Bears and Commanders lay an egg on Thursday Night Football: Best memes & tweets
For the second week in a row, NFL Twitter had reason to hammer the Thursday Night Football matchup as the Bears and Commanders struggled.
Amazon paid a whole lot of money to broadcast Thursday Night Football. They’re not getting their money’s worth so far this season. And neither are NFL fans.
The latest Thursday nightmare involved the Bears and the Commanders in a matchup that most could have told you would be subpar on paper.
It was even uglier on the field, and we’re not just talking about Chicago’s choice of headwear.
NFL Twitter roasted the Bears and Commanders
Twitter bemoaned the entire experience of watching the only pro football available to them. Amazon is lucky the entire audience didn’t just switch over to FS1 to watch a barnburner between West Virginia and Baylor.
I want whoever scheduled this game to happen on a Thursday night thrown in jail.
— Iain MacMillan (@IainMacBets) October 14, 2022
Justin Fields manifesting getting traded to another team right now pic.twitter.com/3kmKKHVbvS
— Gifdsports (@gifdsports) October 14, 2022
https://twitter.com/HoodiDrew/status/1580740676672974848
I'm just here for the comedy of errors. #TNF
— Matthew Wells (@MrMWells) October 14, 2022
The Bears and Commanders are two hilarously bad teams on their own, but when they get together its a force multiplier. They feed off each others energy
— PFT Commenter (@PFTCommenter) October 14, 2022
Bezos giving us premier offense back to back weeks on #ThursdayNightFootball
— RYBACK (@Ryback) October 14, 2022
The Commanders had 12 MEN ON THE FIELD and STILL couldn't stop the Bears from scoring!!! #HTTC
— Darren M. Haynes (@DarrenMHaynes) October 14, 2022
That's not bad -- it's really bad!
Honestly I'm getting more entertainment out of watching everybody else tearing their eyes out watching the #Bears.
— Erik Lambert (@ErikLambert1) October 14, 2022
They never understood the struggle.
Which version of Commanders v Bears would you rather watch?
— the once and likely futureless king (@OldHossRadbourn) October 14, 2022
A) this football game
B) 5 captains of British ships of the line, armed with 50 rounds of power and shot and several stout blades, marooned in Nova Scotia, with an shaggy ursine army following them. It is so cold.
It’s so sick that they make us watch this with the rest of America.
— Bears Nation (@BearsNationCHI) October 14, 2022
Let us be sad in peace.
Baylor-WVU is 40-40. Commanders-Bears is 7-6. There has to be a happy medium, somewhere.
— ProFootballTalk (@ProFootballTalk) October 14, 2022
The game was just miserable viewing, whether for fans of the two teams involved or neutrals.
Neither team scored a touchdown in the first half. It was 7-6 thanks to a Washington field goal at the very beginning of the fourth quarter. The Commanders finally found the endzone with seven minutes to go.
It wasn’t pretty for either side as Carson Wentz completed just half of his passes and Justin Fields ran for his life while taking four sacks and tossing an interception. The Bears blew two red zone trips with a pick that ricocheted off a helmet and a fourth-and-inches-from-the-goal-line stop.
Was it better than the 12-9 snoozefest between the Colts and Broncos last week? At least this one featured a couple of touchdowns and the attempted heroics of Fields but it was close.
Amazon has to be holding its breath and hoping the Saints and Cardinals provide some thrills when they take over the Thursday night stage next week.
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