Instant Hippo Thoughts – Week Seven

It’s very relaxing to have your team on bye. There is no worry about “do I need to brave the indignities of the outside world to get a satellite feed or white knuckle it with GameCast and RedZone?” I don’t have to make sure all my Donks gameday wear is clean and ready (along with alternate clothing options in case of beer spillage and/or bad juju). Nay, I am free to eschew navy and orange in their entirety, going all black in solidarity for the Carolina Black Panthers. Onwards to 3/5 of the MVP award, young man! /heard outside Jerry Richardson’s office

Of course the P*ts looked like the second-best team for most of the game today, but pulled away in the 4th quarter anyway. Equally unsurprising, a conversion on 3rd and 17 against a very soft zone proved to be the dagger in the J-E-T-S hopes hopes hopes. Gonna be up to the Donks to cripple and/or kill Dreamboat, and Week 12 is a loooooong way away, folks. Thank fuck I listen to exactly zero sports talk radio.

That was the only game that pitted two winning teams this weird Sunday, so one has to dig a little deeper to find meaning.

I’m impressed by the Vikings. It looked like maybe Detroit was inching its way back closer to respectability, but Minny put the kibosh on that talk. Teddy Ballgame has a playmaker now, and not coincidentally, is making that Great Leap Forward. Ladies and gentlemen, meet Stefon Diggs. And hope you picked him up on waivers, as I did in both my money league, and 20-team make it snow DFO league. He reminds me a fuckton of Keenan Allen.

The Stillers moved in the other direction, as Landry Jones turned back into Landry Jones. Hat tip to DFO’s Yinzers for pointing out Boss Todd’s tendency to prove his room temperature IQ is tops in the room, by going away from Le’Veon and his elite WRs in key situations, often by using 2-back sets to get the fairly useless DeAngelo Williams on the field.

Doopy Pantz doesn’t have the DFW metroplex derp monopoly, as CasselVANIA won several fantasy matchups for Giants D/ST owners. The Pokes are now in dead fucking last at 2-4, and already fighting on the sidelines. Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition. The Giants could easily be 7-0 if not for being their own worst enemy. But they got their backs up at the right times today, and you have to admire how they keep fighting back.

It’s not an illusion (or something that a whore does for money)…the Oakland Raiders are a GOOD FOOTBALL TEAM. No, they are not GREAT. But GOOD? Fuck and yes. Derek Carr is at least a B+ caliber QB, and Amari Cooper is an absolute stud. I see them as the 2nd wildcard, still.

Speaking of teams on the rise from the long-dead…the Rams are completely different with Todd Gurley beasting all over the NFL. And yes, I laughed at this pick when they made it. A tailback at #10 overall in today’s NFL? Coming off a severe ACL tear?? St. Louis gambled on monster fucking upside and came up with vintage Eric Dickerson. Also looking like a strong wilcard candidate, though might be hard to pass Minny and Atlanta (though the Falcons really aren’t any good at all).

That Falcons/Titans game…Christ a-mighty. I pity anyone who sat through that piece of shit.

Miami should bring in Joe Philbin every Monday morning and fire his Skeletor-lookin’ ass again. You know, just in case. Still, let’s not go sucking their pricks quite yet. They play a real team on Thursday.

And last, but not least…Cam most certainly does not have an MVP night, but the Iggles are who we thought they were. Chip Kelly still needs a manzierre. Panthers join the Bengals, P*ts, Donks, and Packers at 6-0.

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King Hippo
Reclusive, vulgar Broncos fan. Also a proud fookin' Evertonian. Likely dropped on my head repeatedly as a small child. [Insert George Carlin quote followed by thoughtful nod.]
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American Pie Story

Dear Hippo,
I missed the rivebrog but I appreciate the shoutout. I did not bludgeon anybody.
xoxo
Pie

ps Dreamboat’s still a bitch
pps Irsay better fire somebodayyyy

ProzacElf

Ditka: “He gets it north and south if you know what I mean…..”

Me: “Oh, you fucked Sarah Palin and Nikki Haley?”

Marc Trestmans Windowless Van

I am ok with my getting drunk as fuck and talking to myself for 4 hours last night. Not ok with I smoked a entire pack of cigs last night. I smoke half cigs so i went out like 40 times. Good news I was awake for 8 hours and didn’t realize that til 4 in the the afternoon when I finally went out for my first cig today.

Marc Trestmans Windowless Van

2 addendums. I remember a lot of pics and FF8 talk. I stand by all of that without going back to check what was said. 2, i really miss having a person in my life that would get me a pack of cigs casually and without saying “you should quit”. It is the tiniest convenience but you miss it so much when you don’t have it

ProzacElf

I appreciated that you were narrating FF8 at least. Even if I never decided to play it. FF6 is for winners son!

Marc Trestmans Windowless Van

I owned 6 for 10-15 years before I bothered to play it. I think it came with Tactics or Chrono Trigger in a set and like I said just never bothered to play it. It is alright and wasted a bunch of hours playing it, never finished it, but that only was like a month ago and I got distracted playing Kingdom Hearts 2 and then FF8

Marc Trestmans Windowless Van

Sorry I meant to imply I will go back and finish it eventually if I can remember which of the 70 memory cards I stored the game on. Didn’t.

