NFL 2011 Super Bowl XLVI

I predict that the game never finishes as a drunken McNabb rushes the field with an AK-47 and murders half the players from both teams.. nation in mourning yadda yadda... Afterwards the US declares this a "terrorist" attack and goes to war with Campbell's Soup.

Come on, Guru, you can't blame Original soups for the actions of a few extreme Chunky recipes. I have many cans of Original Campbell's soups at my house and they are all peaceful and delicious.

sheared wrote:
Rat Boy wrote:

The Raiders hire Dennis Allen as their new head coach. Yeah, that Dennis Allen, as in the now former defensive coordinator who lent a hand in making Tim Tebow look good in Denver.

Oh -- that Dennis Allen who benefited from not having to game plan against: Darren McFadden, Jay Cutler, Matt Forte, Adrian Peterson, Matt Cassel, basically a useful Ben Roethlisberger and a few other NFL prime players, but when faced with actual NFL offenses, routinely got beat by 45 points or more. That Dennis Allen? Good for the Raiders.

WOOHOO!!!!

Spoiler:

f*ck!!

Double Spoiler:

Spoiler:

What do you call a rebuilding year with no draft picks?

TheGameguru wrote:

I predict that the game never finishes as a drunken McNabb rushes the field with an AK-47 and murders half the players from both teams.. nation in mourning yadda yadda... Afterwards the US declares this a "terrorist" attack and goes to war with Campbell's Soup.

If it lands LaDanian and his mom at Gitmo, I.. say.. BUILD IT!

Patriots win 13-6.

Boring!

Jayhawker wrote:

Patriots win 13-6.

Boring!

84-77, neither team quite gets a handle on stopping the opposition. And that's with Goodell forcing the game to stop after 3 quarters

24-21 Pats

I'm going to say 38-28 Giants with the final 14 Pats points coming in garbage time.

Mike Mayock's got his top 5 prospects per position heading into the Senior Bowl up at NFL.com.

Also, if you haven't seen/heard Ray Lewis' postgame speech, you totally should. Great camera work ....

Via ESPN

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For me, Saturday is definitely best. Especially if you are hosting a party. When the game end at 11 EST it really sucks to clean up when you have to go to work the next morning. I get the football is traditionally a Sunday thing but the Superbowl really needs to be on Saturday.

Yeah been saying that one for years. Either play it on Sat or start it at 4pm eastern on Sun. This 630+ commercials = 4 hour game is for the birds.

I'd prefer saturday, for sure.

Reports are saying the Bucs are about to hire the Rutgers head coach.

karmajay wrote:

Reports are saying the Bucs are about to hire the Rutgers head coach.

Someone actually wants that job?

garion333 wrote:
karmajay wrote:

Reports are saying the Bucs are about to hire the Rutgers head coach.

Someone actually wants that job?

If people will take the Raiders job, they will take any job. And please, this team won ten games a few years ago and has plenty of solid young players. I still retain my Freeman-crush and believe that a vaguely capable coach would have had Tampa winning 7-8 games last year.

That being said, great, a college coach.

MilkmanDanimal wrote:
garion333 wrote:
karmajay wrote:

Reports are saying the Bucs are about to hire the Rutgers head coach.

Someone actually wants that job?

If people will take the Raiders job, they will take any job. And please, this team won ten games a few years ago and has plenty of solid young players. I still retain my Freeman-crush and believe that a vaguely capable coach would have had Tampa winning 7-8 games last year.

That being said, great, a college coach.

It's not the team, it's the owners.

Stele wrote:

Yeah been saying that one for years. Either play it on Sat or start it at 4pm eastern on Sun. This 630+ commercials = 4 hour game is for the birds.

I prefer Sunday, but would really like to see it on earlier. I think 4pm is pretty much perfect.

Papa John's commercial with Peyton Manning and Jerome Bettis... mocking the "coin toss" incident, and Manning's injury.

Man's gotta work

Saturday might be better, but that doesn't keep it from being completely wrong.

