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From my new column in Taki’s Magazine:
Nature and Nurture in the NFL
Steve SailerFebruary 07, 2024
This Sunday’s Super Bowl between the San Francisco 49ers and the Kansas City Chiefs includes a fun cast of characters, such as Christian McCaffrey, Patrick Mahomes, Nick Bosa, Travis Kelce, and Taylor Swift, straight out of countless posts I’ve done over the years about stereotypes, exceptions to the rules, and trendsetters. Granted, I’m probably about the 50 millionth biggest National Football League fan in the country (the NFL is popular), but even I’ve noticed a few things (with the help of my friend Charles Norman).
For example, I’m always interested in exceptions to the rule because they point out tendencies that we might otherwise overlook. Literal-minded readers are constantly reminding me that, logically, an exception to the rule can’t possibly exist because if there is an exception, then it’s not a rule. But I’m interested in the human world where there are mostly only likelihoods rather than absolutes.
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OT: The city of Stockton just put the hammer down on their local aberrant Mexicans for their stupid “sideshows,” impounding their crappy cars, and actually arresting the Mexicans!
Mexican sideshows consists of taking over a major intersection, blocking all traffic, while the Mexicans do donuts in the middle of the intersection in their crap cars, while the cholos cheer.
The district attorney will be taking weeks to release the cars, owners have to pay for the towing and storage fees, which will easily be around $1500, plus they probably lose their only mode of transportation during that time! Then if the citation sticks, add another grand!
Awesome job, Stockton Police Department!
Wish L.A. had the balls…
“Mahomes, 54, was released on Sunday following his arrest, according jail records from Smith County, Texas. His bond was set at $10,000. He was arrested on the same charge in 2019 and was sentenced to 40 days in jail, Smith County records show.
Mahomes Sr. played 11 seasons (1992-2003) in Major League Baseball. The right-hander was 42-39 with a 5.47 ERA in 308 games (63 starts) for the Twins, Red Sox, Mets, Rangers, Cubs and Pirates.
It’s not the first time a family member has created potential distractions for Mahomes.
Last month, prosecutors in Johnson County, Kansas, dismissed three counts of felony aggravated sexual battery against his younger brother, Jackson Mahomes, who was accused of grabbing a woman by the neck and kissing her against her will.
Jackson Mahomes still faces a charge of misdemeanor battery. He has pleaded not guilty”.
Hopefully Patrick won’t fall in with the family ways, at least not before Sunday.
Of course guys like football, it’s about a group of guys inflicting violence upon The Other to achieve a goal. Any man who doesn’t like it is a submissive bitch.
Nothing suggests an iron will more than doing and saying what you are told to do and say, than liking what you are told to like.Replies: @danand, @Wilkey
But, the half a dozen times I made a perfect block or tackle is something I can remember as clearly today as the day it happened 30+ years ago. It’s the same as when you hit a baseball or golf ball perfectly. All of your energy is transferred to the person you are hitting and you feel like you hit an empty paper bag instead of another person. Truly a transcendental moment when you are a teen age boy.Replies: @The Anti-Gnostic, @JR Ewing
We found the simp!
Football, beginning in high school, is about making money. Anyone permanently injuring his body so others make BANK without himself getting a BIG taste of that money is....... 🍭
The "other" that is actually invading--and destroying the future for the posterity of American men--is down at the border. A little healthy violence down there and the whole thing would come to a screeching halt.
Of course, the real "other"--that planned and executes this attack on Americans--is the treasonous "Biden Administration" and associated deep-state knaves in D.C. Inflicting righteous violence upon them would be great, great fun. I'd be happy to participate, but even as an everyman spectator, that would be goodness. Held as a stadium event, that's the kind of thing where even cheapskate me would pony up the $40,000 a seat just to support the cause. Drawing and quartering, gladiatorial combat, boiling in oil, feeding 'em to the lions--I'd want the whole thing. Value for my dollar.
I heard they will play the Black National Anthem this year? Bread and circuses courtesy of the people that despise you and are destroying the last of your civilization. I’d rather workout and go to the range.
The death of “professional sports” would be the best thing to happen in the USA.
It is sickening to see grown men collect sports cards and other overpriced sports “memorabilia”, “team jerseys” and other useless things, having the ability to quote sports statistics ad-nauseum, but not giving a damn about REAL issues affecting the country.
