God help me, but I think Everton actually goes into this Derby matchup with a puncher’s chance (7:30, NBCSN). The Redshite will no doubt be focused after their 7-2 thrashing away to Villa…but thhat veneer of invincibility has faded. More importantly, Don Carlo has this bunch of Toffees believing in themselves.
Ordinarily, one could have a moan about not having supporters inside Goodison Park – but really, the weight of collective expectation can overwhelm. And they are quick to start moaning if events start poorly. Just focus on the football. It’s been ten years to the day since Everton last beat the Shite. That streak of futility needs to go on no further.
You get two more NBC/NBCSN fixtures today (though 3 of Sunday’s 4 are Peacock-only). Chelsea host Saints in the 10:00 window (NBCSN), and a hammering could be imminent. Chelski have too much attacking talent to struggle much longer. Not at home, to the likes of these, anyway.
How good are Arsenal, anyway? You’ll get at least a partial answer in their spotlight dance (12:30, NBC) trip to the Emirates. Man City are in 14th, and a desperately wounded/cornered animal. This will likely make better viewing than the #NuAIDS-altered JV slate.
Very Disappointed Dad Ole Gunnar Solskjaer (almost spelled that right on first go, swapped the “k” and the “j” is all) takes his Red Devils to Newcastle for a very intriguing finisher (3:00, Peacock). Very early days, but Barcodes are in a comfortable (for them) 9th, while United enter the weekend in 16th, with a -6 goal differential. Even with a game in hand, that is the kind of form that gets one the sack. I am expecting a reaction today, but then again, I didn’t expect what I’ve seen to date in the least.
Villa are away to Foxy Footy tomorrow (2:15, Peacock), with those Midlands Twats 2nd in the table, match in hand, Prem-leading +9 GD. Talk about the unexpected! Spurs/Hammers (11:30, NBCSN) is the only non-streaming matchup. There is a full-NBCSN Monday Night Footy double-dip (hey, matching the NFL schedule – THREE DAY WEEKEND WOO!!!)
Auburn (-3.5) at South Cakalaky (Noon, ESPN)
The Chickens have proven they are WAY better than #NuAIDS-ridden Vanderbilt. Otherwise, they’ve been ass-flavoured ass. War Damn Eagle is worthy of GAMBLOR hailing.
Kentucky (+6) at Tennessee (Noon, SECN)
I was hoping for MOAR value here, as both these teams are inconsistent af. But Kenfucky has beaten UT like twice in 125 years, so less than a full 7 ain’t gonna do it. Bet it’s fun, though. Perhaps challenge Headliner to a game of horseshoes?
Texas A&M (-5) at Mississippi State (4:00, ESPN)
Did I mention that this was an underwhelming slate? The fact that this is the only match close to watchable (no, I don’t count NC State/Duke, even though it will occupy my eyeballs) tells you all you need to know. Classic let-down game for Bonfire Cult, and Dread Pirate Leach is 10-15 times better a coach than Rick Perry clone (but fatter) Jimbo Fisher.
Speaking of fat, this made me chuckle:
Georgia (+4.5) at Alabama (8:00, CBS)
Yes, I only previewed 4 fixtures (for good reason), all SEC (same). But really, this one is the whole ball of wax. Should Nick Saban’s #NuAIDS cancel this, dunno who will be sadder. Hippo or the teevee folks.
I know Canada has colleges. But it just occurred to me for the first time in my life. Does Canada have college football? Or do y’all just gravy train on ours? At least that way, your colleges don’t have to waste a bunch of money on it. I’m guessing there is at least college hockey and curling.
There is the NCAA version of sports up here,. All the sports that you would expect. For the futbawl its the Canadian rules and not the American ones. They are all currently on hold due to the pandemic. They just cancelled the winter term sports, so nuthin going on up here until the fall term next year, at best
No athletic scholarships in Canada. So even in hockey, Canadian Intercollegiate Athletic Union hockey generally consists of guys who weren’t good enough to get NCAA scholarships and didn’t think their professional prospects were good enough to delay college and go the junior hockey/minor leagues route.
At any given point in time, you can probably count the CIAU alums in the NHL on one hand.
So it’s probably more comparable to NCAA Division 3 or whatever — anybody playing those actually is a student first and an athlete second. There is no big money CIAU sports. The football championship (Vanier Cup) is televised but doesn’t get big ratings, and you actually have to look hard for college scores on big Canadian sports sites.
Vanier is always a fun watch.
Thank you both for the illumination.
