Your “Long Weekends Used To Bring Smiles” Thursday Evening Open Thread

NFL News: Pretty slow heading into the commemoration of Jesus’ death.

• Conflicting opinions about when the regular season might start.
  • National disgrace Roger Goodell says the NFL is planning to play, but won’t give an approximate start date.
    • “We can help our country heal,” Goodell said. “We can help bring our communities together. We can provide hope. We can provide a distraction from the everyday issues and show people that there is a future out there and that we’re all going to be part of that.”
  • A Santa Clara County executive, which oversees the territory of Levi’s Stadium, doesn’t think sports of any sort is coming back anytime soon.
    • Dr. Jeffrey Smith, an actual medical doctor alongside being a politician, doesn’t predict any sporting events until Thanksgiving.
      • Worse, Dr. Fauci – the guy rolling his eyes behind Trump – predicts that COVID might be a seasonal affliction that cannot be contained nor permanently eradicated like SARS.

• Former Rams Todd Gurley & Clay Matthews are accusing the Rams of being late with their bonus monies.
  • Both seem to have questions about roster bonuses that were supposedly due before they were cut, but I can’t believe an honest, hard working businessman like Stan Kroenke would do such a thing.
    • Gurley was supposedly owed a fully-guaranteed roster bonus of $7.55 million on the third day of the league year.
    • Matthews was due a fully guaranteed $2 million roster bonus.
  • I call this “One Tweet, Two Complaints”.

You and me both TG! 😤 Better get some interest with that too 📈 https://t.co/E8RIOhg7sH

— Clay Matthews III (@ClayMatthews52) April 9, 2020

• For some reason, Rex Ryan took a run at Geno Smith in regards to the Brady-Belichick debate.
  • Taking the Brady side, Ryan said, “Let’s give him somebody else, let’s give him Geno Smith, let’s give him whoever, and let’s see how many Super Bowls he would have won. We saw the answer was zero in Cleveland.”
  • Geno responded by saying, “My momma never liked dude he been a snake. . and y’all glorify it. . should’ve got fired after yr1. . truth is we won 8 games after ESPN had us winning two and he got his job back. .somehow I’m caught up in a feud and I’m the scapegoat. . Same guy that drafted me. #TheBusiness”.

Finally, to send you into a long weekend the right way, may I present to you the “Can You DIGGS It?” burger from Stack Burger in Lackawanna, NY, named for newly-signed Bill Stefon Diggs.

It’s made up of the restaurant’s spicy Demon Burger patty, the pizza-inspired Vinny Burger, the onions and barbecue sauce combination of the Rodeo Burger and the potent Bacon-Bleu Burger duo. It’s one pound of beef with bacon peppers, bleu cheese, pepperoni, cheese, onion tangles and BBQ sauce. The owner says the totality comes from Diggs’ number 14 – it’s one bun with four patties.

The inspiration for the name possibly comes from the catchphrase of spinaroonie aficionado Booker T, “Can you dig it, sucka?”

Which may or may not have been plagiarized from Cyrus in “The Warriors”, which could on its own could also be the inspiration.

Nonetheless, Diggs knows of its existence.

https://twitter.com/stefondiggs/status/1248030151289511936

With today’s banner pic in mind, I have but one question:

Who’s down with OPP?

Exactly. You know me.

Tonight’s … entertainment?:

• Brooklyn Nine-Nine – 8:30 PM | NBC / City
  • The squad competes in an effort to determine who is the greatest human/genius as they compete in a HallowEaster Heist.
• Top Chef – 10:00 PM | BRAVO / Food Network Canada
  • Kelly Clarkson drops into the “Top Chef” kitchen for a Quickfire based on her new movie, “Trolls: World Tour,” where the chefs are tasked with combining colorful ingredients from six different musical lands to make one delicious dish.

That’s it for the work week. Seamus will be here tomorrow, likely with something involving “Easter bunnies” if you get my drift. I’ll have something on the weekend, so keep it between the ditches & we’ll all get through it together.