Mid-November Lesser Footy Letdown Day Thread

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.

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theeWeeBabySeamus

I need food. Or else I need to stop drankin’.

Imma go look for some food. See ya’s in a bit.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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theeWeeBabySeamus

You’re on the list.
Whaddya expect?

/also on the list
//fuck that guy

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

They have managed keeping people from pressing charges or civil litigation!

Spur

Anyone see Justice League? Is it as bad as it looks, the worst of Snyder and Whedon with no oversight or budget?

JustStopDude

I’ve not seen it. Honestly, looking at the commercials for it, I have no fucking idea who the audience is suppose to be.

I fully admit I am burned out by Super Hero movies and I want them to just stop making them, but I can at least see what people like about Marvel films. Even if they are schlock, they still tend to be somewhat entertaining.

I can’t think of a single DC film I have enjoyed in the last 15 years. They keep turning everything into angry, dark Batman for some fucking reason.

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Well angry dark Batman grossed a billion dollars, so that’s why.

But I hate Snyder’s take on these characters, particularly Superman.

JustStopDude

I get that dark Batman made an insane amount of money.

I don’t get the fucking attempt at making dark every fucking other thing. It doesn’t work.

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Agreed. It was a horrible choice for Superman in particular.

Shogun Marcus

Snyder is no good with original content. And when he has source material, he’s too dependent (300, watchmen).
Bottom line, he’s just not good. He should actually read a comic book.

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What’s great is that he did read the Watchmen but totally misunderstood it.

And 300 was a weird homoerotic mess.

Shogun Marcus

Well Frank Miller clearly has mental dilemmas he’s fighting. Most of his later work has shown this. Yes, I agree Snyder looked at watchmen, the shots reflect it. But read it? Nope.

JustStopDude

Other than casting (I felt the actors looked way too young to be burned out, middle aged, former heroes), I actually thought that Watchmen was pretty decent considering that they were trying to do in a movie something that should have been done in a series.

I cannot stand how comic book fans think their favorite material transitions perfectly into cinema.

Shogun Marcus

No argument there. There’s a good reason watchmen was always considered unfilmable.

theeWeeBabySeamus

Run faster?

theeWeeBabySeamus

OK guys, get ready for the rush.

– Traffic cops in Stillwater

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There’s no justification for not having every conference champ in a playoff.

JustStopDude

It was a pretty bitch move though by the Big 12 to get rid of their championship game because Oklahoma and Texas complained about having to play in one.

The whole “it hurts our chances to get into the Championship” really blew up in their faces.

herodotus450

I thought there was a rule (well “rule”) that you had to have 12 teams (and maybe two divisions) to even have a championship game, which was a big reason the Big 11 added Nebraska.

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I think it was the fact the NCAA only allows a championship game for conferences with 12 teams unless they ask for a waiver. UT and OU balked at adding more teams and finally changed their mind.

What’s stupid is having a championship game with a full round-robin just invalidates the benefits of having everyone play everyone else.

JustStopDude

Yup. They didn’t want to apply for the waiver and the two big dogs didn’t want any extra competition. The Big 12 had options.

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Honestly, their big fuckup was not inviting Louisville before the ACC got them.

JustStopDude

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Spur

Hey Sailors!

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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It feels so late already.

Spur

Time to drink

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I’m debating whether to go to a dive i like or just buy a bottle of wine and stay in.

theeWeeBabySeamus

These Dawgs need a good neutering.

theeWeeBabySeamus

On the other hand, the Cowboys from Stillwater apparently already have been.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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herodotus450

This Oklahoma St. football team I call them Ted because they are getting fucked by Skylar on the ground AND in the air.

herodotus450

If there isn’t already a BB musical by some shitty local Albuquerque theatre group so help me…

litre_cola

Back to the drawing board. Wyoming only put up 7 today. It is like they didn’t even exist.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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“Dish wants to drop CBS. No NCIS! No Big Bang Theory! No 60 Minutes!”

Me: Go on…

WCS

No Masters! No Jim Nantz! No Survivor!

Although, no NCAA Tournament would suck.

Shogun Marcus

TruTV (whatever the fuck that is) has your back!

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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theeWeeBabySeamus

I read this comment just as Allie did her post halftime report.
Irony?

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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scotchnaut

Boney M. had more funding-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-7-ENyE5yU

scotchnaut

This just might be the not greatest song of all time.

Brick Meathook

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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh
scotchnaut

“Not sure what this has to do with us. Feeling kinda abandoned over here.”

-Brick’s Pics of Engines

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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She seems nice.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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scotchnaut

I love me some Kansas State!

scotchnaut

Sure does look like you got this one right. Kudos!

Shogun Marcus

Said no one, not even those that live in it.

WCS

Bill Snyder is a sorcerer. There’s no other explanation.

Brick Meathook

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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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WCS

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Shogun Marcus

twbs…I can’t help but notice that the one you went looking for is now suspended. Did you does a good?

theeWeeBabySeamus

I didn’t do it.
But it happened around that same time.

Shogun Marcus

As an unofficial interwebz judge, I award you an assist.

scotchnaut

What?

scotchnaut

WHO?

scotchnaut

“PREACH, BROTHER!”

-WHY

theeWeeBabySeamus

– HUH?

scotchnaut

“Oh look, it’s the black sheep of the family. When did you get back in town? BTW, where’s the 50 bucks you owe us?”

-Who, What, Where, When and Why

litre_cola

Scotchy, what are you drinking?

scotchnaut

Everything?