The Papa John dude is rapidly rising on my list of annoying ass people...

edit

Football is a Sunday thing... I tolerate it during the Playoffs only because its reasonable to allow then for every game to be seen.

TheGameguru wrote:

The Papa John dude is rapidly rising on my list of annoying ass people...

This is only happening now?!?!?! I've hated that guy for a long, long time. And his pizza sucks.

It's the fake "I'm too cool to yell 'Papa Johns!'" thing he does in his own stupid commercials. Fake sarcasm in a commercial he controls, let alone the fact that they show the only pizzas I don't want to eat. Papa John commercials are a blight on an otherwise well done collection of pizza related commercials.

Hmm, I have way too much passion about pizza commercials...

ESPN is confirming Greg Schiano as Bucs new coach.

If they ever want to get a team in Europe, the game will have to be moved as starting a game at 11.30 at night just doesn't work. And that's only for England, most of the rest of Europe it starts an hour later (This is the only reason I'm glad my niners didn't make the SB). I'd definitely prefer a Saturday game as that would give me one day to recover from staying up that late, but I don't think it will happen.

Stele wrote:

ESPN is confirming Greg Schiano as Bucs new coach.

Has there ever been a more inspiring hire than a guy who won a reasonable proportion of his games at a largely irrelevant college program in what is by and large a pretty underwhelming conference? I'm certainly pumped.

Edit: It's not Brad Childress. This is all that matters.

I hope the Schiano hire works out. As a Rutgers fan, I will have some rooting interest for the Bucs next season.

St. Louis Rams must play all home games at Dome, commission says

A section of the the Rams' lease at the Dome calls for the team "to play all its home NFL Games (other than pre-season NFL Games) at the Facilities." The Rams can disregard this rule if the Dome is not in useable condition or if the lease is terminated, according to that section of the lease.
The planned home games in London would be a financial boost for the Rams. NFL teams that have played in London have been guaranteed ticket revenue equivalent to a sellout, plus expenses.

Wembley Stadium seats 82,000, while the Dome seats 66,000. And while general admission tickets at the Dome ranged from $25 to $160 this season, prices for the Rams-Patriots game at Wembley range from $70 to $155.

The CVC's stance on the London games comes on the cusp of negotiations with the Rams about the condition of the Dome. The Rams can opt out of the lease by 2015 if the Dome is not a "first tier" NFL stadium. The CVC must deliver a plan to the Rams by Wednesday explaining how the Dome can be refurbished to meet that standard. That will trigger a series of negotiation deadlines in 2012. The lease, however, does not offer a clear-cut definition of what constitutes "first tier."

Mike Sherman will be the Bucs' OC. He's a great guy, and I don't know how much he had to do with it, but Ryan Tannehill developed into a projected top-10 draft pick under him.

I think Josh Freeman can be really good, too. He showed a lot of good qualities during the Texans game.

The Bucs might want to think about finding a OC for the second halves, too...

Fedaykin98 wrote:

Mike Sherman will be the Bucs' OC. He's a great guy, and I don't know how much he had to do with it, but Ryan Tannehill developed into a projected top-10 draft pick under him.

I think Josh Freeman can be really good, too. He showed a lot of good qualities during the Texans game.

Sherman's the Dolphins' OC, not the Bucs. So . . . no.

Last year was so catastrophic I refuse to believe any of it matters in the long run; that was so epically bad it doesn't matter. It doesn't change my Freemancrush at all. Freeman will be a much better QB this year.

MilkmanDanimal wrote:
Fedaykin98 wrote:

Mike Sherman will be the Bucs' OC. He's a great guy, and I don't know how much he had to do with it, but Ryan Tannehill developed into a projected top-10 draft pick under him.

I think Josh Freeman can be really good, too. He showed a lot of good qualities during the Texans game.

Sherman's the Dolphins' OC, not the Bucs. So . . . no.

Last year was so catastrophic I refuse to believe any of it matters in the long run; that was so epically bad it doesn't matter. It doesn't change my Freemancrush at all. Freeman will be a much better QB this year.

I can't read. Meant what I said about Freeman, though.