Who will earn the right to lose in the conference finals to the Niners? That’s the question being answered this evening. Two truly horrid fanbases come together (present company excepted of course) to boot!
To The Game!
Eagles/Cowboys:
-This certainly seems like another game where Philly’s pass D gets exposed like a Kissinger on a mortuary table. (bad image, scotchy, Jesus!) CeeDee and even EeeFgee will get into the action. Dallas is the more complete team but the things that the Eagles do well they do very well.
-One thing I like about both teams (within reason) is their ability to put points on the board with splash plays downfield.
-Dallas Goedert is back after being on the Ouch Report for three weeks. Philly’s pass game now has a threat in the middle of the field and that should give Smith and Brown a little more wiggle room.
-If Dallas wins tonight they’ll be on top of the division but if each team wins out Philly takes it based on a better conference record. Weird. I like the latter’s chances more because they have yet to play the Giants so that should be two W’s right there and they have the Cards as well. Dallas has the Bills and Fins coming up after this in consecutive weeks.
-Another flaw that the Philly possesses is that their red zone D is ranked 29th in the league.
-Given the way they’ve run up the score on several teams, I’m a bit surprised that the Cowboys “only” rank fifth in total yards gained.
It’s all yours now.
Have you ever listened to a washing machine and composed techno songs?
Ha ha I’m so old and I hate young people! God bless you.
In further news, I’ll be giving a lecture on WWII piston engines down at the hall.
Please do join, shall you? Oh gracious goodness, thank you terribly.
GREATEST. HUMAN. EVER.
Good to Rocking Dog enjoying himself
Day #10
Andy Reid: “I never use this as an excuse, but usually you get a warning when your kid gets fucking hammered on booze and pills and fucking annihilates a 5-year…I mean, before you’re called offside just because your receiver’s foot is literally in front of the football.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzfvHtf4Luo
This is 20 Laps Around Sol.
I’ve never seen that film because I have an irrational dislike of Billy Bob Thornton. Perhaps I should change that. Not until I watch Violent Night, though.
Also, Christmas movies need more Riley Dandy, damnit!
wait, the cowboys kicker grew up near plano?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHkABO0VwCg
The Pro Bowl should get rid of the flag football game and instead do a thing where fans who think they could gain 5 yards in 5 tries against an NFL defense are randomly chosen to get that chance.
Just total carnage.
Would pay top dollar to watch.
Every single play would basically be the ending of the movie Lucas.
I don’t want to wake up to a birthday hangover, but I made four burritos, so I should have four margaritas, right?
It’s just simple math.
3 overturned calls for Dallas.
Man I wish I lived within range of Philly radio.
“Those were supposed to be our overturned calls!” – Pat Mahomes
He looks like such a prick right now, and I am here for it.
Yeah, I have worked very hard to avoid hating him personally simply because he’s been successful with a franchise I detest and today’s events have made that forever fantastically unnecessary. I can hate him all I like now.
Also, I’m drunk.
I’m not sure I’m legally drunk, but I certainly wouldn’t try to operate heavy equipment right now.
That said, while I rarely if ever take the side of the NFL I cannot wait for the Ginger Hammer to come down on Reid and Mahomes with some hefty fines.
Bitching about the officiating when they get the call wrong is all well and good, but bitching about the officiating when they got the call right, for once, is quite another.
I’m hoping that Goodell doesn’t say a goddamned thing, but the next time (and the next forty times after that) Mahomes tries to do his little sideline dance for an extra few yards the defenders are given free reign to take his whining little head off without having to worry about a bullshit flag.
Goodell apparently hates the Tush Push, so I suspect you’re going to see a whole lot more of these calls going forward.
I’ll watch “Killers of the Flower Moon” only if it’s got some good Scorsese Italian gangster violence. That’s why I love his movies, just like I love NASCAR for the wrecks.
The book is fantastic, although somewhat light on Italians.
RAYCESS
Have a night, Stephon Glimore!
Drink cart on Lufthansa, mid-1960s.
Reminds me of my last flight, except there’s food and drink, it seems to be on time, and Mrs. Horatio isn’t having to be held back from storming the cockpit.
Perhaps you were on ze wrong plane, Herr Cornblower.
Clearly. I thought we were on the direct flight to JFK, not the one getting diverted to Miami for “a few minutes,” which was actually 1 hour+ and by the way the WiFi’s broken and we’re out of drinks.
