Excuse me while I play the Canadian national anthem.
NFL News:
- Dez Bryant has come to the realization that no one loves him, so he might as well go home.
I’ll rather it be the Dallas Cowboys if not I’ll be ready to play somewhere else https://t.co/IRUmDXMZa7
— Dez Bryant (@DezBryant) October 2, 2018
- Leonard Fournette will not play for the Jags against the Chiefs.
- His hamstring is still tenuous.
- The League office finally got around to suspending Mychal Kendricks for his insider trading conviction.
- He was given the rarely-used “indefinite” term, which means he’s done for the year, and likely forever after he’s sentenced in January.
- He’s facing 30-37 months in prison.
- At least the Seahawks got three games out of him.
- He was given the rarely-used “indefinite” term, which means he’s done for the year, and likely forever after he’s sentenced in January.
- Oof – LeSean McCoy is accused of physical abuse of his (ex-)girlfriend starting in the 2017 season.
- “McCoy is extremely strong and was heavy-handed,” the lawsuit claims. “He would often grab Plaintiff in a manner that was painful and would leave Plaintiff’s skin reddened. McCoy did not care who was around when he would become enraged. McCoy once physically kicked Plaintiff out of the bed.”
- This is in conjunction with previous allegations of physical abuse towards his son and his mother’s dog.
- TV ratings are up over the first four weeks versus last year.
- It’s only 2%, but it has as much to do with the quality of the football (read: offence) as with the lack of outside pressures (kneeling; President Bone Spurs).
Now,
during the offseason I had a half-brained idea to do a comparison on the complaints received by the FCC (in the US) and the CRTC (in Canada) about the Super Bowl broadcast. This was because people LOVE to complain, and the more trivial the issue the better. (See: the internet) That fell by the wayside for a couple of reasons:
- In the US, you can only contact the FCC via snail mail, and you apparently have to have an USA address for a response.
- In Canada, the CRTC only received 14 complaints – none about the game broadcast; most about the “signal substitution” during the pre-game show.
Now signal substitution, also known as “SimSub”, is the process by which a Canadian broadcast rights holder can substitute their broadcast feed over the American cable signal so as to claim advertising rights & revenue. Since there are only three national private media broadcasters in Canadian television, and they account for 75% of channel ownership, it is in their best interests to maintain this monopoly. I have written about this issue a couple of times before, mostly to express outrage.
Well, for two glorious years (2017-18), the US signal wasn’t blocked, due to a CRTC ruling that prohibited the practice for the live games.
They had received enough complaints about the shoddy SimSub work that they ended the practice. Consumers were happy, but the NFL and the networks were not. The NFL saw the value of its Canadian broadcast rights greatly reduced, and the Canadian network CTV saw a deep plunge in their first-quarter ad revenue. Still, score one for the consumer, right?
So imagine my outrage when I come across at Deadspin a story about how Roger Goodell & the NFL got Donald Trump to include a codicil in the new Free Trade Agreement about prohibiting the continuation of this practice. According to BNN Bloomberg, Annex 15-D of the United States Mexico Canada Agreement (USMCA) reads:
“Canada shall rescind Broadcasting Regulatory Policy CRTC 2016-334 and Broadcasting Order CRTC 2016-335. With respect to simultaneous substitution of commercials during the retransmission in Canada of the program referenced in those measures, Canada may not accord the program treatment less favorable than the treatment accorded to other programs originating in the United States retransmitted in Canada.”
This Agreement not only deletes the CRTC ruling from 2015, it practically cements in place all SimSub practices in use by Canadian networks. The only recourse would be to propose eliminating the entire SimSub category from the CRTC code, which would be nigh-impossible, since that political party would be portrayed as weakening Canadian culture. Trudeau’s got it hard enough right now, he doesn’t need more sniping from the left-wing (NDP) or right-wing (Tories).
That’s not to say the Ginger Hammer isn’t happy. To quote Roger Goodell:
“We greatly appreciate President Trump’s leadership and determination in bringing about a resolution to our intellectual property issue in Canada,” Goodell said in a written statement released by the NFL.
Starting in 2019, the Canadian networks will get their SimSub rights back to the Super Bowl, and Canadians will be ‘treated’ to approximately 300 Canadian Tire ads. Bart Scott?
