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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  2.  Joe Flacco pass to the left to Anquan Boldin for 8 yards to the NE5. Tackled by Marquice Cole and Devin McCourty.

  4. Joe Flacco pass to the middle to Anquan Boldin for 3 yards for a TD

  7. Justin Tucker kicks off to the NE2. Devin McCourty return for 14 yards to NE16. Tackled by Sean Considine.

  9. Stevan Ridley rush up the middle for 9 yards to the NE25. Tackled by Ray Lewis and Bernard Pollard.

  11.  Stevan Ridley rush to the left for 2 yards to the NE27. Tackled by Ray Lewis.

  12. Tom Brady pass to the right to Brandon Lloyd for 12 yards to the NE39.

  14. Stevan Ridley rush to the right for 8 yards to the NE47. Tackled by Bernard Pollard. FUMBLE, recovered by Bal (Arthur Jones). Tackled by Ryan Wendell.

  16. Joe Flacco pass to the left to Torrey Smith for 16 yards to the NE31. Tackled by Kyle Arrington.

  17. Joe Flacco rush to the left for 14 yards to the NE17.

  18. Joe Flacco pass to the right to Anquan Boldin for 11 yards for a TD

  23. Tom Brady pass to the right to Brandon Lloyd for 12 yards to the NE41.

  24. Tom Brady pass to the right to Shane Vereen for 9 yards to the 50. Tackled by Bernard Poll

  25. Shane Vereen rush up the middle for 7 yards to the Bal43. Tackled by Corey Graham.

  26. Tom Brady pass to the left to Wes Welker for 5 yards to the Bal38. Tackled by Cary Williams and Haloti Ngata.

  27. Tom Brady pass to the middle to Deion Branch for 6 yards to the Bal19. Tackled by Jimmy Smith.

  28.  Tom Brady incomplete pass to the left intended for Shane Vereen.

  29.  Tom Brady incomplete pass to the right intended for Wes Welker.

  30.  Tom Brady incomplete pass to the middle intended for Deion Branch.

  36.  Joe Flacco sacked at Bal18 for a loss of 1 yard by Rob Ninkovich.

  39. Joe Flacco incomplete pass to the right intended for Anquan Boldin.

  40.  Sam Koch punts for 42 yards to NE40. No return.

  44. Tom Brady pass to the left to Wes Welker for 36 yards to the Bal24. Tackled by Corey Graham.

  45. Tom Brady pass intended for Aaron Hernandez INTERCEPTED by Dannell Ellerbe and returned for 2 yards.

  48. Ray Rice rush to the left for no gain to the Bal18. Tackled by Justin Francis.

  49. Ray Rice rush to the left for 9 yards to the Bal27. Tackled by Justin Francis.

  50. Ray Rice rush up the middle for 2 yards to the Bal29. Tackled by Brandon Spikes.

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