• Menu
  • Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Before Header

  • About Us
  • Lexicon
  • Contact Us
  • Our Store
  • ↑
  • ↓
  • ←
  • →

Balloon Juice

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

’Where will you hide, Roberts, the laws all being flat?’

the 10% who apparently lack object permanence

Tide comes in. Tide goes out. You can’t explain that.

It’s easy to sit in safety and prescribe what other people should be doing.

Oh FFS you might as well trust a 6-year-old with a flamethrower.

“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”

Thanks to your bullshit, we are now under siege.

if you can’t see it, then you are useless in the fight to stop it.

“Jesus paying for the sins of everyone is an insult to those who paid for their own sins.”

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

The real work of an opposition party is to hold the people in power accountable.

JFC, are there no editors left at that goddamn rag?

Do we throw up our hands or do we roll up our sleeves? (hint, door #2)

Speaker Mike Johnson is a vile traitor to the House and the Constitution.

You come for women, you’re gonna get your ass kicked.

The rest of the comments were smacking Boebert like she was a piñata.

fuckem (in honor of the late great efgoldman)

It is not hopeless, and we are not helpless.

When they say they are pro-life, they do not mean yours.

Peak wingnut was a lie.

🎶 Those boots were made for mockin’ 🎵

This is dead girl, live boy, a goat, two wetsuits and a dildo territory.  oh, and pink furry handcuffs.

Anyone who bans teaching American history has no right to shape America’s future.

If you are still in the gop, you are either an extremist yourself, or in bed with those who are.

Mobile Menu

  • Seattle Meet-up Post
  • 2025 Activism
  • Targeted Political Fundraising
  • Donate with Venmo, Zelle & PayPal
  • Site Feedback
  • War in Ukraine
  • Submit Photos to On the Road
  • Politics
  • On The Road
  • Open Threads
  • Topics
  • COVID-19
  • Authors
  • About Us
  • Contact Us
  • Lexicon
  • Our Store
  • Politics
  • Open Threads
  • 2025 Activism
  • Garden Chats
  • On The Road
  • Targeted Fundraising!
You are here: Home / Sports / Game Day Open Thread

Game Day Open Thread

by John Cole|  September 4, 20113:04 pm| 78 Comments

This post is in: Sports

FacebookTweetEmail

Nothing else matters.

FacebookTweetEmail
Previous Post: « What He Said
Next Post: Open Thread »

Reader Interactions

78Comments

  1. 1.

    Corner Stone

    September 4, 2011 at 3:05 pm

    Go back where you came from John Doom Galt Cole!

  2. 2.

    freelancer (iPhone)

    September 4, 2011 at 3:09 pm

    Uh, John, are there ANY games on today? I thought week 1 is next week.

  3. 3.

    quannlace

    September 4, 2011 at 3:11 pm

    Think I just heard Obama on his way to visit flooded Paterson. The Garden State Parkway runs just past my house and there was a cavalcade of sirens going by a few minutes ago.

  4. 4.

    Raven (formerly stuckinred)

    September 4, 2011 at 3:12 pm

    Ha!

  5. 5.

    The Dangerman

    September 4, 2011 at 3:13 pm

    Apocalyptica cover of NEM.

    Edit: If Cello in Rock interests you, check out Caroline Dale (and David Gilmour, of course) covering some Floyd.

  6. 6.

    Raven (formerly stuckinred)

    September 4, 2011 at 3:13 pm

    What’s the spread?

  7. 7.

    Steeplejack

    September 4, 2011 at 3:13 pm

    @freelancer (iPhone):

    Yeah, what’s up? I’ve got the usual dismal Nationals and Orioles games, golf and U.S. Open tennis, and there is a Colts-Bengals game on the NFL Channel, but it’s not clear that it’s live.

    Oh, yeah, Mexico and Chile are playing soccer on Univision.

  8. 8.

    Raven (formerly stuckinred)

    September 4, 2011 at 3:14 pm

    @Steeplejack: The Eers and Marshall followed by Texas A&M and SMU.

  9. 9.

