Jan 21 2013

Throwball American Conference Championship: Ravens @ Patsies

The American Conference Championship is an entirely different ball of wax.  Here you don’t have two teams that are mostly unremarkably objectionable, no better or worse than most, instead you have two positively hateful ones and the question is which evil is lesser?

Fundamentally the Carrion Crows and the Patsies are guilty of the same offense, robbing their host communities to fund huge empty white elephant eyesores that are basically unusable except for 8 days a year to the tune of hundreds of millions.

In the one case the thief, Art Modell, was not quite as successful as Robert Kraft and lost everything except his team contracts and The Bank ($314 million) and in fairness Kraft was able to raise the $420 million for Gillette privately, though it is not in any sense funded by his personal fortune any more than all those architectural monstrosities with Trump plastered on them.

And, if you like rooting for winners, the Ravens don’t even have a suspicion of victory today.  Unless Brady and about half the other Patsie players are suddenly stuck by mysterious illness and injury this is about as close to a sure thing as you get in Throwball.

Nope, as we head into the break week before the Super Bowl the question will be if the creaky old Patsies can stave off the new kids on the block ‘9ers and whether you should even be watching Throwball at all.

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  1. Joe Flacco incomplete pass to the middle intended for Torrey Smith.

  2.  Joe Flacco pass to the left to Anquan Boldin for 26 yards to the NE48. Tackled by Devin McCourty.

  4. Ray Rice rush up the middle for a loss of 2 yards to the 50. Tackled by Brandon Spikes and Jerod Mayo.

  5. Joe Flacco incomplete pass to the right intended for Torrey Smith.

  6. Joe Flacco incomplete pass to the left intended for Torrey Smith.

  8. Sam Koch punts for 41 yards to NE9. No return.

  9. Tom Brady pass to the left to Brandon Lloyd for 6 yards to the NE15. Tackled by Cary Williams.

  10. Stevan Ridley rush to the left for 5 yards to the NE20. Tackled by Ray Lewis.

  11. Tom Brady pass to the left to Aaron Hernandez for 5 yards to the NE25. Tackled by Cary Williams and Bernard Pollard.

  12. Tom Brady pass to the right to Wes Welker for 24 yards to the NE49. Tackled by Bernard Pollard and Corey Graham. Penalty: Unnecessary Roughness on Baltimore (Bernard Pollard) 15 yards.

  13. om Brady incomplete pass to the left intended for Aaron Hernandez.

  14. Danny Woodhead rush up the middle for 2 yards to the Bal34. Tackled by Haloti Ngata.

  15. Tom Brady incomplete pass to the left intended for Wes Welker.

  16. Zoltan Mesko punts for 21 yards to Bal13. No return.

  18.  Penalty: Pass Interference on New England (Alfonzo Dennard) 15 yards.

  19. Joe Flacco incomplete pass to the left intended for Tandon Doss defensed by Kyle Arrington.

  20. Joe Flacco pass to the middle to Dennis Pitta for 22 yards to the 50. Tackled by Devin McCourty.

  21.  Joe Flacco incomplete pass to the left intended for Torrey Smith.

  23. Joe Flacco pass to the middle to Ray Rice for 15 yards to the NE35. Tackled by Devin McCourt

  24. Joe Flacco pass to the left to Torrey Smith for 5 yards to the NE30. Tackled by Marquice Cole.

  25. Bernard Pierce rush to the left for 8 yards to the NE22. Tackled by Jerod Mayo.

  26.  Joe Flacco incomplete pass to the right intended for Jacoby Jones.

  27. Joe Flacco pass to the middle to Anquan Boldin for 12 yards to the NE10. Tackled by Marquice Cole.

  28. Joe Flacco pass to the middle to Dennis Pitta for 5 yards to the NE5. Tackled by Jerod Mayo.

  29. Joe Flacco pass to the right to Dennis Pitta for 5 yards for a TD

  33. Justin Tucker kicks off to the NE1. Devin McCourty return for 24 yards to NE25. Tackled by Sean Considine.

  35.  Tom Brady pass to the middle to Wes Welker for 8 yards to the NE33. Tackled by Dannell Ellerbe.

  36. Tom Brady incomplete pass to the left intended for Brandon Lloyd.

  38. Penalty: Holding on New England (Nate Solder) -10 yards.

  39. Tom Brady incomplete pass to the left intended for Aaron Hernandez.

  40. I like the Ravens even less than I like the Patriots. (sigh)

    Tom Brady is really a great quarter back

  41. Zoltan Mesko punts for 51 yards to Bal26. Jacoby Jones return for 11 yards to Bal37. Tackled by Marquice Cole.

  42. Joe Flacco pass to the right to Ray Rice for a loss of 4 yards to the Bal33. Tackled by Dont’a Hightower.

  43. Joe Flacco pass to the right to Torrey Smith for 23 yards to the NE44. Tackled by Devin McCourty.

  44. Penalty: Offside on New England 5 yards.

  45. Ray Rice rush up the middle for 3 yards to the NE36. Tackled by Brandon Spikes and Jerod Mayo.

  46. Joe Flacco incomplete pass to the right intended for Torrey Smith.

  48. Bernard Pierce rush to the right for 11 yards to the NE25.

  49. Bernard Pierce rush to the right for 6 yards to the NE19. Tackled by Brandon Spikes and Rob Ninkovich.

  50.  Joe Flacco pass to the middle to Dennis Pitta for 6 yards to the NE13. Tackled by Jerod Mayo.

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