Your “Wait – Is The ‘Victory Formation’ Now An Anti-American Protest?” Monday Night Football Open Thread

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.
    • 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

  • 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.”

https://youtu.be/BClD17Z_3tk


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
  • WWE:
    • Monday Night Raw – 8:00PM | USA / Sportsnet360
      • the night after “No Mercy”
        • Cesaro lost two teeth during his match.
  • 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”!

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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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Spur

Honey badger don’t care?

Horatio Cornblower

I think he’s down.

Gratliff

NO.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Romonobyl

Down, but that was sweet.

Spur

WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Horatio Cornblower

Wait what?

Spur

That Hyundai commercial is the whitest thing ever.

Unsurprised

Cripes. I’ll never develop an appreciation for whimsy or caprice, will I?

Horatio Cornblower

Whimsy is a weird name for a stripper, but give her time. Her dancing will improve.

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Spur

Asian drivers love to drift

theeWeeBabySeamus

I still love you, Hippo.
G’nite.

Unsurprised

Awwwww

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Romonobyl

I can’t lie, the officiating has been painfully accurate thus far.

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Unsurprised

What a shitty elevator.

Mr. Ayo

Hold on now, it’s pretty fast.

Unsurprised

True.

Unsurprised

Who the fuck doesn’t think this is a catch? https://twitter.com/NFL/status/912514481103691777

Romonobyl

My mom still tells all her friends with daughters that I’m a catch, does that count?

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Romonobyl

Gotta love lipstick lesbians.

Spur

Andy Reid is coaching both teams tonight.

Romonobyl

Are you sure Lovie Smith isn’t in there somewhere?

Horatio Cornblower

The fuck are they looking at? It’s obviously a catch.

hippofant

Maybe his hair touched the sideline.

… I have no idea if that’d actually count as being out of bounds.

the Alpha and the Amoeba

This would never happen, but I would love them to just look at the tablet for 1 second and then immediately rule.

the Alpha and the Amoeba

Second verse, same as the first

JustStopDude

“YOU GET A BAD CHALLENGE! AND YOU GET A BAD CHALLENGE! WE ALL GET BAD CHALLENGES!!!”

Spur

Fitzgerald should have been a Lion….and retired two years ago,

Horatio Cornblower

Ouch

litre_cola

Greatest player ever to graduate from the University of Phoenix.

JustStopDude

In his defense, ITT Tech just doesn’t let anyone in….

hippofant

Fitz arguing with the official signalling that he caught the ball that he caught the ball.

Horatio Cornblower

I love watching Larry Fitzgerald, even when he’s pissing all over my team.

Gratliff

It feels like he’s pulled 150 and 3 TDs against the Eagles every time. He’s my favorite receiver.

Romonobyl

Same, another wasted challenge. That was a helluva grab.

Gratliff

Fitz, man. It’s what he does.

Col. Duke LaCross

Fitty is such a badass!

Romonobyl

Well, that was a catch.

hippofant

When their mics aren’t working, how does a referee not notice that?

Or are they just completely committed to explaining the ruling, even if nobody can hear it?

JustStopDude

Alright, Mr. Not Gruden is my new favorite person with no personality just for calling out that retarded challenge.

Horatio Cornblower

Challenge!? I haven’t seen an Arians overreach like that since Hitler invaded Russia.

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Unsurprised

This is why gaming needs more women. It’s hard to do tit physics when none of the animators have ever seen them in real life.

litre_cola

This sir is fantastic.

Horatio Cornblower

/bows
//falls on face

Spur

Can ESPN replace Gruden for Romo?

Romonobyl

I’d like to see both in the booth, could be fun.

Unsurprised

To the death?!?!

BrettFavresColonoscopy

To the pain

Horatio Cornblower

Incomplete.

Much like my life.

