Your “Chiefs/Bears Fans Can Go **** Themselves-I Had Chores To Do!” Saturday Football Open Thread

I kid, I kid. I’m posting later than I should because of kids. No details are required for any reader that has one or more. They just screw up your timetable effortlessly. From the moment that they slip out of the vag/are purchased on the black market it’s just one thing after another. Enough of this. TO THE GAMES.

Eagles/Colts-Rb Wendell Smallwood gets his first chance to lug the ol’ faux pigskin tonight. All he’s got ahead of him on the depth chart are the likes of Ryan Mathews, 33 yr. old Darren Sproles and something called Kenjon Barner. You must think, if you think about it at all (doubtful) that the entire coaching staff, while saying all the right things, are pulling so hard for this kid.

As far as the Colts are concerned, only six corners are out of this game. Asked for comment about this year’s prospects owner Jim Irsay was quoted as saying, “I’m out of order? YOU’RE OUT OF ORDER! I’M MAD AS HELL AND I’M NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE!” (Network is a brilliant movie-if you haven’t seen it, please check it out) Last week Luck was able to move the ball quite easily and then got bogged down in the red zone. The guy works at his game so I’m sure he’ll figure that out.

Lions/Ravens-The Answer? T.J. Jones, Corey Fuller, Jeremy Kerley, Jay Lee, Ryan Spadola, Quinshad Davis and Jace Billingsley. The Question? After Marvin Jones and Golden Tate, who else does Chunky McButtersucker have to throw to now that Megatron has gone back to Cybertron? Lions management didn’t sleep at a Best Western last night but they did release last year’s 2nd-leading rusher and saved 2.5 million against the cap. The gamble they’re taking is that their running game might turn into a running Joique. (is that a bad pun or something “meta”?-I don’t know much about either)

The Ravens have what seems to be a logjam of “Eh, whatta gonna do?” at the rb spot. Forsett is coming off a 10 game, injury-friendly season and has just hit the dreaded 30 year mark. (cue Chrissie Hynde whispering “tick,tick,tick” in Time The Avenger) Damn-that is a great tune! Behind him are the not-trusted Kenneth Dixon, Terrance West and Buck Allen. I’m sure that Flacco would give his last day-old Miracle Whip sandwich (“Hey! Easy on the mayo-I want to taste the Wonder Bread!”) for a dynamic back.

Giants/Jets-In “Jokes That Never Get Old” News-Hey, which one is the home team? Nyuk,nyuk, nyuk. Wr Cruz has threatened to finally play this evening. This guy has had more false starts than Linford Christie at the ’96 Olympics. Want to throw your money away? Vegas is offering 15/1 on Boy Wonder Eli winning league MVP.

Jets qb Beardy McHarvard will play some tonight. So will Forte, Decker and Marshall. On paper this Jets O has the talent to do some damage. I hope they do it against the Pats before it all inevitably goes to shit somehow. Because, you know…Jets.

Titans/Raiders-It might just be me (it is) but I see the Titans backfield evolving the same way it did back in Chris Johnson’s rookie year. A talented back (Henry) eventually displaces the starter (a very old 28 year-old Murray that had a mind-boggling 449 touches back in ’14) the same way that CJ dismissed that fat fuck from USC (tries not to look it up…) LenDale White. I remembered! Huzzah for me-it doesn’t happen too often these days.

Carr, Crabappletree, Cooper and Walford look to be a potent quintet in the years to come. But what about the D? [looks at Khalil Mack highlights] Jesus Christ! He’s the Space Lord (mother, mother) that Monster Magnet prophesied.

Rams/Broncos-Denver has  immense talent on both sides of the field and at the very least is headed back to the AFC Championship Game. [wipes hands on pants] There. Done!

As far as the Rams and their qb situation is concerned (Keenum winning out over Goff so far) a fan on SB Nation had this to say-

The quarterback who couldn’t beat out Austin Davis or Shaun Hill in 2014 and was a backup to Nick Foles who led the NFL’s worst offense for most of last year is now clearly beating out the rookie #1 overall pick the Rams mortgaged most of their future to select. Ouch!

