Gotta be impressed — not only do the Brits also do the wave, they manage to add just a soupcon of racism to it!
Multitasking!
Trivia Corner: So named (outside the US anyway – I didn't realise until just now that 'you people' just call it "The Wave") because it first gained international recognition via the World Cup in 1986, which was held in Mexico. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wave_%28audience%29
I would have gone with The Idiot Wave, if it was meant as a true insult and/or actually trying to be politically-incorrect. ;p
Oh! I thought there was something else to it, apparently you just meant the normal wave. Didn't realize it was viewed as something from Mexico in the rest of the world!
They only noticed it then. It had been around for years before that.
FWIW the best wave I ever saw was at Grateful Dead show at the Silver Bowl in Vegas. It's a relatively small stadium, so the wave was really well formed and moved fast. Unsurprisingly, the right pharmaceutical conditions makes a giant ripple of humanity racing through a stadium quite entertaining…
WTF is a Messican wave, one that goes around the stadium a couple times then tries to sneak across the Thames at night?
Huh…maybe I should have stayed home to watch that. It was hot as fuck yet again and I had to cut the training run short. Oh well, tonight's game is the one I really want to see.
ETA: JESUS, I just tuned in expecting Seahawks – Cowboys. Almost 100 points scored in total? Insane…
This game alone is going to give me cancer. "Let's just go smoke a carton of cigarettes instead of watching the Lions utterly fail. And fuck it, let's huff some spray paint."
This Vikings-Bears game has become a war of attrition. Forte is in the locker room and there are lots of other injuries as well. Black and Blue Division indeed.
Damn, even the Line Judge took a hit and is receiving medical attention on the sidelines. (Not sure what happened to him. The Sunday Ticket feed flaked out for a moment.)
Well, rushing to put Pig Pen back into the starting lineup did fuck-all. Christ, our third-stringer threw fewer interceptions last week than we gave the Bungles! #bitchmoangrumble
To be fair, I thought they'd balanced up the call with the butt touchdown. But now the two timeouts in a row…
I think these zebras might just be incompetent.
Is anyone else seeing these Chrysler/Hunger Games commercials? I know fuck-all about the Hunger Games franchise, but does Katniss drive a Town & Country or something?
All I know about the Hunger Games franchise is what I've seen on the commercials on the teevee and I have not seen one vee-hicle involved in any of them! I mean, I understand the Bond franchise and other action flicks co-promoting with various products, especially cars like Jags or whatever. But, from what I've seen, the HG franchise consists of JLaw looking earnest and firing crossbows at Donald Sutherland. Maybe a tie-in event at an REI would make more sense?
I've actually read the books and seen the movies (don't judge me!), and the only powerized vehicles I recall are trains, weird little chariots used in a parade, and military things (and most of those were planes and copters). There is a notable, pointed absence of anything even resembling a passenger vehicle, so, yes, it is truly weird to make it part of an ad campaign for any kind of car. (In fact, it's kind of the wrong franchise to tie to any kind of ad campaign.)
Read what you want to read and watch what you want to watch! I would never judge you or anyone for that. (TBH, smokey and I watched the Evil Dead trilogy this weekend, so… "Groovy.") But your comment about the lack of motorized vee-hicles I think makes my point. It just seems like a bizarre advertising campaign. Almost as bad as a pinball machine maker doing a tie-in promo for the movie "The Accused." (OK, maybe not quite that bad…)
LOL, that would have been amazingly tasteless!
Cowboys-Seahawks: Finally, a game that interests me less than Lions-Chiefs!
We were on pins and needles here after the cart came out and it appeared that he wasn't moving. Thank goodness he was able to use his hands as he was carted off. Also, I think, a classy (!) move by the Cowboys to just take a knee and let the half end after all of that (not that they could have done much with 12 seconds left of the clock but, still, trying to give credit where credit is due, even if it is to the dastardly Dallasites.)
Oof. Along with Orleans Darkwa, Larry Donnell, Ladarius Green, Keenan Allen, Desmond Trufant, Robert Alford, Eddie Royal, and Mike Evans. Really bad week.
Not to mention, anyone who actually watches Oliver's show knows he's only had 2-3 guests in the entire run, so it's pretty certain he didn't invite Trump.
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Remarkably, all of those would actually work (someone figured out a few weeks ago that those "promo codes" are bogus, that you can type in anything, and that HITLER worked just fine).
