Your “Who’s Stupider – The Coach Who Benches A Player, or The GM Who Discounts the Patriots?” Thursday Evening Open Thread

NFL News:

  • James Harrison signed with the Patriots a couple of days ago.
    • And many former teammates will not stop bitching about it.
    • This makes it either:
      • A heel turn of the “Andre joins the Heenan Family” variety;
      • A heel turn of the “Hogan joins the NWO” variety; or
      • A double swerve of the “Mike Tyson acts like he joined D-X, but then turns & joins Stone Cold” variety

     

I was hoping for the Shawn – Marty, and Dreamboat eats glass.

  • On the topic of cancers, the Tiger-Cats are prepared to offer Johnny Manziel a contract for 2018.
    • No word yet on acknowledgement or adherence to the NFL’s 4-game ban for substance abuse violations.
  • Having clinched the #4 spot, Andy Reid is going full-1998 Wade Phillips and starting Patrick Mahomes for the Chiefs finale against the Broncos.
    • Officially, the Chiefs are “resting key starters”, but if he puts up 400 yards against Von Miller, it’s going to take more ribs for Andy to come to a decision.

Finally, a judge in St. Louis has allowed the city’s case against the Rams and the NFL to proceed.

  • Claiming “breach of contract”, the city (, county & sports authority) argues the League violated its own relocation guidelines, and that both the Rams & League enriched themselves at the expense of the city et al.
    • Importantly, the city et al believes they are owed the loss of millions of dollars in tax revenue.
  • To quote a county executive:

“This ruling is another step toward holding Stan Kroenke and the NFL accountable for conspiring to swindle the St. Louis area out of the NFL team we supported with our hearts and our tax dollars.”


Movie Reviews:

I saw “Darkest Hour” on Tuesday night. A wonderful film, and a nice companion piece if you saw “Dunkirk” earlier this summer.

Gary Oldman, if you look past the makeup, does an excellent job as Churchill. Given his manic preparation for roles, I’m guessing he studied hundreds of hours of tape & old recordings. He carries himself like the man is remembered. He has the vocal mannerisms down cold, but every so often you can hear that Oldman-pitch in his voice, usually when he tries to raise Churchill’s voice.

Kristin Scott-Thomas plays his wife Clementine, and gives her a quite grace as the supportive wife of a man who has punched at the clouds his whole life. Commander Krennic from “The Force Awakens, Ben Mendelsohn, plays King George VI, and is actually a better person in the role than Colin Firth was. (He was also Dagget in “The Dark Knight Rises” and, more importantly, The Sun Thief in “Axe Cop”.) Lily James from “Baby Driver” plays his harried secretary well, and I will simply say she is a good actress.

If you are a history buff, I highly recommend it. It’s Oldman’s film, and the movie is event-driven.  The pacing of the film is good, and it never feels like it’s dragging; when it ends, you will feel like you’ve seen a movie & not been part of an event. (If that makes any sense.) Its timeline is the the first month of Churchill’s Prime Ministership, starting with the day-before he got the job, leading up to how he organized the Dunkirk evacuation and crafted probably his most famous speech.

If you feel like seeing an actual movie, and your tastes don’t veer towards “Ladybird”, which I’ve been assured is also excellent, “Darkest Hour” will not be a waste of your money.


Tonight’s sports:

  • Hockey:
    •  NHL:
      • Bruins at Capitals – 7:30PM | NBCSN / Sportsnet
      • Vegas at Kings – 10:00PM | NBCSN
      • Black Hawks at Canucks – 10:00PM | Sportsnet
    • World Juniors:
      • USA vs. Slovakia – 8:00PM | TSN / NHLN
  • NBA:
    • Rockets at Celtics – 8:00PM | TNT / Sportsnet1
    • 76ers at Blazers – 10:30PM | TNT / Sportsnet1
  • NCAA:
    • Football:
      • Alamo Bowl – Stanford vs TCU – 9:00PM | ESPN / TSN3
      • Holiday Bowl – Washington State vs Michigan State – 9:00PM | FS1
    • Men’s basketball:
      • Tulane at Temple – 7:00PM | ESPN2
      • Creighton at Seton Hall – 7:00PM | FS1
      • Pacific at Gonzaga – 9:00PM | ESPN2

I skipped the “Broadcaster” previews because we have FINALLY reached the Holiday Bowl, when the games matter & the crews get more professional. Also, this is my last write-up of the year, as I’ll be in Seattle for the Hawks finale & New Year’s. Have fun New Year’s Eve, and I’ll see you soon. KEEP IT BETWEEN THE DITCHES!

