NFL Nuggets:
- There is talk again of expanding replay and making Pass Interference reviewable, like it is in the CFL.
- It was a totally on-the-table already discussion and not a spur decision brought on by a horrendous call made on Sunday. No sir.
Haydel's Bakery in New Orleans is selling "No Ref" cookies with referee Bill Vinovich's face crossed out. https://t.co/WrzdpL4VhC pic.twitter.com/9fjiqxWJqk
— Josh Katzenstein (@jkatzenstein) January 21, 2019
- Annnnnnnnnnnd now there’s a lawsuit demanding a replay of the game.
- As PFT dismissively observes:
- “The New Orleans lawyer, Frank D’Amico, also has issued a press release that copies and pastes extensively from the original PFT story on the issue, without attribution. (Hopefully, D’Amico’s legal skills far exceed his P.R. abilities.)”
- This is why you always attribute credit, students. Otherwise, Mike Florio makes fun of you on the internets.
- “The New Orleans lawyer, Frank D’Amico, also has issued a press release that copies and pastes extensively from the original PFT story on the issue, without attribution. (Hopefully, D’Amico’s legal skills far exceed his P.R. abilities.)”
- As PFT dismissively observes:
- Oh – and if you want to be part of the problem, there’s a change.org petition
in attempts to force a replay of the NFC Championship game:
- Due to refs’ inability to properly officiate at the game, we the undersigned want a re-match against L.A. on Sunday, Jan. 27. It’s the only fair solution to this travesty of epic proportions.
- It’s got over a half-million signatures, which should provide the
RussiansRepublicans with a nice voter registry to target in 2020.
- The window for KC’s Super Bowl is two more years, because the projected extension coming Patrick Mahomes’ way is expected to be $200 million.
- In contrast, he made $550,000 in base salary this year, and will make $645,000 base in 2019.
- That would beat the previous high of $150 million given to Matt Ryan.
- Not going to be there to see it is Chiefs DC Bob Sutton, who was fired today as a result of KC’s inability to stop the Patriots on 3rd down.
- Lying through his rib-stained teeth, Andy Reid said,
- “I’ve said before that change can be a good thing, for both parties, and I believe that is the case here for the Chiefs and Bob. This was not an easy decision, but one I feel is in the best interest of the Kansas City Chiefs moving forward.”
- Lying through his rib-stained teeth, Andy Reid said,
- It’s been a while since I stole from Crimebeat!, but Darren McFadden was arrested after falling asleep in a Whataburger drive-thru lane.
- The former Run-DMC of the Cowboys & Raiders was charged with DWI and resisting arrest.
Finally, Alex Smith showed up at a Wizards game with a leg that looked like he had Vinny Pazienza attached to it like he’s a modern-day Scuzzlebutt.
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Alex Smith made an appearance in the Wizards locker room. pic.twitter.com/eUDdHfgg5P
— Ben Standig (@BenStandig) January 21, 2019
Site news:
Don’t forget about this week’s “Quotables”. You can relive your rage at the officials one more time, and get in some shots at how the games unfolded. There’s always room for referencing how a true Lewis would have stabbed him instead.
I’m unable to link to the AVN Awards article, because something something school board investigation.
Tonight’s sports:
- NHL:
- Sharks at Capitals – 7:00PM | Sportsnet
- Red Wings at Oilers – 9:00PM | NBCSN / Sportsnet1
- NBA:
- Kings at Raptors – 7:00PM | TSN
- Trail Blazers at Thunder – 8:00PM | NBATV
- NCAA:
- Clemson at Florida State – 7:00PM | ESPNU
- Mississippi State at Kentucky – 7:00PM | ESPN / TSN2
- Texas Tech at Kansas State – 7:00PM | ESPN2
- Villanova at Butler – 7:00PM | FS1
- Duke at Pittsburgh – 9:00PM | ESPN / TSN2
- Mississippi at Alabama – 9:00PM | ESPNU
- Clemson at Florida State – 7:00PM | ESPNU
- WWE:
- Smackdown – 8:00PM | USA / Sportsnet360
I appreciate the zealousness of the fanbase, but the longer they complain the more they sound like Patriots fans. HAVE SOME RESPECT!
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I’m still up because I suck, but anyway, this post-season seems to have murdered the site. I don’t care about the NFL, but come the fuck on, folks. This is a good site with good content and people.
History and geography are defined by people, and always have been. Winners, losers, arbitrary lines on a map weren’t a thing until we gained sentience. We selectively choose who wins, loses, whatever. That has never changed, and I don’t think it will.
