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Related: About this forum🏈 Playoffs Game Day: Name Your Poison/Pick Your Preference Thread
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NFL Playoff day today leaves many of us without our favorite teams to root for except for the lucky fans of the New England Patriots and Denver Broncos. (Later Los Angeles Rams at Seattle Seahawks, pregame 1800, Fox)
For those watching today who's your favorite to win?
And are you having snacks? Wings? Or like I am, cooking something special for the game?
I'm doing a traditional hot chili and it smells especially good right now!
So what say ye, football enthusiasts?
Who will it be today?
Are you a Patriots fan today?
Or are you all in for the Broncos?
If you're not a football fan, you're in the wrong place.
🍻Cheers to the lovers, winners or losers.
🍀Good luck, everyone!
Clouds Passing
(7,381 posts)Chili sounds delicious! Salmon and twice baked potatoes.
littlemissmartypants
(32,616 posts)Clouds Passing
(7,381 posts)littlemissmartypants
(32,616 posts)littlemissmartypants
(32,616 posts)I'm having milk. What do you want?
Clouds Passing
(7,381 posts)littlemissmartypants
(32,616 posts)Clouds Passing
(7,381 posts)pan with white wine. Pour that in the chili. Superb. White wine makes every dish better.
littlemissmartypants
(32,616 posts)I have been known to make a Mustard & onion sandwich. One of my college professors introduced me to that. I have taught myself food prep but as a teen, I learned Carolina country cooking.
Have a great day, CP. 🌞
pfitz59
(12,486 posts)now down.
likesmountains 52
(4,264 posts)littlemissmartypants
(32,616 posts)beveeheart
(1,515 posts)littlemissmartypants
(32,616 posts)Xavier Breath
(6,545 posts)Yawn.
littlemissmartypants
(32,616 posts)Xavier doesn't make offensive exhalations. That yawn may hurt someone otherwise.
Four teams. No pick. Wrong thread?
😘💋
Xavier Breath
(6,545 posts)But since you insist, here's my preference for the late game: that it's a fucking sight better than this one.
littlemissmartypants
(32,616 posts)Xavier Breath
(6,545 posts)Definitely the theme of today. Looking out my front door reminds me of Dr. Zhivago.
a kennedy
(35,527 posts)scoring game because of the weather.
littlemissmartypants
(32,616 posts)Americanme
(428 posts)I'd like to see Matt Stafford win another Superbowl.
littlemissmartypants
(32,616 posts)a kennedy
(35,527 posts)for him and I guess his team. Absolutely do not care for the Pats vs Denver, cept felt sick for the Denver QB, Bo Nix getting injured and now out of the playoffs. It was the 2nd to last play of their game last week.
So I guess come on Denver.
Xavier Breath
(6,545 posts)Who would have thought?
littlemissmartypants
(32,616 posts)It's a subtle reminder that there's always a chance that serendipity can grant you a wish in the most unlikely way.
On to the Rams v. Seahawks!!
Time for chili! Grab a bowl and get a spoon.
Things are getting serious!
🔥🥣🥣🥣🥣🔥
mountain grammy
(28,787 posts)Had to drive home in the snow. Grandpa drank too much. Only a few miles.
Wait till next year!
littlemissmartypants
(32,616 posts)Mother Nature must not like the Broncos. Sad. Oh, well.
I'm glad you made it home safe!
mountain grammy
(28,787 posts)Terrible field condition And now, watching the Rams and Seahawks I beginning to feel sorry for NE no matter which team wins.
littlemissmartypants
(32,616 posts)LisaM
(29,529 posts)I live in Seattle now and I can't stand the Cheat Hawks and their obnoxious fans.
littlemissmartypants
(32,616 posts)LisaM
(29,529 posts)They get a lot of lucky breaks but they won't admit it. But the worst was after Seattle beat Detroit on a Monday night on an absolute atrocious call after KJ Wright punched a ball out of the end zone and the refs should have given it to the Lions but didn't. I had to fly to Michigan a couple of days later with some obnoxious 'twelves', as they call themselves (they stole that from Texas A&M) who were changing planes in Detroit on their way to Cincinnati and got out with their stupid flag to take a photo of themselves in the Detroit airport! After winning a game on a terrible call! It annoyed everyone, including a woman in an Indianapolis Colts jersey who was just as affronted as I was.
And they're all like that! Tone deaf.
littlemissmartypants
(32,616 posts)Cirsium
(3,581 posts)The players all go on strike to protest the actions of ICE.
littlemissmartypants
(32,616 posts)Cirsium
(3,581 posts)The people with the resources and platforms, like professional athletes, need to step up. If they won't, then why should we continue to give them our attention?
littlemissmartypants
(32,616 posts)A reported "over 50,000" community programs with children singing. But remember, the Nazis had Jr. Nazis.
People as citizens are already going to blatantly start taking sides against each other and we don't need that to exacerbate.
Might be better to have something not political like team sports to channel that overt need for competition.
I know that it's unhealthy for everyone to keep stress levels up and cortisol high. There has to be a steam valve to avoid an internal combustion explosion.
We need a maintained strong resolve and power in community not hari-kari like self destruction. This is going to take a while to overcome.
Croney
(4,994 posts)⛄️⛄️⛄️
littlemissmartypants
(32,616 posts)Croney
(4,994 posts)I know the weather was bad there, but we've had a foot of snow in the Boston area tonight and they just couldn't have played here. It's still snowing hard. I wonder what they would have done.
littlemissmartypants
(32,616 posts)littlemissmartypants
(32,616 posts)True Dough
(26,064 posts)Darnold looks more prepared for the Super Bowl than Drake Maye. Of course they're not the only two players who will be on the field, but they're key pieces.
Wonder if Matt Stafford will be back next year at age 38 after coming this close. The Rams are a very good team and Stafford might still have the itch in hopes of winning a second ring.
littlemissmartypants
(32,616 posts)Today was a very exciting game with lots of contact.
But at 37 he's been playing probably twenty years or more. I can't imagine what his body is telling him but it has to be loud.
I'm exhausted and I just watch. 😆🤓❤️