Your “Settling In For Another Cromulent Bowl Matchup” Wednesday Evening Open Thread

A big thanks to tWBS for posting the Open Thread last night. Vancouver got walloped by a wet-snow storm, dropping 2-4 inches before turning to ice.

My usual routine is to get the students started at 9:00, and while they’re working I’m trying to hammer out something coherent for the evening. Well, I got busy on other things, and the power went out at school about 10:30 yesterday. Luckily, WordPress saved a whole bunch of it, because when I left the darkened school at 3:00 I got home to no power there as well. So I emailed the DFO team for help, and they delivered.

The power came back on at 5:30. The surge blew the motherboard on the dishwasher, so now I know what my wife is getting for Christmas. Luckily, we found one on sale, and a friend will install it Thursday morning.

Mad props to don_t and all of Puerto Rico. I was without juice for about 8 hours and it drove me bananas. You guys have it exponentially worse, and are somehow keeping up smiles. I hope Trump’s tax cut doesn’t halve your rebuilding efforts.

NFL News:

  • New Browns GM John Dorsey said the Browns don’t have enough “real players”.
    • Naturally, he’s had to walk that back a bit, but he stands by the need to acquire new talent after the failures of the previous regime.
  • The Giants interviewed Steve Smith’s best friend Dave Gettleman for their GM vacancy.
    • He used to work for the Giants prior to becoming the Panthers GM in 2013.
  • Thomas Davis has had his suspension reduced to one game.
    • Davante Adams has yet to be cleared to practice.
      • Randall Cobb – your reaction?
        • “It’s bulls—,” Cobb said Tuesday.
  • Former Packers & Texas A&M coach Mike Sherman will be the new coach of the Montreal Alouettes.
    • He was most recently the Nauset Regional (Massachusetts) High School football coach.
      • “Welcome to the CFL. Bring the yearbooks!” is what I imagine Marc Trestman saying to his fellow NFL alum.

Finally, just to be clear, Charlotte City Council doesn’t want the Panthers to leave the city.

  • With the team up for sale, the Mayor had this to say:

“The City of Charlotte values its long-running relationship with the Panthers after more than 22 seasons of NFL football,” Vi Lyles, who is also a season-ticket holder, said in a statement, via ESPN.com. “The Panthers are part of Charlotte’s fabric. We’ve celebrated victories and anguished over defeats. We understand transitions are inevitable, and we look forward to working with current and future ownership.”


Better Know A Broadcaster – Bowl Game Edition

With Bowl games on the docket pretty much every night there isn’t NFL action between now & New Year’s, I thought I’d make #content quota by trying to figure out which C-list announcing teams are trying to climb the broadcasting ladder. I will rely on the American commentists to pass judgement on the quality of their work, as most bowl games aren’t shown on Canadian TV, and the Seattle stations only show the majors and games featuring Washington state teams.

The broadcast tandems are courtesy 506sports.com.

Frisco Bowl – Louisiana Tech vs Southern Methodist (in Frisco, TX)

     

Broadcast team: Mike Couzens, John Congemi

Mike Couzens:

  • Personal stuff:
    • From White Plains, NY
    • B.Sc in Broadcast Journalism, Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications
  • Broadcasting history:
    • Radio:
      • WSYR 570 AM • Evening Reporter/Sports Reporter (Jan 2010 – Mar 2010)
      • WJPZ 89.1 FM • General Manager/Play-by-Play (Jan 2008 – Jan 2011)
    • Sports:
      • Syracuse Chiefs Triple-A Baseball • Play-by-Play/Studio Host (Apr 2010 – Sep 2010)
      • Dayton Dragons Baseball • Broadcasting and Media Relations (Mar 2011 – Sep 2011)
      • University of Vermont Women’s Basketball • Play-by-Play (Oct 2011 – Mar 2012)
      • Fort Wayne TinCaps Baseball • Broadcasting and Media Relations (Mar 2012-July 2014)
      • Big Ten Network • Play-by-Play Broadcaster (Sep 2013-July 2014)
      • ESPN • Play-by-Play Broadcaster (Nov 2012-Present)
  • Signature play-by-play events:
    • Play-by-Play for USA Ultimate (frisbee) National Championships
  • Previous Bowl Games called:
    • 2016 Camping World Independence Bowl

