NFL! Opening Day... and Beyond!

gsdgsd · Post by **gsdgsd** » Sun Sep 07, 2008 3:51 pm

I also bet on Jacksonville to cover. I should never bet, on anything.

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Sun Sep 07, 2008 5:00 pm

Whoa, I am hearing that Brady is lost for the season with an ACL tear. The entire game of football would be poorer if that was the case. (I thought teams shouldn't be shy about hitting him if the Pats were up by 50 and he was still there, but this was definitely not that.) It really does suck, and I have no horse in the race.

gsdgsd · Post by **gsdgsd** » Sun Sep 07, 2008 7:17 pm

I just saw that. Man. I don't like the Pats but that is rough.

I'm enjoying watching the livecast of our FF game, knowing that at any minute, the Colts are gonna say "oh, ok, let's quit fucking around" and Harrison and Addai will between them go for three touchdowns in five minutes.

ICJ · Post by **ICJ** » Mon Sep 08, 2008 12:35 pm

Peter King never ceases to amaze. This is from a FOOTBALL COLUMN:

Sometimes I forget the things that annoy me on the road, and Saturday, at an NBC rehearsal for the 2008 TV season, Bob Costas reminded me of one.

At hotels now -- and this has been happening for four or five years -- when you order room service, the male or female waiter who comes to the door always asks: "May I come in?''

Which prompted Costas, coming off a month in a hotel in Beijing, to say: "May I come in?! No! I'll eat the meal in the hallway! What do you mean, 'May I come in?' ''

Good point, Bobby.

Yeah, good point! Going to the fucking Olympics, getting room service, them not barging right in WHAT THE FUCK?!?!?!

gsdgsd · Post by **gsdgsd** » Mon Sep 08, 2008 3:08 pm

I've studiously avoided even going near SI's site today, because I just couldn't take the inevitable Favre slobbering. It was to the point where Favre's TD pass irritated me yesterday because I knew King would go wild. Was it bad?

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Mon Sep 08, 2008 4:13 pm

Peter King said that the loss of Tom Brady was bad FOR THE LEAGUE and that the league NEEDS HIM. I mean, as much as he sucks Favre's schlonger, it's almost as bad with Brady. And why? WHY?????

There has only been one quarterback I gave my heart to. His name is Aaron Brooks and he won our first playoff game. How can King double-dip like that?

I actually blame his editor. I would have never let that thing about four-star room service be in there. Then again, maybe his editor thinks he is a douchebag as well. If you don't understand how valuable a strong editor is, you're not really a writer.

gsdgsd · Post by **gsdgsd** » Mon Sep 08, 2008 6:47 pm

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:If you don't understand how valuable a strong editor is, you're not really a writer.

The editors of the world thank you, my friend.

Having been in somewhat similar situations, I would bet the editor is under strict orders to let King's writing "breathe." He's one of the meal tickets, after all. If he goes off on tangents about room service or Starbucks, why, that's part of the charm!

If I had to edit King or Rick Reilly or other superstar crap-producers, my brains would be decorating the walls within the week.

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Tue Sep 09, 2008 11:38 am

The editors of the world thank you, my friend.

Having been in somewhat similar situations, I would bet the editor is under strict orders to let King's writing "breathe." He's one of the meal tickets, after all. If he goes off on tangents about room service or Starbucks, why, that's part of the charm!

If I had to edit King or Rick Reilly or other superstar crap-producers, my brains would be decorating the walls within the week.

I would assume it goes something like:

- Sportswriter puts out okay column for free, get a gig
- Sportswriter has a real editor now, and the writing looks great
- Sportswriter gets huge, feels the editor is "holding him back" or whatever
- Sportswriter starts writing douchey shit nobody cares about, editor paints his office a shade of off-medulla.

I love editors. The snappiest thing I have probably ever written is my Postal 2 review at Caltrops, and it's that way because a guy (Ray of Light) went through every sentence and helped me. He was amazing. Isn't the goal to get the best product out there and to waste as little of the readers' time? Of course it isn't. So you get amazingly horrible passages like Peter King today telling people he is "tempted" to write about his liberalism, like ANYONE gives a shit. He has a pampered, fatted-cow view of everything that isn't football-related, I'm sure his political opinions will outright crackle. If you transplaneted the brain of Noam Chomsky into the body of Dennis Kucinich and the beard of Karl Marx, this Frankenstein's Monster wouldn't want to hear what Peter King thinks of the upcoming election.

I guess it is all ego. It has been said that Bill Simmons is at war with his editor (or was at war with his editor, whatever), and obviously he is winning because you can make a straight graph of how douchey his column got. But I look at stuff like that one chapter in the Douglas Adams book, "So Long and Thanks for All the Fish." It was horribly late and it was going to make everyone millions when it was finished. Adams has a chapter towards the end where he is practically yelling at his readers that, yes, Arthur Dent is a good character and if you don't like it, skip to the end where there is a scene with Marvin. It's probably the least professional thing I've ever seen an author I like write, and who was going to tell him to pull it out? "He" (Adams) "sold" millions of copies, "himself."

In a perfect world, I'd hire out an editor with a text dump of these text games as I make them and get every lined looked at. Maybe when I get a budget of thousands of dollars. But hey, if I get that successful I guess I will be expected to want an editor for nothing more than someone to receive the hotfoots, so it's a vicious, inescapable cycle.

