NFL News:
- Anthemgate update: (Anthemgazi? 9-11them?)
- Roger Goodell told latte foam inhaler Peter King he is “proud” of the League’s response to Donald Trump’s “divisive words”.
- “Aren’t you bothered that the president might be on a crusade against your league?” I asked.“No,” Goodell said. “We live in an imperfect society. A public discourse makes us strong.”
- King also notes that the protests had nearly died out, with only 10 players participating the week prior, so Sunday is more Trump’s fault than anyone’s.
- Josh Norman dropped a “not my president” as one of his responses to a reporter’s question.
- which should absolutely curry favour with the #MAGA types who said that about Obama.
- A Louisiana lawmaker wants the state to withdraw all funding & support the Saints receive for using a state facility like the Superdome.
- since the Saints pay no rent & keep all gameday profits, plus retain the naming rights, it would be a tidy sum.
- The New Orleans Times-Picayune valued the state’s contribution to the Saints $1.5 billion in value at $165 million.
- since the Saints pay no rent & keep all gameday profits, plus retain the naming rights, it would be a tidy sum.
- nfl.com also has player & coach responses to yesterday’s action. Comments are, not surprisingly, turned off.
- including Dreamboat, who went on WEEI and expressed his opinions about supporting his teammates, and how the people booing have the same speech rights as the guys who kneel.
- Count Matt Light as a non-supporter, because kneeling goes against “the Patriot way”.
- Also, consider these stories a reminder never to read the comment sections of online articles
- including Dreamboat, who went on WEEI and expressed his opinions about supporting his teammates, and how the people booing have the same speech rights as the guys who kneel.
- Roger Goodell told latte foam inhaler Peter King he is “proud” of the League’s response to Donald Trump’s “divisive words”.
- Finally, a Bills stadium employee quit on Twitter yesterday in protest of the kneeling, and became a #MAGA hero in the process. I refuse to post the tweet because it’s just stupid.
- Oh, and a drug addict had something to say about his beloved Steelers:
Remember – until 2009, teams stayed in the locker room during the anthems.
Real NFL News:
- One of my favourite players, Darren Sproles, managed to both break an arm & tear an ACL on the same play yesterday, and is now out for the season.
- The guy was always late-round fantasy dynamite.
- Positive news: Teddy Bridgewater is eligible to return to practice in three weeks.
- Given the Vikings next two games are against the Bears & Lions, if they go 1-1 with the feared Bradford-Keenum connection, the team might go slowly with the rehab, given that a healthy Teddy is still their future.
Finally, as a coda to the weekend anthem protests, John Oliver rightly points out that “when you have lost the moral high ground to Roger Fucking Goodell,” he said, “something is horribly wrong.”
Game preview:
Tonight’s game is expected to be closer than many imagine. The current spread is Cowboys by 3, mostly on the basis of last week’s drubbing by Dallas at the hands of Denver. Plus, many prognosticators are pulling for old man Palmer to finally get a chance to light up a secondary, and for Fitty to be the beneficiary.
Me? I expect Palmer may finally actually get Fitty killed this week, as he tries to lead him over the middle, and either Sean Lee (close to the line) or Orlando Scandrick (deeper in the zone) do what they can to avoid fines for hitting a defenceless player.
Look for Zeke to get a whole bunch of yards, as the Cowboys look to avoid too many deep balls that run the risk of getting picked off, since Arizona actually has a secondary that can keep up with Dez Bryant.
I’m tuning in early to see if freshly pardoned felon Joe Arpaio rambles onto the field during the anthem to arrest players disrespecting the flag.
Over/under on Pat Tillman references:
- By ESPN: 4
- By fans in the stands: 26
Tonight’s sports:
- NFL:
- Cowboys at Cardinals – 8:15PM | ESPN / TSN
- en español en ESPN2
- Cowboys at Cardinals – 8:15PM | ESPN / TSN
- WWE:
- Monday Night Raw – 8:00PM | USA / Sportsnet360
- the night after “No Mercy”
- Cesaro lost two teeth during his match.