Recent Tweets which show level of commitment to Bowl Game accuracy:

https://twitter.com/MikeCouzens/status/943144244750909440

https://twitter.com/MikeCouzens/status/943219274738479104

John Congemi:

  • Personal stuff:
    • From Youngstown, Ohio
    • B.Sc – Communications, University of Pittsburgh
  • Football career?
    • Yes – QB
      • College – Pitt (1982-86)
        • MVP, 1984 Fiesta Bowl
      • Pro – 8 years
        • 7 years – CFL
          • won 1987 & 1994 Grey Cups
        • 1 year – Arena League
  • Broadcasting history:
    • Sports:
      • ESPN – 2000-present
      • Miami Dolphins – Multimedia host
        • hosts “#Dolphins Daily” on team’s website & Twitter.
        • Hosts “The Finsiders” on team website
  • Signature play-by-play events:
  • Previous Bowl Games called:
    • 2011 BBVA Compass Bowl
    • 2012 BBVA Compass Bowl
    • 2013 AdvoCare V100 Bowl
    • 2014 Bitcoin St. Petersburg Bowl
    • 2015 Belk Bowl
    • 2016 Raycom Media Camellia Bowl

Recent Tweets which show level of commitment to Bowl Game accuracy:

Prediction:

Couzens tries to punch above weight, but comes across as too-eager & too-error prone. Congemi will barely be able to mask his disdain, and the over/under on his Fiesta Bowl experiences will be +5.5.


Tonight’s sports:

  • Hockey:
    • NHL:
      • Leafs at Blue Jackets – 7:30PM | Sportsnet
      • Red Wings at Flyers – 8:00PM | NBCSN
    • World Juniors:
      • Pre-Competition: Czech Republic vs. Canada – 7:00PM | TSN
  •  NCAA:
    • Football:
      • Frisco Bowl: Louisiana Tech vs. SMU – 8:00PM | ESPN
    • Men’s basketball: two ‘hate-watches’ are included tonight
      • Evansville at Duke – 7:00PM | ESPN2
      • Wagner at Seton Hall – 7:00PM | FS1
      • Wofford at U*NC – 9:00PM | ESPN2
      • Albany at Louisville – 9:00PM | ESPNU
  • NBA:
    • Raptors at Hornets – 7:00PM | Sportsnet1
    • Grizzlies at Warriors – 10:30PM | Sportsnet1 / NBA TV

GO FORTH & COMMENT!

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Doktor Zymm

How do we do this now….anyway, this played at the bar I was at on Friday and I forgot how much I really liked this song….

theeWeeBabySeamus

nm

Doktor Zymm

Goddamn, I need to go to bed, but YouTube has apparently just linked their ‘play next’ lists to very specific time periods. But no, it’ll be there in the morning. And it’s not really good music anyway. Smashmouth is not a great band just because I have a fond memory of seeing them at DC BBQ fest when I was 15 or so.

theeWeeBabySeamus

nm

theeWeeBabySeamus

I realize I’ll be in the minority in this opinion, but this is a good song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkHTsc9PU2A

Doktor Zymm

Listened to the first 15 seconds….if that was Ukulele, then good song. Otherwise, meh. It might only have been 8 seconds.

theeWeeBabySeamus

Well, thanks for at least giving it a chance.

BrettFavresColonoscopy

You must still be in a bad mood if you passed up an only eight seconds joke there…

theeWeeBabySeamus

Yes, I am.
But I do regret having overlooked that one nonetheless.

Feel free to fill me in.
Giggity.

Brick Meathook

Here’s how you photograph a granola bar:
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BrettFavresColonoscopy

I read that as “granola bear.”

Who wants to co-write a children’s book?

Doktor Zymm

Ooh! Me!
It’ll be like Pooh, but more hippies and cannibalism!

Brick Meathook

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Doktor Zymm

And hello to you too!

Senor Weaselo

…Why the hell would he do that?
/Congrats to him… I think?

Fronkenshteen

Welcome aboard!

