So, I think I have the mood of the Commentists correct when I say that the only thing we hope for from today’s Conference title games is that Alabama gets kept out of the playoff, right? I forget who brought up Bamafreude last week & its relation to Patriots schadenfreude, but I agree with the general sentiment. It’s hard to say who’s more contemptible – Belichick or Saban. They’re both masters of fucking the rules, but Belichick at least has to worry about a capricious commissioner whereas Saban doesn’t have to worry about a salary cap.
I also kinda don’t want Wisconsin to get in, just so I don’t have to deal with a million cuts during the game to JJ Watt air-humping a Badger on the sideline. But that’s just me. However, if it came down to Alabama or Wisconsin then I say let JJ wreck another joint.
NFL Broadcast maps – courtesy 506sports.com
CBS SINGLE
█ Anchorage AK | █ Fairbanks AK
█ Honolulu HI
| █ | New England @ Buffalo | Jim Nantz, Tony Romo |
| █ | Kansas City @ NY Jets | Ian Eagle, Dan Fouts |
| █ | San Francisco @ Chicago | Andrew Catalon, James Lofton |
| █ | Houston @ Tennessee | Greg Gumbel, Trent Green |
| █ | Indianapolis @ Jacksonville | Kevin Harlan, Rich Gannon |
| █ | Cleveland @ LA Chargers (LATE) | Spero Dedes, Adam Archuleta |
That is… a slate of games.
FOX EARLY
█ Anchorage AK | █ Fairbanks AK
█ Honolulu HI
| █ | Minnesota @ Atlanta | Kevin Burkhardt, Charles Davis |
| █ | Detroit @ Baltimore | Thom Brennaman, Chris Spielman |
| █ | Tampa Bay @ Green Bay | Tim Brando, Greg Jennings |
| █ | Denver @ Miami | Dick Stockton, Mark Schlereth |
| █ | NO GAME due to local team at home on CBS | |
My guess is that I.C.E. is having this game shown along the Rio Grande in order to drive potential migrants away.
FOX LATE
█ Anchorage AK | █ Fairbanks AK
█ Honolulu HI
| █ | Carolina @ New Orleans | Joe Buck, Troy Aikman |
| █ | NY Giants @ Oakland | Kenny Albert, Ronde Barber |
| █ | LA Rams @ Arizona | Chris Myers, Daryl Johnston |
| █ | NO GAME due to local team at home on CBS | |
WHY THE FUCK would FOX punish St. Louis with the Rams game?
Tonight’s sports:
- NHL:
- Leafs at Canucks – 7:00PM | CBC
- Wings at Habs – 7:00PM | Sportsnet
- Oilers at Flames – 10:00PM | CBC
- NCAA:
- Football:
- Mountain West Football Championship: Fresno State at Boise State – 7:45PM | ESPN
- ACC Football Championship: Miami vs. Clemson – 8:00PM | ABC
- Big Ten Football Championship: Ohio State vs. Wisconsin – 8:00PM | FOX
- Basketball:
- Princeton vs. Miami – 8:00PM | ESPNU
- Southern California at SMU – 10:00PM | ESPNU
- Football:
- UFC 218
- Prelims: Holloway vs. Aldo 2: From Detroit – 8:00PM | FS1 / TSN2
I’ll be at the night game in Seattle Sunday. Please note that I probably started drinking about 1:00PM, so am not responsible for whatever I say in the open thread.
Chris Sims, noted comics fan/journalist, once described Frank Castle by saying that The Punisher’s super-power is that he’s angry all the time; like, think about the angriest you’ve ever been in your entire life – that’s Frank’s baseline. And he has turned all that anger and hate into the only outlet that makes sense given his training, background, and the reality of his situation – killing as many people as possible.
This one looks way better than the boy from South Carolina I met.
By the way, I am drunk re-reading Max Punisher :Slavers.
An incredibly dark comic about Eastern European slave traders. Hence why the gifs of the comic…
The window won’t give.
But the frame does.
