Oh boy...

On a day where there are far more important things than sports, and I might want to see if I can finally finish a series of posts for another blog, aimed at these stupid MAGA fucks, comes this story from Los Angeles:

On Saturday, Chad Baker-Mazara, ostensibly a USC basketball player, was injured in a late-season game.  After playing about three minutes of the second half, it is now apparent that Baker-Mazara is, somehow and for some reason, done with the Trojan program.

Baker-Mazara was apparently talking with a woman for much of the second half of the game.  Baker-Mazara was one of the leading scorers on the USC team.

He was an NIL transfer from Auburn.  USC was apparently his fourth school.  According to current reports, he's 26.

Current trolling meme (at least that's what's being alleged) is that Baker-Mazara is actually 32 with four children. 

But let's separate fact from (apparent) fiction:  He dipped on the USC program (or the USC program dipped on him) at some point Saturday.  The reasons do not appear non-suspicious:  SOMETHING went down.

Regardless of whether this apparent satire/meme account who's gotten a hold of this is trolling or not, one thing is for absolute certain:  Someone found out SOMETHING.

Another sacrifice to football...

Rondale Moore.

Suicide by gun.

25.

Lost both knees the last 2-3 years to the fringes of the NFL. 

$uper Bowl $eahawk$: And there it is...

Ten days after the Seahawks were awarded Super Bowl LX, the Paul Allen Estate has begun the formal sale process.

And that is why they at least got in the game. 

Tanking in the NBA clouds a very prescient reality the NBA can't admit for it's financial future...

One of the largest topics in the recent NBA All-Star Weekend in Los Angeles was the continuing losing battle the NBA is fighting with "tanking" -- the practice of teams deliberately resting players to ostensibly lose games to improve their position in the NBA Draft the following season.

Adam Silver has actually now gone as far as possibly considering revoking draft picks (and he's not going to be able to do anything unless they are first-round draft picks in that regard), because he knows the fines, including a $500,000 fine applied to the Utah Jazz -- calling their violations of player participation "conduct detrimental to the league".

So how much does Mark Cuban get fined for saying today the NBA should accept and embrace tanking, in the name of the fans? 

Why the NBA should embrace tanking -

The NBA has kate been misguided thinking that fans want to see their teams compete every night with a chance to win. It’s never been that way that way.

When I got into the nba, they thought they were in the basketball business. They…

— Mark Cuban (@mcuban) February 17, 2026

Then you have a problem, Mr. Cuban.  A huge one.

The moment a fan can discern that every effort is not being made to win the game in progress, that fan is being financially and emotionally harmed by continuing to take part in the experience.  

Sometimes that is a night-to-night thing:  There are certainly games where almost every team is a substantial underdog or is seen that it is unlikely that they would win the given game.  This is understandable.

This is, however, a different process.  It is the deliberate understanding that the team is setting out to just survive the game, not get it's players injured for a game that it is not worth enough for them (micro or macro) to win.

At that point, why does a fan bother paying to see it?  And, writ larger, why do teams which continue to lose year after year after year be considered allowed to call themselves "professional" teams in the top-tier league?

Let's get some realities on "paper" here:

1) There are too many teams.

2) There are too many games.

3) There are too few players of sufficient "professional" caliber to support the number of teams or games that the league is bilking players, television partners, and corporate sponsors out of.

The fact is:  All four major professional leagues, in every idea except financial bottom line (which is why it won't be done) would do better either folding 25% of the teams or going promotion-relegation.

Make "professional", and top-tier professional at that, be earned.  You do it for the players -- why not force the same on the franchises?

The fact is (and it should've been demonstrated with the Foolish and Wretched One-Dimensional Ballhog, the National Bulls Broadcasting Company, and the National Bulls Association in the 1990's) that there aren't enough players to justify the existence of the number of professional teams in the top leagues in any of the major sports.

As a result, you are seeing pressures put on the NBA franchises to play top-flight players in the national televised games -- and it still doesn't help.

The fact is, there are just too many damn teams and no justification for a number of them to continue to exist.  And, in extreme cases, you get what happens in the NBA.

4) There is no legal ramification against a league fixing the games -- if Adam Silver really wants to prevent "tanking", he's going to have to state that it is an action outside of the league's allowed purview with respect to the manipulation of the contest's result, and punish accordingly.

5) It is of no secret that the games cost far too much money to attend, and that goes double when there's no assurance on the part of the two teams to actually provide a marketable contest.  

A fan can't recover for even a "tanked" game, just as he or she can't recover for a rigged one (only entitled to a seat and a result -- 2005 US Grand Prix lawsuit).  To actually provide the kind of fan experience Cuban wants, this MUST change, by any and all means necessary.

6) The games need to be believed to be on the level, because there's no way the tanking teams even believe the games are on the level -- much as many fans are basically certain the games are not.

