Reflections on Redemption and Some JV NFL Previews

There is no Premiership action this morning.  Hope you remembered to sleep in.

This Autumn has been interesting for Hippo, to say the least.  Denver started 1-5.  Everton had one point at the first international break.  NC State…was doing NC State things, losing at home twice (ND and Louisville), and getting its doors blown off by DUKE without their starting QB (Devils won 24-3, despite completing a TOTAL of 4 forward passes).

But as we sit in mid-November, all have found form and redemption.  Denver is 4-5, with impressive (if not artful) wins over Kansas City and at Buffalo.  Everton are getting team-wide buy in, and playing above their talent level for a change.  “Safely mid-Table” looks plausible, perhaps almost likely.  NC State rallied to beat Clemson, Miami, and away to Wake Forest (our bogey ground).  No, there won’t be any chance at an ACC title, but good football is so much fun to watch – especially when one’s alma mater is doing it.  Very physical, resilient team.  GUH, if only we had some skill position speed/talent outside of true freshman KC “Mister Sunshine” Concepcion.

In other words…keep watching, and hoping against all reason for things to get better.  Once in awhile, footy will surprise you.  In a non-terrible way.

ED. NOTE – Obviously, the above was written before the 10-point FFP penalty was imposed, but thanks to the last month of play – Toffee supporters feel like it is very survivable, even if not reduced on appeal.  Would have been panic stations WITHOUT this last month-ish of decent play and results.

Louisville (+0.5) at Miami-FL (Noon, ABC)

A win here guarantees that the Cards will play Florida State for the ACC title.  As such, we all must root fervently for Louisville (as U*NC is the only other possibility).  Should be a low-scoring affair, we will see how Tyler Van (Subaru Outback Driver) reacts to returning from his one-week benching (the other guy broke his arm grusesomely at the end of the FSU loss).

Oklahoma (-24.5) at Original Recipe Big Love (Noon, ESPN)

Kind of a weird kickoff time out West, but maybe the Stormin’ Mormons (who have been in a bad tailspin of late) catch Steerfuckers North napping.  I dunno, it’s not a great early slate.

SMU (-8.5) at Memphis (Noon, ESPN2)

There is value in the Tiggers’ moneyline here, and I am not just saying that to suck up to Mister Pickle.  This would wrap up an American title game berth for the ACC-bound Ponies, should they prevail as Vegas expects.

NC State (+3) at Virginia Tech (3:30, ACCN)

Both of these teams are 4-2 in the ACC, with hated rivals on deck next week.  Bronze medal implications!  Are you not entertained??

Georgia (-10) at Tennessee (3:30, CBS)

Holy cats, an actual decent matchup!  Finally, the Dawgs have to play someone on the road and that has a pulse.  Maybe not as STRONG a pulse as before Mizzou kicked their teeth in, but still.

Oregon (-23.5) at Arizona State (4:00, Fox)

Will Quack Attack get caught looking ahead to next week’s Civil War?  Or next next week’s potential re-match with Washington??  I guess we’s about to find out.  Sparky can sometimes be feisty, though they can’t hang with a focused Oregon team.

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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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Horatio Cornblower

Tennessee clearly exhausted from the UConn game two weeks ago.

Redshirt

How smart of Ohio State to schedule a cupcake game the week before Michigan so they can get their confidence up.

What? This is a Big Ten team they are playing? Huh.

jjfozz

Drinking bourbons to fortify myself for my family coming over, and listening to Christmas carols. Yup, fucking deal.

WCS

Promises to make for an interesting evening.

Brick Meathook

UCLA QB just threw a TD but I don’t think he remembers it.

Redshirt

They just called Unsportsmanlike Penalty on the half the population of Ohio.

Redshirt

“Well that was quick!”
-Fans
-Golden Gophers
-Redshirt’s Prom Date

Redshirt

Okay, who reduced Minnesota’s difficulty setting from Varsity to Rookie?

Redshirt

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herodotus450

Disney’s still around, huh?

jjfozz

Ray Harry Hauhsen rolls in his grave. Fuck Hollywood and its fucking numbskull ideas. Seriously, fuck them.

Brick Meathook

THERE IS ONLY ONE HERCULES!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6p3nmyTICo0

WCS

3rd and Goal from the 23? JV NFL BLITZ!

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

THIS RIKKI-TIKKI-DEADLY HOUSEHOLD I CALL IT THE SET OF EMILY IN PARIS BECAUSE AT MOST 10% OF THE BRIE THAT GETS BOUGHT ENDS UP BEING EATEN BY ANYONE.

jjfozz

If i lived in Paris I would invite fuckface French people over and serve the following:
Hamburger Helper
Velveeta sliced cheese
Jello Mold
Headcheese
Ice cream cake

Bar
Miller Lite
Old Forrester
Fortified Wine – Mad Dog Strawberry
Malt Liquor

SonOfSpam

“Please, universe, send me a comeuppance”

SonOfSpam

Why is USC wide receiver Deuce Robinson a skinny white kid?

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Jon Gruden has a kid named Deuce but he’s definitely not skinny.

