Your Saturday Evening NFL Prelude Open Thread

The first week is over and boy-howdy am I ready for some hard drinking. I so far have registered 30 at-risk students in my program. That’s more than double last year’s first-week total, and is already close to the point where I will have to close registration because I don’t have enough room or materials for beyond 40 kids.

No risk of cool theme songs coming out of my classroom.

Also, I may have to learn Tagalog, given how many Filipinos I have in my program. Parents in the district are screaming for French immersion, but my risible French serves no useful purpose when my classroom sounds like the back alley of a Manila Jollibee.

He haunts my dreams.

So, I’m spending this evening with my wife, my dogs, and a bottle of the good scotch from last summer. FOR TOMORROW I FOOTBALL! Three hours down the road is the Seahawks home opener, and I will be there sucking every last drop of fun from my weekend, $5 at a time. Hopefully, if I can keep it between the ditches on the drive home, I have some good pictures to show you during the week.


Tomorrow’s broadcast maps:(courtesy 506sports.com)

CBS SINGLE

 Anchorage
 Fairbanks
 Honolulu

█ Tennessee @ Cleveland – Jim Nantz, Tony Romo

█ Kansas City @ Jacksonville – Ian Eagle, Dan Fouts

█ Buffalo @ NY Jets – Kevin Harlan, Rich Gannon

█ Baltimore @ Miami – Andrew Catalon, James Lofton

█ Indianapolis @ LA Chargers (LATE) – Greg Gumbel, Trent Green

Cincinnati @ Seattle (LATE) – Spero Dedes, Adam Archuleta

Really? Tennessee vs. Cleveland gets the CBS A-team? Holy hell are they already in the hole hard for the Browns to make something of themselves.

Meanwhile, the Colts would be better off starting Trent Green.

FOX EARLY

█ Washington @ Philadelphia – Kevin Burkhardt, Charles Davis

█ Atlanta @ Minnesota – Thom Brennaman, Chris Spielman

█ LA Rams @ Carolina – Chris Myers, Daryl Johnston

█  NO GAME due to blackout enforced by home team on CBS

Can’t argue with much here. Each game looks solid, and has solid announce teams.

FOX LATE

 Anchorage
 Fairbanks
 Honolulu

█ NY Giants @ Dallas – Joe Buck, Troy Aikman

█ San Francisco @ Tampa Bay – Kenny Albert, Ronde Barber

█ Detroit @ Arizona – Dick Stockton, Mark Schlereth

ARE YOU READY FOR SOME SHILLIN’?! The over/under on Troy referencing Emmitt Smith’s holdout is 7.5. The rest of these games are dogshit, but at least listening to Ronde Barber snicker every time Jameis gets hit will be worth it.


Tonight’s sports: so much college ball, I’m only going with the name-brand matchups.

  • NCAA:
    • BYU at Tennessee – 7:00PM | ESPN
      • If the Vols start 0-2, prepare for the “Peyton, find us a coach!” cries.
    • LSU at Texas – 7:30PM | ABC / TSN2
    • Buffalo at Penn State – 7:30PM | FOX
      • Didn’t Penn State buffalo the Sandusky investigation?
    • Tulane at Auburn – 7:30PM | ESPN2
    • California at Washington – 10:30PM | FS1
    • Stanford at Southern California – 10:30PM | ESPN
  • MLB:
    • Jays at Rays – 6:00PM | Sportsnet
    • Phillies at Mets – 7:00PM | FS1
    • Giants at Dodgers – 9:00PM | Sportsnet
  • CFL:
    • Stampeders vs. Eskimos – 7:00PM | TSN / ESPN+
  • International Rugby:
    • Canada vs. USA – 10:00PM | TSN

Enjoy your evening everyone. I am.

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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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King Hippo

Such an abundance of riches, UCLA, FSU, and UT (x2) all sucking ass like this

theeWeeBabySeamus

Sucking Ass

BallsofSteelandFury magically appears?

King Hippo

as noted downstream, let’s have Balls do “pissing abuelas” next week

theeWeeBabySeamus

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King Hippo

K’Lavon just sounds like an elite pass rusher. Which he is.

theeWeeBabySeamus

These games need to get over. I GOTTA WATCH FAMILY FEUD!!!!!!

Mr. Ayo

Just talk to your mom and have your own.

theeWeeBabySeamus

LMFAO

King Hippo

GO FOR TWO FUCKHEADS!!

Mr. Ayo

Got what they deserved.