If Adam Silver wants to prevent tanking, he has to take the following steps:

A) He has to basically admit the NBA (as the other professional sports have) has openly manipulated the games for their own benefit, financial and otherwise.  And that this process must stop.  The games must be officiated according to the rules and all efforts (including result reversal) must be on the table to ensure that what takes place on the court is the only factor which leads to the result.

B) He has to open the door to removal of teams.  This will probably never happen as organically or on a scale which needs to happen (see above), but the only way he's going to truly be able to prevent teams from tanking games is to put the nuclear option on the table -- once other means to improve fan experience and trust in the product are enacted.

In short, bad franchises need to die. 

C) The fact that teams with incompetent/lazy/greedy ownership can still advance through the ranks needs to be ended.  I'm about 70-80% toward getting rid of the NBA Draft entirely, and that can be a means in which bad franchises can rot and die.  At the barest of minimum, we need to get rid of the the worst team getting the best chance at the one or few relevant draft players. 

D) He needs to recognize that there will be games in which players need to be rested for their health and safety. 

Sports and Politics: Why We Can't Stick To Sprots

Part of this, and only part of this, may be considered a breach on the boycott on the Transphobe Games, because a large part of this has come from Italy and several American Olympic athletes speaking out against Trump, ICE, and, basically, their place on the US Olympic Team.

Since this does raise to a larger question, however, I'll speak on it.

What finally motivated me on it was Karl Denninger's post on the subject on his White Right website The Market Ticker. 

His stand has a number of problems, not just with the Olympics, but I'll state the ones evident with the Olympics as they come up:

• Anyone who does not believe the Olympics specifically haven't been abjectly taken over by politics has their head so far in the sand, it's in proverbial China (that it went all the way through and came out the other side of the world).

This could go any of a number of different directions.

Anyone who lived through the Cold War had to know that the Olympic Games, and especially the National Dick-Waving Contest which is the top of the medal table, especially in the Summer Games, and doubly especially between the United States and the Soviet Union, was a national propaganda exercise as to the superiority of one or the other of the two systems.  (Though this has also occurred on a lesser extent with the Summer Games between the United States and China in more recent years.)

A prominent example can be given through the Miracle On Ice.  How much of the actual morale boost came from the fact that it was specifically the Russians that the US college boys defeated in Lake Placid?

We could also discuss the entire regime-led drug rigging of the Sochi Games, and the attempts by Russia to completely manipulate the home Games medal table using a state-sponsored doping ring which has partially led to the to-date permanent expulsion of Russia from the Olympic movement.

We could even decide to discuss the Transphobe Games themselves, since the movement to expel transgenders and anyone of Differences of Sexual Development in the different disciplines -- and eventually the IOC itself -- comes from the Donald Trump Movement in the United States.

• This extends beyond the Olympics, as has been evidenced even this week.

We could even, as Denninger notes, speak of the recent Bad Bunny Super Bowl halftime show, and the White Right-led controversies that they believe that an existential fraud has been committed as to how many people watched the game (Terrorist Point) and the halftime show.

People who've read this website basically know of a continuing political movement by the NFL (in some concert with the Federal government -- though, after last Sunday, there is some question as to just how much) to exert political propaganda into the presentation and into who wins and loses.

(Which makes it completely hypocritical that Boomer Esiason has come out in support of Donald Trump and ICE and in opposition to the Olympic athletes speaking up.)

• The entire existence of women's sports (Title IX) and it's end (see boycott post) is political. 

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I am of three different minds with respect to 2026 politics and the athletes speaking out.

1) This is the United States Olympic Team, so the argument can be made that it's athletes do need to be allegiant to the United States.

I have always believed that, by the Trump Olympics in 2028, a loyalty test to Trump will be required to be a member of the team.  I am doubly certain of that fact now.

2) Especially vis-a-vis the Olympics, politics and sport will forever be aligned.  A key component of politics is propaganda, and sports have always been used as propaganda instruments:  East, West, Nazi, etc.

3) There's a very real problem no one else is going to say.  Because of the nature of the United States Sexual Assault (Olympic/Paralympic) Committee and said political ties, every athlete on the Olympic Team is compromised -- as a function of being on the Olympic team.  

The United States has no place on the Olympic movement, as I've said before, because of the number of it's athletes which are on drugs (note that, just before the Transphobe Games started, Trump signed a bill withdrawing all dues-paying from the World Anti-Doping Agency, months before a Trump-family sponsored Enhanced (Steroid) Games event in Las Vegas), as well as the rampant sexual-assault screening of athletes to the team.

I applaud those that speak out against the Piece of the Ultimate Shit and ICE -- even though, in many countries (and soon to be here), that will be a death sentence to do so with that platform. 

God, I hate when I'm right...

(Disclaimer:  Opinions are mine alone, and this post will almost certainly violate Blogger/Google Terms of Service, but this has to be said somewhere before this fucker gets any further traction.  I've lost between 6-10 X and Reddit accounts for less than what I'm about to say here...) 

I, recently, have gone on record when I've been wrong.

The recent Super Bowl, for example. 

