Are you playing league fantasy today in week 19? Why? Unless it’s a total points thingy, that would sorta make sense.
Wee Tidbits:
-Could he play? The answer is ‘no’, regarding Derrick Henry. But Qaaron Rodgers is planning to-I guess he wants to make it as difficult as possible for the Hub Arkush crew to vote no on the MVP vote.
-The Seats Are Under The Bus: AB was on the revered Full Send podcast and questioned Brady’s friendship. That would be the guy that advocated for him to join the Bucs after he was kicked off a few other teams. As a rejoinder to Brown’s ‘he needs me’ comment, I would just list every wr that Brady has ever played with.
-Joe Judge Has Pull? Apparently a pratfall of clowns/fans will be attending the Jags game this Sunday, the object of their ire being Shad Kahn. Parking shouldn’t be an issue.
To The Game!
Chiefs/Broncos:
-I’m guessing the Chiefs will play their starters until/if they get far enough out in front, just in case the Titans somehow lose to Houston on Sunday.
-The K.C. D has been by turns a shutdown unit and a generous group. They’ve given up 34 to Burrow and 28 to Herbert but have also held 4 opponents to 10 or less points in the last 6 weeks.
-Does this ever feel familiar to me-the Denver O just can’t score. They’ve put up 13 or less in 4 of their last 5 and this will also be the fifth straight year of sub .500 ball (in serious voice) for this once-proud franchise.
-New Qb Time! Obviously both Lock and Teddy B are not the fellas that are needed to exploit the extraordinary talent the Broncos have assembled at the wide receiver and tight end spots. (and now Javonte as well!) You didn’t ask but it’s best to go the free agent route rather than develop another guy and hope for the best.
Hack away!
That was a three-pill 8-point swing
crush crush snort snort certainly crossed into my mind
goddamn it Melvin
Sudden DONK!
we are who we THOUGHT we were
SUDDEN CHANGE!
I’m sure I misheard, but I choose to believe that last Broncos audible call was Steelix Steelix
Just tuning into this game now… the fuck is going on here?
Denver swallowed the red pill at half-time and are starting to believe.
/yesterday
Sun, Storage and Workout Rooms: [jammed full of boxes from recently-sold house]
Wifey: “Saturday I’m going to help a friend move-I’ll be bringing a lot of her stuff to our house.”
Me: [goes ballistic] “There’s Not Enough Room In Our House For Our stuff! Fuck Sakes!”
Wifey: [returns home this evening with no boxes]
Me [whispers to self] “I think I can call this a W.”
It’s Big Pot O’ Chili Day here at Stately Dunstan Manor!
Artist’s rendition of Dunstan’s chili being served:
Accurate.
Damn, I haven’t made chili in forever. Talk to me about your protein(s)-ground beef? pork sausage? veal?
Hobo?
Boneless beef short ribs and chuck roast.
I don’t cook chili the same way twice, but these days I loosely follow a recipe from Serious Eats.
Brown the beef in Dutch oven and remove. Saute a fuckload of chopped onion. Add some diced fresh chili and grated garlic. Toss in some dried oregano. Add some homemade chili paste that was in my freezer from my last batch. Supplement it with various chili powders and blends from the cabinet (piri piri, aleppo, Carolina reaper, smoked paprika). Add some chicken stock.
That’s where I am right now. Chopping up the beef before I took this break. Then I’m going to add my various umami booster (anchovies, marmite, soy) to the pot along with the beef, then it goes in the oven for a while.
Got some pinto and kidney beans that have been soaking for a few hours. They’ll go in the pressure cooker while the other stuff is in the oven. Then they get combined along with a can of crushed tomatoes and probably some other stuff. At some point I’ll probably add some leftover coffee and half a beer. (No prizes for guessing what happens to the other half.) They’ll finish up on the stovetop for an hour or three.
I’m probably leaving out some stuff. And no doubt I’ll change it as things go along. But that’s the general outline.
Calling this game has to be absolutely killing Herbstreit, knowing that since even the punters are making more money than he is, he’s still forced to call a game featuring players that obviously don’t love the game.
He got absolutely killed for that, to the point that ESPN made him walk it back later the same day. It was glorious.
He’s such an asshole.
I am very pleased with today’s defensive gameplan
/also pleased that I cashed out my ML bet at the last commercial break
Broncos DEF is Rocking!
