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The night before “The Big Game”©®™ is normally reserved for recriminations & drunken yelling.
However, tonight has an extra layer of intrigue & investigation, as the 2021 Hall of Fame class will be announced.
In a normal year, the 48 voting members would meet day-of and ask only the important questions for eligibility.
But this year, they held the meeting remotely – by Zoom – on January 19th. There were people who introduced the candidate’s qualifications, and then debate ensued. According to eligible voter Clark Judge, the shortest debate was Peyton Manning (12 seconds) & the longest was Calvin Johnson (39:17). (I assume the Freep reporter in thrall to the Ford family vehemently objected to his entry.)
The list of candidates is on the poster. Five of them are eligible for entry; the coaching & contributor categories were separate debates. If you assume Manning & Woodson are locks, that leave three spots for the remaining twelve candidates. Of note:
- Sam Mills played for & then coached with the Panthers.
His statue stayed. - He’s the guy behind the “Keep pounding” slogan you find associated with the Panthers.
- One hopes Peter King knows the difference.
- He’s the guy behind the “Keep pounding” slogan you find associated with the Panthers.
- Reggie Wayne is going to get some Peyton voter love. Likely not enough to get in, but close-ish.
- Did you know Jared Allen loves hunting? I learned that the same day I discovered Jimmy Graham played basketball in college.
- The only person in Detroit who still loves Megatron is Barry Sanders.
- Clay Matthews Jr. is currently-unemployed Clay’s old man, and in his last year of voting eligibility.
- I’m not saying there’s a correlation, but John Lynch the GM sure had a lot of time this year for sportswriters who had questions about John Lynch the player.
Personally, and selfishly, I’m pulling for LeRoy Butler, as he was a Packer, was born seven days after me, and – depending on your affinity for it – invented the “Lambeau Leap”.
The results will be announced during the NFL Honors award show tonight, so be prepared for that to light up your notifications.
Tonight’s sports:
- NFL Honors – 9:00PM | CBS
- NHL:
- Canucks at Leafs – 7:00PM | CBC / Sportsnet
- Oilers at Flames – 10:00PM | CBC / Sportsnet
- NBA:
- Warriors At Mavericks – 8:30PM | ABC
- NCAA:
- 8:00PM – East Coast & Midwest Games on ESPN, ESPN2, AND FS1
- 10:00PM – West Coast & Mountain Conference Games on ESPN, ESPN2, AND FS1
- Rugby:
- NBCSN is showing same-day coverage of Six Nations & Premiership matches all night.
And that’s a wrap for the 2021 edition of “Hate Week”. Thanks to everyone who helped out – Low Commander, Jake, Balls – and I’ll see you on Monday night, when we have to talk about other stuff until the Draft.
https://twitter.com/mashup/status/1357483977272135684
Fact check: Three Pinocchios
My drinking is basically doing lunges for tomorrow.
It’s important to stretch and warm up properly
My liver is getting a Rocky-esque training montage tonight. Owl and a snowstorm tomorrow, I’m not leaving the house at all
Just had one of these. It is so damn smooth it is impossible to nurse. Really mad at myself for only picking up 2 earlier today. Sure hope they make more at some point.
Youtube videos of Korean street food is very comforting
Tom Flores in HoF. Super!
Aaron Rodgers MVP. No Superb Owl.
Today was a good day.
Apparently, A-a-ron said “my fiancee” which would qualify as news.
it’s been legal for years. no one cares
OK, the “gay Rodgers” thing is old, but this was funny as hell.
Yeah very much so.
Twitter is very excited about this. Which is cool, because at least Rodgers’s family can hear about it.
Isn’t he dating Shaileen Woodpecker?
That’s a real person’s name??
No, it’s Woodley.
If I ever make it to Australia, I’m going shopping at Harvey Norman and Bunning’s Warehouse.
I want to go back. You need at least 2 weeks there
Minimum. And absolutely worth it to spend some time in Taz
Or NZ. Wish I got over there since I was so close and was there for a month
“Yeah, 7-14 years usually did it for us”
-The Irish
Just saw a short doc about the Port Arthur Penitentiary on Tasmania. What a fucking horror show. Fucking English.
the sun never set on the british empire because god didnt trust the british in the dark
I’ve heard that somewhere before.
