NFL Noise:
- Well, it looks like the Chargers will pick up Roger’s mantle & at least possibly maybe consider Colin Kaepernick for their bench.
- “I haven’t spoken with Colin, not sure where he’s at as far in his career, what he wants to do, but Colin definitely fits the style of quarterback for the system that we’re going to be running,” head coach Anthony Lynn said to ESPN.
- After all, they currently have the Super Bowl contending trifecta of Tyrod Taylor, Justin Herbert and Easton Stick.
- Everybody already doesn’t care about the Bears starting QB competition, but the race to really ignore is for Bears kicker.
- Eddy Pineiro has to compete against Ramiz Ahmed to hold onto one of the most cursed jobs in pro football.
- Pineiro only has the job because he fucked up least during 2019 training camp.
- Ahmed last kicked in 2018, as a college senior for Nevada.
- Both guys have names guaranteed to trigger the MAGA types who send 26-tweet chains to team sites demanding players RESPECT THE FLAG!!1!1!
- Eddy Pineiro has to compete against Ramiz Ahmed to hold onto one of the most cursed jobs in pro football.
- There are conflicting opinions about whether the Hall of Fame Game will be played, and if fans will be allowed to attend.
- The Governor of Ohio, Mike DeWine, said it’s unlikely fans will be able to attend, because although “it’s a great, great event that we’ve been looking forward to, having a crowd that size (23,000) is highly unlikely.”
- Meanwhile, Hall of Fame communications vice president Rich Desrosiers said, “The governor did not speak specifically to holding the game or related events with reduced crowds or at venues set up to maximize safe physical distancing — contingencies the Hall has been working on since mid-March.”
Finally, following up on the NFL’s decision to make Juneteenth (June 19th) a staff holiday in the league office, the [Redacteds] have become the latest team to make a team paid-observance of the date.
- At least 16 teams have decided to make it a paid day-off for employees, and some have given more than that.
- The NFL also announced it is increasing its financial commitment to social justice causes to $250 million over 10 years to “combat systemic racism and support the battle against the ongoing and historic injustices faced by African Americans.”
For ignorant Canadians such as myself, June 19 is celebrated as the effective end of slavery in the United States. Although the Emancipation Proclamation went into effect Jan. 1, 1863, it wasn’t until June 19, 1865, after the April 1865 conclusion of the Civil War, when the last of the newly freed slaves were read President Abraham Lincoln’s decree in Texas. Union soldiers, led by Major General Gordon Granger, landed at Galveston, Texas with news that the war had ended and that the enslaved were now free:
General Order Number 3:
“The people of Texas are informed that in accordance with a Proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free. This involves an absolute equality of rights and rights of property between former masters and slaves, and the connection heretofore existing between them becomes that between employer and hired laborer.”
Friend of [DFO] DrawPlayDave has a pretty accurate cartoon out today.
How the 4 major sports are handling Covidhttps://t.co/etFobsMl3m pic.twitter.com/qtXRgk29Kg
— Dave Rappoccio (@DrawPlayDave) June 17, 2020
Not enough brimstone, plus I think Bettman should be in the ice-layer of hell given he’s in charge of (destroying) hockey.
Elsewhere on Twitter…
Y’know, I’ll give Schefter credit for this one
What a day this was 26 years ago…. pic.twitter.com/mRFt1BDNEI
— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) June 17, 2020
As a reminder, July 9th is the date Ford has set to re-introduce the Bronco to the US marketplace.
It’s also OJ’s 73rd birthday.
Tonight’s … entertainment?:
- Wrasslin’:
- AEW Dynamite – 8:00PM | TNT / TSN2
- NXT – 8:00PM | USA
- Monster Energy Supercross: Round 16 from Salt Lake City – 7:00PM | NBCSN
- Round 16 racing from Rice-Eccles Stadium in Salt Lake City in both 450SX and 250SX classes. This is the penultimate event of 2020.
- Forged in Fire: Beat the Judges – 9:00PM | HIST
- Three Forged in Fire Champions return to the forge with one goal: Beating a Judge.
