NFL Nuggets:
- It’s a quiet day inside the NFL bubble.
- Today was the deadline for players to voluntarily opt out of the 2020 season & have their contracts roll over to 2021.
- A total of 66 players officially took the offer prior to the 4:00PM ET deadline.
- Under the arrangement worked out between the NFL and the NFLPA, a player can still opt out later if one of the following applies:
- if that player gets a new diagnosis that he has a high-risk condition; or
- if a player’s family member dies, is hospitalized or otherwise moves to a medical facility because of COVID-19 or related condition.
- PFT notes that there are economic incentives for some to opt out.
- For example, if a player has a $10 million fully-guaranteed salary in 2020, a $10 million non-guaranteed salary in 2021, and half of the 2020 season is lost, the player would receive $5 million in 2020, and $5 million of his $10 million base salary in 2021 would become fully guaranteed.
- He will actually make more guaranteed money in a year that would have been otherwise non-guaranteed.
- For example, if a player has a $10 million fully-guaranteed salary in 2020, a $10 million non-guaranteed salary in 2021, and half of the 2020 season is lost, the player would receive $5 million in 2020, and $5 million of his $10 million base salary in 2021 would become fully guaranteed.
- Today was the deadline for players to voluntarily opt out of the 2020 season & have their contracts roll over to 2021.
- Someone has finally worked out an approximation of how much money the NFL stands to lose from lost ticket sales.
- The total amount is estimated to be $7.0 billion.
- The sum comes from an estimation of the four hottest ticket markets, with an extrapolation for the other 28 teams.
- In 2020, the hottest tickets were expected to be the Giants & Jets, the Eagles, and the Raiders.
- These four teams were expected to reap $1.3 billion in initial sales & percentages off of resales.
- In 2020, the hottest tickets were expected to be the Giants & Jets, the Eagles, and the Raiders.
- TicketiQ then used each team’s resale markups from 2019 to extrapolate where those prices would have gone in 2020.
- The loss is estimated at $218 million per team.
- The sum comes from an estimation of the four hottest ticket markets, with an extrapolation for the other 28 teams.
- The total amount is estimated to be $7.0 billion.
Hey look – it’s Beerguyrob, fresh back from a week of… a week. Here’s the Coles’ notes:
- Riga had to have the dog ACL surgery.
- She’s on the shelf until November, at which point both she & Antonio Brown will be eligible to play.
- Called a Tibial Plateau Leveling Osteotomy, or TPLO, they remove the remnants of the torn Cranial Cruciate Ligament & realign the tibia using a steel plate.
- In two weeks she can have her cone removed.
- In four weeks she can go for walks outside the yard for 15-minute walks.
- In six weeks I return to school, so my summer is now resigned to monitoring her recovery.
- I suffered a partially dislocated shoulder, which is actually worse than a full dislocation.
- I was riding my bike, when a jaywalker on her phone walked into the lane in front of me. I hit a wall with my shoulder & heard three distinct pops.
- Went to a clinic instead of the hospital, because of the COVID. If I still have restricted motion after this week, I have to go in & get a CT Scan.
- I was riding my bike, when a jaywalker on her phone walked into the lane in front of me. I hit a wall with my shoulder & heard three distinct pops.
- Chores!
- Instead of just drinking, I got two days of drinking & three days of scraping & removing loose paint from the garage before repainting.
Best laid plans…
Tonight’s sports:
- NHL:
- Vegas vs. St. Louis – 6:30PM | NBCSN / Sportsnet360
- Toronto vs. Columbus – 8:00PM | NBCSN / Sportsnet
- Calgary vs. Winnipeg – 10:30PM | CNBC / Sportsnet
- NBA:
- Los Angeles Clippers vs. Dallas Mavericks – 6:30PM | TNT / TSN2
- Los Angeles Lakers vs. Houston Rockets – 9:00PM | TNT / TSN2
- MLS is Back Tournament:
- Orlando City SC vs. Minnesota United – 8:00PM | ESPN2 / TSN
- MLB:
- Toronto at Atlanta – 7:00PM | Sportsnet1
- Cheatstros at Arizona or Cubs at Royals – 7:00PM | FOX
- Southern Hemisphere tackle sports:
- Super Rugby Australia:
- Rebels vs. Brumbies – 5:00AM | TSN
- Australian Rules Football:
- Essendon vs. GWS – 5:30AM | TSN5 / ESPN+
- Super Rugby Australia:
And just like that, I’m done for the week. Balls has something special for you tomorrow, and I’ll be back on the weekend with my usual pre-taped goodness.
