After Further Review: And there's the completion...

With a ten-point win by Green Bay and a three-touchdown win by Kansas City, only ONE GAME, and it needed the Jets to massively comeback for the Mangold Sacrifice win over the Bengals, went within one score at all.

That has GOT to be a post-merger record. 

And another irrelevant team takes it up the ass...

 

🚨🚨OH MY GOODNESS🚨🚨#COMMANDERS APPEAR TO CONVERT FOR A FIRST DOWN ON A 4TH DOWN ATTEMPT…

THE REFS DECIDE TO REVIEW IT AND DO A VIRTUAL MEASUREMENT RULING ZACH ERTZ JUST A COUPLE INCHES SHORT.

QUESTIONABLE REFEREEING AGAIN.
pic.twitter.com/D4TgsZidsF

— MLFootball (@MLFootball) October 28, 2025

 

🚨🚨THE REFS STRIKE AGAIN🚨🚨

THE REFS DID NOT CALL A HOLD ON THE #CHIEFS AND JUJU SMITH-SCHUSTER FOR TACKLING A WASHINGTON DEFENDER.

😳😳😳

This allowed Kansas City to have a massive play and set themselves up for a touchdown.
pic.twitter.com/UeLMfbsZ5L

— MLFootball (@MLFootball) October 28, 2025

After Further Review: This one might not have changed a result, but it shows...

That whatever the NFL is trying to do, it's finally becoming more open that they are getting the referees involved in tampering with contests:

 

Don’t let NFL media scrub this video from the internet pic.twitter.com/ThqSpMf80d

— Salty Buccaneer🧂🏴‍☠️🟥🟧⬜️ (@SaltyBuc91) October 27, 2025

Call cost them four points. They still won 23-3, but...

Probably the least surprising news of the weekend...

Adrian Peterson.

DWI and weapons charges near Houston, his second DWI in seven months.

He remains in jail today.

Gee what a fucking shock. 

After Further Review: This is what happens when your team is an irrelevancy and a joke...

 

A compilation of bad calls on the #Giants:

-Insane no fumble call
-False start called neutral zone infraction on Kayvon
-Slayton OPI
-Wandale phantom block in the back
-Korie Black DPI on 3rd and 11

Not to mention all the missed holding calls. The #NFL should be ashamed. pic.twitter.com/TVwn0w9u3Q

— The Giants Report (@GiantsReport1) October 26, 2025

Shame?  The NFL?  You jest!

After Further Review: Brown County Went To Trump By Eight Points

And the referees have to make themselves the story in the COVIDIOT Bowl.

Wow… an awful week for NFL officials gets worse. Wyatt and Parsons both a MILE offside. Steelers robbed of a 3rd and 3. pic.twitter.com/G40TcjFUFX

— Ben (@TheHurricaneBen) October 27, 2025

Packers win 35-25.  They ARE now the #1 Political in the NFC.

Very Un-Goodwellian Week Eight here!!!

As of the end of Week 8's Sunday main games, eleven games will have been completed.

ONE, and only ONE, will have even been decided within one score.

The record is not easily found, but it is unlikely that even the three maximum (note, I'm not talking three Cliffhangers, I'm talking 3 games within one score -- and that's if the COVIDIOT Bowl tonight and the Monday nighter ARE within a score!) would not be an NFL record. 

Almost certainly ANOTHER sacrifice to the sport of football:

Nick Mangold, former center of the Jets.

Dead at 41.  Needed a kidney transplant and everything failed within 12 days of announcement.

Makes you wonder what was done to get that man on the field every week... 

2025 Week Seven Political Rankings

NFC:

Really, it's a crapshoot right now.  Eight teams have two losses or fewer.

• No one is going to convince me Green Bay is for real until they can show that they can't just luck their way to 27 points and winning that way.  The offense is stout, 27 points in each of their four wins and 40 with Dallas.  But the defense has not gotten to snuff yet.  Sunday night in the COVIDIOT Bowl might tell us more.  Unless the Bullshit Is Real.
• Philadelphia would be a nice job-counter to a more MAGA AFC team, and that's about all I can say.  They are 5-2 though.
• Detroit is 5-2, and would be a nice shoot pick, but I can't think that the people (more, IMODO, person) involved in making the decision wants a Philadelphia or a Detroit to win the Super Bowl
• ... or a 5-2 San Francisco
• ... or a 5-2 LA Rams
• ... or a 5-2 Seattle, though that would probably be the best option of those five, if it weren't on the liberal West Coast.
• Tampa's 5-2, but that loss to Detroit has just shuffled them back into the deck a bit.  Still would probably be the best choice of the ones I've listed, but...
• And Chicago is 4-2...  Somehow.