    Yutsano

    September 4, 2011 at 3:16 pm

    @Steeplejack: I think JC just wanted to change the subject. Or something. Since I’ve been labeled insufficiently pure now I guess all I can do is pick on border collies and play with horses. Have fun, I’ll check in later.

  10. 10.

    Mark S.

    September 4, 2011 at 3:16 pm

    Are you talkin’ bout West Virginnie?

  11. 11.

    Mark S.

    September 4, 2011 at 3:18 pm

    @Yutsano:

    Good, get the hell out of here. Only people who have been Democrats since conception are welcome here.

    Oops, I guess I’ve gotta leave as well!

  12. 12.

    JGabriel

    September 4, 2011 at 3:19 pm

    Which game? WoW?

    .

  13. 13.

    Steeplejack

    September 4, 2011 at 3:22 pm

    @Raven (formerly stuckinred):

    Ah, college football. I didn’t see that coming, especially on Sunday.

  14. 14.

    Steeplejack

    September 4, 2011 at 3:23 pm

    @Yutsano:

    What the hell did you do now?

  15. 15.

    Corner Stone

    September 4, 2011 at 3:24 pm

    @Mark S.: Out! Mark Doom Galt S!

  16. 16.

    Raven (formerly stuckinred)

    September 4, 2011 at 3:24 pm

    @Steeplejack: There are normally a couple of games cuz the NFL doesn’t start till next week. Maryland and Miami play tomorrow night.

  17. 17.

    Corner Stone

    September 4, 2011 at 3:25 pm

    @The Dangerman: Cello is the absolute balls.

  18. 18.

    Raven (formerly stuckinred)

    September 4, 2011 at 3:26 pm

    The moved the kickoff back a few minutes because Bethune is waxing Prairie View and it’s running late.

  19. 19.

    commish

    September 4, 2011 at 3:27 pm

    More leagues in BJFL are now open for signup! John please check your email and post the links…note the changed url in my second message. Would post myself but am afk.

  20. 20.

    Raven (formerly stuckinred)

    September 4, 2011 at 3:28 pm

    @commish: He doesn’t stick around here during WV games does he?

  21. 21.

    RossInDetroit

    September 4, 2011 at 3:32 pm

    Don’t forget ELO. Killer cello on Don’t Bring Me Down.

  22. 22.

    Corner Stone

    September 4, 2011 at 3:32 pm

    @Raven (formerly stuckinred):

    He doesn’t stick around here during WV games does he?

    Nah, he generally throws up a troll FP and then lies about peoples’ comments as he sucks down some swill and gets drunk on teh twitters.

  23. 23.

    freelancer (iPhone)

    September 4, 2011 at 3:32 pm

    @commish:

    Hit me up, my email is in the link in my name.

  24. 24.

    jeffreyw

    September 4, 2011 at 3:34 pm

    Ack! Caterpillars on my parsley! Anyone know what they are?

  25. 25.

    RossInDetroit

    September 4, 2011 at 3:38 pm

    @jeffreyw:

    Those are purty. But they look hungry. Someone will identify them within 10 posts. I’m not an entomologist but they resemble a butterfly caterpillar I’ve seen.

  26. 26.

    Raven (formerly stuckinred)

    September 4, 2011 at 3:38 pm

    @jeffreyw: catalpa worms? Great bait.
    eta
    Upon further review they only appear on catalpa trees!

  27. 27.

    Corner Stone

    September 4, 2011 at 3:42 pm

    @jeffreyw: They look like the tomato horned worms that destroyed my tomato crop 2 years ago.
    Mine were green but the exact same structure as those.

  28. 28.

    Raven (formerly stuckinred)

    September 4, 2011 at 3:42 pm

    @jeffreyw: Black swallowtail.

  29. 29.

    Jewish Steel

    September 4, 2011 at 3:43 pm

    @Corner Stone:

    Go back where you came from John Doom Galt Cole!

    still am i loling at this.

