NFL Nuggets:
Most of the news today is bureaucratic in nature:
- The NFL decided back in June that each team could set its own attendance policies, based on consultations with local authorities.
- Teams are still deciding on what home openers will look like, but today’s updates are:
- The Chiefs are planning on having 16,000 fans to their opener.
- This is in accordance with their plan to limit attendance to 22% of Arrowhead’s capacity.
- The Titans are planning on having no fans in attendance.
- It’s not really their choice, but they are being forced to abide the local & county health officials.
- The Falcons will have no fans for their first two home games.
- They were caught between a state governor who wants everything reopened health codes be damned, and state & local officials who insist on stricter measures than the Falcons could implement right away.
- Also, liability laws in Georgia could open the Falcons up to lawsuits if people could prove they got exposed at the game.
- They were caught between a state governor who wants everything reopened health codes be damned, and state & local officials who insist on stricter measures than the Falcons could implement right away.
- The Chiefs are planning on having 16,000 fans to their opener.
- Teams are still deciding on what home openers will look like, but today’s updates are:
- The NFL has decided against the plan to make referees full-time employees, citing costs.
- They will continue to be classified as “part-time” employees, with a three-month “dark period” continuing to exist after the Super Bowl.
- This is/was when guys like Ed Hochuli would go work their “regular” jobs like being a lawyer.
- It’s believe the emphasis on improved video review is behind the league’s decision.
- “Oversight” mitigates making the refs “full time”.
- They will continue to be classified as “part-time” employees, with a three-month “dark period” continuing to exist after the Super Bowl.
- Alex Smith has been activated off the PUP list & is eligible to begin workouts with Washington.
- He’s endured 17 surgeries since he Theismann’d himself against Houston.
- Thanks to the contract he signed in 2018, he’s owed $5 million this season, with a potential to earn upwards of $21 million in total salary.
- Either way, he’s a cap hit of $24 million to Washington.
- He’s earned $173 million since entering the league.
I am very cross with Google today. Aside from their steadfast refusal to obliterate my search history, when I typed “The Sound of Silence” into it, it returned the Disturbed cover as the top choice,
instead of the one I actually wanted,
None of this “OK Boomer” shit on my computer apparently. I’d have been okay if it was a completely new song that just happened to share the same title. But no – exact same fucking song, but in that nu-metal style that made people think Fred Durst was the hardest motherfucker out there at the turn of the century. You’d think the amount of vintage porn I “happen across” would influence which version of a song they’d prioritize. But I guess algorithms aren’t what they used to be.
Tonight’s sports:
- NHL:
- Washington Capitals vs. New York Islanders – 8:00PM | NBCSN / Sportsnet
- Game 4 – Isles lead 3-0
- so much for that prediction.
- Game 4 – Isles lead 3-0
- Vegas Golden Knights vs. Chicago Blackhawks – 10:30PM | NBCSN / Sportsnet
- Game 5 – Vegas leads 3-1
- Washington Capitals vs. New York Islanders – 8:00PM | NBCSN / Sportsnet
- NBA:
- Oklahoma City Thunder vs. Houston Rockets – 6:30PM | TNT / TSN
- Los Angeles Lakers vs. Portland Trail Blazers – 9:00PM | TNT / TSN
- MLB:
- Rays at Yankees – 7:00PM | ESPN / TSN3
- Blue Jays at Orioles – 7:30PM | Sportsnet1
- Cardinals at Cubs – 8:00PM | FS1 – No positive tests yet!
- MLS:
- Toronto FC vs. Whitecaps FC – 8:00PM | TSN4
Vacation break #3 starts tomorrow. This time, it’s to celebrate by wedding anniversary. WineWife has earned a nice getaway after putting up with me for 22 years. If I don’t come back, remember – I probably deserved it.
I’ve decided that since LA County can’t be bothered to enforce mask requirements, I’m pretty safe walking the streets with a beer in hand (a.k.a. a “roadie”). This way I get in the walk I missed out on today without interrupting my drinking.
It helps that I’m white.
That’s a great social experiment!
Great success!
By which I mean, I got some exercise and drank a beer. I didn’t actually leave my apartment complex, and did not even encounter any of our Sugarbear Security guards, so any broader implications are left for another day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=OvE9zJgm8OY&feature=emb_logo
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/why-cats-show-you-their-butt-according-to-science?utm_source=pocket-newtab
“I don’t understand why people hate the police so much.”
–
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wd4e9qX-ZZs
Why did it take a full year for the footage to be released?
“Because fuck you, that’s why.”
Look, it’s either black men in suits get assaulted, or Antifa rapes women in our precious suburbs. CHOOSE!
