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Andrew IBSP
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Redskins fan here, er football team from Washington, whatever. Nice comeback win over the birds today!
John Saldana
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Say again!
Dwain Pannell
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...as does Dallas
Brad Olson
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When online scores show the team name instead of the city, it looks weird:
Deja vu, anyone?
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J Grotz
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SOL: Same Old Lions.
I was at a Lions Bears game at the Silverdome one year. IIRC, it was the very first regular season over time game. Lions lost the OT coin flip and lost the game when they gave up a TD on the ensuing kickoff. Lions gonna Lion.
I’m ain’t superstitious, but the Lions won’t win anything until the Ford family sells the team. It worked for the Red Wings.
Andrew IBSP
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It's extremely weird.
Brad Olson
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Thanksgiving 1980! One of my dad's sisters and her family hosted dinner that day and we all watched the game, and when I went to my busboy job later that day we'd pop into the restaurant bar to watch whenever the highlights came on. And then later that night the family car's transmission went out while I was on my way home, and after some people let me use their phone to call my dad I watched the highlights with them.
Unfortunately, the guys at the shop figured out that the transmission failed because somebody had been doing reverse drops, and as the only driver in the family other than my parents that revelation did not bode particularly well for me.
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J Grotz
TVWBB Wizard
Thanksgiving 1980! One of my dad's sisters and her family hosted dinner that day and we all watched the game, and when I went to my busboy job later that day we'd pop into the restaurant bar to watch whenever the highlights came on. And then later that night the family car's transmission went out while I was on my way home, and after some people let me use their phone to call my dad I watched the highlights with them.
Unfortunately, the guys at the shop figured out that the transmission failed because somebody had been doing reverse drops, and as the only driver in the family other than my parents that revelation did not bode particularly well for me.
That was it! We went to a number of the Thanksgiving Day games, including a few at Tiger Stadium. After the game we went out for dinner. I always preferred eating out on Thanksgiving to my mom's cooking.
Brad Olson
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I've been to only 3 Bears games in my life and one of them was against the Lions in Champaign, IL (Soldier Field was being renovated) in 2002. The Bears scored 10 points in the last 2-1/2 minutes (including the tying FG with 5 seconds left) to force overtime, the Lions won the OT coin toss and elected to kick off because of the wind, and the Bears went down the field and kicked the winning FG without the Lions ever getting the ball. IIRC the Detroit media had some pretty harsh things to say about the Lions' coaching staff afterward.
www.pro-football-reference.com
And on the day of our baby shower in 2002, the Bears beat the Lions on a Jim Harbaugh TD pass with 1 second left.
www.footballdb.com
Detroit Lions at Chicago Bears - November 24th, 2002 | Pro-Football-Reference.com
Detroit Lions 17 at Chicago Bears 20 on November 24th, 2002 - Full team and player stats and box score
www.pro-football-reference.com
And on the day of our baby shower in 2002, the Bears beat the Lions on a Jim Harbaugh TD pass with 1 second left.
Box Score - Detroit Lions vs. Chicago Bears, September 6, 1992 | The Football Database
View the Box Score for the NFL football game between the Detroit Lions and the Chicago Bears on September 6, 1992.
J Grotz
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Fox had their best NFL Week 1 ratings in five years:
https://www.foxsports.com/presspass...fl-delivers-best-week-1-viewership-since-2016
I saw one article that claimed NBCs ratings for Sunday Night Football (SNF) down dramatically in the headline and opening paragraph. But further down, they admitted the west coast numbers were not in (the LA Rams played in the game). Then they revised the article to include the west coast numbers and SNF ratings were still down, but further down they admitted the revised numbers did not include streaming. Whatever the viewership, NBC SNF was number 1 in the ratings Sunday night.
https://www.foxsports.com/presspass...fl-delivers-best-week-1-viewership-since-2016
I saw one article that claimed NBCs ratings for Sunday Night Football (SNF) down dramatically in the headline and opening paragraph. But further down, they admitted the west coast numbers were not in (the LA Rams played in the game). Then they revised the article to include the west coast numbers and SNF ratings were still down, but further down they admitted the revised numbers did not include streaming. Whatever the viewership, NBC SNF was number 1 in the ratings Sunday night.
Phil Perrin
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As a Panthers fan, this made me LOL even though they lost!
Brad Olson
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This week's unusual schedule is great for those of us that watch games OTA: along with today's 4 games there are 2 tomorrow (Fox, ABC) and 1 on Tuesday (Fox). It seems like forever since ABC last had a Monday Night Football game! Now if they could just reanimate Frank, Howard and Dandy Don...