There’s a great book about the history of Australia called ‘The Fatal Shore’, by Robert Hughes. It covers Port Arthur and all the other penal colonies, like Norfolk Island and holy fuck, was early Australia unpleasant.
It’s on my bookshelf and has been for years. Now it’s only the wildlife that will kill you down there; the English not so much.
Tasmanian Devils are both adorable and terrifying
I have never got a tattoo, but I almost did once on a Hong Kong liberty call. The Warner Bros Tasmanian Devil was what I was going to get, but could not make up my mind over the “Navel or No Navel” controversy that was active in the US Navy at that time in history (early-mid 1980s).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2gii2nenUg&ab
Never seen this before (your youtube link directly above):
The webpage at https://www.youtube.com/embed/f2gii2nenUg?feature=oembed might be temporarily down or it may have moved permanently to a new web address.
Go to Bunnings and harden the fuck up.
Aaron Rodgers is your NFL MVP, in a vote that clearly doesn’t take family into account.
Peter King thought MVP stood for Most Valuable Parent and voted for Andy Reid.
I heart sours
I have tried many, but the appeal continues to elude me.
Which means more for you.
Woohoo! More for me! Although you’re welcome to all the sweet beverages if you want them, I can enjoy sweet wines with the appropriate food pairings, but not the sweeter heavier beers like caramel porters and such
Not a wine guy, (that’s Litre), but I will trade you all my sours for all of your dessert-type porters and everyone will be happy.
I want all of the above. And a lotto retirement plan.
And a pony.
Ponies are reincarnated axe murderers, which is cool if that’s your thing, but maybe go will a small horse instead
I can’t do them. Tried many, liked none
Ok, now that PeyPey is ofishal, Top 5 QBs of all time?
Peyton
Brady
Marino
Montana
(wildcard pick) Steve Young
Prediction: One of these guys will be supplanted by Mahomes.
Sid Luckman isn’t there, your list is invalid.
My Catholic school wouldn’t let us learn about him, sorry.
Brady’s the top, much as I hate to admit it.
Should clarify, top 5 not in any specific order. Can’t argue with Brady, wish I could.
You could probably pick a fight and literally argue with him if you ran into him in person at least
I would like that (sure, he’d kick my ass, but I might MIGHT get one shot in)
Go low and get the sack!
(how Dok Zymm deals with potential assaulters)
I would throw, (heh), Otto Graham in there.
I always thought Fran Tarkenton was highly underrated. He was the future of QB play in the 70s. What he could have done in today’s game is unreal.
Russell Wilson is Tarkenton’s basic skillset.
I like to think that the best QB ever is some dude in another country in another century who never played the game, but would have been mindblowing at it. Instead he was just a mediocre blacksmith, with a small family and the respect of his community.
Peyton is in. Thank God, was worried about that.
Like he needs more accolades to give him a big head.
No, you are thinking of “big muscles” and “HGH”.
Fun fact: his summer high schools job was drive in movie screen
Tom Flores made it! Should be a short speech.
Tony Sparano’s football is doing the introduction.
Apparently they’re close.
…
Oh shit, I did not realize that Flores was still alive. Welp, this is awkward.
LOL same, coulda sworn he was ded.
Every Raiders coach since 1969 (there have been 19) except Joe Bugel and Sparano are all still alive.
John Lynch is in.
“I can’t tell.”
–Mrs. Lynch last night
“Gurrrrrl, tell me all about it.”
-D. Favre
He’s one of those white guys who was good but hard to know just how good because you got so fucking tired of the announcers ball-washing him.
He was the homeless man’s Steve Atwater
Steve Atwater was a very very very bad man.
“Hey!”
-Darren Sharper
No relation to David Lynch
When Covid is subdued, I propose a double cross-country DFOcon. Start in CA, drive to the East coast in the US, head north to America’s Hat, then back west again through Canada.
I mean, by then I should have a solid 7-8 weeks of unused vacation time, so what the hell, let’s do it.
Corey Sandhagen just murdered Frankie Edgar with a flying knee.
If you have ESPN+, check out the replay. Just horrific and wonderful.
Alex Smith got 49 out of 50 votes for Comeback Player of the Year? Who got the other one? Captain Fat Fuck.
Jared Lorenzen? Is he alive again?
The rapey one, not the (hopefully soon to be) zombie one.