Worm · Post by **Worm** » Wed Sep 10, 2008 5:27 am

Good point bobby! hahahaha

I don't know what's worse that Americans couldn't even pretend to be gracious in a host country, or that when we order food we want delta force to pound the fucking door down and insert it directly into our small intestines. That anyone could have his account of Bob Costas behaving like a baby and say "hey, yeah, highfive man", is just baffling.

I'm convinced if that Phelps guy didn't do so well we would have stopped broadcasting the Olympics and put on reruns of Lucy.

gsdgsd · Post by **gsdgsd** » Mon Sep 15, 2008 10:43 am

Was it just me (I was drinking heavily, after all), or was there a disproportionate number of fantastic games yesterday? That Denver-SD game was a blast to watch, and most of the early games went down to the wire (albeit often in a sloppy, imperfect way).

Unfortunately my FF team getting slaughtered took the bloom off the rose a bit.

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Mon Sep 15, 2008 11:28 am

I had to leave the house to take a walk because I was in fact fuming at the Saints losing to the Redskins. I don't care if the Saints were down six starters. That shit was unbearable.

Otherwise I would have been TEXTING through the afternoon games and all.

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Mon Sep 15, 2008 12:14 pm

Football is stupid.

gsdgsd · Post by **gsdgsd** » Mon Sep 15, 2008 3:25 pm

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:I had to leave the house to take a walk because I was in fact fuming at the Saints losing to the Redskins. I don't care if the Saints were down six starters. That shit was unbearable.

Yeah, I kind of forgot in the previous post that one of those crazy-ending games was yours. I still don't really understand how it happened because I swear to god the Redskins were unable to move the ball forward whenever I was watching.

Otherwise I would have been TEXTING through the afternoon games and all.

Eventually, I was drunk enough that I think I believed you were texting me back regardless, so all's well!

Knuckles the CLown · Post by **Knuckles the CLown** » Mon Sep 15, 2008 4:13 pm

gsdgsd wrote:Was it just me (I was drinking heavily, after all), or was there a disproportionate number of fantastic games yesterday? That Denver-SD game was a blast to watch, and most of the early games went down to the wire (albeit often in a sloppy, imperfect way).

Unfortunately my FF team getting slaughtered took the bloom off the rose a bit.

Here is what I HATE about football. San Diego gets home jobbed twice, first, the Chris Chambers fumble (which wasnt a fumble) where replay was "broken" even though in my living room they were able to replay it thousands of times. Second Jay "Fish hands" Cutler had the ball slip out of hands for the 50th time and that stupid ref on steroids blows it dead immedialty then admits the mistake and still screws San Diego. After a replay of 10 minutes CLEARLY showing Cutler fumbled and San Diego recovered, the ball is given back to the Broncos.

Third, Chris Chambers I believe caught a deep pass with 5 seconds left, is slightly out of bounds and what happens

IMMEDIATLY RULED OUT OF BOUNDS INSTANT REPLAY TAKES 3.2 SECONDS TO COMFIRM IT, GAME OVER. Wow refs way to be right on top of that one after screwing San Diego twice already.

Nice home job NFL.

Buddha · Post by **Buddha** » Mon Sep 15, 2008 4:41 pm

Thank you, child. This is what I have been trying to say all along.

gsdgsd · Post by **gsdgsd** » Mon Sep 15, 2008 4:53 pm

I'm still a bit befuddled by that call on the Cutler fumble. Ok, the ref blew the call, but was spotting the ball at the ten actually the right thing to do, or just a solomonic "sorry I fucked up, San Diego, we'll split the difference" move? Weird.

I loved the announcers going on about how the guy was one of the great refs as he was systematically fucking up every big call that came down the pike.

Jesus Christ · Post by **Jesus Christ** » Mon Sep 15, 2008 5:22 pm

Amen.

Knuckles the CLown · Post by **Knuckles the CLown** » Mon Sep 15, 2008 5:29 pm

"This was the best crew that we have had in the last 20 crews I have graded," Shanahan said. "They did a heck of a job. Every game that you see that is within a point or a field goal over the last couple years, it may be a call or a non-call that wasn't right, but that is the nature of this game. You have to find a way to win.

"We still had the ball at third-and-10 and had to get it into the end zone. Third-and-10 and then fourth-and-4. We still had to make a two-point conversion," Shanahan said. "It wasn't like somebody gave us the touchdown. You have to go out there and still get it done."

DIE

So be a sport Ratahan, next time you score a TD to take a 4th quarter lead in the game, offer to forfeit possesion in lieu of 6 points since in really doesnt matter.

Malcolm X · Post by **Malcolm X** » Mon Sep 15, 2008 5:42 pm

Preach it, brutha. The black man got holed.

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Mon Sep 15, 2008 5:57 pm

Yeah, this is why people hate Shanahan. He has more job security than anyone but Belichick, but he is UNABLE TO IMAGINE a world where his fine decision-making and coaching didn't save the day. This is why everyone else can't fucking stand him. The miserable fucking ego on this rat-faced pile of shit.

Really, Mike? You couldn't just say, "Today we were the beneficiary of two blown calls."? Really? Of course not! It would take not having an ego the size of Colorado itself to say that. I also love how he works in what A GEEEEEENEEEEE-AAAAYUSS he was to go for two.

Same shit last season when he HRK HRNK HRRNK called a timeout before it could be communicated to the players, and seemed to lose a game on a last-second field goal, before SNRRK SNRRRK SHRHRNK having to make the Raiders kicker re-kick. I will enjoy watching the Saints pummel these losers on Sunday.