Notes from Week 3 in the NFL...
• So the Bengals pulled off their biggest win in a decade, a breathtaking comeback victory on the road against the defending Super Bowl champion. It's impossible not to be happy to be a Bengals fan right now. Everything's going perfect. How to celebrate? By getting arrested, of course! Bengals linebacker Odell Thurman, who's still in the midst of a four-game substance abuse suspension (long rumored to have been crystal meth), was busted last night with two other Bengals for drunk driving. Not just drunk driving either; it was a "Super OVI," which means his BAC was more than twice the legal limit. Go Bengals!
• Clinton Portis saved countless Redskins fans from ritualistic suicide with an outstanding game ... but we never realized that he wore his huge diamond earrings under his helmet. We did not know this was common. Inevitably, someone's going to lose one of those on the field and crawl around looking for it like a basketball player searching for a contact.
• Brett Favre. Three touchdowns. Should have retired. Will he be traded? Gunslinger's mentality. Veteran quarterback moxie. A warrior champion. Zzzzzzzz.
• It's worth noting, Giants fans, that not even our Illini have fallen behind 42-3 this year.
• Now that Buccaneers quarterback Chris Simms appears to be out of critical condition and seems to be OK — though he's likely out the rest of the season — it's probably acceptable now to wonder, when the doctors cut off his uniform to perform the emergency spleen removal, they say that tattoo and were like, "Uh ... is that a dude's name on lower leg?"
• It's starting to look like the AFC East might be the NL Central of football. Though that's just kind of mean.
• Of our many, many disappointments with the Buzzsaw yesterday — we'll get to this a little later — the biggest one is that Neil Rackers didn't get to try a 77-yard field goal with no time on the clock. That might have been fun.
(UPDATE: By the way, Cris Collinsworth's rip on Koren Robinson during "Football Night In America" yesterday — "he scores a touchdown ... he should go out and have a drink and celebrate!" — was as mean as anything we've had on this site. Funnier too.)
(SECOND UPDATE: By the way, they've figured out who one of the other players in the car with Thurman was. Guess who? That's right ... Chris Henry!)












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LT used to wear his dangly LT earring during games. But you can do those kinds of things when you've got half of Bogota's finest in your sinuses.
Something like 75% of arrests in Atlanta are for crystal meth. Odell Thurman went to Georgia. Just saying.
Thankfully, Brunell and Bledsoe have already their One Good Game each of the season, or else I'd be One Sad Giants fan today.
It's starting to look like the AFC East might be the NL Central of football. Though that's just kind of mean.
I'll take it. J! E! T! S! JETS! JETS! JETS!
If that guy in the photo was a true Steelers fan, he would have been trying to snap Palmer's wrist chuck-norris style.
It was sure nice to see the Skins kick ass on Sunday. I know it was just the Texans and because of that I won't get my hopes up.
hahaha I'm just kidding. If they don't at least win one playoff game, my dog will get punted....
I bet Pops bribed the docs into removing that fruity tat once Simms was under.
Odell Thurman : cars :: Alonzo Spellman : planes
You kidding? I bet there's a PS on his other leg right now...
Odell's intensity can not be questioned. He gives it 110%, whether it is football, drugs, or drunk driving.
We have done well without him so far, so I guess we won't miss him for the rest of the year.
Btw, actually was able to go to the Pats game. They umm....didn't look good. Lots of fun though.
Oh sports...how you have such double standards. It's all about winning, winning, winning. If we got a DUI, we'd be in jail for the night. Odell gets out in an hour. If we got busted for what Chris Henry did (all 4 counts) we'd be in jail for a long time. He instead scored 2 touchdowns.
That being said...in your face Steelers. Karma's a bitch!
It felt really good waking up this morning and seeing that the New York Jets were in a tie for first place.
I just hope this means that Portis breaks out character #1 on Thursday.
And remember, Brunell's total was inflated by the 75 yard shovel pass to Portis in the first quarter. The dude still can't throw down the field. He always does just enough to not get benched. Which for a Skins fan, sucks mighty ass.
I've got no spleen, Gene!
Quite a week for tickets, HoC.
Looks like Bursitis is prepping for his sports GRE tests. Boy, you gotta party like rock stars if you beat the steelers. Remember the AFC North is not just about football - it's about abherent behavior.
Would it be possibel for the Giants to get a coach that actually has them play like a team? Is this the curse of the Tuna??? I won't go into the Ray Handley or Dan Reeves years but the Fassel coached teams meltdowns in playoff games agasint Minnesota, San Fran and the Super Bowl; now the Gints have a coach with no eye brows who whines constantly and can't get his players to stay onsides - seriously is it that hard to find a fraeking decent coach! Not to mention the players are tremendously overrated. I need to move back to Buffalo.
