2013 NFL Season Thread

[MalaCloudy Black]

Pretty much, yep.

On a lighter note, Seattle fans celebrate without jaywalking.

What a polite city!

[Meacon Keaton]

Being so close to Canada is rubbing off on them.

[HC]

As soon as I saw that commercial I knew that the idiots would flip their shit.

Plubby, you sure have shown a lot of hate toward America lately. I hope you realize it's the vast, vast minority that get pissy over this kind of garbage.

This. Now calm down, Plubby, or we'll give you the boot.

[GoGo Yubari]

Being so close to Canada is rubbing off on them.

I don't think it counts when the closest Canadian city to us is Vancouver...

[METALMAN]

Plubby, you sure have shown a lot of hate toward America lately. I hope you realize it's the vast, vast minority that get pissy over this kind of garbage.

No, it is everyone in America. : /

[Meacon Keaton]

Plubby, you sure have shown a lot of hate toward America lately. I hope you realize it's the vast, vast minority that get pissy over this kind of garbage.

No, it is everyone in America. : /

Speak American or gtfo.

[HC]

Plubby, you sure have shown a lot of hate toward America lately. I hope you realize it's the vast, vast minority that get pissy over this kind of garbage.

No, it is everyone in America. : /

Speak American or gtfo.

It's pronounced 'Murcan, Meacon. Go back to England and sip some tea you imposter.

[METALMAN]

England?...ENGLAND?!

pfffffffffffffffffft pfffffffffffffffft pffffffffffft

Just spluttered my tea over the keyboard there.

[Dan]

Stop lumbering us with Metalman.

[Gazz]

Anyone fancy a crumpet?

[EddieG]

Being so close to Canada is rubbing off on them.

I don't think it counts when the closest Canadian city to us is Vancouver...

They did a border swap, I reckon.

[Plubby]

As soon as I saw that commercial I knew that the idiots would flip their shit.

Plubby, you sure have shown a lot of hate toward America lately. I hope you realize it's the vast, vast minority that get pissy over this kind of garbage.

"American" English is kind of a bugbear of mine >_<

The World Champions thing was just some lighthearted trolling

[Slogger]

Well to be fair there's no basketball/baseball/football/hockey team outside of the NBA/MLB/NFL/NHL that's going to beat the winners of any US championship.

Pretty much this. They actually have a FIFA type organization for American Football. For the first three championships, the Americans weren't allowed in. Once they were, they proceeded to win every time.

Pretty much that.

Including the last one were they pasted Canada in the title game 50-7, We had the American QB come play over here for half a season and he completely ruined teams by himself.

I could have lived with either team winning but I'm glad that the Defense Wins Championships mantra held strong, Complete with a defensive player winning the MVP for the first time since before I started watching football.

That Denver O-Line was horrible, Like having a gunfight in a Swiss cheese factory.

[Lint]

Well to be fair there's no basketball/baseball/football/hockey team outside of the NBA/MLB/NFL/NHL that's going to beat the winners of any US championship.

I dunno...I think a team of..what is it in Russia...KHL? A team of KHL All-Stars might give an NHL all-star team a run for its money

[gunnar hendershow]

I feel like the KHL is much more like NPB is to MLB. It's the second best league in the world but many of the best Russians still come over to the NHL for more money, for how much longer is the question though.

[Meacon Keaton]

http://thebiglead.com/2014/02/03/here-are-over-1000-text-messages-that-richie-incognito-and-jonathan-martin-allegedly-exchanged/

There's over a year's worth of text conversations between Incognito and Martin. It's unfair to judge a relationship just from texts, but the first 90% of the conversation seems like they're best friends. Then Martin gets much more reclusive and doesn't ever want to hang out any more toward the very end. Was an interesting read, especially since their drug usage and purchasing of ladies for sexual acts is not fully censored.

[MalaCloudy Black]

There are NFC championship conspiracy theorists because of course there are. It's impossibly stupid.

[livid]

Nope. Totally true.

[Lint]

Flea admitting that, while the vocals were sang live, the intruments at halftime were pre-recorded

Dear everybody,
When we were asked by the NFL and Bruno to play our song Give It Away at the Super Bowl, it was made clear to us that the vocals would be live, but the bass, drums, and guitar would be pre-recorded. I understand the NFL's stance on this, given they only have a few minutes to set up the stage, there a zillion things that could go wrong and ruin the sound for the folks watching in the stadium and the t.v. viewers. There was not any room for argument on this, the NFL does not want to risk their show being botched by bad sound, period.
The Red Hot Chili Peppers stance on any sort of miming has been that we will absolutely not do it. The last time we did it (or tried to) was in the late 80's, we were thrown off of 'The Top Of the Pops' television program in the U.K. during rehearsals because we refused to mime properly, I played bass with my shoe, John played guitar atop Anthony's shoulders, and we basically had a wrestling match onstage, making a mockery of the idea that it was a real live performance.
We mimed on one or two weird MTV shows before that and it always was a drag. We take our music playing seriously, it is a sacred thing for us, and anyone who has ever seen us in concert (like the night before the Super Bowl at the Barclays Center), knows that we play from our heart, we improvise spontaneously, take musical risks, and sweat blood at every show. We have been on the road for 31 years doing it.
So, when this Super Bowl gig concept came up, there was a lot of confusion amongst us as whether or not we should do it, but we eventually decided, it was a surreal-like, once in a life time crazy thing to do and we would just have fun and do it. We had given this a lot of thought before agreeing to do it, and besides many a long conversation amongst ourselves, I spoke with many musician friends for whom I have the utmost respect, and they all said they would do it if asked, that it was a wild trippy thing to do, what the hell. Plus, we the RHCP all love football too and that played a big part in our decision. We decided that, with Anthony singing live, that we could still bring the spirit and freedom of what we do into the performance, and of course we played every note in the recording specially for the gig. I met and spoke with Bruno, who was a beautiful dude, a real talented musician, and we worked out something that seemed like it would be fun.
We recorded a track for the day, just banged one out from our hearts that was very like in spirit to the versions we have been playing live the last few years with our beloved Josh on guitar.
For the actual performance, Josh, Chad, and I were playing along with the pre recorded track so there was no need to plug in our guitars, so we did not. Could we have plugged them in and avoided bumming people out who have expressed disappointment that the instrumental track was pre recorded? Of course easily we could have and this would be a non-issue. We thought it better to not pretend. It seemed like the realest thing to do in the circumstance. It was like making a music video in front of a gazillion people, except with live vocals, and only one chance to rock it. Our only thought was to bring the spirit of who we are to the people.
I am grateful to the NFL for having us. And I am grateful to Bruno, who is a super talented young man for inviting us to be a part of his gig. I would do it all the same way again.
We, as a band, aspire to grow as musicians and songwriters, and to continue to play our guts out live onstage for anyone who wants to get their brains blown out.
Sincerely,
Flea

[Pizza]

Well to be fair there's no basketball/baseball/football/hockey team outside of the NBA/MLB/NFL/NHL that's going to beat the winners of any US championship.

I dunno...I think a team of..what is it in Russia...KHL? A team of KHL All-Stars might give an NHL all-star team a run for its money

Nope. But a championship KHL team would probably be better than the likes of the Sabres. Relegation/Promotion between the two leagues would be awesome and ridiculous.