Off We Go To Australia! An NFL First

Does Goodell’s monomaniacal desire to expand the game and line his pockets at the same time know any bounds? I think that question lies on rhetorical grounds. Related: Did I take tomorrow off?

So here we are in Melbourne and I’ll just get this out of the way-I’m happy for the fans of the league/pro sport that reside there and I’m quite sure they’ll show up large. Good for them.

But the site of this tilt brings up another question for me: what are the producers going to do to highlight the local flavor of the community? In Seattle it’s salmon tossing, in Vegas it’s escorts rifling thru a passed-out date’s wallet, in Cincy it’s some poor soul emptying the contents of his stomach on the doorstep of a Skyline Chili establishment, and so on. Perhaps we could be blessed with a shirtless mate right-hooking a wayward kangaroo, seems right.

To The Game!

Niners/Rams:

-Aaron Donald will not be playing this fair evening. (game time is around 8am in the host country. Who is up for a Bloody Mary with a shrimp on the rim?) Those brittle 35 yr. old bones could barely stand a half-day of flight time, never mind 10-15 plays over a three hour period.

-We had some injuries last night and the substation-adjacent Niners are raring to add to Week One’s total. I have Trent Williams with a strained bicep on my bingo card.

-Fatt Matt (he could be in the best shape of his life but some things just stick to you) is 4-9 vs Los Niners but if he throws a couple of TD’s he ends up tied with Phil “Never Ending Stream of Semen” Rivers for sixth place all time.

Enjoy the game.