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Has the home field advantage ever been bigger....

MGLICKERMGLICKER Posts: 7,995 ✭✭✭
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...than for Green Bay today?

Easy win for the Packers.







I sprayed a bit of repellent on this thread to keep that pesky 1985fan away.

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  • fishteethfishteeth Posts: 2,245 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Heading to the game in a few hours. not looking forward to sitting on metal benches in this cold. I was at the NFC championship game in 2007 which was -2 and that was awful, this will be
    much colder. Wish me luck

  • MGLICKERMGLICKER Posts: 7,995 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Heading to the game in a few hours. not looking forward to sitting on metal benches in this cold. I was at the NFC championship game in 2007 which was -2 and that was awful, this will be
    much colder. Wish me luck >>



    The last of the die hard fans! Stay bundled up and pray for no overtime.
  • fishteethfishteeth Posts: 2,245 ✭✭✭✭✭
    going to the game didn't sound like a bad idea last week when the forecast was for 20 degrees, now -20, that is a different story. Definitely no tailgating for me today.
    plan to have the inlaws drop us off a block or two away about 30 minutes before kickoff. On the up side no problem keeping the beer cold, however, if you do not
    drink it fast enough it freezes. There still will be people without their shirts. Probably will not be as cold as the ice bowl, but if the game was tomorrow it would be by far the coldest game, calling for -60+ wind chills and air temps -20-30 Monday and Tuesday. Why do I live here again

  • edmundfitzgeraldedmundfitzgerald Posts: 4,306 ✭✭
    Bring some kind of seat cushion, or blanket.

    Seriously though, this is the kind of weather that if any part of your body is exposed for more than 30 minutes, you're looking at easy frostbite.
    I expect to see lots of people in ski masks and even sunglasses to protect the eyes.

    I wouldn't be surprised to see many empty seats after half time, or even before.
  • MGLICKERMGLICKER Posts: 7,995 ✭✭✭


    << <i> no problem keeping the beer cold, however, if you do not >>



    Forget the beer, Brandy is in order.
  • edmundfitzgeraldedmundfitzgerald Posts: 4,306 ✭✭
    The Bengal fans luck out.
    Temperatures this afternoon will be 43 degrees with some rain.
    Tonight it's going to be 2 above.
  • MGLICKERMGLICKER Posts: 7,995 ✭✭✭
    Flying into Chicago in January 1988, I had the good fortune to sit across the aisle from Mitch Albom. He was covering the Bears-Redskins game for the Detroit Free Press. Quite a friendly and outgoing fellow, we talked sports for about 20 minutes.

    Though I was travelling on business, I hinted that I would love to get into the game (turned out to be Walter Payton's last).

    Glad that Mitch did not work any magic to get me a ticket as it was a zero degree day and I would have frozen to death in my rather light attire.
  • mlbfan2mlbfan2 Posts: 3,115 ✭✭✭


    << <i>...than for Green Bay today?

    Easy win for the Packers. >>



    The 49ers are favored. How much $$$ did you put on the Packers?
  • grote15grote15 Posts: 29,694 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Green Bay has not had the same mystique as a home team in recent years.


    Collecting 1970s Topps baseball wax, rack and cello packs, as well as PCGS graded Half Cents, Large Cents, Two Cent pieces and Three Cent Silver pieces.
  • MGLICKERMGLICKER Posts: 7,995 ✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>...than for Green Bay today?

    Easy win for the Packers. >>



    The 49ers are favored. How much $$$ did you put on the Packers? >>



    Nothing. Haven't bet on sports* since my last wager with the Duck, in Detroit in 1994.

    *Have been to the Quarter horses a half dozen times since then but no team sports betting.
  • mlbfan2mlbfan2 Posts: 3,115 ✭✭✭


    << <i>

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    << <i>...than for Green Bay today?

    Easy win for the Packers. >>



    The 49ers are favored. How much $$$ did you put on the Packers? >>



    Nothing. Haven't bet on sports* since my last wager with the Duck, in Detroit in 1994.

    >>



    I knew that. Anyone that says "easy win" or "sure thing" is never a bettor. image
  • MGLICKERMGLICKER Posts: 7,995 ✭✭✭


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    << <i>...than for Green Bay today?

    Easy win for the Packers. >>



    The 49ers are favored. How much $$$ did you put on the Packers? >>



    Nothing. Haven't bet on sports* since my last wager with the Duck, in Detroit in 1994.

    >>



    I knew that. Anyone that says "easy win" or "sure thing" is never a bettor. image >>



    Wager has been placed. To quote Arnie Spanier, "Don't want the points, Don't need the points, I'll take the points" Green Bay +3.


    Edit to change minus to plus.
  • grote15grote15 Posts: 29,694 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

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    << <i>...than for Green Bay today?

    Easy win for the Packers. >>



    The 49ers are favored. How much $$$ did you put on the Packers? >>



    Nothing. Haven't bet on sports* since my last wager with the Duck, in Detroit in 1994.

    >>



    I knew that. Anyone that says "easy win" or "sure thing" is never a bettor. image >>



    Wager has been placed. To quote Arnie Spanier, "Don't want the points, Don't need the points, I'll take the points" Green Bay -3. >>



    You mean GB +3.