- the night after “No Mercy”
- Monday Night Raw – 8:00PM | USA / Sportsnet360
- Invictus Games:
- Highlights show – 10:00PM | TSN2
- MLB:
- Blue Jays at Red Sox – 7:00PM | Sportsnet
I want someone to come up with the Venn diagram of where #MAGA & #UpForAnything meet. DON’T SAY “WAL-MART”!
Fuck you guys…
ZeroPointSixZero just closed to within 15 points of teh Hippo. LOL.
I think Imma rename my FF team ZeroPointSixZero. If they’ll let me, anyway.
Hopefully the little shit broke some bones on the other end of that.
Oh, shit….I forgot the obligatory Casey Anthony joke.
Dammit.
I’ll bet her name is Dorothy.
That is a good joke.
Chander Jones is such a beast.
Nice job flagging the black player over the white one, NFL. Good to see you remember where your bread is buttered….
Babushka isn’t having any of that shit in her store.
Why do I go on Facebook? A guy I used to work with posted something so asinine that I want to bludgeon him into tomato paste with a cow’s skull.
Cow skull and tomato paste; mmmmmmm.
Classic Cards. Have the stop then just screw up an arm tackle. YOU GOTTA MOVE ON ZEKE LIKE A BITCH!
The Good Doctor. A physician with autism. Mother of god.
“My God – he can hear the bleeder!”
I got to say, it would be hilarious if racist conservatives managed to push through anti-stadium funding bills.
I honestly would support them in that.
Have you seen the list of sponsors they want to boycott?
Fuck, if they will destroy Verizon, I’ll let them keep up their racists ol’ monuments.
Fuck I will start participating in Civil War re-enactments…
Could you guys please wait until I get my new phone.
Can you hear me now?
WHAT!?
Isn’t this convenient.
Sorry; shoulda put “spoiler” on that.
If I weren’t already sterile, I would be now.
Here’s an ‘Only The Brave’ spoiler: They all die.
We all do, and it is coming up fast at this rate.
Is that the “SEAL Team Six” of smokejumpers movie? Do several of them claim they were the one to shoot the source of the fire in the head?
What’s the SEAL Team Six of porn actresses?
Well, one just retired.
Just turned on the TV and Dallas forced a punt.
Must be me.
/stares at the TV forever
I stopped following that Best Fans account when it just posted mostly racist shit. My dude, no fan of a Chicago-based team gets to feel superior to any other fanbase or part of the country about racism.
If it helps any, “quintessential angry black guy” Tommy Pham is very much the universal fan favourite amongst the current crop of Redbirds.
/that said, I clearly don’t live in St. Louis, let alone rural Mizzou
I saw his batting line and WAR for the season and was genuinely baffled that he’s been that good.
Career season, for sure. He didn’t even make the team out of spring training and almost quit baseball. He’s still pissed at management about it, which is delightful.
Also has a degenerative eye disease, so sometimes can’t really see the ball. Guess he’d be “Angry Black Mike Trout” if he could.
All of my friends who are dyed in the wool libruls absolutely hate football and love baseball. I’m kind of over football, but motherfucker, I will never, ever like baseball.
I’m switching to hockey.
And 12% of the time you get a BONUS Nourthern anthem!
That’s funny because in terms of politics, baseball players are about as conservative and reactionary as you can get. Adam Jones has mentioned it and Chris Archer isn’t kneeling because he knows his teammates will eviscerate him for it.
Fuck it, liberal and FOOTBAW for me. I ain’t changin’ THESE COLOURS DON’T RUN imo godbless
Yeah except you would damn sure see that the players union for baseball would make life a living hell if a baseball player was blacklisted like Kaep.
Hell, the O’s had a dude that machine gunned to death like two people in Central America and the O’s basically admitted they couldn’t touch his contract until after all his appeals with the courts were over.
Legend has it Ugueth Urbina is still getting paid by three teams.
Go watch the Curt Flood documentary and get back to me on that.
The Major League Baseball Players Association is a hell of a lot more powerful today than it ever was in 1970.
Also, yeah I’m not stupid, racism played a massive role in Flood getting fucked.
