And we’re back baby. The new servers are all bright, clean and shiny. Or were, we’ve been here for a week now, so someone should really clean up a bit. Someone? Anyone? ya, that’s what I thought, Ferris isn’t cleaning anything. With things slowly returning to normal both front end and back end here, the content has started to flow again. Which means I gotta start taking better notes about what happened last week. lol.
Around these parts, we’re now in a “stay the fuck home’ kinda thing for the next 4 or more weeks. Restaurants are only doing take-out, most retail is closed for in-person shopping, so you need to order online and then pick up. No wandering the isles. The only thing really open is grocery stores and pharmacies but at reduced capacity, like 50% of max number allowed. Oh and the weed and alcohol places are open, cause wez needz those. All kidding aside, I get that those with dependency issues just can’t quit, so they need to remain open. For the big box stores, they have “closed” off the non-essential isles, which makes for some interesting shopping with major portions of stores being off limits. I do like that it levels the playing field for the smaller places that can’t be open for in person shopping due them not having essential items. Hopefully this is enough for the smaller places to make it through this latest lockdown.
Our Covid numbers are setting new records on the daily, while we keep seeing that our vaccine rollout is slow and now delayed due to lack of vaccine availability. I’m now eligible to get the AZ vaccine, just need to wait for my number to come up and then I can go. GTD checks number given. Why is the eight on it’s side. Oh, damn.
As a reminder, this post will cover comments made up to and through the Saturday Night Open Thread. Sunday comments stand alone and Monday comments will go on the next week’s post. Note that during the offseason, I’ll probably look at the Sunday posts.
Without further ado, here are the comments of the week.
Heya folks, still working on some fine-tuning now that we live…AGAIN…please bear with us.
Darkest Timeline Zack Morris
I am in!!! I was skeered yesterday, when my phone cried DANGER! and thought the site was a Russian scam or something. I thought I might never hear from you lovely people again(or Rockingdog)🍾💖😘🎵👍
Gumbygirl
This site is getting loaded faster than Britt Reid when he has to drive somewhere in the next ten minutes.
Rikki-Tikki-Deadly
In stark contrast to how slow a 5 year old’s brain now operates after Britt Reid rammed into her vehicle on an off ramp.
Mr. Ayo
The new site loads almost as fast as Britt Reid was driving under the influence
Sharkbait
It loads Tiger Woods fast
Brick Meathook
The very best thing about the NHL trade deadline? The Leafs once again trading away a 1st round draft pick for some old-ish dude that the front office believes is the VERY LAST PIECE that is the key to a successful Stanley Cup victory.
scotchnaut
With a severe knee injury, it sounds like Edelman is already familiar with the ‘Bengal way’
Doktor Zymm
I made that comment, tipped against GWS, and then they won
BrettFavresColonoscopy
2021 had been all valleys
Don T
Can’t believe I’m saying this, but I’m hoping the Jets trade down and get a stud DB. Give Darnold a shot with (what I think is going to be) a MUCH better HC.
I like to envision Sammy reading this comment and being like, “Finally! Someone who gets how this franchise is being built with –“
And then the ESPN chyron is like, “Sam Dernoold traded to Carolina for a jar of food bank peanut butter”.
blaxabbath
A quick aside: while I know it’s been awful dealing with our now hopefully obvious server issues from the commenter side it’s been equally challenging from the writers side.
I want to take a moment to seriously thank Internet Dad and the collective crew behind the scenes because it was getting kind of gritty up in here.
They had this whole cleaning crew come in. There were hazmat suits and UV rays and those pick up claw dealies to discard the stained undies. We’ve installed air filters and sanitizer stations and I just want to say bravo on a proper crime scene clean up job guys.
/ moved to tears
// trips over Balls underwear samples
/// hits head on empty keg
yeah right
April 13, 2021 10:26 pm
Glad to see the site is back to something like copspeed — got my second Pfizer shot today and figuring out if my absence of side effects means I should not claim them tomorrow and bingewatch City on a Hill all day (Kevin Bacon as Tawmmy from Quinzee with an FBI badge is fun!)
