Saturday, January 31, 2026

This Epstein thing could end up an existential problem for the NFL...

Justice Department .PDFs:

  • A victim's diary shows that Joe Gibbs and Dan Snyder were Epstein clients. 
  • Woody Johnson is at least in the orbit of Epstein.  Moderators at Reddit are still approving that post, as of my time of typing.
  • Russell Wilson withheld his buying of one of Epstein's planes in 2019 until he signed a new contract with the Seahawks, thinking it might hurt his widdle reputation. 

Super Bowl ICE: The plot SIGNIFICANTLY thickens...

As Brock Huard said:

"Well, well, well...."

We have two further juicy pieces of information surrounding the reports that the Seahawks will be going up for sale after the Super Bowl.

First, the current owners disown the report.

Second, however, appears to be far more spicy, and I'll let Brock Huard state it outright:

That Robert Kraft, through an apparent network of his contacts within the league (and, given his ties to Donald Trump, would that be one ounce of a fucking surprise?), either got wind or manufactured the story and is disseminating it himself to distract the Seahawks to gain a competitive advantage...

Seth Wickersham wrote a book on the Patriots dynasty and is part of that connected network.

The title of that book?

It's Better To Be Feared. 

The Blog Boycott of the 2026 Winter Transphobia Games

 So here we go again.

The two biggest sporting events of 2026, and, barring a tragic loss, this blog will have to boycott them both.

For the record, I have no problem with this decision.  (This post is about the first of the two.)

In the upcoming days, the _cisgender_ youth of the world are being called to Milan and Cortina, Italy, to take part in the Transphobia Games -- err, the Games of the XXVth Winter Olympiad.

Transgenders and anyone of Differences of Sexual Development need not apply in any way, shape, or form -- thank the International Transphobia Committee and the likes of Sebastian Coe.

People are going to learn the hard way about the realities of just how far things can go, and the true and only purposes of cisgender women's sports.

They number two:

1) To invoke Dred Scott and then eventually murder every transgender person in the United States.

2) The sexual gratification of men, especially White men in the United States.

It is abjectly no coincidence of any kind where this got it's traction -- the reinstallation of the Orange Fatfuck as President of the United States (alternately, as Piece of the Ultimate Shit), whose greatest fear, apparently, is grabbing a woman by the pussy and getting a long surprise.

It is also abjectly no coincidence of any kind that this has germinated through the United States Sexual Assault Committee, otherwise known as the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee.

* Diving
* Taekwondo
* Gymnastics
* Equestrian
* Swimming
* Track and Field
* Skiing and Snowboarding

A quick scan of the blog, pre-hiatus, shows these seven disciplines with coaches banned or up to and including the entire relevant sanctioning body put in court for no less than sexual trafficking of the athletes!

That's OK.  Trying to live the life you are, instead of the body you were born in, is apparently not.

So how many bigwigs with the USSAC or the corporate sponsors who are going to cream over every playing of the Star-Spangled Farce tried to get a piece and got a similar surprise?

Anyone?  Bueller??  Bueller???

Let's get right down to it.  I have friends in the transgender community.  They feel they are about to be rounded up by said Orange Piece of the Ultimate Shit.  This has made me angry enough, in part, to actually get a visit from the Secret Service middle-late last year.  The only reason I am still here is because they haven't been able to disprove my story or my understanding that I am not allowed to carry a gun after the Debbie Gibson incident.

It is at least one of those friends who has correctly ordered the boycott of the Olympic Games from even watching it here, much less anything else.  This will probably end up not unlike Sochi in that regard -- and the same can go for the Trump World Cup where The Sick Fuck is going to preside over (and, if anything is like what is indicated, rig for his own benefit) the FIFA 2026 World Cup.

And the reason is the rampant transphobia in the movement.

Oh, don't worry, conservative men of the world -- you get your way, the Olympics will go back to single-gender.  So will most other sports.

If you succeed in exterminating the transgenders, you will end up having to admit two things.

