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[94ssd]

Go Buckeyes!

[94ssd]

Welp, The Buckeyes lost. We had such a great run and it got messed up in the last two games. It was fun to watch though, I love a good offensive slugfest.

On the news they're talking about the Packers-49ers games possibly being the coldest NFL game ever. Call me a literal fair-weather fan, but if I had tickets to see my team and the forecast temperature was 20 below, I'd stay home.

[LookingIn]

Welp, The Buckeyes lost. We had such a great run and it got messed up in the last two games. It was fun to watch though, I love a good offensive slugfest.

On the news they're talking about the Packers-49ers games possibly being the coldest NFL game ever. Call me a literal fair-weather fan, but if I had tickets to see my team and the forecast temperature was 20 below, I'd stay home.

20 below? Did the weather shift for the worse? I was reading that it was going to be about -5 or so, still about five to 10 degrees warmer than the Ice Bowl in '67...the record low temp for a game.

[94ssd]

Welp, The Buckeyes lost. We had such a great run and it got messed up in the last two games. It was fun to watch though, I love a good offensive slugfest.

On the news they're talking about the Packers-49ers games possibly being the coldest NFL game ever. Call me a literal fair-weather fan, but if I had tickets to see my team and the forecast temperature was 20 below, I'd stay home.

20 below? Did the weather shift for the worse? I was reading that it was going to be about -5 or so, still about five to 10 degrees warmer than the Ice Bowl in '67...the record low temp for a game.

The forecast low is down to -22. Because the game is being played in the late afternoon, it could definitely break the Ice Bowl record.

[mustang6172]

I hope the refs have plastic whistles this time.

[LookingIn]

Welp, The Buckeyes lost. We had such a great run and it got messed up in the last two games. It was fun to watch though, I love a good offensive slugfest.

On the news they're talking about the Packers-49ers games possibly being the coldest NFL game ever. Call me a literal fair-weather fan, but if I had tickets to see my team and the forecast temperature was 20 below, I'd stay home.

20 below? Did the weather shift for the worse? I was reading that it was going to be about -5 or so, still about five to 10 degrees warmer than the Ice Bowl in '67...the record low temp for a game.

The forecast low is down to -22. Because the game is being played in the late afternoon, it could definitely break the Ice Bowl record.

Oh %*@^ that is going to be cold...that'll break it, shatter it, obliterate it! I really pity the fans there....there is being a fan and then there is being simply foolish- your health before your superstitions, spirit, support etc.

[LookingIn]

I hope the refs have plastic whistles this time.

...that joke comes up all the time, I don't think they have used metal in extreme cold games since one of them almost lost his lips and tongue in the Ice Bowl.

[Patrick]

in those situations, why in the actual fuck do they even bother playing in an outdoor venue?

[jwhouk]

I don't know, you're the one with the NFL team that played its games for the last 40 years in the coldest place in the Bay Area.

[94ssd]

in those situations, why in the actual fuck do they even bother playing in an outdoor venue?

Because weather is part of the game. I despise the rise of indoor stadiums.

[BeoPuppy]

Nothing better than that huge winterwonderland snowstorm slidefest we got to witness in week ... 15? Brilliant.

[jwhouk]

Beo, where I come from we call that "Tuesday."

[BeoPuppy]

Where I come from we call that: that one time when I was very little and my parents came to get me out of bed because there was a huge amount of snow in the backgarden and we got to play in it at midnight because, my parents figured, it might be gone in the morning.

Tuesday is shorter.

[Patrick]

in those situations, why in the actual fuck do they even bother playing in an outdoor venue?

Because weather is part of the game. I despise the rise of indoor stadiums.

There's weather and then there's suicide. Even Tauntauns, native to Hoth, freeze to death.

[mustang6172]

in those situations, why in the actual fuck do they even bother playing in an outdoor venue?

Bad weather makes everything more intense.

[Patrick]

except boners.

[94ssd]

in those situations, why in the actual fuck do they even bother playing in an outdoor venue?

Because weather is part of the game. I despise the rise of indoor stadiums.

There's weather and then there's suicide. Even Tauntauns, native to Hoth, freeze to death.

Look at the famous "Ice Bowl" and last week's wildcard game in Green Bay. Another good example is the Michigan-Ohio State "Snow Bowl." No players died, all 3 were exciting, down-to-the-wire games. Might be hard on the players and spectators, but I'd take a game where the weather is a major factor over one in a climate-controlled dome any day.

[GarandMarine]

I have this mental picture of football players being shoved inside gutted tauntauns for warmth while they aren't on the field playing. It is hilarious.

[mustang6172]

except boners.

You speak as someone who's never pleasured himself in a thunderstorm.

[LookingIn]

I have this mental picture of football players being shoved inside gutted tauntauns for warmth while they aren't on the field playing. It is hilarious.

...that's not too far from the truth.

[Akima]

On a work trip to the USA in December 2005, my hosts took me to a Bears game at Soldier Field. Until that day, I thought American Football was entirely played on plastic grass under domes. Huddled in an oversized borrowed padded coat, I learned that was not so, but at least it only snowed lightly...

