NFL News:
- No London Jags just yet: Shad Khan has withdrawn his offer to buy Wembley Stadium.
- It was rumoured that he didn’t have enough FA member votes to get the deal through, so he decided to stop wasting his time.
- It doesn’t help that the team he owns – Fulham – is 17th on the Premiership table, with only 5 points after 8 matches.
- The Jags will, however, continue to play one game per year in London.
- It was rumoured that he didn’t have enough FA member votes to get the deal through, so he decided to stop wasting his time.
- The owners meetings were this week. Here’s some highlights (?):
- NFL transparency everyone: Jimmy Haslam has been named to the NFL’s compensation committee.
- He replaces Clark Hunt & Bob McNair, as the size of the committee is being reduced from 6 to 4 members.
- Jerry Jones has left the committee’s unofficial fifth position.
- He replaces Clark Hunt & Bob McNair, as the size of the committee is being reduced from 6 to 4 members.
- Roger Goodell says, “I don’t think there has been a better time to be an NFL fan.”
- Well sure – it’s easy to talk tough when you don’t have to kiss the President’s ass anymore.
- The Chargers have increased their PSL projections to $150 million from $400 million.
- Roger Goodell echoed the belief that everything is doubleplusgood:
- “Lots of football, lots of building still to do,” Goodell said. “And frankly, we were out of the market for a long time, and we have to earn our way back with our fans. We have to build that relationship back with our fans and make sure that we do it right.”
- Roger Goodell echoed the belief that everything is doubleplusgood:
- NFL transparency everyone: Jimmy Haslam has been named to the NFL’s compensation committee.
- With Josh Allen hurt & Nathan Peterman being a turnover machine, the Bills will start Derek Anderson on Sunday.
- Meanwhile, in New York, Colin Kaepernick’s lawyer received an unexpected erection.
- Adam Vinatieri is just 10 points from Morten Andersen’s all-time points record.
- In his career, Vinatieri has 570 field goals, 823 extra points and one two-point conversion. Andersen had 565 field goals and 849 extra points.
Finally, the reporters portrayed in the movie “Spotlight” apparently still all have jobs, and have turned their attentions to the life of Aaron Hernandez. 
- This week’s installment is about his time with the Patriots.
- The highlight is about Tom Brady telling ex-Gators QB Tim Tebow, then with the Denver Broncos, that he was doing his best to “watch over” both Hernandez and former Gators player Brandon Spikes:
- “I appreciate that, man. They’re good guys,” Tebow responded.
- “Yeah,” Brady said. But they’re “a lot to handle.”
- The highlight is about Tom Brady telling ex-Gators QB Tim Tebow, then with the Denver Broncos, that he was doing his best to “watch over” both Hernandez and former Gators player Brandon Spikes:
- The whole thing is, in retrospect, a blueprint for not noticing someone in a spiral, because everyone sees one part of the oncoming crash, but “code” keeps people from sharing those concerns with others.
- The previous and ongoing stories & podcast can be found here.
Tonight’s sports:
- MLB:
- Red Sox at Astros – 8:30PM | TBS / Sportsnet
- NHL:
- Blues at Habs – 7:00PM | Sportsnet1
- Rangers at Capitals – 7:00PM | NBCSN
- Bruins at Flames – 9:30PM | NBCSN / Sportsnet1
- NBA:
- Cavs at Raptors – 7:00PM | TSN
- Pelicans at Rockets – 8:00PM | ESPN
- Mavericks at Suns – 10:30PM | ESPN
- CONCACAF 2019 Women’s World Cup Qualifying Soccer:
- Canada vs. U.S. – 8:15PM | FS1
- MLS:
- DC United vs. Toronto FC – 7:30Pm | TSN2
- Whitecaps FC vs. Sporting KC – 10:30PM | TSN
I hope you enjoyed DFO’s near-total “All Beerguy” content day. Tune in tomorrow for Thursday “DF Hipp-O”, with Hippo’s award-negligent column “Odd Odds YOU Can Win With”, because if he can beat these odds,
HE CAN BEAT ANYTHING!
