NFL News:
- There now appears to be an actual funding plan for building the Raiders a stadium in Oakland:
- The players:
- $600 million in private money from Ronnie Lott’s investment group
- $200 million in public money
- $200 million in NFL “money” from the NFL stadium building fund
- $300 million from Mark Davis
- This would result in a 55,000- to 58,000-seat stadium, plus about 8,500 parking spaces, with an “entertainment complex” similar to what New England has in Foxboro adjacent to the facility.
- The players:
- Some trouble on the non-traditional football front:
- Starting in 2017, the League will eliminate the 9:30 ET start time for London games, instead having them run during the 1:00 ET slate of games. This is because of poor ratings in North America and Asia.
- The League is trying to get ahead of rumours that it will scrap all but the “event” Thursday games from the schedule. To support the League, JERRAL says he loves all Thursday games.
- No doubt the League will try to avoid having to discount the cable fees it successfully extorted a decade ago when this all-season Thursday game experiment started.
- Adrian Peterson is starting to run again.
- If he were able to run fast enough to turn back time to before the Vikings started their slide, I’m sure Zygi would appreciate it.
- Joe Theismann has opinions on whether Kirk Cousins is worth the money Washington would be expected to pay him in a long-term deal.
- The better opinions are, as you’d expect, in the Joe-free second half of the article.
- HODOR is still in concussion protocol, making him questionable for the Colts Monday Night game versus the Jets. That’ll help those sagging ratings.
I’m calling it the “Inaugural Bobby Petrino Memorial 49ers Coaching Watch”. Do I care if not one of them is dead? No; no, I don’t.
- No matter whether it’s called a firing or a parting of ways, either way Mark Helfrich will no longer be coaching the Oregon Ducks.
- Trent Baalke accepts all of the blame for the current state of the 49ers.
- I wonder if his daughter shares that assessment, or lays the blame on Greg Roman?
- LET SPECULATION COMMENCE:
- Bleacher Report posits that Oregon should go get Chip, and not wait because that’ll hurt 2017 recruiting.
- Opinions among actual local reporters vary:
- Some reporters say not only is Chip staying, but that he doesn’t want to go back to college.
- Other reporters say he could be gone as early as this Monday, but only if Phil Knight buys out the contract.
- Meanwhile, Jim Tomsula – who is earning $7 million over the next two years also not to coach the Niners – has made his way from Santa Fe to Lubbock, Texas, where he is currently hoping the staff of the Buddy Holly Center are interested in some buttons he found.
Two long-form recommendations today. The first is from ESPN proper and mostly for Seahawks fans, and is about Kam Chancellor. It’s a little hagiographic, but if you are at all interested in not-Richard-Sherman, it’s for you.
The general long-form recommendation is from ESPN’s The Undefeated, about the 45th anniversary today of the first airing of “Brian’s Song”.
Tonight, if none of the live action interests you, your homework is to watch it again, and accept that someone is cutting dusty onions in the next room.
Tonight’s sports:
- MLS Soccer Playoff: Toronto FC vs. Montreal – 7:00 PM | FS1 / TSN
- College Basketball:
- Purdue at Louisville – 7:15 PM | ESPN
- Virginia Tech at Michigan – 7:15 PM | ESPN2
- North Carolina at Indiana – 9:15 PM | ESPN
- Ohio State at Virginia – 9:15 PM | ESPN2
- NHL Hockey:
- Penguins at Islanders – 8:00 PM | NBCSN
- Leafs at Flames – 8:30 PM | Sportsnet
- Sharks at Kings – 10:30 PM | NBCSN
The Forbes list of most valuable NHL franchises came out today, with the Rangers #1, followed by the Habs and Leafs.
Sorry Andrew, BETTER LUCK NEXT YEAR!
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At least he knows where to dispose of the bodies.
From a rando FB convo to you; this guy seems legit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-v2E3FZv6c4
I told him he reminds me of Masta Ace:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qjaslKsZbE
http://68.media.tumblr.com/3e708392e20abd2df93a2d03d51af88d/tumblr_ofzneu2tEM1rojphdo1_1280.jpg
Mmmm. Veal.