King Hippo

damn straight, going 1st in 2OT as the lesser team is SO low leverage. EVERY underdog should always go for two in that situation. Not to mention…you scored THIRTY-FUCKING-EIGHT on that defense in regulation

King Hippo

Karma – they miss the KICK

theeWeeBabySeamus

LOL, I’ve got two fuckheads in the house with me now. I don’t need two more.

tomsellecksmoustache

Come on Buffalo, slam Big Rape through a flaming table.

theeWeeBabySeamus

Slam Big Rape is a great name for a FF team.
Or a punk band.
Or….

OK Imma stop right there.

herodotus450

Hold up. Baylor isn’t playing Buffalo, they already beat UTSA. And Florida St. is currently playing UL Monroe. And BYU is playing Tennessee. No Buffalo to be found.

Unsurprised

What about Michigan State, tOSU, Notre Dame, or .. ironically, every team except for Duke.

King Hippo

ULM managed clock well there, not allowing FSU to have enough time if they didn’t convert on 3rd down.

theeWeeBabySeamus

Lane Kiffin is having a bad night.

Unsurprised

Excellent.

theeWeeBabySeamus

I have a decision to make. Asia is going to Vegas for modeling photo shoot. She has asked if we can talk in the next day or two and “catch up”. And perhaps I judged her intentions too harshly.

But she is still 3000 miles away.

Though she is still 24 years younger than me and I just wanted sneak that in again. Yes I’m still proud of that.

hehehehehehe

herodotus450

I don’t mean to be a stickler (heh, well, of course I do) but technically Asia is like 4+ billion years older than us all.

Mr. Ayo

She was short on rent?

theeWeeBabySeamus

She didn’t ask for anything. She reached out to make sure I wasn’t hurricane ded.

Mr. Ayo

More than I did.

But I made rent this month too.

theeWeeBabySeamus

LOL. I paid the house off two years ago. Interest sucks.

King Hippo

porn genre? PORN GENRE.

/also, let’s have Balls do “pissing abuelas” next week

litre_cola

Do I have to repeat myself yet again????

theeWeeBabySeamus

YOU STAY OUTTA THIS BUDDY!!!!

Unsurprised

Oh, no. Now I think we need Buddy’s opinion on this.

theeWeeBabySeamus

He’s got a thing for Asia.
His wife does not agree I suspect.

Unsurprised

Are we talking about Buddy Ryan or Cole?

herodotus450
King Hippo

FSU gets ball back with 1:30 left, tied at 38. THREE AND OUT

herodotus450

“Hey three is pretty good before pulling out.”
-RIck P.

herodotus450

Leonard Fournette has a brother, playing for LSU, who’s name is apparently Lanard. Someone needs to call CPS, like 20 years ago.

theeWeeBabySeamus

What are the chances that there’s another one named “Lanyard”?
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herodotus450

Maybe their father is actually Leonard Nimoy, and mom wanted to honor him.

theeWeeBabySeamus

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Unsurprised

Live Long and Spock’er

theeWeeBabySeamus

I sure wish I’d gone with my gut and put a grand down on Army today.

King Hippo

much like every other season, LSU would be scary good if they could pass the ball whatsoever

herodotus450

Heh, some moran on a different website (I was just looking, it’s not cheating on DFO) tried to float the idea that Burrow is the best passer after Trevor Lawrence.

King Hippo

heh, good luck with that TAEK, drunken non-DFO Cajun commenter

Mr. Ayo

May need to reconsider the moranity of his statement now.

King Hippo

This is almost as funny as Late Stage Mack Brown Texas

Brick Meathook

I’m reading “Football for a Buck: The Crazy Rise and Crazier Demise of the USFL” by Jeff Pearlman and this is about the first year Los Angeles Express:

“As for coach Hugh Campbell’s 40-man roster, it was largely a collection of anonymous grade-C USC and UCLA products, as well as a funky cobbling of weirdos and castoffs. Linebacker John Barefield used to arrive most days with a black cowboy hat atop his head and a nickel wedged into his right ear (“ I still have no idea why,” said Campbell years later). The starting nose guard, a kid out of Georgia named Eddie Weaver, was nicknamed Meat Cleaver and refused to wear a jockstrap. “Meat just let it hang,” Campbell said. “Free.” Charles Philyaw had been a productive defensive end with the Raiders in the late 1970s before a knee injury ruined his career. Back in Oakland, he gained fame for trapping his head in the sunroof of a car. When the Express called, Philyaw eagerly signed. Now 29 years old, he played with a pronounced limp, and after every practice and game applied WD-40 motor oil to his legs. “I’d seen many things in football,” Campbell said. “But never that.””

