The NFL Thread (with added College Football)

[cdbearsfan]

Bastards.

Still, at least our Jay had a really high completion rate. If you include his throws to the opposition.

[UK Redsox]

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/19/sports/football/steve-sabol-creative-force-behind-nfl-films-dies-at-69.html

Steve Sabol, dead at 69

[The Left Side]

I can't believe nobody has mentioned the MNF game, where is UK Redsox!!!

[The Left Side]

OK to summarize the Seahawks were losing with 2 mins to go, the forced Green Bay to punt to midfield before a hail mary in the last play of the game sent the NFL into meltdown...

http://scores.espn.go.com/nfl/recap?gameId=320924026

twitter went crazy and the league lost a lot of credibility.

[Somniloquism]

OK to summarize the Seahawks were losing with 2 mins to go, the forced Green Bay to punt to midfield before a hail mary in the last play of the game sent the NFL into meltdown...

http://scores.espn.go.com/nfl/recap?gameId=320924026

twitter went crazy and the league lost a lot of credibility.

Should I be happy Green Bay lost, even if it was massively controversial. Hell yeah.

[ADVILLAFAN]

Happy about it, but the leagu needs to get the proper officials back, every game is having terrible calls that cost teams points.

[Somniloquism]

The Bears seem to be doing well. Does this mean we finally have an attack worthy of the name to compliment our defence?

[ADVILLAFAN]

Still worry about our OL, only the Packers seem to have realised that if you blitz 6 men against us, we have no answer for it.

4 and 1 though, can't complain.

[pmarachi]

I can't believe the Eagles fired Juan Castillo!

The defense was the only thing that was doing well.

I guess that it is his reward for doing a good job.  He doesn't have to stay in Philly with that crap team.

[UK Redsox]

Two games at Wemberleee in 2013.

Steelers @ Vikings on 29 September.

49ers @ Jaguars on 27 October.

To me, this is a clear sign that the NFL are looking to see if fans will support multiple games in London, with the aim of moving a team to England.

If the NFL was just concerned with spreading the "brand", then the second game would have been at Croke Park or somewhere in Germany.

[Dave Cooper please]

Quick question, are the fans of the Vikings and jaguars getting any sort of compensation for effectively losing a home game?
Why are they not up in arms about this?

[UK Redsox]

Quick question, are the fans of the Vikings and jaguars getting any sort of compensation for effectively losing a home game?
Why are they not up in arms about this?

The Vikes ownership are probably using the London game as a threat to the local authorities to either build them a new stadium or watch them leave for LA. Their fans will be pissed off.

(I don't understand why the Vikes and Gophers didn't combine resources to build an NFL calibre stadium rather than the Gophers going it alone like they did and building one for purely NCAA use).

The Jags don't sell out their games, so I doubt that the protests will be too vociferous in No-Flo. They're the team that I expect to move full-time to London within the next 5 to 10 years.

[UK Redsox]

In praise of "RedZone"...............

http://www.grantland.com/blog/the-triangle/post/_/id/40542/nfl-redzone-the-peoples-champ

[UK Redsox]

So, who'll be at Wemberlee on Sunday ?

I'll be there with a Gloucestershire born, Leeedz supporting mate. Luckily we're in the Club Level (behind an Endzone), so he won't be able to get on the pitch !

[Chico Hamilton III]

I'm sitting in an office with my American boss who managed to engineer a business trip to London his week - the very same week that his beloved Patriots plays at Wembley

He asked me whether the roof will be on at Wembley on Sunday? any ideas?