Official 2013 NFL Discussion Thread: Giant Bomb Style

I could win another $500 this year. Thank god I can use the internet and the rest of the yahoos I play with go with their 'guts.'

I'll believe that when he can win a Super Bowl without spying on the other team. :P

PATRIOTS LOSE!

Go Hawks! Hopefully in 3 hours I'll either be crying in happiness or crying in sadness.

Football is dumb.

Dumb as in dumb or dumb as in dumb.

Dumb as in dumb.

I'm a Colts fan, so bummed we lost to the Pats (who I hate) but glad to see them lose to Peyton. Very nice day for Peyton.

But who would win in a Brady vs Manning cage fight? Tune into Summerslam 2014.

Obviously Brady, Manning had neck fusion surgery a few years back. If he at all fall on his back or upper body area the wrong way it could permanently paralyze him. Brady might be a prima donna but he is way more athletic than Manning at this point in their careers.

I was looking for an answer more along the lines of Wes Welker coming out from under the ring as a masked figure and having a dilemma of who to help.

i agree that was dumb the team I like should win.

Oh, okay. How about this scenario before Manning and Brady are to wrassle the tv tron shows Aaron Hernandez in the backroom killing somebody. He runs to a SUV in the parking lot and runs over Welker. WIth vengeance and grief at their side Brady and Manning have to team up in order to capture Hernandez and put an end ot his madness.

Hernandez succeeds in an elaborate prison heist of OJ Simpson, and the two combine life forces to become one being - The Oakland Raider. A great battle ensues for the souls of all of humanity. Brady and Manning win, but at a great cost. In the chaos Tony Romo used his dark magic to sap the football greatness out of the two quarterbacks and now rules the NFL as an immortal necromancer, that still cannot seem to win a postseason game.

This game is already 3x better than the one that came before it. People are getting wrecked.

After seeing that last return, I take it back. James got fucked up. At this rate, the winning team will be heading to NY in a bunch of body bags. Then again, the idea of reanimated football players playing for a championship in NY sounds very interesting.

Russell Wilson...What has happened 2 u ;_;

GAME OVER!!

With how that ended, I can't help but hear Dave Lang going, "WOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWWW!"

Sad that the 49ers aren't going to make the dream come true. Next year...

Pete Carroll is a 9/11 truther and a cheater. Never Forget.

The Seahawk's Derrick Coleman becomes the first legally deaf man to play in the Super Bowl! :D

Can't front; Sherman's pop-off made me salty. I barely follow football, but putting someone on blast like that? Whaaaaaaaaaaat?

Oh, god damn, what a game! Seahawks vs. Broncos in the Super Bowl!

Ended how I thought it would. Kaep needing to drive down the field at the end. If he does, we win. He didn't.

Coming from a Niners fan, Sherman deserved that moment. Beautiful play at the end.

We'll get em next time.

@jakob187: The 5 Superbowl wins aren't enough of a dream?

The Seahawks are so damn unlikable.

Someone's mad.

Seahawks won! I feel like they could have done better, and messed up quite a bit, but I'm glad they're going to the Superbowl. I thought we were doomed there at the end, but then they made an interception.

So happy all the game journos and other people in SF that I follow on twitter can stop tweeting about the niners, pretending they care.

I kind of love that my team is unlikable. Likable teams are boring.

@hailinel: Pffft don't play that card, I'm a Panthers fan. Doesn't change the fact that assholes like Pete Carroll are in charge of that team.

Sherman's WWF promo was incredible.

"DID YOU KNOW, BOTH SUPER BOWL TEAMS ARE FROM STATES THAT HAVE LEGALIZED MARIJUANA"

#SMOKABOWL

I'm glad the Seahawks won because I think they'll be a much easier team for the Broncos to beat. Nothing I saw today looked dangerous.

Yes, their defensive backs are pretty good, but I don't think they're deep enough to cover everyone on Denver's offense, and I think the 49ers front seven is way scarier. Also, I think they have a weaker offense than the '9ers, too. Russel Wilson looked bad today and cost his team on several drives. Marshawn Lynch will get his yards against Denver, but I don't think he'll go for 240 or anything. At some point it'll be on Russel Wilson to make some drives happen, and I'm not sure if he can.

I really like the Broncos' chances. I was much more scared for the Patriots game, and even for the Chargers game before that.

ALSO FUCK YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH SUPER BOWL COME AT MEEEEEEEEEEEE

Again, someone's mad.

