Has been requested, so I’m assuming there’s at least one game tonight.
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Come for the politics, stay for the snark.
The GOP is a fucking disgrace.
Insiders who complain to politico: please report to the white house office of shut the fuck up.
I like you, you’re my kind of trouble.
In my day, never was longer.
When I decide to be condescending, you won’t have to dream up a fantasy about it.
Sitting here in limbo waiting for the dice to roll
Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.
Not so fun when the rabbit gets the gun, is it?
… pundit janitors mopping up after the GOP
Republicans are the party of chaos and catastrophe.
Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.
There are consequences to being an arrogant, sullen prick.
Their freedom requires your slavery.
Come on, man.
This fight is for everything.
Do not shrug your shoulders and accept the normalization of untruths.
fuckem (in honor of the late great efgoldman)
I know this must be bad for Joe Biden, I just don’t know how.
We are aware of all internet traditions.
… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact
If you’re pissed about Biden’s speech, he was talking about you.
You don’t get rid of your umbrella while it’s still raining.
A democracy can’t function when people can’t distinguish facts from lies.
Speaking of republicans, is there a way for a political party to declare intellectual bankruptcy?
debit
Well, if you call the Vikings being utterly humiliated by the Packers a game…
MikeJ
I’m sure there’s a game. I’ve been playing Glitch. And yeah, yeah, I will get around to skyrim.
burnspbesq
Congrats to WVU on making the NCAA tournament in men’s soccer.
Duke got a shit draw. Easy first round, but a potential second round game at number one ranked (but, oddly, tenth seeded) New Mexico.
The Dangerman
@debit:
I’m not sure we’ve reached utterly humiliated yet; ass kicked, perhaps, but not humiliated.
As an Angeleno, can I just say “Please stay in MN”.
Cacti
I think the most impressive stat for Green Bay so far is going 5-0 on the road through the first 8.
debit
@The Dangerman: Oh, it’s a nationally broadcast game. Humiliation is almost certain.
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
Well, to the Vikes’ credit, they did kick a field goal…Before it was nullified by a penalty, and the subsequent attempt failed.
The Fat Kate Middleton
Have yet to figure out the rules to football … other than home runs … just thought this should be shared:
http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/herman-cain-wife-interview-6560801
burnspbesq
@The Dangerman:
What, you’d rather have Jacksonville move to Farmers Field?
There is a precedent for LA kidnapping Minneapolis-based teams that wear purple, yanno.
Personally, I’d rather see the fucking Goats get their own ground. I’m tired of sharing Victoria Street with those wankers.
G for the treble!
debit
GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!
ETA: Ahem. That was briefly exciting and then very demoralizing.
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
@The Fat Kate Middleton:
Oh, come on, Little Richard? I think Esquerita is the more appropriate comparison: A lot less popular, but a lot crazier.
Loneoak
Sooo … my first child is due any day now. If it comes tonight (unlikely at this point), I may be able to pressure my wife to naming him or her after a Packers player. WHO SHOULD IT BE?!
ETA: Maybe Tremain for a girl?
robertdsc-iPhone 4
The Patriots surprised me yesterday with their win. I are happy.
The Modern Warfare 3 single player is complete. I liked it but had to laugh at the opening map: Wall St in full warzone mode against the Russians. I laughed to myself as I wandered through a trading floor asking “Do I really want to save this area?” So I destroyed a few more terminals just for the 99%’s sake.
Suffern ACE
@Loneoak:
Jermichael Loneoak
Jennings Loneoak
Raji Loneoak
Lone Oak Son of Wood?
martha
@The Fat Kate Middleton: Bar dice or even worse, euchre. We’ll fleece you every time. And yes, there is a game that has shut down most of the state tonight…
Spaghetti Lee
@Loneoak:
Zombo.
Gex
@burnspbesq: One year during a finals with the Lakers, coming back from commercial they had a aerial shot flying over the area which showed some lakes. The announcers said, and I shit you not, “Now you know why they named them the Lakers.”
Jaw -> floor
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
@Loneoak:
Hmmmm….
burnspbesq
@Loneoak:
If you name it Aaron, it will have no acting talent whatsoever (have you seen Rogers’ State Farm TV spot?).
Loneoak
@Spaghetti Lee:
I’ve been saving Zombo for my next dog.
@Suffern ACE:
A friend on FB previously suggested I might as well go all in and choose Jermaine Jermichael to capture the Jackson Family in there too.
