Monday, January 17, 2005

By The Pigskin Of Our Teeth, Division Edition: Double Your Digits, Double Your Fun

YOU ARE LOOKING LIVE at The Big Ketchup Dispenser. What's that about Ben's thumb? Comedy is hearing Dick Enberg say "geeked up". It was on the punt return where the official blew out his hammy or whatever happened to him, right? Dude just tripped and fell. Is it my imagination or has Ben been awful so far? The playoffs are a whole different beast. And Ben's day just got worse. What WAS that? Despite all this, the Jets still need another score and they're not getting it. This is the Steelers' M.O. - chewing up yards and time on the ground. Tie game! Oooh, big catch by McCareins there. I don't know about this, folks. HE HIT THE CROSSBAR! HE HIT THE CROSSBAR! We weren't sure what it hit at first; the crossbar or the post.

Now... holy crap, what was THAT? That was terrible. They're gonna get another shot. Now THERE'S a stat - that "longest opposing field goal in Heinz Field history." Who dug that up? And with that in mind, why aren't you trying to get closer? He missed AGAIN? Are you shitting me? (Well, no... he's really not that good.) That's "Nick Anderson at the end of Game 1 of the '95 Finals" bad. Did anyone catch Pennington looking at the coin before the OT flip? Some study said that 71% of coin flips land on the side that was up before the coin was tossed. I think Reed's got a little more ice water in his veins than Kaeding did. And with that, Doug Brien's thoroughly mediocre career should come to an end.

Line Of The Weekend: "I'm not going to say it was a miracle, because that's crippled people getting up and walking, the blind seeing. But that's the closest thing to it I've ever seen." - Larry Foote, Steelers linebacker

Moose is absolutely right - that's the last thing the Rams wanted to see to start the game. Vick's even fast in slow motion. What, another Kevin Curtis sighting? Nobody realizes that Dunn rushed for over 1100 yards this season. You can't ignore him like that. Did anyone even touch him on the second touchdown? How exactly do you leave Holt wide open like that? That's an odd formation to set up in for a punt. Ah, so that's why "special teams" were being mentioned so often in pre-game. You get the feeling it's over? OMG A PEERLESS PRICE SIGHTING. Now it's definitely over.

I don't know, folks; they don't look rusty to me. Of course, it helps that the Vikings' corners are playing off these guys like they're Duper and Clayton or something. Holy crap! Mitchell actually did something! You can sort of tell already that Moss isn't going to be effective - if he has to stop to catch the ball, he's not getting started again. How Mitchell caught that and the three Vikings in front of him didn't I'll never know. That's just confirmation that yeah, it's gonna be your day. One description of the FUBAR fake field goal: "This turned into a Chinese fire drill." And they should've just kicked the damn thing in the first place. That was basically the equivalent of Culpepper fumbling at the 1 in the first game. That second interception to Trotter was Evil Favre-esque, it was so bad. This, of course, was the easy part.

What the HELL? Is this LIVE? That wasn't in the forecast! The Colts desperately need to score first to have a chance, and that's not gonna happen when you're dropping passes like that, which these guys don't do. You know this is the first good team Dillon's played on in about 10 years? What's saving the Colts right now is that the Pats aren't getting touchdowns, either. What's hurting them is that Peyton isn't getting any help from anyone. Then the Patriots just played keep-away and didn't let the Colts' offense back onto the field. They only had the ball for 37 minutes? It seemed like a lot longer.

You get the feeling that if Peyton wasn't a peace-loving man, he'd be in a clock tower right about now? You sort of have to feel for him at this point (unless you're a Pats fan, of course) because you know he'd give the record back if he could beat these guys just once. The Pats did it to him again. But the Pats do this to a lot of people.

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