Sounds like you’re not on the hyperglobalist or transformationalist bandwagon when it comes to globalization theory
Welp, it’s only Tuesday. Fuck this week.
On the other hand, it’s almost Friday and the start of the Rolex 24!!!
It shouldn’t matter whether this woman I knew is being a thirst trap or not on IG (11k followers suggests so), but my question is: Am a fucking idiot for following her? I am, right?
That’s what IG is for. Quench your thirst.
I ask myself the same thing every time I log onto Twitter.
Top 10 influencers under 10? Is that from the NAMBLA Now?
Pssst, hey….
I decided to drive up to MD a day early. GF won’t be here until Friday.
Should I wank it on all of her furniture before she gets here? And what if she has one of those blacklights and checks?
Decisions, decisions.
Yes. Everywhere. She’ll appreciate the personal touch.
I’m trying to figure out how to get porn on her TV without her knowing.
You’re all the porn she needs. Drop those trousers and keep it real.
I might have to go buy an HDMI cable tomorrow. I got my laptop and free internet porn.
A ChromeCast might be cheaper.
Alternately, have you heard of Plex? https://www.plex.tv
This is the easiest solution. And it’s portable!
It’s a shame just using any random USB thumb drive is so hit or miss
Yes.
Jack it on the hypothetical blacklight!
HEY WHY ISN’T THIS WORKING?
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Then, by way of apology / house warming, get her a Jackson Pollock poster.
Luckily, AOC is a woman of the people and doesn’t ride Acela or else I’d fear for her riding the NYC-DC Amtrak and being accosted by Peter King (racist MMQB, not the racist Congressman) who could literally bore her to death about whatever. Maybe.
https://gfycat.com/@unsurprised/collections/0795991334d3912346b581f6152cfc09/dance
Raycess Mirror?
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Another Onion article, last line rules:
Patriots Score 2 Touchdowns Against Chiefs In Preemptive Strike Before AFC Championship Game
KANSAS CITY, MO—In an effort to gain a competitive advantage against a formidable opponent, the New England Patriots scored two touchdowns against the Chiefs Friday in a preemptive strike before Sunday’s AFC Championship Game. “We knew we had to do something to catch them off guard, so we ran a no-huddle offense before they stepped onto the field and were able to get 16 points on the board after those two-point conversions,” said Patriots quarterback Tom Brady, who overcame several dropped passes and a botched snap before finding the end zone twice. “Hopefully it’ll be tough for the Chiefs to overcome this deficit—especially if we win the coin toss and can put another score on the board before they even get a possession. I think it should give our defense the opportunity to pin their ears back and get after the QB. Mahomes tends to get careless with the ball when he’s playing from behind.” At press time, Chiefs head coach Andy Reid had already squandered all of the team’s timeouts before kickoff.
Guy I work with, also from Massachusetts, is a somewhat more stereotypical Pats fan, though he plays the “Tommy from Quinzee” role somewhat tongue-in-cheek. He asked me today if I had heard about the laser being shone in Brady’s eyes in Sunday’s game. I said no, I thought that happened in Mexico a year or two ago. He said maybe it was the same Mexican guy and that the wall would have kept him out of the country and Brady safe (he is a Republican that is chagrined about Trump, like Redshirt, except he won’t come right out and admit it).
I told him that the guy was trying to ingratiate himself by Making America Great Again for all the Patriot Haters.
So, you’re friends with Bom Trady?
Damn, I thought I had covered my tracks better than that.
Can “James Woods tried to kill a baby” be the new “Craig James killed five hookers” meme?
/Remembers that James Woods sued someone on Twitter for libel and defamation
//Remembers that it’s more important to motherfuck James Woods whenever possible.
Does anyone else here watch The Magicians?
Negative, but I do need a new show to binge. Any good?
Everybody fucks, so, yeah, I’ve heard it’s pretty good. I’ve also heard it’s pretty good outside of everyone fucking.
Respect the GOAT.
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Finally got around to reading the AVN post. Thank web developers for creating incognito mode.
So Cincinnati Media has been exploding over CovCathGate. Everyone’s (who’s not a MAGAdyte) agrees the Native American is in the right, the kids are just kids, and the Black Hebrew Israelites are the real villains here.
