Fly Eagles Fly! P-A-T-S!!!
The NFL playoffs got started this past weekend. Saturdays action was incredibly un-inspired, with the exception of All-American boy and Cowboys QB Tony "I am dating Carrie Underwood" Romo’s spectacular fumble during the game winning field goal attempt.
Sunday, the offical teams of The Skitoliv World, The Philadelphia Eagles and The New England Patriots played host to Wild Card games. The Red Warrior, avid (rabid) Pats fan and The Duck, psycho-Eagles fan, were at 1801 for the days festivities. First up, The Patriots hosted the New Jersey Jets. As a point of information, the three of us were drinking Stella Artois and Grolsch throughout the whole day, boh are among my favorite beers in the world. Anyway, Red and I were kind of non-plussed the entire game. Yes we cheered when the Pats took the lead and yelled at the refs when they made bogus calls against the Pats, but it was as if we were not concerned with this game at all. At one point the Jets cut the lead to 23-17 and I asked the Warrior if he was concerned, and he kinda shook his head saying "not in the slightest". True to form the Pats scored a TD on their drive and then the defense provided the exclamation point with another TD. So off to San Diego for the Pats. I assure you there will be much more yelling and griping this week.
The Eagles took the field around 415, to face off against the hated New York Giants. At this point, we had fully switched to Grolsch, and were, well to put it mildly, out whistles were well wet. The red Warrior has no real interest in this game, but he wanted the birds to win for our sake. In true Eagels fan I automatically assume that they are going to screw up, yet some how they managed to succeed and move on to face the United States Saints down in New Orleans. This is going to be tough for the brids as everyone appears to think that because the Saints are playing in the Superdome, everything is hunky-dory in New Orleans. You can imagine that every commentator will be pulling for the "feel-good" story that is the Saints. I will let The L.T make all the comments he needs to about that.
Anyway. This weeks games.
Colts 24-21 over the Ravens
Pats 28-20 over the Chargers
Bears 17-3 over the Seahawks
Eagles 31-28 over the Saints
January 12th, 2007 at 11:46 am
just thought you’d like to know - Ron Jawsworski is picking the Chargers! oops!
he is of course picking the Birds…
January 12th, 2007 at 12:05 pm
I am trying to decide if I should be offended about being labeled a “psycho-Eagles fan.” It was nice to see that American Idol was to blame for the Cowboys failure, since I don’t care for either of those franchises.
January 12th, 2007 at 7:58 pm
Da Bears 35 - Dem Bums from the Pacific Northwest 10.
Of course, if Coach Ditka delivers a pre-game speech, the final score will be in the ballpark of 248 to -7.
January 15th, 2007 at 5:02 am
Well… the Ravens lost and the Pats won… that’s something…
January 15th, 2007 at 1:12 pm
Ok. On the flip side of Divisional weekend and resting from the marathon flight from BWI to PVD I feel the need to comment. The entire nation should be rooting for the “Katrina-ravaged” Saints. Come on!! If not, then you are considered cruel and callous about what those folks went through. For those who have been living in a hole for the past year and a half, Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, AND ONLY NEW ORLEANS! We must rally around this team because of what the Cajun Crew has gone through and that they represent NOLA. Screw the poor saps that live in Gulfport, Ocean Springs and Pascagoula, MS. Kudos to DC 101’s Eliot in the Morning for feeling my pain for not rooting for the ‘Aints. So I will be rooting for “Da Bears” this weekend (hopefully, the MB jinx will not affect the outcome of the game). But in reality the outcome will depend on which Sexy Rexy will show up.