AFC Championship Game Open Thread

Submitted by Moleskyn on

This can serve as an open thread, but I'm really starting it to see if anyone else is streaming the game via CBS's website, and is getting the Spanish broadcast of the game. 

Go Tom Brady.

OccaM

January 18th, 2015 at 7:15 PM ^

Going back through Brady's time here... I really think UM would have had a shot at the National Title instead of the Orange Bowl in the 99 season if Brady was the permanent starter. Henson single handedly screwed up that MSU game. With that game being a W, Illinois would be the only question mark that season... 

Sigh... 

Bando Calrissian

January 18th, 2015 at 7:26 PM ^

Henson dumps baseball, focuses on football, and comes back for another year at Michigan, he's an NFL quarterback. Would have been a top 10 pick for sure.

Instead, he picks the sport where he had less upside, takes the Steinbrenner money, bats his weight in AAA, and by the time he gets back to football, he hasn't taken a snap in something like four years. Busted potential in two sports instead of one.

Brady's ascendance has been phenomenal. But to use it to say Henson wasn't also a great quarterback back then, with arguably more potential in context, is sheer revisionism. If you had told anyone in 1999 Brady would be what he is in 2015, I guarantee 100% of respondents would never have believed it.

And for that matter, you see all the time that a great college QB's potential in the pros is almost always unpredictable. For every Brady who makes good from zero expectations, you have a Tim Couch, Brady Quinn, Ryan Leaf, Tim Tebow, etc. etc. etc.

OccaM

January 18th, 2015 at 8:31 PM ^

I'm not scorning you for seeking knowledge. I value knowledge as well or else I wouldn't be in med school.

I'm shaking my head at you for not being able to use a simple Google search to look up the plot of a video game instead of making false comments in your usual uppity literal fashion on a sports blog. 

Lighten up b

SalvatoreQuattro

January 18th, 2015 at 8:49 PM ^

The fact that I was negged for not knowing that is what irritated me. It's a video game.It's not something a person ought to know.People getting "uppity" about another being ignorant of a video game is amusing and sad at the sametime.

Edit: Defending ignorance makes you look bad. It slightly frightens me that you are seeking to be a doctor.

OccaM

January 18th, 2015 at 9:05 PM ^

The guy you responded to had the origin of the picture in the title. A simple Google search would help you answer that. Common sense. Who's being ignorant? Even when people help you out with the context, you reply with snark. Smh. 

For a dude who likes to show off his intellectual prowess, you sure are street dumb.

I'll note down your worries somewhere. No big deal. 

gopoohgo

January 18th, 2015 at 9:23 PM ^

I'm an MGoDoctor too, and am a few Latin credits away from a 3rd major in Classical Archaeology.

I'm not negging you for not knowing about a video game, I'm negging your attitude such as "Defending ignorance makes you look bad."

YOU are the guy who did not get the original photoshop reference, and got pissy about the explanation.

Mr. Yost

January 18th, 2015 at 7:34 PM ^

Dude why would you say "screw Tom Brady" on a Michigan website.

You deserve everything you get.

I don't even care that you want the Colts to win, I don't even like the NFL like that. But the fact that you say "screw Tom Brady" while on MGoBlog makes me wish bad things on you. However, I'll settle for a huge negbomb and hope for Bolivia.