I'm probably not going to be watching the morning game but we needed a thread ¯_(ツ)_/¯
http://usatodayhss.com/2015/wayne-warriors-use-de… HEY WAYNE'S IN THE NATIONAL TOP 25!
HOW THE HELL ARE THE LIONS THIS SHITTY
I'm amazed at how much worse this team is in games than on paper.
I swear the commentators just called him Golden T'aint. I know that's what I heard.
Russell Wilson is on line 2.
Huh, I woke up really early but then fell back asleep and just woke up now. I think my body was protecting me from the Lions.
They are a toxic substance, no different than eating paint chips. Fuck the Lions.
I'm moderately sure they gave me a fever. But not the good kind.
Peggy Lee on line two
Beyoncé also too.
Rita Moreno and Animal FTW! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjoBKEJj2eI
Trust me, just back from Wembley – the Lions are worse in real life than whatever they showed on television.
Oh and the fucking crowd starting a mexican wave five minutes into the second half. Fuck off. Some of us are actually trying to watch the game.
Oh, so they do that sort of thing in London too? Sort of glad we're not the only ones to be stupid at games.
Gotta be impressed — not only do the Brits also do the wave, they manage to add just a soupcon of racism to it!
Multitasking!
Trivia Corner: So named (outside the US anyway – I didn't realise until just now that 'you people' just call it "The Wave") because it first gained international recognition via the World Cup in 1986, which was held in Mexico. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wave_%28audience%29
I would have gone with The Idiot Wave, if it was meant as a true insult and/or actually trying to be politically-incorrect. ;p
Oh! I thought there was something else to it, apparently you just meant the normal wave. Didn't realize it was viewed as something from Mexico in the rest of the world!
They only noticed it then. It had been around for years before that.
FWIW the best wave I ever saw was at Grateful Dead show at the Silver Bowl in Vegas. It's a relatively small stadium, so the wave was really well formed and moved fast. Unsurprisingly, the right pharmaceutical conditions makes a giant ripple of humanity racing through a stadium quite entertaining…
WTF is a Messican wave, one that goes around the stadium a couple times then tries to sneak across the Thames at night?
Not if they drive a taxi.
(london-centric joke)
Bears fans everywhere thank you for keeping them from being the laughingstock of the division
(and that's despite being your only win this season)
Some game I wasn't about to wake up for at 6:30 AM. What's next?
San Diego @ Baltimore or NY Giants @ New Orleans?
Fuck it, I'm doing a training run. See you all for the Sunday night game, or maybe the afternoon (Seattle @ Dallas, which could be amusing at least…)
You're missing a hilarious Giants-Saints game, 35-28 early in the third quarter.
Huh…maybe I should have stayed home to watch that. It was hot as fuck yet again and I had to cut the training run short. Oh well, tonight's game is the one I really want to see.
ETA: JESUS, I just tuned in expecting Seahawks – Cowboys. Almost 100 points scored in total? Insane…
This game alone is going to give me cancer. "Let's just go smoke a carton of cigarettes instead of watching the Lions utterly fail. And fuck it, let's huff some spray paint."
try the turpentine, I hear it's healthy…
Withnail & I libel! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5EmCKbWS6c
I've switched to Ace Ventura on Comedy Central because fuck this dumpster fire of a game.
Have you considered making the Bumbling Illini your football team?
All that orange having the terminal blues.
Manchester United is my football team now. I'm just straight up switching sports. Fuck the Lions.
Alex Karras weeps.
Mongo only pawn in game of life…
Oh, man, the Steelers are wearing those dumb bumble-bee uniforms again. They really look silly unless you have a handlebar mustache.
Those uniforms are painful enough that I'm tempted to switch to the other game I have, which is Cardinals-Browns. Welcome to Ohio!
you got two games?
lucky you…
So has the Giants Defense been bad this whole time or is this a special day?
Yes and yes.
and then some, apparently
36.1 points for Drew Brees in the first half, omg
That's enough, Drew Brees!
Keep going Drew, Todd Gurley is running wild right now!
Edit: When I posted this I totally expected Gurley to rush for that 2-yard TD but it got sniped by Tavon Austin instead.
44.5 now with lots of time left. Plus, it's a close game, a shootout really, so he's just gonna keep on slinging it. I bet he breaks 60 points easy.
Help me, Todd Gurley! You're my only hope!
Ooh, Brees threw an interception! Now, if he can just do that 10 or 20 more times, I might have a chance!
56.4 now, going into the 4th. Fuuuuuuuuuck. I may as well just congratulate you and the Mighty Couchgoats now. Well done!
