Your Final NFL Christmas Football Open Thread

This is the last one, I promise. Well, until tomorrow that is. It’s been a long day filled with various levels of obligations and though I put this together around 2pm I can tell you that my belly is now filled with turkey, stuffing and all the other fixin’s. I may marinate it all in scotch, I’m not sure just yet.

To The Game!

Bucs/Cards:

-One would think that Tampa would have a blessed advantage here what with Trace McSorely breaking his starting cherry but they’ve lost to the likes of Pickett/Truth Biscuit, P.J. Walker and Purdy Mouth.

-Still, from the outside looking in it would seem that Arizonny has thrown in the towel on the season. Or maybe they’re just not a functioning team because their situation player-wise has been dire and disjointed all season long. There was that D-Hop suspension, then injuries to Marquise Brown and then Ertz and then Rondale Moore and who can forget Kyler going down in a heap? That mess may have something to do with their offense last year being ranked 8th and this year falling to 21st.

-Will Rashaad White have himself a day? The Arizona State product is doing that whole ‘coming home’ thingy to a Cards D that just gave up 130 yards to 32 year-old Latavius Murray.

-Brady has been sacked a league-low 19 times but J.J. Watt is at 9.5 sacks and if he gets to 10 a million dollar bonus kicks in. Money does tend to talk.

That’s it for me, now it’s you.

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ballsofsteelandfury

Season 11 of Letterkenny is on Hulu NOW!

Doktor Zymm

Time to resubscribe for a month!

Mr. Ayo

I drank so much that I’m apparently watching Spirited for the second time this weekend.

I thought I hadn’t, but this is very familiarly terrible on a second watch through.

Dunstan

I don’t know if the mole was worth all the effort, though it was good, but the entire team of mole, turkey breast, rice, beans, guacamole, salsa, and tortillas put in a solid performance.

Oh, and Team Alcohol was reliable as always.

Doktor Zymm

Lady ended up using the call button 3 times in the first hour of the flight and complained about how she was used to international flights and everything was so much worse on this flight. But then she went to sleep for the rest of the flight. To her credit, her kids were well behaved despite little help from hubby. Not to her credit, she continued to chuck all her and her kids trash on the floor so there was quite a pile by the end.

herodotus450

Once you get used to Lone Star Steakhouse Airlines, it’s hard to go back
/Lone Star Steakhouse was a regional chain restaurant where they gave you free peanuts, and you’d throw the shells on the ground, you see

Horatio Cornblower

I can’t wait until Dallas loses to these assholes in the first round of the play-offs.

2Pack

Poor tackling in OT… Who would’ve thunk

Horatio Cornblower

On Xmas, no less.

Redshirt

Our mistake was putting our faith in the Cardinals.

Dunstan

“Tell me about it.” — many, many altar boys

Horatio Cornblower

I would like the Bucs to win for Mr. Ayo, but would like them to do it in spite of Tom Brady.

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Mr. Ayo

I appreciate the sentiment, sir. Let’s go Succop!

Horatio Cornblower

A dive Neymar would have been proud of.

Mr. Ayo

PICK SIX! DO IT!

Horatio Cornblower

Brady’s going to win the coin toss and elect to kick.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

You can’t spell “OVERTIME” without “T-O-M”!!!

Horatio Cornblower

“I’ll take your word for it.”

-Lea Michele

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Woo hoo!

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Horatio Cornblower

Don’t forget to have the winner DM me an address to send the coveted $10 gift certificate to!

blaxabbath

With that beard, Kliff Kingsbury looks like a young dumb Santa.

Horatio Cornblower

Brady’s helmet slogan “Inspire Change” is certainly fitting, as his crypto commercials have inspired many people to check their sofas for spare change in order to afford things like groceries and rent.

Mr. Ayo

DON’T FUCK THIS UP BRADY!

Horatio Cornblower

He’s playing like he’s trying to throw the game.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

…and of COURSE the Cardinals fumbled it.

The Maestro

Rick McSorley looks like he has a resting heart rate of 120.

BugEyedBoo

Dude looks like a Dick Tracy villain.

Horatio Cornblower

An active NFL player with no short-term memory? Weird; usually that doesn’t show up until 4-5 years after they retire.

blaxabbath

High hopes for the Cardinals Talk Post-Game Call In Show.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

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blaxabbath

Its starting…now.

I had to bail on the Mrs watching Bad Moms Christmas 2 but I think i saw both the jokes and I’m eating the leftovers and listening.

blaxabbath

Just getting on the game. Kids did very well for good Christmas. So that was nice. Got my mom to buy in to take him a week from here.

