It would be exhausting to go through all of them and they’ve already been covered by some fine folks earlier in the week so I’ll try to keep that stuff to a minimum.
To The Games!
Bucs/Panthers:
The game plan should be simple-put in-over-his-head Bryce Young under pressure and watch the turnovers follow. The last time ’round Tampa did that he ended up with a nasty 7.7 QBR. Carolina of course has nothing to do with the playoffs but they do possess an owner who is a wild card in that he lacks impulse control. Gotta feel sorry for a white billionaire that feels like things aren’t going his way.
Browns/Bengals:
Hard to believe that Cincy doesn’t have a division win this year but then you take a gander at the other teams and it becomes clear. But now that they’re on their 5th starting qb things should be just fine. Oof! Cleveland is locked into the 5th seed so these squadoos should just go through the motions.
Vikes/Lions:
Minny’s chances of post-season glory hinge on a W and help from three other teams so their longboat is dead in the water. Detroit looks like a one-and-done team to me because, well, Nick Mullens of all qb’s hung 411 yards on them-imagine what a starter would amass.
Jets/Pats:
Just don’t look!
Falcons/Saints:
Hopefully this is the final stop on the Art Smith Hate Train. The guy couldn’t game-manage his way out of a paper bag. So how does he win? He doesn’t-the D is fantastic at shutting down the run. Should you wish to see egregious player utilization, have a gander at this fixture.
Jags/Titans:
Will Tennessee play the role of playoff enabler for the second week in a row? They did a huge solid (which also the phrase used around these parts for the aftermath of a fried pickle/Hot Chicken feast) for the Texans last week. The bumper music will likely be “Lay Down Sally”.
Have at it.
Solid doink deserving of replay
SNOW DOINK!
DOINK!!!
Prison Girlfriend usually does all of the taking in Cell Block J, but today, he’s decided to be a giver!
I miss People’s Express. You paid on the plane, in my case to go from Newark to Detroit. And if you used a credit card they would just use the old credit card machine and give you your carbon copy receipt.
Did they kick you out if you couldn’t pay?
No idea — perhaps the threat of being returned to Newark was sufficient for folks to pay up. As I recall, even my college work-study salary allowed me to come up with the $60 airfare so I did not risk it!
Beige planes. I remember it well!q
Random Q. My phone is weird.
Look at you, Cincy!
Yeah, we’re better than the Browns backups, practice squad members and whoever answer the Craig’s List ad.
Prison Girlfriend is dead set about not playing in the post season.
LaPorta es muy ded
LaPorta’s leg went all bendy. Not good.
Detroit football fans aren’t allowed to have nice things.
Or adequate drinking water.
Oh it’s adequate, and the lead content even more than adequate!
Surgically repaired shoulders hate heavy wet snow. 0/10 would not recommend shoveling
Deci just did it for the 1st time. 5 bucks. Money well spent. Also built himself a snow landing pad for when he jumps off the deck.
Once the kids get older I’m absolutely shoving them out the door to shovel for less than minimum wage
“You’re working for hot chocolate and Internet access. Get to stepping!”
Then move to Nebraska and put em to work in a slaughterhouse. Retirement here you come.
If they ain’t making min wage, they gotta work faster.
How’s he spend cash?
In his Piggy bank. Usually Lego, and Ice Cream.
Both solid investments.
I love being empty-nesters, but I do miss handing my son a shovel, pointing to one end of the driveway and saying “see you in the middle”
I was lucky enough to have two boys and only two shovels. Or I planned it that way. The shovels part anyway.
You know, before surgery or shots, I always DO MY OWN RESEARCH.
/Stretches like a cat
Extinct airlines and this wasn’t the first to come to mind? I thought this was DFO.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=-RlYUZCmlJk
I remember flying Western Airlines
“Yeah, I do punts too.” – Shan’Khlor
Better add that to your LinkedIn page then Shanky.
IS HE HIRING?