These guys use their millions of dollars to insulate themselves from the fact guys like Trump who would smash their union to pieces if given the chance.
I actually prefer the term “Progressive,” because of its implied movement towards something that is better than what we have now. Not sure if “liberal” or “conservative” mean anything much anymore. Not sure how dyed in the wool I am but probably.
Also, yes to football. Meh to baseball. And a resounding YES! to hockey.
https://twitter.com/drewmagary/status/912468859449495553
That’s what happens when you don’t use Verrit. Is Verrit still a thing? Did we already shame it out of existence?
I never understood it in the first place.
Peter just wanted senpai to notice him
2009 smh tahts when obummer took office,,,
http://dailysnark.com/nfl-teams-didnt-stand-national-anthem-2009/
Entropy was not just a weekend thing, it would seem.
Not watching, but is DAK truly on pace for a glorious 12 yards?
DAK DAK DAK DAK!!!!
Classic bait–n-switch; she ended up getting a rusty trombone and an angry dragon.
Those dreads smell like a combination of patchouli, bong water, catshit, incense, and dirty ass.
Star Trek has shown a first person view of being teleported. At one point a person was shown completely intact in the beam. Teleportation is being converted molecule by molecule from matter to energy. How can a person see being teleported if he’s completely separated?
Maybe it’s a matter of what you experience, rather than what your eyes would visually pick up.
Yesterday one of the Ravens players was standing during God Save the Queen, with his hand over his heart.
He was the lineman born in the UK
Here’s what makes me sad about America. And it’s been said by people way better than me.
There is no more room for having a conversation that shows you yourself are split on an issue.
It’s pick a side. Stick with it. Yell your fucking head off. Throw down the racist card if possible.
That black hearted bastard waterhead in the white house is a fucking cuntfaced cunt.
Agreed. Even that chronic masturbator Ted Cruz would’ve taken the opportunity to be seen with black people and at least said some empty words preaching unity.
Abstaining and drinking a diet cola is how Ted Cruz jacks off.
Ted Cruz only jacks off to women who look like his wife after exactly one drink.
Just how big of a drink are we talking about here?
Just one regular drink. His fish organs don’t need more than that to reach full on shithoused.
That sounds like a video from Orrin Hatch’s porno collection.
Would Rahm Emmanuel tax it? What would he tax?
Too many folks overvalue civility which is the crutch they use to pretend this country doesn’t have deep, serious problems that are exacerbated by the folks ignoring them comfortably from the suburbs
I should definitely keep my mouth shut about politic lest I go full Twitter moron.
What does yelling at one another accomplish? I’m not living in a vacuum. I realize shit is wrong. Christ, I live in Baltimore.
I’m saying that there is no more back and forth – something that helps people become more enlightened to the other side of an issue.
Nothing. But the call for civility is much more about controlling tone such that legitimate outrage is dismissed as unjustified than “having a conversation” that ends with people telling you you’re ultimately wrong.
I don’t want to control the tone of another person or his views. That negates the idea of a give and take conversation. But when people come right at you with their opinions, yelling like maniacs, nothing is accomplished.
Let’s just talk with the nazis; they are reasonable people, always have been.
but there ARE people in the grey zone, and it’s almost certainly a better approach from a persuasion and moral POV to feel them out first (and treat them as potential “grey zone” folk until you get contradictory data).
Not the ones pictured in the banner which seems to be what the right is saying. Sorry; if you advocate elimination and/or segregation you do not deserve a voice.
AGREED. Also the ability to use and apply REASON instead of just getting themselves (and only an insular, similarly-aligned group of hiveminded individuals) whipped into a frenzy via the latest FB/Twitter “outrage.”
There are many on the left who say it’s high time we acted more like the right, and everybody in the center can get fucked (or that there’s nobody in the center, just people pretending they’re not Nazis).
That’s dangerous as fuck, and will not bring our society back from the brink. I’m not sure ANYTHING can bring our society back from the brink, but I don’t want to give active aid and comfort to pouring accelerant on the bonfire.
