Your “[DFO] Hate Week” Thursday Evening Open Thread

Hi everyone,

Welcome to the fourth day of [DFO]’s annual Super Bowl tradition – Hate Week.

This is the annual airing of grievances we have about life, football, society… really, anything is in-bounds outside of the usual hot buttons. It’s been a pretty good week so far, and what people have brought up from their recesses has been darkly impressive. I also appreciate how we’ve seemingly agreed to cap the nightly comments at 69 – tributes to tWBS never go out of style.

As always, I am assisted in the photoshop department by fellow hater – see Wednesday – and Despiser of All Things Spanos, Low Commander.

As you can see, he feels better for having emptied his bowl of bile at Dean Spanos yesterday. Because that’s what Hate Week is all about – liberation for the soul.

With that in mind, let’s wrap this shit up in style.


Tonight’s theme: Shitty NFL Refereeing

Two words:

Kadarius. Toney.

The ref threw the flag long before the play developed into one of the coolest things we’d seen all year.

Honestly, after watching that Kelce deserves to be with Taylor, simply because he does see the whole field. Sure, the ref was right, but in the end it didn’t matter because the Chiefs are in The Big Game© anyway.

Of course, the quality of the officiating in the league is nothing new. One just needs to look back through the seasons to find multiple examples. These ones just popped into my head at random: 

  • The non-PI call against the Rams when they took out the Saints on their way to losing the Super Bowl to the Patriots in 2019.

  • The “Fail Mary” game, which ended the officials strike.

But to truly start the hate for officials leading into this year’s Super Bowl, we have to go back one calendar year to the last one, which started this year’s round of “SupER bOWL RigGeD!!1!1!”

2023 Super Bowl: Chiefs 38 – Eagles 35

Whether or not you think it was holding,

and that depends on your betting / loathing interests

the fact remains that questionable calls like this feed a disgruntled narrative that exists among fanbases that “The League” or “Roger Goodell” is out to get them to the benefit of “another”.

Of course, this is absurd. Your local team doesn’t care about you – ask Oakland or San Diego fans about that. The contempt the owners have for their local fanbase is the epitome of a parasocial relationship. They didn’t get the millions they wanted from the local government, so they fucked off to the first place that would, leaving the fans with nothing to show for their years of devotion. The same goes for every team. Not for one second do I think the Seahawks care about me beyond “So, Beerguy, your AMEX was declined… do you have another credit card we could use for the renewal?” 

And Roger Goodell?

Frankly, I don’t want him to know that I exist, because that means I travel in company which prevents me from being my usual irascible self. Plus, the second he finds out about [DFO] we are getting so many takedown notices our tech support is going to quit & go on to a less-stressful position at Windows.

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Fortunately, there are a whole bunch of haters on Al Gore’s internet who have much more free time available (between, I assume, court dates) than the average Commentist. As such, I have found one YouTube that will satisfy my need for accounting the most wretched calls of the year.

Naturally, because it has NFL highlights on it, my good friend Roger has had his lawyers prevent it from being shown on this-here website. But if you do have 20 available minutes, you’ll see calls like:

  • Bobby Okereke getting the softest roughing the passer call against Josh Allen,

  • the Steelers getting almost a full yard of favourable spot when the Rams couldn’t challenge,

  • more enhancing of the Saints persecution complex when this was called unnecessary roughness,

And finally, my personal favourite, when Simone Biles’ husband got an unnecessary roughness call when he hit Patrick Mahomes in bounds.

Dogshit. The whole end of that game was just one fuckup after another. Just a series of bad calls, as if a challenge had been laid down to see who could cause Terry McAulay to burst an aorta.

It’s gotten to the point that guys like RGIII are creating conspiracy theories about refs favouring their home teams or childhood favourite. He’s obviously not the only one who thinks that, but because he’s behind a desk and not on the field there’s little the league can do without raising suspicious and, in that way, somewhat confirming the allegations. That will not ingratiate him with Roger Goodell, who expects the employees of media “partners” to be obsequious in nature.

