New week; new server. Let’s see how it goes.
NFL Nuggets:
- Julian Edelman packed it in today, minutes after his release by the Patriots.
- He failed a physical on his knee, and didn’t want to bother trying to sign somewhere else and having to learn, say, the Bengals Way,
- But it was still “a privilege to have coached him,” mumbled Bill Belichick, before throwing Edelman’s stuff out of the locker room to make space for a future draft pick.
- No word yet on who will replace him when someone needs to remind other players not to quote Hitler.
- He clearly knew this was coming, because he made a video for all the FACKERS to enjoy.
- Designed to anger the majority of [DFO] denizens, it’s titled “Foxboro Forever” rather than what the Right Reverend Electric Mayhem would offer – “Foxboro Delenda Est”.
- He failed a physical on his knee, and didn’t want to bother trying to sign somewhere else and having to learn, say, the Bengals Way,
https://twitter.com/Edelman11/status/1381722282570170373
- The Niners may have narrowed down their choice for the #3 pick.
- Schefter says Niners GM John Lynch and coach Kyle Shanahan will attend the second pro days of Ohio State’s Justin Fields and North Dakota State’s Trey Lance.
- Reminder: Jimmy G is still under contract until 2022, but he only has a dead cap hit of $1.4 million in the final year if they cut him.
- His no-trade clause expires after the 2021 season.
- Britt Reid has finally – FINALLY – been charged with felony DWI.
- According to authorities, a test of Reid’s blood serum after the crash showed his blood alcohol concentration to be at .113.
- His truck’s onboard computer had him going 84 mph just two seconds before the crash.
- Under Missouri state law, Class D felony DWI faces a potential punishment of a maximum seven years in prison.
- The five year-old girl who was injured suffered “permanent brain injuries” according to her parents.
- According to authorities, a test of Reid’s blood serum after the crash showed his blood alcohol concentration to be at .113.
- The Browns are looking to add Jadeveon Clowney to their defense.
- It would mark his fourth team in five years, after the Texans, Seahawks & Titans.
- He’s coming off a torn meniscus, so he will likely be cheaper than the $13 million the Titans paid him last year.
- Speaking of Titans, Eddie George is going to be the coach at Tennessee State.
- An HBCU based in Nashville, he joins a coaching staff that already includes former NFL cornerback Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie.
- Fun facts about TSU:
- UT-Nashville was merged into TSU after a court case launched in 1968.
- Due to concerns that the state was perpetuating a segregated system of higher education, because the local government was going to build a new facility for UT-N adjacent to TSU.
- Essentially, the white university annex established in 1947 to teach adult high school completion would be getting new buildings & degree certification right next to the underfunded HBCU that was founded in 1912.
- A decade of litigation ensued, ending in a court decision in 1977 which forced the merger of UTN into Tennessee State in 1979.
- Because TSU was the larger school.
- Due to concerns that the state was perpetuating a segregated system of higher education, because the local government was going to build a new facility for UT-N adjacent to TSU.
- As the only public university in Nashville, it’s population is roughly 71% black, 15% white, and 14% other. (Forbes, 2018)
- The sex ratios are 41% male & 59% female.
- The most famous alumni is Oprah.
- UT-Nashville was merged into TSU after a court case launched in 1968.
Oh, and Kevin James will be starring as Sean Payton in the Bountygate movie being produced by Adam Sandler.
- This comes under “sentences I totallty expected to type in 2021”.
- I look forward to David Spade as Brett Favre, Chris Rock as Jonathan Vilma, and Rob Schneider as Scott Fujita.
- Fun facts:
- Rob Schneider’s maternal grandmother is Filipina. So he’s not racist.
- Scott Fujita was adopted as a baby by a Japanese father – who himself was born while his mother was interned during WWII in Arizona – and a white mother.
