Three days from now Cle-Town is Draft Town! It’s also when Roger Goodell starts getting all handsy with guys who can’t say no. ESPN has a breakdown of the draft-night hug’s origin story. Because everything is a thing now, I guess.
NFL Nuggets:
- Sean Lee retired today after 11 calendar years in the league.
- He played in 118 games, and missed 58 due to injury.
- Going by “calendar years” is more honest an assessment than saying “seasons”.
- Big Daddy Drew agrees with me.
- He played in 118 games, and missed 58 due to injury.
Sean Lee retiring actually upgrades him to questionable for Week 1
— Drew Magary (@drewmagary) April 26, 2021
- I’m sure Goodell loves this: Chiefs’ backup TE Sean Culkin has announced he will become the first NFL player to convert his entire salary to Bitcoin, according to tweets from Sean Culkin.
- The Chiefs aren’t paying him in Bitcoin; he’ll convert the cheque each week.
- If he makes the roster out of camp, he’s scheduled to earn $927,000 in 2021.
- At the 12:30pm PT value of $53,944.29, that will work out to 17.184 Bitcoin, assuming zero fluctuation over the course of an 18-week season for a currency that was worth $10,000 per unit back on July 28.
- If he makes the roster out of camp, he’s scheduled to earn $927,000 in 2021.
- Things he’ll have to do first:
- Make the team – he’s currently their projected #3 TE.
- Not puss out when it takes a dive.
- “This for me is a long-term play, a generational play. The more research I did and the more I zoomed out, I didn’t necessarily link volatility to risk… Long term, it’s a stored value. What makes Bitcoin so intractable is its scarcity. Over time, it’s deflationary by nature. If you look at history, it appreciates over time.”
- The Chiefs aren’t paying him in Bitcoin; he’ll convert the cheque each week.
- The first player to take advantage of the relaxed League rules on jersey numbers – Patrick Peterson.
- He signed as a free agent with the Vikings back in March, so it’s a new team for him, so there’s no back inventory of jerseys he has to buy up to compensate League vendors.
- He will wear #7, the number he wore at LSU.
- It’s a bit of a blessed/cursed number, having been previously worn by quarterbacks Randall Cunningham, Christian Ponder, and Tarvaris Jackson, and kickers Fuad Reveiz, Rick Danmeier, and Morten Andersen.
- He will wear #7, the number he wore at LSU.
- Because the number was currently worn by backup QB Nate Stanley, Peterson arranged the exchange by donating new pads to Stanley’s old high school.
- He signed as a free agent with the Vikings back in March, so it’s a new team for him, so there’s no back inventory of jerseys he has to buy up to compensate League vendors.
To acquire #7, Peterson will donate new shoulder pads to the Menomonie High School football program, @Njstan4’s alma mater.
— Minnesota Vikings (@Vikings) April 25, 2021
Finally, the 49ers have shown off their 75th anniversary commemorative patch, which will be worn on their jerseys all season.
It looks very nice, and will look good in closeups the 75 times Jimmy Garoppolo has to dust himself off after being sacked this coming season.
Tonight’s sports:
- NHL:
- Carolina vs Dallas – 7:30pm | NBCSN
- Anaheim vs LA Kings – 10:00pm | Sportsnet
- NBA:
- Phoenix vs New York – 7:30pm | NBATV
- Cleveland vs Toronto – 7:30pm | TSN4
- Dallas vs Sacramento – 10:00pm | NBATV / TSN5
- MLB:
- Chi. Cubs at Atlanta – 7:00pm | ESPN / TSN
- NY Yankees at Baltimore – 7:00pm | Sportsnet1
- WWE:
- Monday Night Raw – 8:00pm | USA / Sportsnet360
On a personal note, I’d like to thank Make It Snow and Buddy Cole for emerging from their dens & gracing the Oscars Open Thread last night. It was good to see you both, and I hope this encourages you, and others – Moose, Beastmode, et cetera – to come back and/or keep coming around more often, now that the site issues have been resolved. The site is better when the regulars are around & contributing.
Oh, Little Debbie . . .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8rev7S3lC8
Quiet night
A little too quiet…
For my conservative buds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJCTIPWPNtw
Phrasing!
I wanna see Gooddell hug a barrel of ammonia. Or The Kraken. Either of Krakens.
“When Harty met Sally”, good movie, would be Friend Zone porn if Billy Chrystal didn’t get laid weekly.