AFC:

1. Indianapolis
2. New England
3. Denver
4. Pittsburgh (to be re-evaluated after the COVIDIOT Bowl Sunday night...) 

The rest of the 2025 Week Seven Discipline Blotter

The Gameday Accountability report is out -- and, as usual, if you see this in a later week this season, scroll to Week 7.

23 other fines this week, other than the Dre Greenlaw suspension:

• Rachaad White of the Buccaneers got the big one this week:  $46,271 for repeat-offender with the helmet.  Leading his helmet, as the ball-carrier, into a Lions defender.  In December of 2024, he was fined about the same amount for the same foul, even though Spotrac doesn't have a record of a third fine for that. 
• Apparently, another Denver player was fined for contact with the official late in the game with the Ants.  It is apparently Justin Strnad who the referee got out of the way, enraging Greenlaw.  Strnad was fined, contact with the official, but only $15,486.
• Five taunting fines this week.  (One ball as prop, one violent gesture)
• Three other "use of the helmet" fines.
• Four hip drop tackles. 

Another probable criminal investigation needing to happen...

Ken Williamson has just refereed his last game.

A 41-year official, 21 in the top division of college football, 17 in the SEC.

This was supposed to be his last year, so he has just been thrown off the field for good.

He was the crew chief for Georgia vs. Auburn, a 20-10 victory for the Bulldogs.

A performance review was made of the officiating, and Williamson was banned for the rest of the season as a result.

This is usually a one-game situation, maybe two.

This is one of the senior referees in the SEC.  This usually isn't more than one game, maybe two.

This SCREAMS malfeasance. 

If it were possible (and it is not), this kind of suspension to me indicates this game should be replayed.  Eleven different calls were complained about, nine of which substantiated.  One of the first turned what would've been a 17-0 Auburn lead to 10-3, at which point Georgia dominated (with probable assistance from Williamson) the second half.

And apparently, there is some talk he has also manipulated the Auburn-Oklahoma game earlier in the season, a 24-17 loss for Auburn.

Criminal investigation, now.  

And the situation MAY, if true, have just gone terminal for the NBA...

At least one of the games involved in the NBA gambling scandal appears to have involved LeBron James.

James, to this point, has denied any involvement in knowing about the situation with the arrested today.

He had BETTER be telling the truth.  And I'm not 100% sure he is. 

Damon Jones was apparently off the books with the Lakers when he disclosed to his Mafia contacts that James was going to be out in a February 2023 game against the Bucks.

Milwaukee became an 8-point favorite with James out, and covered by one point -- 115-106.

Another Lakers game is also in the discussion, a January 2024 game with the Thunder.  This game involved information surrounding Anthony Davis.

 

This now just became a far bigger story than I think anyone is going to choose to admit.

Today, the day finally came for the first of the arrests in the Jontay Porter NBA gambling incident.

And I think Adam Silver had better be asking some real questions about the future of the National Basketball Association as a result.

Thirty-four people were arrested today in conjunction with at least seven NBA games in which insider information was fed to the Mafia to influence bets. 

At least three major NBA parties are involved, all have been placed on leave to be banned from the league if established, as Porter already has been:

• Terry Rozier, point guard for the Miami Heat 

Rozier was already under investigation with the NBA and Federal authorities regarding at least one game where suspicious bets were placed on his fantasy-sports numbers. 

The league allowed Rozier to continue to play, because no link to a crime had been established in the 2023 game.

Today's arrest shows that to be bullshit.   Rozier is now believed to have removed himself from the game the NBA was investigated to aid Mafia ties.

In short, match-fixing.  Point-shaving.

• Damon Jones, no longer in the NBA, but a former player and assistant coach for the Cleveland Cavaliers.

