December 15th at Detroit is the Game of the Year

[machine gun kelly]

1 hour ago, dollars 2 donuts said:

 

 

GUNS, you should get multiple trophies.

 

One for the post and one for the link to Cinderella Man.

 

Oh man what a good movie.

 

Everybody...everybody was great in that one, including Craig Bierko as Max Baer.

 

 

I know bud.  I love Ron Howard movies.  He’s so talented.  This is one of my all time favorites.  I love when he was asked the question what are you fighting for this time Jimmy?  Yeah, Milk.

 

My grandma who died at 92 in 2004 told me stories of the Great Depression growing up, her taking me to OLV for Sunday mass, and was enamored how they persevered.  She said they put lard on their toast as they couldn’t afford butter.  That’s poor.  She never complained about it.

 

 

Edited December 5 by machine gun kelly

[Homelander]

Game of the year? Nah.

[PromoTheRobot]

3 hours ago, Sojourner said:

 

You guys don’t have Sunday Ticket or NFL+?

 

Why get Sunday ticket when the Bills are on 12-13 times a season?

 

As for NFL+ I'm boycotting because it used to be free as a season ticket holder. Now they give you a whole $40 off! Yippee 🙄

[Bookie Man]

My bday. Gonna have to pace myself at our golf round that morning. 

[Sojourner]

2 minutes ago, PromoTheRobot said:

 

Why get Sunday ticket when the Bills are on 12-13 times a season?

 

As for NFL+ I'm boycotting because it used to be free as a season ticket holder. Now they give you a whole $40 off! Yippee 🙄

We homeschool our youngest child due to other reasons so technically my wife is a teacher and we get discounts from several outlets, companies or services. Coupled that with our oldest’s student discount for college and it’s a win win. 

[dollars 2 donuts]

16 hours ago, machine gun kelly said:

I know bud.  I love Ron Howard movies.  He’s so talented.  This is one of my all time favorites.  I love when he was asked the question what are you fighting for this time Jimmy?  Yeah, Milk.

 

My grandma who died at 92 in 2004 told me stories of the Great Depression growing up, her taking me to OLV for Sunday mass, and was enamored how they persevered.  She said they put lard on their toast as they couldn’t afford butter.  That’s poor.  She never complained about it.

 

 

 

 

To be clear...the trophy I gave for the above...

 

That one is for your grandmother.

 

👊

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On 11/29/2024 at 11:49 AM, Sammy Watkins' Rib said:

I have a weird feeling that if these two teams do meet in the Super Bowl it will be the team that losses the regular season game that wins the Super Bowl.

 

Exactly what happened in the first 90's Super Bowl.  We played the Giants in the Meadowlands week 15 and won a close one.  They won a close one against us in the Super Bowl.

[chongli]

On 12/6/2024 at 8:56 AM, rm -rf /* said:

 

Exactly what happened in the first 90's Super Bowl.  We played the Giants in the Meadowlands week 15 and won a close one.  They won a close one against us in the Super Bowl.

 

And in 1993-94, we beat Dallas early in Week 2 (without Emmitt Smith, due to a holdout), and then lost to them in the SB.

Edited December 7 by chongli

[boyst]

The more I see of the Lions the most important thing I'm realizing is we need to come out of this uninjured.

 

There are a ton of Lions players hurt. And they've hurt a lot of people. And Kirby Joseph could really derail our season. The lions wide open play hurts them as much as other teams.  Their insistance to go for it a lot, with high intensity all the time, and play the tough game won't get them 21 wins. 

[Harold Jackson]

It doesn't matter whether they win this or not. They'll win all their division games after. If they win this, great!

But they already have division and 1 or 2 wrapped up.

Odds are great this year that KC loses an early round. Everything will go through Buffalo regardless.

 

[Saint Doug]

On 11/29/2024 at 12:49 PM, Sammy Watkins' Rib said:

I have a weird feeling that if these two teams do meet in the Super Bowl it will be the team that losses the regular season game that wins the Super Bowl.

Unless home field for the playoffs is on the line, I really don’t see it necessary to show them anything but a vanilla game plan. 