For whomever mentioned on the previous page, I can confirm that the whisky advent calendar is a worthwhile purchase, even if you don’t believe in Jeebus:
https://www.masterofmalt.com/whiskies/drinks-by-the-dram/the-whisky-advent-calendar/
I just ordered one as a gift for my buddy expecting his second child, and timed it so it will be delivered the day before I show up at his house semi-announced.
That was me. I’ve always wanted to get one.
Do eeeeet. They throw in some gems so it’s not all 10 year drams.
I just thought they were too drunk to finish spelling “adventure.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrMmRKH_vP8&feature=youtu.be&t=4m39s
Unrelated, but it’s not advisable to go from not eating any junk food for a couple of weeks to eating nothing but it in the last 16 hours.
Nuts. I just wanted the nonsequitur of people chanting “Cox” out loud
Welcome to the next month.
What? Shut up, you’re drunk.
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@ALXMAC it was 100% scrubs related. I am getting this song in again before what I am assuming is gonna be a terrible finally because JJ Abrams can’t write an act three of his own.
https://youtu.be/RGT4V6JmINA
*Stephen King
The liberal activists I know are possibly the dumbest people alive because they have bought into the myth propagated by those with actual power that peaceful protests ever mattered, which leads them to continuing in the long line of futile shit that is currently exemplified in the Standing Rock protest — a group of people who would be best served by Trump on inauguration day having the Army or National Guard forcibly remove them before they all freeze to death.
Counterpoint: A shit ton of women protesting in Poland got a draconian anti-abortion law defeated.
That being said, liberal activists don’t seem interested in the nitty-gritty of governing and seem to prefer protesting because it’s easier.
EXACTLY!
Governing is hard. Self-righteous bitching about being downtrodden is cathartic as Hell.
BTW, counter-protests, protesting Trump’s (or anyone else’s) events, and nonsense like that is a counter-productive in that it alienates everyone who isn’t you, emboldens the opposition hardliners, and is time that is infinitely better spent actually working FOR your candidate/cause.
People say Hillary was a terrible candidate. Yeah, but so was Trump. But the campaign promised something to vote FOR while Hillary spent eight years in a high-profile position and pissed away all of that time that could’ve been spent after the 2008 post-mortems identified this same failure of not getting people to like or give a fuck about her. Hell, even Richard Fucking Nixon learned that lesson.
The only thing that allows me to sleep without fear is the next president is just a twitter troll that only grabs his phone at 2 am when he goes to the bathroom.
http://www.ibtimes.com/fbi-nsa-rule-41-changes-federal-rules-expand-governments-hacking-capabilities-2453034
Is he looking at the introduction of driverless cars too?
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/saudi-prince-alwaleed-says-women-must-drive/ar-AAkWkRa?OCID=ansmsnnews11
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rj2CD5xgpNY
+1 for both Scrubs and “My Dads Youtube Playlist” reference. Plus he’s a Scotsman.
Sweet, sweet police state action…. hard core DP, bareback.
http://www.ibtimes.com/fbi-nsa-rule-41-changes-federal-rules-expand-governments-hacking-capabilities-2453034
So… they’ll be watching you?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMOGaugKpzs
Listening, downloading, etc., etc., etc.
I like your idea of a Tantric Sex State better.
I wish I had come up with that!
It’s like looking into the future
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqfDqDB8uzE
At least I’m not Ted
Woops.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xy-4FlDiSBo
I know I’ve posted this song previously, but Frightened Rabbit finally made an official video, and while it doesn’t have two lesbians doing a truly tripped out dance like “Get Out” did, I think this one is nearly as good:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ki2FdTDhx7E
You had me at “I Wish I Was Sober”.
Plus the song is better than “Get Out”.
I thought “Get Out” was fuckin amazing, and this is worlds better. They’ve really improved with each album, although “Pedestrian Verse” has some of the strongest solo cuts.
Well I’m already inclined to like Scottish bands; thank you for sharing.
Great. Now I can’t sleep again.
The fuckin’ Catalina Wine Mixer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6dE0DckMHY
I heard someone refer to snopes.com as the “liberal lie generator” today. SNOPES. The only positive thing about this is that maybe these people can be taken advantage of by modern Nigerian Prince email scams and the like.
http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn285/brousc20/tumblr_m0kb4yiQmi1qawm4u.gif
They have been, except the Nigerian prince turned out to be a deadbeat, fatass loser from New York.
