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Thursday Night Football Open Thread

by Betty Cracker|  December 17, 20158:09 pm| 44 Comments

This post is in: Open Threads, Sports, Fuck Yeah!

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Will the struggling Bucs prevail over the crappy Rams? I think so! Open thread!

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  1. 1.

    lamh36

    December 17, 2015 at 8:12 pm

    Lol…there is already a twitter hastag about this one…lol.

    @CNNPolitics
    .@POTUS to deliver a “non-traditional” State of the Union speech
    http://cnn.it/1JfqS3p via @Acosta

  2. 2.

    lamh36

    December 17, 2015 at 8:13 pm

    Lol…there is already a twitter hastag about this one…lol.

    @CNNPolitics
    .@POTUS to deliver a “non-traditional” State of the Union speech via @Acosta

  3. 3.

    raven

    December 17, 2015 at 8:19 pm

    Gurley is a beast.

  4. 4.

    benw

    December 17, 2015 at 8:19 pm

    FOOTBAW

  5. 5.

    Mike J

    December 17, 2015 at 8:27 pm

    Why are all the players wearing morphsuits?

  6. 6.

    raven

    December 17, 2015 at 8:28 pm

    @Mike J: Because the lighting in there is so bad it’s the only way to see them!

  7. 7.

    Betty Cracker

    December 17, 2015 at 8:29 pm

    @efgoldman: No, but they are weird unis, the Rams’ also too! Bucs are in all red and the Rams are in all yellow. Hubby said it’s like looking at a foosball table, and he’s right!

  8. 8.

    CaseyL

    December 17, 2015 at 8:31 pm

    I was pissed off that you need NFL network to watch the game, and then I remembered who was playing. Meh.

    Open thread: Wasn’t feeling well, so stayed home today. Instead of sleeping in all day, I went on a major provision run, came home, and cooked like crazy, filling many tupperwares. I never do that. Weird.

  9. 9.

    JPL

    December 17, 2015 at 8:31 pm

    Being the Patriot fan that I am, I’ll be watching the President on NBC hiking in the wilderness and eating wild salmon.

  10. 10.

    Betty Cracker

    December 17, 2015 at 8:32 pm

    @raven: He’s a fabulous RB. I think he stepped out of bounds way back in that recent big run, though. Oh well, Lovie didn’t throw the flag…now it’s score.

  11. 11.

    lamh36

    December 17, 2015 at 8:37 pm

    Too cute…WhoDatNation…Go Saints!

    New Orleans Saints
    Patient Jarrius Robertson hyping the Saints up on a hospital visit! #PrettyMuch

  12. 12.

    Mike J

    December 17, 2015 at 8:38 pm

    Nobody should be able to use the name of a team that moves until the city that lost the team gets a new team. They would then be allowed to use the old name or pick a new name if they so chose. St Louis could be the Cardinals. Any Team LA gets could be the Rams. Balmer could be the Colts, but if they preferred to go with the Ravens, the name “Colts” would be available for anybody else.

    In a different sport, Utah could never have been the Jazz.

    Baud, please make it so when you sweep to victory.

  13. 13.

    Boudica

    December 17, 2015 at 8:43 pm

    Did no one watch Sheldon and Amy do it?

  14. 14.

    JPL

    December 17, 2015 at 8:44 pm

    @Boudica: I’m guilty!

  15. 15.

    From Both Sides of the Pond

    December 17, 2015 at 8:47 pm

    OT: Augusta County Schools in Virginia close over Arabic Calligraphy assignment.

  16. 16.

    Punchy

    December 17, 2015 at 8:47 pm

    Wow, these uniforms make an abortion look pleasant. Good lord. Gotta watch with sunglasses.

  17. 17.

    Betty Cracker

    December 17, 2015 at 8:48 pm

    @Boudica: I’ve never seen that show at all, but at least 10 people have told me I’ll love it, so I guess I’ll have to binge-watch it on one of the streaming thingies…

  18. 18.

    raven

    December 17, 2015 at 8:50 pm

    @Betty Cracker: Master of None is great!

  19. 19.

    Punchy

    December 17, 2015 at 8:53 pm

    @From Both Sides of the Pond: Wow. Just…..wow. Merka, 2015. Where schools are closed every 3rd day based on any random angry phone call about completely xenophobic and pig-ignorant BS that the secretary receives.

  20. 20.

    Betty Cracker

    December 17, 2015 at 8:53 pm

    @raven: Been meaning to check that out too. I loved Aziz Ansari in Parks and Rec.

  21. 21.

    lamh36

    December 17, 2015 at 8:53 pm

    @Boudica: I totally forgot about it. But someone did mention it on twitter, but they also said, thanks to Star Wars opening tonight, it may just be the lowest rated episode of BBT…lol

  22. 22.

    lamh36

    December 17, 2015 at 8:54 pm

    Ok,5 minute warning…I WILL BE LIVETWEETING the return of Luther on BBCAmerica…so make sure you BLOCK or MUTE me if you follow me on twitter if you care about spoilers

  23. 23.

