NFL Nuggets:
- The League has issued guidelines for how players may return to team facilities.
- The guidelines, all nine pages in pdf form here for your edification, breaks down the different components of players & teams and how they have to monitor:
- access, physical distancing, facility and equipment cleaning and disinfectant, food service, personal protective equipment and hygiene, compliance with protocols and education on the spread and prevention of infection.
- One thing that all teams will have to do is provide a list of all employees who might have access to the facility, and what their level of contact between each other might be.
- Tier 1: Essential & on-field personnel
- Tier 2: Non-playing personnel who are required to be in close contact with Tier 1 individuals
- Tier 3: Non-playing personnel who provide essential facility or team services but do not require contact with Tier 1 individuals
- The guidelines, all nine pages in pdf form here for your edification, breaks down the different components of players & teams and how they have to monitor:
- The NFLPA, however, has issued a statement informing players that these guidelines were established & distributed without the union’s approval or consent.
- In their view, the only players who should be attending team facilities at present are those already attending for rehab purposes.
- One player not planning to report – Dalvin Cook.
- He wants an extension on par with what Zeke, Todd Gurley & David Johnson got.
- As he calls it, a “reasonable” deal.
- Zeke held out last year & was rewarded with a six-year, $90 million extension.
- But they have other financial problems to deal with as well.
- He wants an extension on par with what Zeke, Todd Gurley & David Johnson got.
The #Vikings have until 7/15 to extend franchise-tagged Anthony Harris, who will likely need top safety money ($15M). Dalvin Cook’s contract may be addressed after this hurdle is cleared.
FWIW: Per the new CBA, it’s also VERY unlikely Cook holds out into the season.
— Spotrac (@spotrac) June 8, 2020
- Oh goody – just in time for the league to reopen, the President has started in again on Roger Goodell.
- It seems Donald J. has issue with Roger’s mea culpa on the league’s institutional racism from the weekend.
- “We are listening. I am listening,” has been MAGA’d into Goodell “intimating that it would now be O.K. for the players to KNEEL, or not to stand, for the National Anthem, thereby disrespecting our Country & our Flag?”
- It seems Donald J. has issue with Roger’s mea culpa on the league’s institutional racism from the weekend.
Could it be even remotely possible that in Roger Goodell’s rather interesting statement of peace and reconciliation, he was intimating that it would now be O.K. for the players to KNEEL, or not to stand, for the National Anthem, thereby disrespecting our Country & our Flag?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 8, 2020
Tonight’s MXC Monday is Fashion vs. Religion – “Good looks versus the Good Book”.
Of course, plenty of people will eat shiitake in this episode. It’s true what Ken says – “Male models get so many chicks they’re sick of them. That’s why you never see them with any girls.”
Tonight’s … entertainment?:
- Wrasslin’:
- Monday Night Raw – 8:00PM | USA / Sportsnet360
- 30 for 30 – 8:00 PM | ESPN2
- “Be Water” An intimate look at the complex and seismic journey of film and martial arts icon Bruce Lee, as told through his family and friends.
- Premiered yesterday. There’s a pretty good review of it here.
- “Be Water” An intimate look at the complex and seismic journey of film and martial arts icon Bruce Lee, as told through his family and friends.
- The Titan Games – 8:00PM | NBC
- Finals from the Central Division, where the winner moves on to face a pro Titan on Mt. Olympus in the consummate athletic test.
- Botched – 9:00PM | E! / 10:00PM | E! Canada
- A countdown of the most outrageous before and afters. Dr. Dubrow and Dr. Nassif treat some of the most troublesome cases, which later reveal incredible results. Transformations include a witch nose, double bubble breasts and more.
Well, at least the NFL is lurching forward towards a season. MLB is slowly working its way towards cancellation due to their inability to figure out how to divide billions into millions.
I saw Rikki with my own two unemployed eyes earlier tonight. He brought me In-n-Out. Oh sure, I brought the beer, and your gonna focus on that because it feels like I broke into a neighbors backyard, but it’s true, I swears it!
I saw a Quinceañera at the East side OTB in Wichita, KS (neutral) tonight. The last time I was there for one was 2009 at an In-N-Out in Oxnard, CA.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awLoSEJc-ec
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_Flynn_(photojournalist)
You’re a movie (and camera) guy, did you ever hear why the Robert Capa biopic never happened?
No, I’ve never even heard of it.
I’ve heard, variously, that Sean Penn or Pierce Brosnan may have had the rights to his bio “Slightly out of Focus”, but then I’m a dumbass steelworker from Canadia, so whats do I know?
