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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Horatio Cornblower

I meant to get one 4-pack of this and instead got four 4-packs and folks, I am in trouble. 9.2% and does not taste like that at all.
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Unsurprised

I can take them off your hands. Ship them COD to …

Sharkbait

Oh that looks tasty

Horatio Cornblower

Part of the problem is that they are, in fact, delicious.

Gumbygirl

That looks like you can chew it.

Horatio Cornblower

You could. It is definitely not a light beer.

Dunstan

Love a good imperial stout.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

THESE MIAMI HEAT I CALL THEM A GAS STATION BATHROOM FLOOR AFTER TODD MARINOVICH’S BOSS HAD TO LEAVE EARLY DUE TO A FAMILY ISSUE CAUSE THEY ARE NOT GETTING SWEPT TONIGHT!

ballsofsteelandfury

That’s REALLY specific…

Horatio Cornblower

Not quite as specific as the instructions given to Todd, but he’ll ignore both of them anyway.

litre_cola

This is going to get ugly.

Sharkbait

Going to?

Doktor Zymm

*ugliER

Doktor Zymm

There really needs to be a new category for gig workers, and so I don’t think voting either way on prop 22 is going to fix anything. However, I’m probably going to vote against it just because I’m annoyed by all the commercials for ‘yes’

BrettFavresColonoscopy

I’m very torn on how to vote on that one. I think the freelance vs Uber driver part is tough and the fact that the Uber drivers don’t want to be employees, no idea what to do.

Doktor Zymm

Yeah, the original law is an amazingly stupid piece of legislation, but just granting an exception for drivers doesn’t actually fix anything. I might just abstain.

BrettFavresColonoscopy

Tis exactly my issue.

ballsofsteelandfury

It’s not about the workers. It’s about the company hiring a huge amount of workers without providing benefits.

I think Uber could pay for benefits and stay profitable but they don’t want to.

Horatio Cornblower

Look Balls, (if that is your real name), if I give my “employees” health benefits, I wouldn’t be able to put gold-embossed toilets in my 4th house. And then what are the toilet embossers supposed to do for work? Huh? HUH? Exactly, libtard. Now siddown, I’m creatin’ jobs ova heah.

Doktor Zymm

Stay profitable? They’ve never made a profit. They could do something like ebay did back in the day for health insurance. There really needs to be a new legal category for flexible workers, shoehorning them into existing categories isn’t going to be good no matter where they end up. I don’t really mind screwing Uber over, and I’m pretty ambivalent about Door Dash and some of the other companies sponsoring the prop. I do like Lyft though.

ballsofsteelandfury

Well there you go.

Every company in California with more than 50 employees has to provide benefits.

Here’s every Prop 22 ad:

Uber Driver: I need money man! This fucking pandemic! Uber gonna fire my ass if this doesn’t pass. Vote Yes!

Doktor Zymm

I’ve talked to quite a few drivers who are in favor of 22, one of the biggest issues is that they won’t be able to drive for both Uber and Lyft if they’re an employee. And there are actually quite a few exceptions to AB 5 already. Did you follow the passage? They almost put every newspaper in the state out of business until they put in a last minute exception for journalists. It was a shitshow

Doktor Zymm

I’m leaning towards ‘no’ but mostly because I want them to fix the damn law

ballsofsteelandfury

I agree that the law needs to be fixed.

Btw, have you read the LA Times lately? Holy shit, it’s a shell of what it used to be!

Doktor Zymm

That’s sad 🙁
I recently saw some old editions of the East Bay Times and The Mercury News, they used to be much bigger!

Unsurprised

It’s weird what happens when a newspaper is bought by a finance company that exists to strip out all of the assets of its acquisition and then dump the corpse in bankruptcy court.

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Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Eh, eight year-olds working spinning looms in Victorian England probably would have said the same thing about not wanting the government to interfere with their employment, so as condescending as it sounds I’m going to ignore their input.

Unsurprised

100% agree.

They did have workers make this point just like hope for thirty years we’ve been sold the idea of sweatshop work being better than no work even though these communities managed to exist without everyone starving to death for centuries before the sweatshops came in

Unsurprised

I’m very comfortable with my employer and California and other states legally classifying them as employees because that’s what they are under nearly every legal definition of who is an employee in the U.S.

