Blech, the Turkey Day schedule Gods are much kinder.
At least one can wake up to the Premiership again, and to a classic North London Derby, 3rd position Spurs v. 6th position Arsenal (7:30, NBCSN). 4 points separate the sides in the table, and the Gooners look capable of getting back into the top 4 conversation of late. Herein lies a nice test of that Lesser Footy hypothesis.
Leicester and runaway freight train Man City are the featured 10:00 window match (NBCSN), with everything else on NBC Gold. The best of those being Liverpool/Soton, but I will trudge through all grim 90 minutes of Palace/Everton. No, we still don’t have a bloody permanent manager. Yes, it does look like Watford’s Marco Silva wants to jump ship for some reason and join our merry band.
United host the Barcodes for big NBC’s 12:30 spotlight dance, and we can all root for England’s version of the Unabomber.
Only one lousy Sunday match, 9th position Watford v. 18th position West Ham (under new manager David Fucking Moyes). I am actually betting on Moyes here (+275 to win outright!) given that the Moose Hornets have to be unsettled with all the rumours swirling around their manager. They are a bit loose at the back anyway, which is what Moyes is good at exploiting. Your Hippo tip o’ the week.
Virginia at Miami (Noon, ABC)
How do you spell “trap game?” No, nobody asked you, U*NC. Though maybe it’s high time I quit being so Cane-skeptical (I did bet $100 on them +7 v. the Tiggers in the Title match).
Michigan at Wisconsin (Noon, Fox)
Both these teams play ugly and hurt my very soul.
TCU at Texas Tech (Noon, FS1)
Much more watchable, and Bloodeyes could either be super-pissed, or emotionally spent after their Boomer Sooner disappoint.
Kentucky at Georgia (3:30, CBS)
Did you know UK is 7-3? NO SHIT! Speaking of shit and UK…expect theirs to get pushed in by a pack of angry Dawgs.
Kansas State at Oklahoma State (3:30, ESPN2)
Oh, I could TOTES see Undead Bill Snyder pulling this one off, even as a 19.5 point road dog. Couldn’t you?
Arizona at Oregon (7:00, PAC12)
I’m not sure any defensing will be allowed in this here match, and the last O/U I saw was 70. That’s madness, yo.
Texas A&M at Ole Miss (7:00, ESPN)
Told ya…slim pickins this weekend. Think the Aggies show up for this one and take Johnny Reb to school (and he ain’t like that place).
UCLA at USC (8:00, ABC)
Uh…watch two Top 10 NFL Draft pick QBs play, surrounded by oceans of merde?
Cal at Stanford (8:00, Fox)
Enjoyable historical rivalry, and can expect the Trees to play down to their competition coming off the big upset win over Washington.
Utah at Washington (10:30, ESPN)
Perhaps Team Secular Big Love can keep it close for awhile, and give us something for our tweakers and Best Coasters. Meh, what an underwhelming day.
Hey, like I said, glad I just bet on Arkansas.
Canesdown!
UVa hanging tough. But the equipment manager needs to have his ass beaten severely.
Notice the helmets.
Never mind about the whole UVa hanging tough part.
Yikes.
Ol’ Virginny knows a thing or two ’bout hanging.
Special teams needs a paddlin’, too.
UT-WV announcer, on UT: “They want to build on their poor start to the season.”
Huh?
Errands run? Check.
Chores done? Check.
TO THE PYJAMAMOBILE!
I wonder if Kurt Benkert is somehow friends with former GT point guard God Shammgod?
“Ha Ha!”
-Clinton-Dix
—Nelson Muntz
[attempts to high-five Viva with his right hand]
“Oh yeah.”
-Admiral Nelson
Kam Chancellor out for the season. RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRAM IT!!! can order those NFC West Division championship T-shirts, methinks.
/proving ground fixtures ahead, though
//Balls will BELIEVE!!
I see a minor stumble along the way, being as they’re so young and all but I’m cheering for them.
Cousinfuckers’ D looks tired already.
That’s not good.
Should i go do something? These morning games are boring.
Jack it!
