Enjoy your Thanksgiving, all. Thanks for the readership. And I know this is a chicken, not a turkey. It works with what I wrote.

November 26, 2014 Filler

Read it, don’t read it, I don’t care…just needed to get some things off my chest.

In no particular order of chronology or importance…

On the clock. Evening rant. Speed version. Let’s turn and burn.

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Greetings and salutations, people. Thanks for coming aboard (the boat). It is a speed version because I am tired of my laptop for day and would like to think I do other things besides blog on the night before Thanksgiving. We are doing one sentence style, folks. Some of you enjoy that better, and some of you might not. But, it is what it is tonight. For newbies, I am restricted to one sentence per thought-it is tough for me.
You don’t really need to know about basketball to understand that going 22-72 in team shooting is not good, but that 29 offensive rebounds will balance out that in a win by Butler over favored UNC.
29 offensive rebounds by an opponent the most in Mr. Williams history at UNC.
Will someone PLEASE check that Bahamas locker room to see if the UNC team trashed THAT?
Hurry up and get that home and home, UCLA and UK, as that will be an awesome matchup once Alford continues the build of HIS team.
The Jets just gave Michael Vick enough time to get any rhythm with the first team, and now Geno Smith will take the reigns-wow, that team is confusing.
Do you think your teammates “brushed you off” in disassociation because your stupidity made the team lose their #1 receiver for most of the season, Josh Gordon?
Big Ben says he would trade SB rings for MVP trophies and I didn’t even know he was in the MVP conversation…and I am a Steelers fan.
I just looked and he is not in contention…they are silly.
I bet you that Ryan Fitzpatrick is all warm and fuzzy inside about getting the starting nod because of Mallet’s injury.
Mr. 48 on the Wonderlic, people.
My brief rating of Mockingjay is that it was better than I expected, not as good as the first two, should be watched by you, lacked constant excitement, but had three scenes that were off the hook in intensity whether you knew what would happen or not.
Side note is that you won’t fully appreciate certain scenes without reading the book, so go with someone who read it.
Maggiano’s in Denver has a $40 special for two salads, two entrees, one dessert, and two TAKE HOME entrees that is utterly ridiculous as far as servings.
Ridiculously GOOD.
And the Dice-K saga is now complete with the lowered expectations guy now shopping for homes near baseball fields in Japan allegedly.
Just take a deep breath sometime and read one of the Deadspin Funbags as I rate it just below the Bill Simmons mailbag in quality. http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/help-my-cat-wants-a-handjob-1662799116
Have a couple drinks, turn on the tube, and find a Robot Chicken episode-it is weird, absolutely abrasive as hell, and very funny.
By the way, where the HELL is Drunk History?
Durant and Westbrook are back “at practice” now, and mathematicians and Matt Damon from Good Will Hunting are working around the clock presently to figure out a team in the ridiculous WEST with a 3-12 record could possibly dig its way out into ANY home court playoff round.
I rarely am confused by SI cover stories, but Jordy Nelson confuses me as a deep threat worthy of a magazine cover.
Y. Hilton averages more yards per catch than Jordy does-we have NOTHING else going on the sports world that is above all of their competitors?
Brett Hundley announcing he will be leaving school is not odd, but announcing it WHILE his team is presently trying to get into the college football playoff IS.
I don’t believe Les Miles on much, but I believe him saying Odell Beckham, Jr. did those kind of things in LSU’s practice all the time.
Let’s just put Thibs and Derrick Rose in a ring and see what happens.
The undercard is Gruden and RGIII.
Maybe I have that reversed…
The Falcons are at home this week and firmly in the driver’s seat of their division at….4-7.
I am pretty happy with my early season pickup of Justin Forsett right now in fantasy.
Love how the Red Sox went out and got hitters and the Giants immediately started talks with Jon Lester.
Could be Bumgarner, Cain, Lincecum, Lester, and Hudson-wow.
And Lincecum is the weak link of that group-wow, if at ALL a starter at all.
Still pretty sure the Red Sox will be winning more than 71 games this year.
Articles about Timofey Mozgov are better read on Deadspin. http://deadspin.com/timofey-mozgov-has-a-very-important-message-for-you-1662770590
Richard Sherman does some dumb stuff, but loved his Marshawn Lynch parody vs. the NFL was awesome.
Raise your hand if you care about the Hernandez double murder trial getting delayed.
Raise your hand if you knew who Connor Barth was before this week.
Raise your hand if you think LeBron James should spend his time practicing and not getting political.
Raise your hand if you are confused on which record Messi broke THIS week.
Raise your hand if you still kind of chuckled in a mean way when reading the headline about a “cricketer,” and then stopped laughing when you realized the word “coma” was in that same headline.
Dammit, sorry nothing about hockey again this rant-I don’t MEAN to…just too much other stuff going on.
Plus, the Flyers are 8-9.
