It’s a Sunday without real football for the first time since forever. How are you going to cope? I might go see my nephew play hockey in the rockin’ metropolis of Blind River! (mentioned in at least one Neil Young song and in a few novels I’ve read) Unless I decide not to, which is always a possibility.
Let’s scan some stuff and say stupid things about them.
Duke vs. UNC: Once go-to TV watching even for neutrals, now I’m once again disappointed that meth-addled wolves weren’t let loose in the facility. (I hope the heroes that eventually do this don’t forget to lock all the exits)
Bilepool hopes to maintain its five point lead on Man City with a win vs Arsehole today. Tomorrow Man City will pile on Brentford and it won’t be pretty.
Mbappe is going to The Real Madrid according to ‘sources’-don’t really know what this means.
Kliff Kingsbury, author of Kliffball: You Know You Can is now talking with the Commies after his hire by the Raiders fell apart during contract negotiations. Did he ask for an office or something equally outrageous? I was looking to make a comment about his further debasement and operating out of a distant corner of the Raiders facility but it just didn’t come together.
Getsy is the Raiders OC they really wanted so he’s headed to Vegas. He’s already played the scapegoat once so he’ll be comfy there.
The Giants continue to be without a DC. Usually this would just fall in line with the org’s moribund-ic (hey look, a new word!) nature but I think they’re going to yank someone off the branch of the nascent Steve Spagnuolo coaching tree and that’s why there’s a delay. There’s going to be a familiarity there because he was around for the upset glory years. Apparently the Seahawks wanted to kick the tires on Kafka as OC but the Giants, like a chess player with a small device in his rectum, blocked that lateral move.
Is there still a wide disparity in various women’s college basketball programs? The Gonzagettes beat Pacific 104-39 last night.
Curry scored 60 last night. “Are players scoring too much these days?” is a question that was posed on one of the yackety-yack sports shows that I tend to listen to on Sirius-I turned that one off immediately. What else are they supposed to do?
Well, that’s some of the items I came across. If there’s something that caught your eye (sports or otherwise) please share it with us.
This is the original “fiber-weed” prop van from Cheech & Chong’s movie Up In Smoke.
It’s always parked in front of a pot dispensary down the street from me.
That’s a lot of dead people
-Typhoid Mary, nodding satisfactorily
Himmler scoffs.
FREE KILLER MIKE! (Even if we have no idea why he got arrested.)
ah mean IT IS IN TEH NAME smh
Ugh pretty sure I slightly pinched a nerve in my left arm leaning on my forearms playing with sharkbait 2.0. the on and off tingling in my fingertips can stop any time now.
You know will help that?
Like 3 hours of goaltending
I’ll update on Wednesday
What is this watery stuff coming from my eyes?
Tracy Chapman and Luke Combs at the Grammys.
https://x.com/RealBrittain/status/1754316190552375724?s=20
Just watched it on rerun and yeah. She looks/sounds amazing. But damn, that song.
So what kommercials will we be tormented with for the next 6 months?
Also…when the FUCK did commercials get trailers?
YES
(as such, I will have the Owl on mute)
State farm is already on deck for hate Sir. Fire all broadsides?
DAMN SKIPPY
I am headed to the mountains! Banff at my buddy’s hotel. I will be black out by game time
Last time I was that drunk for an Owl, it was…28-3.
That changed.
Fortunately, my memories got quite hazy.
Koaché Kliff Kingsbury Konnectción Kon Kommies?
Konfirmed?
Da, Komrade. Just as the dialectic predicted.
Horatio, is that Lowratio as the Dwarf whipping the naked catholic high school girls, in Catholic High School Girls In Trouble?
He better not be. I’m supposed to get 4% of any outside income!
I mean, those were some hotties he was whipping, maybe he was not paid in money. Butt, you may be being paid your 4 % in kind now.
I think you got mixed up. Lowratio is saggin’ – not in SAG. Easy mistake.
Knew Eli would take it home! That betting win for me is now seed money directed towards the founding of “Second Skull Fracture Awareness In Second-Born Kids”. It’s a cause that is close to my heart.
Which Lego set does Eli get for winning?
Despite the feeling of everything in my existence (okay, car and its insurance, thanks to my wonderful 2022) being way too expensive to the point of oppression…
Holy shit, the hot ginger tea from Wang Lao Ji.
Ray Lewis is pissed at an NFL Flag BLEERGH. This has the potential to get stabbingly interesting.
Lewis: [throws knife on the field]
Ref: “After further review, we’re going to take all suggestions. Also, take it easy now, brother.”
“Thank you.”-Referee Mary Elephant
Are the Manning brothers doing some coaching? If so, I’m going Eli with the upset.
Head coach of the Columbine High School Shooting Stars football team being interviewed just now.
Am I the only one here for the Pro Bowl Games?
I’m on my way to a nap, so yes.
a nap is always the best idea, even if it adds a shit layer to the insomnia cake later
You forgot quotation marks around games.
