Emmitt is already in midseason form!

So, whos going to have more picks in the first quarter, Rodgers or Jackson?

Hey, get ready to see this damn Brett Farve Wrangler Jeans commercial ALL night tonight. You could make up a drinking game off it and be plastered by halftime.

You'd think the folks at Bristol could come up with a better name than "Monday Night Football Launch" for the opening tease with the Three Stooges...but alas this is Bristol.

Oooooh, Bradshaw makes a cameo in the Hank Williams, Jr. video. Bradshaw's appearance was cleared by his ex-wife...and his other ex-wife...and his other ex-wife...

Oh great a Sara palin referance

First positive: The new scoreline at the bottom. Graphically simple and effective. The translucent ESPN bug in the bottom right needs to be moved though.

"You must have been a quarterback" - Tony, sarcastically to Jaws.

Tony Kornheiser mentions Sarah Palin. How fitting considering that she knows so little about being a vp and he knows so little about football.

The Vikings lineup presented by Jared "Does this hat make me look like Hank" Allen.

They should've gave Jared Allen the breathalizer before espn let him do that intro.

Teddy Roosvelt referance? WTF

First, what the heck is Jared Allen wearing on his head? Second, did he just intro one of his teammates as "Ray 'When I'm Not Playing, I'm Enjoying a Bubble Bath' Edwards"? File that under Too Much Information.

oh brett farve would not have dropped that snap

I like simplicity of the scoreboard, but does it really need to be half the size of the Monday Night Football logo at the bottom? It's kind of distracting.

AA, the ball is going forward, get used to it again, this is not Redskins football.

Apparently, the producers told the players to do your best homage to Berman...we get it...STOP IT!

Taravirius Jackson makes passing decisions like Atari Bigby's mother made child-naming decisions.

"He went over a 1,000,000 yards, like 9 different times". -Tony Kornheiser on Adrian Peterson.

Wow...Peterson should really quit football and run marathons instead.

i think this is the only football presentation i've ever seen that doesn't show down and yardage on the screen.

They have to gove me the down & distance somewhere else. The whole color coded markers is kinda hokey to me.

Tony Kornheiser: (about Adrian Peterson) "He got over a million yards last year 9 different times"
Wow I don't have the stats in front of me but thats gotta be some kind of a record.

So who wants to bet how many times Jackson will referred to as "athletic?"

The Packers so planned that.

And we get in super slo-mo, terrible NFL football.

Tony talks about Aaron Rodgers being surprised at people talking about him on TV. Ummm...This just in...Television time is devoted to the most popular sport in the world.

4 penalties in 1 drive....I thought the Raiders were playing in the 2nd game?

You should keep a tally of how many times Brett Favre is mentioned tonight. Just including the game (not pregame), I think I've heard about 4 references to him. (Perhaps another idea for a drinking game?)

"There is no play in Mike McCarthy's playbook for 1st and 33." - Jaws

Or any coach for that matter Jaws....

Was that a 6ft 350lb bratwurst, or a Packer fan

ahh a down and yardage sighting on the bottom bar

5 Penalties Brett Farve would not have this many

"At least they went 3 plays without a flag. That's an encouraging sign". - Mike Tirico

Here's my prediction, the Vikes are going to win a low scoring snooze fest like 13-3 and everyone's going to be yapping about how good their defense is but it's only going to be because Rodgers sucks so bad. Then next week the Vikes will get blown out by the Colts.

OK - if the Three Stooges keep thinking about What Would Favre Do (WWFD) on every play, then should we wonder what call Cosell or Michels would make? Give it a rest fellas.

Why in the world can't Monday Night Football get their scoreboard just like it is with college football and basketball? What a joke. The scoreboard takes up so much space on my screen. Color coding of the Line of scrimmage and down and distance on the field. You're better than this ESPN or are you?

And Jacobs just flattens Carlos Rogers again....oh wait, it's AP over Al Harris.

Tirico: "Wow. Adrian Peterson putting on the moves".

What would Cossell say: "Look at that little monkey go".

Al Harris just got his dick knocked off by Purple Jesus

This game might be so depressing to Packers fans it just might cause them to STOP eating and drinking

If anyone had Nate Burleson on their fantasy team, he tore his ACL, out for the season......I'm going to cry now.

It's a damned shame to interrupt this awesome football with all these commercials.

Hey ssreporters, Jacobs flattened LaRon Landry the other day, not Rogers (although he's probably run over 80% of the NFC East DBs at some point...).

The state of Washington is in the middle of the worst football week ever.


The Seahawks suck and are banged up.

Washington and Washington State suck.



Oklahoma vs. Washington will be called by Mike Patrick.

A Hallmark Moment about the life of Brent Farve, brought to you by ESPN and Tony Kornhieser.

i'd like to see them use different Tallica songs on the outro than Fuel and TDTNC.

by the way, i have death MAgnetic and it is their best album in 20 years

Crap, I have Burleson, too. Oh well, he helped me win Week 1. Time to make a trade! (Damn, those Seahawks have NO wideouts now.)

You'd swear Brett Favre just retired again with the way ESPN is treating this.

Oh goody, another Brett Favre reference.

Wow, great throw by Rodgers and a great catch by Jennings!

Tony: "That's exactly the kind of pass Favre would have thrown". Only if the next throw is a pick six into triple coverage. But, hey, Brett is just being Brett and trying to win the game.

Jay, Bobby Engram and Deion Branch will be back after the bye week, Branch maybe even before that.


Seneca Wallace will be WR as well.


But yeah, I'm getting prepared for a possible 8-8 season.

