Are you ready for some football?

[Kahns Krazy]

I love NFL football. ESPN is busy reminding me that I hate the MNF crew, but I love the game more than I hate the announcers. I predict I will catch some games this year with Fred and Nuts, then taunt Snipe about it. We will gloat about how these are the days memories are made, then quickly obliterated with intoxicants. Snipe will be home, copying and pasting absurdly long quotes.

I hate Mike Brown.

I think I hate Katie more.

I love NFL football. Who Dey? Possibly 13 different teams this year. I still don't care. I am ready for some football.

[GoMuskies]

I'm not a big NFL fan, but it beats soccer, and the beginning of NFL preseason means college football is only 3 weeks away, so that's a good thing.

[DC Muskie]

About 36 hours till football begins! Can't wait.

[DC Muskie]

Whoops, sorry. Wrong football.

I heard tonight, (for some reason the Ravens are televising their pre season games down here in DC) that the NFL will review all called touchdowns.

That's incredible.

[Masterofreality]

I am now the proud owner of half of 2 Cleveland Browns season tickets.

I will not attend the opening game where the Browns will pillage the Bungles. That one is a no brain win. I'd rather go to games that will be more competitive.

[Titanxman04]

I, for one, was actually rooting for the lock out. For once, my beloved Redskins would have been guaranteed a non-losing season. Damn it all.

Oh well.

HTTR.

[paulxu]

I am now the proud owner of half of 2 Cleveland Browns season tickets.

Well, 1/2 of two tickets = 1 ticket.
Does your better half own the other half; or is it some other nutty Brown's fan?

I saw a game once in Cleveland in the late 60's. They played in this real dump of a place (I think near the lake). It was colder than hell. Maybe it was the baseball stadium.
Where I was sitting there was a damn pole that came down from the roof right into the middle of the stands. Very strange. Do they still play there?

[nuts4xu]

I am now the proud owner of half of 2 Cleveland Browns season tickets.

I will not attend the opening game where the Browns will pillage the Bungles. That one is a no brain win. I'd rather go to games that will be more competitive.

You wanna get rid of those tickets to the Brown/Bengals game, let me know. Kahns Krazy and I might be motivated to head to the dawg pound to watch the Bengals first of 3 or 4 wins.

PM me my man.

[GoMuskies]

Call me crazy, but I'm thinking MOR gets two tickets for four of the games. And the Bengals ain't one of them.

[xu95]

Call me crazy, but I'm thinking MOR gets two tickets for four of the games. And the Bengals ain't one of them.

I would rather be the proud owner of 1/8th of 1 ticket. Let's see how many people we can fit in that seat.

xu95

[Masterofreality]

Call me crazy, but I'm thinking MOR gets two tickets for four of the games. And the Bengals ain't one of them.

You are correct sir- except for the fact that it is for 5 games- you know, that "Preseason Game" that is charged for regular season prices although it is a glorified scrimmage.

I passed on the Bungles game.

And, Paul. No. We have a very nice new state of the art Stadium that we paid $250 million for in 1999. It actually has grass on the field, not the painted dirt that Art Modell used to call turf.

[Michigan Muskie]

I was considering heading into Detroit for the game, but tonight is probably the worst night they could have picked to play at Ford Field. Kid Rock will be on stage at Comerica at the same time, so parking downtown is going to be a nightmare.

Kid Rock is a nightmare.

[paulxu]

You wanna get rid of those tickets to the Brown/Bengals game, let me know. Kahns Krazy and I might be motivated to head to the dawg pound to watch the Bengals first of 3 or 4 wins.

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[XULucho27]

I'll be at Brown-Bengals up in Cleveland. I will NOT be wearing Bengals gear though. Those people scare the ever living shit out of me. I fear for my safety in Cleveland.

[Jumpy]

I've been to Pittsburgh and Baltimore for Bengals games, but never Cleveland. I never plan on going to Cleveland, either.

Surprisingly, the Pittsburgh fans were very civil both during and after the game, especially considering it was the game we won to effectively clinch the North title late in 2005. That same year in Baltimore, the fans were cool until they lost. There were a few incidents that came close to outright brawls while walking back to our car after the game.

[Masterofreality]

I'll be at Brown-Bengals up in Cleveland. I will NOT be wearing Bengals gear though. Those people scare the ever living shit out of me. I fear for my safety in Cleveland.


I've been to Pittsburgh and Baltimore for Bengals games, but never Cleveland. I never plan on going to Cleveland, either.

Surprisingly, the Pittsburgh fans were very civil both during and after the game, especially considering it was the game we won to effectively clinch the North title late in 2005. That same year in Baltimore, the fans were cool until they lost. There were a few incidents that came close to outright brawls while walking back to our car after the game.

