Your “Go Back, Jack, Do It Again” Thanksgiving Football Open Thread, Part Deux

I’m talking about filling your plate a second or third time of course. How the hell are you going to doze off in front of the TV otherwise? Sheesh!

TO THE GAME!

Team/Cowboys:

-Bearing in mind the division these guys play in you can say that both are riding high on one game winning streaks.

-Each team in the NFC East has won three games and it’s the sort of logjam that your uncle creates in yer terlet just before he leaves your house at the end of the night, telling no one. The Eagles precocious tie gives then a lofty .350 winning percentage and the division lead.

-Battle of the Backups! Both Dalton and Smith have been underwhelming although the former had his way last week with a Vikes D that has given up the ghost. Things shouldn’t be as easy this time around as Team’s D exerts all kinds of pressure up front and has an underrated secondary.

-“Scary Terry” is listed as questionable but his ability is not. He’s playing on an anemic O featuring a third-string qb and somehow he’s 4th in the league in receiving. It does sorta help that he has no help in the passing game but still…

-Zeke had his very first 100 yard game last week. It probably had something to do with benching Terrance Steele and shuffling what’s left of the talent on the line (Zach Martin and Connor McGovern) over to the right side. When the Cowboys ran to that side they did so at 7.2 yards a pop.

Continue doing that thing you were doing. It felt very nice!

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TheRevanchist

I wonder how well the TV show Stingray holds up. Might fuck around and see if I can find it.

Doktor Zymm
Doktor Zymm

Horrible commentating

BrettFavresColonoscopy

Works fine on mobile

Bloody Lethal

On Raglan Road of an autumn day
I saw her first and knew
That her dark hair would weave a snare
That I might one day rue

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYJO5fJgNSQ

herodotus450
Doktor Zymm

If this was available, I would KILL IT at karaoke.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ukOA994JzA

Dunstan

Apologies if this was discussed or linked earlier, but Andy Reid’s Mac & Cheese Tips are an important news item:

Inside job – Lawyers, Guns & Money (lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com)

Bloody Lethal
Dunstan

I’m too tired to do it now, but one of these years I’m going to write my In Defense of Turkey diatribe. Getting annoyed with all these folks who show up every year with Hot Takes about how turkey isn’t tasty.

ballsofsteelandfury

I honestly thought you were talking about the country and I was wondering if we had any Greek, Armenian, or Kurd readers.

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Dunstan

You should have realized that geopolitics is way too lofty for me.

Doktor Zymm

Turkey the bird is tasty, and Turkey the country has some really good points and some pretty shitty points

herodotus450

If Turkey’s so good, how come we only eat it once a year? Got ‘im.

Doktor Zymm

Turkey sammiches be my jam all year round

Dunstan

Speak for yourself!

TheRevanchist

This is logic.

BrettFavresColonoscopy

Turkey is delicious and everyone can fuck off

Doktor Zymm

Best car chase movie? I’ll abstain until a few other responses

Dunstan

Herbie The Love Bug

TheRevanchist

Any film with Buddy Hackett

yeah right

French connection.
Mike drop.

WCS

Ronin is pretty wicked.

litre_cola

This is a great answer.

Sharkbait

Might not be the best, but top 5 scene, especially for the song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bz81ZO0qfvI

Doktor Zymm

Ooh, we’ve got good variety here! I’m always torn between Thunder Road and Vanishing Point

ballsofsteelandfury

Fury Road?

Doktor Zymm

Nope, the 1958 Robert Mitchum Thunder Road: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunder_Road_(1958_film)

ballsofsteelandfury

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Dunstan

My freshman year of college, they showed the original Cape Fear with Robert Mitchum at a campus theatre. (I think it was because the remake with DeNiro had just come out.) My roommate and I spent the rest of the year doing Mitchum impressions whenever we were shirtless — he spends half the film shirtless, but is clearly sucking in his gut and puffing out his chest to try to look buff.

Doktor Zymm

He musta been kinda old by that point?

