Its the time of year when we can put aside out differences, come together and all agree Dak needs to leave Dallas before he gets himself killed by Jerry Jones.
This is my review of Kentucky Bourbon Barrel Tart Cherry Wheat:
In recent years the NFL turned from an aspect of the culture everyone can agree is worth paying attention to, regardless of the casualness of that attention, to something everyone can sum up with the following: I love [insert your team here] but I hate the NFL.
Sure, the game isn’t the same as it was when it was perfectly reasonable for a hall of fame quarterback’s career to be ended on a CB blitz. After all, Aeneas Williams needed to be remembered for something besides being a perennial Pro Bowler, and leading the league in vowels in his name (7). That might have lead to some level of disillusion from the hardcore base of fans that want to watch grown men beat each other senseless.
This is the core base of fans, according to the Washington Commanders Redskins guy that portrayed NFL fans as “high school educated alcoholics.” I’m insulted, sir. I may be an alcoholic but I have a masters degree.
So it should be no surprise with everything beloved by the culture becoming overtly political, some might have mixed feelings on team blue’s embrace of something as barbaric as NFL football (TW: The Nation):
This was their sport, the right’s loudest hucksters howled. It wasn’t just a game but a way of life—a rugged political tradition under attack, a politics as old as the game itself, exemplified when Teddy Roosevelt wrote,”In life, as in a football game, the principle to follow is: Hit the line hard.” The mythic coaches with last names like Rockne, Halas, and Lombardi epitomized to the faithful a rock-ribbed conservatism: hostile to social change, comfortable with violence, and guarding the development not only of players but American masculinity itself. Even with decades of social change, the century-old political mystique assigned to “the football coach” has endured.
How confused, how utterly rattled, these conservatives must be at the moment. Democrats are claiming football for themselves; presenting the sport as not only patriotic but as a potent symbol of the kind of teamwork needed to take down Donald Trump.
Imagine writing for The Nation and accusing others of being confused. It does get better though.
While the left never had a coordinated plan to sink pro football, the last decade’s exposure of the sport’s corrosive nature is a good thing. People have the right to know the negative physical and psychological effects that can arise from playing the most popular sport in the country. Football and medical whistleblowers have exposed a right wing willing to look away from public health if it means pats on the back and campaign dollars from the reactionary billionaires that run the NFL.
[Kaepernick bullshit omitted for your benefit]
This could repel the young, left-wing voters more interested in policy changes than who wins the football wars. Young people care about racism, the economy, climate change, Palestine, and a host of other issues given short shrift at the convention. Football not only won’t be enough to satisfy them. Its embrace may send a signal that the big tent isn’t big enough for them. This championing of conservative symbols like football, in other words, could cost Harris and Walz the election, and it will be their own doing.
Right, this is not supposed to be a game that appeals to soyboys, and that’s the problem with football, it appeals to men.
Also appealing to men: booze. I’ve reviewed an offering from this brewery before, and I found its approach with basic wheat beer aged in the plethora of bourbon barrels just lying around Kentucky is not without its charms. A cherry wheat is fairly common, and the tart/sweetness works well with bourbon in other circumstances so the flavors do align. A straightforward approach that left me wondering why nobody thought of this before. They’re just spiking the football at this point. Kentucky Bourbon Barrel Tart Cherry Wheat: 4.0/5
Democrats are claiming football for themselves; presenting the sport as not only patriotic but as a potent symbol of the kind of teamwork needed to take down Donald Trump.
So what you’re saying is bring back the chop block.
I wouldn’t mind seeing a few democrats get cloths-lined.
A horse collar tackle for Mitt and McConnell might make me smile as well.
So what you’re saying is bring back the chop block.
So some Glib made a remark years ago about baseball that with all the trades going on, all you’re really rooting for is the uniform. It made it less fun for me.
This is now how I feel about the NFL. We have about 4-6 players who are staples and one of them is aging out soon (Kelce), with two others not far behind (Butker and Humphrey). Now, it could be because we always have rookies because we can’t seem to get back that Tyreek Hill magic, but I don’t know. I couldn’t even get roused about our game Thursday night because I didn’t recognize half the names from even last year.