Romonobyl

That was close.

theeWeeBabySeamus

Nawt a catch.

theeWeeBabySeamus

throwittoelevenjustsaying

Mr. Ayo

Too obvious

theeWeeBabySeamus

fuck off I need two points

Mr. Ayo

Well, there you go

theeWeeBabySeamus

There it is.
Sorry Hippo.

No…I’m really nawt.

theeWeeBabySeamus

Assception, even.

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Senor Weaselo

Andre Ellington needs to get into the port-a-potty. Yes, it was a Peyton SNL sketch joke, but that sketch was fucking gold!

Horatio Cornblower

If that was Tom Brady that was 15 yards for roughing.

WCS

DAK! the best draft pick in Cowboys history? Your CTE is showing, Chuckie.

Romonobyl

Maybe “recent” history, but not all time. Short fucking memories.

Horatio Cornblower

If he keeps it up he could be, considering he went in the 4th round.

Spur

Drafted for their round – ALL TIME Darren Woodson

Romonobyl

Just fucking DAKDAKDAK man. Love him or hate him, my man can play!
If they lose…well, just forget this shit, mkay?

theeWeeBabySeamus

Woooooo!!!!!!

Now AZ has to open it up to tie. Good for tWBS.

Throw that ball, Carson.

King Hippo

To John and Jaron Brown

theeWeeBabySeamus

Noooooooooooooooooooooooo

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Mr. Ayo

How much does that cost?

Asking for a friend

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Spur

Beautiful throw by Dak

Horatio Cornblower

Holy shit!

Unsurprised

I skipped to start watching Bojack season 4 because I’m an idiot.

King Hippo

It won’t make no sense that-a-way

Unsurprised

None of it ever did.

King Hippo

Season 1 is a slow burn that hooks you, while making you laugh along the way. Then when it punches you in the dick, it doesn’t hold back.

Closest thing I’ve ever seen to the explanation of depression/darkness that goes on in my own head, and also funny as shit.

Unsurprised

I made it to s2e11 when he goes to Santa Fe, and it just seems so transparent in the point it’s trying to make that I don’t really feel it.

Horatio Cornblower

If ‘The Good Doctor’ got dropped off at the hospital by a short bus I would never stop watching it.

King Hippo

#DownsOrNothing

Spur

Corky MD

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Spur

Hey! what i miss?

LemonJello

Well, I have adulting to do once again in the morning, so I’ll bid you all adieu, you most glorious commenting degenerates.

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Horatio Cornblower

If you google search this you come to an article that promises to tell you how Lucie Bee up there makes $5K a night. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3962920/How-Lucie-Bee-went-geek-pornstar-gets-paid-5000-nerdy-sex.html

theeWeeBabySeamus

OH SHIT HIPPO…I IZ LESS THAN 2 PTS SHORT.
ONE MOAR FITZGERALD TD REC, OR EVEN A FEW MORE YARDS, AND I GOTCHA.

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Unsurprised

Sam Kinison’s advice back in 1986 still seems wiser: just lick the alphabet.

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Horatio Cornblower

“Anybody remember Hugh Green?”

“I’m right here!”
-Trent Green

King Hippo

“Just kidding, green is a colour not a name!” – Trent Green

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LemonJello

“I have to stay away from purple monkey dishwashers, or I’ll piss myself and forget my name for fifteen minutes.”

/checks name tag in underwear

-T. Green

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Doggie treats for life.

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LemonJello

Excuse me, sir, do you have a moment to talk about our lord and saviour, Caribou?

ballsofsteelandfury

this is awesome!

theeWeeBabySeamus

Good Dog.

LemonJello

ARI’s kicker is gonna find himself in a shallow grave if’n he’s not careful

Unsurprised

Life would be great if not for all the goddamn people.

LemonJello

Agreed.

King Hippo

they’ll likely all be gone soon

litre_cola

Then I can move to a remote Scottish island and not be bothered.

BrettFavresColonoscopy

We have the same retirement plan?

litre_cola

Aye.

Horatio Cornblower

I can’t even get mad at Fitz.

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