There are zero parts of the revenant that have been “happy”. I suspect there will be zero more by the end.
Oh, Little Debbie . . .
Here’s Tucker Carlson telling his legions of moronic viewers to call 911 on parents with masked children. At what point can we shut down this network? They just demanded emergency services nationwide be tied up with crank callers. This is criminal. What the fuck is it with this country?
Here’s my nightly $1 sacrifice to GAMBLOR!
https://www.rawstory.com/tucker-carlson-masks/
These assholes will think it’s just fine to yank a mask off a child’s face. Unbelievable.
I bought some Bacardi Black and some Angostura bitters today. I am going to celebrate this momentous occasion with a nice Manhattan.
“deflationary”
Tom Brady knows…
I know, too!
Good to see Peterson helping to take on the problem of cost-free access to menstrual products
I didn’t care for the snarf around the 49ers 75th year patch (49 + 75 = 2021) regarding Garoppolo considering he’ll only be on the field for three games before handing the keys to this lost season over to the rookie-to-be-named-Friday.
I said what I said.
Patrik Roy looking to “get back into the nhl.” I hear there’s a lovely opening for a position as “human fodder to be ground up and made into pucks” that would suit him well.
$5 says he ends up in Columbus when Tortorella isn’t brought back.
I have three fears for what my Montreal Canadiens will do after they sputter out disgracefully this season:
1) They might fail to fire Marc Bergevin
2) They might fire him and replace him with Roy
3) They might fire him and replace him with Pierre McGuire
I wonder if he’d go back to Montreal. Is he over the incident vs. Detroit in 1995?
Everybody involved in that incident, from coaching through ownership, is gone, so yeah.
He showed up for his jersey retirement ceremony in 2008.
Pretty sure he was interviewed for the GM vacancy last time. He’s certainly made it known at times that he was interested.
Forgot about him going for the retirement. I can see Bergevin making that move to save his job
Well, Patrick’s agent is already drumming up speculation:
Stu Cowan: Maybe Patrick Roy could light a fire under the Canadiens | Montreal Gazette
I was going to say that he’s too similar to Torts, but I guess that’s not really true. They’re both hotheaded jerks, but I think Roy was considered a “player’s coach,” unlike Torts, whose rep is of a throwback old school disciplinarian. So who knows.
Things I’m constantly saying to both my grandparents and the DFO login screen
(opens envelope)
“Remember me!”
https://twitter.com/BenAxelrod/status/1386819838719500295?s=20
The mock draft community is drafting Ballallama wr’s Smith and Waddle 41% of the time to the Giants. I recently started to buy in because Ross (one year signee) Shepard (likely salary cut next year) and Dante Pettis (likely gone next year) would leave the team with Gollladay and Slayton as the only ‘weapons’ that Dimes would have in 2022.
Gettlefart’s reputation hinges on his drafting of Jones and he’s not going hang him out to dry.
Every team that passes on Smith is making a HUGE mistake. That guy is a star. Mark it.
The Athletic think he will drop to the Iggles.
/he will not.
If the Eagles draft him he should instead apply for graduate school.
For the draft, I want to get some good drinks ready for the night. I’m thinking Rumchata for the later hours. A dry cider for the day drinking. I have a mixer and vodka, so I’ve got a running start on that part. Now I just need to get the Midori sour stuff ready.
Expect lots of vomiting, and that’s just from watching the Jets try to make a smart pick.
The mystery will be which pick the Jets fuck up – their own, or the one they got from the Seahawks.
All of them! And if they don’t, they will ruin the player’s time there. It’s the Jets thing to do.
Yes.
Yes.
Oy vey
How would you drink the Rumchata? Straight? Cold? Over ice? Mixed with….?
Mix it with root beer. It tastes like a float. A terrific, boozy float.
Get “Not Your Father’s Root Beer” for an additional alcoholic kick. Tastes just like root beer, but with a 5.9% ABV.
Straight, bottle kept in the freezer.
No worries. I’ll pour into a very large glass before chugging. I like to keep it classy.
Would like to hear from rockingdog as well. He had a way of finding a funny.
I think one of you guys with the Power should email them all, tell them shit is fixed, we’re sorry, we miss them and love them and want them to come baaaaack!
Say Anything style.
Moar [DFO]’s speed:
v
Pity I don’t have beacons for everyone. But here’s one for Rockingdog: