And the most unsurprising living CTE case in the history of football continues...

Antonio Brown is going to plead out to his attempted murder case -- two weeks after the victim basically said they didn't wanna be part of it anymore.

As I believed when this started, is anyone at all surprised that the biggest CTE case in the history of the NFL got tied up in an attempted murder rap?

Seriously??

Not by my hand, but Antonio Brown is a dead man walking.  The only question is who he finally pisses off enough to get offed.

Week Two, After Further Review, Week Two: Not a doubt in my mind... But the NFL wanted to make sure for both itself and Vegas...

After the DUI earlier in the week, there was no chance Indy was going to win.

So why, Chiefs lovers ask, was THIS PLAY allowed to be reversed?

Referees overturned what was initially called a game-ending fumble after a 48-yard catch by Laquon Treadwell pic.twitter.com/ppwyOw6eWD

— Jomboy Media (@JomboyMedia) September 21, 2026

Why?

For the last...  possible...  second...  field goal for the Chiefs, including Mr. Taylor Swift with the Mrs. showing off the ring after he scores the first touchdown of the night.

EDIT TO ADD Monday Morning 7:45 AM PDT:  AND Colts coach Shane Steichen says the 4th and 8 that they took the FG, went for the tie, and gave the ball back to Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs for the winning drive, they'd have gone for it...  if the coverage was right?

You can't make up this comedy!!!

And, not only that, but they get the Vegas bettors on the Chiefs -6.

The house wins, three different ways.  NBC gets a last-second overtime winner, the Chiefs win, and the Chiefs do not cover.

Some thoughts on Week Two

• Last week the Bears scored 59 points.  This week:  3.  Minnesota is 2-0 in two of the ugliest wins this league has produced in some time.
• And, while we're on the subject: Last week, the Panthers gave up 59 points and lost 59-37. Well, they got one thing consistent this week: They scored 34 -- but only gave up 3!!!
• The 49ers will go 2-0, and the march toward a very probable 0-16 for the Dolphins continues apace.  As I start this bullet-point post, it's 35-6 San Francisco over Miami in the 3rd.
• Somebody's getting fined this week...

“The players have no idea”

New Orleans Saints player Julian Blackmon says on Instagram “bad day for the sportsbooks” as he hauls in a telegraphed on purpose Lamar Jackson interception. Of course which made it a great day for the books. They will all burn pic.twitter.com/WLvrBLoU3l

— Behold A Pale Horse (@BeholdPaleH0rse) September 20, 2026

Hmmm...  Methinks the players are often co-participants.

• Oh great...  DeRapist Rapist actually won one.  In a lightning storm where most sane NFL fans would ask if it could take both teams out, the Browns actually won one -- 23-20 over the Buccaneers in Tampa.
• Early in the day, several taunting calls got even a friend of Tom Grossi angry enough to rant over X, and got that trending.  And most of Football Nation America wants mouths to be allowed to be shot off.  You do realize, it's punches next...   

Wow, that was a scripted production...

There was no doubt that the Bills were going to win the first game in their new stadium tonight.

The Lions more than made sure of that with a number of indisciplined penalties, effectively zero defense, and basically a full surrender job after a turnover at 34-24 in the fourth.

But they still scored another touchdown to make it 41-31, and make the Buffalo Bills the first team in NFL history to go 2-0, giving up over 30 points in both games.

Let me give you an idea of how thrown this was on the part of the Lions -- AND how much the NFL had to struggle not to completely lose it's Amazon audience.

• The Buffalo Bills got almost 300 yards of offense in their first four drives in the first half, all resultant in touchdowns.
• It's 27-7, third down, Buffalo's driving again about their 40 yard line.  Josh Allen scrambles and appears to have the first down if he keeps running.
• So he shovels the ball off to a receiver, who drops it because he didn't expect, fourth down, the game's first Buffalo punt.
• With 6 seconds left, Detroit decides to run the ball to confuse the Buffalo defense, and Buffalo gets called for tripping the ball carrier.  (Only thing that would've mattered was the distance -- there WAS one second left and Detroit had a time out.)  Bugger if we could see it on the replay.
• Field goal -- 27-10 at halftime.
• At that point, I call it during the halftime...

