Falcons win in OT. Brian Baldinger whining for Genius Gruden because Tampa had 2 road games in 6 days in the same frickin time zone, and the longer of the two was at most a three hour flight.

They already had a excuse with Garcia being out.

The Texans hung on to beat the Titans 13-12. Wow.

The Chiefs are about to blow an 11 point lead after Dwayne Bowe dropped the onside kick. Rivers threw two TD passes in the last minute of game action.

THE CHARGERS MAY HAVE JUST FUCKED THEMSELVES.

Defensive delay of game as the clock was ticking down.

KC's kicker hooked the 50 yarder left. Lucky, lucky, lucky.

Great. New England-Oakland isn't even in HD. Fuck you, CBS.

"I just can't wait to get through puberty." - Dick Enberg

huh!?

I'm pretty sure that everytime Dick Stockton open his mouth, he said something that was either obvious ("Someone's going to lose 2 games in a row, unless it's a tie"), gramatically incorrect (From 53-yard out), or just downright stupid (everything else he said). I don't think Baldinger had one insightful comment all afternoon.

LOL.

Dick Enberg - "I just can't wait to hit puberty" (in reference to the lack of facial hair)

Oh god. That was great. He even did a double arm pump.

Terrible play-calling by Jeff Fiher, going for it on 4th and 3 instead of kicking the go ahead field goal.

ESPN is going to rake him over the coals. Deservedly so.

*Fisher

That Atlanta-Tampa Bay game was great but it had the feel of being played in a library. Is the Georgia Dome that quiet, or does FOX block out the crowd noise so I can get a better listen to the blather that is Dick Stockton/Brian Baldinger?

BTW Tampa to Greensboro is a flight of less than 2 hours, so Charlotte and Atlanta are both less than that. Hush up with that weak excuse Baldy. And after looking at Stockton's pate it would be fair to call them both Baldy.

Jeff Fisher does not kick the 49 yard field goal on 4th and 3 right after the 2-minute warning down 1...must be nice to have a playoff bid already locked up and be able to treat the game like you're playing Madden.

@ secor314

Rob Bironas has kicked a 60 yard FG, I believe he can kick a 49 yarder.

Secor314

Thanks wasnt sure how long those flights were.



And STFU Simms.

@S2N, this Raider-Patriots game isn't that bad. At least there has been a lot of scoring so far.

"In America we call that assault." - FOX News anchor Julie Banderas on the Iraqi reporter who his shoes at President Bush. Apparently, the reporter is claiming free speech.

Previous post should say "who threw his shoes"

The Raiders and Patriots just traded kickoff returns for TDs. Bizarre as hell.

that was after a Wes Welker touchdown grab, by the way -- so, 21 points with less than 45 seconds in game time wasted.

Ravens-Steelers is making Auburn-Miss State look exciting.

Knew I should have gone to sports bar for Panthers-Broncos.

@anon 4:57, I know Bironas can nail that kick...that's part of my astonishment at his not even being sent on the field to try the kick. My reference to Madden is that in the video game I refuse to ever punt.

Dick Enberg is acting like a professor of North Carolina history and geography today. Hopefully he'll be explaining the difference between eastern and Lexington style barbecue soon. If you aren't getting the Panthers game you are missing out on Randy Cross' hellacious mustache...

And CBS refused to send Pats-Raiders into NYC or South Florida. Time for a REGIME CHANGE at CBS!

Fox has Vikings-Cards on in NYC and the on-screen scoreboard didn't include Pats-Raiders, at least not in the 1st quarter.

"These unbalanced lines, just put in for this game?"

Clearly Jim Nantz did no research for this game and/or didn't get to hear Madden mention it every 30 seconds last Sunday.

3 TD passes in the first half for Tarvaris Jackson.

Question: has he improved with his time on the bench or is Arizona just that shitty on defense?

Oakland scored two TDs? wow.

Joe Flacco stats:

1/6 with a INT passer rating of 4.2.

You know what's always annoyed me? On the FOX highlight shows, they always have this fake crowd noise and these fake grunting noises. Annoying as hell - just wanted to get that off my chest.

"He mistimed his jump so that made it incomplete." - Simms taking on the Capt Obvious role.

