I say limb-from-limb, but that's mostly because it's nice to finally see a Chicago sports team become dominant again. No real animosity towards those poor Cardinals, but they can nurse their wounds against the other, lesser teams.
Rooting for Leinart, who shouldn't have fallen as far in the draft as he did.
And now I'm really really wishing they weren't making so many damn yards in such quick succession. C'mon, defense, stop the rush!
That's truly pathetic, Timbot. How can you root for a guy who was beaten by an unbelievable performance in a huge game, and then said that he thought his team was still better? Sad sad sad.
But he worked ever so hard taking ballroom dance.
Twat.
Limb from limb works for me.
He's going to be a really, really good NFL quarterback. Tough call tonight though, especially with Fitzgerald out.
How can you root for a guy who was beaten by an unbelievable performance in a huge game, and then said that he thought his team was still better? Sad sad sad.
Yeah, I know. I saw something or other that made me like him--maybe something about his family--and I decided to give him a pass on the BCS game. It's not like hating him on Young's behalf makes up for the "blackie" thing, ogged.
They reversed the interception! What was wrong with it? (I'm at work, on the NFL site, so no pretty pictures to explain things)
I saw something or other that made me like him
God, you're a sucker. Why not just say, "I saw a puff piece that convinced me that he, Bill Laimbeer, and Christian Laetner are pretty good guys, after all."
I should have waited for 10-0 before jumping on this bandwagon.
and I decided to give him a pass on the BCS game
Yeah, doesn't really matter, the championship game. Come on—something about his family?
But, but, they used the special voice-over and fade just like the do with the Olympic gymnasts!!!!
14: I expect that kind of talk from the desert heathen, but I thought you knew Jesus, Smasher.
How can you root for a guy who
there's this christian concept called "forgiveness", but we don't really expect *you* to know about it.
Seriously, how is this happening? Bah.
6 for 13 and 2 interceptions, that's how. The Bears might even be doing alright if they kept a drive going for more than 20 seconds.
Fucking grrr, I hope this starts turning around.
And a strip and turnover! What the hell is up with this offensive line?
Chicago has a football team? Whoa.
max
['What happened to the Blackhawks?']
"Leinart was born with strabismus ("crossed eyes"), as his left eye was not aligned correctly with his right. He underwent surgery when he was three years old and was fitted with special glasses to correct the problem, but the eyewear combined with Leinart's already-overweight frame to make him an easy target for ridicule at the hands of other children. [1] "I used to get made fun of for being cross-eyed. It's just a terrible thing because kids are so cruel to the fat kid, to the kid with the glasses. So I turned to sports," he would later say."
He must have been terribly intelligent, also, or else the bullies would not have teased him.
No, I take it back. I think I once saw something or other that made me think Paris Hilton was ok. She was working with the poor or something.
the poor or something
It wasn't the poor, it was starving children. And it wasn't starving children, it was Nicole Ritchie. Decapitation and limb from limb!
32 - isn't L supposed to be like 18 or something? I feel old, dumb, and unwitty.
L.'s a crackerjack, alright. And Chicago's gonna make this a football game.
You'd think so. Then you see their play in the red zone.
Dammit Bears, why do you hurt me?
In the interest of full disclosure, I'll admit that I don't actually care if the Bears win. I just have their D/ST, kicker, and Muhsin Muhammad on my fantasy team. I really do want to see Leinart horribly disfigured, though.
If you all would just give up on football, you could spend the next eight months gloating about the Yankees collapse like the rest of us, where by the rest of us I mean Brooklynites over seventy and a bunch of Communist Cubans.
I just have their D/ST, kicker, and Muhsin Muhammad on my fantasy team. I really do want to see Leinart horribly disfigured, though.
L., I want you turn lesbian right now, because no man deserves you.
...has done anything so awful as to deserve the emasculating experience of a girl who knows football, or has led such a virtuous life as to have earned such a treat? And either way, what makes you think I wasn't already?
has led such a virtuous life as to have earned such a treat
Of course.
Oh, it's football season? Excellent, I need to spend less time hanging out here anyway.
Leinart's on my fantasy team, Ogged. Picked him in the last round of our draft. Do you want me to be a lesbian, too?
And now, what should by all rights be the Bears turnaround is becoming yet another great drive by the Cardinals. This just sucks.
But if apo's playing Leinart this week, then good for him. Who would've seen this good of a game coming for him?
No, I started Philip Rivers, who did great but the rest of my lineup gave me jack.
I see that Arizona is doing its best to throw the game away, but while it's still not over, let me say, as a Becks-style Pats fan: fuck the Bears. And with that, good night. I'll read the results in the morning.
It's alright, Grossman is just throwing it out to any old place. It's the only way to be sure the Bears can't possibly make a comeback.
There need to be some serious miracles starting.
fuck the Bears
Is that before or after we fuck the Dolphins?
Actually, the Bears were famously fucked by the Dolphins on Monday Night Football in 1985.
Re: 42 & 47, in the interest of comity, I repeat myself: football's fathomless vulgarity is a part of the glorious American mosaic.
(Any idea why I can't get that "Link to this comment" deal to work?)
I thought that both bears and dolphins were rapists.
Re: 56, forget the question, I think I figured it out.
Oh wow. Who the hell saw that coming? Now if only the Bears could score off some actual offense.
Man, the Cardinals really are snakebitten.
56: Sure. Not one of the good parts, but as long as we have demolition derbies and bass tournaments I suppose a little football can't make things all that much worse.
60: I was expecting the linked comment to jump to the top, and didn't notice the final digits change in the URL.
