thebiglebowski

ESPN sent a message last night that said there is a billionaire who wants the Raiders in San Antonio if they can't make it to LA

I ditched the show after last season but I guess I'll have to give it a go based on the improved reviews. A quick google search gave no indication the next season is the last.

Franks flag in the first episode was gold

The NFL should give you Jacksonville

I guess I need to read all the details of the story but even without doing so, I find it hard to believe someone in an organization had access to private scouting data and it in no way was shared with anyone else or in any way affected the outcome of the draft. I think you can make a strong argument that a team should be punished when a player roids. I find it hard to believe that no coaches/trainers know it is going on and aren't complicit in supporting it. It is a deterrent to the future use of roids because it puts the responsibility on the teams to clean up their locker rooms rather than sign guys who are known roiders and just not pay them when they eventually get suspended. I think the biggest difference here is just that one is a union bargained discipline process and the other is run more like a non-Union business where the president has more power and discretion when laying the hammer down.

It's a team sport. You can't say it's all about the individuals when it is convenient.

I was more thinking "then why even put another Death Star in the movie" when I read JJ's quote. obviously it's needed to create some of the situations the characters are put in but I think you still could have told basically the same Rey/Kylo story without it (and had more screen time to devote to it).

Kinda playing devils advocate but if no one cares about the weapon storyline, why write it in there? They could have easily set up that same scene with Rey and Kylo in a different manner (if that was the whole point of it).

Didn't watch a game yesterday. Checked out mentally after a long, frustrating season.

Was telling the girlfriend this this morning -- anyone who's been on a jury knows how hard it is. It's not like school where you take a test and when you are done, someone tells you if you got it wrong or right. Never know. And the stakes actually matter, as someone's life could be in your hands. There's some cases where the person is dead to rights -- on video, with DNA evidence, and the person admits to it. In this case, there likely isn't going to be a trial. If it goes to trial, there's at least some reasonable argument that can be made for both sides in most cases. No matter what happens, you never know if you made the right decision or not. It kinda sucks.

Yeah too many "gates." Seems like there are a lot of guys who've left the Pats and stumbled throughout the years so it's not a slam dunk hire (if that even existed). I'm happy with it though. More than anything, I hope he just gets us out of the habit of mortgaging the future for short term success. Suh still hit us for 10m against the cap last year. Regardless of what Calvin does (even if he retires), we take a 10m or so hit against the cap this year. We need to bite the bullet and get out of the habit of restructuring mega contracts to get under the cap.

Also the Lions signed the Pats director of scouting to be their GM today. Hopefully he will teach them how to cheat.

There's a lot of people that feel it was mostly a makeup call for bountygate, given that a lot of owners were pissed by how easy the Patriots got off for being caught cheating. It's the explanation that makes the most logical sense.

Kinda weird to have the season end on a "truce," but it was really good overall

I really liked this scene

So it's another season with kingpin as the villain?

Calvin Johnson is considering retiring

Fired up Mario 64. It's pretty crazy how the first time I played in 97 I probably spent months getting all those stars. Now I think I can get all 120 in maybe 8 hours.

Anyone played this? It's a cards against humanity variant. The way I was taught: Need at least 4 people. Better with 8-10. Split into 2 teams. Everyone draws 10 cards. Pick 3 you like and throw the rest back. Try to remember your cards word for word (some of them are fairly long). Mix everyone's cards together and shuffle. First round is like apples to apples (I think that is the right game) -- you have to describe what's on the card but can't say anything on there. No "sounds like," "starts with," etc.. No miming it out. 1 minute on the clock. When you run out of time it's the other teams turn. -1 for skipping, -1 for illegal words. Round two is cherades with the same cards. Act out the card without saying a word. Again, -1 for skips, -1 for speaking. 1 minute per team per turn until all the cards are finished. Last round with same cards, you only get to say ONE word. You can inflect it and say it over and over, but only one word. Same penalties for screwing it up. Depending on how strict you want to be, if someone starts with "ummm," "an," or anything of the like, that's their word. Or can let those slide. Can mix things up a little based on circumstances (I.e, if playing with 4, start with more cards, allow free passes if you want, etc). But generally those are the rules. Give it a try at next game night. The normal game is fun, but this is much more entertaining. It's pretty awesome to watch someone act out "cum guzzling pac-man" or describe "pixelated bukake" without being able to say the words.

I'm pretty late to this game but enjoying it. Just making sure -- you don't "complete" the patrols, right? They are never-ending?

I'm a bit behind but just finished up Daredevil. It was really, really good. Minor gripe -- the kingpin was really annoying throughout most of the series, with his artsy fartsy personality and really slow, deliberate speech. I get where they were going with it and he was really badass when he embraced his role as the villian towards the end, but getting there was painful at times.

Since the last posts were pretty conflicting, I'd agree with Le Gogh. Give it another year might be advice I would agree with for two 22 year olds, but at 27 I wouldn't risk another year on someone I had major doubts on and it's definitely not right for her at her age.

Didn't care very much for the hateful eight (and I love every other QT movie). It just develops way too slowly. I feel like there was a really good 2 hour movie in there if it was just edited down a bit.

If you think St. Patrick's is the most overrated, you're doing it wrong.

Where at? Just curious.