Friday Night AFL Open Thread

Some great games are on tap today.  The action starts at 7:45 PM Pacific with the Adelaide Derby, or Showdown as they call it in Australia.  A short time later(8:10 PM), Essendon will take on Melbourne at the MCG in what will be one of their best chances at a win this year.  After those games finish, the Brisbane Lions host the North Melbourne Kangaroos.  Game starts at 10:35 PM Pacific.  The two late games are St. Kilda vs Western (1:25 AM start) and Fremantle vs Gold Coast (1:40 AM start).

To get you properly started, here are a couple of preview videos.  The first is a gambling (!) preview directly from the AFL website.

http://www.afl.com.au/video/2016-03-31/ducks-tip-for-gaz-pies-a-good-thing

The second is a funny preview show hosted at a bar with REAL beer.

http://www.afl.com.au/fridayfrontbar

Seriously, the AFL is run SO much better than the NFL.  No way in hell we see anything like those two videos here in the States.  Enjoy the footy!

(Writer’s note: if anyone knows how to embed these videos, I would greatly appreciate some assistance!  Thanks!)

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Sill Bimmons

I win again.

WCS

152! (maybe)

Buddy Cole's Halftime Show

Christian Okoye: A Football Life was a good watch, man.

Before my time, but damn that’s an intimidating dude.

Beerguyrob

The first match was fantastic.

Gratliff

Still foaming at the mouth from the Kota Ibushi cameo

Sill Bimmons
Senor Weaselo

I did have a celebrity crush on her at one point.

Buddy Cole's Halftime Show

So whilst trying to get the hot sauce, I broke a bottle of Worcestershire sauce. Stuff stinks and looks like year-old diarrhea.

Senor Weaselo

What’s your capsaicin tonight, Buddy?

Buddy Cole's Halftime Show

Standard Frank’s Red Hot. I have an unfavorable view of people who whine if something is below 500,000 Scoville. Let me enjoy my little kick of spice, people.

Senor Weaselo

Oh…
/Slowly backs away

But I like Frank’s, it’s a classic, tried and true.

Senor Weaselo

//Marks Buddy as “Not going to read Senor’s hot sauce reviews when DTZM gives him permissions. And he starts getting off his ass and writing reviews of everything in his fridge.”

Buddy Cole's Halftime Show

Well I do need advice for when I have my bi-yearly Hot Sauce Enema Extravaganza!

Senor Weaselo

Wait, you also live in the city! You’re coming to the Hot Sauce Expo, it’s settled!

Sill Bimmons

“When the recipe for worcestershire sauce was first mixed at the pharmacy of John Wheeley Lea and William Henry Perrins, the resulting product was so strong that it was considered inedible and the barrel was abandoned in the basement. Looking to make space in the storage area a few years later, the chemists decided to try it again, and discovered that the sauce had fermented and mellowed and was now palatable.”

Unsurprised

This is the funniest thing that someone could write today.
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Buddy Cole's Halftime Show

What a photo of him with a Gerber baby visage.

Sill Bimmons
Senor Weaselo

If it pleases the court, they’re showing the Mythbusters Simpsons episode on the Science Channel.

WCS

Sill Bimmons
American Pie Story

what is hip and happening?

drunk online shopping apparently

WCS

What’s the worst that could happen?

[American Pie Story donates life savings to Cruz campaign]

American Pie Story

[unironically buys Brady jersey]

WCS

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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Senor Weaselo

Oh, someone’s having a wild party at their place tonight!

American Pie Story

It’s the new sensation sweeping the nation!

Sill Bimmons

So, a little bit moar baout teh Star Wars…

So Anakin gets put thru the Space Cuisinart because Obi-Wan has “the high ground:”

http://www.i-mockery.com/minimocks/revenge-of-the-sith/pics/revenge-sith4.gif

[Groaning] is fucking right.

