Dec 18, 2005 07:40 pm So who won forty, I was in the ER with my kid for a major portion of the game?
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Posted on Dec 18, 2005 07:33 pm
fortymile
Member Since: Jan 18, 2003
well i gotta say, that was a weird game between the steelers and the vikes. the whole first half seemed to take place in a purely theoretical world--in referee imagination space! there were no 'plays.' it was all calls and judgments!
who can believe the chargers! wow.
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Dec 18, 2005 07:40 pm So who won forty, I was in the ER with my kid for a major portion of the game?
Dec 18, 2005 08:53 pm ER? What happened?
Steelers won, I agree with forty, weird game. I was glad to See Indi loose, but the Vikes hurt, that first half was just strange, and the Vikes got totally screwed out of a touchdown...Steeler Randall El did one of the stupidest fair catch plays I think I have ever seen...the second half I don't even know if the Vikes ever had the ball...
Dec 18, 2005 09:06 pm Oh, ya I shoulda beena bit more specific. Most of the time was spent waiting. No serious trauma or anything, I think. Tuna's been having some pain in his right knee and they did X-rays and such last week and didn't really find anything so sent him home with some exercises to do and stuff. Well today when I picked him up from work his knee and thigh were swollen a great deal. So being Sunday and Urgent care isnt open I ended up taking him to the ER to see what's up. Needless to say that was about 4 hour's wasted as they couldn't really do jack either and said I would be charged less if I have it done through the Orthapedic specialist he saw last week. Jeez I hate gettin run around like that. Anyway, he's icing it down and spittin flames cause he cant miss anymore school before Xmass.
Dec 18, 2005 10:26 pm so it is just some random pain? what injury if any is associated with it?
randle el's decision there was absolutely retarded. i'm not even sure i understand it. what, he was gonna make the fair catch but then saw a guy barelling at him and decided to abandon the plan and run away from the ball so it wouldnt touch him at all, right? but why? he thought he was going to get nailed, is what i thought?
i was looking for ways to be mad about the resultant call, but i wasnt able to find a way. it was clearly el's decision and then some bad luck on top of it.
he did other good stuff in the game, though.
the touchdown you are referring to: i would have said that was a bs call if that had been my team. i think i understood the reasoning though: isnt it ruled an incomplete, generally, if you do not take one decisive step or movement after gaining posession?
Dec 18, 2005 11:02 pm Yeah...I agree...what a wacky game. Two VERY good defenses, and not a whole lot of offense. I don't think either team has what it takes to go too deep into the playoffs. If the Vikings had any kind of an O-line they would be dangerous!
dB and Noize...you're gonna actually have to cheer hard for the Packers next weekend against the Bears!
Dec 18, 2005 11:13 pm forty, the doc last week thinks he may have torn the muscle in his thigh slightly, not enough to require surgery. Just some easy exercise's to get it healing proper. It was bothering him for the last couple of week's and he thought it might have been a pulled muscle or something so he didnt really bother with it. Kids got a high tolerance for pain so he didnt even think about it till last week when he went to boot a soccer ball and ended up crumpled on the floor in school in pain. The wife took him in and they did the X-ray thing, found nothing so sent him over to the hospital accross the way for a scan and they waited for several hour's and didnt get scanned. Ya know the rest from were I started dealing with it last week. Now he's PO'd at the doc we saw last week for not doin a scan.
Dec 18, 2005 11:17 pm Jim, I will see if I can muster some cheering time for your packers. I didnt even get to watch the vikes game today.
Dec 18, 2005 11:38 pm sounds like that doc didnt do all he could.
"I don't think either team has what it takes to go too deep into the playoffs."
--what burns me is that this seems to be true, but i think both vikes and steelers fans both know their teams are good enough to be there IF something were different. ive seen the steelers really come through in amazing ways and at times they look like champions. not as much this year as last year, though. the thing that keeps me going is the way they tend to come back when down. something very often clicks at those times for them. so if they do go deep in the playoffs, i expect them to be nailbiter games, and very satisfying ones. if they dont, then i dunno.
Dec 19, 2005 06:34 am Yeah, I'm cheering for the Packers tonight and next week thats for damn sure. But then, I always cheer for the Packers unless they are playing the Vikings.
Forty, I agree with your assessment of that touchdown IF it were in the field of play, however, being in the endzone is a different matter, he came down with both feet planted and the ball in his hand, the ball was stripped (or slipped, whichever) after both feet were planted, thats the only reason I found it a bad call.
I dunno, I have cheered for the Vikes since the day I discovered football, but damn, every single year they either play bad, loose to teams they have no right loosing to, or do some stupid embarrassing **** off the field. So far this year they have managed to do all three at some point.
That said, the Steelers are a good team, at least there isn't shame in loosing that game like there has been in some others.
I wonder what the Brad Johnson evnagalists are going to be saying around here this morning...I like Brad, I have respect for the guy (unlike Daunte) but he made a couple BAD decisions yesterday. The shovel pass being one, just because the dude wasn't open, though it WAS pass interferance on Pittsburgh that wasn't called, it was still a bad decision. Also, I think much of Brads haste was created by, again, an offensive line that just couldn't do the job. Withrow was getting thrown around like a ragdoll. The Defense did well, shut down The bus pretty well, and any d that can hold a team to 18 points should be enough to win a game.
One thing almost for sure, Tice will not be back next season...the #1 issue yesterday was stupid playcalling, it was a horribly coached game.
Dec 19, 2005 09:06 am Not THIS is who the Vikings need back on their roster, former Vikings Guard gone mixed martial arts fighter Bob "The Beast" Sapp www.weakgame.com/media_28...t_Bob_Sapp.html
Dec 19, 2005 10:48 pm Holy **** ! That is one beatin he is giveing those guy's.
Dec 20, 2005 12:35 am lol that guy's scary!
yeah good point about the endzone thing, db. i am still learnin'.
i found it unnerving that the only touchdown we had was a QB sneak. i loved that play--ben was amazing on that one. i love a QB to take risks like that. but our O didnt do anything else. it was all field goals and that safety.
the first safety i've ever seen.
Dec 20, 2005 06:19 am Man, I TRIED to watch the Packers last night...too painful, I went to sleep at 9:30...they better pick it up by next week!
I have only seen safeties a couple times, they are not too common...it's like the ultimate insult in football...
Dec 20, 2005 07:14 am I turned it off at half time. I love Brett Favre, but stick a fork in him...he's done.
Sorry dB, but I don't see any way that the Packers can beat the Bears next week.
Dec 20, 2005 07:23 am It's very sad to me to see one of the all time greats like Favre go out this way. He has to retire...I mean, I know the team around him is injured and all that, but it's time he steps down. Just sad to be on a season like this one. The packers just could not catch a break all season. The Vikings caught a couple breaks, but in usual fashion they find a way to screw it up anyway.
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