Your “It’s Not Stealing; It’s A Homage” Thursday Evening Open Thread

NFL Notes:

  • Gerald McCoy is taking it personally that the Bucs gave his #93 to Ndamukong Suh.  
    • “Them giving the number away, that’s their prerogative, but the respect they showed. It would be different if it was a guy who signed four or five years. This is a one-year deal.”
      • He further added, “It was a sign of respect. I’m one of the best players to ever play in the organization… It kinda shows the respect and how they feel about me.”
  • Byron Leftwich is Bruce Arians’ point-man in what nfl.com calls the “Jameis Winston Reclamation Project”. 
    • The biggest reclamation project launched in Florida since the Everglades Forever Act of 1994, Leftwich was brought in to be the Offensive Coordinator by Arians because of his experience and their history together.
      • Leftwich was a QB under Arians in Pittsburgh, and got to know him well because BIG BEN OWN COACH!
        • When Leftwich retired, Arians got him to go to Arizona & work on his coaching staff.
    • The main goal is to start Winston over from scratch with the new offence Arians wants to introduce to Tampa.
      • Because it appears to be the last chance before the “Bust” label is applied and he’s replaced by a journeyman white QB.
  • NBC, the NFL & Carrie Underwood are being sued for copyright infringement over the atrocious intro song for “Sunday Night Football”.
    • A songwriting team from SoCal is suing over similarities to their song “Game On” which they put on the internet two years ago, and allegedly pitched to Underwood’s management in 2017.
    • Hopefully, the best-case scenario is that these parasites don’t get paid and NBC opts for a different, less-shitty intro.

Tonight’s sports:

  • CFL:
    • Roughriders at Redblacks – 7:30PM | TSN / ESPN+
      • don’t forget to check out The Maestro’s award-adjacent “CFL Beat” before the game for all your betting & game information.
  • Fútbol:
    • Copa América Brasil 2019:
      • Uruguay vs. Japón – 6:30PM | TELMUN
    • CONCACAF Gold Cup Soccer 2019:
      • Nicaragua vs. Haiti – 7:00PM | FS1
      • Costa Rica vs. Bermuda – 9:30PM | FS1
  • Béisbol:
    • MLB:
      • Angels at Blue Jays – 7:00PM | Sportsnet
    • College World Series: (elimination game)
      • Game 10: Louisville vs. Mississippi State – 8:00PM | ESPN2
  • NBA:
    • Draft – 7:00PM | ESPN / TSN2 / Sportsnet1

That’s it for me this week. Seamus has you tomorrow night, and I’m away on more personal business until Tuesday.

Have a good one.

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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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Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Because of course the day I buy a pair of bikes and leave them outside so I can clean them is the only day it rains in a month and probably all summer.

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Brick Meathook

If you all remember the last informal DFO get-together in Los Angeles (not the pub-crawl; before that), we all rented small planes from Long Beach Airport and tried to land them on oil tankers moored outside the harbor. Needless to say, that didn’t go so good!

So I dug up an official U.S. Navy training film about this. I hope this helps at the August DFO fly-in.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPlqoeaPUu4

Mr. Ayo

Sweet! I’m gonna steal an Alaska Airlines plane and fly down for this one!

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theeWeeBabySeamus

Hey!!!!! I can still land a fucking plane.
Shit where are the fucking flaps? Dammit!!!!!

theeWeeBabySeamus

Seldom a crosswind? I call shenanigans on that one.

Brick Meathook

No crosswind for landing on an aircraft carrier that steers into the wind.

theeWeeBabySeamus

Uh huh. I strenuously disagree.

theeWeeBabySeamus

EJECT, EJECT EjECT…..seems to be the general message here.

BrettFavresColonoscopy

Sup

theeWeeBabySeamus

Remember the late 80’s when white guys with no rhythm were still sort of cool?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiMineG1w3U

Brick Meathook

WE STILL ARE

ALXMAC

No, but I remember the white guys with rhythm that were cool. You know like Phil Collins and George Michael.

theeWeeBabySeamus

Best song on that LP IMHO.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_9hfHvQSNo

Mr. Ayo

Fun story. I led an elementary aerobics exercise to this song for gym class.

theeWeeBabySeamus

Did you face charges or what?

Mr. Ayo

It’s more of a pied piper story. No one really knew what was happening.

ALXMAC

Ha!! my elementary aerobics exercise gym class teacher used these two songs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zw48UrgppKI

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Ha!! He was still going strong on local cable in Northern Michigan as late as the mid 2000’s.

Mr. Ayo

That’s no Kelly Clarkson.

Unsurprised

It’s 57° right now. Tomorrow’s the goddamn summer solstice and it’s 57°

Brick Meathook

Canadian 57° or regular 57°?

Fronkenshteen

So Bolton was THIS CLOSE to finally getting his war with Iran. Even had the planes in the air, but Putin told trump to stand down. I like being a puppet!!

Unsurprised

Indeed!

Unsurprised

Plus, he’s totally lost interest in overthrowing Venezuela. Hooray for him being a swiss-cheese brained dementia case!

ALXMAC

I was looking for a proper clip from the movie “Wag the Dog” (1997), but any clip from that movie would do.

WCS

Hall & Oates fall North American Tour? Fuck and yes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccenFp_3kq8&ab_channel=hallandoatesVEVO

theeWeeBabySeamus

I could be talked into that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D00M2KZH1J0

theeWeeBabySeamus

Kill Oates’ ‘stache.
Everything will work itself out.

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New “Marry, Fu@k, Kill” with
Hall, Oates, and their 80’s hair. What say you?

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