Your “We Are The Skyscraper Condemnation Affiliates” Saturday Evening Open Thread

I’ve never made it a secret that The Kinks are my favourite band and the first concert I ever attended. It’s the 50th anniversary of this album, and the $160 vinyl box set that came out is on my Christmas wish list the second it gets transferred to digital or CD.


Sunday broadcast maps – courtesy 506sports.com

CBS SINGLE

 Anchorage
 Fairbanks
 Honolulu
█ Pittsburgh @ Baltimore – Ian Eagle, Dan Fouts

█ Kansas City @ Cleveland – Greg Gumbel, Trent Green, Bruce Arians

█ NY Jets @ Miami – Andrew Catalon, James Lofton

█ LA Chargers @ Seattle (LATE) – Kevin Harlan, Rich Gannon

█ Houston @ Denver (LATE) – Tom McCarthy, Steve Beuerlein

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FOX EARLY

 Anchorage
 Fairbanks
 Honolulu
█ Atlanta @ Washington – Kevin Burkhardt, Charles Davis

█ Detroit @ Minnesota – Thom Brennaman, Chris Spielman

█ Chicago @ Buffalo – Chris Myers, Daryl Johnston

█ Tampa Bay @ Carolina – Kenny Albert, Ronde Barber

█ NO GAME due to local home game on CBS

UPDATES:

  • Cincinnati OH: ATL-WSH to DET-MIN
  • Albany NY: ATL-WSH to CHI-BUF

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FOX LATE

 Anchorage
 Fairbanks
 Honolulu
█ LA Rams @ New Orleans – Joe Buck, Troy Aikman

NO GAME due to local home game on CBS


Tonight’s sports:

  • NHL:
    • Leafs at Penguins – 7:00PM | CBC / NHLN
    • Bolts at Habs – 7:00PM | City
    • Oilers at Red Wings – 7:00PM | Sportsnet
    • Black Hawks at Flames – 10:00PM | CBC
  • CFL:
    • Alouettes vs. Tiger-Cats – 7:00PM | TSN
    • Stampeders vs. Lions – 10:00PM | TSN
  •  NCAA:
    • Football: the first three look like dog shit, but then quality takes over
      • Duke at Miami – 7:00PM | ESPN2
      • Houston at SMU – 7:00PM | ESPNU
      • Notre Dame at Northwestern – 7:15PM | ESPN
      • UCLA at Oregon – 7:30PM | FOX
      • Alabama at LSU – 8:00PM | CBS
      • Oklahoma at Texas Tech – 8:00PM | ABC
      • Southern Cal at Oregon State – 10:00PM | FS1
      • BYU at Boise State – 10:15PM | ESPN2
      • San Diego State at New Mexico – 10:15PM | ESPNU
      • California at Washington State – 10:45PM | ESPN
    • Hockey:
      • Ohio State at Notre Dame – 7:00PM | NBCSN
  • NBA:
    • Pelicans vs. Spurs – 8:30PM | TSN2
  •  UFC:
    • UFC 230 Prelims: Cormier vs. Lewis:
      • From New York City – 8:00PM | FS1 / TSN3

This looks like a solid aperitif for Sunday’s NFL selections. MODERATION, MY PRETTIES!

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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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King Hippo

as a degenerate, this is an odd sentence to type…but Thank Jeebus FOAR Duke football.

King Hippo

/or not

Spur

We have the cover. Hail Satan!

King Hippo

they need to quick kick

herodotus450

Are we calling him Turnover Tua now?

King Hippo

wear’s ur GOD now, CrossFace?

Spur

it’s not like LSU will do anything with it

Spur

I wish everyone a great night of sleep this evening. Enjoy it, you earned it. Not you Arizona.

Viva La Tabula Raza

Except for the Navajo, who do observe daylight saving time on tribal lands in AZ.

litre_cola

I pray Decitre wants to catch some zzz and sleeps in.

/he will not

King Hippo

jump pass tip ball in the swampy conditions and Duke GETS IT!!

King Hippo

DevilDOWN WOO!!!!

/a TWO jump pass drive

Gratliff

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herodotus450

I say we just lean in to the SEC ball gargling and award the winner of this game the “National Championship.” Then the rest of us play out the season and playoffs without them.

Fronkenshteen

Contrary to street wisdom; it’s actually delightful, when distribution experiences unexpected problems, to in fact, get high on your own supply.

herodotus450

Burrow looking like a regular Tom Brady out there, complaining to the refs after every play.

yeah right

If you could stare through that stupid hill, that’s the Pacific Ocean about 3/4 miles to the West. Taken through an upstairs bedroom window.

I think the screen gives the photo a nice linear symmetry.

