Instant Hippo Thoughts – Week 17, 2024 Season

Do you like terrible, no-stakes FITBAW?  Boy howdy, did the last NFL Sunday of 2024 have a treat in store for YOU!

How shitty are the Cowpersons, really?  Tanner Motherfucking McKee outscored them on this balmy afternoon.  Saquon stayed in until he broke the 2000 mark, as the N-GCp went dirty to remove Uncle Jack from the proceedings.  Jerral will extend Cap’n BlueBunny anyway, just to show that he CAN.  Iggles roll, 41-7 and take the NFC East.  Dallas really did try a 61-yard FG, with less than 5 minutes to play.  Jackasses.

Vegas?  They don’t need no stinking Top 3 pick, as they blow out the Saints in the KatrinaDome.  AOC continues a cromulent campaign to enter training camp as QB1 for the RAIDUHS.  Might as well, one shouldn’t touch the 2025 rookie QB class.  25-10 is your final.

Streaming defenses is a great idea until it isn’t.  Case in point – bananacakes shootout between the Mister ELITE Humps and the Horse Cock Lock Vertically Enhanced Persons.  Big Blue went up early, and the entire 2nd half toggled between a 1 and 2-score margin.  But they ain’t never get caught, Horse Cock scrambling for the dagger TD on 3nd and goal, followed by a game-sealing pickerception.  That led to a garbage time-adjacent FG, for a 45-33 scoreline.  WKRP’s faint pulse is still holding!

Tennessee and Jacksonville played a very forgettable game, as very forgettable seasons wind down.  Tits get inside the 30 with 14 ticks left, down 20-13.  Magick does not happen, and the Jaguras prevail.  24 hour par-TAY in Duuuuuvvvvaaaallllll, no doubt.

Maybe the MRSA Men took offense during the OT “thriller” in Charlotte a few weeks ago?  They sure put it to the Black Panthers in the return leg, a 48-14 laugher.  If you played against Baker Mayfield in your fantasy final?  You lost.  Hippo started Wee Bryce, and he also lost.  SAD PANDA.  Not that I deserve even the 2nd place payout.  But I’ll still cash the check.

Buffalo clinches the #2 seed in the AFC, racing out to a 40-nil lead that included multiple Q-aron turnovers, one punctuated by a Q-aron (blatant) late hit.  Hopefully he is benched for Week 18, as Tyrod came in and ruined the clean sheet (an octopus for 40-8).  Forty is an exact multiple of eight, which pleases Hippo greatly.  But stupid Jest scored late when I wasn’t paying attention, and ruined it.  40-14 to WNY’s bestest Mafia.

Two games late, and one is LOLfins away to #ThePauls.  Yeah, this year can get fucked.  Just remember, next year will be even worse.

Hey, “it gets worse” also applies to #ThePauls’ salary cap hell!  There’s no pretending that The Picture of Dorian Thompson-Robinson is the low-rent answer.  Tyler Huntley, LOLfins backup?  Not that much better, but plenty enough to win the day – 20-3 final.  Factory gon’ Factory, yada yada.

Finally, Match of the Day – Packers at Vikes.  Realistically, Minnesota had much more to play for, coming into the game.  And it really kind of showed.  Pretty Touch of Downs scoring toss to Jordan Addison pretty much ends the competitive portion of the game at 20-3 (though a furious, late GB rally closed the margin to 27-25, after I tuned out).  There will be an epic Week 18 battle for the NFC’s #1 seed, Vikes at Fuck LioUns.

That’s all I got, y’all.  I can’t muster any fucks to give for the nightcazp (Commies hosting Sherman’s Ashes).  And get ready for some REAL DOGS come Week 18.  Consider it training for August 2025 preseason “action.”  UGH.

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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.]
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Unsurprised

r/NFCEastMemeWar

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Doktor Zymm

Add in some “omg Jayden Daniels is gonna die but he got the first down”

Unsurprised

Via r/NFCNorthMemeWar

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Unsurprised

And, yes, someone made a whole video overlaying images on the ending of Platoon.

https://old.reddit.com/r/NFCNorthMemeWar/comments/1hpmqpu/platoon_bay_wi/

Gumbygirl

Motherfucking Indy’s craptacularly shitty defense got me -4 points against the Giants. Cocksuckers. Did I tell yinz my plan to survive the next four years is to cuss more? Stand the fuck by! By this time in 2028 the goddamn air around me will be blue, bitches!

ballsofsteelandfury

LIKE A FUCKING LADY!!

Unsurprised

Good start

BugEyedBoo

I suspect you’ll be fine. St. Brown vs. Jennings for all the marbles.

2Pack

You’re gonna make Brick blush.

ArmedandHammered

Welcome to the most wonderful of days of the week – Monday! Because each day there after gets slightly better. My Monday starts off with my brother calling that my mom is being admitted to the hospital after she called him in a panic having a hard time breathing. Medical issues caused by extreme dehydration and an infection due to same. I swear to Morrigan, I hope I do not get that stubborn where I put my health at risk to continue living in the same house where my spouse and I lived.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

…I swear to Morrigan…

I was unfamiliar with this expression and initially thought it was a King Arthur reference. But that’s Morgane, right?

ballsofsteelandfury

No, it’s Morganna

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2Pack

Yes lets keep our patron ladies front and center in our thoughts here.

Unsurprised

Irish nonsense. : P

ArmedandHammered

Being an agnostic and disliking hypocrisy, I swear by the Celtic goddess Morrigan, the goddess of fate, death, and war (not fighting) instead of any of the trad Christian curses as I am definitely not Christian as practiced now.

