We play Hockey and Basketball up here.
HS Football in MN - just to get in shape for BB or Hockey.
VA, TX, MS, AL, FL, CA - those are football States. (probably missing a bunch)

Green Bay doesn't have a dome, Chicago doesn't have a dome.
Remove them all and let's have some fun.
If you're a fan in MN, duh, you know it's 15F out.... you do have the clothes for it.

Would love to see a Texans(Dallas)/Vikes game in December without a dome, like the old Vikes/Dallas games at the Met... Now THAT was football.

GG - search and see how many Dome teams have won playoff games outdoors :(
MN sucks outdoors, especially away.

Anyway, I'm already past football and way into the NBA already.
Though we've sucked the past week or so.

Guess who I'm rooting for?

:)

a team that won't be going to the superbowl?

|jester|

Indy is planning a new stadium now, it will have a retractable roof like the one in Houston, and my guess is as long as the offense is as it is, the roof will be closed a lot.

|touchdown

So when Indy has the ball, the roof is closed & when the other team has the ball, the roof is open?

|couch|

Sure why not? How’s that any worse then a snow blower on the field right ALJim?

snowblowers are legal against the dolphins when the score is tied 0 - 0

|bananna|

"the Patriots' 3-0 "Snow Plow Game" victory over Miami on Dec. 12, 1982. With neither team able to score during a raging snowstorm, tractor driver Mark Henderson -- a convicted burglar on a work-release program -- alertly cleared a path with his snow brush for John Smith's 33-yard field goal late in the fourth quarter.

Not surprisingly, the NFL quickly banned grounds crews from doing anything to create a physical advantage, but two heroes were born. The Patriots still use that John Deere tractor, and Henderson received a loud ovation when he drove it onto the field during a 2001 reenactment."

they still have it |jester|

Your forgot the part where the coach called a timeout and told the driver to go out and do it........ where is he now? |waves|

I think that was Ron Meyer at the time

don't know where he is

but Mark Henderson is out of Jail and no longer on work release

maybe the warden was a pats fan? |jester|

Here he is here

http://www.winningedge.com/handicappers/ron.php

he coached the Colts too

Geez Torn

you should know

hes also a Purdue grad

Coach Meyer graduated with Honors from Purdue University in 1963

Yep, I knew that lol....

A guy I knew went to a New Years party in Indy a few years ago, turned out it was Meyers house.

He had just started this thing of his I belive, its been a few years since I even thought of him.

2 or 3 years ago I heard he was interested in getting back into coaching

but I think having a website involving gambling would be bad for the NFL

I think I have to go with the Pats vs the Dirty Birds in 2 weeks....

Pats have too many Boilermakers playing for them for me not to root for them, and honestly.... they are just too damn good as a team.

Pitt has the feel good story going for them, and I like them as well, but just not enough “team” to beat the Pats.

No TO for Philly so I can root for them, but I think Vick will make the difference.

Philly will be considered the little brother to the Bills after today… 0-4….

Pitt and Eagles
With Pitt winning it all..
(hey what does my son, a 6th grader know, but that's his picks)

so much for the Dirty Birds.... damn things can't fly....

Congrats to the Philly fans....

Smart kid.. but he got the winner wrong. |waves| |hello| :D

So this ends the 24 year ban on the Eagles going to the super bowl :)

Torn - You must feel like a moron right about now :D

I just ordered my Chad Lewis jersey for the big game - can't beat a guy with the year I graduated High School as his number |bananna|

Any one hear why kids are singing the national anthems today? I came in on the start of both so I didn’t hear who they were and why, but both were pretty good.

The Philly kid I assume was blind, may not have the talent to sing, but he had balls of steel to do it in front of 60,000 and that was the first time I have seen that many in the Military cry during the anthem, even a few players looked chocked up, so I assume there is a story to it.

And that girl who just did it in Pitt was AMAZING, and I am not one to say good things on kid singers, but I have a feeling a contract is in her future.

nah, if I was a sportscaster that made my living on saying who is going to win, then yeah, Id feel like a moron, but I’m just a fan who had the balls to post his picks at kick off.....

BTW, I predicted it would be Philly/NE at the start of the season.....

Who you gonna root for?
(so I know who I'll be rooting for - LOL)

I'm rooting for a good game where no one gets hurt and everyone wins......
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