I happened across something on one of my news sources that I had to second-source, because it falls under the category of...  "No.  He didn't just say THAT, did he?"

Well, he did.  And I've got something to say to him in response.

First, so that you don't think I'm crazy, the background.

Nick Fuentes, the Nazi incel piece of shit waste of human oxygen and space, was online at some point last night.  He was streaming somehow, as evidenced by that he was taking a Super Chat (the ability of a person to pay to ask a question or make a comment the host would see and almost-certainly respond to). 

He was asked:  When he, hypothetically, becomes President, who goes to the gulags first?

Fuentes said his view of America's enemy:  Women.  Every last woman in the country.  Jail them all and let God sort them out.

Nick Fuentes declares all women the number 1 political enemy in America 😂

"They go to the gulag first!" pic.twitter.com/nCAdAf74Zl

— Fuentes Updates (@FuentesUpdates) February 11, 2026

He said it.

And there's the reason I now address every Trump-supporting woman as a whore, the White ones needing to shut up and answer what White American Landowner Male allowed them to speak, and that they need to get on their backs, because their owners like Fuentes need more White Rapist Boys.

Oh, and I will add here because I can't do it anywhere else:  Someone needs to end this motherfucker.  Find some legal way to remove this incel jackass from the planet before violence really DOES end up required.

The more I hear the conservative/MAGA manosphere, the more I understand why people were so frightened of me in my teens and twenties -- because there was only one way that was ever going to end, per any "reasonable person test".

Attitudes like this.  (My opinions on the matter be damned.)

Listen to him for yourself. 

$uper Bowl $eahawks: MAGA thinks Nielsen is lying in a BIG WAY...

Well, I will say one thing for them, even though my first glance of this would be "This is what this nation has to deal with with MAGA.", it certainly does fall under the purview of this website.

That said, a YouTube video I was presented with this morning basically lays a charge which would not only end the Nielsen company for massive orchestrated fraud, it might finally break the national chokehold of the National Religion, because, if the Nielsen company did as this video charges, the Nielsen company would be exposed as being "on the take" with at least the NFL, if not far more companies.

Not only that, but the numbers would be utterly devastating, and many advertisers would be left asking a LOT of questions.

So here's the video:

Sure. They were lying about the game. 29% less viewership than last year. And more ditched af halftime. Nielsen fessed up and you can check the Samba or Luminate data. Look up Forbes. They concur with VR. https://t.co/c3SINCTHGW

— Istaphobos (@IstaPhobos) February 12, 2026

The level of MAGA victory alleged by this video, using Forbes, Samba, Luminate, or whatever other numbers you would have would be devastating.

Istaphobos did the work for me on the key number I was looking for, but the charge is basically that they overreported the game ratings by over a quarter.  At that point, almost 40% of the viewers left for Terrorist Point USA.  Istaphobos, in another post, actually claims the walkaway rate was over 50%.

But let's go with the 38% walkaway rate alleged, use the numbers at least from last year's game numbers, and show how devastating this charge is, and what could probably result:

Nielsen alleges 127.7 million watched last year's Super Bowl.

If this is the case, and Istaphobos' claims as to the success of the MAGA/Terrorist Point boycott are valid, this would mean that the number of people actually watching the Super Bowl itself would be (and this is if you believe last year's Nielsen number -- which you then CAN'T!) only 90.7M.

That's for starters, then we get to the main event.

If, from that number, you then have a 38% (and I'm using the conservative number, pardon the pun -- Istaphobos claims the walkaway was half, if not more) walkaway rate, then Bad Bunny, et. al. would have performed in front of only 56.2 million viewers.

So, (bolding for emphasis so that if someone doesn't want to read my supporting claptrap, he or she can at least get to the money numbers here) for comparison (and, again, this is using numbers from LIX which would then be almost-instantly discredited!):

Game:  Nielsen:  124.9 million  Samba/Luminate/Forbes alleged:  90.7 million.

That would be an overreport of 34.2 million viewers, or an overreport of 27.3% -- on the game.

Halftime:  Nielsen:  128.2 million  Samba/Luminate/Forbes alleged:  56.2 million viewers...

... a staggering overreport of SEVENTY-TWO MILLION VIEWERS, or 56.1%! 

I have already told Interphos that the person needs to be in contact with relevant lawyers.  The level of fraud being alleged here would kill Nielsen.  It would end the company. 

Every company who paid a reported $8-10 million for 30 seconds would be left scratching their heads -- including, almost certainly, companies who laid their entire corporate futures on the line for the 30 seconds (which we know has happened in past Super Bowls).

This might finally break the chokehold that The National Religion of Football would have on the nation, because it would expose a deliberate conspiracy between the NFL and relevant companies.

I have little doubt that the numbers could well be somewhat cooked -- but to this extent?  27% overreport on the game, 56% on the halftime? 

And the discrediting wouldn't end there.  It would raise an even bigger question:  How much does the NFL pay on a weekly basis to cook the books on the ratings it reports week to week? 

