Another week of cray-cray, let’s get right into it!
Ideal 7/5 window is marred by the raw sewage quality of those early seven. But as always, some entertainment to be found in odd corners of the FITBAW-verse.
500s/LOLfins was the one game with two decent teams and reasonable stakes. Did you know Houston leads the League in sacks? I would never have guessed. Tua knows better, now (actually, he doesn’t – his brain is pudding). Two sometimes prolific QBs, both completely stifled in a slobberknocker. But it was the hometown 500s who led pretty much start to finish, for a 20-12 final. Later results would formally crown the 500s as repeat Surly Duff division shempions. That’s probably all she wrote for Miami’s season. Waddle got hurt, too.
Crazily competitive? N’Awlins hosting the Commies. Saints acted like the game didn’t start until midway through Q3, and spotted WAS a seemingly-insurmountable 17-nil lead. At that point of the proceedings, homies had a total of TWO first downs. In desperation, they pulled Haener for Rattlesnake Kid, and they managed scores on their last 4 possessions. Palendromic TD-FG-FG-TD, including the last on the final play of regulation. Just bananacakes. Whereas Washington dicked around enough that they only managed 3 further points of their own. NO is playing for pride, so no reason whatsoever to play for Extra Time. They went for two, missed, and Commies escape 20-19.
Q-aron’s desiccated carcass and The Legend of White Mac managed an old-fashioned DUUUUUVVVVAAALLLL shootout, which the arselicking Jest eventually won, 32-25. I don’t want to mention any further details, so I won’t.
First time in seemingly a decade, the Black Panthers took the pitch as a home favourite. It did…not go well for them. Wee Bryce regressed maniacally, turned the ball over like 10-15 times, and the Non-Gendered Cowpersons got well in a hurry, at least defensively. 30-14, Dallas. Meh.
Chefs/#The Pauls was just sad, even by Cleveland standards. Rapey Jameis somehow turned it over more than Bryce Young. KC never left 2nd gear, but they didn’t really have to. After Nick Chubb broke his foot, Jeroma Ford broke off a 60+ yard TD run to avoid the clean sheet. Chefs basically called on 21, and won 21-7. But they finished out the win under Dakota Jeebus, as Mahomes re-injured his gimpy ankle. I’d assume he’s out for Saturday’s tilt against the 500s, at minimum.
You’d expect Ratbirds/VEP to be a wet bag of shit, and by gum, it was. Lamar! tossed 5 scores, and made it look ridiculously easy doing so. The Vertically Enhanced Persons killed Tommy Cutlets, and gimped out the rest under Tim Boyle. Oy vey. 35-14 Balmer, somehow covering an insane-for-pro-FITBAW 17.5-point ROAD spread. It would have been way worse had the Ratbirds any incentive to make it so.
Good on Team WKRP, clinging to faintest of faint playoff hopes. They took a few sucker punches early, but then played ACTUAL, CREDIBLE DEFENSE in Nashville. That is, they waited for Will Levis to do his thing, which he did with reckless abandon. With the ball, a 10-point lead, and an opponent without timeouts…Cincy for some reason decided NOT to take a knee, and each team traded TDs in the last minute of garbage time. Very weird. Anyway, 37-27 to the Bungles.
The 5-pack late? Looked fucking great on paper. But that’s why they play teh games!
Denver hosted the Fat Humps, with wild card implications. You will never see a team shoot itself in the balls like Indianapolis did. Going in for an untouched TD to go up 20-7? Jonathan Taylor dropped the ball for a touchback before breaking the plane. And they kept fucking up. Donks go 3-and-out? Humps turn it over, for 3-and-out-FG. Then, give up a ginormous punt return so DEN could start a drive on the Indy 15. Now, it’s 17-13. What next? Will, how about a veeerrrryyyyy slow-developing, obvious trick play/double pass (may have intended for a third) monstrosity, that pass rusher Nik Bonitto picked and returned for 6. Indy should have won this game by about 30. Instead, they turned it over on downs at 13-24, and that was the end. Happily take the gift, but that was just insane. Garbage time score makes for a 31-13 final.
BUF/DET was the Superb Owl preview that humanity wants, but will not get. I thought the Fuck LioUn OL/home field advantage would carry the day, but Brokeback was locked in and basically kicked Detroit’s ass from start to finish. Buffalo is scary as fuck when they fire on all cylinders. 48-42, final (sooooooo much garbage time).
Philly hosted Yinzburgh, in another plausible Owl preview. Home and road roles reversed from the game recapped above, as it was Jalen Hurts and pals who controlled this one all the way, despite losing Saquon to an owie. Stillers did indeed force Hurts to rely on the pass game, it just worked. Oopsie. My preview skills are wretched. 27-13, final.
Now that their season is mostly kaput, the Qards can play well again. The final reads 30-17, but Arizona really kicked New England’s ass in this one. Cat toying with mouse action made it look closer than it was.