Doktor Zymm

Cheers! If he drops by the Bay Area I will buy him one of whatever our regional foodstuffs are!

BrettFavresColonoscopy

Sour-doughn’t do that

Doktor Zymm

I know it’s not what you were saying, but now I want a sour cream doughnut

BrettFavresColonoscopy

Where does he vote?

Doktor Zymm

On further consideration….yes, I am GO JAGURAS! And no, despite my current support, I will never call them other than JAGURAS

Fronkenshteen

They will beat NE in Foxboro. I can’t wait.

Doktor Zymm

That will be a fine, fine day. GO JAGURAS!

Brick Meathook

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Doktor Zymm

It’s cool. I only wanted to go in a circle anyway

Fronkenshteen

I hope the steps of congress overtakes the Golden Gate Bridge as the #1 suicide destination for Americans.

Doktor Zymm

Unfortunately the steps are not super steep. They would need to be prepared and bring additional suicide stuff with them, like guns or poison or heavy candlesticks

Fronkenshteen

Whoops! Thought the pistol fire was understood. My mistake!

Doktor Zymm

I was just drawing the parallel to the bridge. Jumping off the bridge is the obvious route when you’re on a bridge, but maybe people will get creative with the steps!

Fronkenshteen

I’m just going dark here. Sounds like you’ve got some dough. I don’t. So what was finalized today got me fantasizing about a horrendous (near) future where terminally I’ll people attend their own funerals, and then blow their brains out all over the Capitol steps while everyone yells “HURRAY!!” Because at this point, why not?

Doktor Zymm

It’s not finalized yet (there’s procedural shit, and it’ll probably still pass, but shart of hope. I meant shard, but I’m leaving it cause shart is probably more appropriate.) Historically, worse shit has gone down, so I hope the impact of this isn’t that bad, but if it is I’ll happily support people who want to shove it to the governmental man.
I’m personally in a sort of border situation, where at this point I’m pretty secure, but I’m close enough to relate to the insecure side. And that’s on top of the huge amount of objective, rational arguments for why this shit is a horrible idea.

BrettFavresColonoscopy

So, it probably goes without saying but,: please don’t do anything drastic, and if you need to talk, reach out to one of us.

Fronkenshteen

No. Never. It’s just so brazen, the pushback from the other side. I don’t know. My gut is overpowering my goddamn brains right now. No threat here, though. Just angry.

Doktor Zymm

So, this morning I realized I’m actually kind of looking forward to the offseason, which is super weird. It basically boils down to two things, a) my team being out of it and not being super excited about the probable playoff teams (I think I’m gonna be GO JAGURAS?) and b) actually having options for winter stuff to do on Sundays…like hiking. I’m actually really looking forward to getting breakfast at a diner, driving for 15 minutes or so, and spending the rest of a Sunday wandering around on some trails. I’M FULL ON CALI PEOPLE

Doktor Zymm

I did hear a rumor at work that I can get a free VR Gear

BrettFavresColonoscopy

I just had a disappointing crepe.

Still better than no crepe at all.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

“I had an interrupting cow once. I ate his liver some fava beans and a nice chianti.”

– Andy Reid

Doktor Zymm

Isn’t that a knock knock joke?

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Yes. Sometimes my jokes make leaps that only make sense to me.

Doktor Zymm

That’s cool, I do the same thing sometimes and it’s fucking hilarious. To me 😀

Doktor Zymm

Was it the filling or the crepe itself?

Senor Weaselo

Was it kinda crepe-y?

theeWeeBabySeamus

My French little sister makes fun of Americans for how we pronounce “crepes”.

Which is fine. She’s awesome and can do no wrong in my eyes. I need to write to her tonight, in fact.

Doktor Zymm

It’s a no win pronunciation choice. Either it sounds like ‘crap’ or it rhymes with ‘rape’
Imma call it a delicious pancake burrito

theeWeeBabySeamus

I’m told it’s more of a level “e” sound.
Same as in the word “bet”.

I don’t really care, but as I said, she can do no wrong in my eyes.