  30. 30.

    floridafrog

    September 4, 2011 at 3:44 pm

    @jeffreyw: nice pic. I’m pretty sure they are the caterpillars of the black swallowtail butterfly. They like everything in the same family: fennel, carrots, parsley and dill. I’ve had some luck planting a patch of parsley just for them and moving the little guys out of my veggie garden to the butterfly patch. They are pretty when they grow up

  31. 31.

    PeakVT

    September 4, 2011 at 3:44 pm

    @jeffreyw: Eastern black swallowtail butterfly, perhaps.

  32. 32.

    Raven (formerly stuckinred)

    September 4, 2011 at 3:44 pm

    Oh boy, no joy in mudville! Killer blocking!

  33. 33.

    jeffreyw

    September 4, 2011 at 3:45 pm

    @Raven (formerly stuckinred): You da man! I just found them meself on the google.

  34. 34.

    Raven (formerly stuckinred)

    September 4, 2011 at 3:47 pm

    @jeffreyw: Even a blind squirrel gets an acorn once in a while!

  35. 35.

    RossInDetroit

    September 4, 2011 at 3:49 pm

    That’s a cool butterfly.

  36. 36.

    superdestroyer

    September 4, 2011 at 3:50 pm

    When college football consolidates down to 64 schools who will West Virginia Schedule when there are no more football teams at Marshall or Bowling Green.

  37. 37.

    Raven (formerly stuckinred)

    September 4, 2011 at 3:51 pm

    Maybe they could project an image of the butterfly on the scoreboard at the WV game and the Eer fans could help identify it?

  38. 38.

    Corner Stone

    September 4, 2011 at 3:55 pm

    @Raven (formerly stuckinred):

    Maybe they could project an image of the butterfly on the scoreboard at the WV game and the Eer fans could help identify it?

    They’d all start running for the hills. Well, motoring for the hills on their govt scooters.

  39. 39.

    Raven (formerly stuckinred)

    September 4, 2011 at 3:55 pm

    @Corner Stone: The are in the fucking hills, you ever been there?

    eta, they’d think it was MOTHRA!

    http://images.wikia.com/godzilla/images/c/c6/407px-Mothra_Larva.jpg

  40. 40.

    Walker

    September 4, 2011 at 3:57 pm

    Absolutelly. Time to sit in front of the TV, stick Deus Ex in the X-Box and…

    Oh. That’s not what you meant.

  41. 41.

    khead

    September 4, 2011 at 4:01 pm

    @Raven (formerly stuckinred):

    Marshall was getting around 23/23.5 @ kickoff.

  42. 42.

    Raven (formerly stuckinred)

    September 4, 2011 at 4:03 pm

    @khead: Well, the Eers will wear them down like my dawgs did Boise last night!

  43. 43.

    bk

    September 4, 2011 at 4:07 pm

    I live in a decent sized city. We have a university with 30+k students, And we have a football team, that no one cares about (and which got hosed by Wisconsin the other night, and which covered the 35 point spread because, well, idk.

  44. 44.

    Raven (formerly stuckinred)

    September 4, 2011 at 4:09 pm

    @bk: The Runnin Rebs!

  45. 45.

    MacKenna

    September 4, 2011 at 4:14 pm

    This might matter.

    Goodbye to All That: Reflections of a GOP Operative Who Left the Cult
    Saturday 3 September 2011
    by Mike Lofgren

    Insightful piece. Spread it around.

  46. 46.

    jeffreyw

    September 4, 2011 at 4:14 pm

    @RossInDetroit: We get them here, pretty common, really. Along with the tiger swallowtails.

  47. 47.

    Corner Stone

    September 4, 2011 at 4:14 pm

    @Raven (formerly stuckinred): Ooooohhh.

  48. 48.

    RossInDetroit

    September 4, 2011 at 4:16 pm

    @MacKenna:

    Goodbye to All That: Reflections of a GOP Operative Who Left the Cult
    Saturday 3 September 2011
    by Mike Lofgren

    I found that via Benen. It’s long and I’m half way through. Pretty damning coming from a 28 year GOP operative. Too long for the attention span of most but lotsa juicy quotes that should get circulated.

  49. 49.