My read is the Native American did nothing wrong (though I would’ve said “here’s a prayer song from my people”, but that’s nothing really), the kids shouldn’t have responded to the trolls though they need a lesson in personal space and social cues (if you stand one foot in some random guy’s face with a smirk on your face and you’re not planning on giving a kiss or throwing a punch, you really need to back up about three feet). the chaperones should’ve stayed with the kids instead of sending them into WASHINGTON, DC unsupervised (creating a National Controversy that’s going to follow them their entire lives is really the Best Worst Case Scenario here), and the Black Hebrew Israelites are getting most of the blame the kids are getting.
I’m curious, what is the read in your guys’ camp?
That smug little fuck that stood in front of the Native American will be in the news again someday as a fratbro involved in a) a hazing death at the frat, b) a rape and coverup at the frat, or c) both and will face no consequences for his actions.
As for the incident itself, I agree with you, but I actually tend to immediately expect the worst out of anyone wearing a MAGA hat.
“I actually tend to immediately expect the worst out of anyone wearing a MAGA hat.”
Yup, that’s why I called them MAGAdytes, but I think I owe an apology to all the troglodytes for disparaging their good name.
This is all bullshit splitting of hairs that keeps folks distracted-HEY LOOK OVER THERE, A RACIST IS BEING CALLED OUT!!!!
/sneaks over to your camp with a gallon of gasoline and some matches
(holds Insurance Policy)
“Good. Its all going according to plan.”
When you cash it in it might just be able to pay for one visit to your doctor.
The kids are shitheads, but a drop in the bucket that is their parents’ shittiness, and to some extent, it’s how I expect most groups of shitty teenagers to act. However, it was a blip overall, until Shithead McGee’s mom got in touch with a CNN-affiliated PR firm and spun the motherfuck out of the whole thing, now the kid’s gonna be on the Today Show and the Civility Politics kids are calling for the heads of everyone who isn’t immediately groveling at the feet of the oppressed privileged MAGA kids. Now it’s a matter of principle to say fuck that kid’s mom.
I just did a search for where CovCath is. Its worse that I thought. Its in the rich part of Northern Kentucky, so they’re entitled and rich and Kentuckians.
With Ohio and Kentucky, I’m surprised Southeast Indiana doesn’t sue to be considered part of Extreme Southeast Metro Indianapolis instead of OH-KY-IN Tri-State Area.
This is the correct take.
“the kids are just racist shitheads who should be expelled”
Fixed that for you
That was the general opinion of Cincinnatians. The only thing that can fix that is a stiff drink, one NFL playoff victory or winning MLB playoff series, and several years of extensive psychotherapy.
I think they had a thing on the Black Hebrew Israelites in an episode of Hate Thy Neighbor. I think it might have even been the same one as the Klan.
Well except Jamali Maddox couldn’t go to the rally and all.
They were still shitheads who went to an anti-abortion rally in MAGA hats, knowing full well half of them will need those same services eight weeks after their senior prom.
The new videos of them harassing random girls and making rape “jokes” at them and generally being shitheads isn’t helping them. Nor is the fact that Covington Catholic is getting rightfully dragged for having rapists, having their students in blackface mocking black students from another school at a basketball game, and being exactly the kind of elitist and racist shithole you can imagine when you hear “all-male Catholic high school in a rich Kentucky suburb.” Also the diocese unsurprisingly has its own flag planted in the pedophile priest lawsuit situation.
But ultimately, this is entirely the fault of the parents and teachers who sent a busload of upper-class white boys across multiple states for a pro-forced birth, pro-women dying rally and indoctrinated them enough to think that such a thing was acceptable and that the appropriate uniform was the MAGA hat.
Burn the school, diocese, and their parents homes and businesses to the fucking ground. Or instead, confiscate all that stuff, turn every private school into public schools, and bring back school bussing. The chaperones still deserve to be literally crucified. Once they let these little fuckers make those rape comments to anyone, of course they were going to escalate because they were being given to green light all day and that was really bright one that said “Be as shitty as you want. Your parents and teachers approve.”
I order the blame this way.
1. The parents. They raised these entitled dipshits, and chose to send precious Braidynnnn to that “school”.
2. The school. For their philosophies and most immediately, not supervising the little assholes. The kids are teenagers, an age that engenders assholish behavior anyway, and at a protest that leads to heightened emotions.
3. The kids themselves. They have all the advantages in the world.
4. The Black Israelites. The only reason the kids are worse, is because I think most of the Black Israelites are mentally ill. This is just from listening to them at Union Square and their unhinged rants.
But really fuck them all, and especially for chanting “build the wall” to an indigenous person.
