Deciding the ACC on 1 October and Other Lesser Footy Matters

Yes, this statement is certainly true if Lamar! (pictured above) runs train on Clemson, as he did on FSU. Otherwise, it may be a complex series of tiebreakers. Anyway, let’s take thins in loose order. It’s bad enough this post already misses Everton in Friday Night Footy (WOO!!) and the Friday Night JV NFL fixture between Top Ten Washington and Stanford.

Swans host Liverpool to kick off your Saturday morning (7:30, NBCSN). I will be sleeping in to recover from Huskies pissing on the Tree (hopefully), thank you very much. I will hope, but not expect, that Swans do a thing.

Hull host Chelski in the main 10:00 window match (NBCSN). Extra Time offers alternative options amongst crap sides in Sunderland/West Brom, Watford/Bournemouth, and West Ham/Middlesbrough.

Since the FA don’t want to compete with Miami/GT (spoiler alert), we proceed to four Sunday fixtures. Manure Host Stoke at 7:00 (NBCSN), followed by the match of the weekend, 2nd place Spurs hosting 1st place City (9:15, NBCSN). Even if Spurs win, they would remain 1 point out of the top spot.

If for some reason you don’t want to watch 1 vs. 2, Leicester and Soton are available on CNBC. Burnley host Arsenal (11:30, NBCSN) in case you don’t want to watch the RedZone Channel fantasy show for some even weirder reason. Turning that page…

Miami at Georgia Tech (Noon, ESPN2)

The early games are shittier than usual, and this is seriously the closest thing I could find to watchable teevee. UGH.

Tennessee at Georgia (3:30, CBS)

Staying in the Peach State, we shall see just how embarrassed the Dawgs are, along with how hungover the Vols be. I imagine the answer to both queries is “a fuckton” but Georgia is also shitty, whereas UT is just mediocre. So this one sets up for another Creamsicle Comeback.

Wisconsin at Michigan (3:30 at ABC)

A game between two Top Ten teams that I have no interest in watching. If the line is 12.5 or less, I would bet on the Wolverines here. Teams are too similar in style, and talent will win out.

Texas A&M at South Carolina (4:00, SECN)

Can you spell “Looking ahead to Alabama trap game?” HIPPO CAN. Cursing the fact that I do not live close to a sportsbook for this one, much like Johnny Reb/UGA last week.

Oklahoma at TCU (5:00, Fox)

STOP PUTTING ALL THE INTERESTING GAMES IN THE SAME TEEVEE WINDOW, GODDAMNIT!!!!

Louisville at Clemson (8:00, ABC)

Don’t pass out before this one, kids. It’s a great environment for a night game, and the tough road setting is the only way Lamar! is anything but an overwhelming favourite. I’m still betting on him with my imaginary Hippo dollars. Along with Roll Damn Tide, easily the two best JV sides in the country.

Arizona at UCLA (10:30, ESPN)

Kind of a weak-assed late night tweaker/DVR/insomniac game, but both these teams coming off late heartbreaker losses last week, and it will be somewhat interesting to see how they rebound. If the Bruins have ANY killer instinct…they’ll show it here.

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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh
WCS

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Guh, this game…

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh
Sill Bimmons

hey

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Sill Bimmons

yo

got wings and sicilian on the way

Spanky Datass

beer battered cod and shrimp later for me … and rum

Sill Bimmons

inadvertent knee by cousinlovers qb they’re having a suck off

Doktor Zymm

I take it back about the shoes being comfortable, grabbed a taxi after walking a block towards the train station. The driver has football on though, which is quality taxi radio fare.

theeWeeBabySeamus

Maybe it’s just your feet and not the shoes?
Just saying.

herodotus450

Hmm. Dok got a taxi, so we know she’s not black. Put it on the stalker board, guys!

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Well, it’s more than that, but the point stands.

http://media.giphy.com/media/ToMjGprAIoAboDxN4QM/giphy.gif

herodotus450

heh, causetism

Sill Bimmons

The Argument From Exception fails again.