- They must face off against each other, testing their signature blades and recreating a weapon from the Forged in Fire vault until only one Champion remains to face off against Ben Abbott, David Baker, or J Neilson.
- Three Forged in Fire Champions return to the forge with one goal: Beating a Judge.
- ESPN 30 For 30 Films – “June 17, 1994” – see above Schefter tweet.
- 7:00PM | ESPN
- 8:00PM | TSN3
- Australian Rules Football:
- Richmond vs. Hawthorn – 5:30AM | ESPN2 / TSN3
- Korea Baseball Organization:
- KT Wiz at SK Wyverns – 5:25 AM | ESPN
That’s good viewing!
A Separate Peace solo run
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVWWtqa9-7M
Once again let me intro you to Sondre Lerche; back by popular demand:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPz7F2xSYZc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kw58GWqKWNM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Euj9f3gdyM
Lil’ WCS can’t sleep, so I can’t, either. This movie just came on…
Time to be a grown-up, kid.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6uEMOeDZsA
ALL THE HUEY LEWIS.
“You’ll be eating some god damn Frosted Flakes now, BITCH!”
Sitting around, waiting for the actual album to drop…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-zWpdq3_2s
I heard after defeating Ganon and saving Zelda, Link fell into a nasty coke and liquor habit. This adds up.
Link went to rehab for a while, and, while clean, still smokes three packs of Camels a day. He’s also dealing with some serious PTSD.
He looks like Captain Kangaroo on meth.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWbj64Rwfvc
Love this song!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkKJy4UaPHM
Just finished watching ‘The Disaster Artist’, about DFO-favoUrite movie ‘The Room’, and the scotchkas are on me for the rest of the night.
/Immediately logs off and goes to bed.
I didn’t like that movie and the casting of all of their friends was grating on me more than it should. Basically I am no fun.
This song came out in 1961, 2 years after I was born. I’ve heard it on and off my entire life. I always thought the guy was singing about “motherly love.” I recently realized I was wrong. It’s almost as bad as when I realized that the Beatles weren’t singing about “as the girl with colitis goes by.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EN5eJf5h_k
FOAR tWBS:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkcbxjWG9Mc
Did you also think that Jimi Hendrix was saying “Excuse me while I kiss this guy?”
I’m in no position to talk. I made it into my 20s before I realized that AC/DC was not, and would never have, been singing “you should be alright now.”
https://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-blogs/misheard-song-lyrics-6787
I knew someone who believed #2 on that list. #36 is from an episode of Friends.
Rockin’ the Cat’s Box is a great song.
My father in law says it’s “hold me close, I’m tired of dancing.”
Bring em out Bring em out
It’s hard to yell when the bed rail is in your mouth
I thought Jay-Z was talking about prison rape
Speaking of Huey Lewis:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9PWNNFytdY
I’d dude you, but this might be more of a Bro.
“Dear Repenthouse: I never thought this could happen to my conscience….”
I was on the phone with my old Rhode Island girlfriend this evening telling her how I thought that we may be living in Mad Max world here shortly. She’s not a purveyor of post-apocalyptic hellscape movies, so I told her I would find something that would explain it to her without her actually having to watch the films (she’s very much a New England crunchy granola). I found this, which I thought was worth sharing here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzygYS-vN1E
Huh. I thought “Rhode Island girlfriend” was a euphemism for your hand.
I have other names for ol’ Spanky here
I’m trying to figure out where a hippie would live in RI. As near as I can tell it’s rich people within 2 miles of the water and white-trash meth addicts everywhere else.
Westerley. On the shore, but not as expensive as other places. That was true 25 years ago, when I lived in Ct, but it probably hasn’t changed?
Oh shit
ANTIFA SHARK, doo doo doo-doo-doo….
Covalent Blonde is hunting Nazis.
LOL
Is COVID CONFESSIONS gonna be a thing?
https://www.sfgate.com/living-in-sf/article/sex-parties-to-secret-dinners-covid-confessions-15336696.php
That’s hilarious
Well sheeeeet fahr, ah am aghast that the NFL is considering letting Kaep hold a clipboard. He ain’t even apologized FOAR being Black yet smgdh
I hope Cam was taking notes.
