Your “Dammit Ratbirds – You Had One Job!” Tuesday Evening Open Thread

I don’t care – it’s the NFL photo of the year.

NFL News:

  • Eric Dickerson has already begun trolling Jeff Fisher by saying Jim Harbaugh would be a great Rams coach.
    • Because if anyone knows about tampering with college football, it would be SMU grad Eric Dickerson.
    • At the thought of the Michigan job, Chip Kelly shuddered when he considered how cold it would be for all his Hawaiian quarterbacks.
  • Early names mentioned as Rams full-time coach for 2017 are: Tom Coughlin, Mike Shanahan, Kyle Shanahan,  Jim Bob Cooter and Josh McDaniels.
    • It’s honestly too bad that Marty Schottenheimer has Alzheimer’s disease, because he could develop the offence into a running juggernaut, hiding some of Goff’s early mistakes.
      • Only to lose the job to Norval once they’re good.
    • Interim head coach John Fassel – not up for consideration.
  • The MVP talk around Dreamboat has been turned up again after last night’s 406-yard performance against Baltimore.
    • the worst part about the hagiography is that letting the Ravens back into the game, only to snatch victory from them, seems to have enhanced the myth around this season of redemption & revenge.
    • while I have nowhere near the loathing for the Pats like some others on this-here site, no. NO. NO!

  • With Ryan Tannehill out for the season, the Dolphins have decided to rest better investment Mike Pouncey as well. It’s a “nagging hip injury” and definitely not an “Aaron Hernandez” thing.
    • This will allow them to activate Dion Jordan to back up Anthony Steen at center.

  • Stealing from Crimebeat! again, but Michael Floyd is in a whole heap of trouble. He’s lucky Joe Arpaio is gone.
    • He was arrested and charged with obstructing a roadway, DUI impaired to the slightest degree, DUI BAC over .08 and failure to obey a police officer. He was booked and then released from the Scottsdale jail at 4:55 a.m.
      • per ESPN & police reports, he was asleep with his foot on the brake at an intersection.
        • when queried about where he got consumed the alcohol, he responded with “on the team plane”.
    • he was also arrested for DUI while at Notre Dame.

Your long-form recommended read of the day is from nfl.com, and is on Seattle GM John Schneider.

Seen here in college working on his car.
Seen here in college working on his car.
No word about his sister.
No word about his cousin.

It covers the length of his career, and for a League puff-piece it covers all the bases:

  • His upbringing near Green Bay.
  • His harassment of Ron Wolf for a job with the Packers.
  • His moves to Kansas City & Washington before returning to Green Bay.
  • How he ended up going to Seattle.
  • How the hiring of Pete Carroll felt like he was already being fucked over.
  • How they learned to work with each other.
  • Insight into their draft strategy.
  • Success, and beyond.

It’s no 2000-words about the firing of Jeff Fisher, but you got all you needed on that from Internet Dad yesterday. And I figured, why repeat; Fisher never did, and look where that got him.


College Bowl season starts this Saturday:

Saturday, Dec. 17, 2016

Bowl (Away vs. Home) Location Time (ET) / TV
AFR Celebration Bowl
NC Central vs. Grambling State
Georgia Dome
Atlanta, GA
Noon / ABC
Gildan New Mexico Bowl
New Mexico vs. UTSA
University Stadium
Albuquerque, NM
2pm / ESPN
Las Vegas Bowl
Houston vs. San Diego State
Sam Boyd Stadium
Las Vegas, NV
3:30pm / ABC
Raycom Media Camellia Bowl
Appalachian State vs. Toledo
Cramton Bowl
Montgomery, AL
5:30pm / ESPN
AutoNation Cure Bowl
UCF vs. Arkansas State
Camping World Stadium
Orlando, FL
5:30pm / CBSSN
R+L Carriers New Orleans Bowl
Southern Miss vs. UL Lafayette
Mercedes-Benz Superdome
New Orleans, LA
9pm / ESPN

Early bowl games have the best sponsors. “Famous Idaho Potato Bowl”, because “Humanitarian Bowl” was too Mormon. The “Marmot Boca Raton Bowl”, because Colorado clothing makes sense in Florida.

I’m a touch disappointed DFO-CON couldn’t make the Vegas Bowl work.


Finally, responding to a request initiated from Devon Still, the League has decided to allow teams to choose which cancer cause to promote/combat during October. The program will still be called “A Crucial Catch”, and they can change their cause annually.

  • The campaign will still focus on preventing and detecting cancer through education and screenings, rather than committing funds to cancer research.
    • which will take some heat off the NFL for their questionable donation practices: (per mmqb.com)

The fundraising model has also been scrutinized. For every “pink item” sold, the NFL receives a royalty from the merchandiser, which it donates in full to the ACS. The NFL does not profit off sales of this merchandise. But the royalty is a fraction of the wholesale price, which is a fraction of what consumers spend (about 12.5% of the retail price, according to a 2013 report by ESPN’s Darren Rovell).