The Maestro

This sounds like a hoot. I gotta check this out! I had no idea Hugh Campbell coached in the USFL – he’s a CFL legend whom I know from having some powerhouse Edmonton Eskimos teams from way back when – and his son currently coaches the REDBLACKS here in Ottawa.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

I remember stories of Philyaw from Ken Stabler’s book. He was legendarily stupid.

King Hippo

ULM now leads the Semenholes

theeWeeBabySeamus

In the words of Charles Barkley….

“They’re Turrible”

Unsurprised

The NFL embodies the maxim that the worst possible outcome is the inevitable one. Just like how Jazy-Z’s partnership … fuck it. It’s a sick sad joke.

yeah right

Reedley Tigers football kicked off today. My nephew is d- backs coach, they defeated De Anza the only team they lost to last year in the championship game. Reedley wins 47-28.

Tigers 1-0 on the season.

King Hippo

oh yeah, Reedley Season WOO!!!

King Hippo

I wonder if there is an advertising award given for most broadly multicultural

Unsurprised

I’m sure there is, and I’m sure it’s total bullshit

King Hippo

it’s so transparently “box ticking” as opposed to being genuinely inclusive. America is just awful.

yeah right

Coke did it first! Back in the early 70’s.
Don Draper wrote that spot!

King Hippo

I do enjoy watching LSU’s safety play. A lost art, I sez.

tomsellecksmoustache

My Special Lady had her brothers over the other night and they left 5 Shocktop in my refrigerator. I just tried to drink one and I can’t believe this, but I actually think less of them than I did before. Fucking monsters.

herodotus450

The fact that their last name is “King” should have tipped you off.

Mr. Ayo

Almost as good as Allagash White!

King Hippo

I see Doctor Downs has been renewed for another season.

Brick Meathook

Is that the show about the doctor who’s a retard?

tomsellecksmoustache

Really rude to make jokes about a guy that has Tardis. They try their hardest!

herodotus450

The Big 12 trying to claim “no divisions” as a positive is like a short guy bragging about saving money on clothes.

King Hippo

another non-Cajun kicker. YOU DISAPPOINT, Orgeron

Mr. Ayo

McMath 101: How much is two Happy Meals?

Unsurprised

Sadly expensive

Mr. Ayo

It cost me $10 for a double QP meal the other day.

herodotus450

Is there any place/wobsite to play college fantasy football? Seems like for a larger group of people, like a certain football and door-based website I know, the larger pool of players would allow for more people to play.

tomsellecksmoustache

GUYS! Devil Wears Prada is on! That Miranda, amiright?

herodotus450

Frankly I think the devil would look better in Louis Vitton…

King Hippo

is that the lesbian who ran for Governor??

tomsellecksmoustache

Different lesbian. Come to think of it, I haven’t met one yet that isn’t named Miranda. Or Sam.

King Hippo

there’s probably a handbook they distribute

Unsurprised

Desus and Mero had a joke on their podcast that if you assembled a white New Yorker based on their podcast, it would be Andrew Cuomo. NY deserves him.

King Hippo

pretty spot on. He’s a cunt, and quite proud of it.

King Hippo

Louisiana-Monroe is within 3 of FSU, late in Q3

herodotus450

Is that a slam on UL-Mo ?

King Hippo

TOTES. They gon’ struggle in whatever conference they’s in.

Mr. Ayo

Does every conference have their own channel now?

King Hippo

it’s certainly very difficult to be not-televised

herodotus450

Hell even Oklahoma, the school, seems to have their own channel.

King Hippo

fuck a steer, get a channel. This checks out.

Redshirt

Well than where the hell is my channel?!

King Hippo

Magical Pony Network (MPN)?

Mr. Ayo

Wait, I knew Texass has their own. Didn’t know Sooners did as well.

herodotus450

Their game this week, and the famous Amos Army game last year, are on something called Oklahoma PPV

Mr. Ayo

Makes sense. They can’t air murdering over network TV.

King Hippo

skinny brunette with good shoulders ain’t enough to get me watch Stumptown

Redshirt

Yeah. She’s basically Agent Hill + Robin from How I Took Nine Years to Ask My Kids If I Can Nail Their Aunt?

Unsurprised

I read the first issue when it came out like a decade ago. All I remember is that the protagonist is a native P.I. who gets knocked out and brought to I guess the villain (?) like every episode of Rockford.

Anyway, at least it’s not on its face as depressing as Portlandia.

Redshirt

Rushing the field for beating #25?