You are going to be sure and read the comments. It is a place for informed, logical, and calm discussion.
How does Sean Connery’s character in The Rock have zero tattoos after all that time in prison?
You want to tell him he needs to get one?
“Jacuzzi party at my place!”
Herpes Soup.
Cool tune. I dig mandolin, for some reason.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poaOlVSMTrM
I don’t even know if this track uses a mandolin, but:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDgOwX72fLI
I don’t like a ton of his stuff, but I like this one too.
Early Rod Stewart (including his work with the Faces) is awesome. I still enjoy the later stuff, too. And he’s a fantastic concert performer. (You see, kids, concerts were these things where large crowds could assemble to listen to musicians….)
Every time I want to buy a Rod Stewart compilation, the new stuff throws me off.
So you DOOOO think I’m sexy!!
I can’t forgive the Disco Rod period, it was traumatizing.
He also ruined my extreme desire for Rachel Hunter.
Rod is like that friend of yours who gets all the women for reasons you don’t fully understand. At some point you just have to roll with it.
IT’S UNFORGIVABLE!! I SUPPOSE YOU FUCKING LIKE TONS OF MAYO TOO!!
If mayo could get Rachel Hunter and Britt Eklund…. and really, I would lick mayo off either of them in the day.
BRITT EKLAND WAS PRE-DISCO!
You are tough but fair.
I remember Rolling Stone once asked Rod what his best pickup line was, and he replied “what you got in that basket there, darling?”
Which made no fucking sense, but that’s kind of the point. At a certain point, your pickup line is “I’m Rod Stewart”
(More broadly, pickup lines are a dumb concept. Says the single guy.)
Ric Ocasek smiles to himself.
My girlfriend in college won tix from the local SA radio station to see him at a concert at Frank Irwin in Austin. He didn’t play Every Picture Tells a Story and I was very disappointed. The radio station chick on the bus back to SA asked what I thought of the show, I told her I thought he was ready for Vegas. This was 1989, I guess I was right.
But I like all his early stuff, with Jeff Beck, Faces, solo. Plus he has a badass model railroad.
I read somewhere that he has an enormous penis, so that might have something to do with it.
Rock star is better than shaving to maker one’s penis appear huge.
Sounds like personal experience.
If you’ve seen “Sideways,” just assume I’m Miles.
Just bear in mind that Miles gets with Virginia Madsen, so it’s not all bad…
I’m even better; being an asshole I can get them to break up with me even before some other dude shows up.
Eh, lighten up. Disco wasn’t my favorite era, but it was fun. In an era when musicians depended on hits to be successful, it’s not a big deal that a few succumbed. I’d rather listen to “Da Ya Think I’m Sexy” than about 99% of grunge, for example.
IT’S UNFORGIVABLE!! I SUPPOSE YOU FUCKING LIKE THIN MINTS TOO!!
I also will defend Barry Manilow, and do a great karaoke version of “Copacabana.”
Well, now you’re just not trying any more.
You like it and you know it! The first person that you have to admit it to is yourself!
You can’t just recycle the same gif you used elsewhere in the thread. In the immortal words of Huey Lewis, “I want a new gif!”
(After endless debate in studio about how to pronounce gif, of course)
Oh SHIT!! I did use that one!!
The woman above is the wrong attachment too, but it would not let me edit. The world is crashing around me.
I have failed my GIFing responsibilities tonight.
It’s ok, we forgive you. You are now one of us!
I’m not so sure; I usually wait a few weeks and totally forget before reposting. Well, self-flagellation it is.
Right — and that’s different from other nights because…
It will be more angry and sad.
I hide the replies so you can’t see it anymore…..
Sorry, I meant something gentler than “lighten up.” I sort of assumed that discussions about disco sucking are lighthearted to begin with, but I realize that this actually looks very dickish on my part.
Shit.
His early stuff with Faces was good.
Tim Curry is known for being such a delicious ham, but he’s really good and oddly understated in Hunt for Red October.
I’d like to arrange a meeting.
–A. Reid
I thought he did a very good job in that. Almost comic, but not quite.
No, it was comical, but that is part of the reason I enjoyed that movie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3u7EIiohs6U
I didn’t stop watching kids on the spectrum being impossibly good at shitty video games for charity to sit through a Caps come from behind win. Least they can do is lay out Tom Wilson.
Insert the Simpsons Mark McGwire dingers gif but replace Big Mac with Ovechkin and whatever he was trying to hide with Belarus.jpg
This would have never happened in Nassau Coliseum.
If the plague hadn’t happened, and there were fans for these games, I like to think the Islanders would’ve been smart enough to find a way to play this game at the Nassau Coliseum.
