Much props to Brady and the Pats. My beloved Texans got whupped, but it was all their doing. We may have stood a better chance if we had earned the top seed as we were supposed to. On our field the result may have been different.

I am now rooting for the Ravens.

Arian Foster played like a man possessed, but one cannot make defensive mistakes against the BRADY

all in all, the best weekend of football this season.

I am proud of my texans. I only wish that Brian Cushing had been healthy enough to play and rip Brady a new asshole.

Next year, with Cushing AND Watt? Look out AFC. Texans are gonna come out extra hungry.

and suchfriends, what you said about the football players keeping their beef on the field, is very true.

story about Payton Manning waiting with his family to talk to Ray Lewis after the game. http://sports.yahoo.com/news/nfl--ra...062005410.html

If you're on our bandwagon then it was almost worth it :)

Be happy with the loss, it was still a great season and a kick ass game against the Bengals. If there is no dignity in defeat, sports really isn't worth it, because, hey, even the team that wins it all had to lose a few along the way too.

All those Packers-Denver predictions which even I succumbed to have proven false, fantastic I say! No Saints. No Steeler. No Manning brothers. No Packers. These Conference games are looking superb! Speaking of which, superb is exactly how the Ravens are going to have to play against Brady, but look how well we fought against Peyton and his new kick ass defense in Denver? Things are feeling good even if the numbers less than match!

I was also really touched by that story. I mean, both guys are Superbowl winning, legendary by every definition, Hall of Fame players, and yet Peyton comes by after the game, with HIS FAMILY no less, to take a picture WITH HIS KIDS with the guy who just knocked him out of the play-offs for an NFL record tying 10th time? THAT is CLASS. That deserves our respect. Could any of us imagine Michael Jordan going up to Patrick Ewing or Karl Malone after losing a game to them like that? Or even Kobe Bryant? Lebron would do it, but that is why he is different and lured my back into the NBA. The NFL is always a friendly place, these guys know its just a job, just a game that pays the bills and entertains a lot of people.

bunnyboyz, you nor anyone else seems to be able to take Phillip Rivers seriously! The guy has issues! ha!

Yes, Phillip Rivers get even less respect than Mark Sanchez if that is possible. Blame the franchise, if the guy played somewhere with pedigree and media attention he would be more like Tony Romo or Matt Stafford, great QBs otherwise going no where fast. The NFL equivalent of the NBA stat guys (Chris Bosh when he was in Toronto, Steve Nash when he was in Phoenix), guys who put up great numbers but just aren't on winning enough caliber teams to capitalize on the potential. Matty Ice is on the verge of becoming that soon if in the next three years they don't do something serious.

that was my hope and pick last year. even though i love my falcons i actually want us to lose tomorrow. we're not ready, we can't beat my Ravens, its more and more looking like nobody can beat us. I'm not counting my chickens before they hatch, indeed we have a strong a chance to lose against the Pats as we do to win. But my Falcons couldn't beat the Pats either, not yet. Those are post-season teams, we are just barely inching in that direction. So the worst thing that could happen to us is win and go to the Superbowl. It will be an instant replay of Atlanta's only previous Bowl appearance in 1998, and we got down right embarrassed. Further, we've never even been close to back. There are always two teams that go the Bowl, a destiny team that wins it all, and an unprepared team that really shouldn't have been there in the first place. The latter teams rarely if ever return to that level the following season. If Falcons win and then lose in the Superbowl, I fear we will fall into a serious slump afterwards. If we lose the NFC, we will only come back that much more hungry and prepared next year and may actually be able to win the Superbowl ;)

So I'm sticking with my previous hopes from last year, a Harbaugh brother Superbowl, and by the way, don't let Kaepernick fool you, Ravens can STOMP on Ninerz if they want to. Of course, the past 5 years in the play-offs have proven that Ravens can stomp the shit out of ANY team and STILL lose (we've out-played the Patriots in 4 of the past 5 games we've played them, and yet have gone 2-3..

One of my fave coaches was Jerry Glanville, who coached both the House of Pain era Oilers and the Prime Time Falcons. Great guy. Not he best of strategists but had his teams play balls out

Neon Deion was the shit, period. Fuck the fuck yeah! The good/bad thing about Atlanta is we're a small market, mediocre, no Championship team that has a surprisingly good system all around, playing, scouting, recruiting, office, and ownership. We've been the first start for a serious amount of top-level NFL careers for players, coaches, and managers, however and unfortunately just not for us. Hell we even in a way gave Farve his chance :/

Finally a deserving thread for an awesome band!

