NFL News:
- NFL officiating & rules are again in focus this morning:
- Gene Steratore’s crew in Oakland had two national spotlight moments last night.
- The first was the index card. Steratore said the card “reaffirmed” the call on the field:
- “The ball was touching the pole. I put the card in there and as soon as it touched, it was nothing more than a reaffirmation. The decision was made based on my visual from the top looking down and the ball touching the front of the pole.”
- Jim Daopoulos, a former NFL official and former supervisor of officials, told Florio’s word salad factory that, while there’s no specific rule in place, referees have been told over the years that they are “never allowed to use anything other than their eyes to make that decision.”
- The second was the touchback on Derek Carr’s failed touchdown dive.
- That one made sense, if only because I had been at the last time this call happened. Plus, Carr’s had the decency to bounce into the endzone & then go out of bounds.
- But coming after seemingly gifting Dallas the first down just feed the conspiracy theorists.
- Deadspin had the best headline: $13 Billion Industry Uses Folded-Up Piece Of Paper To Determine Outcomes
- That one made sense, if only because I had been at the last time this call happened. Plus, Carr’s had the decency to bounce into the endzone & then go out of bounds.
- The first was the index card. Steratore said the card “reaffirmed” the call on the field:
- Speaking of conspiracies, “what is a catch” is alive & well thanks to the Steelers inability to finish off the Pats and losing Antonio Brown in the process.
- I think it was during one of the Saturday games when I hea the announcers debating why a running back can dive into the endzone & lose the ball during the flip but the score counts, yet a receiver has to not only stick the landing but hold onto the ball the whole way through the routine.
- Gene Steratore’s crew in Oakland had two national spotlight moments last night.
- Panthers owner & generally awful southern white stereotype Jerry Richardson has gotten in front of the mounting scandal & announced he will be selling the team at season’s end.
- Sexual harassment AND racism? It’s a Weinstein plus the full Sterling.
- The sexual harassment stuff sounds pretty weird, but sadly atypical.
- The racism aspect has me curious. We goof on Jerry Richardson being racist a fair bit, but I want to know what “directing a slur at an African-American scout” means.
- And you just know there’s more. As SI notes, Flagstar (the company Richardson owned prior to buying the team; Hardees & Denny’s, among others) was accused multiple times in the 90s of racist behavior, including segregating its restaurants and making black customers pre-pay for meals.
- The Charlotte Agenda notes Richardson stepped down from Flagstar in 1995, the first year the Panthers began play. The company had faced several lawsuits alleging racial discrimination. Richardson said he wanted to devote his time to the Panthers.
- And you just know there’s more. As SI notes, Flagstar (the company Richardson owned prior to buying the team; Hardees & Denny’s, among others) was accused multiple times in the 90s of racist behavior, including segregating its restaurants and making black customers pre-pay for meals.
- Sexual harassment AND racism? It’s a Weinstein plus the full Sterling.
- ESPN boss (& chief sports Libtard, if Twitter is to be believed) John Skipper is resigning from his position to deal with his substance abuse issues.
- All the proof you need that it’s out of control is the $1.9 billion a year ESPN is paying through the 2021 season for the rights to Monday Night Football.
- Since I was at Deadspin anyway, a trip through their comments found the joke I was looking for:
Finally, it seems to be the end of a couple of eras in Seattle.
First, yesterday’s obliteration at RAMMIT’s hands brought out the already-tense locker room situations. The latest bubble to burst was due to defensive teammates taking shots at each other.
- Earl Thomas made an aside about how Bobby Wagner maybe shouldn’t have played with his gimpy leg, and Wager shot back with a tweet telling Thomas, “E, keep my name out yo mouth!”
- this tweet summarizes where all the hurt comes from.
The #Seahawks 42-7 loss to LAR is their:
• Worst loss of the Pete Carroll era
• Most points allowed (tied) in a game in the Carroll era (Wk 12, 2010 vs KC)
• Worst home loss since Week 1, 1997 (41-3 L vs NYJ)
• Worst loss since Week 16, 2009 (48-10 L at GB) https://t.co/1EgFloOzgT
— NFL Research (@NFLResearch) December 18, 2017
- All that’s left is for them to decide on a rebuilding strategy for the offseason.
