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OFFICIAL NFL week 1 thread

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hclarkjr

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THU, SEP 8
New Orleans at Green Bay 8:30 PM
SUN, SEP 11
Atlanta at Chicago 1:00 PM FOX
Cincinnati at Cleveland 1:00 PM CBS
Buffalo at Kansas City 1:00 PM
Philadelphia at St. Louis 1:00 PM FOX
Detroit at Tampa Bay 1:00 PM FOX
Tennessee at Jacksonville 1:00 PM CBS
Pittsburgh at Baltimore 1:00 PM CBS
Indianapolis at Houston 1:00 PM CBS
NY Giants at Washington 4:15 PM
Seattle at San Francisco 4:15 PM FOX
Minnesota at San Diego 4:15 PM FOX
Carolina at Arizona 4:15 PM FOX
Dallas at NY Jets 8:20 PM NBC
MON, SEP 12
New England at Miami 7:00 PM
Oakland at Denver 10:15 PM
 
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Not looking good for my Colts. I guess I'll be cheering for the Packers this year since I am afraid Colts fans may not have much to cheer about. 🙁
 
Dear 'fins,

If you didn't patch up your special teams and O-line from last year, you're in for a world of hurt.

Love,
Pats.
 
mugs said:
What the hell kind of fan are you?
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I live in Cincinnati. I'm 30 years old and was a child the last time they were regularly good. I stopped rooting for them 2 years ago permanently. I liken it to someone going to the same shitty restaurant for 20 straight years and wondering why it's continually bad.

I choose now to root for my favorite players team because the Bengals have destroyed any faith I have in living in a city with even a semi successful football team. Loyalty is gone for me.

My favorite NFL player is Aaron Rodgers. Been rooting for him since Cal, so the Packers are the team I root for now until he retires or changes teams.
 
Super excited for my Eagles this season. Though I do need Sam Bradford to do well against them this week 🙁
 
chalmers said:
i live in cincinnati. I'm 30 years old and was a child the last time they were regularly good. I stopped rooting for them 2 years ago permanently. I liken it to someone going to the same shitty restaurant for 20 straight years and wondering why it's continually bad.

I choose now to root for my favorite players team because the bengals have destroyed any faith i have in living in a city with even a semi successful football team. Loyalty is gone for me.

my favorite nfl player is aaron rodgers. Been rooting for him since cal, so the packers are the team i root for now until he retires or changes teams.
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also damn right!
 
I'm in the Dallas area so I root for the Cowboys unfortuneately. Jerry Jones is Al Davis minus the jumpsuit. The big free agent signing for a 6-10 team was a no name safety. :facepalm: Wow Jerry that's how you make a superbowl champ.
Luckily Dallas also happens to be the home of the world champion Dallas Mavericks. Hopefully the cowboys can keep me semi entertained until the NBA season starts.
 
OILFIELDTRASH said:
I'm in the Dallas area so I root for the Cowboys unfortuneately. Jerry Jones is Al Davis minus the jumpsuit. The big free agent signing for a 6-10 team was a no name safety. :facepalm: Wow Jerry that's how you make a superbowl champ.
Luckily Dallas also happens to be the home of the world champion Dallas Mavericks. Hopefully the cowboys can keep me semi entertained until the NBA season starts.
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You might be waiting until 2012 then.
 
New Orleans at Green Bay 8:30 PM
NBCSUN, SEP 11
Atlanta at Chicago 1:00 PM FOX
Cincinnati at Cleveland 1:00 PM CBS
Buffalo at Kansas City 1:00 PM
Philadelphia at St. Louis 1:00 PM FOX
Detroit at Tampa Bay 1:00 PM FOX
Tennessee at Jacksonville 1:00 PM CBS
Pittsburgh at Baltimore 1:00 PM CBS
Indianapolis at Houston 1:00 PM CBS
NY Giants at Washington 4:15 PM
Seattle at San Francisco 4:15 PM FOX
Minnesota at San Diego 4:15 PM FOX
Carolina at Arizona 4:15 PM FOX
Dallas at NY Jets 8:20 PM NBC
MON, SEP 12
New England at Miami 7:00 PM
Oakland at Denver 10:15 PM
 
