Instant (Mid-Morning) Hippo Thoughts – Week 11, 2016

First of all - fuck the world, and fuck humanity. Extinction is coming, and we will totes deserve it. Until that sweet day of reckoning, onto the games. Second of all...I forgot to check for fill-in columns first. Oopsie. So apologies for duplicative #content. Everyone missed almost every

Instant Hippo Thoughts – Week 9, 2016

I am not having a good year. Everything after Superb Owl L has been a slip and slide made of bile and vomitus. So on that note, congratulations to your AFC West champion Oakland Raiders. And kudos to JDR for a fantastic gameplan, well-executed. So much

Instant Hippo Thoughts – Week 8, 2016

Well, I don't know what gets much scarier than what happened to Donks cult hero Wade Phillips on the sideline of what was otherwise a Most Glorious Pick Six for his defense. (Thankfully, the tubby defensive zen master is alive and well.) But the VERY SCARY STORIES that

Instant Hippo Thoughts – Week 7, 2016

This weekend came and went. I didn't particularly enjoy it, and the Donks still can make things worse with a MNF shitshow. I am reticent. THANK FUCK for HillyBob's steadfast competence. Speaking of steadfast competence, that is all we had seen from the Vikings and Sam Bradford.

Instant Hippo Thoughts – Week 5, 2016

And then, there was one. HAI, Minny!! Well, I guess we could awkwardly wave to Factory too, but...let's not and say we did? I am a bad person. Some frauds got found out this week, and definitely count YOOOOUUUUUSTON amongst them. But give the Vikes credit - they absolutely

Instant Hippo Thoughts – Week 4, 2016

It's not the most glorious thing in the world, but we sports fans get overly used to the idea/extent of the "doormat" designation. It seems unthinkable that Team X could ever get their shit together...and then they are down to their 3rd QB. But lo and behold, things

Instant Hippo Thoughts FOAR Week 3, 2016

Week 3 brought us multiple safeties, and multiple fat guy TDs. It was fun that way. It was also plenty surprising, as we will discuss below... Holy shit, Philadelphia. I very smugly dismissed you in the late games preview, and you done showed me fer what. More

Instant Hippo Thoughts – Week 2, 2016

Hey howdy there! We sure did get some exciting (and derpy!) footballing this past Sunday, did we not? BLEERGH be praised. Remember Lawrence Taylor winning League MVP honors as a defender? Von Miller does, and says HAI. HODOR probably winced in pain just by my typing that

Instant Hippo Thoughts – Week 1, 2016

Yes, football is back and our lives, shitty as they may be, finally feel complete again. Huzzah! Speaking of life, one wonders why philosophers, authors, and poets devote so much time, effort, and ink to describe the futility and meaningless of life when they could just be all like "Look