" ROGERS ,  DISCOUNT DOUBLE CHECK" (grin)

APRTW wrote:

I am happy with the outcome of 3 out of 4 of the games.

Every team I rooted against this weekend won. Sort of. I started out rooting for Green Bay until the officials screwed the Giants when Jennings fumbled. How in the world do you look at that and say he was down?
At this point, I hope anyone but New England wins.

We had an odd Saturday night. My wife decided to invite "a few" people over to watch the game. Without telling me. Zach and I went to a basketball game in the early afternoon and got home in time to watch the start of the 49ers/Saints game. Whenever we have company, my wife makes these little pepperoni pizza snacks that are really good. But they're a mixed blessing, because whenever she makes these things, I know it's because she's atoning for something that's going to piss me off. So when we walked into the foyer and I smell pepperoni pizza, I know there's trouble.
My son is a Saints fan, so he's into the game, and people start arriving in the third quarter. Patriots fans who refer to the team as "we." A guy I can't stand anyway is wearing a replica Brady jersey. Now, I'm pretty much of the opinion that anyone who wears a Brady jersey is a closet sausage jockey anyway, but this guy barely conceals his undying love for Justin Beiber Sr. As the Saints/49ers game heads into the fourth quarter, everyone else in the room is rooting for San Francisco, because this jackass has come up with the hypothesis that Brees would be a much more formidable opponent than Alex Smith for the Patriots in the Super Bowl. It's not worth pointing out all the other variables to anyone who hasn't bothered to think these things through, of course, but my son is getting pissed because he's getting drowned out by people rooting against the team he wants to win in his own living room, and he's even pissier after the cheer that erupts when the 49ers score with six seconds left.
So he goes upstairs. And now I have to watch New England clobber Denver amongst a group of insufferable Patriots fans. By halftime, Zach and I are playing Wii Bowling, and my wife comes upstairs to complain to us that we're not being good hosts.

Last edited by artie_fufkin (1/16/2012 12:26 pm)

Jesus, you would think your wife has been married to you long enough to know better.  The only thing that might have been worse would have been inviting a bunch of Sawx fans to the house to watch Game 4 of the 2004 World Series.

I'm really hoping that between the Ravens and the winner of the NFC, one of these teams is able to repeat what the Giants pulled off in the Super Bowl.  After watching the Ravens game yesterday, I'm not convinced that Joe Flacco and company can muster enough offense to do the job.

"you would think your wife has been married to you long enough to know better."

You would, wouldn't you? The one thing she's cognizant about is not scheduling any sort of conflicts when the Cardinals or the Raiders are playing. She's pretty accustomed to me being useless in the 8-11 p.m. time slot on weeknights between April and October, and Sunday afternoons between 4-7 p.m. between Labor Day and New Year's, but I think she thinks she's allowed a little bit more liberty when there's some neutrality involved.
At least she didn't invite my MIL and her hen friends over yesterday. There are four or five of them who get together to watch the Patriots every week, but they mostly talk about American Idol. I just can't abide so-called "diehard" (and I hate that term anyway. Who dies harder than anyone else watching a damn football game?) fans who can only name three players on the team.

"I'm really hoping that between the Ravens and the winner of the NFC, one of these teams is able to repeat what the Giants pulled off in the Super Bowl.  After watching the Ravens game yesterday, I'm not convinced that Joe Flacco and company can muster enough offense to do the job."

Boomer Esiason had his weekly radio spot this morning on the local sports radio station and the hosts were already dismissing Flacco as a total chump. To his credit, Boomer said  Flacco is a little bit better than they were saying, but I think you're right. The Ravens are going to have to control the clock and get better mileage out of their running game than they did against Houston. Of course, Houston's defense is lot better than New England's. Rice may have the same type of day he had against the Patriots the last time they met in the playoffs.
Of the NFC teams, San Francisco is probably a better bet to take down New England. The Giants just can't run the ball consistently enough to keep Brady off the field.