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Under normal circumstances, this would be what we'd call a "dull" Monday Night Football game, the Saints at the Falcons. In the wake of the Ron Mexico business today, it is upgraded/downgraded to "insufferable."
Yep, it'll be all-Vick, all-the-time this evening, which is the sort of thing that happens when you have two below-average teams. Sure, we could make some sort of argument that the Saints need a win tonight to keep their playoff hopes alive, but no one's really buying that. We think they should just eliminate the middle man and put Roger Cossack in the booth for the whole game.
Anyway, yeah, football.
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Why couldn't this game have been in New Orleans? The potential for hilarious signs would have been off the charts.
Hey, at least he won't be serving his time in a Mexican jail...
Thanks folks, I'll be here all week. Remember to tip your waitress.
@Trot Nixons Hat: Because it needs to be in Atlanta, so all fourteen remaining Falcons fans can mourn together.
@RockYouLikeAnIracane: So if all of the Falcons fans are gone, can we expect a name change within the next year to something more dog friendly?
I care about this game only because of its fantasy implications... if Brees gets more than 14 points then I miss playoffs, but if not I'm in. So go Falcons.
I LOVE BASEBALL!!!
@Trot Nixons Hat: The Atlanta Hydrants?
In a related Vick note, the fans have been sentenced to 4 quarters of bad football.
@FiddlingWhileJimRomeBurns: The Atlanta Labradoodles?
@VTBen: I'm on the other side. I need Brees and Colston to kick in 24 points so I can advance in the playoffs.
Finally, the federal prison system has someone to play Cruella de Vil in their adaptation of "101 Dalmatians".
@Trot Nixons Hat:
I think the "Atlanta Heart Worm Medication" has a nice ring to it.
Yet, I still have a ve$ted intere$t in how well Roddy White plays tonight.
Can someone bring Jimmy Kimmel out of ESPN's doghouse, to play tonight?
@Trot Nixons Hat: Just put a liver treat in your hand and they will do anything you want them to.
@J-No: Even fight to the death?
Oh, yeah, that's the issue here...
SLOWEST. NEWSDAY. EVER.
@Trot Nixons Hat: Nah, more like follow you around, sit in one spot for a long period of time, and roll over on request.
It's a little known fact that the Saints were named after St. Bernards.
Yup, that joke was a real dog.
@J-No: Sounds like my cat. Except for the roll over part. Instead, he smacks me and demands food.
Since this could be a slow DUAN thread, I'll just say that I saw Springsteen tonight in Sweden (never seen him live before) and it was amazing. Four words, Boss fans: Jungleland during the encore. Wow.
Can we have someone else post more about what they need to happen fantasy-wise?
People, allow me to be conversational as I rarely am here.
I have an entire bottle of gin and am thinking about writing a comprehensive bowl preview to usurp whatever abortion we're treated to by Shanoff next week.
If I write it, where can I put it?
@Camp Tiger Claw: Contact the Deadon people and see if they will post it.
@katolesce: If you insist. Drew Brees needs to score 24 points for me.
Screw this game, more important is The Hills season finale.
@Camp Tiger Claw: Camp Tiger Claw, I will hereby offer you space on the Hoover Street Rag if you like. We can always use content. Just play nice with the marching bands.
@katolesce: Especially if it involves Lace.
Another bit of ESPN Comment Brilliance (about the 49er's fan who fell to his death):
For those who do not watch EPL soccer on Fox Soccer Channel, and I know there's a lot of you, I feel it is my duty to make you aware of this:
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There are so many things you could potentially do with this...
/threadjack (and a call to action)
Deadspin Commenters!!! We need you! ESPN.com has been having severe issues with posting PTI streaming to their website. This crap never works. We need to stand up for ourselves and have some fun in the process. I want to orchestrate a Bill Simmons Feb 2nd-type interwebs fiasco. Please go to this link: [sports.espn.go.com] and comment using your typical snarky deadspin wit. And let's stick to the MSM!!
/please?
/end threadjack
@Matt_T:
"Feel the rain on your skin! Spencer and Heidi having problems. LC eating some sushi. Let's drive our Range Rovers!"
Christ. I must really love my girlfriend.
@Matt_T: i...can't....wait....
@chilltown: That's one way to go about it. Instead, I would just suggest they ask all patrons to quit falling to their death. Maybe put it on the tickets. Something like "anyone caught falling to their death will be asked to leave."
@VTBen: Dude... that therezz the balls.
@chilltown: or just turn off gravity
@Yostal: I will check in around ten and let you know how it's going.
@J-No: I gotta post it somewhere sportsy. Your avatar is some fresh clean baseball goodness. Makes me wish it was April.
@Matt_T:
We don't even get the possible diversion of How I Met Your Mother, The Big Bang Theory, etc. here in Atlanta due to the MNF game being shown locally on the CBS afillate.
@Lizalicious: I bet they scripted a great finale.
@UkraineNotWeak: I'm boycotting the game by watching a movie. And boycotting talk radio for at least this week. I don't want to hear about Vick
@Camp Tiger Claw: We were talking about trades last Friday night when I was out and I switched back to my first love on Saturday. Just 11 weeks until pitchers and catchers report. Sigh.
I've decided that Vick's posse turned on him because he didn't go to Jared. They looked at those cheap ass Kay's Jeweler diamond ear studs and speed-dialed the district attorney. Serves him right.
/pawn of the media
@Camp Tiger Claw: I just got tickets to the Sox home opener (friend of a friend who works for the Sox), and boy am I pumped.
Also, today was a great day on Deadspin: from the Combudman to the return of the neckbeard to the Smorgasboard, I'm overloaded with funny.
@Matt_T: Ahh the Paris trip...where LC picked her nasty cokehead boyfriend OVER A FREE TRIP TO PARIS!!!
@chilltown: Sox home opener tickets?! Ummm, clearly for the whole Storming the Court crew?
@Camp Tiger Claw: This fark may make you feel better
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@Lizalicious: I may have watched the 2 hour recap of LC from Laguna to The Hills.
Hypothetically.
The Hills has nothing on Little People, Big World. Although I iniially thought this was an ESPN show following around the Gramatica brothers
@Matt_T:
Avoided Atlants sports radio all day because I didn't want to hear anything on Vick.
Hello, DUAN.
@Matt_T: Hypothetically, I may own every existing episode of Laguna on DVD. Minus the 3rd season.
@metschick: METSY.
@metschick: Long time no see! How are you.