Your “The Playoffs Are Near” Friday Evening Open Thread

Yup.  Wildcard Weekend is upon us.

Easy there.  I know it’s exciting, but be careful.  Don’t hurt yourself or you’ll end up in the blue tent.

My Ratbirds finished in a big way, so they don’t even have to play this weekend.

14-2 Baybeeeeee!!!!!

Sorry, gotta get it in before they get upset at home in the divisionals.

But I can maybe get some sleep this weekend.  KC, GB and SF fans also can get some much needed rest this weekend.

The rest of you can suck it.

OK, let’s just get to it before I say something I’ll regret later.

But not before expressing gratitude to the one guy who might get the Ratbirds their 3rd Lombardi Trophy.  But also who more or less single handedly got me the FF league championship this year.

Do I miss Flacco?  Yeah, just like I miss having diarrhea.

Have fun freezing your ass off on the sidelines in Denver, Jerkface.  If it wasn’t for your ineptitude, SF would never have gotten back into the game in XLVII.  Yet they still gave you the MVP somehow and you rode that to the bank.  And then some…

Yes, I prefer Lamar!!!!!!!

(nawt raycess)

Other Lesser Sports 2Nite

NCAA FB Bowls

Sorry, this one will be over by the time you read this.

Wait, no, I’m not sorry.  You should be thanking me for that.  The wrong Ohio vs the wrong Wolf Pack.  They don’t even know how to spell it correctly, and they tried to steal NC State’s logo (seriously).  Plus it’s the Doody Bowl.

Fuck ’em both.

  • Potato Bowl – OhioU vs Nevada – 3:30pmEST – TV: ESPN

NBA

  • Philly @ Houston – 8:00pmEST – TV: ESPN
  • New Orleans @ LAL – 10:30pmEST – TV: ESPN

Full Schedule

NCAA BB

  • Wisconsin @ (5)tOSU – 7:00pmEST – TV: FS1
  • Wright State @ Oakland – 7:00pmEST – TV: ESPNU
  • Central Florida @ Houston – 7:00pmEST – TV: ESPN2
  • Toledo @ Ball State – 7:00pmEST – TV: CBSSN
  • Rutgers @ Nebraska – 8:00pmEST – TV: B1GN
  • Temple @ Tulsa – 9:00pmEST – TV: ESPNU
  • Georgetown @ Seton Hall – 9:00pmEST – TV: FS1
  • Kent State @ Bowling Green – 9:00pmEST – TV: CBSSN

Full Schedule

NHL

Same as usual.  No nationals on TV on a Friday.  And only two matches at all.  One of which I might decide to go see live and in person tonight (Caps @ ‘Canes) if I’m still sober enough by then.

However…..It’s looking unlikely at this point.

Full Schedule

Wildcard Girls

Yeah, you know where I’m going.

Yes, I know that’s a college Cheerleader.  NC State to be precise.  But shut up, it’s funny.

Enjoy…

Buffalo @ Houston – Saturday 4:30pmEST

VS

Tennessee @ New England – Saturday 8:15pmEST

VS

Minnesota @ New Orleans – Sunday 1:00pmEST

VS

Seattle @ Philadelphia – Sunday 4:40pmEST

VS

 

Enjoy the games this weekend.  Stay safe.  Or don’t.

Love ya’s either way.

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An unapologetic, even if often manic-depressive (it's a requirement given his choices of sports teams), fan of NC State University, the Baltimore Ravens and the Baltimore Orioles. When not parked in front of the computer and/or TV, can often be found on the golf course shouting obscenities to no one in particular.
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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Top Gun

The greatest homoerotic movie of all time.

King Hippo

Mulholland Drive!!

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Lezzies don count.

scotchnaut

You spelled ‘can’t’ wrong.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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scotchnaut

I don’t get it.

/neither does Moose, according to his dating history…
//change your passwords, buddy

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Oh, I get it all right, PAL.

[Fleshlight cowers in corner]

Viva La Tabula Raza

I’ll see your navy gays and raise you a Turkish Prison Movie.comment image

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

[impeachment joke]

scotchnaut

The first rule of watching Fight Club is to not talk about the homoerotism of Fight Club.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Old School Zero

/reads the news

Aw, for fucks sake, another reboot? This time it’s Iran? There’s no original ideas anymore. Somebody just wake me up when we’re dead.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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It will be fine.

Old School Zero

As usual, Tom Lehrer was ahead of his time.

https://youtu.be/frAEmhqdLFs

herodotus450

… -68.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Nic……

scotchnaut

UP!

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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scotchnaut

SHUT!

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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herodotus450

Up to -67 Scotchy, take that!

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

We’ve matured.

