04/14//2017 Daily Thread

Callahardfoul wrote:

I don’t want it getting lost on page 1.

Lefty wrote:

There’s a Dean Wormer’s chance in hell that Blandino is leaving voluntarily. No chance he bails on his own when he is about to become replay Tsar. Also, exactly which contracted network partner of the NFL is going to hire someone out of the NFL’s office without the NFL signing off on it in advance? Someone is going to screw up their deal with the league to get Dean Blandino? Please. The NFL wanted him gone and called in a favor at a network to find a safe landing spot for him where he will keep his mouth shut if he wants to get paid. The larger question is what are they covering up that caused them to force him out. If you think of all the things the NFL stooges do on a regular basis and have ignored (somewhat excluding Kensil who seems to be on a perpetual tour of future playing sites in outer Mongolia) it must be something really good for them to decide to cut ties with him.

Was there an adult in the room who said a guy spotted stumbling out of an owner’s party bus and was never a ref shouldn’t be the head of officiating?

Just kidding.

I  mean, regardless of what people think of Belichick, I thought it was universally agreed upon he doesn’t give a damn what anyone thinks, and is completely unwilling to be the dancing monkey the Fatty types ask him to be. He does nothing for show, and puts no thought into “the optics” of his decision-making. He carries a healthy contempt for “the optics” even.

If anything, this is him caving a little to one of the interview requests, revealing a little more of himself, and he gets skewered anyway. Why should he ever do one of these? The only way to “win” is to be a fake motherfucker like Dungy, always accessible, always at the ready with the conventional, safe response, and always willing to take the expedient route out of a jam.

I love wiki. Look up Kerr, read the 5 paragraphs going into detail about all his success as a coach and see this is how the section ends

On November 20, 2016, The NBA announced that Kerr had been fined $25,000 for public criticism of officiating during a radio interview with KNBR 680 on Thursday the 17th.[40]

I don’t even think Larry Johnson is allowed to do one scribble a week.  His last masterpiece was last Friday…today…nothing.  He must be devastated.   😆

Who is it that ‘allows’  or ‘disallows’ LJ to practice his art?  Gotta be some local metal health ward. Perhaps he ran out of tracing paper or got his mumu caught in the electric pencil sharpener.

Keep giving me reasons to hate him Peter.

2006: There is a knock on the door of room 755 of the Renaissance Hotel in a Chicago suburb, on a hot day in August. Roger Goodell opens the door to see Rooney standing there. “Commissioner,” Rooney says, extending his arms into a hug. It had been Rooney who helped bridge the gap between Goodell backers and supporters of NFL lawyer Gregg Levy, and it is Rooney who informs the new commissioner of his appointment. Goodell will continue to have a weekly call with Rooney throughout his tenure.

Suzy wrote:

02062 wrote:

Keep giving me reasons to hate him Peter. 2006: There is a knock on the door of room 755 of the Renaissance Hotel in a Chicago suburb, on a hot day in August. Roger Goodell opens the door to see Rooney standing there. “Commissioner,” Rooney says, extending his arms into a hug. It had been Rooney who helped bridge the gap between Goodell backers and supporters of NFL lawyer Gregg Levy, and it is Rooney who informs the new commissioner of his appointment. Goodell will continue to have a weekly call with Rooney throughout his tenure.

That works on a few levels because it gives us more reason to hate Fatty himself (as if we need any). This has come up before but he acts like the incredibly stupid jackass Goodell is Michael Corleone.

“All right. This one time I’ll let you ask me about my affairs..”

First they sacrifice kill Rooney, then they ship off Blandino. What will they do next to distract from Eli-gate?

Kmac wrote:

First they sacrifice kill Rooney, then they ship off Blandino. What will they do next to distract from Eli-gate?

Right?!

He and his Frankenstein brother are corrupt, entitled assholes but hey let’s let them be and make up shit about the GOAT.

Would Elway do anything other than take a swig of gin after waking up next to Shannon Sharpe’s decaptiated head?

I thought Elway used scotch to make it though his day not gin?

I think that 1976 Lions-Patriots week 6 game may top all the Soupeys for Belichick he harkens back to it so much.

Kevin wrote:

chicowalker wrote:

Fatty thought Blandino would be there for 15 years, along with Blaine Gabbert, Brady Quinn, Sam Bradford, etc

😆

How did Sam Bradford’s MVP season turn out?

I bet that column (or columns?) he wrote about the trade are probably even more funny now than they were at the time. I forget what the quote was but one of the GM’s was losing sleep because PEOPLE”S LIVES were involved or some horseshit that Fatty guzzled down like a fried butter latte.

Fucking Felger stooge Murray wishes you people would stop comparing everything that happens in the NFL to Deflategate. He’s worse than Felger.

I had to talk to a Big 4 tax guy just now and wanted to pull a Dale: “Not much going on with you this week, is there?”

Also, damn ITT to hell for pointing out the Rich Keefe ‘yup’s. 😆

Verdict in on Smokey….

not guilty

looks like smokey is running a string of “not Guilty” calls.

So does EEI “bump off” Fauria to let Hernandez jump on with Ordaway and Merloni?

Wow…I’m shocked…guilty of gun possession, and that’s it.  Baez is a scumbag…but he wins cases.

Belichick could have chosen to testify and put him away and didn’t, Mike!