Lastly (before SNF), we had today’s biggest surprise. I certainly have been impressed with the strides MRSA Men have made over the 2024 season, but in no way whatsoever did I see Baker and pals – despite early turnover woes – to run riot over Lesser Harbs’ defense. At home, no less. Tampa trailed 17-10 late in Q2, then ran off THIRTY points straight. Holy shit. Slow golf claps all around, for the 40-17 victors. As impressive a result as I’ve seen all season.
SeaTruthers host the Packers in a very nauseating fanbase (Clubhouse excepted) SNF battle. I’m not going to pay much attention to this, but here goes. At least for the first half? GB beat the absolute tar shit out of SEA, concluding with a long, stupid DPI-fed chip shot FG to go into the locker room at 20-3. Life can certainly surprise you, but fuck it – that’s enough for my tired, old ass.
Bullying works
https://twitter.com/CTMirror/status/1868777189535035804
So which industry is next?
How bout right-wing media?
(grabs a shovel)
“Hey, Mr. Brown?”
Good for you, Nutmeg State!
Hotel room view: not as nice as blax’s:
Yep, that’s a street.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_XSShVAnkY&pp=ygUTZHJpbmsgeW91ciBvdmFsdGluZQ%3D%3D
Gonna have to change the name to just Life Christian School.
Live look in on Fox News Coverage:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pn0WdJx-Wkw&pp=ygUVYWlycGxhbmUgbGV0IGVtIGNyYXNo
I don’t mean to point out the obvious Deep State conspiracy but, boy, how nice an “almost quarterly” training just happened to show up two weeks ago.
False Flag
Nice to know the Police Department works about a third less than the Army Reserve.
Well at least the IMPORTANT issues, like scared CEOs, are being swiftly attended to.
https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/new-crisis-hotline-for-ceos
Meanwhile, the homeless veterans are being evicted from the underpasses in Cincinnati for fear they’ll set another highway ablaze and cost Ohio and/or Kentucky another $10 Million.
Kathy Hochul might be the most useless person on the planet.
She’s actually quite useful for those with money and power.
I made a very similar joke with my friends from college, so good to know we’re all going to hell
I like Señor Weaselo’s idea of blaming Diddy for anything and everything. I blame him for Global Warming. Those jet trips to molest underage kids emit a ton of carbon.
What say you?
Aaaaaaand GO!
Diddy bought the drinks for Joe Namath
No, that would make him a hero. But I heard he bought the drinks for Henry Ruggs.
Diddy invented New Coke
Diddy has been the Cincinnati Bengals’ de facto-GM since 1991. Mike Brown is just the fall guy.
Making Drake famous
Diddy invented the Hack-a-Shaq strategy.
Diddy was the one who wrote those Trump jokes for Obama at the 2011 Correspondents Dinner.
Diddy made the price of eggs go up.
Oh, the motherfuckery! My storage bill was due Thursday, so off I went Thursday to pay it. Sign on the window sez sorry, we’re closed Thursday and Friday. Soooo, I called their number, automated payment system keeps kicking me out. I went back there today, supposed to open at 10. Nobody there. I waited until 10:30, still nobody except 4 other customers all trying to pay. The only thing I am 1000% sure of is that when I finally get to pay, they will charge me a late fee for the
” convenience”
Life is all about tapering expectations.
Do you happen to know any angry Italians with bad backs?
I know one!
free read, important shit:
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/weakness-is-a-provocation?utm_campaign=email-half-post&r=echlg&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
Seems a lot of Bullwinkle slapping himself on the back for having been right about his 2024 Year in Review Playlist.
So, those stupid drones have made their way to California.
Hate to agree with Trump on anything, but it should be drone season for local shooters. It’s not like we don’t have idiots shooting guns in the air in LA already. Might as well get some use out of them…
I’ve always said that the best defense against high-tech drones is an old-fashioned shotgun loaded with birdshot. Just nick a propeller blade and that thing will fall out of the sky.
There is a system that a contractor demonstrated for us a few years ago that’s basically a throw net. Big ole nerf gun contraption that uses compressed air to launch a weighted net a hundred feet in the air. I just kept thinking about gladiator flicks.
Best systems now scan the frequency range, find the up link down link freqs, then jam them bringing the platform to the ground.
But I agree shooting is much more fun.
Again, I move that America should start shooting anything, anywhere they want. FUCK IT ALL.
Hold on. You’re not alread–
I mean, yeah, I’ve not been operating on a different wavelength for the past 16 months either.
what goes up, must come down
Thank you, Sir Isaac!
this one’s for scotchy
“This one’s for Scotchy!”