1) That women's sports only would then exist for the sexual gratification of men.  I forget the exact magazine, as just one of numerous examples, but, before the famous American-hosted FIFA Women's World Cup with Brandi Chastain, an article previewing the US Women's National Team had Chastain in it -- topless...  With two soccer balls in, shall we say, the strategic place.

2) That, once you remove all transgenderism from women's sport, every female sporting achievement will then go under suspicion, eventually rendering all women's sport about the same way the Canadian doctor told the Ben Johnson committee would happen to sprinting in track and field when he believed the 100 meter non-drugged human limit was 11 seconds, for men!  No one would watch.

I am reminded, as one example, of a youth swimmer in (if my memory serves) Utah.  I believe the girl was 14 when this happened.  She was far above and beyond the skill level of most of her competition, and people actively questioned whether she was female, even though it was clear she was cisgender female.

To actively eliminate all transgenderism from sport, on top of murdering all of them (which we know The Sick Fuck and his cult, including those within the IOC, want to have happen), you would them also have to require genetic testing of every female athlete, genital inspection (which will please the men doing the inspection to no particular end), AND an eventual limit to the amount of testosterone or strength hormone a female athlete could carry, even if cisgender.  (Which see the Williams sisters, who are still being blasted by many misogynistic bigots for supposedly being men.)

In short, the end of women's sports.

But if you listen to many of these White Right bigots, that's exactly the end they want.  Especially with the MAGA men, it is almost universal that the bigotry and transphobia are almost instantaneously followed with rampant misogyny.

Listen, fuckers, let me let you MAGA fucks in on some reality:

Everything that the transgender community is falsely accused of, I've also been accused of as a cisgender White man.  Yes, that includes trying to get in a women's locker room (the accusation finally got me banned completely off of a Wisconsin college campus, the 2025-26 Division III NCAA national football champion Wisconsin-River Falls -- the Gibson incident nullified my Wisconsin-Eau Claire degree of five years later and probably has me barred from that campus too).  That also includes false accusations of child molestation (including at least one that actually got a "Bear in the Air" against me in the city where I presently live).  

I could go on if you like.  But you're not willing to shoot me, why?  Because the only "crime" I committed was being an undesirable, rather than Powerful White Male Coach/Doctor/Sanctioning Body Piece Of Shit, etc.?

You're full of shit, so is the IOC.  And the price will be paid, sooner than later, because people are going to learn just how much female sporting achievement was done either by transgenders, persons of Differences of Sexual Development like Castor Semenya, or cisgender women and girls with enough testosterone to bring their achievements into question by the bigots and misogynists.

So boycott it is.

Friday, January 30, 2026

When are people going to learn that Epstein and high-level pedophilia are at the center of Americana?

I'm over on Reddit after being denied (under their NFL subreddit's rules -- someone else had posted it in the last half-hour as the ESPN news had just come out) about the potential sale of the Seattle Seahawks...

Lookie what I find...

  • The day after Robert Kraft was arrested for solicitation, etc. in that backwater Florida massage parlor whose owner has ties to Donald Trump (you know, that morning of the AFC Championship Game he was getting a rub-and-tug there before catching a flight to Kansas City), Epstein (in a text exchange) noted that there was another "past issue" that may come to ultimate light.  It has not, as of yet... 
  • The co-owner of the Philadelphia 76ers (and the man who the league went to to remove the stain of the Commanders ownership), Josh Harris, has YEARS of exchanges with Epstein, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer.
  • From a boycotted source but found on Reddit:  Steve Tisch, a co-owner of the Giants, had girls scouted for him from Epstein.  At least one was apparently from the Ukraine, according to the Justice Department.  The Justice Department, for 18 and up, actually has PDF copies of some of the communications, with relevant redacting. 

I'll just leave it at the question I pose above...  When are people going to learn that, for the elite, pedophilia is central to the American experience? 

This, from the same set of releases indicating that Bill Gates probably has STD's from pedophilia with Russian girls -- he apparently was trying to get medications for same to protect his wife, according to the records! 

EDIT TO ADD 6:20 PM PST 1/30/26:  Make it four owners.  David Tepper of the Carolina Panthers.