We did, however, stay at the TWA hotel, which is a really cool retro experience and one I highly recommend.
I stayed at the TWA Hotel the night before the grand opening (in 2018?). It was perfect. Eero Saarinen was a genius. I once took an actual TWA first-class “red eye” (overnight LAX to JFK), coming into this head-house when it was still in operation. That was amazing too.
The hotel is fantastic, but confusing as hell. By the time we figured out how to get to the bar in the refashioned plane outside it was closed.
Of course, our hitting 3 bars in the hotel before aiming for the plane may have had a lot to do with that. Also the heated pool on the roof deck where you can watch planes come in and take off while drinking.
The TWA Hotel has vintage dial telephones in every room and in the head house. Plus every drink costs $20.
I have stayed at the TWA hotel as well. Unfortunately, I was sick as a dog with COVID, but I absolutely loved it
So I guess Lane Johnson can just hold with impunity.
RTD was right: Aubrey at some point is going to hit from 70.
By far the worst storm of the year, (I’ll be up until 4:00 am fighting basement flooding), and our idiot cat decides that tonight’s the first night in months that he’s gonna spend outside.
My daughter’s Sun rises and sets on that cat, and he is driving me insane right now.
One time our cat disappeared overnight and only reappeared the next day about ten minutes before we were about to leave for two weeks in South Africa.
We had a cat, Nutmeg, who was a rescue and basically feral. She disappeared for 4-5 days and we figured that was it. We went back to the animal shelter and got a kitten, (we rescued the Nut when she was 2+), and I shit you not, we pull into the driveway with the new kitten and who’s sitting on the back porch glaring at us? Fucking Nutmeg.
She made it until about 13, the disappeared for good one night, but only after calling me outside to show me the mouse she’d killed. Still miss that hateful little monster.
The kitten is now closing in on 12, and it’s time to put on the foul weather gear and make sure his dumb ass is still in Fort Kickass.
Have returned from outside. Cat is snoozing in the bottom floor of his multi-story fort, warm and dry in the straw stuffed on the first floor.
The second floor is a kitty carrier filled with blankets, so if it gets really bad he can get up there.
There’s a chance I’m making this too easy for him.
This news warms my black heart.
If Mahomes didn’t win Most Valuable Bundler do you suppose he’d have cried like a 2-year-old like he did tonight when the referees actually enforced a rule late against his team?
I saw someone comment that he probably thought they had accident forgiveness for those kinds of penalties.
OK, here’s a proposition for you: switch the franchise records of Chicago and Dallas, including rosters, division titles, Super Bowls, awards, etc.
Do each team’s fans now become more or less annoying? If more annoying, by how much?
Asking me to think about the Bears with 5 Super Bowls is like asking me to describe the physics behind black holes: I cannot even begin to do it.
Dallas. They STILL think it’s 1995, so imagine if they had to back a decade further. And then WE’S AN ALL-TIME FRANCHISE DURRR
chicago sports would almost reach 2002-2019 masshole status, but not quite (cubs still lagging behind bawstahn)
dallas will still have jerrah and still have more dumb rednecks than most fanbases
JJ probably croaks in like 2006 after snorting coke off a stripper’s asshole for the 12th time that day.
Ah yes, the ol’ running play on 2nd and 10 after the pass on 1st down is incomplete. An NFL standard.
They may be a good Cowboys team, but they are still the Cowboys.
BANNER
IT BEGINS
..it doesn’t actually begin, but it’d be funny
Evening, folks. I spent all day marking and wedding planning and now I want both things to no longer exist. I am only just now finally tuning into football.
This is my controversial take: I think this is the most likeable** N-GCp team since the year when Bledsoe died out there and Romo took over.
**Likeability does not imply talent, as evidenced by that fumble-pick-six,
well, theyre likeable now compared to next years team (mccarthy fired, jerrah hires belichick)
DEATH STAR ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED
Dak is the face of the franchise and seems like a genuinely good guy.
You just have to kind of ignore the owner.
Well that’s less than ideal.
I absolutely would have let Aubrey try an 80-yard FG there.
I’m two beers in, it’s 10:13 pm, and these assholes are showing brisket hot off the smoker.
I am about to make some truly horrible dietary decisions.
I had pancakes and sausage for dinner!
Breakfast for dinner fucking rules.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGvXE7VI2Dg&ab_channel=FrankieViturello
Nice pad, Jackie. Completely unspoiled.