NFL News:
- Jarvis Landry wins the prize (?) as the first player to be franchise-tagged in 2018.
- I thought for sure it would have been Kirk Cousins, because Dan Snyder is an idiot surrounded by morons.
- There’s a logic that this might make him an attractive trade prospect, because willing teams can offer less annual money but more years in a new contract.
- Or he can stay with the Dolphins & try the open market next year.
- Possible troubling news: “Orthopedic surgeon: Carson Wentz might be brace-dependent for rest of his career”
- Doctors are hesitant to say he’ll be ready by opening weekend 2018, but the fact they’re using RGIII as a reference point is the troubling part.
- “This is an ACL, plus at least two ligaments,” the doctor said. “This is an RG3 equivalent, folks. This is worrisome … That’s a long rehab. And if it were my patient, it would take nine, 10, 11 months.”
- So it looks like it’s still Folesadelphia for the time being.
- Doctors are hesitant to say he’ll be ready by opening weekend 2018, but the fact they’re using RGIII as a reference point is the troubling part.
- The Panthers got lazy & simply took the interim tape of Marty Hurney’s door and now he’s the full-time GM.
- Because any new owner might fire the whole staff, so no one wanted to take the job.
Kinda cool thing: The Vikings sent Super Bowl Eagles confetti to people that made donations to the Vikings Foundation after the game.
- It built on the playoff-donation wave that started back when Buffalo fans donated to Andy Dalton’s charity after the Bengals helped the Bills make the playoffs.
- It also helped it was only 24 people.
You may have heard about it today, especially if you have an uncle that TYPES IN ALL CAPS, but starting last night, Twitter went after so-called bot accounts.
- According to Gizmodo – to take it for what it’s worth – “Twitter suspended thousands of accounts overnight”, appearing to mainly target the suspected Russian accounts Robert Muller will eventually ask them about.
- Upset MAGA types who lost “thousands of followers” have started the hashtag #TwitterLockout
- Have a gander if you want to look deep into the disturbed mind of the parent who used to tell you nothing good happens on the internet, BUT NOW IT’S HAPPENED TO THEM!
- Upset MAGA types who lost “thousands of followers” have started the hashtag #TwitterLockout
The only reason I bring this up is because Low Commander sent me a semi-related story for tonight’s open thread, about the Chargers social media & how about 45% of their Twitter followers were fake.
- It seems that the Chargers were exposed as having over 360,000 fake followers, after boasting that they had gained 300,000 followers during the course of the season.
- Enterprising types have suggested the Spanos clan may have purchased followers, in order to bump their Q-rating and make the move to LA look less like a PR disaster than half-empty stadiums showed it to be.
Tonight’s sports:
- Olympics:
- NBC | 8:00PM – Cross-Country, Alpine, Bobsled, Freestyle
- women’s combined (downhill); the men’s slalom (first run); men’s freestyle halfpipe final; women’s cross-country team sprint; and women’s bobsled.
- NBCSN | 10:45PM – Hockey
- Women’s Gold Medal Game – Canada vs. USA
- CBC | 8:00PM
- women’s cross-country team sprint; and women’s bobsled.
- TSN:
- Curling – Tiebreakers – 7:25PM
- TSN2
- Snowboard – Women’s Big Air Final – 7:25PM
- Sportsnet1:
- 8:00PM – Men’s alpine
- 9:30PM – Men’s Freestyle
- 10:45PM – Women’s Gold Medal Game
- NBC | 8:00PM – Cross-Country, Alpine, Bobsled, Freestyle
- NHL:
- Senators at Black Hawks – 7:00PM | Sportsnet / NHLN
- NBA:
- no national broadcasts
- NCAA:
- Xavier at Georgetown – 6:30PM | FS1
- Georgia Tech at Virginia – 7:00PM | ESPN2
- U*NC at Syracuse – 7:00PM | ESPN
- DePaul at Villanova – 8:30PM | FS1
- Florida at Tennessee – 9:00PM | ESPN2
- Louisville at Duke – 9:00PM | ESPN / TSN2
- Southern California at Colorado – 10:30PM | FS1
In case you didn’t notice, it was an all-Canadian posts day today at [DFO]. GO CANADA GO!
Wow, she’s basically arguing against everything the NRA has pulled for over the last 3 decades.