WCS

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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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herodotus450

Illinois QB is named Chayce Crouch, but they should call him Chayce Prone by the end of this game.
/You KNOW I had a “Sectional” locked and loaded if he was a son of Couch instead.

theeWeeBabySeamus

OK twitter, you can stop sending me emails about Laura Keeley’s tweets anytime now.

Hippo I swear to god, why? She’s at Columbia Law now, not even in Durham. I never followed her to begin with. But now, she won’t keep her mouth shut, comments on everyone else’s stuff, and twitter seems to think I care.

I hate twitter.

litre_cola

I hate it but love it. Turn your notifications off.

theeWeeBabySeamus

I thought they were until I chased a certain former poster here around for a day or so.

Shogun Marcus

You sillee sillee man.

theeWeeBabySeamus

He had it coming.
Fucking psycho.

theeWeeBabySeamus

I did run across Chrissy Tiegen tho.
She’s funny.

theeWeeBabySeamus

See? Funny.
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litre_cola

I have no idea what you are talking about.
/hits bong

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I believe said poster still posts on Deadspin and hooboy seeing some of his comments there is… wow.

theeWeeBabySeamus

* Usually, Bobby Lutz seems suspiciously involved as well, btw.

litre_cola

Laval University is like Bama up here. Fuck them.

laserguru

I’m yeah right and welcome to Jackass. I call this next one “Going to the grocery store on the Saturday before Thanksgiving.”

May the good Lord have mercy on my soul.

litre_cola

Maybe go to a 24 hour one way later.

theeWeeBabySeamus

Tomorry before 11am.
Churchfolk will be busy.

scotchnaut

THE SKYLAR’S THE LIMIT!!!!

scotchnaut

“I fucked Ted. In my defense, I thought he was a knight.”

-excerpt from dementia-riddled Mary Tyler Moore’s latest autobiography

litre_cola

I would also like to point out the the Mitchell Bowl is U of Calgary v laval U right now.

/checks to see if I can gamble on it.

herodotus450

If there’s one thing Urban Meyer is good at, it’s running up the score against bad teams in order to look good to the assistants and secretaries who vote in the various polls.
/Flashback to Fla-Ark(?) SEC championship game in 2006
//Wakes up on floor, mouth dry but face all wet

theeWeeBabySeamus

Woof Woof Woof.
Tell me how they’re feeling, Allie.

scotchnaut

“When the Georgia Bulldogs stadium is filled to capacity, it contains the largest number of evolution-deniers at any one place anywhere in the Western World!”

-The “More You Know Rainbow” most recent pamphlet

litre_cola

The flat earther section would like a word.

Brick Meathook

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scotchnaut

That’s gotta be a female dog’s worst nightmare.

theeWeeBabySeamus

You’d have been fine giving twice that.

scotchnaut

Place Your Bets, Gentlemen-

2-1 Me being blackout drunk and sleeping it off

5-1 Me being sober enough to take the lasagna out of the oven one hour from now.

theeWeeBabySeamus

Is there a time limit on the 2-1 bet. Bcuz that’s eezy munny if not.

scotchnaut

“Like Monday morning”-The Commodores

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XcTyEKSnYg

Unsurprised

Just call the fire dept now

theeWeeBabySeamus

Yeah, she looks nice here huh?
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17 years old here, you sick fuckers!!!!!!!

theeWeeBabySeamus

(maybe only 16, actually)

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Republicans are going to use this photo to draw Roy Moore into a well so they can bury him there.

scotchnaut

Is she exiting a mall bathroom though?

/#contextmatters

theeWeeBabySeamus

What? Miss Teen USA ’05 wasn’t a secret.

litre_cola

Also, Fuck these Sonic guys with Cromartie’s offspring producing dick.

WCS

The one on the right is Vice President Mike Pence on The President Show.

litre_cola

Jared Lorenzen needs to be here. It doesn’t feel right.

theeWeeBabySeamus

Goddammit UGa.
smgdh

theeWeeBabySeamus

Yeah. Same shit, different year.

litre_cola

Jelly Belly assorted bag. 1 by 1 or a handful of rando flavoUrs?

theeWeeBabySeamus

When in doubt, always full fist it.

litre_cola

I am not German or French Twbs. The interwebs tells me they like that sort of thing.

scotchnaut

This is the toughest question I’ve been asked in quite some time…

Shogun Marcus

Yes, have some.

theeWeeBabySeamus

Ohhhh yay…Allie is between the hedges in Athens.

This gives me an idea for the perfect come on line.

theeWeeBabySeamus

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theeWeeBabySeamus

Six of one, half dozen of…

scotchnaut

Not sure there has ever been a greater call-back to 70’s porn fashion. Well done!

Unsurprised
scotchnaut

Talking head consulting his notes about any game involving a service academy-

-“History! You Never Know! That One Time! Roger Staubach! Honor! Upset!”

theeWeeBabySeamus

Western Carolina (the Catamounts, btw), with the early lead in Chapel Hill.

Oh please, if there is a god…….

scotchnaut

The 3:30 lineup-where to go first? Ideas?

theeWeeBabySeamus

I’ll be Dawging it on CBS.
Not sure of my flips yet. Time will tell.

Shogun Marcus

Pawtucket? Blue Earth? OOH…MADISON COUNTY!!!

scotchnaut

“My trip to the end zone was one hell of an Odyssey!”

-Homer

herodotus450

Are Kansas?