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[bsartist618]

Any bets on how many times a Chevy "THIS IS OUR COUNTRY!!" ad is played tonight?

I too am unusually unproductive today due to this extra day of waiting between my Patriots fix.

[cheekydave]

No fucking The Wire spoilers on a game thread!!

Goddammitt!!!!!

ALSO no Heroes Season Finale Spoilers TONIGHT During the game!

[CodPiece XL]

Any bets on how many times a Chevy "THIS IS OUR COUNTRY!!" ad is played tonight?

I too am unusually unproductive today due to this extra day of waiting between my Patriots fix.

Call me whimsical and shallow but I much prefer the proverbial hot-babe-in-front-of-cooler beer ad campaigns and the more of them the better.

[MttKnx]

It's really windy in DC right now. Forecast for Baltimore tonight says gusts could reach over 50 MPH. Faulk and Welker might have to be the staples of the passing attack tonight.

[Carmine Hose]

Absolutely seeing as the 4th season hasn't even come out on DVD yet and will be a Christmas present for many fans of the goddamn show. Goddammit!

Get HBO, cheap ass.

Pirates of the Carribean 3 hasn't come out on DVD yet. Can I not talk about that either?

[Jnai]

Get HBO, cheap ass.

Pirates of the Carribean 3 hasn't come out on DVD yet. Can I not talk about that either?

You could, but the taint of it's awful suck would probably destroy the SoSH server worse than the search function.

(I actually never saw it, but how could the second sequel to a movie about a ride be any worse than that description).

[dcmissle]

It's really windy in DC right now. Forecast for Baltimore tonight says gusts could reach over 50 MPH. Faulk and Welker might have to be the staples of the passing attack tonight.

Looks like my son and I will freeze our asses off, cause it will be around 30 with those gusts. Yes, I'm taking him -- last time Pats played here was 1996, when the Ravens were all offense/no defense. That was a game in which Testaverde caught fire in the 4th qtr and damned near killed Parcells (and me).

Edited by dcmissle, 03 December 2007 - 03:42 PM.

[Havok]

Chris McAlister is expected to play tonight, according to ESPN's NFL Primetime.

[twoBshorty]

I'll probably wind up spending half the game staring at the ESPN crawl on the bottom of the screen, waiting for "MLB" to come around on the 18/58 update. I have a love/hate relationship with the Winter Meetings.

[dbn]

These lines are extravagant b/c Vegas is determined to get back at least some of what it had to pay until last week.

I thought that the line was set such that equal money gets bet on both sides, and is adjusted as bets come in to keep it so. Thus: (a) Vegas pays out equal money to what it takes in, minus the 5% -- or whatever it is -- juice (i.e., Vegas doesn't actually gamble, they just always make their cut); and (b) the line has nothing to do with what Vegas thinks the final score will be, rather, it is the line that Vegas thinks will split gamblers (a money bet-weighted) 50%.

I'm not a gambler, so somebody please correct me if I'm wrong.

Edit: oh, and 33-6

Edited by dbn, 03 December 2007 - 04:47 PM.

[dcmissle]

I thought that the line was set such that equal money gets bet on both sides, and is adjusted as bets come in to keep it so. Thus: (a) Vegas pays out equal money to what it takes in, minus the 5% -- or whatever it is -- juice (i.e., Vegas doesn't actually gamble, they just always make their cut); and (b) the line has nothing to do with what Vegas thinks the final score will be, rather, it is the line that Vegas thinks will split gamblers (a money bet-weighted) 50%.

I'm not a gambler, so somebody please correct me if I'm wrong.

Edit: oh, and 33-6

They try but don't always succeed. And they have to maintain a line.

[theproductis7776]

Am leaving for M&T in about an hour. Life is good. Weather here has been incredibly windy all day.

[Kitchkinet]

Call me whimsical and shallow but I much prefer the proverbial hot-babe-in-front-of-cooler beer ad campaigns and the more of them the better.

Why stop there? Why not two-hot-babes-in-front-of-cooler?

"...and twins!"

Oh, and theproduct: Too bad the snow isn't supposed to come until tomorrow night. That would be fun.

Edited by Kitchkinet, 03 December 2007 - 05:22 PM.

[bowiac]

I thought that the line was set such that equal money gets bet on both sides, and is adjusted as bets come in to keep it so. Thus: (a) Vegas pays out equal money to what it takes in, minus the 5% -- or whatever it is -- juice (i.e., Vegas doesn't actually gamble, they just always make their cut); and (b) the line has nothing to do with what Vegas thinks the final score will be, rather, it is the line that Vegas thinks will split gamblers (a money bet-weighted) 50%.