Marc Trestmans Windowless Van

Seriously, WI is still tied going into the 4th. They have no players at any talent positions that will make the NFL on either side

Shogun Marcus

Baby Watt seems inevitable.

LemonJello

Bullshit spot in favor of Nebraska

LemonJello

Man. fuck the Cornhuskers with a grain auger.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

What happened to your eyebrows?

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Sill Bimmons

you got what you deserve in rushel shell cousinlovers

Sill Bimmons

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herodotus450

Wisconsin has a band again?

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Sill Bimmons

k state’s qb is the worst player on the field they should be up by 30

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh
Bloody Lethal

Wha now?

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh
LemonJello

Not shown: kid landing in grandma’s curio cabinet full of Precious Moments figurines.

Sill Bimmons

cousinloverfumbre

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh
Doktor Zymm

Okay, I’m off. New heels are surprisingly comfortable! I’ll talk to y’all later, time for lots of singing in Deutsche!

Marc Trestmans Windowless Van

Just for the record. WI is now tied. They suck. I don’t understand this.

Shogun Marcus

These are strange times indeed.

Buddy Cole's Halftime Show

At your earliest convenience, watch this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FENubmZGj8

And find a way to read this:
https://www.amazon.com/You-Have-Right-Remain-Innocent/dp/1503933393

Sill Bimmons

Shorter: Never, ever talk to the police without counsel present.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

One of the few good things from the CATO institute.

Sill Bimmons

And Regent “University” “Law” “School.”

Doktor Zymm

BTW, if any of you ever need to rebuild my body after a space car accident, feel free to graft a laser cannon to my chest to destroy those who disobey me.

Marc Trestmans Windowless Van

Sorry Hermes. We will rebuild you how you are now.

Sill Bimmons

wildcats in the wildcat: irony or coincidence?

Doktor Zymm

You know, I heard that banking industry regulations are really very simple.

Marc Trestmans Windowless Van

Thank you Leela

Bloody Lethal

I’m sick for knowing exactly what you’re referring to and being able to describe the rest of the episode from this point.

Marc Trestmans Windowless Van

I turn the Wisconsin game back on, still only down 7 and they get a fluky pic

Bloody Lethal

KUUUCH

/yea I’m watching the golf.

Bloody Lethal

Why on Earth would you pair up DJ and Koepka?

JustStopDude

Michigan just got a “roughing the snapper” penalty go their way. Basically the fat kid tripped under his own legs and it cost Wisconsin a stop.

Doktor Zymm

Okay, dress is on, off to the opera after one more Futurama ep and glass of wine. Dresses are great, putting on more than one article of clothing is for suckers.

theeWeeBabySeamus

Hence the whole “no pants” mantra. Duh.

Bloody Lethal

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Senor Weaselo

What are they doing?

Doktor Zymm

Das Rheingold

Senor Weaselo

(Note to self, if I ever need a fancy opera date, ask the good Dok. She’ll say no, but it’s the thought that counts, right? I mean, I could also ask the singers I know, but singers are a temperamental bunch.)

Marc Trestmans Windowless Van

You didn’t add tWBS’s hat? How will you drink?

herodotus450

hot causation taek: kickers are not affected by misses on previous fg attempts, they don’t get rattled; their badness causes them to miss kicks. They miss because they are bad at kicking.

herodotus450

Fuck you chevy, those are NOT real people! I will never believe it.

Doktor Zymm

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LemonJello

The Illini did a good? That’s unpossible!

Marc Trestmans Windowless Van

“I can throw up on a stripper any night, tonight I want to not throw up on you”

Marc Trestmans Windowless Van

Netflix died, and my season 5 DVD was all I could find. So instead it is gonna be “The Late Phillip J Fry”

Marc Trestmans Windowless Van

I really am switching to Futurama now. I am gonna go Jurrasic Bark or The Luck the Fryish. And no there aren’t any onions in here I am just gonna cry at the end of either.

theeWeeBabySeamus

You are braver than I. I’m still pissed at Sill for tricking me into watching that again a couple weeks ago.