More than I do. Movies “in development” are a vaporous thing. I do post-production, where they’ve already sank a fortune into shooting it, so now they have to hire us to finish it.
I have a suggestion and please feel free to stop an old entitled white guy but let’s start with bringing funding back to the arts and sports programs, inner city first. These schools, at least in LA are completely underfunded and have no social activities. Their first job is to get the kids away from school as soon as possible.
When I was a middle school/high school kid we had youth centers where we could go instead of doing nothing but starting shit. Intramural programs sports and music are an artistic outlet that may let some of these kids find an avenue to improve.
I’m just throwing ideas out there but we have to do this.
We have to change!
I’m not suggesting I have all of the answers but we have to discuss and we can not stop discussing.
We’ve been implicit and we damn sure better help find an answer.
WineWife is mad at my semi-regular post-meal nap. I thought she’d appreciate the break.
Malcolm in the Murder
“Bjork” made me snort energy drink out my nose.
Surprised you had not seen this before. Glad you got a snicker.
We just need to trick her into going to the South Sudan.
That’s USC but the gif is looking at a different side of this building:
This building was demolished in 1948 so don’t go looking for it.
I was on the bench post-pitching performance at a tournament and yelled at our catcher to tag him because the runner missed the plate.
We still lost by several runs.
Ubiquity of tipping is a good indicator of how much of a scam the rest of the country’s economy is.
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How many of those countries have ever won a Super Bowl?
The EXACT amount that have participated in the tournament. Weird.
because they don’t try
Been cackling at this for 10 minutes.
Roger Goodell would make Orenthal James Simpson the spokesman for the NFL if he thought it would help with ratings.
That would be hilarious
I would watch the hell out of that
I’m trying to figure out what stadium that is. It’s definitely not the Coliseum, but it’s big. It could be the Rose Bowl, because they’ve rebuilt the upper areas over the years so they look different now . . .
I spent a bit of time at Incirlik AB in Adana, Turkey back in the 1999-2003 timeframe. This was the time of Operation Northern Watch. Whenever I was there for a visit, I’d get up at dawn to watch the US F-15s and RAF Tornados take off with full bombracks. They were usually back before noon, empty bombracks. So when we attacked Saddam in ’03, it was no surprise that the Allied bombing effort in the north was so effective. They’d been practicing with live rounds for a fucking decade.
If Trump ever decides to declare war on NCAA football, at least the B-2 pilots sitting there at Whiteman AFB in Knob Knoster MO have had plenty of practice, per Brick’s pics above.
You can see the smoke from the anti-aircraft guns in the stadium yet they never can hit the bomber. That’s because it’s invisible.
Stolen technology
USC and Paedo State.
So many rapists wouldn’t be alive today if that B-2 had a payload “malfunction”
That whole fucking band
It’s definitely the Rose Bowl
The logo on the 50 is the Rose Bowl.
I meant the stadium in the Buster Keaton gif
I realized that after I posted it.
it’s ok man
I didn’t realize it until I read this.
The Buster Keaton gif was from “College” and it was shot at the Coliseum.
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0017765/
I looked at pictures of the Coliseum but the portals didn’t match, but I guess they’ve rebuilt that too over the years. It didn’t really match the Rose Bowl either, if you looked close enough.
Now if I look at old enough pictures the portals match:
Now here they’ve expanded the upper seats (and moved the portals) but that big field level entrance is the same:
FUN FACT: Since “The Coliseum” is clearly Roman inspired, the latin term for a stadium portal is a vomitoreum.
Because it’s so late I will repeat this fun fact in the near future.
Also heads up
Massive Duck Army is on the move!
Quack Quack
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-51658145
Last funny:
nancy pelosi getting “wakanda foreva” tattooed on her forearms so you’ll stop asking about federal student loans forgiveness
This is just reality
Looks like this was the one where they messed with his back port…..
My nine-year-old niece had been eating pretzels. She asked for a glass of water. I asked if everything was okay, she responded: “These pretzels are making me thirsty.” She has never seen, nor heard of, Seinfeld.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIypMI_zXSQ
I’m glad they were pretzels; she’s not ready for the beer nuts joke yet.
LOL
I thought Sylvia Plath was only 30 years old when she offed herself in the oven.
The GIF of the movie shows an electric oven; the lack of the mother-in-law’s commitment is the joke.
Really didn’t appreciate how much early MadTV tried to be a live action version of the magazine. Of course, I was only 12 when it premiered.
I had moved on from MAD to National Lampoon over 20 years before MAD TV came out, so I missed out on all that.
