Your “One More Day” Thursday Open Thread

NFL Nothings: Tony Romo's lawsuit over his cancelled gambling fantasy convention was thrown out by a judge. Summary judgment was awarded to the NFL based upon dismissal of the original complaint that players were coerced into not attending by threats of fines and such. Meanwhile, the League tries valiantly to

[DFO] Theogyny: The Feast of the Suspension

[1] Lo, and once every summer, Venus and Jupiter and Rigel III shall come into alignment, [2] an obscure and ancient bell shall toll within in NFL Headquarters, and the Watcher of The Seals [3] shall be shuffleth out of his office with an antiquated boombox bigger than he. [D]

REMINDER: GET HYPE!

When I saw Complete Control's design during the first episode of Battlebots last week, I thought "things have to come together PERFECTLY" for that stupid robot design to work.  Spoiler alert: things come together perfectly. Battlebots is on ABC at 8 p.m. (EST and PST) tonight. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkB2X3lbnGc    

A Selection Of Phrases From Recent Posts That Would Make Good David Foster Wallace Essay Titles

I Should Have Listened To My Mother And Gone Into Carpentry Toys, Sports Equipment, Assorted Trash, And Other Shit The Swept-Up Dregs of the Knoxville Grammar Rodeo The History Of The Vancouver Canucks Is Marked By A Tragic Inability To Judge Talent Before I Begin, I Just Wanted To Complain About How Hot It

CrimeBeat!: “We Voted To Do What Now?” Edition

Men. MEN! In what I can only assume was a brilliant ploy to eliminate opponents of Real Football In London, Roger Goodell has successfully orchestrated the shadow campaign to make the United Kingdom of Great Britain, Northern Ireland and That Island Filled With Sheep in the South Atlantic to exit

NFL Speakeasy Stories: A Connivance

Upstairs at Studio 54, Manhattan. 2:47 am, June 26th, 1999 "Paul, I'm going to be straight with you. I just simply don't see the numbers adding up. It seemed like a lot of optimistic assumptions when you first requested bids and, quite frankly, my opinion about the NFL's rosy outlook of the apparel