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hclarkjr said:
they have looked pretty good in preseason going 3-1 so it is not that bad. now to see the regular season!!! 😀
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As a Pats fan, I have a weird feeling in the lead-up to this season. The regular season feels largely irrelevant. I know the Pats will make the playoffs, so there's little suspense there. Sure, I have the two Jets games, Pittsburgh, Philly, and Indy (if Manning plays) circled on my calendar, but all of my concerns about this team have to do with playoff performance and there's a feeling that these games won't tell me much. I can see them winning 12+ games again this year and still fall flat when they hit a tough defense in the playoffs. At least their run defense and pass rush should be better (it drove me crazy, seeing QBs have 5+ seconds on third down).
 
crashtestdummy said:
As a Pats fan, I have a weird feeling in the lead-up to this season. The regular season feels largely irrelevant. I know the Pats will make the playoffs, so there's little suspense there. Sure, I have the two Jets games, Pittsburgh, Philly, and Indy (if Manning plays) circled on my calendar, but all of my concerns about this team have to do with playoff performance and there's a feeling that these games won't tell me much. I can see them winning 12+ games again this year and still fall flat when they hit a tough defense in the playoffs. At least their run defense and pass rush should be better (it drove me crazy, seeing QBs have 5+ seconds on third down).
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You're kidding right? I mean we're talking about a team with arguably the greatest QB of all time in Brady with four trips to the superbowl winning 3 of em. I know the last couple years they've tripped up but geez. Try having the Jerry Jones cowboys as your home team.
 
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You're kidding right? I mean we're talking about a team with arguably the greatest QB of all time in Brady with four trips to the superbowl winning 3 of em. I know the last couple years they've tripped up but geez. Try having the Jerry Jones cowboys as your home team.
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It's classic self entitled Boston fans, not much else to see here.
 
OILFIELDTRASH said:
You're kidding right? I mean we're talking about a team with arguably the greatest QB of all time in Brady with four trips to the superbowl winning 3 of em. I know the last couple years they've tripped up but geez. Try having the Jerry Jones cowboys as your home team.
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I'm not really down on the team. Quite the contrary, I expect them to be very good once again. It's just that the regular season feels like an extended preseason for them. There's not much suspense in it.

It's like the experience of watching the last Yankees-Red Sox series. Barring a catastrophe, you knew both teams were going to the playoffs, so even in the heated rivalry, the games didn't really matter that much.

The biggest suspense will be the Jets games. Rex has done a great job of whipping that series into a hated rivalry to the point where either side's fans would feel humiliated in a sweep, regardless of the playoff outcome.
 
crashtestdummy said:
The biggest suspense will be the Jets games. Rex has done a great job of whipping that series into a hated rivalry to the point where either side's fans would feel humiliated in a sweep, regardless of the playoff outcome.
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Why would the fans feel humiliated? They don't play for the teams. Fans like that are so god damn annoying.
 
chalmers said:
It's classic self entitled Boston fans, not much else to see here.
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I'm not sure "entitled" is the right word. I don't feel I "deserve" to have a good team in my town any more than someone in Cincinnati does. I will say that the past decade has made me jaded and somewhat numb, though.

I remember when I was growing up the enormous chip on my shoulder that I used to have about the Red Sox in particular, having not won a championship in so long. I remember being on a bus the day of Game 4 of the ALCS in 2004 with the only radio (the bus' had broken), relaying the play-by-play to everyone else in the bus. I remember screaming "David Ortiz homerun!" at the end of the game, and the entire bus erupting in cheers. I also remember being utterly paralyzed watching the TV for the last 5 innings of game 4 of the world series, not really believing it was happening. I then ran out of my dorm screaming.

It's kind of funny to think that is the kind of suspense that can only really happen once in a lifetime (or at least once per sport).
 
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