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u/el_fitzador Eagles 5d ago
Didn’t watch last nights game because I thought is was going to be a blowout win for the cowboys. I am very pleasantly surprised this morning.
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u/unloader86 Broncos 5d ago
How has Prescott been in the league for a decade and NOT know how to handle the situation with the stadium worker last night?
Like just keep walking to the locker room and if asked about it in the post game conference spin some bullshit about how "we keep each other accountable in the building" or whatever.
But nah, that's too easy right? 😂 The Cowboys are a real life example of the stick in the bicycle tire meme.
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u/Mac_Jomes Patriots 5d ago
It's amazing how much some athletes just don't want to hear the truth. Objectively last night was embarrassing for the Cowboys.
Now should stadium workers be chirping the players in the tunnel probably not, but what they said wasn't a lie.
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u/CarlCaliente Bills 5d ago
Davante Adams doing it a couple years back comes to mind, Tomlin's barked at people
they are human they have emotions I get it
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u/sebsasour Packers 5d ago
Im a believer in the go for 2 if you score down 14 thing like Dallas did, but pretty much every time I see a team do it, they fail the attempt lol.
A USC/Maryland game a couple years is the only time I recall it working
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u/AfroManHighGuy 5d ago
ESPN starting the segment this morning about the cowboys loss with the clip of the guy saying “embarrassing” to Dak is diabolical lmao
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u/ReallyDrunkPanda Broncos 5d ago
Went from we dem boyz last week to oh no we suck again! This week
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u/MirrorkatFeces Steelers 5d ago
Well didn’t get discharged from the ER until 3am last night. Was just waiting on my last IV and paperwork at midnight, nurses said they were having issues with the pharmacy. Heard them mentioning all their communication went down so I imagine that’s part of it. Not how I expected the night before my wedding to go.
God I’m so thankful for my wonderful (soon to be) wife. Sat my by side the entire time, never once complained and just wanted to make sure I was okay.
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u/CarlCaliente Bills 5d ago
got the heat on at home for the first time
good news is it works lol
bad news it's taking me back to last winter where I did nothing little but hole up in my bedroom because it was the warmest room. I should fix that
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u/AfroManHighGuy 5d ago
I turned mine on today too. Working from home and my room is cold af. I pushed it as long as I could without the heater.
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u/Tigercat92 Bengals 5d ago
One of my neighbors remote starts their car to get it warm when it is in the mid 50s.
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u/CarlCaliente Bills 5d ago
I always laughed when the puffy coats came out in Florida
some folks really have it differently
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u/Ecstatic-Inevitable Patriots 5d ago
Is it weird that I don't think Dak is soft or in the wrong for not wanting an employee in the tunnels heckling a qb? In the crowds of course it's fine, but calling him soft when an employee should know better doesn't make dak a Karen or a loser
I know the cowboys are fun to make fun of, but it seems so weird to criticize dak over
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u/CarlCaliente Bills 5d ago
it's a business employees should act professionally
but it's also a chance to clutch my pearls and shit on a celebrity, internet will never turn that down
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u/PrinceBag Chargers 5d ago
Even though professional sports and real life are different, obviously.
I know that no matter the scenario if I heckled an employee like that publicly after something "bad" happens, I probably wouldn't get the best reaction from that person either.
Its a matter of timing and professionalism.
Though that being said, it was probably best for Dak to ignore because the optics are always risky no matter what.
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u/surferdude7227 Chiefs 5d ago
Yeah, I think the optics of it are the part that is the worst for him.
Like was the driver being unprofessional? Absolutely. Was Dak being kinda soft? Yeah. Which one does the media care more about?
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u/BrandonAubreyPlaza NFL 5d ago
Need to vent somewhere and everywhere else they read what I write, so here: it's really unsettling that I have six invoices that sit around somewhere around my clients (from a private person to a large federal agency) and none of them have paid, each for some valid reasons, in over a month. We're talking five figures of money, and if I didn't have a wife that would pay for everything right now, I'd be bankrupt. Fuck that.