That is how I feel about college football now. Part of the enjoyment used to be watching the promising freshmen mature into good players over 4 years. Now I turn on a game and recognize nobody on the field.
5-6 year collegiate “careers” and trades. Death of traditional conferences and matchups.
5-6 year collegiate “careers”
Pikers
Transfer Portal issa da Debil.
That was a Jerry Seinfeld joke
Ah. Didn’t know. Never watched Seinfeld regularly. Just parts of a few episodes in late-night syndication.
I think he said it on Letterrman or similar show. On some level you’re cheering for laundry.
The Browns seem to have some success in keeping players here. Even during the dark times, we still had players that seemed to be happy to be here.
My guess is I’d like everything about that beer except the Cherry. If I want fruit I’ll drink cider or perry.
I love my fruity sour ales.
👍🏼
New Glarus in WI makes a top shelf Belgian cherry. Wish I could get it here.
R C Dean:
I’ve got a couple still lurking in my fridge thanks to CPRM.
That Belgian Cherry is heaven in a bottle. I have CPRM bringing me a couple four packs to Honey Harvest. mmmmm
HH is a week from tomorrow, we’ll have a good time, folks, we’ll have a good time then
Small chance of rain in the early am, but otherwise looks like the weather will be favoring HH this year! 🌞
Young people care about racism, the economy, climate change, Palestine, and a host of other issues given short shrift at the convention. Football not only won’t be enough to satisfy them. Its embrace may send a signal that the big tent isn’t big enough for them.
Are these the same deep thinkers who flocked to the game when Taylor Swift suddenly appeared on the Chiefs’ sideline?
I will say something controversial: Swifties are not necessarily communists. They just like really shitty music.
Well, now we got bad blood!
Meh. I’ll shake it off.
The only good thing about bad blood is letting it slide.
That’s exactly right. She has a huge following and has so far avoided politics. Her terrible music appeals to the masses.
The left is taking over football, you fascist rubes! Also, football is so terrible and unfair!
Those not on the left must never be allowed to have anything they like. And they must have their noses rubbed in it.
I’ve argued about the hypocrisy of sports writers several times on Twitter, and the assertion about there being a political orthodoxy in what athletes should think really seems to piss lefties off.
Apparently, there’s a newish book on Aaron Rodgers, and the critics are wondering why did Rodgers become so polarizing when he used to spout such good things (eg. standing up for Kaepernick)? I suggested on a Packers board that “polarizing”, in this instance, simply meant no longer agreeing with the writer, and that was not well received.
Most of the people on the board, unsurprisingly, turned on Rodgers when his coronavirus thoughtcrime became known. (And, of course, they hate my use of the word “thoughtcrime” to describe it.)
Re sportswriters.
Jason Whitlock started out at the Kansas City Star. He’s had some controversial takes over the years, but I always thought he was stirrring shit to stir shit, but apparently he’s just “right-wing.”
I used to like Whitlock when I lived in KC (haven’t read him much since I moved away). Didn’t always agree with him, but MOST of the time, he was at least thoughtful.
Yep, the Green Bay sports talk radio hosts switched from sucking Rodger’s dick even when he sucked to trash talking him even when he played well after the covid thing.
“As always, when sports writers claim they want athletes to stand up for the things they believe in, they mean “things the sports writers believe in”, not “things the athletes believe in””
There’s a gay woman (relevant as you’ll see) sports opinion writer for Fox Sports Australia named Kellie Underwood. One year she was vociferously defending a rugby player who refused to allow his team jersey to carry the name of the sponsoring bank because he had a moral objection to the practices of many banks. She said sports stars should be allowed to stand up for what they believe in.
A couple of years later Underwood was cheering on the people who wanted to remove all references to Margaret Court because Court was outspoken against gay marriage. Granted, the latter was close to home for Underwood, but it applies to your point.
Kellie Underwood is obviously a stupid white bastard.
(It was so much fun seeing most of the journalists defending that because principals, not principles.)
I must have missed this happening.
Or… could it just be some sort of rhetorical fantasy The Nation is making up…?
They are also claiming both Cheney’s – they can have them.