  • Department of Justice confirms that Epstein at least sought David Tepper for a September 2014 soiree which was also going to involve Bill Gates.  (.PDF

Super Bowl ICE: I think we have the actual answer on Seattle now...

I said on Sunday that I felt that the reason the NFL chose Seattle was it's cult-like fanbase, The 12th Man.

And that might be partially true.

But it has now been made apparent that we probably have the actual full answer:  ESPN sources have been told the Seahawks will be for sale after the Super Bowl.

Bingo. 

Super Bowl ICE: As Brian Tuohy says, no coincidences...

Another interesting stat from Pro Football Reference to show how screwed up this is:

Patriots:

  • Last two years before this one:  Both 4-13.
  • Last or second to last in points and yards the last two years.  Bottom five in point differential and turnovers in that timespan.
  • This year:  16-3, in the Super Bowl, second in points, third in yards, third in point differential, best in the league in yard differential.

Hmmmm... 

And yesterday, the State Department announced an official "Sports Diplomacy" partnership with the NFL.

Just...  saying... 

And, earlier in the week, "USA 250" patches on all Super Bowl uniforms for the 250th anniversary of the country. 

Thursday, January 29, 2026

Super Bowl ICE: Betting reports on the first week...

New England -4.5 has pretty much held across the board, although Fanatics Sportsbook, according to Vegas Insider, now has New England as a 5-point favorite with full -110 juice.

Latest reports from betting agencies indicate $1.76 billion will be bet on this farce, a record.  Some reports, however, counter this and believe that MAGA boycotts of the game will actually result in a year-over-year reduction in the handle.

Prediction markets -- which, unlike sportsbooks, are apparently legal in all states -- have become a matter of contention for sports leagues.  So much so that it has been announced that no prediction market ads will be made for Super Bowl LX.

Last year, according to ESPN reports, no seven-figure bets were actually made for the Super Bowl.  Already, two (one for $2 million by Mattress Mack  and one for $1.2 million) on the Patriots have been reported.

Other ESPN notes:

  • Both teams were relative longshots to make the Super Bowl.  Partially indicative of the "It could be anyone's season" from the early-season advertising, partially probably indicative that the Patriots didn't really get started until MAGA started throwing a fit about Bad Bunny.  (Remember, the announcement came Sunday of Week Four, the Patriots were 120-1 for the title after starting the season 1-2.  They've lost one game since.)
  • The AFC is 8-3 against the number in the last 11 Super Bowls.
  • Underdogs have won the last three.
  • A Seahawks bettor has already won over a million dollars from the Seahawks making the Super Bowl.  He wins another $3 million if they win.
  • A bettor at Circa, in August, bet Seahawks over Patriots for $100.  He wins $310,000 if it finishes.
  • Indicative of the -4.5 probably holding:  Each team had a significant five-figure bet on the spread at +/-4.5 within seconds at Caesar's.

Wednesday, January 28, 2026

Has the NFL finally admitted it again?

Probably not.

But it's so good to see them twisting themselves into knots that Bill Belichick didn't get the first-ballot "knock" for the Hall of Fame.

Because there's only two stories that will fit:

The one they are telling you:  That it was done as revenge by the likes of Bill Pollian.

Or that it is an admission that the entire Patriots dynasty Belichick headed was as rigged and as fixed as Super Bowl LX is about to be for the Patriots. 

EDIT TO ADD 5 PM PST 1/28/26:  The Hall of Fame is investigating the voters who refused to put Belichick in.  (As well it should.  Make them answer as to why.  You might not like the answer!

Tuesday, January 27, 2026

I'll get to another blog boycott of the Winter Olympics after Super Bowl ICE, but...

Reports are indicating that ICE is going to have a security unit at the Milan-Cortano Winter Olympics.

What, so you can beat the shit out of any female athlete not woman enough to satisfy you? 

Monday, January 26, 2026

Hell just fucking froze over.

Someone suggested that soccer fans should not travel to the Trump Cup -- this year's FIFA World Cup.

Sepp...  Blatter...

Let that process. 

Sunday, January 25, 2026

Super Bowl ICE: And here comes the first two sucker Vegas bets...

