Sunday Social/Mid-Season Report
Posted by madmommy in Relaxed Politics, Sunday Social, sports
Good morning bumz!
Well, football season is half over already-where has the time gone? I can only speak for myself, but I really could not be happier with how things have shaped up thus far 
There’s lots of football left to be played, but some things are pretty clear. The Browns, Rams, Chiefs and Lions, all sitting at 1-7 thus far, are just abysmal. The Redskins aren’t much better at 2-6. For these fans, it’s already time to start dreaming about next year, and getting through the rest of this season while trying to salvage something to build on for next year.
There are quite a few teams that are still very much in contention for playoff berths, one of the most surprising is the Cincinnati Bengals. They’ve got a real chance to pick up a playoff spot this year. Given their poor performances over the last few years, this is great news for the fans in the Dawg Pound. The usual suspects are still hanging around the top of the standings, with the Colts, Pats, Steelers and Vikings looking fierce. The old coot in Minnesota is flingin’ the ball around like a high school kid, but I stand by my belief that he is going to revert to his old ways and manage to throw away a few crucial games down the stretch by passing to the wrong team. The Cowgirls are beating up on their opponents, but I’d sure like to see them falter, if only to poke a hole in the giant ego that is Jerry Jones. Then, of course, there are the Saints. Many teevee talkers are calling them the most complete team in the league. Pretty heady stuff for fans who were wearing paper bags on their heads not too many years ago.
What completely threw me, though, was reading Sports Illustrated this week. Two of their writers gave their predictions for the playoffs through to the Super Bowl. In the AFC, they’ve got the Pats over the Bengals and the Chargers over the Broncos in the wild card. Then Chargers over Colts and Steelers over Patriots, with the Divisional Championship won by the Steelers over the Chargers. In the NFC, they have the Cowboys over Eagles and Falcons over Cardinals in the wild card, Saints over Falcons and Vikes over Cowboys in the Divisional, and the Championship game is the Saints over the Vikings. These predictions would put the Super Bowl matchup as the Saints vs. Steelers. Their pick for the big game? Saints 31-Steelers 27. ZOMG!! Can ya believe it?? A national sports magazine is actually picking the New Orleans Saints to win the Super Bowl. I can barely wrap my brain around it. In fact, I read it a couple of times before it finally sunk in. I’m not nearly ready to go as far as these guys, but it sure is sweet to see it in print, written by someone who is not a WhoDat.
Nevertheless, they still gotta play the games, so get your fan on!!
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Hey, hey, HEY!!!! Up and at ‘em, people! We’re burning daylight here!!!
The morning fog is burning off, the madkiddies are hard at work in the backyard hauling leaves to the burnpile. I’m on the third load of laundry already and am working my way from the back of the house to the front, cleaning along the way
Morning madmom.
Giants need to show me something today before I can even start placing helmets all over your thread.
@ Texas Betsy:
As great as the Saints are playing right now, I am feeling extremely generous-so go ahead and put those big ble helmets up wherever your little heart desires. Of course if you were to throw in a few fleur-de-lis I wouldn’t object
Saints v Steelers, huh? I don’t think I would enjoy that game. Too much tension and MM is way better at trash talking than I am. I’m too superstitious.
I had a training from 8 – 3 yesterday on the super expensive science kits that we have. Cool stuff, but it’s not the official adoption, so we don’t have the student texts, which makes it a little difficult since the investigations refer to specific information in the student texts. Plus we have an adopted text that we have to fit this stuff into, as well as another kit that covers still more of the same information.
@ Lea:
You’d be tense?!?!? Holy crap woman, the Saints haven’t even sniffed the Super Bowl. EVER! At least your team’s done it before, and within recent memory! If that game came to pass as they predicted, this entire region would be gripped with the most crushing anxiety attack evah!!
And if they won? It’d be like Mardi Gras, New Year’s and Christmas all rolled into one! No one would sober up for at least a week 
I don’t even think I could come up with any trashtalk, I’d be too busy pacing and breathing into a paper bag.
@ madmommy:
“pacing and breathing into a paper bag.”
throw in chewing on a Terrible Towel and that’s how I spent last year’s Super Bowl.
It would also be a tough game because I really like the Saints. Just not over my Steelers. BTW, Mike Ditka just predicted the Saints would go undefeated this year.
Saints game showing here.
Lea wrote:
BTW, Mike Ditka just predicted the Saints would go undefeated this year.
That’s impressive.
Join the Dolphins. I watched that whole season… talk about some good football!
@ Texas Betsy:
They’re really playing with fire these last few weeks. On paper they should be 2-3 TD ahead of the Rams at this point. I can’t help but think that at some point it’s going to blow up in their faces. I’d just as soon that happen during the regular season, so they can take it as a wake-up call, than in the playoffs where it’s one-and-done.
“Dumm and Evil” or “Evil and Dumm” or “Dumm and Dummer” or “Dummer and Dumm”
No matter which. What a season that would be!
No Saints on here…
not even on the evil empire faux (speaking of, Rupert is off his rocker if he thinks that taking his content of Google will lead to more business for him 
). too bad. not watching lions v. yikes or cowgirls v. packers. So I’ll watch National Treasure and maybe History Channel on 9/11 shows. Maybe. Not sure. Will probably go back and forth. The show is on a guy who worked at Morgan Stanley, quite a hero – though he himself was lost that day, he saved thousands.
Dang but that old guy in purple can throw!