OSU’s CSE department is currently hard at work now hacking into each committee members’ computer formulas and playing with the numbers to make OSU better than Bama.
He’s back!
Let me just cut to the chase and say The Slavers was the closest I ever came to feeling catharsis reading The Punisher.
I straight up hate batman….its always read to me like some Ayn Rand bullshit superhero….but I have always just connected to punisher. The totally masochistic, depressing end to any hero…Its almost greek in the way its written…
Those like any comic, there are some TERRIBLE Punisher comics…
I’m the same way about Batman. Even when Grant Morrison got ahold of him and did that whole Batman, Inc. thing and his giant, comprehensive storyline – It’s still just some rich dickhead in a suit. I always had some kind of affinity for The Punisher, but when I mellowed out several years ago and had a change of heart, that went with it (along with my fandom in general). Thinking about it now, though, it does seem like a useful metaphor for looking at my own life. I can’t kill every slaver in the world, or right every wrong, but I can do what I can do, and fighting the fight knowing with almost total certainty that it won’t change the world but that it will change some people’s worlds is enough.
Frank has the chaotic “I stand against injustice” craziness and fails against the impenitence of reality the same way we all face reality. The utter brutality of the Punisher makes sense compared to batman where he plays hero and saves the psychotic monster (joker) again and again to just slaughter innocent people. Joker is a sexy villain. Frank takes out the minor pimp, the strong arm mafia dick bag…the corrupt banker.
Batman and the rest of the superheros are the FBI. The Punisher is the cops…except he is not corrupt or evil compared to the cops.
I’ve never read Batman, but I enjoyed every cartoon and film version of Batman that didn’t involve Ben Affleck
I’m glad for Ohio State. That was a well fought game.
That being said, OSU ain’t going to the playoffs, unless the Playoff Committee is insane or hate Nick Saban..
We already know how this is going to shake out, right?
Evil wins. Same old, same old.
So, this means Alabama, Ohio State, Penn State, and Notre Dame are somehow going to the playoff, because, college football is awful.
The Punisher would nuke Happy Valley…
Jesus Christ. The things Frank would do to Sandusky.
I’m getting a little turgid at the thought.
And I would have no problem with that. Take out Oakland, Yinzburgh while he’s at it.
Apparently, Netflix’s the Punisher was the 2nd worst reviewed Netflix Marvel show ahead of the embarrassing Iron Fist, but I loved it.
Huh. All the sites I saw liked it. I loved it too.
So you guys all just automatically think a win over #4 Wisc (though they’ll prob drop to 7) doesn’t make up for a loss to Iowa? OSU just needs some stickum and a new knee ligament and they’re good to go.
/Not biased
//Ok maybe a little biased.
1 loss > 2 loss
13 games played > 11 games played
(Still not counting Mercer as a real game. In fact, I’m gonna count it as a loss now.) So
2 losses = 2 losses.
If the committee valued it’s rankings, tOSU is in because they just beat a team ranked higher than Bama. So, Bama is in.
Hehe, I hope the committee likes the sandwhiches I ordered for them. Sandwiches with extra “lettuce.” And now we play, the waiting game.
MTWV is intrigued.
I bet you could rent the entire Wells Fargo Center for a nationally televised Flyers game for the same amount it would cost to buy one Eagles ticket right now.
So, Bama, huh?
yup. Sadly, looks like Son of Clem might kick they teeth in, if today was any indication
/I really, REALLY hate DABO!
I don’t think anyone will argue…neither of these sides belongs in a national playoff
Well shit. No B1G teams in the playoffs this year.
I don’t know if Hornibrook can throw it 20 yards
He can, but it’s a chaotic 20 yards
I don’t know if he can NOT throw off of his back foot
It’s like the Colts QB in Tecmo Bowl
He can, but it has to be to an opposing player.
Badgers r fucked
The Wisconsin ‘W’ on their helmet looks like the default WordArt picture from Microsoft Word circa 1998
These Schaino men are coming through.
like a MRSA….microbe?
