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Pittsburgh Steelers center Jeff Hartings said that "God gave us another chance." With all due respect, and speaking as a Jets fan, please stay the fuck out of football and stick to important things, like maybe doing something for the tsunami victims or something. Using God to win is only slighly better than using steroids to win, and that's only because religion avoids the BALCO connection.

Oh, and when did You start walking the earth in the guise of a mortal named Doug Brien?

*sigh* I'd almost have prefered it if my boys had gotten the asswhooping everyone was expecting, instead of actually giving me hope.

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From:

robyn-ma.livejournal.com

P.S.: Also, we don't need a big reduction in the price of beer. :)

From:

sweinberg.livejournal.com

Amen! I'm a huge sports fan ('specially for the hometown teams!) and I just roll my eyes whenever the QB / catcher / goalie / whatever starts preaching about god this, god that, and that's how we won. As if the other team (the one that LOST) doesn't also have the right to God's good graces. Heh. You could thank "GOD" for practically anything. "Thanks God, for letting me drive to 7-11 without smashing my car into a firetruck." "Yay! You landed on Boardwalk! And it's MINE! You can blame Jesus for that loss, DAD!!"

Anyway, sorry your Jets lost. Was a well-fought battle. (Poor Doug Brien!)

From:

lordandrei.livejournal.com

But the beauty is when you play Dear God at the same time as The Rembrandt's "Johnny can you hear me?" Same chord structure, same tempo. Kinda weird

The choruses overlap so you here
XTC: "I can't believe in"
Rem: "Cause I wanna believe in.."

From:

lordandrei.livejournal.com

Being raised Jewish, I know you can be a vengeful and spiteful God. But I mean, did you have to give both sides coronaries? Okay... I get it... when both sides pray you work in mysteeeeerious (http://pics.sluggy.com/comics/020909.gif) ways. (Like making goal posts move and reshape.)

Our valiant, yet misguided friends who may root for, say.. the colour Green over the colour of Gold, must still be respected for the quality work they did.

In the future, please let us lowly humans compete in our war games unaided... It'll help me make the money I paid that we'd win by the spread :)

From:

jeff-morris.livejournal.com

No, the asswhumping assignment was given to the Falcons, who did such a magnificent job of humiliating the Rams.

Of course, the Rams did a pretty good job of humiliating themselves. God, that was sad.

JSM

From:

yendi

:-) I was hoping someone would point that out!

From:

yendi

See, that's the real problem. God ends up fixing sporting events, essentially. That's a felony.

From:

yendi

I turned the game off when it was 7-7, and figured that when I caught the final score, it would be something like 40-35. I was shocked at how little offense the Rams came out with.

From:

hamlet423.livejournal.com

Yes, it was painful to see the Jets lose, especially missing two makeable field goals...but in thought of the football g-ds, I did think of a few things...(warning--I never post THAT much but adam knows I can go on about the Jets for decades)

1) Jets should have easily beaten the chargers last week. Until Eric Barton made a hugely bone-headed Mark Gastineau style roughing the passer penalty that should have cost us the game--until the Chargers had even less luck and missed an easy 40 yard field goal. Ok maybe 40 yarders arent that easy, (for college kickers its a lot harder) but in the nfl if you can't consistently make a 40 yard field goal then you'll be out of a job pretty quickly. That being said--the Jets won a game they should have won under dramatic circumstances, which only means that the next week they would be Guaranteed to lose a game they should have won, also in dramatic fashion. Does this make any sense. ? I wont stay g-d was involved, perhaps just karma! Jets went to the karma well to beat a team they should have beaten easily, so when they had a chance to knock off the better team, payback was a bitch!

Other thoughts

2) Despite the loss, the Jets did have a good season overall. Expect Paul Hackett to be fired. Considering the change in defenseive coordinator this season lead to major improvements in the defense (they really did quite well this season), I can only hope a new offensive coordinator can help spark the passing game. Case in point--in college, Pennington was a master of reading the defense and calling an audible. Its something peyton manning does all the time. DO the Jets? Not that often since Paul Hackett didn't like someone else changing the plays. I would expect the new offensive coordinator to take advance of this more often. The few times that Penningotn was able to audible, it usually resulted in big plays....

2) The problems--what to do about lamont jordan? At his age, even after a monster season you still need a good backup to curtis martin. But can they afford him? And what about John Abraham? No doubt a huge impact player, but can he ever stay healthy? I just can't see us giving him a big long term contract when he might only play 8-10 games a year. And lets face it, he didnt endear himself to teammates or fans by wondering if it was safe for him to play since he didnt want to hurt his knee any more before going free agent and blowing a huge payday. Thats not the kind of thing you want to hear from the best DE on the team! Jets probably will francise him..I guess....I wonder if they would benefit from just francising Lamont jordan and having the new offensive coordinator just play him more With curtis martin to open up the running game even more...

Not to mention T Karemn McKenzie--as you can imagine in this day and age, I do think its critical to have continuity on the offensive line. And if you have a bad one (ie giants) then you are pretty much screwed.

Then there is Jason Ferguson...ugh..

The good news? A new offensive coordinator, a new draft might yield some good players, and we do get our cornerback Ray mickens back...

At least the Jets got ALOT younger and had a good, if uneven, season. Thats the way to do it in the NFL in these days. Tell that to the METS, who are getting OLDER, not sure if they will get better though...