THIS is an NFL Commissioner….
Think of it as Taco Tuesday on a Sunday. I actually ended up watching some NFL this week as the morning news show on Friday featured the last 20 seconds of the Chiefs/Raiders game. Three “touchdown” passes by Derek Carr in that amount of time. It is this stuff that makes you WANT to watch football. I cure myself of any weakness to go back by finding a picture of that Brillo-maned former 49er quarterback. Like a glass of cold water.
Oh, and the game was also highlighted by Anthem bench-butt Marshawn Lynch getting his ass ejected from the game for shoving an official. Maybe the refs can take a knee this week in protest of player violence.
Of course, Roger Goodell took to the microphones this week and proved that he should be seen and not heard (well, he shouldn’t be seen either, but let’s not compound the problem), as he gave several press conferences about how we needed to address issues in “our communities.” In a voice like a cartoon character. “Our” communities, Rog? You get paid how much? $30 mil a year? The only time you see “our” communities is from the window of a speeding car on the way to the stadium. Or a glimpse of the roofs from your helo. Geez, all that’s missing now is for him to show up to the next presser in a pink pus-say hat.
Man, but the sports writers don’t quit. They’re badgering every coach with an injured quarterback with the question if they are going to hire Krapperdick. I’m starting to think these aren’t real sports writers – not like the ones that lived, breathed and bled the stuff when I was growing up. You idiots DO realize that pretty much every team has THREE quarterbacks on the active roster at any given time? You DO realize that these quarterbacks work out every week with the team and know the plays, etc.? You DO know that as bad as the 49ers are right now, no one in the Bay Area is begging for the team to reinstate Krapperdick (who could probably be had at this point for minimum wage and free Starbucks for life)?
I know you love the myth that the dude is being blackballed by the league but here’s the ugly truth: He CAN’T effing PLAY. I don’t care how many players come out and say he’s good and he should be hired, I will bet you not ONE of them (except perhaps for Las Vegas Police fiction writer Michael Bennett) have begged their coaches to give him a try. Hell, I’d be urging other teams to hire him. Especially if they were in my division. Where’s the cry for the Browns to reinstate Manziel? Or the Redskins welcome RG-III home? Nowhere. Because they CAN’T play.
I can’t wait for the Dick’s collusion grievance to go forward. And miraculously he’s hired the only lawyer in California who’s as big an attention whore as Gloria Allred – Mark Garegos. Garegos is all about Garegos. Michael Jackson wasn’t the sharpest knife in the drawer but the smartest thing he did was to dump Garegos during this trial when Garegos was spending all his time preening in front of the cameras and hire Tom Mesereau. Mesereau is about the LAW (he in fact resigned as Robert Blake’s attorney because Blake kept giving interviews against his advice). So I’m sure sure Mark will have a daily statement shortly.
So, eh, here are the games. (and you know Mack, last week would have been fun!)
Bucs @ Bills
Panthers @ Bears
Titans @ Browns
Saints @ Green Bay (still Krapperdick FREE)
Jaguars @ Colts
Cardinals @ Rams
Jets @ Dolphins
Ravens @ Vikings
Cowboys @ 49ers (worth checking in just to see if anybody’s in the stadium)
Bengals @Steelers
Broncos @ Chargers (you can hear an echo in the cheap seats)
Seahawks @ Giants
Falcons @ Patriots
Monday’s Game
Redskins @ Eagles
Nothing on in the Baseball postseason, so it might not be a bad day to catch
NASCAR, in Kansas this week, with the points leader, Martin Truex Jr., grabbing the pole.
The NHL has no offerings except the Canucks at the Red Wings, and it looks to be be regional. There’s a lot of chatter among the NFL fans about switching to hockey. I’m game – if someone would just explain what the “blue line” and what it means to get an “icing” call…..
The PGA will have the final round of the CJ Cup at Nine Bridges. There’s news that Tiger Woods may return to the Master’s next year. Which is cool because I live for three tournaments – the AT&T Pro-Am, the Master’s and the Players. I also used to like the American Century Celebrity Championship from Lake Tahoe, until NBC took hold of it this year and killed all the fun out of it.
In any event, here’s your open thread for Sunday. Enjoy! Bloody Mary’s on me.
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2017/10/nfl-hell-several-stadiums-nearly-empty-anthem-protest-backlash-rolls-week-7-photos
@ Gateway Pundit
Lot’s of empty seats at NFL stadiums today . Goddess this is just brilliant. Let the inmates continue to run the
asylum.
