American Football (NFL)

[SKT]

@Jett129 A late Merry Christmas to you as well!  Thanks for keeping this going.

@Matt looks like you and Ava got the hook up!  Nice!

[Jett129]

[SKT]

Ha! Yeah I think the playoffs will really show how much they miss him. Especially with all the injuries to the receivers.

[pmadison95]

I am going to go with Eagles over the Saints for this week's pick. I don't see the Eagles loosing 2 in a row.

[SKT]

I’ll take niners over the raiders.

[Jett129]

@SKT:

I’ll take niners over the raiders.

.      Hope I’m not the kiss of death as I’m with you. Still riding the Brock Purdy train. Kept looking at the Chiefs,but couldn’t do it.

[SKT]

Purdy has been so steady and I just can’t pick the Chiefs because it will absolutely jinx them. Still think they will win though.

[scooter]

I've got you guys covered. I'm going for the trifecta, this week. The Chiefs it is…

[Jett129]

I and SKT need the Chiefs and Bengals to win,which would make the Chiefs the number 1 seed. Bills/Bengals could/should be a really great game. Denver is such an unbelievable mess right now,but they fired the coach and sometimes that can galvanize a team,and they’d love to knock off one of their divisional rivals.

[Jett129]

For our Fantastic Four to stay alive we needed The Chiefs,49ers and the Eagles to win. The Raiders took the 49ers to overtime,but couldn't close the deal,which gets @SKT and myself to the last week of the season. The Denver Broncos gave the Chiefs all they could handle,but they too could not close the deal and @scooter also heads into next week. But alas The Saints came marching in and they closed the deal and sent @pmadison95 home. One more week to go before the playoffs.

[steelworker]

Driving my children to school in Pittsburgh we'd be passed by pickups and cars with Baltimore flags, people hanging out the windows screaming  ::)just  like the games now I think of it

[scooter]

[mclaincausey]

Amen scooter. Terribly scary incident tonight.

[Mizmazzle]

There are no words for tonight’s tragedy. Wishing Damar Hamlin a full recovery.

[ROman]

Oddly I had the Bengals / Bills game on tonight. Hard to watch. Prayers.

[Jett129]

@scooter:

.        I was on my way home from NYC last night at about 9:30 and I get a notification that there’s a post in The American Football thread,and I see this and think @scooter is happy that his prayers have been answered by The Chiefs winning. In the mean time,I’ve been trying to check the score on The Bengals/Bills game and it’s been locked at 7-3 since I started my trip home,and the time stamp for the score hasn’t changed either. I keep refreshing my phone to no avail. I have no idea as to what’s happened. I get home and I had been taping the game and start watching it from the beginning. Just devastating. Don’t know what else to say. Don’t know if the lack of an update is good or bad.

[Jett129]

@SKT and @scooter In light of what happened this week in the NFL,I don’t,much,feel like making a pick. Not sure how you guys are feeling,but I thought maybe we should take this week off and pick up again when the playoffs start. What do you guys or,anyone else think?

[SKT]

I’m with you @Jett129    Let’s pick it up in the playoffs.  Really pulling for this young man.

[Jett129]

@SKT Not sure if you saw the press conference with the doctors,but he woke up and he couldn't speak as he still,at that time,had the breathing tube. The gave him something to write on and he wrote…"Did we win?" to which the nurse replied you won the game of life. He's since had the tube removed and had a video visit with his teammates.

[SKT]

I didn’t see the press conference but have kept up with the encouraging news today. Great to see. Just an awful thing for him and his family to have to go through. The retaining of neurological function is huge.