I see Palace are advertising learning American Football skills at the friendly on friday night, I doubt hardly anyone will be there though. On another note Luol Deng of the Bulls is going to be there, Tony.

ditto :)

Guess where I'm not tonight. :sob:

That was an ass kicking, last night. Peyton's good.

indeed, glad i went with my head and not heart by picking the colts.

absolutely turded on them. Puts a spanner in a lot of peoples works who said that the colts would struggle to do well this year

Nookie and I had the first half of our sports double header last night, Red Sox @ Orioles over at Camden Yards.

The Red Sox are supposed to be the best team in baseball. Wouldn't you know it: I go see them for the first time and they do an admirable impression of Crystal Palace, making silly errors in the field, pitching terribly, and allowing some Oriole Cookie who'd never managed an MLB hit before to cream a grand slam off Matzusaka (who was shocking, by the way). Final score 11-5, though Nookie - who's taken to supporting B'more to spite me - was happy.

Off to Dophins @ Redskins for some tailgateage in about an hour. Come on Miami!

Sooooooooooooooooo jealous.

I'll keep an eye out for you tonight.

Nor me :sob:

Fins game on the interactive Sky coverage.

Looks like a great day in DC. To say I'm envious of Ben and Nookiebear right now is an understatement.

Perhaps more so of Nookiebear. The Fins have just gone three and out on their first series.

Interception... and a high-five from my daughter. :lux:

Please ignore my post on the previous page about how good the Fins might be and how Wes Welker doesn't score many touchdowns. :clown:

And at this point... 50% of people in fantasy footall are just realizing they drafted a shit team. :)

You're making your daughter watch the fins? She'll be scarred for life!!!! ;)

Worst game ever...

Are you stuck watching Pittsburgh & Cleveland, too?

Fish...Far worse.

Our receivers are turd.

The OL isn't much better.
She's been wearing Palace sleepsuits since birth, she's scarred already. :cool:

Interesting that Saban's two #1 picks are getting limited time. Ronnie Brown seems to be mainly backing up Jesse Chatman, while Jason Allen's slipped as far down to just be the gunner on punt coverage.

BTW, why did we let Jones go? He was probably my favourite ever punter.

You have a QB from Indiana University. What do you expect? Surely not points?

You know, when OJ Simpson took that now famous ride in the white Bronco, he was heading to Bloomington, Indiana.... to Indiana University, because no one would ever look for a football player there.

Is Ginn returning punts or anything?

Yeh.

With chatman on kicks too.

Jason Allen is not very good.


And I liked Jones too. He had character (and a few unnesc roughness penalties)

Who put together that Auburn roomates thing? Chatman went to Eastern Washington!

Ronnie went to Auburn didn't he?

I preferred the joke that Thurman Thomas was a suspect, but then a Super Bowl ring was found at the scene. :D

Yes, but that clip didn't have any footage of Ronnie in it!

That was a great Auburn team by the way.

At least you are not a cleveland fan.

I think Brady quinn could be on very soon. Charlie Frye has spent more time on his back than a first rate hooker

Right... I see the problem.

Youtube has failed me. :(

I know. I had trouble too. Evidently he led all the team talks as well!

This is a good drive though. (touches wood, crosses fingers, etc.)

Get Ronnie in, and over the pile.

:D Nice.

Cleveland backup QB (not Quinn) is on...

Bad clock management, should have had three tries at the end zone here.

Get in!

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Go Cam!

I'm not used to having a coach who doesn't play safety first.

It's because he's so used to playing from behind and chasing the game. ;)

You know... when he was at IU. They suck. Really bad. HAven't ben good for years. etc etc :D

This cheerleader dancing + naff music combination on the Sky interactive coverage is beginning to do my head in.

BTW, my other prediction for this season was for the Patriots' season to be derailed by a Brady injury. He's avoided injury so far in his career, I just have a hunch this might happen for some reason this year.

My hope was that he's seen enough of what Marty did with leads to be too defensive.

I thought your hatred of ex IU coaches extended to ones who wore sweaters? ;)

Does that go along with your fins and wes welker predictions?

6th sack on cleveland in the first half. all by different players

IU ex coaches :grrr:

IU ex coaches with sweaters :veryangry :veryangry :bash:

:D

Yes, and then whoever QBs the winning team in the Super Bowl will start going out with Bridget Moynihan, dropping Brady down to the "bad guy in a bad teen movie" role. ;)

Wow, the one score in the Falcons-Vikings game is an interception return for a TD. Who'da thunk it?

