JV NFL for 23 Nov 2004 (Early)

FYI, Bournemouth/Brighton (10:00, USA) and City/Spurs (12:30, NBC) are reasonable enough watches.

Indiana (+13.5) at tOhio State (Noon, Fox)

Hoosiers finally get their big test.  Maybe too big?  Let’s hope they come good (PHRASING), anyway.

Ole Miss (-10) at Florida Men (Noon, ABC)

Gators will be feeling their oats coming off last week’s humbling of LSU.  Johnny Reb is another level up, though.  Maybe also an emotional hangover?

SMU (-10) at Virginia (Noon, ESPN2)

Death by SMU-SMU danced with disaster last week (home to BC), and need to fix their shit in order to avoid this banana skin.

Paedo State (-11.5) at Minnesota (3:30, CBS)

It would be so very awesome for these Paedo jackasses to lose, and the Gophers likely have enough defensively to at least annoy them.

Original Recipe Big Love (+3) at Arizona State (3:30, ESPN)

Winner gets the inside lane to the “surprise package” Big Twaaaaalve championship game.  But the chaotic ride will never, ever make sense.

Colorado (-3) at Kansas (3:30, Fox)

Speaking of chaos, this is the last real regular season obstacle for the Fightin’ Deions.  Rock Chalk is better than their record shows, and they seem to embrace the “giant killer” role.  Already priced into the line, though.

5 4 votes
Article Rating
King Hippo
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.]
Subscribe
Notify of
137 Comments
Inline Feedbacks
View all comments
Redshirt

Okay, Media. Can Coach Prime no longer be a thing?

blaxabbath

Stupid ASU.

Doktor Zymm

I just chased down the fedex truck and carried 15 bottles of wine 3 blocks. I suddenly have a strong opinion about having a working buzzer

blaxabbath

Someone should do something!

Fronkenshteen

Back from soccer, staying at the hotel with my little sick guy while Mom & eldest join teammates for dinner, quit drinking, time for some low-stakes, even-lower information GAMBLOR!

Looking at the smart money on the post-7:00 games. Are these accurate?!:

  • Iowa State @ Utah (open -10 / now +6.5)
  • Alabama @ Oklahoma (open +2 / now +14)
  • Georgia State @ Texas State (open -17 / now -22)

Who died and shifted the lines like that?

Redshirt

Block 2, Fighting Hayden Foxes!

Brick Meathook
Senor Weaselo

I LOVE GOOOOOOOLD!

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Should I risk it?

20241123_131633.jpg
Rikki-Tikki-Deadly
blaxabbath

Is it good? I’m always down to try a new ramen item.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

I’m never a huge fan of seafood-flavored things without the actual seafood, but it’s fine. Pretty much any ramen you pay more than $1.50 per package for (these were $7 for four if I’m remembering correctly) is going to be at least decent.

Gatoraids

Same Ole Miss

comment image

Horatio Cornblower

I think this means McGregor is somehow qualified to run for President of the United States.

https://twitter.com/rtenews/status/1860002771745071481

SonOfSpam

“Trump names Conor McGregor Women’s Outreach Ambassador”

Mr. Ayo

comment image

BrettFavresColonoscopy

Looks like Kiffin’s Kasting Kouch…

Redshirt

Henderson slides to save the Under!

Redshirt

…and Howard saves the Over thanks to a F.U. TD.

BrettFavresColonoscopy

2 QB dynasty league, have traded away Daniels and some others, and now Purdy is hurt. So…..Minshew, Cooper Rush, or Tommy Cutlets at QB2?

Mr. Ayo

Minshew

/not professional advice

blaxabbath

MINSHEW MANIA

SonOfSpam

Weirdly, I think Cutlets might be the safest pick. The other two are in danger of getting replaced (by Ridder and Lance).

BrettFavresColonoscopy

*Riddler

Gatoraids

Meanwhile Miami game in full blowout mode announcers telling audience to google Luther Campbell

Gatoraids

that was our university President

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

WINDIANA more like, uh, BINDIANA* am I right?

/like, throw them in the bin, for trash, you know?

Mr. Ayo

FINDIANA*

As in their playoff hopes of FIN

2Pack

I had to change the channel. There’s an old Bruce Lee flick on. Everybody was Kung Fu fighting.

Brick Meathook
Game Time Decision

At the Vanier
comment image

blaxabbath

I’m amazed how many guys aren’t wearing hats.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

They are not gentlemen, I shall not invite them to the card party next Thursday.

Redshirt

Is Indiana’s QB calling plays in the huddle or describing what he would do with his linemen’s female relatives?

Don T

comment image

Brick Meathook

Fun Fact: Both Iggy Pop and Alice Cooper are outstanding golfers.