Congrats to the Redskins. Unsilent can stop with the quasi-suicidal soliloquys now.
I have 2 friends who have had their spleen removed. It can't be that important.
There were nothing quasi- about them. Football am serious.
Sh!tshow, no kidding. Just one of those lucky weeks.
Did I mention I was in the Gillette luxury 'super-suite' and that it was next to the Kraft suite. Also I got to go on the field....
free speech is among the greatest things about America. Each of our citizens is entitled to it.
However, I would like to ask for a constitutional amendment to take away Jeremy Shockey's right to free speech.
Looking forward to that BYE week!!!
I'm surprised that the Docs allow Portis to wear the earrings, considering that people aren't allowed to wear them on roller coasters for fear of having on jabbed into your neck. And I'm sure Clin-ton gets his head banged around more than being on Superman:The Ride.
The suicide watch is over for now.
While watching the end of the Rams/Buzzsaw game, I was all excited about the possibility of the free kick (especially after my buddy figured out why you would fair catch a punt at the end of a game) and said to same said friend: "Man, if Rackers hits this, Will's going to make it the lead story on Deadspin." Sadly, it was not to be. Stupid Rams, they should have been forced to take the declined penalty and live with whatever happened.
Yeah, I was shocked to see Chad Johnson sporting his 9 carat yellow diamonds after he took off his... HUGH!
Hustler, did it feel good going down onto the field when the team lost?
If it wasn't embarrassing enough to be Chris Simms, his mother was updating NBC on his conditions last night. That's a way to build street cred.
cashmoney--
people aren't allowed to wear earrings on rollercoasters?
Phins win! Phins win! Phins... looked like absolute shit against the Titans!
Eh, I'll take it.
I was down on the field before the game. And it was very cool.
Nice work, HoC. We coulda used you on the field during the game, apparently.
Vuck the Fikings. And shove that horn up your ass you smelly Nordic bitch!
one of my friends had his spleen removed and gave it to me, so now I have two spleens. You can never have too many.
You think the Bucs might be in the market for a QB?
Gradkowski, a sixth-round draft pick from Toledo, earned the backup quarterback job in training camp. Journeyman Tim Rattay is also on the roster.
Thank god for the Tigers, or I might be forced to care about the Lions.
The betting pool is on. Who do the Bucs sign as QB?
Phil Simms, Jay Gruden, or Doug Williams?
Or do they just go for the single wing? They couldn't do much worse at this point.
Wow ... We Lion fan's have been through a lot but, I'm not sure it ever sucked this much to be a Lion's fan.
Brett Favre looked like the man who didn't lose his mojo when he was out Favred by John Elway in the Super Bowl.
Perhaps consolation will come at season's end when, instead of burning a car, someone just burns Matt Millen at the stake. I imagine this fire being lit by Barry Sanders, but this is perahps asking too much.
If I were Chris Simms, I'd play the "I've had a ruptured spleen since my sophomore year at Texas" card.
SuperFrankieLampard, I remember before getting on them, reading the sign that said that you had take them off for that reason. It's been a while since I've been on one, but with how crazy they've become, I'm sure the rule applies even more now.
The only exciting thing about the Patriots-Broncs game was when the linebacker puked on the field. That NBC actually took the time to replay it in slow motion was fantastic...especially in high-def.
When Chris McAllister picked off Charlie Frye's pass in the end zone with less than four minutes to go, I cursed and said the game was over for the Browns, that they had blown a chance to beat the Ravens at home. My friends protested: "But there is only 3:45 left!" "The Browns are still up right now, they don't even need the ball back!" "Dammit, Notre Dame came back for you last night, how can you have such little faith?"
I calmly responded, "That was Notre Dame. These are the Browns."
15-14, Ravens. Fuck.
The dude (Brunnell) still can't throw down the field.
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except when roy williams is in deep coverage, that is.
BTW, has Lavar Arrington made his first tackle for the NYGs yet? If so, I missed it.
larue, he's averaging just over 2 solo takles a game i believe. he's terrible.
If that guy in the photo was a true Steelers fan he probably wouldn't be wearing a Bengals jersey.
MJF - After too much to drink and watching too much football, I found myself looking up everything I could about spleens. (Which means I just went to Wikipedia.) Turns out, about 10% of people have an extra spleen already! You could possibly have three spleens now!
I was waiting for someone to break out the wikipedia.
Did they really have to remove Simms' spleen? Couldn't they have just vented it? Thank you, here all week.
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