Your Saturday Evening “Ruck Over!” Open Thread

I hope you’ve enjoyed staying up late / waking up early to watch the Rugby World Cup LIVE! from Japan.

The Russians needn’t have bothered getting out of bed.

Having attended the Rugby World Sevens last year in San Francisco, I can only imagine the bacchanalia. BeerBrother, who works for a Japanese company, said that all travel to head office has been suspended for the month because the costs are too high given the tourism. And as a gaijin working for an American subsidiary, he didn’t qualify for executive tickets. I say good thing, because the nightmare fuel that are the mascots

are enough to ward off going there until the tournament’s over & they’re put to sleep.

Don’t forget to check out Rikki’s award-shadowed 2019 World Cup Preview. It’s chock-full of stats & enough secret links to hardcore anime to keep anyone interested & occupied for hours.

Satisfaction may vary.

Tonight’s Sports:

  • MLB:
    • Phillies at Cleveland  – 7:00PM | FS1
  • CFL:
    • Lions vs. Redblacks – 7:00PM | TSN / ESPN+
  • NCAA: games of note
    • Oregon at Stanford – 7:00PM | ESPN
    • Ball State at North Carolina State – 7:00PM | ESPNU
      • for the WolfpacKommentists
    • Oklahoma State at Texas – 7:30PM | ABC
    • Notre Dame at Georgia – 8:00PM | CBS
    • UCLA at Washington State – 10:30PM | ESPN
  • Left Turns:
    • Federated Auto Parts 400 – 7:30PM | NBCSN / TSN3
      • From the 0.75-mile Richmond Raceway in Virginia. Crashes aplenty.
    • Singapore Grand Prix – 7:30AM | ESPN / TSN
  • Fisticuffs:
    • UFC Fight Night: Rodriguez vs. Stephens – TSN2 / ESPN+
      • Prelims – 6:00PM
      • Main card – 8:00PM
    • PBC Fight Night:
      • Quillin-Angulo (super middleweights) – 10:30PM | FS1
  • Rugger:
    • Italy vs. Namibia – 1:15AM | TSN / NBC Sports Gold
    • Ireland vs. Scotland – 3:45AM | TSN / NBC Sports Gold
    • England vs. Tonga – 6:15AM | TSN / NBCSN
  • Fútbol
    • Liga MX:
      • Club América vs. Querétaro – 9:55PM | UNI
    • de la MLS:
      • LAFC vs. Toronto FC – 10:30PM | TSN
  • NHL Preseason:
    • Leafs at Sabres – 7:00PM | Sportsnet

Enjoy your evening, and the games tomorrow.

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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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Viva La Tabula Raza

I graduated high school in 1977. 1977 is also the year that it became legally and apparently ethically acceptable for attorneys to advertise their services.

With the accession of Jimmy Carter to the presidency and the subsequent perceived disaster of his administration, and the acceleration of the Republican destruction of our country commencing with the election of Reagan, I have to think that the appearance of attorney ads is one of the things that contributed to the arrival of our country to Mad Max world, which will be coming soon if the Sentient Overflowing Colostomy Bag in the White House has his way.

I am drunk.

herodotus450

Ok St. with a terrible fake fg. Spoiler, it doesn’t work.

Viva La Tabula Raza

As UT alum, enjoyed that as much as I hated the preceding INT.

herodotus450

I take it back, somehow the A-team CBS sports talking guys are worse than the yahoos they have doing the 3:30 game

Spur
Viva La Tabula Raza

Mike Campbell is a fucking guitar beast.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=735dXdC7i9A

Viva La Tabula Raza

I am so old, I still own this LP.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzazgG-y7uM

Viva La Tabula Raza

Watching this UT game made me think for some reason of Charles Whitman the UT tower sniper whose switch got flipped back in 1966. Looking around contemporary America and what goes down as normal activity anymore, I’ve got to say that motherfucker was a real pioneer. Just like Charles Lindbergh, the Wright brothers, Robert Oppenheimer, and that dude that invented the submarine.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

It’s pretty fucked up to walk around Austin and realize that you can see that tower (and thus he could have seen you) from just about everywhere.

Viva La Tabula Raza

Shit could happen to any of us any time any where. It’s the sacrifice we all make for the fetishizing of the Second Amendment that we have to live with. The Gun Nuts/AmmoSexuals have won.

Edit, I am a liberal who owns guns.

herodotus450

Every week watching college football: “There’s no face guarding in college” (whatever that means)
CBS guy just now defending Geargia: “Well he didn’t look back to find the ball so it’s suspicious”

Viva La Tabula Raza

UGA-ND: SUDDEN CHANGE
I really like it when someone posts SUDDEN CHANGE, even if it’s me posting it.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

“Sudden change is always a welcome surprise.” – Todd Marinovich

King Hippo

Probably the only way we get force behind expanded playoffs is if the TV foofs have a Sophie’s Choice between ND and Texas.

Unsurprised

Better nuke Austin and South Bend just to be sure.