Can’t relate. Personally, I’ve always been the obnoxious prick who not only didn’t care about or pay attention to professional sports, but would tell you why.
Likewise. “Ignored” is too mild — actively avoided in every respect and at all levels comes closer.
Amen!
With the exception of baseball, I’ve come more to this point of view. The trouble is I don’t really want to watch it, I want to play it.
At a certain age playing football becomes dangerous and frankly kind of sad.
Next you’ll tell us you don’t even own a TV.
I aways liked football, baseball, etc. But I refuse to pay any attention when I am not directly watching it. I don’t want to know who got their girlfriend pregnant, who was traded off, any of that. I just wan to enjoy it, and then turn it off.
Dance monkeys, dance.
Speaking of that game Thursday, there were some truly bizarre commercials in it.
I only saw the last 5 minutes because I work in the evenings.
I believe it was proof that Ohio is no longer a swing state. I got zero ads for Harris or Trump. Quite a few for the Ohio Senator race.
5-6 year collegiate “careers”
made me think of this
Roosevelt was one of the first to use politics to push football ever towards flag football. Fuck him.
To be fair, your state school still runs an offense that doesn’t believe in the forward pass.
Don’t sully me with those queens downstate.
But yes, I do prefer hard nosed running to diva receivers who complain anytime they are touched by the other team.
9/13/2003 12:00:00 AMRebels Roll Over No. 14 Wisconsin 23-5
Blah blah blah fixing DEI
Building bridges across our differences is critical for America to move forward. Just don’t throw the DEI baby out with the bathwater. It’s the bathwater that must be dumped.
The best way to foster a sense of unity and community is to obsess about the superficial differences between individuals and groups.
Watching the totalitarian left get on the defensive of their destructive, hateful bullshit is richly rewarding.
“Just don’t throw the DEI baby out with the bathwater.”
Or do. On an icy mountain in winter. Break the bathtub, too, just to be sure.
The bathwater is fine. Fuck the baby.
That’s a kink I’m going to shame.
Am I the only one who can’t stand anything* that’s “Bourbon Barrel Aged”? I could probably take about three sips of this beer before I’d get nauseous and have to dump it.
*apart from actual bourbon
It is sometimes overdone but other times is enjoyable.
Isn’t this story from the beginning of “Beetlejuice?”
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/ford-f-750-plunges-through-historic-wooden-bridge-maine
More like Misery.
Ida Lupino’s Woman in Hiding would be another good choice, but that’s a much more obscure movie.
covered bridge dating back to
18401973, hasda strict weight limitGermans always causing trouble.
What a ninny.
4/5 from Sharpy ? That’s an unusually high score!
Re: NFL football. I hate ROGER Goodell, I hate the BLM stuff. being painted onto the fields, and I hate that they opened the season with the “Black National Anthem.”
Re: College football. The transfer portal truly is da debil, as ZWAK noted above.
If you can protest the Star-Spangled Banner, you can protest any and every other anthem.
Kentucky Bourbon Barrel Tart Cherry Wheat – few beers sound so disgusting just from the name
That’s just sad.
I thought you liked cherries.
And bourbon.
Or… could it just be some sort of rhetorical fantasy The Nation is making up…?
I think it must have something to do with the nonsensical slavering adulation of “Coach” Walz.
I bet he spent a lot of time behind the center with his hands between his legs “showing how to hike the ball”.
That pansy? 🙄
It’s of a piece with the reinvention of Kamala as a “moderate”. All fantasy.
‘Villain’ YouTuber Nikocado Avocado Shocks Fans With 250LB Weight Loss Reveal
https://www.thedailybeast.com/mukbang-youtuber-nikocado-avocado-shocks-fans-with-250lb-weight-loss-reveal
Sports writers are the education majors of journalism.
Speaking of politics hijacking football
Democrats have denounced it in hundreds of ads and billboards, printed it in oversized book form as a convention prop, and mentioned it in seemingly every speech and press statement.
Now, they will take their campaign against the conservative Project 2025 blueprint, written by allies of Republican Donald Trump, to the skies above college football stadiums in key swing states.