I DUNNO WHAT DOES THIS PERSON OFFER ME TO HIRE?
remember somewhere during mid-season DUVAL was an legit threat at the 1-seed in the AFC
People have been trying to Andrew Luck Trevor Lawrence since Clemson. The Urban Meyer stuff, absolutely valid. But this idea that like a 2019 college title means the next step is a Super Bowl — come on.
But he’s all hardcore Christian and still really good and I’m sure Bradshaw is just happy not getting January 6thed after every JAX loss…
I have flown Canadian Airlines (defunct), Canada 3000 and got trapped in Ios Greece, FlyZoom got stranded in Glasgow. Oh we got them bankrupt airlines up here.
Perhaps you are good enough customers to support dependable airline service.
Tits!
Jaguras looking like they already made non-refundable vacation reservations.
Packed up for the move to London
I’m disappointed, Braniff. Flip that color scheme and you’d have been processing my $59.50 right now.
THIS SONOFABITCH IS TRYING TO NEGOTIATE WITH WEARING PANTS!
WELL, WATCH US ALL NAWT NEGOTIATE WITH THE SECOND AMMENDMENT, HORATIO!!
Sweatpants are not pants.
Semien just all over the field today in New England, which I guess explains why that field is covered with white stuff.
This is fast becoming an “abandoned airlines trademark” thread, but holy shit, Pan Am’s fifth go around had to be abandoned after the the CEO was charged with, and later convicted of, child pornography.
Gotta believe that knocked the price of the trademark down a few bucks.
ENRON is completely available.
At what point in my life does child porn just become offered to me with rooting interest? I’m 40. Why hasn’t it come up? I get the Epstein Log folks — that’s some special-level of degradation — but like these Rich people. What’s the deal? How does one Diddler spot another?
I am, thankfully, purely speculating here. But my guess is that it’s a lot like how really racist people spot each other. It starts with a “joke,” which either is or isn’t a joke depending on the reaction. Then the “jokes” get increasingly disturbing until eventually the pretense that they are jokes is dropped
Tits!
El Tractorcito giving me some serious blood pressure issues today.
Braniff Airlines: Come for the flight, stay for the LSD!
I found a cardboard frequent flyer card for US Air in an old wallet recently
Weird, I found an Air Max door in my backyard.
Fuck, it appears that the Braniff intellectual property has not been abandoned.
DJ Shark do do dododo whoopsie fumble do do dododo DJ Shark!
What is the logo on the Lions helmets?
Is that a Ford logo thing?
Speaking of sweat pants, here’s my kick-ass TWA slide rule for piston engines:
This varies from the Epstein Flight Airlines standard-bearers who tell users to Take-Off Accountability.
DUUUUUUUUVVVVAAAAAALLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!
I went a bit tilt-y today with Gamblor. Last week of the regular season and all.
Also, bet Boston Scott anytime score. He loves playing the Gints.
Plus his name makes me think of an adorable terrier mix puppy
To be fair, everyone loves playing the Giants these days.
Completely off topic but today’s NY Times has a fascinating obituary on an SAS guy who died at 103. Last of the original Desert Rats.
He was their legendary desert navigator.
I’ll check that out. I’ve stopped browsing the NYT since the Middle East stuff, but going directly to something specific is still all good
Read this a couple years ago. Fascinating if you are a military history buff.
https://www.ibs.it/sas-rogue-heroes-now-major-libro-inglese-ben-macintyre/e/9780241186862?lgw_code=1122-X9780241186862&gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQiAtOmsBhCnARIsAGPa5ybcQFfdVFf0OmDaaxBGt8IKM7zU502HgLohVBVXRyRUWOU_Q5R2eZUaAqlNEALw_wcB
Recently read this book. It’s a good read, if more than a little jingoistic.
I have to see if work will get me a free subscription so I can get The Athletic and maybe Wordle, but I’m behind on my Immaculate Grids.
Immaculate Grid is pure crack to me.
Uh oh, those Baking injuries can be very painful
Pointless game has weather as a small consolation to people stuck watching!
It has significant draft consequences for the Patriots if they win.
Which if they do is pretty clearly going to be by accident.
I absolutely have the tablet set to it. Main TV and sound on RedZone, because I’m not a masochist.