Yeah, Brees is playing out of his mind, hard to believe we're seeing this. And it's a tie game there!
But yeah unless Beast Mode goes Beast Mode and Fitzpatrick just dominates I'll likely get this, gg.
Ooh, another interception! That knocks Brees down to "only" 57.9!
Yeah, Imma lose. Bad. (Unless, maybe, you could whisper to Brees to throw it to Ingram for one his 18 touchdowns today?)
And a record-tying 7th TD! Game tied again, 66.5 for Brees. He could get that many points and still lose, amazingly enough.
Nope- because the Giants really do suck that bad and insisted upon giving him the win
I'd say that's a loss in a way only the Giants can pull off, but the Browns are pretty good at it too.
Oh, FFS: "Fitzpatrick was forced out of Sunday's game against the Raiders in the first quarter with a hand injury."
*cue sad trombone*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ytCEuuW2_A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHv5jgXz9I8
Undeniably the best game show music in history.
QBR or actual points? 😉
Oh my, things are happening. Had my head in other areas of the computer this morn. Aren't the beloved Packers playing tonight?
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Late game. Past my beddy-byes here in GMT/DST-land.
Yep, they are tonight's game. Playing the Broncos.
Based on uniforms alone, the Arizona-Cleveland matchup really looks like a college game.
Just turned that game on for a sec. Gah! That is some serious orange. Are they all going hunting later?
They promised a richer shade of orange and delivered!
it looks like the Cardinals finally woke up and remembered they're playing the Browns
This Vikings-Bears game has become a war of attrition. Forte is in the locker room and there are lots of other injuries as well. Black and Blue Division indeed.
NFC North games often devolve into WWI trench warfare
"Three yards and a cloud of dust."
Damn, even the Line Judge took a hit and is receiving medical attention on the sidelines. (Not sure what happened to him. The Sunday Ticket feed flaked out for a moment.)
@ProFootballDoc 7 minutes ago
Just saw video on MATT FORTE @ChicagoBears.
Hoping for contusion, mild hyperextension and a short term injury.
Hope he's right on this.
I read that as "Hoping for concussion" and thought he should change his handle to @ProFootballGhoul.
Jeffery finally getting some playing time, and some targets.
Stefon Diggs!
Woo-hoo! Vikings 23, Da Bears 20. Yay!
The announcer just called a Hail Mary an Alley-oop. That was painful.
Raiders with Carr seem pretty tasty the past couple of weeks. Although swapping over to the Seahawks game now.
Saints win 52-49 with help from a face mask penalty on the Giants with 5 seconds left!
somehow this is Tom Coughlin's fault. He's a champ at snatching defeat from the jaws of victory
Well, rushing to put Pig Pen back into the starting lineup did fuck-all. Christ, our third-stringer threw fewer interceptions last week than we gave the Bungles! #bitchmoangrumble
I think the Bungles joke expired several years ago lol
given 7-0, kinda hard to make fun of them
Some of us disgruntled Steeler fans like to stick with the classics.
don't feel bad, I finally put in the red hot Andy Dalton after his bye last week and he produces a whopping 8.5 points
Aaaaargh! The fucking cowgirls get another generous hometown call…
FFS how many yards down the field does a receiver get these days before it's called a completed pass?
AOT,K if you're Dallas
To be fair, I thought they'd balanced up the call with the butt touchdown. But now the two timeouts in a row…
I think these zebras might just be incompetent.
yeah, that whole T-O thingy was pretty lame
Is anyone else seeing these Chrysler/Hunger Games commercials? I know fuck-all about the Hunger Games franchise, but does Katniss drive a Town & Country or something?
I don't think they even have cars in that particular dystopic future.
All I know about the Hunger Games franchise is what I've seen on the commercials on the teevee and I have not seen one vee-hicle involved in any of them! I mean, I understand the Bond franchise and other action flicks co-promoting with various products, especially cars like Jags or whatever. But, from what I've seen, the HG franchise consists of JLaw looking earnest and firing crossbows at Donald Sutherland. Maybe a tie-in event at an REI would make more sense?
I've actually read the books and seen the movies (don't judge me!), and the only powerized vehicles I recall are trains, weird little chariots used in a parade, and military things (and most of those were planes and copters). There is a notable, pointed absence of anything even resembling a passenger vehicle, so, yes, it is truly weird to make it part of an ad campaign for any kind of car. (In fact, it's kind of the wrong franchise to tie to any kind of ad campaign.)
