Teh Hippo needs a break this weekend, so I’m filling in with the DFO version of Saturday morning cartoons. Sadly, many of our younger readers may not remember a time when networks would actually show cartoons on Saturday mornings and kids would watch them with a cereal or snack at the ready
Man, I’m old.
Anyway, Saturday mornings for me now consist of watching European fútbol with a Modelo Chelada Tall Boy and munching on Sabritones.
The day then continues with college football depending on who is playing and if I have nothing else better to do.
In order to make that decision as to what to watch, you need listings, don’t you? Well, I gave you the soccer listings on Thursday afternoon, so here are your CFB listings for today (all times Eastern):
Saturday, Sept. 28
Texas Tech at Oklahoma | 12 p.m. | FOX
Northern Illinois at Vanderbilt | 12 p.m. | SEC Network
Texas A&M vs. Arkansas (Arlington, TX) | 12 p.m. | ESPN
BYU at Toledo | 12 p.m. | ESPN+
Northwestern at Wisconsin | 12 p.m. | ABC
Middle Tennessee at Iowa | 12 p.m. | ESPN2
Holy Cross at Syracuse | 12 p.m. | ACC Network
Central Michigan at Western Michigan | 12 p.m. | CBSSN
Kansas at TCU | 12 p.m. | FS1
Rutgers at Michigan | 12 p.m. | Big Ten Network
Buffalo at Miami (OH) | 12 p.m. | ESPNU
Delaware at Pitt | 12:30 p.m. | ACC RSN
Clemson at North Carolina | 3:30 p.m. | ABC/ESPN
Southern California at Washington | 3:30 p.m. | FOX
Coastal Carolina at Appalachian State | 3:30 p.m. | ESPN+
Georgia Tech at Temple | 3:30 p.m. | CBSSN
Wake Forest at Boston College | 3:30 p.m. | ACC Network
Iowa State at Baylor | 3:30 p.m. | ABC, ESPN or ESPN2
Virginia at Notre Dame | 3:30 p.m. | NBC
Ole Miss at Alabama | 3:30 p.m. | CBS
Indiana at Michigan State | 3:30 p.m. | Big Ten Network
Florida Atlantic at Charlotte | 3:30 p.m. | NFL Network
Minnesota at Purdue | 3:30 p.m. | ESPN or ESPN2
Akron at UMass | 3:30 p.m. | FloSports
Towson at Florida | 4 p.m. | SEC Network
SMU at South Florida | 4 p.m. | ESPNU
Cincinnati at Marshall | 5 p.m. | CBSSN on Facebook
East Carolina at Old Dominion | 6 p.m. | ESPN+
New Mexico at Liberty | 6 p.m. | ESPN+
Arkansas State at Troy | 6 p.m. | ESPN+
Louisiana at Georgia Southern | 6 p.m. | ESPN+
Mississippi State at Auburn | 7 p.m. | ESPN
Stanford at Oregon State | 7 p.m. | Pac-12 Networks
UConn at UCF | 7 p.m. | ESPN2
South Alabama at UL Monroe | 7 p.m. | ESPN+
UTEP at Southern Miss | 7 p.m. | ESPN+
UAB at Western Kentucky | 7 p.m. | ESPN+
Louisiana Tech at Rice | 7 p.m. | ESPN3
Nicholls State at Texas State | 7 p.m. | ESPN3
Kansas State at Oklahoma State | 7 p.m. | Big 12 Now on ESPN+
N.C. State at Florida State | 7:30 p.m. | ACC Network
Ohio State at Nebraska | 7:30 p.m. | ABC
Colorado State at Utah State | 7:30 p.m. | CBSSN
Kentucky at South Carolina | 7:30 p.m. | SEC Network
UNLV at Wyoming | 8 p.m. | ESPNU
Houston at North Texas | 8 p.m. | CBSSN on Facebook
Fresno State at New Mexico State | 8 p.m. | FloSports
Washington State at Utah | 10 p.m. | FS1
UCLA at Arizona | 10:30 p.m. | ESPN
Hawai’i at Nevada | 10:30 p.m. | ESPN2
Here is your omakase menu for the day (all times Pacific):
4:00 AM – Athletic Bilbao v Valencia (BeIn Sports)
6:00 AM – Juventus v SPAL (ESPN+)
7:00 AM – Getafe v Barcelona (BeIn Sports)
8:30 AM – Bordeaux v PSG (BeIn Sports)
9:00 AM – Texas Tech at Oklahoma (Fox)
12 Noon – Atlético Madrid v Real Madrid (BeIn Sports)
12:30 PM – USC at Washington (Fox)
That should take you through the evening thread. I’m pretty sure the evening thread won’t cover soccer, so I feel compelled to tell you that Liga MX has TWO clásicos on tap today with the Clásico Regio of Monterrey v Tigres UANL on at 5:00 PM Pacific followed by the Clásico Mexicano of América v Chivas de Guadalajara at 7:00 PM Pacific.
