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- Despite all the theatrics, Aaron Donald is not expected to be suspended for his behaviour during last night’s tirade prior to his ejection.
- Well, the Packers decided who they wanted to pay and gave David Bakhtiari a 4-year, $51.67 million extension. So I guess we know how much Aaron Rodgers’ blind side is worth.
- Not worth anything? CJ Spiller – released by the Saints.
- The stupidest press conference question of the week gets a predictable response – Hue Jackson doesn’t regret passing on Carson Wentz.
- The Super Bowl XLV lawsuit about tickets was denied class-action status today. People will have to pursue individual actions.
- read the decision here.
- I didn’t know Jerry’s actual name was “Jerral”; I thought is was a derisive sobriquet.
- this case was brought by the same guy now seeking class-action status over the cancelled Hall of Fame game.
- read the decision here.
- Here’s all you need to know about injuries, courtesy of Rikki.
Finally, welcome back to the NFL, Los Angeles:
Final updated Rams drive chart. This is not a joke nor a drill:
PUNT
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PUNT
TURNOVER ON DOWNS— Will Brinson (@WillBrinson) September 13, 2016
This is why I prefer to listen to the radio broadcasts. Kevin Harlan gets it.
It’s a shame that the Canadian feed of Westwood 1 – at least in Vancouver – is 10 seconds behind the Canadian/TSN feed of the broadcast. That means I can’t watch at home with Gruden off, unless I want the Godzilla movie effect.
Oh – don’t run on the field, kids.
The NFL has decided that marketing diversity trumps all, so they are not only continuing but expanding the “color rush” experiment this year. To alleviate concerns about colorblind fans and their experience at home, ESPN quotes Nike as having
brought in doctors from Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York to review which Color Rush matchups would be problematic for people with colorblindness.
The Jets will wear all white, “as will the Cleveland Browns, since their all-brown uniforms would blend with the Baltimore Ravens’ purple, and the Los Angeles Rams against the Seattle Seahawks, because distinguishing yellow from green would be an issue.” Well, it might be easier if it wasn’t this green:
As usual, the snark from Deadspin has the bestest answer to the question of, “OH GOD? WHY?!”
A reasonable person might conclude that it’s pretty dumb to give each team a special Color Rush jersey if a big chunk of those teams are never even going to wear them on the field, but the people who are tasked with inventing new merchandise for NFL fans to spend money on don’t really care too much about what’s reasonable.
I shudder to think how many of these “12” jerseys I will see by the end of the season.
Tonight’s sports: a nice sorbet of non-football choices
- Rio 2016 Paralympic Games – 6:00 PM | NBCSP
- World Cup of Hockey Pre-Tournament: Finland vs. U.S. – 7:00 PM | ESPN, Sportsnet1
- MLB: Tampa Bay vs Toronto – 7:00 | Sportsnet (Canada)
- Premier Boxing Champions: Ramirez-Watts (super lightweights) – 8:00 PM | FS1, SN360
- WWE SmackDown – 8:00 PM | USA – AJ Styles is your new WWE Champion
- U.S. Open Cup Soccer: FC Dallas vs. New England – 10:00 PM | ESPN2
The Red Hot Chili Peppers have been announced as the pre-game entertainment for the first LA Rams home game since 1994. While “Give It Away” seems appropriate for the Rams ticket availability after a few years of 7-9, I prefer this little ditty.
“Knock Me Down” seems more appropriate for the David Carr treatment Case Keenum is getting. THEY’RE GONNA KILL GOFF!
BCHS got in the comment embed at the top again. Well deserved. I do wish he would occasionally post stuff about his life so I knew anything about him other than he is funny and will dive real deep for a joke.
“They wore green jerseys once before and never won a game.”
God bless Seattle, but even my friend thinks that color rush design is stupid.
I really hate my C# class. I spent 8 hours on a program that should have taken 1.5-2 today because I was both fighting the visual studios site that doesn’t accept programs in the streamlined “automated” site, but also spent time having to look up code online all night for syntax because he is the the only teacher in the school not to put his powerpoints online and expects us to use his personal account to find code from examples from class he posts in the broken system that ruins your setup if you have to log out/log in to his. Plus since he wasn’t willing to create a public account we have to log in with a weird guest account he created and gave us the information once, and isn’t publicly available on any of the 19 places where it should have been posted on each of them throughout all his classes. I ended up with an incomplete program written in 9 different versions of older code. I wrote psuedocode in like 10 min but ended up with a mess anyways.
