The Slate of Foregone Conclusions

Many of these tilts seem to be straightforward in their end results so I guess with my history it’ll be “Upset Day”. Sigh. I’m exceptionally lousy this year in all things footballing and there’s so much of the season still to come. Ugh.

To The Games!

Fins/Falcons:

Please interview Tua mid-game on the sidelines, I’m in the mood to hear something stupid that further undermines the morale of the team. Bijan and Allgeier should be able to run all day long on this defense that has plainly given up on everything.

Jets/Bengals:

Flacco just plainly came out and said it, that he has no fond memories of playing in New York. Ambassador Woody takes yet another hit. Fields will get another kick at the cat by default due to Tyrod’s “Out” status. Against said housecats he will likely go 10-25 for 76 yards.

Browns/Pats:

Cleveland’s D need always to be reckoned with but Maye is in the middle of a heater-a six game stretch of throwing for 200+ yards with a 100+ passing rating. Only the likes of Mahomes, Brady and Manning have accomplished this. His counterpart Gabriel? No one’s blowing his horn. On “long” passes (10+ yards) he is 10 of 30 to date.

Giants/Eagles:

Didn’t these guys just play? Sulky A.J. Brown has been ruled out and will no doubt post a cryptic Bible passage, followed by a, “That’s not what I meant!” declaration. If Daboll had any in-game management skills the Giants could easily be 4-3.

Bills/Panteros:

There’s only one way to do this Carolina-run Chuba and Rico right down Buffalo’s 31st ranked run D’s throat. Here’s a surprise, the Panthers boast the league’s #3 run D themselves with much of the credit/flowers going to Derrick Brown, returning after a season-ending injury last year.

Bears/Ravens:

Baltimore is favored by 2.5 despite the fact they’ve lost three home games to date. Could they possibly, finally give the ball to Henry? Chicago is 20 frickin’ 8th vs the run! C’mon! Caleb regressed last week, throwing for just 172 yards on 57% passing.

Niners/Texans:

These guys don’t meet one another very often as their 4-1 history indicates. I’ll leave it up to you to determine who has the lead in wins. McCaffrey has 100+ scrimmage yards in every game to start the season and the last to do that was David Johnson back in 2016. Houston will need to turn the ball over to win and Mac Jones-said to be adequate lately-has three picks and no TD tosses over the last two weeks.

Give me your blurst.

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Spur

Spurs game is starting soon. I’ll be back for the Dallas-Donks Derby

rockingdog

The bears are 4-2?
Oh shit thats ROCKING!

Unsurprised

What was that!?!

ArmedandHammered

Please be more specific.

Redshirt

I WAS TOLD IT WAS AN ART FILM!

ArmedandHammered

Doink!

King Hippo

Red Rocket, with ball popping out

Unsurprised

DOINK!

Spur

haha, Eagles doink it

King Hippo

Fackin’ Spurs

Redshirt

I take it back…I LOVE THE TUSH PUSH!!!!

King Hippo

A Elite rushing TD???

Doktor Zymm

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King Hippo

FanninDOWN WOO!!!

Spur

Jet vs Bengals, Existence is Pain!

Unsurprised
Redshirt

Bengals Defense…4 and out?!?!?!?!

Redshirt

4 and 1/2 yard? RB Off Tackle pitch for a 3 yard loss.

King Hippo

Hippo had forgotten Tank Bigsby was an Iggle now. Also, Scott Baio gave Tua pinkeye, it’d seem.

Doktor Zymm

Ditto. There is no part of Tua’s head, inside or out, which is in good shape right now

Redshirt

Barkley has things to do today. Trying to get this game done early.

ArmedandHammered

Gate didn’t have time to open, he just ran right through it.

Redshirt

You don’t have to break the lock; just the bolts holding the latch.

Doktor Zymm

So looks like Saquon is feeling his oats today

Spur

dont worry he’ll fumble

ArmedandHammered

What is the color of the Eagles unis today? Brian Kelly Green?

Spur

Brian Austin Green

BC Dick

I like them. Much better than the Arena league rejects the Houston team is wearing

jjfozz

“Hey, kids aren’t home. Wanna get naked?”
“Sure, but kickoff is like 20 minutes away.”

