Monday night / Tuesday morning sees the final two matches of the opening weekend of the 2012 NFL season. Both matches of this double-header are big inter-divisional rivalries in the AFC. First up is a matchup from the AFC North: Baltimore Ravens host the Cincinnati Bengals. The Ravens will want to make up for not making the Superbowl last season, after missing out so cruelly in the AFC Championship game last season. Our second matchup sees the AFC West’s San Diego Chargers travelling up the west coast of California to face the Oakland Raiders. The scheduling has picked us two great games for the first Monday Night Football, and the BBC are kindly showing them for us online / on the red-button.
NFL Week 1
Published by Will Davies on
you wait all summer for an NFL thread and then...
Sidepodcast goes for the 2pt conversion
That explains why I can't find it on any channel in my TV guide
Finally found somewhere with a vague schedule: 2355-0600 Live NFL - Cincinnati Bengals v Baltimore Ravens & San Diego Chargers v Oakland Raiders
holy coiw, i have nfl on my telly!
...or i will have. this is awesome.
i can't stay up til 6am. but i'll try me best.
Hence why we have to be doing something about it - even if it is at an unorthodox time.
Now we just need some baseball to go with it.
I don't see myself going past the first hour. If that
I've arranged that I'm able to watch all of tonight - mainly because of the Chargers being on last. It will be tough stuff to do every week.
It goes to show you how much of a NFC fan I am when I think a game between the Bengles and the Ravens sounds less of a football matchup and more like a pillow fight between two all-girls 80's rock bands.... :^P
the history of 1st and Ten - http://frontrow.espn.go.com/2012/09/bengals-and-ravens-were-there-when-1st-and-ten-line-debuted/
Right - I'm ready - 1 hour disco-nap under my belt :)
disco?
Comes from the kind of nap you might take of an afternoon in order to re-energise before a night out.
ah-ha!
only downside to the red button is the lack of HD.
that was a rubbish flypast.
No Fu Manchu moustache for Flacco tonight then.
http://www.nfl.com/gamecenter/2012091000/2012/REG1/[email protected]#menu=drivechart&tab=track
What a way to start the game.
blimey. not hanging about.
Plenty of no-huddle plays there by Flacco, but these random graphics are going to drive me crazy - somebody tell me something about the game.
C4 did a better job of covering the ads, but still, no ads!
I know it's cheap - to not have to have a studio, and just to cover the American ads with this.
... ?? No picture?
Sounds like I am lucky to be missing this. Looks like I could be watching tennis for a while yet
5live are covering tennis too. think they did last nights games.
start of the game was good. bbc coverage... err...
every time they play that music i think the tv's shut down for the evening.
I'm a little disappointed BBC, would be nice if they could come back 'on time'.
Although it will get better when teams have longer drives, and the announcers in the states have to keep talking without cutting to their adverts.
Is Mike Carlson part of the BBC coverage?
so who am i supporting? purple seems like the nicer colour today, but they're already up.
You always choose purple
Ravens :)
okay, i'll go orange then.
goooo... erm... why are they called bengals??
like the tiger #grrrr
Hence the tiger stripes on the helmets
back to C4 apparently?
yeah, i got the cheese packer reference yesterday, but cincinnati can't be famous for it's bengal tigers surely?
The franchise takes its name from an earlier (& unrelated) Cincinnati Bengals team, which played from 1937–1941. It also was a nod to Paul Brown's Massillon, Ohio roots where he coached the high school team known as the Tigers Paul Brown was 1st head-coach of this franchise.
Meat packers or cheeseheads but no cheesepackers. No more than New York is for Giants or New Orleans is for Saints
ahh, assumed they were all literal.
gooo bengals!
unless i'm mistaken, does C4 have a game on the same time as the beeb next week? http://www.channel4.com/programmes/american-football-live
Must be the same game. There is only one game at that time
Is that not a late Sun kickoff - on the Mon am?
ah, next sunday/monday? http://www.channel4.com/programmes/american-football-live/episode-guide/series-2012/episode-2
didn't know they had one last night.
That makes more sense
Nope - it looks like it is this slot - 9ers Lions.
odd choice!
C4 had the Denver game last night. Their advertising must be awful if none of us knew
only found it googling where carlson was at. they've been focused on the olympics tho.
Fumble?
catch!
waaay too much time to throw that.
impressive. bugger.
Yeah! Go Joe
bbc teething troubles!
More like somebody's spat their dummy out
Cheeky GMC plug there
Ooo ouch, that Bengal got a bit fierce
double timeout = double the onscreen graphics!
Putting the offence off - teehee
YES!
Nice play
Let's see what the replacements make of the review
oooh, we got some analysis
Flacco has to go Hail Mary if he wants to score, ohh wait, a knee.
I think my halftime show will be putting the Murray match on the 'radio'
heh. presume we don't get to see it? bit of coding for me then, back soon.
Looks like the Beeb have put together some highlights from the other games from the weekend, but I've already seen all those
:)
News about tonight's 2nd game - @chargers: Gene Simmons of KISS will perform the National Anthem tonight.
ahhhh! shown by the beeb?
That is almost worth staying up to see
Yup
gotta be done :)
ooh, we're back.
These sustained drives are so much better to watch
the yellow dashes under each team name. does that mean they've used their timeouts, or something else?
Number remaining. They get 3 each half
ta
Which is why we saw Baltimore 'wasting' them before the half.
ooooh. got ya.
If Murray wins, Sports Personality will get *even* more interesting.
he was my tip after crying at wimbledon. only wiggler is in with a shot if he wins today, surely?
Then after his Olympic adventure, ...
Personally, I think Wiggo should get it, but will the public go for a less-popular sport over others - that'd make 2 cyclists in a row.
He just won it
his first slam? bloody mega.
I had the NFL turned down so I could listen :)
Time for bed now. Enjoy the games
Will do. If you're up early, I'll see you just before 6.
Pick6
Nice work from the veteran safety
i should laugh, but... hmm we'll see.
f1 needs a better song than Just Drive - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNYAJB5Aybs
#wowsers
Sorry been watching my beloved Ravens on my phone. Brit champ in the tennis was just too important.
Good performance but the D has holes
i got that impression. couldn't get the tennis so i've been watching and coding.
Haha it was history in the making, had to be watched and I was up anyway for the NFL.
this game started well, i had hopes for the bengals but it wasn't to be. think you made the right choice.
Choice I made 14 years ago :)
ha! good call.
may as well stay up for gene simmons now.
No I'm afraid that's it for me.
night squire.
hold on... that's a baseball field? #wrongsport
oh, no gene today :(
Oops. I seem to have suffered an impromptu doze. but awake in time for the score. #GoBolts
heh. am still here. not the best game, pitch is v.weird.
I think they share the field during baseball season or something
that's almost as silly as turning up at monaco with intention of racing around the narrow streets :)
Tut tut - defence going to sleep right before the half
i must call it a night. been fun. g'night.
Night / morning. Next time I'll not try to the first game if I'm more interested in the 2nd, after a day without adequate napping.
#blameandy
Agreed. Although he is now British for life.
Some good points to take from that game - but mostly the result. #Chargers
Now, is it bedtime or breakfast time?