Sill Bimmons
Doktor Zymm

Oof.

Watching the Zoidberg mating ep now. Classic.

Sill Bimmons

if the dipshit cats hadn’t blown all their timeouts this could have been a scoring drive

Moonbatting Average

Which NFL team should draft Jake Butt?

Senor Weaselo

I’d say the Donks.

Moonbatting Average

Negative. My wife would DEFINITELY buy me that jersey to Dick with me. The Manning jersey she got me is bad enough

Low Commander of the Super Soldiers

Gotta be Browns.

Doktor Zymm

Definitely the Browns.

Unsurprised

The cleaners woke me up and now that they’re gone and my carpet is drying so I can move all my bedroom back into it from the living room I’m going back to sleep. Wake me when November gets here.

Doktor Zymm

Sweet dreams!

Moonbatting Average

Goddammit, Heels

theeWeeBabySeamus

THANK YOU!!!!!

Doktor Zymm

I slept in my makeup last night, and it’s still in good enough shape that I don’t have to redo it. SCORE!

theeWeeBabySeamus

Yep, looks good. No, really.
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Senor Weaselo

Are you a mistress thief yet?

Sill Bimmons

What, if anything, do you know about the Philly Orchestra strike?

Senor Weaselo

I’m guessing it’s in sympathy with the Pittsburgh strike, and no, this isn’t my chance to get a job in Philly. Or Pittsburgh (especially because my teacher’s dad was a longtime violinist there). Or Fort Worth.

Doktor Zymm

I don’t know how to do combination locks yet, still gotta buy the stethoscope.

yeah right

Alas I’m stuck shaving every day unless I want to look like a homeless guy.

Unsurprised

Everything is coming up Milhouse!

theeWeeBabySeamus

Wake’s kicker keeping them in this.
Our kicker can’t nail down a PAT. So frustrating.
But still happy with the current.
SPECIAL TEAMS AND KICKING GAME!!!! PPL FORGET THAT!!!!

Sill Bimmons

SEARFOSS TO MRAZEK FAOR TEH TD WOO

Marc Trestmans Windowless Van

Michigan is gonna let Wisconsin somehow win this, aren’t they?

Doktor Zymm

I want a pogo stick! I had one when I was a kid, I got pretty damn good at it and it was hella fun.

theeWeeBabySeamus

Sounds like a “fail” gif in the making. Gimme an address and you’ll have one by Wednesday. And a camera. Hee hee.

Doktor Zymm

DEAL

theeWeeBabySeamus

Yeah sure. Like you’d ever give a stalker like me your address.
LMAO.
/might be drunk

Sill Bimmons

nononononononononoyeeeeeesssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss

theeWeeBabySeamus

Go ‘Dawgs. Woof Woof.
Good day foar my canid allegiances so far.
“So far” being the key phrase there, of course.

Marc Trestmans Windowless Van

I stopped caring about this game like 2 minutes in and it keeps getting worse. what ep of Futurama are you watching Zymm, I am just gonna go switch over to that.

Doktor Zymm

Right now, the first XMAS ep. Parrot or swarm of lizards?

Low Commander of the Super Soldiers

Girls like swarms of things, right?

Doktor Zymm

I am gonna get you SO MANY LIZARDS!

Low Commander of the Super Soldiers

But those won’t protect me in case of a surprise robot attack.

Doktor Zymm

They might, I bet a swarm of lizards could clog up Santa’s TOW missile.

Low Commander of the Super Soldiers

Fair point. And worst comes to worst, I could probably summon BOLTMAN to do battle with Santa.

I feel like I just created a post for this Holiday season….

Doktor Zymm

EPIC HOLIDAY BATTLE!
I wanna read that.

Marc Trestmans Windowless Van

You can get the parrot or 500 stink lizards. I am getting you the lizards

Low Commander of the Super Soldiers

Buddy’s birthday, so starting off a brewery hop at Green Flash.

Vanilla Rye Porter was a great decision to start with to kill my palate…

Doktor Zymm

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