NFL Noise:
- Practiced liar Tom Brady says he never had a “deteriorating relationship” with Josh McDaniels.
- And he posted what amounts to a ransom note on his Instagram page to make his point:
The Beerguyrob Open Thread “Deep Dive”
I’m going to admit that, some days, the topics I find on the various sports websites are banal. But once in a while something shows up that requires some analysis or deeper digging. Rather than make it a separate article, I will present it as a focused discussion topic for the evening. People can choose to follow that direction if they want, but it satisfies my need to do more research & not feel like I’m wasting my time every day.
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It appears Mike Florio has moved on from shit-stirring to dick-sucking, as he expounds today on how COVID could lead to a “boon” in on-field advertising.
- His premise comes from the real possibility that with no fans attending games, owners will need to supplement lost revenue.
- And based on reports that the NFL will allow teams to raise their debt limit from $350 million to $500 million, they are already contemplating huge losses for this season.
- He’s talking about a report from CBS Sports that mentions how deep the losses could be.
- “Games without fans would cost $70 million in gate receipts per team — as a conservative estimate. Count the 10 games (two exhibitions) at a stadium and multiply by $7 million, which several sources indicated would be a fair average across the league.”
- They will save thousands on expenses like event staffing, but lose out on millions in concession sales and parking.
- “Games without fans would cost $70 million in gate receipts per team — as a conservative estimate. Count the 10 games (two exhibitions) at a stadium and multiply by $7 million, which several sources indicated would be a fair average across the league.”
- The CBS author, Jonathan Jones, uses the Packers publicly available numbers as a guide to estimating league-wide numbers.
- One benefit to them being a publicly-owned corporation, and likely a thorn in the NFL’s side, is that this status means they have to publish all their numbers, which reporters can report on & the NFLPA can use to extrapolate bargaining points.
- The numbers show that the Packers “profit from operation” was only $724,000 in 2019, which factors in Aaron Rodgers’ new contract, the free agent signing of the Smiths’, and having to hire Lafleur & company to run the show.
- That will be heavily offset by the huge losses in national & local revenue as a result of steep declines in advertising revenue.
- Both Florio & Jones speculate at where new sources of revenue will come from.
- On the walls surrounding the field;
- Using a tarp across empty seats in the lower bowls;
- On the goal-post net, a very visible placement for field goals;
- In-stadium virtual advertising that could be rotated throughout a game; and – borrowing from Europe & the CFL,
- Ads on jerseys.
- Both of them then come to the same cynical conclusion:
- “And then, once fans are back and the bridge has been crossed, the new approach to advertising will simply continue, ostensibly to help further replace the revenue lost during the 2020 season. Then, after a few years of getting everyone used to it, the ads will just stay put.”
Profit!
Tonight’s … entertainment?:
- Korea Baseball Organization:
- KT Wiz at NC Dinos – 2:30 AM | ESPN2
- Classic WWE:
- WrestleMania 3: From 1987 in Pontiac, Mich. – 8:00 PM | FS1
- Battlebots:
- 5 straight episodes – 7:00PM | TSN2
- Asian Americans – 8:00PM | PBS
- How Asian Americans were targeted as perpetual foreigners during the Cold War.
- An apt comparison to today.
- Odds on George Takei talking about his WWII internment? 20-1
- How Asian Americans were targeted as perpetual foreigners during the Cold War.
- The Happy Day of Garry Marshall – 8:00PM | ABC
- Family and friends share their favorite memories of Hollywood legend Garry Marshall in a one-of-a-kind, heartfelt tribute celebrating his work in TV and Film.
- Ridiculousness – 10:00PM | MTV
- Wrestling legend Chris Jericho joins Rob, Chanel and Steelo to hit the ring with “Paintakers”; get wild with “Literal Lions”; and get betrayed in “Modern Day Judas.”
What’s hilarious with Canadian broadcasting is that they are showing old hockey games but enforcing regional broadcast rights. So, for example, if TSN is showing Winnipeg vs. Dallas for some reason, I can’t watch it because it’s I don’t live in the right part of the country. So I will get dead air on that channel. Canadian broadcasting, everyone!
Albert Brooks and Garry Marshall will always be superstars to me just for this one scene:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrCehxKPJ0s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lc7dmu4G8oc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jhar6uGFQvs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4E4S0XWPMgQ
I a don’t get paid like a magician, but I can make women disappear.