Yeah, but our one loves your Purdue boy, Drew Brees.

http://www2.itap.purdue.edu/periodic...s/BreesTD.jpeg

:love: :love:

I can only hope to ever see a QB as good as him in a Purdue Uniform again.

I've read Bill Cowher and Boomer Esiason are getting on well. You seen any of it?

Lots of banter going on in there. Watched a fair bit of it.

No I watched ESPN for the two hours before kickoff. Didn't pay attention at HT, I was too busy worrying that both my fantasy teams are crap and looking for Free Agent pickups and trades...

I hope Jason didn't see that last feature clip. :D

I didn't What did they show?

Fins running game is struggling badly.

Errm, nothing. :cool:

Cam pussies out. 4th and goal on the 2 and we kick.

Doesn't seem like we're running outside much. I think if we did we could set up one of those option passes for Ronnie that he used to run quite well when he was at Auburn.

Agreed.

Just some outside runs would be nice!

I agreed with that this time. We actually look ok on offence now, put the points on the board and try to play field position at the moment.

Yeh. I agreed too.

Our offence is now at least moving the ball.

Jason Campbell outruns Jason Taylor. :eek:

It was Cam playing basketball for Satan, wasn't it?


BTW; cam vs purdue

1997 - Purdue 56 - IU 7
1998 - Purdue 52 - IU 7
1999 - Purdue 30 - IU 24
2000 - Purdue 41 - IU 13
2001 - Purdue 7 - IU 13 (in the rain, the most miserable I've ever been at a game before.)

yay.

Travis Daniels INT.

Dang, you know when I'm lying. :D

Is Miami game going into OT?

I'm trying to find the Finheaven thread slagging him off. Typically their site is crawling on a gameday.

Could have done without the penalty afterwards.

There are threads slagging off all the players.

And yes... I don't bother on a game day.

Probable late defensive wearout.

Otherwise the Mrs is walking home from work. :vader:

Could always send your daughter to pick her up!

Still 12 minutes to go.

I reckon dolphins will win.

You're right, too many negative posters there. I suppose critics are always more vocal.
Did I mention my daughter isn't even two yet? :vader:

Where's the David Martin one?

I don't even think that's correct. There's too many stupid people on there.

There are so many people that at the beginning of the season will say that the Dolphins will go 16-0, and then after one preseason loss will say that we're doomed, Ronnie is crap and Cam should be sacked.

They're morons.

She could probably do it as long as she really concentrates :p

There are four things in sports which I see as guaranteed:

1) When threatening a late-inning comeback, an Atlanta Brave will hit into a morale-sapping, rally-ending double-play.
2) After getting into a good position, England can destroy all previous good work in a Test Match with a mid-order collapse of ridiculous magnitude.
3) Just when you think Palace are getting things right, it all goes wrong.
4) After keeping the ineffective offence in the game all day, the Fins defence wears down in the fourth quarter and allows the opposition to do enough to win.

What's the Vikes-Falcons score? I picked the Vikes as my survival pick this week.

••••. Heath Miller TD - Guy i'm playing in fantasy has him :(

Vikes 17-3

Not stopping much on the ground at the moment. :(

Let this be a false start.

Have to score this drive, otherwise the Skins will run out the clock.

Closing in on FG range...

Check that... in FG range

That was a dumb penalty for Trent Green to take. :(

BTW, it was about this time last night that the Mrs called and asked me to come and pick her up.

Cue missed FG.

What's happened? Had to eat dinner.

Vikes 24, Falcons 3 (final).

13-13, Feely good from 36 yards.

Just the sort of kick Mare was missing last year.

Phew. Looks like the wife is walking, or hitch hiking...

1:50 to go, Skins from their own 30.

I'm pissed I can't watch the bears today. Getting lions at oakland :hmph:


USA vs Brazil match starts in 5 mins too

Dierdorf waffles, doesn't allow Gumbel to say who took the timeout. :bash:

About as likely to be good as this game.

How can they not show Chargers-Bears?

Oooooooooh.

Come on Ginn...earn your $

I was fearing a drop of some kind there.

1 minute. 78 yards to go.

Go Fish!

I live too close to Detroit.

Why bother with a play-fake? That isn't fooling anyone.

That last pass took about two years off my life expectancy.

Yup.

All round crap play.

Roughing the kicker?

:D

WOAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH