Your “We’ll Always Have Tecmo Bowl” Friday Evening Open Thread

NFL News:

  • Injuries and such:
    • Out:
      • Eric Decker has a partially-torn rotator cuff and is out for Sunday versus the Seahawks
      • Sammy Watkins has a bad foot & will miss the Bills tilt at Gillette Stadium
        • placed on IR late-Friday
      • Michael Oher (Panthers) has a concussion
      • The Steelers are down Ryan Shazier, Eli Rogers and Robert Golden
    • Questionable/Doubtful:
      • Chiefs: Tamba Hali
        • Jamaal Charles is “questionable” but is expected to play, according to reports
      • Bears: Jay Cutler; Jeremy Langford
      • Cowboys: Orlando Scandrick; Dez Bryant (but not according to him)
      • Patriots: Jacoby Brissett; Jimmy Garoppollo; GRONK!
  • Deciding he needed more than Lindsay Vonn’s sandpapery right hand, JJ Watt has gone & had the back surgery, so he’s done for the year.
  • Josh Gordon’s entered rehab, and the Browns apparently are going to release him.
  • It appears the NFL is giving up on China for now, and is aiming for Germany.

Bo Jackson is the latest retiree to come out and say that, based on modern concussion research, he would have avoided playing football. It makes me a bit sad to think that access to a flux capacitor would keep us from knowing the joy of Bozworth getting pwned on Monday Night Football.

 

Also, see if you can spot the error in the cbssports.com report:

bo-jackson-on-nfl-concussion-research-i-probably-just-would-have-played-baseball-cbssports-com

That’s quality fact-checking.


Finally, Richard Sherman has produced another excellent statement on management-player relations in the NFL. Over at The Players Tribune, he essentially reminds players that they are the only ones who have to look out for their own interests. It sounds like every BCTF union meeting I’ve ever been to, but this is more effective because it comes from a current player, versus teacher’s union presidents who have been out of a classroom for an average of 10 years and are beating a 20-year-old drum.

Shot fired:

“As dedicated as we players are to this game, it’s getting more and more difficult to ignore the fact that we don’t have a league that shows the same kind of dedication when it comes to taking care of the players who are laying their bodies on the line every Sunday,”

It also comes with a helpful video link, in case this twitter link won’t let you watch the whole thing.


Tonight’s sports:

It’s a stellar Friday night, with a little something for everyone. The Blue Jays are on the verge of an epic September collapse. Some quality college football from the Pacific Northwest and the Ivy League is on the dial. Why, if you look hard enough, you might even find some NHL preseason.

  • MLB: Blue Jays at Red Sox – 7:00 PM | ESPN2/Sportsnet
  • Football:
    • NCAA:
      • Pennsylvania at Dartmouth – 7:00 PM | NBCSN
      • Stanford at Washington – 9:00 PM | ESPN
      • Toledo at BYU – 10:15 | ESPN2
    • CFL:
      • Edmonton at Winnipeg – 8:30 | TSN
    • AFL:
      • Sydney vs Western – 10:30 | TSN2
  • NHL Preseason: Toronto at Buffalo – 7:00 | SN360

Sadly, it looks like the AFL match is on PPV in the US. THE COMMONWEALTH ROCKS!

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A Canadian man-child of indeterminate age, he stays young by selling alcohol at sporting events and yelling at the patrons he serves. Their rage nourishes his soul, and their tips pay for his numerous trips to various sporting events.
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Unsurprised

Everything about masturbation sucks except the good feeling when you start.

Unsurprised

Wow. The ever elusive white-guy walkoff for laughing too hard.

http://imgur.com/tkNZgfF

Unsurprised

That UW-Stanford game was brutal. It made my Huskies acquaintances happy, though, and since I don’t know any Cardinals, I guess … Yay!?!

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Beerguy Rob

Well, I’ll see everyone tomorrow for Australia – South Africa rugby. 10:30 Pacific kickoff.

Unsurprised

I hate hate HATE stupid people.

Beerguy Rob

That’s a disadvantage to being smart, having to put up with all the SMRT.

Unsurprised

I’m watching a rerun of the Washington massacre and eating tots while drinking a dragon fruit cider.

Beerguy Rob

Aside from the buildup of gas, it sounds delightful.

Unsurprised

So far so good. Just watching UW score again and getting a beer flight and cheeseburger

Beerguy Rob

I almost feel bad for Sydney having to sit through this extended medal presentation.

Almost.

Beerguy Rob

I imagine the Bulldogs’ reaction is something the Browns can only dream of.

theeWeeBabySeamus

Suck it Sydney
(sorry Sill…nothing personal)

theeWeeBabySeamus

Fuck yeah!!!!

theeWeeBabySeamus

Fuck no!!!

theeWeeBabySeamus

Fuck yeah, redux!!!!

theeWeeBabySeamus

Fuck Yeah again!!!

theeWeeBabySeamus

Son of a Mother, that was a heckuva a goal. But fuck that guy anyway.

theeWeeBabySeamus

Heckuva match. I regret having missed almost 3/4’s of it due to my own fuckery.

theeWeeBabySeamus

Why the fuck didn’t you guys yank me out of my stupor and remind me of the AFL Grand Final?? FFS, what the hell good are you fuckers?

JustStopDude

Sex and food does not go together as well as pornos imply.

I learned this tonight and it was a painful and awkward lesson.

Unsurprised

Those Eastern European girls aren’t well fed, you know. It’s like dangling a steak from your junk into a lion den.

Marc Trestmans Windowless Van

I think the site banned me. On every other site I would say that makes sense. Rot in hell everyone I love

Marc Trestmans Windowless Van

How is it not even 1 yet?

Don T

There’s gotta be a profession older than prostitute. Something with peddling or extortion maybe.

Brick Meathook

Evolution Consultant.

yeah right

Just don’t tell me what Marcia Brady looks like now.
I truly don’t give a fuck.

Marc Trestmans Windowless Van
MikeWallaceAndGromit

Fucking love ELO

Brick Meathook

THIS BLOG NEEDS MORE:

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SHIRLEY JONES!

Here’s Mrs. Partridge as a prostitute in “Elmer Gantry.” She won the Oscar for Best Actress for this, God love her.

Brick Meathook

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Don T

Damn. She could be a boxer with that square jaw.

Brick Meathook

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BallsOfSteel

What a half! Sydney up by 2 at the long break.

yeah right

I am so drinking things.

Marc Trestmans Windowless Van
Marc Trestmans Windowless Van
Marc Trestmans Windowless Van

How is iit still midnight? I accidentally tricked myself into an 80’s night

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ST86JM1RPl0

BallsOfSteel

That First Quarter was insane. BULLDOGS 12 SWANS 8

Spanky Datass

Yep. Crazy-hard defensive play. The Swans didn’t match their recent fast starts so now I have teh worries.
WOOOOOO SWANS!!!!11!!
/sexy pic

Marc Trestmans Windowless Van

For blocking my stuff temp I wanted to go to the worst thing I could think of, Except I actually don’t hate this song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AR8D2yqgQ1U

Spanky Datass

High school Spanky polished his belt buckle on the dance floor with a lovely green-eyed girl too this song. Good times.

Spanky Datass

TOUCHDOWN SWANSHAUX!!!!1!!

BallsOfSteel

I’ve already seen more intense play and hard hits in half a quarter of the Grand Final than in Week 3 of the NFL.

Eight minutes in and only one behind scored between the two teams.

Spanky Datass

Holy shit! One of the free streams I had up for the AFL Grand Final is working!
http://www.vipboxtv.co/aussie-rules/420451/1/grand-final-:-sydney-swans-vs-western-bulldogs-live-stream-online.html
WOOOOOOOOOOO SWANS!!!1!11!!!

Marc Trestmans Windowless Van

Its Nate Dogg, you shoud listen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1plPyJdXKIY

BallsOfSteel

I am mesmerised.

Marc Trestmans Windowless Van

I am far too lazy to be vindictive. Enjoy some RHCP

https://youtu.be/khfv_5Dyb1k

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Marc Trestmans Windowless Van

I am awaiting moderation for no reason, the responsible reply is to do nothing. I am leaning towards vengeance

http://67.media.tumblr.com/5784dafc20b29ad8295c2f1fe382d7f1/tumblr_ode5y8SFQ01u73o2io1_540.jpg

Senor Weaselo

Vengeance is always an option!

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Marc Trestmans Windowless Van

Last idiot video from a sketch show. It will just be naked pics from now on.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzO2mi4uHAs

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Horatio Cornblower

Video of me* getting out of bed on Monday morning

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atUuy4_m4NE

*a much more attractive version of me who is legally able to use the women’s room in any North Carolina facility.

jjfozz

2 mules for sister sara – as a dude who went to catholic school, nuns hould NOT be thi pretty.

Unsurprised

Agreed.

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MikeWallaceAndGromit

Last time we saw Washington crush a bunch of overconfident guys in red and white it was 1776.

Horatio Cornblower

The British had a better ground game than Stanford.

Unsurprised

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