- Fun facts:
And if you read the article, Florio gets quite salty against the league. Almost like he’s trying to curry some favour…
Tonight’s sports:
- NHL:
- Chicago vs Columbus – 7:00pm | NHLN
- Vegas vs Los Angeles – 10:00pm | Sportsnet
- NBA:
- Phialdelphia vs Dallas – 7:30pm | ESPN / TSN
- Denver vs Golden State – 10:00pm | ESPN / TSN
- MLB:
- Yankees vs Blue Jays – 7:00pm | Sportsnet
- WWE:
- Monday Night Raw – 8:00pm | USA / Sportsnet360
- The “Night After Wrestlemania”, which usually means fallout from the weekend of changes, and new debuts or returns.
- Monday Night Raw – 8:00pm | USA / Sportsnet360
Kind of a quiet Monday. Let’s see how that turns out.
Thanks to all of you who have stuck through the site reorganization.
If anyone has Amazon Prime, the series “Making Their Mark” is really good. It chronicles various people/teams in the AFL as they went through the saga of the 2020 COVID season. Highly recommend it.
Really should have been titled Making Their Behinds.
VividThe Eighties did it.(watching Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith)
I’m enjoying watching Ewan McGregor being the only person besides Ian McDiarmid actually trying while Hayden Christensen is looking around silently begging for the littlest of direction.
Be jealous – I just finished watching SW: A New Hope. The wife and I couldn’t decide what to watch, and she picked that. If you’ve watched the SW movies more than once (as I have, unfortunately) you can tell that there was no way that George Lucas planned nine films from the git-go. But I think I like that movie even more than I like The Empire Strikes Back.
I graduated from HS when the first film came out in 1977. I specifically remember reading at the time that Lucas planned on nine films in like TIME or some other periodical at the time. I also remember seeing the strip below in the Stars and Stripes in 1983. But by the time Phantom Menace arrived that had pretty much all slipped down the memory hole and they were talking about six films. I guess the financial bonanza of the Prequel Trilogy got everyone thinking about a 9-film series again.
From Wiki:
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According to producer Gary Kurtz, loose plans for a prequel trilogy were developed during the outlining of the original two films.[50] In 1980, Lucas confirmed that he had the nine-film series plotted,[51] but due to the stress of producing the original trilogy, he had decided to cancel further sequels by 1981.[52] In 1983, Lucas explained that “There was never a script completed that had the entire story as it exists now … As the stories unfolded, I would take certain ideas and save them … I kept taking out all the good parts, and I just kept telling myself I would make other movies someday.”
You’re a slightly older fart than I am – I saw it as a first run as a sophomore in high school. I might have talked myself into thinking that I read about the 9 episodes in Creem or Hit Parader (which would have been about the only place I would have read it back then), and that I didn’t believe it.
No, it was a thing, I specifically remember that and thinking “fuck that’s going to take a while.” Little did I know that the 9th film wouldn’t be released till 5 months after I turned 60.
Dug a little deeper on the wiki and found this as well. It WAS Time magazine!
Prior to releasing the original film, and made possible by its success, Lucas planned “three trilogies of nine films.” He announced this to Time in 1978, and confirmed that he had outlined them in 1981.
Also, I subscribed to Creem for a solid decade. Lester Bangs FTW.
I’m between the two of you- Gumby and I were juniors. I remember how high I was when I saw the first one, and how completely mind blowing it was. One of the best movie experiences I have ever had. I really don’t like any of the ones outside the original trilogy, to be honest, but there was nothing like that first one. Long ago, in a galaxy far, far away…
“Warum wollen die Leute John Boehner validieren, indem sie ihn ins Fernsehen bringen? Es ist teilweise seine Schuld, dass wir in diesem Scheißloch sind! ” – Paul von Hindenburg
Okay, here’s the polished version of my vaccination (with titles!)
It was like doing a lap at Monaco. Also, it was one of the most competently organized affairs of its size I’ve ever seen.
Those are regular Army and Air Force personnel working it too (not National Guard). The medic who gave me my shot had an 82nd Airborne patch on his sleeve.
https://vimeo.com/535398259
Something’s wrong, because for my COVID-19 1st Dose I just drove 2 hours, walked into a grocery store pharmacy and walked out in half an hour. Ohio just isn’t that good at things!!
I’m expecting a Wacky Race to break out when I drive for my 2nd Dose.
I like it!
Slow the fuck down!