I'm not a gambler, so somebody please correct me if I'm wrong.

This is apparently a common myth - the line does move in response to betting, but they don't just try and split the action. I'm basing this largely off a Q&A with a Vegas bookmaker off the Freakanomics blog.

[Seven Costanza]

I have a 7-10 page research paper due tomorrow at 4. I've had all semester to do this. Not a word has been written yet. The Patriots are on in two and a half hours.

It would improve my mood immensly if say, Tom Brady threw 3 or 4 touchdowns.

[Kitchkinet]

I have a 7-10 page research paper due tomorrow at 4. I've had all semester to do this. Not a word has been written yet. The Patriots are on in two and a half hours.

It would improve my mood immensly if say, Tom Brady threw 3 or 4 touchdowns.

Look up some sources before the game, then crush the paper tomorrow during work. I did that a couple times going for my degree.

[SoxScout]

Here is the closest weather station to M&T.

Currently: 40.3 °F, 17mph wind, 27mph gusts

Edited by SoxScout, 03 December 2007 - 06:38 PM.

[Mystic Merlin]

Here is the closes weather station to M&T.

Currently: 40.3 °F, 17mph wind, 27mph gusts

The thought of Kyle Boller throwing in bad conditions against the Pats D makes me smile.

[ragnarok725]

I have a 7-10 page research paper due tomorrow at 4. I've had all semester to do this. Not a word has been written yet. The Patriots are on in two and a half hours.

I have a 30 minute presentation to do on Thursday, an hour long presentation to do on Friday, a 40 page requirements document (half-written) due on Thursday, a 30 page systems analysis report (75% written) due Thursday, 5 separate other papers of varying lengths (4-8 pages mostly) on interface design - none written - due Thursday, a 7-10 page paper on topics in philosophy of religion due Thursday, and a journal detailing all the readings in that religion class due Thursday, supposed to be ~60 pages with ~15 written.

I'm in better shape than I was at the end of last semester, I guess.

[ilya678]

I have a 7-10 page research paper due tomorrow at 4. I've had all semester to do this. Not a word has been written yet. The Patriots are on in two and a half hours.

It would improve my mood immensly if say, Tom Brady threw 3 or 4 touchdowns.

Hey i'm not the only one hurray, I have a seven pager on the rise of the communist party in russia.
Just redbull it after the game and get it done.

[Seven Costanza]

I'm not going to work tomorrow, so I will be fine. More mental anguish I suppose.

I have a 30 minute presentation to do on Thursday, an hour long presentation to do on Friday, a 40 page requirements document (half-written) due on Thursday, a 30 page systems analysis report (75% written) due Thursday, 5 separate other papers of varying lengths (4-8 pages mostly) on interface design - none written - due Thursday, a 7-10 page paper on topics in philosophy of religion due Thursday, and a journal detailing all the readings in that religion class due Thursday, supposed to be ~60 pages with ~15 written.

My advice to you would be to quickly develop a cocaine habit.

Hey i'm not the only one hurray, I have a seven pager on the rise of the communist party in russia.
Just redbull it after the game and get it done.

That's funny, my area of concentration as a history major is the Soviet Union.
My paper for tomorrow is on Ulster Loyalism though.

[twoBshorty]

I have a 30 minute presentation to do on Thursday, an hour long presentation to do on Friday, a 40 page requirements document (half-written) due on Thursday, a 30 page systems analysis report (75% written) due Thursday, 5 separate other papers of varying lengths (4-8 pages mostly) on interface design - none written - due Thursday, a 7-10 page paper on topics in philosophy of religion due Thursday, and a journal detailing all the readings in that religion class due Thursday, supposed to be ~60 pages with ~15 written.

I'm in better shape than I was at the end of last semester, I guess.

I'm on winter break until January 2 and I'm bored out of my mind.

Sincerely,

Sausage in Section 17

[loshjott]

Here is the closest weather station to M&T.

Currently: 40.3 °F, 17mph wind, 27mph gusts

It feels colder than that outside.

The wind is howling, the crowd will be liquored up and belligerent, and the Ravens D will be fired up, sky high. Good test for the Pats offense.

[neil]

I have a 12+ paper to do on Shared Memory Architectures in multiprocessor systems to work on. 5 pages right now. Should be good to go. But the temptation of eating a Subway feast, along with Survivorman on discovery followed by the Pats game makes life much much harder.

[ilya678]

I have a 12+ paper to do on Shared Memory Architectures in multiprocessor systems to work on. 5 pages right now. Should be good to go. But the temptation of eating a Subway feast, along with Survivorman on discovery followed by the Pats game makes life much much harder.