Watching the rebroadcast of the AFC Championship on NFL Nutwork and trying not to touch myself.
Save up for two weeks from now
“We’re watching the same game and this a goddamn fantasy cum true.”
-members of The Incredibly Shitty NFL Referees Union
(voice from outside of closed door)
Because I’m such a nice guy and you guys have really embraced me as the DFO’s Token Evil Teammate for being a Conservative, I’ll set you guys up with an easy one.
(Door Flies Open)
Hey guys! Guess what? I’m a Republican and the Trump Republican Tax Reform reduced my tax refund by about 33%.
That sucks, man.
Obviously, you are not a true Murican, otherwise you would be rich enough to get the benefit, or so poor you don’ t pay taxes anyway. Now you got me worried about ours.
I screwed up in college, so I fall in I think the 30th-40th percentile. Not enough to be considered poor, but not enough to be well off.
Basically I have to choose between “put the surplus money in savings” or “Yay! Playing around money!”. I can’t do both effectively.
As a geologist, I don’t see the problem with this.
As a Republican, this must have come to you as a huge surprise.
Gamefly commercials make me want to punch newborns.
I’m surprised it’s still holding up with Game Pass and Playstation Now in full swing. Soon, it’ll be the Netflix DVD subscription off in a corner crying while watching an entire generation of kid who’ve never held a physical game disk.
I wonder how many Gen Zers know that Netflix had DVDs. Speaking of, anyone know if Trevor Semen died via Tide Pod or getting hit by a chair from his wrestling or something?
Died from a Stone Cold Stunner gone awry?
Kidding. He probably just found booze and women.
He could’ve at least shared the booze.
What’s PlayStation now?
It’s a streaming service for PS3/PS4 games. Monthly subscription, and it can be played both on PS4 and PC. I have Xbox One, so I used it to get through Last of Us and Ni No Kuni. Game Pass has the better overall service, especially with new exclusives getting instantly added to it, but it doesn’t stream, it installs and runs, so it requires the computer to be able to handle the game, while the PS4 one is rendered i̵̢̩̱̇n̶̹͇̫̟̳͎̮͉̭̅̈͠ ̴̥͕͗̔̂̚͜ẗ̵̡̛̬̣̬̯̣̜̮̿̓̎̓̃h̷̝̠̪̘̯͛̊͗̃́̕e̴̛͉̻̗͔̝̝͂̾̀͂̉̍͐̕͜͜ ̵̢̞̠͇̩͚͉͙͝c̷͖̫̘̳̬̞̓͆̄̈l̷̫͚͉̹̫̜̬͐̐̔̐̔̋̓͘̚͝o̵̡̦̺̬̪̮̫̳͐͐̈͜͝û̴̧̥̙̼̣̙̞̮̼̉͜d̶͎̋͊, so you can play it on most any PC.
Your comment haz tattoo?
It takes commercials for you to feel that way? For me it is just having to get up in the morning.
Gamefly still exists?
According the never ending series of bloody stool commercials, apparently so.
Just reactivated Netflix for the first time in 4 months, and apparently, every show I’ve ever watched in my life has released a new season since.
Too bad Larry Walker didn’t get the nod. Martinez, Halladay and Walker had a YUGE impact on Canadian baseball in terms of development.
He was never getting in this year, but I would have liked to see him get 65%, so next year’s jump would be a little more reasonable.
“You forgot about us.”
-Dave Steib, Rusty Staub, Andre Dawson, Gary Carter, Tim Raines, Tim Wallach, Steve Rogers, George Bell, Vlad Guererro, Tom Heinke, John Cerutti, Rick Ceronne, etc, etc.
I think he was talking about Canadian born players, though yeah, guys playing in Canada probably did their part as well. Fun fact: Larry Walker had more career WAR than any of those players.
Larry Walker is underrated.
For sure. I deliberately misinterpreted him because there’s a wealth of fellas that did tons of great work up here but that work tends to be put aside/forgotten completely.
/Thanks, “Advanced Stats” for putting ballers that happened to play north of the 49th onto a more even playing field with those that played in major media markets.
“So I never won a World Series for you hosers?”
-Joe Carter
No idea who you’re talking about. Is he one of June Carter Cash’s kids?
No, I think he is Aaron Carter’s brother.
/I spared you all an Aaron Carter video.
Mariano Rivera got the unanimous vote to the Hall. He was one of my favorites. I only have one shirsey, mostly because I’m a “Durr, what kind of man puts another man’s name on his back” type. I made an exception for Mo.