*In a relationshippy way, not a serial killery way.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wIKf6r5t2Y
You know, as long as this shit is going on, I’m just going to post this vid. If you don’t like it just fuck you. I am going to post it every fucking day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_MqfF0WBsU
No need for the hostility; if I don’t like it I won’t hit the little triangle.
You get no argument out of me, friend.
Also “as long as this shit is going on” I’m thinking this will be posted for quite some time.
The opium dens are closed for in-house, but many offer pickup and delivery opium.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmuk2Es8pF4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adU6EYhWrzk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lO5PCpigv4o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRhEoY3V_0c
I’m in trouble with the Dr. Mrs. because I want to turn off this Asian Americans show on PBS to watch something on Netflix.
What is it that I want to watch on Netflix? A Korean show called Crash Landing on You.
Don’t make waves….jussssayin.
Titties
Live? You did say you were watching with a lady friend…
Apparently the FBI accidentally named a Saudi official they believe was assisting the 9/11 hijackers by redacting his name in a release, but missing one instance of it.
https://news.yahoo.com/in-court-filing-fbi-accidentally-reveals-name-of-saudi-official-suspected-of-directing-support-for-911-hijackers-224555851.html
That’s what we need right now, an 18-year-old scandal to dogpile on top all the current shit that’s going on! Distract for November!
Waiting for Trump to get yelled at by a group of reporters and just shout that Bush did 9/11.
No, he’s going to say Obama did 9/11, get it right.
Can’t believe Kenya did 9/11
Ken Watanabe did 9/11?
When I don’t have anything to do or watch, I always somehow come back to re-watching Scrubs, so time for another re-watch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RY7S6EgSlCI
I visited Perth Australia in 1983, fully aware thanks to this band and the singer with the Marty Feldman Eye of something called Vegemite. I tried Vegemite whilst on liberty, and it absolutely sucked. I’d rather suck dirty stump water through a pygmy blow gun. I still like OZ bands like INXS, Men at Work, and of course as previously stated here, Midnight Oil.
The vegemite/marmite thing is a practical joke on English and Australian people that has gone too far
I never use it by itself, but Marmite is useful in cooking as an umami booster. Add a small amount to chili, etc.
I’ve known way too many mutants who eat the shit on toast because they are a broken people
No marmite? No spotted dick? End of the world, mate.
Yummy.
Ohhhh shit… at the scene where the old ppl jump off the rock and die….
The ABC Gary Marshall special was a punch in the feelings.
I’ve been calling this since last fall, and even more so since mid-March
Senior White House advisor Jared Kushner was asked if the 2020 presidential election could be postponed during an interview with TIME magazine.
“I’m not sure I can commit one way or the other, but right now that’s the plan,” Kushner said.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/jared-kushner-non-committal-when-asked-if-2020-election-could-be-delayed
It pisses me off that the press would frame this question in such a way, as though it were up to them in the slightest. Elections are run by the states. If Mango attempted to postpone it, all that would happen is that blue states would go ahead with it, and no matter what kind of fight ensued his term would end in January of 2021. It’s very clearly laid out in the Consitution.
And it’s worth remembering that he’s pulling the same old Trump bullshit – he’s “noncommittal” because HE DOESN’T FUCKING KNOW.
I think that is the go-to for this administration. They just don’t fucking know, nor do they care that they don’t know. Just make it up as they go long.
If I were a modern loan shark, my muscle guy would be nicknamed “Sniffles”.
/turns on the Maple Leaf signal
Is this true?
I’m gonna pass it around to my fellow US Govt employees as if it were. Although we in the Dept of Defense are kinda getting this overarching message anyway. I get the feeling our military leadership does not necessarily trust this administration, and are only paying lip service to that fucking madman, nod and smile.
I’m a state employee in Michigan, albeit in education, and I’ve gotten similar memos from our superintendent. Gonna go ahead and guess that this varies wildly from state to state and department to department. It’s a hell of a thing going from soulless money machines for venture capital firms to public education. I’ll never leave it if the choice is left up to me.
It’s accurate. We got roughly the same guidelines from the school board and the Ministry of Education.
Humane business. What a concept. ✊?
Passing fad for about 50 years, mid-20th century. Anachronism now, back to the gilded age.
gilded with shit
More like gelded age amirite?