This is funny. EVERYONE knows all ARI should be doing is losing ‘good’ games . Leave it to these idiots to go win this ugly one.

Horatio Cornblower

All Brady had to do was retire last year, but instead he came back for one more year, destroyed his marriage, is playing like shit, and will likely be getting sued for endorsing a Ponzi scheme.

You love to see it.

yeah right

Just spent the evening with Eldest right and clan.
I like giving curious presents. For Eldest granddaughter I gave her a box that used to hold paper clips and inside there were two guitar picks. I just said “I like these, you should give them a try on your bass.”

She said “Cool. Thanks?”

Then I left the room and came back with a Gibson SG Epiphone knock off, custom black just like Angus Young plays and said “Or you could try it on this.” We spent the next two hours shredding.
I love my family so much.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

When you said “spent two hours shredding” I was like “oh, come on, scotchnaut, not on Christmas!”

Horatio Cornblower

I was gifted some 10-year-old, (Matt Gaetz leans into room), Scotch today, (Matt Gaetz leaves room), and this game is giving me no reason not to drink a good portion of it right now.

herodotus450

I hear Johnnie Walker is pretty good

Dunstan

I don’t like to brag (ok, actually I do), but I own a square foot of land on the Laphroaig property. As do thousands of others, but still.

I visited it once and claimed my “rent” (a dram).

BugEyedBoo

Guess Brady is gonna go yell at his linemen some more.

The Maestro

I spent seven consecutive hours building a balsa wood hand-cranked marble run today, and I’m still not done. Enough to do tomorrow that it’ll tide me over until we have Christmas for real here on the 27th.

So yeah, you might say the, uh, neurodivergence was out in full force for me today.

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Senor Weaselo

“Well, it’s a start.” -Dion Bakker (because he’s the mouthpiece of JMR on behalf of Jelle)

Brocky

Let’s try this again

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Brocky

Well, that’s kinda……

I don’t want to say pointless but…

Mr. Ayo

On refresh the 2nd one is, um, redacted.

Brocky

1 outta three though?

Mr. Ayo

The reverse meatloaf is impressive.

Horatio Cornblower

Back from Xmas with the extended family, which gets to be more of a chore each year. The Dolphins cratering against the Packers, thereby keeping ‘THE NARRATIVE” alive did not help.

Gumbygirl

Merry Christmas! Ho Ho Horatio
Tap to see the meme
Tap to see the meme – https://americasbestpics.com/video/qVSlb0R8A?s=u

Horatio Cornblower

Dear god.

yeah right

Oh goddamnit.

Mr. Ayo

Ha Ha Ha Ha!

Mr. Ayo

I need Brady to get his shit together. In a 28 person suicide league with 100 point buy in and am in the last 3 alive. Unless this sad sack piece of shit loses to a 3rd string QB backed team in total disarray.

King Hippo

who did the other fuckers pick?

Mr. Ayo

TEN (he’s in 4th place lol), BUF (asshole), and LAC.

I knew I should have picked JAX. But I might still survive.

Horatio Cornblower

Narrator: Brady did not, in fact, get his shit together.

Mr. Ayo

Hey Blaxx, what’s your price for a hit? I may have a client.

King Hippo

Have I hit my Collinsworth limit? As Andy Reid Kool-Aid man would say, oh YEAH!

Good night and good luck to those with fantasy lives left to squander.

Game Time Decision

Was gifted a 3D puzzle for Xmas. Trying not to google the solution on day 1

https://www.huzzle.eu/product/4526/

King Hippo

It’s funny, all the MRSA dipshits have to do to win this one is run, kick FGs, and NOT FUCK UP but Mr. Dreamboat Ego has to insist on MOAR. While Collinsworth licks his taint.

King Hippo

NEVAR, EVAR have hope for anything coming out of Arizona.

King Hippo

Wait, is Miley Cyrus hot now?

Mr. Ayo

Always has been.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

I will stick up for Miley Cyrus any day of the week. She’s a goofy, friendly weirdo with a damned fine body and if she wants to take her clothes off and do stuff THAT IS ABSOLUTELY FINE BY ME.

yeah right

It honestly took me awhile but now I respect the hell out of her.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Same here.

King Hippo

I don’t know enough popular culture, but will trust y’all.

Horatio Cornblower

And she can flat out sing, too.

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

Game Time Decision

Had 20 or so here for dinner. 25lb bird and 10lbs of potatoes gone. Was strange to have that many in the house again its been like 5 years since we hosted like that. Was busy but good to see everyone but better to have them all gone home now.