First of all, the line delivery. Obi-Wan says it like it’s some massive point of learning or contention during all of Anakin’s Jedi training that we never get to see for some reason. As if Anakin had perhaps been in a similar situation before and failed the test or something. It seems like we’re missing a scene here.

Second, and far moar impoartant, they’ve just been jumping up and down all over this volcano-slash-foundry thing like a couple of deranged Cirque De Soleil castoffs. Hanging from chains, jumping from platforms, riding lava surfboards–none of this would suggest for a moment that Anakin shouldn’t have been able to easily jump over Obi-Wan, high ground or not. Jedis can jump the fuck out of jumping. When you ask a Jedi to jump they say “How high?” and fucking mean it. Yet Anakin somehow can’t make a twenty-foot jump that would land him well over and behind Obi-Wan.

Finally, why can’t Anakin parry Obi-Wan’s lightsaber attacks while he’s in the air? Jedis do lightsaber shit while airborne all the time. Am I supposed to believe that they somehow don’t practice parrying lightsaber attacks while they’re flipping around off the walls of the Jedi Temple?

That George Lucas gets credit for anything more than “A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away there was this WWII-in-space meets sword-and-sorcery thingy” is one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in the history of making shit up.

Gratliff

Is tonight’s DFO a repeat?

Sill Bimmons

3-1 Red Wings.

Gratliff

So yes

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

The thing is, if you and I have light sabers and you have the “high ground” I’m pretty stoked because I can just cut off your feet and I’m not even in any danger whatsoever – you can’t even reach me. The best you can do is parry.

Senor Weaselo

Mythbusters did this scene and the high ground had no effect in their lightsaber duels. Yes, Jamie and Adam had lightsaber duels.

Kungjitsu

Don’t forget that the high ground did exactly jack shit for Darth Maul.

Sill Bimmons

Yep.

He just stood there and got sliced in half.

http://stream1.gifsoup.com/view7/2866904/darth-mauls-death-o.gif

All the twirly-whirly-jumpy shit from earlier in the film, and he just stood there and got sliced in half.

Fuck.

Kungjitsu

Also, what the fuck kind of sadist is Obi-Wan? He dismembers his best friend, watches him catch on fire and burn, picks up his friend’s lightsaber, and leaves him in agony.

Push him all the way in the lava, stab him in the face, choose any other act of mercy and put dude out of his misery, with the bonus of saving the galaxy at the same damn time.

Obi-Wan Kenobi has to be one of the worst “heroes” in the history of art.

Sill Bimmons

He’s the “hero” in the worst thing in the history of art, so he’s got a strong case.

Gratliff
Beerguyrob

It’s on now, and it’s glorious!

Unsurprised

Greetings from Hollywood
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American Pie Story

I love that brand.

scotchnaut

Blood Bath 3000*

*released into theatres as The Hateful Eight

Unsurprised

Sometimes you’re the treadmill, and sometimes you’re Tay.
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Sill Bimmons

CURSE YOUR OILY HIDE

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Okay, so hunting for this gif led me back to TSTSNBN and I encountered this optimistic comment regarding the upcoming Dexter finale (from Joey Jo Jo Jr, no less!):

Man, every episode this season since the first three or so has felt like filler, with the occasional non-filler scene. The writers are just throwing shit at the wall like I’ve never seen. And the wall is covered with oil.
I have some optimism for the finale, though. They couldn’t possibly make this many dumb, bad, mostly-irrelevant-seeming episodes in a row without the motive of setting up something cool.

Unsurprised

The wail of every Lost fan from season 3 onward.

Sill Bimmons

t’s like when you went in to see AOTC.

You were like “George must be saving up for something big in this one! There’s just no way it could be any worse!”

And it was.

It was more worserer than you could have possibly imagined.

Unsurprised

So to prevent outrage from fans who are closer to collecting Social Security than allowance, TFA was basically a remake of Star Wars.

God, J.J. Abrams sucks.

Sill Bimmons

Only a six-game suspension for Duncan Keith.