  • No word on if “Cleats for a Cause” will continue next year.
    • Despite testimonials & questionable science, Dorial Green-Beckham will be informed that he cannot use this to promote Yeezy Boost 350.

Tonight’s sports:

  • NHL Hockey: Blackhawks at Rangers – 7:00 PM | NBCSN / Sportsnet
  • NBA Basketball:
    • Timberwolves at Bulls – 8:00 PM | ESPN / TSN
    • Thunder at Trail Blazers – 10:30 PM | ESPN / Sportsnet1
  • College Basketball:
    • South Carolina State at Clemson – 7:00 PM | ESPNU
    • Temple at Villanova – 7:00 PM | FS1

Seriously, Ravens, you can’t do one nice thing for the fans? WE FORGOT ABOUT RAY LEWIS!

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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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WCS

Milana Vaynturb (aka Lily from AT&T) will be on tomorrow’s @Midnite.

You’ve been notified.

BrettFavresColonoscopy

I think I’m getting a cold. So obviously I’m getting drunk(er).

Unsurprised

Drown the cold. Excellent idea.

Redshirt

Attention, I have an important announcement:
(ahem)

FUCK 2016!

That is all.

Unsurprised

I hate everything, I’ve been getting randomly lightheaded for brief moments all day, and I just want to crawl into bed forever.

Unsurprised

That wasn’t supposed to be a reply

Unsurprised

Sean Penn aged poorly.

Good. Serves him right.

Spanky Datass

Ice Cowboys puttin’ it on Disney on Ice to the tune of 6 -2.

JustStopDude
Unsurprised

I put up a ton of photos all over my previously bare walls and now it just feels weird having signs that someone lives in this apartment hanging all over the place. I kind of liked it when a person could walk in and assume I just moved in and haven’t been living here for over a year.

WCS

JustStopDude

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JustStopDude

I love the fucking fact that the Rams coach is going to be one of four white retreads and a fucking drunk….because dear god we got four minority coaches…that has to be the total amount of coaching talent among minorities in the world.

...

Look, we’ll probably soon have spare Ryans to hire. You’re gonna let the spawn of Buddy go to waste?

Shogun Marcus

Why not? They clearly have.

The Right Reverend Electric Mayhem

COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOTER

Horatio Cornblower

Watching 30-30 on the Catholics-Vs-Convicts game; I had forgotten what a goddamn monster Chris Zorich was in college.

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He wasn’t bad with the Bears in the 90’s either. He’s one of the few players I remember well from that era.

Sharkbait

The Bro part of that shirt is unnecessary.

Horatio Cornblower

Picking up on some comments below, if they made a TV show about cooking meth in my hometown the City of Waterbury would be incredibly happy because a) it would show something being manufactured in Waterbury and b) it would take everyone’s mind off of their former child-rapist mayor.

http://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-philip-giordano-appeal-sex-charges-20151204-story.html

Yep. Real proud of old Waterbury.

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Connecticut totally went to shit after the Whalers left, amirite?

Horatio Cornblower

Yeah. “After”

Sharkbait

Pay phones? Address books? This movie did not age well.

Sharkbait

I forgot how mean everyone was to Kevin McCallister in Home Alone.

WCS

I like that Big Pete Wrigley is one of his brothers.

Unsurprised

Rightfully so

Senor Weaselo

You’re right, but still he can go fuck himself.

Senor Weaselo

Alan Thicke died, because 2016.

Senor Weaselo

Boo Raanta God Mode expired.

Sharkbait

But now there’s angry, well rested Lundqvist.

Senor Weaselo

…Can he bottle that up until April/May/June instead? (Jeez, the Stanley Cup playoffs take for-fucking-ever.)

Sharkbait

I approve of this. And yes they do but watching meaningful hockey in June doesnt suck.

LemonJello

None of the sprots interest me tonight, so I’m watching Predator…wait, hunting a special-ops team in the jungle is a sport, right?

Unsurprised

Damn right.

You may as well make a night of it. Predator. Predator 2. Predators.

WCS

Are you watching for sport?

Unsurprised

Sexual gratification

LemonJello

Yes.

LemonJello

Sure.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Here are mine:

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Senor Weaselo

I like how they have the same “You’re bothering us for this?” stare.

Shogun Marcus

My idiots
[IMG]http://i64.tinypic.com/vyb6sl.jpg[/IMG]

Unsurprised

Is that a cock sock?

Unsurprised

I would hate Breaking Bad more because it has inexorably tied my hometown to meth and melodrama, but my hometown is a shithole so fuck it and fuck everyone who still lives there.

Senor Weaselo

What about a dozen starved weasels biting your face off?

Unsurprised

I’m too stupid to get this joke, but that sounds unpleasant.

