ALL HAIL Northern Illinois! JV Shempionship Evening Thread

Oh my cats.  They really, really did it!  Northern Illinois’ 700 pound coach and his JV charges redeemed their only single-digit MAC loss (they were 6-1 in such contests), cashing in Hippo’s September prop bet.  $20 at 250 to 1, which is $5K for the maths non-inclined.  Nobody told you there would be no maths, there is ALWAYS MATHS!

At time of writing, Team Secular Big Love State holds a 14-3 lead over the JV BOLTMEN!  If that holds, then a prop bet from the same day would pay out $2K ($20 at 100 to 1).

Question for the class – if I do hit both, is TODAY the best day of my life, or was it the day I placed the wagers?

Anyway, strap in fuckos.  It’s all downhill from here.

Michigan (-12.5) v. Iowa @ The Gravy Boat (8:00, Fox)

I warn y’all – tOSU’s backdoor shenanigans potential is IN PLAY, should the Hawkeyes win.  SPOILER ALERT – they will nae.  I always (well, since like age 22 when I met him) had a soft spot for Team Cornpone, because we had a cat named Hawkeye.  He was a total badass, built like a linebacker.  Jet black.  Like an actual panther, this fella.  He is the first cat I considered my son, though I married into being his dad.  And yes, I did ask him if it was ok to propose to his human mother.  Hawkeye thought it over, then came back purring.  Fuck, I miss that Hawkish man.

Long story short, I am high on cough syrup.

Pittsburgh (JV) (-3.5) v. Wake Forest @ Richardson Plantation (8:00, ABC)

HARF, The Ben retires.  Will they draft Kenny Pickett to replace him?  Enquiring minds really don’t give a fuck.  Deacons is being all disrespected by Vegas, as THEY aren’t the title match participant who lost (at home, no less) to a sub-.500 MAC team.  Whatever you do, must NOT bet the under.  These defensing units are as optional as it gets.

Southern Cal (+4.5) at Cal (11:00, FS1)

The most meaningless Tweaker Fixture in the history of humanity.  Both teams looking…to finish 5-7.  I’m sure there will be dozens of people in attendance.  DOZENS!!

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BrettFavresColonoscopy

Is Darrell Williams going to get any touches tomorrow? I’m feeling weird about my flex spot.

BrettFavresColonoscopy

Now I see my phrasing…

Gumbygirl

I need some sleep. Tomorrow we football! Well, sort of. It’s the Jaguars.

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BrettFavresColonoscopy

Evening. I’ve had a lot of beer and have tucked into the gummi bears.

TheRevanchist

“Nobody on that Pittsburgh side of the field is going to be drinking Thunderbird and Mad Dog tonight. They’re gonna drink the good stuff after this win.”

I need more analysis like this during college football games.

Horatio Cornblower

I mean, Iron City and Yuengling isn’t exactly fine Champagne…

Gumbygirl

Are you disparaging the healthful and flavorful Vitamin I ? For shame!

TheRevanchist

I can hear the cries of all those Ohio State fans right now. Feels good, DFO!

Sharkbait

You hear THE cries. Gotta emphasize the correct word.

SonOfSpam

Wake QB has PTSD and has been benched and that’s not a joke because he’s dealt with depression and I feel for him.

Horatio Cornblower

One thing I always do when watching MMA is root against the fighter with the mullet.

Tonight I’m 2-0.

Horatio Cornblower

I’m rooting for your wife.

Gumbygirl

As long as you felt pretty!

Gumbygirl

Pitt is going off!

SonOfSpam

-Angelina Jolie, talking to the 911 operator after telling her husband she was adopting another 9 kids from Uzbekistan

Horatio Cornblower

Jesus Christ.

Gumbygirl

Your mind works in mysterious ways, Spam.

SonOfSpam

lol “works”

Sharkbait

Hosting some friends for football tomorrow. Just finished the chili. I don’t know what kind of black magic fuckery happens with chili, chowder, red sauce etc, but it is ALWAYS better the next day.

SonOfSpam

So is Italian food. (I think the proper term is “wop slop” but I’ll leave it to the dagos to confirm) Something about all the flavors resting together like a stripper’s stomach the morning after a gangbang good god how many beers is this

Sharkbait

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Horatio Cornblower

My 4th of the evening. 9.2%.
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Some really bad decisions are coming after this. Like a 5th one.

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Sharkbait

Their ESB is really good. Got it to go from the Sandwich outpost a couple weeks ago. Fun fact, they don’t do taproom pours there until 5. I’m hoping it’s an off season rule.