This is why I just decided to not argue with anyone. The only way these people will change their minds is if they suffer enough to blame the people in power and vote for the other side.
Yeah, but these people have their responsible parties pre-selected… whatever happens while Trump is in charge, he cannot possibly be to blame, not while there are blacks, Mexicans, Jews, libtards, women, intellectual elites, gays, and the media to blame. They may not cause the problems, but by pointing them out, they are somehow MORE to blame.
Not everyone who voted Trump is a hardcore party loyalist. A lot of people just believed the bullshit that Hillary Clinton was the worst person ever and bought Trump’s blustery bullshit. These are the type of people who go on about “both parties being the same” and just vote for the challenger or whomever seems more likable. Those people will turn on Trump in a couple years because they just vote based on feelings and never really had any principles or ideology to begin with.
Solid point, which also brings me to my next question: when can we justifiably be bitter toward people who “had to vote their conscience” and vote Gary “What’s an Aleppo?” Johnson, or Jill “Nuclear Power Plants Are Big Bombs!” Stein?
I mean, if I spent all my time being bitter about people having only a superficial understanding of most of the world, I’d be doing nothing else. I’d be exhausted.
But I think those folks fall under the same category as the FEELZ voters who thought Trump would be change. Johnson and Stein FELT different because they don’t come with the baggage of being the “establishment.”
Basically, people vote for stupid fucking reasons and I’m becoming a believer that we should use the Electoral College as intended and eliminate the popular vote for President entirely.
Yes
The midterms are going to be a bloodbath.
What, you mean like mid-semester, Spring 2017? That’s about how long I think it’ll take for the bloodshed to really take off.
I guess we could see the sort of violent unrest we saw in the 1960’s. I’m more worried the Democrats in power will be spineless whereas the Leftists on the streets will be brainless leaving no organized opposition to the Republicans when they inevitably fall out of favor.
That’s exactly what’s going to happen unless history and the Democrats’ ongoing circular firing squad somehow cease to be
Presuming we get there.
I think this ass clown IS a full-blown fascist, and the stuff going on across Europe ought to scare the shit out of anyone.
He will also do ANYTHING to avoid humiliation. Now that he has power, do you really think he has any problem with setting forth a little blood in the streets? Shit no, I think it would make his tiny orane dick hard.
And what happens when Americans get scared? They get more reflexively reactionary, regardless of who is causing the fear event.
We’re due for a recession. The president’s party usually loses seats in a midterm no matter what happens. Republicans can’t help but fuck up government in ways that actually impact people.
I don’t actually think the next 2-4 years will be bad in the way people think it is. We’re probably not going to see a rise in fascism as much as we’ll see the standard Republican playbook of stripping down government and selling off its functions for a profit while leaving society to rust on blocks in the rain.
I think that the “alt-right” folks will be emboldened until the novelty wears off, because the illicit thrill of telling a racist joke is more fun than shouting racial epithets in public with no reaction.
The real problem will be pretty much what ICRM says… there’s gonna be wholesale looting and a serious reduction in federal aid programs (again), and then the FEELZ voters will all wake up with horrible political hangovers and cause a mid-term shift that will put us back into gridlock for a few more years.
I don’t want to imply the white nationalist part of this isn’t a problem because it is frightening to know violence will increase. All the non-white males of America will see their rights eroded with impunity, but that was always a feature of the mainstream Right.
Assuming they bother to vote. Remember, turnout in midterms is pathetic.
That’s a much more realistic way of looking at the next 2 years at least. Odds on him finishing the term? Be it through impeachment or retiring because reasons?
50/50? President is a hard job and even if Trump outsources the work to Pence, he’ll still have to deal with the intense schedule of dealing with everyone else’s problems.
The wildcard is that if Pence is really the guy picking cabinet members, they might be loyal enough to him to invoke the 25th Amendment and force a Constitutional crisis. That would be totally uncharted territory.
Yeah, I’m insomniac enough without THAT added to my list of random shit that pops into my head at 2 AM, ICRM.
THAT would be a shitshow. Although it would be interesting to see that attempted. In a “Browns fan forced to watch the soon-to-be 0-16 Browns” kind of way.
This was from a season of 24. Very dramatic shit.