King Hippo

In their defense, they’s very, very stoned

Mr. Ayo

They’ve been terrible for a long time. Let them have it.

herodotus450

Colorado, a 1-0 team, rushing the field after beating Nebraska, a 1-0 team (and I think Col even beat them last year?)

Gratliff

Oh man. I stop paying attention and the Patriots signed AB. The most fucking obvious thing of all time. He’ll definitely get his shit together once he learns how to live by The Patriot Way*.

* A handjob from a sex slave

Redshirt

Me: “The only way this AB thing could be better was if he was still a Steeler.”
God: “Hold my beer…”

King Hippo

and Coach Angry Black Man can SMILE AT LAST!

/raises fist

Redshirt

I thought it was kneeling?

King Hippo

I am too old for civil disobedience

King Hippo

JV BOLTMEN!! have played UCLA 16 times as a D-1 squadron. They have won zero of these attempts.

Yep, Chip Kelly is really transforming that program.

yeah right

He doesn’t make it half way through the season.

King Hippo

that would be a delight!

yeah right

It’s going to happen.

King Hippo

Will he blame all the black kids on his roster, or a global Zionist conspiracy?

Unsurprised

Yes

herodotus450

Colorado-Nebraska, another blessed overtime game this glorious day.

King Hippo

I keep forgetting to flip back to this competitive match. I just enjoy seeing Fatass Kelly fail SO MUCH.

Gratliff

Into S3 of community and trying to decide if John Goodman is supposed to be Seb Gorka in school administration or if Seb Gorka is supposed to be Robert Laybourne in war crime advocacy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1wcwarP5vg

herodotus450

Look at this guy, gradually becoming not-Streets Behind.

yeah right

According to the broadcast map they’re still showing the Rams games in Missouri?

That’s some cruel fucking shit!

Brick Meathook

They showed Rams games in L.A. for years after they moved to St. Louis, and they still show Raiders games.

yeah right

Exactly!

King Hippo

I like that the JV Donks’ coach is an angry black man. GO BUFFS!!

Col. Duke LaCross

Mel Tucker. Marc Trestman’s DC in Chicago.

Unsurprised

Wow. My colorblindness must be getting worse given that I could only distinguish the icons next to the games by context until I really stared at them.

herodotus450

“Your what-blindness?!”
-Jemele Hill

Unsurprised

My bad. ColoUrblindness. I forgot where I was.

King Hippo

Dear Jeebus, please let Chip Kelly’s UCLA go 0-12 this season. AMEN.

Unsurprised

AMEN

King Hippo

I suppose maximum narrative would be for Dreamboat to vanquish Janeane Garofolo in the Owl. I’d see if one can get a bet on the Fightin’ Tomsulas winning the NFC.

herodotus450

Murray (St.)?

King Hippo

Present…ish?

Unsurprised

This Bill Murray meme has jumped the shark

King Hippo

In Q2, North Carolina A&T leads Duke 10-7.

Cutcliffe really should have bailed in the offseason.

herodotus450

The only question is, is Antonio Brown a double agent for the Steelers, gathering info on the Pats; or is he a triple agent for the Pats, giving them info about the Steelers and Raid–oh, I can’t even finish that sentence. No one needs inside info to beat the Raiders.

King Hippo

And yes, all FITBAW is now officially fixed. I understand how rasslin’ fans must feel now.

Still, what diminishing enjoyment I gets from the sport is all that keeps my head out the oven.

King Hippo

How will JV BOLTMEN!! manage to fuck away the win over Westwood Klavern?

Unsurprised

Drunken brawl with marines on leave at halftime?

Unsurprised

Take two: CONQUISTADORS

King Hippo

both valid hypotheses

Unsurprised

The Bruins ate their strawberries.

(Too deep a cut?)

Unsurprised

The Madrid flag/shield is of a bear eating strawberries from a tree based on a local legend.

tomsellecksmoustache

Starting to think this Washington guy for Nebraska is kind of fast.

BrettFavresColonoscopy

No matter what happens tomorrow, GWS won last night WOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

Porky Prime

Smell you later, NFL. Smell you later forever.

King Hippo

All the moneys on yet another P*ts title. Only hope is that Belicheat blows it up in the offseason because he’s bored and/or thinks Dreamboat gets too much credit.

Wakezilla

How about Andreescu?!? Absolutely amazing!

Also, fuck Antonio Brown

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

“Yes, yes, fuck that Brown guy.” – Stephen Miller

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

“While I find your language coarse and boorish, I cannot bring myself to disagree with the sentiment of disdain for a graduate of such a lesser institution.” – Jason Garrett

Porky Prime

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