Posted by | Madison | in Weekly Recaps

One of my girls successfully defended her dissertation and became a doctor today which meant that we all had to go out to celebrate. Thankfully the bar/restaurant we met up at had the game on a number of televisions all around us. While they all drank lemon drop shots, munched on happy hour appetizers, and celebrated with the new doctor, I sat in the corner with my margaritas watching the Ravens stick with the Patriots for 3 and 3/4 quarters.

I have to admit that I was a little drunk around 4 minutes in the 4th quarter so I’m not sure if my sick feeling came from one too many margaritas or if I just knew that once again the Patriots would march down the field and score.

When the Ravens stopped Tom Brady’s quarterback sneak on 4th and 1, I jumped up, almost knocking over the table of food and drink. A party foul indeed but well worth it since the Ravens can run out the…

TIME OUT RAVENS!!??

WHAT THE FUCK??

Just like Joe Gibbs’ consecutive timeout call yesterday, I couldn’t believe what was happening.

The Ravens had the perfect defensive play call. In that situation, the Patriots are like 93% quarterback sneak. And Rex Ryan ran up the sidelines to call a timeout to lose the game for his team. Usually I’d pin a Ravens loss on Brian Billick but tonight, it was all Rex Ryan.

Then, lest we forget, the invisible holding call in the end zone on a pass that Ben Watson probably could not have caught, which of course led to the Tom Brady to Jabar Gaffney touchdown pass. As if none of us that stupid shit coming from ten miles away.

And then, the unsportsmanlike conduct call and the complete hail mary to Mark Clayton at the one-yard line with no timeouts left?  I seriously almost had a heart attack.

Ugh.

The pessimist inside me says that all of this spells c-o-n-s-p-i-r-a-c-y.

The optimist inside me says that the Patriots riddle has been solved.  This week proved that last week wasn’t a fluke.  Now we just need a team to hold the Pats to 27-30 points and be able to score 33.

Steelers, anybody?