King Hippo

I would seriously like to make a dirty bomb in the clubhouse for you to deploy as you deem best. Inshallah.

Viva La Tabula Raza

Can you just nuke Midand-Odessa instead? That might even make it so TX goes blue. Which goal nuking Austin would set back 25 years.

Unsurprised

I want Texas (and Oklahoma) to sink into the core of the Earth where it belongs.

Viva La Tabula Raza

Dutch chemical engineer at the bar tells me that the Dutch translation subtitles in that one Just OK is not OK ads are accurate, but bearded dude’s accent is awful. I told him that his Dutch accent when he speaks English is pretty noticeable too. That shut fucking Euro-Boy right the fuck down.

Spur

Dream scenario is having unranked Michigan beat Ohio State

herodotus450

So you want 4 SEC teams in the playoff?

Spur

Boise State is due.

King Hippo

oh yeah, I forgot about tOSU. The field is basically already set then. Bama, tOSU, Son de Clem, ND. FUCKING GREAT.

Viva La Tabula Raza

And then to rub gangrenous salt in the wound, Patriots win their 7th Super Bowl.

King Hippo

I’ve already made peace with that.

herodotus450

Somebody’s gonna lose a game, it always happens. An Okiehoma is in there too.

King Hippo

nah, after ND wins tonight, they’d need to lose 2. Son de Clem is almost impossible to lose to anyone left on their schedule. Same re tOSU.

herodotus450

That’s the same thing I’ve said about OSU’s schedule for the last 7 or 8 years. Only once did they actually go undefeated. Seems like two undefeated teams is very rare, there will be plenty of #debate to be had.

King Hippo

Both Meechigan teams are just soooooo bad this year. I don’t recall such a disparity previously. And that Cancer Boy already died, so forget about a Purdue re-run.

King Hippo

How fucking stupid is Kirby Smart??

King Hippo

at least ND butchered the clock management there

herodotus450

That was Reidian, almost Lovie Smithian, clock management

Spur
King Hippo

I have posted before, it’s the most hauntingly beautiful, heartbreaking performance I’ve seen.

Spur

The fact she doesn’t smile is FUCKING HOT

King Hippo

she is something of a recluse (maybe even more than me), gets terrible stage fright apparently

King Hippo

and YES, she is my ideal woman. Understands introversion, moody artist-type, slender Latina.

Gratliff

lol of course the Patriots cut Brown after the guys on my bench played

King Hippo

I’d cut him and pick someone else up. Who is on waiver wire?

FYI, I cut Cam Newton yesterday.

Spur

That giant human got it for a TD.

Spur

Walter Goggins is broke

Viva La Tabula Raza

He’s broke mostly because everyone keeps misspelling his first name.

herodotus450

Some guy named Walter is getting a lot of residual checks.

herodotus450

The fools! Those hedges in Georgia’s stadium are green, that’s Notre Dame’s color.

Spur

Whoopsie. Builldogs do have short forelegs

Spur

Urban Liar to ND?
That’s too evil to not happen.

Spur
Viva La Tabula Raza

So now DirecTV is telling me that they are in a pissing contest with Sinclair Fascist Communications Company. and that I need to go to some website. I probably will do that if those Sinclair channels (NBC and Fox, who provide a considerable percentage of my NFL watchitude) disappear from my channel options.

Spur
Viva La Tabula Raza

Not much Bush left out there these days. I understand that crab lice are now an endangered species due to habitat depilation/depletion.

King Hippo

Jawja is sheeeeit. Bama, Son de Clem, Fucking Irish all in the playoffs. AGAIN.

Spur

Irish learning a Lobo and Bulldog are very different

Unsurprised

Did UNM play ND and no one told me? Jesus. I’d have flown back to Albuquerque to watch that

Spur

they played in South Bend

Unsurprised

The people I’d want to watch wouldn’t have gone.

Unsurprised

Fuck!!!!! I would’ve loved to see all the torn loyalties between people who went to UNM and people who like ND because they’re fucking stupid.

Viva La Tabula Raza

Horns giving Cowboys the horn early, can it last, or will there be a SUDDEN CHANGE?

herodotus450

The nation waits for the episode of Yung Sheldon where he visits Penn St.

Viva La Tabula Raza

“Why yes, Mr Sandusky, I am a bit sweaty and overheated, maybe a shower would be in order.”

herodotus450

Old Dominion aka The VIrginia Slayers up early on UVA

Spur

UGA may want to cover that massive human with a gold helmet.

Spur

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Spur

jesus. how big is 84 for ND?

Spur

UGA needs to pay its power bill. the lights keep flickering

Viva La Tabula Raza

Fuck that nasty Dr Pepper shit, no matter how clever the ad campaign is.

King Hippo

The “Tech baby” is basically a miscegenation joke, it straddles the line between clever and really fucking offensive.

Viva La Tabula Raza

That’s kinda why I have a secret admiration for it.

herodotus450

While Dr. Pep is at work making money Mr. Pibb is fucking his wife everybody knows that.