Tonight’s sports:
- NHL:
- Habs at Leafs – 7:00PM | Sportsnet
- Bruins at Capitals – 7:30PM | NBCSN
- Flames at Canucks – 10:00PM | Sportsnet
- Ducks at Sharks – 10:30PM | NBCSN
- MLB:
- Athletics at Yankees – 8:00PM | TBS / Sportsnet1
HAIL GAMBLOR – HOCKEY IS BACK!
OUCH
Hope it’s ok that I took a knee at the beginning of this post.
She’s still as hot as she was 35 years ago.
This was from February 2017.
We had rain!
Real rain! Like in a downpour.
And I’ve got a leak.
Motherfucker can’t I get a break!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkLTwX0duY4
Have you tried those adult diapers?
Welp, time to bully David Price into playing Fortnite for the next 48 straight hours.
He’s gonna start Game 2, I assume? No way they’d let him pitch in the Bronx.
HI HO, HI HO, OFF TO WORK WE GO!
Chapman comes in and Padre Weaselo starts panicking again. Dude can’t locate the fastball right now. Or the slider.
Yeah, he had better aim with that handgun a couple year back, and that’s not saying much.
DUDE!
Barstool Sports. First known photo.
Apropos of nothing, did anyone else know that FTVMILFs is a thing and has been for, looking at the model list, like a year? I know FTV tried to do a hardcore sex site FTVX for like a week almost a decade ago, but anyway, it’s just another reminder that the first generation of people being Extremely Online like me are now fucking middle-aged and our tastes have expanded to women our age as well as the teenagers who do FTV.
(Jesus, this is sadder than commenting on Pornhub)
For nobody who cares, this weekend is apparently Comic-Con. So naturally the subway that goes to the convention center is under maintenance and not running there. Everyone makes another MTA joke.
/Remembers it took over an hour to get a bus from the Harbor on a late Saturday afternoon in Baltimore
NYCC is fun. I can’t remember if the anime expo is technically separate, but anyway, it’s always fun watching the cosplayers filing out at night when the con ends for the evenings. The last time I was in NYC was in part for that and then I hung out with a friend whose college football fans takes over a bar on Saturdays and so it was funny seeing a bunch of sad wookies, etc. being denied because it’s a couple blocks from Javits.
Anyway, fuck Governor Cuomo with a hot poker.
THAT was weird.
Some peoples O-face…….. scary.
Why is he pounding away at her leg?
Well I’m no longer an angle grinder towards my thumbnail. So that’s improvement.
This requires further specification.
Just finished work and started drinking with a 9.3 ABV Imperial Stout.
One must make up for lost time after all.
(also it’s delicious)
Started?
I had to walk the dog and didn’t feel like trying to get in 2 miles in the dark with a pint of 9.3 in me.
Makes sense….. SORTA.
There’s nothing better than a Booze Cruise. Especially with a dog.
Did Selena Gomez go to college or is this just my imagination.
Your imagination and Roy Moore’s worst nightmare.
Over 18, maybe even a graduate student or two……. THE HORROR!!
Way tool old and S-M-R-T to fall for his shit.
She was basically in Neighbors 2 for these two shots. I wish she was in it more.
Thankfully, we’ll always have Spring Breakers.
I don’t remember this.
Who all else is stoked for Fantastic Beasts 2?!
Oh, you meant something else.
Will I go watch it? Yes. Was there moments in the trailer I went “Wait what the fuck?” Also yes.
Hey all. Red Sox-Yankees gonna be lit. (I mean, except for good people, who hate both teams.)
Go, uh, Colts tomorrow?
Not only good ppl, #BFIB even agree!
I have 0 interest in that game tomorrow. Will I watch? Yeah, Gamblor implores me but I have no read on it.
Zach Britton says “hold my beer”
Well, that’s one of the Sunniest Sunny moments of all time.
GLORIOUS. That entire last 7-8 minute sequence, just PERFECTION.
Gonna be in heavy gif rotation in coming months
I will try to keep up, but I’m not sure I’m up to the monumental task.
Oh boy is this week’s Sunny giffable
That’s my big boy baby man! Luke Voit fucking rules.
AND 1
Shane Motherfucking Sp—I mean, Luke Motherfucking Voit!
Kevin Motherfucking Maas. I mean, Shane Motherfucking Spencer. I mean, Luke Motherfucking Voit!
Speaking on behalf of the #BFIB – you’re welcome!
Asshole’s named after a cheap basketball brand.
She takes a lot of time to get there.
Eric Idle’s funeral?