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Frankly, I would welcome a critically-acclaimed TV series trashing my hometown. I would buy the series on Blu-ray.

Unsurprised

Well, la di da. We already know you’re better than me

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

There was a critically acclaimed book about my hometown, wherein the heroine was almost burned alive because she could swim.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Witch_of_Blackbird_Pond

Unsurprised

Porky Prime and his family are excepted. I’m not a complete monster.

Unsurprised

I have been getting follows and likes on Instagram from PNW coffeehouses, so maybe I spend too much time in them.

...

So I was just taking a shower and I remembered how someone posted a picture of John Stossel here yesterday and it got me raging about him again.

...

And I just realized you’re probably all wondering why I was thinking of John Stossel while naked and wet.

I have no good explanation for that. I’ll just let all of you assume the worst.

Senor Weaselo

Stupid sexy Stossel?

Unsurprised

You got the Stupid right

...

His screeds are just so transparently self-centered it’s amazing.

He has lung cancer and recently he whined about how bad customer service was in the hospital he was at. The problem. REGULATION! All that time spent doing paperwork and the like was detracting from the good customer service he DESERVED!

He’s such an incredible simpleton that he actually called the free market “magic” for working all the time.

Eugh. Fuck him.

Unsurprised

I hate libertarians. I want to shit on every single one of them.

Unsurprised

I hope his cancer kills him slowly and painfully and drains him of all of his money, leaving his children to *gasp* earn their own livings.

Duchess

The new addition to the Duchess household

Calvin

http://tinypic.com/r/15mzfqr/9

Duchess

[IMG]http://i66.tinypic.com/15mzfqr.jpg[/IMG]

Shogun Marcus

D’AWWWWWWW! WHO’S A PUPPY? IS YOU? YOU PUPPY? D’AWWWWWW!

entropy

I can just see you getting dumber as you typed that.

Shogun Marcus

Accurate. My dogs discuss Nietzsche and South American economics when I voice them.

Curse of Marino

You forgot this gem Beerguyrob:

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/kind-odd-poured-whenever-cardinals-172715269.html

THE MIAMI DOLPHINS HAVE ACCESS TO THE HAARP WEATHER MACHINE. WAKE UP SHEEPLE

Duchess

Merry Christmas you Filthy Animals!

How the hell has everyone been?

scotchnaut

I Learned How To Shower Just Last Week! What have you been up to?

Duchess

Not going to lie this Trump thing broke my brain. Also work stuff has been pretty exciting and time-consuming.

Senor Weaselo

Not dead!

entropy

I am reasonably certain I am, in fact, immortal. Or, at the very least, “unkillable.” I will take either. How’ve you been?

Duchess

See above… and oh yeah I have a puppy now so he’s being a little shit.

Unsurprised
scotchnaut

/are now occupying the vast majority of Cabinet positions?

Unsurprised

The New Mexico Bowl. Jesus Fuck Bill Richardson forever for that bullshit.

Duchess

Sadly they couldn’t accept the naming rights money from Los Pollos Hermanos

entropy

They will, however, continue to play “Crystal Blue Persuasion” at every commercial break.

Unsurprised

They would if they could.

Shogun Marcus

Jim Brown and Ray-Ray meeting with Trump to get OJ pardoned (probably, bcuz why is anything anymore?). They will then be his hypemen. Rae Carruth cries, regretting he didn’t do commercials.
/holy shit carruth gets out in 2018

Kungjitsu

I wonder if Eric Dickerson was part of or knew about Craig James’s mass hooker murdering.

Don T

I hope Josh McDaniels takes his talents to LA. Video talents, I mean.

BrettFavresColonoscopy

“WE FORGOT ABOUT RAY LEWIS!”

Me, too!

-U.S. Justice System

Don T

Snitches cause stitches.

Low Commander of the Super Soldiers

I’m a touch disappointed DFO-CON couldn’t make the Vegas Bowl work.

There’s always next year!

BrettFavresColonoscopy

If we could pool our $12 shares, perhaps we could sponsor the NCAA Lack of Integrity Bowl…

Senor Weaselo

The winner is, as always, the San Diego County Credit Union Poinsettia Bowl, this year between, uh, the Stormin’ Mormons and, fuck, what do I do with Wyoming, Brokeback Mountain?

entropy

The “Aging Lawmen.” Longmire has paid for the branding cross-promotion.

scotchnaut

Not participating in the “A Crucial Catch” campaign?

You guessed it-Dez Bryant

entropy

Part of Jeff Fisher’s statement after being fired:

“I especially want to thank all of the players. They are a great group of men that I respect, and that I will greatly miss. My hope is that each one of the players experience great success in the future.”

Well, once you hit the bottom, you really don’t have anywhere to go unless you brought a shovel, Jeff, but thanks for the kind words.

scotchnaut

“A great many of these Los Angeles Rams players will experience much more success than they have had in the recent past.”

-Reality