Add to that, the adulation that many grown men place on their “sports heroes” (actually grown men playing childrens’ games) who quite often are brain-damaged, immature, bulked-up steroid-addicted poor excuses for human beings.
This false flag “COVID19” virus may force people to wake up from their “professional sports” induced stupor and start to realize that there are many other things in life that really DO make a difference.
Sports figures wear COSTUMES…those in military service, others with real responsibilities and true “heroes” wear UNIFORMS.
Big difference…Replies: @J.Ross
minor CX: Purdy threw 4 picks against “Jackson’s RAVENS,” not Colts.
*Eugenic note: one is required to marry outside one's clan.
Another great essay in Takis. Thanks. Your ultimate paragraph…
Both theories are falsifiable. Hereditarianism has been repeatedly tested and not been falsified (as you describe in your fine essay). It will continue to be tested and likely refined. Isn’t it correct to say “social constructionism” has been falsified by IQ studies that normalize for the income levels of family of origin?
“Social constructionists” are like the pre-modern doctors that attributed the symptoms of malaria to dangerous fumes from the ground. Or maybe more like flat-earthers who continue to hold their position after seeing photographs of the Earth from space.
I bet high ranking members of the Establishment will read this and say, gosh, I guess genetics do matter, we should totally undo our anti-White agenda.
That’s what’s gonna happen for sure. Because they are rational actors and totally not moved by blind hatred.
I’m so old I’m lucky I didn’t write “against Unitas’ Colts.”
A century ago, Ohio and Wisconsin each had four teams in the NFL; Illinois only three*, and New York two, both upstate. The Cardinals were originally "Racine", after the Avenue they played on, but had to change it when the city of that name got its own club. Fun fact: when Pearl Harbor was attacked in early December 1941, the Brooklyn Dodgers were playing the Giants at the Polo Grounds. Brooklyn won. Earlier that year, they lost to the Packers in Liberace's hometown. I doubt Lee was at the game.*Before anyone adds that a team was based in Hammond across the state line, that franchise had no home games. Nor did the Oorang Indians the year before, who were all actual Indians, including Jim Thorpe.
https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:450/1*2JOqiH1wZyZoJsyQJJS5iQ.jpeg
Now that they made the same comment, what did Thorpe have in common with Liberace? Hint: Elvis, too.Replies: @njguy73, @Ganderson, @ScarletNumber, @kaganovitch, @J.Ross
Looks like blue eyes.
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/2e/3b/4b/2e3b4b2f1238d77dc345c571d425d098.jpgReplies: @Bill Jones, @Truth
I’m so old I’m lucky I didn’t write “against Unitas’ Baltimore Colts.”
When McCaffrey got or got himself head-planted at the end of the last game, it scared the beejeezuss out of me. Part of the causation was that he was so conscientiously intent on holding the ball that he did not put a palm on the ground, and, lacked the acrobatic ability to instinctively execute a forward shoulder roll. I was surprised when he was able to get up and walk. I half-expected him to be wearing a four-poster the next morning. I sincerely worry about white, good-guy, speed having its limitations in today’s NFL. There’s a scene in the old Bob Newhart show in which Newhart (a psychologist) is in a severe funk, and so goes back to find his old, brilliant professor. Bob finds him (Keenan Wynn) in the library stacks, and asks, What’s the answer, professor? The professor replies, “Golf.”
Having wasted my opportunity at a college education by majoring in Psychology, I can second that emotion.
The Northwest tribes of Alaska and B.C. are split into two clans*, Ravens and Eagles. So if “Redskins” is disallowed, how come their two nearest neighbors can get away with this?
*Eugenic note: one is required to marry outside one’s clan.
OT: Dartmouth has reinstated the standardized testing requirement. Will other Ivies follow?
https://president.dartmouth.edu/news/2024/02/reactivating-satact-requirement-dartmouth-undergraduate-admissions
Reading the press release, it is notable that the president never mentions "merit" or "quality" in her decision, but couches it entirely in terms of "broadest swath", "wide range" (when really they are looking for the opposite), "diversity", "broader", along with a lot of digression about the "less-resourced" (her most common trope, at three uses).
It says a lot that even when making the obviously right decision and a decision that one is entirely entitled to make, one has to couch it entirely in terms of several paragraphs of "diversity" double-speak. The culture is still corrupt.Replies: @J.Ross
The Colts aren’t much older than you, dating only to 1953.