I know I could probably call this "The ICE Bowl", but some might object to that from the Packers-Cowboys classic.

Anyway, we have the opening lines, and they are delicious if you are a conspiracy theorist like me:

Seattle -4.5 (it actually opened on ESPN's sportsbook at -3.5)

Money Line is New England +190. 

Super Bowl ICE: The Most Devoted Fan Cult vs. Government Propaganda

I guess it's really no surprise, after there really is no point on which of the two NFC teams will lose to New England, that the NFC champion is the biggest fan cult of the entire NFL:  The 12th Man.

No matter.

Again, the announcement of Bad Bunny was made the Sunday of Week 4.  The Patriots were 2-2 at that point.  They've lost one game since.  Do not believe, with the ever increasing ICE vise on this nation, that is any degree of a coincidence. 

And, apparently, we have coparticipation...

I want you to watch the play at 41 seconds of this video -- the blocked field goal that sealed New England's win...

Tell me that long-snapper wasn't given instruction to "completely whiff the block"... 

The snow provided the cover.

Barring much short of a murder (and even THAT might get covered under these circumstances by the decision-makers), your Super Bowl LX Champions, the New England Patriots.

Here's the key thought:  The NFL announced Bad Bunny as the Super Bowl LX halftime show September 28th -- the Sunday of Week 4.

That day, the Patriots defeated the Panthers 42-13 to go to 2-2.

They've lost one game since. 

Been a bit, but let me at least get some prep in for today...

Ah, real life...  Gotta love it...

Latest word is Orange Shithead does not want to go to the Super Bowl - he's not only got an objection with Bad Bunny, but he's also got one with Green Day.  Given recent events (I might speak of them this week -- lots more "real life" this week!), I'm putting a very real over-under that ICE shoots Bad Bunny at the halftime to make a point...

The NFL truly marketed "chaos" last weekend -- I should know, I'm on their mailing list and I don't remember why.

If there's one thing this season has done, it has put the four most-pushed (read: "best") at the top.

If there's another I think they've done, they're putting their eggs in the New England basket.

Last week is going to paint Denver as the bad guys.  Especially given how Trump is trying to paint ICE and the like as "Patriots", it is becoming more obvious by the hour which team he demands win.  The NFC makes little to no difference.

And that's before we get to ties with Robert Kraft and the like... 

Sunday, January 18, 2026

I was wrong about Chicago, but that now means...

... the league has no Plan B to satisfy the Orange Fatfuck.

It's New England, and the whole riot yesterday was to place New England as the babyfaces in next Sunday's AFC Championship Game.


Well well... Is CJ Stroud taking care of business?

(Writing this partially just after halftime.  If the Texans win this, you never see it...)

Well, do we have our answer as to how Patriots Are Champions (even if they beat the shit out of their girlfriends like Donald Trump does his wife Ivanka).

CJ Stroud has thrown four interceptions in the first half of a 21-10 halftime deficit for his Texans to the Patriots.

Let's pull up the video, courtesy NFL Interceptions:

Here's the first one.  Threw it only where the defender could get it.

Second one's a Pick Six and it's blatant:

Third one is an overthrow through the hands, so it looks like the receiver probably "helped" on this one:

With a side of ejection-level spearing on the hit.

And here's the fourth -- covered man, never should've thrown the ball, and he's lucky that wasn't caught in stride or that's a Pick Six too:

And yep, in the rain, the second half was never an issue.  Patriots win, 28-16.

CJ Stroud threw the game, probably because they couldn't go through with another obvious officiating problem with the league rapidly running out of options.   

Saturday, January 17, 2026

Another one from the Bills game that has people talking:

I think I now know why I couldn't embed those:  Account was suspended for saying the ICE shooter shouldn't get the Medal of Honor, but a noose around his neck instead.

Anyway, upon reinstatement after another week off, ANOTHER PLAY from the Bills-Broncos farce.

This is the play which ended Buffalo's one overtime possession.  Watch carefully.

Here's the worst part of this whole exercise:  There's a good chance, under the wording of The Catch Rule, that the call IS correct.