There you have it. Now go to it.


 

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laserguru

I am so psyched for Sunday Gravy!

You have no idea.

ALXMAC

I have an idea that you are “mostly” sober; otherwise you would have cheated and posted it by now.

ALXMAC

Apparently this is the 2nd video that I ever fav’d on Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBA4vWQRBA0

ALXMAC
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ALXMAC
laserguru
ALXMAC

I’m sure you can tell me who influenced whom, but this song sounds a lot like Weird Al.

Marc Trestmans Windowless Van
laserguru

You know, there are many ways to work a sax.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmdWSwKITQk

Marc Trestmans Windowless Van

No brass but Zymm is in bed so I can cheat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d22CiKMPpaY

The Right Reverend Electric Mayhem

I. AM. BOURBLE.

Doktor Zymm

I can’t leave without some Coltrane, and I’m hitting the bed. Those of you with children, encourage them to play some brass, even if they’re already grown and you don’t really have that much influence on what they do.

ALXMAC

Hey DoK, I’ve got a book rec for ya – “The Devil in the White City” – and no it’s not a racist Trump retweet.

Marc Trestmans Windowless Van

If the timecode doesn’t work on the embed, assume I meant skip to 14 min. Or don’t. Your choice

https://youtu.be/AUB1oTNGg7E?t=839

ALXMAC

It worked!!

Brick Meathook

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Gratliff

One day, they’ll make another show with a hyper-eclectic playlist with an obscene number of tracks that I can loop over and over again. Yoko Kanno can’t be the only music nerd who knows people in television.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLA7rUW9BWo

laserguru

This is easily one of my favorite horn instrument songs.

Always causes a single tear.

Marc Trestmans Windowless Van
Doktor Zymm

Charlie Parker and Gershwin. Great with Great. Part of the collective consciousness. What stupid tune today are kids in 80 years gonna be humming, not knowing where it came from?

Doktor Zymm

Getz’s style was suited to bossa nova, and given the time period he lived in, it makes sense that became his raison de etre

Gratliff

And something from the original The Real Folk Blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxCA7S6jSy4

Doktor Zymm

Stan Getz was actually a really fine Sax player. This song is catchy for the tune and lyrics, and the sax is an afterthought, but he was in on the composing, and there was probably way less sewage on Ipanema beach back then.

ALXMAC

This Is Great

Marc Trestmans Windowless Van

I feel I should add I am liking the soundtrack tonight. I am just blanking on anything to add to it. So I will just continue listening to your stuff until I finally ditch you all to play Mass Effect 2 like I planned on doing 2 hours ago.

Doktor Zymm

Gratliff

I see a TV theme in there, so I think this is fair play.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6jCJZEFIto

Doktor Zymm

I was maybe born 100 years too late

Brick Meathook

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Doktor Zymm

ALXMAC

I did my good deed for the day – I was at the store and a young boy was having a difficult time trying to reach an item on one of the upper shelves. Now I’m of average height, but I can sympathize with people that are too young and/or too short to reach something up high. So I introduced myself and handed him the bottle of Belvedere.

Brick Meathook

Outstanding! I once bought a box of Girl Scout cookies by having sex with the lovely mother of one of the Scouts. I didn’t just buy that box of Peanut Butter Cookies, I bought the hell out of it.

Morale of the Story: Everyone was happy

Genital Issimo
laserguru

You sir! Are a goddamn hero!

Doktor Zymm

Died at 25 in a car crash and influenced by Fats Navarro.

Doktor Zymm

Janis and Hendrix are great. Hendrix was a legit guitar prodigy. This guy was a legit horn prodigy and there are no black light posters of him on college walls.

Doktor Zymm

Died at 26 from heroin addiction and TB. None of this living till 27 shit that the rockers did a decade later.

laserguru
Genital Issimo

I met this dude at a conference in Philly – quiet & unassuming.