Having a Screwball Whisky and watching Charlie Brown Christmas
Merry Christmas everyone

Dunstan

Wow. 20 is no joke. Well done.

Game Time Decision

3 days of prep and cooking gone in like 30 minutes. Lol.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Merry Christmas to you too, and to everyone else here. I’m feeling much more merry than I was this morning, and I’d like to share that.

King Hippo

Donks WOO!! did our part to help, yeah?

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Only a little. Schadenfreude makes for a thin broth, unless it’s the playoffs.

Senor Weaselo

And we’re currently in the “Weaselo siblings dunking on Tiny Tim” portion of the evening. Namely, trying to figure out what his illness was. The answer? Yes.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Turf toe.

Senor Weaselo

“Has he tried a bike?” -L. Tomlinson

BugEyedBoo

STD from Miss Vicki.

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Brocky

Is it not widely accepted that he had polio?

Or is this a statement on how ignorant on history everyone is?

BugEyedBoo

No, because it had to be some ailment that’s treatable with 19th-century technology.

King Hippo

I am not CERTAIN, but reasonably confident that if the Qards win tonight, and the Black Panthers win next week? MRSA is formally expunged from our happy playoff time.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

The Qards won’t win tonight.

King Hippo

yeah I know but wanted us to have sommet to hope for

King Hippo

OTTON DROPSIES WOO!!!!!

Mr. Ayo

Why is Darnold not in this Very Special iPhone Ad?

King Hippo

he scared all the other Very Special Peoples?

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Because he saw the movie “White Noise” and it spooked the shit out of him.

King Hippo

I am almost starting…to not hate JJ Watt? He seems kind of ok in reality.

Brocky

You know what I haven’t seen in a while?

The auto correction of [*Redacted] s

King Hippo

it must only work with a capital R??

Brocky

If this is your way of tricking me into saying a hard R….

It almost worked

King Hippo

oh God, I cackled. CACKLED, I sez!!

King Hippo

#FourthPill really wants to rejoin his friends in me bloodstream.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

[Zaphod] poured a drink down his other throat with the plan that it would head the previous one off at the pass, join forces with it, and together they would get the second one to pull itself together. Then all three would go off in search of the first, give it a good talking to and maybe a bit of a sing as well. He felt uncertain as to whether the fourth drink had understood all that, so he sent a fifth to explain the plan more fully and a sixth for moral support.

Dunstan

+1 Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Douglas Adams was going to speak at a graduation I’d be attending, but that thoughtless jerk went and died two days before.

King Hippo

Let he who has not had to pull over his car to throw away his boxers in the gas station bathroom cast the first shart.

BugEyedBoo

McSorley has MOXIE!

Dunstan

Yeah, but also an illegal stick. Thanks!

— 1993 Montreal Canadiens

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Am drinking a Rasputin Imperial Stout while my wife and mother-in-law watch K-dramas. You’d think I’d want to watch sports, but no, I’m fine with this. Got to see a Celtics win and maybe, just maybe I can pull out a fantasy victory but I’d rather just watch the numbers change than yell at the screen.

Dunstan

Rasputin might be one of my favorite beers, but I actually don’t drink it that often. Very much a situational thing.

Brocky

I feel like my dad’s side of the family is the only middle class white family I know who doesn’t have turkey for Thanksgiving AND Christmas.

We fondue with hot oil. Steak and shrimp. Surf ‘N Turf.

Followed by small town bakery French silk pie

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

We’re having frozen pizzas. It’s gonna be awesome.

litre_cola

Fondue is the tits.

King Hippo

oh snap, should I play White over Horny Fourny??

Mr. Ayo

Fourny.

King Hippo

That was initial vibe, and he probably is safer bet (and I need a nice, no stress 8-10 points, really)

Mr. Ayo

I hope you’ll excuse my typo. I meant Whitey.

litre_cola

Mighty Whitey rides again at the Crystal Palace tomoro

King Hippo

WAVE TO MY KID!!!

Brick Meathook

“all the other fixin’s” = hobo meat

King Hippo

I mean, free range amirite??

litre_cola

I am going to go out on a limb and say teh Hippo does nae watch this.

Mr. Ayo

The Nods and Boxing Day beckon him to bed. I agree.

Senor Weaselo

Are there any fights tomorrow?
https://youtu.be/Y7rw9gqfZow

Mr. Ayo

If Mr O’Sullivan as any say in it there will be.

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King Hippo

4th pill is being held in abeyance. FOAR NOW

King Hippo

There is fantasy impact. I am stressed, though have like 23-24 point cushion.