NFL News:

• The most exciting Superb Owl week news so far is that Jim Tomsula has been hired by the [Redacteds] as their new D-line coach.
  • the hobo has come home!
    • I hope Big Daddy Drew keeps the “lifehacks” going.
  • Dan Snyder is relieved he now has someone he can pay in old Six Flags mattresses.

• Bob Kraft’s son Jonathan took a run at Ryan Grigson as he walked out Indy’s door, stating that the Deflategate game “might have been Ryan’s pinnacle”.
  • sounds like New England’s Dean Spanos has his own “participant” list.

• Here is most pundits’ talking point for the next two weeks: “Is Matt Ryan A Elite Quarterback?”
  • but here’s the good stuff

oh yea just hook it rite up to my veins pic.twitter.com/2arQ6xFB1T

— PFT Commenter (@PFTCommenter) January 23, 2017

Finally, just fuck you and the horse you rode in on.

Two weeks of this shit

is going to kill me. According to PFT, New England is a three-point favorite over Atlanta, and the over-under is set at 58.5.

Canada 150:

January 23, 1922 – the first human test of insulin is conducted.

• 14-year-old Leonard Thompson, near-death from diabetes in a Toronto hospital, is given the test injections.
  • he survived.
• Following more successful tests, the Toronto researchers — Frederick Banting, Charles Best, J.B. Collip and their supervisor, J.J.R. Macleod — were able to announce the discovery of insulin.
  • Banting & McLeod summarily won the 1923 Nobel Prize in medicine.

• Research into diabetes dates to 1869 & German medical student Paul Langerhans, found that within the pancreatic tissue that produces digestive juices there were clusters of cells whose function was unknown. Some of these cells were eventually shown to be the insulin-producing beta cells.
  • followed in 1889 by German researchers Oskar Minkowski and Josef von Mehring,
    • they discovered that removing a dog’s pancreas led to immediate onset of diabetic symptoms,

• 

  But despite further research (& many dead dogs), no one could identify the pancreatic secretion that prevented diabetes.

  • until Banting & his team decided to try injecting an extract of degenerated dog pancreas into a diabetic dog
    • this lowered its blood sugar enough to give them a direction to follow, leading to human tests and eventual transition to fetal – later adult – swine & bovine insulin.

I’m sure Sill could further enlighten/correct this.

Tonight’s sports:

• NHL:
  • Kings at Rangers – 7:00 PM | Sportsnet
  • Sharks at Avalanche – 9:00PM | NBCSN
• NBA:
  • Warriors at Heat – 7:30 PM | Sportsnet1
  • Cavs at Pelicans – 7:30PM | TSN2
  • Knicks at Pacers – 8:00PM | TNT
• NCAA:
  • North Carolina State at Duke – 7:00PM | ESPN
  • Oklahoma at Texas – 9:00PM | ESPN

Begin your two minutes weeks hate.

WE’VE ALWAYS BEEN AT WAR WITH THE PATRIOTS!