Back from a hike. The boys did better this time…went further and less whining, although hubby carried the little guy on his shoulders for quite a bit of it. Still, it’s progress.
I read the post and thought oh, no. MM vs. Lea. But the comments show that they will be rational about it.
I cannot believe that a Chief’s game is actually on tv this afternoon.
Lea, you mean they expect you to teach without the students having materials?
But then it’s all the teacher’s fault that progress is not being made. Didn’t watch the whole thing, but Newt, Sharpton and Sec of Ed Duncan were on MTP this morning. I swear they don’t have a complete clue.
Also caught some of the HBO documentary on the Mumbai bombing on CNN this afternoon. They have the transmission of the controller in Pakistan talking the operatives in India through their actions. Just spooky, and not in a Halloween way.
Just finished my HOA newsletter and need to take it over to our secretary for mailing.
Holy crap, they’re trying to give me a coronary!!
@ sharonlee:
Sharonlee, one of the things that drives me the craziest about education is how people who haven’t been in a classroom since their college days decide what I should be doing in my classroom and people who haven’t been around kids since they were one decide what’s best for kids. Why not ask the people who went to school to become teachers and spend 6+ hours a day/180 days a year with kids what should be done in education?
And yeah, the whole supplies/materials thing is a farce. They don’t give us the student texts and then yell at us if we make too many copies of the information that they need to do the stuff that we do have. They didn’t order math workbooks for us this year because the old adoption ran out and they didn’t have the money to get the new adoption. So you have a school full of students that are used to working out of workbooks transitioning to not working out of workbooks and our principal emails us to say we’re making too many copies and that we shouldn’t be copying worksheets because they should be copying the problems out of the book.
I knew the Steelers were going to lose today because the pregame crew ALL took the Steelers over the Bengals.
@ Lea:
John Cole had a bet with one of his commenters, if the Steelers lost he’d dress up his cat in a Bengals outfit. Anyone who has seen pictures of Tunch will know that this is a dicey proposition at best, and at worst a trip to the ER with numerous puncture wounds.
Well, the Saints managed to squeek out a win against a team that is 1-7
@ madmommy:
I don’t know who I feel worse for, John or Tunch. I would pay for video of him trying to put the outfit on Tunch, however.
@ Lea:
Is there an online version of the book? My textbook has the entire workbook online in pdf form. We just needed to register that we’d purchased some part of the series.
Hi Bumz. I got in just in time to watch MM’s Saints almost lose it.
Now watching that team that must not be mentioned 
Mr. Gnome is back from his fishing trip so I have to help him put up the kayak, go to the grocery store and get ready for the week. Mr. Gnome will be gone, so we’ve got to coordinate stuff today or never.
@ Lea:
My money’s on Tunch and a bloody, painful debacle
He was obviously pretty confident he would win the bet, or else he’s have said he’d dress the dog up in Bengals gear.
anyone know what’s up with the KC helmets with a Texas on them ?????
@ Pellora:
It’s the AFL throwback thing again. The Chiefs came into the AFL as the Dallas Texans from 1960-63, then moved to KC in ‘63 and chaned their name to the Chiefs. Any time this year you see a team wearing something that doesn’t look right, check the zebras. If their uniforms are red and white stripes instead of black and white, it’s an AFC tribute. This is the 40th anniversary of the AFL, so lots of teams will be wearing stuff they don’t normally. Generally it’s kinda cool, except for the horrific mustard yellow and babyshit brown that the Broncos have been forced to don
Watching Willie Wonka new one. Flipping to football, half time now.
@ madmommy:
Thanks for more of the history. I knew you’d know, but didn’t think you were around.
AFC tribute thing shouldn’t mean that anyone should have to wear babyshit brown (or any kind of off shit brown! I had a car with off shit brown interior – didn’t like it then. After having kids, liked it even less…)
@ Pellora:
They normally have the KC logo, an arrowhead with KC inside it. They’re only wearing the old-style Texans helmets for games when they’re doing the AFL tribute. Some teams aren’t still in the cities they started in. The Oilers became the Titans and the Texans became the Chiefs. The other teams are still where they started, more or less. The original AFL was the Patriots, Bills, Oilers, Dolphins and Jets in the Eastern Division, and the Bengals, Broncos, Chargers, Raiders and Texans/Chiefs in the Westerd Division. The Patriots were originally called the Boston Patriots, and the Jets started out as the NY Titans.
@ Pellora:
As if the color combination isn’t bad enough, there’s also stripes. On the socks. It’s horrifying.
http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/ae8c6fee97.jpg
@ madmommy:
Were those designed in the psychedelic 60s! 
That would be my guess.
@ madmommy:
That brown and yellow. It looks like some old kitchens I have seen from the ’60’s and ’70’s. 
I remember way back when the Patriots played in Harvard Stadium – before they built Foxboro!
After they moved so far away, I didn’t pay that much attention to them. 
@ madmommy:
I knew the answer to the Chiefs question but didn’t know years, etc. Can’t believe they are leading against the Chargers today.
Your sports knowledge is mind boggling.
Chief’s won. Fun pass recovery in last 30 seconds. I fell sorry for the Chargers player. Does that make me not a good fan?
Two soldiers in Afghanistan interviewed on 60 Minutes said they measure success as going home alive. This reminds me of conversation with my brother who served in Korea. They just concentrated on staying alive and getting on the transportation out of the war zone when the time came.
Off to laundry. Betsy, hope you are doing okay with your attack.