Yes, I am a master of romance.

(It’s not like I needed the full 20 minutes. Five would have sufficed.)

Redshirt

Joe Flacco in Bengals helmet. Still look surreal.

yeah right

This is some fucked up NFL style monopoly for El Classico. NO stations are showing it in my room.

They have one channel with the Spanish version of Peyton and Eli with no shots from the game and another channel that shows nothing but the crowd reactions. That channel has an announcer but zero game footage.

I turned the shit off and am listening to the outside reaction.

It’s somber.

Doktor Zymm

Guess it’s good you didn’t go to a watch party

BC Dick

How many bull fights are on?

yeah right

Zero. That would be Madrid.

Not a Catalan thing.

Lots of kids shows and dance videos though.

Doktor Zymm

Also Valencia and especially Sevilla

Senor Weaselo

Remember, every opera that takes place in Spain takes place in Sevilla! Carmen, the Figaro trilogy even though there’s no good version of The Guilty Mother…

blaxabbath

Go be somber at a strip club.

Even i speak enough Catalonian to make friends at their strip club.

Spur

NBA Tangent.

Am so happy the Spurs team are playing angry. Castle took a leap in year 2. Dylan is looks like he belongs on the Court. Wemby is wanting to embarrass the other teams’ Frontcount. I love it.
Best thing about Wemby is hearing the other teams players complain and their fans freaking out when he gives them a highlight. Spurs are going to be a 6 seed.

https://youtu.be/Ow009Vnx198?si=gxX9HIYBERx4qsng&t=91

Horatio Cornblower

That’s UConn product, (not alum, since it’s hard to get a degree in one year), Stephon Castle.

Spur

The Rockets took Reed Shepard before Castle fell to the Spurs. Just silly.

Horatio Cornblower

NBA scouts see Duke or Kentucky on a jersey, get a boner and overdraft them, and that’s how you get Elton Brand.

ArmedandHammered

Depends on how many are arrested soon.

Horatio Cornblower

EVERTON INN’IT!!!

Horatio Cornblower

Oh that’s getting disallowed. I don’t think you can block the keeper like that.

King Hippo

yeah, the ppls will be angry

Horatio Cornblower

I mean, I’m not sure what else you could call there.

ArmedandHammered

The rabbits now have an outside shelter with heating and a fire escape. My work for the day is done.

ArmedandHammered

For when they are outside, they come in doors at night.

Doktor Zymm

Are you going to have a fire drill to teach them how to use the fire escape? And have them wear cute little bunny fire hats?

ArmedandHammered

Oh gawds, I hope my wife never sees this comment, those poor, poor bunnies.

Horatio Cornblower

“Sliding in was Gay”

Aww, yeah, now it’s a party!!

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King Hippo

LABELS!

BrettFavresColonoscopy

Walked 7 miles and then met the wife at the farmers market. It’s like being back in SoCal but colder.

ArmedandHammered

Who’s wife did you meet? Is there only one in town?

BrettFavresColonoscopy

*whose

ArmedandHammered

I be engineer, not loser English Major.

Horatio Cornblower

Pedantic, but fair.

ArmedandHammered

‘Ello.

BrettFavresColonoscopy

Gday

yeah right

Ola!

Redshirt

How do you get a back injury sitting on the bench?

Horatio Cornblower

Hey everybody, look who isn’t over 50 yet!!

Spur

I’d love to see an Eagle stomping today. That Giants Defense can smack around Hurts all day.

Spur

Die Eagles Die

Am alive despite my body’s best attempts.

jjfozz

Anticipation for the Ravens’ game is so intense you can get in the stadium with a can of beans and a cigarette butt.

blaxabbath

Do I still get a neck wound in return as change?

jjfozz

it’s your choice, i suggest a bullet graze followed by a punch in the face and being jumped by a feral pack of teens

Horatio Cornblower

Finally, Ed Reed’s time has arrived!!

Spur

Camel Cash also being accepted

jjfozz

marlboro miles only get half of face value

yeah right

Second half kickoff for El Classico.

