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You mean the fact that I mentioned both Carson Palmer and the Bengals? It's a pretty well known injury. In fact, let's look at why. That was the first time in two decades that the Bengals were relevant again. They lost the Super Bowl by having Joe Montana go the distance to cement his legacy as Joe Cool, not to mention their star FB relapsing the night before and Tim Krumrie (the heart and soul of the defense) break his leg early. They then went through years of terrible drafting and failure. But then you get to 2005 and things are looking better. Marvin Lewis is leading Carson Palmer and the Bengals to apparent glory. They even won the AFC North crown. And the Steelers, of all teams, take out their star QB in his first even playoff game. Carson Palmer is done for a full year and may not ever play (this was ten years ago so medicine wasn't as advanced as it is today and he tore two ligaments in his leg). And the Steelers win their 5th Super Bowl. Yeah, Bengals aren't happy and they deserve revenge.

61 shekel on my end and it'll be worth every one of them.

Please tell me you're not actually this ignorant. Please don't destroy my last shred of respect for you. And please at least look up what others are talking about before posting anything. EDIT: Screw it, you won't understand. Once again, I mean this play.

Again, until Ben suffers the same injury as Carson Palmer, the Bengals have no reason to stop testing the ankle flexion of Roethlisberger. And I play the Pats twice a year, remember?

I never liked Manziel. It was so sweet that the first game he ever started was against my 2014 defense and we made him look like a joke. So for next year's schedule, we're playing the AFC North (fuck me, the Bengals AGAIN) and the NFC West. Playing the Raiders on the West Coast and the Jags again. Arizona/SF in the Ralph and Seattle/LA away. Just peachy. It's not that bad of a schedule but I don't like Seattle and Cincy away. At least Arizona and Pittsburgh will be at home.

I can't find it in the Play Store.

I've seen rigged games. This one was called very fairly aside from that terrible challenge at the beginning of the game. That shit should have been a catch because there was no evidence of the ball hitting the ground. You can see it move but the receiver's hand was underneath. This is just a stupid comment.

Yeah, I'll probably restart and screenshot the whole thing. It's long as shit.

I'm working on the series. I just finished the Sword of Shannara about 15 minutes ago and it really feels like The Fellowship of the Ring if Tolkien was going for character development rather than an epic. Menion Leah has got to be one of my favourite characters to read about in a long time. Excellent arc over the entire book. Both him and Flick are excellent.

Oh, it is immature. He was a kid with stage fright with something like a billion people watching him and he's upset at himself for not playing to his strengths. I give him a pass on his behavior.

I'm not a huge fan of fantasy. I mean sure, the Lord of the Rings was great in general but the books are a bit of a slog to read. The Song of Ice and Fire series is excellent but that's rare. And a lot of other fantasy books, movies and tv shows are usually either impossible to achieve immersion due to the main characters having the personality of wet cardboard (Divergent and Hunger Games are good examples of these) or just plain bad (Jupiter Ascending is the textbook example). However! I started watching The Shannara Chronicles because I was bored and found out in the main credits that Manu Bennett was in this. So I continued watching because it's motherfucking Slade Wilson. And I found something interesting. It's actually pretty good. Not amazing. I watched two other series with it and TSC is clearly worse than both of those. That being said, those series were the 2015 mini-series remake of And Then There Were None (better than House of Saddam which was fucking incredible) and The Magicians. Up against those, it's no surprise that TSC comes third. But the story is intriguing. The characters are amazing well-rounded and believable in their personalities. The visuals are stunning. Manu Bennett is a god. Gimli is the goddamn king of the elves. The little girl from Pan's Labyrinth has grown up and is stunning (Ivana Baquero). And then there's Poppy Drayton. I swear that if I ever meet her, I will immediate get down on one knee and ask to marry her. This isn't even a joke; I am legitimately in love with that woman. So does anyone else watch this show? Has anyone else read the books? Please don't ruin either for me, I just started reading The Elfstones of Shannara after finishing The Sword of Shannara (starts off as a Fellowship of the Ring knock-off and turns into a well written epic). From left to right, you have Austin Butler (Wil Ohmsford), my goddess Poppy Drayton (Amberle Elessidil) and Ivana Baquero (Eretria). And the only thing better than marrying Poppy would be a threesome with her and Ivana.

I didn't respect him much before the Super Bowl as a person but watching that game made me really appreciate the effect it had on him. If I were you, I'd explain it to your parents as such and explain the character arc it gives him. They'll understand that since it's the only reasonable explanation for his actions.