Virgina up, 14-0
And then screwed on the onsidey kickoff recovery.
fuck a duck. I listed it as a TRAP!! in the preview, but didn’t bet it. At least I put a full hunnerd on Pig Sooey against Bama Hungover Cowbells (also 14-zip). Shoulda moneylined the fucker too.
Not so fast, my friend.
Quick Miami TD to cut the lead in half.
Lookie loo, another pylon stretch catastrophe. Will nobody ever learn?
I believe we know that they will, in fact, not.
oh yeah, who beat Pig Sooey +11.5 at home?
Now that’s a plot twist!
40 degrees and raining is probably the worst weather.
Miami (FL) cratering!!!1?
Would Harbaugh leave Mich to coach the Giants?
He can’t leave now, Eddie McDoom (real name of a real Mich player) is just coming into his own!
That’s almost better than Brock DeathRage (real name of NCSU baseball player)
I went to grab my mail and a woman from animal control was already carrying the dog back to the truck.
“Wow…you folks are fast!”
“Its pretty easy when the dog comes right up to you”
Well, that’s a nice happy ending. Hope your town’s pound has a no-kill policy, then maybe not so happy, at least for the dog.
If the dog is that calm, and isn’t irreparably sick, it will get adopted just fine, no-kill or not.
I don’t the dog will have a problem getting adopted.
REALLY hope Alabama gets punished for playing an FCS school, unfortunately the best we can hope for is that they drop to #2 or something pointless like that.
I REALLY hope “Christians” in Alabama who vote for Roy Moore are punished by God.
Isn’t having to sit through church every week punishment enough?
http://weknowmemes.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/stand-sing-sit-well-done-have-a-snack.jpg
I’m gonna be unbearable when mah fellow Southerners come good (PHRASING!!) and do the right thing for once. Doug Jones WOO!!!
I’m a bit surprised the race has become a dead heat. The GOP has really fucked themselves over.
I think there is a certain critical mass of people woken up to “yeah there are real world consequences to putting lunatics in office” now. Plus, child fucking is a whole-‘nother level, and people are deeply sensitive to being laughing stocks. The “no, we are better than this” instinct exists, even in places like Alabama.
Key difference between AL and MS or AR – there are actual cities in AL.
I mean, if Jones wins, I’ll LOL so damned hard.
I’m starting to think it will be nearly a 60/40 blowout. There are people like Gov. Ivey that, from her public statements, I’d bet her secret ballot really is marked “Jones” despite her as tepid as humanly possible public support “for the Republican nominee.”
The thing is, Moore has a rabid base that will make life hell for anybody that speaks out against him or ADMITS to supporting Jones, and they have a political/local business structure there that depends on not “rocking the boat.” So all the anecdotal stories of people not saying anything when asked? I don’t think it’s “quiet Moore shame” but rather “quiet Jones support” that doesn’t want baying lunatics calling their homes at 3 am.
I’ve heard Moore actually isn’t that popular in Alabama outside of the rabid base you mentioned, so it wouldn’t shock me if the typical GOP voter stays home, writes in Strange, or even votes Jones.
– Roy Moore
WVU v Texas is fun so far Mich v Wisc may put me back to sleep
Without watching it or knowing that much abouyt either team, seems like this Mich-Wis game is going to be a candidate for Most Boring Game of the Century.
I dunno…Wiscy has played a lot of games.
Morning Folks. i take everyone saw the epic Spurs comeback last night. It was marvelous, get fucked OKC.
I fell asleep during the second quarter when we were down 20 and didn’t awaken until we were within 4 towards the end of the third, so I missed the vast majority of the comeback. I feel like a bad fan, though I blame the wine and the weed.
Never blame those things. Praise them.
Best Coast time my friend. Game was over by 8pm, still had time to eat some edibles, drink and listen to music rest of the night.
Its interesting how fast LC went from “Feel Good Story of the Century” to “standard middling EPL team that has zero charm and personality besides greed”…
Rooney won’t get his splintered arse off the bench today, nice! 😀
Alright…what the fuck do you do when there is a dog trying to get into your house?
I got a stray on my back patio. Looks like a sad, half starved, American pit bull.
I don’t mean to sound callous but I don’t like dogs at all (when I was a kid I had a terrible experience with a police dog). Is there like a number to call for someone to pick up a stray?
If it’s truly a stray, the best bet is local animal control.