BugEyedBoo

Goddesses, if Christopher Moore isn’t lying.

Doktor Zymm

It’s a triune Goddess, kinda like the Holy Trinity in christianity just instead of father, son, and holy spirit it’s fate, death, and war

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Ooh, I just started Coyote Blue yesterday. I’m loving it!

ballsofsteelandfury

I’m reading Island of the Sequined Love Nun at work today.

Doktor Zymm

Luckily extreme dehydration should be preventable going forward

ArmedandHammered

she has several meds that act as a diuretic, and as a nurse she should really have known better, but she is 82

Unsurprised

“The advance international trade deficit in goods increased to $102.9 billion in November from $98.3 billion in October.”

That’s good hustle, Dok.

Doktor Zymm

Stockpile!

Doktor Zymm

The Commies game was actually a really good watch, and I’m not just saying that because I had my vested interest fulfilled, neutrals enjoyed it as well!

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

“Vested Interests” (Balls’ imagination’s conception):

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2Pack

Balls has bra’ed interests too…

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ballsofsteelandfury

Jennifer Love Hewitt is a Goddess

Doktor Zymm

I still think KC lets Denver win next week if the Bengals win their game in the early slot. If they beat Denver then it’s either the Dolphins or Bengals going to Buffalo, and while no one is afraid of the cold weather Dolphins, the winner of Bengals/Bills would be truely scary

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

“Well everyone knows that when you’re a Jet, you’re a Jet for life. What this Vikings season presupposes is…maybe you’re not?”

https://www.reddit.com/r/nfl/comments/1hpbgnx/highlight_vikings_geqbus_being_coronated/

Dunstan

Darnold was never fully a Jet because he always rode on a special short bus instead of the regular team bus.

ArmedandHammered

I wonder how he must feel, to go from derided and considered to be washed up to being feted in such a manner by your teammates. I am actually happy for him and have been pulling for the Vikings as a result.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Yeah, I’ve rarely felt more than indifference towards Darnold or the Vikings so I was pleasantly surprised by how much joy I felt watching this.

Unsurprised

Do you have Trading Places available on streaming or *gasp* physical media? It’s the best New Year’s Eve movie.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Lift weights while ESPN’s español broadcast plays in the background?

Horatio Cornblower

Ignore the NFL entirely?

Unsurprised

Madness!

LemonJello

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BrettFavresColonoscopy

Ok, I’ll ask: Who is Tanner McKee?

BrettFavresColonoscopy

Still not sure I believe you

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Sounds like a character you’d meet in Red Dead Redemption.

Unsurprised

Voiced by Nick Mullen as a prospecting Dracula.

Redshirt

Saturday football is all AFC North teams. They gave Hard Knocks to a division and all the teams delivered. Except one, though. (glares up I-71 evilly)

ballsofsteelandfury

Don’t you know that destroying Bengals hopes and dreams is what every Yinzer yearns for?

Redshirt

The smart money would be to get Burrow and the offense out of the playoffs. Destroying the Bengals hopes and dreams are just an added bonus. Bengals fans tears fuels Pittsburgh Playoff Runs.

Gatoraids

Au contraire I think Cleveland more than delivered on what they promise every season.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Unlike every other industry in Cleveland, there is *always* work to be found at the Factory of Sadness.

LemonJello

Is “green vegetable powder” a convoluted code kids today use for Booger Sugar?

BaldingSpiritually

My fault for the blowouts, I had three games going on at the same time: Aaron verses his family, the gang vs rebooted Dallas show that was only good when focusing on JR and my Black Panthers get gang whipped by hulk hogan and his merry band of racist tattoo artists.

I don’t even know who played the second game because I turned off the stream as soon as I saw Brady, but I’m sure it would have been another blowout had I kept it on.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

How many times must I say this? Secondary. Audio. Programming.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

(assuming it was available in your area)

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Don T

I set DEN @ CIN as the only Week 17 must watch. Then spent Sunday riding around PR on a party bus with a crowd of aging rowdies. With Red Zone on my phone during GB @ MIN, duh. I’m still sane, you know.
Tuning out Le Tits after they lost 10-6 to the Jags at home has been my best football decision of 2024. TEN got swept by the Jags, the Mac Jones Jags, btw. No way I was gonna risk watching that develop.

Unsurprised

Every ER in the region when that FG doinked must have gone Code Plaid

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Then spent Sunday riding around PR on a party bus with a crowd of aging rowdies.

As I said to blax over a steak dinner and cocktails: “Don T is the Hunter S. Thompson of our little publication.”

BeefReeferLives

“Fear and Loathing in Mayagüez”

ballsofsteelandfury

For the record, I picked Nix instead of Josh Allen and that decision gave me a net positive 1 point.

So, I’m ready for my FF Manager of the Year award…

ballsofsteelandfury

The night game turned out to be really good. The Power of the Penix almost got the Falcons in the playoffs.

WCS

While the Stillers have looked dogshitty the last few weeks, at they’ve been able to afford playing dogshittily and get it out beforehand. I’m pretty sure Brandon Perna exists in some sort of Purgatory; whatever personal success he has comes at a complete inverse of his Donks fandom.

Speaking of Donks fans… coupled with the wolven sort’s multiple meltdowns in the bowl game, to East Carolina, a welfare check for Hippo may be necessary.

The LOLphins are somehow going to squeeze out the Donks and Bungles, right? Just because Hippo and especially Redshirt, aren’t allowed nice things.
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ballsofsteelandfury

Yup. The Bengals are Fucked.