AFC WEST
Pittsburgh @ Kansas City – Chiefs roll on
NY Giants @ Denver– hoo boy, this is gonna be ugly
LA Chargers @ Oakland – Chargers win two straight
The NFL’s highest-rated passer on the league’s only undefeated team? Yeah, Alex Smith would undoubtedly win the NFL MVP if the season ended today. It takes an act of Congress, if not the Almighty himself, to have the AP vote for a non-QB to win the MVP. Aaron Rodgers, Tom Brady, and Carson Wentz are other QBs in the hunt for the award. Maybe the best non-QB in the league is Smith’s rookie teammate Kareem Hunt; Hunt has a league-leading 609 rushing yards on 6.3 yards per carry. He’s second in the league with 6 rushing plus receiving TDs, and he also leads the league in total yards from scrimmage. Todd Gurley and Leonard Fournette are also playing at an All-Pro level at RB.
AFC NORTH
Pittsburgh @ Kansas City
Chicago @ Baltimore – Ravens take the home game
Cleveland @ Houston – Houston, narrowly
Cincinnati – Bye
We’ve already discussed the top QBs and RBs in the game so far this season; wide receiver is always harder to evaluate. Some seasons, a safety valve RB or TE finishes high on the receptions list, but is 95 catches for 850 yards more valuable than 80 catches for 1100? Is 1400 yards with 6 TDs better than 1200 yards and 10 TDs? Is yards per reception as meaningful as yards per carry for running back? It seems not; in a typical season, most of the YPR leaders aren’t making the All-Pro teams. (For example: the four All-Pro WR in 2016 were Julio Jones, Antonio Brown, Mike Evans, and Odell Beckham; only Jones was in the top ten in YPR) All that said, it looks like Antonio Brown is the man at WR, leading the league in receptions and yards. (OTOH, he only has one TD on the season). After a banged-up 2016, AJ Green is back in form and back among the elite. DeAndre Hopkins is also putting up big numbers.
AFC SOUTH
Cleveland @ Houston
LA Rams @ Jacksonville – Rams fall to second straight tough D
Indianapolis @ Tennessee – This weeks upset special
Granted, DeShaun Watson has barely started his career, but he is one of only seven QBs with a passer rating (100.7) of 100+. The others: Alex Smith, Tom Brady, Drew Brees, Kirk Cousins, Aaron Rodgers, andDerek Carr.
AFC EAST
New England @ NY Jets – All good things, Jets…all good things
Miami @ Atlanta – No problem for Falcons
Buffalo – Bye
Time to give Tom Brady the credit he deserves. I say it that way because I don’t think he deserves to be known as the best QB ever. Super Bowls are a function of team success, and if we’re going to hand out individual accolades for team success, then why would Brady’s 5-2 SB record beat Joe Montana’s 4-0? Montana’s four appearances came in an era where there was no salary cap and the competition in his conference was extremely strong. Bill Parcells’ Giants, Joe Gibbs’ Redskins, Mike Ditka’s Bears…it was a fantastic accomplishment just to get out of conference in those years. And if Tom Brady is the best, what does that make Eli Manning? Eli is 2-0 against Brady in SB play.
But here’s what Brady does deserve credit for: competitive poise. One of the reasons the Patriots have been so hard to beat for so long is that Tom Brady really, truly, absolutely keeps playing until the end. A lot of players in sports talk about not quitting, about playing hard for 60 minutes, but Brady really does. One game that stands out in my memory is the AFC Championship a couple of years ago, Patriots at Broncos. The Broncos won the SB that year with a punishing defense, and they made Brady look bad in that game. (27-56 310 yds, 1 TD, 2 INT, 4 times sacked) However, in the end, Brady drove the Patriots down the field needing a touchdown and 2-point conversion to tie the game. He managed the TD, but not the conversion. The Pats lost by two points. On the road, on a day when things aren’t going your way against a fierce defense, Brady gave his team a chance. He may not be the best QB of all time, but damn if that bastard doesn’t give his team a chance in every game he plays. There’s not an ounce of quit in the guy.
