This epic NFL QB twitterfight was linked at emptywheel earlier this weekend. It’s worth your time.

Meanwhile, Rep. Paul Broun of Georgia is in need of heavy ridicule. How is it that someone like this sits on the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology? This is seriously wrong.

I have no team. I’m pretty sure it’s too cold to have a team.

I’ve got teams, but football-wise that happened yesterday (The Razorbacks win! John L. Smith will *not* be lynched this week!). Today I shall be cheering on my AL team since I was a wee, the Tigers. As as Arkansan I was obligated to be a Cardinal Fan, then upon marriage a Cubs fan (yep, in the marriage vows), but AL has always been a free choice, and I adopted the Tigers. That gives me more of my precious baseball before the Long Drought.

Never liked pro football. Too lumbery.

I have no NFL team either, too, also, but our Lil’ Oregon Ducklings college team would probably give a few pro teams a run for their money…

quack quack

Sooners rule. Texans drool.

I know you’re talking football but alas, I’m afraid you’re right. I can’t get over the goddam Rangers folding like a card table in the last week after leading all season. Leading all season, do you hear me? (Sob.)

Screw the NFL…there’s international cricket on ESPN2

My sucky team is LSU, my non-sucky team is the Orioles. Going to Camden Yards today to boo the Yankees, especially C.C. Sabathia and Alex “Slappy” Rodriguez. Oh, and Derek Jeter. Yankee fans really hate that.

Seattle teams suck. Every last one of them.

Thank god my Bruins don’t have to play them this year (unless UCLA stumbles into the Pac 12 South Championship again, like last year).

There isn’t a more Schizophrenic D1 football team in the nation UCLA. Year in/year out, they’ll play like a consensus National Champion against some big name program during the Non-Conference schedule, but once they get into Conference play, at some point they will look worse than a Pop Warner Team (last year’s Arizona game was embarrassing).

Too bad about LSU, but I’m still looking forward to reading the smack talk on al.com before the Bama game! Ye gods, those SECers are rabid…

Just be thankful you’re not a FLSt fan or an NCSt fan for that matter…

OSU Beavers thank you for allowing them to regain a smidgen of self respect this season. It went right to their balls and now they’re talking big and talking loud!

Meanwhile in the other football, it’s Messi 2 – Ronaldo 2 with 10 minutes to play.

Apparently there are some sort of professional sports franchises in this state. People down here have taken it amiss when I’ve commented about a sports franchise from where I was born. All I said was the the Yankees could take Atlanta any time, as they had already proven. More than once. For some reason fee-fees were hurt… I know nothing about feetsball, nor do I care to learn. I’m too old to learn about new crap, and from anything I’ve ever read feetsball (of teh professional variety) is crap.

Harlan Ellison’s sports shocker:

“I Have No Team, And I Must Root, Root, Root!”

That was good, I just wish they’d told JuiceBox it was a ‘quarterbacks only’ conversation…..

Watching U16 girls play soccer…. hooboy, those are mean teens.

from anything I’ve ever read feetsball (of teh professional variety) is crap.

Now, now, Marion, with every moment that passes you come closer to getting lawyers involved here.

feel free to drunkenly ramble on in the comments

Contemplating this to go with some of these to prime to pump, so to speakish….

Go Queen City Bolsheviks!

I’ve just come back from a festive afternoon’s holiday at teh Firestone center, after my radiator blew an 8″hole in its seam. One of my companions there was very distraught about the Huskers losing. Evidently to the Ioway team.

I was just grateful that I was only three blocks from teh Firestone when the radiator blew, that Firestone was open and that they were able to find a replacement 2000 Jeep Cherokee radiator at noon on Sunday in Davenport IA.

See how easy it is to count ur blessings?

NAOW CAN I GO HOME????

OOOOH… Loved that story. Creepy as all get-out. /scifi addict

I’m old enough to know crap when I see or smell crap. Lawyers? Is there about to be another lock-out? Now THAT’S when I’ll start rooting for officials… (At least this time you didn’t say poop, however infinitely majestically and calmly…!)

How’s Arthur?

A touch of cabin fever already – not unexpectedly. This is a tiny house, the backyard doesnt haz a pool and all his friends are gone. This morning he snagged his leash and stood, patiently, at the front door, til I suited up and we went out walkies. It was 24F. Énkew for asking tho.