A century ago, Ohio and Wisconsin each had four teams in the NFL; Illinois only three*, and New York two, both upstate. The Cardinals were originally “Racine”, after the Avenue they played on, but had to change it when the city of that name got its own club.
Fun fact: when Pearl Harbor was attacked in early December 1941, the Brooklyn Dodgers were playing the Giants at the Polo Grounds. Brooklyn won. Earlier that year, they lost to the Packers in Liberace’s hometown. I doubt Lee was at the game.
*Before anyone adds that a team was based in Hammond across the state line, that franchise had no home games. Nor did the Oorang Indians the year before, who were all actual Indians, including Jim Thorpe.
Now that they made the same comment, what did Thorpe have in common with Liberace? Hint: Elvis, too.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltimore_Colts_(1947%E2%80%931950)
This is an important plot point in the movie Diner.
Steve neglected to mention that a big reason for increased offensive production in the last couple of decades is either ever-increasing protectiveness of the NFL towards its quarterbacks. If a defensive lineman so much as breathes on a QB after he releases the ball he’ll draw a roughing-the-passer penalty.
I'd add another big contributor is the frequent penalties for "illegal contact" and "defensive holding". These are judgment penalties and are called almost randomly. Some officials call every tiny bit of contact, others require it to be actually holding, not just touching. Others make it up as they go, calling some contact and not calling other similar contact. Further, its not enough that its 5 yards, its also an automatic first down. If its 3rd and 15, somehow a 5 yard penalty produces a first down.
This leads to offenses frequently getting "do overs" on failed drives. It also provides a powerful incentive to throw more often, as there is no comparable random awarding of yards and first downs on running plays.Replies: @Mike Tre
Did I misread you?
Christian McCaffrey was not the first Running Back to get over 1,000 yards both rushing and receiving. Roger Craig did it in ‘85 and Marshall Faulk did it in ‘99. Interestingly, Faulk, like McCaffrey, played with an unheralded quarterback who rose from the Midwest wholesomeness to NFL stardom. (Kurt Warner). Both Purdy and Warner are Jesus people.
McCaffrey wasn’t the first player to have over 1,000 yards rushing and receiving in the same season. Roger Craig did it in 1985 for the 49ers.
I vaguely gestured in that direction by saying the league office has smart guys working hard to make football more entertaining. My impression is that after Tom Brady missed all of 2008 after setting records in 2007, they huddled over the question, “Why don’t we protect our biggest stars better?”
Hey, that could be the catchphrase for a marketing campaign to rejuvenate Bud Lite sales.
Nothing suggests an iron will more than doing and saying what you are told to do and say, than liking what you are told to like.
TrannyBud Light:https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-anheuser-busch-stock-owner-wants-to-give-bud-light-another-chancehttps://president.dartmouth.edu/news/2024/02/reactivating-satact-requirement-dartmouth-undergraduate-admissionsReplies: @Almost Missouri
Thanks.
Maybe Princeton? Then Cornell and UPenn. Yale wavers. Harvard and Brown hold out. That’s my guess. Oh wait, Columbia, hmm… They’ll probably switch back too.
Reading the press release, it is notable that the president never mentions “merit” or “quality” in her decision, but couches it entirely in terms of “broadest swath”, “wide range” (when really they are looking for the opposite), “diversity”, “broader”, along with a lot of digression about the “less-resourced” (her most common trope, at three uses).
It says a lot that even when making the obviously right decision and a decision that one is entirely entitled to make, one has to couch it entirely in terms of several paragraphs of “diversity” double-speak. The culture is still corrupt.
The last big recruit in the college football cycle has just signed, Gatlin Bair of Idaho. Supposedly the fastest guy in his class with a best 100m time of 10.15s, he’s a white guy and a Mormon from an athletic family. His mother was an all American pole vaulter and his father a conference decathlon champion.
Two brothers run college track.
https://www.thechurchnews.com/members/2024/2/4/24052566/gatlin-bair-idaho-first-5-star-college-football-recruit-first-serving-latter-day-saint-mission
Couple of White US Mormon Marathoners headed to the Olympics:
https://www.ldsliving.com/former-byu-runners-smash-the-us-olympic-marathon-trials/s/12020
https://youtu.be/xYrGTv-QPLA?si=42CNVhqaEWP45Ta5&t=78
The stronger runner let his training partner take the win.
OT – I understand that Steve isn’t a foreign affairs guy, but there’s a US court case where a mother has been found (as I understand it) culpable after her son shot dead several fellow school pupils.
