Your MXC Monday Evening Open Thread

NFL Notes:

• Obviously, the big news from the weekend is the Pats signing Cam Newton to a one-year deal.
  • With incentives, it’s worth up to $7.5 million.
  • This will be the ultimate Belichick “it’s the system, not the player” move, as he has Newton, Jarrett Stidham AND Brian Hoyer at his disposal.
  • Kurt Warner has a thinkpiece where he tries to relate to where Cam is.

• Other Patriots news: they’ve been penalized for the video incident in Cincinnati last year.
  • They’ve been fined $1.1 million and lost a 2021 third-round draft pick.
    • The Patriots’ team production crew also is barred from filming games during the 2020 season.
  • The NFL also banned David Mondillo, who was suspended by the Patriots at the time of the NFL investigation, from NFL facilities until further notice. Before the league’s discipline, Mondillo was terminated by the Patriots.

• Noted immunologist Mark Davis questions whether the NFL will need a bubble.
  • “You can keep players from the fans, but you can’t keep players from the players,” Raiders owner Mark Davis said in the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
  • He is also not a big fan of keeping eight rows clear & selling ads, believing that keeping fans away will cost more than revenue.
    • “You think I want to sell advertising on the Black Hole seats?” he said of the plan that would cost him up to 3500 seats per game in their inaugural Las Vegas season.

Found an end-of-Pride month funny:

A transphobe, a racist, a homophobe and an anti-semite walk into a bar.

The Bartender says "Hey, aren't you that lady who wrote Harry Potter?"

— Modern-Day Tiefling (@BurgundyBitch72) June 28, 2020

MXC Monday – Episode 201: Food Service Professionals vs. Hobbyists

“It’s Arts & Crafts versus Carts & Hash”. This episode has “Wall Bangers” and “Log Drop”, so if you enjoy Asian head trauma this episode is for you. There’s more CTE in this game than the NFL admits to in a year.

Tonight’s … entertainment?: nothing good on Canadian TV

• Wrasslin’:
  • Monday Night Raw – 8:00PM | USA / Sportsnet360
• Antiques Roadshow: “Vintage Philadelphia” – 8:00PM | PBS
  • Flashback to phenomenal Philadelphia finds from 2006 including an asscher-cut yellow diamond ring from around 1930, a Charles Rohlfs mahogany chair and a 1958 Picasso drawing with documentation.
• The Titan Games – 8:00PM | NBC
  • Action continues in the West Division, with Victor Cruz and stunt woman Jessie Graff as pro Titans waiting to take on this round’s winner on Mt. Olympus, in the consummate athletic test.
  • The Rock’s version of “Ninja Warrior” isn’t half bad, but they still do those sappy, hazily-shot “personal stories” that wear on the viewer.
    • MXC is, like – “what’s your name? HERE’S YOUR PAIN!”
• Eddie – 9:00 PM | ESPN
  • The story of college basketball coach Eddie Sutton, delving not just into his 800-plus wins at Creighton, Arkansas, Kentucky and Oklahoma State, but exploring issues of substance abuse, father-son relationships and perseverance.