HOW THE WEEK WENT
Colorado ain’t 22d is now supposedly 18th after beating up the Huskers; know what the N on a helmet stands for in Lincoln? Nowledge. I’m still not buying: Colorado is not a top 60 team.
Duke ain’t 21st but is still supposedly 21st after destroying OohLaLa. Duke is not a top 50 team.
Tulane ain’t 24th and proved it by losing to the University of Gotta Getta Guy 37-20 at home (insert sad trombone ringtone here). If you can’t beat a bunch of drunk guys in dirty bucks and seer sucker, you are not a top 40 team. Tulane produces some useful product,
but I can’t remember what it is right just this second. Anyway, Tulane is our first skin on the wall: good bye, you fucking posers and the clowns who voted for you.
Florida State sure as shit ain’t 4th, but they destroyed the University of Hattiesburg and were elevated to 3d. This train will run out of track, worry not.
Oklahoma ain’t 18th, but they got past the cheatin’ cheaters of north Dallas and somehow fell to 19th. I think they might be a top 20 team and this might be the first crow I’ll chaw this season, but let it simmer on the back burner a couple more weeks. While we’re on the subject, I have some long-winded advice about SMU but will not repeat it all this time except to say: just don’t; say no to SMU; please please trust me on this one.
Oregon State ain’t 16, so they only had the guts to wallop the Optometric College of Davis 55-7 and were rewarding by getting to stay at 16 for another week….total BS.
Washington sure as shit ain’t 8th, but they might be a top 20 squad. Anyhoo, beating the University of Will Rogers at Tulsa don’t prove shit unless it’s a goat roping.
North Carolina ain’t 17th; they’re not even a top 20 team, but they outlasted Ap State in 2OT. They fell to 20th, but I don’t feel like that’s punishment enough, so let’s watch their nonsense a bit further down the line and see how dumb “17th” last week really was.
THE NEWLY STUPID OVER-RATED
There are not nine teams better than Alabama, so let’s see who doesn’t know that yet.
Utah ain’t 12th, but I’m not sure they’re going to play anyone all year to prove me right.
Washington State (father-in-law’s alma mater) ain’t 23d, but who really cares what goes on in the third tier of pointy-ball rankings? UCLA ain’t 24th, either, but again, simply, who gives a shit.
watching Vols I recorded as they were getting slapped around by Austin Peay last weekend: hangable offense
Firsting on your own post. Bold move, Cotton.
*Salutes
I didn’t even know it was going to run tonight.
NewWife is at a biz dinner, so I’m watching warm-up football and just clicked over here and my better-than-nothing filler post is still nothing.
So anyhoo howdy.
Howdy back!
Been cooking BBQ chicken drumsticks and corn. It’s a good night.
bachelor’s bacon, fried eggs, and Yüngling
NewWife is back, so I’m being forced to watch a reality show where millennials wash dishes on a yacht for a living
LOL
‘Merican soccer here. The rest of world is playing qualies for the next World Cup. We’re hosting the thing so we got stuck with Uzbekistan the other day and Oman tonight. 🤪
I do have a tracker for USMNT and record all the games
but as much as I love my spreadsheet on the team, I’m not watching any of them unless I can relate to the opponent
Newcastle is my team (nice run recently), I watch all their games, and I watch Liverpool for my buddies
looks like I caught England vs Scotland, so my DNA says I must watch it and love both sides and hate both sides
It’s raining goals and I missed some of them because work, ugh.
The sports bras the players wear make me laugh – way to give soccer haters even more ammo.
lol
I guess those things hold heart monitors or something? But yeah.
They’re high-precision trackers, and cool tech, but they still look like sports bras.
https://statsports.com/
Are you sure it isn’t a bro? Or maybe a manzeer?
https://youtu.be/quzRzYQ5Xwo?si=kjkiWwAOVbG9x9mM
Firsting on your own post is overrated.
I’d say you are overrated, but no one rates you.