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jjfozz

He looks like Arnold Scwarnegger took a shit.

scotchnaut

“No kidding! He should be a drug dealer in 1970’s Times Square that pimps out a pre-teen Jodie Foster!”

-P. Schrader

WCS

28-7 Cousinfuckers up on JV Bungles at half.

Oh, shit. JV Clubhouse derby!

Redshirt and Co. have to adjust to life in a new conference.

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Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

It’s a damned shame the guy who hauled in the Hail Mary didn’t have anyone to pitch it to.

jjfozz

Fucking Maryland has never been a football school, and it makes me gnash my teeth and roll my eyes and want to punch a turtle.

jjfozz

Fuck you fucking Tua! Goddamn.

Brocky

Really gonna hurt his chances of winning league MVP

jjfozz

Come Terps, shock these fucking midwest farmers

Dunstan

But their daughters really make me feel alright!

scotchnaut

Wifey is a Saint Update: She’s no lover of Xmas. (she once put up the tree on the 20th of December and took it down on the 26th) However, her best friend is doing chemo and is afraid she won’t make it to the 25th. Guess who is putting up the tree with her buddy as I type.

yeah right

One of my favorite Christmas stories was when my girls were younger and after the divorce. The former alive and former missus right and I alternated years with the girls for Christmas and this was one of her years with the girls.
I picked them up in San Diego and brought them here to LA and we did the magical Christmas thing before the 25th and I delivered them back to San Diego on the 24th.

I came back home on Christmas eve and threw the Christmas tree off my balcony and took it to the trash.

Always wondered what the people passing by thought of seeing a Christmas tree in the trash on Christmas eve.

jjfozz

I would have given my left nut to watch you toss that tree off the balcony.

Game Time Decision

Just finished putting up the lights that go around the edge of the roof. The rest of the lights can wait for another day or not at all. Don’t want to be up on the roof in general and definitely not with any kinda snow or ice on it, so try to get that part done early

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

You have no idea how badly I wish your wife was best friends with Kellyanne Conway.

Brocky

Notre Dame Football:

A program so legitimately unlikable that it’s makes making root for a team caught in a cheating scandal just so it’ll lessen notre dame’s chances of making the college playoff

jjfozz

Rosaries should not be used to tie someone up

jjfozz

THIS NOTRE DAME TEAM, I CALL THEM PRIESTS CAUSE THEY’RE FUCKING EVERYBODY OVER AND GETTING AWAY WITH IT!

scotchnaut

[Shines a spotlight on this comment]

-M. Ruffalo

jjfozz

Looks at this comment and gets a twinge: Sanduskey

scotchnaut

You’d think they’d have handled the transition from Samoans to The Blacks a bit better. smh…

jjfozz

Have they checked those magical disks they found in the desert to see if there’s a reference to those who are not white?

yeah right

Doing prep work for 2 separate meals and neither one are today’s meal.

It’s good to be back in the kitchen.

WCS

pics or it didn’t happen

yeah right

There will be pics.

scotchnaut

Nikki Haley: “She’ll close the borders before it’s too late.”

-Fear Politics personified

scotchnaut

“Read My Thin Lips: No New Immigrants.”

-N. Haley

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Horatio Cornblower

Too late. Her parents already got in.

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Horatio Cornblower

Love that Vichy Whalers tickets are being offered around an office several times with no takers.

Love it.

Mr. Ayo

Woot! Brawl of the Wild!

2Pack

Michigan doubles down on the picerception in the red zone.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Jokes about sexually harrassing my attractive female doctor aside, my physical went well except for one thing – my LDL levels. Nothing tragic – just slightly elevated – but it means I need to eat more vegetables. Disgusting, disgusting vegetables.

WCS

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Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Probably more spinach and chard than anything else for now, since that’s what’s growing well in the garden at the moment.

2Pack

I wish my Doc was a hawt lady. Mine have all tended to look like Don Rickles.

ballsofsteelandfury

Easy, Al. Just grab your bottle of potato vodka.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

“GOOD GOD NO!” – Andy Reid and Eli Manning, in unison

yeah right

Did you see the rib eye roasts on sale at Ralph’s for 7.99 a pound?

They’re beautiful.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

They’re even cheaper at Vons – $6.97.

scotchnaut

Sens are playing against Filip Gustavsson, a goalie they traded a while ago. What is the combined record of traded goalies against their old Sens team since 2007? It’s only 34-3-10.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

“Wish I was a part of a scout team…” – Eli Manning, still disappointed after being told last spring that he had aged out of the summer session at Camp Winnetanka

Horatio Cornblower

The plus side of the sinus thing is I am living RTD’s dream, still in sweats, sipping elderberry tea, (pinky out; I am a fancy lad), and having absolutely no intention of doing anything for strenuous than taking a shower at some point.

Horatio Cornblower

I miss the days when you could just have a bad cold and not have your wife say “do you want to take a Covid test?” which is another way for her to say “take this Covid test or I’ll put a scorpion in your slippers”

Anyway, now my brain hurts and I don’t have Covid.

