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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Brick Meathook
entropy

In one of the local bars, the men’s room had “RIP [my first name, last initial].” I felt bad for whoever it was that thought I was dead…. then wondered if it was a threat. I finally wrote on the wall “I ATEN’T DED,” hoping for a Pratchett fan, but instead got back, “Shit, sorry, my bad.”

Doktor Zymm

Did you read The Shepard’s Crown yet?

entropy

No, and I don’t wanna because I refuse to believe Terry Pratchett is dead. If I don’t read the last novel I can maybe convince myself there’s just a publishing holdup on the next book.

Doktor Zymm

I didn’t think of doing that. It was a bittersweet read for sure.

entropy

I’m gonna watch half of NASA’s 4K solar video rather than this halftime shit.

Sharkbait

Halftime Rick and Morty binge.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

TINY RICK!

jjfozz

I’m bustin’ out tonight
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Doktor Zymm

Hmm. I should buy an Arduino board and figure out how to make stuff with it. It seems like a better use of time than any of the upcoming Thursday night games.

entropy

Hobbies are important.

blordinaryfagicmox
Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

You know, I thought SNL was joking when they made this.

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Sill Bimmons

I want the Bungles to lose but I don’t want them to make JFF look good doing it.

Gratliff

“And when you talk about guys who like to put it all out there…”

“CUT!”

evilbeaver8

Sunday morning I went out on the porch and found our Jack O Lantern had been stolen. For a second I was like “LOUSY PUNK KIDS#!!”…..But then I realized they saved me from having to scrape up pumpkin guts come November 25th or so. Thanks punk kids!

entropy

What the fuck is this TiVo commercial shit?

“Is your family a pack of raving assholes? Do they make you feel like less of a man due to varying commercial length and you fast forwarding three seconds too slow or too fast? Buy our new product and shut these ungrateful fucks up once and for all!”

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

[tries to rationalize own frustration with wife’s incompetence at fast-forwarding]

Sharkbait

Hmm… Usually when you hear “drive” and Cleveland” in the same sentence a cliff is mentioned in there somewhere.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Glad to see that I’m still juvenile enough that seeing a grown man get punched in the balls by his kid still makes me laugh.

jjfozz

My 8 year old and I were laughing so loud my wife threatened both of us with losing out iPads

Gratliff

I hated it until that very moment, then cackled.

jjfozz

That Tivo commercial was more disturbing than Dick Cheney’s porn collection

Sill Bimmons

Was that Molly Shannon in that TiVo ad?

King Hippo

Nice fucking catch!

Sill Bimmons

Well that was just stupid.

Gratliff

Hm. I’ve got DJJ and Eifert. Not a bad night for what is a fucking awful game.

Sill Bimmons

You can call him Duke, and you can call him Luke…

Moonbatting Average

So is Duke Johnson Jr related to Lord Revis by Peerage?

Sharkbait

Ive been drinking since 4. It’s my friday and this week has sucked more than this game.

evilbeaver8

I was given tomorrow off for being good at a job I am deeply disappointed in myself for having. CHEERS MATE!

blordinaryfagicmox
Brick Meathook

Been with you since Monday pal! *hic*

entropy

I’m off tomorrow but drinking pumpkin beers. Doing my best to kill them, though.

The Right Reverend Electric Mayhem

Jesus, Jets fans really are masochists…

blordinaryfagicmox

The Duke scores!
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blordinaryfagicmox

woops

Sharkbait

Still glorious

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

I’m so shell-shocked from these constant FanDuel and DraftKings ads that I actually cringed when I heard the words “free play”.

jjfozz

THIS TOM BRADY UNDER ARMOUR COMMERCIAL, I CALL IT A PROCTOLOGIST’S DREAM – AN ENTIRE FIELD FULL OF ASSHOLES

Sill Bimmons
The Right Reverend Electric Mayhem

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Sill Bimmons

DIE UNDER ARMOUR

blordinaryfagicmox
WCS

Drew Magary after getting too close to the Electrolux.

evilbeaver8

I may not recognize a single song these millenia karaoke twats are butchering, but at least none of them are doing Don’t Stop Believin.

entropy

It’s early, and soon enough you’ll get them singing the Drunk Chick Anthem, “Me & Bobby Magee.”

