Looking at the Press release for this one, I’m not sure who to blame. It’s either an original series by Yahoo! sponsored by Bud Light, or a Bud Light commercial on Yahoo! Sports. Either way it’s about as dumb and lowest common denominator as it can come. Two guys pretend to be fans from a team that is facing their rivals that week. They proceed to “invade” the home teams turf. For example when the Pats and Colts played, they showed up in Colt outfits and caused trouble in Boston.
I almost don’t want to give them the link and the three people who will actually follow through from here to there, but for those of you who are masochists here you go.
The problem is that it is so convoluted. It’s the same two guys every week, it’s obvious that the guys don’t care about whatever team they are dressed as. The other problem is that they have a professional team with them. This means a television crew, probably security too, making sure that no one would really attack these guys. My one ex had an Uncle who was a Dolphins fan in North Jersey. So of course he dressed up the kids in Dolphins stuff and brought them to a Jets – Dolphins game in the Meadowlands. Of course they had to leave early sometime in the 3rd Quarter after people were spitting and pouring beer on them and threatening to attack them. The aunt of course blamed the fans, not the fact that they showed up wearing the other teams stuff. So these two guys would probably be skinned alive if they went into a stadium without protection and pulled any of this stuff.
But the ones I’ve seen were incredibly dumb. They were beyond stupid. In Pittsburgh, fans going to the game actually take a barge across the river to the game. Well these guys decided to pull up alongside the barge in a speedboat dressed in Baltimore Ravens gear and flags. They taunted the fans with a megaphone, while the fans were angry. This went on for a good 2 minutes before I finally stopped watching it. There was almost no point to the whole thing. It was a joke without a punchline.
They show up to this “Worlds Biggest Pats Fan” house to pretend to interview them. Meanwhile they had one of their members dressed up as a Colts fan (it was Pats Vs Colts) causing trouble around the house. Meanwhile the woman of the house is wearing a sweater which says I Hate Peyton Manning. I just don’t have words for it at all. It almost makes What If? On Spike TV seem like a legit program.
I just get annoyed when stuff plays down to football fans. There are an awful lot of very bright football fans around. There’s so much going wrong that you can’t suspend your disbelief. I don’t know why the segments exist, as they don’t specifically promote Bud Lite, but they are created by Yahoo! to do what exactly? I can’t see anyone with half a brain recommending his friends to check these videos out. Even if you are a complete idiot, your friends would probably yell at you for wasting five minutes of their time with it.
In the end it’s either an excuse for Yahoo to get a little extra advertising money, or, please feel free to give your answer in the comments, I am dumbfounded by this practice in futility.
(Just a note, I wrote this for another blog before the Jets loss to the Colts. I still think without the injuries we would have won.)
For the last two years, an underdog team not expected to get out of the wildcard round has gotten to the Super Bowl. Two years ago it was the Giants. Last year it was the Cardinals. Can the Jets be the third straight wildcard team to beat all the odds and make it to the Super Bowl?
Most of us remember two years ago. Who can forget the Patriots 16-0 season? They steamrolled just about everyone in their way to one of the greatest regular seasons of all time. The Giants were an up and down team, Eli Manning was getting booed. Their retired star running back, Tiki Barber, claimed that the team lacked leadership. Tom Coughlin was under fire to get anything done, and just to make sure he knew he was on the chopping block the team replaced his OC and DC with their picks. Going into the playoffs after a close loss (two late Eli interceptions sealed the game) to the Patriots, the Giants were underdogs against the NFC South Winning Buccaneers. Yet they came out and after a week first half stomped them into the ground. Then against the heavily favored Cowboys, the defense stepped up and intercepted Romo on the last drive of the game in the endzone to seal a victory. Finally playing in Lambeau in what was the third coldest game in NFL history, another interception in OT lead to the longest visitors field goal in Lambeau History at 47 yards. Finally, a rematch with the Patriots. Extreme underdogs, Patriots QB Brady laughed when Burress predicted they would only score 17 points. In the end its considered one of the biggest Super Bowl upsets of all time as the Giants won.
Last year, the Cardinals found themselves ridiculed. Losing three straight after clinching their division, they were considerable underdogs to the Atlanta Falcons in the opening round. Yet the Arizona offense came alive, and the defense played on a level they hadn’t reached all season. In upset after upset long suffering Arizona took out the heavily favored Falcons, Panthers and Eagles to make their way to the Super Bowl. The victory over the Eagles in Philadelphia was even more stunning since the Eagles had stomped the Cardinals and put 52 points on the board earlier in the season. The defense though managed to force twelve turnovers in three playoff games and were a bit of the unsung heroes in the run. Although underdogs once again to the Steelers, some questionable officiating in the Super Bowl ended up doing the Cardinals in, but the game was far closer then anyone had predicted.
