The NFL Thread

[NeverSurrender]

Adrian Peterson is not human.

[bane]

The Colts actually beat Green Bay? Holy shit. Any given Sunday.

[Tenacious_Dio]

Last year, the Panthers were a bad team with a great QB. This year, they're just a bad team.

[NeverSurrender]

The Colts actually beat Green Bay? Holy shit. Any given Sunday.

Packers O-Line needs to quit tweeting about replacement refs, and start hitting the sleds. Worst line the NFL that I've seen play.

[poizond13]

Let me just say this. I've been a Colts fan almost 20 years. Been through lots of ups and downs, and some AMAZING wins, including a Super Bowl victory. But THAT was one of the best games I've ever watched as a COLTS fan. Never been prouder to be a fan of the horseshoe! This game goes beyond football. Everyone in that locker room knew what a victory would mean for their leader who was in a hospital room down the street. Down 21-3 at halftime? NO PROBLEM! We kept fighting and never gave up. REGGIE WAYNE, on of the greatest Colts ever, had maybe his BEST game to date. ANDREW LUCK, what can you say, this kid is special. I've said it from day one, he is going to be great. Well, today he proved, he already is!!

Right after the game, Mr. Irsay gave a great speech in the locker room, and then he took the game ball right down to street, straight to Coach Pagano, to present him with a well deserved game ball!!!!!

[poizond13]

Props to the entire Packers organization for being classy and wearing these shirts to support Chuck Pagano prior to the game. Too bad some of their fans aren't so classy.

[NeverSurrender]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_v9feYB ... r_embedded

[NeverSurrender]

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[LAglamrocker]

looking forward to the Sanchez funeral monday night

[poizond13]

THIS video gave me chills!!!

http://www.colts.com/media-center/video ... bf28a03246

COLTSTRONG

[soulonfire]

Lions fans are dumb as shit.

"We were clearly the better team on Sunday"

Motherfucker, you can't run the ball, your wrs are scared to get hot, and drop ball after ball, you got sacked 5 times, and you have the worst special teams in the league. How is that "clearly" better than anything?

Their team is right back where it belongs, and it is killing them.

Love it.

Wow where did that come from? I know of only two Lions fans here and neither one has made any excuses.

Not sure if you included me in there, but if not then there's three.

And we fucking blow this year. Two decent years and now this. Eh, not like it's unprecedented.

[dtmfs]

THIS video gave me chills!!!

http://www.colts.com/media-center/video ... bf28a03246

COLTSTRONG

If that gave you chills you have to be one of the biggest pussies on earth.

[johnk5150]

Tillman and Briggs score TDs two weeks in a row for first time ever. Brandon Marshall is Brandon Marshall again.

[Redman77]

Lions fans are dumb as shit.

"We were clearly the better team on Sunday"

Motherfucker, you can't run the ball, your wrs are scared to get hot, and drop ball after ball, you got sacked 5 times, and you have the worst special teams in the league. How is that "clearly" better than anything?

Their team is right back where it belongs, and it is killing them.

Love it.

Wow where did that come from? I know of only two Lions fans here and neither one has made any excuses.

Not sure if you included me in there, but if not then there's three.

And we fucking blow this year. Two decent years and now this. Eh, not like it's unprecedented.

Special teams have been horrendous. Too may WR drops. The bye week came at a great time.

[NeverSurrender]

Go Percy:

[johnk5150]

http://www.indystar.com/article/2012100 ... ck_check=1

For you, Chuck.

"In my 40 years in this business, I've never been prouder of a team and how they battled back," team owner Jim Irsay told me after he and general Ryan Grigson presented Pagano with the game ball early Sunday night at the IU Simon Cancer Center. "I've been in a lot of winning locker rooms, Super Bowl locker rooms, but I've never had an experience like this. People talk about money, what the team is worth, those kinds of things, but this was priceless. Absolutely priceless.

"We walked in, he (Pagano) got up, we all embraced and shed some tears and Chuck said, `You know, I don't feel so sick right now.'"

How great is that?

You should have seen them, Chuck. You should have seen the beaming smiles, the eyes rimmed red with tears, the unfettered joy that suffused your Indianapolis Colts locker room late Sunday afternoon.

We know you weren't here, Chuck, know you were having a rough day over in room C23 at the IU Simon Cancer Center. But you were here, Chuck, here in the hearts of all of your players and coaches and fans and well-wishers.

Did you see it, Chuck, see Andrew Luck spike the football and then run over to your chuckstrong banner and give it a loving tap after he scored a touchdown?

This was for you, Coach. This victory, this amazing, come-from-behind, gut-check 30-27 victory over the Green Bay Packers, it was for you.

"You know, you see things in the movie, but oftentimes, life isn't as beautiful as they make it out to be," Irsay said. "But this went way past that. This was the stuff of movies. This was beautiful."

It's hard to know, Chuck, just how much emotion played in this game, but I've got to think -- we've all got to think -- that when they went down 21-3 at halftime, it had to cross their minds: "Our coach is dealing with a lot more real-life adversity than a simple 21-3 deficit. Keep fighting. Keep fighting."

There have been a lot of great moments in recent Colts history, and there have been some emotional moments, the most emotional coming in the Arizona game after Tony Dungy returned from his son's funeral. But this felt like the most inspirational and beautiful of all of them. They wanted this for you, Chuck, and damned if they didn't find a way to make it happen.

Damned if Luck didn't take another step in his progression toward eventual greatness, taking a beating in the first half and fighting back and making magical things happen. Did you jump out of your bed, Chuck, when Luck somehow eluded Clay Matthews' grasp and completed that monster third-down pass to Reggie Wayne?