    Baud

    December 17, 2015 at 8:55 pm

    @Mike J:

    You got it.

    What should Utah Jazz’s new name be? The Choirs? The Great Salt Lakers? The Stormin’ Mormans?

  24. 24.

    Omnes Omnibus

    December 17, 2015 at 8:56 pm

    @lamh36: Thanks for the warning.

  25. 25.

    Boudica

    December 17, 2015 at 8:56 pm

    @From Both Sides of the Pond: I had hoped I had left the godbothering idiots behind when I moved from Texas to Virginia this year, but noooo.

  26. 26.

    Baud

    December 17, 2015 at 8:56 pm

    I just noticed that the mobile site no longer gives the time when a comment is posted.

  27. 27.

    raven

    December 17, 2015 at 8:56 pm

    @Betty Cracker: He’s a scream.

  28. 28.

    Betty Cracker

    December 17, 2015 at 8:57 pm

    Christ, I jinxed the hell out of the Bucs…

  29. 29.

    Boudica

    December 17, 2015 at 8:57 pm

    @lamh36: It was very cute and totally tied in to the Star Wars premiere.

  30. 30.

    Betty Cracker

    December 17, 2015 at 8:58 pm

    @Baud: The Sister Wives!

  31. 31.

    From Both Sides of the Pond

    December 17, 2015 at 9:03 pm

    @efgoldman: What’s even sadder is that the assignment says precisely what it is meant to achieve. The crazies in Augusta (it’s the county surrounding Staunton where the I-64 meets the I-81) somehow think writing the profession of faith will turn you into a rabid crazy jihadist. How insecure in your faith do you have to be to believe that?

  32. 32.

    Anoniminous

    December 17, 2015 at 9:04 pm

    @lamh36:

    They have pre-sold more than $100 million of tickets for the 4,000+ screens showing the flick. Disney got a heck of a payoff from their advertising and marketing.

  33. 33.

    Mike J

    December 17, 2015 at 9:05 pm

    @Betty Cracker: If it makes you feel better, Seattle beating Cleveland and Tampa Bay losing are the required first two steps for the Seahawks to clinch a playoff spot.

    I think “Giants lose to Carolina” is the method I would put my money on.

  34. 34.

    Anoniminous

    December 17, 2015 at 9:09 pm

    @From Both Sides of the Pond:

    The cretins have seized control.

  35. 35.

    Mike J

    December 17, 2015 at 9:12 pm

    @efgoldman: I’ll watch it when I can see it without paying to see commercials.

    Besides, I got my hands on some leaked footage from the swamps of Dagobah.

  36. 36.

    Anoniminous

    December 17, 2015 at 9:15 pm

    @efgoldman:

    In my neck of the desert we can find a mid-week, mid-day, Old Farts showing for $5 once the first rush/crush is over.

  37. 37.

    raven

    December 17, 2015 at 9:18 pm

    My colleague took her kids tonight . Her dentist bought 100 tickets for his patients and she got 4!

  38. 38.

    raven

    December 17, 2015 at 9:18 pm

    Winston ain’t gonna last long doing that shit.

  39. 39.

    Anoniminous

    December 17, 2015 at 9:20 pm

    @efgoldman:

    27% of the country needs to be put in a corner on a Time Out. For about 5 years.

  40. 40.

    Mike J

    December 17, 2015 at 9:22 pm

    @efgoldman:

    You don’t watch TV?

    A few things, but not very often. If you fixed my cable box to not move off TCM it would probably be several days before I even noticed.

  41. 41.

    Betty Cracker

    December 17, 2015 at 9:28 pm

    @Mike J: Wouldn’t mind seeing the Seachickens make the playoffs.

  42. 42.

    Anoniminous

    December 17, 2015 at 9:46 pm

    @efgoldman:

    The theater I’m thinking of is 5 years old and has upgraded to all digital, surround sound, the whole 9 yards. There is a much closer movie house but their seats, sound, and projection sucks little green yoda dicks.

    Saw the 1977 original at a house in Westwood in LA the day after it opened. Had a chance to go to the premiere at the Mann’s Chinese and blew it off for reasons that seemed good at the time. O well. People who were there told me audience went bananas at the end, stayed to watch and cheer the ending credits.

  43. 43.

    JBL72

    December 18, 2015 at 1:09 am

    @Mike J:

    Under that rule, the rightful owner of the NFL team name “Rams” would be Cleveland, not Los Angeles. The only NFL team in existence that traces its origins to Los Angeles is the San Diego Chargers, who began as the Los Angeles Chargers in 1960 and then moved only one year later to become the San Diego Chargers in 1961. On top of that, the rightful owner to the name “Cardinals” for an NFL city would actually be Chicago, not St. Louis.

    The Los Angeles Rams NFL franchise was transplanted from Cleveland in 1946, and the St. Louis Cardinals NFL franchise was transplanted from Chicago in 1960.

  44. 44.

    J R in WV

    December 18, 2015 at 10:05 am

    @Baud:

    The Sea Gulls, birds which saved the Mormon crops from the swarm of locusts, aren’t they?

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