Your AFC North-Centric Thursday Night “Showdown” Open Thread

[manages to briefly tear himself away from “The Case For Christmas” starring Dean Cain as a lawyer defending Santa Claus/ignoring the good woman who loves him dearly] I’d like to catch AFC North fever but I’m not an anti-vaccer-I’ve had my shots.

Cle @ Cin: Johnny Hypeball gets the start tonight and it’ll be a rough one. A few of the starting  WR’s that he doesn’t have a rapport with (Hawkins, Hartline) are out. He still has Barnidge and Benjamin but I think their better-than-you’d-expect stats have more to do with McCown’s great play under trying circumstances than with their own ability. I may be wrong but it won’t be the 374th time. (I keep track-it’s WAY over 400) I look forward to John-Boy scrambling needlessly, shovel-passing, throwing off his back foot, side-arming and getting intercepted tonight and being arrested for shoplifting in a small town ten years from now. I’m petty like that. Dalton. How is he doing what he’s doing? Well the ground game is a lot better, you say. “Shut up”, I say, “they’re ranked 18th in average yards per game! What the hell are you talking about?” Ginger has taken a major leap forward because of…[returns to watching The Case For Christmas]

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Sharkbait

So camo is November’s breast cancer pink?

Gratliff

It’s symbolic of all the money breast cancer research doesn’t see.

Sill Bimmons

Look at all teh balck coaches on Cinncy,, gues’s Ohio state isnt the only place for a firm tive action imo

jjfozz

Want to really spice up the Salute to Service games?

Each team gets one mortar and two shells that they can fire any time during the game.

theeWeeBabySeamus

Can they aim at the crowd?

Brick Meathook

OHIO OHIO OHIO

OMAHA!

evilbeaver8

Deborah Harry seems cool.

Brick Meathook

You should talk to Moose.

evilbeaver8

He knows her?

Brick Meathook

I would have to say: “yes”

Doktor Zymm

Given up on trying to watch this feed. I figure y’all will let me know if anything noteworthy happens.

theeWeeBabySeamus

Define “Noteworthy”. I mean….it’s goddamn Cle/Cincy.

entropy

Still holding out for that meteor, huh?

Brick Meathook

Holy shit JFF just got into a sideline fist-fight with a kid in a wheelchair.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

“STOP STEALING MY BIT!”

– Balls of Steel

theeWeeBabySeamus

Dear god, I thought that was Dilfer at first.

Sill Bimmons

Congrats to the Canadas on you hosers getting your shit together and throwing Stephen Harper to the grizzlies.

Moonbatting Average

Good evening Lady and Gentlemen

The Right Reverend Electric Mayhem

Flee! Flee for your soul!

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

All Andy Reid saw when he looked at that diagram was a bunch of delicious gummi worms.

Gratliff

And in honor of Cleveland vs. Cincinatti, Smackdown has Ryback vs. Wade Barrett. Shitshow up and down the dials tonight.

The Right Reverend Electric Mayhem

Stuck watching Missouri-Mississippi State “game” with invalid grandfather. Large amounts of brain damage from a stroke, but he can still swear at “Mizzou” with great and convincing force

Gratliff

I have a morbid curiosity at just how much racism an elderly Mississippi sports fan can fit into a college football game in 2015.

The Right Reverend Electric Mayhem

Nono, he’s a Missouri graduate.

WhyEaglesWhy

He may be stoic, but you can still turn him on by jerking his chain.

theeWeeBabySeamus

What a coinkydink. I’m the same way.

King Hippo

Mizzou is really goddamned terrible, even by SEC East standards.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

You mean at football, or just culturally in general?

theeWeeBabySeamus

Little column A, little column B

King Hippo

I meant at teh footy, but you are correct in the broader sense.

Sill Bimmons

You know who doesn’t get taunting penalties?

The Shitriots.

Say what you want about them, they don’t shoot themselves in the foot with Mickey !ouse shit like that.

WCS

Probably because Billichick will have them shot into orbit if they do.

blordinaryfagicmox

Mickey louse was just a ripoff of the better known Manic Mailman.

Redshirt

Browns gonna Brown

evilbeaver8

Haven’t these daily fantasy fucks been raided/shutdown/indicted yet?

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

If this ad wanted to be realistic it would include someone playing DraftKings while driving and running over kids playing hockey in the street.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Dumplings in the freezer.

jjfozz

My mother made chicken pot pie that could have been served in the halls of Mount Olympus. It was that fucking good.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Oh man that does sound good.

entropy

Uh…. Pizza? And some buffalo hot sauce pretzels, ranch dressing, and a shit ton of pumpkin beers left over from Halloween that I am forcing down my throat.

theeWeeBabySeamus

Finally stopped raining today, so teh grill got fired up.
Carrot cake later.

Brick Meathook

It’s cheeseburger night here in L.A. County lock-up, and the food here is actually pretty good.

