“LET THE BELLS RING, LET THE BANNERS FLY!” It’s Your Thursday Night Football Open Thread

Sorry Ravens rb Gub Dedwards, this does not apply to you. That’s shitty, what your ACL did to you earlier today.

So I hope you’ve got an extra special beverage and your very favourite snackie for the opener. It’s been a while, hasn’t it? We powered through with the help of the Euros, the Copas, the CONCACAFFEINATED and the Olympics among other thingies. But the time for speculating is done. (I’m kidding, we’re just getting started)

Thought I Had While Hiking-

Brady doesn’t seem completely unlikeable anymore. Whaa? I mean, I haven’t by any means done a 180 on the guy but now I don’t reflexively wretch when I see his visage. This gives you an idea of the extent of the pall that Belichick’s curmudgeonly arrogance casts over the Pats franchise. I don’t buy into any of that ‘Brady showed up Belichick’ nonsense. The former is just a damn good football player that has always put in the work and should be respected for that.

TO THE GAME!

Cowboys/Bucs:

-some prop bets that may interest you-

Zeke 53.5 rushing yds (meh)

Brady 306.5 passing (too high?)

A. Brown 4.5 catches (who knows who will have the hot hand?)

-Much has been made of the Bucs returning all starters but I think that injuries might take a toll this year. As for much being made on tudder side, far too many folks think that DAK! and the gang are going to pick up exactly where they left off before he went down. I say ‘Nope’. They’re going to be good, sure, but I think it’ll be a while before they hit their stride. If they fix the D, they’ll crush the latter half of the sked.

-Speaking of that D, all eyez are on one Anthony Brown at left cb. He’ll be picked on by opponents until he wracks up some int’s/collapses under the pressure.

-This is where Brady is going to go methinks. He has that habit of probing weak spots early on and then seems to go away from that player but then comes right back at him over the course of two, three or four consecutive sets of downs.

-Are you picking the Bucs for your Survivor Pool?

Well, that’s it. Those folks that have been on the sidelines, “WELCOME BACK, WE MISSED YOU!” To others that have thought about dick jokery, (joke dickery?) climb on board, it’s gonna be a great ride.

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Sharkbait

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Brocky

Since this didnt come through earlier

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Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

I was *just* reading that. It’s so goddamned funny. Like, Starnes *really* didn’t know? What a fucking loser, how many times do you think he got ditched by his “friends” in high school?

Gumbygirl

Every single time?

Gumbygirl

After he paid for the beer, of course.

Viva La Tabula Raza

“Todd, if you watched real news instead of that place you USED TO work, you would not have to ask this question.”

BrettFavresColonoscopy

Who owns Edwards in fantasy and forgot there was a game tonight? This guy.

Viva La Tabula Raza

After that totally-ignored OPI call during TB’s last drive, it’s hard to deny that Brady’s refs all migrated from NE to FLA with him. I hope all them fuckers get the COVID and die on the ventilator.

JimU

Mike McCarthy is wondering if he can sign Aaron Rogers for one play to throw a Hail Mary.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

“Come on, Aaron, you and I have been through so much! We’re like family!”

Viva La Tabula Raza

Fuck.

Horatio Cornblower

OPI, but no way that gets called on a Brady pass at this point in the game.

Brocky

Plus, I’m honestly not convinced that wasn’t something of a flop, could have gone either way

Viva La Tabula Raza

Goddamit.

Horatio Cornblower

I want Z to make this and then JJ leap up, clutch his chest, and fall over.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Just saw an ad for Jack Daniels Tennessee Apple and have a suggestion that will quadruple sales: “Now with Ivermectin!”

Viva La Tabula Raza

“Good for what ails ya!!!”

Viva La Tabula Raza

I sure hope my insurance company (USAA) isn’t insuring motherfucking NFL players. Those bastards can afford to pay full price. Like with Manning or Mahomes or Rodgers.

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Senor Weaselo

What about with Pat Till—oh.

Mr. Ayo

Ceedee Lamb is a goddamn stud.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

“Chiefs coaches, too.” – Andy Reid

Horatio Cornblower

With maybe a little mint sauce!

Gumbygirl

I must have been thinking of him in advance, I bought some lamb chops today.

Gumbygirl

I’m in!! That was an ordeal, not gonna lie! But it’s lovely to be here, and see some familiar peeps! We missed you!

Horatio Cornblower

How’s Gumby?

Gumbygirl

Relieved his hearing is over. It’s in Social Security’s hands now, que sera, sera.

Viva La Tabula Raza

I think this is the most frustration the DFO site has given me in like forever,

Gumbygirl

I thought the new host thingie was going to solve all of our problems? Oh well! It’s not just tonight though, logging in has been an adventure for a few days, for me anyway.

Clipboard Jesus

Why take that out? At least this can lead to a hilarious missed fg

Horatio Cornblower

You will pry McCarthy’s chance to settle for a FG from his warm, sweaty hands.

Horatio Cornblower

Oh shit, this game just got interesting.

Mr. Ayo

SUDDEN CHANGE!!

Brick Meathook

Do you know why this server keeps crashing?

We don’t have enough submarine stories to keep the Russians away.

This is the “sink a ship or blow up the world” story

I was an engineer who worked back aft operating a nuclear power plant, and that’s Not an easy job when you’re doing it underwater in heavy 32°F seas.

But our weapons department was pretty impressive too. They weren’t as handsome as us but they were good men.