[…] I wished for BGR to be rollicking in mirth. Rob ended up having a partially dislocated shoulder and Riga blew out her ACL. So for tonight, Beerguyrob: I hope your mother is redecorating her place and slathers the guilt […]
One step closer to DONKS.
https://twitter.com/MaseDenver/status/1291411940770635776
This works for the entire division, right?
CHEFS
BONCOS
RIDERS
CHARGES
HAHAHAHAHAHA!
“Whoa! Too much light, LOL!”
-J. Conrad
“Inhumanity, n. One of the signal and characteristic qualities of humanity.”
― Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil’s Dictionary
Nice shot.
The crazy thing is he hit the bumper. The front bumper!
And it was not a British Pinto.
Ah, that explains Beirut.
Raimund Harmstorf and Bud Spencer in They Call Him Bulldozer (1978) aka Uppercut
Nailed it!
*Peter Parkour working without a web. Not colourized 1915.
And when Johnny got a little older, all the Kermit puppet could express was shame.
“The fisting will continue until everyone is happy, damnit!”
-The motto of Jim Henson’s “Muppet Camp”
Miss Piggy: Come here and tell me about your problems, Kermi-wermie!
Kermit: NEVER CALL ME THAT AGAIN! DO YOU HEAR ME?!! NEVER!!!
When the Action Puppet became stiff, crunchy, and stinky, Johnny’s mother had to put it in the wash with the other greens.
Thirteen games into the MLB season-seems like it’s been going on forever…
Two new designs in the HRTN store. I’ll put a link in the HRTN comments tomorrow, which you’re free to ignore.
The link, not HRTN. That’s required reading.
THALT SHALL NOT BE IGNORED!
Counterpoint: I probably will be.
Hey, what happens on Apple’s “help” line is not in my control.
Ironically (or not) I gave up on Macs after my last one. I really liked the one I had, but then all of Apple’s attention went into the screen instead of RAM, processor speed and HD storage. So I had a PC built that blew away the (then-current) Macs for a few hundred less.
Then I bought a 1st gen Surface Book when they got cheapish as the 2nd gens were coming out, and now I spend far too much time working on it, since it allows me comfy couch time…
THERE IT IS IS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!*
*Leafenfreude
Sorry, I thought you meant the preserved penis of Tom Thumb.
Mr. Thumb had a big digit.*
*I’ve been told he was not a ‘show-er’, he was in fact, a ‘grow-er’.
I believe you are correct; a man of that stature is prone to losing consciousness around attractive women.
Good night, Leafs
[bows to Gratliff, extends hand]
“May I have this dance?”
Is this where they roll up to not lose moisture in desert climates.
It is crazy how the NRA, a powerful special interest lobbying group, has completely imploded and can muster almost no public support in the face of legal fallout so soon after having so many psychopaths ready to die for them. In many ways, they’re just like the Klan.
Stupidity is infinitely more fascinating that intelligence. Intelligence has its limits while stupidity has none.
– Claude Chabrol
I don’t get it. The Leafs are playing and I can’t find the game. I’m gonna check to make sure water is still wet.
SPortsnet Ontario. Ice Bombers and Ice Stamps are on SNW and the others
Thanks so much. Looking for some quality Leafenfreude.
Said the pine to the ash.
The Leafs can stick that “L” right up their ash.
Quality hate…. I will never let the botany joke go.
This brought me joy and peace,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkpP-nXFTQg
LT was particularly harsh with qb’s that were on the downside of their careers.
As I recall, he didn’t particularly treat anyone in that vocation with any heedfulness.
I’m thinking of the more immobile qbs back then like Manning Sr, Bradshaw, Jaws and that Lions dude that LT grabbed by the jersey and flung into the endzone.