    Collecting 1970s Topps baseball wax, rack and cello packs, as well as PCGS graded Half Cents, Large Cents, Two Cent pieces and Three Cent Silver pieces.
  • MGLICKERMGLICKER Posts: 7,995 ✭✭✭


    << <i>You mean GB +3. >>



    Yup. I am mathematically Dyslexic.

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  • 1985fan1985fan Posts: 1,952 ✭✭
    Easy win for the packers? Hilarious. Niners win going away. Lets not forget Aaron Rodgers is only a week back. Niners defense will impose their will and take this by 7.
  • MGLICKERMGLICKER Posts: 7,995 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Easy win for the packers? Hilarious. Niners win going away. Lets not forget Aaron Rodgers is only a week back. Niners defense will impose their will and take this by 7. >>



    If Packers lose the game, I will put in my sigline that "1985fan was right" and leave it until the Superbowl.

    Will you do the same with my name if Packers win?
  • MGLICKERMGLICKER Posts: 7,995 ✭✭✭
    Kickoff time and only cricket noises from the 1985fan.
  • calaban7calaban7 Posts: 3,003 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Kickoff time and only cricket noises from the 1985fan. >>



    I think the cricket will become an expert in his own mind .---- Sonny
    " In a time of universal deceit , telling the truth is a revolutionary act " --- George Orwell
  • MGLICKERMGLICKER Posts: 7,995 ✭✭✭
    Good game.



    Glad I got the 3 points. image
  • 1985fan1985fan Posts: 1,952 ✭✭
    Sorry to all my fans I had things to do. Looks like it wasn't a cake walk was it ?
  • stownstown Posts: 11,321 ✭✭✭
    Be thankful. His first perma-bammed alias was notorious for welching out of lost wagers unless you removed any and all possible semantics.
    So basically my kid won't be able to go to college, but at least I'll have a set where the three most expensive cards are of a player I despise ~ CDsNuts
  • MGLICKERMGLICKER Posts: 7,995 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Be thankful. His first perma-bammed alias was notorious for welching out of lost wagers unless you removed any and all possible semantics. >>



    ?
  • CNoteCNote Posts: 2,070 ✭


    << <i>Sorry to all my fans I had things to do. Looks like it wasn't a cake walk was it ? >>



    Things to do? That's convenient.
  • 1985fan1985fan Posts: 1,952 ✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>Sorry to all my fans I had things to do. Looks like it wasn't a cake walk was it ? >>



    Things to do? That's convenient. >>



    Yes Sundays are pretty busy, it's not like I'm asking him to honor th bet.
  • stownstown Posts: 11,321 ✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>Be thankful. His first perma-bammed alias was notorious for welching out of lost wagers unless you removed any and all possible semantics. >>



    ? >>



    ??
    So basically my kid won't be able to go to college, but at least I'll have a set where the three most expensive cards are of a player I despise ~ CDsNuts
  • MGLICKERMGLICKER Posts: 7,995 ✭✭✭
    Please be a bit more transparent, Stown. Who are you accusing of being a welch?
  • stownstown Posts: 11,321 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Please be a bit more transparent, Stown. Who are you accusing of being a welch? >>



    Did you think I was insinuating you? Sorry, not my intention at all. If you can access the advanced search, just look up axtel and welch. Some may have poofed but I'm positive you'll find one.
    So basically my kid won't be able to go to college, but at least I'll have a set where the three most expensive cards are of a player I despise ~ CDsNuts
  • 1985fan1985fan Posts: 1,952 ✭✭


    << <i>Please be a bit more transparent, Stown. Who are you accusing of being a welch? >>



    No need for the signature line, I didn't agree to the bet as I didn't see it until after the game. As far as welchers go, I believe stown and his often confused and even more often wrong memory is thinking of joestalin.

  • MGLICKERMGLICKER Posts: 7,995 ✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>Please be a bit more transparent, Stown. Who are you accusing of being a welch? >>



    No need for the signature line, I didn't agree to the bet as I didn't see it until after the game. As far as welchers go, I believe stown and his often confused and even more often wrong memory is thinking of joestalin. >>



    I gave you a couple of hours of Sig Line fame.

    Back to regular programming! image
  • stownstown Posts: 11,321 ✭✭✭
    Just off the top of my head he was for the guaranteed before being against it, not posting for a week miraculously became only not posting on the sports talk forum, and then disappeared after Bush didn't get a certain number of touches.

    Those had absolutely, positively nothing to do with joey. Facts.
    So basically my kid won't be able to go to college, but at least I'll have a set where the three most expensive cards are of a player I despise ~ CDsNuts
  • 1985fan1985fan Posts: 1,952 ✭✭


    << <i>Just off the top of my head he was for the guaranteed before being against it, not posting for a week miraculously became only not posting on the sports talk forum, and then disappeared after Bush didn't get a certain number of touches.

    Those had absolutely, positively nothing to do with joey. Facts. >>



    I don't recall any of those stownie. Either produce the evidence or I call bull.
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