So far at least…
https://giphy.com/clips/gordonramsay-gordon-ramsay-U9zyFUyLxJa5CHxnjR
Oof! Quality scoot by Gordon!
/”We’re not dead yet!”
This comment was initially going to praise Spags the DC.
How in God’s name was Denver actually competitive in this game, let alone leading it?
Oh. I see.
Hippo bet against them; Satan said, “Oh, yeah? Watch this!”
ah well, at least there was one good half this week!
Neither team looks remotely interested in being there.
sadly, this is just the best we can really do
“Wow, an entire half!?”
-Joe Judge
My dog turned 10 yesterday. Everyone wish her a happy birthday!
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Ruf RUFF Mon… Tel
“10 huh? That’s a bit under the sweet spot but I could make an exception.”
-M. Gaetz, Florida
Congrats on 70 doggie laps around Sol.
Happy Birthday pupper! Here’s a cat looking foolish for you
That’s Rocking!
Happy Happy Hippo!
I think I’m going to rewatch Beerfest. I’m always reminded of it when I think about state-based memory and I think it’s a good mental fit for the start of 2022.
Boeheim Reunion Tour Update:
Sillycuse is below .500 in January for the first time in forever.
I did some chores to avoid turning on the Arizona/Cows game, but the appeal of sitting down has won out, even if this game is as pointless a demonstration of meh as I expect. I might also do a crossword puzzle.
Oh my, if these Bronco db’s had hands. smgdh
As the cliche goes, that’s why they don’t use them as WRs.
Found a funny;
[pulled over]
Dog Cop: you ran a gray light
Dog Driver: but it was still gray when i went through the intersection
Dog Cop: no it was gray
Bleergh has reared his jaundiced head.
Would I take 17-14 at the half? Sure would, Other Hippo!
Uh things are starting out real smooth in the Cecil Rhodes Euros.
https://twitter.com/SurMerco/status/1479940497506549766?s=20
Jesus, what did Cameroon do if none of those other actions qualified as an embarrassment?
THIS
Drew Lock with the big TD run
Looks like he’s having fun
That’s Rocking!!!
Hippo haz hope?
ish?
/this is still a vast improvement
Hippo, if Fangio goes does most of the staff go as well?
Woke us up, thanks for that free 4th down conversion, soon-to-be-fired special teams coach!
NFL on Saturday night.
That’s Rocking!!!
All that’s missing is a Canadian to drink with.
If Gordon doesn’t return Javonte is my round one draft pick next year. (unless I’m picking 1st, then it’s Taylor)
Eric Bienemy might be fatter than Andy now. Imagine being between those two on a plane…
Is Spags still there? He is tiny.
he IS and poor bastard (if that is the seating chart)
You have one job, Placekicker. One job!
https://www.buzzfeed.com/donnad/jurassic-parks-dinosaur-supervisor-isnt-taking-the-fall-for
Kelce wide open in the end zone. Huh.
Yes, Hippo Reacted Reasonably
Commenter on a Cuse fan site
“I miss the old Big East, this hillbilly league is BS.”
Hippo misses the 1980s ACC, and also finds the current hillbilly league to be BS
Guess who finally figured out his DFO password on the new phone?
I’M MOBILE BITCHES
Careful, Your Majesty, going mobile didn’t end well for Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
I should consult Cecil for advice…
When do you get your Royal Popemobile?
In life, he was an advocate for peace. In death, he became the reason for war. Always seemed like a cool guy to me, as far as royalty goes. Pissed off his family by marrying outside the royal bloodline to be with the love of his life. Could have used a better chief of staff, though. And DEFINITELY could have used a better goddamn driver. 20 million dead. Smh.
“Someone from Bosnia killed someone from Austria-Hungary? Blame the Germans!” – France
I’ve actually walked around the area he was shot. I agree he seemed like a decent dude, and apparently a bit of a chubby chaser as well. Apparently Gavrilo Princip was straight up lost and thought he had missed the whole thing when he wandered out of a bar straight into the Archduke and just went for it. He’s also not the only total fuckup to manage a high-level assassination, apparently Czolgosz was a total neckbeard, wannabe anarchist and Emma Goldman talked shit about him.