Democratic National Committee -sponsored banners pulled by small airplanes are flying Saturday over Michigan Stadium, where the defending national champion Wolverines have a marquee matchup against Texas, and at home games for Penn State and Wisconsin. A banner set to fly over Georgia’s home game might be affected by weather.
Vice President Kamala Harris and her allies have spent months warning about Project 2025, betting that the initiative makes Trump seem especially extreme. More than 900 pages and produced by the conservative Heritage Foundation, the plan lays out how Trump in his second term might do everything from firing tens of thousands of federal workers to abolishing government departments to imposing new restrictions on abortion and diversity initiatives.
My devout wish it this will incite deafening cheers of “FUCK JOE BIDEN”.
Fuck Commie Kamala
Needs “We call it Bidenomics” stickers.
The GOP could respond by flying giant copies of the Little Red Book over Pride parades.
Does anyone even know what’s in the plan, or is it just received wisdom that it’s bad?
The 2025 project? The one Trump has nothing to do with? The one he disagrees with? That 2025 project.
Everything about the Dem campaign is imaginary. It is laughable really. Apparently they are joyful about it.
That would be epic.
Speaking of football, the Maize and Blue seem to be missing Harbaugh and JJ and Blake and a few others that were good at football. Won’t be surprised if they finish the season unranked.
I will say something controversial: Swifties are not necessarily communists. They just like really shitty music.
Personality cultists (I presume that is what they are) are not necessarily communists. I have never knowingly listened to her music.
You’re a communist of you think shake it off wasn’t good.
Also, it kind of has a positive, stop feeling sorry for yourself message, which really, doing all kids need?
I know Taylor Swift tunes that Remy has parodied on Reason, but that’s about it.
I hear she knows how to put on an entertaining concert, so good for her giving the fans what they want. 🤷♀️
Remy’s version of “Shake It Off”
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iaD5_XJl0AY&pp=ygURcmVteSBzaGFrZSBpdCBvZmY%3D
So much ink to say so little.
I like pro hockey and pro football. My wife and I will have football on a good chunk of the day tomorrow and will enjoy it, even if only in the background. The Vikings are gonna have a terrible year and even that’s something to enjoy.
“Kentucky Bourbon Barrel Tart Cherry Wheat: 4.0/5”
Yeah, I would absolutely order/buy it based on the name. Glad it turned out well.
At the beer store, watching a MILFy young mom run her crew of three like a hall of famer calling plays at the line. I swear she just hoisted a 50 pound grade schooler with one hand to park her at the table.
Get em started young?
A proper alpha female in action. Warms my cold black heart, it does.
Yoga pants?
Hot.
This.
You had me at MILFy.
You better look good in your 20s. To execute at a high level into your 40s, 50s and 60s is absolutely worthy of recognition.
A proper alpha female in action.
She should be working for a nonprofit advocacy organization, instead of being enslaved by the patriarchy.
Pepper festival visit was successful. The rain held off long enough for us to make a complete lap and pick up some goodies.
OT: do kids still wear G-Shocks? My oldest turns 16 in a few weeks.
No weapons. I got him a gun when he turned 12.
Do kids even wear watches that aren’t smart watches?
Its why I’m asking you!
Some do. Kids that are rough and outdoorsy. There are a couple of solar G shocks now which sound cool. No batteries ever.
https://gshock.casio.com/us/products/type/solar-powered-digital-watches/
How are some of these $800?
Get him this one
Bidenflation, of course.
Kamala will fix those high watch prices!
Get him this one
Wut?
I bought this one in 2011 for $115
Damn thing is still running strong.
“A” gun?
Sounds like he’s due for another!
Get him the watch. Tell him chicks dig dudes with real watches, not those gammas with their “smrt” watches so they know when their mommy is texting them.
”A” gun?
I mean, he knows where the AR is, and how to access it. Frankly he’d rather have a sword.
So would I. Claymore.
If I shoot someone with a gun that my dad gave me when I was 14 is he still responsible? It was a gun he gave me when I was a little younger.
My son wore one for years until he bought a Garmin for more mountain functions. Get the boy a G-Shock – he’ll dig it.
Everyone else in my family thinks it’s a bad idea, so I bought it.
Now you’re getting it.
