2024 NFL Championship Sunday News/Views: The Ghost of Scott Norwood Haunts Us All

The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Sports Argument Stadium > The Football Funhouse > 2024 NFL Championship Sunday News/Views: The Ghost of Scott Norwood Haunts Us All

3 DONG HORSE: May 22, 2008; I'd like to thank Satan for everything he's done for this organization

Lions are the clear good guys

# ¿ Jan 22, 2024 04:55

Adbot: ADBOT LOVES YOU

# ¿ May 14, 2024 22:49

3 DONG HORSE: May 22, 2008; I'd like to thank Satan for everything he's done for this organization

Coldforge posted:

Cool, now do the 1983-84 season championship game.

No need to worry about that, my friend. You aren't facing the Chiefs!

# ¿ Jan 23, 2024 23:23

3 DONG HORSE: May 22, 2008; I'd like to thank Satan for everything he's done for this organization

The Puppy Bowl posted:

The writers seem to be ignoring week 1 call backs this year. The veteran Ravens beat up on the upstart Texans week 1 in Baltimore. The divisional round had those same Texans, strengthened over CJ Stroud's hero's journey rookie year, returning to Baltimore to avenge their inaugural defeat. They still got pasted.

If anybody has the narrative juice it's the blue collar cast off Lions beating two supposed elite juggernauts in SF and KC/BAL in route to their first ever Championship. Now that's a sports doc in the making.

Personally, I think it's great writing then the good guys get smashed and destroyed unambiguously.

# ¿ Jan 23, 2024 23:25

3 DONG HORSE: May 22, 2008; I'd like to thank Satan for everything he's done for this organization

Mustached Demon posted:

How did the 49ers become the heels? They're eternally opposed to the cowboys ffs.

enemy of my enemy is my friend,

# ¿ Jan 23, 2024 23:31

3 DONG HORSE: May 22, 2008; I'd like to thank Satan for everything he's done for this organization

AndrewP posted:

Thread on that whole Warren Sharp ref thing

https://twitter.com/PFF_Moo/status/1749879119456633258#m

Okay, fair, he is a statistical outlier. But if you purposely choose to use that outlier, what does that do to statistical value? Isn't that still fishy? I forgot everything from probabilities and statistics in college so I need a little push in the right direction here.

# ¿ Jan 24, 2024 15:41

3 DONG HORSE: May 22, 2008; I'd like to thank Satan for everything he's done for this organization

Impossibly Perfect Sphere posted:

What do you call three Chiefs fans frozen in the snow?

A good start.

Fro - O - O - O - zen?

# ¿ Jan 24, 2024 15:41

3 DONG HORSE: May 22, 2008; I'd like to thank Satan for everything he's done for this organization

Freaquency posted:

You�re assuming a motive when there�s no evidence for it

Yeah, understand now. I reread the thread and it all makes sense. The Ravens are hosed.

# ¿ Jan 24, 2024 17:58

3 DONG HORSE: May 22, 2008; I'd like to thank Satan for everything he's done for this organization

rjmccall posted:

He�s not an outlier. He�s presided over a lot of home-team losses (against the spread), but you�d expect to see a few refs with records as far from 50:50 as he is just from random chance. It is not evidence that he actually favors away teams.

People are bad at understanding random distributions. They expect random sequences to �look random�, and they expect random distributions to be way �skinnier� than they actually are. If you flip a coin ten times, people will tell you that HHTTHTTTH is very likely but HHHHHTTHHH is very unlikely, but of course the odds of getting those exact sequences are exactly the same. While the overall odds of getting exactly 5 heads are higher than getting 8 or more heads, people will say that exactly 5 should happen most of the time while 8 or more should happen almost never; in reality the odds are 24.6% and 5.5%. To put it differently, if you have twenty people do 10 flips each, it would be pretty weird if you didn�t have at least one person with 8 or more heads or 8 or more tails, but people will still look at that person and wonder if they�re cheating somehow.