The NFL would like to thank the NHL for continuing to play such a willing foil to their own shameless failure to act on brain injuries.

scotchnaut

The suspension was only six games because the last time he intentionally swung his stick it was not “really” intentional. But it turns out that it really was. After the fact. When he did it again it was totally serious “that” time.

As for the next time? No one, including NHL head office, has a goddamn clue.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

“Sheesh, talk about someone getting WAY too many second chances…”

– Lindsay Lohan

Senor Weaselo

I’m guessing the party line is “One of those is a postseason game so it counts as this many regular season games”?

Sill Bimmons

At this point who cares?

Unsurprised

This asshole perpendicular to and facing me keeps coughing with his mouth open. When am I allowed to shove his iPhone and sporty little hat down his goddamn throat?

Sill Bimmons

Hat first.

Sill Bimmons

Take a moment to thank gob and sunny jeebus that none of your teams ever took up “Seven Nation Army.”

It could have happened. Think about it. It was just a matter of timing.

One of your teams could have been “those assholes that play ‘Seven Nation Army’ all the time.”

Fucking nightmare, right?

/please disregard if your first name is “jj” and your last name is “zz”

Senor Weaselo

I apologize to the world for the Italian soccer team using it in 2006, which is what started this suckfest in motion, because is second on the list of “Things I hate in this world.”

Geese are and have always been first.

Unsurprised

The Italian MNT has a great many things to apologize for.

Unsurprised

Red card for getting punked like a chump.

Sill Bimmons

Did you catch the little bitch kicks Materazzi gives him on the way down?

Fuck that twerp.

Unsurprised

No, but only because it was a flailing spasm by a flopping loser.

Gratliff

Flyera went from Bro Hymn to that fucking awful doop song the Union were using, and now they’re using some god awful dance techno horseshit I’m supposed to tolerate because it loops the Rocky Theme in the background. White Stripes sounding pretty good right now.

Sill Bimmons

CALM DOWN GET A HOLD OF YOURSELF

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Kungjitsu

The Jaguars have been playing Sweet Home Alabama for 20 years.

Gratliff

Roll tide

scotchnaut

My son is so much smarter than I was at the same age-my stated goal when he was but a kidling was that he would be better/do better than me. He’s ahead of schedule. I kinda hate him for it.

#becarefulwhatyouwishfor

Sill Bimmons

Just wait until he starts wanting to kill you and bang his mom!

Unsurprised

Find him a girlfriend.

Doktor Zymm

Is it time to kick it yet?

Unsurprised

It’s ALWAYS time.

Senor Weaselo

You all know who you are, Commentists who are going to watch this. And probably already have. Twice. Because it’s the only important thing to sometimes come out of April Fools Day.
http://www.homestarrunner.com/answer17.html

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

So…the numbers on the answering machine – are they the same ones in Predator?

Doktor Zymm
Unsurprised

The one time this wasn’t true about the Isotopes is when Manny Ramirez had to play a couple of games in Albuquerque before going back up to the MLB. It was a spectacle and as I recall he was magnanimous with the fans.

Sill Bimmons

The black bun made your shit green!

WHAT WILL THE RED ONE DO TO YOUR COLON

http://images.techtimes.com/data/thumbs/full/225434/600/0/0/0/angriest-whopper.png

Sill Bimmons

Both are NBD regularly available bun colors in Japan:

http://i.ndtvimg.com/i/2015-06/burger_625x350_71434626512.jpg

Redshirt

Trick question, it will never leave your colon.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

The Broodwich – available for a limited time.

Sill Bimmons

Do you make these?

Unsurprised

Yeah, I go to frinkiac.com and then save them to an image host because there’s code in the frinkiac URL that doesn’t show the text when you just CTRL+V the URL into a comment here.

Senor Weaselo

They need to fix that.

Unsurprised

Yeah, get on that WP and DTZM

Unsurprised

As far as I know, frinkiac is a fan project, so it’s a dick move to leech off their bandwidth anyway. So this is definitely WordPress’s failing.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Yeah, someone should write a WordPress Frinkiac plugin.

