Sunday, November 13, 2016

Jets football Gameday!

Yes, just the Jets today. The Giants play on Monday soooooooooooo fuck them.

The future is here Jets fans, Bryce Petty, the second year phenom out of that dirty school of Baylor, is the new starting QB. With Ryan Fitzpatrick out with an injury it's Petty's start today vs the Rams over at the New Meadowlands at 1pm. Of course should Petty stink or get hurt the new NEW future arrives in the form of former Penn State QB Christian Hackenberg. Either way both look better than the god-awful idea the Rams had to draft Jared Goff who according to reports out of Los Angeles say he's just not good.

This is a hard game to get a prediction grip on as there are reports nobody's happy in LA and also there are reports all is not well in Jets-World as there are rumors of discipline issues coming tot he fore. Here's what Johnny will base his pick on. Todd Gurley was supposed to lead a battering Rams (heh heh) running game after last season's huge success but Gurley has no 100 yard rushing games this year. While the Jets have missing pieces up front they are still 4th against the run in the NFL We just do not see Case Keenum lighting up the Jets secondary in a way a top-flight QB might do even with lesser receivers.

The Jets simply need to play great positional football, stay away from stupid penalties ie early starts, offside, too many men, etc. They can't screw up special teams like last week. Can't happen. If the Jets follow these easy to follow Johnny rules they're going to get that 4th win of the year:

Fearless Forecast:
New Jersey Jets 21
Los Angeles for the time being Rams 10

Late night open thread

It's the Saturday Night Scoreboard Show!

When the Autumnal winds get to blowing, they blow down some big timbers.

Pittsburgh 43
Clemson 42
#2 Clemson goes down at home and former Michigan State defensive coordinator Pat Narduzzi has a program win in only his second season

Iowa 14
Michigan 13
#3 Michigan loses in Iowa City in a shocker. Remember that horrid video Michigan produced with Jim Harbaugh yelling "Who's got it better than us?!" Well, if Michigan loses in Columbus maybe Penn State has it better than you
The Michigan State parody video:

Ohio State fans made one too:
The Big Ten is some cutthroat shit

USC 26
Washington 13
#4 Washington goes down at home to the Trojans. Suddenly the playoff is wide open

Rice 22
Charlotte 21
It's a crime if Rice doesn't play in a bowl

The Citadel 30
VMI 20
The Citadel is 10-0 so why aren't they in the playoff discussion? Charleston SC in the house

Frostburg State 21
Salisbury 17
Winter is coming

Bethany (WV) 32
St. Vincent 31
Bethany scored 19 unanswered points in the 4th quarter to get power up and win the game

UNLV 69
Wyoming 66 3OT
Your PlayStation game of the week

Michigan State 49
Rutgers 0
MSU is only one year removed from a B1G tile and the playoff. Somebody was going to be made to pay for their awful season

The Jersey City Desk Game of the Week®
William Carroll 31
Mount Union 28
The last time Division III Mount Union lost a regular season game George W. Bush was beginning his second term. The Purple Raiders were 222-1 in their last 223 games dating back to 1994. Incredible. But today it was Anthony Moeglin hitting William Woods with a 24-yard touchdown pass with 39 seconds to play to win for Carroll. For their efforts, and throwing in the magnitude of the win, Moeglin and Woods can loot and pillage Alliance Ohio for 48 hours, up from the usual 24.

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Friday, November 11, 2016

Late night open thread

A very special and happy Veterans Day today for all our vets.

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Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with THE SMITHS!

America is a nation in turmoil and nobody seems to know the answer. Johnny knows one of them, MOAR MUSIC! Everyone loves music, every color, every party, every gender so tonight Johnny begins healing a fractious America.

Four songs. You read that right. This song here, 'Sheila Take a Bow' by The Smiths, oh it's only the first of four big songs tonight. Everyone can join in, have some fun and feel better.

So let's get started...

Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with BANANARAMA!

Johnny had SUCH a crush, we're talking big unrequited love for Bananarama's Siobhan Fahey back in the day. He crushed on her HARD. Stupid Dave Stewart; "Oh look at me, I'm cool and really creative and I'm in the Eurythmics with Annie Lennox and I'm a huge bloody success."

Sure, if you like that kind of guy.

A lot of places would simply play the Deep Sea Skiving version of this great song, 'Really Saying Something'. Pfffffft. noobs. This is the Jersey City Desk Music Series where music is to be held up like a fine jewel and treasured and discussed in an intelligent way. We're also healing a nation here. Tonight we get the very rare extended version for your listening pleasure.

First done by the Velvelettes in 1964, it's Siobhan Fahey and Bananarama with the aforementioned 'Really Saying Something'

Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with RICK JAMES!

