oh no im no way ready for betting yet. i usually bet on skill and not chance so until i become skillfull at betting the spread point i ain't getting anywhere near a bookie

the scary part is even with the limited playing time, nearly every game sees players injured, and some crippled, and nearly every game has someone suffer a season ending injury.

I mean, we had one week of football, 16 games.
these injuries have already occurres, and these ar ejust the big ones to "name" players

2 hard concussions, torn tricep muscles, torn anterior cruciate ligaments, separated shoulder, torn bicep muscles and tendon, ripped ACL and partially torn MCL (one of my texans), severe high ankle sprain and muscle tear, rotator cuff tear, etc.

it is an honest question to ask, and many reporters have asked it, whether american football is too violent to the players, whether we are asking too much as fans to have these men debilitate themselves to entertain us.

It is a tough question for me, a lifelong football fanatic, who played as a kid and messed my back/neck/knees up in ways I am just starting to feel now as I hit near 40 yrs old.

for all the violence and hitting and rough play in australian rules footbal, in rugby league, etc., the amount of damage inflicted on the opponents is nowhere near the carnage that a 16 game NFL season inflicts on it's players.

I try to enjoy the game as much as I can because the day may come when it is seem as purely barbaric, like many countries see bullfighting, and they may decide to be rid of football once and for all...

NFL Network does this thing where they replay games in 30 minutes. It is just cut and edited down to plays.... pretty much from snap to whistle. It has it's commercials so minus 10 or 12 minutes for those and all you've got is less than 20 minutes. Not to mention some of the edited footage includes replays and dialogue. Occasionally they will jump forward a couple plays, but those would have been stuffed runs or incomplete passes anyway - short plays.

It's really cool to see it like that, but after a while it get's really hard to follow. It's just non-stop coming at you. I like it though.

Same as baseball - probably the sport with the most idle, standing around time. Then you have basketball which is non-stop but extremely repetitive in a very confined space. Same as soccer and hockey, non-stop moving, but lack's in variety.... maybe sports are just pretty dumb all together.

dumb but fun, kind of like a Dead Milkmen concert

Rugby League is for monkeys. NFL is a padded version rugby but you throw forward. But AFL is an amazing sport and NFL or NRL put together comes nowhere near AFL!

ughh Chicago needs a new OL

so is Chicago!

If I am the Texans owners I fire Kubiak today. He will absolutely screw this team in the end. His decisions in OT cost them the game.... almost. Love my guy Matt Schaub. Great comeback but Kubiak isn't the guy to take them to the big one.

Love Miami at 2-0 talk about a bunch of grinders. Everybody in the division talks about the Jets and Patriots as the bosses of the division don't be surprised to see the Dolphins spoil the party.

Steelers 2-0 without Ben, very interesting.

As for the injuries the way these guys use their helmets as a weapon is huge, the speed these days plus every team seems to have a cheapshot artist looking to end someone's career. The days of Buddy Ryan's bounties are still here they're just hidden in the closet.

I agree on all your points except waiting. The window of opportunity to win it all is small and I believe that you need to maximize your chances when you have a chance. The Jets will also have their hands full with Miami should be a slugfest.

MNF in one week. 2-0 TEXANS against the 0-2 COWBUMS, and it is in HOuston.

OH SO EXCITED


did anyone else watch that goddamn melee brawl thatw as the TENN/PITT game? I cannot believe more people were not hurt in that one.

VIOLENT

Nope up here in the NE we got to watch Miami/Vikings because the Dolphins are in the same division as the Pats and of course we got to hear the crying fest that is Joe Buck & Troy Aikeman. Talk about a pair of bias announcers.
To listen to them you'd think that they were Dallas' personal announcing team.

I HATE JOE BUCK in all aspects and to a lesser extent Troy Aikman.

Joe Buck is a baseball announcer. His cadence and tone are terrible for football. They are more suite to the pastoral borefest that is most of the 168 baseball games each team plays every season.

chicka, that is a shame man, because that PITT/TEN game was fucking insane.

Troy Polamalu, with his defense backed up against their goal-line, and TENN about to run it in, guessed the snap count and guessed a QB sneak and just lept directly over the O-line as the ball was snapped, all airborne, and landed directly on Kerry Collins, stopping him behind the line of scrimmage. best DEF play I have EVER seen, and it is a shame no one has seen it.

let me look on youtube before the NFL takes it away.

LOOK. amazing play.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DyzASDVpwU

thanks! My confusion!!!

i didn't get a chance to watch a lot this weekend.

flipping channels to see 2 games at the same time was very confusing, especially in the morning

i was happy that the cowpatties got destroyed though.

then i had to go out.

I was pretty upset about two Tom Brady interceptions, especially after the RIDONCULOUS td pass to RAAAAANDY!

I knew the Jets would be dangerous this year.

hey, that's kerry collins fault man! still an AMAZING defensive play.

I'm a fan of the Western Bulldogs (FFC).

eat fuck.

