Speaking of changing team names, groundswell growing to rename the Lions as The Washington Generals of the NFL.
Nothing incites bodily violence quicker than a Duke fan turning in your direction and saying 'scoreboard.'
My Seahawks sure kept things interesting
Butker is the Chiefs hero - kicked the winning field goal 3 times. Successful on a 53 yard attempt but called back due to false start. Backed up 5 yards and tried again - kick was good but Chargers had called a time out. No timeouts or false starts to mar the 3rd attempt - good from 58 yards. His second 58 yard FG of the game. (3rd if you count the one that was cancelled due to the TO.)
If the Falcons week 1 game was a must-win and they lost, what does it say now that they have also lost their week 2 game?
I could not believe the Falcons didn’t fire Quinn after last season. In fact, I thought he should have been fired in the middle of the season when they basically imploded. Yes, they recovered to win four games at the end of the year, but those games didn’t really matter anymore as their season was essentially already over.
Giants confirm Barkley’s ACL. Bummer.
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There's something wrong with a sport that maims its stars with great regularity.
"We are not provided with wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can take for us, an effort which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world." --M. Proust
I'm no Saints fan, but shouldn't the fact that the ball was uncatchable have made that a clear no-call?
Our defense has a good game and a bad game. I have no idea what to expect vs the Browns but I share your concern about their offense. Nick Chubb, OBJ, etc are no joke. Chubb, in particular, looked great this week. As for the WFT offense...well it's not going to be a 1 year turnaround, I'll just leave it at that. Sigh
jv, that made me laugh...then I didn't know if I should be laughing or crying. Sigh
If they're going to start enforcing lame "contact with official" calls like that, they're going to have to put something in place forcing officials to respect personal space of the players. Pushing an official's hand away after he sticks it in your face while he and another official climb over top of you on the ground should not be grounds for ejection. Seems like there was another stupid one earlier this season (or maybe it was an NBA game).
I only watched about 10 minutes of the NFL game last night but I saw that play. In the middle of that post-fumble scrum the Jacksonville lineman had no idea that it was even an official's arm (vs another players arm) that he was tossing off of him. That was a ludicrously bad ejection. Even the announcers and the former NFL official they check in with thought it was a bad call.
The other sketchy one I recall was Lions-Bears week one when Jamie Collins of the Lions was demonstrating to the official how another player was illegally lowering his helmet for a block. In doing so, he "lightly" headbutted the ref in the chest. Yes, it was by the letter of the law contact with an official and yes Collins should have been smarter. But it seems like unnecessary over reach by the official to me.
Coach K on Kyle Singler - "What position does he play? ... He plays winner."
"Duke is never the underdog" - Quinn Cook
Look, as any official will tell you, the fans and TV show up to watch these sporting events because we all want to see the refs at work. They are the primary driver of the story and the reason sports are popular. Again, every ref knows this. Once you recognize that they are the thing that matters in sports, then you will understand these rulings.
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