There are a smattering of Premiership games this morning, with Manure hosting 15th position Middlesbrough (10:00, NBCSN) getting feature treatment. Leicester/West Ham and Chelsea/Stoke are probably better options in the morning window, though. Consult your Extra Time listings.
But the big action (Euro-speaking) today is at Anfield, where the 2nd place Shite host 3rd position (and 1 point behind) Man City (12:30, NBC). Of course, my NBC affiliate is pre-empting the match for…sigh…syndicated ACC hoops. The South ,, amirite?? Anyway, I shall send good vibes to the Manc blues for this one, naturally. This “Klopp title challenge” talk needs strangling in the crib.
EPL fun boomerangs right back around Monday/Tuesday, so I will preview that during or right after Hippo Thoughts.
Citrus Bowl – LSU vs. Louisville (11:00, ABC)
Both of these teams pretty much fell slam-ass apart down the stretch, so I have no clue what to expect. 2017’s most overrated fantasy prospect (yeah, I said it, wanna fight about it??) Leonard Fournette isn’t playing, so it won’t be as easy to compare and contrast how his backup does exactly the same thing.
Gator Bowl – Georgia Tech vs. Kentucky (11:00, ESPN)
This used to be a pretty proud, high-value destination bowl. Now look at it. Stripped of its name, hosting these two bleeding sacks of shit. Of course, now that I’ve said this…game of the day, for certain.
National Semifinal #1 – Alabama vs. Washington (3:00, ESPN)
Definitely the fixture of the day, so of course NC State’s basketball opener happens right in the middle of it. Lots of chuckles about Nick Saban and “coachspeak” regarding his statements re the Huskies being the best side his team have faced, and a stern/unique test…but I think it’s true. UW is very, very fast, and can hit you in many different ways. They won’t let Roll Damn Tide dictate the terms of play, and that’s 90% of the battle. I am interested.
But FUCK YOU, I will not list your meaningless bowl title. National. Semifinal.
National Semifinal #2 – Clemson vs. Ohio State (7:00, ESPN)
Just thunder fuck both of these asshole programs/coaches right in the ass, please. I know I will be cheering for whoever wins match #1 to win it all, that’s for sure. Maybe it will be a good, entertaining game, or barring that, at least over in plenty of time for me to defiantly crash out before midnight. I will not give 2016 the satisfaction of a goodbye, even with a middle finger.
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Yet she can’t drive….
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I’d let her kick my ass….
as though I’d have any say in the matter.
“This is the Chevy Malibu…its a car”
“Oh wow…I like how it has four wheels.”
I fucking detest these Chevy commercials. At this point, i would refuse a free car if it was a Chevy just on principle.
So instead of showing the Washington-Alabama game on ABC, they are doing a two hour infomercial block…and instead its on ESPN.
How the fuck does that make sense?
ESPN needs viewers.
The infomercial people probably paid ABC to get on the air, as opposed to ABC paying whoever millions for the game right?
To force people who want to watch college sports to shell out for an espn cable package, which they make more money off of than some shitty OTA ads?
Browning is not Kellen Moore 🙁
TOUCAN PLAY AT THIS GAME………
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Didn’t Dick Clark die in 2012?
Are they still pulling his corpse out every NYE to host?
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Lemmy didn’t live to see 2016. Lucky bastard.
Dec. 28th is close enough to this fucking year to roll it in.
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Hey Lamar…this bowl game is pretty much what your career at Cleveland is going to consist of…
BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
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ROLL TIDE!!!!
The spawn of Saban and Belichik would 100% certainly be the Antichrist, right?
When did Liverpool start being coached by a hipster?
Hoping Alabama’s season is the last casualty of 2016.
GO HUSKIES!
Mush Huskies, mush!
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Gonna be super hard to top last night’s inappropriate media twitter moment.
https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/815054471634026496
That was an accident. This is just the sorry state of American journalism.
I should start watching MMA. Seeing Ronda Rousey take all those blows to the face was cathartic.
She should look into porn since she can’t stop getting blasted in the face
I straight up don’t get the hate she gets…
unless people are stupid enough to believe the characters the fighters have to play leading up to the fights to generate PPV buys.
It could’ve been anybody, really. I just like seeing people punched in the face.
What’s everyone’s NYE plan tonight? Watching the games? At home, at a party, at the bar?
Sad jerk either before or after I get around to seeing Goodfellas for the first time in months.