Came back from a hike with the dog, (too nice a fall day to stay in all day), to catch most of the second half of the Arsenal game and I think my time would have been better spent finding some drying paint to keep an eye on.
“What kind of paint?”
-Zeke, making the ‘feed me’ motion
I attended a Roma-AC Milan match at San Siro with a couple British and American friends about 15 or 20 years ago. It was a weird experience compared to US sports attendance. Anyway, I knew as little about the sport then as I do now, but I remember being somewhat bored, and my Brit buddy dismissed it as a “chess match.” I do remember that everyone was kind of jazzed that the Kojak guy (wiki sez Pierluigi Collina) was refereeing the game.
found a funny:
me: i’m trying something new today
therapist: making amends to those you’ve wronged?
me: no haha grilled cheese with mayo
David Luiz, still technically a professional footballer
So close to getting that crucial 2nd goal for Man Shitty.
GAMBLOR update – Jonkopings Sodra fucked me (AGAIN blowing 2-goal lead), but Sampdoria came good against the racist fucks of Lazio.
Need Troyes to get off they arse, though.
Pretty shocking this is still just 1-nil. Pep tightened some anuses over the break.
Attending toddler gymnastics after an edible is very entertaining. If I take some of these falls I would be in a body cast.
Drugs are bad (when you don’t share with the rest of the class), mmmmmmmmkay?
Edit: Anyone else having issues with the new comment module here on high DPI screens, ie trying to click the edit option, or is it just me?
No, it’s not just you. The edit option is a bit tricky.
Bang on it with a hammer. That always works, it’s science.
I remember going in with my kids. Of course there’s a huge play structure that they want help getting up to the top with their totally nawt flexible dad. Still surprised that I didn’t hurt myself in that thing.
Stretch first
Weekend movie time!
https://www.kcet.org/shows/the-first-angry-man/episodes/the-first-angry-man
Nice, I think I’m gonna follow your lead, but with something less politically charged… Something like an old Discovery Channel documentary on the battle of Dien Bien Phu (aka “strategy,shmategy… being French is enough”.
Fun fact about the battle – among the units caught in that siege were two mobile brothels, ’cause FRANCE!
Dien Bien Phu, proving that wisdom of that well known strategy of seizing the low ground.
There’s a great book about the siege, ‘Hell In A Very Small Place.’ Really good read.
Duly ordered (I only needed to see that it’s from the same author as Street Without Joy and The Two Vietnams). Thanks for the suggestion!
Quality HATE from the Everton interwebs (not mine):
Don’t even care how long they are injured for, fuck them the needle dicked Tory fucks.
SillyCuse losing to the Fightin’ Falwells. Drink up, Scotchy!
To the fookin’ Promise Keepers of all teams.
saturday song time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFLPyUlwzy0
not available in best Canada country
The press made him. Fuck ’em all sideways with a Buick.
Meanwhile, at Casa De Bk109…. me and the wife are looking through a gun catalogue (for an US shop), while rapidly losing hope for humanity (and we’re both gun owners,lol)…
Seriously, who THE FUCK *needs* a belt-fed semi-auto rifle?!
Oh a Brit telling Americans they don’t need guns? We’re not falling for that one again, buddy!
Worse, Gun AND TANK-owning Eastern European knock-off Irish… Seriously, belt-fed rifle (and I know how bloody easy is to “tweak” a M249 and M240) is just lunacy….
Well how else do you suggest I compensate for my micro-penis!?
As a sane gun owner I like to point out that most of us aren’t compensating for micro-appendages, nor have vivid wet dreams about re-enacting that scene from John Wick at home (dunno about anyone else, but … 999 is there for a bloody reason and a gun’s only good for a last resort…. or a relaxing day shooting at normal bullseye targets in a safe and controlled environment)… That said, people buying that problably should just get an AMG Black or a Jaguar like a normal tosser and be done with it 😀
On the other hand, my neighbor has let three of his cows run loose through the entire neighborhood for the last several months, so it’s not like I couldn’t find a use for a belt-fed semi-auto.
Salt lick, sledgehammer, and a bandsaw will fix that right up
Only if we’re talking about the neighbour… The cows aren’t to blame that their owner is a cunt…
I have never owned, nor even fired, a real gun.
That said…I am fine with folks having whatever guns they want. You should just have to have some basic safety training, and be required to carry adequate insurance against your pew-pew being involved in sommet naughty.
I mean, prohibition just doesn’t work. Guns FOAR some, unlimited drugs FOAR OTHERS!!
