[Kickoff 2012] NFL Football is Back: Discuss your games here.

[Nirvikalpa]

:/ hope he's ok...

 

[JK/SEA]

RG III...not looking good. Seattle in the cat bird seat in this game.

 

[JK/SEA]

Seahawks by 10...just as i predicted.

post 566

how about a little plus rep love?....lol

 

[Origanalist]

Congrats to the Redskins for a hard fought game. No doubt it would have been a lot tougher if RGIII wasn't injured, I hope he fully recovers. He's a great player.

 

[Todd]

I didnt really mean it. Hence the smiley face at the end.

Welp....Tough to say it being a Skins fan, but Wilson deserves the Rookie of the year award. Luck, Griffin, Morris.....all the good rookies are out of the playoffs. He has the stats and a big road playoff win. If winning this game doesn't say something about his ability to handle pressure and not screw up.......

 

[Zippyjuan]

One of the dangers of a QB who also runs and why they tend to have short carreers. Some of the sportswriters are getting into Mike Shanahan for playing RG3 even though he was worse. Guess he felt RG3 was too important to their possible playoff success? The injury looked pretty bad in the pictures I saw of it.

I remember when the Boston Celtics I believe it was were in the NBA playoffs and Bill Walton hurt his ankle really bad. They taped him up as much as they could and shot him full of painkillers so he could play. They won but his career was basically over after that. He lives here and I saw him out riding his bicycle this week (wearing a Grateful Dead cycling jersey) which reminded me of the story.

 

[Zippyjuan]

Baltimore vs the Colts. I can remember when Baltimore WAS the Colts- same team. Oh well. Denver hosting the Ravens next week. My sister already has tickets for the Super Bowl. Hopefully Denver will be there.

 

[Origanalist]

Baltimore vs the Colts. I can remember when Baltimore WAS the Colts- same team. Oh well. Denver hosting the Ravens next week. My sister already has tickets for the Super Bowl. Hopefully Denver will be there.

I never felt right about the Ravens for that. Baltimore loses their team to Indianapolis and then takes Clevelands?

 

[John F Kennedy III]

Ok. I'll bring this.

And I'll bring this:

I hope you bring a strong breastplate.

http://www.valyriansteel.com/shop/swords/king-roberts-warhammer/prod_14.html

 

[John F Kennedy III]

My picks for next week:

49ers over Packers
Broncos over Ravens (sorry Nirv )
Seahawks over Falcons
Texans over patriots

If I have to watch another patriots Super Bowl I will be pissed. I'm tired of CHEATERS.

My Super Bowl prediction:

49ers over Broncos in a rematch of Super Bowl XXIV

 

[malkusm]

I never felt right about the Ravens for that. Baltimore loses their team to Indianapolis and then takes Clevelands?

In fairness, Baltimore already had all the infrastructure and funding for a new stadium in place because of their expansion team bid in 1995, when the league inexplicably picked Carolina and Jacksonville as more worthy recipients.

As an owner, it was an easy choice to move a team there, since nothing really had to be done.

But of course, the league continued to smite Baltimore (for whatever reason) by immediately declaring that the "Browns" name and team records must stay in Cleveland....things that they didn't do when the Colts left Baltimore. Raymond Berry performed the coin toss in Indianapolis for the Super Bowl last year despite being a lifelong Baltimore Colt.

 

[Origanalist]

My picks for next week:

49ers over Packers
Broncos over Ravens (sorry Nirv )
Seahawks over Falcons
Texans over patriots

If I have to watch another patriots Super Bowl I will be pissed. I'm tired of CHEATERS.

My Super Bowl prediction:

49ers over Broncos in a rematch of Super Bowl XXIV

I'm just knocking on wood.....

 

[Origanalist]

In fairness, Baltimore already had all the infrastructure and funding for a new stadium in place because of their expansion team bid in 1995, when the league inexplicably picked Carolina and Jacksonville as more worthy recipients.

As an owner, it was an easy choice to move a team there, since nothing really had to be done.

But of course, the league continued to smite Baltimore (for whatever reason) by immediately declaring that the "Browns" name and team records must stay in Cleveland....things that they didn't do when the Colts left Baltimore. Raymond Berry performed the coin toss in Indianapolis for the Super Bowl last year despite being a lifelong Baltimore Colt.

True about the name, "Indianapolis" Colts never sounded right to me, having watched Unitas as a kid.

 

[acptulsa]

True about the name, "Indianapolis" Colts never sounded right to me, having watched Unitas as a kid.

The Houston Texans are the ones that boggle me. Here we have an expansion team replacing the Houston Astros because they became the Tennessee Titans, and presumably named for a World Football League team but sharing a name with the former Dallas Texans, which are now the Kansas City Chiefs. Makes my head spin.

Then they tell me that the Seahawks are an NFC team. It doesn't pay to have a long memory and watch the NFL...

 

[Origanalist]

Then they tell me that the Seahawks are an NFC team. It doesn't pay to have a long memory and watch the NFL...

No kidding , but .....aren't the Astro's a baseball team?

 

[TheGrinch]

The Houston Texans are the ones that boggle me. Here we have an expansion team replacing the Houston Astros because they became the Tennessee Titans, and presumably named for a World Football League team but sharing a name with the former Dallas Texans, which are now the Kansas City Chiefs. Makes my head spin.

Then they tell me that the Seahawks are an NFC team. It doesn't pay to have a long memory and watch the NFL...

Ha, forgot about that one too. Just posted this in a football forum after learning that the Colts used to be the Miami Seahawks:

Man the AFC's history is screwy.

So the original Seahawks in Miami left to become the Baltimore Colts, ultimately the Indianapolis Colts. Miami would of course get another team later, as would Baltimore.

After Baltimore lost the Colts, they later took the Cleveland Browns and made them the Ravens.

The Houston Oilers moved to Tennessee to become the Titans, only for the league to expand a few years after and bring another team into Houston.

All the while Browns 2.0 popped back up in Cleveland, and no one cares except for when we get to ravage their high picks

 

[Origanalist]

Ha, forgot about that one too. Just posted this in a football forum after learning that the Colts used to be the Miami Seahawks:

Man the AFC's history is screwy.

So the original Seahawks in Miami left to become the Baltimore Colts, ultimately the Indianapolis Colts. Miami would of course get another team later, as would Baltimore.

After Baltimore lost the Colts, they later took the Cleveland Browns and made them the Ravens.

The Houston Oilers moved to Tennessee to become the Titans, only for the league to expand a few years after and bring another team into Houston.

All the while Browns 2.0 popped back up in Cleveland, and no one cares except for when we get to ravage their high picks

Um....yeah team?

 

[acptulsa]

No kidding , but .....aren't the Astro's a baseball team?

The Oilers of the Astrodome. I'll go for that.

Maybe my memory is going south on me. That should help during future football seasons.

There's something to be said for waking up in a new world every day.

 

[Nirvikalpa]

RGIII with at least partial tears to ACL and LCL. Damn shame.

 

[Zippyjuan]

Adrian Peteson has shown that you can come back from a serious knee injury but not everybody is as lucky as he was in his recovery. RG3 seems to have a promising career ahead of him- I hope he can come back.