Jones is not only involved in the insider information end of it, but he is also being charged as part of a scheme to rig underground poker matches for the Mafia.

Players would be suckered in under the premise of being allowed to play with NBA stars, current and former.  And the house (the Mafia) would always win.

The third one, however, is probably the biggest.  He was only arrested for the poker end of it, but when you see who it was, I don't think there's any chance this doesn't eventually blow up into a major match-fixing scandal:

• Chauncey Billups, HEAD COACH of the Portland Trailblazers

And if Adam Silver wants to come out and claim no games were fixed, especially now with a head coach involved in the Mafia in 2023 (and probably further), I've got swampland I need to sell you in Libya.

As I often have to caution:  It is completely legal (criminal and civil) for the NBA (or any sports league) to fix it's own games, through the league itself.  This has been established in numerous court cases. 

What is not, and has never been, legal is the players and coaches to go into business for themselves.

This is the latter, old-school Mafia style.

There is no way I can believe that the Portland Trailblazers weren't ordered, on some level outside the NBA's purview, to lay down.  There has been ZERO relevance of the Trailblazers at any point during Billups' entire coaching career with the team.  The Trailblazers have had a .357 winning percentage in 328 games Billups has been the head coach, entering this season.

It is time for every player, every coach, every team to be investigated for possible match-fixing in the National Basketball Association.  Not as a function of "guilt by association", but the scale of the situation is, even to Bug Eyes, "mind-boggling". 

Anyone who bets on basketball, at any NBA level at this point, is throwing money to the Mafia.

Because I would metaphorically wager money I do not have that this situation goes far beyond these people, with the number of irrelevant "tanking" teams in the NBA. 

Another sacrifice to football?

Yesterday, it was reported that seven-year NFL veteran Doug Martin died at 36.

It's now clear it was police-involved, according to a report today.

Martin was involved in a break-in in Oakland, CA, was arrested, and died in custody.

Money I don't have says he was disposed of by the police. 

After further review (?) and 2025 Week Seven Discipline Blotter: This one is interesting...

This was the game-winning kick for the Broncos yesterday.

Watch afterward, as Dre Greenlaw pursues the official and actually draws a post-game flag.

 

Something caught my eye from Lutz's game-winning kick yesterday:

After the play, Dre Greenlaw runs after the ref, yelling at him, and the ref actually throws a flag.

It was after the play, and the game was over, so idk what happens.

Just a fine for Greenlaw? Something more? 🤔 pic.twitter.com/LqFTfPV0vV

— Alex Wilcox (@AlexWilcoxTV) October 20, 2025

Greenlaw has been suspended by the NFL for that outburst for one game.  I do think this one will be appealed to a fine.

There was no contact with the official, so it's obvious that the official had to report what he had said to get the suspension.

The NFL quoted the general rule about prohibition of "the use of abusive, threatening or insulting language or gestures to opponents, teammates, officials, or representatives of the League."

That's fine.  That's usually, however, going to be a fine reported on Saturday.  Usually a rather stiff one, but a fine nonetheless.

I can understand if the referee felt challenged and had to throw the flag to report it to the league, etc. and so forth.

But it is CLEAR that Greenlaw said something real bad.

Also, I think it's time for football to change the rule that the score can come off the board in cases like that.  And yes, that would mean game over and Broncos lose in that case. 

EDIT TO ADD 5:15 PM 10/20:  It appears the suspension was a physical threat to the official, based on Greenlaw interpreting the ref trying to extricate himself from the celebration as an aggressive act.

If that's the case, Greenlaw should be suspended indefinitely, pending a face-to-face meeting with Goodell and the head of the NFLPA in New York. 

EDIT TO ADD 6:40 PM 10/21:  Suspension UPHELD.

We need to know what he said, NFL.  I no longer believe one game was sufficient -- not necessarily because of the incident itself, but, to give context, Bill Belichick physically attacked a replacement referee after that famous "Bovine Excrement" game in Baltimore and a controversial call on the Ravens winning the game at the horn.

He was only fined $50,000.

I get the general rule, but this smells like direct physical threat to the referee's safety -- and that's more than one game in my book. 

After further review: They do like Philly more than they like Minnesota, BUT...