And now,
Litre’s Obscure Team that Hippo Probably Bets On Of The Week!
Do you like crazy people? Do you like crazy owners who carry guns? Then do I have a club of the week for you!
Today we head to Greece and take a look at PAOK which stands for Pan-Thessalonian Athletic Club of Constantinopolitans. ΠΑΕ ΠΑΟΚ, Πανθεσσαλονίκειος Αθλητικός Όμιλος Κωνσταντινοπολιτών.
This unit is out of Thessaloniki and are the current Greek Champions which is a fact that I did not know. (Note: they went undefeated and won the Greek Cup as well) The bad news is that they lost to Ajax in the Champions League qualification and also lost in the Europa League playoff to Slovan Bratislava. The good news is that after 4 weeks they are tied for 1st with Olympiacos with 10 points. They have a very international roster with a few Brazilians and a mix of Europeans. I do not recognize a single player so we will leave it at that.
PAOK was originally Hermes ACAC which was formed in Istanbul in 1875. As all are aware the Turks and Greeks aren’t chummy so when the Greco-Turkish war happened these folk (Greek by ethnicity) moved to Thessaloniki which explains the Constantinople part of their name.
When you travel throughout Greece you see graffiti with PAOK tagged everywhere in the Athens. Their supporters are insane and it stems from one man. Their owner Ivan Savvdis and boy howdy is he a handful. The reason that I chose these guys is that a while back I saw an article about a Greek club owner who was brandishing a gun on the pitch.
Ivan Savvidis apologized for his behavioUr two days after the game and he was later banned from all football stadiums for three years. From Wikipedia “Ivan Ignatyevich Savvidi, is a Russian businessman and politician of Caucasus Greek origin. Savvidis is one of Russia’s wealthiest men and was a member of the Russian Parliament, closely linked to the President Vladimir Putin”. There it is, we know all we need to know about this guy.
These guys have a lot of rivals, Aris is their hometown rivals but they pretty much hate everyone including AEK Athens, Panathanaikos, and Olympiakos due to northerners hating Athenians.
They play out of Toumba Stadium which holds 29k and is all seated.
Greek hooligans are just as awesome as their Turkish counterparts just there has been less incidents with English hooligans so we don’t hear to much about them. PAOK’s biggest ultras group is called Gate 4 who are renowned as one of the top 20 thuggish groups in the world. From Bleacher Report “Grecian side PAOK FC are known for their fans in the Toumba Stadium. Known as “Black Hell” to many sides that set foot in the stadium. The Gate 4 supporters are the most infamous and cause the majority of problems that the club is ever known for.” Look up on YouTube what these nutters are capable of, here is a taste to whet your whistle.
There is a lot to unpack here.
-Clearly this is an away game and they are trashing the stadium.
– I enjoy the Greek music in the background, so serene and peaceful, then about minute 7 Happy comes on.
– The Greek authorities try to keep the supporters apart but even barbed wire, 3 empty sections can’t quench the thirst for violence.