The program was due at midnight and I have been watching Party Down for what I just realized is 4 hours now. Thank you Unsurprised for showing up so I am not just posting to no one.
Glad to help
I suggest you kill him and take his stuff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfm4gvxNW_o
I hate porn that has a great-looking model in it who then fucks some creepy weirdo who looks worse than I do naked. I can’t figure if it repulses me more that he’s fucking her and I’m jealous or that she’s doing it and I just feel bad for her.
Maybe it’s just that you’re trying to jack off while staring at an ugly ass nigga
I just saw a Big Mac ad and now I really want a Big Mac.
http://acrossthefader.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/bigmac.jpg
Fuck MickeyD’s for getting rid of the $1 menu, and Fuck MickeyD’s for subtly changing their 2 for 2 into 2 for 3 and now 2 for 5 menu.
The 2 for $4 menu rules though
NO! You want Jack In The Box. Ultimate cheeseburger is life. (Also, angina.)
No gots JITB in Jersey.
DAMN, SON!
A box of White Castle?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnOfIMCreDE
LOL. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a Big Mac look like that.
On a related note, Fuck McDicks for making their Big Mac’s smaller and charging more for them. That’s one, of many reasons why I haven’t eaten at McDicks in 4 years
Maybe Jeff Fisher is an evil genius for trotting out two horrendous QBs the first two games so whatever GOFF does after that is gravy.
I think that plan would play better in Indy.
http://www.demotivationalposters.org/image/demotivational-poster/1004/bob-evans-biscuit-gravy-machine-creator-hero-legend-demotivational-poster-1271776769.jpg
http://www.famousbirthdays.com/headshots/robert-evans-4.jpg
I this is great’d that. Our long national nightmare is over!
http://www.bastardoswelt.de/new/images/stories/Customs12/gonk2final1.jpg
GOFF…GOFF…
Flight leaves in six hours. Better get started packing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RojGQLygQaM
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I don’t like houndstooth.
Hey Sill, short time reader – 1st time caller; 5/20 in DFO2 haven’t logged in since they signed up in mid-August (including a few names I recognize). Cause for concern?
They know who they are.
I don’t know why you’d sign up for something and not participate in it, but because there’s nothing at stake it really doesn’t matter.
No money involved ≠ nothing at stake.
True, but people usually get a lot more cranky about things when there’s cash on the line.
I hear ya; I for 1 prefer PPR LG’s – but curious why you changed it while Week 1 was still going on.
Because I realized that I’d enabled PPR scoring without entering a value into the box, so receptions were being scored but they were being scored at 0.
Anyone else having problems with the this is great button? Or do none of you deserve my praise?
Unsurprised is clearly not deserving of your praise.
–Unsurprised’s brother.
“To see YouTube links or your precious This Is Great button, please refresh the page.”
I was still posting on the “older comments” until I was booted here.
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I see Uff’s fundraising went well again.
I have refreshed the page and still am not able to this is great porky once let alone the many times this post deserves.
In protest I am clicking the This Is Great button on every post except yours.
You’re welcome.
Tough but fair
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Field report from Nationals Park: baseball is a lot more fun when your friends have all you can drink seats.
Drinking interrupted by baseball
I have an interview for another partime job tomorrow. My health insurance kicks in on October 1, so the benefit and opportunity cost from having the money i would otherwise spend on it is worth a little over $7/hr. I’m not sure if this job would cover that or if they have insurance at all. I could do both but not for long. On the other hand, I would like to work where I’m not constantly cutting myself and hurting my back washing dishes at sinks built for people who are at least a foot shorter than I am. I don’t know. I just hate everything right now. My brother left today but during his visit he pretty much destroyed all of the confidence I built up over the last few months and he’s being an obstinate asshole about his own stupid shit, do hoo-fucking-ray for family.
In other news, bar exam results come out on Friday while I’ll be at work. Either way, that’s going to be fun
Keep it together man. I’m rootin’ for ya and for a Zika colony to settle on your brothers taint. And scrotum, if he tried to pass constant undermining as Tough Luv.
Good luck to you, brother. I’m sending positive vibes your way. Remember to believe in the power of positivity!
Tonight’s dinner was a bowl of Life cereal with a cut up banana and a chocolate chip cookie broken up in it. It was goddamn delicious.