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A Canadian man-child of indeterminate age, he stays young by selling alcohol at sporting events and yelling at the patrons he serves. Their rage nourishes his soul, and their tips pay for his numerous trips to various sporting events.
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rockingdog

halftime. Stanford up! whoooo!

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Senor Weaselo
Mr. Ayo

Everybody loves a bucket of diabetes

herodotus450

What’s this about quitters?

Unsurprised

First come, first serve at the after party.

herodotus450

Dont I look smrt with my comment earlier about how underrated Mich St. is and how they are a lock to bet on. No no, no need to go back and look for that comment, just take my word for it and move on.

Senor Weaselo

Has or did anyone make a “Remember the Alamo Bowl” joke? What? It was never that funny to begin with? Okay, fair.

herodotus450

I almost did, but then thought about the screaming void of silence my comment would face if i posted it here.

theeWeeBabySeamus

I guess everyone passed out early. Oh well.
Night gents.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcfOmhGJ8G4

Senor Weaselo

These games are just that riveting!

Mr. Ayo

Damn quitters.

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theeWeeBabySeamus

Ooooops

– Wazzou defensive backfield

Unsurprised

Just got money. For some reason I want booze now.

theeWeeBabySeamus

Stater Bros is your friend.

theeWeeBabySeamus

I’m tired but can’t sleep. Someone give me a sedagive!!!!!
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theeWeeBabySeamus

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theeWeeBabySeamus

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Unsurprised
WCS

(arteries clogging intensifies)

rockingdog

Prizzzzaaaaa….. haaaaaaa

theeWeeBabySeamus

Dangit…now I’m all hungry n junk.

Unsurprised

I’ve never seen a pair of bald black and white balls before. Thanks for that banner pic.

WCS

Mike Leach and Jim Tomsula were roommates in the same boxcar at the rail yard.

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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

I can haz rabies?

rockingdog

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theeWeeBabySeamus

To be fair, I think Mike Leach probably already has rabies.

theeWeeBabySeamus

Beware the priapism.

King Hippo

That’s just goddamned fabulous. I wonder what kind of weirdo zen cats were ok this arrangement. I guess they had already been Leach-acclimated.

Horatio Cornblower

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King Hippo

Coach Leach talking about wanting a pet raccoon, perfect

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WCS

Pro wrestling just gets weirder…

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Wakezilla

Weird pro wrestling is the best pro wrestling. That’s why Lucha Underground is amazing

theeWeeBabySeamus

Well shit, I coulda done that even now.

– J. Elway

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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rockingdog

Drink check everyone! What you got?
Ive got a UFO white ale….

King Hippo

just pills, I may be expected to perform acts of gainful employ tomorrow

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Unsurprised

If you can’t law drunk, are you really a lawyer?

King Hippo

I just does real estate/office leases, I ain’t no real lawyer

Unsurprised

TMI

theeWeeBabySeamus

You don’t know if you don’t ask.

herodotus450

Some kind of clear Liquor

Mr. Ayo

VODKA

Spanky Datass

Bourble, (almost) always Bourble.

theeWeeBabySeamus

Stone cold sober at the moment.
But that will soon change.

Beer or Vodka? Why not both?

Unsurprised

A shitty bourbon-aged imperial stout and a shockingly good double IPA

King Hippo

Trees are the first team to notice that GODDAMNED EVERYBODY runs a fake punt in their exhibition match.

rockingdog

LOL first fake punt! TCU didnt get it!!!!!! hhahahaha

WCS

Not enough to please SHA’NKLOR

herodotus450

hang on, Michigan St.? Aren’t they gonna get destroyed? Is it too late to make money off this somehow?