If that were actually true he’d have been the unanimous winner, methinks.
Someone mistakenly voted for RG3?
Haha, Big Ben got the other vote. HARF HARF!
That’s ridiculous. Did they vote after Week 11?
TMC is showing Blazing Saddles. Without edits.
Most excellent
They were showing the original of The Producers earlier.
Curry from the LOGO! OH MY!
he has hit 9 3’s already
this game is ROCKING!!
Fuck yes! Alan Faneca is is in!
He deserves it. (The lineman rater has logged on.)
(Number one lineman? Wichita.)
Munoz went to Wichita?
For anyone that missed it last night. Squares still available.
Is Charles Woods going in as a Raider or a Packer?
Ass pirate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNwkN9vrUYY&ab
Drew Pearson is in. I loathe the Cowboys, but, that guy deserved it 25 years ago.
Didn’t he basically tell them to get fucked for not voting him in last year?
Squeaky wheel, grease, etc.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMVZVwWLmNk&ab
Who can debate against Calvin Johnson? When you’re the best at your position for multiple years it shouldn’t matter if you had a shorter career. Boselli too. He was dominant but pro football is hard on a body so he got injured. Not that any of it matters.
As far as I’m concerned they owe it to him after fucking with him. After all, they’re the reason his career was short
Megatron is in the HoF. It’s impressive how the Fucklions can screw the careers of all-timers.
Good for him. Fuck Starscream.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhCH8AEn9fw&ab
Who would Stalin bet on?
Like a dumbass, the fucking Nazis to honor an agreement
https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZAqMde2JdF8
He bets on red
Can’t mock the Mapplethorpe Leafs for losing, can’t even make fun of them for giving up 12 goals but scoring 13; not an ideal Saturday at all.
Most popular black slur: Shine or Shvug? Starring an American mayor!
https://www.rawstory.com/caught-on-tape/
My racist uncle had a few
The jigaboos were ruining television. That was 30 years ago. This guy also wouldn’t leave his double-wide in rural oregon during forest fire evacuation last summer because “antifa looters” were going to break into it.
That’s my otherwise liberal 85 year old father. “Why are all these n^^^^rs on my TV?”
Stop watching fucking TV, dad, if it bothers you
Liberal, but only to a point (on the hat on your head).
I heard one of my Massachusetts racist uncles use “smoke” once or twice. Did he vote for Trump once, or twice? I’d guess twice.
My more polite grandparents called them The Colored. “We can’t go downtown, The Colored are out.” – Chicago 1970s.
The really a-hole uncle who was also a Packers fan called them junglebunnies, porch monkeys, sambos, yard apes, or if he was really rolling, “suspects.”
Colored was the acceptable term for a while, hence the NAACP
Then there’s this from 50+ years ago. I think it was supposed to be ironic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udL0BuZZeog
I had a relative (now deceased) who would make porch monkeys more specific by adding “Alabama” in front of it.
Ha, that was Nate Burleson i was thinking of:
https://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/bears/ct-xpm-2013-09-24-chi-lions-burleson-20130924-story.html
Watching Ken Burns’ “Lewis & Clark” doc. Jesus, the uninhabited lands of the Louisiana Purchase were the garden of fucking eden.
Until the white man came and cut it all down
“Here, you’ll like how this blanket keeps you warm.”
—Bureau of Indian Affairs agent.
Yes, but the white man brought whisky that made everything better.
Fun fact. My 1/2 Tlingit coworker can’t handle his booze, has multiple incidents of getting hammered.
That’s not a word. Stop making stuff up.
And a 16 yo girl to lead them
Oh shit. The Lakota just showed up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mt9FG9YjBMM&t=20s&ab
LOL
https://twitter.com/kibblesmith/status/1358178792011923457
this Dubs vs Mavs game is close and exciting early
yay sports!
I have no idea who I want to win the Owl. I would like my yet to be placed prop bets to pay off though
I’m going Chiefs just because of Mahomes. I want this to be some metaphorical astronomical stuff, with Brady’s sun setting to be replaced by Mahomes’s brighter, better, less douchy sun
Me too. I think every sport needs at least one bona fide superstar, or else what’s the point? And I’d much rather it be a non asshole like Mahomes.
