The 12-3 Buffalo Bills are 1-point favorites over the 11-4 Cincinnati Bengals on Monday Night Football tonight. Should be a close game since this game affects Playoff slotting for both teams. Go Bills!
BUFFALO BILLS VS. CINCINNATI BENGALS
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Alas, despite a win against the heavily favored Eagles yesterday, the Saints were mathematically eliminated from playoff contention after the Bucs beat the Panthers. It’s been a miserable season for the boys in black and gold, and I daresay none of them will be including the 2022 season in their highlight reels. Now our household is going full-on Bengals to support LSU’s golden boy, Joe Burrow (or, as he is known in our house, “Joe Burreaux”). As much as I hate to root against your Bills, George, I’m afraid I’m gonna be cheering for the Bengals tonight.
Deb, I have a lot of respect for Joe Burrow and the Bengals. Tonight’s game could be a preview of a future Playoff game.
This is going to be a tough one, a possible Championship Game preview (the Chiefs can’t keep skating by forever). Good luck.
The Giants made the playoffs for the first time since 2016 and only the second time in eleven years by crushing the bad Colts. After finishing at Philadelphia next week, they will probably get another shot at the Vikings (who barely beat them on a last second field goal last time) in the playoffs.
Jeff, incredible as it is, the Bills vs. Bengals game tonight is the only NFL game in Week 17 where the two teams have winning records! Most pundits on ESPN never gave the Giants a chance of a winning season, let alone making the Playoffs. As I’ve said before, the Giants will only get better next year!
Well…sadly, a more memorable unfinished game than expected.
Todd, millions of people saw Damar Hamlin die on the field of play on Monday Night Football. The excellent medical team brought Hamlin back to life with CPR and a defibrillator.
It’s still a game too much about hurting people. People certainly get hurt in non-contact sports, as with your tennis-stress and skiers, auto racers and jockeys and others, and the degree to which basketball and soccer become contact sports (and how various versions of hockey have always lent themselves to stick-bashing), but boxing, MMA, and football are among the sports I can never watch with remotely unalloyed enjoyment, because of that.
That and playing center in a quarter’s worth of PE tackle football in HS. More the fool I.
Todd, it’s just a matter of physics: a bigger wide receiver hits a smaller defensive back–injury results. It’s like a pickup truck hitting a sedan. You know what the outcome will be.
I do. And that it’s integral to the game is my problem with the sport.