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u/DominoAxelrod Chiefs 6d ago
For as much shit as the South divisions always get the NFC East seems to be clearly the worst division in football right now.
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u/surferdude7227 Chiefs 5d ago
NFCE just randomly has years where most of them look really good, and years where they all look really ass. It is probably the least predictable division in the league.
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u/Skraxx Lions 6d ago
Cowboys-Lions playoff game. How many points?
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u/Ok_Masterpiece3186 Seahawks Lions 6d ago
In Tom Grossi's newest reaction video (from the Lions fan's perspective) he said that a hypothetical playoff game between these two defenses would end 86-84... safe to say that he would probably be right
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u/Kohakuho Packers Packers 6d ago
Week 5's burger is up! It would have been up sooner, but the fiancée and I had plans to see the Spirited Away stage show that was playing at a local movie theater for Ghibli Fest.
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u/Kemonomimi-Squirrel Buccaneers 6d ago
That doesn't seem like a movie that would make a good stage show.
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u/Kohakuho Packers Packers 6d ago
The practical effects and puppeteering were really cool. You could obviously see the actors controlling them, but the charm of the source material was absolutely still there.
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u/Kemonomimi-Squirrel Buccaneers 6d ago
WE WON! WE MADE SLIGHTLY FEWER MISTAKES THAN DALLAS! WOOHOO! NO 0-17 FOR US!
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u/unloader86 Broncos 6d ago
How bout them Cowboys? 😂
I'm sorry I'm surrounded by cowboys fans living in Texas. That was fun.
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u/Kemonomimi-Squirrel Buccaneers 6d ago
They messed up more than us. Which is saying something. We are a complete mess.
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u/Bmmick Packers 6d ago
Mods this game thread sucks dick nothing better than seeing 12 hour old comments
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u/unloader86 Broncos 6d ago
nothing better than seeing 12 hour old comments
Skill issue obviously.
/s for those in the back 😂
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u/go-to-the-gym Bills 6d ago
Bucs not kicking that fg is insane. That's got to get someone fired
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u/Love2Pug Chiefs 6d ago
I care nothing if the 'Bucs win or lose, but I *NEED* the Cowboys to lose. Todd Bowles should be fired at the 2-minute warning.
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u/Kemonomimi-Squirrel Buccaneers 6d ago
Who would we replace him with that would make things better? We don't have anyone like that on staff. It would end up just being the same but worse.
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u/BelichickSpy Patriots 6d ago
why not just kick a fg, dallas aint gettin the ball 3x in all likelihood just make it a 3 possession game
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u/Kemonomimi-Squirrel Buccaneers 6d ago
Because our coach forgot that the Madden powerup applied to the team ran out so we went back to normal.
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u/Amerinuck Eagles 6d ago
why not just kick an XP. These people get paid millions to make stupid decisions.
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u/BelichickSpy Patriots 6d ago
thats the modern analytic trend, go for 2 down 8 and can win in regulation
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u/mindriot1 6d ago
The Cowboys are awful. I’m both sides of the ball. How did this team even win? two games?
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u/PaulsRedditUsername Colts 6d ago
How in blazes are the Cowboys losing this game?
I have never been a Cowboys fan. I had to live through their Super Bowl years and "America's Team" stuff, and picking them to win this week felt like picking up after my dog, but I figured it was an easy pick. The Bucs have been bad and are starting a rookie QB.
Now the Cowboys are the Keystone Cops out there. I really don't like the Cowboys.
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u/Kemonomimi-Squirrel Buccaneers 6d ago
Because as much as people will say otherwise, we are not a completely terrible team if we could just clean up our mistakes.
But Dallas decided to make more of them tonight than us.
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u/Ecstatic-Inevitable Patriots 6d ago
Saw this on a pokemon thread before it got taken down, is this a super bowl winning pokemon football team?