Uber was built on breaking labor laws until they could get automated cars. They lost and and I hope everyone running the corporation goes to prison.

Last edited 4 years ago by Unsurprised
ballsofsteelandfury

Exactly. Fuck Uber

Horatio Cornblower

I think a good rule of thumb is that if Uber is against it, I am for it.

Gatoraids

Bring back serfs

Unsurprised

Is this where it turns out Zymm is actually a lost descendant of the Romanovs?

Horatio Cornblower

Mike and Tony wonder aloud who could have seen coming what’s happening in Dallas.

-Ahem- From the DFO Cowboys 2020 preview, written by one, (squints at note), Horatio Cornblower? The fuck? Anyway

“They’ll be a fun 8-8, though, probably scoring 30+ a game, but more often than not giving up 31+.”

So basically, any idiot who spent even 15 minutes looking at the team could have told you that what is now happening was very likely to happen.

BrettFavresColonoscopy

Now now, you’re not just an idiot, you’re a drunken idiot.

Horatio Cornblower

Thank you for not calling me fat.
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Unsurprised

Hello!

Unsurprised

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Petronel

Because it’s ALWAYS been legal for them.

Unsurprised

Joe Meowntana

Recovery Whiskey

Oooh Mixed Messages!!

They were determined to have Breaking News regardless of what.

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Unsurprised

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Horatio Cornblower

Dallas is an absolute disaster this season, (albeit a highly entertaining disaster), but I’m starting Cooper, Lamb, Zeke, & Schultz and these games are manna from heaven to FF players.

montythisseemsstrangetome

Every player Collinsworth has ever seen is as good as any player Collinsworth has ever seen.

Horatio Cornblower

This should be the banner, because it is an absolutely perfect encapsulation of everything I cannot stand about his good ole boy aw shucks chucklefuck approach to announcing.

Petronel

Well, it is an egalitarian approach, I guess…

King Hippo

Can’t wait for the fixtures featuring TWO NFC East sides being prime timed for our viewing pleasUre

Doktor Zymm

It’ll be a really solid high school game

The Maestro

If enough of us commit hara-kiri, then the MAGA pundits can muddy the waters even further and lie about all of our deaths being listed as COVID-related and REEEEEE THIS IS WHY YOU CAN’T TRUST BIG GUBMINT REEEEEE

Gratliff

Congratulations to Dallas on your new team record

Brick Meathook

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Unsurprised

Per Google a genuine Niners fan

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Unsurprised

I’m disappointed in her 9ers/NFL pix since she was famous for having big tits and the only other good pic is of her legs.

Horatio Cornblower

My daughter just asked my hot-flash suffering wife if she was having one of her “heat waves”, and as soon as I stop laughing I am going to move out of the house before my wife goes full “Carrie” and incinerates us all.

The Maestro

For maximum fun, you could recommend she dresses like one of these images in our comment section whenever she feels a hot flash coming on.

You should have your track spikes on when you do that, though.

The Maestro

Sometimes, a person just needs to eat shit-quality wings and mozza sticks up to the brink of death.

King Hippo

Why would Tomsulas call timeout, almost surely starting inside their 20??

Horatio Cornblower

Look, when the stew is ready everything stops.

Gratliff

ohhh, their defense isn’t playing tonight. That makes more sense.

The Maestro

#RogerGoodellGetMurderedByAFanContest2020

King Hippo

Where is WCS to say “NFL Blitz!”

Doktor Zymm
Gratliff

Fuck it. Give us a flea flicker

King Hippo

This has now crossed the “so bad, it’s good” rubicon

litre_cola

Aren’t you glad you’re awake?

montythisseemsstrangetome

The answer to that question is never yes.

Petronel

And we’ve got a whole ‘nother half to make it back across!

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Gratliff

Some Tony Romo shit

Horatio Cornblower

Pffft! This isn’t the play-offs.

Unsurprised

Romo wouldn’t know.

Brick Meathook
Gratliff

Despite half his OL being sento a farm upstate, it sort of looks like Wentz is getting comfortable against a superior defense, but I’ve been hurt before

Mr. Ayo

That snap was sent upstate.

BrettFavresColonoscopy

That coke ad seems….off message during covid.

Horatio Cornblower

“Football’s a weird game”

It’s really not Cris. One team tries to advance the ball to their goal, ten yards over 4 plays at a time, and the other team tries to stop them using various techniques what would get you 5-7 years in the pen if you did them on the street. It’s really a very simple game.