    Corner Stone

    September 4, 2011 at 4:20 pm

    @RossInDetroit: It’s discussed a couple threads down below.

  50. 50.

    Mark S.

    September 4, 2011 at 4:22 pm

    @MacKenna: @RossInDetroit:

    You guys should check out this awesome blog.

  51. 51.

    Omnes Omnibus

    September 4, 2011 at 4:27 pm

    @Mark S.: Yippee! I can stay. Although I am sure that I should be drummed out for being insufficient in some other way.

  52. 52.

    RossInDetroit

    September 4, 2011 at 4:29 pm

    @Mark S.:

    Okay Mr. Snarky. Pardon me for not reading every post.

  53. 53.

    Yutsano

    September 4, 2011 at 4:30 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: Your lack of purity on some level will be sussed out. My guess is it will relate to you still supporting the Kenyan usurper in the White House. Because that’s really what it’s all about amirite?

  54. 54.

    Corner Stone

    September 4, 2011 at 4:31 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: I’m watching you kid…

  55. 55.

    Corner Stone

    September 4, 2011 at 4:32 pm

    @RossInDetroit: Read them or get out!

  56. 56.

    Raven (formerly stuckinred)

    September 4, 2011 at 4:34 pm

    @Yutsano: You’re back!

  57. 57.

    dj spellchecka

    September 4, 2011 at 4:35 pm

    the sporting news thinks the steelers are gonna go 14-2 with the browns finishing 5-11, si has them at 10-6 and 8-8 respectively….

    what say you?

  58. 58.

    RossInDetroit

    September 4, 2011 at 4:35 pm

    @Corner Stone:

    Read them or get out!

    Hey, I’m busy reading the original source article, so back off!

    This sort of begs the question if the GOP has been as evil and undemocratic as he says, and for so long, why has he worked for them for 28 years.

    And I apologize to everyone if that was already mentioned in comment #238 4 posts back.

  59. 59.

    Yutsano

    September 4, 2011 at 4:40 pm

    @Raven (formerly stuckinred): Yeah. But probably not for long. The day is still nice and my brother got a Lab-German shorthair pointer mix who wants to play ball NAOW!! I may just indulge her.

  60. 60.

    Raven (formerly stuckinred)

    September 4, 2011 at 4:42 pm

    @Yutsano: Do it!

  61. 61.

    jeffreyw

    September 4, 2011 at 4:43 pm

    Thread needs moar breakfast.

  62. 62.

    Yutsano

    September 4, 2011 at 4:45 pm

    @Raven (formerly stuckinred): I may see if she’s up for a car ride also. I need me a drink and stuff and my SIL is busy helping a friend.

  63. 63.

    Svensker

    September 4, 2011 at 4:46 pm

    @quannlace:

    Is Paterson still flooded?

  64. 64.

    Yutsano

    September 4, 2011 at 4:47 pm

    @efgoldman:

    But I’m thinking about an omelet for dinner

    How very French of you.

  65. 65.

    Raven (formerly stuckinred)

    September 4, 2011 at 4:47 pm

    @Yutsano: Let’s not be drinkin and drivin now!

  66. 66.

    Yutsano

    September 4, 2011 at 4:49 pm

    @Raven (formerly stuckinred): Hee. I promise you not THAT kind of drink. Though it may indeed have a drug in it. Caffeine still counts as a drug right?

  67. 67.

    Raven (formerly stuckinred)

    September 4, 2011 at 4:49 pm

    @Yutsano: Not to john law it don’t!

  68. 68.

    Corner Stone

    September 4, 2011 at 4:50 pm

    @efgoldman:

    But I’m thinking about an omelet for dinner.

    I’m having left over lo mein. And it’s gonna be epic.

  69. 69.

    Corner Stone

    September 4, 2011 at 4:51 pm

    @jeffreyw: Looks like a Nintendo Mario Bros landscape.

  70. 70.

    Corner Stone

    September 4, 2011 at 4:53 pm

    Damn. Geno Smith reminds me of the NES Cunningham QB.

  71. 71.

    Corner Stone

    September 4, 2011 at 4:55 pm

    @efgoldman:

    Anything else I can whine about…?