My dad was 12 20 years before Mad TV
Well, I was sixteen then (as I understand Mad TV came on in 1995), we’re not that far apart….
Here’s The Mike Wallace Interview, with Texas oil millionaire Glen McCarthy. The whole interview is great, but the first two minutes are incredible. They don’t make TV like this any more.
https://hrc.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p15878coll90/id/17/
Wow, that makes Mike Wallace’s career with (checks notes) the Dolphins? All that much more impressive given how much he’s smoking here.
Is that a spaghetti western or a sauerkraut western?
Dubbed spaghetti, but we need to save the term sauerkraut western for later because we know it will make a good brat joke.
“Sorry, babe…just not that India.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wv-34w8kGPM
Picket Fences was a good show, and her and Holly Marie Combs were two — four? — of the reasons why.
I cannot fathom how the NFLPA keeps getting outplayed by these assholes.
— Democratic Party
This kid’s in the ninth grade, Dude, and his father is — are you ready for this? Arthur Digby Sellers.
Who the fuck is Arthur Digby Sellers?
Who the f— have you ever heard of a little show called Branded, Dude?
Yeah.
“All but one man died? There at Bitter Creek?”
Yeah, yeah, I know the fucking show, Walter. So what?
Fucking Arthur Digby Sellers wrote 156 episodes, Dude. The bulk of the series. Not exactly a lightweight. And yet his son is a fucking dunce.
Because the Democrats are paid to lose.
Oops, never mind, missed something.
Greetings from Moundsville, West-by-God Virginia. Wifey’s 88-year-old, Navy veteran grandfather fell three times the other day, so we’re all down here, trying to take care of everyone.
Don’t make a Life Alert joke, don’t make a Life Alert joke…
He has Life Alert. Instead of using it, he apparently dragged himself across the first floor to use the phone, to call my sister-in-law, who pays for his Life Alert.
Logan’s Run wasn’t entirely awful.
Anyone care to recommend me a rum? Something good enough to sip on its own but that I won’t feel badly about mixing in a dark and stormy or something.
Bacardi 8 if you can find it. It’s wonderful.
No luck on the 8, but a 10 yr gran reserva?
I’m a terrible human being and drink Kraken when I can find it. I like dark rums.
Buddy of mine and his wife were over for a swim and a grill-up on Memorial Day, they BYO’d a bottle of Kraken. I realized they liked spiced rum and thus it was time; sent them home with two bottles of Captain Jack’s Spiced Rum that had been clogging up my liquor cabinet since 2012. They were please. Spiced rum, like wine coolers, is for chicks.
Present company excepted, of course.
Appleton Estates makes a number of varieties to suit all budgets. Like any liquor, usually the more it costs the older, smoother, and more pleasant it is.
I drank Osco brand rum before a Rush concert once because we were out of beer.
I would not recommend Osco brand rum.
(Osco is the parent company of Sav-on Drugs)
When I first moved to Venice CA from back east, I was amazed by two liter plastic jugs of Sav-On brand charcoal-filtered vodka stacked like pyramids in the drugstore.
Yeah, this is the land of milk and honey.
Thanks for all the suggestions, serious and otherwise.
I’m ordering from BevMo, so decent selection but not spectacular.
I’ll also take nominations for mezcal or anejo tequila, or a nice peppery rye.
It depends on what type of rum you want. If you’re looking for a blanco, I’d go Puerto Rican with Don Q. If you’re looking for an añejo or “gold”, WCS’ recommendation of Bacardi 8 is good. If you’re looking for a dark rum, I’d go Myers.
Recently I’ve been drinking Ron Zapaca 23, and that’s been quite nice. But it’s got me thinking that there’s a lot more rums I should explore.
I’ve had that rum! Yes, it’s pretty good.
If you’re looking to try something completely different, try rhum agricole from Martinique.
As for añejo tequila, is that also for mixing or just straight sipping? Cazadores will work for both, but you can get better tequilas if you want a smooth sip without mixing.
As for mezcal, just make sure it’s from Oaxaca.
Yeah, I always keep some Cazadores around, especially the blanco. Looking for something a little different.
There’s a lower (though not bottom) shelf tequila available here in Texas called 3 Caballos. Good enough to sip, but inexpensive enough to make margs with. Me and a buddy of mine drank an entire 750 one night and neither of us had a hangover next day. Don’t see that it’s available on Bevmo, though. Total Wine has it, though… I am not familiar with buying booze on line.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUfWdi0oaLQ
I thought that was just a drug-running front business, like Pollo Hermanos
Well, with a name like Caballos, I guess they’re running heroin/horse.