Damned if Wayne didn't play the best game of his amazing career, snatching everything and anything with those orange gloves. Wayne knows you better than anybody, having first encountered you 16 years ago at the University of Miami. Everybody wanted this for you, but nobody more than Wayne.

"I looked up and those orange gloves were catching everything," Luck said with a smile. "It seemed like there were eight pairs of orange gloves out there."

It seemed that way, didn't it?

"The league might fine me," Wayne said of the possibility the NFL will hit him with a uniform violation. "But if they do, I'll take one for the team."

Can we just pass a hat?

We will always remember this performance from Wayne -- 13 catches, 212 yards. He wanted this for you, Chuck. He wanted this as badly as he's ever wanted anything in the game of football.

"They better make room in the Hall of Fame for Reggie," Irsay said, his voice still hoarse and wavering after visiting Pagano. "Right next to Marvin (Harrison)."

They fought, Chuck, because they know how you're fighting. Many of them have been touched themselves by cancer -- friends, relatives. They know about the hell of chemotherapy, the way it breaks down your body and soul. But they weren't going to quit, Chuck, because they know you're not going to quit.

"We want Coach to know, we'll fight here while he fights over there," Dwight Freeney said.

Man, did they fight.

And, in the process, they grew up. A lot.

For a half, it looked like this would be one fairy tale that would never get written. The Packers dominated, moving the ball with alacrity on offense, terrorizing and sacking Luck on defense. For all the emotion in the building, it looked, simply and sadly, like the better, more talented team was going to win this game.

But it says something about the foundation you've built, Chuck, that your team, your organization, never flinched. "Give it up for Chuck!" defensive end Cory Redding yelled at his teammates during the game. "Every play! Give it up for Chuck!"

So they dug in.

And suddenly, everything changed.

A Jerraud Powers interception started it early in the third quarter, and from there, the Colts were carried by an avalanche of excellence and raw emotion.

The running game got in gear, the best game we've seen from Donald Brown and the patchwork offensive line in a long time. As a result, the play-action game started working and Luck earned some time to throw.

The defense started pounding Aaron Rodgers, who went untouched in the first half and picked them apart.

The secondary, playing without two of its three best players, Justin King and Vontae Davis, started covering receivers.

And Luck and Wayne -- with help from the patchwork offensive line and others -- began to do remarkable, memorable things.

"We really didn't change anything in the second half," Powers said. "But the guys up front started putting pressure on (Rodgers), forced him outside the pocket a couple of times and that made our job on the back end a lot easier. Once we started getting a couple of sacks, the game changed.

"That's the most emotional game I've ever played in. Basically, you've got the whole NFL nation rallying around him. And even the Packers, they came out wearing chuckstrong t-shirts. It just shows you, while we may be on different teams, we're all part of a brotherhood."

Anthony Castonzo smiled as he thought about your reaction, Chuck.

"You can picture him with a big smile on his face in his hospital bed," Castonzo said. "That means a ton to us."

The joy in Irsay's voice was audible. "That's as excited and animated as I've seen Chuck," he said. "I'll never forget the look on his face when we walked in with the game ball. We'll all treasure this moment forever."

They did it, Chuck.

They did it for you.

[Space Bear]

This guy should be getting paid to do real NFL commentary

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbNuykpGBX8&feature=fvsr

[NeverSurrender]

Stay classy, Chiefs fans.

[johnk5150]

Stay classy, Chiefs fans.

Making fans in Philly look good.

[johnk5150]

Rodgers time out with the clock stopped was retarded.

[NeverSurrender]

Rodgers time out with the clock stopped was retarded.

he was probably terrified his line would give up another sack.

[johnk5150]

Why were the Ravens the only team not wearing a shred of pink yesterday?

[NeverSurrender]

Coach Harbaugh gave them the choice and most players didn't want to wear it when they were the visiting team. Will be pink and black next week.

[johnk5150]

Packers have Houston next week.

[NeverSurrender]

Kudos to Lovie smith and Leslie Frazier, who made me and John stop badmouthing them. Even if just for a few weeks.

[johnk5150]

You must not have seen the first half of the game. I was badmouthing all of the Bears.

38 second half points shut me up though.

[Facedown]

The Patriots continue to dominate one of the Manning brothers.
Now if they could just beat the better one.

[NeverSurrender]

You must not have seen the first half of the game. I was badmouthing all of the Bears.

38 second half points shut me up though.

i didn't see any of that game. i watched The pack lose, then watched the Vikes win. Like usual.

[Crazy Levi]

Stay classy, Chiefs fans.

Making fans in Philly look good.

This happened 20 years ago when wade Wilson got knocked out of a saints game.

The result was another classic Jim mora press conference.

"That was SICK. Those fans were SICK."

Yesterday was a pretty shitty sports day for me. Rainy and cold, Skins found a way to lose on a day when the Falcons looked completely beatable. And the orioles of course blow it at the end to the loathsome Yankees. Did have a great tailgate and the brisket and ribs both turned out amazingly well.

I love going to games but goddamn the Skins haven't won at home in over a year.

First concussion 5 games into his career is not a good thing for RG3. They didn't have him running all day (I believe that was his only scramble all day and it wasn't a planned run).

Hopefully he learned something there and his brain recovers quickly.

[Crazy Levi]

You must not have seen the first half of the game. I was badmouthing all of the Bears.

38 second half points shut me up though.

i didn't see any of that game. i watched The pack lose, then watched the Vikes win. Like usual.

It's great that you are are feeling your oats but goddamn you gotta figure the Vikings will blow it eventually as usual.