Horatio Cornblower

I was surprised at how good that one is. It’s definitely out of their strength, and sometimes when they step away from high-octane, hazy IPAs, it can get a little iffy, But that one, (I think Old Man? I forget what they call it), was pretty damn good.

My sense is that they’re still working out kinks in Sandwich and Deerfield, because those are almost always just pick-ups and rarely pours. I’d guess they sort that out over the next few months, (assuming Omicron doesn’t kill us all), and Charlton rules apply to all 3.

Sharkbait

Yup. The Old Man is the ESB. Fantastic
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Gumbygirl

Amalgamation and consolidation.

SonOfSpam

Ok, so the FINAL FOUR would seem to be set.

Really hope UGA can find a QB before this starts so we can haz a good playoff.

Horatio Cornblower

Perhaps there’s a Stetson Bennet V?

Horatio Cornblower

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SonOfSpam

THIS GIRL I CALL HER MINT JELLY BECAUSE SHE’S ON THE LAMB

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

We also would have accepted “Ethan Crumbley’s parents”.

ballsofsteelandfury

That’s one of the funniest things I’ve ever read.

Horatio Cornblower

I wish it would come out, but beyond my capabilities, because it is hilarious.

ballsofsteelandfury

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Horatio Cornblower

Truly, sir, you are a god among men.

Gumbygirl

Having sex sexily is really the best way to do it.

Horatio Cornblower

I’ve always found that to be true.

Also, I really need to find out what his balls started to do.

blaxabbath

Hope Steve Keim ain’t driving.

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SonOfSpam

Truck appears undamaged, so Keim ain’t in the vicinity.

Game Time Decision

Wayyyy late to the party, but awesome Hippo for the winning wagers

Horatio Cornblower

Great news for the rest of us, who no longer have to worry about who’s buying the clubhouse doughnuts for Sunday.

Game Time Decision

There’s doughnuts?

Horatio Cornblower

There are now!

Horatio Cornblower

Watching UFC fighters throw kicks at each other’s heads and realizing that if I threw a high kick these days I’d be lucky to bruise a midget’s hip.

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SonOfSpam

One of the Dr Pepper contestants is wearing a hijab

(college football fans react reasonably)

SonOfSpam

HIJAB GIRL WITH THE WIN!!!

Her $100,000 check has been donated to Boko Haram, praise Allah.

Horatio Cornblower

Truly God is great.

Viva La Tabula Raza

Taliban and ISIS better realize whose side Allah (PBUH) is really on.

SonOfSpam

Also, just in case there are any Islamic people reading this blog (I hope there are!), this post is not making fun of the Islamic religion; I am making fun of those who are likely overreacting to the hijab. Like Mel Brooks in Blazing Saddles except ten million times less funny. As-salamu alaykum.

SonOfSpam

Seems like “Michigan up 14-3 at half” would’ve been an easy prediction.

More of the same in the 2nd half, or will wackiness ensue?

LemonJello

Either there are too many talking heads or that table is too darn small

Viva La Tabula Raza

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMMQoBqIGgw

Looks like the foyer table in my entry way

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rockingdog

LOL

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SonOfSpam

That rules.

Horatio Cornblower

I went out to the local sports bar emporium to watch the Wake Forest game with my brother and his girlfriend, whose sons played ball with the Wake Forest player I mentioned below. Just as the serving wench provided me with my second ale of the evening, the music purveyor began to crank up what I believe the youth call “electronic music” and the establishment began to fill with women of my daughter’s age wearing skin tight dresses and the sort of heels certain women in less-than-reputable dance hall establishments are known to wear, as well as young men of my son’s age, the latter preceded by a wall of Axe cologne that could stun a mammoth.

Realizing that I was out of my depth I consumed my ale in rapid fashion and concluded my transactions with the serving wench, before hightailing it to my home, where I intend to drink in peace and quiet, and perhaps hang myself later.

tl;dr I am old and these kids need to turn down their music and get off my lawn.

LemonJello

What type of onion was tied to your belt?

Horatio Cornblower

“Gimme five bees for a quarter” I said to the wench as she brought me my change. I was then asked to leave without further fuss.

LemonJello

Did you operate your own horse less carriage or engage the services of a hansom cab to return to your quarters?

SonOfSpam

Horatio to Uber driver: I’d like to send this letter to the Prussian consulate in Siam by aeromail. Am I too late for the 4:30 autogyro?

Horatio Cornblower

Uber driver: Get out.

SonOfSpam

Saturday night’s for the Vidalia awwwww yeah

Gumbygirl

I have a contact headache just imagining the Axe. I’m way too old for that shit!

