Instant Hippo Thoughts – “Lucky” Week 13, 2023 Season

December is here, the temperature is 75F inside the HippoLair.  Almost had to put the a/c on, but I worried my dead father would haunt me. When Grumblelord goes into the Hall of Fame, the 3 December 2023 Clippers/P*ts game needs to replay in full.  24/7 on NFL Network.  Yes, there

Instant Hippo Thoughts – Week 12, 2023 Season

Oh man, it just hit me - does a SeaTruther loss in Week TWAAAALLLLLVVVE hurt worse?  Like time and a half? But that was Thursday's mess, let us talk of SUNDAY. The early schedule looked a bit shit, and boy howdy did it ever live up to the hype.  Light a candle

Instant Hippo Thoughts – Week 11, 2023 Season

For real, y'all.  It's getting late early.  Maybe for those who love life in general, all year round feels like FITBAW season.  But that ain't me. Preparing me for disappointment, The Shield crammed 8 into the early window, leaving 3 absolute dogs late.  But early did bring us some chaos, starting

Instant Hippo Thoughts – Week 10, 2023 Season

Yes, I am angrily pilled to the gills.  Let's see how much Hippo can remember about these past 14 hours! Oh dear God, did The Shield EVAR test Germany's schiesse porn limits.  P*ts opened with a long drive and FG, Humps responded with an even longer TD drive.  Then...nothing.  A whole

Instant Hippo Thoughts – Week 9, 2023 Season

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We'uns approximately 50% of the way through the NFL regular season.  Week 9 brought pills, thrills, and bellyaches - just maybe not exactly where you expected to find them*. *Grandson Bronco REALLY likes to knock Precious Pill Bottle off the nightstand.  Good thing the little maniac is cute (pay no attention

Instant Hippo Thoughts – Week 7, 2023 Season

Look, it's not like I see everything being ok in the world just because the Donks (WOO!!) finally won a FITBAW match.  No, it's because (i) Donks won; (ii) U*NC lost to 1-5 Wahoowa AT HOME; and (iii) NC State didn't play. Plus, I don't have to worry about my Loser

Instant Hippo Thoughts – Week 6, 2023 Season

Well, looky-loo.  We have waded one-third of the way through the regular season.  With one turd of a Week 6 slate. Closing out this year's London series, you had Ratbirds and Tits - seemingly a pretty interesting matchup.  You know, on paper.  In reality, Balmer ran out to an 18-3 halftime lead,

Instant Hippo Thoughts – Week 5, 2023 Season

What a time to be alive, eh?  Some things happened yesterday, and here is what I discrened about a subset of said things. We get a near-perfect lineup, in terms of spacing.  1-6-4-1, with each "1" being intriguing enough to serve as a stand-alone option.  But with the NFL, every matchup/window

Instant Hippo Thoughts – Week 4, 2023 Season

Don't you just love the MANDATORY 14-hour marathon watches?  I sure does.  But shiiiiiit fahr, is it difficult to remember enough about it all for recap purposes. Execpt that Denver won, thanks to some remarkably dumb Q4 play from the otherwise career-day-throwing Strawberry Fields.  That really was...a game that happened.  A

Instant Hippo Thoughts – Week 3, 2023 Season

DonT sent the banner pic earlier this week.  You can't read the caption because it's that kind of timeline - but it sagely reads: When you're dead inside and sick of life but at least there are cats. As you may have noticed, despite a very good overall performance from the much-shat-upon Charmslinger...the

Instant Hippo Thoughts – Week 2, 2023 Season

Some weeks, one just wonders how the universe will make everything worse.  That's not to say that one doesn't EXPECT everything to get worse.  Believe me, that much is assured. But thanks a lot, fat fuck Sean Payton, and head-hunting fuckwit Kareem Jackson.  Inspiring a come-from-ahead loss at home.  After leading