NFL News:
- The big news of the day was the media troll job Dan Snyder pulled off in regards to the [Redacteds] name change.
- They announced Sunday they would have an announcement Monday, which just turned out to be that they were retiring their name & logo, and embarking upon a new name change quest.
— Washington Commanders (@Commanders) July 13, 2020
- The franchise tag deadline is July 15th, and apparently the Cowboys & Dak Prescott haven’t spoken since March.
- If they fail to get anything done, Dak plays on a one-year, $31.4 million franchise tender.
- If they fail to sign a deal before July 15, 2021, his tag becomes 120% of the 2020 value, or roughly $39 million.
- The main sticking point seems to be the length of the deal.
- The team wants five years; Dak wants four, so he can hit free agency again while in his 20s.
- No word on whether the Mahomes deal has emboldened either side.
- If they fail to get anything done, Dak plays on a one-year, $31.4 million franchise tender.
- Oakley has come up with a mouth shield that it has already distributed to the LA-based teams for testing.
- The basic addition is the area around the mouth guard – the helmet to the right has both an eye & mouth shield, but it could come with just a basic mouth guard.
- The big planning fear is around claustrophobia – whether players think they can breathe with the shield in place.
- One detractor – JJ Watt.
- “My second year in the league I thought it’d be cool, I put a visor on my helmet,” Watt told ProFootballTalk. “I was like, ‘It looks so cool, I wanna put a visor on.’ I had it on for about three periods of practice and I said, ‘Take this sucker off — I’m gonna die out here.’ … So now you’re gonna put something around my mouth? You can keep that. If that comes into play, I don’t think you’re gonna see me on the field.”
- The basic addition is the area around the mouth guard – the helmet to the right has both an eye & mouth shield, but it could come with just a basic mouth guard.
- DeSean Jackson’s going to Auschwitz.
- He agreed to it after a Zoom call with a 94-year-old survivor of Mauthausen.
- The organization Edward Mosberg chairs – From The Depths – will arrange the tour.
- No word on whether Julian Edelman will accompany him.
- He agreed to it after a Zoom call with a 94-year-old survivor of Mauthausen.
Finally, I’m just going to let this block quote speak for itself:
Hall of Fame linebacker Brian Urlacher, Super Bowl champion Travis Kelce and 2014 NFL Offensive Player of the Year DeMarco Murray are part of a group of investors who have joined power couple Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez in a bid to buy the New York Mets.
Their $1.7 billion bid is currently behind the $2.0 billion bid by local businessman Steve Cohen.
- Other investors include future Hall of Fame offensive lineman Joe Thomas, who spent his entire career with the Cleveland Browns, two-time NBA All-Star Bradley Beal from the Washington Wizards, and Denver Nuggets center Mason Plumlee.
MXC Monday:
Episode 203: Cable TV Workers vs. White House Employees – “Counter Intelligence versus Counter Programming”
Both have provided employment for numerous executives without the skills or creative vision to make it on network TV.
Tonight’s … entertainment?:
- Wrasslin’:
- Monday Night Raw – 8:00PM | USA / Sportsnet360
- MLS is Back Tournament:
- Los Angeles FC vs. Houston Dynamo – 8:00PM | FS1 / TSN
- Los Angeles Galaxy vs. Portland Timbers – 10:30PM | FS1 / TSN
New week; new rumours. As we get closer to training camp we should expect the craziness to begin emerging. Yippee!
Because I have to be strong in the real world right now and have to show no emotion/fear…
*sobs uncontrollably*
I had to rush Mrs.Zilla to the ER after she almost collapsed. She’s in a hypertensive crisis.
Scary shit
I’m so sorry. Can’t imagine what you must be going through right now. Hang in there, brother.
I’m so sorry. Best wishes, man. Stay strong.
I’m sorry. I hope she’s ok.
Damn man, hope they have it under control now. Wish there was more that I could do then send good thoughts.
Oh, man.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GskUom0z65M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6s6JfT6T_Wk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qg_vsqEn1M
I LOVE MXC MONDAYS!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrCehxKPJ0s
DeSean Goes to Auschwitz sounds like a Tyler Perry knockoff of the Ernest movies
Usually when an Eagle makes a mockery of six million, it involves a Freddie Mitchell contract.
Hit the target.
I’m announcing that I am NOT changing my name. We must preserve the rich history of Montys to whom things seem strange. Hall, Clift, Python, Ball, The Full.