Downfield Matriculator
Don T
“…You’re braver than I thought.”
Redshirt
My complaint to Carl’s Jr. has paid off with the offer of two free Angus Steakhouse Thickburgers. Which, when redeemed, will mean that I got FOUR burgers for the price of one.
I hereby nominate myself for the First Annual Andy Reid Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Excellence.
Rikki-Tikki-Deadly
My wife got me these plates the other day. I washed them and they are in use. Correlle brand!
TheRevanchist
Jordan is not better than LeBron. Progress is such that today’s stars are better than those of yesteryear. If we want to compare, I’d ask who changed the game more. Like, look at what Tiger Woods did to bring up the talent level in golf.
And I don’t have the answer — or maybe the real king of transforming basketball is Bill Russell. But is LeBron better than Jordan? Absolutely — and in part because Jordan created a basketball universe that made it easier for the likes of Kobe and LeBron to develop younger and, thus, peak out higher than MJ.
blaxabbath
Bernie Madoff died today after serving 12 years of his 150-year sentence . . . yet again paying only a small percentage of what was owed.
Downfield Matriculator
That burnt steak makes me want to tie whoever ordered it to a chair, cut off their leg, and cook it in front of them so they can see how it’s supposed to be done.
Gumbygirl
There’s peoples who keep trying to make the argument that women’s sports are somehow less interesting to watch because “they play at a lower level than the men”
This argument is dumb because
A) They probably watch college or even high school men’s teams, which also play at a lower level than pro men’s teams
B) They probably respect classic sports figures, and since all sports have progressed with time, the greats from 75 years ago play at a lower level than today’s pro teams
C) It’s not uncommon to have something like the US Soccer team where the women both outperform and pull in more money for US Soccer than the men
And lastly
D) Maybe if you put the same resources and marketing into the women’s game people would be as interested in it despite the quality of play! (For references of shitty yet well marketed teams see the entire NFC East)
Doktor Zymm
“ Somewhere along the way, things went really, really awry, and Hiram was shot four times, decapitated, dismembered, and left in a shallow grave.”
-NFL Internal Report confirming the innocence of C.L. Blood and/or Ray Lewis
blaxabbath
Is it bad that of all the breakfast options I considered this morning, a Guinness was the most appealing to me?
Rikki-Tikki-Deadly
Drinking some port that I bought at Trader Joe’s a few years ago to go with playing board games online. I have never drank port before. I’m just glad I never had this as a teenager, because this seems like it would have fucked teenage me up with a quickness. The whole bottle would have been drank in about 15 minutes, shortly followed by barfing it right back up.
BugEyedBoo
My first memory of hearing rock and roll music was when I was about 5 years old. My mom had a 1949 Dodge that was thrown in for an extra ten bucks with a house my parents purchased in Sacramento in 1964 or so.
The radio had vacuum tubes and took a while to warm up. But I remember we were driving down the road going somewhere and the distinctive guitar riff of You Really Got Me came on and that was the first time in my life that I reached over to turn the volume up.
Viva La Tabula Raza
Whelp, masking up with the Good Mrs. Reefer to go get jab #1. Wish us luck…
BeefReeferLives
“You look like you’re ready for bed!”
-Philip, to the President of Nigeria (he was wearing traditional robes)
scotchnaut
We’re having a “We’re moving, come take our shit for free please” sale at Lady Commander’s parents, and I’m watching the Collingwood-Eagles game while shouting and overseeing it. I’ve settled in nicely into my Embarrassing Dad-hood.
Low Commander of the Super Soldiers
“You’re too fat to be an astronaut.”
-Philip, talking to a 13 yr. old boy who was explaining that he wanted to go into space
scotchnaut
A lot better than what Prince Andrew would have said to a 13-year-old.