The entire city is suffering from clenched sphincter syndrome.

blaxabbath

Are you at a strip club?

yeah right

Not yet but the evening is young.

Spur

Morning Folks

Unsurprised

Why are you all up? why am I?

Anyway, this seems like a good excuse to go the the gym during the daylight and do anything fucking else.

Redshirt

Why are we here? What did that fly get In here? Who put this skin on my arm?!

BrettFavresColonoscopy

What does a horseshoe do? Are there horse socks?

Doktor Zymm

It protects the hoof from excessive wear on surfaces like asphalt and also works like an orthopeadic shoe in that they correct and balance the horse’s gaits. Some horses have pads under their shoes that you could think of as horse socks. Horses also have many varieties of boot.

Unsurprised

Nerd

Redshirt

Me: “Time to get some lunch.”
TV: “Up next, your favorite Star Trek: DS9 episode, ‘Duet’.”
Me: “On the other hand, a fast every now and then is a nice change of pace.”

Horatio Cornblower

Mohegan Sun urging people to gamble on their app between throwing balls to their dogs is surely a good sign for society.

Gumbygirl

I’m waiting for the day when the Mashantucket Pequots from Foxwoods go to war with the Mohegans. That would be the most exciting thing to happen in Connecticut since they invented steamed burgers!

Jimbo

Do they call them steamed hams?
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Unsurprised

Them’s Fightin’ Words!

Redshirt

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BeefReeferLives

Steamed hams come from Connecticut? Well whaddya know… Always thought that was an Albany thing.

Horatio Cornblower

Ted’s in Meriden, CT supposedly invented them. K Lemay’s, also in Meriden, is my go to for steamed cheeseburgers.

blaxabbath

It’s so easy to see how everything is a scam. At this point, just admit folks love the addiction and just be glad their DV issues don’t result in dead bodies at a DUI crash.

Unsurprised

The villains from The Last Boy Scout won and we don’t even get good action pieces like a sniper being foiled in the middle of a game with a well-placed football, said sniper being food-processed by a helicopter, or even the whole opening sequence.

That said, the opening sequence seems like the only thing from that movie that will eventually happen IRL.

Horatio Cornblower

Arsenal stays top of the table. STOP THE COUNT!!!

Seriously, stop it. I’m not used to these heights and my nose is bloody.

King Hippo

Two horse race with y’all Pistoleros and yeah right’s Cherries. Just like everyone predicted obvs

Horatio Cornblower

Apparently it’s been too much for the good Lord Rhodes. Hope he’s OK and the Hottentots haven’t caught up to him.

Redshirt

There’s truth to that. I was coherent when the Bengals won the Wild Card game in 2022, but the Divisional Game against the Titans was just one long blur to me. If the Reds somehow end up in the NLCS I may black out and come to around Thanksgiving.

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Redshirt

Oh, this one hurts…

Horatio Cornblower

That sucks.

Gumbygirl

That’s a damn shame. I wonder why they couldn’t find a kidney for him? 41 with four kids should have put him top of the list.

Gumbygirl

And now is a timely reminder: if you aren’t an organ donor, why not? You can’t take them with you !

Horatio Cornblower

Yeah, people are just lining up for a shot at my liver.

Gumbygirl

It would be delicious with fava beans and a nice Chianti

Redshirt

Alrighty signed up. Once my soul has left my body, take want you want and throw the remains in a casket.

Horatio Cornblower

/helps self to wallet

Bengals tickets? Aww, this sucks!

Doktor Zymm

Diagnosed in 2006 so they had almost 20 years to find a match, that really sucks

Horatio Cornblower

Kidneys are the most common organ transplant, (source, I think this is true based largely on a story line in ‘Justified’ where someone was stealing kidneys), so there must have been something pretty unique with his system that prevented a match.

ArmedandHammered

Article mentions genetic disease.

Horatio Cornblower

Saw that, wondered if it precluded a match.

Jimbo

Rex Ryan showing real emotion on TV.

BeefReeferLives

Aw, man. WAY too soon.

yeah right

Holy shit. He was just a kid!

