Glory Hallelujah, First Fall Saturday 2023

Technically, it was still summer before.  And summer can get right fucked.

It’s not all rainbows and sunshine, as we get NO early morning fixture.  GUH.  Only three in the 10:00 window, as we go “Sunday heavy” this week, with some “name teams” in Zooropa.  City of Men hosting Robins Hood is…asking a lot to carry a window (USA), but I suppose everyone like’s to see HULK SMASH.  A well-kept secret is how badass their cheaply bought “backup striker” (Julian Alvarez) is playing.  There is also the Uncle Woy Dawby (Palace/Mighty Whitey) for your streaming pleasUre.

Spotlight Dance is…Praise Beesus hosting terlet-swirling Everton??  But the teevee guide says 12:30 and NBC, so I guess it is.  Burnley and Men Untied steam at 3p, which is both accurate and weirdly scheduled.

Don’t want to get to deep in the Sunday weeds yet, suffice to say the USA fixtures are awful, while the likes of the North London Derby are Peacocked.  BLECH.

Florida State (-1.5) at Clemson (Noon, ABC)

Time for St. Dabo to play the Rodney Dangerfield “No Respect” card, but I just can’t possibly believe this much in a 21st century Semenholes squadron,  Both these teams can eat shit, for all I care.

Oklahoma (-14) at Cincinnati (Noon, Fox)

This looked WAY more interesting before JV WKRP lost to Miami last week.  That’s the OHIO varietal of Miami, to clarify.  Still, anybody thinking Steerfuckers North is legitimately good might just want to think again.

Auburn (+8) at Texas A&M (Noon, ESPN)

There will be panic and/or possibly blood in College Station if Bonfire Cult loses this one.  I’d pay good money to watch Bobby Petrino disembowel Jimbo on live teevee, wouldn’t you?

Colorado (+21) at Oregon (3:30, ABC)

When Vegas begs you this hard to bet the underdog moneyline?  You really, REALLY shouldn’t.

UC-Los Angeles (+5) at Utah (3:30, Fox)

That said, Vegas clearly believes way more in Westwood Klavern than Hippo does.  Original Recipe Big Love all the way, y’all!

Ole Miss (+7) at Alabama (3:30, CBS)

Yes, I get it.  Nick Saban is surely pissed off.  But he still ain’t got no quartered back.  Or maybe he just pulled a genius move in getting the fanbase off Milroe’s back?  Because options 2 and 3 sure looked bad, and not-just-bad-for-Bama, PAAAAAAWWWWWLLLLL.

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Reclusive, vulgar Broncos fan. Also a proud fookin' Evertonian. Likely dropped on my head repeatedly as a small child. [Insert George Carlin quote followed by thoughtful nod.]
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JustStopDude

Coworker is getting married for a 3rd time. I would blow off the reception but apparently so many people have canceled that I think I might he one of six people there.

Not sure if it’s the hurricane, college football, or that this idiot seems to love divorces, but here we are.

I give it six months and I have never even met the woman.

LemonJello

Have a toast ready, you may get pulled up to fill in for the best man.

bk109

Or it could be one of those cash bar receptions. Last 2 weddings my better half dragged me to I went to had those. The absurd bit was that both were destination weddings, so it’s not like they saved any cash by going the cheap bastard route with the drinks

jjfozz

People who elect to have cash bars at weddings should be kicked in the teeth.

bk109

And people doing destination weddings and cash bars should be speyed and neutered, so they don’t pass their cheapskate and dumbarse genes !

scotchnaut

See you in a bit. I’m going for a swim in ball-curdling water in preparation for challenging the oldest to race to the middle of the lake during (Canuck) Thanksgiving long weekend.

jjfozz

Last night I had: three bourbons, 4 high alcohol content IPAs, the rest of my wife’s wine. I got myself drunk. She suggested sexy time and I said, “Sorry. I have no idea where my penis is right now.”

jjfozz

Hoping someone with a shoulder fired missile takes out Deon.

bk109

Don’t be silly. Using an ATGM/RPG is a sure way to get caught. An FPV drone (with a decent payload) built using parts from multiple suppliers…
*cough* Or so I’ve heard *cough*

bk109

Or better yet.. just find a willing golddigger to claim sexual misconduct in the distant past

jjfozz

I’ll start researching this strategy.

bk109

There’s literally a guide on that on youtube. Prices for components have gone up a bit, but .. given the Russians decided to co-opt the Ukrie’s good idea and go for volume manufacturing…

Spur

This might be the 1st boat race for Coach Prime but am thinking the Buffs cover

Spur

Folks

Doktor Zymm

South Africa/Ireland is on right now, South Africa is currently the favorite to win the whole shebang, but Ireland is only slightly less favored and with them ending up in the same pool, this match could be crucial but also awesome. Coming up to the end of the half Ireland is up 7-3

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

It’s been very good rugby so far.