Our main battery was sixteen Trident C-4 missiles, each with eight nuclear MIRV warheads. To fire those it had to be explicitly authorized by the President of the United States and then radioed to us by SUBLANT (Submarine Forces Atlantic Fleet) and then there were five different senior officers on our boat with keys around their necks who all had to agree to a launch.

The Tridents were taken very seriously.

Our secondary battery were Mark 48s, the standard torpedo of the U.S. Navy and many other allied nations. It is a conventional high explosive weapon, and has a very smart guidance system and it is very lethal. It has a range of 25 miles and it will find its target regardless of whatever pathetic evasive action the target ship tries to take. The 48s will find them.

If a 48 misses the first time, it will automatically circle around for a second pass. It will make a hit. That ship will go down.

They don’t hit the side of the target ship, they explode with 1000 pounds of high explosive beneath the target ship, which will crack most anti-submarine surface warships in half like a bread stick.

We are 25 miles away. We are not picking up survivors. That’s your problem.

Fortunately we never did it. We never hurt a soul.

Our joke was “We are in the killing business, not in the getting killed business.”

But really we were in the scaring business.

The Russians were afraid of us, and rightfully so.

Last edited 2 years ago by Brick Meathook
Viva La Tabula Raza

Well, Marko Ramius could outrun a Mk 48 until it ran out of fuel.
(Just made that shit up, sorry).

Viva La Tabula Raza

It’s going to be interesting to watch the civil war begin, the continued collapse of civil society, and the NFL season all at once.

litre_cola

I didn’t think I could hate Collinsworth more but here we are. He just said the rookie was the top wrap tackler in the nfl

Mr. Ayo

We’re going to have a Barely Legal Women’s Final at the US Open.

Wonder if the marketing people will latch onto that theme.

Horatio Cornblower

Call me Craig James, because I’m killing a hooker.
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Viva La Tabula Raza

Great. “In Theaters Only.” Now, not only does my governor want me to die, so does fucking James Bond.

Gatoraids

For Your Lungs Only

Sharkbait

Thats not Lamb.

Brick Meathook

I got an error about the first server error. That’s good hustle.

Mr. Ayo

The only thing more disappointing than watching Brady win is watching this site crumble under the pressure of the first game of the season.

Gatoraids

All posts are now generating NFTs

Horatio Cornblower

me realizing that I passed on Amari Cooper to take Mike Evans is right up there.

Mr. Ayo

I have Evans and I’m playing against Cooper if that makes you feel any better.

/last year of FF for me

Horatio Cornblower

I’m playing against Antonio Brown, so twinsies, I guess.

Game Time Decision

Gronk with another vulture-down

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Gatoraids

Grok on the bench and Evans and eilliot starting this guy’s liver ain’t going to make ot

Gatoraids

Server must be based in Baltimore

Last edited 2 years ago by Gatoraids
Viva La Tabula Raza

What did we do during ballgames before there was an internet?

Horatio Cornblower

Drank.

Oh, hey, look at that.

Brocky

Look at hustlers

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Recovery Whiskey

Talked shit with my grandpa and uncles. All of whom would have fit right in on a Superfans sketch.

Brocky

Reminder: brady wasn’t actually that good his first few years In the league. He was the ultimate game manager

Senor Weaselo

Not sure if it posted, but despite almost pepper spraying an apartment… the steak wasn’t half bad! The Reaper powder and salt were present, but it wasn’t an overbearing hot. So hey, I call that a win.

Brocky

Server error, must…post…sexy…

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hippofant

Surely posting high resolution pictures of hot women is the best way to relieve the traffic load on our webserver!

Horatio Cornblower

It’ll relieve some kind of load, anyway

/looks around for high-five, which never happens.

Viva La Tabula Raza

*Hands already occupied, sorry*

Game Time Decision

Shocked, not Shocked that McCarthy isn’t using his running back

Horatio Cornblower

It’s a sound strategy against Tampa, which makes me think Moore came up with it rather than McCarthy.

Brick Meathook

Are the gerbils running in their exercise wheels again? Is this site working?

Col. Duke LaCross

Did the hamster powering the server die?

Viva La Tabula Raza

Is it just me or are the rest of you getting this “Internal Server Error” shit?

Horatio Cornblower

Nibbles is a little out-of-shape after the off-season, OK?

Senor Weaselo

That’s what happens when you only have 3 preseason games!

litre_cola

I did once but something is amiss.

litre_cola

SIFN UP FOR PEACOCK DAMMIT> PLEASE THEY BEG OF YOU! DREW NEEDS TO FEED ALL OF HIS CHILDREN

Recovery Whiskey

Server choking on it hard.

The Maestro

Will the site let me comment now?

litre_cola

Only if you are chaste and of good merit.

Game Time Decision

Must make a sacrifice to the football and server gods

Gatoraids

Post’lor must be appeased

The Maestro

GOD BLESS

JimU

4th and 31 isn’t easy to convert.

Horatio Cornblower

Easier to convert Mary Queen of Scots to the Holy Mother Church.

Gatoraids

Thought troy-shinyaka was one of the outlying villages in Chernobyl

Horatio Cornblower

Is my FF opponent starting Antonio Brown?

Of fucking course he is.

Recovery Whiskey

Phantom facemask. Bad call Young Guns

litre_cola

Fuck you wordpress.

I put out the internet dad signal.

Gatoraids

Mike Evans didn’t buy enough TB13 merchandise

Horatio Cornblower

Anthony Brown is the Greg Zeurlein of cornerbacks.