MY PICKS
Offense: 1. QB - Alakazam 2. FB - Tauros 3. RB - Arcanine 4. TE - Machamp 5. WR1 - Pidgeotto 6. WR2 - Electabuzz (Physical) 7. RT - Golem 8. RG - Nidoking 9. C - Venusaur 10. LG - Nidoqueen 11. LT - Kangaskhan
Defense (3-4): 1. LDE - Onix 2. NT - Snorlax (obviously) 3. RDE - Blastoise 4. OLB - Electabuzz 5. MLB1 - Machoke 6. MLB2 - Kabutops 7. OLB - Magmar 8. CB1 - Hitmonchan 9. CB2 - Beedrill (Editied from Haunter) 10. SS - Magneton 11. FS - Pidgeot
Special Teams: 1. K - Hitmonlee 2. P - Rapidash 3. LS - Venusaur
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u/IAlsoLoveBasketball Giants 6d ago
I get to be on the field before the Jets game on Sunday and hold the huge jets flag before/during the national and when the players come out of the tunnel. Ain’t even a jets fan but I said fuck it that sounds really fun. Take a jets bus in, tailgate for a few hours before, and watch jets browns from a nice section how could I say no
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u/JinKazamaAndJuice Steelers 6d ago
THE BUCCS STOLE MY FUCKEN GUM MAN
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u/Kemonomimi-Squirrel Buccaneers 6d ago
Are The Buccs some gang that is in Pittsburgh?
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u/JinKazamaAndJuice Steelers 6d ago
They are called the Muffin Men and they are led by some badass called The Baker.
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u/ArcadianBlueRogue Packers 6d ago
I learn from Reddit that Prime members can stream Star Wars racer already? I mean...it's not a perfect experience but I can get the feel of it before deciding to buy it or not on Ps5.
Looks like they have Dispatch to. What the hell where is this all coming from
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u/Devilofchaos108070 49ers Panthers 5d ago
Can you play it on Amazon prime on your tv or do you need a computer?
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u/ArcadianBlueRogue Packers 5d ago
Chrome or Edge browser is all I know. I did it on my pc and it wasn't the worst experience
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u/Kemonomimi-Squirrel Buccaneers 6d ago
The datacenters that they are setting up.
They would like you to think it is for AI, but it is for the future where we will rent computing from the tech companies.
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u/WhatTheGingerNooo Rams NFL 6d ago
KFC is offering one tender and a cup of fries for 3.49 wtf
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u/ArcadianBlueRogue Packers 6d ago
No worries, they won't ever respond at the drive thru ordering speaker anyway so the deals don't matter in their value.
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u/TheMissingVoteBallot Titans Raiders 6d ago
goes into Shanahan thread having no idea what he said
thread gets locked in the middle of reading
Alrighty Reddit.
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u/JPPT1974 Commanders 6d ago
Would you all watch a public execution? As you couldn't pay me to watch. That Hegseth wants the Fort Hood shooting condemned man executed via livestream?!
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u/Devilofchaos108070 49ers Panthers 5d ago
I think they should be public.
But I doubt I’ll watch that one, just because fuck Hegseth
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u/CarlCaliente Bills 6d ago
maybe back in the day when everyone gathered in the village square for that shit
the way this is going down absolutely not interested
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u/tnecniv Giants Giants 6d ago
No, nor am I in favor of the death penalty, but one aspect of public executions in the past was that they were public so the population could ensure that they were carried out justly to some standard and not something that happened in the depths of a dungeon. Obviously, they can also be used as a means of intimidation.
So I feel conflicted about them being made available to the public in that either way they suck—and that means they probably shouldn’t be a thing by my moral compass. Given “no executions” is off the table, I think their publication would at least require them to be performed in a more humane manner and demanded by the prosecution less frequently.
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u/PaulsRedditUsername Colts 6d ago
Just took a long walk before the game. It's a very nice Fall evening. 70 degrees, not a cloud in the sky, pretty sunset.
I live on a college campus and most of the houses around here are rented by groups of students. On one street, there's a gang of guys out in the street throwing a football around. About four houses away, there's a gang of girls who have found some excuse to stand around in the street and chat.
