Your “It Must Be High School, Because Not Everyone Gets Picked” Wednesday Evening Open Thread

NFL Noise:

• Jadeveon Clowney has come to the realization that he has set his price too high.
  • He has announced, via Houston radio interview, that he’d go back to the Seahawks, if they are willing to sign him.
    • “I did like it up there. I love Russ (Russell Wilson). I love all the guys I played with. J. Reed (Jarran Reed), B. Jack (Branden Jackson), all them boys in my (defensive) room. I respect them guys.”
  • In addition to his recent price drop, he might take a one-year contract in order to boost his price for future years.

• Dolphins top pick Tua Tagovailoa has chosen his jersey number.
  • He will wear #1, as opposed to the #13 he wore in college, because he respects the fine folks at Isotoner Dan Marino too much to ask for it to be unretired for him. 
    • According to ESPN, Tagovailoa will be the seventh player in franchise history to wear No. 1 in a regular-season game. Many of the previous players to wear it were specialists, such as:
      • punter Matt Turk (2000-04)
      • kicker Garo Yepremian (1970-78),
      • kicker Tony Franklin (1988),
      • kicker Dan Carpenter (2008), and
      • kicker Cody Parkey (2017)
  • Here’s how he announced it:

For the Audience of 1🙏🏽 pic.twitter.com/kZYXaYVD1R

— Tua. T 🇦🇸 (@Tua) May 6, 2020

• Florio stirs more Green Bay shit today by suggesting trade options for the Packers should they want to unload A-A-Ron.
  • Via a lengthy thought process – likely over an Allagash White with Peter King – he narrows down where:
    • Not a division rival.
      • When Favre was traded to the Jets, there was a clause inserted that the Packers got the Jets first-round picks for three years if they passed him on to the Bears, Lions or Vikings.
        • Since it was only a one-year deal, they got nothing when he showed up in Minneapolis the year after.
    • Not a conference rival.
      • The 49ers would be the best choice, but he likely wouldn’t want to be that close to his family.
  • So, Florio anticipates the AFC, and either the Raiders or Jets, with the broncos an outside shot if Elway wants to go the Peyton Manning route again.

Finally, with the schedule release set for tomorrow night, in a three-hour spectacular on the NFL Network,

the league has announced its proposed refund policy.

• National disgrace Roger Goodell wrote that “all clubs will have in place a policy under which, if a game is cancelled, or is played under conditions that prohibit fans from attending, anyone purchasing a ticket directly from the club (i.e., season tickets, group sales and/or partial season plans) will have the option of either receiving a full refund or applying the amount paid toward a future ticket purchase directly from the club.”
  • As for the secondary market, ESPN notes that, “the league received pledges from Ticketmaster and SeatGeek to make full refunds available for all ticket sales within no more than 30 days of cancellation. StubHub, however, will do so only where required by state law.”
• Playing a full schedule will also depend on whether the teams’ states get in line with the NFL’s wishes.
  • Given the 50-50 mix between Red & Blue states, the league will be subject to the whims of local governments, until ol’ Rog is able to fund the guerrillas.

Today’s good internet dog apparently has some words on TN Senator Marsha Blackburn’s “Stop COVID Act”, or “Stop China-Originated Viral Infectious Diseases (COVID) Act”,

https://twitter.com/Doh_Doh_Burrd/status/1258126972628205570

“Under this legislation,” she told FOX News, “Americans will have the opportunity to take China to court in the U.S. and demand accountability for their lies and deceit.”

Blackburn references the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act as the cornerstone of the Stop COVID Act. Passed in 1976, this act establishes whether a foreign sovereign nation may be sued in U.S. courts. However, “past iterations of this have included restoring ownership of Nazi-seized paintings, whereas Blackburn’s initiative stands to attack the entire Chinese government on grounds that they brought the novel coronavirus to America.”

https://twitter.com/kazweida/status/1258059093580759041

I can’t wait until some MAGA-type tries holding a consulate hostage until he gets a new truck.

Tonight’s … entertainment?:

• Wrasslin’:
  • AEW Dynamite – 8:00PM | TNT / TSN2
  • NXT – 8:00PM | USA
• Korea Baseball Organization:
  • Doosan Bears at LG Twins – 2:30 AM | ESPN2
• H2O: The Molecule That Made Us – 9:00 PM | PBS
  • How is Earth’s changing water cycle — and water for profit.
• What We Do in the Shadows – 10:00PM | FX
  • Colin Robinson gets promoted at work and his new power threatens the balance of power in the vampire house.
• Top 50 Curling Shots of All-Time – 10:30PM | TSN
  • Where will Sandra Schmirler land?

So prepare yourselves for some actual sports-related content tomorrow night.