So let's see.

A "bad decision" for the first Buffalo stop, a phantom tripping call, and it's 27-10 at half.

27-17 incoming, and perhaps more?? #TNF #Rigged ???

— Michael Falkner (@MichaelFalpxmr) September 18, 2026

• Wouldn't you know it?  27-17 after about a six-minute drive.
• But then the Bills dogwalk the Detroit "defense" on an EIGHT-MINUTE drive for 34-17.
• Then Detroit decides people still need to be watching the game in the fourth quarter -- five-minute drive, 34-24.
• They get the stop...
• And then 3 and out, and that's the surrender.
• Touchdowns are traded for 41-31, the final.

And I guess we, at least for Sunday, have to go on Record Watch.

The 72 points tonight means the first 17 games in this NFL season have now scored 862 points.  An average of 50.71 points per game.

That is an NFL record for 17 games.  Remember that Week 1 tied the NFL record for most points in a Week 1 with 2002.  Only one game in that Week 2 beat the 71 -- and that was a 45-39 overtime game, also with Buffalo winning, this time over Minnesota.

Time to amend my Dud of the Week List for Week 1.

Nope, we have a new winner.

And since I've already awarded the medals, this gets the DIAMOND MEDAL -- above gold.

And it deserves it too.

The winner?

The NFL itself!

For complete ignorance of the laws of this nation and the resultant abuse of the YouTube copyright system.

Why?

This.

This is what shitposter UrinatingTree had to do to get a Week 1 Sportsball commentary piece out this week, after a number of attempts yesterday ended in NFL copyright takedowns to refuse monetization of the video.

I tried everything I could to get this out tonight, but couldn't get it done. I'm sorry, guys. I think I have a solution that gets through, but I'm worried it'll be borderline unwatchable. https://t.co/dKMQO7fMfQ

— UrinatingTree (@UrinatingTree) September 17, 2026

Don't get me wrong.  I am certain UrinatingTree is getting targeted here.

After all, he's talked so much shit about the Steelers that, without even Tweeting them directly, they blocked him.

And before anyone questions it, here's the Fair Use Index from the US Copyright Office themselves.  Unless they want to declare all game content to be damaging to the monetary interests of the NFL, this qualifies under Fair Use.

The NFL does not want their games shitposted, even by someone as skilled as the Yinzer.

So what happens next?  Do the game streams of commentary from the likes of UrinatingTree and Tom Grossi get yoinked?  After all, the disclaimer on all the other sports is "pictures AND accounts"!

Assholes.

EDIT TO ADD, about a week later:  A few days later, I have to be fair here, the NFL rescinded it and the OG Cut, as Tree put it, was posted.  We'll see what happens THIS WEEK...

After Further Review, Jake The Awake, Week 1

I don't agree with a lot of his non-football stands, but Jake the Awake does a nice job of chronicling plays he believes show the "rig-aroni with a side of baloney" the NFL has.

Unlike me, Jake concentrates more on what he calls "slop plays" -- plays that show that the players are more like professional wrestlers and choreograph plays to ensure results.

(With one usual exception that I think we will see at least one of.  I'll get to that.)

So, here's Week One's Top 10 of Jake's Slop Plays.

And, already something to note:  Denver missed so many tackles Monday (28) that they gave up the most yards after missed tackles in eight years (247).  So, knowing Jake as I do, I have a feeling there will be more than one play from that game to back up the top of the video bullet point there.

This isn't even in his Top Ten, but the first part shows that two Broncos players basically pantomime tackling Patrick Mahomes on his touchdown run.

10)  Detroit-New Orleans. 14-0 Detroit, and they have the ball after a New Orleans turnover in the 3rd quarter.