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scotchnaut

That changes everything. I just bet my younger kid’s tuition on the Wings reaching the Final. If you promise to cheer hard I promise to split the winnings if they get there.

herodotus450

Well if they go 41-0-0 to end the season, they’d have 105 points and probably make the playoffs.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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King Hippo

just one 2-goal loss from NOIIIICCEEEE!!!

scotchnaut

A pox on the Donkos!

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

They are already infected.

scotchnaut

One of the greatest covers of all time-The Waterboys doing Van Morrison’s Sweet Thing-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Be3OkvBZaIY

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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King Hippo

/will comp to “LESIAN” a time or two. One gets impatient typing…

Viva La Tabula Raza

I thought you were in North Carolina.

King Hippo

spiritually South Dakota tho

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Viva La Tabula Raza

Man, I got some lesians on my dick once after a liberty call in Kuala Lumpur. That was both painful and embarrassing.

Viva La Tabula Raza

I like Mississippi’s combination of anal and amateur. Maybe they ain’t all that dumb down that way after all.
Also, assume NH and RI are both PORM and MD and NJ are both HENTI, according to the color coding?

Gratliff

Liger doing the talk show circuit
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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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scotchnaut

Magnificent band that peaked in the 80’s but is not an ’80’s band’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4UQJwd3awQ

King Hippo

I considered them an 80s band?

scotchnaut

Whoa! You don’t remember?

Gratliff

Opening pitch or furry porn
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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Yes.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Margo Robbie doing some acting stuff.

scotchnaut

“Forget about Clara Bow, Margo is the next “It Girl”!

-Me, getting real cute with the cultural references

Viva La Tabula Raza

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scotchnaut

Unlike Moose, this guy gets It!

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

“Real cute.”

scotchnaut

Thanks, but I’m in a relationship right now.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

So you say……

scotchnaut

I can assure you that I’m very much in love with me.

Senor Weaselo

Oh hey, the end of Life of Brian is on BBC America. And then Holy Grail!

Viva La Tabula Raza

Guess you’re looking on the bright side of life right about now!

Gratliff
Dunstan

You know how some NFL teams make their cheerleaders sign contracts saying they won’t hook up with the players?

I’m wondering if the Patriots make their cheerleaders’ mothers promise not to “distract” Belichek.

herodotus450

Ah patriots cheerleaders, takes me back to that old classic:
“2-4-6-8 if-you’re-black-or-make-more-than-your-proportional-share-of-the-salary-cap-based-on-a-complex-set-of-equations-you’ll-be-cut”

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Also Happy Fucking Friday.

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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

In any of the various meanings, of course.

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King Hippo

that really was a brilliant series

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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scotchnaut

Not a fella you would associate with ‘the 80’s’ but someone that came to great prominence at that time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaGUr6wzyT8

Gratliff

Tonight marks the beginning of the three day retirement ceremony for an absolute legend.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPv5xxUcRYo

Gratliff

Liger-Savage from 1996
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Gratliff

Liger-Owen Hart 1991
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Gratliff

Liger-American Dragon 2000
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Gratliff

Liger-Mysterio 1996
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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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scotchnaut

I went off to the university in the big city in the mid-80’s. My floormates on campus were a wee bit more in touch with what was going on music-wise than I was. The AM radio that I was exposed to was a soul-killer back then. This blew me away.

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

King Hippo

also a demonstration of perhaps my favourite 80s flair – the two-part () titling!

scotchnaut

Hit me with your fave!

King Hippo

Deffo a youth favourite, when charting the Top 40 as a young lad. ALWAYS full title!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tI1_KlO6xI

Viva La Tabula Raza

I got to see David Byrne perform both of these songs on three separate occasions live during his tour last year (twice in San Antonio and once in Baltimore).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8xdsZhfrcA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVrVY540xdc

Definitely a bucket list trifecta.

Viva La Tabula Raza

And this one had the paranthetical at the beginning instead of after.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2twY8YQYDBE

King Hippo

BRACKET parends, no less!

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

I drank and did coke in the 80s….. no particular order.

Viva La Tabula Raza

I still drink (excessively) and do coke (on occasion) 40 years on. Am I hip or just a dinosaur?

King Hippo

perhaps our God??

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

How about consistent.

King Hippo

So I Drank (Did Much Blow)

/there’s your 80s title!

//was disappoint to be about 5 years too late to university for Booger Sugar years

King Hippo

TRUE HIPPO FACT! On a trip to New Bern, I was amused to learn that Pepsi was originally called “Brad’s Drink.”

