate!

Posted by: Hector, who just can't help hisself at September 25, 2012 07:46 AM (jm/9g)

86 You know, something about Suzie Kolber makes me just want to...kiss her.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at September 25, 2012 07:47 AM (Ec6wH)

87 @82: There's data that injuries and physicality are increasing in part because players believe the current pads/helmets/etc make them invulnerable. My guess is that no matter how safe you make the equipment, players will outstrip it by hitting ever harder.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 25, 2012 07:47 AM (B/VB5)

88 Hannah Storm, sober, a few cocktails, or blind drunk? I'd do it sober. Posted by: Adam at September 25, 2012 11:43 AM (/YJYi) You'd do "it?" Not even acknowledging her femininity, huh? But, yeah, sober too. I haven't been laid in a while.

Posted by: ErikW at September 25, 2012 07:47 AM (Ly3kt)

89 Speaking of stadiums, this concrete is still cold as hell.

Posted by: Zombie Jimmy Hoffa at September 25, 2012 07:48 AM (wR+pz)

I'm going to start calling trolls 'replacement posters'.

Posted by: polynikes at September 25, 2012 07:48 AM (m2CN7)

91 Seahawks cheerleaders;

http://tinyurl.com/cjvgl5t

Posted by: kbdabear at September 25, 2012 07:48 AM (wwsoB)

92 Because knowing Goddell, he would probably buy the version that's only accurate to within plus or minus 3 yards. The problem is that AFAIK it's illegal for civilians to use the more accurate military-grade GPS. Civilian-grade GPS is definitely too inaccurate to use for spotting a football.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 25, 2012 07:49 AM (B/VB5)

93 Uh yeah, Erin Andrews isn't even a question.

http://tinyurl.com/9mdlvt8

Posted by: Adam at September 25, 2012 07:49 AM (/YJYi)

94 88 20 Oh, please. Anyone who thinks the usual refs are more competent should look atthe clip of the Raiders - Patriots game a fewyears ago. Tuck rule my ass.

Touchdown Celtics. (From earlier thread)

Posted by: rickb223 at September 25, 2012 11:43 AM (GFM2b)

They are more competent. That is a bad call that gets mentioned a lot because of its rarity. Hochuli had that one boneheaded call a few years back too. But those are rarities. Now every week in several games there is a "Tuck rule" incompetence by the replacement refs.

You want the best outcome I can think of? Tell the refs to go fuck themselves, the replacements are the new officials and will be from now on so expect some growing pains as they get up to speed. But we all know the bitch Goodell won't do that so we'll continue with the clusterfuck as the strikers see their leverage increase each week.

Posted by: buzzion - Free Kratos at September 25, 2012 07:50 AM (GULKT)

95 Posted by: kbdabear at September 25, 2012 11:48 AM (wwsoB)

Ooooh, there's a ginger in there. You cut off her head! More ginger!

That one in front looks like she puts on her make-up with a trowel.

Posted by: Sean Bannion at September 25, 2012 07:50 AM (sbV1u)

96 Since NFL cheerleaders aren't union, thankfully we'll never have to discuss "replacement cheerleaders"

Posted by: kbdabear at September 25, 2012 07:50 AM (wwsoB)

101 -

Exactly, you can be a flying missile instead of needing to wrap your arms around a guy and drag him to the ground precisely because it usually doesn't hurt to launch yourself vertically into another human being at 30 MPH these days.

Usually. Until it does. And then, lawsuit, baby!

Posted by: BurtTC at September 25, 2012 07:50 AM (TOk1P)

I think the NFL should fire the striking refs, hire the replacement refs permanently (for less money and no union allowed), and make the new refs go through some intensive training.

Any old refs want to come back, they can... under the new rules. They'd be given the senior positions, as they would still be the most experienced and knowledgeable officials.

It's a bad situation all around, and I think that's the best way to salvage as much as possible from it.

Posted by: Eddie Willers at September 25, 2012 07:50 AM (bRdb3)

99 Speaking of replacement cheerleaders, I'm still waiting for the Chicago Honeybears to come back. It's been 27 years and the Blues Brothers shtick is wearing thin.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at September 25, 2012 07:51 AM (Ec6wH)

100

112 -

Horizontally, I meant. See, I don't even know which way is up! Probably from taking too many hits on this blog. That's it, I'm done with this place!!