Doktor Zymm

Obscure pickup line #47 : Hey baby, are you a Popsicle stand? Cause I would sure like to blow you!

WCS

It pains me it took this long for someone to post this.

Unsurprised

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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Doktor Zymm

I picked a damn good day to work at home. Teacher strike making all the traffic happen. This way I can be in favor of the teachers without having to also curse them under my breath!

WCS

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Sill Bimmons

Oreos–Another thing the Japanese have out-batshitted us on:

http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s–r_ekQvZQ–/180sqn1oph9akjpg.jpg

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Are these large?

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Unsurprised

A legend in his own time.

Unsurprised
Doktor Zymm

Random lyrics related comment, I know someone named Juliet who has an older brother named Romeo, cause parents.

Redshirt

There parents named them after starcrossed lovers of a forbidden romance because of who the families was? Ironic.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh
Doktor Zymm

That’s actually pretty realistic. If I’m only wearing one article of clothing around the house, flannel shirt is a good bet.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

So that works with viewing of football for sure.

Sill Bimmons

Beautiful stitching on that sofa.

WCS

Last week, I thought I was making a joke about Gary Bettman expanding the NHL into unlikely places (Lima, Peru, Sao Paulo, Kinshasa, DRC), but sweet holy piss:

http://espn.go.com/blog/nhl/post/_/id/41149/nhl-preseason-games-in-mexico-city

This man must be stopped before he reachd Bond villian-like levels.

Doktor Zymm

Freeze some swimming pools. Play hockey on them. If the ice breaks, WATER POLO!

Redshirt

Law and Order: SVU is doing an episode where a Grand Jury is done in a big fancy room with the Grand Jury in seats, a witness chair and the prosecutor standing grandstandingly asking question.

My experience with a Grand Jury was a small room with free coffee and snacks, one conference table table where the lawyer, witness and court report sits and the Grand Jurors are in chairs while the County Prosecutor casually answering questions while explaining everything:

Possession in the Third Degree: “Defendent did knowing…(153 words omitted).” “Simply put: he had drug in his pocket when he was pulled over for a traffic stop.”

Doktor Zymm

Free snacks and coffee > fancy room and chairs.

WCS

If you’re gonna drag my ass to the courthouse at 08:00, they damn well should be free food.

Sill Bimmons

The starkest difference between fiction and reality is a regular military courtroom:

http://img.timeinc.net/time/daily/2009/0911/360_military_court_1111.jpg

Versus the courtroom from A Few Good Men:

http://abnormaluse.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/few-good-men-end-title.jpg

Unsurprised

That top photo is hella swanky compared to the courtrooms at Bigram.

Doktor Zymm

There is zero chance my sleep schedule allows me to stay up for St. Kilda, also the sky here is a Shade of Gray that doesn’t imply improper bondage play, but rather shitty weather. Thus, I have put down a decent amount of alcohol on a mostly empty stomach (I also had popcorn, with real butter, garlic salt and Old Bay) and I expect I’ll be asleep by 8 CDT.

Redshirt

Work: Successfully accomplished.
Weekend Plans: None.
Cell Phone: Dead.
Cell Phone Charger: NOT connected to Cell Phone

Lets do this!

Sill Bimmons
Doktor Zymm

They’re at the pool in their underwear? Is this the “I forgot to pack stuff” edition of Sports Illustrated?

Sill Bimmons

It’s a little light on plot…

Sill Bimmons

Raise your right hand. I swear…

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Redshirt

My right hand’s kind of busy at the moment, Sill.

Sill Bimmons

It’s the only thing in the world I do left-handed.

No idea why.

WCS

ME TOO!

Well, that and playing hockey.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh
Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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WCS

Hi, Eva!

WCS

Kristina Anapau is drastically underrated.

scotchnaut

I’m gonna watch The Hateful Eight because my boy friend-son who is a friend-has come to like Tarantino joints.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly
Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Oh shit, I think it was the other way around.

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