Someone needs to contact lawyers with this information.  NOW. 

$uper Bowl $eahawk$: MAGA thinks Nielsen is lying...

I've already seen this three times this morning from White Right influencers.

This should scare the NFL. pic.twitter.com/4qbiFX9BaA

— The American Girl (@TheAmericanGrl) February 11, 2026

It's a chart from a group called Samba, an alternate TV ratings situation to Nielsen, which is openly charging that Nielsen is blatantly lying about it's numbers for Super Bowl LX, especially as they relate to the Bad Bunny halftime show.

Remember that Nielsen has stated that viewership was going up into the halftime show and peaked during it.

Samba is charging a flagrant 10% drop in the number of people watching Bad Bunny vs. the previous part of the game.  If this is the case, it would mean that Nielsen is actually overcounting the halftime show by at least a factor of 15-20%.

They're saying 110M (at best! -- because I can't think they then believe the Super Bowl numbers are accurate either!) saw Bad Bunny. 

NBA Discipline Blotter: Monday brawl leads to one of the longer recent suspensions...

And the numbers came down today:

• Jalen Duren (DET) got two games for starting it. 
• Miles Bridges and Moussa Diabate (CHA) got four each for escalating it.
• But the big one was a repeat offender, Detroit's Isaiah Stewart, who, for coming off the bench to flare up the confrontation, put one of the Hornets in a headlock and repeatedly punch him, and his lengthy record, got seven games.

Duren is an Eastern Conference All-Star reserve.  As of right now, that has not been removed.  It should be.  Not only because of the nature of the event, but he started the damn thing too!

First off, I think all the suspensions are low.  This had multiple flare-ups and the very real possibility the game should've been terminated.

Second, here's Stewart, from Spotrac, in his six-year NBA career:

• November 22, 2021:  Two game suspension, escalating a fight.
• February 22, 2024:  Three games, starting a fight.
• January 31, 2025:  $50,000 fine for obscene gestures following an ejection.
• Also suspended a game, because he had committed his sixth flagrant foul in just 47 games that season.
• April 1, 2025:  Two more games for escalating another incident.
• February 11, 2026:  He now gets seven.

That should be at least TWENTY.

Enough with "The Show Must Go On". 

That's three high-level suspensions in basically a calendar year.  He leaves the bench to join the altercation.  Headlock.  Punches.  Police are involved in the altercation (which should've terminated the game immediately and for the night -- that's a general pet peeve of mine, that any time the cops get involved, that's it for the night). 

NFL and Politics: A Curious Fact came up today...

A survey came out of 24 states worth of NFL players.

752 voting registrations were looked at, about the equivalent of 14 NFL rosters, slightly less than half of the league.  The company doing the survey, VoteHub, probably couldn't gain access -- legally or otherwise -- to the others.

The team with the highest skew of each party may surprise you, both ways.

The Republican winner?  The San Francisco 49ers, making the team itself probably one of the least representative parts of their city.

The same can be said for the Democratic winner:  The Green Bay Packers, in a very Trump-loving part of Wisconsin with a very rural fanbase.

Overall, of at least the 752 they could find:  44% independent, 34% Democrat, 20% Republican.

One more thought:  Could this be one reason that two 49er players have been shot in their city in the last couple of years.  Asking for a friend. 

$uper Bowl $eahawk$: And the most important numbers of the day just came in...

The Ratings Report.

This is usually true every year, because the Super Bowl is, and largely by a multiplicative amount, the most-watched event of the television year.

More so this year with the Terrorist Point USA and MAGA screaming.

Well, the verdict came in late this afternoon.

And, per Sports Media Watch:

If there was a boycott, then MAGA and TPUSA can claim a fair, if not substantial, victory in the ratings numbers (that is, the percentage of all television sets viewing the given event).

Super Bowl LX, with a comparative game structure (basic non-competitive blowout throughout), lost 6% of that percentage of TV sets viewing.

LIX:  41.7

LX:  39.4

The share was also down 4 points -- 83% of all television sets turned on during the game were watching the game at LIX.  LX?  79%. 

It is the first non-COVID Super Bowl to fall below a 40 since 1990.  To give a comparison, once you go back from 1990, you'd have to go back to Super Bowl IV to get a rating that low.

That's the good news for TPUSA and MAGA.

There is some bad news however, and it comes in two flavors.

First, the viewer total for Super Bowl LX was 124.9 million, a decline of slightly over 2%.

LIX:  127.7M

LX:  124.9M

TPUSA/MAGA may still attempt to claim a victory here as well, but they might have a bit of a problem here more than above.  Two reasons:

First, the number still represents the second-highest Neilsen viewership in Super Bowl history (behind LIX).

And second is this little thing called Taylor Swift.  One COULD make the case the entire almost three million could've been the Swifties tuning out because their girl's fiancee was not in the game.

And then the main event:  The halftime show.