Over at Deadspin, this comment regarding the fan interference on the Altuve homer made me chuckle:
“The Houston fans were actually just trying to keep the brown guy from getting over the wall.”
Nice.
BRUTAL!
Savage!
Hypnotic.
This just in : Jackie Bradley Jr. is a bad motherfucker.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PeyiU3uWJ8
I beg to differ; he is terrible at karaoke.
I know he hit .180 through May, but he’s still a major league player and it’s just not a good idea to keep having your trash bullpen pump fastballs down the middle of the plate to him.
Do the also have a recycle bullpen?
Apparently not in Houston.
No, seriously, this just in, because he was delightfully shitty the last two years.
Here comes the pizza!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufSQMXLO95w&feature=youtu.be&t=104
Mary J. Blige is still sexier than you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpDQJnI4OhU
I disagree, I make this futbol jersey with Decilitre saliva on it work.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XNaPX6MKlU
YEAH, THAT’S JUST FUCKING WRONG; AVS T-SHIRT, SWEAT STAINS…. AND AND NO PANTS, BITCH! SUCK IT!.
Save the beer!
If you can dodge a table, you can dodge a ball.
What gets thrown at her then? Like a step stool?
[Used furniture store manager pops a boner.]
Folding chairs.
She also has a purse around her left wrist.
Looks like Joe Kelly got a haircut, like we wouldn’t recognize him.
I just got back from a local bar event and there was a group of young associates just crowded around the shrimp bowl at one end of the buffet going to town like vultures on a carcass.
I’m most annoyed because I’ve had people say mean shit to me for just basically being a fatass (this has only happened a couple of times in 20ish years). I know I shouldn’t care but I did. Now I just think it’s funny.
THANKS HOME DEPOT.
Conor McGregor goes to Gordan Beirsch?
Do those still exist?
I’d buy chair thrower dude a beer.
Apparently, it was his ex. And this was at 11 am. He was, unsurprisingly, piss drunk.
Conor McGregor is a pussy.
And yes, given the chance, I’ll tell him to his stupid little pussy face.
He might get a coupla pussy kicks in, but once I get my chokehold on, he’ll tap out.
Trust me.
Seriously, that little asshole needs to go die in a fire.
Slowly.
Before the Mayweather fight, my dumbass nephew was telling me how bad McGregor was gonna punish Floyd.
tWBS: Dude, you don’t know shit about shit. Wanna bet?
Nephew: Well I don’t have any money.
tWBS: Yeah, no shit.
You’ve obviously never been around a professional fighter. I know what I’d trust would happen.
You Sir, are incorrect.
Boxing was my game.
He’s an asshole, but also one of the best professional fighters on the planet. Even Hippo wouldn’t bet on you.
No he’s not.
He’s one of the best promoted pussies on the planet. And they did it. To the hilt. Now he’s exposed for the pussy he is. Dude couldn’t punch (or kick) his way out of a wet paper sack.
And I don’t need anyone to bet on me.
I’d take his pussy ass out in three rounds. What you folks don’t know about me is that I can take a punch, and then give one back. Wouldn’t be the first time.
I’d be more afraid of Rhonda Rousey than Conor McGregor.
And I’m not afraid of Rhonda Rousey.
Gatling Kid Ejector.
Fuck yeah
found a funny:
[best Billy Idol voice]
It’s a nice day for a… light sweater
WHOA… It’s a nice day for a… CARDIGAAAAAN
Feel free to dislike the song, but if you say this little lady is unattractive, you are lying.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqFLXayD6e8
Hot taek!
Scorching.
There is as many tastes here as commentists, or more.
Got to LAX 10 minutes before boarding time. Even I’m impressed with myself this time
If I did that I’d be getting around the second turn in the security line by the time my flight leveled off and the first class people were complain full throat.