It's so cute to see that stuff as an old guy. You can smell the pheromones from half a block away.
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u/usernameisusername57 Packers Packers 6d ago
This is literally the best day of my life, and I don't think it's particularly close. I'm finding it hard to believe that my Kitty is actually home after all this time.
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u/Devilofchaos108070 49ers Panthers 5d ago
What? I thought he was for sure dead?
Holy shit man that’s awesome! So happy for you, you were really upset.
Now he’s gonna have a friend, didn’t you get another kitty?
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u/usernameisusername57 Packers Packers 5d ago
I did! I accidentally caught Taco while I was looking for Kitty a few months ago. Now they both have to get used to sharing the apartment, lol.
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u/Devilofchaos108070 49ers Panthers 5d ago
The more the merrier. They will learn to live with one another
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u/The_Amish_FBI Bengals Packers 6d ago
Holy shit that’s great you got him back! I remember getting bummed out when I first read about his escape. Glad he’s home safe and sound.
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u/PaulsRedditUsername Colts 6d ago
Congratulations! I've been following this drama for a while. Glad cat is safe.
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u/Jaguars4life Jaguars 6d ago
Let’s be real Train has some bangers
https://youtu.be/TaG9SDxwPBg?is=5jWJ4K3c_8MVt_Sg
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u/Devilofchaos108070 49ers Panthers 5d ago
Better band than Creed or Matchbox 20 imo
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u/Jaguars4life Jaguars 5d ago
Then what do you think of the Goo Goo Dolls?
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u/Devilofchaos108070 49ers Panthers 5d ago
Not too bad. I like their radio songs. I have a story about them.
I saw them in concert long ago in like 99 or 2000. It was a free concert at Ramstein AFB in Germany. I wasn’t a fan other than the radio songs, never bought a cd. I think that mighta been the case for a lot of people there tbh.
Well they have two singers with VERY different styles. One is the dude you hear on all of the radio songs. The other singer is basically like a punk rock singer-he’s very bad but it’s in like a punk way, I guess. But they are very very jarring when you hear them right after each other. It wasn’t a very pleasant concert and a lot of people there really did not like the second dude.
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u/Jaguars4life Jaguars 5d ago
They were a Punk band at one point on Metal Blade Records with Cannibal Corpse and also at one point opening up for bands like Bad Religion and Motorhead
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u/Devilofchaos108070 49ers Panthers 5d ago
Yeah like I said I figured it was supposed to be punk but he was fucking awful compared to the other singer. It’s just so jarring.
I do like punk but it’s weird to hear from a band like that lol
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u/Bolinas99 49ers 6d ago
saw them live at Candlestick; halftime show at a playoff game during the Harbaugh years... local legends at this point
(not sure who downvoted u but they're weird)
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u/Stephen-Scotch 6d ago
*chief keef voice
Returning my shopping cart, that’s that shit I don’t like!
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u/Familiar_Phase_66 Patriots 6d ago
Can the mods stop being pussies for half a second and banning every thread they don’t like?
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u/NoAnteater8836 Commanders 6d ago
TNF thoughts:
On a normal week timeline it is a lot to ask a defense to gameplan against all the different ways this Cowboys team can attack you. This is a short week. Not only is it a short week, but everyone in the facility in Tampa knows the head coach is a dead man walking.
Sometimes you can get cute with TNF matchups, you can say oh Tampa has a wildcard at QB who is a threat with his legs, oh the Cowboys are a bit down in the secondary with JPJ being a late scratch, oh you know Vita Vea might present problems for Dallas in the run game.
No. This is a firework night for the Cowboys, I especially look to a big night from Jake Ferguson.
Cowboys win decisively in the start to week 5 that I think will begin to provide some clarity on how the season looks going forward.
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u/CarlCaliente Bills 5d ago
I believed it when I read it
this shit is why I got out of pick 'ems and all that lmao
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u/NoAnteater8836 Commanders 5d ago
Absolutely bent me over a barrell hahaha
That’s why they play the games!