NO SMILES during your apology neither ,, that obvs makes it uppity.
“Peepul would be more accepting of his return to respectability if he would get rid of the Angela Davis haircut…”
He has the finest fro this side of 1977. Shut your whore mouth! LOL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkEZfw1qgY8&feature=emb_logo
Ook.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xFzhad-bnY
I thought I recognized some of this band. Definitely Keith Moon. Look up Son of Dracula, Ringo Starr movie,you will be amazed who else is playing here!
Did anyone else get an error message for the Maestro’s CFL post?
You have to go to your browser settings and check the “Enable Socialism and Rogues” box.
You may also have to enable the extra “u”s as well
That post has been taken down by court order for violating Canada’s Official Secrets Act. I think maybe it explained what a rouge is or something.
Apparently they are calling out the National Guard for the Nuremberder rally in Tulsa this weekend. I’m hoping that any protestors recognize this for exactly what it is – a provocation – and stay the hell away.
Unfortunately, there are very dumb people on both sides.
There are also PROFESSIONAL anarchist (and other assorted young, weirdo groups) types that WANT a provocation.
Yep.
https://www.rt.com/sport/492126-nhl-pavel-datsyuk-rebel-priest/?utm_source=browser&utm_medium=aplication_chrome&utm_campaign=chrome
The perfect Trump adviser.
No more DH? Finally.
Equal leagues equal an equal sport.
Uhhh…
Wait, shit. Right. DH for the NL going forward.
Anyway, equal rules for equal leagues.
The whole thing is hilarious.
Dan Savage has been speculating on his podcast that COVID will bring about “the Golden Age of Gloryholes.”
Well, that sounds like combining two fetishes….
Touche 2020. I didn’t see that coming.
The building anticipation is why it was on you so fast.
You’ve been talking to my ex-girlfriend, again?
I heard Universal DH, which will still be equal plus help when you have 4 outfielders for three spots, or an aging player who can’t play defense but can still hit.
Also, I heard 16 teams in the playoffs. So, the MLB is now the NBA.
For this year. The expectation is the DH is eliminated after the new CBA.
No, the opposite. The expectation is the DH is instated for both leagues after the new CBA.
In my defense, I’m an idiot. But yes, I’ve been rooting for DH for NL for a long time.
That’s it. Now I must declare vendetta upon you.
The designated hitter is an abomination.
Pitchers batting is the abomination. No one wants to see that shit.
If I want to watch big fat sexy Bartolo bat, let me see it in an exhibition game. Not something that actually counts.
It’s not really a fight when I’m right and he’s wrong.
I see you point at 50%.
If the Internet had a motto …
Watching some aging slugger who’s too slow to play in the field try to run the bases sucks, too. Let’s get Designated Runners! Let’s have hyper-specialization!
It’s a sport where even the best hitters fail to do something productive in more than half their plate appearances. The average pitcher gets on base about half as often as the average non-pitcher (.148 OBP vs. .310). It’s hardly like some rare event.
I don’t want to watch double the failure of normal failure.
Well, that explains why my videos do so poorly on Pornhub.
Well, your fan-base might be small, but we are LOYAL!.
If his fan-base was the only thing small he’d pull bigger numbers.
HEY-O!
Well, now that just hurts.
… is NOT what she said. *sigh*
Besides, I REALLY like these GIFs
I agree with you Dunstan. Great advantage to have pitchers who can rake. I do not want to hear about the 80% that suck either.
I have shifted (in the last 10 years) from rabidly anti-DH to strongly in favour. It’s good for labour, plus…I really HATE watching some of the fuckers the #BFIB have trotted out of late to “field” their positions.
I’m okay with it for this year, and depending on how fucked everything still is possibly next year. I am not okay with the 14 team plan they were floating.
Are you talking about Tyreek Hill?
I’m a big fan of Ray Rice.
Get with the times.
Damn I loved that show.