Horatio Cornblower
Wow, the new server still has that new car smell and it works! This is incredible!
Wakezilla
Something to look forward to
Gumbygirl
Mrs. Cornblower is dealing with hot flashes and we’ve reached an understanding that the best way for me to help is to shut the fuck up and keep drinking more.
Look, I’m not saying ‘Logan’s Run’ was perfect, but it had some ideas worth hearing out.
Horatio Cornblower
I love you too, Rob.
Darkest Timeline Zack Morris
You’re the best, Internet Dad. I hope you someday find those cigarettes you’ve spent so much time looking for.
Horatio Cornblower
Having Bibimbop for linner, so obviously a perfect pairing for that kimchi sour beer!
Doktor Zymm
DID SOMEONE SAY BIBIMBOP???
scotchnaut
Went out to the Santa Cruz mountains to escape the first hot day of summer, redwoods really are amazing trees. Kinda disturbing that the Loch Lomond reservoir is very low this early in year, tangible evidence of just how dry the winter was. Fingers crossed there aren’t too many idiots or lightning strikes or such to get fires started, cause they’re not gonna stop once they catch.
Doktor Zymm
From above
Doktor Zymm
Eating Reubens is important to maintaining a Reubenesque physique.
Dunstan
Holy shit this looks good. Can we get the smell-o-vision plug in?
Game Time Decision
Sexi Friday would never be the same.
litre_cola
This is so true
Gumbygirl
What I hate about atheism is the militant wing. It’s self-defeating. Being chill is the best part of godlessness. Or Not-Catholic anyway.
Don T
I find “lapsed Catholic” to be a spiritual sweet spot. You get all the good philosophical underpinnings with none of the horse shit.
Brick Meathook
Prolapsed Catholics are the best though. They’re (wide) open to new experiences.
scotchnaut
Thanks for all the comments and funny and everything else.
Stay busy and safe out there.
NOTE banner image from here
A lot of you requested to see these, so here you go:
My brand new SP486 spark plugs and my brand new old-school plug gauge!
When I said “Show us your plug, Brick!” this isn’t what I had in mind.
Do you have a picture of Mrs. Krabapple in your garage, for inspiration whilst you gap those bad boys?
Ha ha the jokes on me they’re pre-gapped at .054″
But the gauge cost like $3 with free delivery so I just had to buy it. Maybe I’ll wear it around my neck with my church key and my coke spoon.
(the garage across the street is installing the plugs on thursday so i don’t even need it but i hated my old one that i didn’t use either)
Yes, but would have you BELIEVED that those plugs were properly gapped by the fine folks at Motorcraft, or would you have gapped them all once out of the box just to make sure before installing them? (why yes, I am somewhat OCD, why do you ask?)
I checked them all with my new gauge. They were gapped perfectly.
Why do all these momentous things happen during the day while I’m working? It’s, it’s, because of what I do at night, isn’t it? I knew it!
Can you imagine being the State’s attorneys on this one? How drunk are you getting tonight? I would absolutely be calling ahead to the ER and reserving a stomach pump.
I only watched the verdict, and I’m planning on getting pretty drunk myself.
Well, except Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, who as I understand it is an observant Muslim.
I’m just glad Rush Limbaugh didn’t live to see this.
Glad he’s dead, but would’ve liked him to see this, actually. If I could stand the sight and sound of him for more than 5 seconds, I would tune in to Cucker Tarleson tonight to watch him lose his shit…
Judge Jeanine Winebox is apparently saying she agrees with the verdict and I am uncomfortable.
Yeah, I saw a clip where she chewed out that loathsome toad Greg Gutfield over his reaction.
Tonight, Tucker will:
(a) say “see, the system works, what are liberals so agitated about”?
(b) scream about Maxine Waters
(c) find some college student somewhere who tweeted something dumb and rant about that
(d) all of the above
Mostly (b) – I wonder what it is about Ms Waters that makes Conservatives so angry. Whatever could it be?
