Posted by Michael on September 29th, 2008 — 8:38pm
Boom! This was a great week people. It is what the French would call ‘a fucking great week.’ Why I hear you ask? It was great for two teams:
1) Detroit
2) Chicago
Come Sunday evening Chicago’s season was teetering on the brink of the kind of slow start it is so difficult to recover from. To make things worse they were taking on the Eagles. The Philadelphia Eagles – a shit hot offence and the number one rush defense in the National Football League. Unfortunately they were taking on the Chicago Bears defense – number one motherfuckers in the National Football League.
The score is 20 – 24 in Chicago’s favour at the end of the 4th quarter. The Eagles are on the Chicago 1. They run it on second down, Mike Brown turns up – boom! Eagles run it on 3rd down and Adewale Ogunleye turns up – boom! Eagles go for it on 4th down. They need just one yard…
Alex Brown! BOOM!
As for Detroit, Week 4 turned out a lot better than the last three. They successfully avoided another loss… by not playing.
However, whereas Detroit may not have put a W up on there for all to see, both their and Chicago’s NFC North rivals successfully carded losses in Week 4.
Tennessee slipped out a big, hot, steamy dump on top of the Vikings to put them at
1 – 3. How do you like them sweetcorn? Huh? Hot diggidy.
Green Bay succumbed to Tampa Bay who continue their domination of the NFC North. That puts the Packers at 2 – 2 along with the Chicago Bears.
Elsewhere the New York Giants took a week out and the Dallas Cowboys chalked up their first loss of the season against the Potomac Drainage Basin Indigenous Persons.
Philadelphia Eagles 20
Chicago Bears 24
Minnesota Vikings 17
Tennessee Titans 30
Green Bay Packers 21
Tampa Bay Buccaneers 30
Washington Redskins 26
Dallas Cowboys 24
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Posted by Philip on September 29th, 2008 — 5:24pm
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Posted by Philip on September 27th, 2008 — 6:33pm
With a subway system rivalled in crapness only by New York’s best, not much time was spent in the city of Will Smith and brotherly love. Indeed, there was only one reason for going to Philadelphia… EAGLES, BABY!
It was at Lincoln Financial Field that we found out that it’s not always sunny in Philadelphia. Not by a long shot. What started as light rain and us being a little bit annoyed turned into a thunder storm and a very depressed Burr, Mike and Phil. Indeed conditions were so bad that not only was play suspended, fans were told to leave the upper tiers of the stands lest they get struck by lightning.
But an hour and a half later, The Eagles were back… and continued to lose right into the final few minutes of the fourth quarter…
It was looking bad.
“Let’s just go after this play.”
“Sure.”
And just when we were thinking about how we were going to get back to The Comfort Inn and how we had wasted a lot of money to come to Philadelphia to see a pretty terrible game of football… Boom. Eagles touchdown. Times 2.
Panthers 13 – Eagles 24
FLY EAGLES FLY!
See you in New York, New York!
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Posted by Michael on September 24th, 2008 — 3:53pm
Ugh. Let’s get this over and done with. Nine days ago the Bears learnt how to not finish a game out without missed opportunities, lack of focus and costly individuals errors. This week the Defense was back and even better but despite a 10 point lead at home with under 4 minutes left in the 4th the Bears managed to churn out a second L when they lost in overtime. It all seemed a little surreal. The red-zone interception, the missed field goal by Robbie Gould, the failure to run out the clock when ahead in regular time or the ridiculous call of unnecessary roughness in OT when the Bucs were just about to have to punt from their own endzone. Despite the pessimist I am, there never seemed a moment the Bears would lose on Sunday night. But whatever. They did.
My form hasn’t been improved by the prospect of this Sunday when Chicago face the Eagles who have looked goddamn great thus far. As shown by the win they ground out against that other Pennsylvania franchise, the Pittsburgh Steelers. Remember those guys?
Brian Westbrook will (hopefully!) miss that game with an ankle strain which is good news. Other good news includes losses for Green Bay and Detroit against the Cowboys and 49ers respectively – not that I have much respect for any of those teams.
One team I do have a lot of respect for is the Miami Dolphins. Those are some guys you’ll definitely remember from last year. 1 – 15? Ring a bell? Do you also remember the “New England Patriots”? 16 – 0? Yeah? Well check out the score below.
But before that let’s quickly mention Porter and Thomas. The Giants were also forced to play overtime but as I’ve said, “good shit sticks”. Also the Bengals suck which always helps. The Vikings did what Chicago should have done against Carolina last week and put a W up on the board. Worrying times. Looks like the NFC North is going to be a tight race for second…
Tampa Bay Buccaneers 27
Chicago Bears 24
Pittsburgh Steelers 6
Philadelphia Eagles 15
Detroit Lions 13
San Francisco 49ers 31
Dallas Cowboys 27
Green Bay Packers 16
Cincinnati Bengals 23
New York Giants 26
Carolina Panthers 10
Minnesota Vikings 20
Miami Dolphins 38
New England Patriots 13
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Posted by Michael on September 16th, 2008 — 4:56am
Good morning my merry mengoers. It’s too early for the milkman. It’s too late for the Mosque. But one thing it isn’t too early or too late for is some Monday Night Football. At current the Eagles are up 30 – 24 in Dallas. Yep, “Fly Eagles Fly! On the road to vic-tor-ee!” and all that…
Let’s start with the Bears at the Panthers whereupon:
p = mv
m = first fumble by Greg Olsen
v = second fumble by Greg Olsen
p = change in momentum
Can anyone remember what results from changes in momentum? That’s right, a good old ass raping for the Bears, that’s what. A good old fashioned ass raping.
Elsewhere there was another Giants win. St Louis looked just as bad as last week. New York looked just as good as last week. However, the excitement was elsewhere…
…Ford Field. Last week I scoffed at the Detroit Lions a little bit too indulgently. This week I have nearly had to eat my own words after what happened in our second douche match of the season with Green Bay visiting Detroit. This would surely be an easy W for Green Bay and it certainly started that way, the Pack going 21 – 0 up. But then Detroit came back to go up 25 – 24! Were Detroit going to erase half a century of sucking? Maybe Tim Taylor was onto something all those years ago… The Lions’ response? Interception. Interception. Interception. Green Bay win. Yep. That was predictable.
Way and across Lake Michigan and up into Minnesota, the Vikings were taking on Indianapolis, Chicago’s victims from last week. Vikings lose. Oh well.
Eagles just lost. Good night.
Chicago Bears 17
Carolina Panthers 20
Green Bay 48
Detroit Lions 25
Indianapolis Colts 18
Minnesota Vikings 15
New York Giants 41
St Louis Rams 13
Philadelphia Eagles 37
Dallas Cowboys 41
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