Oh that is sublime.
The Grinch died happy, at least.
http://images2.fanpop.com/images/photos/3000000/Arrowed-teen-girl-squad-3099521-570-420.jpg
I’m told this qualifies as enthusiasm.
Hey, I own that same jersey and Alice is mah friend!!!!!!!
Well sort of my friend. We’ve talked a few times.
/also owns two other ‘Yotes jerseys.
//is now embarrassed and will shut up now.
The Sewer Socialists fucking ruled. It’s a shame Milwaukee has since become the most segregated large city in the U.S. and Wisconsin has become a Republican-controlled shithole.
Still have a 1999-00 Tkachuk home jersey in my closet.
Dude!!!!!!
My Shane Doan is collecting dust as we speak!!!!!!
(never went foar the Roenicke, lol)
I don’t know why my father got me that for Christmas one year, neither of us are Coyotes fans.
I still love those old ass jerseys.
When I moved to PHX in ’98, I tried to like them. And did sort of. But honestly, I more hated the Stars.
Plus there was this really hot chick I met who was a ‘Yotes fan. If I hadn’t been married at the time….well, you get where I’m going.
You would have run away to Honduras, had 4 children and open a convenience store? Or did I read your situation wrong?
They’re called bodegas!
She was actually a very white, very blonde, very stacked, very bikini model.
And she was a Baltimore native too. If only I hadn’t been married at the time.
Ooooooof.
He is a real big right wing evangelical. I loved him as he was a Jet then they moved. Some views are problematic, or were, he may have changed his tune.
Well, unlike SOME people:
NO MORE MR. ALIVE GUY
I wish I knew more conspiracy theories. These are better than anything I’ve ever written.
I do like it when people hit Fernando Rodney. Bonus when it’s my team!
Fernando Rodney is still alive?
Are the Bruins bad again? I’m really hoping so
WEEAH A FACKIN’ BAHHSBAWLL CITEE AHNYWAHY!
/Sox lose Division Series
WEEAH A FACKIN’ BAHHSKETBAWLL CITEE AHNYWAHY!
DEE BRAWN HAD IT CAWMING
Bad day for CJ Fuller.
In spite of him being a Clemson Tigger, this is a fucking shame.
jeebus.
Sorry, forgot to add the link….
(22 years old….that ain’t right)
https://www.wspa.com/sports/former-clemson-running-back-cj-fuller-dies/1495899577
If I were Kelly Bryant I would be reconsidering transferring right about now.
They used a goddamn Taxi picture on the license
Its may be the heat getting to me but I can almost hear the closed winter-capped pool mocking me outside my bedroom window. Either that or I goofed and a neighbor kid is under the cover. Eh, I’ll find out in the Spring.
Eh, it would be the kid’s problem, not yours.
Later, Taters!
I can’t believe I watched an hour of Grown Ups 2 to get to Always Sunny. Taking every unconscionable action of the last 20 years, Adam Sandler is still the worst part of it.
ADAM SANDLER HAS NO DISCERNIBLE TALENT AND NEVER HAD ANY
The best thing he ever did was “Big Daddy” and that was a C+.
Mid 90s SNL was a very dark time. Its a wonder it survived.
Andrew Dyke Clay: “So I’m like, what is she a BREEDER?!? OHHHHHHHHH”
“Hickory Dickory Dock, I don’t go near the cock OHHHHHH”
What is everybody drinking tonight?
At some point I need to drink my Angry Orchard Iceman, but not sure when.
you reminded me that I have a lime alkie fizzy water in the fridge that I can imbibe with It’s Always Sunny, thanks, Imaginary Donks Frenemy!!
Milk
McPoyles!!!!
Tap Water.
Why yes, my credit card is maxed. How’d you know?
o7
I really want Kuznetsov to get the hat trick.
It will make me feel smrt.
All right, Green-Robertson-Chapman/Britton?
We like to keep our final three innings WASPy around here, thank you much!
Mon-Tor looking like OT. Habs don’t have a chance 3 on 3 do they?
oh God, Betances, somebody check on Senor and Horatio
Betances with men on is key. Heart is still in the chest cavity.
And Lucroy took two steps and still almost got doubled off second.
he seems to have settled down quite a bit
Did he kill somebodeh?
Sorry, I’m busy watching hockey. Fuck Basedballs.
But frabjous day, Buck and Duquette are out!
Yep. I’m keeping my mouth shut, however.