I think I lost a little regular season interest when they made these funky new, oddly named, MONSTROUS divisions.
Metropolitan???
When Randy Johnson gives his HOF speech once elected, I think that A) he will look like he can still throw 95, and B) will still be scary.
So thankful the Steelers were classy in releasing LeGarrette Blount, and so sad we have one good back on the roster now.
So thankful that they WEREN’T classy and release a college chick raping 6’5” QB?
So thankful that CNNSI thought of the term Johnny Footbrawl after Kid Wonder got into an entourage fight.
I wish I had an entourage, but I guess I need one friend that I hang out with regularly before I can have ten…baby steps.
So thankful that Jeff Taylor is sucking it up, apologizing, and not appealing his domestic abuse ban.
Sad about Eric Berry, and get well, kid.
If it wasn’t for social media and internal digital signs at my work, my fiancée, and my family, no one would ever know when my birthday came and gone.
Am I supposed to respond to everyone on Facebook who wished me a happy birthday, or can I assume they have noticed I don’t go on FB unless I am tagged by Lindsey?
I HAVE changed my “profile picture,” but that is because it involves a beach.
I forgot to mention in a previous blog the idiotic Raiders celebration, and I am thankful that it happened to a team still searching for a win.
But I guess their excitement for a play WOULD override things like the next snap when they have very small victories.
Jerry Jones still has a flip phone as we know from October 2013, OR he is so rich that he CHOSE to have a smarter phone built AS a flip phone.
BUT, Bob Kraft’s phone is better I think. http://www.barstoolsports.com/boston/super-page/mr-krafts-flip-phone-is-the-most-outstanding-thing-in-the-world-right-now/
I think Wisconsin and Arizona are great, future Final Four teams, but who the HELL is voting them as #1 before we see ANYTHING that tells us Kentucky is not.
(Hold on) I am chuckling about the image of those smooth looking, huge UK kids playing against the dorky, but amazingly effective Frank Kaminsky.
Did someone remind that Soviet coach on his deathbed about the Miracle on Ice, because that would be WAY ruder than anything I write in here?
That sounded rude, but I am picturing a scene, and he is dead, so he can’t read this thing.
And my following in Russia is pretty slim thus far…must be the lack of hockey thus far this year.
Still love the movie Miracle…not as much as Hoosiers, but love it.
Thoughts and prayers to the family of Pat Quinn. He is a loss to the hockey world.
I am thankful to go to UVA, get beat a couple times off the dribble by future HOF’er Dawn Staley in Slaughter Rec games, and see that her South Carolina girls are now #1 in the nation.
I also had to guard during my time there THESE goon 6’5″ peeps.
This week’s example of baseball players getting overpaid-Kyle Seager gets 7/$100 million from the Mariners.
He is good, but that is a lot of money…just saying.
Thanks SO much to the people who read this, and you know I pour my heart into it.
Yes, I make fun of my school when the chance arises…the UVA goose guy unless you live in a cave. http://247sports.com/Bolt/Man-brings-fake-goose-to-a-UVA-game-sings-to-it-wins-forever-33225763
Dammit, I hate that Journey song with all of my heart, which occurs after hearing people do it every single night while I was forced to listen to it bartending…for 14 years.
Only from UVA, and I forgive me if I already posted this. http://www.nbc29.com/story/22008156/2-uva-students-create-anti-drunk-dialing-app
I may or may not have really needed this in my life for the last 15 years.
I will be thankful someday when someone figures out that there are just as knowledgeable football people with more pleasant voices to listen to than Cris Collinsworth.
Last night’s Mockingjay movie interrupted my consecutive nights of Game of Thrones watching.
So is Thanksgiving…well, maybe.
I would recommend in NOT hitting “images” on Google while you are on season 2…almost saw something but I looked away.
I like going up to Lindsey’s parents on Thanksgiving more than Christmas because her dad actually likes football, and I have to literally fight, find another TV, or deal with sarcastic comments about basketball on Christmas.
I always go backwards reading magazines and writing my blog, and I have already covered Mr. Beckham’s catch in detail.
I might edit this thing with pictures even though it is a one sentence catch. I have decided to skip the concert I was going to go to down the street. I might be missing out, but will be just as happy sitting on couch watching NBA and college basketball.
College picks as I assume Mr. Royal’s NFL picks will be interrupted with Army and going home stuff:
That is it. Hope you enjoyed or are at least more informed. Will I blog tomorrow? That is a CLOWN question, bro.
Just a tagline. I am watching football, eating some turkey, and then most likely coming home to watch 8 Game of Thrones episodes if Lindsey ok’s it. Happy Thanksgiving to you all. I will miss spending it with my family, but know my thoughts are with you all out east.
WHOOOOAAAA. Late entry via my lady (yes, I call her “my lady” a lot more since GOT watching). This is AMAZING and the funniest thing you will see all day. Evolution of dance with Fallon and Will Smith. CLICK on it.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTpn30Pms8I