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NFL Nuggets:
- I hope you’ve got Matt Asiata in your pool, because AP is getting surgery for his torn meniscus and is expected to be gone at least 3 months.
- In worsening Vikings news, Matt Kalil has been placed on IR and is now out the minimum 8 weeks.
- Donte Moncrief has a fractured scapula and will miss 4-6 weeks.
- More sadness in The Factory – WR Corey Coleman broke a hand at practice.
- Ronnie Lott is among a group of investors trying to buy the Oakland Coliseum and work towards keeping the Raiders in Oakland. The offer was for $167.3 million.
- The lead investor is Integral Group, an investment firm from Atlanta, which recently bought Chase Field (built for $350 million {adjusted}) in Phoenix from Maricopa County for $60 million.
- Rubbing in more Crimebeat! news,
An arrest warrant has been authorized for suspended Browns wide receiver Josh Gordon after Gordon failed to answer several subpoenas in a child paternity case.
Finally, in case you missed it, here’s Marshawn Lynch on Conan:
Not bad. I miss his press conferences. I can hear the “It’s just a song, boss,” right now in my mind.
Make some room on the VISA – the NFL is selling Super Bowl ticket packages on the open market:
- “Until now, tickets for the Super Bowl have only been distributed through the NFL and its 32 teams. For Super Bowl 50, the participating teams received 35 percent of the tickets, the host San Francisco 49ers got another 5 percent and the remaining 29 franchises were allocated 1.2 percent each. The league claimed the final 25 percent.”
- “The tickets are being sold on a website run by Ticketmaster and On Location Experiences, the NFL’s official hospitality partner, of which the league’s investment arm owns a stake.”
- The company gets 9500 tickets to sell as part of this exclusive arrangement.
- Perks include pre- and post-game parties, and on-field access (I assume after the game)
- This is all due to what happened in Phoenix at Super Bowl XLIX, when people didn’t get the tickets they ordered because ticket brokers sold tickets they didn’t yet have, because fewer people resold their seats.
- The “Rog Dodge” is that the NFL program has a sizeable markup, but does come with a guaranteed, specific ticket.
Sounds like Commissioner Goodell needs to make moves to make a quick 25 mill, so he can knock off big nine-nine Seville.
Slight mea culpa – I guess Doug Flutie was on the Spring 2016 season of “Dancing With The Stars”. He didn’t win. He’s still better than Tebow.
Also, I didn’t mention it yesterday, because I figured it would come up in the comments, but Doug Flutie’s daughter was a Miss Massachussetts.
Apparently, her resume shows she’s been a Charger Girl and a Patriots cheerleader. A few minutes of online stalking also finds she might be married now. Good for her.
Tonight’s sports:
- MLB Baseball:
- Red Sox at Orioles – 7:00 PM | ESPN/TSN
- Giants at Dodgers – 10:00PM | ESPN/TSN
- Women’s Volleyball:
- Oklahoma at Kansas – 7:00 PM | ESPNU
- South Carolina at Missouri – 9:00PM | ESPNU
- World Cup of Hockey 2016: Team Europe vs. Canada – 8:00PM | ESPN2/Sportsnet
The Giants – Dodgers game should be good. Monday night there was some shoving between the teams about something concerning Yasiel Puig and Madison Bumgarner, wherein Bumgarner screeched, “Don’t look at me!” at Puig. In response, the Dodgers last night got some t-shirts made:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BKmBen-BdI1/
THERE GON’ BE SOME BEANBALL!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nDq1HoNm-E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Soa3gO7tL-c
Fuck it there is no chance I am going to bed anytime soon. Green Day for tWBS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnQ8N1KacJc
I hope NE wins and wish everybody a great day.
I napped from 7-11 today which means no matter how hard I try to sleep tonight it just won’t happen. I have 2 actual tests tomorrow so I have to try
9-2 here, but same basic concept.
Prepare for tears. Just saying.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NU9JoFKlaZ0
I can think of something like 10 sadder Green Day songs that weren’t trying so hard
I immediately apologize. I went too far. I hope to assume you knew I just went over the line for the joke. If not, sorry sir.
No worries. What moves me might not move you.
Getting moved is the issue.
That one has more to do with the vid than the song. Song itself has way nothing to do with vid. Is about Billie Joe’s father dying of cancer.
http://115.imagebam.com/download/SSKC0-VvCwU4JFIRKTbvgA/50578/505779196/ezgif-13360630.gif
Happy Autumnal Equinox, everybody!!!
(pssst….that’s the first day of fall just so ya know)
Ugh, was that why it was so bright and warm out today.
At least.
But it’s the 22nd….ie, yesterday was summer’s last gasp. “tomorrow” is fall’s entrance.
Been cloudy and rainy here for two days. Perfect foar melancholy and feeling sorry for ones self.
Wooooo!!!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvGk506ucEk
FUUUUUUUUUUUCK
The extra flavor in that lemon blonde ale I couldn’t identify I finally figured out tonight: nougat
Interesting…
Welp – I think it’s that time o’ day
You wore pants today?
Mr. School Board frowns otherwise.
If someone told me they were gonna post a Nathan Fillion gif that makes me love him more I would have called them a liar.
I actually went out to find what interview that came from. I like the gif more now
Also this was pretty good:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&persist_app=1&v=nRp1CK_X_Yw
The steakhouse is playing a song that was in Goodfellas. We’ve officially landed back in the 60s-70s
Alright, I’m waking up in five hours to go back to the airport and then have another flight 12 hours after I take off. So goodnight, and don’t burn the place down until WCS gets here.
No promises
Who, us?
/does poor job of hiding matches and can of lighter fluid behind his back
This lemon blonde would be the best thing ever it if weren’t $7 a glass
What man hasn’t been willing to spend $7 for a perfect blonde?
I seem to prefer brunettes. Or redheads, of course.
Redheads are the best. I kept staring at one at work when they had me go out and talk to the diners for some reason. I tried not to but I couldn’t help being a creep. To whatever credit I have though, she was really pretty.
And then of course (only from what I’ve heard, as we know)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmflC0IfocU
I was looking forward to seeing if the Lethal Weapon TV show didn’t suck because I thought it starred Damon Wayans, Jr. It has his dad in it instead. I mean he is pretty good, his son is amazing
I feel old as shit watching the original and Murtagh bitching about being old because he’s 40.
I’m figuring that’s where Kevin James got the idea for his show.
Fuck United, Fuck O’Hare, and Fuck three consecutive days of cross country flying.
At least you’re not black and driving through Oklahoma
http://66.media.tumblr.com/9a6159a3411ae157fe3d091d1a0e4ab6/tumblr_mnxsfcdiiN1qk4d9xo1_400.gif