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Come for the politics, stay for the snark.
Republicans are the party of chaos and catastrophe.
And now I have baud making fun of me. this day can’t get worse.
Nothing worth doing is easy.
It’s easy to sit in safety and prescribe what other people should be doing.
Seems like a complicated subject, have you tried yelling at it?
My years-long effort to drive family and friends away has really paid off this year.
If senate republicans had any shame, they’d die of it.
Accountability, motherfuckers.
So it was an October Surprise A Day, like an Advent calendar but for crime.
Ah, the different things are different argument.
Historically it was a little unusual for the president to be an incoherent babbling moron.
Joe Lieberman disappointingly reemerged to remind us that he’s still alive.
Let’s not be the monsters we hate.
Republicans do not pay their debts.
Technically true, but collectively nonsense
You don’t get rid of your umbrella while it’s still raining.
If you are still in the GOP, you are an extremist.
A democracy can’t function when people can’t distinguish facts from lies.
Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.
“Squeaker” McCarthy
I’d hate to be the candidate who lost to this guy.
The GOP is a fucking disgrace.
Conservatism: there are some people the law protects but does not bind and others who the law binds but does not protect.
Make the republican party small enough to drown in a bathtub.
gbear
Snowing in MN.
I have nothing to say about the Vikings.
I blame Obama.
NonWonderDog (НеинтереснаяСобака)
I’m actually glad the Lions are blacked out. It saves me a lot of pain.
Zifnab
GO TEXANS! Three for three baby! We’re about to pick up the biggest winning streak in our franchise’s history. All we have to do is beat the 0-7 Bengals.
God I hope I didn’t just jinx it.
J.
Go Jets! Go Giants!
robertdsc
I’m taking my Patriots just like this election:
One day (or game) at a time.
South of I-10
I hope my Saints do better than LSU did yesterday.
r€nato
The Ariz. State Sun Devils were god-awful embarrassing last night, getting trampled at home 54-20 by Oregon. I hope John McCain was watching, it’s a prelude to the beatdown he’s going to get a week from Tuesday.
AhabTRuler
@NonWonderDog (НеинтереснаяСобака): It’s not the Lions fans who are in pain right now. Redskins seem to have all the tools they need, but just can’t put it together.
Stuck in the Funhouse
Dispatch from the Wingnut Civil War front.
Next step is for Palin commercials to start running calling for voters to write in her name for POTUS on their 08 Ballot.
Campaign Slogan – Yes For Sarah Barracuda – No to Smelly Rino and the Sambo.
***Link to NY Post should have worked.
Frank Sobotka
If the Jets lose to the Chiefs today after losing to the Raiders last week, do they become the worst team in football? Or just the most embarrassing?
burnspbesq
Sad day for fans of real football.
A No Fun League game desecrating the sacred ground of Wembley.
I don’t know whether to cry or puke.
Frank Sobotka
I really don’t understand why the NFL thinks they have a chance expanding into a country that already has association football and two (2) kinds of rugby to watch. They’re better off building in Mexico.
burnspbesq
@Frank Sobotka:
Rugby league is to real rugby as Sarah Palin is to real leadership. If it’s not 15 a side, it’s not rugby.
Limited-overs cricket is also horrible.
Can you tell I’m old-school (and feeling really crabby today, courtesy of another massive CF by United Airlines yesterday)?
Comrade Kevin
@burnspbesq:
The current stadium they call Wembley is how old now?
Frank Sobotka
@burnspbesq:
I’m not saying I’m a fan of rugby league, I’m saying it’s something that’s popular in the UK. Hell, if you really wanted to go crazy, you could point out that there’s also Gaelic football.
So while the NFL smashes its head into Wembley, you have the following similar sports that are already more popular:
1.) Soccer
2.) Rugby Union
3.) Rugby League
4.) Gaelic football
5.) International (Aussie/Gaelic) football
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10.) Gridiron American football
Svensker
Yes.
Oy.
Punchy
if da chefs beat da jets, brett farve and the entire state of ny needs to parade in da streets naked in january.
Frank Sobotka
Speaking of the "other" football, how about them Reds? Man United and now Chelsea under their belts, and they’re on top of the table.
YNWA
low-tech cyclist
Campaign Slogan – Yes For Sarah Barracuda – No to Smelly Rino and the Sambo.
How about:
"Palin-McCain: Ditzy First!"
If I’d thought of that a couple weeks earlier, I’d have had signs printed up.
Svensker
Plus (or should I say, also?) we get to see Herm "D’oh" Edwards’ puzzled look while the Chiefs are winning. AND Chad Pennington has 260 yards so far today for Miami.
Now I know how the Republicans feel.
low-tech cyclist
I’d like to see the Redskins dominate a bad opponent for once. Seems they play up to the level of good teams (Cowboys, Eagles), and down to the level of bad ones (Rams, Browns, Lions).
