But not in the bad-touchy Dad-from-7th-Heaven kind of way.
NFL News:
- The NFL has named Alberto Riveron the new Head of Officiating.
- Technically the senior vice president of officiating, he fills the role vacated by former officiating head Dean Blandino.
- Riveron, the NFL’s first Hispanic referee, was elevated to referee in 2008.
- In addition, they split the remaining responsibilities into two other jobs
- Russell Yurk, an NFL replay veteran of seven years and a former NCAA and high school referee, has been named the vice president of replay and administration.
- Wayne Mackie, an NFL official with a decade of experience, was brought on as the vice president of officiating evaluation and development — a department in charge of week to week grading of referees as well as managing the league’s developmental pipeline for officials.
- Technically the senior vice president of officiating, he fills the role vacated by former officiating head Dean Blandino.
- Broadway Joe wants the Jets to go full-Hackenberg.
- The Colts are going to retire Peyton’s jersey at their October 8 game versus the Niners.
- They will also put him in their “Ring of Honor” and unveil a statue.
- he will be the first Colt in the Indianapolis era to have his number retired.
- Given how lifelike Peyton himself is, they should have no problem reproducing his image.
- They will also put him in their “Ring of Honor” and unveil a statue.
- Pouring salt on an open wound is Disney CEO Bob Iger, who called the ESPN layoffs “not that significant”, when viewed as 100 employees out of an 8000 person workforce.
- An important factor in the “restructuring” is that ESPN has lost more than 10 million subscribers since 2013, something noted in their financial reports.
- Reading the Disney “Second Quarter and Six-Month Earnings” report, it notes that:
- An important factor in the “restructuring” is that ESPN has lost more than 10 million subscribers since 2013, something noted in their financial reports.
Cable Networks revenues for the quarter increased 3% to $4.1 billion and operating income decreased 3% to $1.8 billion. The decrease in operating income was due to a decrease at ESPN, partially offset by increases at the Disney Channels and Freeform…The decrease at ESPN was due to higher programming costs, partially offset by affiliate and advertising revenue growth. [snip] Affiliate revenue growth was due to contractual rate increases, partially offset by a decline in subscribers.
Finally, your long reads of the day are a 1-2 punch of sadness from the MMQB, detailing the slides into dementia of Nick Buoniconti & Jim Kiick, and the effects of these illnesses on their families.
To brighten your day, here’s some Baltimore Ravens at a fundraiser for the Baltimore Animal Rescue and Care Shelter (BARCS) called “Pawject Runway”.
Tonight’s sports:
- NHL: both are Game 7
- Penguins at Capitals – 7:30PM | NBCSN / CBC
- Oilers at Ducks – 10:30PM | NBCSN / Sportsnet
- NBA:
- Game 5: Wizards at Celtics – 8:00PM | TNT / TSN
- Game 5: Jazz at Warriors – 10:30PM | TNT
- MLB:
- Cardinals at Marlins – 7:00PM | ESPN / TSN2
- Cleveland at Blue Jays – 7:00PM | Sportsnet1
What will make Gary Bettman the saddest? THAT’S WHAT I WANT!
Oh, the derp is a-flowin’
Malkin being a Putin fanboi means I shall pull FOAR Scotchy’s Sens, methinks
Malkin the hockey player or Malkin the conservative commentator?
that would be a great first date topic – DFO should set teh 2 Malkins up!!
Note to self: when something happens during football season where it would be appropriate, make a Gruden joke about “wardrobe malfunction” and “Narnia”.
More like CRAP-itals, amirite?
u rite
Well, the Caps are shitting the bed as anticipated. They might as well blow up the team as they’re never going to won
Yep, this seems like a good time to get to that getting baked and going out and sitting on the beach thing I mentioned earlier. Getting an earlier start.
Have fun.
Congrats WCS, time to sweep the Sens.
THIS TWBS I CALL HIM DOCTOR HORRIBLE ENDING THE SONG “SLIPPING” BECAUSE THAAAT’S NOT A… GOOD SOUND…
/Not my best
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Done. FInished. Over. Fin.
The only bright spot is that the Pens might be too thin on D to actually win the cup.
/Heh, “thin on D”
I guarantee the Caps get one back almost immediately, then start hitting posts
Yeah. This game is reminding me a lot of the good ol days of Dwayne Roloson and JS Giguere
oh, and tWBS gon’ drank
A little bit, mebbe.
The Regular Season Champs
Well, that’s not ideal.
I am late to turning on this game 7 and I still am not sure who to root for. I think I am Team BarricadeTheDoorsAndSetTheBuildingOnFire
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/10/sports/chris-berman-wife-katherine-killed.html?_r=0
/just some very bad news for a guy that’s taken a lot of heat over the years
In lieu of flowers, ESPN is sending a pink slip to Chris.
“Brrrrrrrr”
/that’s cold
This is setting up for an amazing backbreaking derp. Looking forward to the agony.
Thank you, Brayden Holtby
a’ight, Ice Stillers. You was here 4 nights ago…can you defend FOAR 20 stinkin’ minutes, just fer shits and giggles??
This game is unreal. I think I’m about to get kicked out for yelling and disturbing my neighbors. Some of those chances….smgdh.
They’re reaching Flyers-level of unlikely non-goals.
Isn’t that basically the beginning of Traffic?
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There is NO WAY Flower will shut someone out on Game 7. Even the bumblefuck Caps.