Is Loesch actually insinuating it was law enforcement’s fault for this? I thought #BlueLivesMatter?!
“won’t anyone think of the poor guns!?”
Oh my god
Goddamn. Even the cop is jumping on the NRA’s bullshit responses.
Dana Loesch is now in front of these kids. Get the popcorn ready.
Imagine having designs on the White House, losing to a real estate con artist turned game show host, then getting dunked on by teachers and kids for two hours on national TV, one of which stood a foot from your face while you were crushed like so much delicious, hydrating ice.
This kind of shit needs to happen every day. Broadcast it nationally, let the truly useless demonstrate how useless they really are for everyone to see, over and over and over and over. Something might actually change if they’re constantly shamed in public.
Guys…
How is it only Wednesday?
Sweet Jesus, they may scare Marco into backing a gun ban before the next ad break. He’s such a spineless fuck.
Attractive Fox News Blonde Model 2.3 just said shootings wouldn’t happen if we put God back in schools.
How can he be in every school? I mean he was a great point guard at Providence College but he isn’t superhuman.
God’s been really busy lately in the madrassas in Saudi and the rest of that part of the world, so he doesn’t have time to spend over here..
Ok…without giving it too much thought, you have your choice of punching Hannity, Trump Jr, or Sarah Sanders. Fuck you Sophie, this is TOUGH.
Line all three up next to each other as close as possible, punch whoever first as hard as possible, and watch them bang into themselves.
I have failed at trying to find a gif with Popeye knocking out a bunch of people as a punching dervish. I’m sure I saw it in a cartoon, probably 50+ years ago.
Apropos of nothing, Lagunitas 12th of Never Ale is quite refreshing. This would be a great beer during the 360 days where the temp is over 70. Oh well, I’ll make do somehow.
We’ve reached the “Senator Rubio gets owned by children” portion of the show
Is he adequately hydrated?
He’ll have to wring the flop sweat out of that fucking suit
Why are you worried about his sunburn? – T Brady
This kid’s barely contained rage feels extremely familiar
Hippo as to our email conversation you can get in game live odds for Costa Rica 2nd division AD San Carlos v Santa Ana right now!
CNN is having this town hall. Sean Hannity is hosting a panel on Uranium One and how corrupt Hillary is.
I guess when the chips are down, you go with what you know…
Remember after the election when we all laughed at Rubio trying to run from random citizens who recognized him in the airport because he didn’t want to be yelled at? I kind of see his point now. He deserves this and worse.
I feel ya, Brother Marco!
—Scott Pruitt
It’s pathetic when you realize this is the closest anyone has ever held these jackasses accountable.
Duke has a horseshoe up their ass so far tonight.
And ‘Ville is just ass so far tonight.
Jeebus.
Holy Shit, Mike Patrick is still alive.
Sort of.
say that to his liver
Remember when he, Theismann, and Paul Maguire were on Sunday Night Football? Dear Lord.
I do not remember that.
Thank God.
twas quite the car crash
Holy Cow!
I don’t know that the Florida senator will be walking out of the building on his own power after this. Holy shit, that crowd despises him.
It’s ridiculous that some people are claiming the “45” on Trump’s cuffs refer to his status as the 45th President. They could just as easily be put there to make it easier for the tailor to remember which pants they are paired to; the ones with the 45″ waist.
I’m 6’2″ with a 45″ waist and I’m slimmer than that fat fucking fraud.
And as someone with, uh, similar dimensions, gotta say there’s less than zero chance he weighs 239.
Oh, yeah. If he’s 239 then I’m a buck eighty.
i just assumed it was his kkk troop number he inherited from his father.
More like his IQ and that of his minions..
Second question of town hall is just a guy ripping Rubio, so I’m okay with this
Lorrrrrrrd, this is ugly
It’s awesome.
This is, well, not justice, but it’s closer than the status quo has been.
tWBS: Sexy Friday idea: Soccer fans. Got damn there’s some nice pics out there.
Indeed there are.
Wink wink, nudge nudge.
Marco Rubio is at the Town Hall. Do we get GOP Suck puppet we’re so used to, or does he attempt to salvage his career with the smallest amount of self awareness possible.
That was meant to be sock, but I agreed with autocorrect.
LMFAO
I bet he makes his “concerned, but what can ya do?” face
He’s getting 3.3 million by the NRA. He will take the heat now so he can get more money later. Democra$y!