This year the Jets went into the playoffs questionably. Their rookie coach Rex Ryan had already proclaimed them out of the playoffs. If not for the Colts surrendering a perfect season, and the Bengals possibly not giving everything they had in the final mostly meaningless game for them, the Jets would have been on the outside looking in when it came to the playoffs. Yet some crazy math and some extreme luck found the Jets at 9-7 and inside the nice warm comfy playoff bubble. All the overpaid talking heads gathered around and proclaimed that the Jets didn’t deserve it. That they didn’t earn the playoff spot, and that the Bengals playing their full game would take care of the upstarts. Yet it was the Jets who came out firing on all cylinders and made the Bengals look like pretenders. Again underdogs against the “Too Many Weapons” Chargers, everyone predicted a beat down for the Jets and their Rookie QB and Coach. It seemed almost destined to happen as every home team won their game leading up to the Jets at Chargers. Yet the Jets came out and played a masterpiece of a game defensively, and the ground and pound of the Jets finally put it away. So now, once again for a third year in a row you have an underdog facing a huge favorite at home. Someone that shouldn’t be there against someone that’s always there.
So what does the future hold? To see the future, one must only look into the past. A Colts team with an in his prime Marvin Harrison, Edgerrin James, a younger Reggie Wayne and Peyton Manning facing off against the Chad Pennington (His first Playoff appearance) led Jets. It was supposed to be a walk in the park for Manning and the Colts. Manning finished the season with 4,200 yards passing, 27 passing TDs. Harrison was coming off a career best year in Catches and Yards. Although not one of his better years, James was still one of the best and brightest young RBs and a threat all over the field. In his second season, Wayne was making his way up the Depth chart and had doubled his rookie output. With all this on the field the Jets couldn’t stand a chance against the Colts. At the end of the day the score was 41-0, as Chad Pennington in his first playoff appearance led the Jets to one of their finest victories since the 99 Playoffs.
And now, with the best running game in the league, the best defense in the league, one of the hottest up and coming rookie RBs in Shohn Greene, we face the Colts. Peyton Manning and Reggie Wayne are older and wiser. But Revis has already shut down everyone that’s come his way. Addai is no Edge in his prime. History seems primed to repeat itself one more time. There’s just one more hurdle that needs to be jumped, one more upset that everyone in Jet Nation is just licking their lips over. Forty One years is a long time. That’s thirteen more years then I’ve been alive. Since I’ve been born this is only the third AFC Championship game the Jets have gotten to. One a decade it seems. Unlike the Eagles, Cowboys, Colts or Steelers this isn’t something that’s automatic next season or even the year after. Now’s the time, just one more upset to go.
As you can imagine I’m happier then a pig in shit right now. But for now let me show you two things.
Its absolute BS that this Jets fan was dragged from the Stadium for no reason. A Chargers fan even defended the Jets fan and got pulled from the Stadium to. I’m hoping everyone will help to pass this BS around.
Secondly, the picture of the game. If a picture is worth a thousand words, this is worth even more.
Thank you again Nate Kaeding! Jets Nation loves you!
Now I don’t normally do this, but I ended up writing a much longer post over on SB Nation then I thought I would. So if you want to read up on my thoughts Just follow this link over there. I think its one of my better writeups in a while. I probably should have just copied and pasted it here instead of posting it there, but it’ll probably get more views there.
Another year, it seems like another bunch of blowouts in the divisional round. Last year the Ravens squeaked by the Titans in an awful game. The rest were pretty much decided early as the Steelers manhandled the Chargers, Cardinals destroyed the Panthers and Eagles thumped the Giants.
This year so far you have the Saints burying the Cardinals and the Colts just destroying the Ravens. You know, the game that all the talking heads predicted the Colts would lose because they rested their starters? oops, not so much. For that matter there was those that said the Saints entering the playoffs with three straight losses would have an effect on them. Shockingly not playing Wild Card weekend let them rest and heal up while the banged up Cards were no where near as good as they could be.
Tomorrow is even worse. I hate the Cowboys and I hate the Vikings. I hope they find a way to eliminate each other from the playoffs. I’ve almost always hated the Cowboys. It seems like during the 90s every front runner on the planet became a fan of them. The most annoying fans possible of course. The funny thing is most of them are Steeler fans now. You know, the Steelers, one of the biggest rivals of the Cowboys in the history of the league. I hate those kind of fans.
So is this parity? An easy march to the Super Bowl for the best teams? Even the Baltimore game seemed to have some questionable calls early that helped dull any momentum they had. I’m just annoyed that it seems to be the same dam teams every year. This is probably despite the fact that it isn’t the same teams every year and last years Super Bowl Winner is playing golf (YAY!)
This is just my rant before the Jets play. I know its about a hundred to one shot of them winning, but I’m hoping for it. Rex Ryan is too much fun to be done for the season already. Revis Island is also one of the greatest Jets quotes in years. Also, the Islanders continue their winning ways and pushing towards the playoffs. Maybe for once I’ll actually be able to cheer for one of my teams in a championship game. Yes, I do realize the Mets have been to the World Series, but they still don’t count. I don’t watch Baseball anymore, too long.
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