/also preferred Coke

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Senor Weaselo

Is there tWBS at the iceball BotG?

scotchnaut

Lead singer of Flock of Seagulls gets ‘Worst Haircut of the 80’s” yet bleached white tomahawk travesty xylophone player-playing girlie in Thompson Twins gets a pass? smgdh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opkzgLMH5MA

scotchnaut

Given this observation, I think every one of you might want to entirely re-think that decade.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Viva La Tabula Raza

I turned 21 in 1980. I spent the first half of the decade sailing around Asia and the Indian Ocean, having a lot of fun in liberty ports from Mombasa to Thailand to Hong Kong to Pusan to Singapore to The Philippines to Australia among others. Spent the second half of the 80s in college, which while different from the first half of the decade, was still a lot of fun. I didn’t give a fuck about any musician’s funny haircut, but man I had me a time.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

WTF?? Who is this alleged panel deciding this this? Fuck those people. Both haircuts are an integral part of the 80. We would not be the same advanced human beings without them!

ballsofsteelandfury

Exactly. Those haircuts were awesome.

herodotus450

He ran?

Viva La Tabula Raza

Oh yeah? Watch this!

—Sinead O’Connor & Persis Khambatta

Fronkenshteen

The Flock Of Seagulls episode of the disappeared VH1 show “Bands Reunited” was one of the most genuinely interesting, tear-jerking, and ultimately fist pumping things I’ve ever seen in a music documentary. That is all.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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BrettFavresColonoscopy

I don’t think I’ll ever get over how hot Tina Fey looked as Sarah Palin on SNL.

herodotus450

I know one thing you could try…

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Viva La Tabula Raza

I kinda like her just as Tina Fey. Jealous that Mayhem guy gets to lick her face several times per game on my TV.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

I have a “punishment” in mind…….

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

[Mr. Balls begins typing ‘tente’… “Nope, damn.” ‘tentac…..’]

Senor Weaselo

Nobody on, so it only counts as a ball for illegal pitch.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Viva La Tabula Raza

I have never seen this woman on the TV because I don’t watch too much of the TV, but she seems like fun. A little zaftig, even.

ballsofsteelandfury

She’s been stuck on obscure cable channels/ shows. She really deserves a bigger platform. She’s funny and obviously good looking. I like her despite knowing she’s a Pats fan.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

A funny talented woman? That’s just not how advancement works, Balls.

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Sexy Pool.

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scotchnaut

God I loved this band back then….

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJDzN4RrSt8

scotchnaut

I JUST DON’T GET THE APPEAL OF INCEST PORN.*

*there-I said it

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Everybody says that, and yet it is a HUGE seller/ search item. Especially in red states…..

scotchnaut

I understand that. I STILL DON’T GET IT!

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Don’t you have a good internet connection?

scotchnaut

Somebody done switched the damn goalposts!

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

From forbidden fruit to low-hanging fruit.

Viva La Tabula Raza

They say Vice is Nice, but really, Incest is Best.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

You are bitching about a QB for having one of the best play-off runs ever? Bitching about a SB that your team WON? B He had a damn good run in Baltimore. Not saying he’s a HoF, but jesus fucking christ; the bitterness bitching? Really?

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I am glad LAMAR turned out the way he did; Harbs certainly got that one right.

Senor Weaselo

Who in their right mind would play the world’s smallest violin with only their 3rd and 4th fingers? 2/10.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Retro whoopsie.

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Col. Duke LaCross

Just had my follow up. The first thing they said was that they were shocked at just how well I was moving around less than 24 hours out. So all the gym work the last few months paid off. She said the drains were doing their job and are progressing nicely, but it might be a couple weeks before I can get them yanked. Said the amount of muscle repair they had to do was minimal. And then she changed my bandages and we’ll just say, pulling the old ones off were…unpleasant to say the least. But they said everything looked pretty spectacular. And they think once everything is healed I should look really good. Then she showed me a picture of what they cut off and I almost passed out.? All in all, its going great, just gotta keep doing what I’m doing. Once the nerve blockers wear off though tonight, then things might get a little fun.

Just trying to stay ahead of the game on pain management. The clock is ticking on those nerve blockers. The next couple days might get rough. But once you’re through those, then you can get to healing. Got ALL THE DRUGS.

ballsofsteelandfury

That’s awesome, man! Hope everything continues going well!

King Hippo

You the man, good on you for it all.

scotchnaut

“That extra skin you had removed. Uh, you doing anything with that?”

-S. Naut- N. Ontario

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Deep cu…… never mind.

scotchnaut

The power must be out because things got really dark just now.

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Disney Brand peanut-butter.

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scotchnaut

There will never be anyone more beautiful than Jessica Simpson… I don’t recall this part of Dukes of Hazzard, but still…

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

You may as well go cheap now; the good scotch is wasted at this point.

scotchnaut

I tottally disabreed!

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

I still laughed.

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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Forgot my keys.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Where’s me kilt.

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Sexy arrow in the eye.

Harold understands.