Your Lazy, Post-Xmas Football-Rich Open Thread

/takes hand-off from Hippo, wipes pill dust from the ball

Hey, welcome back! It really is a dreary day here as well. With the temps so mild our back roads in the boonies are an intermittent series of skating rinks. But I did my wee errands and now it’s time to hunker down and watch so much ball my eyes bleed.

To The Games!

Miami (Ohio)/Colorado State:

Ah, it’s that other school out west vs the team that has to differentiate itself from the more prominent football program. That Miami always confused the hell out of me when I watched the Central Michigan basketball Chippewas on a PBS channel back in high school. Neither of these teams are ranked and Snoop Dogg is the host.

East Carolina/N.C. State:

The O/U on this tilt is a beastly 59.5! I’m guessing that these defenses can’t defense. That or they have high-powered offenses. I’ll choose the flaw over the more optimistic opinion.

BYU/Colorado:

Ladies and gentlemen, your new starting QB for the NY Giants Shedeur “Two Sheds” Sanders! He’ll provide a wonderful transition from Dimes in that he’s been sacked up the ying-yang just like Jones was in college and it’ll continue into the pros.

Louisiana Tech/Army:

One of the other armed services gets the spotlight. (such as it is when the pros are playing at the same time)

Broncos/Bengals:

Is Cincy’s D going to show up? Why would they this late in the season? Rookie Nix hasn’t thrown an INT in six of his last 9 games and no one fears that secondary. His counterpart would be in the MVP chatter if only his team had a better record. This has the feel of a high-flying game.

Cards/Rams:

Who’da thunk that Arizonny would fade down the stretch except for everyone?

Enjoy the offerings.

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Brick Meathook

What the fuck is a “Go Bowling Military Bowl?”

Q: Why did you join the military?
A: For the bowling and the waterskiing, sir.

WCS

“Sir, because I wanted to sit in a chair and stare at a computer monitor 14 hours a day, sir!”

Oh, that was me…

WCS

I TOLD YINZ I NEVER DID ANYTHING INTERESTING

Brick Meathook

“I want to spend 300+ days underwater in a 110°F engineroom! Oh boy!”

– Me after four separate layers of volunteering . . .

litre_cola

You have my brother in law intrigued.

Redshirt

Welp…

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King Hippo

Saved by a Wolven Sort!

litre_cola

What is a catch???

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Is there any Bowl game that is more pure unadulterated fun than the Pop Tarts bowl? It’s like they hired a dozen dancers and were like “make Left Shark’s performance look subtle and understated.”

rockingdog

It’s Rocking!

Don T

Loooove sammich sacks

Unsurprised

I want to recommend Trader Joe’s Cashel Bleu Cheese Irish potato chips

yeah right

I’m in.

yeah right

Trader Joe’s can piss you off though.

As soon as you find a product that you love they discontinue it.

RIP Wasabi cashews.

Redshirt

I hate this defense. Have I said that recently?

litre_cola

Mrs Cola “Where the hell was everybody???”

WCS

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rockingdog

Nixxxx with the Big TD Bomb to Mims! 💣
Hahahaha!
Horses take the lead back! 🐴
That was ROCKINGGGG!!!!

Horatio Cornblower

What defense?

Doktor Zymm

It’s amazing how Detroit has managed to be way more effective with like 2 guys than Cincy has with the full 11

King Hippo

This game sure ’nuff escalated quickly

Mr. Ayo

The Bungles!

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King Hippo

tip of the cap, just good FITBAW there

rockingdog

Higgins with his 2nd TD catch! 🏈

That was Rockingggg!!!

King Hippo

God, I hope I’m not up against him in my fantasy final (I refuse to look)

Mr. Ayo

You are not!

blaxabbath

I knew the Qards would falter. That’s why I didn’t mention it I’m the bye week update — let you all see that even with neutral coverage, the culture at 0 Super Bowl Stravenue will always build a fucking loser.

Horatio Cornblower

Oh my god. This is absolutely deranged and I could not be more all in on it.

https://twitter.com/PopTartsBowl/status/1873117872366481816

Mr. Ayo

KRAKEN!!

EAT SHIT VANCOUVER!!!!

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King Hippo

HAIL BLEERGH, from whom all blessings flow

ThePirateSloth

Now that all my Sat errands/chores/adulting is done, do I watch college football that I do not like or go save the world with my digital wife Morrigan? (voiced by the fantastic Claudia Black)
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King Hippo

You should let the world burn, and just bang instead.

ThePirateSloth

The banging is instrumental to saving the entire world though!

Just not in the 4th game.