I don’t think it’s likely to happen unless Trump really loses it. These folks are awful, but they’re as interested in keeping the world alive as we are. They’re fine letting Trump be the face of their shit and letting him be the one people tear down for all the bad stuff that comes with it. Hell, after a couple years I think Trump will be eager to take the proverbial bullet so he can go back to Mar-a-lago.
Yep. The Democrats are already fucked.
They need a leader who isn’t a bureaucrat or a raging old eccentric. If this election cycle proved anything, it’s that the Dems don’t have a bench. This like watching an aging, expensive baseball team bumble its way to 75 wins and knowing there’s easy way out.
And yet Pilosi is about to be re-elected as house minority leader.
A perfect example. Hell, she’s too old to be a Boomer and most of those assholes need to be put out to pasture.
No, they don’t. Booker is a Clinton clone. Ellison is irrelevant. Warren is too old and just a bad politician. Tulsi Gabbard is the perfect technocratic candidate, which is the last thing the party needs.
Fuck ’em.
That makes them worthy of even more contempt than the actual fucking nazis
People don’t learn; they just dig in.
If you push them. People tend to not separate themselves from their opinions. Attacking an opinion IS attacking you and people instinctively will defend themselves.
That’s why “debate” is pointless. It’s not exchanging ideas, it’s locking horns on the savanna for dominance.
If this wasn’t true, I’d laugh.
“The like” includes electing a nepotistic “billionaire” as president!
Well, thanks to tonight’s South Park, “you’re a retarded little shit-bitch” has just entered my vocabulary.
Gonna have to use that one too
I really wish they still had stand alone episodes.
This long ass story line that they fucked up by waiting until the last minute to write episodes…its tiring…
Mike Zimmer had eye surgery tonight apparently. Practice for Bradford?
leadership by example!
You guys are looking at it wrong (just like Bradford). He had his eye made just liked Bradford’s to understand how Sammy sees the field.
http://imgur.com/GWNYYTo
I still don’t get why not the easiest fix for TNF, as I suggested in my firstest DFO thingy. Keep calling it Thursday Night Football if you want (NEVAR admit you were wrong ,, amirite??) just move it to Friday. Fridays are the goddamned armpit of the week, teevee wise. Those of us in the marketing sweetspot have no plans and are home to watch. ENTERTAIN US.
TGINTNF?
rolls right off the tongue!
Marketing wise, I think there is one main reason why “IT IS KNOWN” that TV is garbage on Friday. For most folks, it’s payday. That means having money, going out, buying drugs/drank, watching the HS football game/movie premiere of your choice, etc.
Advertisers ($$$) don’t want to pay big monies when most viewers aren’t at home to watch whatever they’re selling. Sorry to marginalize your current lot in life.
But look at it this way – you, as the NFL, would get pretty much 100% of that market. And we “home on Fridays” tend to be the people who binge drink, buy boner pills, etc.
I’m being half-serious but can’t site or remember the source; aren’t there traditions/rules/laws set up in most states to prevent the NFL/NCAA from playing football on Fridays?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsZKrctSDaw
Oh, shit. Costco!?
http://www.notsoprofessionalbeer.com/2016/10/2016-brewers-advent-calendar-at-costco.html
Gott im Himmel!!
This fucking homerism for TFC proves that there better not be a Leafs Cup run in my lifetime.
Edmonton East? I hope not.
Homerism or Nationalism? Asking for a friend, friend.
Does Homerism have a Homer Tax?
I DON’T WANT ANY MORE BEARS!
Homerism: For when you want less movement in your Movementarianism.
As proof the next four years will be one gigantic Aristocrats joke, David Petraeus is being considered for Secretary of State in the most ironic appointment of all fucking time.
This is even dumber than when Reagan made Al Haig SoS
I’m in charge here!
This isn’t a presidency, it’s fucking performance art.
WE. ARE. ALL. GON. DIE.
Get the fuck out http://imgur.com/caoxtsd
Stop.
Sorry
I refuse to believe that actually works as well.
I should go find a bottle shop that is selling Advent “calendars” with different beers for each day.
I’d be interested in one of those as well.
http://topkit.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Whisky-Advent-Calendar-2013_600.jpg
So long, liver
OK, now with opium derivatives!!
I want this.
https://www.amazon.com/Bobs-Burgers-Burger-Book-Recipes/dp/0789331144
No lockout for El Beisbol.