I went to prison for armed robbery, but I stayed for the chili.

Doktor Zymm

toaster oven pizza and ice cream with cherries and italian almond cookies in it.

King Hippo

Two vicuprofen and V8 Raspberry/Concord Grape

/don’t be all jelly

nomonkeyfun

Beef stew, that is more like beef soup, thickness wise. By design.

Sill Bimmons

Single pan turkey dinner.

Sharkbait

Dinner was pork Tenderloin studded with garlic, with potatoes roasted on a bed of salt and spices and sliced tomatoes with basil olive oil sea salt and pepper.

It did not suck.

The Right Reverend Electric Mayhem

Low-quality bourbon and even lower expectations

Sill Bimmons

You know, band members and tailgaters hate the little shit in the Miata because they never carry their fair share.

WhyEaglesWhy

So uh…did Santa Claus get off?

King Hippo

And you would think Santa would be the kind of guy to at least have the courtesy to give a reach around ,, smgdh

theeWeeBabySeamus

Selfish fat fuck.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Good God these Mic’d Up bits are worthless. You don’t need to put a microphone on a player to capture random crowd noise.

evilbeaver8

Without Mic’d up how would we know which players are saying “wooooo”?

jjfozz

Wouldn’t it have been GREAT if Sunnu had been whispering a quick passage from the Koran? Middle America would have collectively dialed 911

blordinaryfagicmox

No pictures yet tonight, so I searched GI for “craziest picture on the internet”. Was a little disappointed; best I could find:
http://ak-hdl.buzzfed.com/static/2014-01/enhanced/webdr05/28/16/enhanced-buzz-29077-1390944058-17.jpg
Also featured: an uncomfortable number of black people.

entropy

I see someone set GIS to “safe search.”

blordinaryfagicmox

Not that I was uncomfortable. Just, uncomfortable in a prison population kind of way.

Sill Bimmons

Point of all my local ads seems to be:

YAHOO THIS IS FUCKING JERSEY YOU CAN GAMBLE ANYWHERE ON ANYTHING AND WHEN YOU’RE DONE YOU CAN SPEND ALL YOUR WINNINGS BUYING A CAR

nomonkeyfun

T-Tops only.

entropy

There was a campaign ad in Newark about two guys “fighting to keep the casinos they have,” because if there’s one thing Newark needs, it’s MORE ways to gamble.

Brick Meathook

I have GEICO insurance and it’s due for renewal next month, but all those horrible commercials are making me consider a new carrier. Thank you Pey-Pey it will NOT be Nationwide.

I don’t judge by price. I judge by ad campaigns. Don’t judge me.

WCS

Strangely, I have Nationwide, and it’s actually pretty good.

Brick Meathook

GEICO is better. You’re killin’ the joke Krieger.

evilbeaver8

Having affiliation with Nationwide in a business fashion….you do not want Nationwi…..errrr….Nationwide is great and competent.

jjfozz

THIS GAME, I CALL IT GANG WARFARE IN LOS ANGELES, CAUSE IT’S TWO GROUPS OF PEOPLE FIGHTING OVER WORTHLESS REAL ESTATE

jjfozz

That’s two NFL QBs shown in grocery stores inside of 60 seconds. That’s kinda weird, no?

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Joe Flacco: [looks up from where he is trying to decide between two brands of cottage cheese]

jjfozz

Aaron Rodgers purchasing bananas, pickles, KY, copy of GQ

WhyEaglesWhy

Even weirder is that neither of them were Jameis.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

I just learned that they cast Edgar Ramirez as Bodhi in the Point Break remake. I suppose I’m okay with that, provided that my only other choice was for them to dig up Patrick Swayze’s corpse, grind his bones into powder, and mix them into urinal cakes to be distributed for use at Buffalo Wild Wings restaurants throughout the country.

evilbeaver8

So Manning was about to jerk it to the chicken parm commercial, right?

entropy

About to? Shit he started then.

Sill Bimmons

That was a quarter of football.

Doktor Zymm

I think I prefer quarters of a dollar

nomonkeyfun

That looked more like what I left in the toilet after getting free Taco Bell breakfast.

theeWeeBabySeamus

Lorenzo Cain approves of this.

Redshirt

Bengals game plan involves making the Browns feel competent?

Doktor Zymm

Lure them into a false sense of security, then STRIKE, possibly after the game has ended.

WCS

It’s kind of like letting your little sister shoot a basketball underhanded during a game of HORSE.

WCS

RE: Unnecessary Hollywood remakes

Robert Zemeckis has explicitly stated it is in his will that Back to the Future will not only ever be remade while he’s alive, but, not until after his grandchildren are dead.

entropy

I’ve read that, and I love him for it.

theeWeeBabySeamus

Any chance of burning all copies of Pt II by executive order? No? Meh, OK.

evilbeaver8

Manziel should have his teammates over for a BBQ and give them all matching “I survived the Manziel 2015 BBQ Extravaganza” tshirts. I think this could be the next “burying a football at midfield” team unity tactic.

