Badmike wrote in Random Thoughts or OT Chit-Chat Thread:At least the Colts won....tha ought to keep you guys warm!

One of the better weekends of playoff football in memory...two of my most disliked NFL teams lost in soul-crushing defeats (Packers and Eagles),

Mike B.

stratochamp wrote in Random Thoughts or OT Chit-Chat Thread:when the eagles last won an nfl title in 1960, the game ended with the retiring two-way ironman (who played 58 minutes in the game at center and linebacker) Chuck Bednarik lying on top of the Jim Taylor as the last seconds ticked off the clock. That was the first playoff game in Lombardi's career and his only loss. He won his last nine playoff games on his way to 5 nfl titles.

Zenfinite wrote in Random Thoughts or OT Chit-Chat Thread:

stratochamp wrote in Random Thoughts or OT Chit-Chat Thread:when the eagles last won an nfl title in 1960, the game ended with the retiring two-way ironman (who played 58 minutes in the game at center and linebacker) Chuck Bednarik lying on top of the Jim Taylor as the last seconds ticked off the clock. That was the first playoff game in Lombardi's career and his only loss. He won his last nine playoff games on his way to 5 nfl titles.

Chuck Bednarik was a tougher man than every Dallas Cowboy combined. The picture of him with a scotch in one hand, a cigar in his mouth and a cigarette in his other hand is legendary. Seriously, I don't think they make guys like him any more.

Zen

P.S. Somebody sold their soul in retaliation to curse you guys with Jerry Jones so no, you're stuck with him until we win a Superbowl.

But not all was rosy for the Cowboys. Late in the first half, on what proved to be his longest run of the game, a 46-yard burst off right tackle, Smith was tackled by Giants safety Greg Jackson, falling hard on his right shoulder. Instead of popping right back up, as he usually did, Smith stayed on the Giants Stadium turf, which was essentially asphalt painted green. Team trainers escorted a ginger Smith to the sideline. "Something happened in my shoulder that I never felt before," he said later, "I had never known pain like that."

When X-rays showed a separated shoulder, the Cowboys' doctors and trainers told Emmitt there was nothing they could do for him. He had two choices: sit out the rest of the game or play with his shoulder in its present condition. Smith didn't bat an eye; he told them he was going to play. At halftime, the training staff got creative, fashioning a special pad for his shoulder by taping together a pair of knee pads and cutting a hole in the middle of them.

A doctor gave Smith a shot and a pill to help dull the pain, but it only took a little of the edge off of it. Smith recalls, "They told me, ‘Now, you're going to have some discomfort,' and they were right. The whole second half, I'm saying, ‘No pain, no pain,' trying to convince myself." One look at Smith's face during that fateful second half told the real story, however: there was pain - a lot of it.

New York's first overtime possession was derailed by a 15-yard chop-block penalty. After the Giants' punt, Johnson asked Smith once more if he could go; Emmitt, who had launched a second-half tirade at Johnson during which he told his coach that, if he was going to be in the game, he needed to be used as a weapon, not a decoy, said, "Let me play until I can't play." And indeed he did, touching the ball nine times (including the final five plays) and gaining 41 yards on the 52-yard drive that resulted in Eddie Murray's 41-yard game-winning and division-clinching field goal with a little more than four minutes left in overtime. One play before the field goal, he used his useless right arm to deliver a stiff-arm to the Giants' All-World linebacker Lawrence Taylor, gaining a few extra yards on a 10-yard run.

In total, Smith had what was, to that point, his busiest day as a professional, running 32 times for 168 yards (earning his third consecutive league rushing title in the process) and catching 10 balls for another 61 yards. All with a severely separated shoulder. Of his 229 total yards, Smith gained 78 after the injury. He also gained the respect of both locker rooms; even the Giants, who had continued to hit him as hard, and as often, as they could after the injury, acknowledged that what he had done was amazing.

benjoshua wrote in Random Thoughts or OT Chit-Chat Thread:I received an e-mail today that was initially in my SPAM box, but the title looked legit, so I released it to my inbox.  The title was, "Question about item number #108192700173."  The graphics were all appropriate and the layout was almost spot on for an eBay question e-mail.  Fortunately, I looked in my eBay account and there were no questions.  Then I looked up item #108192700173 and nothing came up.  I am confident that if I had clicked on that link, something negative would have happened, or been downloaded, onto my computer.  It's disconcerting how good these phishing e-mails are becoming.  

red_bus wrote in Random Thoughts or OT Chit-Chat Thread:A cheery hello to everyone across the Atlantic where it is (according to our news) very very cold. Hope you are all OK.

Here is a link showing you how our sympathetic media is covering the news

All 50 US states now terrifying to British people

Stay warm!