LIX claimed 133.5 million, a Super Bowl record.

LX did fall down about 4%, to 128.2 million.  Far below claims of 10, 20 million -- I heard one claim on their social media saying half the viewers of the game left before the show.

They can claim a victory here too, maybe.  But there's one problem:

Almost three million of that would've had to have been a full boycott of the game, leaving the real departure to the Charlie Kirk Satanist Memorial Event somewhere around 2 - 2 1/2 million.

So, verdict?

It might well be a victory for MAGA, but it will be very overstated on their part.  

$uper Bowl $eahawk$: And what was being talked about in there, Commissioner Goodell?

 

SCOOP @PuckNews:

Media executives in NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell’s box at Super Bowl:

* Mathias Dopfner (CEO of Axel Springer)
* Sundar Pichai (CEO of Google)
* Neal Mohan (CEO of YouTube)
* Ted Sarandos (CEO of Netflix)
* David Ellison (CEO of Paramount)
* Josh D'Amaro…

— Dylan Byers (@DylanByers) February 9, 2026

$uper Bowl $eahawk$: I was wrong -- they went kayfabe.

Did not watch any of the game -- no, no support of the MAGA boycotts, etc. and so forth.  Just sick of a lot of crap (mostly RL) and decided to spend the day relaxing until the fucking neighbors decided no one around them is worthy of such a privilege.

quietly fumes about that    

29-13 Seattle.  That was about how a lot of people felt it was going to go.

So I'm left with the same question I had last year:  Why did you push New England so blatantly, and then leave them at the door just as blatantly.

I'll check on plays and the like in a bit.   But one thing is, hence, clear:  The eventual decision was to try to line the pockets of the NFL by increasing the value of the Seahawks -- and all the "THE NFL IS WOKE!!!!" screaming from MAGA probably was the final kicker.

To give you an idea of how bad it got for the normal rigging?  We have the first running back as a Super Bowl MVP since Terrell Davis of the Broncos over the Packers in 1998.  Kenneth Walker III was named the MVP -- and it appears the Seattle kicker (SB record 5 FGs plus the two extra points) would've won, had the NFL not disqualified him for being a kicker.

So now we wait for the ratings numbers. 

Super Bowl ICE: Some numbers at 8 PM PST the night before...

Seattle -4.5 has solidified all across Vegas, according to vegasinsider.com -- various juices are still invoked, but the -4.5 has held since late the evening of the conference championship games.

Total is 45.5 across the board, basically standard juice everywhere, with maybe one or two exceptions.

Moneyline is Seattle -235 - -250, New England +185, with as high as +200 at the likes of the MGM and the Hard Rock.  With all applicable disclaimers:  If they're giving you a flat 2-1 that New England wins this Super Bowl, YOU TAKE IT!!!!   

And the Prediction Markets:

Kalshi and Polymarket are still 68-32, as it pretty much has been since the matchup was set up.

 

Reason #2,753,882 that some people need to be dealt with by getting decked...

YouTube prankster Jack Doherty has been banned for life from all PGA Tour events.

This week is the annual idiocy in Phoenix, the Waste Management Open.

This fucking waste of human oxygen paid $100 for someone to yell the Happy Gilmore "Jackass" at one of the golfers.

Seriously.

Super Bowl ICE: The pick...

I usually post this on Sunday, but this is the easiest call I've made in years -- meaning there is a very real non-zero chance this is a sucker bet and this game goes "kayfabe".

There is no doubt in my mind that Seattle is the better team, is considered the better team, and is being bet as the better team.

There is an interesting dichotomy, however, in the betting, according to Yahoo! Sports:  Almost nobody thinks that Seattle is going to win this game within the 4.5 points.  Either Seattle wins by a lot (Seattle backers laying the points) or New England wins outright (most New England backers).

There is one angle, and only one, which has surfaced within the conspiracy circles which would indicate a Seattle win.  It is little secret, now, that the belief (at minimum, though the ownership denies it -- see earlier post) is that, after the Super Bowl, the Seahawks will be put up for sale.  It would be no secret, then, to correctly conclude that the team is in Super Bowl LX to increase it's value on the open market.

That's fine. And, as I'd said for several weeks, the NFC was such a political mess (as in lack of any real political interest in the NFL picking an NFC team win the Super Bowl) that any angle that could be found would be enough basis to push it over the top.

But the additional angle circulating is that the Seahawks are actually going to be force-sold, as their current state as being owned by the late Paul Allen's trust is an illegality within the league.  This is why there were rumors circulating (denied by Roger Goodell) that a $5,000,000 fine had been assessed the franchise because the ownership situation is now illegal.  There must be an individual controlling owner of all NFL teams (with the probable exception of the Packers because of their unique structure, and they grandfathered that in because of the makeup of how the team is controlled in that case).

There is also a potential billion-dollar tax bill the team could be levied at some point.