NFC WEST
Tampa Bay @ Arizona – Arizona continues slide despite addition of has-been
LA Rams @ Jacksonville
San Francisco @ Washington – The Skins are at home and they’re good
Seattle – Bye
This is the most difficult division to write about, so I won’t.
NFC NORTH
Detroit @ New Orleans – New Orleans seems to be gaining strength week-to-week
Chicago @ Baltimore
Green Bay @ Minnesota – Pack rolls on
The best teams in the NFL, by winning percentage:
Kansas City 5-0 (1.000)
Philadelphia 5-1 (.833)
Green Bay 4-1 (.800)
Atlanta 3-1 (.750)
Denver 3-1 (.750)
When the dust settles on the 2017 season, Green Bay might end up with a record as good as, or better than, anyone on this list. Kansas City and Denver have to square off twice. Philadelphia has Dallas and Washington in their division. And Atlanta has yet to play the kind of football they showed a year ago – Matt Ryan in particular is off to a bad start. Green Bay’s toughest division opponent is the plucky but second-tier Detroit Lions. If half their team wasn’t getting hurt every week, I’d be tempted to pencil Green Bay in at one of the top two NFC playoff seeds right now.
NFC SOUTH
Philadelphia 28 @ Carolina 23 (F – 10/12)
Detroit @ New Orleans
Miami @ Atlanta
Tampa Bay @ Arizona
Just when Carolina puts up solid back-to-back wins and starts to look more like their 2015 selves, they drop a home game. Granted, the Eagles are a very good squad – they may even reach the Super Bowl. Carson Wentz is ahead of schedule in his development. But why is Cam Newton the only man in Carolina’s backfield averaging over three yards per carry? Why was Christian McCaffery so highly regarded when it seems all he can do is catch little four-and-five yard dumpoffs? How can their defense be so dependent on Luke Kuechly? This really is Judge Napolitano, isn’t it?
Cam Newton’s career so far feels a bit like John Elway‘s up to this point. Which is good news for Newton if he gets a Terrell Davis sometime in the future.
NFC EAST
Philadelphia 28 @ Carolina 23 (F – 10/12)
NY Giants @ Denver
San Francisco @ Washington
Dallas – Bye
The Cowboys have already lost as many games this season as they did all last season. Between their secondary issues and the Zeke Elliott news, this is quite a good bye. I can’t imagine a better time for one. At least one man disagrees.
PICKS UPDATE
Week 5 – 7-6
Total – 22-21
Comments
134 responses to “Winning Isn’t Everything, But Losing Is Nothing: NFL Week 6”
Fuck foozball. That is all. And I said it FIRST.
That being said, the first half of the NFL season is completely meaningless. It typically looks nothing like the last 8 games.
Also, KC, I don’t care if they win 16 games in the regular season, they’ll choke early in the playoffs. It’s what they do.
How can you say that? They won Super Bowl IV.
Yeah and that was only like 200 years ago. Everyone who played in that game is now part of the fossil record. Dinosaurs once ruled the planet.
You might want to see if your sarc meter is unhooked.
Dallas’ issues on offense, and particular in the run game, are shocking and about to get a whole lot worse without Zeke in the backfield. The defensive unit is disappointing (the linebackers are worthless without Sean Lee amd Jaylon Smith is clearly not recovered from his injury) but at least the team is relatively young (especially in the secondary). Likely won’t be able to win the division if the Shegles stay on their current trajectory. Fuckers.
The only thing that makes me not want to sob into my beer every night is that it could be worse: at least we aren’t as bad as the dumpsterfire formerly known as the NY Giants. Wowzers is that a bad franchise right now.
I used to be a fanatical NFL fan. I would get all emotional over it. Then one day I realized that the outcome of these games have zero impact on my life or me personally. After that I was still a fan, but if my team lost, I didn’t feel bad about it so much. Then this recent bullshit. I mean I don’t give a fuck what they do during the anthem, it’s just the attitude of these well paid athletes acting like a bunch of fucking snowflakes and pawns for Democrat politicians. Fuck that shit, I’m done.
