NFL News:
- Well, let’s look at the Green Bay rumour mill:
- Bruce Arians – not interested.
- A disappointment to those in rural Wisconsin looking forward to possible Arian supremacy.
- Josh McDaniels – flattered to be considered, but not interested.
- According to Robert Kraft, who’s not going through that again.
- Jim Harbaugh – PFT speculates he’s tired on working the college scene.
- Especially now that his nemesis, Urban Meyer, has retired.
- Joe Philbin – interested, but has to “prove himself”
- Getting rid of competitors on staff is a good first start, like…
- Associate coach Winston Moss – fired after posting an inflammatory tweet.
- He was a “McCarthy guy”, so this was either venting or a way to get out of his contract.
- Bruce Arians – not interested.
Ponder this… what Championship teams have are great leadership! Period! It’s not the offensive guru trend, it’s not the safe trend. Find somebody that is going to hold #12 and everybody in this building to a #LombardiStandard! Period! #losingsucks!
— Winston Moss (@CoachMossXFL) December 4, 2018
- The NFL on Tuesday placed umpire Roy Ellison on administrative leave while it investigates whether he called Bills DE Jerry Hughes a “bitch”.
- Ellison, in his 16th year as an NFL official, was previously suspended one game without pay in 2013 for allegedly making a profane and derogatory statement to Washington [*Redacted] s offensive lineman Trent Williams.
- He called him a “garbage-ass, disrespectful m—–f—–.”
- Ellison worked last year’s Super Bowl, and is one of the full-time paid officials, so the league is in a bind because they can’t blame his behaviour on the stress of managing two jobs.
- Ellison, in his 16th year as an NFL official, was previously suspended one game without pay in 2013 for allegedly making a profane and derogatory statement to Washington [*Redacted] s offensive lineman Trent Williams.
- Some more details of the Rams-PSL settlement were disclosed today.
- The licence sales were based on paying for a 30-year lease, but only receiving 21 years of St. Louis football by the Rams organization.
- The settlement will reflect refunding the nine outstanding years, plus costs.
- Said attorney Ryan Bruning, “The PSL holders paid for 30 years of NFL football in St. Louis, but got just 21 years. They should get their money back for the years of football they paid for but never received. Under this agreement, they will.”
- The settlement will reflect refunding the nine outstanding years, plus costs.
- The licence sales were based on paying for a 30-year lease, but only receiving 21 years of St. Louis football by the Rams organization.
- Yesterday was the one-year anniversary of the Ryan Shazier hit.
- He posted a long Instagram tribute to all those who’ve helped him during the course of that year.
- Pour one out for the Donks – Emmanuel Sanders has torn his Achilles.
- He ripped it during passing drills in practice.
- They named the XFL cities today.
- Eight teams in total, to start, and where they’ll play:
- New York/New Jersey: MetLife Stadium
- Dallas: Globe Life Park in Arlington, Texas
- Houston: TDECU Stadium in Houston
- Los Angeles: StubHub Center in Carson, California
- St. Louis: The Dome at America’s Center in St. Louis
- Seattle: CenturyLink Field in Seattle
- Tampa Bay: Raymond James Stadium in Tampa
- Washington, D.C.: Audi Field in Washington, D.C.
- The first XFL games will be played on February 8 and 9, 2020, one week after Super Bowl LIV.
- Eight teams in total, to start, and where they’ll play:
- Collusion talk is accelerating after Washington signed first-overall protected pick in the Alliance of American Football draft Josh Johnson.
- Johnson, who did play in Tampa under Jay Gruden, hasn’t thrown an NFL in-game pass since 2011.
- But they’re apparently fine signing a serial woman beater, which also isn’t a good look.
- Counterpoint:
Meanwhile down the road the Ravens have adjusted to a completely different style QB for 3 games and they're 3-0. https://t.co/BIoEhThUzD
— Melissa Jacobs 💙 (@thefootballgirl) December 4, 2018
Tonight’s sports:
- NHL:
- Oilers at Blues – 8:00PM | NBCSN / Sportsnet
- Blackhawks at Ducks – 10:30PM | NBCSN
- NBA:
- Warriors at Cavs – 7:00PM | TSN
- 76ers at Raptors – 8:00PM | ESPN / Sportsnet1
- Spurs at Lakers – 10:30PM | ESPN / Sportsnet1
- NCAA:
- Hartford at Duke – 7:00PM | ESPN2 / TSN.ca
- VCU at Texas – 8:00PM | ESPNU
- Temple at Villanova – 8:30PM | FS1
- North Carolina (Wilmington) at *North Carolina – 9:00PM | ESPN2
- TCU at SMU – 10:00PM | ESPNU
I really hope Dan Snyder gets all this sorted out soon. It’s not that I particularly like him or his team, but I don’t need the Cowboys & their fans having hope. FUCK ‘EM ALL!
