Chicago re-sodded the field for cheap advantage.
Right, because the home team gets to play on a different field.
The Bears run more than the Saints do and depend on fortuitous defensive scores more than the Saints do. Basically, the Bears are the Celtics of the NFL.
It's only acceptable to root for injuries and penalties in the AFC showdown.
If Peyton wins the Super Bowl, he could be the Reagan of the 2030s.
That story is risible. (Though I loved the "plasma screen in her hospital room" bit - y'all do know what you'll be giving up if you opt for universal healthcare, I hope?) Ah, I suppose when I was having my second, I still wanted my partner to be there. By the 4th time round, our favourite scenario was him coming home from work to a new baby in the house.
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Learn something new every day...
Recognize the true offensive force of the Chicago Bears: Reggie Gould.
Also, Unfogged: help Punk Rock Kitchen out.
For Pats-Colts, we've got some people coming over to the Flophouse. I have a mess of chicken legs marinating in some cayenne pepper-heavy cream. The idea is to do a take on buffalo wings. (I'll basically be frying the chicken.) It'll finish up with a sauce consisting of honey, soy, sriracha for heat, and ginger.
Here's where you come in.
I was thinking of dredging the marinated chicken in cumin, mostly for color, before frying. But now I'm thinking the cumin might not go with my sauce. Should I dredge or should I go dredgeless?
11: You'd have to be a monster not to be rooting for the Saints in the absence of prior team commitments. The second submission just kills me.
The wings sound delicious. I'd leave out the cumin.
15: My mom agrees. "How can you not root for the Saints after everything that city's been through."
15: Of course it's amazing for New Orleans fans, and I won't be upset if Chicago loses, but something about that rubs me the wrong way. It's like piggybacking emotionally. Not that it's a huge deal or anything.
Signs of life in the Saints offense. Hail Satan!
Yeah, baby.
Spackerman, you need a "Recipes" category at your blog. I say no cumin, but I can barely cook pasta.
The cumin should taste just fine with the other ingredients. But! Here is the real trick to find out whether you that flavor combination is what you actually want: take your sauce ingredients and your jar of cumin and smell them all together.
redfoxtailshrub, excellent idea. For some stupid reason I had convinced myself that I had to prepare my sauce only when my chicken finishes in the oven, on the same principle that conditioning your hair before shampooing is a symbol of moral decay.
There's some coriander seed powder in the pantry with the cumin, Sp. Those tend to complement one another okay and would probably go with your cayenne, and the coriander's milder than the cumin—and they're the same color.
Yeah, it could work. I'm imagining the combination you're going for as more sharp and spicy and less warm (ala Buffalo wings), but the cumin won't ruin it. But if you're frying the wings, you probably don't need the cumin for color.
Good call, 'Smasher. The coriander smells incredible, and I can see it working as a great aftertaste to the honey & rooster sauce.
Careful with the coriander; that's what makes the gravy grander.
Coriander doesn't color food, though.
23 - Teach a Spackerman to fish and you feed him wings for a lifetime.
Re-ggie. Man, when he gets some room he's just not catchable.
It creeps me out that I enjoy listening to Aikman as much as I do.
Earlier Sp referred to the wings as "the protein".
How long has Rex Grossman played organized football? The Bears should go with a single wing or something.
Grossman is capable of being really good. Everyone should get off his case.
I'm getting sick of that little girl who keeps reminding me that "it's the meeeeers."
The Chicago Bears: Like a force of nature.
I'm starting to feel physically ill.
Is that B posting as w-lfs-n? It's hard to tell those two apart sometimes.
Anyone think Lovie looks a little like James from Good Times? That might be comforting if this thing ends with the Bears winning.
B is too uptight about language to say "y'all".
I love learning what I'm having for dinner by reading it on the internet. Sounds delish.
The Saints do not stand for the oppressed of New Orleans, y'all: "the average selling price of a Saints-Eagles ticket was $472."
Also, you cannot be watching this and thinking anything other than, "Chicago is a real football team."
They will still fall to New England, though.
Has Sean Payton fucked up? I can't understand why the Saints haven't gone with their running game more.
Fuck I feel old. Let's root for a Bears / Pats rematch.
Let's root for a Bears / Pats rematch.
So rooting.
Hm. Seems like the Saints should've turned the A/C in the Superdome down to about 20 before each practice.
Sooooo glad I decided to put in some hours at the office instead of watching this at the bar.
The Pats would beat the Bears; I'm not sure the Colts would.