Amon Ra-St. Brown appears to have a route that's going to take him through three New Orleans defenders.  First defender takes the other receiver, second one pratfalls, the safety never helps, St. Brown catches wide open for the score.  21-0.

9)  Dallas-Giants.  58 seconds to go in the half, 7-7.

Dak Prescott, per Jake, is the most-highlighted player in the history of his Slop Plays series, and it's interceptions, usually.  Scrambles backwards INTO pressure.  Throws an abject DUCK a mile into the air off his back foot, only player who can get it is the player who can pick it on the sideline for the Giants.

Stands to reason, doesn't it?  Prescott would have to be a coparticipant in a lot of this with how the league cannot feasibly afford the Cowboys to be representatives as champions.

8)  Packers-Vikings.  No, this is not the drive in which the Vikings were all but handed a score either through mass indiscipline or the refs. 25-22, 3rd and 17.

And the Vikings just jailbreak the shitty Packer O Line, which had the worst pass block rate in the league for Week 1 -- and not close!  Back-to-back sacks, back-to-back fumbles, and the Vikes get the ball to start the rout.

7) Packers-Vikings, next drive.   4 minutes to go, 32-22, and Jordan Love needs to make a comeback...

And he throws a pick that almost gets returned all the way -- three plays later, it's the Vikings' third touchdown of the quarter for the final score.  Even though he had three open receivers on the play, including one cutting at the other side of the field with NO ONE CLOSE.

6) And here we go with the exception, when Jake breaks out his singing voice.  "Return of the Mack" -- I mean, "Return of the Doink", a chronicle of all the videos of doinks, which Jake almost certainly correctly notes are magnet-assisted.

SF-Rams in Australia (if the ref is going to use the goal signal for a field goal from Aussie Rules, doesn't that mean this one is only worth one point if it had been made?), Arizona-Chargers (particularly flagrant one, looks like the kick is straight to the left and curves out to doink out the RIGHT SIDE), and I thought I heard at least one in the Monday nighter as well which was MADE...

5) Chicago-Carolina -- you almost could've seen this one coming for at least one play.  24-24 near halftime.

Caleb Williams escapes pressure and finds a seam in the pocket to start running.  No problems here.  And he's got one guy to beat...  Except the guy literally runs out the back of the end zone to take himself out of the play for the free touchdown, Williams' second on the ground in the first half.

4) Eagles-Commanders.  17-16, six minutes to go in the game.

Three guys give Dallas Goedert a cushion, and all of them can't be arsed to make the play.  42 yards later, Goedert gets his second TD of the game, and that basically IS the game for Philadelphia.

3) New England-Seattle, and it's the suspicious interception.

Off the back foot again, and the only guy who can get it is wearing Seahawks colors.  Game over, champs win, thanks for coming.

2) Chiefs-Broncos. 7-7. late second quarter.

Rashee Rice gets the ball and one player completely misses him, even though he is otherwise squared up on him.  He doesn't even remotely attempt to wrap up on him.

1) Chiefs-Broncos, no score...

Until at least two players don't even try to tackle Mahomes for the Chiefs first touchdown.

2026 Week One Score Report, before the Monday Nighter....

Noted on Reddit (and I apparently have been reinstated to X again -- that makes TWICE on account #...  10?  12???)...

Anyhow, it has been noted that the record for Week 1 scoring was set in 2002 at 791 points, which would be an average of 49 and change for the week.

Even after a 13-10 opener and a 27-7 game in Australia, we now stand at 750 points -- a flat 50 per game.

Now, both quarterbacks are coming off major injuries, etc.  But if the Monday nighter can get 41 or more....

After Further Review, Week One, Part Two: The Packer Fan's Lament

Said I'd cover this if I found it, and I did.

Found it on Reddit.

One drive, four different plays.

And only one of them MIGHT have been a 100% good call as it had a part to play in the go-ahead touchdown in the fourth quarter for Minnesota.

It's 22-17 Green Bay.