The Sanders’ Buffalos might not be the 18th best team but they are the #1 story. And that ain’t chopped liver.
they best CSU by 15
lose to Oregon by 13
lose to USC by 18
lose to ASU by 2
win over Stanford by 11
lose to UCLA by 10
nothing wrong with winning the games you can
then lose to Oregon St by 7
then edge Arizona by 3
then lose in Pullman by 10
then lose to UU by 9
it’s early to make these guesses, but bible study’s not ’til tomorrow night
I love this and I don’t even watch college football – mostly never have, either.
we’re both students of over-reaction: keeping your powder dry intellectually is a lost art, and perspective comes from honest observation, another art few have the time for
that’s all I’m doing: pointing at the spazziness of our culture and waiting to be right (for the system to damp to some reasonable mean)
Their next two games are on the road, but I don’t imagine Boston College will pose much of a threat. Clemson… who knows?
Every other game against anyone decent (for ACC values of “decent”) is at home. I wouldn’t be surprised if the ‘Noles roll into Gainesville in late November undefeated.
I wouldn’t take BC if I were getting 20
Clemson is at home, so it’s a coin flip
Free Shoes U is like Utah: they won’t play anyone for us to know; we must wait until they meet LSU in the LazyBoy Bowl
If you’re not going to go undefeated then the best strategy is Alabama’s. Lose game #2, drop down the rankings, win the rest of your games and be the highest ranked 1-loss team at the end.
Vols will come up short 12 for their trip to the Black Warrior
compound words in Muskogean tongues structure like French: noun-modifier
so it’s really Warrior Black: TuscaLoosa
I’m not sure how far to take that, because rivers are often the other way around, so TuscaLoosaHatchie?
Go Bills!
Good luck with that 👍
Johnnie Taylor
Johnny Cash
Glenn Campbell
Levon Helm
which one is buried in AR ?
Levon
Levon likes his money
He makes a lot they say.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEgEmTgAEUk&ab_channel=EltonJohn-Topic
Luecke Ranch is east of Bastrop
Carryover from ded thread RE: eco-asshole:
I would have just left him stuck to the road. Maybe put up a cone or two to keep people from accidentally running him over. Accidentally.
He made his bed, let him lie on it. Let his commie buddies come by occasionally to feed him and scrape up his poop.
That’s exactly my feeling, after a couple days of wet, nasty britches and hungry as hell they may learn something. If they’re not bolted down pull ’em off by their hair and take ’em to jail and let ’em wait for a few days in the drunk tank.
Give him some tools (hacksaw, chisel, crowbar) and let him figure it out. Then, if he harms the asphalt, arrest for destruction of public property.
+1 Jigsaw
A la Mad Max.
While that would be fun, I think they need to be taught a lesson.
They need to live without fossil fuels – i.e. under the conditions that they want to force on the rest of us.
No, no.
Everyone is supposed to suffer, and also, ensure that they personally are not inconvenienced.
The Zatarains gal looks like an old co-worker.
I’m a Tony Chacherie’s Spicy man.
Breakfast
Lunch
and Dinner
I even travel with a small canister.
Maybe frost tonight, I picked a bag of Bells today but the spicy little ones aren’t quite ready.
I am too. That picture helps.
I don’t know if I like Cajun or Mexican food better, but I didn’t even realize I actually liked fish till I moved to Houston and had blackened catfish.
I don’t even like fish, but blackened fish is great.
First frost of the season expected tonight. Windows are installed on the chicken coop. Heater has been plugged in. Plastic has been draped over the tomatoes. Fingers are crossed.
And so it begins…
Heating the coop?
Yes
Just throwing it out there.
Wow. It just finally got down to 83 today. I was elated. Probably will not have frost this year.
Ugh we’re stuck in a pattern of too cool for AC but too humid for not AC.
My tall tumbler is dripping sweat.
Oh my…
Naw, still running it to deal with the humidity
The good news is that it wasn’t my blower motor that broke, just the starter capacitor. The bad news is I didn’t check that, so I spent hundreds to have someone replace a $20 capacitor.
So I will be enjoying the AC at the drop of a hat.
Yeah, it’s going on for bedtime.
Same here in the middle of the night.
I am so glad euphemisms are back.