Actually, I’m questioning the product, not the legality, lol. Frankly, for me the only solution for gun ownership is….(dramatic pause) to allow universal gun ownership, so long as you can actually prove that you can in fact be trusted with owning a gun – ie firearms safety (with regular re-ups), psych and medical evals at reasonable intervals and the like (in fact, in my personal case my employer has me doing once a quarter evals to even be permitted to carry a weapon on premises and that’s with them giving me a secondary responsibility as armed response personnel on site).
For the 249S it just feels silly to have a semi-auto belt fed weapon that’s designed for sustained large volume of fire and not accuracy, when you’ve got better’N’cheaper options around… Now, if it was a legal pre-1987 full-auto model – then that changes things ’cause doing mag dumps iz FUNz… Especially in Arizona, with a Minigun XD
Also, not watching the Arsenal game, ’cause I’m in a good mood…
Kun Aguero just tried to hit on the female line judge.
And yet workplace sexual harassment isn’t a bookable offence in proper footy… Shame
Well, that tie didn’t last long.
what is updog?
Cool! Chelsea is playing southampton
go chelski
Seems the tenants are really good this season. Tight pants Lampard can only get so erect.
/due to the pants you see.
Is GREGGGGGG looking to head shot Gase three seconds after the whistle? Maybe he’s coveting that sweet sweet interim GM job….
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/30128510/new-york-jets-defensive-coordinator-gregg-williams-takes-veiled-shot-team-offense
Jets organization needs to be decapitated at Woody Johnson and rebuilt from ashes with new ownership. Short of that, relegate their fucking asses for all I care anymore. You cannot convince me this team is operating in good faith, on behalf of its fans and ticket holders, with the goal of achieving victories. It simply isn’t true.
I dropped off the ballots for the Mrs and myself Thursday. I don’t know if it’s bc COVID and city hall but it was a drive up that went faster than any Starbucks drive thru. Fast forward to this morning and I realize just how great yesterday was —I’ve put this election behind me now (In terms of the vote, not the counting) so if America wants to give me more tax breaks instead of having less than 50 kids in a classroom, that’s democracy. But my point is, having my ballot in feels great (also seeing the returns in my state are looking blue — which is an absolute necessity at this point).
I saw some guy posted a “we’re here for early voting only a 45 min line!” and I thought it perfectly sums up MAGA — you choose to waste an hour to vote on-site and throw your ballot in the box rather than just do it the easy way by pulling up in your car and putting it in the same box. Sure, mail-in ballots sound like a fraud machine in Tucker — then, in reality, you’re standing there like a fucking moron in 90 degree weather making a whole day of something the rest of us take care of on our way back from lunch. Like the old lady in the office who likes to print out her excel sheets and total them up on the calculator because, even though it has never been wrong, she doesn’t trust the computer to the one most baseline task machines do best — accurate arithmetic.
All that to say, I now see Joe Biden texted Hunter in Feb ‘19 after his son lamented to his father that he was an untrustworthy addict who hurt his father’s political career and Joe texted him, “good morning my beautiful son. I miss you and I love you.” and now I’m really regretting not casting my vote for the child raping facist who won’t have schools safely open by the time my two year old is ready for kindergarten.
Of course, it’s worth noting that anything regarding voting in this country is YMMV. I live in a tiny township in mid-Michigan, so even if I wasn’t already doing absentee voting, it would still be like 5 minutes max. However, Michigan’s courts just overturned a decision from a few weeks ago so now a ballot that gets delayed in the mail and misses election day no longer counts. Georgia is currently setting up American Gladiators events around each of their polling places where the gladiators have been replaced with militia types with guns and police K-9s, also with guns. Texas now has one ballot box per county, located in the middle of the county’s largest lake, and requires you to also insert a property deed as proof of identity. On the bright side, though, Jacob Wohl is facing like 15 years in prison in Michigan for election fraud, so hopefully we get that bit of schadenfreude.
I read something saying that more than 25 million ppl have already voted in this election
yay early voting!
E-VAR-TON is pretty funny to me.
Jerseys are not anymore JJD, Mother China has taken care of that.
dhgate is the gate to be at
Hell yes! 1 out of over 20 has been bunk.
More like Bangladesh and the like, because it’s a labour-intensive, but simple process to make shit that can use way cheaper labour than GYNAAAAAAAAAA… Plus, no pesky OSHA (and equivalent) rules and regs to worry about 😀
Just checked – my M’gladbach jersey is from Indonesia and the Arsenal kit is from Georgia (the non-Failcons one)
Bing.com?! … Uh, is this a coded cry for help, ’cause … uhh, I think you’re the first person I’ve seen use Bing in … forever, really ?
I used Opera for awhile 10 years ago.