Play One:  3rd and 11, 11:03 to go.  First down for illegal contact, #7 Green Bay.  A sack is negated.

He has a five-yard zone, but appears to be committing defensive holding on the play -- not illegal contact.  The contact appears to begin at the five yards.

Play Two:  3rd and 3, 9:15 to go.  First down for roughing the passer, Clay Matthews Rule.

Watch that he's gonna get fined for this.  You can't put weight on the quarterback.  Your only possible mitigation is if you believed #74 Minnesota shoves him into the quarterback.

Play Three, no call.  3rd and 3, 9:09.  Jaire Alexander is mugged by #76 of Minnesota, no call.  Vikings gain 28 on the play.

Play Four:  3rd and 5 at the Green Bay 6.  Defensive holding negates an interception.  That may have been the only 100% call of the four.

Dud of the Week, entering Monday Night of Week 1

Yep, Monday night had a big one.  Not big enough to crack the top three, but to add a mention to it...

DISHONORABLE MENTIONS:

Drake Maye.  Look, you may be early in your third year and all, but you are the defending AFC champions and would otherwise have some political pull ("Patriots Are Champions" and all...).  23/33 isn't bad -- three picks, including a suspiciously-underthrown ball at the end to hand the game to Seattle for the Champs' Opener is another thing.

The Carolina defense, or whatever that was which approximated it.  The good news:  The league got a game in the 90's this week.  (According to Wikipedia, it tied for the 12th highest scoring game in the history of the league at 96 -- 59-37.) The bad news for Carolina is Chicago hung nearly 60 on them.

Pro Football Reference and Stathead.  Who now charge $9 a month for what I used to be able to do for free.  I'd like to try to find the last defense who literally got 60 hung of them, but it's now $9 a month to do so!

That one was unplanned, but the rant stands.

HONORABLE MENTION to Statmuse, who apparently has it.  59 points ties for the 23rd most points in the history of the league by one team.  The last team to get 60 or more was, shockingly, the Las Vegas Raiders, who hung 63 on the LA Chargers on a Thursday night squash December 14, 2023 -- just three months after Miami hung 70 on Denver!

Back to the DISHONORABLE MENTIONS:

The Tennessee Titans.  If this turns out to be a shock year for the Jets, this may be retroactively removed.  But no one has confused the Jets for any degree of a football team in quite a while.  So you lay a non-competitive 23-10 egg at home to the JETS????

Added Monday Night:  The Denver Broncos.  Look, I know there was a lot of help -- including that Mr. Travis Kelce was shown in her skybox with Tom Cruise seven times in the game.  That said, you could've deigned to show up, right???

And now, the medalists:

THE BRONZE MEDAL (again, pending tonight):  The two apparent front-runners in the annual UrinatingTree Tank Bowl for the #1 Draft Pick:  The Cleveland Browns and the Miami Dolphins.

You could've deigned to show up.  Either of you.

And I think the bigger indictment might be on the Browns, because they are money-stuck on DeRapist Rapist, even though it's clear that motherfucker doesn't have any business in the NFL at all -- on the field or off the field considerations.  But yesterday's decision-making may expose that Prime Time's kid has even less!

And, without Tua now, the Dolphins might have no one anyone is going to care about.  So that's two candidates right there for Arch Manning's services if the rigging and pimping of the Manning kid continues at Texas.

THE SILVER MEDAL:  Matt LaFleur in general.

If the games were any bit of legitimate, LaFleur would be fired this morning as the coach of the Green Bay Packers.

Why?

• 22 in the fourth and 29 unanswered yesterday for the Vikings to blow out the Pack in the opener.
• 25 in the fourth to go from 20-6 up to a 31-27 loss in Chicago in last year's playoffs.
• 14 unanswered in the fourth to lose to Baltimore in Week 17.
• 16 unanswered in the fourth and overtime to go from 16-6 up to lose 22-16 in the second regular-season meeting to Chicago.