But hey, they’re winning games.
AhabTRuler
Um, who decided that Brian Billick would make a good commentator? He’s like a slightly less batshit-insane John Madden.
AhabTRuler
The Redskins aren’t dominating the game, but the Lions are definitely trying to give them the game.
80-yd. return for a touchdown kinda changes the situation ‘tho.
jeffreyw
Ready for some crazy?
harlana pepper
US attacks Syria.
burnspbesq
@Frank Sobotka:
YNWA, indeed. Long way to go, but a good start.
I’m trying to imagine what it must be like to be a lifelong Hull supporter right about now.
Stuck in the Funhouse
@harlana pepper:
I’m sure it’s just a coincidence this occurred 9 days before an election set to wipe out the GOP. Ha!
And it’s also likely that Mccain won’t use it try an change the narrative from the economy to national security.
Double Ha!!
ninerdave
Only thing I’m wondering about the Niners game is how many times J.T. will get sacked.
pseudonymous in nc
I’m glad that Phil Simms was there to tell me that Premier League fans never boo during a match, because that makes my several years’ attendance at said matches a complete hallucination.
Comrade Kevin
@ninerdave:
He’s already fumbled the ball away twice.
Geoduck
If you want true football futility, come to Seattle this season. The Seahawks, the UW Huskies, the WSU Cougars.. all of them unmitigated disasters.
Fierce Pika
First off: Rugby League, I’m sorry, is just way more fast-paced and interesting and open. Rugby Union is okay and all, but I can’t believe all the rugby fans who bitch about "stoppages" in American football with all the lineouts and scrums and other bullshit. I’ll take league any day.
But yeah, they should be expanding into Latin America.
Meanwhile, I’m glad my topsy turvy Broncos are off today, lest they embarrass themselves yet again. Although if they allowed cameras in practice I bet we’d see the tackling dummies rushing for over 100.
Comrade Kevin
The Niners-Seahawks game is absolutely dreadful. I don’t know if I have ever done it before, but I’m actually laughing at the 49ers, and Stonefingers O’Sullivan.
jpdad
Took my 7 year old son to his first NFL game today here in "not real" America – Foxboro, MA to see the Pats beat the Rams. Perfect fall weather, a pretty good game and of course at Pats victory made it a great day for us.
Common Sense
Snort @ people mocking the NFL. The EPL is on the verge of bankruptcy anyway. Man U. lost their sponsor (might have heard of AIG?) Tottenham’s owner was the largest shareholder in the bank of Iceland, and Liverpool is teetering on foreclosure.
Desparate for money, they will start by selling their souls to ESPN for the cashola. Give it 10 years and there will only be 4-5 teams left in the EPL anyway — including Celtic and Rangers, who will have to leave the Scottish League because there simply isn’t enough money there anymore. They’ll combine with the few decent teams in La Liga and Serie A to create a "European Football League." They will have no choice, as the MLS and Bundesliga will be right on their heels otherwise. Either that or the ONLY good football played at Wembley will be touring American clubs.
And people call America a dying country. At least they aren’t already comatose but afraid to admit it.
Bill H
So, are you happy?
Jeez. The only thing worse than being humiliated by the opponent’s passing offense is being humiliated by the opponent’s passing offense on a nationally televised game after spending all week mouthing off to the press about knowing just how you are going to stop the opponent’s passing offense.
The Charger’s offense stepped up and almost saved the day, but the defense did what it does week after week; talk tough and play candyass. Somebody ought to put a muzzle on these idiots. Don’t blather about what you are going to do, you morons, just get out there and do it.
daniel thomas macinnes
Hey, when are you guys gonna come over to my blog’s Sunday Football Thread? I even got pizza and chips and everything.
Oh, well, at least the Vikings got the weeks off, so there’s no chance of screwups today. Except for the Steelers. Too bad, eh.
Andy K
Common Sense @35
No, the EPL is not on the verge of bankruptcy. Some of the teams might be, but the league is as healthy as it was meant to be- the top teams are successful, the rest fight to starve off relegation. You’ve nailed Tottenham’s woes, but the problem with Liverpool is the bickering American owners. Petrogarchs from Russia to the Persian Gulf are drooling at the prospect of buying the Reds, just as potential sponsors are bidding to pay Man Utd. more than AIG spent.
You’re on to something concerning a European super league, however. The entrenched, successful, elite clubs in Spain and England have upset the economic balance of football worldwide. If FIFA doesn’t enact equitable profit-sharing you’ll see a league similar to the current UEFA Champions’ League (at the expense of the separate national leagues), but with little change in the teams that make up this new league (as if there’s much change in the Champions’ League competitors as is).
All that said, GO HULL CITY TIGERS! Nice to see a team succeeding on the cheap. I just hope they don’t lose half the team when the January transfer window opens.