The Sunday football / New Year’s Resolutions open thread

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McGehee says:

January 1, 2012 at 8:36 am

Are there any college games today? / As always, I resolved to make only one New Year’s resolution. Easier to keep, that way.

Blake says:

January 1, 2012 at 8:37 am

I’m resolved to continue to disdain progressive liberals and treat them with the scorn they’ve earned.

Seth says:

January 1, 2012 at 9:28 am

Resolutions: lasik, go to the range more, double up on workouts.

Go Pats!

leigh says:

January 1, 2012 at 9:28 am

I resolve not to make any resolutions and I plan to keep that promise.

sdferr says:

January 1, 2012 at 9:32 am

Dallas Cowboys promise by their past behavior to lose to NY / I resolve to rediscover a reason for optimism concerning more important things.

Pablo says:

January 1, 2012 at 9:38 am

Ndamukong Suh will not be breaking Aaron Rodgers today/Buy more ammo.

leigh says:

January 1, 2012 at 9:38 am

sdferr, a Happy New Year to you!

I think we all need a good conspiracy theory. Does anyone think it was mere coincidence that caused a SkyCam (manufactured in Tulsa) to fall and nearly brain an Iowa player at last week’s Insight Bowl where they played the Sooners and lost Big Time?

Seth says:

January 1, 2012 at 9:42 am

Not mere coincidence, leigh: global warming.

Seth says:

January 1, 2012 at 9:43 am

Human caused global warming to be exact.

leigh says:

January 1, 2012 at 9:48 am

Controlled by the Trilateral Commission and the Bilderbergers.

RTO Trainer says:

January 1, 2012 at 9:53 am

Teach Maggie to shoot and go to the range more.

Honey mustard…good idea. Got a liberated 1 lb summer sausage right here…..

sdferr says:

January 1, 2012 at 10:31 am

Conspiracy? I got yer conspiracy right here:

Bk I., Chapter 26
HOW A STATE IS RUINED BECAUSE OF WOMEN

A difference arose in the City of Ardea between the Patricians and the Plebians, because of a marriage contract, in which an heiress about to be married, was asked for at the same time by a Plebeian and a Noble; and as she did not have a father, her guardians wanted to unite her to the Plebeian, her mother to the Noble: and such a tumult arose from this that they came to arms; in which all the Nobility armed themselves in favor of the Noble, and all the Plebeians in favor of the Plebeian. So that the Plebs being overcome, they went out from Ardea and sent to the Volscians for aid, while the Nobles sent to Rome. The Volscians arriving first, surrounded Ardea and besieged it. When the Romans arrived, they shut in the Volscians between the town and themselves, so that they constrained them ((being pressed by hunger)) to surrender themselves at discretion. And when the Roman entered the City, they put to death all the heads of the sedition, and restored order in that City. There are several things to note in this text. First it is seen that Women have been the cause of many ruinations, and have done great damage to those who govern a City, and have caused many divisions in them: and ((as has been seen in our history)) the excess committed against Lucretia deprived the Tarquins of their State; and the other committed against Virginia deprived the Ten (Decemvirs) of their authority. And Aristotle, among the first causes of the ruin of the Tyrants, places the injury they committed on Women, either by seduction, by violence, or corruption of marriages, as we have discussed this subject at length in the Chapter in which we treated of Conspiracies.

I say, therefore, that absolute Princes and governors of Republics do not have to take little account of this subject, but ought to consider the disorders which may arise from such incidents, and remedy them in time that it does not injure and disgrace their State or Republic; as happened to the Ardeans, who, for allowing the rivalry to increase among their citizens, were led to become divided among themselves, and wanting to reunite, had to send for outside succor, which is a great beginning to a sure servitude. But let us come to another notable way of reuniting a City, of which we will treat in the next chapter.

N. Machiavelli
Discourses on the First 10 Books of Livy

Heh.

Patrick S says:

January 1, 2012 at 10:39 am

The Bears will continue to suck until they back the truck up to the front offices / Finish the basement project.

Off to mud and tape…

eCurmudgeon says:

January 1, 2012 at 11:18 am

Sorry, but the only way the Broncos can be fixed is if Pat Bowlen sells the team to Phil Anschutz, who would subsequently move them to Los Angeles.

Golem14 says:

January 1, 2012 at 11:30 am

leigh: I think SkyCam has attained sentience… and it has sports preferences. This is not good.

leigh says:

January 1, 2012 at 11:40 am

SkyCam spent years lulling us all into a false sense of security and in one game, showed its cards. It’s on!

Carin says:

January 1, 2012 at 11:46 am

Resolutions – last year I vowed to read more and aimed at 1 book a week. I didn’t make that, but some of the books took me a LONG freakin time (Middlemarch … Foucalt’s Pendulum” …) I made it to 38, with another few books that I began and didn’t finish.

So – I’ll continue with that.