The Packers have now lost six in a row.  The last four of the regular season last year, the playoff game, and the opener this year.  That list is just fourth quarters in that losing streak.

The NFL rigs its games so that you win them in the fourth quarter -- often with ridiculous comebacks.

If there were any legitimacy to the contests at all, it's long past time for LaFleur to go.

However, it isn't.  And, as a result, in part...

THE GOLD MEDAL, THE DUD OF THE WEEK:  The next two major names on the NFL Discipline Blotter, probably:  Puka Nacua and Josh Jacobs.

You don't think the league is sending a message here in both of these cases.

Puka Nacua, after torpedoing last season with his mouth against the league, is in a civil lawsuit against a woman who claims Nacua threw an antisemitic slur (apparently not his first that month, according to Wikipedia!) and bit her last New Year's Eve.  He went into rehab in the offseason.

In the Australia game, a Rams superteam favored to go to and win the Super Bowl was blown to bits by the San Francisco 49ers 27-7 in a game not nearly THAT close.

And now superteam acquisition Myles Garrett is going under the knife for a knee and will miss at least four weeks.

And then Josh Jacobs, the star running back of the Packers, who pled no contest to misdemeanor charges stemming from a May arrest.  And you saw above what happened to the Packers, after another supposed fourth-quarter collapse...

... with many Packer fans bitching about the calls.  If I can find video, I'll get back to you on that.  But I have six words for you Packer fans:

Dez Caught It and Ezekiel Elliott.

Get used to it.  The Pack won't even go .500 this year.

Called it. The league does not tolerate star players with domestic violence...

22-17 Green Bay after 3.

39-22 Minnesota at the end.  22 unanswered in the fourth.

And Packer Fan is bitching about the calls in the fourth.

Dez Caught It -- and that's the first part of learning why.

The Packers won't even be in this year's playoffs.

Extension and Further Remarks From Last Night's Pigfucker Bribe

The more I think about it, the more I think it's endemic to this blog.

Donald Trump's $5,000 a head bribe if the Republicans retain both houses of Congress is massively inflationary in the Republican mindset.

And then there's the question of how to pay for it.

I think it's clear how he's going to pay for it:  A massive pile of millions of American dead bodies.

It's BLOOD MONEY.

Start with the transgenders, that's 3 million gone.

Then you kill all the homeless, that's another million admitted and probably far more.

Then the lifers in prison and the mentally ill.

Are we getting to the point of a trillion dollars believed saved yet?

If not, then you get to the noncompliant, and then start sprinkling in some "Communists and Socialists" (read: Democrats).

PS:  And then a Zerohedge commenter with another prescient point.  Most of the money, he believes, is going to end up in prediction markets or fantasy sports (or both).

And then I remembered how much of a stake the Trump regime has in the former!

PPS:  The Republicans will hold the Senate.  I've always believed it, but last night's stunt by Fetterman to actually appear in support of Trump at the REPUBLICAN midterm convention should seal the deal for the general public.  Even if the Democrats get to 51, he then jumps.

As the minority party, he can drag the party to the right.

This Michigan-Western Michigan situation is going to get someone sued...

And I would not rule out, if you want to be a Wolverine fan, etc., that it wouldn't be NBC.

I return you to the video in which NBC clearly shows the ball never touched before the clock went zero:

It's a different video, but it's the same thing I showed before.  The relevant replay starts at about 10 seconds or barely 11.

I have screenshotted the relevant situation.

If you blow it up big enough, you can see the ball, just past the goalpost support and not touched by any player on either team, in or out of bounds.  The clock clearly reads triple-zero.

Why am I so precise?

Because the Big Ten Conference is officially claiming this did not happen.  (Again, I have to link the video instead of just embedding the Tweet for a few more days.)

The Big Ten has an official position that THAT SAME CLOCK read 0:01.  Watch the video in the link.

