NFL Football

[GoCubsGo]

Oh well, I don't hate the Rams.

Me either and I'm a little torn. I do want Stafford to win one but the Bungles have never won it all.

Got two weeks to search my gut...

[GoCubsGo]

Wonder what colors Garoppolo will be wearing next year.

Tampa?

[Vrede too]

Oh well, I don't hate the Rams.

Me either and I'm a little torn. I do want Stafford to win one but the Bungles have never won it all.

Got two weeks to search my gut...

Ditto. The Rams will have a home field edge, but that may matter less for a SB.

Wonder what colors Garoppolo will be wearing next year.

Tampa?

Chicago?

[GoCubsGo]

Chicago?

Nyet!

[GoCubsGo]

The NFL is a funny league.

[Vrede too]

The NFL is a funny league.

Several poor to mediocre teams beat the Bengals.
https://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/teams/cincinnati/schedule/

... Bengals are the Rodney Dangerfield of the playoffs, which has worked out for them so far.

Wow. Matches biggest AFC or NFC Championship comeback ever, were 18 down. Think they'll be the underdogs for a 4th game? ...

Bengals won the last 3 games by a total of 13.
Rams kicked AZ ass, but won the last 2 games by a total of 6.

NFL SPREAD
L.A. Rams -4

Odds To Win Super Bowl 56 (2/13/22)
Los Angeles Rams only slightly better.

[Ulysses]

Rams and Bengals will meet in LA for Super Bowl LVI. Here's what to know

Indeed!

The stage is now set for this year's Super Bowl, with the Cincinnati Bengals taking on the Los Angeles Rams at the latter's home stadium in Inglewood, Calif.

The matchup was secured Sunday after the conference championships. The Bengals beat the Kansas City Chiefs 27-24 in overtime in the AFC Championship. The Rams rallied to win the NFC Championship 20-17 over the San Francisco 49ers.

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Los Angeles Rams: With their win over the 49ers, the Rams become the second team to play the Super Bowl in their home stadium. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers are the only other team to do this — and the only team to win the game at home.

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Cincinnati Bengals: Cincinnati's win over Kansas City on Sunday propelled the team to its third Super Bowl appearance in franchise history (and their first since 1989). But the Bengals have never won a Super Bowl.

[Ulysses]

Wonder what colors Garoppolo will be wearing next year.

Tampa?

Looking like Shanahan is the one who needs to go elsewhere.

[O Really]

Wonder what colors Garoppolo will be wearing next year.

Tampa?

Looking like Shanahan is the one who needs to go elsewhere.

One could think that a strange suggestion two years after he went to the Super Bowl and right after a championship eligible season - however, if you consider 3 out of his 5 seasons have been losing, and then consider the other parts of his coaching career that have been less than stellar, you may have a point. One might also say that he got to 49ers to to championship game and was one clearly botched potential interception from winning.

Regular season: 39–42 (.481)
Postseason: 4–2 (.667)
Career: 43–44 (.494)

[GoCubsGo]

One could think that a strange suggestion two years after he went to the Super Bowl and right after a championship eligible season - however, if you consider 3 out of his 5 seasons have been losing, and then consider the other parts of his coaching career that have been less than stellar, you may have a point. One might also say that he got to 49ers to to championship game and was one clearly botched potential interception from winning.

Regular season: 39–42 (.481)
Postseason: 4–2 (.667)
Career: 43–44 (.494)

Better argument can be made that he hasn't had the horses.

If the 49r's let him go he'd be unemployed about five minutes.

[O Really]

Better argument can be made that he hasn't had the horses.

If the 49r's let him go he'd be unemployed about five minutes.

True that. Such as Chicago?

[GoCubsGo]

Better argument can be made that he hasn't had the horses.

If the 49r's let him go he'd be unemployed about five minutes.

True that. Such as Chicago?

We would've happily taken him, although now we have our guy that nobody has heard of.

[Ulysses]

Better argument can be made that he hasn't had the horses.

If the 49r's let him go he'd be unemployed about five minutes.

True that. Such as Chicago?

[Ulysses]

Well, at least the game didn't go into overtime.

/s

[O Really]

You knew changing the name, the logo, getting rid of the headresses, the face paint, and the song wasn't really going to be enough, didn't you?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions ... ball-name/

[Ulysses]

Paywall...

Sort of ironic.

But I was able to find this: https://nypost.com/2022/01/31/washingto ... -wft-name/

As the saying goes, it's not over until Theismann fumbles...

[GoCubsGo]

If Brady doesn't retire ESPN is gonna have a lot of egg on their face. All morning has been a Brady tribute/funeral.

Guessing they wouldn't do this if they weren't pretty darn sure.

Guess they were sure.

[Ulysses]

More detail on Brady's retirement:

Tom Brady: NFL great and seven-time Super Bowl winner confirms retirement

Tom Brady, one of the greatest players in the history of the NFL, has confirmed his retirement. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback, 44, won seven Super Bowls in an astonishing career spanning 22 seasons.

Brady won six titles with the New England Patriots before his final triumph with the Buccaneers last year. The five-time Super Bowl Most Valuable Player is retiring after deciding he could no longer make the "competitive commitment" to continue.

His final game in the NFL was a 30-27 defeat by the Los Angeles Rams in the play-offs, when his heroics narrowly failed to pull off a sensational comeback from 27-3 down.

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In a statement posted on social media, he said: "I have always believed the sport of football is an 'all-in' proposition - if a 100% competitive commitment isn't there, you won't succeed, and success is what I love so much about our game....

[GoCubsGo]

Wow, notable absence of anything Patriots, Belichick or Kraft.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CZcDCOOr-v4/

https://sports.yahoo.com/tom-brady-had- ... p_catchall

[O Really]

Perhaps the split was not as amicable as publicly presented. No matter, though, it's over and with 20 years a Patriot and 2 a Buc, you'd think there would be some mention. Actually, some guys who spent the vast majority of their time with one team and then played for somebody else toward the end of their career have signed one-day contracts to retire as an original team member. Somebody's still bitter over something.