Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

There are consequences to being an arrogant, sullen prick.

Petty moves from a petty man.

If rights aren’t universal, they are privilege, not rights.

Giving in to doom is how authoritarians win.

That’s my take and I am available for criticism at this time.

“When somebody takes the time to draw up a playbook, they’re gonna use it.”

I would try pessimism, but it probably wouldn’t work.

Many life forms that would benefit from greater intelligence, sadly, do not have it.

Live so that if you miss a day of work people aren’t hoping you’re dead.

If America since Jan 2025 hasn’t broken your heart, you haven’t loved her enough.

Roe is not about choice. It is about freedom.

“Facilitate” is an active verb, not a weasel word.

The “burn-it-down” people are good with that until they become part of the kindling.

Why is it so hard for them to condemn hate?

Michigan is a great lesson for Dems everywhere: when you have power…use it!

Jesus watching the most hateful people claiming to be his followers

A norm that restrains only one side really is not a norm – it is a trap.

“Loving your country does not mean lying about its history.”

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

Let’s not be the monsters we hate.

When you’re in more danger from the IDF than from Russian shelling, that’s really bad.

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

He seems like a smart guy, but JFC, what a dick!

“In the future, this lab will be a museum. do not touch it.”

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  1. 1.

    geg6

    Can’t help you with how she can watch it, but you should be able to stream it on radio through WDVE (www.dve.com). Your hero Tunch is on the broadcast team.

  4. 4.

    Davo

    Man, there was a great site last year and I saw every game I wanted… Unsurprisingly however, the feds shut that party down sometime in the offseason…

    I’ve scoured the net this season to no avail.

  6. 6.

    General Stuck

    The feds cracked down big time last season, and it was about impossible to get a live stream, and if you did find one, it would likely be shutdown after a few minutes. Don’t know about this year, but am not really interested in football these days.

  10. 10.

    MikeJ

    Some Girls, Live in Texas, 1978 is on the teevee, and I can’t figure out why they’re blurring Mick’s shirt.

    Blurring has gotten out of control. They blur license plates on police cars on TV now. and of course anything with a logo. Yeah, I hate the constant commercialism of logos everywhere but I hate the editing of reality more.

  12. 12.

    Napoleon

    @geg6:

    Do they really steam it? A few years ago MLB quit letting the flagship radio broadcast stations from live streaming the radio feed.

    (BTW, WDVE was my favorite station growing up).

  14. 14.

    Cassidy

    @raven: Saw that last night….not that i was looking for my sports streaming site that I only use to watch soccer and not other things at all.

  15. 15.

    geg6

    @Napoleon:

    I don’t actually know, but I’m pretty sure they do. It’s all Steelers, all the time on their website.

    DVE isn’t what it used to be. I don’t listen to them as much as I used to. Their playlist is pretty damn tired and firing Jimmy Krenn wasn’t a move that went down well with a lot of people. Especially when they had to get three people to replace him, one of them being Scott Paulsen.

    ETA: Just went to their website and, yes, they stream it.

  22. 22.

    Thoroughly Pizzled

    The Lions are cruelly refusing to lose like they deserved and filling me with hope only to snatch it away again.

  24. 24.

    dance around in your bones

    @MikeJ:

    Some Girls, Live in Texas, 1978 is on the teevee, and I can’t figure out why they’re blurring Mick’s shirt.
    __
    Blurring has gotten out of control. They blur license plates on police cars on TV now. and of course anything with a logo. Yeah, I hate the constant commercialism of logos everywhere but I hate the editing of reality more.

    I hear ya. And that’s from somebody who cut off her Calvin Klein logo tab off of some really cool purple jeans back in the day. Just because.

    I can only imagine it has to do with ‘licensing agreements’, ‘product placement’ and suchlike.

  27. 27.

    ThresherK

    So, Schiano is doing this then.

    What I see at this point is a spot where the D can just wail on the O line (which has to stand stock still) with what amounts to no meaningful penalty. The D is already lost 99.9999999% of the games from this situation, what does it matter a 5 or 15 yards
    additional?

    And when it’s like today, it’s the offense’s choice to take that penalty (oh boy) or just let the clock run out. Time to rewrite a rule or two.

    I think we’ve got ourselves into the situation that a premeditated penalty can be committed for which there is no punitive damage. What a deterrent that is!

  30. 30.

    Corner Stone

    Settling in for some really atrocious calls by whatever we’re calling these people in the black and white stripes.

  31. 31.

    rageahol

    copyright’s a bitch, eh cole?

    by the way, when are you changing your footer to reflect your “anyone can do anything they want with this?” position

  32. 32.

    Loneoak

    No, there is no way to legally stream games unless you have one of those satellite packages. Exclusive contracts are killing football fandom, imo.

  34. 34.

    Thlayli

    Well, Detroit just came up with a creative way to lose a game.

    Three points down, fourth and inches. Instead of the short field goal to tie it, they try the sneak but mess up the snap and don’t make it.

  37. 37.

    MikeJ

    @dance around in your bones: But it’s moronic. July 18, 1978, Mick Jagger wore a tshirt with a swastika on it. Blurring it denies that fact. Let people see what a desperate old man trying everything he could to be as relevant as the Sex Pistols would do.

  40. 40.

    Todd

    An interesting query. I watched So. Miss. get demolished last night, and was amazed that a team down by 25 late in the third quarter kept punting on 4th and short. Why in hell wouldn’t a coach shake the box and go for it?

  41. 41.

    dance around in your bones

    @MikeJ: Oh, MikeJ, I agree.

