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FA Cup Saturday! Open(ish) Thread

King Hippo

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Life without FITBAW is just terrible, that’s why Damar Hamlin asked about the score before his goddamned breathing tube came out.  But we get Chefs/Raiders and Tits/Jaguras tonight, so nap accordingly.

In the interim, here are the fixtures I find randomly interesting:

Gillingham v. Leicester City (7:30, ESPN+)

Upset TOTES predicted here.  Formerly Foxy Footy have to solely devote themselves to staying in the League (unlike Everton, who I BEGGED to play only U21s, but nooooo we still lost and added a serious injury to our best player as cherry on the shit sundae – Everton, that.).  Their first XI are old, and their depth is wretched.  “Jilling Ham” makes me giggle to hear, and they will have home support to carry them through.  Let’s call it 3-1, shall we?

Chesterfield v. West Brom (10:00, ESPN+)

A true minnow home to a minnow with promise.  Give me the real thing, baby.  Especially since their name sounds like a brand of ciggies.  Should we all light up some of Virginia’s finest for DonT tomorrow?  Maybe see if it perks his Tits up a touch?

Coventry City v. Wrexham (12:30, ESPN+)

Oh, this one needs no ‘splanation.  But The Gang Witnesses a Cup Run is sommet we all need to see happen.  Coventry are a tough task, but Super Paul Mullin!  I just don’t think you understand….

Watch along with the Clubhouse!

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BeefReeferLives

Your ginger kitteh is th’ adorablest. I want to give him some tuna, nuzzle hiz chin, and tell him hez a good boy.

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Doktor Zymm

Kinda bummed that ‘Walking After Midnight’ is playing. It’s a good song, but it used to only be played at closing way back when I was a regular here and Sam was at the bar

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Doktor Zymm

Little Richard now!

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Doktor Zymm

Still raining in CA so since all my outdoor activities are cancelled I came to Chicago a couple days earlier. Getting brunch at the corner bar where they have one of the Indiana Jones movies and the Michigan^2 basketball on. This place makes a swell BLT with choice of fries, tots, or sweet potato fries. I’ve beenon a grapefruit juice kick so half grapefruit half soda with gin to drink

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Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

I like to think of Everything Everywhere All at Once as maintaining continuity with the Indiana Jones series; it’s a timeline where Short Round retired from, uh, short-rounding to go run a Dry Cleaner’s.

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Doktor Zymm

I still haven’t seen that, as I still haven’t seen basically all movies from the past 20 years. I heard a lot about it though, including a bunch of interviews on NPR, so I’ll probably see it eventually

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2Pack

Ever eat at Eleven City Diner downtown ?

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Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

“Yes, I’ve eaten at eleven city diners before.” – Andy Reid

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2Pack

Andy, if you tried the Reuben… you would still be there… we know you Coach.

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scotchnaut

Bama taking Kentucky to the cleaners and it ain’t football. What?

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Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Does the competition have something to do with the seduction of cousins?

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Gumbygirl

I need to get off my ass, get dressed, and go to the store. I need some motivation right now. Ideas?

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King Hippo

cocaine?

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Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

A bakery caught fire and all of downtown smells like cookies?

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scotchnaut

Drop by the Weedy Weed Store and treat yourself?

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TheRevanchist

Maybe there will be some eye candy? That’s my motivation for my going to Target.

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2Pack

Tomato juice with a bunch of Tabasco

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TheRevanchist

4-1 Wrexham on a Mullin PK

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King Hippo

turned out that 4th was very much needed, even with Coven down to 10

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TheRevanchist

Fuck yeah! 3-1 just before the half. This Conventry team kinda sucks.

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Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Yeah, everything out of Coventry pretty much sucks:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZY9OTJGZ9bw

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Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

(don’t actually listen to that; it’s terrible)

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TheRevanchist

Too late. I now have an urge to move to Cleveland.

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Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

I wonder if Cleveland will get to host any of the neutral site games.

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BrettFavresColonoscopy

Ok, which of you sons of bitches took my gambling luck?

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King Hippo

Worst marketing EVAR – the 1-AA championship game is set for 2p…but tomorrow instead of today (when fuckall else is on)

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scotchnaut

The Sorta Bad News: I had to have an echocardiogram done today.

The Good News: The technician rubbed her breasts on my arm the entire time.

/it’s the little things in life-actually, these were kinda big.

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King Hippo

hope you wore chub-resistant trackies!

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scotchnaut

I thought about baseball a lot.

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Dunstan

That’s just good professionalism — she needed to get your heart rate up for the procedure.

/is completely full of shit

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blaxabbath

Easily one of dfo’s most interesting characters…

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TheRevanchist

2-0 Wrexham. This might be the best game I’ve seen this morning.

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King Hippo

Convinced I jinxed the Ciggies, so I left the stream off for this. #ItsWorking

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TheRevanchist

Keep up the jinxes.

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TheRevanchist

Dalby with the header!

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King Hippo

Blinded them with science?

