The Rams play the Vikings this Sunday. Memories: I recall the Vikings/Rams playoff game from December 27, 1969, played on a Saturday: an NFL Central vs NFL Coastal Division, Western Conference Championship Game. Minnesota won.
It was at Metropolitan Stadium, and the Vikings won after Carl Eller recorded a safety, which then changed the game’s momentum in Minnesota’s favor.
In 1999, the Rams won in a divisional round, en route to winning it all as the St. Louis Rams.
The game this Sunday could be meaningful in determining playoff participation, division winner(s), and NFC seeding in ascending probabilities.
A great place to watch football is at Hoops Cabaret and Sports Bar (48 West 33rd Street New York City). They have many Hi-Def TVs and Big Screens, beautiful dancers on stages, sexy waitresses, and a VIP Man Cave that is ideal for celebrations and special events.
You might get to hang out with “Ronnie the Limo Driver” from the Howard Stern Show. Saw him at Hoops recently and he’s quite a guy–he was very nice to everyone. He’s a Jets fan, but I think that the Hoops Cabaret Girls were able to cheer him up after watching the Jets lose.
Ronnie Mund at Hoops Cabaret
Hoops Cabaret Girls Love Football
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Hoops Cabaret and Sports Bar Marks its One Year Anniversary With Four Nights of Celebration
They met (the first two such tilts, both NFC Title games/NFL semi-finals, at a place called “The Met” namely Metropolitan Stadium, in Bloomington, Minnesota) in the NFL ‘offs four times in five seasons, from (’74-78), having stirred memories, that will come into sharper focus when the Rams sojourn to Minnesota, to face the Vikings in a clash between two surprising (7-2) NFC Division leaders, this Sunday.
Sunday’s tilt is far from an ‘offs game but could go a ways in determining playoff participation, division winner(s), and NFC seeding in ascending probabilities.
The Vikings won NFC Title Games at home vs the Rams in both ’74 and ’76 and won a “div” game in the “muck and mire” of the L.A. Coliseum, on a Monday afternoon in ’77.
Los Angeles prevailed at home in the 4th slot/late Sunday “div” game in ’78.
On all four of those occasions, the winner of the Vikings/Rams playoff game lost its subsequent ‘offs game.
Why apple cider pictured above? Tune in for notes on past Supes especially the only one I attended.
Cue Phil Collins as “there is something in the air.”
I was only 2 of 3, but predicted Detroit by 14 points and they won by 14 points.
Additionally and most startling, Jacksonville won (20-17), as I predicted.
“Anti sickness,” no real wins and why in a complete rout, did Fox stay with New Orleans/Buffalo, when they did not have to do so.
If it was a game involving a local team, i.e. now (1-8) “Hack” contractual obligations demand they stay with the game in the local market but they did not have to stay with New Orleans’ rout of Buffalo.
Then Fox had to show “Hack” at S.F.
Enough said!
Not even the above “chump change” but accurate.
Maybe showing Roger Moore as “The Saint” helped as I went 3 for 3 yesterday.
Today I will pick the three teams that each network is rooting for to enhance its “Turkey Day” tilt in 11 days.
NBC wants “Wash,” which faces nowhere “Hack” on Turkey Day night and I say Wash 21 Minne 17.
Fox wants Detroit which hosts Minne in 11 days but, it is no “sport” to say they will beat Cleveland as a 10 point fave. So a rarity, I say they will cover, Detroit 27 Cleveland 13.
CBS wants San Diego now the L.A. Chargers, I say the Chargers play well, but lose (20-17) to upstart Jacksonville as a 5 point underdog.
Certainly no “locks.”
Three football predictions, a rarity, this season.
Starting within the hour, Auburn stays in the title race while Georgia remains in it, Auburn a slight underdog, wins (23-21).
The usual, likely losing pick vs Alabama.
The Tide favored by 14, wins (30-17) at Mississippi State.
Also tonight, Oklahoma stays in the title race, all but eliminating T.C.U, winning, I guess, covering, say (42-32) as a near touchdown favorite.
This was the eleventh year of TBS coverage of some post-season action, including one of the two League Championship Series.
The winner of the “other” League Championship Series, the one telecast on Fox with the seemingly all powerful, Joe Buck is now (10-1) vs the TBS winner, in World Series play.
Only the 2011 St. Louis Cardinals won their LCS on TBS and then won the World Series.
Of course the Cardinals are Joe Buck’s team.
Hoops Cabaret and Sports Bar (48 West 33rd Street, New York City) has been receiving rave reviews for combining the fun of a sports bar with the excitement of a gentlemen’s club. It will celebrate its one year anniversary on November 8th through November 11th with dozens of beautiful exotic dancers stripping out of sports themed outfits; food and drink specials; “Happy Hour” extended until 11pm; and no cover charge until midnight.
Located in the heart of midtown Manhattan, just one block from Madison Square Garden, and next door to world famous Rick’s Cabaret, Hoops Cabaret has been called “the sexiest sports bar ever!”
The three story club is noted for its “Super VIP Man Cave,” mezzanine and balcony seating, deluxe private boxes, and multiple H-Def TVs and Big Screens throughout the club.
Everyone is a VIP at Hoops Cabaret, as there is not a bad seat in the house. Highly Recommended.
Both 1949 NFL Title Game participants, the (8-1) Philadelphia Eagles and the (6-2) Los Angeles Rams, scored 51 points two days ago, in resounding victories against the fading (3-5) Denver Broncos and the (1-7), all time “value team,” the (1-7), New York Giants.
Since the Eagles led by Steve Van Buren defeated the Rams in that ’49 title tilt, both the Eagles and the Rams as the Los Angeles Rams, (they started in Cleveland and won the ’45 crown and won it all as a before season tremendous long shot, soon to be prohibitive favorite, as the St. Louis Rams in ’99) have each won but one NFL title.
“Philly” did not exactly “cream” the team most associated with “cheese,” the Green Bay Packers, winning (17-13) on the Monday after Christmas Day in 1960 to win the crown (Vince Lombardi’s lone ‘offs loss as he won the next 9 and 5 NFL crowns).
Meanwhile 51, perhaps is operative, as the lone Rams’ L.A. title was won in 1951.
The Houston Astros of course titled and that makes the year for Houston sports.
Again any Houston fan will take it and should not complain.
However, the coaching of Bill O’Brien, a good coach, but what a lousy, cowardly decision in the Texans’ loss to the “Sea” Seahawks (they may finally be out to seas, themselves) just hours before Astros 13 Dodgers 12 in the pivotal 5th game of the World Series has not been properly scrutinized.
You had DeShaun Watson (had the operative word as now Watson is out) a fine quarterback and you run thrice, on a day your offense scored and scored.
Bill O’Brien blew it, Watson got hurt, now “low win,” Indy probably ended Houston’s chances and O’Brien avoided criticism amidst the Astros title.
Andy B Sports 