Although, having Tampa win and then having Brady exposed as a long time user of PEDs and of bribery being used to keep it quiet would be magnificent.
Yes, full on Lance Armstrong disgrace, please!
Disgraced or not, didn’t Lance get to keep all the money he made? That makes it a hollow schadenfreude to me.
Plus he started that whole ungrammatical #nounstrong thing with the associated cheap plastic bracelets
I believe he’s had to pay a lot of it back through civil suit settlements, but he’s still pretty well off.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZXxmhok1AU&list=RDEMU8Ako8PjTMKOmVAvqlpBhA&index=2&ab
Evening Folks
Hey DFO.
Sup
Watchin the spouse set up new Roku. Apparently we get a bunch of shit
AWRIGHT LETS CUT THE SHIT!!!
How is this game gonna go tomorrow? I don’t feel as though either team’s running game will dominate, but Tampa’s is better. Both squadoos have ELITE wideouts, and give the nod to the Chiefs at TE. The QB battle seems like Namath vs Morall/Unitas, tipping heavily towards KC. So what I DON’T know (and NEVER know) is who holds the advantage in the trenches? My eyes tell me Tampa, especially after the Packer game. Special Teams? Always just looks like a series of car accidents to me. How are you guys betting?
> Always just looks like a series of car accidents to me.
So you’re giving the Chiefs the edge in this category?
(hic)
-B. Reid
I think BRADY and co R rocking.
Bucs gonna win 33-28
Chefs 38-29
(That’s great, but who are the Chefs?)
Great googily moogily
I have faith in Pour One out for Mahomes, but we can’t have nice things, so Brady and the Refs are winning 27-23, which will be one square off from one of the ones I bought in Sharky’s pool.
Cool! I’m right next to you!
It’ll probably be the other one, with that Adolf Hettler guy
probably
Cool!
Dubs vs Mavs round 2
Megatron should get in. He’s the smartest WR to play in Detroit as evinced by his early retirement.
Smarter than Titus Young? I beg to differ.
Which Lion broke his arm reaching for pizza in the car when he got into a car crash? Smarter than that one.
No one is better than Tits Young
I had to delete the last post of this but this is two edit versions later so it’s completely different.
I shot this last night at 3:00 AM. It was actually a test but it came out almost pretty good (until the end) so I made a political manifesto out of it.
Running time 2 minutes 38 seconds
https://vimeo.com/509303610
Ha ha ha ha! I love it!
Actually, I LOVE the ballwax01 video!
https://vimeo.com/509335053
thats ROCKING!
Ian Rapoport, punchable face, or most punchable face?
?quality=80&strip=all
Not when Peter Schrager exists:
Very punchable but not likely top 10. Lots of competition out there.
Fox News alone has awhile league of punchable mugs.
Nah, they are more like baseball bats to the face, punching is going to easy on them.
The baseball bats are studded with nails, right? Or at least covered in a combination of honey, fire ants, and murder hornets?
Why not all of the above?
Is that Joel Osteen? At first I thought it was a fucked up picture of Tim Allen.
Let’s not forget Ted Cruz and his fellow Cuban Marco Rubio.
found a funny:
Do you ever feel
Like a plastic bag
In a larger bag
Full of plastic bags
I will be blackout by kickoff, have too much money on a game I will not remember, then wake up Monday morning and be surprised with my Gamblor balance. (I took Monday off)
I took Monday off as well. I have a ton of vacation time, (because where am I going to go), and I figured, fuck it, I’m declaring Monday a national holiday for one.
Pacific time is my only saving grace.
Fun fact: “keep pounding” is the codename for the NFL’s plan to move a franchise that is underperforming (from a revenue standpoint) to London.
I think I may join Hippo in not watching the game, will be on the open thread, but probably playing They Are Billions or POE. I just can’t stand the Brady knob polishing that will probably be worse than usual.
For me it’s my hatred of the Chiefs that will keep me from watching. I will still pop into the open thread to make as many derogatory jokes about that soulless franchise as I can think of.
Huh, posted twice.
“Last night i dreamt of brains exploding”
“No hope, no harm, just another false alarm…”
Nothing like an 32 man army of snipers.
I first read that as “snippers” and thought “oh great, here we go talking about Tebow again…”
Now that would be a scary group, a foreskin of Mohels.
Or a Bris of Mohels.