Sill Bimmons

oh fuck jj watt

entropy

I say that every few days just to let the universe know I am OK with it harming him in any way.

theeWeeBabySeamus

Hey, classy move Bungles. Push the camera over in frustration.

jjfozz

And don’t help the guy pick up a 100+ pound camera. Dicks.

theeWeeBabySeamus

I wish they’d show the reverse angle from that camera as it waas falling. It would look like Ohio flipping over.

JustStopDude

Greetings from fucking Scranton PA you fucks.

Goddamn hotel doesn’t NFL network and I am not willing to risk my work computer to find a feed.

Sad thing…I’m not even in Scranton…that is just the nearest thing to this pumping station. I’m honestly in bumbfuck nowhere territory.

theeWeeBabySeamus

Lived in Dunmore at one time.
Don’t ask why, I’m not over the trauma yet.

entropy

Ah, Dallas, PA! Yes, that IS bum fuck nowhere (can’t use Egypt for that in PA because we have one of those, too). You’re also in Stillers country, as odd as THAT sounds.

WCS

I used to work on a gas rig near Dallas, PA.

entropy

I was born in Hazleton, just when the mobsters’ kids were starting to fuck everything up.

WCS

Spend the night at Schrute Farms!

Gratliff

Not willing to risk your work computer to do illegal shit? What sort of heaven did you fall from? I’ve met like two people who don’t treat their workstations like gifts from Santa Claus, asking for more permission to do more stupid shit they don’t need for work. “What do you mean we can’t use Bit Torrent anymore? Pirating makes us better formula doers!”

jjfozz

Johnny Football is playing like he’s sober. Too bad.

King Hippo

You know, the little shit is playing pretty ok?

Sill Bimmons

Blind squirrels, stopped clocks, etc…

blordinaryfagicmox

Dwayne Bowe can focus on football now that Election Day is passed and Issue 3 didn’t pass

jjfozz

This whole military/NFL pay for play thing is pissing off every one of my douchey liberal friends who have their sons taking ballerina instead of football – and it makes me laugh and laugh

WCS

JJFozz is really PFTC.

Gratliff

…Did someone actually try to pass off Young Frankenstein as a new thing? Fuck you, Hollywood.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

They’re doing a remake of Point Break! How fucked up is that?

entropy

No. They are remaking The Crow, THAT is fucked up.

Moonbatting Average

What? Wait, what? No fucking way. Back off, War Child

theeWeeBabySeamus

I saw that just a couple hrs ago and thought wtf?
Then saw that Teresa Palmer is in it and thought, hell yes!!!!

I like her, is the basic point I’m making.

entropy

I like HER just fine, but kill the fucking project.

Sill Bimmons

I don’t care that the new Ghostbusters is all women.

The fact that they’re doing it at all is such a fucking disgrace.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

I read somewhere that the Colts are trying to get some new weapons for Andrew Luck and have attempted to trade for Barnidge. They’re also looking at DeShawn Horsebuggy and T.J. Butterchurn.

blordinaryfagicmox

Moar likke Barn-raise amirite?11!?

Doktor Zymm

Was Miami University named that to try and trick people into thinking they weren’t going to Ohio?

blordinaryfagicmox

I think Dan Snyder suggested the name.

entropy

It’s the “Paris…..Texas” of University bait and switch.

Mother Puncher

For most places in the south that share a name with somewhere in Ohio, it’s usually because we kicked the native tribe out and forced them to live in a swamp.

nomonkeyfun

+ Falling Timbers to you.

Sill Bimmons

please just let rocky die

Mother Puncher

That’ll be the ending of Creed III

entropy

CreedJR’s opponent in the next movie is gonna push Rocky to the ground, and then CreedJR is gonna cry and mourn over Rocky’s dead body before turning his back on boxing and going back to thatbshitty Fantastic Four franchise.

Brick Meathook
theeWeeBabySeamus

Charlie Brown: Fuck you, bitch.

Redshirt

That movie better end with Charlie Brown kicking that football

entropy

The movie is set in the winter and STILL they have a fucking baseball scene! Fuck that movie.

theeWeeBabySeamus

Charlie Brown should totes go all rampage-y with automatic weapons and shit.
But he won’t. Damn PC kid movies.

Brick Meathook
Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Michael Irvin fired his agent for having secured his participation in this “Snow Day” ad without adequately explaining the concept.

entropy

This game is the NFL’s one finger “Salute to Service.”

ThursdaySkyGoddess

Orange and camo look really fucking awful together.

Mother Puncher

Please tell that to every one of my students. Most of them don’t wear it because of football.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

They should, considering their purposes are diametrically opposed.

WhyEaglesWhy

Orange and camo really work if you are at this game and you understandably don’t want anyone to see you there.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Name five fourth-down attempts that you were more confident would succeed – you can’t!