Ep 155- NFL Wk 11 Picks & Wk 10 Recap. CELTS-DUBS! Stacey Dales.

Ep 155- NFL Wk. 11 Picks & Wk. 10 Recap. Stacey Dales Is Savage vs. trolls. Give us a CELTICS vs. WARRIORS 16-bit Game! Listen to the podcast here; also available on iTunes Recorded Thursday, November 16, 2017 Hosts: Count Yorga & Jerkules Now you can follow us on Instagram: tfquarter420 Like The Fifth Quarter […]

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Ep 155- NFL Wk. 11 Picks & Wk. 10 Recap. Stacey Dales Is Savage vs. trolls. Give us a CELTICS vs. WARRIORS 16-bit Game!

Listen to the podcast here; also available on iTunes

Recorded Thursday, November 16, 2017

Hosts: Count Yorga & Jerkules

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EDITOR’S NOTE: Regrettably, this post isn’t as robust as other recent ones. Some of you may love that (you’re welcome). Either way, it’s because, life, and I wanted to tally my Jerkules’ Picks win-loss numbers so far this season to add here, and I hadn’t realized that I never kept track of said dumpster fire. Love y’all.

The cold weather’s up here in Toronto, but sport are still hot!

(I said that during the podcast, and I’m not proud of it, but…SQUIRREL!)

We even come at you with some MLB Awards talk, along with the ongoing sagas that are the NFL and NBA regular seasons.

But first, the NFL situation that not only won’t go away, but keeps complexifying. It started with Colin Kaepernick kneeling during the national anthem before NFL games, as a show of protest to the ongoing injustices with respect to race and the legal system. Now, in a turn of events that would have been fairly unexpected months ago, Cowboys owner Jerry “Emperor Palpatine” Jones has taken on a very direct assault upon NFL commissioner Roger Goodell.

Keep this in mind: Goodell represents the collective wishes of the owners of NFL franchises. Jones is one of those 32 owners. Jones’ threat of legal action against the ad hoc Compensation Committee that is drafting Goodell’s new contract isn’t so much biting the hand that feeds you, but biting one of your own 32 hands, if you had 32 hands. (And if you do, what are you doing reading this article? Surely you could be doing something really cool and/or illegal to get rich instead.)

The Emperor always strikes such an intimidating pose.

Well, those other 31 hands are fighting back. (Who knows; with Jones’ near-schizophrenic inebriation due to power it might be all 32 hands.) Forgive us for basking in the irony of the NFL trotting out the “conduct detrimental to the league,” but…

Ooooooh yeah.

We talk in-depth about this new insurgency by the Cowboys Empire. Check it.

Bedshitter of the Week – 16:00

We try (and often fail) every episode to anoint at least one person or team an award that goes to the biggest choke job, or soul-searing collapse in recent sports.

Listen – it wasn’t totally his fault, but head coach John Fox gets it for leading his Chicago Bears into Challenge-pocalypse like Spud from Trainspotting led his feces into his girlfriend’s mattress.

“Oy – It’s not me! It’s the shite rulebook!”

Here’s the play. Benny Cunningham appears to score a TD, but is called out at the 2-yard line. Fox believes otherwise, and challenges the play – hoping to get his team a touchdown. Instead, the dumbest rule in football is employed, giving the Packers the ball at their own 20-yard line. Again – the Packers didn’t have the ball, nor did they ever possess it during the play that ultimately led to them getting a touchback.

Rodger Sherman of The Ringer explains the shitty-shitty-shit rule, along with some alternatives to it.

PLEASE are you fucking kidding me, we can eliminate the force-out call, revamp overtime, scrap the Tuck Rule, but we can’t get rid of the SO MUCH MORE STUPID RULE?

Moving on.

Episode 155 is Dedicated To (20:45): Sometimes the stars align. This episode will reach many of you exactly 24 years ago – November 18, 1993. In Edmonton that day, a man set the Guinness Book of Records for most cigarettes smokes at once…with…155. His name: Jim Mouth. You’re welcome.

Simpsons equivalent thought of by Count Yorga.

To open this episode’s segments we play a new track from a classic brother – “Mutations” by Grand Analog. The group’s front man is Odario Williams, who now has a late night DJ gig with public radio in Canada. He first broke out as a member of the Winnipeg-based hip-hop duo Mood Ruff. In fact, one of their earlier tracks, “No Hooks” serves as a source for the sample that we use in the intro for this Podcast! #PROPS!

(One of these days, Odario, I’ma make you pull out some of those breaks moves.)

Also, “Mutations” features none other than Posdanous (aka Plug 3) from De La Soul!

Also, it starts at 22:55, if you’re that cold.

#PROPS & #DROPS – 25:25

If you’ve already worked clicking on the fuckin websiiiiiiiiite into your routine, YOU’RE NOT DONE YET. Follow us on Twitter, where we will occasionally give a thumbs-up or –down ruling on something in the world of sports. We’ll hashtag that shit PROPS or DROPS, and then we’ll turn right around and set you all up with more of them in every episode. To wit:

I’ma add these later. And I still haven’t added the tally for Jerkules’ Picks. Deal.

For Your Read! – 59:00

We know – we get it. We’re not really supposed to read these days. We’re supposed to glance. Multitasking win!* As I’m sure Dr. Steve Brule would recommend, read something kind of long, or at least nuanced, ya jackass. Hair on your chest, blah blah. Read!

*- Loss.

Here you get a nice ditty from Jonathan Tjarks about possible NBA lineups that could try to stand up to Golden State’s Lineup of Death. Like Jyn Urso stands up to the tidal wave of explosion that ends her in Rogue One. But it’s still an enlightening read.

Weekly Woodshed – 1:01:15

One thing you can always trust sports for is its lack of empathy for the weak. Almost any day of the year, some athlete or team is dominating and embarrassing the living shit out of an opponent. We try to shine a spotlight on these heinous landslide victories because, well, some of us think the underdog deserves to die.

Count Yorga serves us up a nice NBA beating.

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Splashtown vs. Brick City – 1:03:55

(After a brief musical interlude)

Throughout the NBA season we take a more in-depth look at players, teams, trends, play designs, blah, blah and then we assign the topic either to the good city of the bad one. Just try and guess which is which.

The NFL Bug Zapper – 1:24:10

RIP Richard Sherman’s season (achilles).  This section depresses me.

NFL Shitwatch – Week 10/11 – 1:25:25

Each week during the NFL season, we grab some shades, whistles, Hasselhoff, and we go on NFL Shitwatch! The NFL is the shit these days, with lots of crazy shit going on, teams that are the shit – and others that are just plain, well, shit. But fear not, we’re on the lookout!

Who’s cuter – us, or the shit?

I review last week’s key games, as per our shit categories. Check it.

Jerkules’ Picks – 1:49:15

RAMS win @ VIKINGS -2.5

BROWNS over JAGUARS +7.5

PACKERS over RAVENS -3.0 (I regret this one already)

CHIEFS win @ GIANTS +13.5

SAINTS over SCALPERS +7.5

TEXANS over CARDINALS +1.5

LIONS win @ BEARS +3.0

BUCS win @ DOLPHINS -3.0

CHARGERS over BILLS +4.0

PATRIOTS win @ RAIDERS +5.5

BENGALS win @ BRONCOS -2.5

EAGLES win @ DALLAS +3.5 SNF

FALCONS win @ SEAHAWKS -3.0 MNF

 

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