Now, we know the reality of The Catch Rule:  A catch is a play result which will benefit the team the NFL wants to win.

But, under "Survive The Ground", he does not survive the ground with the ball -- the Broncos defender does.

But there's the classic "but to the but":  Cooks is down by contact with the ball and rolls over before McMillan takes the ball out.

Under "Survive The Ground", he is down by contact with possession but no catch. 

So what then?  Incomplete?

Well, I think it's now almost clear it's New England in the AFC...

After the game today, announced that Bo Nix is out for the playoffs with an ankle.

After Further Review: Bills Get Out Of The Way

People are talking about how bad the calls were to get the Broncos the win over the Bills today.

The Bills threw the game to get out of the way -- the only remaining question in my mind is whether it was out of the way of Denver or of New England.

This was the first call.  Note:  There was also a correct Roughing The Passer call declined on the same play.  At best, this was a blatant defensive hold on the Bills as well, no matter what Bills fans or others are saying.  (Can't embed this for some reason.  Here's the link to the video.) 

This was the second.  And if you want to talk consistency, the question then comes down to ensuring the game is scripted for overtime and then a Denver win -- which it was.

And then a flagrant ejectable unsportsmanlike conduct on top of it. 

And then watch the play on the right here.  That was to deny a DPI which would've set the Bills up for a winning touchdown. 

Rigged, Scripted, Thrown.  Thank you for watching another NFL Scripted Playoff Production. 


Thursday, January 15, 2026

It's legal when the leagues do it -- it's not legal when the players do it...

And the players, even current ones, are too stupid to see this.

20 players in the last three seasons (including four that have played in the last WEEK!) are among almost 40 people indicted today in Federal court on sports bribery and match fixing.

The four include the preseason Conference USA player of the year -- the player forecast to be the best player in the conference THIS SEASON, Keenesaw State's Simeon Cottle, who has been thrown off the team.

None of the alleged incidents involve games of this college basketball season, but at least 20 players are said to have thrown games in the last two before it. 

The price is alleged to be $10,000-$30,000 per game to throw the games. 

Saturday, January 10, 2026

Anybody still wanna believe these games aren't scripted?

TWENTY-FIVE IN THE FOURTH for the Bears to beat the Packers.

I told you about three or four weeks ago -- if there's a political angle, and it's the only one the NFC has left now (with the three liberal West Coast cities -- after another scripted game to keep Carolina close against the Rams earlier, plus Philadelphia), it's Chicago to move the stadium into conservative Indiana. 

Wild Card Weekend Political Matchups

Gonna do the Politicals a little differently this week.

I'm going to take the six matchups and give who I think the NFL wants to win.

Saturday:

Rams-Carolina:

There is little doubt that the three best teams in the NFC this year are all in the same division.

They also all have the same problem politically:  West Coast, too liberal for the likings of the decision-makers. 

The problem with this game is that Carolina, at 8-9, has no business in the playoffs.  I would not be 100% surprised if Carolina wins it -- and it would show that the NFL does not want a Liberal West Coast city team in the Super Bowl -- but I'm 55-45 it'll be LA on the basis of "They Just Can't..."

Green Bay-Chicago:

They manipulated this matchup nicely, and The Oldest Rivalry in the NFL gets renewed in the playoffs again.

I do think Chicago is the NFC political choice.  Largely because of the desire to move the stadium to more-conservative Indiana.  As a result, I think they put the Packers out of their misery here -- and five losses in a row to end the season is going to raise some very real questions in Packer Country.  Probably not on the quarterback or huge acquisition (both went down with injuries late in the season).

This one goes to the Bears, who still suck.  Sorry, Tom Grossi.

Sunday:

Buffalo-Jacksonville:

I have invoked the Race Card a number of times in this political season.  I do believe the NFL wants a White quarterback to lead a Patriotic victory (be it the Patriots or not) for the Super Bowl, especially if Bad Bunny gets arrested or shot at halftime!

The only thing I think Jacksonville has going for it is being in Florida.  Other than that, this looks to be one for the road team here.  I'll take Buffalo politically.