I think the last game I actually gave a shit about was… well I can date it pretty precisely. The NFC championship in January 95. Cowboys vs Chargers. Seaua (PBUH) was a -beast-. Since then? Less interested.
Interesting how ISIS songs work as metal remixes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdfsklQ1kJM
Catchy songs tend to be repetitive and are easy to compress. The average top 40 song has a compressibility of about 40%.
Forgive me. I have no foozball related thoughts.
Kind of makes me want to strap a bomb to my chest and go fuck some shit up.
The original version was a music video with a lot of cool battle footage. It has been scrubbed from the internet. Even liveleak took it down.
You know propaganda is good when people try to erase it.
I call that “Monday”
There’s this:
HOLY WARS
Not to take this all too seriously, but I’ve never got the Islamic maidens in heaven thing. If it’s heaven, isn’t the nature of fucking kind of immaterial and pointless? Your sex urge is driven by biological impulses that you no longer have, nor does the act actually fulfill a function anymore (apparently Allah can make children though I guess?). And if you can fuck in heaven, why do you need specific ‘maidens’? Wouldn’t a more rational sex heaven be one where you can just make up beautiful women out of nowhere and use them as you see fit?
I’ve seen some serious Islamic theological discussion about this stuff (and some people have posted it here as well) and I still don’t get it. I mean, if I’m going for a religion I’m going for the one that offers me enlightenment or supreme knowledge of the universe or whatever, not the one who gives me arbitrary meatspace pleasures.
“Wouldn’t a more rational sex heaven be one where you can just make up beautiful women out of nowhere and use them as you see fit?”
I have to say that this sounds a lot more like a heaven to me than sitting around on clouds strumming a harp. If they would have told me that in church I may have stayed longer.
Hmmmm…I may need to start a cult.
It might work. There was one time when all my co-workers decided to get religion. I can’t remember how that got started, but one day there was a conversation about which religion, or maybe I should say which flavor of Christianity because none of them were talking about anything else, they had to be. One was going to be Catholic, and one lady said she didn’t want to be Catholic and decided on Lutheran because they can drink as much as they want. This got me really annoyed and I said ‘Why do you need a religion to do what you want to? I already do what I want to do, no religion needed’. Then I got on this thing about inventing my own religion, the Man Church. Kegs of beer, NFL on big screen, dancing girls. It could work. I think someone recently started a religion where all they mostly do is smoke weed all day.
I think someone beat you to it: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-4952104/Video-offers-sex-drug-holiday-Colombian-island.html
PBUH
Pastafarian heaven includes a stripper factory and a beer volcano, as illustrated in this flash game:
https://www.venganza.org/2016/04/fsm-game/
According to various hadiths, men in paradise have enhanced sexual endurance.
***
-1- Anas ibn Maalik (may Allaah be pleased with him) narrated that the Messenger of Allaah (may Allaah raise his rank and grant him peace) said:
يُعْطَى المُؤْمِنُ فِي الجَنَّةِ قُوَّةَ كَذَا وَكَذَا مِنَ الجِمَاعِ
“A believer in Paradise will be given the stamina to have sexual intercourse such-and-such (number of times).”
Anas said, “O Messenger of Allaah! (How) will he have the ability to do so?”
He replied:
يُعْطَى قُوَّةَ مِائَةٍ
“He will be given the stamina of one hundred (men).”
***
Maybe it’s an enhanced experienced because the chicks in paradise haven’t had their clits ritually sliced off. The two-way feedback is kinda important.
ROFL
Ah , but what’s the Kologorov complexity?
I don’t watch the pro football. never have. I love college football though. My team, Arkansas, has a date with the executioner at 6:30 god’s country standard time.
I’m not gonna rant too much, because I’m sure I’m the only hog fan on this board, but Bielema has been a fucking disaster for my program. He needs to go. This is year 5 and he is not getting the job done. Mr. offensive genius has put together the sorriest looking O line I have ever seen. He then wants to play under center slow developing pass plays with a lone that can’t block. He’s an idiot, and I want him gone.
His face looks stupid too.