[GarandMarine]

Daaaaaaaaaaaa Bears

[mustang6172]

I tried watching cricket once.  The match had to be stopped because it was too cloudy.

It wasn't raining, just cloudy.

[94ssd]

I tried watching cricket once.  The match had to be stopped because it was too cloudy.

It wasn't raining, just cloudy.

It can't be played when it's cloudy? How did this sport become popular in England, then?

[94ssd]

Steve Smith says 89 percent chance he will play

Wide receiver Steve Smith predicted himself to be at 61 percent Friday after downgrading himself to 57 percent Thursday.

He said there is an 89 percent chance he will play on Sunday vs. the 49ers.

[GarandMarine]

[ChaoSera]

It took me a while but I got that one! I'm a little proud of myself right now.

[LookingIn]

Big game coming up on Sunday for my favorite NFL team and I am in rival team's territory during it...

[BeoPuppy]

[Blue Kitty]

Seahawks vs Broncos, place your bets!

[jwhouk]

Seattle by a last minute TD.

[BeoPuppy]

Well that sucked.

[LookingIn]

Bleeping bleeping bleep bleep. Watched one to games during dinner and had to hear a train conductor gloating on the way home(which was idiotic, he was a fan of a crappy team)

[Patrick]

Bay Area kid or not, I don't care about the 49ers losing yesterday, football isn't my thing. I have no respect for Sherman's unsportsmanlike attitude, or that of the NFL as a whole. but he has done one thing that I simply cannot abide.



OH FUCKIN HELL NO YOU DID NOT, SON

[jwhouk]

15 days, no contact with the team. Have a nice vacation, Torts.

[mustang6172]

Pull up a chair and watch British people describe the Super Bowl.

http://screen.yahoo.com/buzzfeed/happens-ask-british-people-describe-160830226.html

[LookingIn]

I thought that was what they did with the BBC feed due to the restrictions on adverts 

[Patrick]

15 days, no contact with the team. Have a nice vacation, Torts.

see, the NHL knows how to handle poor sportsmanship.

I can't wait to watch the commercials tomorrow, and hopefully see Seattle cry (I kinda have a personal thing against very nearly the entire population of Washington state as a whole, with exactly 7 exceptions I can name). the only thing that leaves me torn is my insatiable thirst for Manning tears.

[BeoPuppy]

So, whoever loses ... you win!

[jwhouk]

There are always three things I root for in a Super Bowl:

1. A shutout game.
2. An overtime game.
3. A punt return for a touchdown.

The reason is simple: none of the three have ever happened in the 48 years the NFL has been doing this Super Bowl thingy.

[BeoPuppy]

Maybe tonight. I can't wait.

[94ssd]

My reaction to the Super Bowl pretty much since the Panthers were eliminated.

[BeoPuppy]

And that with a crying avatar ...

Were you impressed by Cam Newton this season?

[cesium133]

There are always three things I root for in a Super Bowl:

1. A shutout game.
2. An overtime game.
3. A punt return for a touchdown.

The reason is simple: none of the three have ever happened in the 48 years the NFL has been doing this Super Bowl thingy.

So your ideal would be a game that goes 0-0 into overtime, and then is won by a punt return for a touchdown?

[ChaoSera]

You gotta admit, that would be a pretty glorious game. Every single field goal could decide the game at any time. Talk about tension.

[LookingIn]

There are always three things I root for in a Super Bowl:

1. A shutout game.
2. An overtime game.
3. A punt return for a touchdown.

The reason is simple: none of the three have ever happened in the 48 years the NFL has been doing this Super Bowl thingy.

Wit
So your ideal would be a game that goes 0-0 into overtime, and then is won by a punt return for a touchdown?

The only person who would enjoy that more would be Scott Norwood- finally someone to take the attention away from his missed kick!

[GarandMarine]

[Jimor]

Whoa, wild ending to the basketball game at my former school (and still just down the street from me).

[mustang6172]

There are always three things I root for in a Super Bowl:

1. A shutout game.
2. An overtime game.
3. A punt return for a touchdown.

The reason is simple: none of the three have ever happened in the 48 years the NFL has been doing this Super Bowl thingy.

There has also never been a fair catch free kick in the Super Bowl.  It almost happened at the end of the game last year, but the 49ers decided to return the safety kick.

I don't know of any short field goals returned for a touchdown (as was the case in this year's Iron Bowl).

The 1958 NFL Championship game ended in overtime, but that was in the pre-Super Bowl era.

[jwhouk]

...Do you know how many fair catch free kicks there have been in the NFL - PERIOD? Off the top of my head, I think there's only been a dozen total.

EDIT: My bad. 22 total attempts since 1933; only five were good. Phil Dawson of the San Francisco 49ers was the last to attempt one, back in September against the Saint Louis Rams. The kick went wide left, and the Rams returned it out of the end zone - but for only nine yards, and no time on the clock.