Instant Hippo Thoughts – Divisional Round, 2024 Season

Last Days of Disco, indeed.  And even in matches where my preference is only mild – all *my* sides take it up the poop chute.

Pour one out for the 500s, boned by The Narrator in Kansas City.  Then the poor Fuck LioUns, where Baby Buster did some…unfortunate things, both before and after his pretty obvious concussionback spasms.

Maybe there’s a limit to how far a “redemption arc” can go?  Touch of Downs hit the concrete wall of January even harder than Buster did, as you will recall.  And Geno has piloted back-to-back “last team out” of the playoff field.  I dunno, just a festering hypothesis within my idjit brain.

I will say this – Jayden Daniels is a cold-blooded assassin out there.  Very, very impressive.

I napped through the first half of Iggles/RRRRRRRRRAM IT!!  So sue me.  Conditions got increasingly snowy, especially during Q4.  Philly’s front four were the difference in the game, along with Saquon.  LA barely did anything until very late (after a long Saquon run to put the margin up to 13), when they had to go hurry up.  Iggles couldn’t sub (well, they COULD have if Sirianni had the brain capacity to use a timeout) and they got winded.  Rams score inside of 3:00 to close to within 28-22.

It started to seem like maybe that last PHI missed extra point would come back to haunt them.  In between handoffs on the ensuing possession, they tried a play action fake that turned disastrous.  The sack yardage forced a 3 and out, and The Gospel According to Fatthew could add to his own redemption arc with one last drive.  They got inside the 20, then took a deadly sack of their own.  Incomplete (under duress) on 4th and 11 ends things, Philly will host the Commies next Sunday.  Remember when the NFC East was the Special Needs Division?  Good times.

We don’t get a lake effect blizzard in WNY, because God hates us now.  And whaddaya gon’ do – He’s NOT WRONG.  After a brilliant opening drive, Lamar! made an oopsie doodle, then did that thing where he tries too hard to make up for it.  Everything went sideways, and the Narrator daggered us with a horrific DPI call that allowed BUF to go into the half at 21-10.

Heavier dosage of el Tractorcito got Balmer back into it in Q3, closing to within 21-19.  But they’d never get over the hump, punctuated by a killer Mark Andrews fumble, driving down 5.  Apparently, just his 2nd lost fumble as a professional.  Oy.

The day would get worse for Andrews.  Needing the octopus, starting from his own 12 – Lamar! led a beautiful TD drive, all on the strength of his arm.  And Andrews dropped the 2-point coversion.  Bills advance to get ass-fucked in Arrowhead next week, 27-25.

Happy Martin Luther th’ King Day, for all who celebrate.  I guess that’s the whole Clubhouse except (somewhat ironically) Blax, due to Arizona-ness.

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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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jjfozz

Also, anyone wearing one of those fucking giant baseball hats should be taken out of the stadium and tarred and feathered. Then crucified.

jjfozz

Still waiting for some random stranger to stop by and kill me. I live in Baltimore, so it will probably happen. I’m going downtown wearing a suit made out of money, meth, and fentanyl so I’m probably gonna find success.

Horatio Cornblower

Certainly a date, in which case Mrs. Fozz will kill you.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

That’s awesome that Jim Irsay let you use one his tablecloths to make yourself a suit.

Col. Duke LaCross

About the only TV I’ve watched today is a couple Breaking Bad episodes. Hopefully I didn’t miss anything important.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

A couple of close finishes in the NBA game, but nothing too dramatic. Celtics are going to beat the Warriors by ~40.

Horatio Cornblower

A few years back I built a shelter for our rescue cat who turned out to basically be feral and would not come in the house unless it was like 10 below, and even then she’d spray in the basement out of spite.

She disappeared a few years ago, (no doubt being called back to Hell after finishing whatever mission it was that Satan sent her up for in the first place), but we’ve kept it because out second, decidedly non-feral cat, will still occasionally stay out all night.

Today I walked outside and surprised a raccoon that was coming out of it. So that was a whole thing, but it eventually left and wandered off to the neighbors, making it their problem.

jjfozz

Did he leave behind used condoms? Because if he did, it’s time to go over the rules of the house with him.

Brick Meathook

This Trump fella sure makes a lot of sense.

Redshirt

So, Trump didn’t put his hand on the Bible when he was sworn in. But that’s not a red flag or anything…

Horatio Cornblower

Yes, because the Bible means so much to him.

Gatoraids

didnt want to get his hand in the way of his Trump logo on it

BeefReeferLives

Maybe because it wasn’t a Trump Brand “God Bless the USA” Bible™️ and he didn’t want to give it any publicity, since it is competing with his product.

herodotus450

FINALLY a president who respects the separation of church and state

yeah right

Got my harbor walk in, managed to change the rechargeable battery in my robovac and if I had bought the right size filter I would have fixed the air purifier too.

Solid day for production.

jjfozz

We undecorated the house. I was stupid enough to suggest a logical, well intentioned and organized approach. Mrs. Fozz told me to get lost. So I read a book.