/god, that first year was so fun to watch…
Yeah, he rendered Jaws sterile. Twice a year. He still has nightmares.
Also coke and underage hookers, but that is a different video.
… and Taylor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o31Vlez7f8w
Anyway, I thought it was innovative for Bradshaw to try and block with his head.
https://thcf2.redgifs.com/LameOpulentCarpenterant.mp4
https://thcf2.redgifs.com/JampackedBiodegradableAsianconstablebutterfly.mp4
Oh good. Now Frank Thomas has Doug Flutie in his “Testosterone Makes 50-Year-Olds Fuck” commercial. Definitely don’t need old ass Doug running shirtless along a beach.
BANGIN’ MILFs!!
Just Eiffel Towering soccer moms with Bill
We all have our special tastes.
I love the Frank Thomas commercials because every single one seems to be the intro scene to a cuck porn movie.
Oh, Leafs. Oh, sad, hilarious Leafs.
George Bush is releasing an art book honoring immigrants. Presumably these will be Henry Kissinger and whatever Nazi scientists we inherited after WWII. I hate that motherfucker so much and my patience for the soft focus pieces on him in the past few years never existed in the first place. I don’t want to hear another word about that man unless it’s about him painting sad clowns in the fucking Hague.
Agreed, him and his entire cabinet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbp07MvTnsc
Would you fuck me? I’d fuck me …
That Drew is a hell of a dad
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/that-screw-our-president-kid-at-dc-protest-is-apparently-drew-careys-son_n_5889fb78e4b061cf898ce289
It’s great when your son is smarter than you at that age.
Lot of opinions on Drew compared to Bob Barker, but I can’t think of any antifa Bob helped create
Carey is one of the ones who complains about how badly conservatives are treated was my point.
Yes but that got in the way of my Bob Barker antifa musings
Did Bob take to the streets? I did not hear about this part among his sexual harassment allegations.
LOL what?
“You turn on the shower, if you’re like me, you can’t wash your beautiful hair properly. You waste 20 minutes longer. ‘Please. Come out.’ The water. It drips.”
Facebook is more evil than expected. It’s the next generation of Fox News.
https://twitter.com/CraigSilverman/status/1291437989101543424
Lol
https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/los-angeles-shut-off-water-power-houses-hosting-large-parties-gatherings/
https://twitter.com/RightWingWatch/status/1290652925052813319?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1290652925052813319%7Ctwgr%5E&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fdeadstate.org%2Fpro-trump-podcaster-i-barely-wear-condoms-so-why-should-i-wear-a-mask%2F
He’s a MAGA Life Coach!
Well, the only sex he probably gets is whackin’ it, so why would he even need a condom?
There are plenty of MAGA women, he has three kids and three baby mamas, everyone very responsible.
Wanking would be far more responsible for this trailer trash than they’d ever be capable of.
53%, bro
To forget my sorrows tonight, watching the Grand Tour “Seamen” trip down the Mekong on Amazon Prime. I love this show. If you haven’t seen it, it’s highly recommended.
Anything those three do is amazing. James May also has a cooking show coming out on Prime, called Oh Cook.
I really dug his Our Man in Japan series on AP, already watched it thrice.
Did not know about this. Mexican fighter squadron in WWII.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6hpw4rbBrA
and then later……
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyCEexG9xjw
Seriously though, thanks for finding that. I listen to that guy occasionally, but don’t think I would have stumble there.
Found a package of meatballs in my freezer that I didn’t know where there. Thank you, Dunstan of December 2018, your thoughtfulness is appreciated! I drink to your memory!
Look out, Balls of Steel – you’ve now got competition for Dunstan’s favorite balls.
Eh, it was December. I/he wasn’t exactly maintaining bikini-ready grooming standards. Steel is secure.
Back in the day, I used to send postcards to “Future VLTR” back home here when I was on vacation.
“Dear future VLTR: you are back in Texas slaving over a hot desk, while I am still here on Cape Cod enjoying my vacation.
—Past VLTR.”
I was (and I guess probably still am) something of an insufferable asshole.
