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Doing it again
Feb. 3rd, 2020 08:58 amThe man who destroyed an entire football league by being Donald Trump congratulated the great state of Kansas for the Super Bowl win by a team that plays in Missouri,
Consolation
Feb. 4th, 2019 06:01 pmIn the 60s the NFL had a postseason game between the two second-place teams, called the Playoff Bowl. It was abandoned, presumably because it went against the American belief that There Is Only One Winner. This year it would probably have been more fun than the Super Bowl.
* "These teams are playing like they know whoever wins has to go to the White House."--Jess Dweck
* That was the sort of Super Bowl one is sentenced to.
* "I suppose it's possible to see a worse half of football, but probably only in Pop Warner."
* Like 4 hours of soccer
* "There's a room in hell where they play this Super Bowl over and over...."
* They invoked Andy Warhol in a commercial, and the game was like one of his early movies. Let that be a lesson to them.
Also, you can't prove it by me, but I'm hearing that they chose a halftime band that wouldn’t make the game look bad.
* That was the sort of Super Bowl one is sentenced to.
* "I suppose it's possible to see a worse half of football, but probably only in Pop Warner."
* Like 4 hours of soccer
* "There's a room in hell where they play this Super Bowl over and over...."
* They invoked Andy Warhol in a commercial, and the game was like one of his early movies. Let that be a lesson to them.
Also, you can't prove it by me, but I'm hearing that they chose a halftime band that wouldn’t make the game look bad.
“Life is meaningless and full of pain.”
Feb. 5th, 2018 05:48 amGeorge R.R. Martin on Evil Little Bill & the Patsies
Panties in a Brady Bunch
Jan. 5th, 2018 07:08 amSo when I went to the Daily News website to read the penis-whitening story I just blogged, there was a story about one of America’s favorite white dicks: Tom Brady.
It seems that Brady wants to be the Patsies’ quarterback forever, with a grudging concession to age 45. Evil little Bill Belichick suspects he won’t last that long and wants a replacement ready. He drafted Jimmy Garoppolo in 2014 for that purpose. Garoppolo appeared to be so good that Brady got the owner of the team to trade him. He was right: Garoppolo has revivified the 49ers
We have all been here before. In 2005 the Green Bay Packers dared to assume that Brett Favre was mortal and drafted Aaron Rodgers as an eventual successor. Favre sulked, and when Rodgers did step up, he retired, then signed with another team, and wound up with the Packers’ deadly enemies the Vikings. Will we eventually see Brady in Jets green?
It seems that Brady wants to be the Patsies’ quarterback forever, with a grudging concession to age 45. Evil little Bill Belichick suspects he won’t last that long and wants a replacement ready. He drafted Jimmy Garoppolo in 2014 for that purpose. Garoppolo appeared to be so good that Brady got the owner of the team to trade him. He was right: Garoppolo has revivified the 49ers
We have all been here before. In 2005 the Green Bay Packers dared to assume that Brett Favre was mortal and drafted Aaron Rodgers as an eventual successor. Favre sulked, and when Rodgers did step up, he retired, then signed with another team, and wound up with the Packers’ deadly enemies the Vikings. Will we eventually see Brady in Jets green?
Taking the name seriously
Feb. 11th, 2017 09:23 amSix New England Patriots, led by Martellus Bennett, decline to visit the jock sniffer in the White House.
Bring us together
Jan. 31st, 2017 05:51 amSomething Americans can agree on: Hating the Patsies! (This week the Falcons are my favorite team.)
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Sportsball
Oct. 24th, 2016 06:07 amThere are two philosophies of football: air warfare and trench warfare. I am of the former party: For me the ideal game is 80 passes, 80 points, last team with the ball wins. Last night I had the good fortune to be asleep whilst the Cardinals & Seahawks played the other kind: a 6-6 overtime tie. Of course, a Sports Illustrated writer was enraptured by it, calling it “hard-fought actual football.” I think it’s the sort of thing Donald Trump should be sentenced to watch.
Panties in a Brady bunch
Oct. 5th, 2016 06:52 amI don’t hate Tom Brady. I hate his team, I hate his coach, and I certainly don’t think of him as one of the good guys unfairly trapped in that milieu, like Martellus Bennett, but I don’t hate Tom Brady. I am a moderate.
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Back in the 60s, education radicals said that the school system was merely a matter of teachers telling the kids Revealed Truths and then grading them on how correctly they regurgitated those doctrines on an exam. Oversimplified, of course, but yesterday’s satire is today’s news, and we now have a perfect example.
The NFL draft has just concluded. Alleged experts told us who should draft whom, and now they are grading the teams. But of course, no one knows anything about how well the teams drafted until actual games are played. After the season, a preliminary evaluation can be made, but it’s probably best to wait several years. So the experts are grading the teams on how correctly they regurgitated what the experts told them.
The NFL draft has just concluded. Alleged experts told us who should draft whom, and now they are grading the teams. But of course, no one knows anything about how well the teams drafted until actual games are played. After the season, a preliminary evaluation can be made, but it’s probably best to wait several years. So the experts are grading the teams on how correctly they regurgitated what the experts told them.
At the National Football League combine tryouts, quarterback prospect Jared Goff was found to have small enough hands to call into question his ability to throw the ball accurately. Because the NFL is a mature, civilized culture, no sexual innuendos have been hurled at Goff, and he has not replied with irrelevant brags.
Correction
Feb. 9th, 2016 07:15 amFantasy Football Is Not Dungeons & Dragons for Jocks. It’s wargaming for jocks. And it’s for jock sniffers, rather than jocks, although there are actual NFL players who also play fantasy.
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Apr. 30th, 2015 06:05 amToday is the NFL Draft. I'm glad the wait is almost over, but I'm also wondering how long I will be able to continue putting up with the obvious moral squalor of my favorite sport and what it does to those who participate. I am also a Trekkie, and when I face criticism for that, I can always comfort myself with the knowledge that my favorite franchise is not Star Wars.*
So it is cheering today to be reminded that there is a worse alleged sport, one in which inflicting brain damage is directly the way to win, rather than a byproduct. (Even hockey has aims other than blunt trauma.) In news that should surprise no one, the best boxer of our time has discovered that the skills transfer.
While I'm at it, The NY Times did a follow-up story on the first round picks of the 1990 draft (the first one I watched), and John Scalzi relates it to his rookie class.
*But now the same guy is directing both, and I feel as if my team has signed a treaty with Von Ribbentrop.
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So it is cheering today to be reminded that there is a worse alleged sport, one in which inflicting brain damage is directly the way to win, rather than a byproduct. (Even hockey has aims other than blunt trauma.) In news that should surprise no one, the best boxer of our time has discovered that the skills transfer.
While I'm at it, The NY Times did a follow-up story on the first round picks of the 1990 draft (the first one I watched), and John Scalzi relates it to his rookie class.
*But now the same guy is directing both, and I feel as if my team has signed a treaty with Von Ribbentrop.
Thanx to Metafilter, and Whatever.
No, I just walk like that
Feb. 1st, 2015 12:55 pmThe deflated-balls scandal, besides embarrassing Bill Belichick and letting headline writers unleash their inner 12-year-old, has helped us deal with the annual problem of two weeks with a lot less than two weeks' worth of interesting stuff to say before the Super Bowl. Let the game begin already.
Football gets one right
Dec. 1st, 2014 05:25 amThe St. Louis Police Officers Association is displeased that members of the Rams football team ran out on the field before the game with their hands up. The Rams went on to win 52-0, and none of them were shot.
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