Lots of great football happening today. Who are you rooting for?

[littlemissmartypants]

Even the Panthers were winning at halftime. Is there something in the water or is it the fall weather?



🏈❤️🏈❤️🏈❤️🏈

[yankee87]

1. Jets

As usual, no QB. Monday, Washington.

Ex-Bronx here, still a Namath groupie.

[True Dough]

32. Fields got benched

in favor of Tyrod Taylor. The Justin Fields experiment might be over. Taylor is not the answer, however. It's pretty bleak.

[ALBliberal]

2. Bears!!

[CanonRay]

3. Bears

[milestogo]

4. Chiefs are looking like the team we know they can be.

Killing the Raiders 31-0 at the top of the Fourth.

[milestogo]

10. OMG the Raiders sucked.

Somebody is getting fired.

[littlemissmartypants]

14. I feel bad for them. Too many key players out. 🏈

[MorbidButterflyTat]

33. I was excited for the Pete Carroll, Geno Smith reunion

Disappointing.

[littlemissmartypants]

11. AR is less than two mins away from a shut out. 🏈

[ironman99]

5. American football or real futbal

Not such thing as great American football.

[littlemissmartypants]

12. Hahaha. Here take this and we'll get back to you later. ⚽️😉❤️

[snowybirdie]

6. Da Bears

Looking good!

[ProfessorGAC]

24. Should Have Been A Blow Out

4 redzone opportunities from the turnovers and they got only 10 points.
But, in the post-game Johnson & Williams both said there were things that need to be better, and Williams put it on himself.

[Morbius]

38. Caleb Williams was pretty disappointing.

The running game was first rate. The defense was mostly good; apart from two drives - end of half and beginning of 3rd quarter - the defense was very good indeed. While Williams didn't make a lot of mistakes he also did little to win the game. The offensive line did well in the running game but didn't pass protect well. We'll see something next week one way or another; the next opponent is Baltimore. I know the Ravens have a poor record this year but I promise you they're looking forward to this game as a chance to bounce back.

[ProfessorGAC]

43. At Least He Admitted It

Hard not to. He missed a half-dozen throws today. That's one big reason they didn't convert more of those turnovers.

[Irish_Dem]

7. One of my cousins is still hoping Wisconsin will get a field goal.

[milestogo]

13. Packers?

[Irish_Dem]

15. Badgers from yesterday.

Two games in a row Badgers got zero points.

[milestogo]

16. Yeah well all those young people should have been at the No Kings rally.

15,000 in Madison. We can do much, much better.

[Irish_Dem]

17. They refuse to play a scheduled game, they lose their scholarships, and other payments.

Plus they ruin their college careers and future pro ball.

If the Buckeyes pulled this stunt they would be persona non grata in the entire state for life.

[milestogo]

18. Well the kids in the stands could have gone to the rally.

Not the players.

[Irish_Dem]

19. I agree. Instead the Wisconsin kids at the stadium were all taking their shirts off. :(

Never saw that before.
They should have gone to the protests.

[milestogo]

21. I went to a big ten school (Illinois)

I got tickets to a few games because my roommate was in the marching band. The kids in the stands were mostly getting drunk and not watching the game. Of course, our team was about as good as Wisconsin's is.

[Irish_Dem]

23. OSU kids like to drink. But most take the game seriously.

The entire campus takes football seriously.
I did my PhD at OSU and didn't know much about football when I first arrived.
I was shocked how serious everyone was about football and the team.

Every Monday the school newspaper came out with the entire content
about the Saturday game. Every play was torn apart and critiqued.
Even when the Bucks won people were happy but mad about them not doing as well
as they could, etc.

[Diamond_Dog]

26. In high school I had the football coach as the instructor for 9th grade Health class.

(My school was often in the top 10 in the state in football. We had 1500 students). School fight song and colors were the same as Ohio State’s. Quite often he made us watch films of Ohio State games from the previous week. What that had to do with health class, I never knew.

[Irish_Dem]

29. I am having a funny flashback. I was short one class my senior year due to

having moved around a lot as a military kid. So I took a current events class taught
by the football coach which I would never have chosen if I had a choice in the matter.

As part of the class he required that all of us in the class
pick the winners of the Saturday and Sunday football games of his choice.
He would go over all the teams and the good and bad. (Yes what does this
have to do with current events?)

He let the class divide into small groups to do their rankings of who would win.
I paired up with another girl, most of the class were male jocks.

The funny part is that this girl and I knew NOTHING about football, in fact neither one of us had ever watched a football game from start to finish. And we consistantly WON the betting pool. Every week we kept picking the winners.

I think it was some luck but other factors. The boys in the class were not the brightest bulbs and they were all emotional and sentimental about their picks. The other gal and I just
looked at the facts, the team's history, the statistics, etc and made our choice that way.
We still never actually watched the games.

The boys were really pissed off at us. It was so funny.
The teacher/coach was speechless but began to respect us.

[milestogo]

30. My sixth grade teacher would give us quizzes on the Chicago Cubs.

I don't know why, but at that age I knew the whole roster, and I knew their stats.

[Diamond_Dog]

37. But ... but .... Weren't *girls* too emotional and weren't statistics too hard for them to understand?

Great story, Irish Dem, and I’m glad you showed up all the guys in the class!

[mountain grammy]

39. Agree!

I too am concerned that more young people aren't involved. It'll take a war and a draft I guess. You'd think the future would be enough...

[milestogo]

44. I did meet a young man in his twenties recently

who told me he is really scared that Trump will start a war and he'll be drafted. And there will be no way to escape it.

