Supporters across the Premiership anxiously wait, as deadline day (1 Sept) approaches. For some, it’s wondering if Santa will arrive and/or how much cool new shit they get. For others (cough, cough, Everton) it’s praying The Grinch doesn’t take away everything. Including the will to live.
But first, we got fixtures to play, starting with Gooners/Cityzens (7:30, Peacock). How dumb am I? I bet on Arsenal to WIN. Maybe there will be a hangover related to findng out one’s rotational left back is a rapist? I guess that was my ‘thinking.’
Five concurrently at 10:00, with Everton/Brighton on NBCSN, Villa/Bees on CNBC. If you expect nothing, can you still be disappointed? SPOILER ALERT – yes. Yes you can. Yes you will.
Spotlight Dance is Redshite/Chelski (12:30, NBC), and there’s nothing to root for here except the heat death of the universe.
Wolves/Man U is the highlight of Sunday (11:30, NBCSN), so don’t stay passed out too late.
But lo! You don’t HAVE to watch Spotlight Dance, given that we have…
Nebraska (-7) at Illinois (1:00, Fox)
This was supposed to be in Dooblin, but virology said nae. Instead, they will play an afternoon game in 90 degree weather. Ppl could die, how could you NOT watch! I bet $50 on Illinois to win outright, as (i) I have a fellow #BFIB supporter buddy who is a big fan; (ii) Bret Bielema will have his charges at least at “annoying as fuck to play against” level; and (iii) fuck the obsession with Nebraska always being hyped up. It’s not 1975 anymore, goddamnit.
Enjoy the action, and whatever else “life” may have in store for y’all.
New Thread! The water’s fine!
New thread is up, y’all
The Illini’s Luke Ford is the kind of tight end you can set your harvest to.
In a sad year where the country is as divided as ever (save the American antebellum era, maybe), idiocy and idolatry are allowing a deadly pandemic to run amuck, and things are starting to look like the beginning parts of the Book of Revelations, and then the Universe allows the first score of the College Football season to be a safety due to an Illegal Forward Pass on a Punt Return as a sign that things will work itself out in the end.
It’s good to observe levels of derp that result only in a lost football game and not, you know, disenfranchisement and death.
Been waitin’ all day for this one.
I think his widow should be shunned, obvs she didn’t PRAY hard enough!!
She’s a witch
Or is it a heretic?
porque no los dos??
I wonder that someone hasn’t set up a website keeping inventory of Covid deniers as they shuffle of this mortal coil.
I would donate money for a Memorial Wall somewhere so it could be forever documented.
I have a resource that I use. Like steps 6 through 21 of the Boys 2 Menorah bar mitzvah tips, however, it’s a secret.
I think I’ll crack a beer.
“He was called home!”
It is with much sadness, Horatio, that I note this might not quite be UConn’s year.
That’s OK, it can just get in line with all of the other years.
I can’t begin to imagine how bad the Huskers backup qb must be if Martinez isn’t pulled at the half.
One thing I have encountered a bunch in my dive into antivaxxer-death-land is the notion of “prayer warriors”. Like if you get enough people together and they yell loudly enough at Jesus, he’ll buckle and give you what you want.
Shit man, he already gave them 3 vaccines what do they want?
[chanting]
“WE WANT HORSE PASTE! WE WANT HORSE PASTE!”
They are doing here in Albertabama.
The danger is that prayer warriors think they have done something to help whatever situation they’re praying about, so they don’t take any actual practical steps to help.
It’s an unwinnable situation. Jesus will save us, then when some of them die they got “Called home.”
Religion is the worst thing that ever happened to this planet.
But hasn’t abstaining from meat on Fridays in Lent made me a better person, somehow?
I suppose your cholesterol is slightly better because of it.
By the way it’s good to see you again, Monty.
Somewhat appropriate, even 25 years on.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8Y6XtOTT6A
Didn’t the, like the real, pope say to get the vaccine?
He’s Catholic we are talking about Real Christians here smgdh
Lol excellent point
Yes, in North Cakalaky, you do hear “Are you Catholic or are you Christian?” as an un-ironic question.
It is 120 degrees on the field in Fresno.
That seems unpleasant.
Just the Fresno part is unpleasant.
How dare you, Sir?
My nephew lives outside of Fresno. Trust me on this one.
Plus, the central valley is as red as fucking Alabama or Missouri.
Damn right.
Bananacakes?
Corncakes?
Dammit, yes. That’s much better.
Just stay away from the Johnnie Cakes.
Fat ref literally can’t stand the heat in this game.
I can’t either and I’m watching in my air-conditioned living room.
A month from now I can guarantee that I’ll not bother to watch a 9-9 tie between two middling Big Whatever teams but here we are.
Just goes to show how truly dreadful a month August be
So dreadful that Scotchy’s not even drinking.
T. S. Eliot was on the nose when he called it the 2nd-most cruelest month.
After February?
I’m thinking July because it’s a
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9ml3nyww80
Balls, we have a Very Special 3:30 EST Thread, just FOAR Westwood Klavern!
WOOOOOOO!!!
“And here we see the rarest of all creatures in the wilds of Illinois-the Jewish running back. Surely he must be the last of his kind.”
-Sir David Attenborough
yeah, even we use a Black guy – Yeshiva University FITBAW office
Just put flags on the QB already.
Personal foul for not properly tackling them is BS.
if you’re going to get 15 regardless, might as well decapitate the motherfucker
The one tackle that put a QB out of the game didn’t draw a flag.
It’s almost like these guys don’t know what safety means.
Cornhuskers with roughing the passer and taunting on the same play-they’re their own worst Illini.
Shocking that a FITBAW powerhouse like Illinois ain’t got two good quartered backs on the roster.
Hot UConn football action vs the Bulldogs of Fresno State on CBS Sports Network, or whatever they call it. Fresno is favored by 28, but it’s scoreless midway through the 1st quarter, so I’m counting this as a victory.
I almost bet y’all. Because I am a compulsive lunatic, you see…
Oh no, never, ever do that. I cannot stress enough how likely we are to fuck this up.
And as I write this the QB gets hit, fumbles, and Fresno State runs it back for 6.
Eh, might come back as an incomplete pass.