Horatio Cornblower

I was going to approach the young men and tell them that, in my day, we approached women, (after of course first securing the permission of their eldest male guardian), perfumed only by the scent of our own musk, hard-earned after a day toiling in the #content mines.

But then I decided I’d rather not get my ass kicked, and just left.

LemonJello

Such a shame that both teams used all their offense in the first quarter

TheRevanchist

Refs trying to ruin this game.

The Maestro

Evening, ladies and gentlefucks. I am housesitting for my parents’ neighboUrs for the next several months as they drive their camper van across North America while on sabbatical. It’s sheer bliss to be out of a small basement apartment and get to live in a house with so much light… not to mention the massive TV and exceptionally comfy leather couch that I am currently lying as I flip between the Sens and the B1G title game.

Tomorrow, I test out hotboxing the backyard sauna.

Redshirt

DFO Super Bowl Party at Casa de La Maestro?

Game Time Decision

I’ll bring some snaxxs

SonOfSpam

1) Have Scotchy “meet up” with camper van
2) Live there forever

Horatio Cornblower

eh, it’s been done
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SonOfSpam

Rutger Hauer weeps at your referencing the remake.

RUTGER HAUER 4 LYFE

Horatio Cornblower

The Sean Bean one came up first. Take it up with the algorithm, Rutger.

Viva La Tabula Raza

Sean Bean always dies in his films.
Cool 442, though.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

You should get one of the DFO lawyers to look up how “adverse possession” laws work in Canada.

Horatio Cornblower

It’s very hard to carry off in Connecticut, but I think in Canada if you can get some beavers to flood the property, then get a mating pair of loons to establish residency, you either own the property, have established the right of prima nocte upon the wedding night of any female offspring, or both.

As should be clear, I am not admitted to the Canadian bar.

LemonJello

Sudden Change at the B1G Gravy Boat!

LemonJello

Iowa does the square root of fuckall with that turnover.

Viva La Tabula Raza

I was told there would be no higher math.

Redshirt

Oh, God. Harbaugh’s going to win this, is he?

His ego will be bigger than Trump’s.

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LemonJello

His brother will take him down a couple pegs at Christmas dinner.

Gumbygirl

I need food suggestions! I just looked at Palermo’s pizza’s website. They either got hacked, or they are unusually honest. This picture came from it, captioned “roach in salad.”

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SonOfSpam

lookit the mountain people being too fancy for the local roach salad smh

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

More like PaSLURMo’s Pizza, amirite?

Gumbygirl

PaSLUGmo’s

ballsofsteelandfury

Roscoe’s is on Manchester close to the 405.

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ballsofsteelandfury

Close to Randy’s Donuts

ballsofsteelandfury

There’s also a Shakey’s on Arbor Vitae just north of you.

ballsofsteelandfury

There’s also a bunch of places on Sepulveda north of LAX.

LemonJello

Michael J Fox? Or Muhammad Ali?

yeah right

What are you looking for? You’re a couple of blocks from the Proud Bird. It’s a food court, kinda event space thing but they have fantastic food. If you like barbecue Bludsoes sells their brisket out of there and it’s worth driving to LA for. They make a real nice potato salad and their mac and cheese is top notch.

Name your cuisine, and I’ll help out.

Gumbygirl

You are a darling dear, as is Balls. We don’t want to go out(high as fuck) so we just ordered from some random Mex place that came up on Doordash.

SonOfSpam

SHANKL’OR (where does the damn apostrophe go) traveled to the Big 10 game!

LemonJello

It moves left or right according to her whims.

Horatio Cornblower

I haven’t seen a Pittsburgh player slam a defenseless person down like that since Big Ben got thrown off Tinder.

Gumbygirl

The fake slide may win Pickett the Heisman!

Horatio Cornblower

Now that’s just total bullshit. If a QB is allowed to fake a slide and then take off again when the defense lets up, then a defender shouldn’t be Penalized for leveling a sliding QB. Can’t have it both ways.

SonOfSpam

So we’re putting all our $$ on Pitt tonite, right?

SonOfSpam

Good. Take those winnings and sniff your own farts the rest of the night.

I’m probably starting Gardner Minshew in our league tomorrow because everything and everyone is stupid especially me.

SonOfSpam

Very much so.

Horatio Cornblower

/trips Hippo down the stairs.

Yes. All of “our” money.

ballsofsteelandfury

On the bright side, today there are reports that Big Ben has told people this is his last season.
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Horatio Cornblower

Hasn’t he said that before?

SonOfSpam

He hasn’t said “This is my last season” but he HAS said “We’re doin this whether you want to or not so you may as well try to enjoy it”

Gumbygirl

“It’s not really gray. More taupe- ish. And no teeth, I’m very sensitive!”