We have to get re-buy in on a common purpose as a society again. Not 100%, I know that. But it’s got to be better than this, not fucking worse.
You need both, really. The white supremacists and their mutant cousin idiot pepe fucks need to be nuked from orbit and barred from the table. We also need to be willing to work with the ones that actually have the best intentions and are willing to compromise. The problem is the mainstream center-right types are the ones currently trying to ram some god awful inhuman shit through congress right now with as little interaction with anything left of Bush as humanly possible. There’s not a lot of good faith out there these days.
Right. And the bad faith SHOULD be called out for what it is. More about how you talk to friends and neighbours, etc. There is not really any compromise to be had with the current GOP Congress. Everyone on the left gets that, methinks.
I will reach across the aisle and isle to agree: That black hearted bastard waterhead in the white house is a fucking cuntfaced cunt.
I need three more points between Fitz and Whitton to win my FF game. I have a serious feeling of dread in my stomach that they will both go down for the game on non-contact injuries before either of them touch the ball again.
I have no issue with Fitz, it is Witten I have an issue with Blax, if that is your real name.
It is.
Sill Blax.
Ravens vs Steelers this weekend in Baltimore.
I don’t want to go. At all. But my wife and I are hosting an anniversary party for her parents. all the bible thumping Trumpsters will be in attendance.
So, I’m going because at least I can dull the feelings of hypocrisy with shitty expensive beer.
Showing up at this party half in the bag is going to be fun. I’ll stink of beer and cigar smoke. And everyone will loathe me.
Good.
I like it sir. Wilt thou be wearing purple camo to the inlaw party?
Apparently somewhere between teh game and going to the restaurant I’m going to “change.” And that’s not fucking happening. There’s a cool bar right down the street from teh restaurant (It’s in Little Italy) soooo I’ll have a few belts of dumb dumb juice before going in.
I assumed the “Baltimore Tuxedo” would be mandatory for such a formal affair…
Where will you be when your in-laws start threatening Ray Lewis for kneeling?
I have to say, him kneeling smacked of Ray needing the spotlight on him at all times. He actually talked to Kap about this whole issue a few weeks ago, told him to take it off the field.
I’m more drunk than I thought. comments in wrong places, smgdh. gobbless.
When Jerry Jones dies and is buried, I will shit on his grave.
Also… LOL (baseball) CARDINALS
…..you’re Not Larry Fitzgerald.
Fuck you
You are though.
Fuck you rescinded, for now…
Here is how I’m feeling about pro football. (Like any of you fuckers care.)
Right now the NFL is like a girl that I liked alot. And we had a decent relationship. Some days she fucked me, and somedays I really wanted to spend time with her, but I got blackout, pants shitting drunk.
After awhile, she really started doing specific things that pissed me off. And I drifted away, maybe flirting hockey, a most handsome woman.
But I had put so much time and money into her, that I recommitted, and my friends were like, “Yeah! Welcome back, she’s awesome. A lot of work, but she’s always going to be there.”
And then this season, I woke up to see her in the cruel light of morning and I realized she was a broken whore with moldy dust where her heart was. Her soul was covered in corrupt black mould. And she didn’t care when I told her to fuck off.
Because there was an entire line of people waiting at the door to let her fuck them over.
Have you considered hard drugs?
Welcome, my friend! You’re not alone.
“Palmers stands in there courageously….”
Wow — subtle.
Anyone got a feed for the game?
This is beautiful.
THIS PAST SUNDAY, I CALL IT BIZARRO WORLD, BECAUSE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN AMERICA WHITE PEOPLE GOT UPSET WITH BLACK PEOPLE KNEELING BEFORE THEM
“Oh no, I’m missing ‘Young Sheldon!” – nobody
My brain has been arguing against itself all fucking day. I am fucking inches from saying Fuck It and dedicating my life to a serious heroin addiction.
Seriously don’t do it. I have a family member that’s been fighting it for years. She was clean for years, then stole her father’s car and OD’d while driving nearly killing herself and possibly others. My family was debating whether or not to support her or kill her. She’s back with her husband and her kids, so hopefully she’ll be clean.