Now that Capn' jazz had their reunion thing, who else is super excited for an american football reuninon as well??!!?!?!???!?!!

My pick from last year materialized. My Ravens are back in the Superbowl, like we knew we would ever since Harbaugh and Flacco came to town. FUCK THE FUCK YEAH! LOVE wins football games, not stat lines, not hype, not your previous record and accolades. Ravens LOVE football. Ravens LOVE their fans. Ravens LOVE their competitors. LOVE wins,football, while haterz lose time and time again, and we are going to win it ALL! The only team that can beat the Ravens is themselves ;)

As to my Falcons, this is the best blessing in disguise. Ninerz and Ravens lost the Conference games last year, look where their at now. Falcons have been the best team in the NFC 2 out of the past 3 years, and this year we shut out the Giants, then shut out the Seahawks for an entire half, and today shut out the 49erz for almost the entire 1st half, and really came just 10 yards short of the Superbowl. I promise y'all that the Falcons will see the Superbowl next year ;)

What an amazing goddmn day of football. Tom brady looked PISSED OFF on the sideline with like ten minutes left. Amazing games. The 49ers and the Ravens Baltimore and San Francisco face off in new orleans. Either way the Harbaugh family will celebrate a great Super Bowl. This is a season for the ages! Amazing playoff games one and all.

Ravens have a tendency to get in peoples' heads like that. Ask Peyton who was too scurred to go for it with 31 second left, the same amount of time Matty Ice had to beat the Seahawks. Broncos were psyched out, so were the Pats. Patriots have never lost after leading at half, when Ravens kept coming with it while at the same time shutting it down with defense, Patriots flinched. Niners are good, but they will flinch too. Ravens will only beat themselves if they lose. I agree Rob, this perhaps the best season too many years, and definitely in the top ten of all time.

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to Bytor Peltor again.

That picture alone makes this perhaps the BEST season ever. NO Saints. NO Mannings. NO Steelers. NO Brady. Can it honestly get any better?

Jim Harbaugh rocking out to Guided By Voices' Shocker in Gloomtown

Tom Brady playing dirty, trying to cripple Ed Reed with high cleats to his thigh/groin.

"What, Ray, you mean we ended Tom Brady's Superbowl hopes again?"

the great OJ Brigance

I am going to miss Ray Lewis like nobody's business yo! All the haters don't know, but I have literally been in Ray's shoes, I've been in bar fights that you didn't start that some motherfuckers are insistent on finishing. The reason Ray don't let that shit get to him is even though his entourage was defending themselves (those two dudes who got stabbed had a gun and were shooting at the limo!!) he still sincerely is haunted by the loss of life. It sucks when people try to start too much shit, and as Ray knows, God carries you through it all. I thank the Lord that quite literally none of the men who have stepped up against me trying to take my life have had to force my hand like what happened to Ray in 2000. I can respect that, and if folks like Wes Welker's wife want to run they mouth not knowing the truth, let them hate. As we Rasta chant and sing on the hillside,

We are here to help each other get through this, whatever it is...

BAWLMOR








<3 <3 <3

This one goes out to the Ninerz:

"When the lights, go down, in the city, and the sun shines down on the bay, oh I want to be there in my city, ohoh wo oh oh.."

To the haterz out there?

John Harbaugh > Jim Harbaugh

Joe Flacco > Petyon Manning, Tom Brady, Colin Kaepernick

Flacco = 9-5 record in the play-offs with one Superbowl, SEVEN ROADWINS FOR MOST ALL-TIME..

ELITE, period. DEAL WITH IT NFL HATERS ;)

And Rob, you of all folks GOT to love that John had the balls to pull off an old Oilers trick, the Polish Defense ;)

The Giants went for it too last year. hey refs, blow the whistle

i have no idea whatchu talking about but it was awesome when they faked the field goal

Polish Defense is where you intentionally give a penalty call to the opposing team in order to rob the clock of the final seconds and limit them to 1 or 2 plays, effectively neutralizing their chance at a final, game-winning, scoring drive. Keep in mind that Matt Ryan against Seattle scored a game-winning FG on a 3 pass drive in UNDER 18 SECONDS! In fact, with the remaining 8 the Seahawks damn near almost scored a TD!!!!

Football can be won in the final 30 seconds, so the Polish Defense is a an old-school way to rob a team of that chance when you already have the lead ;)

thanks! you lost me right after "keep in mind" but i think i get it if i remember the last minutes of the game well.

and it was a pretty great game, except for the fucking lights issue and nearly hour-long halftime

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to Bytor Peltor again.