Is a 0-0 tie a Scoirgami?
Asking as someone watching the Patriots-Jets game.
I think only in the post-merger era
1920s was FULL of them
Just like flappers!
Browns-Bengals game is as ugly as sin, er I mean, has a lot of personality.
New Browns shirt just dropped.
https://twitter.com/H_Grove/status/1744056994141516045
Cuts deep.
THIS BROWNS JERSEY I CALL IT RAY LEWIS…
Because it’s going to witness a Joe Flacco Super Bowl Championship?
Just gorgeous.
Not gonna lie, I would buy it if I were a Browns fan.
Yeah but then you’d have to worry about bleeding out all over it.
I like how it still has room for a couple more
Last Red Zone of the season, le sigh
Just thought that
Look at this sweet bastard.
You know you want a pair.
Oh hell yeah
Seventy bucks.
I mean, SUPER COOL but it would have to have…bonus features (a TWA stewardess smiling at one, from the bygone era) to get me to pay $70 for trackies
Vacation Me spends more freely than Other 50 Weeks Of The Year Me.
After TWA was absorbed into American Airlines in the early 2000s, AA abandoned the TWA trademarks. I saw them listed on the US Patent & Trademark Office website as abandoned, and I almost bought it. I was lured by the fact that Howard Hughes used to own it. It would have cost me about $600. I would then have to used it in active commerce (you can’t sit on trademarks) but I would have sold TWA Logo coffee mugs on line or something. The hotel would have had to buy it from me (or even better license it from me) and you would have had to pay me for those pants.
The hotel would have had to pay you to be called the TWA Hotel, for that matter.
I should go see if trademarks like Braniff or Pan Am are considered abandoned. I can use those sweet DFO stock dividends to snap them up.
Pan Am is a small railroad in Maine. Same classic logo, they bought it.
Ooh, that’s worth a visit
CORRECTION: Pan Am is abandoned and totally available. Hmmm . . . maybe I’ll buy it and then sell it to you.
Well, maybe not totally abandoned.
I know there’s a board game about mid 20th century airline routes called Pan Am. Decent game.
And I almost bought a lot of bitcoin back in 2010
could’a would’a should’a
A bargain at twice* the price!
*Not really.
So long as ATL wins, MRSA Men can clinch via DRAW, which would be all kinds of awesome.
I’ll never not root for Todd Bowles.
Someone turned the water pistol backwards there
Much like the Favre honeymoon, this storm has been a tremendous disappointment, with no more than 3″ of snow here, although it is still coming down and seems to be picking up a little.
Unlike the Shapiro honeymoon, however, the snow is very wet, so clearing the driveway was literally a pain, and I ma taking the rest of the day off to wear fuzzy socks, comfy sweats courtesy of the TWA hotel, drink hot chocolate, and generally fuck off.
Which I believe is the same approach the Commanders are taking against the Cowboys today.
Might just have to queue up Sunday Ticket for the Massholes’ weather
I have the game on now. The weather is terrible. Must-see TV.
Man you are really milking this favre schtick.
Unlike Jennifer Sterger
I will take any chance I get to remind everyone that that welfare queen has a small dick.
These Cincinnati Bengals and I have something in comment, after years of failure and mind-numbing insanity, our younger sibling finally got their shit together and is finally going somewhere in their lives and we’re supposed to shut up and be happy for them.
Assholes.
Congratulations on your sibling joining the Marines.
Turns up Red Zone music for the last time this season
Almost brings a tear to my eye.
oh man, does it EVAR. May all of you one day know, even for a moment, the genuine enthusiasm that Scott Muthafuckin’ Hanson has for his calling.
the draft can be random. what isnt random? fucking a division rival in the ass
Pfft like there’s a Titans fan in the whole world that has that strong of a chin.
You know what you need to do. GO TITS!
plus, Vrabel’s drafting an interior OL in any event
I was watching the Patriots pre-game show, (because I was flat on my back on an acupressure pad after shoveling, you see), and one of the guys has them taking Joe Alt, an OL out of Notre Dame with the 3rd pick.