So you really really enjoy the Bill & Ted films, didn’t you?
Our favoUrite local restaurant did a taco pop-up due to most of CT not having power right now because the wind blew hard, or something, so we checked it out.
I have now had Mexican street corn and I have to say, assuming it consented, I would fuck it. I actually drove back back and got lunch for tomorrow after finishing dinner.
“Don’t let peer pressure tell you who to date.”
Wouldn’t the street corn fuck you?
I’d let it.
Something something farmer’s daughter…or wife…I don’t remember, actual jokes are so last century.
When the conversation at the bar (something that used to happen) devolved to people telling jokes, I knew it was time to pay my tab and head for the door.
ONLY IN SOVIET RUSSIA!
Holla if you need paper towels. Keep candles handy, man.
Right?
I made the mistake of getting the gf elote once and now I get big sad eyes if we get any Mexican food and it’s not part of the meal
Yeah, I was in Middletown last night (no idea how close that is to you) and the main road had all the stoplights out.
The Reds just gave up a touchdown and a field goal in one inning.
Tell ’em to suit up for the Bengals D…it’d be an improvement.
I got $400 and an appointment book says it can.
Wow, that Cody Diablo writes just like people talk!
NO RELIGION, NO ANYTHING! HURT THE BIBLE, HURT GOD! HE’S AGAINST GOD, HE’S AGAINST GUNS! HE’S AGAINST ENERGY! —DJT, on Biden’s agenda.
I must say that if Joe Biden can really hurt God, we should respect his powers and elect him come November 3rd. That’s pretty bad-ass.
https://twitter.com/tsn_sports/status/1291437051305484294?s=10
Reds Manager and DH just got ejected for questioning a Called Strike Three so low you need a 4-Wood to hit it.
https://t.co/0tSloMkq0J
That certainly paints a picture
But Angel Hernandez is in Philly!
Imagine how much freer my nights would feel if I would work during normal working hours instead of playing Yakuza games while listening to podcasts
What?
Your mom warned you about getting an eye shot out with PEZ!
Just wait til the body tattoo part. That’s going to hurt.
With distancing he’ll have to do his own, youch.
Went to a clinic instead of the hospital, because of the COVID.
My mother already did that. It took over four months, many failed diagnoses, her colon cramping for three months non-stop, two months of her pain being an “eleventy-J” on the Pain Scale of 1 to 10, her losing her job, and more hands and things shoved into her than an adult film star for them to realize she has two golf-ball sized tumors in her uterine wall. Thankfully, she’s better now after the hysterectomy, and the biopsy showing the tumors were benign. She’s was released from all medical restrictions Tuesday and she’s been going non-stop since.
May you have better Outpatient Luck.
Good news.
So happy to hear that!
Jesus, what an ordeal. So glad for the benignity…benignitude…benignness.
I had a cyst on an ovary once. I was pretty sure I was gonna die, it hurt like nothing I’ve ever felt before or since. It went away after a few horrendous days, and never came back. Got some serious drugs for it from a sympathetic ob/gyn who had it too. Glad your mum is feeling good!
“Saint Anthony had a huge cock.”
Please, Moose. You don’t have to call me Saint.
Okay, Brett.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMywHFojUtY
PIN. POINT. ACCURACY.
Yikes. Sucks to hear about the shoulder. Hoping you don’t need additional work. Though the surgery isn’t too bad.
So, UConn cancelled their football season yesterday. Who’s next?
UCONN has a football team? Next thing you’ll tell me Penn State has a basketball team. Stop taking a piss…
If a weak, small, diseased tree falls in the forest, does anyone hear it?
Again with the prom photos!
Calling UConn a football team is like calling the Bengals a professional team. While technically both are true, it still feels like it shouldn’t be.
This looks like a live action Jack Chick comic.
Didn’t really see it till you mentioned it…
That’s the one.
Astonishing depth snd subtlety.
Calling UConn a football team is like calling the Bengals a professional team. While technically both are true, it still feels like it shouldn’t be.
The echo from voices past.
Okay, who invited Missingno to DFO?