Doktor Zymm

I’m glad they’re showing it on the boat, even though I do have to watch it in French

jjfozz

You’re telling me a bunch of Irish guys are good at a game that involves extreme physical violence? Next you’re going to tell me they like to drink.

Gumbygirl

And they fuck like bunnies! Who knew?

Gumbygirl

Zymm, there you are. Bonne belated anniversaire! Are you still in Brittany?

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

“I wish.” – Kevin Federline

LemonJello

The good: Clemson loses.

The bad: Florida State wins.

scotchnaut
jjfozz

My son had a parlay on that game and made $80

Brick Meathook

My local watering hole down here in Playa is a Florida State bar when they play and it is the most terrible place on earth to be during games. I can only imagine how intensely awful it is there right now.

scotchnaut

You’re so lucky though-my local watering hole is a well.

Brick Meathook

My water comes from 400 miles away.

scotchnaut

Gotta love all the God-Loving Clemson fans’ response to the gimme field goal that was missed.

Mr. Ayo

Absolutely ruthless to show the kicker’s parents right after as well.

Mr. Ayo

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scotchnaut

Edvard Munch 1897-99

Of all the two-year-old painters that I’ve studied, Munch is by far the best.

Gumbygirl

Explains all the screaming.

Brick Meathook

Jesus: Certified Redneck

LemonJello

Clemson and FSU throwing more off-target bombs than Russian cruise missiles in Ukraine.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

South Africa vs. Ireland starting now; probably the best remaining matchup of the group stage.

scotchnaut

SillyCuse is 3-0 (headed to 4-0) but is not nationally ranked. The theme song of football pollsters? You guessed it…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDVdomcsjBA&ab_channel=LiveAid

Brick Meathook

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scotchnaut

“I CALL THIS SEC KENTUCKY/VANDERBILT FOOTBALL GAME A SAUSAGE BEING MADE BECAUSE NO ONE WANTS TO SEE IT!”

-Otto Von Bismarck, recently-approved DFO commenter

scotchnaut

Another Army player down. If any institution anywhere embraces, “Next Man Up” it’s the military, so what’s the holdup?

LemonJello

Woke libtards arguing over putting a woman in there?

2Pack

Well that will probably do it for Rutgers.

Horatio Cornblower

They’ve been done since they named the state university Rutgers in return for a $200 bell and the interest on a $5K bond.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Rutgers_University#Under_the_Rutgers_name

scotchnaut

Bad Parenting Update:

The youngest has embraced the Country and Western music. Not the crossover ‘poppy’ stuff but the testosterone-y, shit-kicking kind. I should have seen it coming when he put a sticker on the back window of his truck that said “I Like Boobies”. I gave him the benefit of the doubt, figuring he was doing it ironically but, nope.

2Pack

So he likes both kinds of music?

Dunstan

a sticker on the back window of his truck that said “I Like Boobies”

Seems like a good way to signal that you haven’t touched any in a while.

It reminds me of the time I was in Vegas with a client who was a nice guy but always trying to be bro-y, like the new pledge trying to impress the frat guys. (I assume. Never was in a frat myself.) He also didn’t handle his liquor that well.

So he spent a good chunk of the night asking me and the other guy we were with “where’s the puss?” with a shit-eating grin. Like I said, he was a client, so I was a lot more patient with him than I normally would be, but eventually I had enough and said to him “you know where the puss is? It’s with guys who don’t go around saying ‘where’s the puss’?”

It actually worked; he laughed and stopped saying it and I don’t think he was offended.


Senor Weaselo

He’s not even taking his horse to the Old Town Road!

bk109

So, you’re saying that you kid has a decent taste in music and shitty taste in car flair?

scotchnaut

Army player down. Rub some Agent Orange on it and get back out there!

WCS

Depleted uranium

LemonJello

Load up on contaminated well water from any number of military installations!

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Burn pit residue! Give that immune system a workout.

scotchnaut

[Camp Lejeune ears are burning*]

*among other parts

2Pack

Give him a Motrin and tell him to drive on. Pain is just weakness leaving the body.

Mr. Ayo

#DoucheStrong

WCS

VPI visiting Marsha.

Go meteor?

WCS

Do any of the Fox Sports guys voluntarily eat lunch with Urban Meyer?

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Seems unlikely. Would you really want to take the chance of, say, sharing a bowl of chips and spotting one of Urban’s fingers making contact with a young woman’s butthole I mean the salsa?

LemonJello

He probably never picks up the check, too.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

It’s tough to say that a team who is losing 57-0 is “choking” but man oh man is Chile making some Bearistocratic errors.

Brick Meathook

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BrettFavresColonoscopy

Welp, I may not have loved one of the outcomes, but the AFL playoffs do NOT disappoint in terms of action.