He’d rather get softball questions about concussions from future 49ers GMs.

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All of this brings us to the topic of

The ref for The Big Game (™) is Bill Vinovich. Ironically, or conspiratorially, he’s the same ref who did the last KC-Niners Super Bowl.

Knowing this, the stats wizards employed at every betting site have the teams’ respective records when Vinovich refs their games:

  • 49ers: 2-4 (0-1 in 2023)
  • Chiefs: 5-2 (0-0 in 2023)

Well, I guess we know who wins the game here.

He’s also the referee whose crew missed the PI call in the Rams-Saints conference final in January 2019.

It’s back up top; you may have forgotten.

Depending on your narrative perspective from Wednesday’s thread, this is either more rigging by the NFL or people grasping at straws. I can’t wait to watch all the MAGA retards lose their minds when Vinovich helps Taylor’s boyfriend win the game because his granddaughter has tickets to the Eras tour.

I guess there’s no point watching the game, then. Nice work, Roger.

Fuck you.


Tonight’s sports:

  • NHL:
    • Canucks vs. Bruins – 7:00pm | Sportsnet
    • Lightning vs. Islanders – 8:00pm | ESPN
    • Vegas vs. Arizona – 9:00pm | Sportsnet360
  • NBA:
    • Warriors vs. Pacers – 7:00pm | Sportsnet1
    • Mavs vs. Knicks – 7:30pm | TNT / TSN4
    • Nuggets vs. Lakers – 10:00pm | TNT / TSN3,4
  • Beisbol:
    • La Serie del Caribe (Semifinal)
    • Colombia vs. Venezuela – 8:00pm | ESPN Deportes

Well, that’s it for my part of [DFO] Hate Week 2024. I hope you enjoyed what Low Commander and I put together for you. There’s some sexiness on-deck tomorrow, and possibly a surprise or two on the weekend before we all gather back here on Sunday to see whether the powers of good or evil prevail.

Until then,

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A Canadian man-child of indeterminate age, he stays young by selling alcohol at sporting events and yelling at the patrons he serves. Their rage nourishes his soul, and their tips pay for his numerous trips to various sporting events.
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BrettFavresColonoscopy

As always, great hate, and I contributed nothing.

King Hippo

As long as there is HATE in your heart…you contributed!

LemonJello

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Brick Meathook

Can you dig it?

Brick Meathook

For no particular reason:

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Gumbygirl

We could all use a little Fred.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Particularly if Fred happens to be a dachshund:

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Gumbygirl

Awwwwwwwww! I love me some weiner.

Senor Weaselo

Hot damn, Team Momo won something!

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WCS

Grossi not winning was even less likely than Damar not winning.

Oh, wait.

Seriously, congrats to him. He worked his dick off doing that.

Sharkbait

Don’t ask me how, but I fell down a youtube rabbit hole and ended up watching Irish rugby fans sing Zombie after their wins during the last world cup and I came to a conclusion:

DFO NEEDS a meetup during the world cup when it’s here in 2031, and go to a match if possible, preferably Australia (for obvious reasons), Ireland or New Zealand.

2Pack

Rugby is cool. Where is the next world cup?

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Sharkbait

Australia in 2027.

Gumbygirl

My Blazers beat ranked FAU in overtime!!!

Brick Meathook
2Pack

Rained out on a run this morning, I hate that. So into the garage gym for some sets. Bum shoulder has been acting up so this ought to be interesting. But it’s hate week so it’s fitting.

Brocky

Fuck yeah Mongo McMichael!

Hester too!

Redshirt

It should be CMcC, but I can see why Lamar! got MVP. He carried the Ravens nearly to the Super Bowl.

Brick Meathook

Who the fuck is CMcC? Try writing the guy’s whole name out.

WCS

JOE FLACCO ELITIESTEST OF COMEBACK PLAYERS

EAT UNTOASTED WHITE BREAD SANDWICHES DAMAR AND GRIM REAPER

Sharkbait

The meme knows!

