NFL News: Most of it today surrounds the reactions to what happened in Minneapolis, as well as the systemic racism inherent in most justice systems.
(Before anyone goes off on me as a Canadian trying to sound superior, I remind you that I didn’t say just the US system. Canada has its own racial injustice issues, starting with First Nations.)
- The man who blackballed Colin Kaepernick had this to say about the unrest in his league’s home cities, and I guess the rest of America too:
— NFL (@NFL) May 30, 2020
- And a very stupid man who used to work in that office chimed in about three years too late.
My latest on https://t.co/giyZDGDdfS I argue the NFL and the players have done great work on the substance of racial injustice but have failed to resolve the symbol of that injustice – Colin Kaepernick.Watching MN reminds us the symbols are important too. https://t.co/jgdl2NPZyE
— Joe Lockhart (@joelockhart) May 30, 2020
- The Players Coalition, which came out of the NFL’s response to Kaep’s kneeling, had this to say:
Police chiefs, prosecutors, Mayors, and the highest Court in the land – we need accountability. pic.twitter.com/ZSWbJw1asP
— PlayersCoalition (@playercoalition) May 30, 2020
- Jed York released a statement & a financial pledge to local organizations, which was immediately swamped by people reminding him how he’d dumped Kaep in the first place.
— Jed York (@JedYork) May 31, 2020
The man people keep referencing throughout the NFL’s reaction had his own piece to say:
When civility leads to death, revolting is the only logical reaction.
The cries for peace will rain down, and when they do, they will land on deaf ears, because your violence has brought this resistance.
We have the right to fight back!
Rest in Power George Floyd
— Colin Kaepernick (@Kaepernick7) May 28, 2020
and the rest of the players followed his lead, with Russell Wilson adding his Russell Wilsonness to it all.
Jesus, We need YOU now.
— Russell Wilson (@DangeRussWilson) May 31, 2020
Fortunately, corporate America reached out to its white fanbase to let them know there are greater priorities right now,
An official statement from EA SPORTS pic.twitter.com/MKdgJjvKJB
— Madden NFL 24 (@EAMaddenNFL) May 31, 2020
which, let me tell you, hosts a variety of colourful comments both for & against. YOU WILL want to wipe out humanity after reading those.
Well, while the rest of the world burns,
at least we can have the consistency that is MXC. Tonight’s episode – “Physical Fitness vs. the Music Industry”
“The highly toned versus the highly tuned.” Bobby Shoemaker will never be the same again.
Tonight’s … entertainment?:
- Wrasslin’:
- Monday Night Raw – 8:00PM | USA / Sportsnet360
- NASCAR XFINITY Series:
- Cheddar’s 300 – 7:00PM | FS1 / TSN
- 30 for 30 – ESPN2
- 7:00 PM – “Lance” – part 1
- 9:00PM – “Lance” – part 2
- The Titan Games – 8:00PM | NBC
- Action continues in the Central division, where the winner moves on to face a pro Titan on Mt. Olympus in the consummate athletic test. Dwayne Johnson hosts, with boxer Claressa Shields and ex-NFL lineman Joe Thomas serving as pro Titans.
- Botched – 9:00PM | E! / 10:00PM | E! Canada
- A Cartel Crew bombshell can’t keep fat in her booty seeks advice from Dr. Dubrow, while another patient who had plastic surgery from a dentist hopes for a breast revision redemption. Dr. Nassif attempts an 11th rhinoplasty on a patient.
- KBO League:
- Lotte Giants vs. Kia Tigers – 5:25AM | ESPN / TSN3
- rebroadcast at 9:00AM (TSN3) and 2:00PM (ESPN)
- Lotte Giants vs. Kia Tigers – 5:25AM | ESPN / TSN3
A somewhat satisfactory evening of diversion from the chaos all around. Unless it’s your place on fire.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bqcg-Afx0PA
It’s true neutral. (Whoops, that’s not the picture.)
Oh fuck. It’s only Monday.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kl4wkIPiTcY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agVpq_XXRmU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrpXArn3hII
looks like something from LISA
This is The Los Angeles Times sports section, BTW
Pics or it didn WTF???
There were dozens of ads like this in the LAT over the years. It was like they were parodies but they weren’t.
Always the same photo of him (this time reversed) with really horrible layouts
I can’t tell if you are making this up or not. If true, is this an honest $$$$ reclamation project?
