From yesterday’s Rams-Lions game, which included a bizarre safety and relatively unimpressive offensive play–it’s Lions designated asskicker Zach Follet finding Rams return specialist Danny Amendola and stabbing him to death with his own car keys, in a manner of speaking. Amendola did not return to the game. Also not returning to this game: everyone that watched it, because it was pretty lame. The Rams won, which is like winning the Special Olympics in swimming. Sure, you’re not quite the best of the worst, but at least you didn’t drown in the pool. –Second-String Fullback.
People are still going ape over shock jock Rush Limbaugh and his association with a group planning to buy the St. Louis Rams. Add NFL commissioner Roger Goodell to that list. Apparently Limbaugh needs to beef up on his “Roamin’ Catholic Ginger Ruling With An Iron Fist” demo.
“I’ve said many times before, we’re all held to a high standard here,” Mr. Goodell said. “I would not want to see those comments coming from people who are in a responsible position in the N.F.L. — absolutely not.”
Mr. Goodell emphasized that it was extremely early in the process and that the Rosenbloom family, which owns the St. Louis Rams, is not even fully committed to sell its majority stake in the team.[..] via.
Support seems to be in short supply at the ownership level as well. Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay is on record as saying “Not a chance in Hell.”
“I myself couldn’t even think of voting for him,” said Irsay speaking from the NFL’s Fall Owner’s Meetings in Boston.via.
I gave my take on this at the Washington Post blog, and while I think Limbaugh has every right to own whatever he can afford, Limbaugh doesn’t seem to be great for business. And some have drawn parallels to Michael Vick and the media’s attitude toward his reinstatement, which seems like apples and oranges. While Vick’s actions were obviously more atrocious, they seem to be over and done with. The last thing Goodell wants to do is monitor his owners the way that he has to do with the players.
Yesterday’s Niners-Rams game was so completely unexceptional and dull in every way that the only way the NFL could spice it up was to let the referees start actively hitting people, as umpire Garth DiFelice did when Kenneth Darby took a wrong turn in the middle of the field.
And of course I support this. The only thing more enjoyable than a referee gumming up a play and tackling a football player is a referee gumming up a play and getting demolished by a football player. Call me sadistic (my hookers certainly do), but I like it when the people without pads get run over.
The video is after the jump, but I’m not going to lie: it’s not quite as satisfying as the photograph. I love a good knockout punch. Just another reason the NFL is better than boxing.
Ahhhh, Pittsburgh. Don’t ever change.
With the playoff picture slowly coming into focus, the number of teams that suck every week grows ever larger. But I’d like to pay special tribute this week to a trio of teams who have sucked all season, week in and week out. Consider:
There are other shitty teams in the NFL. The Chiefs’ and Seahawks’ records are just as bad as the Rams’. The Bills looked like ass again as their epic meltdown continues. Oakland is a GD mess. But all those teams show flashes of promise, glimmers of hope.
I can’t think of another season where three teams have been this bad — just total cesspools of crapitude and surefire wins for opponents. The Lions will get all the attention for going winless, but let’s not overlook the historic shittiness of their counterparts. Bravo, Detroit, St. Louis, and Cincy: you suck.
Jones has offered to shake his ass for as little as $20 million
You know that billion-dollar stadium that Jerry Jones is building for the Cowboys? Turns out he needs a liiiiiiiiitle more money to pay for it.
The Dallas Cowboys are seeking to borrow $350 million by Dec. 1, according to numerous finance sources, in one of the worst credit environments in the nation’s history.
The club’s proposed deal would refinance $126 million the team borrowed last year through the now-imploded auction-rate securities market, as well as add new debt to cover cost overruns at the team’s $1.2 billion stadium that is set to open next year, the sources said.
I’m no financial guru, but I think if I were building something that cost $1,200,000,000, I wouldn’t want to see the words “borrow,” “worst credit environments in the nation’s history,” and “imploded” in the same news article. I just can’t find a combination of words that makes that sound like good news, unless it was “They don’t need to borrow any money, because it isn’t the worst credit environment in the nation’s history, and nothing has imploded.” But that doesn’t really sound like AP Style.
A man named Sean Kenney is nearly finished with his three-year project to build a model of Yankee Stadium with Legos. Oh, but he didn’t spend three years playing with Legos by himself. Only a loser would do that.
I am building the sculpture together with a Manhattan grade schooler. We began work on the sculpture in February 2006, working whenever the boy had available time.
“Yeah, hi. Is this Billy’s mom? Can Billy come over and play Legos? Soccer practice? Okay, well, whenever he’s free. I’ll be here.”
An elevated train line runs alongside the stadium. When complete, it will contain a microscale New York City subway train, with lots of traffic and crowds on the street below.
Oh, that’s cool. I didn’t realize Lego made miniature assholes.
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