49ers-Philadelphia:

Another manipulated matchup with Philadelphia's refusal to understand reality in Week 18.

That said, I don't think the NFL really cares which team wins this game.  Both are highly politically flawed, it is a great marquee matchup for the Sunday mid-afternoon slot...  But I don't think the NFL really cares which team wins.

LA Chargers-New England:

Easiest call of the weekend.  Patriots.

Monday:

Houston-Pittsburgh:

Look for Refball for COVIDIOT-8, one of the loudest MAGA voices in the league.  Pittsburgh.  The Bullshit won't be that Real, but I do see them winning this one.

Sunday, January 4, 2026

Had a feeling the Justin Tucker thing would rear it's ugly head...

Just didn't think it would do it so obviously.

This set up right like the old NFL script:

  • A listless 13-10 after three quarters -- 27 in the fourth.
  • Touchdown passes of 50 and 64 yards for Lamar Jackson put the Steelers behind the 8-ball twice.  Never mind that Jackson only had about 120 yards passing otherwise.
  • Steelers get the ball back, down four, so they must score a touchdown in 2:20 with no timeouts.
  • They do so -- BUT they miss the extra point, so a Ravens field goal wins the game, not ties it.
  • And wouldn't you know it...  Last play of the regular season is for the division title from 44 yards (never mind that they had the timeouts to manipulate the clock for at least one shot at the end zone, or for Derrick Henry to take a few yards off the kick).
  • This was the result, from Justin Tucker's replacement, Tyler Loop...
He Vanderjagts it.  And just as intentionally.

And Sunday of Week 18...

  • The Packers were taking no chances.  Third quarterback Clayton Tune did the honors today, and the Packers fell 13-3 to Minnesota, but, even with four losses in a row, they're in the playoffs as the 7.
  • Jacksonville now gets to wait for Denver and New England.  They routed Tennessee 41-7.
  • Houston holds it's position in the wild-card chase with a 38-30 win over Indianapolis.
  • And Carolina is back in the playoffs at 8-9, winning the three-way tiebreaker after Atlanta joined it with a 19-17 win over New Orleans, a Saints turnover with about three minutes left dooming Tampa Bay. 

And now at halftime... 

  • Detroit is leading Chicago 13-0.
  • Washington is leading Philadelphia 10-7 -- both on the road.  Scores hold, it'll be as if Chicago had won -- Chicago the 2, Philly the 3, Chicago faces the Packers.   
  • Rams are up 16-6 on the Cardinals. Rams get the #5 if they win, the #6 to San Francisco's #5 if they lose.   
  • Denver is up 10-3 on the Chargers.  Denver gets the #1 if they win.   
  • New England is 17-10 up on Miami.
  • Buffalo is 21-0 up on the Jets.  Scores hold, it's Houston, then Buffalo, then the Chargers for the three AFC wildcards.

And here are the results...  Yeah, it's a liveblog no one will read, but...

  • Chicago loses to Detroit, 19-16, on a last-minute field goal.  After, in rapid succession, going from 16-0 down 16-16 in the fourth quarter.
  • Rams win 37-20.  They're the #5, San Francisco the #6 -- The Rams go to Carolina next week.  
  • New England destroys Miami.
  • Buffalo destroys the Jets.
  • But I think we have a live one here in Philadelphia.  So you either get to face a badly-undermanned Green Bay team, or you face (The Rams, at the beginning of the day, or) San Francisco.
  • So you start Tanner McKee as your quarterback at home against the Commanders, and you lose 24-17.
  • That means Philadelphia gets San Francisco and the Bears get Green Bay -- two wildly superior matchups to the NFL than if you invert the wildcard teams.
  • And Denver basically neuters San Diego. 

So:

Denver and Seattle are the #1s.

NFC:

Green Bay at Chicago

San Francisco at Philadelphia

LA Rams at Carolina

AFC:

LA Chargers at New England

Buffalo at Jacksonville

Houston at the Pittsburgh/Baltimore winner tonight 

Saturday, January 3, 2026

2025 NFL Week 16 and 17 Discipline Blotter

Didn't get around to Gameday Accountability last week, so scroll to the proper week if you see this before next season.