She’s my congressperson and constituent services are shit.
yells over Brick “RECLAIMING MY TIME RECLAIMING MY TIME”
Then go work the phones and get her beat.
I’m just glad Rush Limbaugh didn’t live
to see this.I was so close to doing the exact same edit. Well played, sir.
You still can. Just look at Horatio’s twitter status and reply to that.
Not on Twitter… Bit of a luddite regarding social media, truth be known.
We are glad you found us! I have a verry light footprint myself on the interwebs. Mostly because I’m lazy and I hate most people.
“I’m lazy and I hate most people.” – I think I have found my crowd…
You’re not missing anything. Editing my tweets is highly overrated and underpaid.
Nice to imagine him impotently looking up at this from Dante’s Ninth Circle, though.
Interesting that sentencing is in 8 weeks. Does it usually take that long?
8 weeks seems surprising, but there’s usually a gap while both sides put together there positions on why he should be a) thrown in a lightless dungeon and left to rot, or b) released to home confinement for 90 days and then get his job back, with back pay and pension rights restored.
He’s getting the max.
MSNBC now interviewing a white man who goes on about how he’s got so much learning to do about his privilege, and I’m sorry, I have now ordered my MAGA hat.
Yeah, insufferable douchebag was insufferable.
Look, I’m all for equal rights, but I am not going to start paying traffic tickets instead of getting warnings. My people, (Irish-German-Norwegian), have suffered too long, (in the sun, because we burn easily), for me to not be able to drive 20 mph over the posted speed limit without facing consequences.
Man, this is turning into, like, the bestest Hitler’s Birthday in EVAR!!111
Hitler’s B-Day, 4/20, and now the guilty verdict. Spark one up for the Hat Trick!
Did I read somewhere that the Incels have declared this Saturday 4/24 as National Rape Day? I don’t really want to google it on my work computer.
2021 Scorecard so far:
— Dems get a black man and a Jew elected in Georgia to take control of the Senate
— Biden sworn in
— Trump booted off Twitter
— COVID vaccines
— DFO site fixed
— a thug cop actually doesn’t get away with it for once
/slaps 2021 on the ass, HARD
That’s great hustle!
the Timeline had some balancing to do
Yeah “decency” was due, but we can’t get caught looking ahead. Other side’s gonna come out motivated in the second half.
“Eh, there aren’t any more elections until 2024, right?” — Dem voters
I WANNA BELIEVE WE’LL HAVE OUR SHIT TOGETHER NEXT YEAR PLEASE LET ME BELIEVE THAT FOR A WHILE
On a serious note, I have seen some speculation that the shifting nature of the Dem coalition, i.e. picking up a lot of educated suburban types disgusted with the GOP, who vote in every election, there may be less of a drop-off in D turnout in the midterms than during the Obama years.
Better than the usual D-drop off seen in educated suburban types as their marriages wane.
A white cop facing actual consequences for murdering a black man in broad daylight is the kind of bulletin board material they live for.
It was starting to feel like home.
I’d like to thank the jury for doing the right thing, and finally eliminating my white guilt. Truly a landmark day for America and, more importantly, me.
It’s truly been a burden, the worst thing any race has ever gone through.
but I’mma miss my White Liberal Guilt so much!!
Allow me to share a haiku I have written for this occasion.
Guilty on all counts
Fuck that bitch ass douche canoe
Now to the sentence
Hey. Fuck the police.
I mean it. Fuck the police.
Fuck the police, bitch.
Floyd did not die from
Having too big of a heart;
Heartless cop killed him
/with apologies to the prosecutor
I liked the prosecutor’s additional zing of paraphrasing St. Seuss for his line. That oughta trigger a few strokes amongst the Fox News contingent.
Guilty, thank Jebus. Something to feel good about while I sit in snow traffic in fucking April.
