[Banner via Mar-a-Lago live feed] Next Sunday is Championship Sunday, the best sports day of the year, I think. But with its high highs comes the Wile E. Coyote plummet. Come next Monday, it’s the Superb Owl and then The Emptiness of Life* until August, interrupted by signings and the Draft.
Author: Don T
Your “This Ain’t Over Yet” Pre-Wild Card Thursday Open Thread
Self-righteous crap and crying: what a way to start 2021. Never underestimate media and charisma. Yeah, charisma; folks in leadership positions do acquire it, even despite personality. Also, overexposure turns the mind into mush. So when a powerful figure speaks, the minions do not require a direct message to stoke irrational
Your “Thursday Night NOT Football” Open Thread
2020 Quotables – Week 11 (Results)
¡Hola! This is Don T, long time Quotables lurker, first time Winners poster. Enough formalities: This “lurking” thing… I don’t like it. In this suffocating hellscape we call Real Life, a “lurker” is somewhere in the Voyeur to Psycho spectrum. The stalker vibe clings to a lurker like incompetent quarterbacking to
Let’s Get Positive! Starring, the NFL
Back in the XX Century, university class schedules converted Thursdays into Drinking Days. They’ve been that way ever since, confirmed by Friday hangovers. Recently, Wednesdays became Positive Days, thanks to tWBS’s ”Wednesday Motivational”. Man I miss that guy. /presses Play /crushes the Mute button Lately it’s been suckier than a Jets late afternoon
The Team No One Wants to Play
Titans fever is raging. Kicker Stephen Gostkowski recovered from crippling yips after missing four kicks and an XP in Week One, and has kicked deciders in all games so far. Of greater concern to opponents: ruthless DL Jeffery Simmons, QB Tannehill spraying passes all over, and a virulent home atmosphere.
Your “Things May Turn Out Tolerable” Open Thread
Zero Expectations – 2020 Black Panthers Preview
The notable carryovers from last year's Black Panthers are Christian McCaffrey and their motto: “Keep pounding”—incidentally, tWBS’s mission statement regarding female service staff across North America. / pours out hand sanitizer for Seamus // puts sanitizer in hand, deep inhale Duly deluded about the NFL season starting in September, let’s talk Carolina fitbaw. Last
Your “Struggling With The Façade” Monday Open Thread
Dear Spawn:
It Will Be OK Eventually
Wednesday Motivational: Thank You, TWBS
For real: The Wee Baby Seamus died on Monday (natural causes), and we found out yesterday through a relative. It’s heartbreaking. TWBS was one of the best friends anyone could have. We were lucky to know him. TWBS had outstanding qualities: bright, generous, more doer than talker--among many others (“A loyal