42 thoughts on “Fuck The Lions. Football Thread. I’m Going To Go Get High Before This Shitshow.”
You know me and my friend Benny actually turned down an all expenses paid suite access for the Niners at Lions game? That's how much the Lions suck, I turned down free alcohol.
My new next door neighbors are hipsters, home schoolers, dreadlocks, and a garage full of kayaks and other really expensive toys. I also suspect they're libertarians and anti-vaxers.
Just got back in time to see the Lions TD. Fuck Christmas shopping traffic (and no, I am not done, but I've just got one friend left and he's getting a bottle of Jameson Reserve because fuck if I can think of what else to get him.)
A friend took me to a Warriors game many years ago. This was before all the running with the ball and flopping.
It was quite fun, as an event. But nah. Over the years, with the running and the flopping and the general cheatiness, it definitely now leaves me cold… especially now when the first 43 minutes or so don't really mean that much, and the final few minutes are what really count: plus the last few seconds last as long as an entire half of soccerball.
I wouldn't watch an entire game. I might tune in for the final few minutes/hour, if it was a really important game or something.
Okay, well the Saints seem unable to score, or indeed stop the Lions (ffs the Lions! with due respect to Vodka) from scoring, so I'm going to watch a couple of episodes of Sabrina the Teenage Witch instead and then it's off to Bedlington Terrace for me.
Since the Panthers had to come up with five totally true different excuses for why they "always" had that bat that no one had seen them with before, I am inclined to believe Beckham's version and the homophobic threats. Assholes.
Here’s a more sedate and honest formulation: Omalu really did discover an unusual pathology in the brains of former NFL players, and the NFL’s corrupt administration really did attempt to discredit his research and then for half a decade ignored this important line of inquiry (only caving under congressional scrutiny). But these facts have been spun out, in this film and elsewhere, into a melodrama…
The sedate and honest formulation is grounds enough to make this film.
And I'm sorry to hear there may have been some misrepresentations of each detail of the story but I still can't wait to see this.
Yeah, I have the same problem. "Based on a true story" rings all kinds of alarm bells but often makes for excellent entertainent.
I therefore recommend that everyone watch or re-watch "McCabe and Mrs Miller," a poignant Robert Altman fable with gorgeous actors (Christie, Beatty) and spectacular Pacific Northwest wintertime scenery, a film whose story was taken from a novel called McCabe by the otherwise-obscure novelist Edmund Naughton, which by definition makes it not true and thus a thousand times truer, if that is a word.
Also music by Leonard Cohen:
♬♫Traveling lady, stay a while, until the night is over
I'm just a station on your way, I know I'm not your lover.♬♫
You know me and my friend Benny actually turned down an all expenses paid suite access for the Niners at Lions game? That's how much the Lions suck, I turned down free alcohol.
Dude. You should have gone. No need to watch the game.
Nope, not going. Fuck that mess.
Can you just go, fill your pockets with booze and food, then leave before kickoff?
To be fair, you're not alone in not wanting to turn up for a 49ers game. http://thesportsdaily.com/no-one-showed-up-at-lev…
They usually don't stock the good stuff in the suites anyways
Whenever I see a hipster dude like the guy singing the anthem, my urge to punch him in the face is just overwhelming.
Oh God, if you lived in my neighborhood you'd want to punch about one out of every three men you encounter.
But what about the hipsters? ;p
I bet the LA jails have wonderful quinoa.
My new next door neighbors are hipsters, home schoolers, dreadlocks, and a garage full of kayaks and other really expensive toys. I also suspect they're libertarians and anti-vaxers.
<shudder>
OT, but, why, James Franco? Why? http://www.vulture.com/2015/12/james-franco-remak…
Why would you remake perfection???
Just got back in time to see the Lions TD. Fuck Christmas shopping traffic (and no, I am not done, but I've just got one friend left and he's getting a bottle of Jameson Reserve because fuck if I can think of what else to get him.)
Wow, next Monday night's game should be a good one. GO BRONCOS!
Well made it to one and out in the playoffs. Not too terrible bad for a rook, with some help from Emma Peel.
My team self combusted. Everyone committed seppuku on the 50 yardline by the 1st quarter
Who are these guys and where are the real Lions?
Hiding from Vodka?
Smart.
Wow, there are going to be a fuckton of basketball games on Christmas Day.
Too bad I don't follow that sport very closely. I sort of like the Clippers and the Warriors, but not enough to pay much attention.
Anyone here a fan–and if so, which team?
A friend took me to a Warriors game many years ago. This was before all the running with the ball and flopping.
It was quite fun, as an event. But nah. Over the years, with the running and the flopping and the general cheatiness, it definitely now leaves me cold… especially now when the first 43 minutes or so don't really mean that much, and the final few minutes are what really count: plus the last few seconds last as long as an entire half of soccerball.
I wouldn't watch an entire game. I might tune in for the final few minutes/hour, if it was a really important game or something.
Uh yeah, Glover Quinn clearly has a head-owie.
Okay, well the Saints seem unable to score, or indeed stop the Lions (ffs the Lions! with due respect to Vodka) from scoring, so I'm going to watch a couple of episodes of Sabrina the Teenage Witch instead and then it's off to Bedlington Terrace for me.
Nighty night.
The inside story about Odell Beckham Jr's meltdown yesterday is out.
Since the Panthers had to come up with five totally true different excuses for why they "always" had that bat that no one had seen them with before, I am inclined to believe Beckham's version and the homophobic threats. Assholes.
I'm really just watching this game and rooting for the Couchgoats.
Oh man, this Lions game is about to get so Lions'd up. Brace yourselves This game is about to get fucked.
You've got some breathing room now.
Wait for it.
"It ain't over till it's over" has a much more ominous meaning in Detroit.
Or not. Congrats, Vodka!
We were SO CLOSE in blowing that meaningless game. Fail better, Lions.
Thanks for the better draft slot
"Concussion," the movie: the pushback begins:
http://www.slate.com/articles/sports/sports_nut/2…
Wouldn't have guessed Slate would be the vehicle.
Slate is known for their hot takes.
The sedate and honest formulation is grounds enough to make this film.
And I'm sorry to hear there may have been some misrepresentations of each detail of the story but I still can't wait to see this.
Yeah, I have the same problem. "Based on a true story" rings all kinds of alarm bells but often makes for excellent entertainent.
I therefore recommend that everyone watch or re-watch "McCabe and Mrs Miller," a poignant Robert Altman fable with gorgeous actors (Christie, Beatty) and spectacular Pacific Northwest wintertime scenery, a film whose story was taken from a novel called McCabe by the otherwise-obscure novelist Edmund Naughton, which by definition makes it not true and thus a thousand times truer, if that is a word.
Also music by Leonard Cohen:
♬♫Traveling lady, stay a while, until the night is over
I'm just a station on your way, I know I'm not your lover.♬♫
Saw the new Star Wars tonight. No spoilers, but it was a boatload of fun…
Vodka has a horrible tale of woe about how he was supposed to see it but still hasn't seen it, so, yeah, no spoilers.
(But I have seen it and it is the greatest.)
Oh, I somehow won? Cool, I thought I'd find a way to have my team blow that.