Doktor Zymm

All three of the Morrigan?

ThePirateSloth

They pass me around once a month.

Doktor Zymm

Geranium neutral brandy, slimline tonic, and a splash of lime. Not bad!

rockingdog

Sutton with the big TD catch!
Horses tie it up!!! 🐴

That’s Rockingggg!!!

Redshirt

How can we add the Pop Tart Bowl to the Playoff Host Sites?

Horatio Cornblower

They need to just make it the championship game this year. Play it twice if they have to. Just eliminate whichever flavor of Pop-Tart gets eaten tonight.

In fact, that gives me an idea: Every game of the play-offs is a Pop-Tart Bowl, and after each game a flavor of Pop-Tart is chosen for consumption, then eliminated from further rounds, until we’re left with an undisputed college champion and what is likely the least popular flavor of Pop-Tart.

Somehow this seems like to end with an actual human sacrifice, but at this point I’m committed.

yeah right

Lasagne is resting.

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Horatio Cornblower

Hey, me too!

yeah right

Bread is ready.

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Horatio Cornblower

It’s 38-35 Miami in the Pop-Tarts Bowl.

With 3 minutes left in the 3rd. Apparently the defensive starters for both teams didn’t make the trip to Orlando.

And having been to Orlando, I cannot say I blame them.

rockingdog

That’s ROCKING!!!!!

Senor Weaselo

But which Pop Tart will be eaten?

Horatio Cornblower

I have read that a captain from the winning team picks the flavor.

Brick Meathook

For those of you who asked to see a 25B “press bulb” (although GE calls them a 5B) in a polished Graflex flash reflector, well, here you are:

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Doktor Zymm

I changed the wake word on my echos to ‘computer’ and it’s fun to have it respond during sci fi that uses the terminology. So far it hasn’t actually been able to fulfill anything that the on screen computers do routinely

ThePirateSloth

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rockingdog

I think I saw MAGA Twitter arguing against Nazxi Twitter and I think that’s Rocking!
Lmao!

I believe that is schadenfreude I’m feeling!

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Doktor Zymm

The ‘coalition’ on the right is already breaking down and it’s hilarious. Everything is happening faster than I thought possible

Horatio Cornblower

Personally I am looking forward to our invasion of Greenland.

Horatio Cornblower

Yeah, it turns out that Musk and Vivek are OK with brown people coming in on certain visas, (because they work hella cheap, and if they get any ideas about asking for more money the bosses can simply not renew the visa), and the true MAGAdiots don’t want brown people coming in for any reason.

Truly a conundrum.

Doktor Zymm

Actually H1B visa holders get paid the same as domestic hires, the main difference is that they’re much more concerned with job security as they have something like 60 days to get a new job if they’re laid off or fired. You can bet that most of the people who stuck around at Twitter through the Xodus were H1B

Doktor Zymm

Extra funny is that Musk is now pretending he came in as H1B instead of overstaying his student visa

Don T

Very interesting ass pillo—fitbaw. It’s been both tense and chubby.

litre_cola

So Cam Ward plays one half for the U and then peaces out so he doesn’t get owied? Gamblers gunna be big mad.

Doktor Zymm

The worst thing I’ve heard about the sports gambling resurgence is that it’s caused a surge in shitheads threatening college athletes.

Brick Meathook

Gambling + College Sports? What could wrong?

ballsofsteelandfury

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Doktor Zymm

Like a face cradle, I guess? I’ll admit that I’ve never had the need to brainstorm ideas for alternate face cradles

litre_cola

BC Dick but with blonde hair.

ballsofsteelandfury

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ballsofsteelandfury

25 Questions coming…

litre_cola

Can you get one like your partners if you travel a lot?

ballsofsteelandfury

They come in three separate sizes!

ballsofsteelandfury

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Doktor Zymm

Wait, that’s a jeans pillowcase?

Are the pockets real?

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Doktor Zymm

Yessss!

rockingdog

Burrow to Higgins!!! 🏈
TD Kitties!!!!

That’s Rocking!!!

Redshirt

WE DID IT! WE SCORED SOME POINTS!!!

rockingdog

Also Burrow with 40 TD passes so far this season! Whoa! 🤯

That’s Rockingggg!!!

rockingdog

Found a funny:

me at 16: my stomach is an indomitable furnace on a steam engine anything I throw in there will be annihilated into fuel

me at 38: I have to actively maintain the bacterial balance on my gut biome or I don’t get to poop right

King Hippo

Have to feel for Tua. Pudding for brains, and he’s gonna need a new hip before he turns 30.

Redshirt

I say again: “Fire Zac Taylor!”