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The Right Reverend Electric Mayhem
Brick Meathook
Brick Meathook

“Jews for Jesus? How about Scientology?”

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Brick Meathook

“Help Jerry’s kids?”

Sharkbait

I don’t think I did well on my second interview. Though I hardly think it’s my fault. They asked me what my experience was in areas I told the first round I have very limited experience with. Apparently my resume has a typo in it, which unless he’s looking at it in a weird format, it most definitely doesn’t. Then I was asked about software development in a production environment because I was in T2 production support….in broadcasting. Then the interviewer said he didn’t read the bullet points of that part of my resume.

Not looking good for a move to this company this evening

Brick Meathook

Was this at McDonalds or Burger King?

Horatio Cornblower

I wouldn’t take a job where someone admitted they didn’t read my resume. That’s a place with bodies just waiting to float up out of a flooded basement.

Sharkbait

Kinda what I was thinking.

Brick Meathook

I’m a long time Hollywood guy (a career viper’s nest) and I have to find a new job three to four times a year.

What have I always tried to teach you kiddies? Treat them like shit. Tell them to fuck off. Never beg for a job.

You’ll not only get hired, you’ll get paid more.

Sharkbait

Thankfully there is no begging here. I got cold called by their recruiter and figured a couple conversations was worth it. The whole “I didn’t read that part” really got to me too.

Brick Meathook

I’ll be your agent if you need one.

10% of all earnings off the top before taxes.

Brick Meathook

ALSO:

If they called you, you should have been interviewing them, not answering questions.

Mr. Ayo

Haha, fuck that company. Remember, every interview is a two way street, and you’ve found out all you need to know about that dumpster fire.

Sharkbait

The more money would have been nice but yeah…

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

I remember a friend in college having a company offer to fly him out for an interview, but then retract that offer when his GPA was a bit lower than they expected. They still wanted him to come out, but on his own dime. I told him that if they were pulling that kind of shit already, he shouldn’t waste his time with them. They were doing him a favor, really.

Mr. Ayo

Holy shit.

RTD is a good friend, folks.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

This is a guy who was about to walk out of Carnegie Mellon with a master’s degree in robotics on top of a bachelor’s degree in engineering from what was at the time the highest ranked specialty engineering college in the country, and this company was sweating the fact that he got a few B’s along the way? Yeah, fuck those dumb motherfuckers. They missed out badly, and I’m not just saying that cause he was a friend.

Gumbygirl

If anyone’s feeling hoopy, my Blazers are on ESPN 2: Electric Boogaloo.

WCS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pn3-IV-ejg0

David Cross has a new(ish?) podcast. Jason Bateman was his second guest.

Horatio Cornblower

“Hey do you inhale or exhale on your swing?” is genius level heckling for a baseball player.

Horatio Cornblower

I went looking for a video snippet of Dean Stockwell in Blue Velvet but couldn’t find one that doesn’t have someone talking over it in what sounds like Slavic.

I did find out that Asian singles are waiting for me, which is nice to know, and saw one of those topic questions for Blue Velvet that asked “what is the disturbing scene in Blue Velvet?”

Motherfucker, the film starts with a kid finding a severed ear in a field and gets progressively more disturbing? What isn’t a disturbing scene in Blue Velvet?

ballsofsteelandfury

I think the most disturbing scene I ever saw in a movie was the scene where a couple fucks on top of maggots in A Cook, The Thief, The Wife, and Her Lover. I had two concerns:

1) Some of those may go in her hoohah
2) How the hell can he get a boner?

The logical inconsistencies totally destroyed my suspension of disbelief.

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Horatio Cornblower

‘Why aren’t they doing anal!? This is completely unbelievable!!”

ballsofsteelandfury

Right?!?

Brick Meathook
litre_cola
  • The “Fail Mary” game, which ended the officials strike.

Was in attendance, was a very strange ending as they refused to show a replay in the stadium.

Horatio Cornblower

Can’t imagine why.