Goslings
We give The Shield lots of shit (and with good reason), but they are handling Roni and getting ready for a safe-ish season in much more logical, organized fashion…than say, EL BEISBOL.
Also, to carry over from the early thread, Tame Impala is the tits.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnKUD_OztRE
More of Brick Meathook’s Library
Well now this section is just full of surprises. Let’s look at them L-R, one by one:
There’s a shooting script for Blades of Glory and a spiral bound corporate seminar handout;
The Big Rich about Texas oil fortunes. Glen McCarthy is the best (I’ll link his interview with Mike Wallace, the opening of which has to seen to be believed), but also H.L. Hunt and his two idiot sons plus the other son who founded the KC Chiefs, and Clint Murchison who founded the Dallas Cowboys;
Ballpark is about every ballpark in MLB;
A Life in Movies by Hollywood Producer Irwin Winkler. Winkler signed this for me after I saw him on stage at the LACMA theater being interviewed by Nicholas Pileggi. That theater was torn down this year along with the rest of LACMA. That big stupid rock is still there;
A copyright book;
Two GREAT Howard Hughes books, probably the two best, and I’ve read them all;
A printmaking book, a recording book, a private pilot book, another copyright book, and a contract book;
A bound collection of all the issues of National Lampoon from May 1971 to April 1972;
The National Geographic issue with that chick who is staring right through your skull and through the wall and into a room across the street. It’s one of the most iconic photos in history, and they eventually found her in Afghanistan years later. They verified it by her retinas. She had no idea about the photo or her fame so I’m pretty sure they got her to sign (or put an “X” on) a blanket release form for, like, a jar of honey or something.
Wait till you see the stuff three shelves directly above this.
I’ve still got the bound Nat Lamps for 1974. I have so much stuff I need to get rid of.
Man, I remember holding that Nat Geo cover up with one hand.
Really? I have never once thought of that cover in sexual terms until just now, and now it kind of frightens me. I’ll bet Viva La Tabula Raza has, though; she’s probably got a bush like the Amazon-fucking-rainforest.
For enough money or absinthe, I’ll draw it.
Funnily enough, when I was in Kabul back in 2007, a framed copy of that photo (stand-alone and not the mag cover) featured prominently in at least 3 villas and 2 restaurants in the Wazir-Akbar-Khan district (google-able) in which all of us NATO, ISAF, and US forces of a civilian persuasion hunkered down. Strangely enough, it never evoked any sexual excitement whatsoever in me. Maybe because Afghanistan was such an incredible boner-killer over all.
Is the copyright book just a series of photos of senators sucking off Mickey Mouse?
Welp, Speed is now ruined for me. They are showing the iconic scene where he had to jump the gap with the bus. It went to the part where Keanu Reeves says “Its a interchange. There might be an incline.” All a sudden I said, wouldn’t that mean ramps?
Sure enough, on the ramp to the gap, there is a fork to the left that appears to be a completed ramp.
But if they went that way, they wouldn’t have been able to go to airport and save the passengers. So I guess I can forgive that. Except there was a freaking HOV exit to the left that went the exact same way! Come on!
tl;dr I miss sports.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKJa-KQNjQU
Found a funny:
US high schools make you read “To Kill a Mockingbird” and are like “that’s enough learning about racism”
As long as we have wise old southern lawyers around, it’s all good.
they’uns always know wut’s best! – Jefferson Beauregard S., Lickspittle, AL
Banned in Texas and Kansas!
if we were allowed to watch “People vs. Larry Flynt” on a high school bus trip, kids nowadays should be able to watch “Django Unchained”.
Django Unchained should be mandatory viewing for all. Along with Requiem For A Dream.
They leaves an impression no lecture ever could.
And The Jazz Singer for its groundbreaking use of synchronized sound.
(NOTE: That’s Al Jolson not Justin Trudeau)
Also, I realize everyone hates Trump around these parts, but I’ve got to admit I did like him giving Goodell shit.
LOL Trump is gonna keep twisting Goodells arm and giving him shit. Cause he thinks goodell is weak.
Because he is weak.
They both are weak. And stupid. And they will never change.
It is the one and only circumstance I will side with Gingerballs Hammer.
Can’t we hate them both?
I LOVE MXC MONDAYS!!
Let’s not forget Lyndon Baines Johnson, Jr. who has recorded 2 tackles in his 2 seasons in the NFL with 4 teams, but who can’t quite make it off the practice squad. Whip out Jumbo!
Another Groundhog Week begins.
You might as well put this post on repeat for every Monday.
“I Noh, right?”
-Kenny