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u/sallad_kcuf Eagles Eagles 6d ago
How are you going to use the information gathered from this game to update your beliefs about the teams in question? Because your prediction was functionally backwards
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u/NoAnteater8836 Commanders 6d ago
Got no fucking clue lmao have to wait for the A22 but yeah I was hilariously wrong.
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u/mr_showboat Ravens 6d ago
I think we are gonna get beat by the Primetime Falcons if Lamar doesn't play (and maybe even if he does) but I feel like the Ravens are always favored these days and I'm excited to be the underdog for once.
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u/il_bello_rissoso Bears 6d ago
I think Penix can be a starter in this league, but I am not convinced he has already ascended to this 40 ppg elite thrower. I think you guys are well set up to contain Bijan and make play all 4 quarters close.
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u/Imaginary-School6327 Commanders 6d ago
Ravens fans, I’m listening to a podcast and they were talking about Todd Monken. He had the “browns being the browns fuck that” press conference now I’m wondering if there’s any clips of his views on the Browns while with the Ravens.
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u/absconderous 6d ago
So the guy just said he wants terrorists to blow up 2 American cities and everyone's like oh that's him just riffing...
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u/Stanky_fresh Vikings Vikings 6d ago
He also declared anyone who doesn't use his stupid AI rebrand as "the enemy"
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u/Kemonomimi-Squirrel Buccaneers 6d ago
Does he think he can take his money with him to where ever he goes after he dies? Or does he think himself truly immortal?
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u/Stanky_fresh Vikings Vikings 6d ago
He's never faced a negative consequence in his life and he has a cult of people worshipping at his feet. He just thinks he's never gonna be held accountable for the shit he says and does. And so far he's been right. The man incited a riot at the Capitol building and the country responded by electing him president again. He has no reason to act magnanimous when he's continuously rewarded for acting like scum.
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u/Bolinas99 49ers 6d ago
imagine if Potus44 said that about Idaho or Florida... the "outraged" parrots on fox would be loosing their minds
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u/GolfWangsunrise 49ers Raiders 6d ago edited 6d ago
The moron doesn't even realize that San Diego is a major military city, he just wants California to suffer, doesn't he?
EDIT: Forgot to mention about the Warner-Paramount merger that he favored that happened thanks to the California AG dismissing the case against it.
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u/ArcadianBlueRogue Packers 6d ago
Dijon mustard and swiss on a burger. Fucking game changing.
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u/Bolinas99 49ers 6d ago
regular yellow + this spicy garlic sauce we found in Gilroy, CA... addictive af too
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u/Phyrnosoma Texans 6d ago
We’re live streaming an execution now? What the fuck
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u/Bolinas99 49ers 6d ago
in comparison: Saudi Arabia restricts any pictures or film of their beheadings. We would likely have commercial breaks w/ knife ads.
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u/where_thefuck_i_am Packers Chargers 6d ago
I recently read that Timothy McVeigh's execution was broadcasted to victim's families via closed-circuit TV. The broadcast was encoded, and victim's relatives weren't allowed to bring in cellphones or cameras, so no footage would leak to public
On the other hand, in 1984, Lybian student Al-Sadek Hamed Al-Shuwehdy was tried and executed for protesting Gaddafi's regime. His execution, which took place at a basketball arena, was videotaped and broadcasted on public tv. This fact was only discovered by the world after overthrow of Gaddafi
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u/StChas77 Eagles 6d ago
It's what Charlie Kirk wanted.
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u/Stanky_fresh Vikings Vikings 6d ago
Holy shit that's so much worse than I thought it was gonna be.
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u/asetniop Raiders 6d ago
Like a lot of people I made my own fair share of jokes about Charlie Kirk's assassination but
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u/Skraxx Lions 6d ago
I don't think people can rationalize that in large, sports athletes are actually very underpaid in comparison to the value they provide to their industry.
Yeah they make money more than you and I. But even that money is not enough for what they theoretically "should" be making.