Dunstan

According to IMDB, it was released in 1962, and Mitchum was born in 1917. So mid-forties.

Even as obnoxious (and then-thin) 18-year-olds, we weren’t mocking Mitchum for not having a stellar physique. It was just bad filmmaking — there was no plot-based reason for him to be shirtless in those scenes. It’s the kind of thing you’d do if you had a buff young actor, but with Mitchum they should have said “you know what? Let’s get him a shirt!”

I don’t know whether it was that Mitchum thought he looked awesome shirtless, or the director insisted and MItchum was trying to salvage some dignity, but it was pretty lame.

Doktor Zymm

You don’t support the REVENUE do you!?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWCS8rvueRU

yeah right

Obviously the normally answer would be Bullett but I’m not normal.

yeah right

Baby Driver just for the Queen Brighton Rock reference.

Bloody Lethal

I always enjoyed the Paul Walker version of Running Scared.

TheRevanchist

The correct answer is Smokey & The Bandit. How do I know? You can still watch the movie decades later.

yeah right

That is solid criteria for any good film.

Dunstan

+1 Diablo sandwich and a Dr. Pepper

yeah right

Another answer.

Death Proof.

Both the chase scene and the kill scene were top fucking notch.

Probably the best vehicular homicide scene ever. Plus Zoe did her own stunts.

Recovery Whiskey

Blues Brothers.

BrettFavresColonoscopy

What should we watch now that we’re digesting and this bottle of wine is nearly gone?

herodotus450

it’s never too early for an airing of grievances

WCS

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Doktor Zymm

I’m fighting the Japanese, and putting on Kurosawa movies

herodotus450

Japanese get a bonus from fish resources; don’t let them control the seas!
/Civ 5 only

Doktor Zymm

I’m playing a lakes only map, take that Hojo!

yeah right

I’m having a good time with Deadwood. I saw the first season when it aired but didn’t finish the story until now.

Bunch of low down cocksuckers.

Dunstan

Porn, obviously.

WCS

UrinatingTree and Brendon “Mike McCarthy Is a Clueless Blob of Cow Dung” Perna are going to have soooooooo much fun with the fake punt failure.

Sharkbait

Skyrim? Skyrim.

Doktor Zymm

I had a scary moment where I thought I had to go back to work tomorrow since I watched football in the morning. But it’s not Sunday yet, phew.

litre_cola

I do.

Doktor Zymm

🙁
I will day drink for you tomorrow

Sharkbait

As will i

BrettFavresColonoscopy

Poor Canadians

Game Time Decision

Same. Stupid work

yeah right

Same.

BrettFavresColonoscopy

Can someone come clean up our kitchen now that we’re done massacring all this food?

Doktor Zymm

Fire is a cleanser

Doktor Zymm

I feel like there could be NFC East versions of fairy tales, but it would have to be the original, fucked up, Grimm’s versions where everyone dies but learns a valuable lesson at the end

Sharkbait

Is the lesson hold out and force a trade out of the division?

herodotus450

Well there’s usually creepy birds eating people’s flesh, so the Eagles line up.

Horatio Cornblower

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Eny2FipXMAEpgLk?format=jpg&name=900×900

“And then McCarthy called for a fake punt on like 4th and 9 and they missed it by THIS much!”

Doktor Zymm

d’awww, red pandas!

Sharkbait
Doktor Zymm

Captain Marvel! LOL

litre_cola

Great goal from the run of play. Blue Cruise looks good this evening.

Horatio Cornblower

SexiMexi ref is making that hot pink work!

litre_cola

Linewoman last night was superb.

rockingdog

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Sharkbait

Time for second dinner: charcuterie

rockingdog

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Doktor Zymm

The demand for helium has dropped 25% since the start of the pandemic

WCS

I’m tuning into Connie Chung Christmas.