[mountain grammy]

45. I think he's right

Wish more young people were in tune. My 5 granddaughters, ages 19 to 25, vote but I’m sure none made it to a rally. I went to a protest every month at their age, but there was a war and a draft.

[Irish_Dem]

48. I wonder if they can escape to Canada like during the VN war?

[kozar]

8. Go Seahawks!

Gonna be a late night tomorrow for this old guy.

Koz

[Borogove]

9. As someone who lived in suburban Philadelphia, the Eagles of course.

Can’t let Wentz get his revenge.

[FalloutShelter]

27. Yesssssszz!

Go Birds!🦅

[BOSSHOG]

20. FLY EAGLES FLY

THE IGGLES FLEW!

[littlemissmartypants]

22. 👋I saw bits and pieces. What I saw gave me hope. 🏈❤️

[AZProgressive]

25. Cardinals

They have a 13-6 lead at halftime over the Packers. The Packers were able to get into position to kick and make a 61 yard field goal with only 7 seconds left before halftime to cut it to 7.

The Cardinals have been competitive in every game this season so hopefully they can hold on to the lead but if not am still happy that Arizona State defeated #7 Texas Tech yesterday so it has still been a good football weekend no matter what happens in the Cardinals & Packers game today.

[rayray56]

28. Giants

Damn…the Giants game is on youtube, can’t watch it. Last week the Giants game was on Amazon, couldn’t watch it. Doesn’t the league make enough money from the networks?

[True Dough]

34. Turned out to be a great game

Giants are up 26-23 with the 2-minute warning coming up.

[mountain grammy]

40. Yay Denver!

Pulling victory from the jaws of defeat! Loved that game!

[True Dough]

41. It was a nail-biter!

Down to the wire.

[MorbidButterflyTat]

42. That was amazing!

[littlemissmartypants]

49. I know what you mean. Its disappointing when I set up my calendar

Each year only to find match-up games between teams that I really want to see are off limits because ....greed. I'd know why they think that it's a good idea to shut out their fans. Except... you know greed. Bastards.

Here's how much it will (roughly) cost to watch every NFL game in the 2025 season
...
The All-Encompassing NFL 2025 Viewing Plan
(For CBS/Fox/NBC/ABC games that aren't blacked out locally) One average over-the-air antenna: $40
(For CBS/Fox/NBC/ABC games that are blacked out locally) A standard Sunday Ticket annual subscription ($379) AND a monthly base subscription (4X) to YouTube TV ($73): $671 total (Psst, remember when I said watching every single game is optional?)
(For Netflix Christmas games) A standard with ads subscription (one-time): $8
(For Amazon Prime Video Thursday Night Football games) A standard monthly (4X) subscription: $36
(For Peacock-exclusive games) A premium monthly subscription: $8
(For ESPN Monday Night Football games) A monthly subscription (4X) to ESPN+ ($12), a monthly (4X) subscription to ESPN's direct streaming service ($30), OR a monthly subscription (4X) to a Disney+/Hulu/ESPN bundle ($30): $48 or $120

Rough total: $811 or $883

If you want to spend that much money accounting for every NFL game this coming regular season, more power to you. At least you know where you'll stand and that your wallet will definitely hate you after the fact. And know that Roger Goodell and all 32 owners will be laughing all the way to the bank. Well, more than they already do.
https://ftw.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/2025/05/13/nfl-2025-season-fan-watch-tv-streaming-cost/83604610007/

[Permanut]

31. Okay, so the Raiders won the Super Bowl in 1984..

It's gotta happen again someday, Right?

[Angleae]

47. At the rate we're going, it will be right after those infinite monkeys type out the works of shakespeare.

[littlemissmartypants]

51. Hahaha ... could be true, but I hope not. I love the framing of your argument though. Paints a picture.

I thought for sure they had a chance. But too many "Lemony Snickets" got in the way.

Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like.
~Lemony Snicket

[True Dough]

35. I'm rooting for

you, LMSP!

[littlemissmartypants]

54. Thanks, True. Right back at ya...

[milestogo]

36. Let's go PACKERS!!!

When the coach wants to go for 3 points but the QB says no... and you get a TD!!!

Love Jordan Love

Love Micah 3 sacks Parsons too

Packers 27 Cardinals 23

[AZProgressive]

46. I think the Cardinals should draft a right tackle in the next years draft

maybe in the first round.

In the 1st quarter LT Paris Johnson was doing a good job blocking Parsons but they moved Parsons over the right tackle the rest of the game and Jonah Williams had no chance in the game. Williams is on the last year of his contract so they need a RT next year. It probably hurt that that Gannon didn't call a timeout with over 40 seconds left and a 1st & 10 but they had to call timeout anyways because of the sack from Parsons on the next play.

[catbyte]

50. I have to wait until tomorrow night but I have my Penei Sewell jersey ready to go..

And the Packers won, ugh.

[littlemissmartypants]

52. Good luck, tomorrow catbyte. ❤️🏈

[OAITW r.2.0]

53. Patriots, 5-2 in their division.

Is Mayo the next Brady?*

^ It was always Brady. in spite of Belichick.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

55. Kansas City Chiefs.

They got off to a slow start, but I'm thinking Mahones will do a four-pete.

[littlemissmartypants]

56. I watched them Monday night. They didn't look too shabby. ❤️🏈

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

57. I'm telling you, they'll be in the Superbowl come

January, February, whenever it is played.

[justaprogressive]

58. thankfully

Mahones has lost a step...YMMV