Which has absolutely nothing to do with her looking like this. Honest. Stop looking at me like that….
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theeWeeBabySeamus

I really am joking, fwiw.
She’s lovely, but I’m proud of her….not, whatever.

She’s a good girl. And I pride myself that her English is as good as it is at least partially due to my help.

Now, if I can only get her to start using “y’all” correctly.

😉

Doktor Zymm

I miss exactly 3 things about Chicago, and one of them is the time zone

BrettFavresColonoscopy

The Wiener Circle, and what’s the third thing?

Doktor Zymm

Walked past that place a million times, never tempted to go in, despite the tantalizing visions of extreme racism dangled in front of me by the Food Channel. Clark Dog was more my jam anyway. They weirdly have an excellent cheesesteak?

Fronkenshteen

/ imagines Paul Ryan’s “Spandau Ballet” twitch at the end of a noose
//smiles

Doktor Zymm

Oh, so for tax bill stuff, I totally got to explain marginal utility to someone today using the cheeseburger example. Though I still don’t really understand why people who are not the super rich support the rich getting larger tax cuts than everyone else. Is it because they assume they will be super rich one day? Or a poor grasp of math? Or possibly both (aka Future Lottery WInners)?

Doktor Zymm

So….I’m super excited that I have President’s Day off in 2018. I don’t think I’ve had President’s Day off since high school.

Doktor Zymm

I like the pong-style loading animation in the upper right corner….is that new? The bar replacement?

Doktor Zymm

I super want to play pong now though

BrettFavresColonoscopy
Doktor Zymm

What should I do in Dubai? Have a coffee with gold flakes sprinkled on it, and try to find an abandoned supercar on the side of the road?

BrettFavresColonoscopy

I ate a camel burger and smoked hookah, which in hindsight seems racist.

BrettFavresColonoscopy

Wait, that may have been in Abu Dhabi.

Now it’s totally racist. Shit.

Doktor Zymm

Touristy, maybe, but probably not racist

Doktor Zymm

Was it gamy? I mean the burger, not the hookah. Unless the hookah was gamy. But I’m a chick, so they probably won’t let me smoke in public anyway.

BrettFavresColonoscopy

It was not gamey. I enjoyed it. But was also glad that I was splitting it.

Senor Weaselo

Bring me a P1 if you can, but I’ll take any of the Holy Trinity, or a Koenigsegg.
/Can sorta drive dual-clutch
//Well, can upshift okay in dual-clutch, not so much downshift.

blaxabbath

What’s it cost to sponsor a bowl game? Like a bad one, I mean. With all this sweet tax cut money, I’m thinking about putting a name on one of those babies (I mean after CONSIDERABLE stock buybacks).

Doktor Zymm

I’ll chip in $20

BrettFavresColonoscopy

What the shit? I thought we were buying the Panthers.

Doktor Zymm

We can make the Panthers play in the Bowl Game, duh

BrettFavresColonoscopy

Why are the bulls winning?

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

I thought that was what the cucks wanted to happen!

Doktor Zymm

Aw man, I wake up at 4:30 tomorrow morning, so I really should go to bed soon, but I have that “I just spent a whole bunch of money on something amazingly awesome that normally would cost 10 – 50+ times as much” buzz…I really need to be careful with this travel habit of mine, this shit is like crack

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

It would probably be cheaper to start abusing actual crack.

Doktor Zymm

I don’t know, this is a much longer high, gotta do some amortization up in here to compare the two

WCS

79-75 Wofford final.

O AN U NOE KIPPO AN SEAMUS GONNA DRANKAND BLAAAAZZZE

theeWeeBabySeamus

Honestly…I couldn’t care less tonight.
Maybe I’ll laugh at them tomorrow.

WCS

Wofford up by five on U*NC, with 15 seconds left.

nomonkeyfun

Question
If Dook is playing U*NC, and mutually assured destruction is not an option, who do you root against?
Trying to determine levels of evil.

WCS

The tie.

theeWeeBabySeamus

Nope….it’s always ABC.

Anybody But Carolina. After that, it’s just slightly lesser grades of hate.

theeWeeBabySeamus

For me personally…Maryland is 1b after U*NC being 1a, btw.