This wasn't a catch.

Watch the second replay, and you'll see the ground causes the fumble, as CAN now happen (specifically to cost possession) under the Catch Rule. 

Cost them any real remaining chance to win the game, yes. 

2025 Week 6 Discipline Blotter

I know I have not done score reports or spreadsheets to track a lot of this this year as I have in the past.

Part of it is motivation, part of it is that there are many more important things in the world right now.

But I do try to claw out a little bit on Saturday afternoon to check out the weekly NFL Gameday Accountability blotter for the week.  (Scroll to Week 6 if you see this later.) 

• Brian Branch's suspension stands.  He sits this Sunday.  Good. 
• Maybe, just MAYBE, are the players getting the hint on taunting?  I think this is the second week in a row the only unsportsmanlike fine or fines (one this week) were for the ol' Finger du Middle.
• Biggest fines of the week:  Patrick Queen of the Steelers gets $23,186 for roughing the passer to the head.  Call that what it is:  Spearing.  Launch helmet-to-helmet and that should've been the rest of the game on the bench for him.
• The other $23,186 fine was L'Jarius Sneed of the Titans for a helmet foul.  Those usually get the biggest fines, as the league is trying to actively prevent the lowering of the head to bullrush move on both sides of the ball.  Sneed looks like this was a helmet shot to get a tackle.
• Trent Williams got an oddly-captioned fine, but correct.  Eleven grand for an altercation away from the ball when he tried to rip an opponent's helmet off by the face mask.

2025 Week 6 Political Rankings

AFC:

1) Indianapolis

With the two losses by Buffalo and the inexcusable loss by the Steelers Thursday night, we can no longer ignore that Indy checks the boxes -- a city that Trump would find acceptable, a White quarterback, etc.

Indianapolis is the only team right now in the top AFC tier that also doesn't have an inexcusable loss or two on their resume.

That's it's Derp Jones is even a further insult to the debacle that is the New York Ants.  And another reason Goodell should force an investigation on the New York teams.

2) New England

Gonna put this up here as a function of the same checking of all the Trump boxes, as well as the "It could be anyone's season" meme that definitely appears to be in force at the NFL offices.

And if, as I'm beginning to suspect, this could be a very different country even by Super Bowl XL this February (I don't see the shutdown ending before the checks and cards are at least threatened stopped and it gets real sporty out there before Christmas...), equating a White quarterback and Patriots being champions (including Robert Kraft being a rub-and-tug partner of Donald Trump -- some of us didn't forget THAT STORY too!) could be the move too.

Yes, inexcusable loss to the Faders, but three in a row, including a win at Buffalo, can't be underestimated.

3) Denver

Same thought with Denver, maybe a bit less politically-compatible of a city, but 4-2 with a White quarterback could be a nice MAGA presentation.

Considered less:

Pittsburgh:  What the Hell was that Thursday night?

Buffalo:  Like Pittsburgh, has to show me something to get back into the mix.

Jacksonville:  Can't see them going with Trevor Lawrence.  The NFL is still a quarterback media-driven league, and even though Lawrence has been at least an occasional push by the NFL, the fact is that he's not going to be politically compatible with what is almost-certainly going to be a highly politically White Right-charged Super Bowl.

Kansas City:  Not yet.  They're 3-3 on a brutal schedule, and it's clear that only last week against Detroit did they get some of the benefits we've associated with the Chiefs in previous seasons.  That's going to have to percolate a bit, though.

NFC:

1) Tampa Bay

Can't be avoided anymore.  5-1 in a very Trump-friendly state with a White quarterback.  Definitely ticks the boxes, and when you look at the rest of the conference right now, on a purely political front, who do you have?  Seriously?

Green Bay is next on the record at 3-1-1, but an inexcusable loss to Cleveland, a draw with a fairly-weak Dallas team, a questionable defense (and Micah Parsons has spoken up about it all), and Jordan Love isn't White.  Green Bay, in semi-rural Wisconsin in a county Trump carried by eight points, would make a lot of sense, but there do seem to be better options the league is pursuing a bit more fervently - right now.  But, again, "It could be anyone's season."

There are EIGHT two-loss teams in the NFC right now.