BITCH!

Who doesn't love a good 'Superfreak'? Johnny's dated one or two back when the world was in black and white. They do keep you busy.

Some places just never recovered after the spandex mines dried up at the end of the 80's and music videos were forced to go to more breathable fabrics. FACT!

Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with THE BABYS!

In keeping with our upbeat songs tonight here's a rocker from 1979, 'Head First' from the album of the same name. If you know it Johnny is sure you'll be singing along in no time. If you don't know it put it on loop and learn it, it's that good.

One bonus song to go!

Late night open thread

Remember that episode on The Brady Bunch when Bobby becomes a minion of Satan & tries to kill Alice with a rake? Mike & Carol were NOT happy...

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Thursday, November 10, 2016

Johnny's breakup letter with Michigan

First off Michigan, it's not Johnny, it's you. We just need to set the parameters of this breakup, it's you.

Michigan, what the fuck is wrong with you? After Tuesday Johnny can no longer come back to you in good conscience (his elderly mother's health not withstanding) and stay or spend dime one with you fuckers. Not one dime. If the time comes when Johnny DOES have to come back for a sad last trip pertaining to his mother he's going through Canada so as to not spend dime one in Pennsylvania either (most knew the sister-fucking no-driving citizens of Ohio were already voting for the Cheeto-faced Shitgibbon). Michigan, you really really fucked up Tuesday.

First off, to any Michigan residents reading this, you've become a laughingstock along the eastern seaboard. Barack Obama bailed out the auto industry against great odds and at great political peril and this is how you thank him, with a guy who would have let you rot on the vine. Classic. Yes, most people out here Johnny has talked to are really thinking Michigan is filled with low-information goofs right now.

And look at you. You've re-elected a failed governor both economically AND morally bankrupt in serial poisoner Rick Snyder. You had a chance to throw him out Michigan and you voted for him again and then Flint happened not only on his watch, but on his coverup. He's STILL your governor. Sure, you may wanna throw Chris Christie back in Johnny's face and Johnny cannot and will not defend The Outlaw Jersey Whale, BUT Christie's faults are his own and apart from some traffic he's basically hurt himself whereas Snyder has hurt (and some of the Legionnaire's disease cases in Flint have died) men, women and children with his stupidity. Nary even a recall petition.

Michigan people are wondering where the yelling at them stops and where the breakup terms are discussed, fine, here you go, Michigan. No more. No more visits, no more trips to Mackinac Island, or Saugatuck or Kalamazoo or Ypsilanti. No more Zingermann's or Vernors orders to the house. No more Shinola watches, no more team jerseys or shirts ie MSU, Lions, Red Wings et al. No more domestic car buying. Ouch, that's right, no more domestic car buying. Well, not from GM, Chrysler or Ford anyway. Some other carmakers because of factories here claim to make 'domestic cars' even if with an asterisk. Seriously, Johnny has been a domestic auto buyer since he was 19. Never ever ever thought he wouldn't buy a piece of Detroit steel when the time came. No more. Why take it out on companies? Easy, what did they have to say about Trump during the election? They said nothing. Well, not nothing exactly, Ford did step up to the plate to defy Trump, but only to tell him they weren't moving to Mexico. Nothing about his tone, tenor, lies, sexual assault language, and nothing from Detroit's Big Three. Great, you said nothing, now deal with the consequences. It's odd as well because Johnny worked with (not for) GM Communications for many many years and knows how hard both Ford and GM were making outreach to the gay community and to other minorities a so-called priority, guess not huh? Nothing from them maybe because they didn't want to upset the union help. Johnny knows goddamned well how the UAW voted, he's seen these guys, broken bread with them, lived around these guys for decades, they were Trump voters. Oh yes, a lot of them were. Guys whom without the current Democrat would be living in the road eating from garbage cans picked a guy who in 2008 would have had them do just that. Fuck Detroit's automakers, silence is consent. Johnny's buying a Subaru next time, suck on that Wolverine State.

So, Michigan, you've fucked yourself to the point you've become a laughingstock. You did it to yourself, nobody helped you get to the place you're in today but you and your voters. You'll have to live with that in your own pathetic world because Johnny's not coming back. He and Mrs. Johnny always thought they'd buy a lot on a small secluded lake in northern Michigan and build a cabin on it and retire, the good years.

That lake just got moved to Vermont, or Massachusetts, or New Hampshire, or New Jersey or New York. Bye Michigan, hope your garbage cans are full up, with the guy you just voted for you're gonna need them to be. Maybe you can share with Wisconsin or Pennsylvania when you run out.

Some things are unforgivable, this was one.

Late night open thread

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