Your “Can You Smell It? That’s Fear.” Thursday Evening Open Thread

NFL Nuggets:

• Well this is interesting:
  • A congressman that represents New Orleans Second District, Cedric Richmond, wants Roger Goodell to appear before the House’s Judiciary Antitrust Subcommittee.
    • The fun part, as Florio points out, is that this subcommittee could have the power to influence the nature of gambling affiliations the league may enter into.
      • And even write rules regulating such enterprises.

• ESPN‘s headline says it all:
  • The NFL says that the number of concussions in games and practices dropped 23.8 percent in 2018.
    • The league attributes the results due to enforcement of the new helmet-to-helmet rules & changes to kickoffs.

• Ryan Shazier is apparently jogging.    
  • He’s still a long way from ossibly returning, but the fact that he’s got most of the use back in his legs is a hopeful sign for his future golden years.
    • Art Rooney II earlier indicated the Steelers would sign him to a contract so he could continue to rehabilitate with them.

Finally, in the category of “didn’t ask for it”, an English woman with the twitter handle @dee_brown has been reaping abuse from Kansas City fans since last Sunday.

• Dee Brown the “offside” Chief doesn’t have social media.
• But he has met her, and even invited her to the game when the Chiefs played at Wembley a few years back.

I was forced into Provincial Exam duty today, because I am one of the few teachers students believe will actually take their paper away if they cheat or time’s up.

Try if you can to imagine a gym filled with teenagers all giving off fear-omones, only half of them able to finish a two-hour test in three hours. When you try to take their test away, most teachers are like

and the kids are all.

But I have no conscience or soul, so my usual reaction is,

It’s a little extra money in exchange for losing two hours of sleep. If only I could think of something to do after work to compensate…

Tonight’s sports:

• NHL:
  • closed for All-Star break
• WHL:
  • Prince Albert Raiders at Vancouver Giants – 10:30PM | Sportsnet
• NBA:
  • Pelicans at Thunder – 8:00PM | Sportsnet1
  • Warriors at Wizards – 8:00PM | TNT / TSN
  • Timberwolves at Lakers – 10:30PM | TNT / Sportsnet1
• NCAA:
  • Women:
    • Notre Dame at Tennessee – 7:00PM | ESPN / TSN2
  • Men:
    • Tulsa at Cincinnati – 7:00PM | ESPN2
    • Michigan State at Iowa – 7:00PM | FS1
    • Washington at Oregon – 9:00PM | ESPN2
    • Arizona at Southern California – 9:00PM | FS1
    • Arizona State at UCLA – 11:00PM | FS1
    • St. Mary’s (Cal.) at BYU – 11:00PM | ESPN2
• Football-esque:
  • NFL Pro Bowl Skills Showdown – 9:00PM | ESPN / DisneyXD / TSN2

That’s it for me.

I’ll see you Saturday night to discuss music & such. KEEP ON KEEPIN’ ON!