And, I need to re-evaluate my workouts. I’ve been doing the same P90X weight routines for a few years now. I’m getting the new P90X2, so hopefully that will mix it up a bit. I want to run a half in under 2 hours,which would be kick ass for me. ANd I’d like to do at least ONE obstacle run – Tough Mudder, or lesser if that’s what’s to be.

leigh says:

January 1, 2012 at 12:05 pm

Heh.

You sir, are a booger.

Roddy Boyd says:

January 1, 2012 at 12:26 pm

Carin, I’m with you on the mudder, distance, Crossfit stuff.

I think I need to get better as a husband. That’s the real hard work.

Then there is the next book. But being a better husband is the most important.

c3po says:

January 1, 2012 at 1:39 pm

Roddy, In your search for better husbandry you might be inclined to read this book. Also to be had at Amazon.

Seriously.

mojo says:

January 1, 2012 at 1:47 pm

I heard they couldn’t afford a new year, so we got stuck with 1946 again.

McGehee says:

January 1, 2012 at 2:21 pm

If Hollywood had anything to say about it we’d just rerun 2011 over and over and over — in the guise of bad sequels that are just slightly retooled versions of the screenplay of the original.

Until about 2039, when they’d “re-imagine” the original.

Mueller says:

January 1, 2012 at 2:54 pm

Happy new year, assholes.

Pablo says:

January 1, 2012 at 5:11 pm

ORTON WINS! ORTON WINS!!!

So Denver still backs in if Oakland loses to SD, right?

cranky-d says:

January 1, 2012 at 5:32 pm

San Diego wins, Denver in playoffs after 3rd tie-breaker. Still, in is in.

JD says:

January 1, 2012 at 5:37 pm

Suck for Luck! Suck for Luck!

Glad Indy turded up the field today.

Resolutions – don’t like em. I am going to lift more this year. Get stronger. Swim more. Be a better Dad. finish toughmudder in under 2 hours.

Jim in KC says:

January 1, 2012 at 5:56 pm

More like 1976, mojo.

One thing about our Chiefs–you never really know which team is going to show up on a given day.

Pablo says:

January 1, 2012 at 6:01 pm

Glad Indy turded up the field today.

And I’m glad Miami slapped Jabba the Rex upside his fat, shit-talking, starting his offseason head.

maggie katzen says:

January 1, 2012 at 6:36 pm

i guess I’m learning to shoot. other things include not letting the dogs drag me through the park and to not let RTO make me put on the weight I lost this year without his tasty, tasty cooking.

McGehee says:

January 1, 2012 at 6:54 pm

Tennessee’s Flaming Thumbtacks (pro) seem to have done better than the Creamsicles (college), but they still didn’t make the playoffs.

charlesaustin says:

January 1, 2012 at 7:10 pm

Maybe the Mayans were right, 2012 is the year the central bankers run out of other people’s money.

charlesaustin says:

January 1, 2012 at 9:19 pm

The league has now seen enough film of Tebow. Either he will get better fast or he’s done.

Spiny Norman says:

January 1, 2012 at 10:49 pm

By that standard, charles, Aaron Rodgers would have been finished after his first season as GB starter (the Packers were 6-10 that year, with an arguably better team than this year’s Broncos).

I hardly think Tim Tebow is the next John Elway, but cripes almighty, I have rarely seen such criticism heaped on a fuckin’ rookie.

Pablo says:

January 2, 2012 at 5:07 am

Apparently, Elway is taking Tebow under his wing in the offseason. He’ll be back.

Benedick says:

January 2, 2012 at 6:45 am

Hooray! My Steelers get to play Tebow next week! Without our RB and FS. Boo.

Carin says:

January 2, 2012 at 8:27 am

I resolve to read EJ Dionne less.

Most Americans still believe that Obama inherited rather than caused the economic turmoil. Barring another crisis in Europe, there is a decent chance of somewhat better times by Election Day. Obama’s fall offensive against Republicans in Congress has paid dividends. Voters seem inclined to blame Washington’s dysfunction on the GOP, not on a president they still rather like. Most also think Obama’s foreign policy has put the nation on a steadier course. To the extent that bellicosity from the Republicans — notably from Mitt Romney — portends a return to George W. Bush’s foreign policy, Obama will enjoy an advantage. Ron Paul’s strength in Iowa and New Hampshire suggests that there are even Republicans who are exhausted with foreign military adventures.

Apparently this time he can’t run as Teh Messiah, and instead must focus on being a “normal” and resilient leader.

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Yackums says:

January 2, 2012 at 8:43 am

Maybe the Mayans were right, 2012 is the year the central bankers run out of other people’s money.

Heh. I said more or less the same thing on the predictions thread on my second favorite blog.

Spiny Norman says:

January 2, 2012 at 10:09 am

I’m gobsmacked that EJ Dionne gets paid to write that tripe, yet there he is, writing that tripe year after year, and getting paid for it. By whom, I have to wonder. Is he “sponsored” by the DNC?

McGehee says:

January 2, 2012 at 10:26 am

The first time I read Carin’s Dionne excerpt I could have sworn it said “Ejection Day.”