There are no coincidences, Part I, II and III...

Brian Tuohy always puts that tagline (or at least used to) on the end of many of his commentaries on his website.

Yesterday and today, we got three good examples as to why...

Either the opening day of the NFL or the opening day of the $40/month ESPN/NFL+ package (which was yesterday), two men were arrested in Egypt yesterday and efforts made to close down the world's largest sports-piracy site, StreamEast. 

Also, ESPN shill Pat McAfee trying to shill for his new owners, as the fact that the seven hours of football where Every Touchdown Will Be Aired will no longer be commercial-free as of this season.  (NFL RedZone, and, trust me, fans are not happy. 

But then we get to the opening kickoff of tonight's first game, with the champion Eagles hosting the Cowboys, and not only have the Eagles lost Jalen Carter for probably Week 1 and 2 (disqualified from the game for spitting on Dak Prescott), but have lost Ben vanSumeren for the season due to a torn ACL on the play.

As of when I hit send, it's 17-14 Cowboys, the Eagles are driving, and no punts have been had for the entire first half. 

ETA:  Whoops.  Make that 21-17 Eagles with less than a minute to go in the first half.  The difference being the Cowboys were held to a field goal. 

Does Major League Baseball want to just leave Florida to Spring Training??

Sure sounds like it, if incidents like this are any indication.

Redditor attends what probably is going to be his last Tampa Bay Rays game.

He somehow comes into possession of the 40th home run of the season by Rays slugger Junior Camineros.

Security at the ballpark physically accosts the fan, demanding that the ball is now the property of MLB and the Rays (and I would not be surprised if that is the "answer" for all the big-money balls of the roid freaks of the 2000's) -- the fan isn't entitled to anything for it.

It finally escalates to the point that the next time the fan might be allowed in the ballpark is going to be some point next season.  Not only is the ball taken from him, he's banned six months after Florida Man Security physically attacks him.

No word on whether that clock actually stops in the offseason, but I think it's clear they might as well not bother letting him back in the stadium at all.

Well, we know the phraseology to that:  FUCK ROB MANFRED!!! 

And more evidence this ESPN deal is bad for football...

"Seven hours of commercial-free football..." is no longer commercial-free.

Pat McAfee announced today that part of the NFL-ownership of ESPN is going to be that the RedZone channel will now have full commercials.

One can only hope that the commercials will be spaced out (early in games, not during the classic "Witching Hour"), but that has to be doubtful.

Wonder what my former "friends" at the pirate site I used to drive up the wall about the games being rigged -- that is, until I found out that the main person behind Baked (as in 420'd) was a Trump supporter... -- are going to think about full ads in the RedZone coverage. 

More evidence the games are rigged...

So Belichick goes to UNC with a hot girlfriend and a new team.

Pretty much all new, and he's primetime on ABC at home against TCU.

I think we have an answer as to who made who here:  TCU ROFLStomped them 48-14. 

After two years off, it's time for a 2025-26 NFL Predictions Post

First off, a couple of things:

 

1) The NFL got caught red-handed for Super Bowl Week last year.

 

The NFL had to openly address the rigging of games on Super Bowl Week -- and it was, thence, no coincidence at all that the Eagles won one of the worst (and most lop-sided) Super Bowls in recent memory.

 

What basically became clear was the NFL got nailed for the last couple of years being so blatantly rigged for the Chiefs.  And, especially with last week's news of the Swift-Kelce engagement, only that the NFL got called on it's blatant pimping of the Chiefs to their faces finally got them to back off -- and the game which resulted showed that the Chiefs had no business in that Super Bowl in the first place.

 

And then there's Pigfucker and all that...  One of the reasons I am genuinely surprised the engagement took place.  Kelce, apparently, had little problem bending the knee upon command, which made me surprised that the wedding is still on.  Especially true with Swift showing her pussy...  (CAT), in telling the world she opposed the Pigfucker.

 

2) I have made no secret that ESPN has made itself to get into the business of college football -- and they may finally be willing to consummate the whole Penn State debacle into a national title this year...

 

... but that's not this post.

 

Whatever the result, I do get the idea there will be even more games than some years to pump money into the ESPN-NFL semi-merger.  This means more Cliffhangers and more games relevant late in the season.

 

I'd wager money I don't have that there could be more games decided late in the fourth quarter (you know, at least for the early games, that "Witching Hour" where the NFL rigs losses into wins and wins into losses...)...

 

Gets banned from Baked again...

Oops.  

On to the picks...

AFC: 

East:  The real question, to me, in the East is whether they can keep Tua on his feet the entire year.  Especially given the marriage back into college football, I could easily see them picking Tua and the Dolphins, if but only if they can keep him afloat.  I know everybody thinking about Buffalo, but you can't (which see Green Bay) keep only at some level for so long and not have people wondering.

Miami if Tua stays afloat, Buffalo if not.

North:  So that's where COVIDIOT-whatever his number is going to be this year landed.  And no, I can't blame the disgust of Urinating Tree -- not only for being such a self-centered idiot, but a supporter of Pigfucker and RFK Jr. as well.  This will probably be the most-pimped run of the year, with Rodgers and Lamar both in the same division.