Fronkenshteen

Take advantage of Mooney’s new WR1 status on the Falx with Cousins at the helm? Or stick with Romeo Doubs with Watson AND Golden back now.

King Hippo

Mooney for upside, Doubs for floor

Fronkenshteen

Down 11 after Thursday so I’m shooting the Mooney!
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Horatio Cornblower

I hope Mrs. Haaland wasn’t anxious to have children, because Mr. Haaland just went balls first into the supporting pole of the net.

King Hippo

Talk about a Sophie’s Choice moment, I have to play either Tyjae Spears or Harold Fannin as a Flex, thanks to Drake London being scratched. Waivers are closed for the week in that league (hey, at least I am already starting Mooney and Pitts, too bad they suck).

Or I could put my balls on the table and hope Keaton Mitchell gets more than 3-4 touches and breaks one.

OY THE FUCK VEY.

Horatio Cornblower

Fannin was getting talked up on the local sprots radio, for whatever that’s worth.

King Hippo

yeah, that’s where I lean, despite Njoku being active this week. Almost surely fucked either way.

Gumbygirl

Drake London is my wr too. But now it’s time to see what kind of points the Dowdle/Hubbard tag team can get me!

Horatio Cornblower

Oh, balls to the face for the Aston Villa player!!

Senor Weaselo

They were onto something with 1999 being peak civilization though…

Horatio Cornblower

I find it much easier on my blood pressure to confine my review of the news to reading the NY Times on Sunday, and only on Sunday.

King Hippo

Easy-E says no, PALACE can eat a big fat diiiiccccck!

Redshirt

On paper, the Bengals should waltz over the Jets, however logic and reason dare not tread where the Bengals prowl.

Gumbygirl

They had better show up on defense!

Redshirt

That is my fear. The Jets is already walking in demoralized. The last thing you need is to have them enter the fourth quarter with hope.

Doktor Zymm

I’m starting Flacco since JD is out, so if he has a horrible day I apologize in advance

BrettFavresColonoscopy

I’m about a quarter into a 6-7 mile walk, may keep going to see if the Bears are shitting in nearby woods.

Redshirt

Do you mean “six to seven miles” or that “6 7” trend? I don’t understand it, but all I know is for the good of the species and the future in general, all those who participate in that trend should likely been destroyed before its too late.

BrettFavresColonoscopy

I’m not young enough to have even considered the meme in my mileage planning

blaxabbath

I’m fairly confident kids these days aren’t even bothering to call everyone else old and out of touch.

I believe a generation prior to mine once was featured in a movie (young in the film) who *freaked out* some squares in town.

It’s stupid but I dont blame them. I dont respect most adults either. How could children who are fully aware of the oxymoronic illustration of what is celebrated as a “man” in the modern peasant class?

ballsofsteelandfury

Seems like a good morning to sleep in.

Or, in my case, go play golf for five hours.

King Hippo

I mean, on paper Gooners/Palace seemed pretty fun. Hasn’t worked out that way so far, mind.

Horatio Cornblower

Aston Villa up 1-0 on Man Shitty, so there’s that.

Horatio Cornblower

Five hours?

Man, just pick the ball up and skip the windmill hole already.

Fronkenshteen

Looks like I’m going all fucking in on the Patriots today, baby!
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Gumbygirl

My man Rhamondre appears to have conquered his yips. Let us pray he can keep it together!

yeah right

Again, it’s easy to be the first on scene when it’s 1:30 local time.

The streets are a little more quiet today with El Classico starting in 3 hours.

After checking my calendar I DO have activities planned today. Paella class at Barcelona Culinary Arts school.

Fucking awesome.

Let’s show these fucking locals how we do it Sunday Gravy style!

King Hippo

Are you gonna watch the Barca match with the locals? Or is that too much crowdedness?

yeah right

Just got back from class so I’m watching on the tele for the moment.

blaxabbath

I’m sure the Barcelona Culinary Arts school has no shortage of Americans showing them how to cover their cuisine with the Lawry’s white gravy mix they keep in their tourist money satchel.

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