My niece came up with the idea of “Life Crispy Treats” because Life is her favorite cereal.
Cinnamon Life Crispy Treats are a mind-altering experience.
One of my guilty pleasures is cookie soup. Three or four cookies crumbled in a mug of milk. Shit’s great.
Teddy Grahams.
Three or four?
Those better be like Costco cookies then
If ya’ll are having tv show problems I feel bad for you son,
but you should check out Banshee, it’s delightfully insane and the first season is on amazon prime streaming, and it originated on Cinemax so you know there is a fair market amount of nudity and violence.
I wonder how it would feel to have a phantom dick. Or a dick like a limb.
Oh, those Roche guys do have the good stuff?
Walked to the Italian ice place to get an ice. It was closed. Senor was less than pleased.
Burn it all down
You could deface the storefront with ICEE RULZ graffitti.
WOP WOP WOP WOPPPPP
I know someone who has probably already ordered that 12 color rush jersey
If you set about un-knowing them it would probably make your life easier.
Ask OSZ about my scorched earth pogrom on Facebook. I’m on my way.
Action Green! WHOOOO!!
I started reading a book called the Unnecessary War that I picked up in the dollar bin. It set a record as it offended my senses within half a page of the foreword, but that’s what I get for not noticing the author was Pat Buchanan.
Before the second page of chapter one he had waxed romantic about British colonialism, degraded pre-colonial native cultures, and essentially rhapsodized about how great the world was when white people shoved their religion and culture into all the dark and ignorant corners of the savage world.
I will make an effort to slog through this because there still may be interesting historical tidbits sprinkled about, but holy shit what an asshole.
http://img.pandawhale.com/post-39456-obiwan-kenobi-now-thats-a-name-mGsY.gif
The Libertarian Party propping him up as their candidate is one of the many reasons I’ll never take them seriously.
@Beerguyrob – RELEVANT:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2bh1feOjZk
This is WWE canon now.
Cooking shows it is! Jacques Pepin is the shit.
I love Jacques Pepin! Especially the shows he did with his daughter Claudine. I crushed on her for a long time. She was beautiful and could cook incredible meals.
I picked up a caper sauce from his veal chop recipe that I use constantly. It’s easily the pan sauce I make most often.
the good thing about mlb.tv is being able to switch to radio feed, drag the laptop to bed. Then it’s like being a young’un, pulling in the late night broadcast on your bedroom clock radio.
Yeah, we old folks REALLY DID SHIT that way, and we liked it!
God that brings back memories. Listening to WBAL way past the point I was suppose to be asleep.
I would wake up to some drunk dude calling in a demanding the Orioles start having Cal Ripken Jr pitch because he was the only guy doing shit on the team.
I did that every summer in (NW LP) Michigan, but I was stuck with rooting for whoever the Brewers were playing.
What to watch now that the hockey has ended…There is shit on TV
I’m doing American Dad on Adult Swim until I pass out in an hour.
I don’t know why…but I like American Dad. I cannot stand anything else Seth McFarlene has done.
I like(d) Family Guy, but it’s about run its course and needs to die now.
Agreed American Dad is teh shit. ‘Specially since moving to cable where they can get away with even more.
watching el beisbol after footy has started….just no worky
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtnSg0WQH8A
At work today I was at the giving side of an ugly ass-kicking.
Point is: some pills would rock.
pills truly ARE the universal answer to life’s problems
It’s very interesting when one doses oneself, forgetting they no longer have any tolerance.
/not naming names
//today was…let’s call it “different”.
got a little “Dark Side of the Moon” today, eh??
Hypothetically speaking, there might have been a momentary loss of muscular coordination while walking down the deck stairs causing a hyperextended knee. Followed directly by a fall down the remaining deck stairs (only 3 or 4). Followed my maniacal laughter while laying in the backyard for five minutes. Followed by throwing out of the back while getting up.
Again, hypothetically.
/still not naming names
This comfort animal shit is getting out of hand…
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That was an intense ending to the US-Finland game.
3-2. Finland had a power play for the minutes. Pull the goalie and maintained the puck in the US end of the ice for what seemed like a fucking lifetime.
I’m more surprised that hockey was being aired on Espn. WAT DECADE IS THIS?!?
So now the oldest has his first sports-related “mild” concussion.