DH Gate has let me down. Not only do they not supply Young Boys football kits, they also don’t carry FC Santa Claus kits. Any ideas?
We’re watching Killing Eve. It started out fun but has gotten so far removed from anything resembling reality that I can no longer suspend my disbelief.
So, at the beginning of the film, it had the UK leaving the EU, and about halfway through, it has the United States electing Donald Trump as President? Life comes at you fast.
“Is he mistakenly watching Venom? No, Venom didn’t start out fun.”
Man, fuck work travel. Flying across the country should exempt me from any substantive work for the rest of the month.
GOP congress STILL not taking the first step towards removing Individual 1 from office. They are ALL Russian agents. We really ARE going to be using the gallows in DC!
Seems you’ve confused “DC” with “Ashgabat.” Nothing will ever change here, not without major problems for the rest of the world.
Hi!
Fuck David Njoku and David Moore with two stolen dicks.
Kids are finally asleep, and I finally got the chance to clean up.
Now, it’s time to grade some students’ work.
What subject?
Dynamite Kid died today. I hope someone checks on Chris Benoit to see if he’s OK.
/checks scores, sees what Westbrook did to the Nets
Well, based on how the week has gone, ISM is either going to be crying into a cold beer or about to go on an epic drunken rant in his Nets weekly writeup
So Madre Weaselo and I went to the Harry Potter exhibit on loan from the British Museum at the New York Historical Society. Our favorite exhibit was a real-live invisibility cloak!
It’s just a hanger encased in polycarbonate.
Okay, that’s all for now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82JeptHeEec
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFeEAU8Hs04
I hope nobody minds following along…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIfyPPeWOMM
I am listening to a podcast that played *just* the song Communist Daughter. I don’t believe that any of the songs on this album should ever be separated from each other.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pl3XwTSfek
Otherwise, this is a very good podcast. Actually, it’s a recorded show from Barnard College Radio (WBAR) from 3/10/2005. I only have three of these – I used to have a bunch more.
Yup. NMH, The Clean, Radio Birdman, Clash, Mission of Burma, Ramones, MC5, Stooges, Rolling Stones. Best bands of all time. Rock and roll that is.
ETA: Minutemen!!!
I don’t care who it pisses off, I hate Neutral Milk Hotel with the ferocity of a thousand angry suns.
I am now amused by the idea of you getting into ferocious political arguments with your teenage daughter when she flirts with socialism, not because of your own politics, but simply because you cannot abide the thought of having your own Communist Daughter because you hate NMH so much.
If she downloads anything by them, she gets shipped off to a military school.
Neutral Milk Hotel is the only thing that could get me to root for the Nazis.
I don’t want to say that I’m high, but my head just fell off.
Really excited to take my daughter to see that bunny movie, Watership Down. We’re getting ready to watch the BBC version.
I remember reading that book and getting all stressed out about whether or not the rabbits were going to make it.
Now I can’t remember any of their names and my cats slaughter rabbits 24/7.
Rabbits are worthless.
Wait, this one?
Also this:
And this. I have never forgotten the image of the rabbits crushed together.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzirfrSn_KQ
Close. This one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Fk6-3f_mqU&ab_channel=Cactuar678
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqk1ATIQR8g&ab_channel=KyleJanice
I love the fact that The Waitress and Charlie are real-life married. Even more than Mac and Dee being a real life couple, that just kills me.
Jodie Sweetin, as discussed in the ‘Finding Santa’ thread below. Meth seems to agree with her.
BAM!
Or, more appropriately, BAM BAM!
I’m pretty sure she’s clean now.
She certainly got herself a new pair of lungs.
https://gfycat.com/FocusedBlankAmazondolphin
A couple of days after my doctor yells at me about my cholesterol, (look, doc, we both know it’s not going to happen if left up to me, so just make with the statins, OK?), I come home and my wife’s charity group has left and there’s melted chocolate and whipped cream on the table, and I know there’s ice cream in the fridge*, and now I’m pretty sure she’s trying to kill me for the insurance.
*Yes, yes, I know, there’s melted chocolate and whipped cream and why aren’t you and the missus rolling around in it on the table, but you see, I also know that my son is home and sitting right next to the kitchen so the listen here, as always, is never have children.
Well, most whipped cream is actually some kind of non-dairy gum-based high-fructose corn syrup based whipped topping and contains no fat or cholesterol whatsoever!
The two scoops of ice cream, however…
A lot of ice cream is in fact overinflated with calorie-free air in order to rip off the consumer and line the corporate coffers, so maybe not so bad!
Mostly cellulose! You’re fine, dude, have some!
You seem to be under the impression that I haven’t already destroyed it. Let me assure you, I have, At this point I’m just looking to live long enough to find out how Game of Thrones ends, and not the books either, because no one’s immortal.
You know what often makes work hard? Co-workers.
Also watching porn at work.
Well typing one handed is difficult.
Today I had an argument at work that was analogous with putting square pegs in round holes. Everyone I talked to was okay with the round holes. I gave up trying to convince them because its not my job and I was trying to stop them from looking foolish when our clients or an auditor comes in and see all the square pegs in round holes. I guess that’s the only way they’ll learn.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBffNiUOeiA
Another tough day at the pegging factory.
That explains my job so much.
While this may be a surprise to some, my feelings of George H.W. Bush may differ slightly than everyone else here in clubhouse. I feel he tried his best, and was probably one of the best one-term Presidents of the United States. That being said, there is a reason why he was only a one-term President. The right man won in 1988, and he was it. The right man won in 1992, and he wasn’t it.
Historians have him ranked right around the middle, and I’m inclined to agree. While I wasn’t a fan of much of what he did, he did a better job of facing reality than most men who filled that office.
Its like how I interpreted Obama: while I didn’t agree with his policies and politics, I had nothing but complete respect for the man.
I think he was involved with some shady dealings with the Iran Contra stuff, but I also think it was much bigger than just him so it would be unfair to pin more than the pardons on him. Otherwise, I think he was a decent man who did hold the office with dignity and only sought the best for America. Then I couldn’t help but smile at the stories of him grabbing ass from a wheelchair, just like the grandpa that I dream of being.
I always respected the fact that, when Gorbachev came to New York just before the USSR disappeared, Bush invited Reagan along for the victory lap.
“One day, my son will be accused of blowing these up.”
Reagan has no idea where he is or who these people are.
I’m thinking of all those people who complained that Reagan served in the White House while his mind was going, Gerald Ford served as part of an unspoken corrupt bargain, Edith Galt Wilson acted as President when his husband had a stroke, John Tyler started calling himself President instead of Acting President because the newly elected President decided to read the contents of Wikipedia in a cold, freezing rainstorm without a hat or a coat.
If they see what we’re suffering through now, they’d shut up in a instant.
Counter-argument: no they wouldn’t. FREEDOM OF SPEECH FIRST ‘MENDMENT!
William Henry Harrison joke, CHECK!
Joe Philbin is being considered for a job after Miami? Da fuq you doing, Green Bay?
The team that kept McCarthy around as long as they did making stupid decisions? Never.
“Well, since you’re already here…”
Had a fun day tutoring adults at the ole community college today. One guy was the Indian version of Cheech and higher than a satellite in space. Another guy was a crotchety old Giants fan who reminded me of Clint Eastwood in Gran Torino. It was fun shit talking him. Then I got to finish off with a stunning Persian woman. All the other students sucked, but those three made the day fun.
Stoned Indian—dot or feather?
Place your bets!!
Odds:
Dot – 3 to 1
Feather – 5 to 1
/Hippo Door Flies Open
Dot. Feathers should never be called Indians.
They prefer “[*Redacted] s”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SW7-8C8kL4
Many bits in that movie have not aged well since I first saw it at age 12, but the bit with him catching the bullet in his teeth, chewing it up, and spitting it back out as machine gun fire will always be gold.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVESMxs4rbA
*Vomits to death*
Goddamn it. The Ringer did a good about Cabin Boy
https://www.theringer.com/movies/2018/12/5/18124195/cabin-boy-chris-elliott-anniversary-adam-resnick-comedy-get-a-life
Every so often those blowhards strike gold.
MAYBE
Drew collected a bunch of personal anecdotes about Anthony Bourdain from his friends.
https://www.gq.com/story/anthony-bourdain-men-of-the-year-tribute
Jodie Sweetin’s gravity-defying boobs are the star of “Finding Santa”.
Oh, is “santa” the new street name for meth?
I was about to type that they’re propped up by a kilo of coke each.
“Man, that was some baaaaddd santa I had last night.”
She has made a tremendous comeback and I look forward to her first topless scene.
They look fake. I’m not complaining, just making idle conversation.
They are incredibly fake, but in a fun “what do you mean your eyes are up here?” kind of way.
Any team offering McDaniels anything other than to stomp his balls into paste deserves to be fucked by him.
How I read the Kraft quotes was that McDaniels’ balls were already crushed when he tried to leave, and – like Cool Hand Luke – he’s learned from that failure to communicate.
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