– Minute 9 has the boys battling on what looks like a catwalk where there are no authorities with “Moves like Jagger” playing
– The best part of this long video is that at no time is there any football shown.
Firebombs? Hell yes!
Anyhoo these guys are nuts, their owner is nuts and they play AEK on Sunday and I am sure there will be no violence.
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And now, your Sexy Soccer Saturday ladies! All photos courtesy of the Futbol Babes Twitter account.
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Finally, I wanted to bring to your attention a YouTube channel that I recently discovered. I don’t know why, but this guy reminds me a lot of BFC, who I’ve met in real life. In any case, he (not BFC, the guy on the video) does a bunch of videos about making cocktails and he’s pretty funny and the camera work on the extreme closeups is pure alcohol-pour-porn. In the early episodes, it was more alcohol-spill-porn, but he’s gotten better at it. Anyway, take a gander and see if you like it:
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That’s all for me. See you next week!
(118/69)
This seems like a good way to spend a Saturday if I had a backyard and the weather weren’t shit.
Geez you got a big pussy.
Geez you got a big pussy.
Why’d you say it twice?
I didn’t.
It’s only been about 5 minutes but why the hell is Everton carrying the play?
/also did The Broom score?
He did. Those Man unis are… suspicious.
nah, goals are Jesus and Mahrez
Broom set each one on a platter, though
You know who else did that?
(wait for it)
Jeffrey Dahmer
Whoops I mistook the description of the running play as the goals scored.
Ugh. Rough night. I just read through that text chain with her last night. I’m a moron.
If I had a nickel for every time I said THAT!!!!!
I take it there are updates and they are not good?
Quartney is only an acceptable name if he has siblings named Pintney, Cupney, and Hogsheadney
and sister Chutney?
How many Rodneys can you get for a Hogsheadney?
So I guess Oklahoma is really good?
Well unless you’re the Cherokee Nation.
Balls. Trail of tears search. Tread lightly
LOL
Done.
Pig Sooie got some spunk.
Yeah, just turned that one on. I never have a problem with a Texas team losing.
Check: Jimbo Fisher, still a douchebag.
SUDDEN CHANGE!!
That’s unexpected…
I switched to the Cheeselovers v the Rovells.
I’d watch sommet else, but the most competitive JV fixture is…Original Recipe Team Big Love at Toledo??
Ok Americans, you may have gone a step too far. Stuffed Cheezit pizza from Pizza Hut? Someone needs to get high and write a post about this.
Would totally get high and try it.
/has nothing to get high on
You have been offered Canadian baked goods many times Mr.
Considering your current employment position, seems like too big of a risk.
Meh, I know the rules! hell, I got Rye to Puerto Rico and that is illegal!
Hey scotchy – there is your Kevin the Broom moment!
He is busy being sick and disposing of yet another Northern Ontario hobo.
And so it begins, appropriately enough with Jesus himself startin’ the carnage….
My Prediction League entry:
Lose
0-3
Gabriel Jesus
It is dumping snow here. Pray for Wakezilla and I if we have to go out. 1st snow of the year, people drive like we are in Atlanta.
These pink and yellow uniforms are killing my teevee pixels. Come on Everton, kick their ass(es).
You might as well root for the Orioles to win the World Series.
yeah, Tropical Sour Skittles have totes got this.
There’s two games left, the Orioles could still hit 55 wins.
Check it out! It’s one letter better!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjsvqQUcqCs
City keeper proves that YES, you can have worse neck tats than Yadier Molina.
from the match thread, where we have settled into gallows humour (down from the white-hot rage at the team selection):
We’ve done well, City haven’t touched the ball for 5 minutes
City’s kit today?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRu1Yp2br00
Hippo, you guys still have Angry Birds on your sleeve. Glass houses my similar named internet friend….
Although they do look like a lemonade popsicle.
that whole thing was a cheesy Rooney endorsement setup, no idea why has persisted
VISIT RWANDA THO!