And not everyone is a dog person, no shame there.
But if the dog isn’t acting aggressively, please tell them that so they don’t come in with that bias.
If you say Pit Bull, that is the default thinking. And sometimes it’s true, but not usually.
I know dog breeds because I used to volunteer at a vet clinic (hence how I picked up the parrot).
I’ve been attacked by a dog before. I don’t trust any dog whatsoever. I don’t care if a person has the dog on a leash. I especially don’t trust a stray.
That said, I did inform them that the dog does not appear to be aggressive.
Do me a favour-feed it something and then call Dog Protective Services.
I called animal control. I am not leaving my house. I don’t mean to be a dick, I have a pathological terror of dogs.
Not being a dick at all IMHO.
Whoever didn’t take care of their dog, thus allowing him/her to show up at your house uninvited, is the dick.
Web pages which automatically start videos upon loading, annoy the shit out of me.
Did LC hire Bruce Arena?
things I forgot about winter – how good a hot mug of coffee feels in one’s cold hands
Agreed. I’m not usually cold-natured (and usually avoid hot drinks), but lately…?
Brrrrrrrr.
Maybe my old blood is finally thinning and the end is near?
hey now, don’t go getting my hopes up that I could be dying
/cold all the time
I see yeah right’s Cherries are poppin’ all over the pitch today.
Gift 2nd equalizer for Niasse? Don’t mind if we do!
Service is terrible!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4e9AsS-qdc
But I bet the pies are purr-fection.
(sorry, holdover from last night)
When I was stationed in Japan it became a running joke/dare that any time we came across a pizza joint we HAD TO buy a pie. They were uniformly terrible. Spanky out.
The Shakey’s Pizza outside the base at Yokosuka had toppings like potato and kernel corn. Weird.
Jesus, what passing by city!
I just love LC going with the “stand there and look stupid” defense.
My laughter just startled my family.
Walked downtown this morning for exercise. Its like a 4 mile walk for a cup of coffee. On the way back there was a hipster swamp meet or some shit.
I am not sure why, but it seems like hipsters are really into wearing old military gear, like service jackets. I don’t really care about it except they don’t tear off the patches. There was a clown with a navy pea coat that still had the rank and the command patches.
I still have and wear my pea coat, but I took the fucking patches off.
I don’t care about people “disgracing” the flag because it doesn’t fucking mean anything at this point. But for whatever reason, seeing a fucking 22 year old hipster wearing the gear just pisses me off because chances are the person that had to sell that gear for cheap is homeless.
I saw like three or four people wearing military gear. Its weird as shit.
They don’t get it from surplus shops? I have some old military jackets I like to wear cause they invariably have great pockets, but mine are all from surplus and thus un-patched. They probably have no idea what they’re wearing but equally there’s probably no way to tell them without them reacting like a dipshit.
We got a lot of pawn shops. Plus, up in the mountains, a lot of people go into the military to escape poverty and when they get out, they are back to struggling.
I’m certain that some idiot hipster has gotten murdered for wearing the jacket of an outlaw MC.
I wore my peacoat and the foul weather jacket I stole from the deck apes for a number of years after I got out. With my aging and continued growth (horizontal, not vertical), I ended up taking them to Goodwill when they no longer fit. I think I left my crow on the peacoat, but this was the 80s and I didn’t give a fuck. My hydrology professor was a USNR O-6, and he just called me “MR” for the rest of my college career instead of my name after he saw the rating badge on the peacoat.
Important question : Is it legal to bring your own pieces of fancy cheese into a NFL stadium?
I think it is against teh rules.
Not if they don’t catch you.
Two words, Dok…
Sock. Cheese.
Ewwwwwww
What??? Are you too good to pull cheese out yo’ sock?
It’s works just fine for liquor!!!
Also, preferable to crotch cheese.
Oakland? Who’s gonna notice?
Fucking dreadful midfield play.
Looks like a loverly day in ole London town today.
Level on dodgy Anthony Taylor pen WOO!!!!!
I can’t believe I am watching the Everton game just to see you ride the rollercoaster of emotions.
hey, your choices are all shit, might as well
Eh, mate – for the record – “dodgy penalty” is a specific term used for soft penalties given against your side.. the correct term is “fortuitous penalty”
1st minute goal surrendered. To motherfucking PALACE. Have a word.