Funny how the sport with the strongest union is the one that has the most labor harmony.
http://thumbnails115.imagebam.com/51650/bcb7fe516490321.jpg
Shame Jadaveon Clowney has sucked in the NFL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIu22jokKKk
I can’t find a copy of that photoshopped image I made of Chip Kelly chasing Paul Ryan. 🙁
FOUND IT
http://thumbnails115.imagebam.com/51525/e838a9515247948.jpg
I need to edit out the guys behind Ryan. He blends in; too much white
“Let’s switch the Montreal Impact with the Alouettes for overtime and see if anyone notices.”
Did I just look up flights to Toronto next weekend? Yes, yes I did.
Bonus question: on points?
888 dollars, cant afford. Don’t have that much in Westjet dollars.
How about a little Christmas music?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9jbdgZidu8
Excellent. Allow me to retort.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-oVPVsCqs4
Joe THEESmann thinks Cousin’s worth a leg, but not an arm
Wednesday nights feel like the unsportsiest of nights, but I’m willing to trade that for Thursday if it means no more crappy NFL-like substance that night.
WHAT A FUCKING GOAL
I was looking for a Morena Baccarin gif because I am watching Deadpool, but google search led me to this
I would disappoint her so hard. Worst 30 seconds of her life.
I remember her
JESUS FUCK. 2016 was bad enough, now we won’t even have those wacky 14-hour London-flavoured Sunday MANDATORY viewing windows to look forward to?
I wish I could turn back time, not have kids, and just become a non-religious terrorist.
So just a postal worker?
Inshallah
Aloha snackbar!
The weather in Toronto looks just like the UK, so some will feel right at home.
#DumpKelloggs further demonstrates that those alt-righters who claim to love the free market and freedom of speech don’t actually comprehend what those things mean.
Im not sure they even know what “comprehend” means
But who will supply their corn pone now?
They also thought Trump would “drain the swamp” although he could argue he’s kept that promise.
The funniest part is the claim that 45 million Breitbart readers. There aren’t 45 million people who’ve ever heard of that site.
The musical lineup for Christmas in Rockefeller Center is nauseating.
Whoo hoo! Calling for snow in Vancouver next week. Watch the news for the annual “lookit these idiots who can’t drive” story.
Just like a snowfall in Dublin. Shut it down, stay home.
Knowing what I know about the smartypants-ness about this here commenting community, I highly recommend “The City And The City” by China Whatshisface.
What a golazo by Altidore. These games are nuts.
MOAR SMOKE BOMBS!!
Seems the security is as tight as the Impact back 4.
/I will show myself out
I saw Deadpool in the theater. I am watching now on HBCGo. How are theaters still a thing when they are objectively worse that watching at home by any standard? Picture quality, sound, seating, having to fucking go there, other assholes in the theater, 25 bucks for popcorn and a soda
Not to mention no judging looks when you pour a flask of rum into that giant fucking soda you hit when you asked for a small..
I’m going to say tradition. I like the immersive experience of the theatre, but I don’t buy snacks.
Anyone watching the futbol here in balmy Canadia?
TFC just tied it, and someone has set off a smoke bomb.
These have been 2 crazy games. Has been phenomenal. Told Mrs Cola I should have gone by wasting all our points for hotel and air. I got the look of scorn from a pregnant woman. Then she ordered pizza!
Hopefully without chicken.
Thin crust pepperoni from a mom and pop shop down the street. It -9 here I am not going out to pick up anything!
Jesus Impact. Play some fucking defence.
Finally got the truck detailed…
I see you went for the GWAR package.
I think that’s the limited edition GWAR+Liberace package.
It’s okay, I guess.
http://67.media.tumblr.com/22515f663e1a40fd2ea4632bab8c5cda/tumblr_nos2dvrThy1rraalgo1_500.jpg
Predator 2 is on. That counts as sports, right?
“You got that right.”
-Jared Fogle, Bill Cosby, Darren Sharper,
This is really good scotchy
I laughed so loud at that, I scared myself.
“Hey, I’m a Predator Too!”
– Dave Meggett
“Can I get in this club?”
-Mark Chmura
I am a bad Bears fan in that I have never seen Brian’s Song.
“Is that about Urlacher?”
-Hipster Bears Fan