• Philly is definitely into the "Show Me, Don't Tell Me" column, especially with a loss to the LOLCOW Ants.  (Washington would be a better choice for them, especially with Trump trying to make the entire city about himself, but they are 3-3.)
• Detroit appears to be a no at this point, especially with the NFL insidiously telling them to get their house in order with the whole Brian Branch thing -- and then NFL Films promptly throwing Branch completely under the bus later in the week.  Detroit would be a very good "shoot" pick (Good team, willing to play for their coach, can win big games the last couple years), but I don't see it as a political one, and I think they are in the beginnings of an active de-push.
• Minnesota has feasted pretty well on the AFC (they've already played three of their four AFC opponents, going 2-1), but this definitely appears like a "not this year" pick.  Minnesota and Philadelphia play this week to start dealing with the congestion.
• Chicago is just plain out because it's Chicago.  Two 25-24 road wins cannot be ignored, but let's see if they can beat a team with more quality than the Commanders.
• Atlanta is a no, I think, because of Michael Penix.  That said, they have had some solid wins this year over teams they probably should not have beaten.  3-2 is better than I think some of them had pinned Atlanta for.
• San Francisco is a no because San Francisco, and the injuries will take care of that real soon.
• The Rams, like the Chargers, are a no because LA.  I really do think the Orange Fatfuck is going to have a lot to say about who wins the Super Bowl this year (maybe he can steal the Lombardi and put it next to his stolen World Cup), and that means LA is completely out.
• Seattle??  Probably too liberal of a city for them, checks the rest of the boxes.

Obviously, still a LOT to shake out.  There are two reasons this has been such a volatile season:  The fact that I do think Trump has a voice in the decision process this year, and that the NFL is taking their float commercial and "It could be anyone's season" seriously. 

After Further Review: Sounds to me like they may be starting to push KC again...

Not the actual play in this case, but how they got there.

Jared Goff was correctly called for illegal motion -- as he motioned out, he basically lost the protections given to the quarterback thereto.  And the referee admitted it's almost never called.

The problem comes in that it is now evident the call came from New York...

 

Lions HC Dan Campbell confirms that the officials told him New York stepped in to overturn Jared Goff’s touchdown.

The officials previously said that New York was NOT involved in the call…

Refs need to be investigated.

pic.twitter.com/EpUR2gbhCs

— NFL Retweet (@NFLRT) October 15, 2025

New York is not supposed to be involved in calls like that.  At least not under the rules we know...

2025 Late Week 5 Discipline Blotter

Didn't do this one on Saturday, should probably do it now.

Only 13 this week, so not much to do in Week 5.  Scroll to it if you see it later.

Leonard Williams got the big one, $46,000+ for impermissible use of the helmet.  He was also fined in Week 3, same offense.  So that's almost 70 grand himself and the team as well!

Only one unsportsmanlike conduct fine, probably for the ol' Finger du Middle.

 

2025 Early Week 6 Discipline Blotter

The Lions Brian Branch did something stupid after losing to the Chiefs last night.

He started a mass melee by busting the nose of Ju-ju Smith-Schuster.

And, for that, he got the correct one-game suspension.  That's at least his third transgression against the league this year.

Branch will appeal -- one I hope fails, for not only the stupidity of the act on it's face, but the fact it's his third already this season. 

After Further Review: First game the family is all together and...

1) The Chiefs have no penalties called on them the entire game.

(The Lions had four.)

2) One of them was this, that wiped a touchdown off the board, however...

 

THIS IS WEIRD.

THE REFS ORIGINALLY CALLED THIS PLAY TOUCHDOWN. HUDDLED, AND THEN DECIDED TO CALL THIS AN ILLEGAL MOTION ON THE #LIONS.

Illegal motion is a non-reviewable play and the refs were not allowed to use replay or NY.

Have never seen this before.pic.twitter.com/OzIbX7RBBf

— MLFootball (@_MLFootball) October 13, 2025

2025 Week 5 Political Rankings

NFC:

With Philadelphia losing twice...

I don't really see a political front-runner in the NFC.  Green Bay losing to Cincinnati and tying Dallas before their bye precludes them.  I can't see the political considerations falling in favor of Detroit or San Francisco at this point.  Philadelphia is now on their ass after an embarrassing blowout loss to the Giants last night.  Washington's loss at Atlanta puts question marks on their situation.  Minnesota also lost to Atlanta.  Seattle just lost to Tampa.