There is a VERY entertaining solution mate:-
First Half
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K650EmXBPB8
Second Half
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SicKvyYFVV4
Enjoy the spectacular Rugby NZ All Blacks vs. The Aussie Wallabies in Brisbane over the weekend
I wonder how much this is costing NFL teams. Will it spread to NBA? MLB? NHL?
For crying out loud guys. The USA is the last Olympics Gold Medal Team in Rugby. Admittedly in 1924 but you have so many BIG fast physical players in the NFL as well as the USA Eagles you guys would sweep all before you if you actually concentrated on Rugby. There is a true World competition already established. If the USA joined the Northern Hemisphere Conference you’d dominate and radically improve the standard. Then we’d have a true balanced North vs. South annual competition. The Likes of USA Canada, Japan, England Scotland, Wales, France, Italy and (all of the second tier teams) vs. NZ, Australia, South Africa Tonga, Samoa, Fiji, Argentina.
Think about it guys!
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No political BS just riveting hard fast games of rolling smashing rugby football. Imagine the current mostly college based rugby competition in the US going fully professional. Then all of the international test matches that would showcase US Rugby .
You’ve got the manpower and most of the skills already. All you need is a little coaching support for a few years and you’re in the World Cup totting it with the very best in the world.
Instead you have a gifted but still amateur international rugby side and a bunch of NFL politicised pansies. Think Professional USA Rugby and forget the politics.
@ Aussie Infidel:
oh good, you’re here. Did you see this?
Report: Chinese-North Korea Relationship At End, ‘Another Missile Test Will Mean War’ By The Chinese Against North Korea
https://www.weaselzippers.us/361357-report-chinese-north-korea-relationship-at-end-another-missile-test-will-mean-war-by-the-chinese-against-north-korea/#disqus_thread
In a shocking bombshell interview, an academic with close ties to the Chinese government has warned war with North Korea was on the table.
Chong Sho-Hu, who is a professor of international relations at the Renmin University, in Beijing, said North Korea was “seeking death”.
He also confirmed the long-lasting era of Chinese friendship with North Korea has ended.
Despite historic ties between the two countries, president Xi Jinping has reportedly become “fed up” with the erratic behaviour of the North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un.
Speaking to the BBC, the professor warned that one more missile test would be the move “to push the country off the cliff”.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
yep. rugby’s a lot more fun than football. just get out there and beat the crap out of the other guys.
what’s not to love?
@ eaglesoars:
And the GD RED Chinese might just do it!
BTW, I’m relieved that the Loins have the week off.
@ eaglesoars:
I did. Still as long as the Chinese allow coal and energy trading to cross the Yual river these are just words without much steel behind them. China could ‘fix’ the NORK problem in a minute by assassinating Un and his boosters and appoint a Chinese puppet regime. Until and unless Xi actually does that I believe that his words are just rhetoric.
@ eaglesoars:
Now we just have to re-introduce the game of cricket to the US who used to be world class players especially in the NE states around 1890-1920s. They even won a world cup against England.
We sound be gentle and introduce 20-20 cricket first ‘Slash and bash the ball outta the park’ first. 3 hours of fireworks and not too much finest.
Then Limited over Day/Night Cricket. 300 balls each side. Done and dusted in one afternoon / night.
Once the US has the idea then they may be ready for 5 day Test Cricket. 5 days two innings apiece no time restrictions except the 5 day rule. The Chess of cricket. You can come and go over 5 days, discuss individual form and technique at work, watch the match wax and wane as all of the subtleties and cunning come to the fore. Test Cricket feels more like a battle of wills with many changes in fortune and is a study of ‘character’ as well as a game.
We’ll leave the mysteries of Test Cricket until later when the US has grown up a bit.
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HEH!
eaglesoars wrote:
The big hits aplenty.
Enjoy!
🙂
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNF_YrPvHYw
Aussie Infidel wrote:
baseball. people who love baseball would really enjoy cricket. the subtleties are not the same but there ARE subtleties, which is the point.
I’m of the same mind on the China/Nork item as you. I don’t know who that person is, but I don’t recall the Chinese publicizing a foreign policy issue via a media outlet using an academic as a mouthpiece.