Old School Zero

I knew the Raiders were a good team.

I just didn’t know the Chargers were THAT bad.

I’m only 5% moralized at this point. The other 95% is tucked inside tires, which are loaded into a dumpster, which is on fire, which is sinking into a methane-belching swamp.

montythisseemsstrangetome

Aren’t they always bad in September and October, then they go on a run to secure the final wild card spot on the last day of the season because some long-out-of-it team makes a field goal that beats some other fringe team, resulting in four 8-8 teams, one of which is San Diego, who wins the tiebreaker on the basis of Most Fish Tacos Consumed?

Old School Zero

Saddest thing was in the 4th quarter, they’d show stadium shots, and it was still 3/4ths full.

However, pretty much all of those remaining fans were wearing Raiders gear.

Just like with Pittsburgh, this may have well been a Raiders home game.

Low Commander of the Super Soldiers

/Bangs head on desk repeatedly
Coworker: What are you doing?
Me: Just trying to dull the pain until I can get home and resume drinking.

Don T

I feel for Chargers fans. But angry apathy is a great spectator sport.

Low Commander of the Super Soldiers

Can we have Wiz back? We’ll give you… uh… the entire rest of our coaching staff? And a third round pick?

laserguru

I’m finally resurfacing after yesterday’s wedding. Jesus that was an amazing day. I’m an NFL Sunday Ticket owner but had to follow the Vikings game on my phone. This season is going to be fun. I think we’re going to Uncle Lou’s for some fried chicken today and maybe hit up Graceland with the new bride and groom.
Last full day in Memphis.

Enrico Pallazzo

Sooooooo you just completely ignore Captain Kirk Cousins? HOW DO YOU LIKE THAT when you dismiss its ELITEness!!!

blaxabbath

“Winning solves everything.”

-Dan Snyder, in a letter to the trademark office

Beerguyrob

“The 5 yard line? Why so far away?”

– Mike McCarthy, in the playoffs

Horatio Cornblower

Shit McCarthy’s thinking about punting and pinning them deep from the 5.

blaxabbath

Didn’t watch NFL ball yesterday (ARI on MNF so — pseudo-bye?) but thanks for the feedback on the fillet mignon cooking on the SNF liveblog. I think I used Sill’s recipe of CI for 1/1 minute then a 400 degree oven comment (sorry – i just screencapped the comment but not the author) and they turned out perfectly. I’m not a great cook but I can follow simple directions so that all was much appreciated. Someone said something about deglazing, etc — I’m gonna give that step a go next time.

Also, the comment about cooking it on an engine was funny.

JustStopDude

The sad thing…in the Middle East…I would cook meat on an engine block.

But it was a diesel generator…not a car engine.

Don T

A cig while reading this at the end of my Monday AM commute is a welcome new tradition. Two cigarettes, if the Titans are alluded. Alright, two everytime.
I politely decline your pity. But, in the spirit of full disclosure, I’m 55% demoralized.

montythisseemsstrangetome

That still leaves 45% moralized!

ballsofsteelandfury

Only 55%? What’s your secret?

Is it living in an island paradise? I bet it’s living in an island paradise.

Don T

Being in the AFC South is 100% of my non-demoralized state. Whisenhunt, however, is 90% of my weekly WHY THE HELL DO I ROOT FOR THIS, THIS… /slams phone

Doktor Zymm

This year it’s actually been more interesting for me to figure out who the worst team in football is. There are enough undefeated teams that the best team conversation gets kind of repetitive, but worst jumps around every week. Is there a clear frontrunner for #1 in the draft this year? If so, we really should make up some sort of catchy rhyming phrase about playing poorly to aid in the attainment of said player.

ballsofsteelandfury

Slack off for Goff?

blaxabbath

The Bucs Sucks?

Kungjitsu

I’m a Jaguars fan, so I don’t watch football. But I was at a housewarming and the new homeowners have a grey cat named Sasha. One woman says, “Sasha Grey, that’s a great name!” I giggled once and then panicked. I have no idea if it’s an inside joke between the new homeowners. I have no idea if it’s a coincidence. I definitely have no idea who Sasha Grey is. I bailed and grabbed a beer, because nothing good lied down that road.

ballsofsteelandfury

I think the main takeaway is this: Your new neighbors put cat food on their genitals and let the cat go to town.

montythisseemsstrangetome

/pussy joke

scotchnaut

Gotta expect that sort of thing from folks that live in the community of Christy Canyon.

ballsofsteelandfury

If only that was a real place…

Enrico Pallazzo

There is definitely room to build there.

laserguru

I know exactly who Sasha Grey is and I’m unafraid to espous that information.

Great now I need porn.

Beerguyrob

You were in a Jenna Haze?

Martin

That cat has a huge asshole and a strong neck.

If someone asks, say you giggled because Sasha is a male name in Russia and eastern Europe, and sometimes in Germany.