Week 16:

  • 27 fines, along with the two suspensions.
  • Tyler Steen of the Eagles got dinged twice, once for striking/kicking/kneeing, and the second for throwing a punch.  Both during a fourth-quarter brawl after an Eagles touchdown.
  • Javon Kinlaw was one of four Commanders to get fined for the same incident.  Steen and Kinlaw were both ejected for the incident.  Being his fourth unsportsmanlike conduct foul in a year or so, and six weeks after getting dinged almost $30,000 for contact with an official, Kinlaw drew the largest fine of the incident, $20,288.
  • Quan Martin was also ejected and fined.
  • Will Harris and Mike Sainristil for the Commanders were also fined for the same incident.  All those fines have to be matched by the team at this point.
  • Alex Singleton of the Broncos, however, drew the largest fine -- helmet foul, $23,186.
  • Seven unsportsmanlike conduct fines.
  • Austin Booker of the Bears was fined, but only $5,818, for taking out Jordan Love.  He was actually fined twice for roughing Love, both for the same amount.  His fines are that low because his declared salary was about three-quarters of a million dollars this season. 

Week 17:

  • 25 fines.
  • Azeez Al-Shaair got $23,186 for a helmet foul.
  • So did Alontae Taylor of the Saints -- those were the two largest fines of the week. 
  • Five conduct fouls, including one for a vulgar act in a celebration.  That drew Tyler Nubin of the Giants slightly more than a $10,000 fine.

NFL stuff after Saturday's games...

  • NFC South:  Well, a quirk has happened.  First off, 8-9 is going to win the division.  Hopefully this will motivate a change -- that an extra wildcard goes in (if they're over .500) if a division winner is under .500.
  • The problem is that, with that, Atlanta enters into the equation, kind of...  Atlanta and New Orleans play on Sunday.  A game which was supposed to be irrelevant, so it's in the early slot.  But if Atlanta wins, then Carolina, due to a three-way tiebreaker, still wins the playoff spot.  A Saints win, and Tampa does.

And then there's the #1 seed...

  • Seattle.  Dominant win over the 49ers tonight in the rain and muck.  So they are the #1.
  • The Rams can now be the #5 with a win over Arizona.

So here's how the NFC stands:

  1. Seattle, NFC WEST CHAMPIONS, HOME-FIELD THROUGHOUT THE NFC PLAYOFFS, POSITION LOCKED.
  2. Chicago, NFC NORTH CHAMPIONS.  Win, and they lock the #2 and a date with Green Bay.
  3. Philadelphia, NFC EAST CHAMPIONS.  Win and Chicago loses, they host Green Bay.  I don't count on it, I think the league wants a third Bears-Packers game. 
  4. See above for the NFC South.  Carolina if Atlanta wins, Tampa Bay if New Orleans does.
  5. San Francisco.  Gets the #5 if the Rams lose.
  6. LA Rams.  Gets the #5 if they win.
  7. Green Bay, POSITION LOCKED.  Will face either Chicago or Philadelphia.

And the AFC:

  1. Denver.  AFC WEST CHAMPIONS.  Win, and they are the #1.  Lose, and then definitely New England and Jacksonville need to as well. 
  2. New England.  AFC EAST CHAMPIONS.  Win and Denver loses, they are the #1.  They cannot be the #1 if they lose.  Denver is in front of them in line.
  3. Jacksonville.  A loss and a Houston win and Houston wins the division.  A win and losses by Denver and New England, and the AFC road goes through Jacksonville.
  4. The Pittsburgh-Baltimore winner Sunday night is the AFC North Champion and slots here.
  5. Houston, by HTH sweep.  A win and a Jacksonville loss, and they are AFC South Champions and the #3.  Probably have to win, though, because of the other two 11-5s.
  6. LA Chargers, common games situation over Buffalo.  Must win and have Houston lose to improve position.
  7. Buffalo.  Loses both tiebreakers, so must win and have at least one of the Chargers and Texans lose to improve position.