-Japanese Businessmen Ordering Their First Shot in Vegas Right Next To Me at 11am
Guy refuses to do the job he signed up for. So you suspend him for three weeks. With pay seemingly. And a likely future opportunity? Is there open enrollment for this plan?
wellcum 2 NOBUMMER’s Murrika smgdh
is this a glimpse into UNC’s future
They should have just cut his ass, the rest of the team won’t want him playing with them any more.
You just need more physical intangibles and then you’d understand.
(oops wrong reply spot)
I said DIE ON THE FIELD!
“I did, they brought me back!” Damar H., Buffalo, NY
Dude is retroactivelytarded and we all like, “Tua is over the hill.”
Before being yanked, Will Levis had thrown 4 passes, of which 3 were INTs—one a pick 6. Should’ve been two pickS 6, #ButBengals
My choice here in central OH was Browns/Chefs or Bengals/Titans and I took the Bengals game. It was bad. They threw one stat up there, “This is the first time there have been 25+ penalties and 10+ total turnovers in the same game since at least the year 2000.” Which I thought was an odd stat; was there football before the invention of writing and/or numbers?
I think they only started keeping records of those things for the Browns and Bengals once literacy in Ohio crossed the 50% threshold.
Thought the rest of the comment was going to be about how Bob Kraft spent the first part of his weekend.
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5994787/2024/12/15/detroit-lions-fans-tickets-revoked-matt-lafleur?source=user-shared-article
a) it seems there is an official NFL course you can complete if you get banned from games
b) this guy was born in the US but pretty sure Trump will still personally deport him
Link to archived, non-paywalled article for those of us without NYT subscriptions:
https://archive.ph/aBNZk
It’s a share link, shouldn’t be paywalled
Thanks for sharing!! (but for some reason, it wouldn’t open for me. Just let me read the 1st few sentences)
“Yousif grew to learn and understand the game more and more, but, like so many others, fell into the same trap that’s befallen generations of Lions fans. He believed.”
Goddamn, that’s harsh….
I officially fell asleep around half time of the late window, but unofficially napped through munch of the first half as well. I woke up for about an hour around 11 pm and looked at scores.
Mahomes has done the ‘oh ow my ankle’ act three years in a row now, and I view it as a harbinger of doom for all of us who are sick of seeing them in the Owl for it surely means the dreaded 3-peat. I should fly to Vegas and put some $$$ on them so at least I get something out of the inevitable stinky poo that we will get instead of a potentially great N’awlins SB
Ciao Dok. If you still want those vases (old Skool humidifiers) let me know where to send them.
Done! (I hope, otherwise I just emailed some random person)
We kool
Early Morning Funny:
Would be way more believable if they didn’t set it in Newark
You are my sister-in-law, and I claim my five pounds! It was that ‘dancing in the rain’ thing that gave you away.
I did laugh,
Folks, hope you’re well. After a successful 2023 of avoiding LDB… I lost the challenge this morning… to the fucking Justin Bieber version.
I did not know this monstrosity existed. “War crime” does not even begin to describe it.
Between the Pats and this, I’m ready to drive off a bridge.
https://youtu.be/k8IlIC7lasU?si=WqBEhapBRBfo1kkQ
The fact that this guy is successful completely discredits Hollywood and everything they stand for.
I’m here for blaming Diddy. For one it’s the cool thing to do these days.
Diddy is why the Bengals suck.
Great minds think alike…
Sad. I lost yesterday while taking a leak in the men’s room. Stupid piped in holiday music taking advantage of men when they are the most vulnerable.
I was searching for a radio station in the van I was driving. Bang! Direct hit right in the Romp-A-Pom-Pom.
I’m amazed that I’m still alive, because I’ve been around way too music holiday music this month.
Being a hermit does have it’s advantages.
As I am still in. Too used to using Slack for work.
DAMN SKIPPY IT DO
“in the van I was driving”
Well, all them hobo corpses sure ain’t gonna dispose of themselves, I suppose.
That’s what got me on Day 1 or Day 2.
Bend over Bieber…
https://youtu.be/j7HGl_xXAcQ?si=ovB_xTrc6O4Ab7NB
P Diddy tape leak?
Sk8er Boi > Drummer Boi
but he said “see you later boi”
/Nappanee’s Finest
I apologize for not logging in in on Sunday and warning everyone that there was no way the Steelers would win in Philly.
They haven’t won in Philly since 1965…
Joe Burrow is on the Dan Marino Career trajectory, isn’t he?
Sorry again, Redshirt.
Yeah, but he needs to get out of the Andrew Luck Exit Only lane.
I have to say, having been boots on the ground when Luck ran out, I wouldn’t hate Burrow for signaling right. Money talks, and many can’t walk nor talk.
Ringless HoF QBs from two teams with mascots known for jumping through rings? Hmmm
Thanks for the hidden details Buddy.
You cant get this on ESPN people!
Maybe if we became #UpForWhatever we can put Hippo’s ramblings behind a paywall in Canadiaun monieus.