Actually, I respect Cam a lot more after this loss and the way he acted. Cam's whole shtick is about his invincibility. He can single-handedly fire up momentum for the Panthers with a run or a good pass. But he got stage fright. The Super Bowl exposed him as a frightened kid on a huge stage. He treated the game as if it was the Super Bowl rather than week 5 at the Bucs. He'd run for a first down but he refused to celebrate afterwards. I noticed this quickly and knew that if he didn't pull himself out of his funk, he'd lose. After the game, I think he realized his mistake. I'm not blaming Cam for the loss but he knew that he should have gone out and played as if it were just a regular game. And that's why he's been a baby in the media's eyes. He's blaming himself for the loss and I can't help but sympathise for him. If he ever gets another shot, he won't lose. And Lord Raven, don't respond. Neither of us gain anything from winning this argument and it's just going to get more bitter. Let's bury it here.

It's a big deal to us because we don't remember what it's like to be in the playoffs. And the last time we were there (I was 8 years old and now I'm 24), we got humiliated with 16 seconds left in the game. Let me give you a good example. Watkins claimed before he was drafted that the Bills was his favourite team. The kid was born in '93 which puts him at 6 years old during the TiT and less than a year when we lost our last Super Bowl. He probably has no memory of the Bills ever making it to the playoffs, never mind the Super Bowl. I do because it's my oldest memory (watching the TiT). And I was 8. That's how low our standards are. Because we won't win a Super Bowl if we can't make the playoffs. And that's why I can say that you're slightly on the spoiled side. It's not an insult, just a fact. You might know how it feels to keep losing playoff games but you don't know what it means to not make them in the first place over a 16 year period. EDIT: This Bills team is surreal currently. We have a top 10 offense. That hasn't happened in over 20 years. Our defense is good (not great anymore but still good). As a result, I get the sinking feeling that this is our ceiling. I hope not but I haven't yet seen any proof of Buffalo actually starting to dominate.

It's a good analysis but there's only one mistake. Sadly, it breaks apart your entire argument. You treat post-season appearances as if they are no big deal. They are a big deal to us because we are the fans of the teams that don't play football in January. And that's the first measuring spot. If you spent 16 years watching 31 other teams make the playoffs during that time but not yours, you'd also be salty at the fact that the Tragedy in Tennessee was the last time you played football on the other side of the new year. In addition, a team that makes the playoffs (say Detroit who have made it a few times in the past 10 years) can at least say "well, that's a start, next year we will win that game" as a point of positivity. You know what I get to say? "Maybe next year, we'll be at 8-8 again!" Understand that this is the first time since I was a very young child that I have seen Buffalo go .500 or better twice in a row. In fact, ​this might very well be our peak for the current generation. That's a very real and very scary thought for us. Playoff appearances might mean wasting a career to you. To us, that's manna from the heavens. Forget the Super Bowl, we want redemption for the TiT. Also, I'm from Toronto. I might no longer be a fan of the Maple Leafs (I support the Winnipeg Jets) but they haven't won a Stanley Cup since the early 70's. The Raptors have never been past the first round of the playoffs. The Blue Jays won in '92 and '93 but after the salary cap rule went out the window, people gave up on the team ever seeing the postseason again (which explains all the fervor surrounding the '15 Jays). The Argonauts have won 2 Grey Cups in almost 20 years... in a fucking 8 team league. The only team that I cheer for that has had any real success is Macabi Tel-Aviv (basketball) and it's in a country where I'm an immigrant and chose to support. So yeah, I don't know what it's like to support good sports teams and to take playoffs births for granted as you clearly do (if you say you don't, your post proves otherwise). And yes, I'm salty. I'm not mad at you. This is just the frustration of watching the only franchise I really give a fuck about flounder for over a decade and a half with a possibility that we may be good again on the horizon but not enough proof to back it up.