Hmm i have all i can eat chicken wings and sam adams. Ok fuck it this paper's not getting done.

[John Dopson]

Inactive players for the Patriots tonight:

QB Matt Gutierrez (3rd quarterback)
WR Chad Jackson
S Eugene Wilson
CB Eddie Jackson
OT Wesley Britt
C/G Billy Yates
WR Troy Brown
LB Chad Brown



Todd Heap
Rhys Lloyd,
Mike Anderson,
Gerome Sapp,
Jared Gaither,
Demetrius Williams,
Edgar Jones and
Zarnell Fitch

Edited by John Dopson, 03 December 2007 - 07:30 PM.

[Mystic Merlin]

Wow, no Heap is a massive blow to that offense.

He's the one guy I fear in the Ravens passing game.

[hunter05]

Two former members of the 72 Dolphins on ESPN right now. Wow, if it was possible to hate these guys more, that did it.

[Jnai]

Is anyone watching Monday Night Countdown?

Someone should Youtube that discussion as a primer in nitpicking stats.

[John Dopson]

I guess Wilson is officially 8th or whatever on the depth chart.

With E. Jackson and C. Brown both inactive, I think that means two usual inactives should be active (assuming Brown would theoretically replace Colvin). One is LeKevin Smith but I can't think of who the other would be.

[JohnnyTheBone]

Did anybody just see Mercury Morris on ESPN's Monday Night Countdown? What a jackhole. My IQ dropped ten points for having watched that interview.

[smokin joe wood]

Berman just had an interview with Bob Griese and Mercury Morris on the ESPN pre-game. Hilarious stuff from Morris, after Griese said 'there is plenty of room on the mountain top" Morris said "except not on Mt. Everest, they would only be our equal." Then when asked if he would mind if the Patriots went undefeated he said "Every husband needs a wife." Good provocative stuff from Morris, Griese distanced himself immediately from that statement. Ha.

[ilya678]

Eugene two games in a row huh. I wonder if izzo will get any reps tonight so that bruschi and seau can take a few plays off.

[John Dopson]

I guess Wilson is officially 8th or whatever on the depth chart.

With E. Jackson and C. Brown both inactive, I think that means two usual inactives should be active (assuming Brown would theoretically replace Colvin). One is LeKevin Smith but I can't think of who the other would be.

Answered my own question, looks like it's Mel Mitchell finally returning. With an extra DL instead of LB wonder if we see some 4-3. Billick apparently told ESPN guys they want to pound it on the ground tonight.

[RedOctober3829]

I just got one more reason why I want this team to go undefeated: Mercury Morris.

What a loser.

[neil]

I really hate the 72 Dolphins. I want the undefeated record purely to shut those old fools up.

[tailwind]

I just posted similar thoughts in the "ESPN has sunk to new lows" thread in the media forum.

What a jackass. I wish someone like Parcells was there to call out Morris on his bullshit.

[mostman]

I would just like to add that there are more Software Engineers (working and studying for) here on SoSH than there should be based on stats. Guess us software folks enjoy sports - who knew

[dcdrew10]

Eugene two games in a row huh. I wonder if izzo will get any reps tonight so that bruschi and seau can take a few plays off.

Makes me wonder if he is on his way out after this year. He has really seemed to regress the last couple of years. Its a shame and the patriots don't need any more holes in the defense.

[twoBshorty]

Frightening shot of BB on ESPN's front page:



Man, if looks could kill. . .

[CaptainLaddie]

NdoRq69kvgU

[Jnai]

NdoRq69kvgU

This guy is my new fucking hero.

[ilya678]

NdoRq69kvgU

I believe that is a bit old cause it was before the buffalo game

[CaptainLaddie]

Oh yes it was.

But still.

Also that OLine video was hilarious.

[mostman]

LOL - that archery clip was really funny.

[TheShynessClinic]

Was that segment taped at Outdoor World at the Razor? If so, I need to be going out there and trying that.

[Mystic Merlin]

"Yer my boy, Blue!"

Awesome.

[CaptainLaddie]

Those clips of Moss trying to fire up the O Line were great.

[Norm Siebern]

I really hate the 72 Dolphins. I want the undefeated record purely to shut those old fools up.

A-Fucking-Men.

The single most overated sports team in history. They played a schedule of opponents who had a collective .387 winning percentage.

[Saints Rest]

That segement with sounds from the sidelines was tremendous.

The two big surprises to me were Kevin Faul exhorting the offense and Randy Moss encouraging the OLine.