So Comcast called me. My wife is like ‘OMG, who was that?’. The person says ‘I see you’re a Comcast customer’. So I said ‘Only because I have no choice. You guys suck. Your business is shit and your customer service is at a completely unacceptable level. And you guys lie, a lot. Have a nice day’. *hangs up*.
I was drinking a few month ago when i got a call from someone trying to get donations for some sort of fund relating to the state police. That was fun.
If I donate, will you just promise to not shoot me at a routine traffic stop? Don’t shoot me bro!
I was drinking when I got a call from the Fraternal Order of Police. I asked them if that was like the Widows and Orphans fund in the movie “The Big Easy”. It kinda went downhill fast. It was almost 20 years ago, so I gave them some money.
I vaguely recall getting drunk and telling a comcast agent that I was going to take a baseball bat to every comcast van I saw in my neighborhood. He got kind of sniffy about it, but I still kind of want to smash some Comcast headlights. The fuckers did me out of like 300 dollars, admitted it, but wouldn’t give the money back.
Where the fuck is everyone? I know you guys don’t work, but now I’m starting to get concerned that some of you have lives outside of the Glibs. This is alarming stuff. Me, my car is broken, I have nowhere to go, and my wife hurt her knee and for now has limited mobility. But I have booze and the intertoobz!
Dude, in Minnesota when you realize the days are getting short, you squeeze the most out of outdoor living that you can. Now it’s raining so I am in the house watching Oklahoma State (the REAL OSU) play Baylor.
Go Pokes!
It’s summer time here, I think low 80s? Nice day really, I have all of the doors and windows open.
Where is “here”? You south of the equator?
Balmer, hon.
My condolences.
Had a conference in Baltimore in June. The hotel (a nice Hilton) could not keep up with the heat, and it was miserable the entire time. I could not focus.
On the other hand, I met an old fling from almost 20 years ago so we had a couple of laughs.
But seriously, Hilton, invest in some freaking HVAC if you want to host conferences!
Were you at the harbor?
Yeah, pretty close to it. We walked one night to the local Fogo de Chao. Fortunately much Tanq and tonic cooled me down. Plus the vendors I was hanging I with gave me a huge discount on my next order. We all laughed with pure schadenfreude about the Trump victory and proggie tears. It was awesome.
Another night a bunch of us crazy engineers went to the Wharf Rat. That was…a crazy night. I had to herd them into an Uber when they didn’t quite want to heed the manager’s hints that the place was shutting down.
Good times, good times.
Yeah, so you were right there at the harbor then. Fogo de Chao is just ok for a churrascaria. We’ve been there several times. I’ve ate at some of the top churrascarias in Southern Brazil, so I’m sort of spoiled in that regard.
Fells Point is a pretty fun place to hangout. We go down sometimes and just get a day pass for the water taxi. I’m about 10 miles north of the harbor. There aren’t very many nice places in Baltimore. The Harbor, Harbor East, Locust Point, Charles Village, Mount Washington, Hampden is ok for younger people, although definitely lower than the other places I mentioned. Most of Baltimore is an unlivable sprawling ghetto that you do not want to even drive through. There was once a million residents in the city and now it’s around 600k. Democrats have ran the city for 50 years and among their accomplishments is several of the most dangerous neighborhoods on the planet and a loss of 40% of the population.
Fogos vary by location. I went to the original one in Sao Paulo, and it kicked ass! I also went to some no-name ones in the countryside and none of them sucked. I only went to the Balti one because the vendors wanted to go and invited me to schmooze me. How could I say no?
On a more peaceful occasion, the hubs and I went to Fells Point and strolled around, having completed a 2 week tour of greater Maryland and surrounding areas. Our favorite unheard of place was Port Deposit. Fun old town built into a cliff. Neat pre-colonial buildings that are now pubs and restaurants, as well as the Union Hotel, just a little further down the road. I still go there once in a while when I am stuck working at Aberdeen Proving Ground for a spell.
I totally agree about the rest of Baltimore. Not my kind of place to live. I’m still a small town gal at heart.