Obviously, Rodgers won't be around long, but I do think Lamar takes it.

Ravens if Lamar can last the season, Pittsburgh if not.

South:  The two South divisions are just open jokes.

Race to 9.  Wins. Whoever gets there first, gets the division.  Jacksonville?

West:  Kansas City.  NEXT!! 

Wildcards, assuming health:  Buffalo, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati.

Over-under on Shedeur Frauders seeing the field:  Week 8.

NFC:

East:   All I know is that it won't be Dallas after they threw in the towel with the Micah Parsons dump.

Washington for the Pigfucker, the defending champs in Philly have to be a factor, and the Giants are just a joke.

Go with Philly with enough Tush Pushes to get there.

North:  Could, again, be the best division in football this year. But be careful of being a fan of the Packers or Lions.  Lions probably have the slight edge because, if the NFL "lets go" and lets the best team win, it's not in Green Bay.

Even with Parsons on the Packers, it's in Detroit.

South:  Tampa by default.

West:   Much of the NFC is a stinkeroo except for the North and East, when you look at it.

Probably the Rams by default.

Super Bowl:  I, too, like ESPN's one guy posted today, kinda like the Lions (best and best coached) vs. the Ravens (with Lamar), but serious looks have to be given to Washington (Trump) and Green Bay (rural, hence Trump) with Kansas City (The American Royal Wedding) in the AFC.

So Lions vs. Ravens. 

The Worldwide Leader in Snorts Is Now Part of the National Religion

What might be the far bigger story of the pair, in reality, of the two I speak about in my relaunch article is that, a month or two ago, the NFL announced a partnership with ESPN that finally consummates what started with the NFL's cancellation of ESPN's Playmakers drama that came a little bit too close to home.

The NFL now owns ESPN in truth and actuality.

Or at least 10% of it.

In exchange for a whale of an amount of money, ESPN is now 10% owned by the NFL -- a fact which really should surprise nobody.

In fact, one of a number of launch promotions of the new partnership will allow, the NFL will allow their Redzone channel, the NFL Network, and ESPN to team up for forty dollars a month.

(Yay.  More Pay-TV.  Probably would pirate the shit if I didn't find out my main pirate source's main administrator wasn't a flaming Trumpie.)

(Probably lots to talk about about THAT too...)

But this partnership also means that the NFL and college football can work even closer together than they do now.

And that indicates even more skullduggery ahead.  Especially in a season after the NFL was uncategorically caught in it's skullduggery.

(One of the reasons I cannot take outside of face value a recent major NFL reporter on ESPN actually calling Ravens vs. Lions as the Super Bowl pick...)

(More on that...  Next post...) 

The Return of Super Fraud

 I need things to do to prevent me from going violent.

 That is basically the gist of it.

So much has changed in the nearly two years since I laid this blog down at the demand of a reader and a friend who insisted I was saying something I did not.

But we are where we are, and the fact of the matter is, my rage at the Trump dystopia knows very few bounds.

I need an outlet that's not going to get me in enough further trouble (and, trust me, I am in a bit more of it than I can even mention here at the moment.

I guess I'm going to get at least a bit of it out of the way here.  I have friends of mine in the transgender community.  There has been an organized effort, from Pigfucker Trump on down, to kill them all.

To put it simply, I believe that even the Democrats themselves would allow them to die if it gave them the sufficient votes to be relevant these days.

You, as a nation, are going to leave them alone to live their lives, or you will pay.

It's that simple, it's that direct, and I have very limited sympathy (really, only for the third-party victims) when all Hell breaks loose.

It's like a friend of mine in the community says repeatedly:  How much do you expect them to take?

It is clear that Stephen Miller wants them dead.

It is clear that he speaks for much of America who desires the same result.

There are things I cannot say to that regard, but the fact is:  Leave them alone or else.  Trans Rights Or Else.

There are right-wing influencers all over the Internet whose necks I want to snap.

This blog is an outlet (and I say that to everybody) to prevent such violence because I can't go there yet.

How certain am I that violence may be about to result, and all of that?

Today, the day I relaunch this blog, is the 55th birthday of Debbie Gibson.

Each and every passing day, I am more and more certain the NYPD needed to have me shot and killed that fateful night.

And no, Deborah...  You cannot be who you are -- basically her central message to everybody on said birthday.

You have to be acceptable first.  Just ask my friends in aggrieved communities like the trans community.

But, for now, and probably a degree of surreptitiously, I bring this blog back as a recreation.  As an act of something to do so I don't get myself in trouble in a manner which will have me lose the work that I was put on this Earth to do.

And no, not necessarily this blog in that regard, but I am far closer to being, in soccer terms, "sent off" and permanently this time.

Yes, it is about NFL season, can't blame the skeptical for thinking that might be part of the reason (especially with what probably are the two biggest NFL stories in a long, long time...).

But let's get to it.  We might as well...