The Pats absolutely need to shore up the line, but if Marvin Harrison Jr. is available at 3 and the Pats pass on him everyone involved needs to be fired.
I really do think Bears lose the scheisse (momentarily) and draft Marv 1(1)
I like Fields so I would agree that this pick makes sense. I would also think trading down and drafting Alt themselves would make sense for the Bears.
So like I’ve said before they’ll draft Caleb Williams first.
The Aristocrats!
I have come around on Strawberry Fields, so I am probably 100% wrong
Oh I’m quite aware I could be wrong about him. I just think he’s shown enough that the Bears need to get him a potential star target in Harrison or else trade down, get more picks, and shore up that goddamn line.
The Bears are about as good at developing young QBs as Ben Shapiro is at arousing his wife.
I may legit stop rooting for the bears if they pass on MHJ.
Trading away #1 overall is one thing. Passing him up is another
Total malpractice. Can’t just keep drafting QBs Top 3 and expect anything to change.
Not gonna lie, between boredom/FM and my GI issues, tomorrow morning’s insights will be sparse (at least for the early/mostly irrelevant fixtures).
Also, eat shit and die, Liverpool.
It was windy as hell here last night but there wasn’t as many fallen branches (or fallen fruit) as you’d expect. Kind of a letdown.
It’s still windy
This made me laugh like a 12 year old
Man City whomping the hell out of [squints at TV] Chuddelstone United?
/why the hell is The Broom still in there?
Last night’s Litre adventure included a couple who came to the resto with 3 $100 gift cards. Tis gift card season so we get different clientele in January. I kid you not she took out a piece of paper and did the math so the tip made the total exactly to 300. Which was about 8%. Out tipout is %7.5 percent.
It gave me great glee that somehow one of her gift cards didn’t work in the machine and that she had to scramble to figure out which of her credit cards, or accounts had enough to cover the bill.
She wasn’t a Karen, but asked questions such as, how fresh are the tomatoes? Do we make our own Parmesan cheese? Why are all the wines Italian?
Ugggh.
“These napkins-are they fair trade?”
Where did she think she was… Olive Garden? I heard they make their own Parmigiano…
/ laughs in his spaghetti carbonara.
Normally we are sold out every night, however in January on a Saturday you get folks who get gift cards for a gift and book 2 weeks + in advance. Every Friday and Saturday in January is an adventure.
The worst part – she needed pen and paper to calculate how much to add to the bill so it totalled $300.
(but also it would have been greatly amusing if she had to wash dishes for that last $100)
My daughter needs a calculator to add 36 + 26. Failed as a parent, number 1 * 10^6.
Ah yes, one of those folks who ask inane questions just to enhance the feeling that they are in charge and are being served.
Clearly you should do a breakdance to serve them properly!
“Why are all the wines Italian? Do you have any Irish wines?”
Unsurprisingly, one’s best chance for CHAOS weather is Bearsensceisse at Packers.
I haven’t touched a drop of alcohol in like four days (this is untrue, I tasted the gimlet I made for the Dr. Mrs. last night) and I plan to rectify that this evening.
I haven’t had a drop since New year’s eve/new Year’s morning but I’m flying to Vegas tonight so….
I have been good since NYE. Almost changed last night.
I can not and won’t make any such claims.
I’ve had one whiskey, last night, during the storm.
I’m doing a ‘Ben Shapiro January’: it’s not totally dry, but no one’s getting soaked either.
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I don’t know what I expected
Napoli is playing now. They are in 8th place 20 points off the pace so something tells me there will be no repeat this year. Poor Marika would be better off making me some pasta Napoletano and giving me a back rub.
I would watch the hell out of her cooking show.
I shared the food of my people, panzerotti, with Senorita Weaselo last night, so I’m feeling pretty chipper there.
/Madre Weaselo’s family is from Bari
//Up the Cockerels, who are… currently 11th in Serie B
You can’t beat our Cockerels!
That’s always a good meal. Buon appatito Buddy!
How’s your pasta all assasina?