UMFan83

I honestly think we're going to win this one and am fairly confident going into the game. Reminds me a little of the Eagles MNF game last year. Bears 27 Cowboys 20 I'm also kind of surprised that almost every pundit is picking the Cowboys and wondering why everyone sees the Cowboys in such a better light than Chicago. Can you honestly say they've looked better than the Bears so far this year?

Ending midweek is just bizarre. It feels like the Cubs are just starting another homestand, but after 2 night games and a day game, its over.

That 1 team was SD, who finished 8-8. Atlanta is clearly not going to allow 8-8 to be good enough for the playoffs. Is that gigantic signature really necessary?

http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/180qn79k8yfgtgif/original.gif Awesome

I absolutely love it when the coach calls a TO to ice the kicker and the play goes off anyway and the kicker misses it. Icing the kicker has shown to have no benefit and its stupid that coaches still think this is a good strategy.

I'm not sure if this is true, but how weird is it that the Brewers could lose two straight 'tie breaker' games, but win the 3rd and make the playoffs?

Sorry, I just saw this. I've gone the last 3 seasons....basically you have to buy your tickets in like February to get one. The first year we had to call the ticketing department and ask for them to send us a form for tickets, before tickets even went on sale. If you are among the first people to send yours back, you will also get a Parade Pass, so you can walk your dog around the stadium with all the other dog owners (by far the best time for a dog to [expletive]) while the teams are warming up on the field. Despite it being the White Sox, it was pretty cool. Regardless of whether you get a parade pass or not, you enter in one gate dedicated to the dog seats, and you enter a concourse in the OF that is blocked off from the rest of the stadium. You basically have the entire OF concourse from RF to LF to sit with all of the dogs. They have patches of grass placed strategically around the concourse for the dogs to relieve themselves, as well as a bunch of water bowls. As far as sitting, you are only allowed to sit with your dogs in the top 10 rows of every OF section. It is all general admission, so it tends to be hard to get a seat without cramming into a packed session. Since I don't care about the White Sox very much and because my dog goes psycho whenever she smells hot dogs and cant sit still, I don't sit in the seats for very long. There are cool dog related stands set up, and companies giving away stuff like portable dog bowls and treats. Overall its a fun experience, although the parade is by far the best part. I usually only stay 5-6 innings unless the game is really good or the Sox are playing a good team because the novelty wears off by then, and as I mentioned before, its hard to get her to sit down and stay still.

I sorta predicted a 1-5 road trip followed by sweeping the Astros to finish 63-99, so I'm still on track!

Well he went roughly 3,831/3,834ths of the way towards the record.

Of course Barney makes an error when he's literally 3 outs from breaking the all time record.

I know that this is stupid, but it seriously puts a smile on my face whenever I read about MJ and Pip hanging out together. I've heard quite a few "Pippen and Jordan weren't/aren't very close off the court" stories and they always made me sad. While I don't think they are the best of friends obviously catching a basketball game together like they did a few years ago, and MJ surprising Pip at his birthday party show that there is a level of friendship between them. And most importantly, who the [expletive] won the dance off? http://deadspin.com/5946997/michael-jordan-and-scottie-pippen-allegedly-had-a-dance+off-at-pippens-birthday-party Deadspin almost certainly nailed it on the head: And of course one of the commenters also hits it on the head:

Yeah, the guy's response was meatball-y, but I'd take Romo over Cutler, too. Yeah I dont disagree with the premise that Romo is better. It was just a really dumb response.

Dallas guy response: Oh, and Chicagoans don't know anything about QBs and havent seen enough to judge what a good one looks like. Also basically implies that Romo is on pace to be in the HOF What an idiotic response.

Ok new goal: at least win 60 games.

You must be really desperate for RBs. I am generally not a fan of trading a marquee player for a couple of good players. I think you should have concentrated on getting back an elite RB for Green. I do see your thinking with getting LeShoure before his value might get higher if he has more games like Sunday, but the Lions just don't seem like a team that is going to give him enough carries to be more than an average back. Sproles is good but is never going to be a top tier RB, just a good one that can explode some weeks and be invisible other weeks. If you were desperate for RBs, its not a horrible trade, but I'd expect more of a return for Green.

lol, I believe I said they can go 1-5 on the road trip and still have a good shot of sweeping the Astros, not sure how you got "The Rockies series will be easy" out of that. Also, its the first game of the trip you buzzkill.

Pennant fever! I'm actually going tomorrow night because its dog day, and my fiance loves to take our dog to that game each year. There might be more people attending because of dog day than because of the game.

I'm going to put my head in the sand and keeping telling myself that was his 5th ever NFL game and he's coming back from a major knee injury.

Because the overtime is "sudden death" and a touchdown ends overtime by rule. In the instance of last night's game, they could block the extra point, return it for 2 points and still win the game. They did change that rule in the NFL a couple years ago didn't they? Yeah that's not a rule in the NFL anymore (if it ever was). If it was, the Packers would have at least put up a token effort to block the kick last night. Charles Tillman did that on MNF back in 2006 (returned a blocked XP to the opposite end zone) and when he got there he just sorta dropped the ball and walked away realizing that there was no reason for him to run all the way down there.

ESPN.com estimates that 67,000 fantasy users on their site started or started against GB D/ST and either won or lost their matchup on the final play. Thats crazy. No word on the number of users that started or started against the Seahawks kicker and lost because of the extra point no one wanted to kick, but I know there's one on here. Also, why do you not have to kick an extra point for a TD that ends OT but with :00 left in regulation you do? It's absolutely completely meaningless and should be optional if the team doesn't want to take it. I get that somewhere between in the tiebreakers that no one ever gets to there is point differential, but then why not require XPs on all TDs including OT?

Holy [expletive] that's amazing Isn't he trying to do away with unions in Wisconsin? Or at least limit their power? Good time to turn around and support one because of a football game.

But if Forte is coming back, and Bush is health, you still have Allen and Bell...there's no reason for Grant. We're missing some info here. Probably precautionary in case Forte suffers a setback or otherwise decides not to go. They work him out and see if he's worth picking up if something happens with Forte, and if nothing happens oh well they don't sign him.

I almost forgot about this play. Hilarious.... http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/1805sm56tx7nngif/original.gif The caption reads: "You know it was a good shot because it wasn't a red one." What happened on that play anyways? Doesn't look like he got his feet tripped up by anyone. For a season, I thought he got shot in the leg by a sniper or something.

Ahh small sample sizes