Instant Hippo Thoughts – Week 9, 2016

I am not having a good year. Everything after Superb Owl L has been a slip and slide made of bile and vomitus. So on that note, congratulations to your AFC West champion Oakland Raiders. And kudos to JDR for a fantastic gameplan, well-executed. So much for that Sunday Night Football showdown to remember. JEEBUS. That Week 11 bye can’t get here fast enough. Changes are needed.

I got to the final two in my Survivor Pool, and lost thanks to Green Bay shitting themselves at home to the mighty Humps. Making sense of the NFC North is a fool’s errand, but Aaron Rodgers is back to being a hot mess.

Don’t look now, but fucking DETROIT is 5-4 after winning at Minny in OT. Yeah, that surprised pretty much everyone. The Vikes seemed to have it won with a very late TD score, but the Lions completed one long pass down the seam and spiked the ball with 2 seconds to play, setting up Prater from 58 (which he drilled). Strange days, indeed, as Minnesota looks shaky on both sides of the ball now, and perhaps in freefall. A missed Blair Walsh extra point would also prove crucial, and one has to assume he will show up buried under one of those 10,000 frozen lakes come spring thaw.

The guy who beat me in Survivor won with the Chefs, and that pisses me off. Those lucky fucks got luckier than usual, with BORT doing his usual bumblefuck shit, punt returners fumbling, etc. These Jaguras need to sign their DNRs already, FFS. Kansas City is an uber-fraudulent 6-2.

San Diego finally closed one out, doing it with two defensive TDs and Beast Mode…Melvin Gordon?? in a 43-35 shootout win over the Titans. One thing for sure, the Chargers won’t leave you bored in your late game window RedZone watching.

The Giants also closed one out…but I would hardly give them much credit for it. The Iggles shot themselves in the foot like it was offseason in a nightclub. Elisha in particular was just brutal late. But then again, he’s Elisha, ya know?

The other New Jack club lost when they had to re-kick due to being offside on a fucking kickoff (with about 5 minutes to play), and the 2nd one was run back for a LOLfin TD. This might have been the worst-QB’d non-scab, non-weather influenced game one could ever see.

DAK! and Zeke toured The Factory and it went about like one would expect, other than Dez having merely one catch. Again, chasing the Detroit perfecto is a very real pursuit.

The less anyone says about Ram It!/Panthers, the better. At one point, RedZone showed like 5 straight minutes worth and it was fucking harrowing. 13-10 in favor of the team not saddled with Case Fucking Keenum, that’s all one need know.

Road Saints are pretty awful, but still more than 2 TDs better than anywhere, anytime Fightin’ Tomsulas. Not sure that Chip Kelly is gonna last even one full season, and gee whillikers, my heart will just fucking break for him.

Lastly, The Ben tried YET AGAIN to come back from injury way too fast, and The Ratbirds beat The Monkeyshit out of him. Garbage time made his statline and the 21-14 final score look way more respectable than the true reality. Pittsburgh continues to be able to run the ball not one damned bit, which is the story of their disappoint season.

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Reclusive, vulgar Broncos fan. Also a proud fookin' Evertonian. Likely dropped on my head repeatedly as a small child. [Insert George Carlin quote followed by thoughtful nod.]
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Fronkenshteen

Just traded away Jordan Howard for Amari Cooper (& Adrian Peterson, but who cares?).
Did I win?

BrettFavresColonoscopy

Keeper league is the only way where that isn’t a coup. And even then you probably still won.

Cuntler
entropy

He looks like he eats the souls of small children.

Senor Weaselo
Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

FUCK Fredbird; what a fucking dipshit.

entropy

The only “Highlights” from the Jets/Dolphins game were the magazines left behind by children in the parking lot.

jjfozz

Well, the game was played by two teams led by Goofus and Goofus.

Remember Goofus and Gallant? I always hated Gallant. Fucking brown noser.

entropy

I was always waiting for Goofus to fuck up really badly and get Gallant killed.