Posted by: BurtTC at September 25, 2012 07:54 AM (TOk1P)

101

110 Since NFL cheerleaders aren't union, thankfully we'll never have to discuss "replacement cheerleaders"

Posted by: kbdabear at September 25, 2012 11:50 AM (wwsoB)

You're thinking about it all wrong man. You would want the replacement cheerleaders. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEXF78SREnM

Posted by: buzzion - Free Kratos at September 25, 2012 07:54 AM (GULKT)

102 110 Since NFL cheerleaders aren't union, thankfully we'll never have to discuss "replacement cheerleaders" I vote for pole dancers.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 25, 2012 07:54 AM (GFM2b)

103 Speaking of cheerleaders, if you go to the Saintsations (New Orleans cheerleaders) site and click on "Meet the team" the files load one at a time, so you get the messages, "Loading Caitlin", "Loading Lauren", etc.

I leave it to the Moron Horde to supply the inevitable punchlines.

Posted by: Sean Bannion at September 25, 2012 07:56 AM (sbV1u)

104 I vote for pole dancers. Posted by: rickb223 at September 25, 2012 11:54 AM (GFM2b) In spite of Keanau Reeves, I enjoyed "The Replacements."

Posted by: ErikW at September 25, 2012 07:57 AM (Ly3kt)

105 >>>sober, a few cocktails, or blind drunk?

2 beers.

Posted by: MikeTheMoose Regular! With Full Stomping Power! at September 25, 2012 07:58 AM (0q2P7)

106 I tend to disagree. I saw a guy on some late night show (could've been Carson, it's been a while) that was showing off this material he'd developed to replace the hard pads. He took a baseball bat to a shlub's shin that was covered in it, with no damage or pain. Safer, absolutely. Safe? Nope. Nothing in the world is perfectly safe and that seems to be what the NFL wants. The NFL wants a world in which that POS Ray Lewis can run full tilt at that other POS Tom Brady, lay him flat out and Brady bounces back up without a hair out of place. That's not possible.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD is on Team Alice at September 25, 2012 07:59 AM (VtjlW)

107 >>>>>My guess is that no matter how safe you make the equipment, players will outstrip it by hitting ever harder.
Exactly. The padding and the face protection is the problem.

You need protection that prevents the injury, but not the pain.

Posted by: MikeTheMoose Regular! With Full Stomping Power! at September 25, 2012 08:00 AM (0q2P7)

108 Posted by: lowandslow at September 25, 2012 11:43 AM (GZitp) Go shove a roto-rooter up your rectum.

Posted by: Brother Cavil presents at September 25, 2012 08:00 AM (GBXon)

109 118: There's not always much difference with the regulars...

Posted by: Brother Cavil presents at September 25, 2012 08:00 AM (GBXon)

110 I don't care if the current refs are replacements, in the union, or not.

What matters is that they're incompetent and haven't bothered learning NFL rules before taking the field.

Seriously- who doesn't know that you can't call for two more challenges after burning your last time out? The current replacement refs, that's who.

Where did they find these guys? Did the NFL troll middle school football games for refs who would work cheap?

Posted by: Hollowpoint at September 25, 2012 08:00 AM (SY2Kh)

111 that POS Ray Lewis can run full tilt at that other POS Tom Brady... Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD is on Team Alice at September 25, 2012 11:59 AM

Nice to know I'm not the only one who feels that way about Ray Lewis.

Posted by: Sean Bannion at September 25, 2012 08:01 AM (sbV1u)

112 What exactly do they pack annyway?

Posted by: Mc Queery at September 25, 2012 08:04 AM (xXhWA)

113 Nice to know I'm not the only one who feels that way about Ray Lewis.

Posted by: Sean Bannion at September 25, 2012 12:01 PM (sbV1u)

Its a feeling that's about as common as erections from Kate Upton around here.

Posted by: buzzion - Free Kratos at September 25, 2012 08:05 AM (GULKT)

114 111 Posted by: kbdabear at September 25, 2012 11:48 AM (wwsoB)

Ooooh, there's a ginger in there. You cut off her head! More ginger!

That one in front looks like she puts on her make-up with a trowel.
Posted by: Sean Bannion at September 25, 2012 11:50 AM

But what did you think of her elbows?

Posted by: kbdabear at September 25, 2012 08:18 AM (wwsoB)

115 The NFL should have trained the replacements better. They knew a strike was coming.

Posted by: Damn Sockpuppet at September 25, 2012 08:20 AM (YmPwQ)

116 Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a miserable failure.

Posted by: steevy at September 25, 2012 10:37 AM (6o4Fb)

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