Right. We are nothing but cannibilistic barbarians up here waiting to rip your skin off. You should fear for your safety because if we catch you, we'll throw you to the pirannah in Lake Erie....or the Asian Carp, or whatever predator fish has migrated from Chicago lately.

Mogadishu is more tame than Cleveland. This place is what you get after Armageddon. A lawless, sinful, murderous place.

If you can't take the jungle, best you stay away. :rolleyes:

[Jumpy]

Right. We are nothing but cannibilistic barbarians up here waiting to rip your skin off. You should fear for your safety because if we catch you, we'll throw you to the pirannah in Lake Erie....or the Asian Carp, or whatever predator fish has migrated from Chicago lately.

Mogadishu is more tame than Cleveland. This place is what you get after Armageddon. A lawless, sinful, murderous place.

If you can't take the jungle, best you stay away. :rolleyes:

I never said it was because I was afraid of Cleveland. It's just that it is a cess-pit of filth and flaming rivers that I would rather never visit ever again.

[SixFig]

Preseason football, and the over-analysis of it, is annoying. Why do I care about (insert team)'s 3rd string QB?

[XULucho27]

Right. We are nothing but cannibilistic barbarians up here waiting to rip your skin off. You should fear for your safety because if we catch you, we'll throw you to the pirannah in Lake Erie....or the Asian Carp, or whatever predator fish has migrated from Chicago lately.

Mogadishu is more tame than Cleveland. This place is what you get after Armageddon. A lawless, sinful, murderous place.

If you can't take the jungle, best you stay away. :rolleyes:

C'mon man you think I would just make this up? When I get bottles thrown at me in parking lots, ice tossed at me walking out of the stadium, and shoved by no less than a dozen people I don't know (all of which happened while flanked by my brother in law and his two friends, both Browns fans wearing Browns gear), I'd say I'm right in fearing for my safety.

For the most part the folks in the stands around me are very cordial. I'm also a reserved individual and do not taunt the home team fans that sit near me, I find that insufferable. This was just unprovoked mob mentality and it's happened on several trips down to watch Bengals-Browns. I'm not going to stop going to the games, I've just stopped wearing Bengals gear.

[BlueX]

Preseason football, and the over-analysis of it, is annoying. Why do I care about (insert team)'s 3rd string QB?

Because espn/the NFL (is there a difference) tells you to care. Whats next, are you going to disagree with the world wide leader and say european soccer, the Big East, Favre, and Lebron aren't the next greatest things on earth.

[GoMuskies]

Preseason football, and the over-analysis of it, is annoying. Why do I care about (insert team)'s 3rd string QB?

Everyone cares about Tim Tebow (according to ESPN).

[gladdenguy]

I went to the Bengals/Browns game in maybe 2001 when Akili Smith got about his only win of his career.
Every 3 seconds I yelled
John Elway
Earnest Byner
and the Florida Marlins.
It was one of the best days of my life. And you might think they are crazy, but not one person would mess with me. I was pretty intoxicated but I just dared people to do something.
At a point a Cleveland officer came up to me and said, I'm not gonna help you if somebody knocks you out.....I said that would be impossible. Bunch of whimps who live in the worse professional sports city ever invented.
I am much more mature with children now, and a career that does not tolerate anything, but man....that was one fun day.

[PMI]

There is no place like Philadelphia when it comes to drunken assholes at a football game. I wore my Skins gear there last year. You don't have to be looking for trouble, it will find you. The only thing that kept my friends and I from getting our asses kicked by a pack of inbreds whose antics we had entirely ignored, was an off-duty fire-fighter who looked like he could have been on the field. I must've been hit 100 times by bottles/cups and other objects. I couldn't walk anywhere without being kicked, booed, taunted and thrown at. Not one person in reaching distance allowed me to take a piss without shoves and shots to the back. The first beer I bought was for my friend, and he didn't get two sips before he got it slapped out of his hand and surrounded by 5 goons in green. The people are animals I tell you. And according to the firefighter, that was only a minor taste of what life was like in the old stadium. Our famous fan, Chief Zee, got to finish watching the game from a Philly hospital last time he went up for a visit. The place is the lowest rung of hell.

Great cheesesteaks though.

[blobfan]

I, for one, was actually rooting for the lock out. For once, my beloved Redskins would have been guaranteed a non-losing season. Damn it all.

Oh well.

HTTR.

You and me both. I could use a season off. I like to root for my local teams but I just can't cheer for the Bungles without reservations.

