Your Tuesday Evening Open Thread

NFL Notes:

For some reason, the Rams are all over the wire today:

  • They unveiled their new uniforms, which they call a “modern throwback”.
    • According to the merchandizing website they created to explain & sell them, the new look is “threaded with greatness”.
    • Reviews have been generally positive. The thing people seem to hate most are the numbers, which are too modern for a throwback look.
      • I just don’t like the “team name” patch on any jersey.
        • It’s like the team expects the concussion to wipe out their memory, so they need the name on the shirt so they know who will treat them.
  • They are still arguing the Rams relocation out of St. Louis in court.
    • The judge presiding over the case found, “potentially fraudulent behavior” which will justify probing financial records for the purposes of eventually assessing punitive damages.
      • Via Randy Karraker of ESPN radio in St. Louis, the judge ruled that the plaintiffs in the litigation shall have access to information regarding the financial worth of Commissioner Roger Goodell and five NFL owners: Rams owner Stan Kroenke, Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, Patriots owner Robert Kraft, Giants owner John Mara, and former Panthers owner Jerry Richardson.
        • Because a key piece of the collusion evidence is a phone call from 2013 between Kroenke, Goodell, Mara, and Steelers owner Art Rooney.
          • During the conversation, Kroenke said, “I’m going to buy two parcels of land and build a stadium in L.A.,” and was going to try & keep it hidden.
          • To that, Roger Goodell apparently said, “We will respect your confidentiality.”

    • The thinking is that the rich people won’t want their finances to become part of a public court record, so they will push for a settlement.
  • Pro Football Reference released their compliation of stats dating from 1961.
    • They had people comb through team yearbooks & databases, and believe they have compiled 99% of all stats since the merger, and 95% of the stats from 1960 forward.
      • Records before that, unless officially reported, are considered unreliable.
    • The stat most people are focusing on is sacks, because they have updated their database & Deacon Jones now ranks third all-time, with 173.5.
      • He ranks behind only Bruce Smith (200.5) and Reggie White (198)
      • More impressively, their research shows he led the league five times.
        • No other player since the merger has led the league more than once.

To wrap up, I just want to say “Happy belated” to Viva, as he & I share the same birthday. WineWife & I went out for a lovely Ramen dinner last night, then some cheesecake at a place called “True Confections, and I topped off the evening with a delightful Dead Frog Pale Ale.


Tonight’s sports:

  • MLB:
    • All Star Game – 7:00pm | FOX / Sportsnet
  • Wrasslin’:
    • NXT – 8:00pm | USA / Sportsnet360
  • Futbol:
    • Qatar vs. Panama – 7:00pm | FS1 / Uni / TUDN
    • Honduras vs. Grenada – 9:00pm | FS1 / Uni / TUDN

Jake’s got you tomorrow (unless I get an email), so I’ll see you on Thursday.

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A Canadian man-child of indeterminate age, he stays young by selling alcohol at sporting events and yelling at the patrons he serves. Their rage nourishes his soul, and their tips pay for his numerous trips to various sporting events.
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Brick Meathook

Greetings fellow youths!

Brick Meathook

I’m writing (and drinking) heavily right now. Would anyone here like to read a very short piece I wrote about a U.S, soldier who was killed in Italy in 1945? And I mean you can read it in under a minute, because I am concise.

Brick Meathook

It’s still kind of raw but here it is:

Brick Meathook

I’m an Arlington native born and raised, and Arlington Cemetery was almost like my back yard. This is the grave of a soldier who was killed in action in Italy in 1945, and I knew his family in California. The photograph and the writing are all my own.

  • – – – – – – – 

The grave of Captain James C. Kennett, Arlington National Cemetery. Every time I come home I visit his grave.

On the tombstone:

JAMES C
KENNETT
ILLINOIS
CAPTAIN 
87 MOUNTAIN INF
WORLD WAR II
MAY 10 1914
APRIL 23 1945

James Kennett was the older brother of the grandmother an old girlfriend of mine. Joyce (the grandmother) told me about him while she was very ill, shortly before her own death. I looked up the rest of the story. He was her much older brother (she was only a schoolgirl during the war) and he had been a champion skier in Northern California, where they had grown up. He joined the famed 10th Mountain Division during the war, and served in Italy, which if you will read your history books was miserable. He was a beloved and respected company commander. On April 23, 1945, he led his unit on the crossing of the Po River in northern Italy; there was no German resistance, as their main forces had withdrawn. In the quiet village on the northern bank of the Po, they waited for the engineers to build the bridges to bring the armor across. He went into the quiet village and found a bicycle. After months of misery in the mud of Italy, constantly under fire, he got on the bicycle and rode it. He was shot and killed by a German sniper. The German army in Italy surrendered five days later.

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Brick Meathook

I’m very proud of the subject matter and the scholarship; I welcome all of your opinions on the spelling, the margins, the indentations, etc etc

Mr. Ayo

Hello boomer!

Senor Weaselo

Can I take this time to complain about the Mustang SUV? It’s your most sacred brand, and you’re doing that shit?

ballsofsteelandfury

Hey BFC, don’t tell Weaselo they made the Mustang electric!