Fuck Grayson Allen. And while we’re at it, fuck you too Jay Bilas.
If he makes it, the NBA is going kick his ass.
He’ll make it. And the first time he trips a bruthah he’ll get the white beat out his ass.
His career will be Adam Morrison-esque.
Mason blew it!
“Never go full WVU.”
— Bob Huggins
then hit a desperation heave at the buzzer (I guess they reviewed it, because the score took like 5 minutes to update after tying at 6 seconds left) to win.
NEVAR BETTING THOSE ASSHOLES (or WVU, no ofence) again!!
$100 on ‘Ville ML +450.
$100 on ‘Ville +11 ATS.
The world is against us, motiviationalz. Plus Duke ain’t as good as +11 against anyone.
God I hope the Canadian women win. Normally, I’d be OK if USA winning because they’re a great team, but, the Lamoureux sisters are total douchebags and they are playing, so, Go Canada!
George Mason has let it’s 20-point lead shrink to 4. JEEBUS.
Conservative school playing it … conservatively? Wait, that’s not how conservative play works, is it?
I don’t know shit about fuck.
Maybe I’m going to hell for betting against Catholic teams?
GM making their FTs, at least
You were already going to hell.
Might as well make some dough.
Nah. Even the Pope bets against Georgetown and Domers.
— West Virginia men’s hoops
That’ll happen when you name your school after a famous bricklayer.
You know who can eat shit? CNN for that stunt they pulled where they ambushed a woman who unknowingly shared Russian bot memes that supported Trump. Now she’s getting threats and harassed. If only CNN would do that to politicians
That would be nice.
Fuck her regardless.
She’s a piece of shit, but being doxed by CNN for millions to know where she is? That’s fucked up. They’re punching really down and would never do that to a politician or a pundit like Joy Reid, who has a ton of her tweets RT’d by Russian robots.
At least I could expect professional courtesy or some bullshit for JAR since she’s on MSNBC, but there are so many people they could burn to ashes over this but they never will because CNN and its ilk are the problem.
There aren’t any blue-check MAGA chuds who haven’t RTed TEN_GOP at the least, and they all deserve to eat shit.
GT @ UVa under is dead.
GT +16.5 still looking OK so far.
Hey GT, stop fouling. Especially that guy.
Gotta say, if one of these high school kids tells Dana Loesch to eat shit on air I’ll believe the kids are alright.
I wish they had thrown feces on the legislators after they voted down the AR ban.
EDIT: Now that I see that typed, I think blood would’ve been perfectly on the nose.
The legislators deserve that much or worse, but honestly the manner in which these kids are collected, organized, and unfazed by the insane attacks against them is more than enough for me to feel better about change than I have in a while. These kids grasp politics is exerting power, not simpering compromise with ideological opposites. That’s why the gun fuckers are finally scared: these kids are articulating blame and a moral purpose behind their actions.
True.
It wouldn’t help them politically, but I bet it would feel awesome in the moment.
That’s how I feel about kicking Marco Rubio into a thresher.
“Oh man, braces are the worst. Like, shouldn’t those be off by the time she hits her junior year?”
– Mark Sanchez
“What’s a brace?”
-Frank Lloyd Wright
Eli Manning is hoping that the Giants will exercise the friend-chise tag on him this year.
Eli was all excited when he thought he was getting the freeze tag superpower.
Hey guys. How’s your stay in Hellworld going?
HAWT
It snowed.
Busy. Sorting souls to different levels of purgatory is good cardio.
Duquesne up 2 at the under 12, nice little +465 lotto ticket. Hippo wishing across the finish. Nice that it’s NOT on tv…
On Anne Frank’s Wiki page the first two pictures are the hospital in which she was born and the house where she met her sad demise.
They’re obsessed with hiding places on that article.
I don’t know why the Nazis had such a hard time finding her; there’s signs all over the city pointing to where she was hiding.
Well the Evangelical s’more in the sky got one hell of a Graham today
Well, you’re right about him roasting over a fire, anyway.
I’d bet good money on the son roasting, for sure.
I wish that motherfucker could die again and take that bag of shit son with him next time
Oh shit, it’s about to rain on the East Coast. Stupid Elizabeth Warren did another rain dance.