Oh shit, Internet Dad’s a BLM terrorist and an ANTIFA racist.
He was radicalized while going out for smokes.
Must have been non-filtered menthol.
all teh hipsters is into Kools now!
Why do you think fixing the site took so long? I was out there protesting, making molotovs, so on, etc.
Came back from walking the dog to find that fucker Chauvin convicted on all charges and tossed back into jail.
Hope they throw his ass into gen pop.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4UqMyldS7Q
“gen pop”? Is that anything like K-pop? #Whitepeoplequestions
Guilty on all three charges
Hallelujah.
Racism is over.
GUILTY ON ALL COUNTS
guilty on all charges
I really didn’t think it would happen. I was hoping for one or two counts, but a sweep was not something I thought we’d see.
We need a lot more of these types of wins when they actually have the guts to bring the fuckers to trial. I have a feeling we would see a lot more guilty versions.
“Footyball RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIICK!!!!!”
Yesterday I bought a bowl of ramen.
Today I bought a bowl of ramen, but at a different place.
Ramen is one of the good “food trends” of the last decade in SoCal. I could have done without the cupcake craze and the poke trend, but the increase in ramen places (most of which have stuck around) has been great.
I like Santouka down in Torrence, and Tsujita on Sawtelle is terrific.
In Torrance, Ramen Yamadaya. The place is always packed and the parking is shitty. In such a shitty location, I’m not even sure how it stays in business.
You shut your whore mouth about cupcakes.
All those “gourmet” cupcakes had a fucked-up icing to cake ratio, and were too big to fit even in my gaping maw.
Don’t get me wrong, I ate many. But I silently protested the entire time.
I could have done without the poke craze too – D. Sharper
Today I got the #26 (Large Pork Charsiu Miso) from Santouka in the Mitsuwa Marketplace at Venice & Centinela in West L.A. Mitsuwa is a combination Japanese grocery store and Japanese food court and man it’s hard to decide what to get so I always get the same thing.
Yesterday I got the Tonkotsu Ramen at Noodle World Jr. in Westchester, because it’s right by the Staples where I went. It’s not bad for a chain and not expensive either.
The problem with me going into Mitsuwa is walking out 20 lbs heavier before noon.
I usually go with the special pork salt ramen — I think it’s the #7 or 9. But I suspect there are no wrong answers.
This week feels like an entire verse in “We Didn’t Start The Fire”
JFK BLOWN AWAY WHAT ELSE DO I HAVE TO SAY
Damn, poor JFK.
shit, imagine being Jackie’s dry cleaner
“We had to charge extra to get all the synapses out.”
She caught her husband’s brains with grace and aplomb.
Whoever has a fetish for Japanese nurses get your ass down to the Calgary Convention CentRe and ask for Tomiko.
You can’t have 99% of the population asking for Tomiko. That’s just not right to put her through that.
Houston, OTOH, is an expert in handling that sort of volume repeatedly.
I hate needles for other people, dogs etc. I am in a convention centre with needles everywhere I look.
So you just use chloroform on dates? Kinda old-fashioned.
No school like the old school… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qb89fBLWhEg
I am ok with needles so long as I can watch the fucking thing go in (and thus will myself not to flinch).
That has seriously freaked other people out, even a nurse or two.
The lads at the shooting gallery think it’s boss, tho.
The nurse asked me if I was afraid of needles, and I said “no. I mean, I’m going to look the other way while you do it, but it’s fine.”
He said, “oh yeah, everybody looks the other way.”
Now I have proof that he LIED. What else did he lie about? Ohmygod I have microchips in me now, don’t I?
At Cal State L.A. it was the regular Army (not the National Guard) who did all the registering and vaccinating. The medic who gave me my shot had an 82nd Airborne Division patch on his shoulder. The shot was painless, but afterwards he punched me in the mouth.
Fort Bragg based army, he is just used to hitting his wife after giving her his injection, from the people I know who live there this is a local tradition.