Again STFU Simms

anon, I also hate that FOX robot during thier bumper promos. What's the point of that thing and how much money you think they waste on that thing?

What can I tell ya? Jeff fisher was channeling his inner Andy Reid.

James, if it was a 43-yarder, Reid would have kicked it. He would have also kicked it from 55-yards out.

Denver fumbed to Carolina... wow.

BTW, Football Night in America live blog starting at 7:10 PM EST at The O Files, and you gotta be a Blogspot member only to post your comments.

In addition, any rude comments will result in banishment. That means you, Swearing Man and Gay Man.

So no disparaging comments about Andy Reid?

The way the Patriots have been playing, you wouldn't even think they were playing in the rain. Oh wait, they are playing the Raiders.

Anon 5:22, know the rules of Television Broadcasting.

One, their best broadcast team goes to the games with the most importance. And in this case, Nantz/Simms went to Pittsburgh-Baltimore.

Living in Pennsylvania, I get force fed Steelers one week, Steelers the next because the idotis at CBS think all of Pennsylvania is Steelers country...and I live in Philadelphia, which has tons of Eagles fans. it's time CBS takes the old Beano Cook philosophy, "When in doubt, give 'em [insert name of team here]."

Anyone know if there's a reason a game in Oakland is never in HD? Something with the stadium?

Hey, Paulie Walnuts, the Jeff Fisher channeling his inner Andy Reid was a shot at Reid's playcalling.

S2N, not enough HD trucks. It's supposed to be all games are in HD, but there may be a shortage of them but more are being built.

@S2N, Yah there is something wrong with the stadium, the Raiders play in it.

Never in Oakland? I'm sure ESPN has had baseball there in HD.

And +2 to 49er16.

James Craven

Its an NFL rule called secondary market. It basically means if there are two NFL teams in your state or another one nearby, you automatically get that game. Its why Steelers games are on in Philly, DC gets force fed the ghetto thug Ravens, and Ohio cities always get Bengals and Browns. It also affects Oak / SF, and the Florida teams.

@James: Patriots-Raiders affects the Jets and Dolphins, both of whom won earlier. CBS did not schedule the Pats game for NYC or South Florida. Fox sent the Dolphins game into New England (at least those areas with power).

Also, CBS2 in NYC has a policy to show the national telecast when the Jets or Giants are not available.

Steelers' radio play-by-play (Bill Hillgrove?): "And Willie Colon gets fingered for a hold."

Perfect.

An aside: Is there a logical answer as to why the Browns flagship station is running the Steelers radio network broadcast? It just seems odd.

Only the Raiders could get an extra point blocked.

Your unlikely performer of the day in fantasy: Tarvaris Jackson and his 4 TD passes. There's still most of the fourth quarter to go, too.

Runner-up: Matt Cassel with 4 TD passes, but doing that against the Raiders downgrades the accomplishment a little.

After going out and missing the morning games I'd like to say the following:


THE SEAHAWKS WON!!!!!!!!!!


I'm not used to this.....

SSR: Put an asterisk next to that comment. They played the Rams.

Hoodie has a towl hanging out of his hoodie. One of the funniest things I have ever seen.

Anon 6:10 PM: Next week's steelers game is going to be CBS' featured telecast with Nantz/Simms. Screw the secondary market rule.

CBS just ripped the Carolina game from the viewers in, well, Carolina.

Even if you were enjoying that beatdown the Panthers were giving Mike Shanahan and Jay Cutler, you are now doing your lesson plans or balancing your checkbook to the background noise of Jim Nantz and the hum of Phil Simms trying to figure out "how'd I get stuck with this guy" while they call Baltimore-Pittsburgh.

Let me just say FOX rarely did this to me while I was living in Michigan and someone was tearing up the Lions. I got the WHOLE thing.

@ James, both teams were 2-11.

And after about 5 minutes someone at CBS has finally realized that North Carolina is in the same state as the home stadium of the Carolina Panthers.

No HD when they flipped it back, but at least this makes sense.

WV: Colownse. Apt description of the people at CBS who decide what game you get during the NCAA tournament.

The Raiders are awful. They just let their former player Lamont Jordan score his first TD of the year on another long run.

SSR: Hence the astrisk. It's called "sarcasm".