BRH

These days you literally don’t even need goalposts. Just two light beams from the ground, extending into infinity. For a league that talks about safety as much as it does, that seems to be a no-brainer.

I guess it’s like how in baseball if a ball hits the “foul” pole it’s a home run, even if the ball goes back on the field or into foul territory. But if the ball hits the upright and doesn’t go through, it’s a miss, so it’s not remotely the same thing.

They did, after commercial. I swear it looked wider than that live. And is that the rule? Inside the OUTSIDE edge of the upright? Isn’t that a straight-up doink if it hits? And why can’t there be appropriate laser/camera tech to leave no doubt? I don’t wish injury on any player, but it’s hard to muster up much sympathy for Al-Shaair.

Love how they don’t show a replay, either.

Apparently Fairbairn gets a couple of feet on either side of the goalposts. Not the first time it’s happened.

Uh huh.

He talkin’.

Or if he just spent his time off ranking quarterbacks.

I don’t think they have a chance. Then again, CJ Stroud may have something to say about that.

It’s clearly an Achilles. He looked back as if someone kicked him, and then went down and had to be helped off the field without putting any weight on his leg. He’s done for this year and most of next year, and the Colts don’t have a first-round pick until 2028.

And another hold on the Texans. We were told at the beginning of the game that CJS benefited from getting to watch the games during his time off. You have to wonder how much attention he was paying.

Houston offense playing completely out-of-sync and undisciplined. Two penalties for not covering up an OL, a timeout taken to avoid a third such penalty, a holding, and now Stroud with an illegal forward pass. They are keeping Indy in this one.

Jones isn’t going to survive this game.

I don’t remember being mad at him for not playing, but I do remember being mad at him for not getting a flu shot. As I recall, he didn’t like needles, so he didn’t get one. The irony is that I was 26 at the time and still considered myself rather invincible. I’d had the flu once before — ironically hitting bottom during the weekend of the Bills-Raiders 30-below playoff game in 1994, which I watched in between hallucinations (which also is why I understood why Bruce couldn’t play), but I still rarely got a flu shot myself. I rationalized my anger at Bruce by telling myself that if I was getting paid millions to play I would have gotten the shot. When I was about 35 I got the flu again, and it was just brutal; the effects lingered for weeks afterward. Since then, like Bill, I’ve been first in line for my shot every year. I imagine Bruce gets his now too. We would have won that game if Bruce played, no doubt in my mind. But I never questioned that he was too sick to play. I think Jordan’s famous “flu game” was still fresh in our minds at the time, but now I realize that either (a) he didn’t really have The Flu — which is most likely, or (b) he was at a different stage in his recovery that allowed him to play that night.

Noodle arm

Even Santa Claus left lol

Watching the Eagles fans warms my heart like a cup of hot cocoa this holiday season.

He said postgame he has to be “more consistent.” He looked consistent to me yesterday. Consistently trash.

Need that gif of Zay Flowers doing his Queen Elizabeth wave in Week 1

Yeah, pretty soon we’ll see him sitting on the bench with a Brillo pad on his hamstring.

Time for another Lamar turnover; after all, this game is still within reach.

Lamar will probably have 150 yards and 2 TDs in the last five minutes if the Bengals score a TD here.

Burrow or no Burrow, the Ravens are about to lose at home to a 3-8 team in a gotta-have-it game and Lamar has done his team zero favors tonight. That makes me feel all tingly inside.

Might well become the only three-time winner of the Comeback Player of the Year Award and he’s not even 30.

Just imagining a postseason without the Chiefs in it makes me smile.