Mr. Ayo

Zac didn’t drop that pass, though

King Hippo

Denver really does bring out every opponent’s derpiest effort. Except Baltimore. They did NOT find our bullshit amusing.

yeah right

If the human body is so perfect why is our swallowing system attached to our breathing system?

I think I just snorted a piece of sausage while having a spoon of sauce.

The best part was I got to eat it 5 minutes later after it tortured my sinuses for a bit.

Doktor Zymm

There’s actually an entire podcast about that but the short answer is so we can talk

Horatio Cornblower

Well, that was an evolutionary blunder if ever there was one.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

[only sees how this is true for one gender] – Harrison Butker

rockingdog

Watching Cincy vs Broncos 🏈

This game seems Rocking!

Doktor Zymm

Kitties vs Horsies!

Doktor Zymm

I’m pro-Cincy here so next week is more interesting

Doktor Zymm

Why?

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ballsofsteelandfury

I agree. Why the thong???

Doktor Zymm

That is one among many whys I have here

King Hippo

Tua looks like he’s getting shutdown, so upgrade those WKRP playoff odds from 0.1% all the way to, say, 0.3%

jjfozz

New Years Eve. No. It’s Rookie Night at every bar, party, and get together

King Hippo

They still have Dick Clark’s name on the show. If I were watching, I’d demand to see the corpse or urn. With NOTARIZED PAPERWORK on the urn.

Jimbo

They had him host after he had a stroke. Was hard to watch. 

King Hippo

KSK did a NYE Countdown in Dick Clark speak. I laughed so hard I thought I would die (because I am a real shit, see).

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

…had a stroke. Was hard

Yes, yes, we all heard about what Bob Kraft got up to on Boxing Day.

Doktor Zymm

Not quite as bad as St Pats

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

I’m enjoying this Pop Tarts bowl very much. Something exciting happens every two minutes, it’s great!

jjfozz

You never know what’s going to pop up

rockingdog

ArtButMakeItSports is
Rockinggg!!!

🖼️

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Redshirt

The biggest problem with the Bengals: Playcaller Zac Taylor.

jjfozz

The new 3D printer is working great.

Youngest Fozz has made two knives already.

ballsofsteelandfury

That makes me wonder what DFO HQ would do with a 3D printer…..

My first thought is that it would be WAY EASIER to manufacture our own Gently Used Fleshlights for prizes…

Thoughts?

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jjfozz

I first read that as Fleshlight and thought, “My God, these people are insane.”

Doktor Zymm

You were right

ballsofsteelandfury

Fixed!

Mr. Ayo

That’s what he meant

King Hippo

Let’s hope that the MVP of the Snoop Dogg bowl gets to proclaim that Eazy-E can eat a big fat dick.

Jimbo

And give him some Gin and Juice

jjfozz

Judging by how he died, he ate something bad

litre_cola

Pop Tarts bowl is already crazy.

litre_cola

Craziness continues.

jjfozz

Wow, parents today need a commercial to tell their kids to stop vaping.

The JJ Fozz Foundation for Stop Your Kids From Vaping:

KNOCK IT THE FUCK OFF YOU STUPID IDIOTS. GOOD CHRIST!

King Hippo

Telling them not to do it just makes them more stubborn about doing it. It was the same with our generation and regular smokes.

Doktor Zymm

I was never really into smoking, but dear god did those idiotic anti-smoking commercials make me want to support the tobacco companies

Brick Meathook

If your kid starts vaping don’t tell them not to; just threaten to send them to gay-conversion therapy down at the local Baptist church. Tell ’em “Yeah, you’re just vaping now but soon you’ll graduate up to sucking dicks. Let’s get the cure in ya, boy!”

jjfozz

Just saw a Bengals logo wrapped with snakes. Appropriate.

ballsofsteelandfury

Jason Kelce must have the best agent in the world. He’s in every commercial.

jjfozz

Yes, and for doing that we must hunt down that agent and behead him. Then dump the parts into a vat of acid.

ballsofsteelandfury

Hunter Henry got me a big goose egg, so I’m gambling with Nix to have a big day…

/Watches championship slip away…

Redshirt

Every other game is the worst possible outcome. Bengals on the brink of elimination.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TYzg2FtF9Y&pp=ygUjZW1wZXJvcidzIG5ldyBncm9vdmUgZXhwZWN0aW5nIHRoaXM%3D

Doktor Zymm

Which path to crushing disappointment do you prefer?

Redshirt

Something involving a tie.

litre_cola

Nah, you will kick the hell out of the Donks IMO. I will enjoy the chaos of next week that the NFL has scripted.

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