So, if Seattle does pull it off and especially if the game goes "kayfabe" (Seattle wins at minimum, full kayfabe probably has Seattle covering in a lopsided affair), it almost-certainly indicates that not only is the team going to be sold, it's going to be forced, and they're trying to inflate the value by far more than the billion dollars which would be taxed.

However, the pick is still New England -- and if I had lottery-level money, there would be five digits laid by me on the Patriots in Vegas tomorrow.  And, in picking New England, I'm making three points in support of the Patriots winning, all of which could well be answered tomorrow if Seattle wins:

1) If the ownership situatio‌n in Seattle is, in fact, an illegality:  Why, in the rigged NFL, are the Seahawks in the Super Bowl in the first place?  This would almost be like the 49ers running a salary cap scam under Eddie DeBartolo.  The NFL started an investigation in 1999 against the 49ers for those violations, the team didn't see it's next Super Bowl until the 2012-13 season, and hasn't won one since.  So why would the NFL reward the Seahawks if it was clear their situation is so illegal, the team is going to be sold?

2) I hearken back to the numbers I posted last week about the Patriots:

4-13 the last two years, 16-3 this year -- and all the statistical differences.

There is no natural way, in much of any sports league, you get that level of a reversal, especially with a second-year quarterback.

3) Since the Bad Bunny controversy (from which, again, New England has lost precisely one game since), it is clear this is going to be the most (real-life, not just what I call it within the NFL and rigging) political Super Bowl in a quarter century.  I fully forecast an incident with Bad Bunny somewhere ancillary to the halftime.  I do believe any supposed boycott will have minimal, if any, effect when the numbers come out early next week, unless Bad Bunny is arrested/killed by MAGA/ICE and is not permitted to take the stage at all.

But the fact is there is no way that New England is where they are without the same concept which rigged the other rings for this franchise:  Patriots Are Champions.

It's the same drill the NFL foisted upon us after 9/11, and a good ol' White Boy Quarterback shall lead them.

I don't know if this means Drake Maye gets 4-6 rings or not.  But I do think he gets this one, and I will predict the very same 20-17 score of that fateful rigged Super Bowl XXXVI.  And the same manner of it ending with a field goal at the gun -- whether or not it actually unduly runs out the excess time on the clock.

Well, this is something I have never seen before...

If I'm reading this right, the Western Athletic Conference has thrown Utah Valley University out of the conference entirely, effective immediately.

 

Ms. Ray has declared Utah Valley not in good standing with the Western Athletic Conference and has removed them from all broadcasts the conference licenses.

Utah Valley is 17-6 on the season, 23 consecutive wins at home.  Fourth-longest streak in the nation.

The dispute appears to be that Utah Valley will be leaving the Western Athletic Conference -- or whatever the new conference is next year when they and the Atlantic Sun Conference merge next year.

This will cost the university seven figures (at least a million dollars), which the university has refused to put up.  The two sides are already in court litigation on the question.

This means that Utah Valley, leading in the conference (tied with Riverside, California's California Baptist University) will almost certainly be disqualified once the regular season ends, probably ending their season in a couple weeks. 

It does beg the question:  At what point does the ultimatum go out that no further games can be played with Utah Valley by other members of the conference? 

A new fucking low for the orange cocksucker...

Donald Trump, today, posted a video on his Truth Social account Thursday night (since deleted) depicting the Obamas as monkeys.

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And people wonder why I have had one visit from the Secret Service already in his second term, and that it is becoming harder to foresee not having a second one.

Super Bowl ICE: A betting tidbit with an ominous undertone...

It's the Friday before the Super Bowl, and ESPN has taken the pulse of the Las Vegas betting landscape on the game.

The books apparently will win nicely if it's a defensive struggle -- and the second reason they want it, given what has happened across American sports with the legalization of state gambling in about 3/4 of the states, should raise eyebrows.

The first reason is, after the institutional bettors slammed the total under at 46.5 when it opened after the conference championship games (moving the line to 45.5), the books expect the public to really hit the over on the game, thinking the NFL is going to want a high-scoring Fantastic Finish.

In fact, as of right now, at least two major books are reporting a slight skew of bets to the over.

The second reason is that a LOT of money is going down on spot-fixing abuse bets -- the props.  The passing yards and "anytime touchdowns" apparently are getting big numbers.  So big, Jason Smith-Njigba and Kenneth Walker III of the Seahawks are odds-on bets to get in the end zone at some point in Super Bowl LX.

(Kind of interesting when the current line and total indicate something of the order of 26-20 Seahawks.) 

Massive spot-fixing situation in Major League Baseball?

As people know, former Cleveland pitcher Emmanuel Clase is under indictment for spot-fixing pitches in various Major League games.

Now, we get an idea of at least an extent to the charges.  Documents today pulled by ESPN state that Clase, over the two-year period alleged that Clase is being indicted for, rigged pitches in no less than a quarter of the games he appeared.

In the period, Clase is now believed to have rigged pitches in at least 48 of the 197 games in which he appeared.

Three-time All-Star...