Doktor Zymm

Is that because, in spite of, or unrelated to MD leaving the ACC?

theeWeeBabySeamus

It’s because growing up, I was an NC State fan, surrounded by classless UMd fans in the midst of the era in which we kicked their ass every year and kept them out of the NCAA tournament every year, while we won ACC and Nat’l titles. They were also a national contender in those days, but we fucked it up for them every time. As I said, they are classless, and even to a young person growing up (me) they did not spare their venom.

Fuck every one of those classless fucks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nJpPGBa-Ic

Doktor Zymm

Gotcha. My experience of UMD basketball is mainly vicarious, and limited to a handful of years in the early ‘naugties, but it’s the only school I ever went to that had any real sports associated with it. I mostly picked up Duke hate and not much else. I kinda like Xavier. The ‘X’ makes them cool.

theeWeeBabySeamus

Never knew you went there, Dok. Not sure how I didn’t know that.

My apologies.

But the rest of your compatriots are of lesser class than you, dear.

Doktor Zymm

It was for my Masters. Grad students aren’t super integrated into the more ‘campus life’ aspects, which definitely includes sports stuff. Though I did tailgate one game. I had a hot dog!

Doktor Zymm

And while I know plenty of lovely people who did undergrad a UMD, I also know a whole bunch of nasty shit that’s gone down. Probably just like any other large state school, but still. When you know people who work facilities or drive late night bus routes….you hear some stories

Doktor Zymm

I think that’s gotta be a slim margin of personal preference. Maybe as a tie breaker pick which shade of blue you hate the most?

Doktor Zymm

In Emirates First they serve something called a ‘Breakfast Martini’
That sounds totally legit. It has marmalade in it.

WCS

Ew.

Doktor Zymm

It’s basically just a fancy gin and orange

Doktor Zymm

Okay, original plan didn’t work out, but now I’m totally into this Calgary Stampede idea. This might happen anyway, I’m no stranger to excessive and borderline psychotic travel plans.

Doktor Zymm

Speaking of which, I’ll be flying Vancouver-LAX-Dubai-Milan-Dubai-LAX-Vancouver over a week in late Aug/early Sept, with all but the Canada/US legs in Emirates First. I’ll be in Los Angeles most of August 31st and a good bit of Sept 1st if anyone (Yeah Right?) wants to get dinner or something!

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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nomonkeyfun

I wanna see Mommy(well not mine) kissing Mrs. Claus, brought to us by Brazzers (whoever they are).

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Who ARE they?

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Mr. Ayo

Plot twist: The box contains his parents’ ashes

Mr. Ayo

Almost forgot

Previous post info
The above post contains spoilers

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Ashes?

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

“Gotta by presents for myself too.”

Thought Mack upon leaving the whisky store,

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Fronkenshteen

My peers are agonizingly stupid. I can barely listen to this shit.

Mr. Ayo

Look man, we’re trying! Just give us another hour of drinking.

Fronkenshteen

I’m serious man. If you think low information voters are gonna get pissed and create this “blue wave” everyone is predicting, you should spend an evening talking to restaurant employees. Their stupidity is rivaled only by their apathy.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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theeWeeBabySeamus

Sorry for the late acknowledgment WineGuyRobin…

But thanks for the shout out. I did very little for last night tho.

Also…hide your doggiez or THEY WILL BE MINE!!!!!!

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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WCS

Punishment fits the crime.

theeWeeBabySeamus

Damned Canadian gravity is only like .7 American.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Same with gravy.

Fronkenshteen

Trying to remember a day I hated the GOP more than today. Can’t.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

I thought it was Nixon, then I thought it was Reagan/ Meese Commission, Iran-Contra, then I thought it was GW/ Iraq….. welp, I can just say they done a fair job of maintaining a constant level.

Doktor Zymm

Hm…I wonder if I can do both…then I would have a St Johns-CA-Dubai-Milan-Dubai-CA-Calgary trip

Doktor Zymm

Damn, that won’t price 🙁

Don T

Thanks Rob. We’re at 93 days. Kinda wanna reach 100 now.
My wife asked me today if our house will have electricity by February. I laughed, first sardonically, then I lost it wholeheartedly.
Oh, and the new tax bill will gut what’s left of the carcass of the local economy—12.5% tax on US “imports” from Puerto Rico. But deep disgust at pro-statehooders is keeping me in a lively mood. Well, disgust and a shitload of TOLDYAs, tbh.