Google translate English/Spanish can be your friend.
“montame y gruñe”
Washington Foreskins
Oh fuck.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/grant-imahara-dead-mythbusters-host-was-49-1303101
Well, shit. I guess I didn’t realize he was 49. Thanks for the fun and science, bud.
God damnit
My Grandfather died like that, same age too.
Well shit.
Glad to see more diversity in global contagions
We’re getting close…
Wife is watching marvelous need maisel. I immediately recognized a bar (McSorley’s) they shot a scene in. I’ve only been once. Is that a bad thing? Alcohol flashback?
No, alcohol gives you superpowers.
I’ve been to McSorley’s, too. Sort of a NYC landmark, isn’t it, at least for lushes?
I did consume a copious amount of beer that night.
Hey, it was a good time!
We’re going back when this shit is over
Also what is this?
Wishful thinking of brain dead assholes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L24Wol8yLwo
I’ve been catching up on The Thick of It lately. It’s really helped up my cursing game.
I see Boyfriend Cliff… Where’s Poon Bluff?
Evening. Stone IPA to open up the bidding.
My Manhattan approves of this bid
In karma news. Bolsonaro got bit by an emu.
https://www.metropoles.com/brasil/politica-brasil/isolado-no-alvorada-com-covid-19-bolsonaro-tenta-alimentar-ema-e-e-bicado?amp&__twitter_impression=true
What about his sister?
A moose got her.
Gonna need a bigger boat, that’s for sure.
The 2020 remake of Grandma got run over by a reindeer sucks
Wow. Theresa May is still relevant!
“I know you are. But what am I?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VLzJX8CRzM
Warning — fake baseball update. Both series tied 1-1.
Semifinal 1
Game 1: ’88 Dodgers 2, ’27 Yankees 1, W: Leary (2-4), L: Pipgras (5-2), SV: Howell (10)
Leary allowed just one run in seven innings, doubled and scored the first Dodger run, and drove in the other with a single. The Yankees had the bases loaded in the 8th with none out and Ruth/Meusel/Collins due up, but came away empty.
Game 2: ’27 Yankees 1, ’88 Dodgers 0 (10), w: Moore (1-1), L: Martinez (0-1)
Waite Hoyt and Tim Belcher battled to a scoreless draw; the Yankees scored the only run in the 10th when Joe Dugan scored on a wild pitch by Ramon Martinez.
Semifinal 2
Game 1: ’61 Yankees 3, 2012 Giants 1; W: Coates (3-0), L: Casilla (2-1), SV Turley (2)
Rollie Sheldon and four relievers combined on a three-hitter
Game 2: 2012 Giants 2, ’61 Yankees 1; W: Vogelsong (3-2), L: Ford (1-4), SV Romo (6)
All the runs came on solo homers, with Sandoval (4) and Pence (6) going deep in the 2nd for SF, and Skowron (9) in the 5th for NYY.
Vamos Gigantes!
Dodgers take Game Three, 3-1. Hershiser (W, 4-3) strikes out eight in seven innings and drives in a run to beat Pennock (L, 4-2), Holton gets the save (2).
Giants about to send Matt Cain (5-2) to take on Bill Stafford (3-1) in Game Three of that series.
And the Giants prevail, 5-1. Cain (W, 6-2) holds the Yankees to one run in six innings, and Brandon Crawford’s two-run double in the top of the 6th holds up as the winner.
Found a funny:
“I’m not really supposed to do this,” says the Verizon employee, showing you the setting on your phone that unbinds love from sorrow.
If all soldiers had this training, there would be whole lot less Congressional Medal of Honor winners honored.
Aeronautical engineers unanimously agree: hot dogs can not fly.
Although there are those hot dogs that can’t fly, but can be driven.
So, if Trump had a disabling stroke, how the fuck would we even be able to tell?
He would start making sense?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flowers_for_Algernon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BNjJutK_4A
what an episode that was – oh, WCS – sommet to look forward to. My oldest kid ($22!!) is just working her way through Sunny. And LOVES IT.
LOL
I saw the movie made from that when I was 9 or so, Charly with Cliff Robertson, and I remember it made me cry. Probably partly responsible for my eventually becoming a liberal.
The 1992 GOP convention (I always liked politics as sport) turned me from a skeptical independent down the libtard route (obligatory smh)
Pence would immediately call for the burning of all gays.
Hasn’t he been doing that for decades?
Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity, and Ted Cruz would reinact scenes from Cannibal Holocaust.