Why not? It’s a beautiful place and they haven’t even genocided that much of late!
And as an adult male with two arms, I can feel quite good about myself!
Legit I would go. Not with my fam but with a travel buddy who I have been all over with.
And Everton vs Shitty is about to begin… and may Jebus have mercy on Hippo’s soul, ’cause shitty sure as fuck won’t
Look, City doesn’t win the Prem without us drawing the Shite last spring. Pep owes Toffees some pity.
/plus, I only have 0-3 in Prediction League
I thought something was up with Martinez at the South American Euros:
“To all Venezuela and Vinotinto fans,
Warm greetings and vinotinto forever. Yes, forever. Because ever since I’ve known, and when I was dreaming of being a soccer player, playing with balls made from cloth in my neighborhood of “El Combate” in Valencia [Venezuela], the Venezuelan national team has been the most important thing in my sports career and probably in my personal life. I’ve had the privilege to be part of several national team cycles: youth and senior teams. Always giving my all for the shirt we love that unites us. . . .
But nevertheless, in recent times I’ve suffered more than I’ve enjoyed being with this great love known as La Vinotinto. I won’t beat around the bush, that’s never been the way I am. The reason is clear and specific: an ever-deteriorating professional relationship with the current national team head coach. It’s been three years putting up with a situation that doesn’t match the total commitment that I’ve always shown toward the national team whether that was on the field, on the substitutes’ bench or in the stands. I’ve been in all these places. And I’ve accepted and honored them without asking for an explanation, whether I play or not. The reason for my deep discomfort, pain, sadness and disappointment is not on the sporting side. It’s emotional: it’s a mental toll every time I go to the current national team and it’s a product of the behavior toward me from the person leading the technical staff, with the 2019 Copa America being the event that affected me most emotionally and on the sporting side. It was a really bad experience.
I’ve seen and experienced instances that I’m not sharing. I suffered them and looked the other way for a long time, but the moment has come that I won’t be accepting them any more. And therefore, I would prefer that the current national team coach does not call me up any more while he’s in charge. Furthermore, my mental health demands that I do this. I also want to make abundantly clear that I am NOT declining to continue to wear my country’s shirt, the country I love the most. I am NOT closing the doors on continuing to represent Venezuela. It’s that I prefer not to be there until there is a change that allows for the return of the essence of what it truly means to represent a country and not a personal project. Nothing and no one should be above the national team. . .
I say goodbye by requesting from my VINOTINTO heart that this situation is handled in the most sensible, understanding and professional way possible.
Josef Martinez”
are teh Vuvuzeulas Reacting Reasonably?
This wine is delicious, have to take Deci to daddy/son swim fun so can’t drink a whole bottle before noon.
Swimming lessons on Saturday? Oof. Good luck.
Maybe the snow will dissuade others from going
Just up the road, it is piss easy. On Dad duty today and tonight, great night to stay in.
IFK Mariehamn really needs to help a ninja out.
Apparently Wiscconsin runs something called the “Hippo Package,” has anyone seen that stack of DFO Cease and Desist letters?
Heading to BC-Wake Forest. As someone who pays little attention to the JV Footy, will this be entertaining?
Wake is actually reasonably decent this year, and that goes a long way in the tire fire ACC
Aw, Michigan doing good today? Boo!
c’mon, imaginary pal/magical pony – it’s home to Rutgers. A syphilitic rat could coach Meeechigan to 20+ point victory
Wisconsin RB is from Menominie, WI. How am I supposed to remember that?
Jonathan Taylor getting compared to Herschel Walker: That’s good.
Jonathan Taylor getting compared to Ron Dayne: That’s bad.
Does Jonathan Taylor contain potassium benzoate?
why does my footy score site give me gross curved wee-wee ads? Of my many problems, that ain’t one.
livescore.com?
INDEED
Perhaps it’s an advert for something more appealing than the way Everton’s been playing so far this year :p
THEO GODDAMNED WALCOTT IS IN THE XI. FFS. HE SHOULD BE IN THE CHAMPIONSHIP, OR EVEN MLS
Or even as a WR for the LOLFINS? 😀
I have 0 ads on the site.
not even the right margin annoying videos??