I am a federal employee and the crown corporation I work for did not get that. We are getting absolutely crushed with 75% of the workforce due to distancing and quarantining.
That was issued by Parks Canada from what I investigated.
Found a funny:
ALRIGHT STOP
pull up your pants and listen
public parks are a bad spot for pissin
SOMETHING
grabs a hold of my shoulder
under arrest for indecent exposure
That’s so stupid.
+1
Gonna watch this movie Midsommar with a lady friend.
oh here we go….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0L8rmngBCy4
Must be the work of David Coppafeel.
Raymond Chandler
“There is no bad whiskey – there are only some whiskeys that aren’t as good as others.” Treating the stuff like a modern day blogger would Red Bull, Raymond Chandler would have been the first to admit that he didn’t control his drink, it controlled him. When he was commissioned to whip up the screenplay for The Blue Dahlia in 1945, he got writer’s block, forcing him to tell his new studio employers that the only way he could finish the script was to do so while blind drunk, which he duly did. The story goes that Paramount honcho John Houseman, who was earlier invited over for a lunch by Chandler (and by lunch we mean a small meal which involved three double martinis, three brandies and a crème de menthe), was the one who found Chandlder passed out at his desk having finished the script, all neatly stacked next to some empty bottles.
Drink of choice – Gimlet
“Half gin and half Rose’s lime juice and nothing else”, as described in Chandler’s 1953 classic The Long Goodbye.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/12/us/bigamy-decriminalized-utah-trnd/index.html
Suddenly, my Emma Stone/Scarlett Johansson fantasy just became legally plausible.
Moose, if you want to fool around, open a private chat window!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vewBQkBKm5M
Certainly no less plausible
Hold up, considering that outlawing bigamy was a condition for Utah to enter the Union (heh), does that mean that they’ve seceded?
Good thing it wasn’t a suppository
We watched both episodes of the Asian Americans thing last night. It was pretty decent, though it’s kind of depressing how even California was as awful to minorities as every other American state at one point in time.
The largest-ever chapter of the KKK was located in – – Anaheim California!
Aw, now I’m blushing.
I mean, notable racist Walt Disney did call it the happiest place on earth.
“Even California was as awful to minorities as every other American state.”
-RTD, waking up to the fresh taste of Folgers and his preconceived notions
Hello Mr Pug.
Just ask the folks that lived up in Chavez Ravine how that shit worked out. Suck Satan’s cock, O’Malley.
If you’re wondering why a ball hog didn’t win an NBA champeenship, this doc is right up your alley
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8KjFuirJ_w
Because they were talkin’ bout… practice?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGDBR2L5kzI
Ooook, [hates watching those highlights again.]
Reggie Miller looked weird.
I asked Tom Chambers why he was such a gunner on an after game radio show in Seattle. He was pissed,but the crowd in the bar thought it was funny!
#MaidinAmeerica!
Diebeeeeteeez butt.
Or those that appreciate leg room
#WideStance
#Elephantiasis
That seat would snap like a twig, causing them to crash ass first into the bowl and get stuck.
Not complaining, just making idle conversation.
Steel with white enamel.
I’m going to admit that, some days, the topics I find on the various sports websites are banal.
Just like BallsOfSteel, except you added a “b” for some reason.
This is true
Good news! Arizona is opening for sports starting on Saturday, they just need to stay six feet apart *winks*
Lawn bowling?
“We can do that!” – Raiders cornerbacks, before crashing into each other
“Six yards minimum distancing from receivers? Sounds good.”
Oh fuck, what season of BattleBots?
I also watch a show called BortleBots.
BortleBorts?
I think I speak for myself when I say that the 31 billionaire owners can eat shit and the loss of revenue. Fucking welfare queen crybaby motherfuckers
Tuna Streak Man gasps.
Aboriginal cave wall art?
Okay, now I’m no getting your jokes, at all.
precursor
I’d have loved to take a ride in this on it’s first flight. Not on it’s second, which was also it’s last, since it crashed.
Were I capable of shame, I’d feel some due to how much I enjoyed this.
You were only supposed to blow the bloody submarine screen doors off!
Depp’s an M at his most rotund smh
Heh.
WE GOT FUN AND GAMES
“Were things fucked up at Tule Lake War Relocation Center? Oh my!”
—GT