King Hippo

one would think…but then I saw Wazzu’s QB ain’t playin’ – also Dantonio tends to be good at bowl games

rockingdog

In honor of San Diego:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAjznAJe5uQ&t=1542s

that mexican food is LEGIT

rockingdog

whooo! evening yall!!! gooo PAC 12!!!!!!!!

King Hippo

I bet on them both! #WestCoastBias

/actually just sick of the fucking East Coast cold

WCS
King Hippo

that match was textbook “why one generally shouldn’t bet with that extra 1/2 point hook.” JEEBUS, had the Pokes FG missed, or had VPI kicked at the end…

theeWeeBabySeamus

I was nevar worried.

Says the guy who didn’t have money riding on it.

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Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

I hate everything about Oklahoma. Right down to their stupid Sooner mascot, which is a glorification of people who cheated.

King Hippo

my parents lived in OKC briefly, when my Dad was in the USAF (I guess technically I did too, but I was a dumbass infant/toddler and have nothing to add). Apparently, everyone really did go around saying “Boomer Sooner” all the time, and my mom said it was by far the shittiest place they were ever stationed.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

I have a good friend who teaches English at OU. I don’t ask him what it’s like there because he might say it’s not as bad as I think and I would not care to have my hatred for that place diluted in any way.

King Hippo

I would bet that Norman itself – like any other college town – is kind of an oasis into itself. Much like Oxford, MS.

Unsurprised

So he teaches a foreign language?

theeWeeBabySeamus

U*NC dislikes this comment -1

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King Hippo

WAY TO NOT CHEAPLY COVER!!!!

theeWeeBabySeamus

XII

nomonkeyfun

“Too old.”

-Roy Moore

herodotus450

Did they institute the 3 point conversion yet?

nomonkeyfun

Not until the P*ts need one to win the Superb Owl.

King Hippo

then it will be from the 6-inch line. To succeed, Dreamboat will have to get back to the 5.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

And they will press the t-shirt cannon into service as a cannon for penalty flags on the defense just in case something goes wrong.

ArmedandHammered

Beth Mowans has a face made for radio and a voice made for silent movies.

theeWeeBabySeamus

I was just thinking she looks like Sean McDonough with a bad wig.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Who cares? She’s in the booth.

theeWeeBabySeamus

None of us cares.
That’s why we make the jokey jokey.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

No wonder.

theeWeeBabySeamus

You might need to elucidate.
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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Naw, I’ll let it go.

theeWeeBabySeamus

I’m just messing with ya fwiw.

But in fairness, you know us better than twitter bros who really do mean it hatefully, fwiw. At least I hope you do.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

It is important that all women on TV look like Fox News chicks.

ArmedandHammered

Her play by play has been good. She is definitely good at her job and my shot at her looks was a cheap one, but her voice is like a file pulled across an exposed nerve. I would have muted but I do like to listen to the games.

theeWeeBabySeamus

My shot at Sean McDonough still stands.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Doesn’t bother me; seems like a typical comment towards a woman in a typical male field, especially when added to the comment about looks. The game between the Bolts and Donks she did very well for someone without experience and it was Rex Ryan who sucked balls as the “color.”

But if it bugs you, it bugs you. For me there are so many play-by-play guys who are much more annoying than her. If I hear her doing a P*ts game and she flourishes the Brady description, I’ll change my mind.

ArmedandHammered

Yep, I cannot listen to John Gruden, he drives me up the wall. Joe Buck can send me into a rage induced rant. Like I said cheap shot that was not deserved and she has been better than the guys in the earlier bowl games.

herodotus450

I for one would find it offensive if someone DIDN’T hate her for no good reason and gag at the sound of her voice, just like every other announcer. So there.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

If someone didn’t? Twitter is full of bros saying the same thing.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Understood. I should just ignore.

theeWeeBabySeamus

Like Sean McDonough.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

For instance.