BrettFavresColonoscopy

Ay dog ay.

Today sucked.

theeWeeBabySeamus

Yeah did.

Doktor Zymm

Canadian peoples! Where does Westjet fly, that isn’t Toronto or Vancouver or Montreal (I’ve been to those places) that would be fun to wander around for a weekend in July?

Wakezilla

Calgary, during the Calgary Stampede. 24/7 Transit and a fun, partying atmosphere

Doktor Zymm

Oh wow, good call, and that’s the exact weekend I was thinking of too

litre_cola

I can steer you in the right direction Zymm

BrettFavresColonoscopy

This is my second conversation today about Calgary. Wtf

Mr. Ayo

Calgary is a very good city, BFC

BrettFavresColonoscopy

Only because I met Litre there

Wakezilla

When it’s not snowing or having a chinook, it’s aight.

litre_cola

Calgary Stampede is the beginning of July here.

Doktor Zymm

Weirdly enough I’ve always kind of wanted to visit St. John’s

Redshirt

The Jennifer Garner credit card café commercial is more funny if you imagine them as girlfriend/girlfriend but the other wants their relationship to get serious but Jennifer won’t quit talking about Capital One Venture Air Miles credit cards.

...

Those commercials always put me into a mini-rage because those cards don’t earn miles, they earn stupid points that are not easy to redeem and I fucking hate CapitalOne.

nomonkeyfun

Whoah, we’ve got auto updating now!!!
No more blue bar.

litre_cola

I still get teh blue bar.

WCS

Damn Canadians…

Darkest Timeline Zack Morris

Reload the page, you should start autoloading.

Mr. Ayo

*bows in your general direction*
Thank you, sir!

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Darkest Timeline Zack Morris

Hey kids, just testing our new “Flag that asshole” feature. See the little flag in the top corner? That’s where you can report someone for being a dick, so we can tell them to knock it off and/or ask them to GTFO.

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/flags self

It’s for our own good.

Darkest Timeline Zack Morris

That’s a different type of flagging, ICRM.

BrettFavresColonoscopy

THE GREATER GOOD

Redshirt

Somemods gotten a early Christmas gift!
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Darkest Timeline Zack Morris

Feel free to flag this post to your heart’s content. Remember, though, I get an email with who flagged what, so don’t flag comments that don’t deserve it for fun. I will be sorely vexed.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Mr. Ayo

New DFO contest:
Who can get the most flags.

And GO!

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

OK, I will change my name to Moose – Go ahead and fucking flag me now before you even read this shit.

ArmedandHammered

Teddy Veal? With a name like that I’d expect someone who was a character in Goodfellas.

WCS

That’s funny! You’re a funny guy, you know that?

rockingdog

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Unsurprised

Him?

ArmedandHammered

Edited so it actually makes fucking sense, I can’t even blame drugs or alcohol, unless I blame their absence from my system.

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Oh man. Twitter is good tonight and I’m enjoying it. Nobody told me this tax cut would make Twitter better. WHY DID YOU LEAVE THAT OUT PAUL RYAN?!

Unsurprised

Even when Twitter is good it’s still awful.

Wakezilla

Because he had to contain his excitement for the prospect of getting to kill lots of poor people!

Redshirt

Redshirt’s Latest Actual Conversation at Work

Redshirt: “The delivery isn’t going to show up into later tonight.”
Not My Manager: “What time are you showing up tomorrow.”
Redshirt: “Well, since I worked over four hours for nothing, I figure I’ll start at my usual time of 6AM.”
Not My Manager: “That’s not gonna work.”
Redshirt: “Fine! I’ll show up at 5AM!”
Not My Manager: “Calm down. You can show up when you want.”
Redshirt: “You just refused the time I wanted!”
Not My Manager: “No I didn’t.”
Redshirt: “You literally said it wouldn’t work!”

rockingdog

Big Ben Interception to the My Heart Will Go On song from Titanic:
https://twitter.com/OTMSportsBOS/status/942564618890809344

LOL

Redshirt

Heh. Suddenly the Patriots don’t seem so bad.