At least you equalized quickly 😉
We also can has NEW Sufjan! It isn’t even suicidal?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0CP9zpbmAQ
Nawt suicidey?? Boy done gone and sold out.
eh, it appears to be a soundtrack for an indie homo love story (no ofence) so he gets a pass (PHRASING!!)
I call tell it’s getting to be somewhat near the holidays because TA DA! The Yuletide Fireplace Channel has arrived!
[tosses another log on the TV]
Vizio Customer Service: Yes Mr. Scotchy, I understand. But your warranty isn’t covered for THAT.
they just started playing this on Alt Nation, seems a good FIFA song and HAI, nice shoulders lady!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4FApt6z55c
That garment is….intriguing.
My Canadian invisible brothers make me feel guilty for enjoying a beautiful 78 degree day yesterday, today, and in to next week.
I’ll get over it…
At least it will be +7 C tomorrow for the CFL game (I am not converting). If it were today I would go but I will not attend on a Sunday.
45 F is not bad at all to play in. To sit through is another thing…
Depends upon winds.
Absolutely. We are in the foothills of the rockies. It can go either way really fucking cold with an arctic blast or a Chinook warms this place up unseasonably.
Morning! Travelled to Blacksburg last night to go to the VT/Pitt tilt this afternoon, followed by an early Thanksgiving feast tonight. There have been worse days.
So! Fournette’s ankle again, huh?
That sounds like a kick ass day. After a game I would be too drunk/tired for a feast though.
You’d think so, right? Sadly, my father in law, while being a tremendous guy, isn’t the tailgating type. Fear not, though. I’ll get plenty banged up when we get home. See you guys then. Enjoy the games!
got any action going today?
I am riding the Wyoming train again +2.5 and I took UCLA +15.5 in a parlay.
Ha! Also took the Pokes (FOAR teh MUTHALAND!!) but chose Cal over UCLA in the nightcap dog pickins.
Oh, Litre!
NEVER bet on UCLA to do anything you want…
I’m totes jelly. Haven’t been on the road to Lane in far too long.
Great atmosphere.
Why does Saturday morning seem to come earlier and earlier every week????
Must. Find. Caffeine.
How does Sanchez not score that?
The ball did not go in the net you see.
If Ozil could walk any slower for that substitution he would be crawling.
Huzzah, Rooney on the subs bench.
Are you playing a striker today?
Niasse! Niasse! He scores them with his ass!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APGbp5hPyHQ
I like this result thus far. After Eriksen singlehandedly destroying Ireland me thinks Spurs are getting too big for their britches.
might as well make Top 4 a race, otherwise what drama will there be this season?
Will Everton go down? IS THAT NOT ENOUGH DRAMA FOR YOU?
nah, we are getting Marco Silva and we’ll be comfortably 10th. Niasse will score off his face and get us a draw with Palace today, his balls for the unnatural hat trick next week.
Marco Silva is probably like Mike Smith down there. How do you know which one you are getting????
I’m happy because he’s not Fat Sam Fookin’ Allardyce, They scared me so badly with that. But Silva is who I voted for in the initial NSNO preference poll, so I’d feel pretty good about that, he’s done remarkably well given scant resources, and he’s progressively minded.
Dominoes better not set up that Slavisa goes to the Moose Hornets as he used to manage there. Fulham is in enough trouble already. I will not be happy with you lot if we lose him.
fortunately, your being out of form works in your favour here
I think I’ll watch the snot out of tv today.
/eh, might as well get a haircut as well
Snowing where you are scotchy? We are having a non Alberta winter. -20 and snow. HOWEVAH it should be ok this weekend
It snowed quite a bit overnight but it’s only -1 now so it’ll likely melt away during the day.
(For anyone else watching, that’s ~145 in Freedom Units)
Awake and reporting for lesser footy duty.
‘Sup Hippo?
finally, me?
See Arse has 2
Honestly, my section at the Emirates only “believed” the score at the final whistle… and some I think believe that we still could Arse this up :D.. Also ‘olla y’all
welcome back! Youse look legimiately good to me.