Doktor Zymm

It’s weird in the sense that it only really appeals to Americans

montythisseemsstrangetome

It’s weird in the sense that no one is actually forcing us to listen to Collinsworth yet here we are.

Horatio Cornblower

I’m drinking, what’s your excuse?

Mr. Ayo

Well that wasn’t at all terrible

King Hippo

Ok, I see the Favre analogy now

Gratliff

Gonna need a shovel pass 5 yards past the line of scrimmage, and laughing about it as it seals the game for the opponent

BrettFavresColonoscopy

Mullen clearly went to the Matt Schaub school of throwing the ball away

Gratliff

Mullen ate shit for that throw too

Gratliff

Oh no. They’ve discovered the secret technique required to beat Phliadelphia: Throw to the TE over and over again

King Hippo

That tie-dye Iggles hat is such an abortion, I am almost glad that Comey-Barrett weirdo is going on the Supreme court

Gratliff

“He’s got a little Brett magic” as a response to the 20th consecutive WR screen

Unsurprised

This is distinct from Little Brett magic, which ends with a payout and a signed NDA

montythisseemsstrangetome

“A VERY little Brett magic”
– J Sterger

Horatio Cornblower

Terry Bradshaw could have gone down in history as a history-making QB and a slightly goofy TV announcer, but he seems determined to rewrite his history as a fucking idiot that people laugh at rather than with, and I would like him to stop.

Horatio Cornblower

That’s why I said “history-making” instead of “all-time” great. I wouldn’t call him overrated, because he played within a system that asked him to do what he did, and he did it, and they won 4 Super Bowls and became the first Super Bowl dynasty. But he was no Marino, that’s for sure.

Unsurprised

Every 21st century QB would have exploded like blood bags back then.

Unsurprised

Maybe not Cam. But he also wouldn’t have been a quarterback

Horatio Cornblower

Jared Lorenzon would have been a god.
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Sharkbait

This game needed a manhattan

Horatio Cornblower

This game needs a Project Manhattan.

Petronel

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Horatio Cornblower

Also acceptable.

Game Time Decision

Space force toilet?

BrettFavresColonoscopy

Evergreen post

BrettFavresColonoscopy

How come state farm didn’t use Mitt Romney for that “forgot stuff on the roof of my car” ad?

Unsurprised

He probably gave them the idea at the last board or shareholders meeting

Horatio Cornblower

You order shrimp from Applebee’s you deserve every agonizing minute you spend on the crapper the next day.

Unsurprised

You can get a cheeseburger and microwaved garbage anywhere. People come to Applebee’s for the coronavirus and the attitude!

King Hippo

This is destined to end 9-8, on a last minute safety.

Gratliff

I feel like them keeping Mailata and his only qualification being “same physical size as Jason Peters” is unwise

Horatio Cornblower

If you google “Sexy Hartford Athletic Fans”, the 4th or 5th image is from a story about a West Hartford teacher getting charged with what I suspect was boning a student, so that’s a road I stopped going down.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Hot teacher.

Horatio Cornblower

She’s not bad looking, for a sex felon.

litre_cola

If you bedazzle an ankle monitor it turns in to quite the accesory.

litre_cola

You are sure just to find Grat, WhyEaglesWhy and myself.

Gratliff

From that day I got all dolled up and got the lighting just right for my tits

King Hippo

Google “sexy shitshow”

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

In German.

Horatio Cornblower

Why do I keep getting redirected to the Odell Beckham and Najeh Davenport wiki pages?

Gratliff

Is the niners OL typically this iffy?

King Hippo

I don’t think so? Could be wrong.

The Maestro

Nick Mullens is both an NFL quarterback and America’s greatest podcaster. You love to see it, folks.

Unsurprised

And president of the DSA

Doktor Zymm

I was just at the Greenbriar!

Sharkbait

There was a bar in my neighborhood called the Greenbriar that closed this year. That makes me sad.

King Hippo

Closed because YOU didn’t drink enough smh

Petronel

I visited briefly for work a couple of years ago. ‘S nice.

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King Hippo

I bet that Nick Mullens has, like, a really hairy asshole.

litre_cola

The Buddy Ryan sweater, classic.