As is custom.
All teh one world government asks of us is perfect obedience
Shit GTD, what are thoughts on vaccine tourism? There’s plenty of Moderna and Pfizer shots around me in Chicago.
(Look, I like our commenters and all, but do we really want disease-ridden Canucks streaming over our border?)
Remember when they were laughing at us when Trump was President?
Who’s laughing now, folks?
Yeah, we’ll all be partying with supermodels while they still got the Poutine Pox.
STAY HOME SNOWBACKS.
I hear they carry the molson with them.
Would happily travel to get it, but not allowed to cross the boarder as I’m so far essential it’s not funny. May try to travel east of here to get one, to try to get away from all the idiots that live in my area.
Re, European Super League:
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I have been called a prophet before, but not this early in a year.
Jury to deliver verdict on murderous asshole cop in the next hour.
Don’t wanna give away my thoughts, so let’s just wait and see what happens to that cop who deserves to die.
En route to put that hot AZ in me!
I’m on two waiting lists for the shot, so hopefully sooooon
I had the Phizer – first one was nbd, second one knocked me down for a full day.
Same
I was up all night – all of my joints felt like they were full of glass. Woke up with a hangover essentially.
I had J+J, still shittin large scabby blood clots. Should go away by summer.
“Old School Zero” would approve https://web.archive.org/web/20131116083346im_/http://p.uproxxcdn.com/photo/732/thumb
Also, typing “shittin clots” made me think of
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiFoE7LrwtM
I was expecting this:
I got the J&J and I felt fine. My urine was like maple syrup for a week, filled with blood and pus, and it burned like hell, but there was none of this “blood clot” shit they’re trying to scare you with. Except for the urine and the bloody diarrhea and the headaches, I declare the J&J vax to be perfectly safe.
Had the Moderna 1st shot a few days ago. Just a little arm ache the first day, then complete zombie-land the 2nd day. So from what I’ve been hearing, the 2nd shot is REALLY going to suck. WooHoo.
Moderna #1 two weeks ago, arm ache turned into fever on day 2. I get the second dose a couple days before OrangeJello’s kolledge graduation, so it looks like I’ll be turning to my stand-by pain reliever, Bourbon, to get me through.
Hey, you got a built in excuse to get blotto during an otherwise boring gradumitation ceremony. (yeah, I’m a glass half full – of bourbon – kinda guy)
J&J, it’ll be two weeks on Friday, at which point I will be a fully operational Death Star to coronavirus.
Uh… let’s ignore how those movies ended.
Apparently all of the Premier League teams are now out, (Source is AFTV, which has something to do with Arsenal and no, I do not know how reliable they are), and the guy in charge at Man U has resigned.
Meanwhile, at Wakezilla’s estate:
GM at Juventus is out too.
Just saw that. Chaos reigns.
Cry havoc and let slip the hogs of war, or something.
Or the hogs of wart.
You have been waiting your whole life for this, haven’t you? Enjoy your moment, my dude!
It’s a small moment, but I’m a small person. So it works.
“A noble spirit embiggens the smallest
manwarthog .”Perfectly cromulent word.
Perfectly cromulent thread. I am embiggened for it.
GMs taking the fall for what had to be ownership decisions? All I know about lesser footy management structures is that the board in Football Manager is almost never pleased with me.
Meanwhile they are building statues of Hippo in 2131.
oh, chuh chuh
Tweets now saying, (so about as unconfirmed as it gets), that Arsenal and Man U are out as well.
I’m a little befuddled by the strategy behind the whole Super League thing. I can imagine two coherent strategies that might have made sense:
1) We’re totally going to do this, we will fight the domestic leagues and UEFA in court and in public opinion, and at the end of the day we’re going to come out ahead.
2) We’re going to threaten to do this, as a way to get leverage and force concessions from domestic leagues and UEFA that favor us economically.