Taken about 12 minutes ago.
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Gratliff

Looks like a shot from a Sublime video

Brick Meathook

Thursday evening, looking west across the the Ballona Wetlands from Lincoln Boulevard.
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Fronkenshteen

My day so far:

– woke up 7:45
– watched 1st half Cherries/ Manure
– showered & headed for Young Fronk’s soccer game
– 11:00 -drove to Blacksburg to purchase automobile
– 3:00 – briefly visited Blacksburg relatives
– 4:00 – 7:00 Drove home from Blacksburg
– 7:00 – 7:30 Got real REAL high
– 8:00 – 9:00 ordered takeout & had drinks at the joint where I work
– now – checked in

How’s everyone’s GAMBLOR!? That fucker still ornery? I’m all in ($3worth. Who-hoo!) on Fitzmagic tomorrow.

King Hippo

I need Duke to pull out this win, damn it

yeah right

Same here.

Fronkenshteen

Hint: My last name is mentioned in that Kinks tune.

Gratliff

Anyone else noticing the threads not auto-updating?

Gratliff

And literally as I say it, here comes the yellow boxes. Now I know what it’s like for those people I work with that tell me it didn’t work until I stood right next to them and watched it work.

King Hippo

oh well, I guess maybe Bama/Dabo! will be a good game?

King Hippo

good thing LSU played FIELD POSITION, eh?

King Hippo

this is gonna be 27 or 30-nil

Senor Weaselo

Bunch of field goals, touchdown, and a safety?

King Hippo

booooooo, weak sauce, Orgeron

King Hippo

ESPN.com’s featured highlight for the Shitty Wolves ™ game is a fucking FSU score! For the record, they got a last minute garbage TD to cut the final margin to 47-28.

King Hippo

YES, pervy cameraman, the ravenesque beauty!!

King Hippo

we can maybe has game?

Wakezilla

ToddlerZilla has 2.5 hours before bed time, but Mrs. And I are both gassed (colds are killing us). The hell do we do to kill time so we can put the tyrannical monster to sleep?

King Hippo

uh…TV??

Gratliff

They made Spongebob for a reason, and that reason was narcotics, but it also happens to be great for distracting children.

King Hippo

changed navy/purplish shirts, trying to mojo LSU and Duke as hard as this simple rebel fella can

King Hippo

elsewhere, no revenge for White Power Chip

Redshirt

“After reviewing the Targeting Penalty, the Louisiana State Patrol cannot guarantee us safety if you guys rush the field to kill us. Therefore there is no targeting on LSU.”

Horatio Cornblower

Guess the refs decided that they wanted to leave LSU alive.

King Hippo

and they would have deserved the bottle rain otherwise, I was hoping full riot

herodotus450

Allright looks like we’re gonna have to change gears from “Alabama sucks and they haven’t played anyone so this win means nothing for LSU” to “LSU is overrated so this win means nothing for Alabama who still sucks.”

Horatio Cornblower

Bama’s great, I just can’t stand Killjoy Saban.

herodotus450

I just reeeeeeaaaly don’t want to see two SEC teams in the playoffs. Probably wouldn’t watch it.

King Hippo

this is how I feel about ND plus B1G champion

herodotus450

No one in the Big 10 looks worthy, maybe meeechigan. An SEC rematch in the playoffs though… barf.

King Hippo

way I see it, Domers barely belong even at 12-0, and they beat Meechigan pretty easily. Though they’ve looked better lately. Still would like to see WVU or Washington State in there just for the chaos.

Redshirt

I just didn’t like everyone’s reaction to it last year. Like “Alabama is obviously the 4th best team, even though last week they wasn’t”.

King Hippo

but they was (actually, I had them 2nd or 3rd)! My argument remains you can’t shit on them for losing last, especially when their last was the highest quality one.

King Hippo

marquee game of the season, they will throw LSU’s best defender out of it for a CLEAN PLAY

King Hippo

that’s an ATROCIOUS call

yeah right

Even though it’s been mentioned before, folks take care of your knees.

Jesus, my knees are killing me today.

Where my CBD at?

Horatio Cornblower

There are two reason I stopped running outside and confine my cardio to an elliptical, and they are my left and right knees.

yeah right

I hear you brother. This sucks.

Gratliff

I actually had to stop using my elliptical because it was giving me really bad plantar fascia every time I’d do it after about 6 months. I replaced it with walking an hour or so a day during spring and summer, but sort of fucked now with the freezing wind chills already.

yeah right

I still walk 5 miles 3 days a week and still hit the gym 3 days a week. I did the gym today, there are no “leg” days lately and I’m getting ripped from the weights.

This is the side effect and it’s horrific.

I will not let it stop me period.

Now excuse me while I go cry in pain.