I was a disturbed child.

nomonkeyfun

Children, I don’t think so. This is Florida we’re talking about, I mean Florida Man.
https://twitter.com/_floridaman?lang=en
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jjfozz

The Ravens Steelers game was like watching two drunken elderly men play wheelchair joust in the dark. What a clusterfuck.

nomonkeyfun

That actually sounds really entertaining.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Especially if the guys are having fun, in which case you don’t even have to feel guilty about it!

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Regarding Kansas City, I’ll say the same thing I did last year: WHY THE FUCK DO TEAMS KEEP LOSING TO THESE GUYS?

Even my Raiders lost to them. It can’t because they’re good. It simply can’t.

Enrico Pallazzo

How has Blair Walsh not been cut yet? By the team and by his teammates.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly
LemonJello

What’s the opposite of greased up? Cause I think that’s what Mr. Winkles is getting coated with prior to his journey.

blaxabbath

Dawn. Isn’t that what they use on oil spill ducks?

Also, we haven’t had a disastrous oil spill lately. I feel like we’ve got another one of those coming by 2nd quarter of 2017.

LemonJello

I should have asked “What’s the opposite of lubed up?” as in “Let’s make this as painful and drawn out as possible.”

\pulls bottle out of bottom desk drawer, takes long pull, goes back to Air Traffic Control.

blaxabbath

We know it’s all about head games with kickers but I have a theory that, as a whole, they are so mentally weak that coaches don’t want to get rid of their shitty ones (who deserve to get cut) for fear that the replacements will join the team already useless because they know that they’re playing for a coach who will get rid of them if they fuck up.

It’s a vicious cycle that has many NFL coaches hoping their kickers get in serious bye week car accidents.

blaxabbath

The shine is wearing off of Oregon as (a) 3-6 shows Helfrich isn’t the solution, and (b) everyone in the NCAA has 13 different uniform combinations each season. If Phil Knight is gonna throw out $10+ million/year, why not just bring back in Chip?

Doktor Zymm

We live in a world where the Cowboys look like a strong, legitimate, Super Bowl possibility. It’s a sad thing.

blaxabbath

Christ — and the game is in Houston….

LemonJello

Houston? How’d they get a Superb Owl? There’s no team there.

Trevor Semen

I’m at school, drunk enough that it’s fun, but sober enough that I’m not retarded

ballsofsteelandfury

There goes the theory that Trevor is actually Sill in disguise…

Trevor Semen

Is the joke that Sill only ever gets drunk enough to get wasted or that Sill is never up at 9 AM?

blaxabbath

It’s that ‘retarded’ is offensive language.

Trevor Semen

As long as you’re not calling someone who is actually disabled “retarded,” I see little harm. I mean this is a site where we were making fun of a stroke victim, ffs.

blaxabbath
blaxabbath

Also, it is appropriate to make fun of persons with disabilities.

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Trevor Semen

Fuck, math is hard now.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Being drunk at high school was some of the most fun I’ve ever had in my life, but you gotta wait until you’ve been accepted to college to pull that stunt. Find a nice safety school with rolling admission (Georgia Tech filled the need for me) and you’re good to go.

jjfozz

You need to work harder. At getting hammered.

Trevor Semen

I had to lift weights in my third period, so I controlled myself. Safety and shit.

LemonJello

As a father of teenage daughters, all teenage boys are “retarded” (Teenage LemonJello definitely included).

ballsofsteelandfury

The story of the Steelers’ disappoint season is that we can’t get our shit together to save our lives. This offense should be Drew Brees at his peak-level and we can’t score more than 15 points against the likes of Miami and Baltimore. This team SUUUUUUUUUUCKS.

Don T

2016 so far:
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ArmedandHammered

Thanks Hippo! I look forward to these but since I was unable to watch this weekend (which sounds like a bit of a blessing in retrospect), your distillation of the games was particularly welcome this morning.

Shogun Marcus

Banner? Me? I am honored.

ballsofsteelandfury

The magic of it is that it can apply to ANY game.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Even so, I know EXACTLY which game he was talking about.