Doktor Zymm

She went to my high school, her and Ben Stein are our most famous alums

Recovery Whiskey

I’ve been to Silver Spring for work. Great little downtown. McGinty’s shepherd’s pie was amazing. And that little breakfast diner a few blocks from there

Doktor Zymm

Tastees! I spent waaay too much time there in high school, although that was the old location. Don’t suppose to made it to Quarry House, or the pirate bar?

rockingdog

Halftime shows were wild
back in the day…

https://twitter.com/BackAftaThis/status/1331808332219363328

Doktor Zymm

Stupid domes ruining winter weather games

clint greasewood

Ill hold off watching Christmas in Connecticut for another week.

Horatio Cornblower

If you pass a Covid test you can come to my house and watch it.

Hope you like wild turkeys and stray cattle.

Sharkbait

The Ref?

rockingdog

checkin out this movie
FAT MAN
getting in the christmas spirit

Doktor Zymm

More Civ it is. Football may come and go, but video games will always be there

Doktor Zymm

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BrettFavresColonoscopy

Well now what do we do? I still have a turkey resting and a LOT of booze to drink.

ballsofsteelandfury

Mexican soccer starts in 10 minutes.

Recovery Whiskey

Tigres and Cruz Azul here

litre_cola

Yessiree! Its SexiMexi tme.

Horatio Cornblower

Say that three times in a mirror and Balls shows up at your house, sans pants.

Recovery Whiskey

And thats it. The NFL had abandoned us

Viva La Tabula Raza

First Bond film I ever saw, at the base theater at Clark AB in the Philippines when it came out, From Russia With Love, is on Amazon Prime for no additional cost so I think I will check that out tonight since no NFL.

ballsofsteelandfury

I think almost all the early ones are on Prime.

Viva La Tabula Raza

yep

Horatio Cornblower

I think I’ll watch some regular, easy “pizza delivery guy horny young housewife” porn, and wash the memory of this snuff film out of my memory.

BrettFavresColonoscopy

No neighbor detectorist shows up looking for hard objects fantasy?

ballsofsteelandfury

Beat me to it

ballsofsteelandfury

Throw a detectorist in there and the Mrs might join you.

Viva La Tabula Raza

“Hey lady, did you order a pepperoni pizza? Well, here’s the pizza, and here’s the pepperoni!”
*zzzzzip*
I don’t think I’ve listened to Cheech and Chong records in 40 years.

litre_cola

Hmmm South Covid State v Mormon State, or Drop Kick Murphy U v the Lamar Odoms.

Sharkbait

OK if Dallas gets a safety, its scorigami

BrettFavresColonoscopy

Garbage time for McKissic?

clint greasewood

Bengals Oline vs Cowboys Oline who lets there QB die first?

Horatio Cornblower

4th and 4 coach, what do you want to run?

A 3 yard in pattern, right into the teeth of the D.

Uh, Coa…

I SAID WHAT I SAID!!!

litre_cola

LAMAR! has the nuAIDZ

King Hippo

RG3 has limped into the chat

Sharkbait

Not even going to get Scorigami

Petronel

Just got back to the game. Don’t know what was funnier – that TD, or the spazzy score updates on the chyron immediately after.

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BrettFavresColonoscopy

So we’re not getting a tie?

Doktor Zymm

Maybe next father’s day

Doktor Zymm

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litre_cola

Yesssss! I think of him every time the football guy is named.

hippofant

RT thought about blocking someone just long enough to fuck Dalton, then chose to block noone.

Doktor Zymm

Is Dallas still fielding players? Or are those promotional cardboard cutouts?

Horatio Cornblower

I literally burst out laughing at that interception.

Recovery Whiskey

Daltonface

Recovery Whiskey

Big man pick

WCS

BWAHAHHAAHAAHAHAH

Doktor Zymm

It’s looking like Dallas’s brief bid for the NFC East lead may be over

Horatio Cornblower

I’m not sure who I would risk Dallas on in that pool right now. Oddly enough, maybe whenever they play Baltimore, depending on how many Ravens players have died from Covid.

Sharkbait

Don’t think we’re getting a tie