You have got to be fucking kidding me.
Holy Shit! How's that?!
Three touchdowns by the defense for the Bears! And they've got the lead! This is obscene. Let's see them keep it.
I love football insofar as I love drinking heavily, fattening myself on grilled foods, and screaming at other people. I just don't actually know the rules of the game.
Oh, whoops, that last one was by the secondary. Still. Jesus.
C'mon defense, let's force a quick turnover.
57: dolphins are rapists, bears are rapees. bless their hearts.
WTF, in regards to the game. Haven't read thread.
72: Geez, have we forgotten already?
I never loved Chicago anyway.
Ah, Chicago, city of my youth.
Don't think you can waltz right back if this pulls through, ogged.
That is the damnedest football game I think I have ever seen.
The secret meaning of this game is that McCain will tumble from a huge lead and fall to Obama. I'm not sure what the number of turnovers and the defensive scoring analogize to.
Leinart is fucking pissed, and I wouldn't be surprised if there are riots in Phoenix tonight after how all the Arizona fans were gloating early on.
Leinart played well, clearly because God wanted it to hurt more when he lost.
55:
Bears fan in Jr. HS in Miami. I wept.
81: Have you ever been to Phoenix? People don't care about the Cardinals. At all.
WTF? The Cards are about to chip-shot for the win, I come over here, I go back to Gameday, and Da Bears win?
Holy shit.
Hope my dad saw that.
Okay, I hate football, but that was truly amazing.
Can we get back to baseball now, pleasepleaseplease? The fucking postseason, people.
84 - There's a lot of people in a football stadium, so one can hope. Italians shouldn't get all the post-sport riot fun.
88: At Cardinals games, though, almost all of those people are rooting for the other team.
Jesus, this is the baseball hating blog.
Gawd, I can feel your heathen evil through the computer screen.
If I'm evil, why did God just smite your boy?
Awwwww. Leinart's giving a press conference right now. I'm not quite at the Cartman stage of licking the tears of unfathomable sorrow off his face... but I do think another beer might be required.
Jesus, this is the baseball hating blog.
Whatever. Football can kiss my Pujols.
89 - Were you watching this game though? There was a lot of red in those stands. A Lot.
But to answer the question of the post, I'd say that game ended up as more of an emasculation of Leinart than any sort of mauling. As to which is worse, I leave that question to the philosophers.
95: I was not watching this game, so I'll take your word for it. I still maintain that those people are not going to riot.
92: Whatever. How are you ranking the top of the West?
Are you talking basketball now, Leinart Luber?
94: But we have to assume that tonight's rains were Mets-aiding rains, do we not?
97 - I bet you tell kids there's no Santa Claus, just to smugly watch their little tears.
Because I like the Bridgeplatosaur, I refuse to believe that s/he not only likes soccer and baseball, but also hates football.
99: Yeah. I'm really hoping (gawd help me) that it's Kwame Time.
101: Sorry, dude. Much as I would love to see some destruction of the monstrosity that is Phoenix, I have to stay reality-based here.
Kwame Time
If you consider, Timbot, that every time you and I have disagreed about the NBA, I've been right, you might decide that when I tell you that Kwame can't catch and that that promises to be a handicap in his NBA career, you'd believe me.
Actually, I do think he'll have a pretty good year. But he's never going to be fearsome, because he really does have bad hands.
Jesus, this is the baseball hating blog.
Say what you mean: this is the America-hating blog.
I don't hate football. I'm a big fan of my team, for instance. But in general, divorced from any given contest, I rate football a solid "meh". Other sports do a better job of masking their inner cock pageant. The "special teams" military wannabe hoopla is particularly egregious.
If you love the cock pageant, the cock pageant will love you in turn.
You know, Jesus, do you not, that football has more viewers than baseball in this great America?
I'm patting your butt. How's that for a start?
Butt patting is completely normal and I have no idea why you'd bring it up now.
I know also that NASCAR has more viewers than baseball in this great America. You were saying?
This is a NASCAR friendly blog.
And to bed! Later, bigots.
Actually, I do think he'll have a pretty good year. But he's never going to be fearsome, because he really does have bad hands.
He's a gigantic athletic talent and a decent guy who has been widely and wrongly labeled as the biggest draft bust of all time. If you re-drafted today, I'm not convinced that he would go any lower than fifth. Beaten like a overeager puppy by an over-the-hill, overanxious Jordan, he never had a chance to develop. What I'm looking for, ogged, is the best that sports has to offer: redemption and retribution.
But, really, the Lakers can go only as far as Odom lets them go.
Clearly, based on 38, Jesus is either an elderly Brooklynite or a Communist Cuban.
I've put in my time as a sports fan, and I'm gradually let that side of myself die. If I were to pick up on a sport to follow, knowing what I do now, it would be rugby.
Good points of rugby:
1. almost continuous action
2. lots of options on offense
3. plenty rough
4. few 1-0 games
5. no 130-129 games with the 2 minutes excitement preceded by 3 3/4 quarters of garbage time
5. no shootouts
Bad points of rugby:
None.
Nascargots
Delicious, but the fork you need to get the drivers out of their shells cars is really unwieldy.
119: I don't need an entire eight months to gloat over the Yankees. I have only to briefly summon memories of the 2004 ALCS, one of the greatest events in human history.
120: Bad points of rugby: Chance that your captain will move you from winger, a fun position, to hooker, which is in the center of the scrum and therefore pretty much like the situation in the trash compactor scene in Star Wars, except that you actually get crushed.
120: And possibly get your testicles bitten off, although I understand that's much less frequent nowadays.