Viva La Tabula Raza

That is fucking brilliant.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Meanwhile, the housekeeper Fanta has a secret of her own…

King Hippo

oh yeah there was also el beisbol today (while I napped):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voqTKZRS-pE

Spur

I want Chaos, Go Irish!

Viva La Tabula Raza

I bought a bottle of Jameson’s this afternoon.

King Hippo

how much left? 😀

Viva La Tabula Raza

have not cracked it yet, still polishing off the pitcher of beer margaritas I made earlier, whose recipe I shared here recently, but will certainly re-post if requested.

Unsurprised

I need to make more money so I can develop a drinking habit. That sounds awesome.

King Hippo

That 14.5 UGA spread has leaped to 16. Bananacakes.

King Hippo

HA, how about NC State’s Mad Genius OC (from like past 4-5 years) beating U*NC in his first big game as Happy Appy head coach!

/let’s not mention the Ball State fixture in progress

Viva La Tabula Raza

Mahomes is Aaron Rodgers’ friend? So, maybe, Mahomo?

King Hippo

Bitch, please. I could do MUCH better than that if I wasn’t elbow deep in athletic brunette pussy. – Aaron R., Appleton, WI

Viva La Tabula Raza

Is that a beard, or a bearded clam?

Viva La Tabula Raza

UT players knee1ing in Aust1n!!!! Horrible scandal! Oh, the1r are praying and the guy leading it is wh1te? That’s ok then.

Viva La Tabula Raza

I only root for A&M when they are playing SEC teams that I hate more than them, which is all of them except maybe LSU for some reason I can’t fathom, but deep down I love seeing the Aggies lose because it antagonizes and traumatizes all my local Aggie acquaintances so thoroughly (not a collegial thing, they are mostly Republicans and I just plain like seeing those people have to eat their liver).

Spur

Even by Texas football fan standards, Aggies Fans are weirdos

Viva La Tabula Raza

I know more than one Aggie alumni that has an RV stored at College Station reserved solely for tailgating before home games. What is that, 8 or 10 games a year? That is psychotic. I guess they can afford it though.

Spur

Pitt decides to grow a pair a week too late. I guess they didnt want Pedo State to see their balls had dropped

herodotus450

Pitt the Elder!

Viva La Tabula Raza

Benjamin Disraeli!!!

Viva La Tabula Raza

“Classic Car Show” at the local Celebration of Specialness today was a bit of a fucking frost. In attendance were my 1964 Corvette roadster, a 1967 Camaro driven by the original owner’s husband (his wife’s first car bought new, freshly restored, with a shitty paint job and a 6-cylinder motor), a lovely 1967 Mustang 390 (Bullitt, anyone?) with a magnificent paint job, a big-block 1955 Chevy 2-door post, some hundred year old Ford Model T, some useless mid-70s Corvette sporting a Congressman Chip Roy (R-19th Century) re-election campaign sign, fuck that scamming motherfucking sonofabitch, and 15 fucking late model Mustangs (yawn). Sorry, your 2008 Mustang will not be a “classic” for another 15 or 20 years, you fucking idiot. Only stayed for a couple hours, came home to watch some football and ended up drinking a pitcher of my beer margaritas, will be passing out soon.

ballsofsteelandfury

Now THAT is a Saturday!

Viva La Tabula Raza

Well, even though certain aspects of it were fucking horrifying (the TRUMP 2020 booth springs to mind), it certainly wasn’t boring.

ballsofsteelandfury

More exciting than mine. I’m barely taking a shower now and only because it’s my niece’s birthday party soon. The whole day I’ve been wearing the same clothes I slept in.

Viva La Tabula Raza

Hell, I’ve been wearing the same underwear all week.

yeah right

Week 3 and the Reedley Tigers hosted Contra Costa College.

Motherfuckers should have stayed home.

66-7 Reedley!

3-0 on the season.

Viva La Tabula Raza

I might be interested in hate-fucking Flo’s sister.

—Dude on blind dinner date with Flo’s sister.

herodotus450

Flo has a sister?
/Asking foar a firend

Viva La Tabula Raza

I guess we aren’t watching the same games/ads….

herodotus450

UCF announcers: “How can you play football without eating meat?”
Michael Sam: “No idea.”

Viva La Tabula Raza

Mustangs going all Cars and Coffee on Horny Toads.

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

herodotus450

Fun Fact*: UCF enrollment is larger than the population of Wyoming.
*: TBD

yeah right

My earlier discussion about visiting Hamburg naturally led to…

A burger and beers.

It was delightful.

Viva La Tabula Raza

“Lotsa nice German minge in Hamburg, mate.”
-Dudes from Liverpool
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yeah right

That’s the whole idea.

ballsofsteelandfury

Yes! All over the rugby!

herodotus450

Never thought I would miss the usual CBS SEC cock gobbling, but this B-team doing the Auburn game aren’t even qualified to call Plano-John Tyler