Also, how are you going 5 metric units per standard time unit when stopped?
Ask my dash cam. Also ask it why it’s displaying fucking metric.
Hey dash cam, why are you displaying metric and not freedom units?
I hate to break it to you, Brick, but I think you just enlisted in the Space Force. I hear boot camp on the moons of Saturn is lovely, though.
When I am elected Evil Overlord, all starting pitching outings of 5 innings of scoreless baseball will not celebrated but will instead be condemned as it should be.
Additionally, if a manager attempts to pull a pitcher who is in the middle of a shutout, a no-hitter, or a perfect game, the pitcher may respond with a rosin bag, glove or a baseball bat respectfully if he wishes to stay in.
I remember Tom Browning; he pitched like he was double-parked. If he was on, that game was going to be finished in under two hours.
This site is getting loaded faster than Britt Reid when he has to drive somewhere in the next ten minutes.
In stark contrast to how slow a 5 year old’s brain now operates after Britt Reid rammed into her vehicle on an off ramp.
You made Opus sad
Why yes, I did just spend the last five minutes filling out an online complaint for Carl’s Jr. because my Steakhouse Angus Thickburgers did not contain bacon, as promised.
[grabs pitchfork, lights torch] – Andy Reid
{grabs booze from son to make Molotov cocktail} – also Andy Reid.
Dammit, now I want a Carls Jr burger.
I miss their one with the hot dog.
Is a hot dog hamburger a sandwich?
Depends on the bun. If it’s a hamburger bun it’s a sandwich. If it’s a hot dog bun it’s a taco.
Hamburger buns. I totally forgot about the chips. Damn, this needs to come back.
lol. If this isn’t a sandwich, I don’t want another sandwich.
*Hardee’s girds loins, awaiting collateral damage.”
Probably didn’t contain beef, either…
As an east coaster, is Carl’s Jr good enough for that level of effort?
My go to fast food spot when I’m on the west coast (or Vegas) is In -N -Out
No, that’s why I expended even more effort by writing about it here.
They tried to buy me off with a coupon and I was like, no way.
Should find a Rally’s. That’s living your best life, right there.
The Rally’s near me closed, which fucking sucks because starting tomorrow T-Mobile Tuesday has a coupon for a free Big Buford.
Not sure how Rally’s manage to sell you a half-pound burger for $1.50. Having eaten at a Rally’s, I probably don’t want to know.
Probably relates to how a person defines “beef.”
On the east coast Carls Jr is called Hardees. They are exactly the same except for the name.
It’s just like Hellman’s mayonnaise on the east coast is called Best Foods mayonnaise on the west coast. Once again identical packaging except for the name.
Don’t ask me why.
I can still remember the TV ad jingle “Bring out the Hellman’s and bring out the best” became “Bring out the Best Foods…” when I moved from MS to CA.
There was a similar geographical deal going on between Angel’s and Handy Dan’s do-it-yourself stores at the same time.
In Australia Burger King is called Hungry Jack’s.
The Australian Whopper comes slathered in maple pancake syrup.
I loved Carl’s when I was a teen in SoCal. They finally opened one here in San Antonio 10 or 12 years ago. It sucked and went away within a couple of years. It certainly wasn’t as good as I remembered, and I did not mourn it’s demise.
So, I wrote Carl’s years ago a nastygram when they changed their fries. The ones they have now are shit. And I pretty much said in my email something along the lines of that, like, ‘these fries are taste like shit on a cracker you wouldn’t even feed to a bear’. I got the typical corporate response.
Now, I go get a burger from there, but go across the street to Weinerschnitzel for the fries and drink. Because their fries are terrible and I am petty.
Thick burgers make you thicc, which makes you think.
This Raw After WrestleMania is boring. That’s impressive.
TIM TEBOW: If you rearrange the letters in “raw” it spells “war”. Think about it.
FLORIDA PROFESSOR: [sighing] You don’t need to cover for your dyslexia, Tim, it’s not like I could fail you even if I wanted to.
He’s not old enough to understand that Raw Is War.
It’s almost like they’ve had no plan all along.
I hope so, because God help us if this was them trying.
