NFL Notes:
- Well, the league decided to hold off naming the Centennial Hall of Fame class until a special reveal LIVE! on “Good Morning Football” on the NFL Network on January 15th.
- Because nothing says “must-see TV” like an announcement on the 9/12 newsdump of football shows.
- Mark Ingram returned to the Ravens practice field.
- He’s been out since December 22nd with a calf strain.
- If he’s healthy, it means the Ravens will have two 1000-yard rushers in their backfield.
- Adam Thielen has been officially listed as “questionable” due to stitches in his ankle.
- Thielen’s injury was “not thought to be significant” enough to affect his availability for Saturday.
- But league rules stipulate he has to be accounted for on the injury report, lest they face the types of fines Seattle had to pay between 2013-16 for funnying up their lists.
- But league rules stipulate he has to be accounted for on the injury report, lest they face the types of fines Seattle had to pay between 2013-16 for funnying up their lists.
- Stefon Diggs is off the list, as he has recovered from a bout of the flu.
- Thielen’s injury was “not thought to be significant” enough to affect his availability for Saturday.
- Doug Williams was reassigned out of the player personnel department in Washington, and will be named senior vice president of player development for the [Redacteds].
- This the combined fallout from firing Bruce Allen & hiring Ron Rivera
- The fallout from losing to Seattle continues, as the Eagles have let go of offensive coordinator Mike Groh and wide receivers coach Carson Walch.
- This comes less than 24 hours after head coach Doug Pederson gave both a vote of confidence at a press conference.
I didn’t get to it yesterday, but they released the template for the NHL All-Star jerseys yesterday, and I’ve gotta say…
Oof. The patch is first-rate, and the trumpet banner on the poster is nice, but the battleship gray is decidedly off-putting. But that’s the NHL: Why make millions when you could make…thousands.
Tonight’s sports:
- NHL: (all Canadian teams are regional broadcasts only)
- Sabres at Blues – 8:00PM | Sportsnet
- Predators at Blackhawks – 8:30PM | NBCSN
- NBA:
- Celtics at 76ers – 7:00PM | TNT / TSN5
- Rockets at Oklahoma City Thunder – 9:30PM | TNT / TSN5
- NCAA: (name brands only)
- Purdue at Michigan – 7:00PM | FS1
- Memphis at Wichita State – 7:00PM | ESPN2
- Arizona at Oregon – 9:00PM | ESPN
- Minnesota at Michigan State – 9:00PM | ESPN2
- Washington at Stanford – 9:00PM | FS1
Tonight’s TV:
- Jeopardy GOAT Tournament – 8:00PM ET/PT | ABC
- The score after two matches is Jennings 1, Holzhauer 1, Rutter 0.
- Is it just me, or has Rutter been skunked on every Daily Double he’s hit so far?
- The score after two matches is Jennings 1, Holzhauer 1, Rutter 0.
That’s it for me this week. Seamus will have his cavalcade of whimsy tomorrow night, and Scotchy’s taking a break from the hobo-killin’ for the football previews this weekend. Enjoy yourselves folks.
Depression conversations are not always fun but are always needed.
My god, man.
Who wouldn’t or shouldn’t be depressed right now?
Talking point was, “Fuck it, we’ve seen it this far through, let’s see how this motherfucker ends.”
That cheered the whole crowd up.
I’m not.
Hey, famine and extreme poverty are at their lowest levels ever!
Holy shit, men. MEN.
Ken Jennings whipped his dick out and slapped James upside his head tonite.
Maybe it was mentioned below, but West Coast (tries to do gang sign, immediately gets arthritis) repasent.
I knew this fact over an hour ago!
I avoided this page because of potential spoilers, so thank you for your service.
No really.
But holy shit, Ken was just badass.
It was the Ken and James show. Brad’s surprisingly been a non-factor, which is disappointing, not just because I thought he would win in 6.
In the Wednesday show, they were just trying to beat each other on the buzzer. ISTR a couple of questions where someone got it and didn’t really know the answer.
Hey
Hola
Goalie scores for the Ice Titans!
Don’t see that every day!
https://streamable.com/njq9d
It’s true!
Good for the Nashville Epsteins!
#BFIB have just finalized a FANTASTIC trade, I don’t even fear the spring anymore WOO!!!!
How many passwords-to-be-named-later did they get?
sooooooo jelly 😀
/puts on Sunday jorts
For the love of God don’t let him celebrate by driving real fast in the Dominican.
How the hell did they swing that? Late-blooming hit-for-average-in-a-league-where-that-doesn’t-matter-anymore for highly-regarded left-handed young pitcher?
SUSPICIOUS.
