BRH

That was SB XVII for me. I drank a beer every time the Cowboys scored. Good thing Beebe caught Lett.

One person’s troll can also be another person’s neverending source of entertainment. Which is, I suspect, the real reason some of these posters have lasted this long.

That’s definitely changed. 40 years ago there were a lot more Giants/Browns fans here than there are now. Most of them have died off.

Where is Sowomon Weowcots these days anyway?

I wouldn’t call him a *****-talker. He said too much - surprising for a veteran - but it was hardly that bad. My definition of a *****-talker is still Tim McKyer, who said before the Dolphins-Bills rematch in 1990 that “the Bills without Jim Kelly are like a hand without a thumb” (Reich carved him up) and then said before the playoff game, “I challenge Jim Kelly to throw my way” (Kelly obliged and hit Lofton with a TD right over him). And then the media will still have Burrow over Josh for MVP because garbage-time yards. That’s fine. Winning the game is all that matters. Marino threw for more than Kelly in that ‘90 playoff game and the media creamed themselves … as he booked a tee time for the following Sunday.

and that was WITH La’el Collins at right tackle.

All that is actually cool. Would be even better without all the people.

I don’t even go to Super Bowl parties. Too many people not watching the game. This feels like that x 1000. You know where I would want to be when Buffalo wins the Super Bowl? Right here in Western New York. The celebration is going to be AMAZING.

Hate that there are still too many Giants fans in Rochester that the affiliates won’t get rid of a boring-ass Giants game and let the rest of us watch a game that matters a little.

And just when have they beaten us?

What are you talking about? Eli had the two greatest SB victories of all time. Well…two of the top three. 😜

Plunkett is in the College HOF. He is not in the Pro HOF, which is what I assume you were referring to. Madden was another one until Stabler finally got in.

Tom Flores. And Joe Gibbs. that…that’s about it. But most of the quarterbacks they won with were still a damn sight better than Mac Jones.

My parents live pretty close to Glendale, so lodging wouldn’t be an issue. I guess if a ticket were to fall into my lap I could make it work. But I’d rather be with my people. I wonder if they’d have a watch party at the Ralph. I try not to imagine this too much, but the entire region will be a victory parade for at least a couple of months.

Bigger for us than for them, since they would still need help to get the 1 seed and the bye if they win, whereas we will continue to control our own destiny when we win.

“I respect him” is the sports equivalent of senators referring to each other as “my esteemed colleague.” I hope there’s something underneath all that. Like Sidney Deane, Josh plays better when he’s pissed off.

Late but stories like this always remind me of the story Graig Nettles told in his book about the Yankees’ first trip to Toronto. He was rooming with Dick Tidrow, who, I guess, liked to walk to the ballpark. They’re getting ready to leave the hotel for the game and Tidrow asks Nettles where the park is. Nettles points out the window and says “it’s right over there, you can see the lights.” So Tidrow decides he’ll walk it. If you’re familiar with Toronto and the old park you know the hotels are all downtown and Exhibition Stadium was way the ***** down the lake, across the expressway, where you can’t really find a cab. Tidrow ended up walking into the clubhouse a half hour before game time, sweating his ass off. 🤣

“In uniform for practice today” does not necessarily mean “practicing.”

we could wear clown suits and beat Dallas. I’m really not that concerned about what Dallas wears. That’s a ‘70s thing.

Well, I’d like to think he’s not getting into the HGH.

I guess the “anything to help these two young guys” = leaving the team so as not to be a “distraction,” instead of, you know, actually helping these two young guys get better at football.

Except I don’t think anyone thought there was a snowball’s chance in hell of us losing that 2nd Pats game last year.

I remember a game where Kelly got clobbered just before halftime, went out for a play, came back in, and hit Billy Brooks with the prettiest pump-fake 30-yard TD pass you ever saw. After the game, he said “I couldn’t feel the entire left side of my body until after halftime.” I was also at the game where Bruce almost killed Boomer Esiason because the Jets put a rookie LT on the field. The kid twitched just before the snap and BOOM. I actually thought Esiasion was dead for a second. Boomer ended up missing seven weeks if I recall. And I was at the AFCCG where Bruce knocked Montana out. That was a whiplash-type injury like Tua has had three times already this year. To the Chiefs’ credit, he came out and stayed out.

We saw it all the time and thought nothing of it. In fact we celebrated it. There were others too. Jim McMahon today says he remembers almost nothing from his playing days. But that was thirty years ago.

I would say that even allowing him to come back after just two weeks following that horrifying display on prime time in Cincinnati was just as insane, as was allowing him to fly back on the team plane that night. What happened the other day was just a matter of time.