2:59 – Here we are, the first weekly running diary of Sunday NFL countdown. I was busy doing man-things until just now, so I DVR’d Emmitt’s manifesto, and am watching it right now with the game on Fox in picture-in picture. Therefore these timestamps literally mean nothing at all.
3:02 – I’m already sick of Chris Berman’s English accent.
3:03 – I sort of wish this was a Berman watch. Any takers on creating a sister site? He just said that the English “may not know the Giants have won 5 straight” as if this crazy internet thing hasn’t migrated to England yet.
3:06 – Mike Ditka: “[overseas games] are a bad idea. You have to change everything; the food is not good.” Ditka watch? Any takers?
3:07 – Emmitt’s opens his mouth and his heart: “If I’m the Giants, and we started 0-2, and now we’re on a 5 game winning streak, I don’t wanna go. I wanna keep everything the same. I wanna sleep in my bed from Monday through Friday, take the trip down to Miami, which is a 3 hour flight, beat Miami, get back on my flight, come back home, and eat the food that I’m accustomed to eating. I don’t wanna leave the United States right now.”
3:11 – Chris Mortenson just made the 4th mention of the food over in England affecting the quality of an NFL teams’ trip. Am I missing something? Is English food really that bad? Are they just feeding NFL players hot circles of garbage?
3:12 – I love the Nike commercial with LeBron James dribbling down a basketball court while growing from grade-school basketball player to NBA superstar. As he goes along they show fewer and fewer team mates surrounding him.
3:20 – Whenever Tom Jackson is critiquing something I can’t help but picture Randy Jackson.
3:21 - (About Kellen Clemens) “Sometimes, players are gamers. This kid looks like a gamer. “
3:23 – How has Taco Bell’s entire marketing team not lost their jobs at this point?
3:31 – I wish Chris Berman would allow Emmitt was in more segments. I feel like there’s no ceiling on what he can accomplish. I wouldn’t be surprised if Boomer started locking Emmitt into Mort’s quarantine room, just to keep him quiet.
3:32 – I wish Sunday NFL countdown had a few more commercials. I could use a break once in awhile.
3:38 – The Colts and Patriots play next week? And they BOTH might be undefeated? Seriously? Why hasn’t ESPN mentioned this?
3:41 – Hearing Junior Seau say “No one’s exempt from a beating from Bill [Belichick]” brought images of a cowering Mike Vrabel laying on the locker room floor with a shirtless Bill standing over him with a tube sock full of padlocks.
3:43 – About the NE LBs – “To me these guys aren’t getting old, they’re getting smart.” Seriously, we need a Ditka watch.
3:46 – This is a doozy. First, Emmitt said that the Colts have a chance to lose to the Panthers because “with Vinny Testeverde, you just don’t know what you’re gonna get.” And he continues… “it makes it tough cause you had a very emotional, physical ballgame against the Jacksonville Jaguars on Monday night, and you have to turnaround now and travel and play he Carolina panthers at home, and… it makes it very tough, and you only had a short week to prepare and it makes it very tough.”
3:50 – The Redskins have to “keep the ball out of the QBs hands” in order to win, according to Coach Ditka. I’m speechless.
3:52 – Can Matthew Berry, the resident fantasy bro, not look into a camera that stays in one position? Or does he need to feel like he’s on the Real World?
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3:58 – Emmitt says that the team that absolutely can’t afford to lose this week is the Giants. Really.
4:04 – I can not believe that Giants only beat the Dolphins by 3 points; must have been the food.
4:15 – I wish this show wasn’t two hours long. I wish it was three, and that from 1-2 pm we got to watch Emmitt dance.
Eleventy oclock – Alright, towards this end of this I got a little sick of NFL countdown. How do people consistently watch the full 2 hours? It’s crazy.