Thank you for the example

# ¿ Jan 24, 2024 18:28

3 DONG HORSE: May 22, 2008; I'd like to thank Satan for everything he's done for this organization

Black Sunshine posted:

We can at least bond over soul crushing Superbowl defeats

Is this what will unite the AFC West

# ¿ Jan 24, 2024 21:30

3 DONG HORSE: May 22, 2008; I'd like to thank Satan for everything he's done for this organization

The 49ers bad touched the Broncos. Sure, it was before my time, but ancestral blood-hatred is one of the best kinds of hate. :cheers:

e:

Lions>>>>>>>Ravens>>>>>>>>>>49ers>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Chiefs

only because the Ravens pain is more recent

3 DONG HORSE fucked around with this message at 21:34 on Jan 24, 2024

# ¿ Jan 24, 2024 21:32

3 DONG HORSE: May 22, 2008; I'd like to thank Satan for everything he's done for this organization

Coldforge posted:

No, I was trying to contextualize and clarify what you said about the 49ers winning a lot.

If winning games is your only barometer then that's totally fair, but that's a very "hang the banners" kind of winning. If by winning you mean winning championships, then both teams have had past success that's far enough in the past to be irrelevant to a modern victory.

I stated a view based on what you posted, and it's entirely possible it was irrelevant to your intention, but that wasn't clear to me. That's why I didn't try to distort what you said in order to make an argument against it, I simply said what I said about franchise victories.

All victories matter post-merger because every ring must be kissed

# ¿ Jan 24, 2024 22:52

3 DONG HORSE: May 22, 2008; I'd like to thank Satan for everything he's done for this organization

Coldforge posted:

It was still the NFL, and they had hardware.

"world champ" is a lie and you know it

# ¿ Jan 24, 2024 23:02

3 DONG HORSE: May 22, 2008; I'd like to thank Satan for everything he's done for this organization

california pizza is the best pizza

# ¿ Jan 25, 2024 17:36

3 DONG HORSE: May 22, 2008; I'd like to thank Satan for everything he's done for this organization

AndrewP posted:

Ravens has moved to -4

SF to -7.5

Can imagine Dan Campbell giving a �They�ve got us right where we want �em. We can shoot in every direction now.� speech to prepare for this

# ¿ Jan 25, 2024 21:54

3 DONG HORSE: May 22, 2008; I'd like to thank Satan for everything he's done for this organization

Borsche69 posted:

i think im gonna do fried chicken on sunday. wings and drumsticks (objectively the best parts of a chicken) and i think i'll kinda do a reverse sear sort of thing. dry brine or marinade the night before and get them low and slow in the oven (the fan on my masterbuilt smoker is a piece of poo poo right now) and when it looks like the skin is pretty rendered, i'll bread em in flour + corn starch and fry them in a wok. then empty the wok and do szechuan peppers, scallions, chilies and pass the chicken through again. need to decide if i'm doing onion rings or fries with them, or both

bring it to the chat thread

# ¿ Jan 26, 2024 08:18

3 DONG HORSE: May 22, 2008; I'd like to thank Satan for everything he's done for this organization

Hot Diggity! posted:

I think both Kelce and Andrews are good at football

Two things both being true! What is this madness??

# ¿ Jan 27, 2024 17:48

3 DONG HORSE: May 22, 2008; I'd like to thank Satan for everything he's done for this organization

Kawalimus posted:

I'm more nervous about the 49ers/Lions game than I am the Ravens game.

Of course you are. This determines whether you guys end up the villains or the good guys in the SB.

# ¿ Jan 27, 2024 22:59

3 DONG HORSE: May 22, 2008; I'd like to thank Satan for everything he's done for this organization

C-Euro posted:

Referring to Detroit's 0-0 Super Bowl record as "undefeated" is a good bit and one that I'm stealing if they don't make it this year.

technically is the best kind of correct

# ¿ Jan 28, 2024 02:26

3 DONG HORSE: May 22, 2008; I'd like to thank Satan for everything he's done for this organization

Accidentally scheduled D&D du ring the Chiefs/Ravens game but I'll be all ears during the Lions/Chiefs one. Woo!

# ¿ Jan 28, 2024 18:32

Adbot: ADBOT LOVES YOU

# ¿ May 14, 2024 22:49

3 DONG HORSE: May 22, 2008; I'd like to thank Satan for everything he's done for this organization

Fate Accomplice posted:

what works for me:

1. listen to effectively wild
2. read the SAS thread
3. go to games when my favorite team's in town
4. watch as much postseason as I can

this way I keep up on the news, enjoy the in person experience, and watch when it gets exciting

I used to do this when I lived near Oakland. :rip:

A's

# ¿ Jan 28, 2024 19:15

The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Sports Argument Stadium > The Football Funhouse > 2024 NFL Championship Sunday News/Views: The Ghost of Scott Norwood Haunts Us All