[gladdenguy]

There is no place like Philadelphia when it comes to drunken assholes at a football game. I wore my Skins gear there last year. You don't have to be looking for trouble, it will find you. The only thing that kept my friends and I from getting our asses kicked by a pack of inbreds whose antics we had entirely ignored, was an off-duty fire-fighter who looked like he could have been on the field. I must've been hit 100 times by bottles/cups and other objects. I couldn't walk anywhere without being kicked, booed, taunted and thrown at. Not one person in reaching distance allowed me to take a piss without shoves and shots to the back. The first beer I bought was for my friend, and he didn't get two sips before he got it slapped out of his hand and surrounded by 5 goons in green. The people are animals I tell you. And according to the firefighter, that was only a minor taste of what life was like in the old stadium. Our famous fan, Chief Zee, got to finish watching the game from a Philly hospital last time he went up for a visit. The place is the lowest rung of hell.

Great cheesesteaks though.


yeah Philly fans are the lowest of the low. If a bomb were to go off in one stadium, I would definitely pick Philly. Scumbags and that damn Eagles chant.

[PM Thor]

Oh man. I just had a crazy thought after seeing Tressel visited the Browns today. Mike Brown fires Lewis later this season (or over the off season next year) and hires Tressel. That would be epic.

I HATE dayton.

[boozehound]

Oh man. I just had a crazy thought after seeing Tressel visited the Browns today. Mike Brown fires Lewis later this season (or over the off season next year) and hires Tressel. That would be epic.

I HATE dayton.

That would pretty much put the final nail in the "Bengals fan coffin" for me! How about you Gladdenguy?

[gladdenguy]

How many tattoos does it take to win a National Championship, Tresselgate?

Yes booze, that would be it for me. And now that the imbicile Palmer is not under center I am actually rooting for the Bengals......vs rooting for Palmer to fail.

[PM Thor]

Denny Jansen twittered that Carson Palmer believes that Brown has already decided to cut his brother, pointing to number of reps (etc) but that he won't cut him yet, he's waiting to cut Jordan until it gets too close to the season for him to hook on with another team.

Do I believe that? In a way yeah, I don't put anything past old Mikey boy anymore.

I HATE dayton.

[drudy23]

That would pretty much put the final nail in the "Bengals fan coffin" for me! How about you Gladdenguy?

That final nail hasn't been driven yet?

[Fred Garvin 2.0]

I love NFL football. ESPN is busy reminding me that I hate the MNF crew, but I love the game more than I hate the announcers. I predict I will catch some games this year with Fred and Nuts, then taunt Snipe about it. We will gloat about how these are the days memories are made, then quickly obliterated with intoxicants. Snipe will be home, copying and pasting absurdly long quotes.

I hate Mike Brown.

I think I hate Katie more.

I love NFL football. Who Dey? Possibly 13 different teams this year. I still don't care. I am ready for some football.

You don't like Gruden?

[Kahns Krazy]

You don't like Gruden?

I don't know. Gruden is a huge improvement over Kornheiser, but he has to share the booth with Tirico and Jaworski, so the whole thing is still unbearable. Replacing Kornheiser with Gruden is like replacing Roseanne Barr's granny panties with a thong. In theory, that should be an upgrade, but the finished product still makes me want to barf.

[Kahns Krazy]

Denny Jansen twittered that Carson Palmer believes that Brown has already decided to cut his brother, pointing to number of reps (etc) but that he won't cut him yet, he's waiting to cut Jordan until it gets too close to the season for him to hook on with another team.

Do I believe that? In a way yeah, I don't put anything past old Mikey boy anymore.

I HATE dayton.

That is laughable. Jordan isn't hooking on with another NFL team ever. He came in third in the first preseason game and against a bunch of players who aren't likely to make the Detriot Lions team, put up an outstanding 1/4 for seven yards and a first play of the possession interception on his own 20.

I'd say that about sums up Jordan's career. Little Palmer sucks almost as much as little Brown.

[gladdenguy]

The Palmers should actually love Mike Brown....he gave an average quarterback a crapload of money for being a refrigerator appliance in the backfield and he gave his brother a sympathy job.
Thank god we will never see Carson Pussy Palmer take a knee trying to draw a defense offsides. Clearly, the dumbest play I've ever seen in football.

[boozehound]

The Palmers should actually love Mike Brown....he gave an average quarterback a crapload of money for being a refrigerator appliance in the backfield and he gave his brother a sympathy job.
Thank god we will never see Carson Pussy Palmer take a knee trying to draw a defense offsides. Clearly, the dumbest play I've ever seen in football.

