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Lazuli  6d ago (text post)   380 thread views

NFL Weekly Thread: Post Season + Super Bowl

Let's chat about the National Football League. This thread will be dedicated to all post-season games, including the Super Bowl. This post will be updated with results and schedules going into February (All times Eastern):

Wildcard matchups:

2025-01-11:
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04:30PM: Los Angeles Chargers vs. Houston Texans
08:00PM: Pittsburgh Steelers vs. Baltimore Ravens

2025-01-12:
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01:00PM: Denver Broncos vs. Buffalo Bills, 
04:30PM: Green Bay Packers vs. Philadelphia Eagles
08:00PM: Washington Commanders vs. Tampa Bay Buccaneers

2025-01-13
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08:00PM: Minnesota Vikings vs. Los Angeles Rams
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I get the impression that these people would be pissed if the Steelers won the Super Bowl because that would mean another decade of Tomlin.

This is why I think the draft system needs to be fixed to reward winning rather than reward being truly terrible. Fans seem to be constantly upset at their teams being good.

First, enough with calling them the Redskins. I know it's nostalgic and I wouldn't have changed the name either,

I think you have my motivations confused. I don't deadname the 'skins because I have nostalgia for them, I do it because I hate them, then and now, and calling them the Redskins makes their fans unhappy. In the same way I would call opponents the Brooklyn Regrets, the Red Sucks, the LMAOboys. For conservative fans it picks at the scab, for liberal fans I don't want them to get away from their team's racist past. And genuinely, Redskins was a uniquely bad name, an actual slur. Braves, Chiefs point to a particular tradition and archetype of a brave and noble Indian that the team wants to emulate and honor. Seminoles and Utes honor a particular tribe. Even the Cleveland Indians, at least Chief Wahoo was jolly and fun. Anyway, any Washington DC team should be called some version of the Senators.

Though I should also note I printed out a Jaylen Daniels poster from the internet and laminated it so that I could post it on a telephone pole near my house, where a roadside memorial for a big 'skins fan is kept by his family. Felt like sportsmanship.

I heard some dildo on the radio say that the NFL needed to change its playoff format because winners of weak divisions didn't deserve to be in the playoffs over teams with good records in tough divisions. Especially when the division winner gets the home game. Well, sometimes that's how the cookie crumbles. No one picked the Rams to win this division, and nothing better than an unexpected run.

I agree. Division rivalries are important, and division wins are important. I continue to think that the NFL should add rivalry cups, trophies that teams get for beating rivals and travel from stadium to stadium with the winner, to make rivalry games more aggressive even when one team is bad.

They should be the Washington Lobbyists. Or bureaucrats?

If they were going to do the collective noun thing common among mls and WNBA teams (Fire, Soul, Liberty) I'd love the Cabinet.

Well, if you hate them, then you should probably be calling them the Wash Redfaces.

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