I did read something about them building a road that runs to the Nork border, theorizing that it was going to be used as an invasion route by China, believe it or not, but I suspect it’s simply to make normal transport easier. In other words, they don’t expect exchange to stop any time soon
@ eaglesoars:
As long as Xi can use ‘little rocket man’ as a blunt object to hit Trump over the head, Xi will continue to covertly support Un and give the US the ‘raspberries’.
The rate of Chinese capital flight is reaching shocking levels but it seems that there is nobody in the MSM reporting this key strategic fact. The 18th Party Congress was all about remaking China into the world leader it never was. The reality is somewhat different. China has always and will always be a ‘landlocked’ hermit nation looking inwards and with a toxic racist attitude to foreigners, especially ones with higher levels of melanium.
Land locked by the lack of ports and only one narrow coastal strip, crappy logistics systems all in the wrong places, and the anchor of a large potentially rebellious population and an unfortunate geography.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
there was just a small piece – zerohedge, I think – about a deal China did w/Saudi, insisting it be conducted in yuan instead of dollars. Posted as part of the ‘China tries to undermine the dollar’ meme. They did kill all crypto-currency but I suspect they’ll just recreate their own so they can control it.
As far as I can tell, they have the age-old problem. Debt.
I need food. later.
https://worldview.stratfor.com/article/chinas-geographic-challenge?utm_campaign=B2C_LL_Push&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=57597799&_hsenc=p2ANqtz–Vp31C1vI9LVHfpLZ_QjSVEWtYdRGckumWRGn6OHg5nKtQpYkvPIW1Q1k7z9i6hWUCg63SNHgW0BAFnPODsotbH-80Iw&_hsmi=57607790
This STRATFOR production is marginally useful as it just states the ‘bleeding obvious’ as do most STRATFOR output. The core to the Chinese problem resides in logistics , the crushing dynamic of China’s geographic reality, with all the limitations that places on the Chinese state and the population problem writ large with all of the internally buried instability that that engenders. Frankly Chinese geography and demographics are the deadly anvil and hammer against which the modern Chinese State will be crushed.
quick drive by. I’ve been looking or this for days since I heard about it on the radio. This is a piece about what happens to people when they lose ‘the flow’ by being distracted by something. Specifically, what’s happening to the NFL protest players. And its contagion
Most importantly, brain scans demonstrate that cognitive dissonance impacts those parts of player’s brain related to performance, namely the insula and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex. The insula is believed to be involved in consciousness and play a role in functions linked to emotions, motor control and cognitive functioning among others. Meanwhile the impact on a player’s dorsolateral prefrontal cortex impact in motor planning — a set of processes related to an athlete’s preparation of movement. Clearly the two areas of the brain impacted directly by cognitive dissonance directly relate to a player’s ability to perform. That said, the J.E.B. Stuart High School Raiders and Kaepernick’s 49ers may have suffered some level of flow depleting dissonance that sent both teams reeling in 2016. So the question at hand then becomes, “With the shifts in “attitudes” on this type of protest since 2016 — will the NFL still see dissonance performance trends”
It’s a fascination piece written by one Andre Billeaudeaux, a retired military journalist who studied psychology under Dr. Phil Zimbardo. Here’s a bit more, but do read the whole thing.
Additionally, as more “protest” data flows in, those who make Las Vegas odds will need to pay attention as outcomes — to the trained eye — may become more predictable using a “knee” variable. But whichever path a team takes, they would do well to consider these words forwarded by the father of “flow” Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: “Repression is not the way to virtue. When people restrain themselves out of fear, their lives are by necessity diminished. Only through freely chosen discipline can life be enjoyed and still kept within the bounds of reason.”
https://personalliberty.com/nfls-protest-culture-warriors-risk-mentally-physically-financially/
@ Aussie Infidel:
we would flat out dominate rugby in pretty short order, cricket would take a touch longer.
instead, we are being force fed that faggot homo wimpy poor boy game of soccer. pathetic. soccer is anathema to all things american, hence the reason it is getting rammed down our throats.
GIVE US RUGBY!
@ Aussie Infidel:
i played rugby at a pretty high level (university college cork, started at scrum half for the semester that i was there), i didnt have quite the skills of the other scrum half but i was faster and in much better condition. the conditioning part is what mattered with 15 minutes to go.
the transition to cricket after baseball was fairly easy. its the same skill set and muscle memory tasks as baseball for all intents and purposes.
eaglesoars wrote:
the vegas money is pretty damned smart.
eaglesoars wrote:
there is nothing quite as beautiful and dreadful as an unstoppable maul.
right_wing2 wrote:
wont spread to hockey. hockey players are upper middle class, come from families with fathers, and are all educated.
hockey is very, very expensive sport to play. its OBSCENELY EXPENSIVE compared to hoops and even football. its more expensive than golf ferchrissake.
the hockey fans and the players will not put up with that crap.