This is definitely the worst quartered backed best team I have seen in a loooonnnng time
Never trust a lefty
There’s another team from Wisconsin that breathes a sigh of relief at this.
“Can we onside punt?” – Fat Pussy to Special Teams guy
So it’s a long running joke with wrestling fans that whenever Chris Jericho is set up in a major feud that has the blow off match at a major WWE show, it’s actually going to be a “Loser Tours With Fozzy” match, regardless of what sort of match it was, because for the last 18 years, any time he disappeared for more than 2 weeks, it meant he was out somewhere making terrible music. Chris Jericho is probably my all-time favorite wrestler, but Fozzy is definitely The Bacon Brothers of metal and deserves every bit of mockery thrown at it. When they debuted Judas and used it as the main theme of an NXT show, the jokes began again. It’s a terrible song. The sort of rock song Syfy would throw in a superhero knockoff climactic fight scene. Well, the standards have dropped again because this fucking song charted at #5 on Billboard’s rock charts, and it’s in heavy, heavy rotation and has burrowed it’s way into my skull and it’s still terrible and Fozzy Chris Jericho is indistinguishable from awful Cool Dad Jericho of the last 5 years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqURPBtGJzg
these passes….are off by a matter of furlongs
So I guess we have a meteor game on one side of the bracket.
Bama/Clemson…I will find a shirt in my closet that is close to crimson ROLL DAMN TIDE
man, hit him right in the feet too
“Ooh, tell me more.”
-Rex Ryan
PUNTING?? You’ve gotta be shitting me.
Wisc motto: “We tried?”
They always have at least one bedshitting game a year. They were running out of spots.
*bets all the Bitcoins on tOSU*
BUY AHWAH FACKIN RAZAHS,THEY AWH THE BEHST! NO ONE DENIES THIS!
/sees Gillette commercial
“Well, I guess we’re doing Dollar Shave Club!”
one drive left to fuck over Bama, Wiscy
Welp.
Dabo growing up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=953PkxFNiko
Quick peek to see if the rest helped the Flyers be less shit tonight aaaaand nope. It did not.
So let’s a hear a Vegas update! Where are you? What’s happening? What if I hopped in the private jet and just showed up?
Pretty sure several of those on the ground would cream their pants.
I hope that’s just a metaphor.
A field goal? BAN THE CHAIN
Honestly, just relegate them to D-3 with a lifetime playoff ban.
https://media.giphy.com/media/112CpwMWAKiTV6/giphy.
Farmer’s Insurance Corvair engine compartment fireplace has no chimney/ventilation. I wonder if they’re covered for asphyxiation by smoke inhalation or carbon monoxide poisoning.
Jeebus wept. Everything coming up DABO tonight.
Having overseen the installation of athletic fields with synthetic turf, I can tell you that what he is doing is the equivalent of putting sand on top of a grass field with gopher holes. Temporary fix but that turf needs a full fix that will take a couple of days.
Do the Colts play at home this week?
Gravy holes?
They’re at the house Bortles built
Then the field should be fine by the time they play there again.
They mentioned the end zones are temporary for this game.
Pictured:
No, IND is playing in Bortles playground
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The turf broke while the play was happening. Shouldn’t that have killed the play?
“The operations crew” is just one guy spreading pellets. WTF
You’d think there would be more than just 1 guy working on this.
There’s another guy with a plastic rake! Progress!
RIGHT as I post that…
His partner was apparently getting the rake.
How does this fix the velcro or the seams?
If you don’t have an advanced degree in Hooks and Loops you probably wouldn’t understand…
Tough, but fair.
Velcrogate! Osu totally would’ve maed the stop on that play if they had proper footing!1!
Next Patriots scandal?
Lizard people.
STFU Blandino
Fresno will get the ball back at least. GAMBLOR, ho!!
lol
sad trombone indeed!
Wisconsin and Ohio State broke the field turf.
/insert fat joke
Time for someone to shine, big moment of national exposure.
That, my friends, is why Synthetic Turf SUCKS!
Where are you guys now? We need more updates to live vicariously!