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Packers getting devoured by the Lions tonight
Vanity | 12-3-2015 | PilgrimsProgress

Posted on 12/03/2015 7:32:08 PM PST by Pilgrim's Progress

It's early in the 3rd Qtr, and the Packers just scored (even though they fumbled the football into the end zone).


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To: Pilgrim's Progress; ETL

C’mon man, you got the memo. Years on FR say “Game Playing - spoiler” - click to read....

Ha. Well, I hope you’re not a Detroit fan.

Anyway, just caught the end of the game and it was great. I’m not a fan of either team, but that was a good finish!

I just like some good football.

(Go Brock-Ohs’) - Denver!

K.


41 posted on 12/03/2015 9:06:41 PM PST by KitJ (Shall not be infringed)
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To: KitJ

Yea, I really got the “C’mon Man!” and I deserved it. Won’t happen again. I live in the Detroit area, but I honestly can’t call myself a Lyin’s fan . . . I mean, C’mon!


42 posted on 12/03/2015 9:11:44 PM PST by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
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To: KitJ

Yogi said it best. “It ain’t over til it’s over.”


43 posted on 12/03/2015 9:15:42 PM PST by IM2MAD (IM2MAD=Individual Motivated 2 Make A Difference)
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To: Cyman

It was a facemask. The helmet was out of normal alignment at the end of the play. Detroit, back to the dirty play they are known for.


44 posted on 12/03/2015 9:29:27 PM PST by sgtyork
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To: Cyman
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45 posted on 12/03/2015 9:35:26 PM PST by ETL (Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better, safer America)
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To: ETL

you’re just desperate for this bulsh*t to be true.


46 posted on 12/03/2015 9:39:39 PM PST by JohnBrowdie (http://forum.stink-eye.net)
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To: ETL

Ummm. That photo proves that he DIDN’T grab the facemask. He has his jersey in that photo.


47 posted on 12/03/2015 9:41:03 PM PST by JohnBrowdie (http://forum.stink-eye.net)
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The Detroit Lions...yes, one of the NFL's abused step-children.

...but finding ways to lose football games since 1957...all on their own.

48 posted on 12/03/2015 9:42:48 PM PST by RckyRaCoCo (PC is a religious cult of death.)
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To: Cyman

it’s the NFL coddling their marquee players . . . again. Nauseating.


49 posted on 12/03/2015 9:43:26 PM PST by JohnBrowdie (http://forum.stink-eye.net)
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To: Cyman

Bingo.


50 posted on 12/03/2015 9:50:09 PM PST by JohnBrowdie (http://forum.stink-eye.net)
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To: JohnBrowdie
you're just desperate for this bulsh*t to be true.

Desperate? I didn't care who won. I'm a Colts and Giants fan.

51 posted on 12/03/2015 9:52:41 PM PST by ETL (Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better, safer America)
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To: Pilgrim's Progress; Travis McGee

It’s all good.

I like sports as a diversion FRom what we’re facing everyday.

I’m halfway through Matt Bracken’s essay on “Tet”. Good stuff and recommended read/share.

K.


52 posted on 12/03/2015 10:01:26 PM PST by KitJ (Shall not be infringed)
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To: JohnBrowdie

I’m still trying to find a good clip of the face mask call. COULD be that Rodgers twisted his head himself to make it APPEAR that the DET guy had a momentary finger on the mask.


53 posted on 12/03/2015 10:10:37 PM PST by ETL (Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better, safer America)
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To: ETL

Try here:

https://screen.yahoo.com/game-changing-facemask-penalty-044907035.html

It was clearly a facemask, but interesting that the ref in back called it rather than the ref in front. The Detroit player knew he was nailed as soon as he saw the flag.

Just watched it again and another flag came in, but the ref in front closest to the play didn’t call it.


54 posted on 12/03/2015 10:36:19 PM PST by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: ponygirl

That’s funny, when I was little my dad shook hands with a guy and then the guy spoke: and I said “Mr. Coffee!” Yankee fan ever since I got the explanation! (And Joe D. Smiled at me :)


55 posted on 12/03/2015 10:58:52 PM PST by MacMattico
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To: Pilgrim's Progress

EXCUSE ME, YOU WERE SAYING?


56 posted on 12/04/2015 2:25:08 AM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: Pilgrim's Progress

Best. Finish. EVER.

And I don’t even like either team that much.

Flutie-esque

Go Broncos!


57 posted on 12/04/2015 3:12:33 AM PST by hattend (Firearms and ammunition...the only growing industries under the Obama regime.)
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To: Moonman62

Try here:

https://screen.yahoo.com/game-changing-facemask-penalty-044907035.html

It was clearly a facemask, but interesting that the ref in back called it rather than the ref in front. The Detroit player knew he was nailed as soon as he saw the flag.

Thanks for the link. Even commentator Phil Simms agreed with the call. Lions' coach didn't argue or get upset. Neither did the Det player called for the penalty.

So, after that bizarre last-second truly desperate play with 3 or 4 rear laterals, eventually one being ridiculously tossed about 10 yard behind to GB QB Rodgers, where he is quickly wrapped up in what SHOULD have been a game winning tackle, the Det tackler momentary gets a finger on Rodgers' face mask twisting his head ever so slightly, resulting in a game-extending 15-yard penalty and automatic first down (it was a 4th down play) with ZERO time on the clock, GB is granted one final play from something like their own 35 or 40 yard line...with ***ZERO*** time left on the clock (0!), as a game cannot end on a defensive penalty, Rodgers somehow manages to scrambled clear, and while running forward, with all of his strength, and with that forward momentum, heaves a 65 or 70 yard long pass high up in the air which comes down a few yards deep in the Det end zone into a crowd of both Det and GB players, one GB player leaps high in the air making the immaculate 'hail mary' reception!!! As one freeper said last night just after it happened: "Ho-Lee-Cow"!! Has to be one of the most incredible finishes ever, all things considered!

58 posted on 12/04/2015 5:38:02 AM PST by ETL (Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better, safer America)
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To: ETL

These lateral plays seem to be more common since the Miami Duke game.

It adds another element of excitement to the game which I think is badly needed.


59 posted on 12/04/2015 6:39:43 AM PST by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: Moonman62

The excitement level on many games this season, particularly many of the night games, has been through the roof. There have been some amazing finishes.


60 posted on 12/04/2015 6:55:02 AM PST by ETL (Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better, safer America)
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