NFL News:

• The Packers traded a conditional draft pick to the Chiefs in exchange for Knile Davis. Lacy’s gimpy ankle means they need more help behind the line.
  • Because what’s clearly holding the Packers back right now is the running game.
• Having possibly borrowed something from the owner’s private stash, Chuck Pagano says he’s “encouraged” by the play of the Colts so far.
  • “We gotta figure out a way to become a four-quarter team,” says a man unaware he’s on the firing line.
• Vontaze Burfict is being scrutinized by the League for two hits from Sunday’s game versus the Patriots, a low hit on Martellus Bennett and a stomp on LeGarrette Blount.
  • Not to nitpick, but the stomp would get Ndamukong Suh two games.
• Chip either liked what he saw or he’s no longer going with The Flow, but Kaep is getting the start Sunday versus Tampa Bay.
• Pass Interference specialist Richard Sherman explained his 3rd quarter imitation of a four year-old on the Seahawks sideline during their victory over the Falcons. “Things didn’t get communicated the correct way, and that’s how it happens.” They won, so Pete Carroll ain’t care.
  • On the topic of sloppy avian fellatio, check out Michael Silver tongue-bathing Russell Wilson:
    • “…it was abundantly clear that the world’s best quarterback under the age of 30 is a 5-foot-10 5/8-inch wizard with a preternaturally low pulse rate impervious to pressure.”
• On the topic of penalties, did everyone catch Sean McDonough last night?
  • https://twitter.com/SportsCast_THN/status/788352784995262464
  • That’s a man who’s had enough of that garbage.
  • Stats bear it out. PFT says Jerome Boger’s crew calls, on average, 4 more penalties per game than the average. ESPN has a chart showing that Walt Coleman’s crew calls the fewest penalties, at just over 12 per game.

ESPN has a nice story about Twickenham, where the Rams & Giants will play Sunday. Those Commentists who follow rugby know the place, but for others it will be a nice introduction to the “cathedral of English rugby”. Having visited last time I was in London, I highly recommend going on a tour. Plus, English pubs!

Finally, somebody must have dusted the room while I was watching this story about a 14 year-old “super fan” the Saints signed to a one-day contract to be their social media rep for their road game versus the Chiefs. His name is Jarrius Robertson, he has something awful called Biliary Atresia, and he’s been through more than most of us will endure in a lifetime. He met the Saints during a trip to the hospital he was staying in, and they like him so much he goes to practices and yells at players. There’s video of him giving it to Falcons fans at a recent home game.

https://youtu.be/Lw3a_MKUKBs

Needless to say, if he survived a year in a coma, he can handle a weekend in KC.

By the time this thread is published, the Cleveland Indians may have won Game 4 and are set to play in the World Series. Clearly, the fifth seal is being prepared for opening. As it says in Revelations 6: 9-11:

(9) When he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain because of the word of God and the testimony they had maintained. (10) They called out in a loud voice, “How long, Sovereign Lord, holy and true, until you judge the inhabitants of the earth and avenge our blood?” (11) Then each of them was given a white robe, and they were told to wait a little longer, until the full number of their fellow servants, their brothers and sisters, were killed just as they had been.

Waiting for the National League Champion to be declared is the “a little longer”; the ‘white robe” is the AL Champion t-shirt.

The Cavaliers winning the NBA championship was the fourth seal. The upcoming election is the 6th seal.

Tonight’s sports:

• MLB Playoff: Game 3: Cubs at Dodgers – 8:00 PM | FS1/Sportsnet
• NHL Hockey:
  • Penguins at Habs – 7:30 PM | Sportsnet1
  • Flyers at Blackhawks – 8:30 PM | NBCSN
• NBA Preseason Basketball: Clippers at Kings – 10:00 PM | ESPN

The third debate is tomorrow, and the election is three weeks today.

WE’VE ALMOST MADE IT!