Buddy Cole's Halftime Show

“There is value in the Tiggers’ moneyline here”

All it took was one slip-up to get Uncle Ed removed from the Winnie The Pooh themed improv group

Buddy Cole's Halftime Show

Says if he were in charge of Hamas, Israel would be able to dismantle their Iron Dome and reduce the IDF to reserves since there would be no offensive

Horatio Cornblower

The idea that Everton is getting a 10-point penalty that may very well relegate them, while Man City gets a stern talking to tells you all you need to know about the Premier.

scotchnaut

Prem official: “The amount of cheating you’ve done is unconscionable. This team is going to receive the severest penalty possible.”

Man City: [casually points to bone saw, yawns]

Prem official: [tugs nervously at collar] “Me? I didn’t say anything.”

Horatio Cornblower

We’ll look back in Man City as charming rogues when Newcastle does something(s) exponentially worse and then the Saudis jack the price of oil up $2 a liter when they get call on it.

Game Time Decision

Meh gas was that price and more in the summer up here

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Horatio Cornblower

And Newcastle made the Champions League.

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Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Heh heh, anytime I see Shannon Elizabeth I remember how she divorced her husband because he pranked her by telling her that he’d made a sextape of them and it had gotten stolen and was about to be leaked.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

HARF HARF ONE TIME THE BEN WENT THROUGH A LOOKING GLASS ZERO STARS WOULD NOT RECOMMEND

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TheRevanchist

I tried watching cross country for 5 minutes. Holy crap, that was worse than watching Russian television programming.

litre_cola

RTV is the only real news.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

“Ha ha, you meant to type MTV News, right?” – as-yet undeveloped kharacter who is stuck in the nineties

Horatio Cornblower

I ran it in high school, (I was the guy towards the back), and it does not translate well to TV.

WCS

I ran for two-and-half-years (thanks, knees*), and there’s absolutely no chance XC is interesting to watch.

It’s NASCAR without any wrecks, strategy, or… well, sightlines.

WCS

*Now-Future WCS truly appreciates the increasing stiffness and early-onset arthritis.

Horatio Cornblower

No wrecks, you say?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ni63iXV7OSw

Nice race you got there. Be a shame if a bunch of herbivores ruined it for you

(Large buck, nudging you towards the deer food aisle at Tractor Supply)

litre_cola

Canada up 1 rip on the Reggae Boyz in Jamaica. Glad the game was moved due to rain last night!

scotchnaut

Who is showing the game?

litre_cola

One Soccer on Fubo

herodotus450

Just a reminder to all the sprots fans in the room: the SEC plays a pansy-ass pussy schedule with only 8 conference games, so if you want to be fair just mentally add 1 (or ok I guess 0.5) to the loss column for every team in the conference.

Don T

Now that Balls will become an honest man, it’s time to look for engagement ideas for the Steel and Furys
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herodotus450

Reason for divorce: Ring didn’t fit perfectly the first time.
Differences: unreconcilable.

ballsofsteelandfury

Don’t give me ideas…

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Woke up expecting a nice, relaxing, dreary morning where I could stay in my pajamas all morning. Instead…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1P5n8YRY6Kw

ballsofsteelandfury

It really is wonderful. It captures LA perfectly.

yeah right

I can’t wait to experience a “rapid unscheduled disassembly” later today.

scotchnaut

If you’re in the mood for some hot morning hockey action the Sens are playing the Wild at 11am.

herodotus450

Oh another exhibition game in Sweden, eh? Those don’t count towards the regular season standings at all, I heard.

scotchnaut

Fitting-because not being able to count has been a Detroit Red Wings fan’s most noticeable trait.

/KaPow! Zingo! Glarf!

herodotus450

Not my fault I lost all those fingers at the metal brake station!

WCS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=081a5Thjl5g

Space Karen’s another step closer to fulfilling his dream of becoming a Bond villain.

blaxabbath

As a matter of priorities, I have no idea how anyone has the free time to even bother with caring about Israel/Palestine Chicken/Egg.

Just give me my Yankees BoSox WS so I can shut up and give you my money.

https://ktar.com/story/5549485/pro-palestinian-groups-protest-rep-rashida-tlaibs-canceled-asu-appearance-in-tempe/

blaxabbath

Well you do but but, you know, TeH PILLZ LOVE!!!

BugEyedBoo

Rep. Tlaib is gonna talk herself out of a job.

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yeah right

Pass the green bean casserole will ya Uncle Brian?

WCS

The internet is a land of contrasts:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_note

blaxabbath
2Pack

What do you think will be the outcome of the EPL point sanctions on Everton? I’m not sure if they pulled the trigger on it yet but I read it will be 10 points plus the potential of other clubs that were relegated possibly filing for damages. Looking at the “evidence” it all strikes me as odd.

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2Pack

That’s what I thought. Not much there there. Smacks of something most other clubs do/did from time to time.

Game Time Decision

EPL just wants a cut of that money too, otherwise they wouldn’t care

yeah right

Does it help boost the Cherries one slot away from relegation?

Cosign!

litre_cola

Seconded…