Read what you want to read and watch what you want to watch! I would never judge you or anyone for that. (TBH, smokey and I watched the Evil Dead trilogy this weekend, so… "Groovy.") But your comment about the lack of motorized vee-hicles I think makes my point. It just seems like a bizarre advertising campaign. Almost as bad as a pinball machine maker doing a tie-in promo for the movie "The Accused." (OK, maybe not quite that bad…)
LOL, that would have been amazingly tasteless!
Cowboys-Seahawks: Finally, a game that interests me less than Lions-Chiefs!
Woof. Carr is on a tear & Shell's on the move.
So glad I dropped Kaerpernick for him!
This Seahawks – Cowboys game is intensely dull. Switching to NYC Marathon highlights…
Ouch. I really hope Lockette only has a concussion out of that collision…. he was out before he hit the ground. :<
Raising his hand as he was being carted off (to A&E?). Phew.
Oh good, at least he was moving, that's one good sign at least.
Sweet baby Jebus that was a hit. He's likely not going to be playing for a few.
We were on pins and needles here after the cart came out and it appeared that he wasn't moving. Thank goodness he was able to use his hands as he was carted off. Also, I think, a classy (!) move by the Cowboys to just take a knee and let the half end after all of that (not that they could have done much with 12 seconds left of the clock but, still, trying to give credit where credit is due, even if it is to the dastardly Dallasites.)
(only partial) list of hurt players today:
Le'Veon Bell
Steve Smith
Cameron Wake
Ryan Fitzpatrick
Matt Forte
Reggie Bush
Ricardo Lockette
Greg Hardy
Reggie Bush
Khiry Robinson
Calvin Johnson.
Oof. Along with Orleans Darkwa, Larry Donnell, Ladarius Green, Keenan Allen, Desmond Trufant, Robert Alford, Eddie Royal, and Mike Evans. Really bad week.
What about Jesus? I think you forgot about him.
That was in week 3 of the 33 season.
"Out for the year with a torn, um, everything…"
Aaaaaand the day gets even worse. #fuckmyfootballlife
Profootballtalk's Mike Florio reports the Steelers are "optimistic" Le'Veon Bell has avoided ACL damage, and that his injury is limited to his MCL.
MCL injury is actually better news than expected on that one.
Well, there's that…I guess. Thanks for the update.
Geez, Reggie Bush must really be hurt…
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I think you've given the SparkleKarens plenty of that hot cannon enough already!
So Karen sparkled during this game?
Karen always sparkles. That's all she does.
NYC Marathon highlights are over and I went back to Seahawks – Cowboys. Glad I follow running as well as football. #wtfseahawks
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Let's all point and laugh!
Ya heard? With Perd! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcszyb5d7nA
My favorite Trump story of the day: http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2015/11/last-…
Gawd is he thin skinned. "I wouldn't do your stupid show anyways Na Na Na!"
Not to mention, anyone who actually watches Oliver's show knows he's only had 2-3 guests in the entire run, so it's pretty certain he didn't invite Trump.
IKR? He doesn't do that standard talk show format where the second half the show is guests pimping their new book or movie
Nice research, saying he refused a show that never has guests. I bet a man who can't even figure that out would fix our nation's problems!
But he knows people! And he knows things!
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Well how bout that?
BWAHAHAHAHA!+
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goddamit..
good game.
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Broncos 7 Packers naught after 1 quarter…did not expect this!
Oh pardon me, 14-0.
Shit do I have to start watching football again?
Damn, Packers, WTF?
Dear Packers D/ST: I trusted you. -5? -5? You are off my Christmas list.
I watched the game with two Packers fans tonight- I tried not to snicker…
Mets: you are also both on and off my list.
Condolences, honey.
I may have to burn all of the clothing I wore today, as it is clearly cursed.
Hey, you're up by 3.8. Now it's down to Gore and the Fleen.
it's all about the Fleen- how fitting…
Mets and any NY teams are totally off my list. My first goddamn glove was some Dave Winfield shit. Why couldn't I get a Bake McBride glove?
My first glove was my grandfather's Al Kaline autographed mitt, passed down through my mom. I had the tiniest glove on my high school baseball team.
that play in the ninth was off the hook
I thought so too. Gotta love the way KC blew it open in the 12th- they definitely won the battle of the bullpens
as a Cubs fan, I have no love lost for the Mets, but I thought it was a good series.
Hell, I haven't forgiven the Mets for 1969 (which was actually totes the Cubbies fault, but fuck 'em anyways)