La liga up top but that’s it.
The New York Rangers and Tottenham Hotspur will eventually kill me. I’ve accepted this.
Fulham and Winnipeg will do the same! See you at the bar in hell.
Arsenal and Whalers fan here, so screw the both of you.
Everton and NC State, fuck all y’all
Arsenal, Pats, Sox and Bama fan… I’ll deduct points for every duplicate curse thrown at me! 😀
Is it because Bulgaria is the Alabama of Europe??
/ducks
Bitch, puhleeze… We aren’t nearly as evolved. I think it’s more like the Cabin In The Woods, given some of the “creatures” living there…
Do you have a big truck with decals?
Nah, de-badged Audis across the board(no model tags, just the 4 rings) sporty S6 and Spyder. For the record, I picked ‘bama because I almost went to college there (in the end, I picked UCD Dublin, because it wouldn’t sentence me to decades of student loan repayments) , the Red Sox, because of the Pats and the Pats because I honestly thought (when I first got hooked into watching the NFL during the 18-1 game) that they were basically the Arsenal of the NFL – a good team that always finds a way to shit the bed in a spectacular fashion down the stretch… Little did I know that i actually was picking basically the Fergie-era ManUre in NFL form XD
As for Arsenal – loved the crest and I’m a masochist… it was love at first fuckup XD
Creswell!!!!!
somebody wake yeah right, DFO DERBY GETTIN’ HAWT!!
Worth switchin from a man down Spurs game?
I’m moving. Just takes awhile on a Saturday.
Did we draw?
Do a bear shit in teh woods??
/conceded late, 2-2 fin
Finished the 5K. No idea what the time was but I know I wasn’t last. Sadly the dog’s ambitions were thwarted by me, but I think he might have been the 3rd dog over the line.
Might have moved up a spot except for his decisions to shit on the trail during the 2nd mile and jump in the reservoir in the 3rd.
Making a Yeah Right Mother Sauce and just looked at Mrs. Cola, said it’s 930 is it too early for wine?
No, we have a toddler, there is no clock anymore.
I mean you’re cooking with it to make the sauce right? Gotta make sure it’s still good!
As someone with 2×2 kids in the house (and who barely survived 4 newborns within 2 years…) “clocks” and “time” are artificial constructs, so might as well bring out the tequilla… Also, If I were you, I’d get a riot helmet for diaper duty… IT IS WORTH IT!
Has Deci become super psychotic and insanely irrational over everything yet?
Nah just really doesn’t like being cooped up in the condo much.
I’m thinking next week for the sauce. I’ve got a lot of basil in my herb garden and hell maybe I’ll make fresh pasta too.
Tomorrow I’m making…
Shit, I may even write about it.
LILY: Meow.
RIKKI: What’s that, Lily? Did you want to go out? [opens sliding door]
LILY: [doesn’t move]
THIS CAT OF MINE I CALL HER GEORGE WALLACE BECAUSE SHE IS STANDING IN THE DOORWAY.
I’m guessing Lily is a white cat then?
“Persians don’t belong here.”
-Greeks, 492 BC to 449 BC
(inscription)
MAJ GEN CHARLES GORDON
KILLED AT KHARTOUM 1885
HE DIED SPLENDIDLY
That’s a pretty good model of an historic Major General.
Lord Wolseley actually is the model for the very model of a modern Major General.
In 1887 Wolseley wrote a magazine article describing how he met Robert E. Lee in Virginia in 1862 shortly after the Battle of Antietam. Wolseley wrote that Lee was the most perfect general and man he had ever met. A month later, retired US Army general William Tecumseh Sherman publishes an article in response, where he basically calls Wolseley a goo-goo-eyed faggot. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
Sherman should’ve been President.
Just watched the highlights of the AFL grand regional final. Wow. Reminded me a lot of one of the Bills’ Super Bowls. BUT WHICH ONE?