September and early October are Hawaii’s hot month. We flirt with reaching 90’s but still drop back to the upper 70’s each night. As long as the Trade Winds don’t fail us, everything is okay. When the Trades fail and the Kona Winds bring in the moisture from the equator that it when it gets miserable.
I’m having real trouble working that one out.
We generally have 10 swing in temps from the low to high year round. Relative humidity with the cooling winds from the NE (The Trade Winds) stays in the mid 70% range, so it is okay after you are use to it. When the Trades fail in the summer we get weak winds from the south (Kona Winds) and they bring increased humidity. So it gets warm and sticky and maybe 3-5 degrees warmer.
Plus as a bonus if Hawaii Island volcano is active the Konas bring in VOG. The increased particulates and SO2 can impact people with lung issues,
70s at night is miserable. How much worse does it get?
^this is the correct (upstate, aka real) NY answer.
80s at night (downstate NY answer).
Where can I find Don’s predictions from 2 weeks ago for how the top 25 will wind up? It’s pretty easy to call out the overrated teams after the results are in.
Kicked out for vaping and yelling.
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/gop-rep-boebert-booted-colorado-theater-over-disturbance-report
I’m guessing the ushers’ version is a lot closer to the truth.
LET’S GET THIS FUCKING FIRST STARTED
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I need your aspie football prowess – as a fairly casual fan, my impression is that Brady didn’t have a HOF target for the first 3 Super Bowl runs – it wasn’t until Gronkowski (save Moss) that he had a consistent target at that level.
Am I forgetting someone?
Bonus – does Edelman eventually get in to Canton on the strength of the post-season accomplishments?
Wes Welker maybe? IMO he never got the long term contract he deserved.
Welker was a revelation at the time – combined with Randy Moss, they just killed people.
Double Wes? They’re going deep to Moss.
Double Moss? Welker will kill you 8 yards at a time.
Welker led directly to Edelman.
This is pretty brutal:
https://www.wckg.com/micd-up-belichick-tells-wes-welker-hes-been-wally-pipped-after-rookie-edelman-punt-return-td/
All of which is to say: I love Wes Welcker but he’s never making the Hall.
I agree he won’t be nominated. I think he deserves entry. And I do think he was the caliber you are looking for.
He has no rings, sadly – first 3 wins were before his time, last 3 were after.
But, oh, 2007 could have been special… (it was still special, save for the unpleasantness at the end)
You would be talking JAGS like Troy Brown and Deion Branch as his top targets until about 2006 when he didn’t even have someone of that level. You had Reche Caldwell starting and a lot of angry fans demanding change. Then Belichick went out and traded for Welker, Moss and signed Stallworth.
So you would be right.
Danke.
As background, I was going to console Mojeaux – Mahomes could do a reverse Brady and go from winning Super Bowls with future HOF targets to winning Super Bowls with role players (and an excellent defense).
It could happen.
But the team didn’t win because of the offense until he got the weapons, prior to that Brady was the ‘Don’t fuck this up for us’ guy. That’s the thing people don’t remember simply because he played so long. For the first half of his career he was the late career Frank Gore of QBs, for the second half he was the Terrell Davis of quarterbacks. At no point was he the Barry Sanders of quarterbacks.
Thus, my mention of the defense; even for casual fans here it’s common knowledge that the D carried the day back then.
In 2001, Brady was the don’t fuck this up guy. That would be a fair statemernt.
By 2003, he carried the offense and it more than did its part to earn those rings. Brady tore up the Steelers, played very well against Philly in 2004. And he won a shoot-out in 2003 to get his second ring while his vaunt4ed defense was torn up by Jake Delhomme.
The defense won those rings people are typically fans of other QB’s who are salty. Peyton Manning didn’t win more in the playoffs because he played like shit and because his style of offense was poorly suited to the playoffs. Aaron Rodgers? His risk averse bullshit doesn’t pan out in the postseason.
The Patriots were a very well coached team. Brady did not do it on his own, but he was not some game manager.
Because both defenses sucked, that makes him good. Logic be good. Terrell Davis rushed for over 2,000 yards, that does not make Terrell Davis a great running back.