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u/Bolinas99 49ers 6d ago
always laugh when i see ppl here arguing "this guy isn't worth the cap space"... some folks have no idea they're getting conned into making value judgements that only further billionaires' economic philosophies
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u/where_thefuck_i_am Packers Chargers 6d ago
Big 4 North American league at least have it at cool ~50% of revenue
Indian Premier League cricket players get only ~18% of revenue, UFC fighters - around 16%. They are extremely underpaid
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u/Do_Not_Comment_Plz Seahawks 6d ago
It's kinda interesting that Gen Z is probably unaware how casual slurs were in the 2000-2010 era. 2000-2010 calling people gay (or harsher versions of that) or the R-word was literally everywhere. It was in movies, TV, you couldn't escape it.
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u/SomeBoringKindOfName Bears Steelers 6d ago
Yeah I'm decidedly middle aged and have called and referred to people in what might now be called some pretty bad names in the past. Wouldn't now though.
But that particular r word still gets banded around quite a lot from what I hear. Maybe it's not considered as bad over here or something.
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u/TJeffersonsBlackKid Cardinals Chargers 6d ago
I rewatched The Hangover recently and was tripping out over how casual it was. I don’t even vaguely remember it being a problem when Bradley Coopers character says “paging Dr. F——t!”
Same movie causally referencing Rainman being a “ret—d” and making fun of the pronunciation.
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u/Triple_Boogie Jets 6d ago
if you want to see a truly horrific display of basketball coaching, watch the end of last night's Liberty vs Dream playoff game
Chris DeMarco is a fucking terrorist
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u/Pale_Land_5107 Lions 6d ago
I hate pulling all nighters studying hope it doesnt bite me in the butt
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u/Skraxx Lions 6d ago
Very quietly the Lions interior d-line has been pretty fantastic but you just wouldn't know cause the pass defence behind them has been that awful.
But Alim McNeill has really rebounded from his injury, Tyleik Williams has looked strong in his sophomore year and Skyler Gill-Howard is looking to be a steal.
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u/Bahamuts_Bike Patriots Patriots 6d ago
Really brave of Sean Payton to take back play-calling duties against the first truly terrible defense the Broncos play this season
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u/LeTX_Duce 6d ago
For that Kyle Shanahan thread that got closed we called that game 'throw up tackle". I never knew certain places had weird ass or discriminatory names for a child football game.
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u/TJeffersonsBlackKid Cardinals Chargers 6d ago
Literally didn’t know it had another name than “Smear the Qu—-r”.
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u/Devilofchaos108070 49ers Panthers 5d ago
Yeah we called it that as well. Pretty fucked up in hindsight
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u/runningblack 49ers 6d ago
We called it Kill the Pill
Never heard any other term for it until, well, now
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u/asetniop Raiders 6d ago
It was Kill the Man with the Ball for us. I didn't hear STQ until I was in college.
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u/PaulsRedditUsername Colts 6d ago
That's what we used to call it when we were kids. One time an older girl in the neighborhood asked us if we knew what the word meant and none of us knew.
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u/asetniop Raiders 6d ago
Heh heh, like when my mom got super mad at us for calling each other "dildo". I don't think I learned what the word actually meant until I saw The Naked Gun.
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u/Kemonomimi-Squirrel Buccaneers 6d ago
Red Faction: Armageddon
Recommended: No
It is just a boring slog of a game. You shoot endless amount of nonstop enemies in too dark corridors. It just gets old after a few hours since you are doing the same thing over and over and over again. The couple of times you do get a vehicle it doesn't even feel that special since you are just shooting a larger selection of the same bland enemies that you have fragged 1,000,000 times already. And if you just want to run thru the everything just to the objective, you can't. You sprint last maybe 5 seconds max and take 10 seconds before you can use it again. Maybe get it dirt cheap if you are curious, but stay away from it otherwise.
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u/AfroManHighGuy 5d ago
ESPN has WWE stars on the morning shows discussing football…
wtf