But yeah, easy win for the WhiteTrashBirds.
Those All Star sweaters. Woof. No wonder Ovi is skipping the weekend. I wouldn’t want to be photographed in those either.
Speaking of weather, let’s make sure to remind all Canadians that it’s a scorching 45 degrees down here right now, so they shouldn’t even bother trying to invade.
Four years ago today, the Bengals went beyond Plaid.
https://www.cincinnati.com/picture-gallery/sports/nfl/bengals/2016/01/09/bengals-host-steelers-in-wild-card-round/78572992/
Earlier tonight I tried to lie down on the couch and take a nap. Unbeknownst to me and after I was half asleep, at the same time my mother decided to make a phone call to her 93 year old friend who lives in Maryland. So I wake up to Mom yelling (into the phone), but didn’t yet know she was even on the phone.
tWBS: WTF are you yelling about?
tWBS’ Mom: Shut up, I’m on the phone with Rose.
tWBS: Me shut up? You’re the one yelling. Go the hell upstairs.
Seamus, contemplating, after yet another fight with his mom after she talks to her best friend-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IynXh593Bg
Nah, no fight. She actually laughed.
Mom’s a pain sometimes, but she’s cool.
Hell, how many 78 year old women would be cool with me growing weed? (or at least trying to)
“NO SEE ROSE, THAT’S THE BEST PART IF HE GETS ARRESTED I GET THE HOUSE TO MYSELF.”
Too late. I already paid off the loan. And it’s already in my name. She really fucked that one up, though she is allowed to stay until she dies.
Now, where did I put that rat poison?
“Hey, it’s totally cool that you live alone with your mom.”
-Norman Bates
My dad started smoking weed after he retired from the Air Force at age 42, about 1978. He quit about ten years ago, mostly because it became too difficult for him to score out in the country-ass place he lives, and I don’t get out there often enough to keep him supplied regularly.
I don’t think my mom ever really approved, but whenever he and I slapped Repo Man or Lebowski or Caddyshack or a Python movie on and sparked up a bowl, she would go get the popcorn machine going and line up the pretzels and sesame sticks for the upcoming munchie onslaught. He’ll be 83 Monday and she’ll be 80 on St Paddy’s day.
Very nice. Imma move in.
The folks wouldn’t have any problem with cultivation. And it’s a 70 acre ranch out in the boonies.
I’ll be putting seeds in the pots (both weed and hot peppers) in the next coupla weeks. Might even get them in the ground early this year. Heck, supposed to be in the 70s for the next week here.
January my ass.
-30C here next week.
Ooooh, yikes.
Oh sorry Scotchy. That’s the 20s in Canadia.
When you do the math, the 20’s in Canadia converts to the 1860’s in the U.S.
/ZOOM! POW!-YOU JUST GOT BAZINGA’D, DUDE!
LMFAO
Repo Man is so gotdam funny/brilliant/odd-I think you have to take it in at least 5 times before you really understand where it’s going.
I’ve probably seen it thirty times since I first saw it on VCR back in 1985, and I still catch something new just about every time.
Found a sad:
https://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/celebrity-news/buck-henry-dead-screenwriter-tributes-a4330081.html
There’s not too many people named “Buck” I would expect to be sad about dying.
Well, Uncle.
You know, one of the things I admired most about John Candy was that he probably never molested Macaulay Culkin.
Probably introduced him to cocaine.
The writing credit for Get Smart alone gets him into cool club heaven.
Much love.
Pours one out.
I thought Josh McDaniels was kind of an idiot. I heard he wanted the Browns job in 2019 when it was available. Now I know he’s an idiot.
He knows he is on a sinking ship and is looking for some flotsam.
Not the Browns. Why go on a lifeboat with cracks in the hull?
I wouldn’t hire that little weasel even if my last name was Gere
Gerbil. Not weasel.
Thank you.
You think he stops at gerbils? They all like to hunt, man.
last funny:
American Divorcées: 2
House of Windsor: 0
Tunnels: 1
BOOM
Days when my neck hurts are bad enough. But days when my neck hurts and I didn’t *exercise* are even worse.
I’d nod sagely, but that hurts sometimes
Does that mean more or less chicken heading?
RTD: Chicken heading…what’s chicken heading…
RTD: [remembers Russell Wilson being accused of having a dalliance with a “chickenhead”]
RTD: WHY YOU SON OF A BITCH! [shakes fist] NO MORE STOCK TIPS FOR YOU!
*all temperatures in Celsius because, why would I go out of my way?
Weather: [yesterday] “Hey there, we’re doing -8.”
Me: “Cool. I mean, that’s sorta expected.”