Amazing how Grossman flickers in and out of existence.
Depressing as well.
Go Pats!
I want chicken wings. Damn you, Spackerman!
Payton Manning can never win the Super Bowl. The Cigarette Smoking Man from X-Files decreed it. Since God loves me too much to allow the Patriots to win another Super Bowl, the only possibility is that Manning gets injured, and Jim Sorgi leads them to victory.
Did you just hear Shannon Sharpe quoting Descartes in explaining why he was predicting Peyton's win?
Somewhere, the forces of evil are gloating.
Oh, wait, there's ogged in comment 52.
The Pats would beat the Bears
They already have this year. And I think they could do it again.
I remember watching the Super Bowl in 1986 on the small black and white tv in my brother's bedroom. My father was so angry before the game even started he refused to have it on in the living room. By half time, I felt like I was the only New England fan still watching. I remember a McDonald's commercial coming on: they we had a giveaway deal, buy some junk and get a free Patriots mug. The commercial ended with some guy holding the mug up and saying, "It's unbeatable--like the Pats!" I still cringe thinking about it. So yeah, I wasn't expecting the chance for another New England Super Bowl this year, and I'm ok if it doesn't happen (as long as Manning loses eventually); but I'm more than ready for a rematch.
I'm trying to be a good teammate here, but we had trouble picking up fumbles all day.
The chicken: excellent!
Now you're just taunting us.
I'll be outside, grilling. Let me know if anyone scores.
It's stopped snowing, makes sense to get some grilling in.
I'm trying to be a good teammate here, but we had trouble defending 4th down all day
Cripes. It's like watching someone beat a child.
This seems like the thread to pass along this NYT story.
I do take an unseemly pleasure in watching Peyton get thwarted.
Is this the right thread to discuss the Arsenal-Man. United match?
This is the thread to gloat when Manning gets sacked.
Two Holy Rollers in one game. End times surely approaching!
But there was pressure at his feet. He can't be expected to perform under those kinds of conditions.
What if it comes down to Vinatieri for the tie, and he shanks it?
Vinatieri for the tie looks good right now.
Oh sweet Jeebus. If NE pulls this out, it's a team for the ages.
If they pull it out I'm going to enjoy every moment of Manning's whining.
I can't believe I'm rooting for the Colts. That guarantees the Patriots are about to put together the greatest 1 minute drive in playoff history.
How much sex is Marlin Jackson going to have tonight?
Yes! My pessimism about my ability to jinx the outcome jinxed my jinxed! I have achieved meta-jinxdom!
That was a fun game. And the matchup in two weeks is nice: great offense vs. great defense.
That was awesome. I'm thrilled for Tony Dungy.
Man, I am so setting a warehouse fire tonight.
Gah. Indy wins it all unless it snows in Miami (can't rule that out this winter).
At least your team, baa, has won more recently than 1985. I remember that game so vividly, and it was 21 years ago.
What do people think happened to the Patriots' defence in the 2nd half? Tired? Game plan adjustment by Dungy to throw away from Samuel and Hobbs?
Joking aside, I actually have reasonably warm feelings for the Colts. Their offense is a thing of beauty.
So when I'm out of the room, you people let me down? Jeez.
My team last won the NFL championship in 1960. Their claim to fame is that they were the only team to beat Vince Lombardi's Packers in the playoffs.
I just watched the Pats lose in a local bar. One of the commentators noted early on that several players were out with the flu, and so the rest of the team was probably fighting it off at some level. We can only hope that they managed to infect the Colts along the way.
I'm sorry, but that's the lamest excuse I've heard in the past week, at the very least.
As an Eagles fan and a Duke fan, I have sympathy with the passion expressed in 105.
the rest of the team was probably fighting it off at some level.
Dude, that is some seriously weak brew. Made me laugh though.
Jesus, Ned, a Duke fan? Do you root for the Omegas when you watch Animal House?
"watch Animal House" s/b "read Brave New World". (Does it go down to Omega? I can't remember.)
Me either, Ben. I'm so glad I'm a beta.
Looks like it only goes to epsilon.
Okay, now you all have to appreciate my sexxxy lupus mask.
110, my parents went there. As a matter of fact my dad went to both Duke and Temple, so I always have the option of writing a lucrative book about the burden of fandom for horrible football teams, if I wanted to fake an interest in college football.
My dad went to medical school at Duke, so I rooted for Duke when I was a kid. It should be noted that this was pre-Krzyzewski, when Duke was usually just another victim for UNC. I have since repented.