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| Game Summary (Earl Schmidt, NetFL Press) I get paid very well doing something I usually enjoy. There are, however, occasional games that I only report on under silent protest. Let me begin by being brutally honest. BB is quite the inept team, wholly outclassed in all aspects of the game by TH. I love football. The stale smell of rancid beer, the sweaty crowd of rabid fans, the cross-eyed and homely cheerleaders trying to incite us to collective ear-drum rupturing noise, the reverberating sound of vicious collisions, the poetic beauty of a laser-guided bullet pass crashing into the receiver's outstretched hands - yes, this is what I live for. This is what I saw today. Kudos to TH for pulling out the leftover turkey, stomping their dead, bloated corpses and definitively putting on the superior show, but overall, it was quite a frenetic, enjoyable game. Philip Rivers blathered, "Our defense was stout - I mean, golly. Have you ever seen such an effort? I mean, except for those breakdowns that led to all those scores. For at least half of the plays, we were great though. It's something to build on is all I'm getting at." Shaun Hill gurgled, "I'm very disappointed in myself, the way I played as one of the 60 leaders on this football team. It starts with me watching someone get the ball into the hands of the right guy and watch him making the plays... cheering on the others making the tackles... I did that. That falls on me. We're not going to win football games if they don't do their part." TH has demoralized BB as though they were an all you can eat buffet residing next to a weight-watcher's clinic, stomping their dead, bloated corpses by the tune of 41-37 in front of a jeering and hostile crowd. TH leads the all-time series 4-3 against BB. TH has a 4-2 regular season record. BB has a 2-4 regular season record. They looked unstoppable on the TH squad particularly on the offensive side of the ball last week as they racked up a combined 293 points, 194 on offense and 99 on defense. Andrew Luck with 39 points on offense and Brandon Graham with 10 points on defense were the top scorers. However, they were far from perfect. Said Coach/GM David Markfield, "Sure, I'm a bit concerned about a few things.. For one, Anthony Castonzo was clearly showing some ill-effects from his intestinal parasite. Doc says that he's gotten much better since he's started the electroshock therapy... something about frontal lobes and things with molecular structures. It all sounded very clinical to me, but as long as it keeps him on the field, I'm all for it. As for those DST? They showed their ineptitude by amassing 2 Defended kickoff returns, 91 Defended kickoff return yardage, 45.5 Defended kickoff return average instead of playing. Overall though, the Doc's been looking into a revolutionary new surgery - replace his hands with anything - stickum, chicken claws, even bricks would be an improvement. I mean, he drops balls as if they were live ferrets. in this game was Matt Hasselbeck. There's no love lost between these two clubs. David Markfield shot, "I suppose every league needs a doormat. I feel some degree of scorn for them to be sure, but mostly, I just shake my head and watch them bumble their way from game to game with a sense of detached amusement." In response, the BB coach quipped, "I suppose every league needs a doormat. I feel some degree of scorn for them to be sure, but mostly, I just shake my head and watch them bumble their way from game to game with a sense of detached amusement." | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||