As of right now, the "anybody's season" situation seems to apply in the NFC.

AFC:

Largely because there do seem to be three quite obvious front-runners in the AFC:

1) Buffalo

2) Pittsburgh

3) Indianapolis 

As I've said before, I do firmly believe that Herr Trump is going to have a voice in who wins, especially given the Bad Bunny controversy and the competing Turning Point USA Charlie Kirk Memorial Halftime Special.

All three of these teams have two things in common.

They're smaller cities, and the teams have White starting quarterbacks.

Yes, I do believe that is something Trump wants in his White House visits.

One of the reasons I don't put Jacksonville on here, even though they'd be up here too. 

This is what certain people watch for when they say the games are "phony baloney with a side of rigaroni"...

30 seconds to go, Chiefs up 4, 1st and goal.

Explain this lack of effort on that play by the Chiefs Chris Jones... 

Major multi-sport disciplinary blotter

• Jerry Jones has been dinged $250,000 for an obscene gesture he gave to New York fans on Sunday at Met Life Stadium.
• Odell Beckham Jr. has been suspended six games for a PED violation.  Your career is over, kid.
• And Conor McGregor has been banned for 18 months from fighting for missing drug tests.  Not that Shithead Trump will mind once the Gladiator Games start... 

And then probably the most suspicious game of the week has led to more discipline.

Early in the fourth quarter, the Cardinals were up 21-6 on the lowly Titans.

Emari Demarcado appears to score a 72-yard touchdown, but does this inches from the end zone.

 

Imagine picking up Demarcado for your fantasy team and seeing him drop a 72 yard TD celebrating too early 💀 pic.twitter.com/PCaNTOfFmm

— Monster Bet (@monsterdotbet) October 5, 2025

This drew the following response from his coach, Jonathan Gannon, for which he has been fined $100,000.

Here is the video of HC Jonathan Gannon and RB Emari Demercado that resulted in a $100,000 fine: pic.twitter.com/LGVzgaQDjx

— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) October 7, 2025

Make no mistake, when the Titans came all the way back to win 22-21, it was clear the Cardinals threw that game.

That said, a coach can't do that, contacting the player twice, including kicking him.  I would be very surprised if Gannon is the coach much longer.  First, that's a firing offense.  Second, it's clear the team threw the game at that point.  Third, I don't think Gannon is going to look upon that too kindly himself. 

2025 NFL Week 4 Political Rankings

So here we go again:

NFC:

1) I'm not really sure that the people who are going to make this decision want Philly or Detroit (almost certainly the two best teams in the NFC right now, or now-4-1 San Francisco...

Philadelphia gets #1 by a fair degree of default, though I don't think they will get there at the end.

2) Seattle

3) San Francisco

Especially if Donald Trump wants to make a production out of dealing with Bad Bunny at the Super Bowl, he's not going to want a Black QB.

AFC:

1) Buffalo

... which is why I still think Buffalo is the Super Bowl favorite at this point, not close.

2) Pittsburgh

The bullshit IS real.  They're 3-1 somehow, and I think that COVIDIOT-8 would make for a very good political choice for Herr Trump. 

2025 NFL Week 4 Discipline Blotter

20 fines this week in the Gameday Accountability report.  (Scroll to Week 4 if you see this later.)

• Two biggest fines are Christian McAffrey of the 49ers and Frankie Luvu of the Commanders, both just over $23,000 for lowering the helmet on somebody.
• Jalyx Hunt of the Eagles drew two $6,834 fines.  A first-quarter blindside block and a third quarter hip-drop tackle.
• Only two taunting fines this week, both Seattle. 

The NFL Thanks You For Your Service, Rams

Threw the game three separate times AND Return of the Doink (which is the 11th field-goal doink in the first 65 NFL games, per Jake...).

Here's a compendium from Tom Grossi as to the disaster that led to San Francisco winning tonight... 

The NFL won't let you embed videos with game footage.  Besides, how many of the old videos on this blog have been toasted by now? 

Edit to add:  Tom knew what was coming.  :)