Compared to the Steelers at least.

WCS

Let’s not say things we can’t take back.

Unsurprised

Nah. The P*ts are always the greater evil.

montythisseemsstrangetome

Remember when the Packers played half their home games in Milwaukee and both teams’ benches were on the same sideline?

Low Commander of the Super Soldiers

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Oh, I ‘member.

litre_cola

Johnny FF will 100% be playing somewhere in the cFL next year. It will be fantastic if he ends up with his old cpach in Mtl.
JFF v Montreal nightlife. WHO YA GOT?

Wakezilla

He’ll be dead by week 7

litre_cola

June Jones (heehee) said that he could be the greatest qb the Canadian League has ever seen.

Wakezilla

Yeah, June Jones has a raging hard-on for Johnny Fououtball, eh

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Honestly, where would the Panthers go if the new owner wanted to move them?

St. Louis? They’ll tell the NFL to get fucked for a generation.

San Diego? I still don’t think they want to fund a stadium?

San Antonio? I don’t think THE DOUBLE J will share Texas with another NFC team.

Maybe they go else where in North Carolina, but I can’t see any market that’s large enough to leave Charlotte for.

WCS

London

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As much as the NFL wants this, I can’t see the other three teams in their division accepting that.

herodotus450

What if it was London, Ohio?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London,_Ohio

Redshirt

New sitcom idea: Small town gets major sports franchise.

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The town has to have some clever name like Champions, Iowa or something.

rockingdog

Victorious, Idaho

Unsurprised

Since it’s the Panthers, does there happen to be a town called YOU-HAD-ONE-JOB?

Unsurprised

Albuquerque got a pro football expansion team at the end of Any Given Sunday and that was the funniest part of the entire movie; a movie where LL Cool J sneezes a small pile of coke off a hooker’s nipple and Lawrence Taylor saws an SUV in half.

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Shit. I need to rewatch that movie.

litre_cola

As you are with young child as well WCS I personally liked the early London game because I was up anyway!

Wakezilla

I would assume Richardson will only sell to local Charlotte business men who have no intention on moving the team because they themselves live in the area.

Senor Weaselo

Can we just have Morgan Freeman and Walt “Clyde” Frazier do play by play for every sporting event? Nay, life event?

rockingdog

LOL have them do play by play of your most recent date with girl….. wonder how that would go?

Unsurprised

Silently.

Senor Weaselo

“Senor looking unsure and demure out there.”

Also my last date was over a year ago. I’ve gotten lunch or dinner with female friends who I’ve been interested in, but the d-word was never mentioned. And/or I was beaten to the punch about it if I asked.

Wakezilla

The d-word?

You probably shouldn’t be asking female friends you’re interested in if they have a dick.

nomonkeyfun

Beaten to the punch

Were you out with Janay Rice?

Unsurprised
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Wakezilla

Hnngh!

Low Commander of the Super Soldiers

Wait, the Panthers could relocate with a new owner?

[DOOR FLIES OPEN]

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BOLTMAN WOULD LIKE TO KNOW IF YOU ACCEPT THE SKULLS OF HIS ENEMIES AND LONG FORM AIR GUITAR PERFORMANCES AS PAYMENT!

Unsurprised

The Panthers are part of Charlotte’s fabric.

Translation: We’re on the hook for Bank of America Stadium in downtown Charlotte for another generation. Please don’t leave.

WCS

You seem to be forgetting the venerable Belk Bowl calls BoA Stadium home!

Unsurprised

Oh dearest me. How ever could I have overlooked that?

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Come on. We all know the proper name is BofA Stadium.

Unsurprised

BofA?

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Whatever. NUTZ IN YO FACE or something.

rockingdog

So I went to see The Disaster Artist today. It was good.
Would recommend!

BrettFavresColonoscopy

More like bowel matchup, amirite?

/hangs head in shame
//still wants high five

Senor Weaselo

Will you take +1s instead?