Gatoraids

Longer version with words is great but the abridged

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

Redshirt

Yeah, much easier to inspire a copycat multi-state killin’ spree. You get the credit without having to do the legwork.

blaxabbath

I don’t want to go out east. So, other than lurking around the monument at Four Corners, it’d be just an insane amount of driving to commit murders in different arbitrary legal jurisdictions.

I mean, what’s it even matter the state? Killing is illegal everywhere.

I’m gonna work on getting MAGA to ram through my raw milk agenda in AZ.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

THIS TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR F.C. I CALL THEM THE ENDING OF THE USUAL SUSPECTS BECAUSE ANYONE WHO TOLD YOU THEY SAW THIS ONE COMING IS A LIAR.

Brick Meathook
Redshirt

Narrator: “Thank you for watching the special presentation ‘Indiana is a Top 5 Team’. We now return you to reality, already in process.”

2Pack

Yeah this is getting ugly.

blaxabbath

How do I show UI is what their record is? A tiny ten, a normal dash, and an enormous block/bold/underlined one?

Brocky

Hmm, IU plays in a conference with northwestern and Penn state, both who have cat mascots, but i think the guilty party is likely Kentucky

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

[tucks hands in pockets, walks away whistling] – blaxabbath, clad in an University of Arizona sweatshirt

litre_cola

Citeh, you ok?

Cecil Rhodes

The people of Abu Dhabi will not be pleased by this performance! Perhaps there will be riots on the corniche?

Brocky

This IU perfect season right here i call Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign: No one expected it in January, and it’s come to a crashing halt in November because of red states!

litre_cola

Well my day will now hinge on Forks Up v Mormons

Redshirt

Long ass day of getting everyone else’s problems and issues. Lord grant me peace or grant me an alibi.

Horatio Cornblower

You were in the Clubhouse the whole time.

I mean, you were doing a lot of laundry, burning some oddly-shaped things wrapped up in carpets, and vigorously scrubbing your pants while you were in the Clubhouse, but you were definitely here.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

And I’m personally happy to testify to as much, except of course for the time period I wasn’t present because the defendant I mean Redshirt asked me to run out and buy some more bleach.

Redshirt

And lye! Don’t forget the lye!

litre_cola

To the cops? Yeah I can lye for ya.

Fronkenshteen

Boy, I guess Rodri was the correct pick for player of the year after all. City are LOST without him.

Horatio Cornblower

Indiana should perhaps cover that Tate kid.

Horatio Cornblower

This is one of the most underwhelming long-TD run calls I’ve ever heard.

https://twitter.com/TheUConnBlog/status/1860375353581027497

blaxabbath

I don’t hear anyone complaining.

yeah right

For you intrepid travelers, the Toronto gathering is April 15th through the 19th. Staying right downtown. Niagara Falls is being discussed for the 18th but the rest is just visiting a city and folks I’ve never met.

Not yet.

Horatio Cornblower

What will this mean for the Maple Leafs chances to win the Stanley Cup?

/Seriously, doesn’t most of the DFO Canuckistani contingent want to burn Toronto to the ground?

Horatio Cornblower

Just checked my schedule. I have an absolutely awful case scheduled for a Court trial on the 21st.

Going to have to up my “settle this stupid thing immediately” game.

litre_cola

I love visiting Toronto. Not living there

Brick Meathook

Niagara Falls is about 90 miles from Toronto via driving around the western edge of Lake Ontario, or about half that if you take a boat.

For comparison, the distance from Los Angeles to San Diego is about 100 miles, depending on how you want to measure it, but also has great train service between them.

But I’m familiar with the areas and I can tell you that Niagara Falls is worth a visit. So is a ride on the Pacific Surfliner.

Brocky

It was nice while it lasted…

…things I definitely didn’t say on prom night

Horatio Cornblower

Oh, that is not going to end well for the Fightins.

2Pack

Justin Fields on Collage GameDay seems very relaxed personable.
/ Insert your getting out of Chicago comments here /

Horatio Cornblower

BOURNEMOUTH HIT THE FUCKING POST!!!

Col. Duke LaCross

Crystal Palace are the Chicago Bears of the Premier League. Shitty, but never quite shitty enough to where they just kick them out.

Col. Duke LaCross

Yeah, I did one of those online quizzes. Also, I enjoy the song “Glad All Over.”

Horatio Cornblower

They do have very cool uniforms, though.

Mr. Ayo

University of Big Sky (-6.5) at Big Sky State (2, ESPN+)

The Brawl of The Wild returns. This line is complete bullshit. Go Cats!

Mr. Ayo

#TooGoodForThatClownShow

2Pack

/ looks around confused

Horatio Cornblower

Better expand that garden next season!

2Pack

I’ll need to buy a tractor.

Gumbygirl

Go Cats!

litre_cola

Weekend ruined. Why do I do this to myself????