Seriously, stick with beer.
Thanks, I appreciate it. HOpefully your family member has gotten clean. I’ll stick with suds, booze, and a lil pot now and then.
We should get high man.
Way ahead of ya.
Can’t do it. Don’t know any pot dealers and I have a face that screams “Narc!”.
I can mail you some.
LOL. Why do you just wanna mail weed around the globe?
Meh, fuck it. I’ll send you my address.
Now that I have a job in a place that’s young and completely laid back I have been imbibing. And yeah, I ain’t complaining.
Karma, my buddies sent me weed when I lived in Scotland. Greatly appreciated.
Yes.
Is this the plot to the Hippo prequel? Because I love a good origin story.
the Cardinals O line looks suspiciously like the Patriots, or the University of North Dakota.
OHMYGODGUZ! SHELDON GOT ENGAGED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111LOFODFLKJAFSDLKJASDFLKJ
FOZZ! HOW THE HELL YOU BEEN? WHY AM I SHOUTING? OH MY GOD, I’VE GOT VOICE IMMODULATION!
I’VE BEEN FUCKING GODDAMN GREAT MOTHERFUCKER. JESUS CHRIST I WANT TO SHOVE A BROKEN BOURBON BOTTLE THROUGH RAY LEWIS’S EYE SOCKET
So, we rooting for Dem Boys:
Or Their Eminences:
Red Birds. I have nothing against them.
Is there a reason to not want the Cardinals to massacre the lot of them?
If Dan Bailey could blow a hammy this would be great. Then someone break Wittens face.
A pox on your house sir!!! A POX I SAY!!!!
How can you screw up the “Are you ready for football” song? We’re protesting the wrong thing!!!
Lady had Proverbs 31:8-9 on her hand:
“Open thy mouth for the dumb, In the cause of all such as are left desolate. Open thy mouth, judge righteously, And minister justice to the poor and needy.”
But enough about that meaningless words. Who was kneeling?!
We are at smugness defcon 1
“This’ll quiet those simpletons for a while.”
Can someone Photoshop a blonde kneeling in front of JJ’s crotch?
“Did someone say billionaire?”
No, but I can pretend to be one.
Zeropointsixzero
Who wants to trade a prime RB for Travis fucking Kelce?
Tonight, on MNF….
Larry Fitzgerald hauls in all teh targets, yds and TD receptions and pulls tWBS out of the fire like a Phoenix (get it? Phoenix? meh, bite me that’s funny) and I make the late comeback to defeat teh Hippo in Week 3.
I’d also like a 10 inch penis, plz.
1) Does it need to be attached? 2) To you? 3) Someone else? 4) Placed on you? 5) In you? 6) Gently or is slappin n slammin acceptable? 7) Erect or flaccid? 8) Human? 9) Is color a concern? 10) Do you require other optional extras?
OK, well I see what happens when we leave “required fields” unfilled out.
I want MY penis to be 10 inches. I want it to be attached. To me. Not placed IN ME or ON ME.
Gently? No…slappin and slammin. Erect is preferable at certain times, yes. Human is preferable all the time. But if I can get 10+ inches with a black penis, I’m game.
Nawt raycess.
Larry Fitzgerald can’t beat Megatron overall when it comes to receivers whose ability and careers were completely wasted, but he is definitely a contender for top three.
So Tiny Darren’s career is over and I’m having a sad
But he walked off the field like nothing happened.
I have nothing of substance to say.
You ain’t laughing now you fuzzy red retard.
I know Brocky has this market cornered but I am the worst fantasy football player ever.
No, I’m the unluckiest fantasy player. At least that’s what I tell myself
The baseline, the piano bits-come on! Great tune.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJwt2dxx9yg
Wooooo!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ah4f62bYAcw
Rod Tidwell would be a major upgrade for the Bears receiving corps. Cuba Holding, Jr. might, too.
In a landmark event, one of my body parts needs ice, and one needs heat at the same time. How does that work.
Got old. Or I turned my head to fast to look at certain derrieres of certain pedestrians.
Left ball hot, right ball on ice.
You sure?