Loneoak
@burnspbesq:
No, I’m probably not in the right TV market for that commercial. It doesn’t surprise me—he’s a little wooden off the field.
But if he goes 98 yards in 2:30 here I really wouldn’t care.
martha
@Loneoak: Oh that’s easy: Aeron Loneoak for a girl or Charles Loneoak for a boy. Congrats!
Steeplejack
I have long since resigned myself to football announcers yakking nonstop through the game, but, man, does Jon Gruden’s voice annoy me.
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
@Loneoak:
Does it have to be a current Packer?
@burnspbesq:
I disagree. He’s no Peyton Manning (who’s a pretty good actor), but he’s no Brett Favre (cardboard cutout), either.
martha
@burnspbesq: well, even as the spouse of a man currently wearing an Aaron Rodgers jersey and yelling at the TV set in the basement, I can’t totally disagree. His best ads are actually for Associated Bank. Local WI bank. Very funny, much looser.
jl
I believe that Meathooks are playing the Northmen. Or something. A full 15 round match, counting the innings.
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
@Loneoak:
Because, I mean, there’s always Curly, Johnny Blood, Iron Mike (Michalske, the original), Forrest, MacArthur, Kabeer…I know those are all pretty much boys’ names…But I do think Brockington might work for a boy or a girl…
Suffern ACE
@martha: We’ll teach you sheepshead, but tell you to pick up the blinds on three kings.
Loneoak
@Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again):
No objection to the classics necessarily, but it seems appropriate to name the little bugger after the current roster of Super Bowl champs that I actually saw play.
Joel
@Loneoak: I’m assuming “Jerry” and “Joe” are out of the equation, right?
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
@Loneoak:
Then there’s Desmond (Bishop) and Charles Yaw (Peprah).
Or, from the practice squad- ’cause they deserve some love, too!- there’s Sampson (Genus).
Steve
Dude, if you don’t even know which player you want to name your kid after, this probably isn’t the greatest idea.
martha
@Suffern ACE: LOL. One of these winters I need to learn how to play. But my liver might not be up to the challenge.
Loneoak
@Steve:
Why so serious?
Steve
@Loneoak: You’re asking the wrong guy. When my kid was due on St. Patrick’s Day I suggested we name him Finbar.
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
@Steve:
That would have been all sorts of wrong.
Fionn, otoh….
Hey, Loneoak, there went Jordy for six….
Steve
@Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again): I thought it had lots of authentic Irish flavor. The office manager told me she wouldn’t let us put him on my insurance if I did it.
Suffern ACE
@Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again): Not much upside to that career, but if the unspeakable happens and he turns into a complete moral dud or Congressman or something worse, you can claim that you named her after your favorite Star Trek Chief Engineer.
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
@Suffern ACE:
Wait, are we talking about Fionn or Jordy?
Oh, wait, you’re talking about Geordi LaForge. At least I think that’s how it’s spelled and to whom you refer. For a second there I was thinking of Chief O’Brien. Then Chief Jay Strongbow.
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
@Steve:
It does…And it doesn’t. First thing I flashed to was the list of Tolkein’s elven names. But Fionn…That’s unmistakably Gaelic.
Kathy
@The Fat Kate Middleton: For the definitive response to all the crap going on at Penn State, run do not walk to Charlie Pierce’s column in Grantland. The man is a f*cking national treasure.
http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/7233704/the-brutal-truth-penn-state
Mr Stagger Lee
@Gex: I am still looking for an album featuring the best Utah Jazz. Karl Malone and the sax, John Stockton and the vibes.
J. Michael Neal
@burnspbesq:
The Lakers moved to LA in 1960. They didn’t start wearing purple until 1968.
The Vikings also have yet to win one world championship, let alone five.
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
Rodgers: 20 completions/8 different receivers
Omnes Omnibus
@Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again): You expected something else?
Loneoak
The Rodgers State Farm commercial was just on … not that bad really.
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
@Omnes Omnibus:
It’s that he hits 7 or 8 with regularity, game-in and game-out, that amazes me.
ETA: I just want him to keep up this level of play for a decade, but I’ve got a feeling that this year will be the pinnacle.
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
That’s receiver #9.
Ron
@Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again): Going to be very hard to replicate this season. It’s pretty much insane.
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
Andrew Quarless: Receiver #10.