    Sure. How has John Doom Galt DJIA Cole failed you today?

  72. 72.

    Svensker

    September 4, 2011 at 4:55 pm

    @Svensker:

    Welp, just went and read the Bergen Record on O’s trip there. Folks in Paterson were very happy to see him.

  73. 73.

    MacKenna

    September 4, 2011 at 5:01 pm

    @Mark S.: Thanks, I shoulda known. :)

  74. 74.

    Fucen Pneumatic Fuck Wrench Tarmal

    September 4, 2011 at 5:26 pm

    leave john alone this is the cole coal bowl.

  75. 75.

    The Commish

    September 4, 2011 at 5:53 pm

    Two new conferences for the BJFL!

    One on Yahoo, will follow rules similar to last year’s leagues and this year’s Elitist Meritocracy Conference:
    http://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com/league/bjfl_wingnutwelfare
    Password is alsotoo

    Another league on ESPN.com, will use an auction draft (don’t ask me, I’m not the commissioner there!) and maybe some other different rules:
    http://games.espn.go.com/ffl/leagueoffice?leagueId=290918

    Draft are coming up this week, don’t be late!

  76. 76.

    JR

    September 4, 2011 at 6:18 pm

    @efgoldman:

    No Such Thing as UWV. It’s WVU, has been since foundation of school. Although I have seen the un-informed call it UWV.

    You’re allowed to hate it, if you’re from Pitt, PSU, VPI… South Carolina, whatever.

  77. 77.

    khead

    September 4, 2011 at 6:30 pm

    @JR:

    Uh… VPI?

    Showing some age there.

  78. 78.

    The Commish

    September 4, 2011 at 7:00 pm

    @freelancer (iPhone): Looks like I need a MS LiveID to see your email. Hope you saw the link to the leagues!

Comments are closed.

Primary Sidebar

On The Road - Albatrossity - The Birds of May 3
Image by Albatrossity (7/31/25)

World Central Kitchen

Donate

Recent Comments

  • hotshoe on Late Night Open Thread: America’s Fascists Love Alligators (Jul 13, 2025 @ 1:06am)
  • Jay on War for Ukraine Day 1,234: The Cost (Jul 13, 2025 @ 1:05am)
  • NotMax on Late Night Open Thread: America’s Fascists Love Alligators (Jul 13, 2025 @ 1:01am)
  • Viva BrisVegas on Late Night Open Thread: America’s Fascists Love Alligators (Jul 13, 2025 @ 12:57am)
  • Archon on Late Night Open Thread: America’s Fascists Love Alligators (Jul 13, 2025 @ 12:55am)

Balloon Juice Posts

View by Topic
View by Author
View by Month & Year
View by Past Author

Featuring

Medium Cool
Artists in Our Midst
Authors in Our Midst
No Kings Protests June 14 2025

🎈Keep Balloon Juice Ad Free

Become a Balloon Juice Patreon
Donate with Venmo, Zelle or PayPal

Calling All Jackals

Site Feedback
Nominate a Rotating Tag
Submit Photos to On the Road
Balloon Juice Anniversary (All Links)
Balloon Juice Anniversary (All Posts)
Fix Nyms with Apostrophes

Social Media

Balloon Juice
WaterGirl
TaMara
John Cole
DougJ (aka NYT Pitchbot)
Betty Cracker
Tom Levenson
David Anderson
Major Major Major Major
DougJ NYT Pitchbot
mistermix

Keeping Track

Legal Challenges (Lawfare)
Republicans Fleeing Town Halls (TPM)
21 Letters (to Borrow or Steal)
Search Donations from a Brand

Feeling Defeated?  If We Give Up, It's Game Over

Site Footer

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

  • Facebook
  • RSS
  • Twitter
  • YouTube
  • Comment Policy
  • Our Authors
  • Blogroll
  • Our Artists
  • Privacy Policy

Copyright © 2025 Dev Balloon Juice · All Rights Reserved · Powered by BizBudding Inc

Share this ArticleLike this article? Email it to a friend!

Email sent!