My condolences.
Wife and I have a place south of the equator. About 8 degrees south. It’s hot there all year, I mean frickin HOT.
It’s 91 outside right now.
It’s about 80 in the shop I’m sitting in.
It’s about 120 out on the furnace floor.
I’m ready for firewood weather.
Thank doG for the rain Hayek!
I was finally out doing some serious yard work (that I promised Her Holiness to do this spring) and was getting pretty sick of it. The rain gave me a reason to go back inside and watch that game and Indiana coming up short against Michigan (how can the IU QB be so bad at reading the option?).
But yes, this is desperation time. Do the last things you have to survive the winter and still have fun doing stuff like hunting.
What did you find on your car?
Nothing yet, I’m taking it in Monday. I’ve been working from home and taking care of my wife with her bad knee and so haven’t really went anywhere. I still bet it’s a sway bar link making the noise.
I’M NOT YOUR PRIVATE ENTERTAINMENT.
Have some alcohol, Rufus.
DANCE PUPPET DANCE.
Yes you are.
Oh. I was using a shovel to relocate an adolescent porcupine carcass I
done killled with a BB gun.
I’m here but after last night’s liver assault I’m in no condition to comment. My fucking hair hurts…
Curlicue on the Cone? First snow last night. Fan-fucking-tastic.
Some of us are out drinking. Stupid crawl giving three and a half hours to get 5 4 oz samples and walking less then half a mile. I’ve now stopped at a bar not on the crawl for a pint that includes a donation to charity.
Because losing early in the playoffs isn’t a greater accomplishment.
That may not be the last Brady SB. Because white privilege or something.
Indeed, as if 5 gold and 2 silver medals are worse than just 4 gold ones.
Two of those SB wins for Brady were because Pete Carroll was too smart to run the Beast and win, and Atlanta deciding not to just run the ball a few more times and kick a FG to ice the game.
So yeah, he’s sort of like Dean Smith. You need the other team to participate in your national championship wins.
Eh Carolina and the NFC South disappointed me this year. I expected a neck and neck competition among the Panthers, Falcons, and Bucs.
McCaffery doesn’t have the numbers, but he is a big diversion and focus for opposing teams
“And if Tom Brady is the best, what does that make Eli Manning? Eli is 2-0 against Brady in SB play.”
It means jack shit. I still can’t believe Eli has one let alone two. Never saw a such fortunate QB float so many balls aimlessly while being pulled only to be caught.
Of course, SB titles/appearances are not the sole metrics to use in measuring a player’s career. But Brady has both the titles and the career/peak numbers to keep him in the conversation as among (if not the only) greatest all time.
Brady is better than Eli. There I said it, and it’s not even close.
Of course Brady is better! I think the lucky 2 time SB wins against the Pats was some sort of karmic justice for the “irregularities” that the Pats had perpetrated.
FUCKING.TUCK.RULE! That is all. I don’t care about Deflategate, I don’t care about Deflategate…
Why is it even a discussion? Ralph Sampson has two titles and I don’t see anyone make the claim he’s among the greatest power/center forwards.
Brady, Brees, Rodgers, Manning (when he played…duh), shit even Rivers and Roethlisberger (if one so desires) can be in the conversation. But not Eli should.
Nah, I wouldn’t put Roethlisberger in that group. Derek Carr is better than both him and Rivers.
I joked to my husband that maybe Phillip Rivers was wanting to stay in the NFL for 2 years for each of his children. Then I saw on wiki he has 8 children (same wife even!). So he still has to play til 2020 if I am right.
I’d still put Joe Montana, John Elway, and Roger Staubach over Brees and Rodgers at this point along there with Brady, although Rodgers may start creeping into the GOAT conversation with another SB win.
Top 5 all time QBs
Brady
Montana
Staubach
P. Manning,
Elway
Note: I am not old enough to have watched Johnny Unitas play, but I hear he’s well up on this list for most people. Then you have your Dan Marinos, Warren Moons, and Jim Kellys who played well enough to be strong contenders even without any SB wins.
WARREN MOON
I actually have no point, I just wanted to.write WARREN MOON
Dan Marino just can’t get any respect.
Where is Bart Starr on that list? 9-1 playoff record, 5 NFL titles, 2 Super Bowl Titles and MVP of both. He was one of the only players Lombardi would not rag on in public. Plus he was one tough SOB. He told Lombardi that he was going to QB sneak on the last play in the Ice Bowl and didn’t tell the team so they would not change their actions and possible tip off the play.
Plus he is still a classy gentleman. But was a sub-mediocre coach.
White privilege, he diddin do nothin.
Neither can Fran Tarkenton, I guess.
No Steve Young? Johnny Unitas?
I bet you put pineapple on pizza.
Mmm, Hawaiian pizza
…is delicious!
I gave Unitas as much props as anyone who hasn’t seen him. I recognize that he’s considered one of the all-time greats by those who have seen him. Same with Sammy Baugh and Otto Graham. Bart Starr falls into that category, too, but I personally wonder if he weren’t what we would call a ‘system quarterback’ these days. Would he have been a good fit in Don Coryell’s pass-first offense? I don’t think so.
Steve Young is far down the list of all-time greats. He was very good, and I wouldn’t complain if I were starting a team with a 25-year old Steve Young at QB, but IMO he’s somewhere in the late teens on my list.
Good points but I think Starr would have excelled with a West Coast offense as well. He was mobile (not as mobile as Scramblin’ Fran Tarkenton) and a very efficient play caller. The NFL playbooks were skinnier back then, but QB’s were expected to call their own plays on many downs. The big problem is that it is hard to compare/contrast between today’s QB protecting/pass oriented NFL with the older smash mouth defense favoring rules.
I agree with you on Steve Young.
I did see Unitas play- what was remarkable was not just how well he played, but the way he re-invented the quarterback position. He really was transformative.
You mean Mark Rypien and Rich Gannon aren’t better than Jim Kelly and Dan Marino?
Marino isn’t even in the same class as the others mentioned here. I mean he’s that much better. Gannon was a good west coast offense guy with some mobility. But if you want to compare him with other Raiders QBs, he wasn’t even close to Plunkett, let alone Carr, who is by far the best QB in Raiders history.
Jim Kelly played two years in the USFL, where he racked up a bit more than 9800 passing yards and 83 TDs. In two years. Add those to his NFL stats and he’d rank 14th all time in yards and 7th all time in TDs. You could say that he was playing against lesser talent, but Reggie White was there for awhile, too.
And I was really comparing great QBs with no rings against mediocre QBs with rings.
Nobody uses them as a sole metric but the point of the game is to win the Super Bowl so a failure to do so when it matters leaves one leaning on lesser metrics. Metrics that are only as useful as they are good at predicting a players success in winning.
Who wants to go in on a new venture? I want to open the Hihn Brewery. The gimmick is that we browbeat anyone that doesn’t like our brews, and call private security to escort out anyone that doesn’t reverse their position. Large engraved wood paneling over a huge double door entryway that says BULLY!
So who wants in on this action?
Sounds like a hit. When the FDA and county inspectors come do we have a Bundy style standoff
Why did you phrase that as a question?
You going to call it SnickerBrau?
You get first naming rights on the flagship brew.
Have you been hanging out at TOS?? I am happy to have left the crackpots behihned.
You can never escape Hihn. He will haunt your dreams like a harmless, annoying Freddie Kruger, for perpetuity.
Hihn is a memetic cancer. Once you’re exposed to him a little bit of him lives in the dark corners of your brain forever. Those of weak mind are consumed by him to become another part of the Hihn Mind, snickering and calling people goobers for all eternity.
Oh my god. Maybe Zero Sum Game’s theory about Pepe memes really is convincing after all.
Someone over there characterized this place as a ‘circle jerk wagon’ or something. I forget.
Meh.
Whatever. The commenting over there never recovered from most of us leaving. Both the quantity and quality of the commenting went straight to shit and is still there.
Clearly never seen me being a cunt on here.
You’re worse than that.
You’re an Ontarian Monarchist.
Better than being a womp Quebecker.
At least I don’t kneel before no Queen or Prince or King or, Joker, or 2 of spades, or Jack, Jack.
Tabernak!
(Zod on the other hand…he scares me).
Just like shooting womp rats in Beggar’s Canyon.
CANADIAN BROTHERS. LET’S JUST CALM DOWN AND ENJOY AN A&W CHICKENBURGER.
See, this is why Quebec is such a bad influence. Undermines all our Commonwealth values.
You want to be all “ohhh, look at me, we don’t have a monarchy, we just fetishize the shit out of the Presidency, which is totally different” move south. Of course then you get to have wonderful heads of state like Obama instead of Queen MUTHAFUCKIN Elizabeth II.
LET’S JUST CALM DOWN AND ENJOY AN A&W CHICKENBURGER.
You just gave me a chance to complain about A&W, so I’m going to take it.
Don’t get me wrong, I like their food. The thing that annoys me is that they’re the fast food restaurant equivalent of a virtue signalling prog. I mean, sure, advertise that you have antibiotic free chicken, fine. But even their goddamn wrappers and paper mats have long quotes on them about how they’re ‘made from biodegradable paper waste that would have been otherwise thrown out’. They have videos playing constantly about how wonderful their meat suppliers are to the environment and how natural it is. I mean, Jesus Christ I get it, I just want a goddamn burger.
I hadn’t noticed Canadian A&W is Canadian Chipotle the last time I went. I was too thrilled with having access to the Uncleburger. You better not have ruined the experience for me when we go back next year!
::lip quivers::
Wait… what? You’ve been to Canada and you want to go back again? What’s wrong with you?
I know they got rid of all the hot dog products earlier this year, but the rest of the Canadian menu remains intact.
Of course. We go to Montréal every year. The purchasing power of a strong USD and good food choices. Only thing I don’t like is getting cunty CBP agents on the way up more often than not, but it’s not like US counterparts are any better at airports. Especially JFK and BOS. Fuck.
I try to not let biz virtue signalling get me into a frothing rage. I came to the realisation in 2008 in a Stockholm hotel room that all the “green” bullshit they pimped in the rooms, like shower soap dispensers instead of individual bottles, are just a clever way to maximise profit while also giving the consumer the jollies.
I’m not your brother, pal!
Thread fail. Sigh…
Forget it, it’s Elizabethtown.
All Canadians are sons of the North.
Even the women.
I think we’ve never seen you not being a cunt on here. 😉
He’s a bit of a prickly pear but usually a pretty good egg, for an Easterner.
Congrats on being one of the few pundits to call the Ravens game correctly last week. I am hoping to spend tomorrow ribbing Swiss mercilessly.
There’s no way in hell that the Ravens should have Beaten the Raiders. If not for Derek Carr being out and the offensive line deciding not to play this year, and instead get on their knees to fellate Democrats, it wouldn’t have been close.
There’s no way in hell that the Ravens should have Beaten the Raiders.
Actually, they should because they, you know, scored more points.
I remember the last time I saw Glennon play against them. it was hilarious. I’m hoping for more of the same from True Biscuit.
“I remember the last time I saw Glennon play against them. it was hilarious. I’m hoping for more of the same from True Biscuit.”
I don’t even know what you just said.
The Ravens just shredded him. He looked like a shell-shocked turkey.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4T3TlZwrLc
Foozball used to be fun. I remember taunting one of my co-workers over the MIchael Crabtree hattrick against the Ravens. That was before proglodytes ruined the NFL.
Crabtree
Also a good demonstration of Carr’s ability to control to control the placement of the ball. Reminds me of Montana.
Next you’ll tell me Carr can beat up Chuck Norris.
The Raiders O-line, interestingly enough proclaimed as one of the best, had better start protecting this guy or he’ll jump ship and can’t blame him. But do I really think he’s that good? No, I don’t think, I’m sure of it.
Also should mention that True Biscuit is Mitchell Trubisky, a rookie 1st round pick for Chicago who has been sidelined in favor of Glennon until it dawned on Chicago that a ginger giraffe just wasn’t gonna get it done.
Trubisky, may God have mercy on your joints. You have no o-line.
‘True Biscuit’ That’s the part that made me say I don’t know what OMWC is talking about. I remember Total Biscuit, aka Fat Biscuit, who was a game review guy on Youtube.
I suspected that might be the case. Trubisky is awfully young to be thrown to the wolves tomorrow, but he beats the crap out of Glennon. Plus the slavic name seems approps for Da Bears.
The American prog I know (and others like him) are/were always fond of the ad hominem that because I didn’t pay for my education (my parents did – and I will do the same for my daughter), I had it easy and therefore can’t pass judgment on students who want free post-secondary education. My thoughts were invalid.
Yet, they don’t seem to apply the same logic to millionaires who take up socialist (or in this case SJW) causes.
The interesting question will be if the anthem/flag protests persist through the end of the NFL season and whether it makes an appearance in the Olympics.
If this were the summer Olympics upcoming, I’d bet on it showing up, but (how do you say this tactfully?), winter Olympic sports are mostly about honkey, cracker-ass, white kids.
If there are any African-American, say, skating stars, chances are they’re gunning for a Disney sponsorship and a stint headlining Disney’s traveling “Mr. Hankey on Ice”. They’ve already got sponsors paying those wannabe Kerrigans for their association with the anthem and the flag.
If this were the summer Olympics, you’d have boxers about to turn pro and track stars with little or no future beyond the Olympics. They’d protest the flag just to get their names in the paper. Still, it would be an amazing spectacle if . . .
You know, the South Koreans hate the American Olympics team, going back to Apollo Ohno in 2002.
http://www.foxnews.com/sports/2010/02/20/ohno-reviled-athlete-south-korea.html
Wouldn’t it be something if the South Koreans were more respectful towards the American flag and our anthem than one or more of our own athletes?
I don’t think there are many African-Americans on the winter Olympics team–so not many opportunities for that. Maybe on the hockey team–but since there are no NHLers on the American Olympic team this time (officially), hell if I know half of them. They play for teams like Hershey, Pa., Bumfuck, the University of North Dakota, or pick ’em up games in Lost Icehole, MN.
P.S. If Russia finally wins the gold with KHL players, sans Ovechkin, I’ll take it as yet another sign that God hates the Capitals. Ovechkin is already half-crazy. That’d put him over the edge.
I’d put the Canandian Jr. league up against most every other country save Russia and the KHL.
What’s this Canadian Jr. League you’re referring to?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Bank_Cup
Send the 2018 winning team to the Olympics to represent Canada this year, and I bet they come in no worse than third.
For that matter, send the world junior championship team, be it the U.S. or Canada–as is–and I bet they come in no worse than second.
They aren’t playing North American NHL style hockey in the Olympics. It’s a finesse game with bigger ice, wider passing lanes, etc.
Still, I’d bet on the either the Canadian Junior League champion or the World Junior Championship team to land no lower than second before I’d bet on the Russians to win–even though the Russians can field KHL players.
Ah. Yes. The RBC Cup.
Go team North America!
I would like to see a white athlete give the raised fist. Maybe to protest protests.
Posting from the bar crawl… as I’m solo tonight. I do own a black polo shirt that has the power symbol emroidered on the chest. I’ve described it as my black power shirt.
Dude- Jamaica bobsled. That is all.
Uffda. UND is totally populated with Canucks. The U of Minnesoda is the pure blood US college team.
Not that I want to jinx him but Verlander is a beast.
13 so far, and there’s still another inning.
Speaking of NFL, some proto-NFL players are showing their skills off as the OK State Cowboys demolish the Baylor Bears. 59-16, and it ain’t over yet.
I am very interested in seeing where QB Mason Rudolph, WR James Washington end up in the spring draft. I wonder how long RB Justice Hill will stay in college (hope he gets a degree)?
Some overlooked O-Line and D-Line guys too. We shall see!
Even more interesting to see if he winds up on his knee before or after he gets drafted and signs his contract.
I’m betting after.