    God Save The Queen, we MEAN it man!

    dot dot dot

    Don’t be told what you want
    Don’t be told what you need
    There’s no future, no future,
    No future for you

    dot dot dot

    I hate the blurring bullshit, too.

  46. 46.

    J. Michael Neal

    @Thlayli: They fucked up the play, but going for it was still the right call. The alternative was to tie it with a field goal and then give the ball back to an offense that the Detroit defense had shown no interest in stopping in a situation where a field goal ends the game.

  49. 49.

    Mnemosyne

    @MikeJ:

    I can understand blurring license plates, because people are assholes and some of those assholes have the ability to fuck around with government databases.

    I am really sick of the blurring of logos, though.

  51. 51.

    Monty

    I would recommend a Slingbox. http://www.slingbox.com If you plug it into your TV she can watch the Steelers game in High Def on a PC or Cell phone if she chooses. To go advanced you can get a WDTV http://www.wdtvlive.com and Plug it in via the HDMI connection and get almost full HD Direct to the TV from a Slingbox over the internet.

    Monty

  53. 53.

    Carnacki

    You’re a Democrat and a liberal now, John. You don’t have to worry about the legality of such things. Also you get to ride public transit for free unless there is a Republican on board then you have to pay just for appearances. And didn’t they tell you about the special hedonistic orgy clubs for liberals? Didn’t someone send you the materials? Sorry. Libs suck at paperwork

  54. 54.

    The Dangerman

    Didn’t watch more than the very end of the Saints/Chiefs game…

    …but I could be a better official than the official officials. I really thought they were going to fuck the Chiefs on the OT TD call, but somehow they pulled their heads out of their asses. Clowns.

  55. 55.

    Morbo

    @J. Michael Neal: Oh definitely.

    As bad as that was, the end of the Jets/Dolphins game made me feel a little better. Miami tried to call their timeout and ice the kicker, successfully, but the play still went on resulting in a Miami blocked field goal. The timeout having been called, the Jets got a do-over and made the field goal. I have no rooting interest, but it warms the cockles of my heart whenever the stupid icing ritual backfires.

  58. 58.

    Temporarily Max McGee (Soon Enought To Be Andy K Again)

    @geg6:

    I don’t think so. You can probably get pre- and post-game programming, but the NFL (in conjunction with Sirius/XM) reserves the rights for on-line and out-of-market broadcasting. There’s been, for years now, a big disclaimer about this on the WTMJ AM 620 (Packers’ flagship) site.

    If you want to legally listen to (radio) game broadcasts on-line, you can buy the package from NFL.com.

  59. 59.

    Flapjack Backpack

    I would volunteer to read the play-by-play coming in on the wire, then recreate the action over the radio. Would that suffice?

    PS. Which movie had a scene of this happening? I’m thinking it was A League of Their Own, but I’m not sure…

  61. 61.

    Amir Khalid

    @MikeJ:
    On that day, Mick Jagger was still a month shy of his 35th birthday — not among the youngest rockers anymore, and five years past Exile On Main St., to be sure; but not an old man by rock’n’roll standards even then.

  63. 63.

    dance around in your bones

    @Amir Khalid:

    Amir, you always amaze me with your knowledge of Western pop/political culture – did you live in the U.S. of A. for a while?

    Anyway, I very much love your well-informed comments.

  67. 67.

    MikeJ

    @efgoldman:

    Their position in the history of Pop music is secure.

    Sure, but they could have, and arguably should have, stopped soon after the Beatles did.

  68. 68.

    dance around in your bones

    @Amir Khalid:

    But these days all pop culture is global, n’est-ce pas?

    I guess if you are tuned in/turned on to the Internets, no? You just seem remarkably well-informed.

    More than most of my acquaintances in the SoCal area – they think nothing affects them personally, and they are SO WRONG. I wish I could convince them.

  69. 69.

    MikeJ

    @efgoldman: Mays had the excuse that pro athletes weren’t properly compensated in the early days of his career. Had Mick and the boys hung it up after Exile they wouldn’t have had any trouble and we wouldn’t have missed much.

  71. 71.

    Temporarily Max McGee (Soon Enought To Be Andy K Again)

    @MikeJ:

    Had Mick and the boys hung it up after Exile Some Girls they wouldn’t have had any trouble and we wouldn’t have missed much.

    FIFY

    A top three Stones’ lp, imo. Sure, they were touring in support of it, but look at what they wrote after Some Girls was in the can. That’s the problem by 7/1978: They’re running on fumes. What’s on a post-Some Girls greatest hits album? Start Me Up and…?

  75. 75.

    BruceFromOhio

    My mom is in Connecticut and wants to watch the Steelers game, and there is no sports bar nearby carrying it. Any ideas?

    Yes! Cheer for the Ravens to be crushed by the Patriots! You don’t need no stinking bar!

  80. 80.

    Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism

    Fuck the fucking announcers at the Steelers game. Just something that happens my fat ass.

  81. 81.

    Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism

    Fuck the fucking announcers at the Steelers game. Just something that happens my fat ass.

  82. 82.

    S. cerevisiae

    Skol Vikings! Great game by Ponder and next week he gets a new weapon. I think they may surprise some people this year.

  84. 84.

    J. Michael Neal

    @S. cerevisiae: The real season starts this week. For us, at least. You guys are playing exhibition games.

    Though, to be honest, the Whitecaps should be more of a challenge than Colgate.

  90. 90.

    Auntie Beak

    I wish your mom luck, but I live in Connecticut and I couldn’t watch the Patriots last Sunday. That would be the NEW ENGLAND Patriots. Here in New England. Flippin’ Comcast only carried the Giants game. I hate Comcast…

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