Someone has just committed sue-able malfeasance.  Because either NBC is trying to manufacture something which is not the case to manipulate the game on their end (which probably is NOT legal, in the face of the Big Ten doing otherwise -- in the infinitesimal chance the Big Ten is not lying through their teeth), or NBC is being thrown under the bus by the Big Ten and being so accused.

If the Big Ten is telling the truth (and I do not believe they are), they are telling you you can never trust another NBC telecast, at any level.  If I'm the Big Ten Conference at that point, I want a new broadcast partner, first available opportunity.

For the record, I believe the Big Ten spliced the video.

In other news, Catturd is a moron.

He is anyway, but ultra-right-wing X poster Catturd stepped in it this morning in a manner far more endemic to this blog.

Since I'm still on disqualification, I'll link it here.

And he's already being owned on it.

The NFL opener is tomorrow in Seattle for the champs, as is tradition.  (The game was moved to Wednesday to accommodate the Australia game.)

The Australia game is Thursday night our time, Rams vs. 49ers.

Follow-up on the Michigan-Central Michigan rig-job...

I'd really like to know what clock they're using.

Go back to the video I posted.  It shows a brief moment of the replay with an auxiliary clock (NOT the unofficial NBC one on the scorebug -- watch the brief replay on the video I posted or any longer replay you have).  And, as I have always understood, that is the clock they use for time determination on review.

The ball is still several frames in the air before the player touches it (and yes, the player was out of bounds when he jumped, so he would be out and the ball incomplete at the moment of touching) -- and since you are video-reviewing, you can stop it at 0:00 live.

The conferences and Central Michigan have released statements accepting the result.

How much more did they pay you, Central Michigan, to walk away from state superiority in the Big House?

Asking for a friend.

And we've got a live one in Week One!!!

Western Michigan defeated #16 Michigan 12-7 today at the Big House.

That's not what anyone will tell you.

Ladies and gentlemen, a rigged result.

As expected, he got waived...

Brock Rechsteiner's NFL career is over.

He will spend his six-week steroid suspension as a free agent, cut by the Saints today.

Gee, Brock, trying to tell us something as to your NFL aspirations?

This may get Al Michaels thrown off NFL broadcasts...

Knowing the NFL's ties to the military, government, and to Trump.

That said (with the reminder that the NFL does not allow embeds -- and an additional reminder this was actually posted by a MAGA piece of shit), in this particular case (and to those who might disagree on other stands, in this one ONLY):

All hail Al Michaels!

The world of college sports is ending, people...

The recent court rulings rendering NFL training-camp invitees eligible to return to college and the NCAA has finished the job.

We're just watching the final downfall:

• The Big XII has banned all professional athletes from any sport.
• The SEC is going further:  Any school which offers professional athletes a path of return is DONE WITH THE CONFERENCE.  They lose their voting rights, half their athletic budget, and their head coach for at least half a season.
• The Big Ten has at least banned NFL returns.
• The ACC, the last of the "Power 4", is considering joining them.

The question now is simple:  Who's the first school which is gonna walk?

An anachronism has been completely and finally put to bed...

The Pro Bowl Games -- and that meaning any on-field Pro Bowl itself -- finally died today.

And, as I've already seen in one Discord server with the report -- Nothing Of Value Was Lost.

The rampant sacrifice to football -- THEY ALL HAVE CTE!!! ALL OF THEM.

And the article in MSN from Amy Tennery deliberately obfuscates the situation.

878 former NFL players have died between the years of 2016 and 2021.

The article states at least one in four -- 215 of them -- had their brains tested and found CTE within them.

There's only one problem with the findings.

Not all of the brains were donated to science.

235 of them were.

That means almost 90% of the donated brains were found to have CTE -- an effective finding that every one of the brains donated had the disease.

That the basic finding should be that THEY ALL HAVE CTE.

EVERY LAST ONE OF THEM.

ALL OF THEM.

The findings also assert that the players are already beyond brain-damaged before they even hit the NFL -- that the players are fucked by youth football and high school football and college football too.