Tony: "That's exactly the kind of pass Favre would have thrown"

I think Tony's mouth is on fire from the herpes he is getting from felating Brett Favre tonight..

I can only imagine what Adrian Peterson is going to do that Detroit defense. He may rush for 300 yds. Detroit might be the worst defensive football team I've ever seen, at least on the NFL level.

The refs shouldn't bother to pick up the flag, there is going to be one every play, it saves them the trouble of doing this.

i didn't see this many flags at the Olympics

"It's all about penetration." - Ron Jaworski


Of course it is.

What's with all the flags? Does Donaghy have the under on this game or something?

Tony: "That's a Favre-like throw". Don't drink. Puke.

"better than you"

a very underrated metallica song

"Gonna throw down here...Oh boy....TOUCHDOWN! COREY HALL!" - Mike Tirico. That's the 1st time I heard "oh boy" as a quarterback is scrambling.

And another Brett Favre reference by Tony Kornheiser. Anyone playing a Brett Favre drinking game is probably dead drunk by now. And it's only the 2nd quarter.

I'm amazed Tony can still speak coherently with a mouth full of Brett Favre's genetic material.

I'm surprised Tony can talk at this point with Favre's....you finish the sentence.

Hi, I'm Wilford Brimley.

Do you have Diabeetus?

I'm a big fan of any punchlines involving genetic material.

In the dictionary under "flash-in-the-pan," there's a picture or Ryan Grant...and a hundred other NFL backs just like him.

Ouch pm, one minute apart......I'm late.

anybody else think of "To Catch a Predator" the way Jaws said that LOVES young quarterbacks

Re: the penalties. Jeff Triplett is one of those officials that loves to make himself noticed.

Fran Tarkenton would have thrown that ball on the money.

"Al Harris loves this position, he loves to push, grab, hold, jam." - Jaws


EEEWWWWWWWW!

It's okay, SSR. Small payback for your lot nicking Berba from my Spurs.

Are these ten-minute commercial breaks the way for ESPN to make up for not turning a football game into Oprah in the 3rd quarter?

Tavaris Jackson is till the worst QB in the NFC.


Signed,

Kyle Orton

Vikes shoulda resigned Culpepper. Remember when Culpepper first came into the league and ran over the defense like a fullback? How awesome would it be to see Culpepper and Peterson lowering shoulders into linebackers? I'd pay to see that, plus it couldn't be any worse than TJ.

I think Rodgers is gonna be very good. I'm glad I got him as my fantasy backup QB.

It's not really payback, you should enjoy a bottom 10 finish though. No Keane, no Berba.......and you got Frazier Campbell.


Come on, Pavulychenko is worth something, no worries.

That's it, I've muted the TV.....

Kornheiser sounds like Bill Brasky tonight. I'm surprised he hasn't asked retorically what the score would be if Brett Farve played the Vikings by himself.

And Campbell is already chirping about how is future is at OT.

I'll be happy with 10th the way they've been playing. Hard to believe Levy let 60 goals walk out the door and thought the club could get on.

BTW, I'm interested to see how the Old Trafford faithful react when they realize Berbatov is a more brilliant version of Anelka. Better skills, same attitude.

I'm surprised we've not heard more "what if Brett had gone to the Vikings" ramblings from Tony K.

"When you're loading up the box with defenders." - Jaws

Sorry, I actually meant Bill Swerski and not Brasky. I got my SNL sketches mixed up.

Tavaris Jackson is tearing it up! 6 yards passing at the 2 minute warning. Glad I got him to back up Brady on my fantasy team

Jaws said loading up the box...cue Beavis and Butthead laugh

This game is starting to look like the Vikings games at the end of last year, when teams put 8 in the box and dared Jackson to beat them.

And he couldn't do it.

Anon 8:20, it's okay, no one watches SNL or finds it funny anyway.

what's with the band on the sideline? although it does go perfect with the high school caliber football we're seeing.

someone should tell ESPN that there are other Metallica songs than Fuel

If Brett Favre ran on that play he would've scored a touchdown because he is Brett Favre.

"He looks like Jack Black, but much bigger." - Tony K.

"Looks like Jack Black, only much bigger". - Tony Kornheiser

Is anyone else noticing that there have been no sideline updates?

The Favre worship has officially jumped the shark. By week 8, he could be the most hated player in the league.

Rodney Harrison will be relieved.

ESPN should sample from the surfs and use the word "farve" as an adjective and noun in every sentence.

It's a very farve day in green bay.
Rodgers threw the farve out of the football.

Tony Kornheiser is all the worst traits of Bill Simmons, John MAdden, and Dennis Miller combined in one person.

"There was no penetration whatsoever." - Jaws

"There was no penetration whatsoever."

Kobe didn't rape the girl.

"No penetration whatsoever..." besides that guy diving across the ball...

Wow, i didn't know Jaws was flexible enough to put his foot in his mouth.

Apparently ESPN does not realize that HDTVs are made to see MORE of a picture and a useless color bar on the bottom SUCKS.

WTF

Jaws: "No penetration whatsoever."

That's what she said.

Jaws - "I'll be right when they kick this field goal."

"I'm gonna be right when they kick this field goal." - Jaws, right before the field goal was blocked.

As soon as he said that, I had a feeling he was going to miss it.

Hi, I'm Tony Korniheiser, with Mike Tirico. Welcome to "Monday Night Favreball"

thats not off metallicas new alum, that is Fuel, off of a previous album

I would've liked to hear Aaron Rodgers say, "This win feels great! F*CK YOU BRETT!"