I'm not sure if I've mentioned it before, but I've got a friend who designed a website for his group of friends (and their friends and relatives) to gamble on football every week. Everyone (about 50 of us) puts in $20 to play. It's nothing complex like fantasy football, it's just every week you make your picks, and at the end of the season, whoever has the most picks correct wins most of the pot (2nd and 3rd place get a little, too). Before tonight I was in a three-way tie for first, we all picked Denver, but the other two picked San Francisco while I picked Seattle. Which means I'm now in 1st place solo and whether I keep the big chuck of the pot for myself, or have to share ALL COMES DOWN TO THE SUPERBOWL! And I have to work, that's going to be a tense night for me. Well, I guess I'm going to be getting something no matter what, so I suppose I should be grateful.

gg tho niners fans, that was a hell of a game.

I thought you were joking and then I googled

http://deadspin.com/is-pete-carroll-a-9-11-truther-513149713

One team has a dude that looks like the fucking Predator and cuts angry, near unintelligible wresting promos. The other team has the spokesperson of Papa John's. The choice is clear.

#HAILSHERMAN

I don't get the Sherman hate at all, though I am a Seahawks fan so I am certainly biased. Football more than any sport, an especially the NFL, is all about bombast and spectacle. While it may a sport and a competition it is also a show and Sherman is a great character to have in that show. Yeah he acts like a jackass but he also is able to back up his trash talk for the most part. He is no different than a wrestling Heel except for he is actually competing. He is a target for other fanbases to go after and a topic for analyst to discuss. Besides as a hockey fan, where sportsmanship is huge, I am happy to not see another player just repeat the typical, "they played a great game, but you know we knew we had to play hard and were able to come out on top".

Why hate Sherman? He just did his best Booker T impression.

Indeed. And even with his cutting a WWE promo, he's still a far better teammate than the me-first chowderheads like Terrel Owens.

@zella: Sherman is kinda a douche but the thing that fans hate even more is that he backs that shit up. Same with Kaepernick he's a giant dick but he backs that shit up that's why I guess some 49ers fan deal with that shit. I for one love Sherman cause he adds swag the past Seahawks teams never had. Been living in the 206 my entire life and the only "real" championship we've ever won from the 3 major sports in North America is the 1979 supersonics nba championship.

Wow at all the racism on twitter lol, California is such a shit hole.

@zella: Ok here's what I don't get: why is trashing a player you just beat in an interview a showing of "character or competitiveness?" Leave the trash talk on the field, I have no problem with it there, it's part of the game and that's fine. The game was over, you'd won. If I have a kid that ever acts like that after WINNING, I'd be embarrassed and very disappointed. No matter how old they are.

I'm not going to make broad generalizations about Sherman as a person, but that was dick move. Not sure why you'd try to say otherwise, just say yep and my team is going to the Super Bowl.

Oh and I'm not trying to say character in the way other people said he lacks. I meant why is being a character (like in wrestling) defined in this way. Dude's a heck of a football player, shouldn't that be enough?

@sodapop7: That was what he said in the actual post game interview, to talk to the guy, SECONDS after winning a trip to the SUper Bowl after making a huge play, with all the adrenaline pumping, what did you think was gonna happen?

And he still kept it clean, he didn't swear or use any offensive language.

@sodapop7: I don't get all this moralizing about football. Let's be real here. We're watching men smash their heads together and give each other early onset Alzheimer's for our entertainment. Yeah, Sherman is kind of a dick but it's fun to watch. If we really want to examine the morality of all the players in the NFL, there are people much, much worse than him.

@onemanx, @milkman Just because there are people worse than him doesn't make what he did any less of a dick move. I specifically said I didn't think Sherman was a bad person, he just acted like a dick. Hundreds of people have been interviewed after making a huge play to win a game and not gone off like that, so no I shouldn't expect that to happen. Sherman's ability on the field is fun to watch, his attitude and conduct after the play is over is not.

I'm talking about common courtesy here people that shouldn't be that ridiculous to expect out of professional athletes. Both teams played a hard fought game. Win and move on. GG.

Dude has one of the biggest chips on his shoulders. Guy is from Compton where becoming anything but the top cb in the league is just a dream. Guy went to Stanford a school where alot of guys from where he's from don't ever dream of going and graduating with a degree. Guy was a 5th round draft choice who switched from tight end to wide reciever to cornerback in his junior year of school. When he was in the nfl draft combines he heard that his Stanford coach Harbaugh at the time didn't believe he would succeed which lowered his stock to where he was drafted. Richard Sherman has a vendetta against Harbaugh which equates to the entire 49er team. Lets just be frank here, while they respect one another there is no love or lost among these teams here.

Just my point the dude has a huge chip on his shoulder and will till his career is over.

- One last point while I'm a huge seahawks fan him calling out Crabtree was unsportsmanlike. I don't like condoning this type of behavior, I hate it when Seahawks players stoop to Harbaugh / Kaepernick dickery.

@sodapop7: I don't think anyone would disagree with the fact that Sherman acted like a dick. I would say that people do disagree whether or not it was fun to watch. In the end, it's entertainment. Sherman was entertaining. Sometimes that's all I ask.