Like I’m gonna give 2016 the chance to take one last parting shot at me? I’m staying the fuck home, watching Better Call Saul (or maybe reading a Discworld book), letting the animals climb on me, and going to sleep nice and early to get this shitfuckassherpes of a year over with as quickly as possible.
Ass herpes!!!
At home, chilling with my SO. Watching funny movies and still doing the countdown in ‘Dying Dick Clark” voices.
Whoops, left the n off son. Whoo, party.
staying home and reading. then watching a movie and getting to bed early.
I did my drinking and partying with a lady friend last night.
NYE…a LOT of mountain folk come down from the valley. The downtown area is a fucking zoo with drunk hicks in raised pickup trucks, high on booze and pills, with their confederate flags. I always walk whenever I go drinking and NYE is basically the one night of the year where its actually fucking dangerous to do that because there are so many fucked up people about.
derp…meant to say “down to the valley” not from…
Its also going to be cold and raining here. I refuse to drink and drive anymore and getting even an Uber is going to be an expensive nightmare.
Drink things, play some Wii golf, listen to tunes, blog with you good folks, celebrate the new legal weed law in California, stay inside and maybe make it to midnight. Watch football.
SPACE COCK!
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Which team is going to take Fournette in the draft and expect him to perform like Zeke without considering Zeke has a line? Am going with the Jets.
Duke just got their asses kicked by VT. Day is off to a great start.
Suddenly have an urge to play madden. I don’t have madden.
“BOOM!”
– the noise the sandbag shotgun makes as the cops subdue BFC after he breaks into a GameStop that was closed for the holiday.
“You could drive a truck through that hole!”
– CSI technician, describing the state of the storefront after BFC “modified” it in order to gain ingress.
“He’s one of those guys who WILL get penetration…”
– an SVU detective describing their previous experience with BFC’s modus operandi.
“He not only rambled, but he rumbled and stumbled…”
– a witness, attempting to characterize BFC’s level of intoxication
I’m thinking of going pure Southern for dinner.
In addition to the black eye peas and green bean pot liquor I’m thinking about frying up a batch of chicken wings too.
It will make for a glorious eating, yes, quite.
Where you going city boy?
Celebration penalties are stupid. I mean if you throw the ball into the stands or start setting off fireworks or something, yeah, but otherwise, just let it go.
The rules are clear….
Three pumps is excessive.
Folks.
YOU CAN’T PROVE THAT!!!!
Well, it was a fucking lobotomy…. SO NO, I DON’T FUCKING REMEMBER!!
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How do?
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Seriously Jackson is going to be killed at this pace…
Speaking of brutal, one sided beatdowns…anyone catch Amanda Nunes utterly demolishing Rhonda Rousey?
Rousey seriously needs to learn how to box….or retire to pro wrestling…
Yes. Ronda most definitely needs to find a new line of work.
But credit where it’s due…..she got paid better for that ass beating than I ever have for any I’ve taken or given soooo….
Brava. Now go….invest well my dear.
God country music is where rap music was in the late 90’s…completely co-opted and terrible…
Country music was well into being co-opted and terrible by then.
Breaking News…
I still want to Richie Incognito Mack Brown’s talk hole.
Yes I just used “Richie Incognito” as a verb…shut up.
new mental image: Two Macks, One Cup!!
Oh that’s all the eew.
I suspect I may be the minority here, but I fucking hate going out on New Years Eve. The bars are fucking crowded with fucking lightweights that don’t normally drink (its like church at Christmas…who the fuck are all these people?!?!), the cops are out in full force, there are typically fights and people acting really stupid everywhere, and good luck getting a fucking cab tonight.
Fucking NYE is so goddamn overrated. And anyone that goes to time square should be barred from breeding.
plus all the fucking cops
I fully concur. But is it wrong that this made me laugh?
I suspect I may be the minority here
hey now, not THE. CBQUE drops in once every 3 months or so ,, smh
//and yeah, I’d rather be shot than go anywhere tonight. The day (other than VD) I am most happy to be a divorced, alone, non-practicing heterosexual.
Did you just say you got divorced because your ex gave you VD?
No…ok…I really need to work on my reading comprehension.
Last time I went out for New Year’s Eve was actually a lot of fun. It was in Boston. At midnight a really cute girl asked me if I had a girlfriend and I had to tell her that no, but I do have a wife.
so…that slot is STILL OPEN!!!
Ed Orgeron is the perfect head coach for LSU.