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Tears potential increases!
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Someone’s getting an email tomorrow.
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Dammit Ziggy!
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OK; how is everybody’s’ week going so far?
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Caps Fan #1: Well, that could have been worse.
Caps Fan #2: Still can be…give it time.
You found a bar where teh hockey is on?
Nah, watching from the room.
Gonna get baked and go tool around the bdwalk, post game.
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That is excellent work. Is recreational legal in Cali now?
Ummmmmm….sort of…?
We’ll call it “legal enough”.
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That’s some top notch PPin’ there, Yinzers.
We aren’t here to make fun of pugs Moose…. They are heroes.
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That’s my wife’s avatar here! you gots splaining to do moose. So does the missus.
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http:// forums.xkcd.com/ download/file.php?id=19928
Not NSFW, sadly. Just a big picture.
NSFW xkcd isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.
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The lefty loop does it again.
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The Mets are on Line 2 for this guy.
I definitely hate Pens more, but I definitely want more gifs of devastated fanbases.
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Scorn is #1 in the grave dancing hit parade.
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Me: “Mother’s Day is Sunday. I’ll pay for the gift if you pick it out.”
Selfish Deadbeat Brother: (( Begins five minute rant where he shouldn’t have to borrow money from his brother, his life is difficult ever since he was fired from his job he liked six months ago, how its everyone’s fault except his, how his life isn’t fair, never one thanking me for paying for the gift, or wondering what mom would like ))
(rings)
Mom: “How’s your day?”
Me: “When they strap me to the chair, please let them know the murder was just.”
Wait….Redshirt’s a guy???
I am here for Metro division tears.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UXtort76gY
Happy Fucking Birthday whomever is having a birthday.
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So The Rock is thinking about running for President in 2020. That’s kind of like Lt. Murdoch taking command from Captain Smith for incompetence after 23:40 on April 15, 1912.
just nuke us already, China. Waiting FOAR Greater Footy ain’t even worth it no mo’
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China doesn’t have enough nukes to finish the job. They’d just half-ass it like everything else made in China.
The Rock is an idiot; things would improve.
*It will be too late.
The players should be able to referee themselves during the games!
http://eaworldview.com/2017/05/trumpwatch-day-108-epa-head-ill-replace-scientists-with-industry-representatives/
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I would totally support this move.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nfl/seahawks-clark-sends-intimidating-tweet-to-writer-in-response-to-domestic-violence-article/ar-BBAXtUE?OCID=ansmsnnews11
Go Meteor and then go Eulers, I guess. e^pi*i and all.
Wow man. That’s like… Trascendental and shit.
Early this afternoon I recieved a text in a group chat from my FF league. Apparently one of the lads Nick went to have some alone time in the bathroom of his place and fired up the ole porn machine on his phone. He forgot that his bluetooth was still on in the kitchen where he wife was feeding their 3 year old son. Well apparently he is in to “the casting couch” genre which takes a while for sexy time. Hos wife listened right along to the interview and couldnt figure out what was coming over the speakers until the performing part of the interview.
This made my day. The other lads have been coming up with FF team names for him all afternoon but most are weak.
Blueballs > Bluetooth ?
Or maybe the other way around?
ah, sometimes those are worth it only b/c Gina Devine is involved
/or so that’s what I hear ,, smh
What is your projection in geologic time that this particular wife will hold it against him?
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Q7CqaQlbvy8
I know her, she is cool, she will just make fun of him for as Don T just explained 10 0000 years. He really shouldn’t have told us, but eventually after enough Gin and Tonics she would have.
100,000 years seems about right.
Giving him shit about it; cool.
Being resentful and passive/ aggressive; welp, we’ve seen that before too.
Sounds like they have a new born. Wife will let him have it for a little bit, but ultimately doesn’t care because it’s one less thing she has to do.
I might be able to top that: During a school trip to DC, the teacher grabbed some of her parents’ video tapes to for the kids to watch during the trip. Unbeknownst to her, they were from her parents’ personal collection, if you catch my drift.
So, videotapes of her MOTHER catching some drift.
No.
Best Case: Parent’s porn.
Worst Case: Parent’s sex tape.
That is what I was saying; FIXED.
Ah, OK
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I fixed it; maybe the “joke” makes sense now….. maybe not.
Janay Rice regrets she didn’t allow herself to be abused instead of the shelter animals. James Harrison fined 50k for lack of heads-up treat provision.
I’m feeling very confident.
No…really….
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDKo3THl1pA&ab_channel=SBNation
anybody else really looking forward to f/x’s “Snowfall” this summer?
So, apparently Chris Berman’s wife died in a car accident today.
I’m a dick, but I’m not that much of a dick that I’ll make fun of that.
My brain went there, and tried to formulate a joke for like, 10 whole minutes this morning.
/daily reminder that I am the worstest
Dr. Pepper.
it’s the sweet one??
Don’t you remember the joke?
Why does Dr. Pepper come in a bottle?
His wife died.
LOVE IT!!
/new to me
Damn; that was THE 6th grade joke.
My older cousin told me that joke when I was young; took me a year to figure it out…..
Be glad you don’t live in my head. I’ve made plenty.
/not a role model
back back back back GONE!!!!
Jesus: “Rest now, my Child. Your husband’s jokes are over.”
Mrs. Berman: “Thank God.”
God: “You’re welcome!”