Doktor Zymm

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Some people out there just know exactly how to treat their friends.

http://66.media.tumblr.com/e22e2f8034ac7738d2d46244506fcb71/tumblr_o71n14LhP11rx4ivwo1_1280.jpg

Gratliff

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Doktor Zymm

ALXMAC

This is apt for this weeks “Request Line”.

laserguru

[heads over to request line]

Genital Issimo

Dammit!

Doktor Zymm

ALXMAC
Brick Meathook

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laserguru
Marc Trestmans Windowless Van

That seems cute with the walking the toy, until you see my mom’s dog grab my dogs leash and walk him around. He could fight it, he just lets her walk him around like that little stuffed cat.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

You see a lot of human relationships like that too.

Marc Trestmans Windowless Van

Much cuter in dogs

herodotus450
Brick Meathook

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Mr. Ayo

Who needs a brass player now?

Doktor Zymm

And a couple of good brass players can do sex way better than anything rock, or anything country, or anything pop. If you can listen to a trumpet or sax played the right way and don’t feel like an animal in heat, you’re deaf or dead.

laserguru

Damn skippy

laserguru
Doktor Zymm

Doktor Zymm

What to make of a man repeatedly yelling “police” out on the street? I couldn’t tell what he was saying, so I went to the window and heard him. He had something that looked like fabric in his hand and was waving his arms. About 20 seconds later, while I was wondering what to do, he abruptly stopped and casually walked off. The door security of the building he was in front of came out a moment later, when he was just out of sight, and walked back in. Did he have a good reason to summon the police? It doesn’t really matter, since it’s Saturday night and they’re probably on RAP anyway (RAP stands for Radio Assignment Pending, basically means that no matter how urgent the call, there’s no one available. In at least one case this has led to a guy who chased down the asshole who stole his phone being stabbed while he futilely waited for a patrol car.) There’s lots of bad shit to be said about our current justice system, and there’s lots of bad shit to be said about Chicago’s past and present systems of governance, but raising property taxes while abandoning anything approaching a legal system is probably not the way to go. Yes, there’s some amazing stuff about this city, but most of it isn’t recent, and Daly isn’t a saint, he’s the racist bastard who left a thick layer of shit all over this town.
Sorry. Some idle curiosity about an odd incident outside my window seems to have turned into a bit of a rant. You best believe I’m gonna vote like an old person in the next election. I’m actually having a quite pleasant night. Listening to Gershwin and drinking Pimm’s.
https://youtu.be/giVGv_dnmdY?t=20

herodotus450
Doktor Zymm

I have one or two things that might qualify as a pimp cup, but I’m going Collins glass, as is the classic way.

herodotus450

I drink my scotch out of leftover disposable plastic cups so…

laserguru

You speak the gospel about Chicago’s political system. I thought they were hands down the most corrupt in the world.

Then I went to New Orleans.

It sucks because Chicago is one of my top 3 American cities.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79vCiXg3njY

Doktor Zymm

New Orleans probably has problems at a similar level. I’m not as familiar since I haven’t lived there, but I’ve had good friends who have, and any city that has police drag bodies outside the city limits to lower the murder rate is in good company with Chicago. Chicago’s crime rates are generally not included in national tallies because their reporting isn’t reliable enough to compare with cities with a semblance of shame. We have some lovely people like those at heyjackass.com who keep better numbers, and also indulge the sense of humor you grow living with this shit, hence the shot in the junk o’ meter.
http://heyjackass.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/2016_junk_shots_v2.png

Doktor Zymm

Nah, it’s more like “they sucker punch you in the back of the head, you know who did it, don’t say shit to the cops and shoot his toddler that he doesn’t pay child support to instead”

Doktor Zymm

Sorry, that’s horrible. I hate people.

laserguru

Duly noted

Gratliff

Do they make a city of over 100,000 (or shit, 50,000) that doesn’t have an overtly corrupt government, diminished/overwhelmed emergency services, and fucked up race relations? However awful Washington is, it seems to get exponentially worse as the scope becomes smaller.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

I can here an echo of the Reggae show at Red Rocks.

laserguru

Nice!

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

I live in a VERY quiet neighborhood.

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