/ found a funny
In a controversial move, streaming services will now edit out all of the racial jokes from the Mel Brooks classic “Blazing Saddles”. The newly re-edited film will air Saturday evening from 8:00 PM to 8:07 PM.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqE7ZxH7BJE
We can now watch this on HBO Max
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rM7oxuOLIiw
Found a funny:
Another Cop Attack? Multiple officers have alleged that Happy Meals from an area McDonald’s are being tampered with. “We get the same toy, like, almost every time,” one patrolman told me on Monday, adding that “Pikachu is not even [his] favorite guy.” That, he says, is Mr. Mime.
I figured that would be priests’ favorite.
Because Mr. Mime looks like it does the priestly things. No, not the religious things, the others.
Somehow, they ran out of Gardevoir
All those fireworks some of us were hearing last night? Apparently that’s a thing now:
https://slate.com/business/2020/06/fireworks-complaints-are-way-up-in-boston-nyc-cities.html
Yeah, I’m hearing them here and since there’s crackles afterwards I know they’re not cars or gunshots!
Forged in Fire: Beat the Judges
Sign me up:
No, that’s Forged in Beer.
The chaotic neutral side of me want Kavanaugh to vote against Trump on his taxes just to see everyone’s reactions.
Chaotic neutral? That sounds more like chaotic fun.
LOL
That was my granddad, although he was of French-Canadian-Scots-Irish extraction and didn’t care for any “gahdahm guineas from Nahth Bahstun.”
Is there a similar term for supervisors?
Supervisors
Fuck, similar DEFINITION.
“Easton Stick” sounds like a player that Madden NFL generates in Year 18 of Franchise Mode when its running out of names to give new players.
His parents were huge hockey fans and are very disappointed in their son.
Maybe they can hold the Hall of Fame game in Tulsa.
There’s no way Ford didn’t know that was OJs birthday. Brilliant marketing move.
Agree; cold and effective branding. Morbid AF.
HRTN is in the can, so the rest of my week is free!
*Looks around*
Maybe I should start the next chapter.
*In the bin for our British speaking people.
I should probably test and write about some drinks.
Also compare them to tried and true ones
Also just drink.
He said “can.” Huh huh huh.
WTF you on about, mate?
Wonder if they sell Chow Chow.
We Americans, I call us Peter Parker, because we didn’t use our great power responsibly and it cost us our beloved Uncle Ben.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/uncle-ben-s-change-its-branding-part-parent-company-s-n1231329
Yes, we should keep white sentimental images of docile black servants who do all of our cooking for us and are happy about it. Or did you mean something else?
Now that they are finally getting rid of Uncle Ben and Aunt Jemima, maybe the momentum will spread to the Redacteds. What would you call them, if you could choose a new name?
The safe choice is Washington Warriors. Its the usual change when going from R_______.
Personally, I would pick a tribe that was in there area and use their name and symbol, with their descendants permission and involvement of course (the Florida State solution). Turn a negative into a positive. If that doesn’t work, maybe change it to something like the Washington Pride and use the spear as your primary logo.
Another option is the Washington Hogs. That is already a beloved part of the teams history, so you know everyone will love it.
So with all those options, my prediction is the Washington Militia or the Washington Bullets because you know Snyder’s gonna screw this up.
Washington Monuments.
Washington Lobbyists
Ha! I was thinking the Washington Unindicted Co-conspirators. Or the Deepthroats.
Washington Posts?
The Deepthroats is a different website.
Calling Balls!
Well, the Deepthroats eventually get down that far…..
Washington Lady Gs.
Washington swamp rats
The Washington Warblers, named after the bird that is heard more often than actually seen.
The 51sts. That one’s for BFC.
Just a lousy attempt at a lousy joke. Now me losing my favorite syrup? That one hurt, but I’ll take one for the team.
Yeah, didn’t see the sarcasm font.
I’m sure you’d totally buy Malcom X Rice; “get some red beans for this mix motherfucker!” Actually that sounds good right now.
If I was serious, I would’ve called us Hank Pym, because while we are highly intelligent and gifted, our serious mental and personality flaws are going to screw us all over.