FAVRE HELPS PACKERS BY GETTING HURT
11.30.07![\](http://www.withleather.com//ul/4462-favre injured.jpg "\")
Last night the Cowboys proved they're the team to beat in the NFC by defeating the Packers 37-27, which isn't saying much in the grand scheme of things, but still: an 11-1 record with the only loss coming against the Patriots is pretty good. It was a typical Dallas game: Romo was excellent (4 TD passes), T.O. had moments of brilliance and a handful of brain farts, and Julius Jones is still getting carries that rightfully belong to Marion Barber.
Brett Favre was absolutely fucking terrible last night before he did his team the favor of getting injured. Aaron Rodgers came on to play for essentially the first time in his three-year career, and guess what, he played splendidly. Rodgers: 18/26, 201 yards, 1 TD, plus 30 yards on six rushes that picked up a couple key first downs. Favre: 5/14, 56 yards, 2 INT. Not that anyone dare bench Favre for someone better. He's Brett Favre! A legend! The Gunslinger! Well, I'll say it: if Green Bay is lucky, Favre's historic streak gets broken and Aaron Rodgers gets his chance to shine.
Side gripe, inspired by Drew: Dear NFL, Fuck your fucking Network. Fuck Bryant Gumbel in his fat face. Fuck Thursday night football. Fuck you for making me stand in a bar for three hours just to watch a game that should have been featured on Sunday.
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I'd like to thank Romo for his outstanding performance when I have no shot to make the playoffs in my fantasy league.
Yes, fuck the NFL network. Normally on Thursdays I play in a pool league. Last night was a pain in the ass. I had to wait forever for my burbon shot and budwieser bottle. Thought I was never gonna get dunk.
PS Fuck Cowboy fans.
*drunk
I actually got to watch this game at one of my buddy's place. So what do I do? I drink about 6 strong beers at a bar, drive 30 miles to my buddy's place, drink some awful fucking Heineken from a mini keg, eat 3 slices of pepperoni and promptly pass out.
Sorry for those of you who couldn't watch the game.
I don't think I've ever complained about being in a bar.
Yup, had the game at my place. Nothing special really. Just bong hits and Bud Light. Oh, Steve Mariucci's dreamy babay blues.
I was drunk at a bar watching the game. It was a good time.
I think.
To all you who watched it on TV…nothing beats a radio broadcast with Dick Enberg's dulcet tones! Except watching it on TV. Fuck you, NFL.
That was Bryant Gumbel? I thought Kermit was doing play by play. Damn, I need to lay off the Irish Car Bombs on weeknights.
@punch
Sure you have complained about being in a bar (karaoke night). if you don't complain about karaoke night you need to kill some hookers to get your manhood back.
@ Devang… You call heineken horrible again, and we have some issues, my friend.
The only problem I had with going to the bar was the fucking Cowboy fans. I dont even hate the cowboys (or thier fans), I give credit where it's due. But this was in fucking MARYLAND… where the redskins are from! Fuck them, seriously, fuck them right in the ass.
I still don't see why everyone is complaining about not being able to watch GB-Dallas on their tv's last night. Louisville and Rutgers were on ESPN last night.
Why hasn't someone kicked the shit out of Jerry Jones yet??? He's been asking for it for 20+ years.
Oh, and now that Aaron Rodgers proved to everyone that his hype was justified and assuming Brett stays out a few games…. let the late season Favre retirement speculation begin again!
@UU… yeah, and I think MASN had the Lady Terps basket ball game on too, that's about as exciting as big east football not played in West Virginia.
I don't like Heineken all that much; I am with Devang. Granted, I still drink Natty Lights, so my opinion means little.
Excellent side gripe.
Personal Gripe: Could the first major call of the game that the officials completely fucked up and fucked the Packers over on have changed the outcome of this game? You know the play I'm talking about. The one where Al Harris made T.O. his bitch and stole the ball from him and the refs blew it dead cause of foward progress, cause it was T.O., even though he had no angle on the play, and then tacked on an extra, undeserved 5 yards for delay of game? That was a horseshit call and I'm just wondering what it actually takes to become a ref cause the NFL officials seem terrible. That early call helped the Boys go up by 17. Big deficit to overcome for Rogers' first start, not to mention Favre was pressing afterwards.
@WSW, I was just fucking around , but that game did turn out to be pretty exciting. Lousiville came back to win on a fg with 20 seconds left.
I love that Bryant Gumbel said after the game, "When we come back, we'll throw it down to our Adam Shefter, who will try to get a few words with Rick Romo."
Rick Romo? Isn't that Pacino's character in 'Glengarry Glenross'?
@ Swany, I didn't care who won, so unbiased, that and the pass interference call at the end was also bullshit. I didnt think they did a good job either.
@UU yeah, I saw the last bit of it on the other TVs at the bar, it was a good game.
Fuck Bryant Gumbel in his fat face.
I think that the NFL Network could increase viewerhip by running that as an on-air contest.
Brett Favre is on my short list of best quarterbacks to ever play the game.
"DeMarcus Ware is a real tool."
- Chris Toolinsworth
I was watching the commercial for HBO's Inside the NFL, and I could swear to God, Bob Costas controls Cris Carter, Cris Collinsworth and Dan Marino with his mind.
really? this game was blacked out to americans?
In my neck of the woods (see: great white north) it was on basic cable. i would've done a blog
that no one would've readhad i known that some of you guys were missing outFavre showed a lot of foresight by starting painkillers years in advance of last night's injury.
Rodgers flowing mane troubled the hell out of me. Also, someone shave Al Harris. He got used most of the night and looked like a shithead with that crap flying around like a mirror-universe wedding train.
And fuck Chris Collinsworth…….and if that wasn't Collinsworth doing the color, then fuck whoever it was. (I do get the NFL Network, but I came in late).
Just what we need, another reason for the sports media to talk about Brett Favre… Will he play? When will he play? How serious is the injury? Is this the end of his streak?
I would hate to be a quarterback for Green Bay. No matter how good you were, people would always compare you to "the legend" Brett Favre. Plus, you'd have to spend all that time in Wisconsin…
I'm surprised Madden hasn't diverted his bus straight to Favre's house to hold his scrotum during the injury.
@WDYA:
I thought it was more hilarious hearing Denny Green.
I, too, noticed Aaron Rodgers glorious mane.*
* greasy buttcut
Just because I can:
GO COWBOYS! 11-1. All your other teams suck. And all Pats fans can stick a used douche bottle in their mouths and suck it dry like they do on Saturday nights in GAHston, Massengilland.
Oh and just in case you were wondering:
MY BOY ROMO IS A GODDAMNED STAR!!!!!!!!!!!!! – BDD as Double-J
Did anyone else hear some of the great comments by Gumble?
1. "That's close enough for government work." (in reference to a first down for GB that looked to be about 4 inches short) Yikes what the hell is that all about?!
2. "Lets get down to the field and see if we can get a word with Rick Romo." (At the end of the game) Yes, why don't we try and speak with Rick and see who he is and where he plays football.
Gumble and Collinsworth were the worst most annoying duo I have heard in a while.
Road pops, yeah I heard that. It took the moment of bewilderment at the ref's measurement and instantly transposed it for Gumble's own baffling remark.