Weekend at Donnie’s?
LOL
It was the British accent that was the initial enticement of the honey trap.
Fuck, remember fighting the bad faith trolls on the Redacted’s name when KSK still fucking existed? I sure fucking do. Fuck them eternally, and somebody squash Dan Snyder like the tiny fucking dung beetle that he is.
How’s your anus?
Bloody, festering, and absolutely in the depths of madness. I hope yours is faring better.
Well this is the winner of the evening already for me.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-47732553
“When I sleepI dream of death” ??????????
I have accepted my depths of madness, which is equally comforting and frightening. Enjoy teh ride!!
Also: Helmet or Anteater?
Blatant attempt at a banner quote.
I arrived too late for the KSK thing, whatever it was, (though I do remember watching slobbery drunk Joe Namath offer to kiss her the night that Jets/Pats game was broadcast and thus am not ignorant of the reference), but from the clues I’ve been able to pick up here over the last couple years, it certainly sounds like it was dramatic. Is there a wikipedia entry or a summary elsewhere about the history of this?
Gumby was on KSK back when it was a thing, but he can’t remember what his user name was. I got here as a refugee from Deadspin.
LOL ohhh nooo
“We won’t choose a new name until we win the Super Bowl!” noted money-haver Dan Snyder proclaimed.
And lo, that was how the Washington Football Team never got a new nickname.
Not irony; those beds are very unreliable.
Just call the team in Washington the DC universe because we all know the Snyder cut sucks
I’ve owned Rocket League for almost three years and didn’t start playing it until this week. How come no one told me about this?!?!
Only one way to know for sure:
I guess as long as it doesn’t have the barbs like a cat’s red lipstick, I reckon General Organa will be okay.
It’s one of those games where the skill level between online and single player is the difference between playing in the NBA, and say, waking up and turning on sportscenter. It’s very stupid fun, though.
That’s me and virtually every fucking video game
I figured out what I am going to call the new Washington team:
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If only someone would come for Danny Boy.
Again, in HippoVerse, they shall remain Redacteds FOAREVER
Arguably the best part of doctor sleep
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUc3-zq_dm8
You know I haven’t been on DFO in like a week, kinda reassuring knowing this place hasn’t changed much
Shocked that’s not a Texas license tag.
Aren’t there female bigfoots out there for us lonely guys?
She refuses to answer my emails.
Actually, she’s been with me all weekend. Though, Bigfoot♀️ looks a lot less like ape than her male counterpart. The hands are almost claw shaped, and she don’t walk around on her feet a long. She pretty much crawls. Also, she has a snout. Actually, she looks like a bear. She looks a lot like a bear really.
I may have just nailed a female bear.
I thought bears were usually male.
You been in mom’s refer?
Nope! This is me sober. Scary, ain’t it?
It’s fine.
Update: Mom is home recovering from surgery. They did find a golf ball sized tumor in her mysterious lady parts, but it was removed with said parts. They did a biopsy, but the doctor says from the looks of it, it is most likely benign.
She’s in slight pain, but the Medical Marijuana seems to be helping (thank you THC!). Also, its giving me the opportunity to talk to one of my parents when they are stoned. Which is an opportunity everyone should experience one in their lives.
Sounds good. Hope the recovery goes well, make sure the stitches are remove and the incision is completely healed before resuming basketball.
[pics or it didn’t happen joke goes here]
I’m not taking a picture of my mother’s mysterious lady parts. I already have enough issues and psychosis, thank you very much!
Also, Mom already asked if she could keep the tumor, but they said they needed the whole thing for the biopsy.
Atsa spicy meatball!
Seriously though, that’s good news.
Atsa spicy meatball!
Is that as bad or worse than talking about the rabbi that had a lampshade made out of all the foreskins he collected over a couple decades of doing circumcisions? I think it’s worse, but not by much.
You’d have to be in the pic selfie style, thumbs up…… so to speak.
Again, too many existing issues. I’m essentially functionally insane.
Good news to hear.
Re: stoned parents. My dad started smoking weed when he retired from the USAF in his early 40s back in 1979. He stopped five or six years ago, only because his location out in the sticks made it difficult for him to obtain, and I wasn’t going to be his dealer (100 mile drive through reddest country-ass Texas with an ounce of whatever? no thanks).
My Dad lived through the 70s, even owned (have seen pics) a lime green leisure suit.