Just had a Dad Moment:
Fell asleep for no good reason in the rocking chair for 15 minutes, woke up very confused why the DVR-ed episode of Drunk History was almost over.
The other day, I purchased a book from a used book store that not only had I read before, when I got home, I noticed it was on my fucking bookshelf already.
That is when I realized I was turning into my father…
Huzzah, George Mason! Breaking a pretty shitty cold streak, post-Wigan…
THIS DUGGAR LADY I CALL HER A FLORIDA SCHOOL BECAUSE SHE’S HAD 10+ KIDS SHOT INSIDE HER
Actual text message I just got…
“I’m sorry for what I said. Also, my phone is messed up and I cannot see the order of messages coming in so chances are, what you think I said is not what I really said.”
This was from my idiot sister.
At least it’s not “I’m sorry you took offense …”
My parents are on vacation in Hawaii. Its like their first trip out of Maryland…fucking ever.
For reasons I cannot fathom, my sister just out of the blue texted all of us that I was in the hospital on Friday (she is my emergency contact so my work called and left a message when I had my seizure). I cannot fathom why she did this other than to create drama.
I texted to her, just her “I do not appreciate you sharing this with our parents. If its something I wish to share, I will be the one to share it”
Needless to say, I am considering making my 12 year old niece my emergency contact as I think she has more common sense than my sister.
Why?
What about the nice Estonian girl?
She is physically the nearest family member. Its like 3 hours for her to get to me as opposed to my parents.
Put Fozz down
He’s a Balmeran. That’s harsher than any insult I could muster.
-alt-
I think tWBS is the only one licensed to do that.
Christ, if my mom ever died, it would probably have to be my ex-wife, and that’s just sad.
A live DNR order
which is pretty much what I’d want, my kids have all said pretty much that they couldn’t do it, so…
That sucks. I would definitely suggest anyone else.
per usual, “TV Ted” Valentine has no clue what’s going on
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-43140476
So, here’s something that happened…
Now I’m sad.
as a cat person, I kind of hope he dies.
BOLTMAN FINDS ALL HUMANS TO BE VILE SCUM AND THEIR ONLY USE IS TO SERVE THE CHARGED ONE IN THE LOOMING DARK TIMES!
BUT BOLTMAN FINDS KITTIES TO BE ADORABLE AND FUZZY AND NONE SHOULD EVER COME TO HARM. OOOOOHHHHH YEEEAAAHHHHH!!!
[Air guitars Cat Scratch Fever]
the MOAR one knows of BOLTMAN!, the MOAR one wishes to follow him…
Take the blood oath like I did. You’ll still get to root for the Donks twice a year, and keep a waning percentage of your soul! At least, until your particularly painful death.
Just stay in the back during the gatherings and you won’t be eviscerated. Well,probably.
Mock draft on ESPN has the Yinzers taking a white LB at #28. heh.
Also put “Dan Dakich calling a U*NC win” on the list of items I won’t flip back to this muggy summer-ish evenin’
Since I am just talking to mah rebel self, how them bets lookin’ Other Hippo?
Well, Other Hippo, Duquesne are level and Mason up 7! But they fucked you before with a bigger lead on Saturday. And let’s not speak of EZU’s “effort.”
Lafayette should have the festive, homosexual black character from True Blood as they mascot. He was cool as fuck.
Also, tWBS’ cray-cray Bees bet looks good. The ATS half, anyhoo.
oh shit, I may have bet on the Johnny Cakes at Marquette, too. Hippo no remember. That one was closer to +170, though. So I need to win that, fo sho. NO EXCUSES, Weaselo!!
At least I didn’t bet UGA or Cuse (thought about both, spread never went high enough).
as to Clippers du Merde…it’s 70% empty minor league Lesser Footy ground, to be precise.
#NevarForget
#FemurDrumSolo4All
Sorry Rob, but it’s house money at this point…
$100 on GT to cover +16.5 at UVa
$100 on the under (113)
Spread opened at +20.5, but I didn’t check early enough. This is why Hippo is smrtr than me.
Didn’t like the odds on many ML games, made small bets on EZU (v. SMU, they are garbage too), George Mason (@ St. Joe’s), Duquesne (@ St. Bonnie), and Bama (at Aubie, after their star player’s foot done falled off). All were minimum +305, so only need to hit one.