Best relief pitcher in the American League twice. 

$2 million in 2023, the first alleged year.

$2.9 million in 2024.

$4.9 million he would've been paid in 2025, with three more years, including two club options that would've gotten him $26,000,000 thereafter.

All for bettors in the Dominican Republic to win about a half million dollars, as currently alleged.

On top of suspended during COVID for 80 games for the substance policy.

I would not be out of line to start asking questions about not only his entire career, but how many games he has openly thrown as a Major League pitcher.

And then the real questions:  Why?  And who was being threatened to ensure compliance?? 

Super Bowl ICE: As expected, the Seahawks are far heavier favorites than Vegas has them to be...

And now we are getting the predictions, and they are about as expected.

ESPN has the Seahawks has heavy favorites among their cadre of NFL experts.

47 of the 57 polled believe they will win.

30 of them believe they will cover the 4.5.

20 of them believe they will win by double digits.  The Bengals reporter has them winning 30-10.

Let's be blunt:  The only reason the Patriots are here is government propaganda -- Patriots Are Champions.  It is clear that the Seahawks are the better of the two teams.

And, in the last few days, it appears that there may be the first angle that actually would have the Seahawks win the game, but it would require that the Trumpies stay out of it.

More on that later. 

Super Bowl ICE: It's official, the game has been overshadowed.

Today was Goodell's Super Bowl LX press conference, and his plate was full.

• For the second time, Goodell denied a $5,000,000 fine had been levied on the Seahawks for violations with respect to their ownership situation. I'd have to agree:  If things had gotten that far, I'd have to think the Rams would be in the Super Bowl.   
• Bad Bunny was raised, in light of statements that there are no planned immigration operations scheduled for the game.  Goodell looked forward to Bunny's performance, hoping it will unify (it won't, Terrorist Point USA has announced it's lineup too), and saying the Grammy winner understands the weight of the platform.  If anything happens as I expect, the NFL is also going to pay a heavy price.   
• Epstein was raised.  At least a pre-investigation will be held on Giants co-owner Steve Tisch.  From there, Goodell believes reporters are getting ahead of themselves.  No surprise.  Especially with even David Stern now probably a client, one almost has to wonder when we are going to find out Goodell was too -- that you don't get that high on the food chain without it.  And if we're going to investigate Tisch, how about the owners in New England, Washington, and Carolina?   
• The Belichick Hall of Fame controversy was also raised.  Goodell believes Belichick will be in Canton.
• The officiating got compliments from Goodell as to the quality of the officials.  Doing their jobs well.  Just not the jobs most people think the officials SHOULD be doing.    
• The Rooney Rule, in the face of ten white NFL head coaching hires, will be re-evaluated.  Does ANYONE see this as a surprise in White Right Donald Trump America?    

Super Bowl ICE: Bad Bunny appears to be preparing for a showdown...

Bad Bunny won three Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year, last night at the 68th annual awards.

He had this to say about ICE, drawing a standing ovation at the event, courtesy Entertainment Tonight:

 

Sounds to me someone is preparing for a showdown in a week.

The shit is hitting the fan...

Unsportsmanlike conduct, just about everybody...

Here are at least a couple recent examples:

• Tuskegee University coach Benjy Taylor was arrested on Saturday, and put in handcuffs on the court for an altercation with a police officer after a rivalry game at Morehouse.

Taylor was objecting to the presence of several Morehouse football players in the handshake line after Morehouse won a narrow victory over Tuskegee.  Taylor had reported several obscenities being fired from the football players at his team, and felt a confrontation would occur if the security breach was not rectified.

As seen from this HBCU sports video, it was not rectified...

We have new new footage and insight from Tuskegee 👀: https://t.co/eDyEz8cuSK pic.twitter.com/WdcYkcaCpE

— HBCU Gameday (@HBCUGameday) February 1, 2026

A lawsuit is planned, no further comment at this time. Unless there's more video than that shows which indicates otherwise, appears to me the Morehouse cops were WELL out of line!

• Here's a couple of recent brawls on the court to indicate more of the shit hitting the fan...

 

 

12 players were suspended, 8 for Aquinas. One of them got a six-game suspension for his role in the event.

After a flagrant foul, the officials confer, the player is correctly ejected. Obviously, the coach is unhappy with probably the call, but (given the game situation and things appearing to be about to get out of hand) correctly pulls his team from the floor, forfeiting the game. Three adults from the school which forfeited charge the floor and the winning team. One of the forfeited players attempts to intervene and is misinterpreted as trying to get involved, and it is ON. The ejected player got the standard one-game suspension, there is rumor (but I'm not finding it) that the forfeiting coach was fired.

Epstein: Brian Tuohy catches a DOOZY!!!!

David Stern!

And he's into orgies, probably underage ones, according to the Justice Department PDF drop!!!