They should’ve named it RAW After WrestleMania, to make it a recursive acronym like GNU. Help them capture that elusive software engineer wrestling audience.
Sometimes centrism is pretty awesome
The Scrabble Party being left out AGAIN.
I like how they used the font from the album. I hope the other side says “Pitmaster of Reality.”
The new site loads almost as fast as Britt Reid was driving under the influence
It loads Tiger Woods fast
As long as it’s Tiger Woods loaded
Almost as fast as me on Prom Night.
My date’s father couldn’t catch me, either.
And just like that, we have a new banner comment.
I look forward to the Chiefs announcement that Andy Reid will take 6 minutes away from his draft preparation to be with his son during this difficult time.
so, site works now?
Its like Democracy: By all common sense and logic, it shouldn’t work, but somehow it does.
Does it, though?
*CITATION NEEDED
Uhh, how about the the fact that the biggest country* and fastest growing economy** in the world is a democracy, the Democratic People’s Republic of China. It’s right there in the name, so it must be true!
*Citation needed
**Citation needed
Hate to break it to ya, bit Eddie George is looking to hire Hue Jackson as OC. Hue’s pitch to TSU should’ve been cassette-worthy.
Julian Edelman failed a physical on his knee?
They should check his fucking head because that guy took more insanely hard hits than any player I’ve ever seen who still got up for the next play.
Phrenology fell out of favour a little while ago, Brick.
Well, that’s what the Republicans would have you believe.
I dunno. Some cuts still sound great.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7jIlQfeu0bw
It’s amazing that he lasted 12 years.
Eddie George’s best year at RB was when Lorenzo Neal was blocking for him. Because Neal should be in the HOF as a FB.
Time to play everyone’s favorite game, “Match each one to 1)a setting on your TV, 2) a non-lethal weapon designer, and 3) a regional beer”:
Magnus Chrona
Curtis Lazar
Ryder Rolston
Ah ha, you rubes! Fooled again! Actually they are all minor leagueish hockey players involved in deadline deals.
Ex Flame and Sen!
Huh! I thought Magnus Chrona was that dude that wanted all the Infinity Stones.
No, Magnus Chrona is that anime about that teenage time-traveller supersoldier with ginormous boobs.
I figured a high end wristwatch. With ginormous boobs.
Some dumb bum by the name of Connor Brown on the Senators has scored a goal in 8 consecutive games.*
*just wanted to post something that means nothing to no one on this site.
He needs to cut it out for the rest of this game.
C’mon! Just give us this one W. That’s all I ask.
The very best thing about the NHL trade deadline? The Leafs once again trading away a 1st round draft pick for some old-ish dude that the front office believes is the VERY LAST PIECE that is the key to a successful Stanley Cup victory.
Rob Schneider’s maternal grandmother is Filipina. So he’s not racist.
Also, loves pancit, adobo, balut, and banana ketchup.
I hope they get Greg Jennings to play Darren Sharper in that Bountygate movie. “I put the cast and crew on my back.”
I think the problem is that Darren Sharper was putting a whole bunch of other people on their backs, albeit without their consent and/or being conscious.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOu_MsjKp6s
I’m not gonna do anything silly like look this up, but didn’t Edelman get drafted in like 2010, 10 or so years into Brady’s career? WERID.
Giovani Bernard is now a Buccaneer. Will you guys lose respect for me if I root for a team that has Tom Brady?
Rhetorical question is rhetorical.
Brady is the best of all time. It’s only natural to love him. Love him a long time.
Lose?
I am amazed this took so long! Are we just dazzled by the shiny new site, or are we getting old?
With a severe knee injury, it sounds like Edelman is already familiar with the ‘Bengal way’
(goes to hit plus button) “AH!”
Announcer: “Commenter Redshirt is being evaluated for a severe knee sprain and will have an MRI done later this week once the swelling goes down.”
Also “dropping the ball in a big game.”
Nah that’s not fair, the Bengal Way doesn’t include even getting to a big game.
Offered without comment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qcr_6__wuoo
Stupid fucking Falcons & stupider fuckinger Shanahan.
True and truer, but still an amazing catch.
It was it was.