Ravens, we've been humbled by losing games, by getting hated on by the media, by personal tragedies, shit our owner just passed away and we won it with our Art patches, something even the feared Patriots couldn't do for their owners' wife with the MHK patches. A priceless Superbowl for Smith's brother, for Ray Lewis' career, for Ed Reed and Joe Flacco to finally become elite in their positions, and hopefully even the Niners will be tempered by this loss. Sports is MORE SO about losing than winning, because even if you win the championship, you inevitably lose several games in the process. You have to LOSE with dignity, respect, and above all else the ability to LEARN from your losses.

Niners scare me for the sake of my Falcons next year, but this was Ravens destiny, and I am blessed to be a part of it :)

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She who carries the last Dagger of Mercy with the Octahedron imprinted right in the Palm of her Hands as her Sealed Stamp to Remember. She who has traveled as far as Atlantis, to Egypt, to Tibet, to Orion & back has now Re-emerged as her Flower of Life has fully blossomed into being exactly at the right time as planned. Her eyes still glows like that of the Tiger while she makes herself known for the first time revealing herself as the Female Creator that came after the Male Creator, thus forming the Universe once Left & Right, Male & Female became ONE! With that said I have come before you to share the Flower of Life.

My main man Deacon Jones has died. http://youtu.be/WsZMbleuMNY

He was such a bad-ass. Watching NFL Films footage of him and watching his interviews taught me to respect the past in the NFL and to admire the toughness of all the great American football players that came before I got into it.

Is he talking in lingo or code or something?

Michael Strahan (now co-host of Regis and Kelly Lee) holds the "sack record" in the NFL at 22.5 sacks in a season.
(a sack is when a defender tackles the QB before he can throw or hand off the ball. It is very hard since the offense linemen are 300-400 lbs and looking to protect the QB)
Michael Strahan was "given" the last sack that put him over the top for the record by Brett Favre, who basically laid down giving Strahan a freebie.

Watch here. http://youtu.be/_C2W62HNNsc

The "sack" was not kept as an official statistic until 1981 I think. That means that no one really knows who the sack leader all time was, but Deacon Jones says there exists NFL Films footage (they filmed every game in the NFL since around Super Bowl 2) which shows all the sacks he got, and that he should be the record holder, not Strahan.

Wow. So first just 4 months ago Hernadez shoots one friend in the face, now he is accused of murdering another execution style? This guy is fucking insane. I know I normally ascribe to innocent until proven guilty, but in all honesty, this shit is open and shut. The guy let that "I'm a New England Patriot with $40,000,000" get to his head, especially after no charges were filled after the first shooting. Clearly he thought he'd get away with it. If this guy is innocent, it would have to be an elaborate set-up, one which seems more unlikely than just that he may have killed the guy.

By the way, NO RAY LEWIS jokes please. THIS IS COMPLETELY DIFFERENT. RAY LEWIS GOT IN A BAR FIGHT in Atlanta, he and his entourage beat the shit out of a guy who picked a fight with them, that guy did what assholes who get their ass kicked for running their mouth in the club do, he went and got his boys and a strap. They shot at Ray Lewis' crew, Ray's crew stabbed the dude. They fled the scene in a limo because dudes were SHOOTING at the limo. Hey, are you going to say, "Gee guys, maybe we should stop and wait for the police" after a bunch of dudes just tried to KILL you and are SHOOTING at you?

Besides. A jury acquited the stabbers in self-defense, and only Ray was convicted, for obstruction, and that was a trumped up charge to appease the lynch-mob mentality against him brewing in the media.

To this day it infuriates me that Ray is considered a murderer, when HE DIDN'T EVEN STAB ANYBODY, he was an accomplice at worst, but again, it was deemed self-defense. I don't support stabbing people, but when it comes to getting shot at by pissed off dudes at the club, I don't support letting yourself get shot neither ;)

Hernandez is Puerto Rican right? He's makin' us look bad. We're supposed to be stereotypical knife-stabbers!

http://www.suitesports.com/2013/06/t...ison-team.html

http://www.thekeyplay.com/content/20...me-prison-team

which team you like more?

The Houston Texans are 0-3 (including playoffs) at the Baltimore Ravens. Today, the Ravens announced they will add Ray Lewis to their Ring of Honor when Ed Reed and the Texans come to town in September:

http://www.baltimoreravens.com/news/...e-e1fd10b6185e

Go Ravens!

Hey man, give the guy a break, he's just trying to give his 3054 kids a break and give them a snack

and holy shit that is Arthur Jones and not Ray Lewis and I am an idiot