You still have time to have sex at 4 Italian restaurants – R. Pitino
I finished watching “Titans” Episode 1 and its wasn’t that bad. It was dark, but they were going for gritty and real.
Beast Boy: Showed up at the end as a teaser. It fit his character.
Starfire: I don’t know what she is or what they’re doing with her. She’s looks too old for the part and her hair seems fake. Her scenes are so jarring that its like they were from a different show that accidently got cut into this show. Still after reading Red Hood and the Outlaws #1 after the New 52 Jump and seeing Starfire turn the Team Bicycle, anything else isn’t that bad by comparison so I’ll be patient.
Raven: It looks like they’re going for a multiple personality thing (sort of Dark Pheonix meets Young Justice’s Blue Beetle and the Scarab) with Rachel Roth as the teenager having a powerful dark force in her that she cannot control but helps her. If anything it shows the dangers of joining a cult and having unprotected sex with a demon. Actions have consequences people.
Robin: He wasn’t as bad as the previews indicated. Actually he humanized the show. I won’t spoil why he left but its one of the canonical reasons for why Dick left Batman. If anything, the first episode shows why Robin left Gotham and Batman. And we got to see Dick Grayson the person instead of Dick Grayson the hero.
Overall, its worth a look if your a DC fan or if you’re bored. It definitely earned the MA rating and at times it felt like I was watching Kick-Ass fight scenes with DC characters. Its Gotham but more seriously but not dark for the sake of dark. Its like if a DC Comic happened in real life.
And sadly, we didn’t hear who Robin would marry and kill but they could be saving that for a Season Long Story Arc.
You should do a movie post, no really.
I also still want a Bell UH-1.
And I don’t even know how to fly a helcopter.
But I’ll learn. Oh yes, I’ll learn.
Just to piss off my neighbors if nothing else.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lpmi-Hon6zQ
Hey, there is no rule which says you have to fly a helicopter in pants.
I think.
/calls FAA
OH GODDAMMIT REALLY??????
https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/09/24/boeing-wins-contract-to-replace-the-huey-helicopter/
You may be able to get a good deal.
A chopper with my finances.
That home run is my punishment for welching on my promise to go start cooking dinner at the end of the Red Sox at-bat.
Now nearly another one. Get your ass into the kitchen stat.
It gets cold at nights.
It’s cold out there campers
It’s cold out there every day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJWIbIe0N90
…that’s fan’s reaction was very clearly, “What the fuck.”
35 minutes to Sunny. Howdy.
Why does Boeing feel that it’s necessary to advertise on TV? It’s not like I’m going to go out and buy a 737 tomorrow. Or a B-52. Though I’d like a B-52, I’d sure get some folks’ attention.
Those ads are often meant for a single person – a legislator.
Also positive name recognition for the vast amounts of contract money going their way to make sure we are protected and safe from boogy persons, rather than wasting that money on healthcare, or some other worthless non-corporate spending.
Make American Military-Industrial Complex Great Again!
That’s not going to fit on a hat
“It will on mine!”
-PEYPEY
Nice.
Also to remind all the people working for them and their contractors and subcontractors in every congressional district.
/would buy an A10 if they’d sell one
//Not Boeing
///never mind
That would be my first choice too, but yeah, Fairchild-Republic, not Boeing.
Bada bing.
Fairchild-Republic indeed.
I would have sooooooo much fun in my neighborhood with that thing.
I’d go with the customized Boeing 769; the Bang Plane.
Maybe you can go in halves with Gronk.
That is about the same as the Houston comment, below.
Yet somewhere within that vast multi-billion dollar organization a calculation was made and approved at the highest levels that said “We need TV commercials.”
United Airlines flew lots’a Boeings and had a damn fine set of ads.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cH2PH0auTUU
Another fan cost his team? Someone call Steve Bartman and tell him he can leave the Doomsday Bunker he’s been in. He’s safely off the hook.
Just kicking it there, hanging out with Bill Buckner.