What I can’t imagine is how they could think that the reaction WOULDN’T have been anger and outrage and threats of consequences and lawsuits. How do you not prepare for that?
Kronke probably thought he could weather the storm like he did moving the Rams.
That’s a great point. US billionaires like the Glazers and Kroenkes are used to fucking over fan bases without so much as a courtesy reach around and getting away with it. There’s no way they were prepared for this reaction. And I’m sure Abramovich was stunned to learn that he couldn’t just have the protestors shot when they blocked the Chelsea bus today.
Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me.
This whole thing (yes, it says much bad about me that THIS was what it took) has started to seriously sour me on capitalism.
CNN is quoting an unnamed Chelsea source as saying ““It has never been about the money,” and I haven’t laughed like that in ages.
When someone tells you “it’s not about the money,” guarn-fucking-tee you it’s about the money.
Kinda like when someone prefaces a statement by saying “I’m not racist BUT…”
But he caved after a day? You gotta Al Davis that shit.
Man U and Arsenal are still in, as far as I know. I think Man City is a Middle-East ownership.
When I say “still in” I mean they haven’t withdrawn officially. If Chelsea, Man City and Barcelona really are out the Super League is dead.
But JimU is probably right, they’ll try this again in a few years.
Spurs will be the last to leave, because that is the Spursiest of Spurs moves.
RIP The Super League, for right now. There’s too much money for the idea to be abandoned permanently. They just have to sell the idea better next time.
https://www.skysports.com/football/live-blog/11661/12279732/european-super-league-plans-live-updates
Man City out, Chelsea out, Barcelona backpedaling as fast as they can.
I would say that the Super League was a tribute to my prom night, in that they shot their wad far too soon and nobody was happy about it.
But did you pull out as quickly?
Like it got that far.
So the Super League is falling apart already? That was fast.
I see both of us are doing the same thing instead of working.
Hey, I’ll have you know I was just on a telephonic hearing, while hoping that my FedEx wine delivery (which requires a signature) didn’t arrive in the middle of it. “Excuse me, Your Honor, I have to sign for some booze for a minute.”
I can think of several judges that would grant me that break without a second’s thought.
Tomlin re-signed with the Steelers through 2024. Expect Big Ben to be riding that franchise down the toilet during that same time frame.
They shoulda ditched Benzo after last year’s epic collapse. They deserve all the failure to come if they keep him around.
Was watching a game with a Bears fan chum of mine in about ’12. He said that Ben was still a pretty good QB, but would never get them back to a SB as he had taken just too much damage over the years.
I said “Yeah, we’ll see” and thought “I am going to remember this and throw it back in your FACE when the stillers get #7 with Ben and it’s going to be SWEET”
Sigh.
As usual, I was thinking with my fanhood & my chum was infuriatingly correct… The bastard.
You a Stillers fan too? That’s 3 of us( you, me, WCS) 3 1/2 if we count Balls, who claims he’s “recovering.” LOL, this shit is incurable!
Yup. Grew up in Greensburg in the 70ies, so I’ll be black n gold till I’m dead n’ cold.
Ligonier here!
Wow. That takes me back. Went to Fort Ligonier for a field trip as a kid.
Everybody did, it was a rule. And Idlewild. I think WCS is from Greensburg too. Did you go to Central or GS?
Neither. Moved before HS. I am a proud graduate of East Hempfield Elementary School, though!! (although I think they changed the name of that school for some reason)
And I’m one too — since at least 1974 when Joe G. and Terry H. and Terry B. were in a QB battle. I had a Joe Gilliam football card and he was #17 and that was my lucky number so fandom followed . . . that worked out for me better than him.
I think there might be more of us than fans of any other team. As it should be!
Sbould have ditched his dumb ass after the rape shit.
I’ve tried to lay off using this gif because it’s been beat to death, but in this case, I think that it is merited…
they can just put Ben in a room with some folding chairs and pictures of the linemen’s faces on the back of the chairs and Ben won’t know the difference.