Did you ever actually see Terrell Davis in his prime to make that statement?
As someone who was a Steelers fan and very vividly remembers the 2001 and 2004 AFCCG games (along with the 1997 AFCCG game against the Broncos), I can tell you that your statements on both players are wrong.
What did the 2005 Steelers defense do to the vaunted Peyton Manning and probably with his best team?
Fuck the No Travel Conference. And fuck the Crimson Cousin Fuckers.
Now do covid vaccines.
https://dailycaller.com/2023/09/12/phenylephrine-ineffective-fda-advisors/
That would require acknowledging that the worst case scenario for the “vaccines” that don’t actually vaccinate are strokes or death. A placebo would be an improvement over those outcomes.
https://frinkiac.com/caption/S04E21/391957
Leqembi is still fully approved.
Welcome to reality FDA. Consumers have known phenylephrine is useless since it was introduced.
No shit, Sherlocks.
We want our meth back.
“Coach Prime’s resurrection of Colorado…”
Does completely replacing all the players count as resurrecting a team?
You guys have all been obsessed with the whole ship of Theseus thing lately. Here is the answer.
The anti-woke media critics are all raving about One Piece. I’ve given it a shot. I’m not a big fan of the manga to begin with, but I find it poorly acted and it’s direction boring. It is pretty close to the source material so they get props for that and not pissing on the fans for once.
But this is a very average show that if it stands out, it’s only because of how much shit is being produced. I am curious how quickly guys like Nerdortic and Muller have taken to this compared to something like House Of The Dragon which was a far superior show.
But The Drinker Says! All Media must be judged by our betters! We’re not smort nouf!
I’ve done many questionable things in my llfe. The latest is growing my beard out yet again. Itchy scratchy. I might keep the Sam Elliot “stache just fer cookie dustin’.
I haven’t had a beard for around 2 weeks since I could grow one, worst 2 weeks of my life. I blame Obama, even though it has nothing to do with him, I just hate that asshole.
#metoo
Good morning all! Good to see you again Festus!
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Whoah, it’s that time again. Get up Glibs!
🍳☕
Happy love song Wednesday.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=l2q_-xN2N54
🎶🎶
I’d prefer not to.
/Bartleby
Well, I made it to the office.
On the plus side, it’s payday.
On the downslide, this month my local taxes are due, and I had to pay the mechanic for some work on the car. I might end September poorer than I started it.
Mornin’, reprobates!
I might end September poorer than I started it.
But you will be richer for the experience, U!
How-dee.
Hoi.
👒 🏷 🪕
Ukraine is busy trying to drag NATO into the war.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/russias-navy-port-sevastopol-fire-after-massive-ukraine-missile-attack
To be fair, firing missiles at a naval base owned and operated by the country you’re at war with is a valid military action.
I agree we should never have givin Ukraine those missiles to be fired, but that usage is predictable.
Ukraine is getting desperate now. I fully expect things to get real stupid now.
Now
To wit:
https://twitter.com/ducaena/status/1701741396363792650
🙄
Why the fuck shouldn’t they be allowed to defend themselves?
A navy base of a country that’s attacking you seems like one of the most legitimate targets out there.
What the fuck?
https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1701834854781030698
L
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Be all you can be, girlfriend.
Isn’t there something about disrespect for the uniform in the UCMJ?
What I got from this ad is that Apple is almost wholly staffed by soy-infused schlubs who need to hit the gym.
https://twitter.com/tim_cook/status/1701732427897491578
That is Microsoft-level cringe.
What a sad fall.
https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-staggering-ecological-impacts-of-computation-and-the-cloud/
Big computing is killing Gaia. Time to shut it down.
But iPhones are going to be made out of paper now! That will like totally heal the planet and stuff.
Let’s shut down the most efficient way of finding goods and services by moving a few electrons around, and go back to driving cars to brick and mortar stores. That’ll heal Gaia!
The chubby staffer in the ad was Hollywood ugly, BTW. Lose the glasses and a few pounds and she’d be conventionally hot.