RIP Steve Sabol.

youtu.be/r5CTKlF45Ds

Incandenza wrote:


So good! Even if you're not a Raiders fan, I'd imagine. Still gives me chills. RIP.

As a kid, I used to love it so much when they showed NFL Films recaps of previous Superb Owls (and maybe the previous season?) before the game rather than all the tedious joshing and "analysis" they do now. NFL Films was a project of genius. The history of the NFL has been preserved visually in a way that no other sports league can even come close to matching.

A jabroni is the guy in pro wrestling who loses all the time.

Yeah, Steve Sabol. I wondered what the players thought of him. After all of these years, I've seen so many players get interviewed, but I've never heard too many of them actually discuss the NFL Films they were in. Hopefully we will over the next few days. (Again, back to pro wrestling, how Stone Cold Steve Austin made sure Jim Ross would call his matches, because he knew he would tell the storyline perfect.)

If you ever went to NFL Films, there was this incredible 3D art on the wall. Kind of like collage, with mixed media. After seeing it a few times, I asked the producer where they got that. She said "oh, Steve made that." Real talented motherfucker.

Tecmo Bowl Bo Jackson reincarnated as an 8 year old.

I wonder what the richter scale read under the pine trees.

Just in case no one saw the highlights of the Insano Dutti Insano Games betwixt the Titans and Lions, Here It Is.

I didn't get the chance to see it live, but it must've been something.

edit - If the link doesn't play, click on "NFL Game Rewind" on the right. It's without idiotic mumbling commentary.

What a game tonight. Torrey Smith playing the same day he found out his little brother was killed in a motorcycle accident. Scores two touchdowns. The refs absolutely botching calls left and right. Baltimore fans with the best "BULLSHIT! BULLSHIT!" chant I've ever heard at a sporting event, so loud and in unison that there was no way that NBC could cover up the audio, so Al Michaels had to joke about it to acknowledge it. The Ravens winning the game on a chip shot field goal that their rookie kicker sent up to the skies, going right, and just over the top of the post, meaning it was good. Well, it looked good. Right? Maybe? I mean, there's no way that he could have missed that? Oh well, the refs called it good. And then Bill Belichick running down one of the refs and grabbing his arm, the ref breaking the tackle to run away into the locker room. That'll be a fine.

It was good (the field goal). Horrible calls throughout the game, but since most of the bad ones were against the Ravens, I can't complain too much.

So, the Raiders beat the Steelers? I did not see that coming.

The autumn wind truly is a pirate, you guys.

Quite a day in Oakland.

Darrius Heyward-Bey comes within a whisker of being paralyzed by a helmet to helmet hit that went unpunished by the scab refs, and Marcus Allen lighting an "eternal flame" in honour of Al Davis.

The football gods wouldn't let them lose in those circumstances.



Just the kind of ridiculously over the top gesture that Al would appreciate.

Indeed. And of course he would have especially appreciated a win against the Steelers, too.

I didn't get to watch the game, but from what I've read it seems like the Raiders played a more disciplined game than the Steelers, another thing I'm not used to seeing in my many years of watching Raider football.

I really wish I could have gotten a photo of a car I saw yesterday, but he turned and I couldn't follow. It was an old silver VW Rabbit with the Raider logo painted on the hood, COMMITMENT TO EXCELLENCE and other Raiders stuff on the side, AL on the hatchback, and on the rear window he had a decal that stretched across the width reading F*CK ALL RAIDER HATERS.

All of that on a VW Rabbit.

Video of the Raiders FG in their massive victory over the Steelers.

The Ravens game indeed was great. Deadspin has the "bullshit" chant. What helped its volume was that it was drum-initiated.

Again, what I love about the scab refs, is that they've set the game back about 3-4 decades. It's so ghetto, so impossible to decipher what call will be made and when, that it's led to plays like the final chokehold lariat that the Pats put on Jacoby Jones. There's literally no point in not making ridiculous fouls...kind of like the 1930s.

Bill Belichek pushing the ref was something akin to John Gotti's rubout of Paul Castellano. It's not that he pushed him, it's that it was done in an absolute disrespectful manner. It was more a sign of absolute disrespect than anger.

I thought the FG was good, but it would be extra hilarious if they show that the ref who called it good was shown to be wearing a Ravens jersey at a BBQ.

I don't know why the NFL or TV stations don't invest in that magic yellow line for offsides calls. Just extend the goalpost up with the yellow line, and pause it the second it would've crossed the post.

Incandenza wrote:


Ha ha! I should do a similar decal on my Matrix (it's silver and black already) just to see the looks I get at my daughter's elementary school.

That's definitely the most spectacular lateral I've ever seen.

So, presumably the fact that the Packers have been screwed out of a win now means that the lockout will be over in 48 hours, right?

Just when you thought it couldn't become more of a farce, one of the most spectacular sequences of blown calls ends up in an imaginary winning touchdown for Seattle with no time left on the clock.

Clear that it was a garbage call and an obvious interception (after offensive pass interference in the form of a two-handed push on his marker) after the video ref ruled the calling on the field stood the Packers walked off...

...Only to be forced back on to the field ten minutes later as the extra point had to be taken (images of players digging in a huge box of helmets to get kitted up).

I will be amazed if they let this dispute go on another week.

Ha - while I forgot the window, ursus sneaks in. It was unbelievable. I have never seen such a bad call.

I'm all for paying the pensions, and I'm happy Godsmell is reaping what he sowed and is looking like the clown he is, and I love that people who don't care about the game are actually posting about it - thus causing further embarrassment...but it wasn't that bad.