Spaghetti Lee
@Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again):
It would be cruel to wish for some sort of debilitating injury, but I can at least hope his relationship with management grows acrimonious and he gets traded to the AFC.
Suffern ACE
How did the line do that without holding?
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
@Ron:
After all of those years I experienced through the ’70s and ’80s, with all of those crappy QBs- Lynn Dickey was good when healthy, but health was always the problem- and then Brett, who, at his pinnacle, I never thought could be topped- I’m appreciating the insanity so much that I want to take it behind a middle school and…Oh, wait, that’s too “old school” now, isn’t it?
Omnes Omnibus
@Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again): He is still young. There is room for improvement. I don’t know where, but there must be.
Suffern ACE
@Spaghetti Lee: Hmmmm. Why don’t the Bears fans find him a wife with Hollywood ambitions? A Janet Jones. Introduce him to a Kardashian or one of the Simpsons.
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
@Suffern ACE:
Well, if George Steinbrenner was still alive, and if he was a fan of the Vikes, Lions or Bears, old George could pull a “Henson” and sign Rodgers to some ridiculously large and undeserved baseball contract.
suzanne
Holy shit my brain hurts.
Blah blah radius of gyration blah blah section modulus blah blah moment of inertia blah blah.
me
@Spaghetti Lee: Then Flynn becomes the starter.
Suffern ACE
@suzanne: Hope you acerd the test. A moment of inertia sounds like fun.
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
Rodgers’ QBR this week: 140.3
Paul
Can we please and finally retire the cliche “storied” when discussing football teams? Plus “tasty” guitar licks, I’ve heard that ONE TOO MANY TIMES, too. And but also, Go Pack! By which I actually mean Go Pack!
JCJ
@Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again):
Only 140.3 – weak sauce.
That offense with Rodgers is amazing. If the defense can start remembering what they did last year we’ll be set.
burnspbesq
@Kathy:
Pierce is having a very off day. That’s no better than his abject stupidity about the Supreme Court and the PPACA cases.
S. cerevisiae
I can only hope that Rogers gets a gigantic contract that cripples the Packer’s ability to sign anyone else. Hopefully the Vikes can draft Kalil next year along with CB’s LB’s and get Bowe from KC in free agency. Hell, I am even down with trading AD if we can get a boatload of draft picks for him, unfortunately running backs are almost worthless now in the NFL.
suzanne
@Suffern ACE: I’m not taking it until February, so I have plenty of time to study. Blah.
I’m watching the Gabby Giffords interview, even though it’s porn. She is just such a great lady. I hope a million good things for her and her husband.
Yutsano
@suzanne: The whole wanting the bebehs part right before she got shot just tears me apart.
The Fat Kate Middleton
@Kathy: Thank you so much for this. Exactly what needs to be said, over and over and over.
The Fat Kate Middleton
@burnspbesq: “abject stupidity”. How very apropos.
FlipYrWhig
@Paul: How about a tasty football team backed by some storied guitar licks? Badass!
burnspbesq
@Yutsano:
Are you dyin, dude? Down four with the ball, 48 seconds to go.
burnspbesq
@The Fat Kate Middleton:
When you start having something to say, I’ll start paying attention.
Same for Pierce. A clever writer with nothing to say is a waste of time.
Yutsano
@burnspbesq: Losing by 8 to no. 23 in the country is no shame. And there will be a next year.
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
@JCJ:
The D looked alright today.
I’ve been saying it for about 2 years now: The Packers hav a bend-but-don’t-break defense. They’ll give up yardage and scores, mostly in garbage time, but when they need it, they make the big stops. The ’85 Bears they are not. But the ’85 Bears’ offense couldn’t hang points like this on a regular basis, either.
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
@S. cerevisiae:
I dunno…A team with a good D and a suspect QB/receiving corps (I’m thinking of Baltimore here) can still grind it out and eat clock with that consistent 3.34 y/c, 30 c/g RB. The concern I’d have about Peterson in this regard is that I’m not sure he’d be happy playing the Ottis Anderson role for anyone for too long- at least not while he can still be a flashy superstar. I can only think of one superstar running back in his prime who was happy to do so- Walter Payton. That guy, imo, could have easily broken O.J. Simpson’s single-season rushing record in ’77, but the Bears would have missed the playoffs if they hadn’t depended on Sweetness to chew clock with short runs up the gut.