Your “Don’t Hand Me No Lines” Thursday Evening Open Thread

NFL Notes: kind of quiet in advance of the games

• Agent Drew Rosenhaus has conditionally terminated his relationship with Antonio Brown.
  • He has gone through the process of informing the league and the NFLPA, so as not to risk damage to his ability to work with both in the future.
    • And if you want to dive deep into some veiled anti-semitism without logging onto Twitter, have a gander at PFT’s user comments about Rosenhaus.
  • He says he will rescind this termination if Brown seeks counselling and “help” for the issues he’s currently facing.

• Since none of the Championship game participants wants to talk, how about a little Joe Burrow news:
  • The Bengals are very impressed with Burrow’s level of maturity & “pocket presence”.
    • Conveniently, they are some of the coaches for the Senior Bowl next weekend.
      • Burrow has not declared if he will attend.
  • In the LSU postgame celebration, Burrow said OBJ handed out real cash to players.  
    • Burrow isn’t afraid of repercussions because he’s done, but some other players might have eligibility issues as a result.
      • And it might force LSU to have to “dissociate” itself from Beckham, the way USC had to with Reggie Bush, to avoid punitive sanction.

• Fallout continues for OBJ from the LSU game.
  • He faces arrest for slapping the butt of a NOLA PD officer in the LSU locker room.  
    • A warrant was issued against him for simple battery.
      • The PD initially sought a warrant for sexual battery, but were denied.
  • Thanks to that warrant, he now faces a hearing for violating the NFL’s ambiguous Personal Conduct Policy.
    • For the battery charge, “crimes against law enforcement, such as obstruction, resisting arrest, or harming a police officer or other law enforcement officer”.
    • For the LSU money, “conduct that undermines or puts at risk the integrity of the NFL, NFL clubs, or NFL personnel”.

Tonight’s sports:

• NHL: (all Canadian games are regional broadcasts only)
  • Lightning at Wild – 8:00PM | NBCSN
• NBA:
  • Celtics at Bucks – 8:00PM | TNT / TSN
  • Nuggets at Warriors – 10:30PM | TNT / TSN
• NCAA:
  • Men’s hoops:
    • Cincinnati at Memphis – 7:00PM | ESPN
    • Colorado at Arizona State – 9:00PM | ESPN2
    • Oregon at Washington State – 9:00PM | FS1
  • Women’s Hoops:
    • Stanford at Oregon – 9:00PM | ESPN

Seamus has you tomorrow night with his particular inspirations, I’ll have something general for Saturday because I’ll be drinking from 11:00AM on a stag, and Scotchy’s got you on Sunday for the Championship games. WHAT A LINEUP!