Man, that umpire’s jowls look like a goiter.
“Man, that’s the second-unhealthiest thyroid I’ve ever seen.” – Barry Bonds
Oh man seeing the disappointed look on the face of a guy in a Reagan-Bush 84 hat just made my dick hard.
I hope the Red Sox build a 54-0 lead and they show him again.
Actually, would be better if Stros lose by 1.
In 1984, I was in the service, didn’t know any better, and voted Reagan because he’d given us big pay raises for several years running. I’m much better now, though. And agree with you on the erection.
It’s not that he (or you, or anyone else) voted for Reagan. It’s that he’s wearing that hat NOW.
I still see peeling Bush/Cheney 04 stickers on old pickups down here in South Texas.
I am similarly disdainful of Kerry/Edwards stickers and stuff like that.
The guy did not look like he was old enough to have voted in an election that happened 34 years ago.
Maybe he’s just pining for the good old days when a president who would be considered a left-of-center liberal-leaner these days was in charge.
Hot taeks on the fan interference call?
Forget it Jake, it’s Houstontown.
“Forget what now?” – Jake Locker
The guy who did it has to go down on Houston after the next 500.
or live in Houston, TX.
Wait, that’s too harsh.
Hard to pull up to the back of that line and stick it out
Not only one dick joke in that sentence, we got two, folks!!
Ha ha dumbass fan causes his team to lose two runs.
New Bartmangate?
Remember, if you train hard and perfect your craft, you can become best in the world at what you do, then turn down a massive payday from the two biggest companies in the world so you can do things like wrestle on a go-kart track.
This ralley racing has gotten out of hand.
(These Capitals I call them the Saudi Arabian Embassy because they are getting away with so much slashing.)
Heh, not really, but these rubes aren’t watching the game and I gotta make that joke before it gets old.
(Crap, I said the loud part quiet and the quiet part loud.)
Well that sure shut the crowd up.
Alright we’re five minutes in “Titans”. Raven has a thing for crosses as protection, which is odd as while she is half-demon, they never confirmed her to be half-Christian-interpretation-of-the-devil. No word on if we’re get Jason Sudeikis or Jon Lovitz as Trigon.
Also, Robin is a new detective in Detroit whose a loose cannon who doesn’t play well with others, AND he’s already too old for this shit. That’s right folks! We got an fusion of Axel Foley and Roger Murtaugh!
That’s almost as much fun as a fusion of Axl Rose and Roger Waters*, but not quite.
*Both of whom are definitely too old for this shit.
I recognize the words you used anyway.
I’m watching Episode 1 of “Titans”. I’m 15 minutes in. Its dark, but to its credit its darkness is part of the story. Unlike “Man of Steel” and “Dawn of Justice” that was dark for _________.
Remarkably similar to the last Titans game description.
/ Shuddering in corner
// Fulham will be ok
///1 7th isn’t relegation
//// Fulham will be ok
/////Everything is ok
That one is called “the unblinking eye”.
“Oh, I know it blinked.”
“You mean puckered, dipshit.”
/not sure who has this conversation
“Yes, 17th full ham.” – Andy Reid, growing exasperated with a Honey Baked Ham store employee’s attempt to cut him off.
Can you imagine that guy at the sample tray?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3yuFlvRyqM
Ah, Corona Premier. Same nonexistent taste at a slightly higher price.
It looks like Papa John’s has hired the same agency who spearheaded the Domino’s Pizza “We Don’t Suck” desperation ad campaign. It’s as if they want me to buy their pizza out of pity for them. I have no pity.
Also, I think Granderson just knocked his own tooth out right there.
What is the best pizza (IYO) in your general neighborhood?
Costco food court.
Else there’s a little place — Pizza Heaven Bistro — that makes just a good simple pie. The places out here that advertise Chicago/New York/Whereever style tend to just be trash from Sysco with some team jerseys on the wall and a $24 price tag.