They did, and now everyone is praising Randy Edsall forgetting that a) this is the same Randy Edsall who dropped the team off in Arizona after the Fiesta Bowl Fiasco and flew to Maryland to take that job and b) that the only way Randy Edsall could avoid losing 11 games was to cancel the season.
In conclusion, fuck UConn football, fuck Randy Edsall, and thank you for coming to my TED talk.
https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/08/06/899798411/ohio-gov-mike-dewine-tests-positive-for-the-coronavirus
(stare at Monkey Paw)
Wrong Republican Chief Executive, and you know it!
I can think of a dozen or more that it would be more appropriate to happen to.
(come one Governor Abbottoir!)
https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/so-be-it-josh-bernstein-says-seniors-should-be-required-to-vote-in-person-even-if-it-kills-them/
That Berenstain guy bears watching.
This joke is underrated.
Happy Thursday.
Best luck to Riga in doggie rehab, getting the strength back up and regaining the previous 40 time, we can worry about the cone drill when the trainers clear. Part of being in playing shape is the confidence to cut and stop while taking it for granted.
4 hours ago, I watched my dog go to sleep, for the last time, at the vet’s office.
3.5 hours ago, it was scotch-thirty.
At this rate, I probably won’t be conscious long enough to make any really stupid comments tonight, but apologizing in advance if such a thing occurs.
(Channeling my inner tWBS)
So, so very sorry. Sincere condolences.
Sorry. That whole process sucks.
Thanks all. You know going in that it’s going to happen eventually, but it’s still tough when it happens. I was still thinking of calling and cancelling 30 minutes before the appointment, but the fact that she hadn’t eaten in several days was the final trigger. Way things are going, though, my other dog might outlive me…
When the animal starts to suffer, that’s when you have to make the unmakeable decision. Most pets hold on longer because they don’t want to leave their owners. My mom’s cat lasted until he was twenty cat years old (96 human years), spending his last years eating, sleeping and lying next to Mom (and somehow catching a mouse, just to prove the Old Hunter still had some fight in him). One night, she saw he was struggling to go up the steps, and she said “You don’t need to stay here for me. I’ll be fine. If you have to go, go. Don’t worry about me.”
That night, his back hip finally failed and by the next morning he was gone. Even when he was passing away, he used all his strength to direct himself to my mom and hold out his paw as he went.
Mildred was a 16 yo spaniel mix. Over the last year she went noticeably downhill with vision and hearing; over the last 6 months she lost a lot of muscle mass and had a hard time getting around. Urinary incontinence while she slept got bad, I thought I might wear out my washing machine; but the vet had a med for that which really worked. But lately she was pacing a lot in the middle of the night and getting flummoxed by corners and not figuring out how to back out of them, and stumbling around like a drunk sailor (source: I have been a drunk sailor). All that I could handle, but it’s always been the familial philosophy that once the pet won’t eat anymore, that’s it. And that’s where it ended today. I’ll get over it, still a tough go. Scotch is my friend tonight!
Weird thing was, as the time to load her into the car approached, my other dog Gertrude really started acting strange, whining and nuzzling Millie, which never occurred before.
Better that scotch is your friend than Scotchy is your hunter.
Hey, if you’re hunting with Scotchy, you know there will always be enough to eat!
Or you will get Dick Cheney’d.
And I haven’t had a haircut in 5 months, I certainly look the part of the target hobo!
https://www.rainbowsbridge.com/poem.htm
Damn, best wishes to you buddy. You’ll see it again on the rainbow bridge.
I’m sorry, man. Remember the good times.
God-DAMN man. Be strong.
Fuck man. So sorry. Be well tonight.
I’m very sorry, man.
Oh my internet brother, I am sorry. I honestly think a pet dying is worse than people. Unconditional love.
That;s because all pets are better than all people. It’s science.
That sucks, man. My former dogs and cats will welcome your dog over the Rainbow Bridge while you and I get drunk several thousand miles apart.
Vaya con Dios.
So sorry man. Knowing you did the right thing don’t help.
Drink all the scotch.
Sorry to hear that you finally had to take this step, it is amazing that no matter how big or small our pets are, their passing leaves an enormous hole in our lives and hearts.