He got it playing baseball so I told him that it’s his fault for playing such a pussy sport and that if he had rushed the mound and beaten that pitcher senseless, then maybe I would say “I love you.”
Maybe.
If I beat the pitcher senseless for my first concussion, that would have been impressive, being it was a pitching machine. I was a dumbass and moved the plate in a batting cage and fractured my orbital bone. Looking back at it, the double vision was kinda cool, but it was terrifying as all fuck.
Yikes.
Shit, hope he’s OK.
I don’t condone beanings (to the melon that is) at any level, but there was one time when I played that I did intentionally nail a kid in the back as hard as I could. He didn’t crowd the plate trying to lean into one the next time up, I promise. Coach asked me if I hit him on purpose and I thought I was in trouble. When I told him I had, he high fived me.
James Ellsworth just made a cameo on Smackdown too! Best Welp face in the game!
I was about to post that same pic. lol
GO MAKE A WISH KID! DON’T LET YOUR DREAMS BE DREAMS!
It’s like a preemptive tribute to the Rams-Niners game.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aML1dORFSM
I just got off a long and depressing phone call. My predecessor, who got burned out and quit right around the time I had a nervous breakdown, just called me drunk. He moved his family from the east coast to Oregon, where his wife is from. He got a job with a steel mill. Six months in…its a fucking nightmare.
They have to do a mill integration (basically bring in new equipment and marry it with the old equipment and automation). When my company does this, there is a team of about 5 or 6 programmers working for weeks if not months coding and testing. We have a room just filled with banks of simulators to…well simulate steel mills.
Once that is done, about four programmers go out with some field engineers (like myself). We work in teams, 24/7, teams of three, installing, testing, and commissioning.
My buddy just had a meeting at noon that the mill is gonna do the same thing itself…in 3 weeks. At this mill, its my buddy and another kid that has ever coded. They are expected to cover 24/7 for 3 weeks. Not just installing and commissioning stuff…they have to WRITE THE FUCKING CODE in real time.
Not only is this impossible…its incredibly dangerous. Going over what they are trying to do, I estimate it would take my company easily 3 months to do what they want, with full support…so like 10 to 12 people working both remotely and locally around the clock.
My buddy walked out the meeting and into the nearest bar and has been drinking non-stop. Poor bastard is miserable and doesn’t know how to tell his wife he hates this mill and wants to quit. All I could tell him was that if he made the call, we would hire him back in a heart beat to be a field engineer…but he doesn’t want to do that because…well you basically miss your children’s childhoods which is the reason he left the company in the first place.
On a positive…I’m doing fucking great! The shrink is real happy I have punched a wall in weeks.
I spent 4 years working in a factory environment, first in machine operation, and then as technical support. That was more than enough for me to never want to do it again. If I hear the fucking word efficiency again, someone’s getting garroted. I don’t think there’s another work environment that puts as much undue stress on everyone from the lowest newcomer to the most senior management as production. By the time they start the layoffs, it’s the only thing that prevents the labor revolts.
He found out the other day, while blowing off some steam with a coworker in one of the pulpits that the older guys have a deadpool going on when he quits which they started the first week he got there.
Seems they burn out the book learners real quick at the site. It sounds like a place that is barely holding on. Everyone with a clue works there for a few months before moving onto another job. Everyone else just halfasses things.
“…well you basically miss your children’s childhoods”
That’s the reason my father became a field engineer!
But, yeah, that sounds horrendous. Best of luck to your buddy.
Having had a miserable, frustrating job, I feel his pain. Fortunately for me, I never had anyone else relying on the money I made from it or living with me to soak up all of my unhappiness.
I hope he’s able to find a way out of this situation and that his wife will support him.
That’s the tough thing about his situation. I’m sure I could land him with a job with a half a dozen companies almost immediately with his experience. But the thing is…the whole reason he took this job was to make his wife happy.
Kind of like buying your wife a beautiful necklace or some shit she always wanted and then telling her that its getting repo’d six months later….but thousands of times worse I guess.
Poor bastard. And when the whole thing comes crashing down they’ll blame Obama.
Evening fellers. Hope everyone’s Tuesday…
/checks calendar
//proud to have gotten it right on the first try
…is being kind to them.
Left you a reply on the Google group thread you started.
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Still alive, so…
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Douchebag Historian Comment…
In ancient Roman times, the thumbs up gesture actually signified a desire to see the gladiator killed as opposed to being allowed to live.