WCS

https://twitter.com/NFL_DovKleiman/status/1705307210622828857

Truth Biscuit loves Hank, and loathes Mick Burkina Faso.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

The good news for Matt Canada is that he’s going up against a defense that is colloquially known as a “slump buster” in terms of allowing people to score.

WCS

The Stillers haven’t defeated the Raiders on the road since the first Clinton Administration.

scotchnaut

“All roads lead to Canada being fired” is the old saying.

Horatio Cornblower

And now Everton must brace themselves for

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Brick Meathook

Another English breakfast, with “bangers” and “other stuff”

What it lacks in toast it makes up for with newspaper headlines containing the words “Brexit” and “mum”

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scotchnaut

Come to think of it, I’ve seen one too many ‘fry bread’ vids where they just toss bread into the frying pan after everything else has been done so that it soaks up all the detritus. [shivers]

Brick Meathook

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Gumbygirl

Meh, needs more black pudding.

Horatio Cornblower

Did Man City spend the half break snorting PCP?

scotchnaut

Hey Hippo, your KHunt is gonna play this week.

scotchnaut

BoNix sounds like a kid’s building blocks game that was invented in the South.

/no matter what you try to build, it ends up looking vaguely like a pickup truck.

Horatio Cornblower

What the fuck was that in the Man City game? I thought we were going to have a hockey fight there for a second. Guy lost his mind for nothing.

scotchnaut

“Is Rodri on Roids?”

-Tomorrow’s headline on the front of the Daily Mail, probably

Horatio Cornblower

‘What does Rodri’s red card mean for the Toronto Maple Leafs?’

-9/24/23 headline, Toronto Star

Fronkenshteen

Shadows don’t get any longer than they seem to in English football.

herodotus450

Lazy blokes just didn’t mount their lights high enough smhdh

Buddy Cole's Halftime Show

This show informed so much of Buddy’s humor and even on rewatches most of this holds up in a deranged way. Opie and Anthony were on their weird non-compete period and most of the guests would overlap but nothing came close to this. Getting an old TV at 13 was puberty and growing up in of itself and I watched the hell out of Comedy Central.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8jmo1fECs0

Horatio Cornblower

Somebody say “MTV’s Kari Wuhrer”? No? Don’t care.

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Horatio Cornblower

(not her best picture, but the best one I found showing her shoulder. I know how to pander to the host)

Buddy Cole's Halftime Show

“Most people know Colin Quinn from Remote Control. Not the television show, the thing they look for when they see his face.”

Dunstan

She was on the later, shitty seasons of “Sliders.” I assume the execs thought they’d bring her on for sex appeal to replace the perfectly cute Sabrina Lloyd.

litre_cola

Has been pretty back and forth.

litre_cola

Oh I dont think so friendo. They are both going down but wolves are better.. Book it.

blaxabbath

Bama gonna clear the spread running the Navy Triple-Option playbook until FIELD GENERAL competents presents.

litre_cola

This ref is trash in the Uncle Woy derby.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

It’s not all rainbows and sunshine, as we get NO early morning fixture. 

YOU’LL GET WORLD CUP RUGBY AND YOU’LL LIKE IT, YOUNG MAN!

England vs. Chile, starting at…11:45 a.m. EST, which I guess is technically still morning.

BrettFavresColonoscopy

I’m watching the Brisbane – Carlton match from the wee hours and it starts off hot

BrettFavresColonoscopy

Good

Brick Meathook

Greenspot Cafe, Montreal

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Brick Meathook

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Brick Meathook

For you footie, rugby/cricket fans: English sheetpan breakfast

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scotchnaut

Far, far too many vegetables and hey, where’s my toast?

Horatio Cornblower

Me: “Tomatoes are a fruit, not a vegetable.”

Scotchy: (flicking the garnish sprigs off his plate). “I said what I said.”

Gumbygirl

Toast comes cold in a separate rack. Brah, do you even English breakfast?

Brick Meathook
Brick Meathook

I meant this:

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Brick Meathook

The white powder is indeed coke but also mixed with crushed up Mexican Quaaludes. Plus confectioner’s sugar, of course.

Brick Meathook

They’re like truffles. Available only to true connoisseurs, yet available.

Gumbygirl

I had an extended ‘lude period in the 70’s. It was very peaceful.

Don T
2Pack

Our high school coach was big into the headslap… After a forearm.

Her would probably risk a felony rap if coaching today.

2Pack

“he” this stupid WordPress edit thing…

Doktor Zymm

Also, AFL and Rugby are on if you can get ’em

Doktor Zymm

So the ded lady from last night is totally fine, she was up at breakfast walking around like nothing happened, so that’s pretty neat

2Pack

Oh thank goodness

https://youtu.be/Frks2l8trSw

Brick Meathook

IT’S A RESURRECTION! CHRIST BE PRAISED!

Senor Weaselo

Weekend at Bernie’s!

2Pack

My advice. It’s still too early to bet hard earned money on Coach Prime.

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