One year ago. LMAO.
https://thediaryofdaedalus.com/2017/10/22/on-21-october-2016-the-us-government-declared-little-green-footballs-dead/
It’s like Bluto in the cafeteria: “Guess what I am now.”
Bunk X wrote:
BWAHAHAHAAAAA!!!!! i talked to iste about this some months ago and swore i would not leak!
OH SNAP!!!
@ Bunk X:
i cant wait to see what tomorrow brings!
night yinz!
@ coldwarrior:
This could be fun.
eaglesoars wrote:
I know Phil Zimbado VERY well. I used to re-read his thesis on interrogation theory and practice whenever I had to run the Resistance to Integration Course for the new entrants for the NZ Special Air Services Regiment. I still have his book War on the Mind. We had to set up a typical Soviet Bloc Interrogation centre to ‘inoculate all Prone to Capture personnel such as Navy Swimmers (divers), SAS and Air Force strike pilots, and use all of the various techniques used by the Soviets. Short of executing them! 🙂
After our training and before we were cleared to run these types of exercises we had to be subjected to the full nine yards ourselves, to know what it felt like! I should have got an Academy Award for some of my performances.
🙂
HEH!
coldwarrior wrote:
Unless that is you are at the bottom of it and they are walking over your body with sprigs.
🙂
GRRrrrr Predictive bloody computer…
Integration = Interrogation
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Aussie Infidel wrote:
my mind is like the attic at the Smithsonian. All sorts of things get tossed in there and I have no idea where they came from or why my head files them away. I heard a snippet of a caller on a radio show while I was in the car, heard the name, knew it was important, didn’t know why, barely remembered the name of the article but it sounded interesting…..so, there ya go.
Martian Overlord and I were talking about Soros’ people in our political system the other day, so I thought this might be of interest. Alabama.
Doug Jones, Dem Candidate running against Judge Moore, tried to transform prosecutors to SJWs. The Soros connection is via his funding to the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law School and a project for the Center headed by Jones
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/10/22/doug-jones-headed-soros-funded-project-transform-u-s-prosecutors-social-justice-warriors/
I’m not awake, obviously, I meant to expound a little on Zimbardo.
He’s the guy behind the infamous Standford Prison Experiment. After it blew up he wanted to understand why and wrote a book called The Lucifer Effect. The only reason I know that is – smithsonian attic again – I ran across an excerpt some years ago I found very interesting. It became part of the foundation of my theory that one of the prime movers of a liberal’s psyche is the profound need to belong to a group in order to establish an otherwise incoherent identity.
ok, that’s it, good morning, gotta hop.
eaglesoars wrote:
that’s where i heard of him. quite the experiment
Looks like we’ve been un-blacklisted
@ eaglesoars:
Hence the need for the left to define everything in group-isms
winning!
https://www.defensenews.com/air/2017/10/20/indian-air-force-wants-out-of-fighter-program-with-russia/
i wonder who could possibly supply the planes now?
😆
eaglesoars wrote:
coldwarrior wrote:
It’s also why college students and high schoolers are so susceptible to this evil. They have not established their self-identity yet, so they are so able to be suckered into these groups.
These groups also either create or take advantage of the god complex that a lot of these people have. They believe they are literally “saving the world” from the evils of global warming, fascism, homophobia, etc.
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
the globalist socialist elitist are at their core marxist-leninists. they are not insane or mentally ill, they are in fact very sane and very dangerous. they are very willing to use capitalism as the basis of a then future global socialist system just as marx explained in das kapital. they also use these underlings on the left to further the agenda one small step at a time.
ironically, these follower-lemmings are the first against the wall when the revolution comes.
coldwarrior wrote:
Exactly. The people I was referring to were Rush Limbaugh’s “young brains full of mush”. They are nothing but fuel for the machine, cannon fodder, once their usefulness is over they are considered too easy to inspire to revolt and are disposed of.
Deplorable Martian Overlord wrote:
yep, see pol pot, et. al
ups just brought me a bunch of little friends from esteli, nicaragua.
speaking of esteli…
new thread