Your “Liars, Cheats, Addicts & Murderers” Wednesday Evening Open Thread

NFL News:

• This year’s Hall of Fame candidates were announced. There are 108 names in total eligible for shortlisting & unfortunate interviewing by Peter King.
  • First timers are led by Randy Moss, Brian Urlacher, Ronde Barber and Ray Lewis, who I know would kill to be included in the Hall.

• Josh Gordon finishes rehab on September 21st.
  • He will be eligible to return to the Browns immediately.

• While on the topic of suspended players, Johnny Manziel has activated his 10-day sign or release clause with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats.
  • Because…they won two games in a row without him?
  • They could always trade his rights to another team.

• In words I never thought would exist in the same sentence, Alex Smith and Sam Bradford are your AFC & NFC offensive players of the week.
  • I mean, it stands to reason, because they both had pretty good games.
    • It’s just, I don’t know. I’ve been cultured to believe that game managing & random chance don’t normally produce such results.
  • Forgive me for being gape-jawed, a phrase I hope gets us into Ted Cruz’s search history.

• The Cardinals re-signed CJ2K as a result of the injury to David Johnson.
  • He should hopefully improve on last season’s 25 carries for 95 yards.

• The Jaguars have declared their home field sound, and so will host their home opener against the Bears this Sunday.
  • They are giving 5000 free tickets to first responders & residents.
    • If they really cared, the Jags would bring in extra hot tubs for them to enjoy.

Finally, in a move sure to garner the Spanos family unwelcome questions they’ll be actively forced to ignore, a digital billboard near the StubHub Center will be promoting an anti-NFL message for the next month, which coincides with three LA Clippers Chargers home games.

• The former fan in question, Joesph MacRae, raised the money via Kickstarter. The $10000 raised goes to pay for a month of ads on a sign at Main & I-405 in Carson, about a mile from the stadium.
• He plans to include messages related to Oakland & St. Louis as well. The first is below.

Macrae told FOX 5 he, who said he has “no beef with” LA Charger fans, wants his billboards to get national attention so the NFL realizes that Los Angeles Chargers team owner Dean Spanos is a terrible owner.

• “If anything we should be uniting so that Dean sells the team and the Chargers have a real chance at success!” Macrae posted.

UPDATE: In case it won’t open below:

FOX✔️ ABC✔️ ESPN✔️ Daily mail✔️ Yahoo✔️ Rolling Stone✔️ Sports Illustrated✔️ Bleacher Report✔️ SDUT✔️ @latimes ___ @jmt619 👏👏👏 https://t.co/59iPtD4y76

— Franky 🐝 (@F619sd) September 13, 2017

Big Daddy Drew retweeted this this morning.

Alabama has a freshman quarterback from Hawaii, and at least one fan is concerned pic.twitter.com/uKxTpVz1hm

— Ben Reiter (@BenReiter) September 13, 2017

It boggles the mind.

I’m now even more excited for this Sunday’s Seahawks game, because they just opened a new craft corner (of sorts) near my section.

300 LEVEL SPOTLIGHT: ELYSIAN ZONE

Section: 309

Grab one of Elysian’s featured craft beers at this new walk-in bar, that doubles as CenturyLink Field’s newest gameday hotspot.

Tonight’s sports:

• Beisbol:
  • A’s at Red Sox – 7:00PM | ESPN / TSN2 / RDS (pour Buddy)
  • Orioles at Blue Jays – 7:00PM | Sportsnet
  • Dodgers at Giants – 10:00PM | ESPN / TSN2
  • Astros at Angels – 10:00PM | Sportsnet1
• Futbol:
  • Whitecaps FC vs. Minnesota – 10:00PM | TSN

Scotchy’s got you tomorrow for the Thursday Night game & Seamus has your Friday sexiness, so I’ll see you handsome bastards & bastardettes on Saturday night. Until then, KEEP IT BETWEEN THE DITCHES!