Same, though I used it so long ago, Chrome didn’t even exist back then (let alone have multi-device capability)… Damn, I feel old at times 😀
It is the most relief-laden point in EVAR. I’m still leaving the teevee off for a bit.
The West London tenants v Southampton could be good.
Tis over Hippo. Nice draw.
I’d exhale, but afraid my insides would implode.
It’ll be fine, plus there’s a 50:50 shot at you shitting out a diamond in a couple of hours as “compensation” for those final minutes of “fun” you just survived…
y’all just tell me when it ends PLEASE
BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA suck it Reds
Dunno what Hippo did to the ref, but it must’ve been vile as shit judging by his revenge 😀
Don’t do it Hippo. Pour some coffee, have 1 pill, relax.
/teevee off, angrily GAMBLOR hailing
//I did have that initial pill
aaaaannnnnddddd Atalanta are fucking me now
… you’re not that good at this whole “profit” part of “gambling for fun and profit” thing, are ya? 😀
oooooh, +450 on KMFDM? YES MOAR!!!!!
Bring me Michael Oliver’s head on a platter? I’d gladly pay, like, hundreds of imaginary dollars
Special guest Sam Darnold??
So, his brother might as well be Jordan Rodgers, then
Happy happy hippo!!!! That must’ve been some mighty fucking roar.
fuck a duck, it sure was. NOW BLOW TEH WHISTLE before I Kubiak out.
Swarthygol!
DOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Pickford has played a blinder, and we’re wasting it.
tossed $50 on Atalanta. I heard them callllllin
/Hippo browses closet bookshelf for the copy of Final Exit he bought like a decade ago…
Also, for reference, Queen of the South is my Scootish side. Because of Dixie, see.
Every bar you walk into has No ColoUrs on the door. Every 1st convo is Who do you support Hoops or Gers? I chose the Protestant Edinburgh side as they are shit. Grandpa was a devout Dundee FC Supporter, and my local club was Ayr United.
Smart choice, given that the Scots reaaaaaaaally take the whole ‘gers and Celts thing a tad too seriously XD
Also hi y’all
Y’all gon’ put the final nail in the Pep era at City?
Dunno/Don’t care tbh 😀 I’m just barely coming back to life after sleeping for (literally) 30 hours, so I’m more concerned with not yawning myself outta existence 😀
Are you my #NuAIDS Eskimo Brother now?
Nah, just a 400 hour workday (normal hours, the billable ones are approaching 4 digits 😀 ) trying to get as much shit done as possible before the inevitable second NuAIDS national quarantine nukes our on-site plans and taint-punts global logistics (unfortunate it’s no longer a “you’ll have your server chassis’ in 24 hours or less” world out there)
Dame Judi Dench? TOTES a Toffee. She likes to take her favoUrite grandson to Goodison.
Rangers up 2-nil away to Celtic. Gonna be some sweet-ass church fires 2nite!!!
The neighboUrhoods around Parkhead and Ibrox are, how do I politely say this, shitholes.
yeah, but at least one is a Protestant shithole!!
Have gone into coward mode, happily take a point
Calvert Lewin is swarthy.
He’s packing an absolute hog, too. No homo.
Ian Astbury a Toffee? Alrighty then,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCOSPtyZAPA
the “Echo and the Bunnymen” dude as well (this has been played on the PA system, pre-match)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owLR6CRsjGY
Bill Ryder-Jones from The Coral also a toffee.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KErHjXpsfwA
So is a guy from The Lostprophets, but uhhhh one of them is a pedo soooo, not putting that on here.
Dat’s RAYCESS!!!!! – Marc T., Parts Unknown
People in the UK are bitching about PPV at 15 quid a game. Well, Ayr United in Scotland’s 2nd division is charging 12.99 so every FA is gouging folks over there.
VPN use will be way up.
Pickford killing VVD assures that this day won’t be a total waste.
I am here for support Hippo as futbol is ded to me after the cb we just signed blew out his knee….
oh shit, that is harsh.
/I need MOAR COFFEE, but I also already want to throw up
FUCKING GET IN!!!!!
He’s pronouncing it ‘Derby”, not “Darby” and I’m not having any of it.
TRUE HIPPO FACT! It was about a year into my Toffee fandom before I learned it wasn’t spelled D-a-r-b-y
Anybody have any good suicide tips?
Geelong is in the Grand Final!! WOOOOOOOO!!!!
Spoiler much???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
I hate Jurgen Klopp and his stupid fucking face. So, so much.
Let’s goddamned DO THIS THING!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JT0Kp4K91B4