Weather: [this morning] “Late last night I dropped to -19. Are you ok?”
Me: “Hey, it’s that time of year. It’s to be expected.”
Weather: [early afternoon the next day] “I’m gonna head to -5 and snow all over the place. You good?”
Me: “I guess.”
Weather: [on the commute home] “Changed my mind. I’m going freezing rain without any notice.”
Me: “Fuck you!”
Weather: “Hey fella, take it up with… hahahahahaha. THERE’S NO ONE TO TAKE IT UP WITH! LOOOOOOOOOSER!”
If there are any hobos in greater Canadia with weather-sounding names, I’d be looking to catch the next freight out of town.*
*late comment because I had to stay late taking the Christmas decorations down at work last night
If you had to make a roster from all the players left in the playoffs, who makes it?
Hell of a 3-man group at QB (Mahomes, Lamar!, and TheShaun as your gameday inactive??)
/nah, I’d dress three QBs so I could run some Lamar! gadget plays
I’m thinking
LAMAR! at QB
Derrick Henry and Dalvin Cook at RB
Davante Adams and Tyreek Hill at WR (despite the latter being a terrible person)
Travis Kelce at TE
And then I got bored of my own question
D /ST – New EnglaHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Dalvin Cook.
Also, so much for the Dems “wetting their pants” or “kissing Trump’s ass” over Iran:
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/war-powers-resolution-trump-iran-pelosi-house
Those eight Democrats need to be destroyed in the primaries.
One of them is mine and I ain’t thrilled. He voted for the impeachment articles which makes this more baffling. “Hey the president is a boob and an imbecile and in no way deserves to be in office, but he should be allowed to send our just barely out of high school kids to the Middle East to get shot at with no restrictions.”
Almost all of these idiot Dems voted for that godawful defense bill the same day as the impeachment vote. It’s almost as if there’s some kind of sinister machination of intertwined interests strangling the life out of this country in the name of national security.
In case want MOAR reason to root for LSU on Monday – apparently, Coach Orgeron’s “plus one” to the Heisman presentation?
Demmycratic Governor (re-elected, no less) John Bel Edwards.
Thats legit
Yay, I got one of the triple stumpers!
Also tonight…Ice Rams vs Ice Raiders (that’s accurate now! what a world!)
And who’s watching the Trump rally? I hope he talks about Iran and freedom!
Also a solid Larry David profile…
https://www.gq.com/story/larry-david-cover-profile-february-2020
Found a funny:
guys listen to this sick guitar solo
Oh that is lovely.
Did he just use Cosby’s old walker? Seemed to work for him.
I can’t make out any Jell-o pudding stains
THIS GUY HARVEY WEINSTEIN I CALL HIM RAPEY SHANKAR.
If I lived in New York City, I would so run down there and spray that railing with a fine coating of Teflon lubricant.
In that Jeopardy GOAT game, i’m rooting for Ken Jennings.
Ditto. In Ken We Trust.
Apparently, the Dems have tried (on multiple occasions) to get him to run for Senate.
I’d move to Utarr and vote for him. (I would not. But still.)
LOL
and he IS, in fact, a semi-liberal Demmycrat (certainly liberal for Utah)
But he lives in Warshington if I’m not mistaken
maybe he moved? I recall he was from Utah during his first burst of popularity
Found some cools:
https://ncase.me/fireflies/
https://ncase.me/door/
http://longnow.org/seminars/02017/aug/07/seeing-whole-systems/
Cavalcade of Whimsy.
I like that. It’s a nicer way of saying I write stupid shit. I LOVE YOU CANADIA!!!!
Coming on a bit strong. What’s your stance on free medicine for all?
If it gets Hippo free pain pills and keeps him in a good mood, I’m all for it.
Alright we will take you. There is no room in the freezer so just leave it outside.
Herodotus, you can take solace in the fact that the Red Wings did their part in setting the record…
https://twitter.com/RyanFieldABC/status/1215345361465815040
The Detroit Lacrosse team really sucked it up this year.
Also, the fact that there’s no hockey team in Cleveland is proof that there must be a god.
One day an asteroid shall come along, bada boom, NO MOAR EARTH NEITHER
Bada Boom
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9Wmpkqen7w
I’m no rasslin’ fan but… maybe now I will be? https://nationalpost.com/sports/other-sports/wwes-lars-sullivan-was-once-a-star-in-adult-films/wcm/291e2fb5-53ba-4878-af1f-c3ca60488740
Obviously he would be a good wrestler. He has the sMe parts.
Pretty much the same thing. Just added a thin layer of Lycra.
I could never reconcile the blatant homoeroticism of wrestling with the largely-homophobic fanbase.