Kentucky Bourbon Barrel Tart Cherry Wheat: 4.0/5
This surprises me, I might have to give it a try if I find it
I missed the FAFSA post the other day. It would be hard to adequately express my hate for everything about the way college funding goes these days. Hadn’t given it a thought so when the oldest hit college about 5 years ago, I was astonished how hosed everything was compared to when I was there.
Anyway, today I’m trying to figure out how one of my kids ended up with a Pell Grant after filling out the damn FAFSA thing. It set off alarms in my head since it hadn’t happened before and I thought it was a low-income family thing. I think Mrs. Tree, in filling out the mandatory (of course) form, missed a coupla big chunks on the “net worth” things, and combined with the “4 kids in college next year” thing, it happened.
So now I don’t know if I’m supposed to try to fix it or not. Dammit. Any of y’all run into this?
As my wife says, when I worry about underpaying my tax by mistake.
“Let them figure it out if it’s worth while.”
I wouldn’t worry about it.
Don’t sweat it. They are evaluated based on how much money they puke up, not how many errors in applications they catch.
Also, it kind of has a positive, stop feeling sorry for yourself message, which really, doing all kids need?
Wallowing in pain, self-pity and fear seems to b the new religion.
Eh, that goes back a few generations. Probably to the invention of “adolescence” as a socially recognized life stage.
Eh, that goes back a few generations. Probably to the invention of “adolescence” as a socially recognized life stage.
It seems to have intensified in the current millennium, and adults are encouraging it.
Watching the Remy spoof I see a reference there to the Jesus looking dude who made a video no one saw and that shithead Obama blamed the tape for…something. Does anyone remember?
Didn’t Hillary blame the movie on getting an ambassador killed and not her incompetence ?
What difference, at this point, does it make?
Oh, that’s right. Turns out Hillary dismissed the security that was there in favor of some phoney company in Ireland that was a crony of some kind…it was graft basically. The company she chose had no staff, just two guys with telephones and a rented office. One of them flew down to Libya and recruited guards off of the street. Literally just walked around asking randos if they wanted the job. One of them turned out to be the brother of the head of ISIS or Al Qaeda in Libya.
In an effort to try and keep that coming to light they found some loony dude that made that video…that had all of 50 views…and tagged him with stirring shit all over the ME. It was pathetic, like everything these slimy liars do. I think the guy even went to prison, didnt he?
Checks….yes he did.
The Obama admin, especially Clinton, didn’t give a shit then and dont give a shit now. These kinds of catastrophes are the legacy of the left, both here and everywhere else.
If they win this election we are truly in for a rough ride.
When I read this story a few months back I thought if they ever found the perp of this “hate crime” that there was a 95% chance it was about his dogs and the racist angle was a ruse. It’s like a mirror image Smollet.
https://sfstandard.com/2024/05/09/alamo-square-dog-walker-racist-threats/
https://sfstandard.com/2024/09/06/suspect-identified-hate-crime-san-francisco-dog-walker-terry-williams/
Huh.
“ A LinkedIn page that appears to be Chartrand’s indicates that she has a master’s degree in psychology from San Francisco State University; an Instagram account under her name lists her as a dominatrix. A landing page on SFSU says her research has focused on, among other things, the “subcultured, racialized and marginalized” and women of color in the Bay Area fetish scene.
On Facebook last month, Chartrand published a post urging people to condemn bigotry after describing how “an evil hegemonic woman” yelled a racist comment at her in front of about 30 people in the Mission District.”
Totally shocking.
Dayum. Crazy bitch burned his house down.
And KSue called the dog angle:
Dave Chappelle had some thoughts on that.
It was a perfect 10.
I used to think Sean Hannity was being a bit hyperbolic when he claimed leftism is a symptom of mental illness.
JFC I want the last ten minutes of my life back.
People want “hate crimes” soooo bad. It’s sick.
I and my students enjoyed this clip about US soldiers being experimented on with psychedelic drugs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rW0wqSUx-E
suggested music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7DRC9I5boA
Too bad those scientists are most likely dead or too old to bother hanging.
I hope your kids are learning the right lessons but knowing you I suspect there will be some angry parents incoming.
Well done.