That’s Rockingggg
Darrelle Revis’s mock draft. posted chiefly for Scotchy. I don’t hate it if I’m a Giants fan.
https://twitter.com/Revis24/status/1479926429710180360/photo/1
If only there was some sort of guarantee that the Giants would shore up the o-line with their first two picks-fans have been screaming for it for three years now.
Just need a couple of hog mollies.
Gettleman has caused me to hate that phrase.
Has anyone but Gettleman (or someone referencing him) ever USED it?
There’s a fish, a brewery and a band by that name.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89NjEeHku8o
Since Elway (corpse of Manning excluded) the qbing foar the Donks has been…. very bad.
Keenum got a full season in 2018?!? I do NOT remember that.
“I do.”
— Trent Green, mowing his living room carpet
“neither do me!”
-Trent Green
(JR voice)
“Good God, King! That’s the Practice Squad’s music!”
https://twitter.com/Bengals/status/1479860901691990023
Instead of glass breaking it’s the sounds of someone tripping over their own dick and falling down a flight of stairs.
I imagine its like Doink the Clown’s Heel Music. Its starts out hilarious, but then you realize the Practice Squad is wearing your team’s jerseys.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhRnWMBcNQQ
LAY OUT FOAR IT, Judge Jeudy!
OK, I get it with LA, but now Kansas City has a Gay too??
I am feeling it. D-O-N-K-S!!!
Gonna level with you here-I don’t want to feel your donk.
You know, it doesn’t seem like a Monday night.
Oh shit, I never went to work!
2022 took away weekends?! Son of a bitch!!!
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…and so begins NFL Week 18 for the first time ever. Again.
https://www.pro-football-reference.com/years/1993/week_18.htm
“Dear Australia,
I don’tNovak doesn’t have Covid.Regards,
Djokovic’s Doctor”
It’s even weirder than that.
Novak is claiming, according to the documents his lawyers filed, that he tested positive for COVID on December 16, 2021. That would supposedly make him eligible for the “positive but recovered within the last six months” exemption that Tennis Australia was apparently issuing. Of course, the feds had already told TA that Australian immigration law wouldn’t recognize such an exemption, but let’s put that aside for the moment.
The timing of this positive test (and his sudden recovery) is awfully suspicious. Then there’s the fact that there are photographs of him participating, maskless, at indoor public events right after this alleged test result, and other examples of him violating Serbia’s quarantine rules for positive tests.
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2022/jan/08/novak-djokovic-relied-on-december-covid-infection-for-vaccine-exemption-court-documents-reveal
Are you saying Eastern Europeans are shady?
He’s not the GOAT, he’s a very naughty boy!
Oh, it’s gotten even dodgier. Ben Rothenberg, a tennis journalist, noted that the deadline for Tennis Australia’s exemption process was December 10. So before Novak conveniently “tested positive” on 12/16, what had he submitted to TA? What was his plan? Was he going to skip the AO, and then, gosh, how fortunate, he got COVID and promptly recovered, and was granted a belated exemption? Or had he submitted some other excuse (“Joe Rogan told me the vaccines have gluten in them!”) that was rejected, and then he re-applied with his new excuse?
I bet the French and UK authorities will be looking at his future travel documents with great interest.
Typical Western stereotyping. Serbia’s mass grave records are impeccable.
According to Aaron Rodgers, all of you are bums for questioning that poor innocent man.
And that’s why I will be voting for Rodgers for MVP.
Most Virulent Prick.
The hits just keep coming-Sillycuse down by 2 in OT to Wake.
It will make you feel better to know that UConn lost in OT to Seton Hall.
That’s Mitch Trubisky’s music!!!
Yakity Sax?
Humps by Black eyed peas.
So this “fortune favors the brave” quote that Matt Damon uses to sell us all on how great crypto is was supposedly said by Pliny the Elder, as he was on his way to Pompeii to see what was going on.
It ended for Pliny about as well as I suspect it’s going to end for anyone getting into crypto.
Great Fashion Hustle again from Ms. Kolber. She is very clearly a winter.
Teddy Ballgame on IR, will nae play. Such a class act, though. He expressed a great deal of emotion about how he enjoyed being part of our team and city.
Hope he retires and goes into coaching. I’d put him on staff immediately.
I would hire him as a player-coach. He’s still good enough to be a backup.
Or start for the Giants.
I could start for the Giants.
I shall visualize the secondary as hobos, and carve them to pieces!
He’s too good for that.
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