Similar here; a lot of average to good, not great. The close by ones you get experienced at ordering to taste and it can turn out pretty good. The two worst are the above mentioned chains.
Wells Fargo: Re-established 2018.
“Uhhh….we’re still digging up scandals where you fucked customers, municipalities, and avoided your tax obligations.”
Wells Fargo: re-Re-established LATE 2018.
Alright, I’m going to watch “Titans” to see how bad this train wreck really is. If I don’t come back in an hour, send Emma Stone and a beer in after me.
[looks at beer in hand]
“No, your mission is to head down to my stomach and find out what happened to the last beer I sent down there.”
“Drink me Rikki! I want to be with my friends!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtxKFpJ39HM
I bet Tebow is so naive and trusting that he believes that everyone he’s ever met and had a pleasant conversation with is a “good guy”.
They prayed to the Baby Jesus together one time. Ergo, they are good people.
Was he circumcised tho?
“good guy” is code word for gay
Also, and.
This open thread needs more XO Lishus.
He could have moved out of the corner.
Just saying.
SASSY! OH SNAP!
tWBS: Why is Ron Jeremy on the banner image?
Everybody else: Stop being stupid.
tWBS: IF I COULD DON’T YOU THINK I WOULD HAVE BY NOW????????
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OCLvhGhTc0
If it makes you feel better – Ron Howard voice: it didn’t – I originally made a Ron Jeremy joke when I included the banner pic in the article.
So I should feel less stupid, or more stupid?
GODDAMMIT HELP ME OUT HERE.
People don’t like Snidely Whiplash jokes.
In all the talk about Aaron Hernandez, his time at The U, his background, his NFL career, previous run-ins with the law, Odin Lloyd who he was convicted of killing, his trial, the prison’s responsibility for his suicide, his personal associations, the Pats potential had he been straight and they could have run a Gronk/HernanDEADz two TE system, and the execution of his post-death estate, there is one important thing about him that should always be brought up when remembering this individual — and not because it’s important to myself or fans in general, but because its publicity would be important to him:
Aaron Hernandez practiced homosexual relationships.
Are you trolling or going off the rails? Just curious.
I realize it can be both, we don’t want to limit one’s potential.
When Moose is worried that you’re gong off the rails… ooh boy, time to take stock.
I wouldn’t say worried.
“Narrow gauge.”
This isn’t like bringing up the fact that Brett Kavanaugh tried to rape a fifteen year-old girl, because Aaron Hernandez is dead, so discussing his homosexual relationships won’t bother him in the least.
I think Hernandez’s sexual abuse, those relationships, and his associated shame about both are worthy to discuss in terms of why he became who he was and did the things he did, but outside of that context I don’t see the point of bringing them up every time he’s mentioned.
Homophobes are people too, Rikki.
I disagree. It was one of most shameful secrets of a murderer. It’s not my job to pick his scarlet letter but, whatever it is, he should always wear it.
Ah, I see Zymm has been busy with her latest coup.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-shareholders/at-facebook-public-funds-join-push-to-remove-zuckerberg-as-chairman-idUSKCN1MR2GY
I was reading up on my ballot today and was tempted to vote against every proposition Zuckerberg donated money to.
I, for one, really enjoyed #Beerguywednesday. Whoever that other guy is they shoehorned in there sounds like he needs some mental help though.
Big if true
– Dr. Ronny Jackson, calculating Trump’s BMI.
I’ve met that other guy and slept on he couch.
DON’T YOU TALK ABOUT HIM THAT WAY!!!!!
A he couch is usually pretty comfortable.
Yeah, go ahead and edit it.
I typed it as intended and will not edit it.
I was trying to be young and “hip” with mah phrasing. Which I guess saying “hip” didn’t exactly help my efforts there.
But what you really want to know is that I and the he in question ended up in the same bed one night.
My fault, admittedly. But he didn’t kick me out.
“Cocaine, its a hell of a drug.”
-Hippo and tWBS…
in harmony