Even if you don't make it, you have the opponent pinned on his own 1. And Fortune Favors The Bold.

But I agree it wasn't absolutely critical to go for it there. I just wish they would have.

In one of the games yesterday, Jets/Bills I think, the color guy said it was important to hold onto the ball and not make turnovers.

well, it's true! hehe

Skip Bayless is on TV this morning.

That is all.

"Rooting for Brett Favre is like rooting for America. It just is."

Saw Berman say that last night. Everytime he rubs one out to Favre that Tom Jackson dude is always doing his best to go along and not say anything career-threatening.

"That was a touchdown-saving tackle!" ~Most announcers.

Yeah, buddy, they all are. If the guy running with the ball towards the end zone wasn't tackled...he'd score.

Your avatar buys you one free "Get out of obvious refutation" card. Do you want to use it now?

ESPN keeps doing these inter-sports team comparisons. Or maybe just Kornheiser. Tonight within like 1 minute of his telecast he likened the Patriots to the '27 Yankees.

Why would anyone say such a dumb thing? Yes, the Pats have a great offense.

That's like saying meatloaf tastes just like filet mignon because they are both brown and meaty.

Also on one of their lame shows the other day ...damn I forget what sport it was but they asked a guy (in his sport, or on his team), who "was like Jeter, and who was like A-Rod?"

WHAT!?!? WHY!!!!!!! The guy was like "uhhh, well....uhhh. those are both great athletes. We've got a lot of great athletes on our team...." He totally hated the stupid question.

CLIFF NOTES: ESPN, stop comparing players/teams in one sport to players/teams in another.

As the Padres and Rockies are heading into the 12th, ESPN runs a Sportscenter promo and the three headlines are:

1) Patriots/Bengals in-depth analysis
2) Will the Packers make the playoffs?
3) Kobe's vow of silence

Nobody is gonna forget that playoff baseball is being played on something other than the ABC family of networks just because Stuart Scott doesn't say that the one-game playoff was bananas.

My soul is crying.

God, I hate ESPN.

This is the network that made almost no mention of the awesome 18-inning playoff game between the Astros and Braves a couple years back. I think the Yankees were playing the Red Sox that night or something. FU DISNEYSPN

When Kent hit the walk-off? If so, that was one of the best games no one saw.


craig

Wow, Steve Young went into a crazy diatribe about the patriots being the best thing in football. Pretty cooky stuff.

Seriously, someone needs to tell Berman to shut up, at least when Madden sucks at the teat of Favre it's amusing in a stupid Maddenism way, Berman is just pompous.

i think it was Mike Lamb that hit the HR

I think we are talking about two different games. Kent hit a walkoff right after the BOS/NYY game that set the record for longest playoff game. For some reason, and I could be wrong, they intentionally walked whomever was in front of Kent to pitch to Kent instead.

craig

lol I heard that line, too. how [censored] awful.

dude, no wonder why everybody hates the [censored] USA. Let's all wear Wrangler and drive Chevy Silverados because everybody does blue collar [censored] and works hard and has their trusty dog riding co-pilot. and then we all head back to the farm after a tough day and sit down to dinner where we say grace and have a big glass of milk to wash it down. oh, and "OUR PURPOSE" is to sire many, corn-fed redneck infants to be just like us. and NASCAR and rodeos are the [censored] greatest.

what the [censored]. what an abysmal advertising campaign. somebody better lose their job over it.

see, I always tried to imagine what Tom is thinking when Berman says stupid [censored] like that, but I always figured it was along the lines of "what the [censored] are you talking about, you [censored] cracker. I hate having to pretend to like you."

oh, maybe we are. I meant the NLDS game a few years ago between the Braves and Astros that lasted 18 or so innings. I'm fairly sure it was Mike Lamb that hit the HR to end it.

Chris Burke hitting a walkoff in the 18 inning game imo.
Did you know Brett Favre was the only guy in the NFL who has fun?

Tim Kirkgin just said on sportscenter that he doesn't want instant replay in baseball because he like humans and not cameras to decide the game. Apparently robots run those cameras or something.

He's like a kid out there!

ah, [censored], it was Chris Burke. you're right, imo.

that team had so many guys with names like Chris Burke, Mike Lamb, Jason Lane, Luke Scott.. they all seemed like the same guy.