I have no fucking idea what he just said to me and I think he just sold me a slab of gator jerky…
That goal will open the game up. Fuck it I am heading for the pub. A Guinness and an english breakfast for ole Cola. Good thing Mrs. Cola likes brunch no matter where it takes place.
Get yourself some taters and you’ve got an Irish breakfast already!
Goddamn it….why isn’t it 3pm yet?
Just for Hippo, so he never gets old(er)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2hxU4UG3dA
So. Much. Shite. Quartered. Backing.
Lamar! better look at his hands. clap clap clap
That dance wasn’t as safe as they said it was.
My kids asked me to drive them to the nail salon, and given the state of the JV exhibitions, I don’t even fucking mind. Will take a book, and listen to City/Shite on the radio.
Get your feet done….please.
I’ll even pay for it if it will cheer you up this much…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znJv37bY2yc
DO IT!!!
NOBODY TOUCHES HIPPO’S FEET
/except FOAR professional foot doctor types
//my foot doctor both wrote killer scripts and had a smoking hot, intelligent assistant. On my last visit, I gave her a copy of Steig Larsson’s “Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” as a thank you gift (we had discussed shared love for suspense fiction) and she hugged me super tight. Was a good day.
D’awwwwww…..Sweet story.
Yes, this is sarcasm.
Oh , and also I’m temporarily suspending my current apathy and putting up a bball opener thread on SFN since it appears no one else is.
Meh….it ain’t gonna be all that great, trust me.
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I should like this band…but I don’t.
You are bad and you should feel bad.
I must echo Horatio.
I hate you sometimes.
I am quite worthy of hate most of the time, TOTES AGREED
Ga Tech is pretending to go for it on 4th and 1 from their own 15.
And they went for it! And made it!
This has been your only highlight from the 2016 TaxSlayer! Bowl.
Horatio, goddamnit, whence we remember the pre-corporate whoring nomenclature, as in GATOR BOWL, Lesser Footy thread highly recommends using it.
If I had known it was the Gator Bowl I’d have referred to it as such. My TV just says ‘TaxSlayer’.
It’s a sad state of affairs over there at Charter Communications.
you could READ MY STUPID RAMBLINGS in the main text and you’d know!!!!
/sobs uncontrollably
Omthethereyallgumbogumbo….YEEEEHAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWW!!!!!
Helluva catch. Too bad you had to stand up and be a dick about it.
You stay klassy, LSU.
The Capital One card with Jenifer Garner makes me really question why she was ever considered to be an actress.
Then again, you would think her performance in “Dare Devil” would convince people she doesn’t have the fucking range to appear in a credit card commercial.
Holy shit that movie was terrible. We’re talking Green Lantern levels of terrible.
Any bowl committee which somehow let themselves get stuck with the matchup of GT and Kentucky, should not be retained for the following season.
Louisville is taking the bold stance against tackling on defense.
Its an interesting strategy.
Dude, you forgot the TaxSlayer Bowl! Kentucky! Georgia Tech!
Oh, right. Never mind.
As opposed to the BlackSlayer Bowl, which features the top two football teams fielded by our nation’s police academies. Kind of like Pigs vs. Freaks, except replacing the Freaks with more Pigs. Or Police Academy, except all the cadets are Hightower.
That was quite funny. Bravo to you, sir.
Thank you. Was a little worried it might have crossed a line, but hey, if the cops aren’t worried about crossing lines why should I be?
dude, we are in Brave New World territory. BUHLEE DAT
The Louisville Christmas Tree Ornament helmets are fucking annoying.
Malachi Dupre….
I mean you HAVE to play for LSU with a name like that.
Just so much cocaine…
too much cocaine is NEVAR enough ,, ppl forget that
That is the song I used as the soundtrack to my personal NFL Combine video last year, wherein I ran the 40 yard dash.
The Lester/Rum Ham match is the tits. WIDE ASS OPEN, no clue how they will keep this up for 90 minutes.
Never thought it would happen, but as a Bears fan and a non-soccer or college fb fan, I found myself wondering this morning when Aussie football started.
The women start right after the Super Bowl. The men in March.
What? There is a women’s league? Yup, Read about it in next week’s AFL Beat!
SLEEP IS FOR WEAK, APU
/is ready to go to sleep
This bass line is so much fun.
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Rick James was a piece of shit and as funny as that skit was I hate that it humanized him.
Sick baby + too much bourbon = WCS on a strange bender