Snuff film.
Do not have NBC Sports Gold. Forced to Watch Spurs on a stream, where the commentators are German. This is interesting.
why are Saints wearing the Stillers bumblebee kit?
So very much going on here. The pride is real.
https://twitter.com/RoseEmojiTico/status/1177706818027610114
Do you think Trumpists are going to start insisting that apostrophes are now hyphens and vice versa?
The nipslip
They don’t show cartoons on Saturday mornings anymore? What has the world come to?
Moose-Hornets are well and truly fucked.
Also, the noon window of JV is so shit that I will probably end up watching City sexually violate my beloved Everton.
I know a London team that would love to replace them.
LONDON REPORT
Here’s a statue of some guy who did something. I think he killed a lot of people:
And here’s a pic of the Spire of Dublin erected (heh, erected!) in place of the Column for the same English Bloke That Killed A Lot Of People (and Frenchies!), which got bombed in 1966, because Fuck Da Brits was a thing
is this a grower or a show-er?
Well, it’s big, fugly, obnoxiour and doesn’t match the city around it… so … let’s call it a a Kardashian-er!
Here’s part of a massive motorcycle parade today down Whitehall by British Army veterans of Northern Ireland protesting that they are being prosecuted. These guys were hard core.
“protesting that they are being prosecuted. ”
Not nearly enough
Hey I just report what I see
Needle-dick
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfK-WX2pa8c
I haven’t done a road race since 2015 but there’s a 5K right down the street from me in the woods where I walk my dog. There’s a prize for the first two dogs to finish and my dog is lightning fast, so we’re going in. The only way he loses is because he’s gonna have to drag my sorry ass on a leash.
TO THE HOUNDS!!!
Watching the 2nd half of last night’s AFL snuff film. Jesus I hope BFC is ok…..
Snowed overnight here. Climate change is FAKE, nothing to see here, EXCEPT SNOW THAT IS ON THE GROUND.
Bish, puhleeeeze… That snow is clearly a crisis actor working for the deep state and the Ancient Lizard Space Astronauts!
I know that I live in the foothills of the mountains so we get early snow, but it never stays, ever.
Damn it. I’ve caught a crappy cold and feel lousy. So now I’m waffling between hunkering down on the couch and wallowing in my miserableness or going for a hike on this rainy day and sweating it out. Decisions, decisions…
Or you can call in some well-renumerated “therapists” and still sweat this out?
My favourite therapy hooker is unavailable at the moment and I don’t anticipate her getting free from that rolled-up carpet any time soon.
First, I’m talking escort, not hooker… After all, you only want the best of treatments… Secondly, what in the goddamn BLARGH is wrong with you?! Why waste a carpet, when some lye or some plastic sheets work as well?!
Ehh, you say tomato, I say call girl.
WEIRD BUT TRUE
Here’s a Jack Daniels ad in a London tube station:
I DON’T MAKE THIS STUFF UP FOLKS
If Jack Daniels doesn’t sell a weed flavored whiskey in England and call it Jack the Ripper then what did we even declare independence for?
I’D BUY THAT FOR A U.S. DOLLAR
Wow… those are some really sloppy bolt-on upgrades there on those lasses so I gotta ask, since when do the Pep Boys do plastic surgery?
Also.. ‘Olla pervosaurs, how are ya this fine Saturday afternoon?
For some reason my soccer streaming setup stopped working and all I’m left with is a some unhelpful error message. Is this what being oppressed feels like?
I remember when the Turkish fans basically beheaded a couple of English hooligans in Istanbul in 2000. I say basically because they showed at least one guy and he still had a strip of neck left. It was in the back of a taxi and was not even the gnarliest thing I ever saw on European television. But anyway, these guys sound fun and that first ass is perfect.
Did you watch the 1st video, these guys are insane as well.
Not at the time, but yeah.
Everton will feel the wrath of Kevin The Broom!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWXTj9HQ6ok