Raven, you're also forgetting the retarded amount of missed tackles in that game. Like CJ Anderson breaking three separate tackles on a single run. First off, Buffalo's future is not bright for at least another 5 years in reality. Take it from a man who has been watching the AFC East his entire life, we have no shot at even thinking about the division title as long as Belichek is still in Boston. This is Buffalo we are talking about. I don't need to expand on that point. Next, let's indeed talk about the Lions. And yes, their history overall is probably more brutal than ours. But the Lions a joke? Are you kidding me? The Lions are one of those old proud franchises when you still do remember Barry Sanders running over everyone. Megaton is a permanent fixture in our lives in how a single receiver can make an entire team worthwhile and dangerous. I'm not saying that the Lions haven't suffered even in the present but there is no way you can refer to them as a joke. Especially when they make the playoffs every few years or so. This is where you fall into the same category of Ana, bro. You don't understand what it is like to support a team that is literally not given a second thought for years on end. Since '99 (excluding the three years after the squad moved from Cleveland), the Ravens have had 2 Super Bowl wins and something like 7 other playoff appearances. That also includes a couple of mediocre seasons but not 10+ in a row. You're also spoiled by your success but at least you recognize that you are. On the other side, we have the Bills. Yes, I am allowed to bitch about the K-Gun. Because it was great. In fact, it made us a juggernaut. Nobody wanted to play against Buffalo. We'd run Thurman down your throats, Kelly had Reed on the outside and Metzelaars for the middle of the field (the original coming of Gronk). Our D was solid with Bruce Smith, Darryl Talley and Cornelius Bennett dominating the middle of the field. And then we had Steve Tasker, the single best special teamer of all time. There is currently a debate going on whether or not Steve Tasker deserves to be in the Hall of Fame and I believe so. And yet, we fell 4 times to the NFC East where we subsequently got more humiliated. We should have won in 1990 and I'm not talking about Norwood missing. And from this point on, we became the ultimate choker. We are quite literally a joke; Chris Rock used our team as one of his punchlines for Kill The Messenger. After 1993, we suffered through over 2 decades of mismanagement including the benching of Doug Flutie in 1999. We deserved to lose that game for it. What we didn't deserve was to be humiliated on television once again (31 franchises know that game as the "Music City Miracle" while mine knows it as the "Tragedy in Tennessee". And we certainly didn't deserve the next 15 years where everyone who watched football would look at the Bills and say "well, that's like an extra bye week". Detroit never received that feeling. Ever. And I wouldn't want them to. Because if you never made it to the end, you won't beat yourself up too much. But we made it 4 times in a row and we aren't recognized for our greatness. We're the team that choked every fucking time. So yes. The Lions have something that we don't. Respect. You can say that you respect our team but very few people outside of Bills Mafia respects our franchise. And that's fine. But don't tell me I don't deserve to feel bad over the shit that's happened to my team in the past 25 years (forget the fact that we were irrelevant for the 25 or so years before that) because other teams may or may not have it worse. In my opinion, only the Browns have had it worse than us and your team is a major reason why.

Losing two different Super Bowls is one thing. Losing 4 consecutive is a completely different thing. I'd rather be in the Lions situation than my own (not the Jags or Browns). The Lions had a season where they went 0-16 and they're still respected as a franchise. Nobody respects the Bills. In my lifetime, I have never been told that I support a good team and I deserve to be proud of it. The Bills are that mediocre joke that lost 4 Super Bowls in a row and then made the playoffs 16 years ago only to lose on a play that was considered a "miracle". So no. I'm not sure that it's better to go and lose. Maybe we wouldn't be the laughingstock of the NFL while I have to rewatch Aikman highlights of how he crushed my defense. I don't understand how you can say that it's better to be a Bills fan than it is to be a Lions fan. Lions fans have it better than us. Jaguars are still a new franchise (in relation) and the Browns are a factory of sadness. EDIT: I need to clarify something. For all that I bitch about how terrible it is to be a Bills fan, I love my team. I really do. I've been tested year after year and I still care. It is one of the iconic franchises and there is so much history in Orchard Park. And one day, maybe years from now when I have children, we will finally get this monkey off our backs and win 4 in a row. We are a proud franchise, united in our pain and triumphs. And we will always love our team, no matter how bad it gets. Because the game was so sloppy on both sides of the ball by both teams. It wasn't a defensive masterpiece. Neither defense played well with all the silly penalties they racked up (like that obvious facemask by Talib in the 1st quarter). But the offenses (and I mean both) were that much worse. Dropped balls, fumbles, terrible blitz pick-ups, bad INTs... It felt like watching a Thursday Night Division III high school game. I loved it but it was not a game where either team deserved to win. Carolina just deserved to lose more than Denver.

Denver did not deserve to win that game. But Carolina deserved to lose. Denver won the SuperBowl by default. They played the least bad game.

Bernie Sanders won't win because he's too Jewish. And by too Jewish, I mean he's a Jew. Seriously, a Jew in the White House? The conspiracists would have a field day.

I was strong-armed into using a co-host. I didn't want to in the first place.

I'm working my way through the Shannara trilogy. I'm not the biggest fan of pure fantasy (preferred LotR movies to the books which is rare for me) but I'm doing it because I've fallen madly head over heels in love with Poppy Drayton. Why couldn't I have been born rich and famous instead of good looking? Or both? My next target is the Magicians trilogy which is more up my alley (a mature version of the Young Wizards series). I love series that deal with magic in a modern light and world and both series do so. If you haven't read So You Want To Be A Wizard, I suggest you do so.

Like GOD, of COURSE I know what to do. I am awesome, you know. I even taught myself how to walk in heels at age 4. I can rock high heels better than any woman here. And don't worry, boys. I will always out-gay you.

As long as my alias needs to get lynched and not me, I'll make it past D1. And talk to the hand because the wrist is pissed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pxy4Lw89nU This shit actually came out a lot tamer than what I was expecting. I also am not good at talking on camera (especially when high) so yeah. But I will get my groove and shit will get good after this game. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JebhU2_4m9A AND THERE'S MORE! Be warned, this is the start of the half hour long videos. I mean, this shit is LONG.

Postgame for Mafialands is finally up.