- Fix the defence & ignore the O-line
- Fix the O-line & plug the defence as needed
- Go full Patriots & rebuild constantly around a franchise QB
Secondly, the final American airline Boeing 747 flight is this week, a Tuesday Delta flight from Detroit to Seoul.
- It was supposed to have been Sunday, but the flight was cancelled / delayed to Tuesday because they didn’t have enough staff for the flight.
- The majority of the planes were built in the Seattle area because Boeing was already at capacity in its other locations due to commitments to the 707, 727 & the Apollo missions.
- They built new assembly plants, and at its peak Boeing employed over 100,000 people in Washington state, and currently employ about 70,000.
- Nearly 30,000 more than the 43,000 employed at Microsoft, the region’s second largest employer.
- They built new assembly plants, and at its peak Boeing employed over 100,000 people in Washington state, and currently employ about 70,000.
- Since the first one built in 1969, over 1500 were built in total, and 500 are still in service today.
- The 747 will still be in use by Lufthansa, British Airways and Korean Air Lines.
- They still build or complete the 737-MAX and the 777-X in Washington state.
Game preview: Falcons at Buccaneers
This game has absolutely zero curb appeal, outside of fantasy points & minor playoff implications.
Thanks to the Packers & Seahawks losses yesterday, the only concern left for Atlanta is the Cowboys and Lions. If Atlanta wins out, or goes 2-1 at worst, they are in the playoffs, because they have already beaten Detroit, Seattle, Dallas and Green Bay this season. Realistically, there’s a chance they could catch the Panthers & Saints for the division lead and/or a higher seed, but that still means they play on Wildcard Weekend.
Right now, they are the #6 and scheduled to play the Rams. So the risk of them choking away another Super Bowl seems incredibly remote right now.
The Buccaneers have been generally awful this season. But they have figured out how to draw fans to tonight’s game:
Time is running out to get your tickets for the Jon Gruden Ring of Honor induction game. Fans will receive a Bucket Hat presented by @FrontierCorp upon entry!
🎟: https://t.co/VzuOYHTu0j pic.twitter.com/tay86ryKVD
— Tampa Bay Buccaneers (@Buccaneers) December 18, 2017
Yep. And the fans’ reaction?
But, at least one fan is still taking it very seriously,
I’m just rooting for Atlanta so I don’t have to buy any Seahawks playoff tickets.
Tonight’s sports:
- NFL:
- Falcons at Buccaneers – 8:15PM | ESPN / TSN
- NHL:
- Blue Jackets at Bruins – 7:00PM | Sportsnet
- Kings at Flyers – 7:00PM | NHLN
- NBA:
- Celtics at Pacers – 7:00PM | Sportsnet1 / NBATV
- Warriors at Lakers – 10:30PM | Sportsnet1 / NBATV
- the Kobe’s jersey retirement game
- NCAA:
- Men’s basketball: (of note)
- Nebraska (Omaha) at Kansas – 7:00PM | ESPN2
- Northern Illinois at Marquette – 7:00PM | FS1
- Tennessee State at Texas – 9:00PM | ESPN2
- Men’s basketball: (of note)
- WWE:
- Monday Night Raw – 8:00PM | USA / Sportsnet360
- it’s one month to the Royal Rumble, so things may start taking shape.
- Monday Night Raw – 8:00PM | USA / Sportsnet360
I’d like to thank the NFL for already deciding on my playoff rooting interest. Since the Packers & Seahawks are all but out, I’m down to “ambivalence” or “anybody but the Patriots”. NOT A GOOD LOOK, ROGER!
Damn. The Matron Saint can still get it!
She looks hot as fuck says the guy sitting in a hotel bar.
What hotel is Namath at?
“There ain’t a repo man I know that don’t take speed.”
“Speed, huh?”
I’m glad that there are others here that apparently follow the Repo Code. Makes it more homey for me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=17&v=UQM8RbqSIcA
Old man Hulk is PACKIN’!!
So … Not Hogan.
Subtitled: A Look At Life in Indiana
We have a special statement for Aaron Rodgers and Packers fans everywhere. Listen closely. “F-U-C-K O-F-F.
at least the packers are officially out. Once the Cowboys are officially out it’s RAMMMITT and Jag bandwagon for me
The Jag Wagon?