The Right Reverend Electric Mayhem

I think you mean “That Country Song About Destroying A Guy’s Truck For Revenge”. Or maybe that’s the drunk chicks here…

Doktor Zymm

Someone talked me into karaokeing a couple months ago. I sang “Cocaine Blues” by Johnny Cash. It was actually pretty fun, and I got some free shots out of it.

Sill Bimmons

At least this isn’t taking very long.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

I wish I had thought to name my cat “Norm” so my wife and I could yell that every time she strolls into the house.

jjfozz

Number of Christmas themed commercials I’ve seen today: 2

Sharkbait

Sigh. It begins.

entropy

That’s Duke Johnson JUNIOR!!! Duke Johnson has a bad knee and poor speed, he can be tackled anywhere.

Moonbatting Average

However, once you see Bills/Jets on Thursday Night Football, you can’t unsee it

Brick Meathook
Sill Bimmons

Bills are shit.

The Right Reverend Electric Mayhem

You’re shit.

Gratliff

Is anyone that lazy? When I slice bananas into cereal, I use a fucking spoon. Failing that, I would just gently tap them to break the pieces off.

Brick Meathook

I need one of these. I’ve been slicing bananas the old and inefficient way.

Darkest Timeline Zack Morris

I’ve just been eating them, like some sort of ANIMAL.

entropy

Think of all the free time you’ll have to contemplate the larger mysteries of the universe, like a faster way to slice a fucking watermelon!

Sharkbait

Double shifts in the Factory tonight I see.

jjfozz

So I’m in a coffee shop in the snooty part of town today, and saw a woman with obvious plastic surgery, her cheeks looked like they were stuffed with golf balls.

Nice rack though.

Sill Bimmons

Prolly fake too.

jjfozz

As fake as Dick Cheney pretending to care about a crippled puppy. But still, tits.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

As fake as any story about Dick Cheney caring enough to pretend he cared about a crippled puppy.

evilbeaver8

Why were the lights on at the Reds stadium?

Brick Meathook

TEE-VEE

Sill Bimmons

To show it off for blimp shots.

Redshirt

They forgot to turn off the lights

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Because Marge Schott thought she saw a black person trespassing.

Sill Bimmons

Holy FUCKBALLS Browns

Sill Bimmons

Don’t we already know how Undrafted ends?

entropy

I dunno, I watched Unbroken hoping that little fuck would get crushed under a half-track. No real reason, I just wanted an M Night level twist at the end.

evilbeaver8

Bad things come in 3s…
1) Browns on TV;
2) Quiet dive bar goes out of business;
3) Crowded sports bar has karaoke.

entropy

Damn near all of my local sports bars have no jukebox/no karaoke rules in effect for games. Obviously, tonight they would allow both.

theeWeeBabySeamus

See, shoulda followed your gut and stayed home and drank alone like all the rest of us pathetic fucks.

evilbeaver8

We cut the cable cord over the summer. Mostly love it but for the occasional Monday/Thursday night game that catches my interest

entropy

Factory of Sadness production at peak levels for the season right now.

Sill Bimmons

Yup, still not seeing the trapped in the mine film.

Darkest Timeline Zack Morris

My Spider-Claustrophobia sense is tingling at that one.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

…and to think I almost started Heath Miller over you, Eifert.

jjfozz

People who buy giant foam fingers and wave them at games should be used by pharmaceutical companies as test subjects.

blordinaryfagicmox

Check his birth certificate, I think his name is reallly Eifertnkowski

Moonbatting Average

Ravens fans honor The Purple Armed Services all season long

Gratliff

Particularly, the Armed-With-a-Knife Services.

Sill Bimmons

wow

Redshirt

Wow Cleveland

King Hippo

So very Factory