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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  3. Ravens 4 and out.

    Patsies 67 yards in 13 plays 5:00.  FG.

  25. Gostkowski kicks off to the Bal5. Jacoby Jones return for 9 yards to Bal14. Tackled by Kyle Arrington.

  27.  Pierce rush to the right for a loss of 1 yard to the Bal13.

  28. Bernard Pierce rush to the left for 5 yards to the Bal18. Tackled by Jerod Mayo.

  30.  Joe Flacco sacked at Bal14 for a loss of 4 yards by Rob Ninkovich.

  31. Sam Koch punts for 44 yards to NE42. Wes Welker return for 15 yards to Bal43.

  34. Stevan Ridley rush to the left for 5 yards to the Bal38. Tackled by Corey Graham and Paul Kruger.

  35. Tom Brady rush to the left for 2 yards to the Bal36. Tackled by Ray Lewis.

  37.  Danny Woodhead rush up the middle for 2 yards to the Bal34. Tackled by Terrell Suggs and Paul Kruger.

  38. New England TIMEOUT.

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

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

  43. Tom Brady pass to the right to Aaron Hernandez for 17 yards to the Bal10. Tackled by Jimmy Smith.

  48. Stephen Gostkowski kicks off to the Bal11. Jacoby Jones return for 14 yards to Bal25. Tackled by Nate Ebner.

  50. Ray Rice rush to the right for 1 yard to the Bal26. Tackled by Vince Wilfork and Brandon Deaderick.

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