(From X account "Basketball Examined")

 

Apparently David Stern was depraved enough to contact Epstein about orgies, but not depraved enough to rig basketball games for ratings/advertising & betting.#fanlogic@TheFixIsInTuohy pic.twitter.com/WU29Yhf4Tu

— Basketball Examined (@Bballexamined) February 1, 2026

Super Bowl ICE: Holding steady on the Vegas lines...

USA Today reports this morning that the line for Super Bowl LX still remains a farcical Seattle -4.5 -- even though the last ten meetings between the two teams were within one score at the two-minute warning.

Fanatics is back down to -4.5, after earlier being up at -5, according to Vegas Insider.  The only question, from there, is the juice you get.  It now does appear that most lines are at least tilting to Seattle, with the -4.5 most places now going -112 to -115, where the +4.5 now only means you lay somewhere -105 to -110.

(The Vegas Insider link will give you the current number, so if it changes, you'll see it there.) 

Money line is Seattle -225, New England +190.

Betonline.ag actually has a prop -- you get 20-1 (+2000) on Bad Bunny being arrested on stage during the halftime show.  (I'd lay a few bucks on that.  I have, more, wonder if someone might not actually shoot the guy during the show.)

ICE raiding a Super Bowl tailgate party in the parking lot will only get you 3-1 (+300) on the yes side.  (That surprises me.  If it's 20-1 for them to go all the way and take Bad Bunny out of the equation, why would it be as low as 3-1 for a parking lot incident?) 

On the other side of the coin, if you really wanna piss off MAGA, Bad Bunny is odds-on to don a dress during the halftime show (-150).  And there's a prop onto which style of dress he will wear. 

(Information courtesy lousianasports.net) 

Prediction Market Kalshi (as well as Polymarket) has the probability of a Seattle win at 68%.  This means that Seattle is actually a little overpriced in Vegas, as computational analysis indicates a 68% probability to win is about -212, rather than the -225 you are getting (about 69 1/4%).

However, that probability indicates that Seattle is UNDER-priced at -4.5 -- that the line should be effectively a touchdown (-6 to -6.5). 

The Transphobia Games: And this is no surprise whatsofuckingever...

Combining two recent threads...

Going through the Epstein Files, what do people see, but the head of Trumplympics Los Angeles Organizing Committee Casey Wasserman, in 2003 e-mails to Ghislaine Maxwell.

And Maxwell is still alive...  shockingly and for now.

And the head of the International Transphobia Committee, Kirsty Coventry, is having a sad over all the distractions the Trump influences (Epstein and ICE) are having over the Milan-Cortina Transphobia Games.

Awwwwwwwww...  Fuck off. 

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:

Well, well, well

The NFL team that goes to any length to play games on & off the field

No question in my mind the Kraft’s (or friends) let media know the Hawks would be up for sale. A tactic & ploy the Patriots would use to try and create distraction

Anyone surprised? pic.twitter.com/Bbs27q1Sy8

— Brock Huard (@BrockHuard) January 30, 2026

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.

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. 

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.

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!) 

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? 

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. 

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... 

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.

Stroud with an overthrow. Great play by Carlton Davis pic.twitter.com/dxfmpO46Aa

— NFL Interceptions (@interceptnfl) January 18, 2026

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

Stroud just throws it up while under pressure. Sometimes it’s better to take the sack, here’s a perfect example of that.

Leads to a Pats pick-6 pic.twitter.com/1UT2yZsEvp

— NFL Interceptions (@interceptnfl) January 18, 2026

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

This one is not Stroud’s fault. Hutchinson has to catch this, he had two hands on it.

Regardless, this is Stroud’s 3rd interception of the first half. Oof. pic.twitter.com/qXPUBLQKdM

— NFL Interceptions (@interceptnfl) January 18, 2026

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:

CJ Stroud with a full on disaster performance. His 4th interception of the first half. (3 his fault, 1 not his fault).

Carlton Davis gets his 2nd interception here pic.twitter.com/iaES1bXTw9

— NFL Interceptions (@interceptnfl) January 18, 2026

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.   

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.

I still think the Bills got screwed on this call.

At worst, it’s a simultaneous catch, which = Bills completion.

There’s no way this should have been a Broncos interception. He didn’t even have possession until the Bills receiver hit the ground

pic.twitter.com/OZtBrCgWk7

— Jon Root (@JonnyRoot_) January 18, 2026

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. 

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. 

More NFL scripting...

28 in the fourth, again.  Buffalo wins 27-24.

Three games, all at least 28 in the fourth. 

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.

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.

The NFL is the new WWE. Zero wind on this kick (Orange flags still as can be) and the kick goes that right??? Hmmm 🤔 #Rigged #Ravens #Steelers https://t.co/k6ZHXKOOPo

— Love! (@Sixth_Paths) January 5, 2026

• 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...

And the Ravens kicker, Tyler Loop, misses the game winning field goal in the same end zone the priest was seen blessing with holy water. The @Steelers are AFC North Champs pic.twitter.com/vrBVBohGA7

— SFI (@SFI412724) January 5, 2026

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 

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.