11 is a weird football score.


so is 19 actually.

holy fuck! I just had to watch 3 times.

it is a smart play because if he is "offsides" then the ball just moves up halfway to goal.

Just so people now know...Sidney Rice made Brett Favre last year. This
season that fuckface hick is being exposed for the washed-up, rampaging
shit-sack he truly deeply madly is.

sorry, i don't know enough about the players yet-- who is the fuckface hick? favre or sidney rice? (sorry)

favre was painful to watch, so i'll assume you mean him

Yes, Favre. Tis he who has been exposed. His time has come and the clock
is broken. Without Sidney Rice to throw to, he is but a shell of the superstar hick he once was.

oh, i see.

i tried watching peterson btw. he's good! but they got him didn't they?

Peterson is basically their entire offense right now--so other teams will
be all over him, every play.

Mind you, he should have gotten a TD on that big 4th down play at the
goal line. The Dolphins defense is nowhere near that good. It's that
the Vikes have no other viable option in the running game. Or the passing
game. Or the game, period. GRR.

Matt Shaub knocks on Tony Romo's door.

Shaub: Knock Knock

...Romo: Who's there?

Shaub: Owen...

Romo: Owen who?
...

Shaub: Owen 3 Bitch!

 

good knock knock joke there Rob. Please Jenn you can hate Farve all you want but to give Rice all the credit for last year is just blind hatred. Farve had a great year last year except for one lousy pass in OT. He looks like he doesn't want to play this year, if the Vikings had let him retire I believe he would have. He's still one of my all time favorite players going back to his days at Mississippi State but unfortunately it's beginning to look like he hung on one year to many. Miami stuff ADP because his blockers were out to lunch. Looks like Miami vs. Jets is the game to watch this week. I'd love to watch Dallas/Houston unfortunately the Patriots vs. the Bills is on at the same time. Thanks to the fact that I get the Patriots stuffed down my throat every week I drafted Wes Welker in the first/second round as I drafted last in my league a 12 teamer league. I really got luck that Matt Forte is off to a great start as 5 people went autopick and the RB got sucked up like no tomorrow. I was hoping to get Foster or Best in the 3rd or 4th but they never made it back to me. Thanks to auto picking some folks ended up with 3 RB in their first 4 picks.

Great play by TP thanks for the youtube pointer.

No, I'm not giving Rice ALL the credit--I don't dislike Favre THAT much.
Would have actually liked him for the first time ever without that INT of
Doom, though...

Brett favre has never ever been a real locker-room leader. he leads by example, and the last two years the example has been "I am better than the team. I am worth more than the team. I do not need to practice or come to training camp or even be up front with my management and team ownership."


Favre is one of the best to play QB, but he is also one of the most frustrating "great" players ever.
and the season is still early yet. however, last year all the pieces fell into place and Favre had the benefit of the WR's and peterson and a quality O-line.
most anyone could have and would have a "career" year playing with those cats.

something about him does not strike me as right. he is a multi millionair hick. he claims to still be country but from what I have read, he does not have many friends in Mississippi where he lives. I think he alienated a lot of people throughout his life.
then he alienated several million Packer faithful by actively seeking employment with the goddamn ENEMY.
while I am no packer fan nor a Viking fan, I respect rivalry, and I respect athletes who stick by the teams that got them where they are. busienss is business, but Favre going to vikings was all about payback, not business.

Texans/Packers Super Bowl, in Big D!

not quite.

damn, the cowpokes played really good offense during the time i watched

Houston was befuzzled the entire game.

Vikings won! AP with 2 scores, including an 80 yard beauty.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mG8ptmNkAJQ AP's 80 yard run

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6pKIj87CYA AP humiliates Cleveland

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kd_62tLlpZU AP the tank

The jets can suck it.

the cowboys "had to" win and the Texans sucked it hard. they played with little of the aggressiveness evident in their first 2 weeks.

Cowboys had to win and the Texans weren't ready for the intensity the Cowboys were bring. A great team, a team that has been there before would have been. I like the Texans but the more I see of them the more I'm convinced that they aren't ready to take the next step. As much as I laid into Kubiak last week, it isn't all his fault he hasn't been there either.
They need to hire a guy like Parcells who's been there before. Unfortunately I got to watch the Pats/Bills then my 4:00 choices Eagles/Jags or Colts/Broncos woopie what a suck market I live in.
Oh well at least the Man City vs. Chelsea was an exciting game this weekend.

BTW St Louis laid one on Washington taking some of the luster off the great comeback last week. Hopefully tonight's game lives up to the hype.

ok yes but look at this!

http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=5620099

daaaaaamn. i actually saw that live and i didn't believe it until the replay.

99? 101? i've heard different versions.

The first score was 101 yards, the second 99.

Nice to see Seattle off to a good start. Course that division is trash...

i think Seattle will end up winning but thats only because the other 3 are that much worse in my opinion.

anyways, i hope rex ryan gets attacked by pitbulls.