NEVAR smoked teh demon weed, until us chilluns got him some during his Stage Four pancreatic cancer. Give him credit, he wordlessly toked up like a champ.
Opium is still better.
Little bit harder to obtain the Big O on the black market here in South TX. At least for me. Probably just as well, otherwise this would be me every night (probably with a canine rather than feline companion):
Once again:
Damn my father’s social hangups about discussing his drug use!
Since I was enabler for the most part, it was a subject he could not avoid between us.
Yeah wee—Mom, mom! Hope everything continues trending upward.
Good news! Glad to hear it!
I think my mom would have been hella fun stoned. My dad, not so much. Hope everything goes well for your mom!
Before we celebrate Dan Snyder changing the name, let’s note that it didn’t take public perception or even common decency for him to do it. It took money. And he didn’t even fight for it. The instant the money was at risk, he folded like a house of cards.
Plus I can see them changing to something… slightly less offensive/ racist.
Washington Casino Owners?
Washington Casino NAWT Slurpee??
How was your Monday?
Mine was fine once I made the decision to blow the work day off unless something needed immediate attention. Fortunately there wasn’t much of that at all. Some Mondays can be pretty hairy.
My covid test came back negative; which was great.
Ants in the kitchen; not great.
Grilled baloney & cheese for dinner; it was great.
Can feel myself getting fatter; typical day.
Hilarity continues to ensue
https://sports.yahoo.com/tons-of-[*Redacted] s-nickname-options-have-been-trademarked-by-a-guy-in-virginia-154239747.html
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Supposedly someone trademarked all possible options for new names for Washington. How can you trademark a team name and not own a team? If that’s the case, I’m going to trademark a matter teleporter, cold fusion and the San Diego Bengals. When the invent or move the team, I’m getting rich!
Trademark the London Chargers. Toss a slice Porky’s way when the payoff comes in.
You have to actually use a mark in commerce to retain the rights. (You can file an “intent to use” to establish priority over later users, but you do have to follow it up with actual use within a window whose duration I forget at the moment.) So no, you can’t “squat” indefinitely on a name.
However, you could presumably file for “Washington Whatevers” in categories like clothing, sporting goods, etc., and then just sell some branded shit on your website. You don’t have to actually own and operate a professional football team, or attempt to trademark that “class” of goods or services (I don’t even know if there is such a USPTO class) to create a problem for Snyder. After all, if Snyder doesn’t have the rights to sell T-shirts and hats and other shit with his team name on it, then he’s not going to want to name the team that even if he legally can use the name for football.
Oh, and for matter transporters or cold fusion, you would need a patent, not a trademark. And patents require that you actually disclose how your invention works, so good luck.
Well, then I guess I’ll have to invent transporters and cold fusion.
I’d like to own a cut of the Mets. That fan base, as Jolly Boy John would say, is FOR REAL!!!!
Honestly, I wouldn’t mind getting a few percentage points of an MLB team. It wouldn’t be “Fuck Y’all, I’m Rich!” money but it would be “I’m Financially Stable As Long As I Don’t Go Nuts” money.
I appreciate this comment.
Turns out the Longhorns aren’t going to stop with the whole Eyes of Texas song thing after all. Weak sauce, not impressed by my alma mater at all on this one.
https://www.texastribune.org/2020/07/13/university-texas-austin-eyes-texas/
But they are renaming the playing field, if not the stadium, after Earl & Rickey.
Didn’t win the war, but certainly got some points for fighting and even being partially victorious on the battlefield. Will take it.
Agreed. If they weren’t fighting for slavery and the oppression of an entire race, they would be thought of better.
“True, they were traitors, but it was the Nullification Crisis. They had a valid point.”
Yeah, that’s the first time I read the lyrics to Eyes of Texas and even I got a racist, white supremacy vibe from it. What’s the big deal. All they have to do is change two lines and its good.
The Eyes of Texas are upon you,
All the livelong day.
The Eyes of Texas are upon you,
We can’t be led astray.
Do not think you can stop us
At night or early in the morn —
The Eyes of Texas are upon you
Til Gabriel blows his horn.
Is that so hard? It took three minutes and I fucking suck at poetry. Let’s see what a poet laureate can do with it!
Day late and a dollar short, at this point.
I think that a lot of the criticism stems from the song’s history and it’s origins in the blackface vaudeville milieu even more so than the lyrics.
Ah, now I get it. I thought it was the lyrics, a proto-“Every Breath You Take” if you will, only less stalky and more know-your-placey.