That said I am the president of #TeamWhoGivesAShit with regards to unanimous votes. Being in the Hall is the honor. Mo wasn’t the best player of all time and this doesn’t make him the best retroactively. He’s in the Hall. That’s all that matters.
Mine is Andy, because I like my lefties, being one myself.
I just sent Senorita Weaselo the All-Star Game entrance in 2008, where I lost my voice along with everyone else there singing “Enter Sandman.” She must know.
“Enter, Sandman,” is also what my wife says on every third Saturday. Heyo!
Tom Verducci of Sports Illustrated had an amazing stat: Mariano Rivera faced 527 batters in the post season and the number of batters that produced an earned run against him were less than the number of people who have walked on the moon.
I’ll leave that here.
Sad news; Cardiff City forward Emiliano Sala now missing, presumed dead, according to the AFP.
Maybe they find him, maybe they don’t; que Sala Sala.
/No you’re a bad person.
I thought my hobo-killing stories were in bad taste…. smgdh
Yeah. “Stories.”
That doesn’t sound like it is going very Wales.
As they say in French, Sala vie! Or not if he is indeed dead.
Ça ne devrait pas être “C’est la mort”. Pardon. Juste un peu d’humour de potence.
“He’s sleeping with the Wales now…” was RIGHT THERE.
No, he was sleeping with the Wales. Now he might be sleeping with the fishes.
It’s the beginning of Manifest 2: Soccer Boogaloo
Bookmark this post and return in 5 years.
The book “Down and Out in Paris and London” is in the books. Next up-“Resurrection” by Wolf Haas. I’m also trying to knock off individual chapters of “Istanbul” by Orhan Pamuk while I ‘do my business’ but it is boring as hell.
/gimme the name of a lesser-known author that you enjoy/have enjoyed
//I give you Jason Goodwin-he’s the author of a history of the Ottoman Empire (Lords of the Horizon) and also has a detective series centered around a eunuch
Currently reading a book by Patricia Cornwell. Very CSI ish, but I likey that kind of stuff.
Didn’t she invent or effectively invent that forensic science genre of crime fiction?
Henry Green.
I wrote about him for DFO a while ago.
https://www.doorfliesopen.com/2015/11/09/nomonkeyfuns-forgotten-book-club-henry-green/
Firstly, how could I have possibly forgotten the phrase ‘cunty fingers’? Secondly, how was this not the name of a woman eventually seduced by James Bond?
Ohhh, the title is “Istanbul” now?
Before anyone posts the relevant video, Them Giants most brilliant tune/vid is “Birdhouse in Your Soul”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhjSzjoU7OQ
Like this one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wcze7EGorOk
You’ve obviously never heard the song stylings of The 5 Neat Guys. “Who Made The Egg Salad Sandwiches?”, (Everyone Says) “She Does It” and the incomparable “Because Matsy Has The Biggest Breasts in Town”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMjtvSABQ3Q
Currently finishing ‘And then all hell broke loose’ by Richard Engel
His experiences reporting from the middle east
Also I recommend ‘Guests of the Ayatollah’ and a somewhat unknown football book titled ‘Bringing the heat’ by Mark Bowden
“Football” or soccer?
I haven’t read everything he’s written, but the books I’ve read by Joseph Kanon are pretty solid; mostly post-WWII thrillers/espionage stuff (40s and 50s). One of his books was made into a movie, The Good German with Clooney, Cate Blanchett, and that kid that was Spider-Man. I liked the film and chased the book down, really enjoyed it. In fact, he’s had a couple more come out in the last couple years I need to get caught up with.
For a fun read The Chronicles of Master Li and Number 10 Ox by Barry Hughart, sort of a Sherlock Holmes story in a fantastical China and based on many of their folktales and mythology.
Rumouuuur has it the Chiefs might look at Rex Ryan to be the new DC.
Reid & Ryan: A new show where the two coaches terrorize KC barbecue restaurants.
I’m not sure Rex Ryan is NFL-employable. He brings so much frottage-I mean, baggage with him to any team that he coaches for.
“We now cut live to the Chief’s Locker Room for the team toilets enacting their suicide pact at the news.”
Some Dick anticipated this and set it to music-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAYHTES4whs
I’d still binge watch the FUCK out of a show of Andy Reid and the Ryan Brothers (because you gotta have both for this) touring KC and eventually America and the world trying every BBQ joint. Bonus points for the first time the best they find in a town is from a local gas station or chicken shack.