Your “The Things We Used To Do” Thursday Evening Open Thread

NFL News:

  • Take it as you will, but the League reports concussions were down from 2015.
    • According to ESPN, there were 244 reported concussions during practices and games in the preseason and regular season, down from 275 in 2015.
      • But the number is still higher than it was in 2014 (206) and 2013 (229), a trend the NFL attributes in part to an increase in self-reporting by players as awareness of symptoms grows.
  • According to reports, the NFL had to extend 123 Pro Bowl invitations in order to obtain the 88 players necessary to fill out the rosters.
    • I can’t imagine why fan interest is down.
      • Luckily, dodgeball can fix anything!
  • Former Ottawa Rough Rider Tom Clements is leaving the Packers to pursue “other interests”.
    • he spent 11 years as a Packers offensive coach.
      • he probably got frustrated with providing rejected 4th-down options that didn’t rhyme with “field goal from the 6”.
    • Dom Capers is reportedly staying.
      • much to the chagrin of Packers sports radio callers & meme generators everywhere.
  • Doing his best to quell enthusiasm for the move, Roger Goodell said the League would not be amending its gambling policies ahead of the Raiders move.
    • Yeah, that’ll change. $$$
    • Question: How broke would Ken Stabler have been on a 70s Vegas Raiders?


Canada 150:

Jaqnuary 26, 1924: The “Red Ensign” becomes Canada’s “official” flag.

Technically, until that point, Canada’s flag was the British flag, and the colonial Red Ensign design was the unofficial symbol. There were several versions over the years, including one with provincial coats-of-arms added to the Red Ensign upon entry into Confederation.

However, in 1924 an order-in-council was passed making the version with the official Coat-of-Arms the “official” flag to be flow outside government offices. This design would stay Canada’s flag until 1965, when the current maple leaf design was passed into law.


As a young lad raised in a (arms-up singing; gay-pride protesting) Baptist household, one of the few non-sports hobbies I was allowed was stamp collecting. For about a 5-year period, I was all-in: books; conventions; trading. Then I discovered rock music, girls & alcohol, and my philatelic interests suitably waned. But I still have the old collection gathering dust in the garage storeroom, and I can still appreciate the art. I even have some framed sheets on the wall.

So imagine my joy when I came across the story that the Royal Mail was going to issue two sets of David Bowie stamps.

Look at these beauties.

These are the album proofs. There will also be a set of four, using concert images as their inspiration.

I ordered a set of these and the Pink Floyd issue from last year. I’ll substitute them into some IKEA frames that currently contain postcards of a trip to New York 15 years ago. Finally – art I can identify with.


Mary Tyler Moore died yesterday. Everyone knows she was a genius, and ranks with Carol Burnett in terms of comedy pioneers. In memoriam, as referenced everywhere, here’s the “Chuckles the Clown’s Funeral” scene.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92I04DkMEps

Watch it, then go slap a millennial who says they don’t “get” what’s so funny.


Tonight’s sports:

  • NHL:
    • Blues at Wild – 8:00PM | NBCSN
  • NBA:
    • Mavericks at Thunder – 8:00PM | TNT / TSN
    • Lakers at Jazz – 10:30PM | TNT / Sportsnet1
  • NCAA: highlighted matchups
    • Xavier at Cincinnati – 7:00PM | ESPN2
      • there was a brawl last year
    • Indiana at Michigan – 9:00PM | ESPN2
    • Oregon at Utah – 10:30PM | FS1
  • Pro Bowl Skills Showdown – 7:00PM | ESPN
    • Events include:
      • Epic Pro Bowl Dodgeball
      • Power Relay Challenge
      • Precision Passing
      • Best Hands

Oh thank Cthulhu, THE PRO BOWL IS ALMOST HERE!

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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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King Hippo

Nicely done, Baskets!

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King Hippo

NOBODY fucks with the Jesus

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Brick Meathook

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Unsurprised

Seems like a Tuesday in Ireland and Scotland

Brick Meathook

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Brick Meathook

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WCS

Brick Meathook

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Horatio Cornblower

Just stumbled on ‘Love The Coopers’, which has an estimated 6 more minutes of my attention left, but Olivia Wilde just asked some guy to pretend to be her boyfriend.

He’s debating it.

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I would not.

Horatio Cornblower

Pop Warner up there has a real Jared From Subway vibe going on up there.

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JustStopDude

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herodotus450

They ripped off George R. R. Martin.

Curse of Marino

Man I dont want to make the Nazi comparison, but when Steve Bannon is basically Goebbels….

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/26/business/media/stephen-bannon-trump-news-media.html

WCS

His dick is clearly measured in micrometers.

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Thankfully not as competent as Goebbels….

JustStopDude

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What an O face

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I always like it when there is flying debris left over, or as my mountain biking and skiing friends call it “having yard sale.”

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Well, at least she doesn’t have to worry about getting pregnant.

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This applies to Moose’s gifs in a way.

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Today’s Pooparoo has a fucking terrifying story that Drew felt the best place to be positioned was right in the middle among all the stories.

https://deadspin.com/your-most-disgusting-poop-stories-are-very-disgusting-1791563192

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“I’m going to have to fight a chicken right now with my dick hanging out in the Caribbean”

This sounds kinda awesome

theeWeeBabySeamus

RIP MTM.
Lotsa good childhood memories watching her show with fam as a kid (as well as Bob Newhart, All in the Family, etc).
Fuck….I’m old.

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Fuck me, I’m old.

Fuck me; I’m old.

Take your pick

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She essentially played the straight-man to the others; which is an underrated talent and in a lot of cases harder than the “funny one”…. She is also funny on her own as evidenced by that clip.

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Cold wind blowing; thus fun pool antics. R.I.P. ACA.

http://global3.memecdn.com/pool-pole-fail_o_295200.gif

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Moose is doing God’s work in giving us gifs of white people hurting themselves because they’re stupid.

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¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Wheeeeeeeeee!

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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

She wasn’t laughing like that when Sergio did the exact same thing with the anal beads…… go figure.

Unsurprised

It’s hard to laugh with one of these on.

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Filthy Russian wh— I’m sorry. I forgot what I was saying.

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herodotus450

Marchand only gets a $10k fine, what a joke. NFL-levels of incompetence.

Fronkenshteen

With his history of being a cheap shot scumbag, too.

herodotus450

Exactly. He’s even been suspended before. 10 games would have been my ruling, 5 if he shaved his mustache before the disciplinary hearing.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

I may be a scumbag, but don’t like cheap shots; if you are drinking you should drink good booze. Guy’s an asshole.

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High as fuck……

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ballsofsteelandfury

Did anyone hit play on that Mary Tyler Moore clip? Holy shit that was a comedy all-star lineup!

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Used to watch that show with my family as a kid.

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WCS

I’d give this 1000 YOU LIKE THAT HUHs if I could.

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Curse of Marino

As with children, Rivers hits numbers!

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You wore pants today? Savage.

Curse of Marino

DID U GUYZ KNOW THAT LANDRY AND BECKHAM ARE BFFS. DID YOU KNOW THAT THEY PLAYED FOR LSU?

Shogun Marcus

As if I needed a reason to slap most millennials.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Yeah, I know, some REALLY need to be slapped:

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ballsofsteelandfury

Yummy

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Wife material?

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