Gratliff

I still do my 40-60 min workouts 6 days a week, but I’m not doing any straight cardio at this point. Since the cold weather came in, I added a 15 minute faster-paced core routine to the shorter days and lie to myself by calling it good enough.

Gratliff

I’m in the best shape of my life, as strong and flexible as I’ve ever been, and I worked my way back from borderline diabetic to ideal in a single year. I ran as far as 50 yards one (1) time this summer, and it took 2 weeks for my left knee to recover and I’ll probably never try it again. Shame there’s no exercise that builds cartilage.

yeah right

I still can’t endorse glucosamine even though I’ve been taking it for years.

My shit still hurts so I can’t say it’s doing any good.

Gratliff

It’s depressing thinking about taking arthritis supplements/medications in my mid-30’s, but I did destroy that knee I was 18 in a nearly identical fall to what RG3 did, only instead of it being a heroic effort in a playoff game, mine was running in the house in socks. Like this, but my knee went all the way down into a cement floor: comment image

Ended up with partial muscle, ligament, and tendon tears the entire length of my leg, though luckily no full tears or breaks. So being 18, I went to the doctor exactly one time after arguing I didn’t need to go at all, sat around in a brace for a few months, fucked about and didn’t rehab it at all, and just relied on youthful healing factor to take care of it for the most part. Folks, mistakes were made.

yeah right

Fucking ouch.

King Hippo

LSU might be boned here

King Hippo

Jesus, what a catch!

herodotus450

Fidget spinner mouthguard? They stole my idea!

King Hippo

dunno what the fuck huckleberry was looking at there

herodotus450

Alabama’s 8 preseason games don’t look to have served them well.

Senor Weaselo

Isn’t that an illegal substitution and more flags for the flag god?

herodotus450

Apparently!

Senor Weaselo

JV BLEERGH makes an appearance!

King Hippo

and how!

Horatio Cornblower

JV BLEERGH is working overtime on this one.

Horatio Cornblower

Nothing like a nut-shot on prime time.

yeah right

Right in the sack package.

King Hippo

violentist fixture of the season!

King Hippo

ruh roh, Bama

Senor Weaselo

Why does LSU have every 5 yards numbered anyway?

herodotus450

Well most Louisianians only have 5 fingers left what with all the gators…

King Hippo

let’s settle in for some good ol’ boy SECCCCCC PAWWWWLLLLL West violence!

Spur

Hail Satan!

Horatio Cornblower

My wife made some amazing meatballs out of sausage and the dog is looking longingly at me and he is going to be sorely disappointed.

Viva La Tabula Raza

I love the Kinks, it’s too bad Ray and Dave are such assholes to each other.

Horatio Cornblower

I’d like to see them play bridge against the Alvin brothers, from the Blasters.

yeah right

Or the Gallagher brothers from Oasis.

Or the Robinsons from Black Crowes.

King Hippo

people who still enjoy their old Oasis CD nod knowingly

herodotus450

“Jafar Armstrong” sounds like the fake name Arnold would make up in a movie where he has to murder someone in Saudi Arabia.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

I bet as we speak some asshole member of the Saudi royal family is bankrolling a film where the villain is some kind of journalist.

herodotus450

Saudi Prince watching dailies: “No no no, it’s all wrong, there’s not enough blood! What am I even paying you for!”
Director: “Well actually you’re paying me in ‘not murders’ of my family. How do you know there should be more blood?”
Saudi Prince: “Just trust me, there should be way more blood and the saw blade needs to be replaced three of four times and you need to make sure the security cameras are down for maintenance at the time.”

yeah right

“We’re going to need a bigger vat of acid!”

Horatio Cornblower

I’m pretty sure they just made that movie, however unwittingly.

Brick Meathook

I’m always fascinated by those bullet-headed state troopers (who almost always wear campaign hats) who stand on the sidelines during big college football games.

Redshirt

Its funny that Pittsburgh has rights to the Ohio River but not all of Ohio.

yeah right

Fun fact: A saw The Kinks in 1982 at the US Festival. They were HANDS DOWN the best act of Day 2.
Here’s the set list.
Around the Dial
The Hard Way
Where Have All the Good Times Gone
Catch Me Now I’m Falling
Destroyer
Yo-Yo
Lola
Entertainment
Low Budget
Back to Front
Art Lover
Celluloid Heroes
Come On Now
A Gallon of Gas
Till the End of the Day
Bernadette
All Day and All of the Night
You Really Got Me

Great. Great show.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Raiders have released TEAM CAPTAIN Bruce Irvin.

Wakezilla

Carr’s next, I take it?

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Nah, Carr has trade value. With the deadline past there’s no way he’s going anywhere this season.

yeah right

Gentlemen, start your dumpster fires!

WCS

Remember, players are DYING to play for them!

Horatio Cornblower

Pretty sure that’s the Terrapins.

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