Gumbygirl

Let us pray! Let the Rudolph the Racist Reindeer era commence!
Oy vey.

Fronkenshteen

Congrats, sir hippo, on your SEVEN THOUSAND DOLLARS IN PAYOUTS TODAY!!!!
Yer a mensch, and you deserve every penny. Santa Claus himself over here!

ballsofsteelandfury

Congratulations on the winnings, Hippo!

Too bad tWBS is dead and can’t take you to the Capital Cabaret. 🤣

SonOfSpam

No excuses tWBS.

Horatio Cornblower

There’s absolutely no way his would be the first urn brought to a strip bar.

SonOfSpam

/throws ashes in Brittennie’s cooch

IT’S WHAT HE WANTED DAMMIT

Horatio Cornblower

Unlike when Brittenni3, (she spells it with a ‘3’, Spam, and don’t pretend you don’t know that), tells us she’s just doing this to pay her way through veterinary tech school, we wouldn’t even be lying.

SonOfSpam

Also wouldn’t be the first time someone used Brittenni3’s cooch for an ash receptacle.

(Might actually be trying to work in a vet’s office for access to canine painkillers?)

Horatio Cornblower

Duh. Ketamine gets expensive.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

So…Alabama #1 (despite needing a miracle to beat Auburn last week), and Georgia at #3. If Michigan wins, they’re #2. If they don’t…uh, what’s the name of our deity for CHAOS?

Redshirt

Michigan wins: Alabama, Michigan, Georgia, Cincinnati
Michigan loses: Alabama, Georgia, Cincinnati, Notre Dame

Horatio Cornblower

Cincinnati is the only undefeated team left. They’re #1.

Chaos is a ladder.

Redshirt

If Cincinnati was in a Power 5 Conference, they’d be #1 if undefeated.

Horatio Cornblower

In all honesty I can’t see them above 3. But they need to be there, with 2 wins against Houston and a thumping of Notre Dame.

Redshirt

Watch the Committee still not pick Cincinnati.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

The result of this Georgia game is going to leave the door WIDE open for them to do so.

Gumbygirl

What the fuck Georgia! That Saban is a sneaky fellow, I guess I shouldn’t be surprised! Finally got to our hotel. Not our original one. Fuck Holiday Inn Express, and fuck Priceline with a red hot fleshlight. But hey, the La Quinta on Century is nice!

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yeah right

Hope you’ve got double paned windows. You’re right in the landing path. You’re also just a couple of miles from where I work. If you need food suggestions let me know because the only entertainment options in that area tonight are strip clubs and walking girls.

Gumbygirl

We have a great view of planes coming in, but I can’t hear them. I brought earplugs just in case. Saw some of the hookers. Gumby says he has “some kinks to work out” and wants to go to the rub and tug next to the Thai restaurant. Think again, buddy boy. No happy ending for you!

yeah right

I could give you a review on that place too.

Gumbygirl

Which one?

yeah right

Yes.

yeah right

If it says Thai massage, man that is infinitely more than just a damn tug.

Viva La Tabula Raza

How is the Denny’s there? “La Quinta” means “next to Denny’s” en Espanol.

yeah right

By God there’s a Denny’s practically next door.

ballsofsteelandfury

IIRC, that’s right where Girls Girls Girls used to be!

Gumbygirl

There is a McDonalds. It’s a classy hood. But the hotel is good.

Viva La Tabula Raza

You can say that about half the Denny’s in America.

Horatio Cornblower
Gumbygirl

Which is exactly why I root for UAB, even though I was at Georgia first, and longer!1

Horatio Cornblower

Wake Forest has a linebacker who went to high school with my kids. At Senior Night for the basketball team, (yep, he played basketball, too), they had 6 seniors, so this kid asked the coach to let the senior bench player have his start. Just a really nice kid. Who could kill me with one hand.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Played basketball? Huh. I wonder if anybody has ever made the transition from playing basketball to being a star in the NFL.

Horatio Cornblower

Seems unlikely. You certainly never hear about it.

Gumbygirl

Everybody in my family who went to college went to Pitt. Except me. Rebel!

scotchnaut

So happy for you hitting that bet out of the park! Well Fucking Done!

Horatio Cornblower

Yeah, that’ll definitely cover some extra pills from that shady pharmacist who works out of his car.

Gumbygirl

Did you win the 7k one? I thought that was Hippo?

Gumbygirl

Never mind, I is stoopid!

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

I would also like to echo this sentiment.

yeah right

Please share your magic prior to next season Brother Hippo.

And I absolutely love Young the Giant.