/looks at car.
At least we don’t have to worry about an AAron playoff resurgence now.
This has not been the week for last minute comebacks
There was almost one in Pittsburgh yesterday. Almost.
Something something black hole something something
Looks more yellow to me
Hey ohhhh!!!!
so it ends like this
I was hoping for two quick safeties so at least someone would have 28 points.
-Wife, after another 27 seconds…….
27 seconds? What, are you some kind of machine?
They been married for a long time……… kids……. baseball stats……
This football game is surprisingly competitive.
Fin story. I’ve got my suit jacket and dress pants and shit because I roll like that and youngest right told me “Dad, your jacket is covered in glitter. Where do you wear it last?”
I said “Vegas.”
She said “What strip club?”
I had no reply.
Don’t be afraid to offer young girls good professional advice.
It’s my sworn solemn duty.
Why don’t teams do the carbon fiber pattern on the helmets? Is that trend not old and passe enough yet?
That fucking bird does get around.
Is DeSean injured?
I think so. They were working on his left leg during the first score.
“Jackson is doubtful to return to Monday’s game against the Falcons due to an ankle injury, Kelsey Conway of the Falcons’ official site reports. “
Yeah, out for the game.
HOW ‘BOUT ‘EM COWBOYS
Speaking of Das Boot and San Diego, here’s a picture of a downtown hotel from a submarine
I know a bunch of racist old white men will never let it happen, but I would dearly love to see Diddy buy the Panthers.
How many non-white owners are there? I can only think of Khan (Jaguars).
I think Ziggy Wulf is from Neptune or something. Does that count?
I checked. German-born, Holocaust-survivor parents.
Well, there’s absolutely no way Stan Kroenke is human. He looks like Vicent D’Onofrio in Men In Black.
I think Mark Davis is hiding something, too.
Just let Trump buy them, so he’ll leave office. He’s always wanted to be an NFL owner, anyway.
i’m hoping for Carlos Slim or a Jordan led group.
Do you mean the basketball player or a group of Jordanians?
why not both.
Gruden, Keeping Tampa Bay Weird … ?
Battle of the Sexes!
I see what you did there.
Bravo.
Oh he REALLY wanted to make that stop. Metaphysically.
fucking Bucs.
That reminds me of me, during an acid trip.
Submitted for your approval: the genesis of trump’s campaign.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2g5Hz17C4is
Some scholars contend it was actually the first time he heard an “I’m rubber you’re glue joke,” but, c’mon, we all know what those people are smoking
“get fucking set” who heard that?
I think that was Bill O’Reilly.
I believe you’re the third person who heard that.
GET FUCKING SET!
GET FUCKING SET!
ESPN Deportes just said Sarkisian is up on the booth at Matt Ryan’s request. My guess is Gruden was nicknaming hashmarks.
To Spur and any other cowboy fans i may have offended.
I apologize. Your team shouldn’t die in an aidsfire. Spur, sorry for insinuating you were gay as a derogatory slur. I’m better than that, and this place has no use for that. I will continue to aspire to a higher-level dick joke. Somewhere zen-like. Namaste.
Apology accepted. i took no offence, i was hoping you just needed a cool down.
To communal shit talking!
FATALITY
This needs the Wasted make over
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xhaJuKpxxk
TOO SOON!
What is Senor’s most recent date? Thanks, I’ll take Potent Potables for $400.
Sooooo…when does the game start?
Ahhhh shit. Where does the time go?
Neat trick, can he do it again?
Nawt without surgery.
I’m praying no one tells the Falcons. Bucs might steal this.
Greetings from beautiful downtown San Diego! I had my room upgraded to a city view suite complete with a picture window view of the USS Midway. Took youngest right and the little granddaughter out for filet mignon and it’s been a picture perfect day.
Happy holidays folks. I fucking love you all.
Well, Merry Christmas to you too.
Have you always been a laser tag professional?
All the best to the Rights and the lasergurus?
Who knew Emmit Smith would find his way onto twatter?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuvsoZLE3WE
Beware any blanket-bearing Europeans smh
Don’t want a little smallpox with your warmth?
Damned lightweight.
All the cool college kids these das do a little smallpox before drinking, it’l get you MESSED UP!
