NFL News:

• Josh Gordon has filed for reinstatement to the NFL. 
  • If reinstated, he immediately becomes eligible for further punishment from his December 20th suspension.
    • He missed the Pats final two games & the playoffs.
    • Protocol dictates he’s looking at another six regular season games, unless ol’ Rog counts the playoff games missed.

• Also awaiting further punishment is Orlando, Florida, which has been chosen to host the 2020 Pro Bowl.
  • This will be the fourth year in a row.
  • It is not known if other cities bid for “honor”, but the NFL shines that turd by proclaiming, “We’re thrilled to return to Orlando for the fourth year in a row and bring the Pro Bowl experience to the city of Orlando, our fans, players and partners.”

• Not wanting to be punished are the citizens of Winnipeg, as only 8,944 tickets have been sold for the Raiders preseason game versus Green Bay.

  

  • Florio states the obvious reasons:
    • One of the problems could be the price point. Via Brooks, the cheapest ticket costs $191.50 Canadian. This equates to $143.70 in American dollars, under the current conversion rate. And that’s a lot of money for a glorified scrimmage in full pads. Even if it’s the supposedly critical third preseason game.

• Robert Quinn has broken his hand during scrimmages.
  • This is on the heels of perennially injured DL Sean Lee being hurt again.
  • Quinn is expected to have surgery on the hand & sit out the preseason.
    • Like Zeke!

Tonight’s sports:

• MLB:
  • Brewers at Pirates – 7:00PM | ESPN
  • Yankees at Orioles – 7:00PM | Sportsnet360
• Tennis:
  • Rogers Cup – 7:00PM
    • Men’s – from Montreal – Sportsnet / Tennis Channel
    • Women’s – from Toronto – Sportsnet1 / Tennis Channel
• The Ocho
  • The ESPN (&TSN2) annual experiment with showing things glorified in the movie “Dodgeball”.
    • 7:00 – 2019 World Sign Spinning Championship as part of The Ocho
    • 7:30 – Slippery Stairs as part of The Ocho
    • 8:00 – 2019 WCO World Cornhole Cup
    • 9:00 – America’s Dodgeball Continental Cup: USA vs. Canada
    • 10:00 – 2019 Spikeball College Championship as part The Ocho
    • 11:00 – World Axe Throwing League as part of The Ocho

You know what isn’t stupid? Being part of the [DFO] EPL footytipping. It’s real easy to join:

1. Go to this site right here.
2. The password is “doorfliesopen”
3. Create a username & password for the footytips site that is separate from your ESPN account.
   • Even though both are part of ESPN, they are separate entities, so keep them that way.
4. Profit!

I’m unsure about the last one, but there have been rumours of a surprise for the winner.