Or public image Ltd?
He may have had a sweat shop with immigrant kids there.
Just Google it, most of his charity promises and ads are bullshit. Enough that is does resemble parody. Drunk parody.
Although I’d bet he got real tax breaks from it.
His ad agency must REALLY like that photo.
That rendering is as far as any of that got. It isn’t even that good of a rendering.
Sames.
He never built any of these things. All his ads had horrible shoddy paste ups, as if he personally had done it. The L.A. Times would give him full pages for free to keep locker room access. There was website that had all the ads collected and I’m searching but I haven’t found it yet. I saw these ads all the time in the paper; they were real.
They were always these crazy awards ceremonies loaded with pictures of politicians and sheriffs, etc., with Donald Sterling in the center as “Humanitarian of the Year.” I shit you not. Ask balls.
Im just asking if it’s current. I also assumed that he paid for the ad placements to white wash his PR moves.
They stopped after he got banned. They were weekly in the 90s and early oughts. These are real ads.
There is about twenty years of news articles calling him out for not making promised charity moves, but it seems to stop around the time he got banned in 2014.
These aren’t even the good full-page award ceremony ads. Those were insane. I still can’t find them. I’ll buy a subscription to the LA Times just get access to their back issues and find them. There used to be a website devoted to them but it seems o be gone. Nothing disappears from the internet.
Totally true
While you jackals have been hating America, I’ve been turning this:
into this:
into this:
into this:
. . . and it still has 5 more hours of simmering to go to make a nice beef stock. Look at the delicate beads of fat floating to the surface.
Where’s the rest of the body?
This is all the cheap bones. I keep these for myself. I allowed my huntsmen and laborers to take the rest of the carcass back to their village for their religious ceremonies.
Your benevolence to Jim Tomsula will be recognized by the hobo community.
…
And by Scotchy.
It continues to simmer “ever thus so,” with only delicate bubbles surfacing, as I have skillfully throttled the gas jet below to the perfect spot between “low” and “2”. The richness of the marrow is imparting into the water, along with the celery, onion, carrot, garlic, herbs, and, of course, the parsnip, the jewel of any hearty stock.
Parsnips are highly underrated!
Kraft Singles are the common currency of strip clubs across America
LIVE CAR CHASE IN L.A.- – REPEAT – – LIVE CAR CHASE IN L.A.
They got them.
ANOTHER ONE!!
Got them again.
MOAR CAR CHASE PLZ
You live there, you have a car. Manifest your desires!
I should show them how to do it. I’ll just drive immediately east of LAX.
The helicopters can’t follow you there! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
I AM THE NIGHTRIDER! I was told at the time 40 years ago that I physically resembled the Nightrider, and looking back, I can see it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMYLjlpP0NY
Minor scrimmages in East Yinzburgh tonight. Just idiotic stuff, no looting, fires, flipped vehicles, etc. That’s actually a C+ grade up from the F—- we had here Saturday.
How’d you get a photo from inside Trump’s head?
I am not allowed to post a picture of a gaping, festering, fissured asshole.
That can’t be. There’s a black guy there.
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/hud-secretary-ben-carson-confuses-real-estate-term-reo-for-oreos/
Let me guess… Wilkinsburg? Penn Hills?
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NSFDFO for boobs bouncing on a “space alien”…..
200+ comments, is there a game I didn’t know about?
It’s a game alright.
That said; most are just weird GIFs posted to distract me.
Lotsa action, anyway.
Did you guys have these aluminum “glasses”?
Yup. Everything stayed cold, but we’ll probably end up with Alzheimers.
None of the ones we had were insulated, just aluminum, so your hand stayed cold and they always left condensate water everywhere, but those fuckers lasted for ever and took a beating. If you had insulated ones you must have been from the fancy side of town.
That meme is on my permanent collection.
Be careful Trump likes it when folks think he can grow facial hair and takes it as a compliment
Snap his neck, Jesus!
A somewhat unlikely traffic accident occurred in Lysekil, Sweden, the 19th of August 1961. A collision between a car and a submarine.
In the official casualty catalogue of the submarine service, in which mostly engineering incidents (casualties) were documented in final reports and published like a bible (there was very little sense of humor), there was the one classic exception: “Submarine Collides With Phone Booth”
Dr. Who just can’t get out of the way, sometimes.