OT: MNF Open Thread
Just off the wire: Favre is inactive for first ever.
With the chaos that was the ticket giveaway at Ford Field, coupled with the Vikings poor performance as of late, Giants/Vikes may get ugly quickly. True attention should be paid to the Texans/Ravens game as Baltimore's defense has been quite short of intimidating while Houston hasn't moved the ball as effectively as they want. Huge playoff (for those from Michigan, those are the things after game 16) implications in both games, though...
In honor of Favre, though... play him away Piano Cat!
December 13th, 2010 at 5:57 PM ^
I live a mile away, damn you con law II final.
December 13th, 2010 at 6:00 PM ^
December 13th, 2010 at 6:09 PM ^
As a Giants fan I'm disappointed by this. I don't know what Jackson brings to the table but I know what Favre does and it doesn't scare me these days. I was lookng forward to his limping and picks.
December 13th, 2010 at 6:11 PM ^
December 13th, 2010 at 6:14 PM ^
Fuck the Ravens.
And fuck finals for not allowing me to work the game. MNF is the best game of the year. People hit happy hour early in the afternoon, show up in force to the tailgates to drink even heavier.
I seriously had a woman ask me where the stadium was while standing directly across the street, her looking at me with Reliant Stadium towering over my shoulders. After telling her, she tried to walk away, but her left foot never moved, causing her to walk in 3/4 of a circle. She ran into a guy and then asked him where the stadium was.
It was awesome.
December 13th, 2010 at 6:14 PM ^
can you figure out why that image is blowing up outside of 400x300 despite me coding it properly?
December 13th, 2010 at 6:17 PM ^
Caught it on the way out. Stupid new editor is stupid. Easily fixed in the plain editor.
Good luck tonight gents. As for me, it's a night of exciting probability and statistics for engineers followed by construction management and finances!
December 13th, 2010 at 6:15 PM ^
Or, more correctly, bubis.
December 13th, 2010 at 6:30 PM ^
+1 for blue-footed boobies and/or Galapagos reference
December 13th, 2010 at 6:28 PM ^
When Brett Favre made his first start in this streak:
Prince Charles and Princess Diana were still together
Sinead O'Connor had not yet ripped up a photo of Pope John Paul II on Saturday Night Live
Jay Leno had been host of the Tonight Show for about four months
Our football coach was Gary Moeller
A good portion of our current secondary were less than a year old...
December 13th, 2010 at 7:20 PM ^
Just came across ESPN botom line...BG out for season from yesterdays knee injury.
December 13th, 2010 at 7:33 PM ^
Is the vikings game televised?
December 13th, 2010 at 7:35 PM ^
Only in local markets and on directv sunday ticket
December 13th, 2010 at 7:37 PM ^
December 13th, 2010 at 9:05 PM ^
Houston has to be the worst tackling team in the NFL. They're terrible.
December 13th, 2010 at 9:14 PM ^
Reminds me of a certain college team I follow. The flaws of my two teams are so eerily similar on defense. And WR drops.
December 13th, 2010 at 9:30 PM ^
As I was typing that post I was thinking that exact same thing.
December 13th, 2010 at 9:29 PM ^
I watched that vid of the cat, and thought about how dumb it was. Then I just saw it on a commerical during this game. Plus 1 to you sir! I still think it's dumb, but someone liked it enough to fly the cat and owner into a studio and pay them to shoot a commercial. Nice.
December 13th, 2010 at 10:29 PM ^
it's a popular internet item from roughly a year ago. the video was shot like 5-7 yrs ago and randomly went viral. the cat is long dead.
December 13th, 2010 at 9:50 PM ^
..who knew.
December 13th, 2010 at 10:04 PM ^
Did the Texan receivers all soak their gloves in butter before the game?
EDIT: OMG ANDRE JOHNSON WOOOOO FANTASY FOOTBALL TEAM SOMEONE MADE A CATCH
December 13th, 2010 at 10:19 PM ^
This is killing me. At least Andre got the touchdown. I started him and Boldin over Mason. So close to putting Mason in before the game just because he's going up against the Texans defense. Regretting putting him on the bench for Boldin... so far.
/Texans-secondary-lighter-fluid-soaked-inferno
December 13th, 2010 at 10:23 PM ^
I'm going to send someone to your house to make sure you're still alive after this game.
December 13th, 2010 at 10:27 PM ^
Shit ain't nothing. We've lost 5 games in the last 2 minutes this season, including 3 where we had the lead going into that. If we're not batting passes right into WR's hands on hail mary break ups, missing field goals, throwing a pick to set up a game winning touchdown, giving them the ball back with 40 seconds and 70 yards to score a winning TD with no time, or something more ridiculous, I'm numb.
December 13th, 2010 at 10:12 PM ^
Tavarius has looked just as good Drew.
December 13th, 2010 at 10:17 PM ^
for both games looks about the same. The Vikings are going to have a long trip back and they have stunk.
The Lions have not been on MNF since 2001. If the NFL looks at this game, they might not award another for 10 more years.
December 13th, 2010 at 11:35 PM ^
We will score the TD, but miss the 2-pt conversion. We haven't lost that way yet.
December 13th, 2010 at 11:44 PM ^
negged for posting a funny song? Y'all need to lighten up, hear?
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Wow! What a great pass and catch - I hope Hou wins in overtime!
December 13th, 2010 at 11:45 PM ^
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
ANDRE
PLEASE DONT RETURN THE KICK
December 13th, 2010 at 11:57 PM ^
on third down. The roof will blow off this place if they can drive down and score...
December 13th, 2010 at 11:59 PM ^
Aw fuck
December 14th, 2010 at 12:00 AM ^
ouch. Maybe some Flight of the Conchords will help your pain?
December 14th, 2010 at 12:08 AM ^
A team as bi-polar as Houston. If this NFL season doesn't end soon, we're going to be down another mod.
December 14th, 2010 at 12:11 AM ^
A MOTHER FUCKING WALK OFF PICK SIX ON MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL AND THE FIRST 5 BITS ON ESPN ARE BRETT "SHOULD BE PLAYING IN THE UFL" FAVRE. ESPN, GO FUCK YOUR LEBRON-FAVRE LOVING ASSES.
/mlive-level-comment
December 14th, 2010 at 12:16 AM ^
The worst part of all of this is that there's a 30 minute segment on Favre to open SportsCenter.