See, I don't think Palmer is that bad of a QB. He definitely isn't an elite QB, but I think he is still a decent QB that has to play in a shitty system. I really wanted to see him get traded somewhere to see how well he did there. I think that you could put Peyton Manning on the Bengals and even he would have a mediocore career here.

The only thing that has remained constant during the bengals years of futility is Mike Brown. It should be legal for Bengals fans to sucker punch him any time they see him. I hate that guy.

[gladdenguy]

Palmer is real high on my least favorite Cincinnati Sports List
1.) Anybody from sUCks
2.) Pete Rose
3.) Carson Palmer
4.) Ken Griffey Jr.
5.) Johnny Bench
6.) Adam Dunn

[Jumpy]

Palmer is real high on my least favorite Cincinnati Sports List
1.) Anybody from sUCks
2.) Pete Rose
3.) Carson Palmer
4.) Ken Griffey Jr.
5.) Johnny Bench
6.) Adam Dunn

Homophobe.

[American X]

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[Kahns Krazy]

See, I don't think Palmer is that bad of a QB. He definitely isn't an elite QB, but I think he is still a decent QB that has to play in a shitty system. I really wanted to see him get traded somewhere to see how well he did there. I think that you could put Peyton Manning on the Bengals and even he would have a mediocore career here.

The only thing that has remained constant during the bengals years of futility is Mike Brown. It should be legal for Bengals fans to sucker punch him any time they see him. I hate that guy.

Pre knee injury, he was top 5. Post knee, pre-elbow, top 10, barely. Post elbow injury, bottom 10 starting quarterbacks. Palmer hasn't been able to keep passes from floating for 2 years now, and he has somehow lost all ability to look off the defense. If I had a team with a QB need, I think I would use my first or second round pick drafting a QB instead of trading it for Palmer.

I would bet a hefty chunk that Palmer is never again #1 on the QB depth chart for a full season for any NFL team.

[gladdenguy]

I would bet a hefty chunk that Palmer is never again #1 on the QB depth chart for a full season for any NFL team.

I always knew I loved you.

[GuyFawkes38]

What a boring sports summer. No World Cup, Euro Cup, World Olympics, etc....

Can't wait until college football starts. Yikes, I can't wait even for the NFL.

[Kahns Krazy]

I always knew I loved you.

Oh gay.

Bengals actually looked decent last night. I am considering raising my expectations for the season from 2-14 to 3-13 if they can put together another half like the first half.

Wide receivers actually blocking on run plays is something I haven't seen around here in a long time. (Possible exception of T.O., when he felt like it).

Green had an awesome TD catch, but then dropped another ball that hit him in the hands. He makes great moves to get his hands on the ball, but sometimes his hands are failing him. I would guess that will go away with reps.

Once again, and what I'm expecting for the season, big plays cost the Bengals. Dalton scrabled for a 20 yard first down only to have it called back for an illegal block. Next play, fumble. A few plays later, Cam Newton scrambles right through the defense for a long touchdown run.

[boozehound]

Pre knee injury, he was top 5. Post knee, pre-elbow, top 10, barely. Post elbow injury, bottom 10 starting quarterbacks. Palmer hasn't been able to keep passes from floating for 2 years now, and he has somehow lost all ability to look off the defense. If I had a team with a QB need, I think I would use my first or second round pick drafting a QB instead of trading it for Palmer.

I would bet a hefty chunk that Palmer is never again #1 on the QB depth chart for a full season for any NFL team.

You may be right on both accounts. Palmer certainly hasn't played well since the elbow injury and he definitely has been floating passes. I still think he could end up as the starting QB on a team that really needs a QB. Seattle maybe? I am genuinely curious, particularly since he made such a big deal about not playing in Cincinnati. I would like to see him get a shot. I have wanted the Bengals to trade him for the last 2 years or so because he obviously hasn't been working out as our QB, but I don't really harbor any ill will towards the guy.

[Fred Garvin 2.0]

Oh gay.

Bengals actually looked decent last night. I am considering raising my expectations for the season from 2-14 to 3-13 if they can put together another half like the first half.

Wide receivers actually blocking on run plays is something I haven't seen around here in a long time. (Possible exception of T.O., when he felt like it).

Green had an awesome TD catch, but then dropped another ball that hit him in the hands. He makes great moves to get his hands on the ball, but sometimes his hands are failing him. I would guess that will go away with reps.

Once again, and what I'm expecting for the season, big plays cost the Bengals. Dalton scrabled for a 20 yard first down only to have it called back for an illegal block. Next play, fumble. A few plays later, Cam Newton scrambles right through the defense for a long touchdown run.

Kahn's Krazy attended a high school that played the game.