King Hippo

I actually don’t mind her voice, but I find the tonal range thing varies by listener. Content is a-ok.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

But is it free content?

Gratliff

Very happy to see the use of Marty Jannetty’s cowardly escape in the writeup.

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theeWeeBabySeamus

Ummm, Hippo. You got -5.5 on this one? I hope.

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King Hippo

NOPE, went early at 6.5, it were dicey. As. FUCK

theeWeeBabySeamus

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WCS

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herodotus450

Speaking of Alabama and Roy Moore’s platform:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FWdQVNeTlI

King Hippo

fucking Pokes, leaving backdoor open

herodotus450

Tell me more…

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

PHRASING!

King Hippo

stupid fullback

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Stupid sexy fullback.

Redshirt

Everyone’s lovable pedophile (Roy Moore) is now threatening a lawsuit. Just take the loss, man. Threatening to go to court to overrule the Will of the People is such a Liberal thing to do.

(Please forgive Republican character check)

herodotus450

And he didn’t even win the popular vote!

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What’s great is that one of his objections amounts to “more black people voted than I expected so therefore it must be fraud.”

theeWeeBabySeamus

something something 3/5’s something something

It is Alabama, after all.

Redshirt

“They didn’t even pay the Poll Tax! Whatever happened to respecting tradition in America?!”

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Via reddit, I thought this was the perfect encapsulation of Moore’s argument:

“We required ID, then we shut down ID-issuing agencies in all the black neighborhoods! We intentionally located polling places in neighborhoods that would be inconvenient for black people to get to! We limited voting hours so it would only be easy for white-collar 9-5 workers to vote! With all we did to suppress the black vote, fraud is the only possible explanation, we made sure of it!”

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Also, that comment was made by a guy named “Gumburcules” which is also awesome.

...

I interacted with someone named “Bong Quixote” yesterday. Online is awesome.

King Hippo

whatever happened to “God is in charge no matter what?”

herodotus450
Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Will of the People is such a Liberal thing to do.

Fuck you.

Redshirt

In my defense, I did ask for forgiveness.

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“Republican character”

King Hippo

yeah, he made peace offering, this is a multi-step program of maybe coming over to our side by 2020. PATIENCE, GRASSHOPPERS.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Yeah, “I apologize for saying something ignorant and meaning it. Peace out.”

Senor Weaselo

/Rolls a 1
“Congratulations, you are now the head of the RNC.”

Col. Duke LaCross

Alabammy has some of the strictest voting suppression rules in the country. Is he saying that all of these new rules didn’t work?

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I’ll only see the Churchill movie if it features at least 20 minutes of him being unapologetically racist.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

He did have great big tits.

King Hippo

Hippo like money, yes he do
Hippo like money, how ’bout YOU??

Redshirt

/ remembers losing $150 at Crazy Four Poker in four hands today
/ starts crying

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Hey look everybody it’s Paxton Lynch!

King Hippo

Pokes WOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

theeWeeBabySeamus

Hippo scrilla safe.

herodotus450

Speaking of gross (but collectively bargained for) overreaches of power, remember when Terell Pryor got some discount (not even free smh) tatoos so the ncaa suspended him for like 4 games? And he said fuck that and applied for the draft but the nfl somehow decided it was in their power to transfer that suspension to the nfl?

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

I sure do! Mainly because the Raiders blew a draft pick on him.

herodotus450

I didn’t even know there WAS a second draft! And I’ve already forgotten the official name for it.
/If he’d given up on being a qb about 7 years ago he’d have made a decent wr methinks.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

and soap or lotion ads.

Redshirt

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/steelers-might-have-just-opened-the-door-for-browns-to-pick-up-their-first-win/

The Factory has a tall order this Sunday. I hear they may be calling in recently retirees and putting salary front office workers on the floor to pull this one off.

theeWeeBabySeamus

It’s no coinky dink I decided not to take balls up on his offer to bet this one. He wants me to be his butler soooooo badly tho that it was tempting. But I know how that would work out….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUrkWecExwo

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

If I were a betting man, I’d actually be the farm on Cleveland. Last I checked the spread was +13.5 and they are going to be playing their hearts out to avoid joining the Lions. Not to mention that Pittsburgh is shady as hell when it comes to point-shaving.