Wiscy within seven cheese slices of Purdue.
Four cheese slices now but it’s that soy kind.
“I think I’m blind.” -Homer S., Springfield, ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0o2C4cPVTEQ
The Brasilian Pizza Boi and the Belgian? GET IN, King’s Afrikan Water Pistols!!!
A truly just result!!! Outstanding performance from all outfield players! Time for a sherry!
Rhodesians in Rhapture!
Zach Edey is:
/yup, all of the above
Need to check out this gelato place
Today’s plan is to get the Christmas lights off the roof and tree and put away for next year/later this year. It’s a nice day here*, so feels like a good day to do it
*sunny, 0C** and not much wind
**your idea of nice maybe different
***oh and most of the snow has melted from the lawn so not too wet today
I’ve never understood why take them down at all when you can just not turn them on? Or put up color changing LED lights and do different colors for each holiday. Not sure what Groundhog Day colors would be though
They are not meant to be left up all year and just have multi colour lights so only works with Christmas.
Red for the blood of the groundhogs lost in meteorological pursuits!
I mean, it will be Christmas again in like 10 months. Might as well leave it be now.
Didnae fall off ruff or ladder and all lights are down and put away
New Zealand is great from a jet lag perpective. It’s 21 hours ahead of PST right now, or 3 hour behind but tomorrow, so the sleep schedule equivalent of traveling from the east coast to the west.
Well, after an outstanding first 40 minutes, our haphazard Spanish keeper turned into Plaxico Burress and provided the Redshite with a gift of an equalizer. Can the David Raya experiment end already? It seems like he makes one backbreaking error a match, yet Arteta seems to love him because they share the same homeland. Rhodesians for Ramsdale!
This Miami/FSU game is good-not sloppy, execution is great.
I’ve been to Blind River, but not this weekend
Did you have to stop at the one street light?
Yep. Even slowed down to like 90 through town
Ha! The cops there are super aggressive about speeders within the town limits-it’s been a point of emphasis for a few decades now.
/same thing with North Bay, actually
And there is a good chance that we ate at the A&W there.
-He Kliff! How about… Working on your NFL comeback by coaching for us at discount after that fleecing in Arizona. What is it, $5 miL a year? Ha ha, that was slammin’!
-Uh, no [rotates snifter of Monster Cosmic Peach].
/watching women’s basketball and the camera never strays very far from FSU’s coach Brooke Wyckoff. Wonder why?
Here’s a better pic.
#wackoffforwykoff should be the name of their NIL Club.
Our gurl is happy with the win.
We’ve got flares on the pitch!
I finished The Brothers Sun last night. I second RTD’s recommendation. Very entertaining, with an obvious set-up for a second season.
I liked the fact that characters that I thought sacrosanct, were not.
Wakes up. Chelsea losing. Seems like a good start today.
And they just fucked up a beautiful breakaway chance with about two passes too many.
Dad went to the ski jumps early so that he didn’t have to watch the game.
Today I’ll be attending he annual ski jumping contest in Salisbury, CT. Teenagers flinging themselves down a 60 m. hill and launching themselves dozens of yards into the air for my amusement. It’s enough to make Jared Fogle smile!
In addition to the ski jumping Salisbury is the town where late actor Rip Torn lived. Once Rip got so hammered that he walked home, couldn’t get his front door unlocked, so he kicked in the door, sat down in his living room and passed out. He was very surprised when the cops showed up and asked what the hell he was doing in the bank.
Turns out Rip’s house looked a lot like the bank and he’d managed to mix the two up, breaking into the bank and passing out in a chair in the lobby. I believe he also had a pistol on his ankle, which didn’t help any.
Rip went to rehab after that, or so everyone was told.
Is there any real risk of injury or are these kids on it enough to be displaying theae talents at full speed?
They have an ambulance on stand by. In my 20+ years of going I’ve never seen it move.
It’s not world class jumping by any stretch. For one thing the hill isn’t big enough for that kind of distance. Most of the kids don’t go very far. There’s usually 1-2 that are clearly going to win. Once in a while someone crashes and gets bruised up but that’s about it.
One year Eddie the Eagle showed up and jumped. He was terrible, absolutely awful. Like 12-year-old kids were jumping farther. I’m not completely sure I couldn’t have out-jumped him, (although surely his landing would have been better, and unlike me Eddie wouldn’t have needed the ambulance to get out of ‘park’), but no one had a better time at the event then Eddie. Great guy, knew exactly who and what he was and was just maxing it out.
Yay Eddie the Eagle! He’s always been one of my favorite sport stories
Without risk of injury, why watch? It’s kids!
You forgot the “/spits on ground” in your Real Madrid item.
Saw American Fiction last weekend, I recommend it, was a good solid movie in, my book.
“I don’t care for books.”
-K Stafford
Hey! I’m getting Napoli/Verona on Telelatino right now.
Not been our year, she’s skeptical…