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King Hippo

Paranoid Hippo Thought – The Shield is boning Team WKRP because they think they spilled the beans on “you have 5 minutes to warm back up” and/or are mad they went to Bills coaches and players to affirm that the game should not be played.

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Dunstan

If anything, the NFL has an incentive to be nice to these teams to shut up about it. That part of the story seems to have died off.

Maybe I’m just not reading the right sources (I haven’t exactly been searching for it), but I don’t recall seeing a lot of follow-up coverage on the five minutes thing.

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King Hippo

In retrospect, the most surprising aspect of Monday is that ESPN refused to recant or even give “wiggle room” to their “5 minutes reporting.” They publicly said the next day that they stood by their reporting.

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Dunstan

To be honest, I’m not all that outraged about the five minutes thing. I mean, yeah, it was of course the wrong call, and it’s symbolic of the NFL’s cavalier attitude towards its players, so it’s definitely a story worth pursuing and commenting on. But I have some sympathy for someone, whether it was the individual refs or even Goodell, making a dumb call in a stressful situation with little time to think about it. (Less so for Goodell, because he’s paid millions to be prepared for and make the right calls in these situations.)

Now if it turns out that the NFL was doubling down and threatening to default teams and only backed down after a long argument, that’s a different kettle of fish.

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King Hippo

I’m most of the way with you there. But they shouldn’t lie about what was said “in the heat of the moment.” Just be human and apologize/contextualize.

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Dunstan

Right. If the NFL is smart about this, in the next week or so they’ll graciously give the story to a friendly reporter who will frame it in a sycophantic way. Only question is whether that’s a job for PK or Schefter.

But being the NFL, they may be so arrogant that they can’t be bothered, and then some more critical reporter writes the tick-tock account.

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blaxabbath

Like, “you wanna not play? We won’t play then.”?

Sounds like the NFL.

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Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

I’m hoping that the NFL wants to eliminate any potential controversy about handing the Chiefs the bye and the officials completely hose them in every way this afternoon to ensure a loss. If they were playing any team other than the Raiders I’d bet the house on it.

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TheRevanchist

Me laying down: I should get up and go run errands.

Me standing up: Oh, shit, I’m still drunk.

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blaxabbath

-Henry Ruggs III, before manning up and going out for that late night taco run

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King Hippo

drink more, you don’t want the hangover setting in during Wrexham time

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TheRevanchist

Now that the chesterfield game is done, onto Wrexham!

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Gumbygirl

Lookit Kruger! He needs a scritch.

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King Hippo

That’s his patented “I know” response face, for when you effusively praise how good and handsome he is.

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King Hippo

Chesterfield Ciggies struggling to contain this big bull Dike that WBA have brought on.

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2Pack

Hey Hippo. Geordies play tonight, holding fast in third place. Do you think they have a shot or did I (based scientifically solely on the fact that the Animals are from Newcastle) hitch my wagon to a lesser team? BTW Google Geordies fan search found this gem today. Looks like I just continue to make questionable choices.

/but maybe not

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WCS

It’s so lonely here.

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2Pack

I suspect Hippo sets his alarm, posts, then heads into shut eye (we call it, busting face) part due…

As for the rest of the Clubhouse also still dreaming.

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WCS

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King Hippo

y’all could hold on for Top 4 but I think 3rd is your absolute ceiling.

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2Pack

Welp nawt bad considering the selection criteria I used. I did better on my CFL pick this year. Montreal based on an internet screening of cheerleaders hotness. They made it all the way to the championship game. Lesson learned, always default to cheerleaders hotness.

Sadly I don’t think the EPL has cheerleaders do they? Please provide a link if I am wrong.

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King Hippo

Nope. Just the WAGs.

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blaxabbath

The Geordies sounds like a 90’s US wannabe-UK punk band who has like two songs on MTV (one kinda fine; one an intolerable mash of whatever the hell it is these musicians call ‘The Real New York’) and, when they play their hit live at the first commercial break of the MTV Music Awards, this looks like a photo of their little back up dancers on stage.

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Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

“Ladies and Gentleman, the Geordies!” – Alicia Silverstone, hosting SNL

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Dunstan

/gets up to get a snack, planning to return for Weekend Update

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blaxabbath

You guessed it….

Frank Stallone.

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Dunstan

Goddamn I miss Norm.

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2Pack

Geordie was a group back in the ’70’s. Brian Johnson sang for them before he joined AC/DC.

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blaxabbath

Oh! I looked them up.

When i worked in our shop as a kid, my manager listened to the classic rock station. I’ve heard Black Cat Woman and Rockin with the Boys Tonite before!

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2Pack

Their cover of House of the Rising Sun is good. They were out of Newcastle like the Animals so that was their nod to them.

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blaxabbath

I really like ACDC. I mean, not the greatest range but awesome rock music.

I don’t know what kids are going with these days but even if Thunderstruck was the unofficial rev up music of 30 years, that’s a hell of an accomplishment.

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2Pack

They do what they do well. No fooling around, you know what you are getting. Their work ethic is outstanding. Saw them in concert a couple times. They play tight and preform a great show.

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