Redshirt

If I knew how to bet, I would be tempted to bet. Except for the fact that its not much of a win. Even if its the one where I bet $100 to win $150 (-150?), that’s not much of a win.

theeWeeBabySeamus

That would be +150. And you get teh $150 in addition to your original $100.

Presuming the team you bet on doesn’t screw the pooch like they usually do when I bet.

Redshirt

Like I said, I don’t know how to bet.

Now that would be tempted. I can take a 10 minute drive to the local racino and bet on a horse race in Mid-Upper-Lower Zimbabwe, but I can’t bet on a sports game. I love Ohio.

theeWeeBabySeamus

If you see a -150 btw, it would mean betting $150 to win $100.

But rarely will that be worth it.

Redshirt

Yeah, I know I got it backwards. That’s why I don’t bet money unless I know what I’m doing.

I sat next to someone at Mississippi Stud Poker who was dropping hundreds of dollars in spite not knowing the game. It was painful watching him folding J-6 over and over again.

King Hippo

I put $80-something down on them earlier in the week, at said 13.5. Was all the way down to 10.5 yesterday, off the books completely now (at least at my place).

theeWeeBabySeamus

Yep…that seems to be the trend on that one.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

h/t twbs – apparently RIck Gates (that guy who’s under indictment by Mueller) is taking the words of the Beastie Boys to heart:

https://mobile.twitter.com/chrisgeidner/status/946434704412200966

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Senor Weaselo

It’s cold out, but I’m not the Weaselo sibling who decided to go out into the cold today! I imagine I’ll be getting texts that are 95% swears about how cold it is.

theeWeeBabySeamus

Hermana is my kinda Weaselo.
Because it IS goddamned fucking asshole paralyzing cold out.

There, now you’re ready.

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theeWeeBabySeamus

Chernobyl is recovering nicely.

Redshirt

I started my car today, and I think my car went “Are you fucking kidding me?! Its freezing!” in Morse Code when it turned over.

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ballsofsteelandfury

Happy New Year Rob!

For those of you that want to see what I look like, I’ll be attending tonight’s Vegas-Kings game.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

He’ll be that one guy.

LemonJello

They won’t let you in without pants. Just so you know.

Redshirt

Claim to be against your religion to wear pants and make a scene until they let you in.

That’s how they let me in to the women’s locker room.

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Senor Weaselo
Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Cruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuumpet

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Unsurprised

He also wanted to gas the fuck out of South Africa. Boers. Blacks. They all painfully suffocate to death the same.

JustStopDude

Hot Teak ALERT!

Manziel’s blacklisting from the NFL is just as moronic and stupid as Kaep’s.

So what is his big crime? He treated the concussion protocol and the Browns as the collective jokes they are. The NFL does not give a shit about the brain health of players so why can’t the players also not give a shit? So he sneaked off to Vegas instead of sitting at home and thinking about being a Brown. Who the fuck wouldn’t do what he did?

I’m not saying that a team would sign him as a starter or that most teams wouldn’t bother with him. I just think its horseshit the fucking grandstanding the league did.

They got a team about to go 1 and fucking 31…the league should be worried about that shit.

Senor Weaselo

“Trust the process.” -Hue Jackson

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

What’s interesting is that so much more has been made of his Vegas shit and drinking problems than his domestic violence accusations.

Unsurprised

I think … the NFL may be bad.

Senor Weaselo

There is a Jeopardy category… on Boaty McBoatface.

King Hippo

pasted from the OLD THREAD:

still on a WINNING RUSH, so MOAR ACTION:

$55 on Stanford moneyline (+130)
$55 on Wazzu moneyline (+105)
$66 on Iowa State moneyline (+160) – already have $100 on them at +3, no clue how they are dogs v. fookin’ Memphis.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Prepare your anus.

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theeWeeBabySeamus

Fookin’ kids.