Interestingly, Gladiators didn’t die as frequently as its portrayed in books, TV, and cinema. For one thing, they were expensive as fuck to train and popular gladiators were loved by fans. It was rather rare for crowds to call for the death of gladiators, especially because they usually fought wild animals or condemned criminals.
Imagine if you will, Roy Jones Jr taking on a child molester. Naturally you would cheer for Jones.
The thumb gesture is actually disputed by a number of historians, since pollice verso means “with a turned thumb,” but there’s much debate about the which-ways and wherefores of the turning of the thumb itself.
NERDS!!!!!!!!!!!!
Be nice or I’ll get Sill in here. He really knows Latin.
This has bothered me for awhile as well. I know there is “new evidence” that suggests otherwise, but, those are contrarian historians who also think aliens build the pyramids, so. . .
As for the treatment of gladiators, that depends on which time period you refer to. Cherry picking here, there appears to be a change of how they were treated pre Spartacus vs Post Spartacus. But that could easily be because of a lack of primary sources.
I am at a basedball game. Send help.
[hits a double]
If you were on second or third, you should be home by now.
/yer welcome
I’m sending the most qualified group I have at my disposal
There’s 5 bucks in it for you if you can nail Syndergaard with a D cell battery, then shave his head.
(I presume that’s the game you are attending, might be presuming too much tho I suppose)
Oh my God! Here’s something way less boring:
http://ketabnak.com/images/covers/thumb_qnpvmrqd.jpg
OK-something that never fails to make you laugh-I’ll go first…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGsP8soCrSE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAjDKdYcqnU
“Thrilling head gear.”
“Today’s turgid episode.”
What’s wrong with you guys? Humour is subjective? SOAB!
It’s deader than CJ Spiller’s career in here tonight.
At over 5000 comments from Thursday through Monday, it appears most wads have been shot.
We need to regroup after last night’s horrible double-header. We can do it, guys! Only 2 more days until more fubaw!
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Listen, I’m not saying bills vs jets doesn’t qualify as football, but ….. uh……
hang on…. I had something…….uh…
did you know cashews grow on trees?
S! H! I! T! Beds! Beds! Beds!
I love this comment more than I should.
I may watch it with Bills fan friend, but, I’m not making this up, she fractured either a finger or her hand in a bar fight on Sunday. So I don’t know. At the least I need to make a whole lot of fun of her, but she’s normally the one I bitch and moan to about… well, you know, HER.
/I mean I’ll still make fun of her
Hey Sanka… you dead?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEIfp1Uvoqc
/watching Captain America: Civil War
No banjos. No reading of letters from the front. No mention of Stonewall Jackson. The PBS help-line is of no help at all.
/ZERO OUT OF FIFTY STARS!
Ah yes. The movie where Captain America becomes a terrorist, Ironman becomes more of an irrational dick, the only good parts came from none of the original and nothing gets resolved. It was OK, I guess.
Also, why has Cap never reached out to Tony about his blatant struggles with PTSD?
Duh. He obviously has Post Tony Stark Dysplasia. That’s a given.
the lack of stonewall jackson in particular
While researching some images for an upcoming post, I stumbled upon this gem from LSUfreek:
It doesn’t seem to want to play, so here’s the damn imgur link:
h
ttp://i.imgur.com/yIUuHMm.gif
So team Finland automatically has the best goalies, right?
Team Hitchcock always has the best goalies
Nah, it’ still Canada.
Kevin Steen and AJ Styles are the top champions (Co-champions? /shrug). Feels like I’m being set up for disappointment. Can’t wait til they decide it’s time for Cena to pin them both and get both his 16th and 17th titles on back-to-back nights.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3EPGcBouXM
Oh god, it’s happening already.
At some point Cena’s just going to stack everyone with a belt into a big pile, stand on top of it, and proclaim himself championest of champions.
There is only one championest of champions.
http://img.bleacherreport.net/img/article/media_slots/photos/000/468/044/Bruno_belt_crop_exact.jpg
Mother… this guy.
http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/BrunoSammartino_2202.jpg
Take comfort in that you’re one of the reasons I included the wrestling reference at all.
I’m trying to spot the normal athlete faking a disability in the Paralympic events.
Its a bit tougher than it used to be…
When in doubt, always guess Spain.