[Sammy Watkins' Rib]

1 minute ago, Saint Doug said:

Unless home field for the playoffs is on the line, I really don’t see it necessary to show them anything but a vanilla game plan. 

Home field is guaranteed to be on the line with the game less than two weeks away and three games remaining after.

[zow2]

As much as Detroit will be promoted as the game of the year it’s not a must win for Buffalo.  It just isn’t.  Must wins are reserved for clinching a playoff berth type games and for the playoffs (elimination games).  

 

I want to beat Detroit, i will be rooting hard for Buffalo, but if they don’t win I’m not losing any sleep over it.  Get outta there healthy. 

[Harold Jackson]

One has clinched division.

One has clinched playoffs spot. 

 

There's absolutely no reason for this game to be anything more than a hardcore live practice for either team.

Vanilla play calls and experimenting.

 

Or it ends up looking like a shootout because neither team will try very hard on defense. For the purpose of no injuries to themselves. 

Or it exposes how lucky Detroit has been up to now. There's no way in hell Campbell succeeds on 4 fourth downs in a game ever again.

 

[zow2]

On 11/29/2024 at 12:49 PM, Sammy Watkins' Rib said:

I have a weird feeling that if these two teams do meet in the Super Bowl it will be the team that losses the regular season game that wins the Super Bowl.

 

To your point,  that’s why i would prefer to play Houston and/or Baltimore at some point in the playoffs.  It’s very hard to defeat a good team twice in a season. I like the edge we would have over them with the chip on our shoulder. 

[Kelly to Allen]

Bills vs Giants 1990 regular season 

[nosejob]

2 hours ago, Harold Jackson said:

One has clinched division.

One has clinched playoffs spot. 

 

There's absolutely no reason for this game to be anything more than a hardcore live practice for either team.

Vanilla play calls and experimenting.

 

Or it ends up looking like a shootout because neither team will try very hard on defense. For the purpose of no injuries to themselves. 

Or it exposes how lucky Detroit has been up to now. Didn't he screw them out of a SB appearance last year? He will go to the well once too often again and I hope it's against us.

 

 

[djp14150]

Lions have —   Packers(W),  Bills, at bears, at niners, Vikings 

vikings have — falcons, bears, at seahawks, packers, at lions 

 

Lions lost to TB ( non common) 

Vikings lost to Lions, rams

 

if Vikings W out they are tied with lions at 15-2— lions get division with better common game record

 

eagles lost to falcons and bucs, 2 conf loses

if tied with 2 conf loses it goes to common games 

common record tiebreaker

MIN PHL. ( GB,rams,  JAX, ATL, NYG, )3-1 v 4-1 

 

DET. PHL ( GB, rams,JAX  tb, dal)  5-1 v 4-1

 

if tied  it goes to strength of schedule and strength of victory 

 

 

 

[Kelly to Allen]

3 hours ago, Harold Jackson said:

One has clinched division.

One has clinched playoffs spot. 

 

There's absolutely no reason for this game to be anything more than a hardcore live practice for either team.

Vanilla play calls and experimenting.

 

Or it ends up looking like a shootout because neither team will try very hard on defense. For the purpose of no injuries to themselves. 

Or it exposes how lucky Detroit has been up to now. There's no way in hell Campbell succeeds on 4 fourth downs in a game ever again.

 

Buffalo is going to go all out for the one seed. 

[TheWei44]

1 hour ago, zow2 said:

 

To your point,  that’s why i would prefer to play Houston and/or Baltimore at some point in the playoffs.  It’s very hard to defeat a good team twice in a season. I like the edge we would have over them with the chip on our shoulder. 

Don't agree with this logic at all.  The two games are basically independent events.  Like flipping a coin.  Only after two coin flips can we say "wow!" it came up heads twice (equivalent to two wins) but that is only a 25% chance.  Just like the gambler's fallacy where if the roulette wheel lands on "5" or "black", you think no way it'll be "5" or "black" next spin.  The odds don't change, though, so "5" is just as likely as before and the same for "black" . . . Rant over!!