Your “Thank Gawd The National Nightmare Is Ovah!” Wednesday Evening Open Thread

NFL BRADY NOOZ!:

• It’s the Bucs.   
  • Two years at $30 million per season.
  • The Chargers lost out because Brady apparently wanted to stay on the east coast for Gisele family reasons.
  • The Onion, of course, has it all in perspective.

Bucs Sign Replacement-Level Veteran To Hold Down QB Position Until They Draft Starter https://t.co/45iJ7eze4O pic.twitter.com/qMK96XV2TQ

— The Onion (@TheOnion) March 18, 2020

• Just after he goes, his center has left for the Dolphins.
  • Ted Karras goes for one year at $4.0 million.
  • Karras is the second starting offensive lineman added by the Dolphins in free agency, joining Ereck Flowers, and also is the second former Patriot to join Miami along with linebacker Kyle Van Noy.

Other NFL News:

• Since the league year started at 4:00, here’s what I was able to find:
  • Nick Foles was traded to the Bears for a draft pick.
    • Continuing his spiral into Sam Bradford territory, Foles was exchanged for a fourth-round pick in the 2020 draft.
      • He spent one year with the Jags, got paid $30.5 million, and leaves with an $18.75 million dead cap hit.
  • To roil Low Commander, the Chargers are looking at Cam Newton, since Marmalard went to the Colts.
    • It buys them time to better develop Tyrod Taylor, or allows them to cut Taylor & draft a future Cam replacement.
  • Bruce Irvin is going back to the Seahawks.
    • He left for more money in 2015, and makes his way back after stops in Oakland, Atlanta, and Charlotte.
  • Eli Apple to the Raiders.
    • His third team in three years, after being drafted by the Giants in 2016 & traded to the Saints in 2018.

Today’s internet good dog is courtesy the President of Ireland, who’s Bernese Mountain Dog “Brod” interrupted an International Women’s Day event to seek him out.

The *cuteness*. Irish President Michael D. Higgins’ Bermese mountain dog Bród comes to find him at an official event. pic.twitter.com/YXesDv50Fk

— Barry Malone (@malonebarry) March 7, 2020

For those of you not into dogs, may I offer you some pussy?

https://twitter.com/Playboy/status/1240093038325596161

Over the line? Possibly. Some quality wordplay? Yes.

Tonight’s sports:

• NFL:
  • Free agency updates – NFLN; ESPN / TSN
• Wrasslin’:
  • AEW Dynamite – 8:00PM | TNT / TSN2
    • Their first COVID-impacted show.
  • NXT – 8:00PM | USA
    • Likely a clip show, given what’s happened on Raw & Smackdown.
• Classic MLB Baseball: ESPN Classic
  • From 1984: San Diego at Chicago Cubs
    • 8:00 PM | Game 1 of the NL Championship Series.
    • 10:00 PM | Game 4 of the NL Championship Series.
  • From 1987: St. Louis at Minnesota
    • 12:00 AM | Game 6 of the World Series.
    • 2:00AM | Game 7 of the World Series.

Tonight’s …entertainment?:

• Lego Masters – 9:01 PM | FOX
  • The remaining contestants are given the opportunity to showcase their creativity when they are tasked with interpreting a story that is read aloud from a book selected just for this competition.
• America’s Top Dog – 9:00 PM | A&E
  • Six winning K9’s and one champion underdog battle it out for 25K and the bragging rights for the ultimate title of America’s Top Dog.
    • It’s like “American Ninja Warrior” for police & search dogs.

So far, aside from closed borders & the melted value of the Canadian dollar, World War III seems to be progressing nicely on the home front.