Did that Rhode Island guy have a plate of calamari?
People freaking out on twitter about AOC nominating Bernie Sanders (it’s part of the process; a formality) reminds me that everyone on twitter is beyond stupid and it would be good if twitter was found to cause sterility.
Do they think they’re watching WWE?
THAT’S BERNIE SANDERS’ MUSIC!!!!!
You were way too prepared with that.
It was very popular in the despair of November 2016
If Bernie decided to rassle professionally, and did a Full Heel Turn…I’d totally watch that shit
The upside is that hopefully it means there are a lot of voters who are following the process much more closely than they did four years ago.
Lol Jesus. I didn’t realize MSNBC was one of these accounts.
That reminds me of 2012, when some Very Online Ron Paul Dudes (like there was another kind — they were all dudes, and all Very Online) swore to me right up to the first day of the GOP convention that Paul was going to be the nominee, because …. (insert theory about how multiple state delegations were invalid, which, even if it were technically correct, was obviously going to be shot down by the Romney folks running the convention). It was like watching a 15-year-old insist that Santa Claus is coming.
With hockey on CNBC, you get to see his end of days economic collapse commercials and it feels like being haunted
I know, I saw one the other day, and it was almost adorable. Ron Paul is warning us all of upcoming disaster! Dude, where have you been the rest of 2020? And you’re proposed to do… oh, right, nothing except sell me some shit.
He could not even protect his son from getting beat up by his son’s next door neighbor.
I know, right? What a weenie.
Well, the real question is, where was Rand Paul’s constitutional-guaranteed handgun?
Gudas on Clutterbuck, if ever there was a time for two hockey players to self-annihilate on contact but noooooooo they’re both fine apparently.
An acceptable cover, made more so by Heather Graham at her most gorgeous.
https://youtu.be/5Z_fsdWYXMA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Z_fsdWYXMA
Thanks.
I think I’ve told the story here before, but she is the most beautiful woman I’ve ever seen in person.
Had a terrifying experience today. We live in half of a side-by-side duplex. At @ 10:30 a.m., my neighbor ran up to my door and knocked frantically. I opened the door and she said, “Zack left for work and left the door unlocked, and I can’t find the kids!” They have a 3 year old boy, and a 1.5 year old girl. We live on a hill, at the bottom of which runs a creek. I ran down there yelling the boy’s name, hoping to not see two bodies floating in the water. They weren’t there, so I ran through the backyard area, but nothing. I came out onto the main street and was asking neighbors if they’d seen kids running around when a guy in a blazer told me they found the kids. I walked back to the house. Every cop and detective for 3 counties is parked in front of the house. One of them finally tells me the Kids climbed into the car and couldn’t get out. They overheated quite a bit and had to be hospitalized and rehydrated, but they’re fine. I can’t imagine the fear those kids must’ve felt not being able to get out of the car & not being able to make mom hear them.
Jeez. Glad to hear the story had an okay ending. Good on you for helping.
Me too, man. I made them a baked ziti.
You’re a better man than I.
I would’ve insisted they feed me since their stupid kids interrupted my jerkin.
Oh, bullshit. You wouldn’t have let them interrupt your jerkin.
They almost made themselves baked ziti
Thought your name was frank.
It’s pronounced Zonk
FronkenZonk has a nice ring to it.
Lotta talk about Bad Ice in the NHL bubbles; how hard is it to turn the thermostat a little lower and keep the water frozen, eh?
Scotchy after his meeting with the Egg Man this morning
Wonder if Colin Powell will have any good satellite pictures to share tonight
NICE!
I stand in solidarity with Canadian BeerPersonSteal
The Disturbed version is dogshit strained through an AIDS-riddled sieve.
Flyers-Islanders in the second round looking likely. Thought it sounded odd. Would be their first series against each other since their 1987 Patrick division series.
Speaking of covers that are better than the original, how about these boys
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qt6Lkgs0kiU
No. That is shit. Don’t make me say nice things about Don Henley.
As usual, Brother Spam is correct.
OK but Shirley you all favor the Madonna version of “American Pie,” right?
Mike Campbell’s guitar work on that song was pretty notable though. Also, Campbell wrote the music to that tune and took it to a coked-up Tom Petty who wasn’t interested.
also if you want a laugh
check out the MyPillow guy getting owned by Anderson Cooper
dude just wiffed it when cooper asked him how he sleeps at night
Weird that he’d pass up a chance to plug his main product.
His buddy didn’t see the obvious sales opportunity in a mandatory mask order. These fucking idiots crash economies and keep needing bailouts for a reason.
He’s Irwin Mainway, without the charm. Or the smarts.
Getting the lol caps started early tonight
found a funny:
me: *picks up penny in street* fuck ya heads up time for some good luck [a milk truck runs me over] [later, at the hospital] nurse: wow it’s a miracle none of that milk spilled
New York Ice Highlanders up 1-0 over the Caps. Their “There Can Be Only One” stratagery seems to be paying off.
All it took was a Global Pandemic and half the football teams quitting the season, but Cincinnati’s a preseason Top 25 team!
https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/college-football-rankings-clemson-solidly-no-1-over-alabama-in-2020-preseason-cbs-sports-76/
Top 25 in the NFL, too?
“Silence? You want some fucking Silence?- Johnny “4’33″” Cage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gN2zcLBr_VM
Gday from a family vacation at a lake in the Canadian Shield. I brought a big bag of edibles and a case of wine to be able to put up with my family and parents in close quarters for a week.
I realize there are only 12,000 lakes in the Canadian Shield to choose from, but my guess is [spins wheel]* “Lake Athabaska”!
*look, it’s my own frickin’ business why I have a spinning wheel of certain lakes in Canada. Mind yer own.
West Hawk Lake, Manitoba. Have had a family cabin here since my grandfather built it in 1950. Its gorgeous and my folks have done many renos to modernize it.
Is that beard known as the “Cow Catcher”? It certainly looks like the front of an old steam locomotive.
“cum” but otherwise yes.
Also this:
Magic Mike matinee?
That is a good theory.
That’s the one.
See, you were looking for the wrong Silence:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGSKrC7dGcY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucIv-sMta7I
Strangest enema system I’ve ever seen…
Your comment reminds me of the wise words of Son Zoo-“The enema of my enema is my fiend.”
Asians may be different, but their assholes are not in the back of their hands.
THIS GUY Neymar, Jr., I calls him Guy Trying to Masturbate on Cocaine, because it’s another 90 minutes gone and he still can’t finish.
Fuck! Fuck! Fuck! Fuck! Fuck! Fuck! Fuck! Fuuuuuuuccccckkkkkkk!!!!!!
Habs gonna need Claude to almost die a couple more times, it seems
Today, I learned that a perfectly fine Surface 1, fresh out of the box, can’t work because Microsoft sucks. I also learned that if you catch the wind and get a good release from the slingshot, a Surface 1 can go 100-200 feet easily.
Surface products are wannabe Mac trash
I’ve been using a Surface Book 1 for years without a problem. No idea on the Pros, though…tried an earlier model and it overheated quickly.
Its was a first model. And it was overheating big time. I put it on my lap to try to hack it into working, and I started to smell my thighs cooking. I smell eerily like ham.
Was that the Surface Pro? They really had heating issues until at least the 4th gen. I didn’t care for them…they felt too light for me. The Book can get hot, but only after several hours, and nothing like the Pro I tried.
Suddenly my skills at Pac-Man make complete sense.
So, Trump’s Krazy Kavalkade of Koronavirus makes another visit to AZ. Isn’t Yuma already hellish enough?
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/08/trump-ripped-for-arizona-rally-look-at-this-super-spreader-event-happening-in-yuma/
You’re putting me in a position of considering if the Ku Klux Klan is the lesser of two evils by being compared to Trump. Please cease and desist.
I think they’re pretty analogous. But that’s just me. And probably a lot of other people.
https://deadstate.org/megachurch-pastor-god-created-a-heatwave-so-people-would-worship-indoors-with-no-masks/
Apocalypse cultists
Cassie Campbell’s outfit matches her couch perfectly!
Disclaimer: This post has nothing to do with Cassie Campbell.
These guys were pretty big in San Antonio back in about 1978 or 1979. They even have a Wikipedia page, and roots with the band that did Brandy You’re a Fine Girl. Which is weird for a metal band. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starz_(band)ch is kind of weird for a metal band.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZG0RIzWHOk
But this was the one that got the radio play down here. It was fucking badass.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usrMAHZDwak
Yeah, Disturbed’s version is constipated dog shit. I didn’t think there would be a more ridiculous metal cover than Metallica doing Turn the Page, but there it is.
The problem is they were trying to be artistic and profound, which isn’t Disturbed’s thing.
At the VERY least, Metallica tried to sound just like Seger, so it was merely crappy instead of an abortion.
So I didn’t see any of the speechless last night, but from what I read I think they were solid on the theme:
“I’m a Republican/Socialist like you, but vote for Biden anyway or Trump will kill us all.”
https://www.mediamatters.org/voter-fraud-and-suppression/mike-huckabee-says-concerns-about-postal-service-are-distraction
Jamin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzEWGGKmqlA