Your “Just the Hobo Facts, Ma’am” Sunday Night NFL Football Open Thread

-The term ‘hobo’ came about in the northwest United States in the late 1800’s.

-Strictly speaking, a hobo is a homeless person that travels from place to place to find temporary work. The Spanish word for hobo is obrero temporal. In Arabic it is almutasharid.

-Hobos tended to avoid the South because they would be sent to forced-labor camps.

-The National Hobo Convention takes place every year in Britt, Iowa.

-Robert “Sidetrack” Silveria Jr. was a serial killer that admitted to killing 28 fellow hobos before he turned himself in. He is currently serving two life sentences in Wyoming.

-Famous individuals that lived the lifestyle for a period of time include Jack Dempsey, Louis L’Amour, Jack London, George Orwell, Robert Mitchum, William O. Douglas and of course, Woody Guthrie and Jack Kerouac.

-During the Great Depression it was estimated that as many as two million men resorted to ‘hobo-ing’.

-“Wild Boys of the Road”, a 1933 film about teenage boys forced to adopt the lifestyle due to financial pressure, has an 88% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

TO THE GAME!

Eagles/Niners:

-Here’s the Philly wr corpse-Ward, Hightower, Burnette, Fulgham and Butler. Aside from Ward they have 18 receptions this year. As well, Jason Peters was just put on IR and they only have 3 healthy corners.

-Deebo is back on a limited snap count and Kittles owners aren’t feeling as helpless as a kitten up a tree.

-Mullens threw for 343 and a TD last week without those weapons but it was the porous Giants so take that with a grain of something.

-Wentz has thrown two interceptions in each game this year-expect that to continue.

Have at it.

 

 

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King Hippo

Ok, that Iggle drive was more in line with expectation

Sharkbait

Nice. A series without fake crowd noise

The Maestro

Aiyuk’s hurdle was much higher than all the ones the medical staff at Walter Reed have failed at in treating the President so far.

Doktor Zymm

I should have become an orthopaedic surgeon, that’s clearly where the big money is

Gratliff

WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT STAB THAT MOTHERFUCKER

BrettFavresColonoscopy

/scotchy gets erect

Dunstan

Neighbor’s dog, which is smaller than a football, just tried the whole Scrappy Doo, I’ll-kick-your-ass routine on me. Yappy little fuck — I’ve had shits bigger than you. I mean, it wasn’t fun or anything, but I got through it.

I like dogs, but that kind I could do without.

Mr. Ayo

Slay update: Slain

litre_cola

That there is some good tacklin!

Mother Puncher

CUM DOWN

Gratliff

Oh fuck that’s gonna be a gif

Petronel

That’s more like it!

and an excellent vault – somebody’s gonna be on sportscenter tonight

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Gratliff

Fuck it. Just run Wildcat the rest of the night

Doktor Zymm

The safest thing for our troops is not to be deployed to quagmire wars

Gratliff

Wow. Wentz got in there untouched. Nick Bosa’s off punching his wall and hastily re-hanging the MAGA poster that fell off

litre_cola

DakotaJeezusdown!

King Hippo

There goes the shutout

Gratliff

Need that KSK video of a Rivers fade with Float On playing for that pass

King Hippo

I decided that I earned a bonus pill, by attempting to stay awake through this. For the sake of the morning column

Horatio Cornblower

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Horatio Cornblower

Hartford Athletic scores to take a 2-0 lead against Red Bulls 2, all but clinching first place in their group and cementing a home game in the USF(?)* play-offs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJtiepwpKFw

There are more words in that opening sentence than there are people in the stands for this game.

*Whatever they call the league one step below MLS and one step above Special Olympics.

litre_cola

It’s the USL and Hartford is my club!

King Hippo

When you’re technically a professional footballer, but still not good enough for MLS??

Horatio Cornblower

Announcers are implying that some of them have commitments to local colleges, which seems like a violation by one or both parties.

Horatio Cornblower

I saw that. They were up 3-1 at the time. my solution would have been to run that lead up to 6 or 7-1, then start fights on the field but then, I’ve never been one for the high road.

litre_cola

Very happy Landon Donovan did that. It was a superb move.

The Maestro

Hello again, you wonderful fucks.

Horatio Cornblower

‘Wonderful seems a stretch”
-My wife, probably

Gratliff

I feel like the despair-filled eyes in tonight’s entries are more honest than the usual sexy fodder I see on here

litre_cola

Matt Patricia canned tomorrow?

Horatio Cornblower

I certainly hope they do it soon. I don’t even want to think of what that useless sack of meat would smell like if left out long enough to spoil.

King Hippo

Would single-handedly revive the steel industry, too

King Hippo

Speaking of, would seem that neither Auburn nor LSU is any good this season. Just have the fuckers play the assdicks from Clemson already.

litre_cola

“As Jesus intended” – D. Sweeney

litre_cola

Would they do it in Wichita?

King Hippo

Both these “offenses” would do well to consider the quick kick.

Gratliff

Browns dropped at least 30 picks today and Wentz has a linebacker make a diving fingertip catch on one. Love the football.

King Hippo

At some point, I am going to forget to put the sound on, and keep reading my book. Like some kind of homer sexual smh.

Horatio Cornblower

That looks like an interception, but since the NFL is ‘Schroedinger’s Catch’ on all of these replays, who can say for sure?

Mother Puncher

I had the TV on mute for the Bills game. Did they ever explain why that John Brown catch wasn’t a td?

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King Hippo

He was uppity about it.

/why it took like 7 minutes to determine same?

Petronel

She’s seen some shit.

Dunstan

Charges extra for it, though.

Sharkbait

I’m good for it!

O. Beckham, Cleveland, OH

yeah right

Mother of God, our air quality index is 213. The statement says it’s unhealthy to an emergency level. I ain’t gonna be able to walk for weeks at this rate. Fucking hell.

Horatio Cornblower

Make America Breathable Again

Gratliff

Lane Johnson is already hurt lol

King Hippo

See also, heroine

Mother Puncher

You guys just missed a kind of funny Simpsons

Sharkbait

Blind squirrels find a nut very once in a while.

Dunstan

I suspect that the percentage of Simpsons episodes I have seen has now dropped below 50. I’m not one of those “everything after season X sucks” people, but I just kind of stopped watching and haven’t missed it. But I like the idea that I’ve got like ten years of “new to me” episodes to binge watch someday.

Gratliff

Gonna have to get Herman Cain’s team an account on here for these posthumous Seamus posts

Horatio Cornblower

Well, OK, but I’m gonna want change.

Gratliff

This is gonna be a shitshow

King Hippo

This is gon’ be as ugly as a 5 dollar whore

montythisseemsstrangetome

MICHAELS AND COLLINSWORTH WEARING MASKS? STICK TO SPROTS!1!

Sharkbait

Fuck Trump. The asshole went on a vanity ride in the presidential limo to go see and wave at his fuckhead supporters. The car is hermetically sealed, which means the Secret Service agents in the car have been exposed, and now need to quarantine.

That is reckless endangerment at best.

/political rant

Gratliff

That could also be his campaign slogan

Mother Puncher

At least none of the supporters were wearing masks and can ship off to Valhalla with him

Horatio Cornblower

You have to be willing to fight to get into Valhalla, so I don’t see Trumpkins making the cut.

Dunstan

Trump Supporters: “Of course the cops had to shoot that guy in the back fifty times! He had a marijuana possession conviction on his record, and was walking in the direction of a Sur La Table, where they sell knives! BLUE LIVES MATTER!”

Also Trump Supporters: “Who gives a fuck if Trump endangered his Secret Service detail? THEY KNEW WHAT THEY WERE SIGNING UP FOR!”

Dunstan

Do they have Carrie Underwood record that “the ___ and the ____ in a prime time showdown” line like 20 different times? Or more, depending on flex games? Or do they dub it in somehow? I am strangely curious about this.

Mother Puncher

It sounds like they recorded the original and punch in the custom lines each week.

WCS

To be fair, nothing is popular in Philadelphia, except misery and angst.

Dunstan

Gritty slumps away sadly, as the “Incredible Hulk” TV sad piano music starts to play.

Gratliff

Scrapple, pork roll, wooder ice

Gratliff

Fun fact: I have to focus every time I say the word “water” or everyone will look at me like I’m a fucking moron.

Viva La Tabula Raza

Cheez whiz sad-wiches?

montythisseemsstrangetome

BOOING SANTA CLAUS AND THROWING BATTERIES AT JD DREW BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH

Horatio Cornblower

Rocky.

Dunstan

I’m getting the feeling that “Hey, Tom Brady’s initials are the same as Tampa Bay’s!” is the new “Ryan Fitzgerald went to Harvard” or “Jerome Bettis is from Detroit!”

Sharkbait

Don’t forget the classic “Jimmy Graham played basketball!”

Dunstan

WAIT WHAT?

WCS

How much coke is THE OL’ DOUBLE J rage-snorting tonight?

montythisseemsstrangetome

Hope he brought enough for his consolation hookers.

Horatio Cornblower

He’s absolutely going to kill a hooker tonight.

Sharkbait

Somehow ended up +$10 in DFS today. PRAISE GAMBLOR!

Game Time Decision

drinks on sharky tonight, wooooooooooo

clint greasewood

I guess we’ll see for T.O. for the Cowboys/Bengals game.

Gratliff

NXT is apparently having a thing tonight and has a title match featuring two people I’ve never heard of named Santos Escobar and Isaiah Scott. Anyway, here’s Shane Strickland as Killshot vs. El Hijo De Fantasmo as King Cuerno from Lucha Underground.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJk5SdC9Zzg

Gratliff

Zero reason TO couldn’t start for the Eagles tonight

herodotus450

Ah, simpler times, when our Diva Wide Receivers would undermine their quartered backs and call them gay, and then take their shirts off in public in front of a bunch of sweaty guys instead of murdering hookers or whatever Antonio Brown ended up doing.

Gratliff

Outside of his problematic shit with Garcia, TO’s gotta be one of the cleanest “locker room cancer” types, right? I always empathized with him because his childhood was completely fucked and it always surprised me he didn’t end up becoming a serial killer or some shit.

montythisseemsstrangetome

This could also be the Jeff Garcia bowl.

ballsofsteelandfury

I was expecting more killin’ in my Sunday Night Hobo Stew…

Viva La Tabula Raza

Nice hobo info sheet there. Cool hobo movies might well be considered as a future post topic.comment image

montythisseemsstrangetome

SALT! Take it with a grain of SALT!

What do I win?

Horatio Cornblower

Salt. You win a grain of salt.

Christ. Pay attention.

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