I’m still upset that the Packers came out for the PAT. Their response should have been a firm

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Brick Meathook

Camera mounts on the helicopter for the opening aerial shots of The Shining (d: S. Kubrick, 1980).

The rest of the film was shot entirely on stages in England. Outtakes from this shoot were used in Blade Runner (d: R. Scott,1982).

“MacGillivray” on the slate is Greg MacGillivray, a cameraman who partnered with Jim Freeman to form MacGillivray-Freeman Films, one of the greatest IMAX film producers ever.

They produced To Fly! (1976), which by some metrics might be the most watched movie in history. Jim Freeman was killed in a helicopter crash two days before To Fly! premiered.

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Horatio Cornblower

I have never seen To Fly. Or The Fly.

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Brick Meathook

Go to the National Air & Space Museum in Washington DC and educate yourself.

Redshirt

A Roman-Rocky feud would be amazing, but you need to give Cody the spot. They wrote themselves into a corner and any other option hurts everyone involved.

Horatio Cornblower

It’s not real. They can do whatever they want.

WCS

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Don T

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Horatio Cornblower

No trousers? He’s our kind of guy!

Redshirt

Hey NFL Academy Awards is tonight? Where’s Will Smith when you need him?!

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Brick Meathook

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Brick Meathook

When this movie came out in 1986, in Washington DC it only played at the Key Theater in Georgetown, one of several great art house theaters in Georgetown at the time, an era that is long gone.

I was in college studying filmmaking then, and this movie was incredible.It was a film that went places nobody had ever seen before (although it’s been imitated a thousand times since). It is still one of my favorite movies.

Director: David Lynch. Director of Photography: Frederick Elmes ASC

Brick Meathook

BTW, the movie is Blue Velvet, and the actor above is Dean Stockwell

Horatio Cornblower

Dean Stockwell is off the charts creepy in that one. Great film.

Horatio Cornblower

He does. I’d wonder if that was intentional but since it was Lynch it likely was.

Brick Meathook

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WCS

That’s a good girl!

Don T

Ok ok. There’s one thing that makes me mad. Taking a time out to avoid a 5 yard delay of game penalty. McVeigh* gives time outs away like they were stinky and plentiful. So yeah, take the unfavorable spot against the Steelers, penance for the no-call PI at New Orleans.

* sic. Fuck that guy. And original recipe too.

Redshirt

For your Hate Week Considerations…

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Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

I am going to give her the benefit of the doubt and assume that they needed to move the plane for some reason (i.e. she arrived at one airport and was planning to leave from the other one).

ballsofsteelandfury

Typically smaller airports have limited facilities (read: fuel supplies and/or maintenance/service). If she was taking a long trip or the plane needed extensive maintenance, that’s two good reasons to go to the bigger airport.

Redshirt

I’d make a reference to Logan Wilson’s holding call in SB56 and Ryan Shazier knocking Giovanni Bernard the fudge out in That Wild Card Game with no flag in sight, but to be fair, Tee Higgins did get away with face mask on that TD pass so BLEERGH can suck equally. And as for Shazier…well…yeah…

Horatio Cornblower

Vinovich is allowed to do Super Bowls after his crew missed that call? Jesus Christ why anyone bets on this sport is beyond me.

Mr. Ayo

For those wondering, and those who have asked directly, I can confirm that’s tomorrow’s sexiness post will NOT be hate themed. I apologize in advance.

King Hippo

TO BE FARE, all pictured lovelies would surely hate us if’n they only knew us.

Horatio Cornblower

Wow, the only thing black in that picture is his eye.

Brick Meathook

What could it possibly be?

This?

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Or this?

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Mr. Ayo

It could be anything. Tune in tomorrow night to find out!

Brick Meathook

I certainly shall, and I look forward to your post!

(Brick falls over, dead drunk and hopped up)

Don T

Good. It’s best to save Ladies of Apartheid for 80s Week

ballsofsteelandfury

Can we say that they hate clothes?