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

“An electric horse? That gives me an idea…” – Thomas Edison

Sharkbait

I dislike all of the sports car SUVs. Stick with what you’re good at!

ballsofsteelandfury

Porsche:
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ballsofsteelandfury

I think the Porsche abomination that offends me the most is the Panamera

Mr. Ayo

While I don’t care for the SUVs or the Panamera, they make them money to build the GT cars I do want. Win, win in my opinion.

ballsofsteelandfury

I would thoroughly mock anyone that spent a quarter of a million on this Lambo:
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Senor Weaselo

Seeing one in the snow was kinda hilarious.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

WORTH EVERY PENNY!

Senor Weaselo

Here’s the Republican response to the moving!

Dunstan

So, I was watching a show earlier this week in which one character is incredulous that another character was planning to go to work on her birthday. It is, of course, later revealed that when she was a girl, her mother died shortly before her birthday and so now it’s all clear that she has this “weird” attitude towards birthdays because she’s damaged.

I find this really baffling. I know that most people care a little more about birthdays than I do, but I don’t remember a lot of co-workers taking the day off every year. Is this really a standard thing?

Don T

It’s done, but not a staple. I once worked at an ad agency that gave your B’day off as a job benefit. They were slave drivers otherwise. I quit after five months (hugely terrible bosses), but really loved that job.

SonOfSpam

A decent percentage of people I work with seem to take their birthdays off; I never really have, unless it’s a big one and I have something planned around it. For example, I went to Chicago and saw a game at Wrigley for my 50th. Also, I don’t think I worked on my 3rd birthday.

ballsofsteelandfury

When I was younger, I thought that it would be cool to take the day off work on my birthday. I did it one year midweek and then I had so much shit to catch up on that I figured it wasn’t worth it and never did it again.

BrettFavresColonoscopy

I have had a number of coworkers take off for their birthdays and I’m baffled every time.

Don T

I hate that “2” on the Rams uni. Only for the unnecessary vertical at the lower right, or as typographers call it, the uppity serif.

TheRevanchist

It’s only that size because it was cold!

Senor Weaselo

“Subway just upped their bread game. They can legally call it bread now!”

SonOfSpam

it’s actually made from tuna, unlike their tuna.

SonOfSpam

I like MLB’s promotion of “Stand Up 2 Cancer”

It’s so much better than the PGA’s “Lie Down Like A Bitch 4 Guillain Barre Syndrome”

ArmedandHammered

Joe Buck must die. The wife is watching the all star game with sound on, and I am losing my will to live the more he speaks.

Gumbygirl

I went downstairs to get away from him. I did have to laugh when Dave Roberts called himself “a former cancer survivor.” So, you dead now?

ArmedandHammered

He just says the most inane shit. You can tell the players they have wired and are having to talk to him would rather be doing any thing else than have to respond to his stupidity.

Don T

Maybe he just tolerated cancer.

BrettFavresColonoscopy

Great stuff, BGR. I hope everyone is found guilty in screwing over St. Louis, but still fuck the Cardinals.

blaxabbath

Oh jeez. Cyber Ninjas has a different count than the state of Arizona! BAMBOOGATE IS IN FULL EFFECT, SNOWFLAKETARDS!

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Yeah, see my reaction to that is very simple: the Cyber Ninjas obviously fucked up their count.

TheRevanchist

It’s not like they have had stringent procedures, safe-guarded the votes, vetted the people they had do the work, worked within a chain of custody, or tried to eliminate bias.

Notice what they said though: We have a different count. Not, hey, we have evidence of vote tampering or we have found a different winner in the recount. Basically, the outcome is the same and they just want people to believe they found something so other people will be gullible enough to enlist their services on other contracts.

herodotus450

Continued from yesterday Re: Pierre Maguire Re: Scotchnaut:
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

blaxabbath

At this point, what would the personal financials of these owners matter? It’ll be half a news cycle to tell is what we already know.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

I’m glad Ohtani pitched a clean inning and they got him the hell out of there. Baseball would never have survived if he’d gotten lit up.

blaxabbath

::ceases revving engine of his SUV facing parked car occupied by two small children and Ohtani::
:Washes moar pills down with a swig of Bud Light Limerita and kisses knuckles:
“Sorry girls, not today.”

-B Reid

Senor Weaselo

*cries because of that time he actually got lit up… and then the Yankees slowly blew the lead*

rockingdog
Sharkbait

New desk coming tomorrow, which means I need to break down the PC and monitors currently on the old one. Wonderful

Game Time Decision

Suggestion: baby sharky + hammer

Gumbygirl

Happy Birthday to you too! I don’t hate the Rams uni’s as long as they got rid of that filthy greyish one. Nasty! I can’t tell from the pictures, but they might have fixed those cheap, plasticky shrinky-dink numbers they had last year. I hated them.

ballsofsteelandfury

The Rams uniforms look exactly the same as last year’s. I honestly can’t tell the difference.

BrettFavresColonoscopy

$79.95?