24F? I have such luverly memories of that… I’m actually hoping that we will see such a thing down here this year. It’ll help kill off some of the perennial weeds and bugs.

I’m shopping for a nice heavy winter coat on Ebay. But the whole point of moving here for this job was that half the time I’d be on the road in archives all over the country. So far, I’ve just been in Davenport. I didn’t really want to move to Davenport – I wanted to stay in Feenix, telecommute, and then be in archives fifty per cent. of the time. So, I’m cold and am feeling a liddle bit cheated. And Arthur iz bearing up, but he’s the kind of Dog who holds a grudge.

OUCH!

(Closest I’ve come to that is (a) having a heater hose blow out, many years ago, just as I parked at school, 20 miles from home), and (b) going out to the car one morning and finding one of the tires completely flat, then having the dealer, the next day, decide to do a service job on the car and nearly missing my dental appointment (just cleaning, thanks).

24 degrees isn’t too bad (I’ve been colder in Yosemite in the summer). You can adjust to that (but a warm coat does help). I got one in West Texas that has a down-and-feathers filling, and it’s good for being toasty down to 0.

LLBean iz MAH FREND. Wool overcoat with thinsulate lining. Full length.

Next up – sheepskin jacket for Arthur. Plus slippers. Teh bassets are lucky to not need this kind of thing.

If Obama had his shit together, and wasn’t such a corporate shill, he’d fix that 24 degree nightmare by sending in some heat-giving drone strikes.

But he won’t. Obama doesn’t care about anyone but his corporate overlords.

The End.

p.s. Dr President Jill Stein will supply warmth poopin’ unicorns, when elected underling to corporate overlord, to all you people.

Dr President Stein/JuiceBox Jesus 2012! Vote Sparkle-Virgin 2012!

Laughing…you, julia grey, gunsbeforebutter, all you guys are fun-nee.
I feel for you and Arthur, gwpda. So this is a whole new job? and the terms have changed, huh? (what a surprise…And there you are, in Davenport…have I mentioned [much] how nearly I packed up and fled from my rural Oklahoma just-out-of-law-school job? How I nearly stopped the Greyhound going the other way on I-40, destination board reading “Boston”, and cried “Take me with you!”? But, I didn’t. Possibly the wrong decision. Hopefully not the case with you.)

Really? A sheepskin coat for Arthur? I’ve forgotten again, what kind of goggie is he? Stay warm, the two of ya!

Oh, and back on topic: I managed to see some of yesterday’s WVU v Texas game…but it just wasn’t the same watching without my dad (a WVU alum and huge booster. First football game I ever went to in person was in Morgantown. Sadly, I was four, and the other team wore my favorite color…so, guess who I cheered for?)

Sadly, I was four, and the other team wore my favorite color…so, guess who I cheered for?

That’s the best football memory/story I’ve read today!

Thanks for that!

Arthur is a bone mouth Chinese Shar-pei, and his coat is roughly the same length as ur basic Marine Corps drill sargeant. Ioway iz lots colder than where he comes from.

What a handsome fellow. He does look underprepared for an Iowa winter, though.

I’m shopping at the Goodwill for a leftover fur stole to turn into a nice winter coat for Arthur. Otherwise, he’ll probably hole up in the house and never go outside. Or, I’ll have to get him a ticket to San Diego and see if teh Bassets want a room mate

I don’t mind so much when UCLA does it for say OSU, but the Bruins have been much to accommodating to USC since the turn of the Century!

Hai! Above the Hills of Westwood!

Hi there.

My son and I were on campus the Friday before Reg. Week. Watching all the bright shining faces move into the Dorms.

The place looked great.

Gud.
It’ll never be $212/quarter again, but it’s still a very good school.

Personally, I would think it highly gauche to point out that my favorite team of gridironers, the Saints of New Orleans, registered their very first victory of the nascent NFL season against the eleven Chargers of San Diego.

(holds teacup with pinky extended, wears rich-prick-style smirk on face)

Highly gauche.

Haz I mentioned recently that my first cousin once removed was married to Jimmy Finks for like 40 years? Miss Tulsa of 1947 endorses ur gaucherie!

One of my charming neighbours just stopped by to see whether I wanted to take possession of his old lawnmower and snowblower. He’d inherited them from a brother who was moving to SLC and had no further need for them.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOES!!!!!!!

Looking forward to giving God all the glory in tonight’s 666th Monday Night Football game. Romans 8:37-39

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