So… no jackin’ it?
/Different name, whaaaa?
Pew Pew Pew! Laserz!!!1!!11!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GX8g_IR2OEA
Spurs won over the Clippers. Now i can really watch this shit show.
Have they set a date?
Album is a modern classic too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cY82rOtZ9BI
Have you ever drank the Scottish national drink that is Buckfast? It honestly makes you go mental. There is no other alcohol in the world that I have imbibed that I have seen make people go crazier faster.
I read about it a while back. Isn’t it made by priests or something?
It is a mulled wine, it is cheap and gets you incredibly inebriated. Most normal humans get pass out wasted on it once and learn their lesson however the price is right for the ride.
Mmmm goth milf
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These are the guys that got paid 17% more than Rosie.
How else are they gonna afford ties?
Just saw a commercial for a movie with Owen Wilson, Ed Helms, and a presumably (intentionally) sedated Kat Williams. 2017 is very strange.
Eagles have a 1st round bye! It is the end times.
i can relate.
Yeah, fuck sharing. At least, fuck sharing that substance.
Winston throws to ever receiver but DeSean. Bucs have hope.
Woof. Measty TD.
scotchy, this War on Drugs band is damn good.
i couldn’t get into it. sounded like Future Islands slowed down to me.
So like Present Islands?
what’s the best dog if you have a decent size yard and don’t like brushing hair.
Me: “Awww… what a good boy!”
Robot dog looking at me in red-hued Terminator vision: “You Will Make Excellent Bio Mass For The Reactor After The Singularity”
Me: “Soooooooo CUTE!”
A rock terrier
https://youtube.com/watch?v=snmZ93dES74&feature=youtu.be
Brushing hair and shedding are 2 different kettles of fish. I have dog hair on me all the time but you get used to the lint brush, now brushing dogs long knotty hair would be a pain in the ass.
for shits and giggles what breed is that?
A brain skin bat
Peruvian Inca Orchid
Why yes, I did have to use teh google for that info, I only know the most basic breeds.
Sounds like answer in Michael Vick’s game show: “Weed Strain, or Dog?”
A Snoop Dogg Production.
I could turn it into a shitty snl sketch: a preppy white couple vs thuggish looking black people. But which one is the switcheroo at the end?
Change the topic to commonly abused prescription meds and how to get more.
Petting that dog would skeeve me out.
I’d be willing to bet the dog isn’t a fan of it either. Pretty creepy.
Football head coaches are notorious workaholics, so I struggle to see any of them engaging in any leisure, especially sex. They’re too busy grinding tape to grind hips, damn it!
She was probably doing all of the work while he was reviewing tape. I would hate to run a black light in a NFL video room.
I’m sure their wives do all the work, which probably describes their relationships and families in general.
I hear Nick Saban’s wife has to stop on puppies, while in her underwear, so he can maintain an erection the one day of the year he has sex.
Actually, he needs be in the living room of the top five-star recruit in the nation making his pitch while on top of his wife to keep it up.
Maybe they extracted it after the Bucs job when they hit him with the tranquilizer dart.
Media types already give them enough fellating and flagellating.
Belichick lets them kneel down before just grunting at them in disgust, walking away, and letting some 50-something divorcee give him a handie.
Oh, hey. I think that’s the Finnish president here towards the end of Godless. And she’s packing.How did I not notice this German woman, Christiane Seidel, before episode 6? (She was also on Boardwalk Empire.)
This is hilarious.
Poe, Finn, and Rey are different millennial leftists. Luke is Bernie. Maz is the DSA. God damn it, r/CTH.
See, Dok. This is partially why nerds can get obsessive over Star Wars. Not only is there a ton of metaphor to be made from it, but there’s so much that they can fill out in their heads. And then the EU does start filling in thousands of years of history and future, and that just gives more fuel to the obsession machine.
I have no fucking idea what you are saying but clearly we need like an 8 year ground war with a draft and zero deferments.
Thin out the fucking herd.
I am both really upset at the idea of a woman willingly fucking a Gruden and the fact the thought is stuck in my mind.
I would’ve expected Dok to save that for his brother.
No thanks to Tony Dungy for gifting him a fucking Super Bowl team and a later career as an on air idiot?