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Next on our “Ask a Jets fan” segment…

Horatio Cornblower

You’ll see them next week.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRBDMMVctu8

Horatio Cornblower

Ref in Bournemouth is having himself a day.

litre_cola

Fuck everything

Cecil Rhodes

Huzzah! Our Gold Coast manservant does it again! Double his wages immediately (from two pence to four pence)!

Horatio Cornblower

Rooting for Arsenal against Nottingham Forest feels like rooting for the sheriff over Robin Hood, but I’m still gonna do it.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Just think of it as rooting for Alan Rickman against Kevin Costner.

Horatio Cornblower

I feel better already!

/I finally broke down and watched Costner’s “destroy my finances” dream project ‘Horizon’ the other night. It’s actually a pretty decent Western, and would probably be better if there weren’t the foundations for 3 or 4 movies in there, each of 3 or 4 hours duration.

yeah right

It was a solid “By the numbers” western but it feels like it’s going to run longer than “Gunsmoke” by the time it’s done.

Horatio Cornblower

Exactly. There’s ‘Epic Western’ and then there’s ‘Holy Shit Wrap It Up Already.’

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

…and then there’s ‘Holy Shit Wrap It Up Already.’

“Are you talking to me?” – Antonio Cromartie

Horatio Cornblower

What a pass for Brighton.

And I fucking hate Brighton.

litre_cola

Kill the Bees Hippo. Kill them!!!!

Fronkenshteen

Sitting in the car in Richmond watching eldest’s soccer team get fucking dismantled. These kids just went undefeated in their regular season, the first team EVER from this soccer club (Shenandoah County) to do it. So this jerkoff coach decided it’d be a great idea to get fucking humiliated down here, end the season on a horrible note, and make all the families travel and pay for hotel accommodations the weekend before thanksgiving to do it.
I am a grumpy fuck. I might have pneumonia right now, and the inside of my skull is collapsing like wet sand leaving only lightning bolts of rage and suicidal ideation pinging and echoing like fruit bats off dark, wet bone.
Another stupid situation in America.

2Pack

So this was a non conference thing, just a “friendly”?

What a buzz kill. Poor kids.

Fronkenshteen

Yeah. These other teams are really good. Like, “grab a copy of their roster” good, so I can follow some of their players in college.

2Pack

You do that stuff, playing way above your level as a gut check, early in a season. Just not thinking there.

Doktor Zymm

Hopefully there is at least pizza at the end of the day

Horatio Cornblower

Orange slices for everyone!

Fronkenshteen

I feel like teaching them to smoke after this.

My brain is vile poison like that right now.

ArmedandHammered

Find em some nice prerolls, they will love you for it.

litre_cola

Just a bit of snow overnight.

comment image

Last edited 1 month ago by litre_cola
Fronkenshteen

Jesus, if a bad back was a photo.

Doktor Zymm

Pretty for now!

Gumbygirl

I would shovel the shit out of that deck!

litre_cola

Need to get the vocal chords ready for Mighty Whitey v Wolfy.

litre_cola

Get innnnnn

litre_cola

Fucking hell.

2Pack

Suitable for my Saturday night activities.

FB_IMG_1731947867172.jpg
ArmedandHammered

I fucking hate waking up early, already been up 2 hours. Now I will feel even more guilt when I get nothing accomplished while even having extra time.

blaxabbath

These are not productive morning hours.

Game Time Decision

Meh, relaxing and resting is good for you. We all need time to heal and recharge

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

“And don’t forget to refuel, too!” – Zion Williamson, loading up an 8-quart mixing bowl with shrimp alfredo

2Pack

I’m the opposite. I get most of my tasks done before lunch, then tend to sluff off in the late afternoon and evening. I blame my morning paper route as a kid. Since I was about 13 I’ve been getting up at 4 AM. When I first retired I tried running in the afternoon but never was comfortable with it. Since I start work at 8 getting the run in cleaning up and the drive in is my early morning routine. I’m now hard wired for that. But I do plan on slipping that to about 6 when I retire in 18 months. I am looking forward to that.

Game Time Decision

Up early on a Saturday to get the winter tyres out on the car, so sitting in a waiting room with the other up too early peeps. And my timing was off this morning, so didn’t get a coffee before I left, so, as the kids say, raw dogging it.

Also, no love for the Canadian [edit: men’s university ] football championship game? Have no idea if there’s a line for it, or even where to look?

Last edited 1 month ago by Game Time Decision
blaxabbath

Kadeem Carrey from Tucson

Last edited 1 month ago by blaxabbath
Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

…didn’t get a coffee before I left, so, as the kids say, raw dogging it…

I feel like your niece may have been, uh, putting one over on you when you spotted her car pulling out of the parking lot of a Tim Hortons that had closed for the night almost a full hour previously.

Last edited 1 month ago by Rikki-Tikki-Deadly
BugEyedBoo

.

Screenshot 2024-11-23 103911.png