She sounds like a very careless individual, but she didn’t shoot anyone.
Seems like a lot of gratuitous prosecuting lately: this; the three cops with Chauvin; the civil rights violations added on to anything involving a protected human species; Trump getting it from 360 degrees.
There was fussing about giving past presidents too much immunity. How about the too-much immunity given to various court personnel?
However, the differentiating factor here is that the parents weren't just absent or negligent or otherwise just poor parents. In this case they literally bought the gun for him a few days before he went on the shooting spree, despite knowing of his mental problems and issues at school. That's irresponsible and anyone, parents or not, should bear responsibility for something like that.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/mother-michigan-school-shooter-found-guilty-involuntary-manslaughter/Replies: @J.Ross
Many parents have been proven negligent in the past … more accountability may not work out … in the future
I believe the murderous son was a minor at the time. There is a specific law there holding parents accountable for their minor children who commit murder of school students.
You can be charged with various criminal murder related charges if your action or inaction is a direct proven cause of someone being murdered (by others) as a result.
This is akin to "give the kid a gun and he takes the rap" kind of scenario.
Criminal law can be pretty complicated. So now it's not just Mafia capos who can be guilty of murder by others.
A century ago, Ohio and Wisconsin each had four teams in the NFL; Illinois only three*, and New York two, both upstate. The Cardinals were originally "Racine", after the Avenue they played on, but had to change it when the city of that name got its own club. Fun fact: when Pearl Harbor was attacked in early December 1941, the Brooklyn Dodgers were playing the Giants at the Polo Grounds. Brooklyn won. Earlier that year, they lost to the Packers in Liberace's hometown. I doubt Lee was at the game.*Before anyone adds that a team was based in Hammond across the state line, that franchise had no home games. Nor did the Oorang Indians the year before, who were all actual Indians, including Jim Thorpe.
https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:450/1*2JOqiH1wZyZoJsyQJJS5iQ.jpeg
Now that they made the same comment, what did Thorpe have in common with Liberace? Hint: Elvis, too.Replies: @njguy73, @Ganderson, @ScarletNumber, @kaganovitch, @J.Ross
They weren’t the first Baltimore Colts team.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltimore_Colts_(1947%E2%80%931950)
This is an important plot point in the movie Diner.
That’s was going to be the gist of my comment on your minor blunder.
Most football fans today haven’t been around long enough to remember the phrase, “Baltimore Colts”, but you obviously have, Steve.
Personally, I remember images of the mayflower trucks driving out of Baltimore in the snow, and a lot of adults and sports people on TV being upset about it, but I can’t say that I remember the team itself in any contemporary context. I was 10 when they left Baltimore. They’ve always been in Indianapolis within my personal football fan experience.
The sample was a job done for Mayflower Moving. Even though I was an NFL fan (Browns season tix in the early-mid 70's) and knew of the Colts move to Indy, I had no concept of the hatred of Mayflower...until then.
Understandable, considering Colts / Ravens both Baltimore.
Mexican sideshows consists of taking over a major intersection, blocking all traffic, while the Mexicans do donuts in the middle of the intersection in their crap cars, while the cholos cheer.
The district attorney will be taking weeks to release the cars, owners have to pay for the towing and storage fees, which will easily be around $1500, plus they probably lose their only mode of transportation during that time! Then if the citation sticks, add another grand!
Awesome job, Stockton Police Department!
Wish L.A. had the balls…
https://youtu.be/L9mhtcAbs9AReplies: @Buzz Mohawk, @Ripple Earthdevil
LOL. Maybe they read my recent lamentation here about the deterioration of my birthplace. Thank you, San Joaquin County Sheriff’s Office. Now if they could just fix up the old community swimming pool my father built. Google Earth shows it dry and dilapidated.
Two brothers run college track.
https://www.thechurchnews.com/members/2024/2/4/24052566/gatlin-bair-idaho-first-5-star-college-football-recruit-first-serving-latter-day-saint-missionReplies: @Ron Mexico, @danand
Bair is going on his Mission. If when returning, he breaks any rushing records, Sheryl Swoopes will denounce his unfair age advantage.
A century ago, Ohio and Wisconsin each had four teams in the NFL; Illinois only three*, and New York two, both upstate. The Cardinals were originally "Racine", after the Avenue they played on, but had to change it when the city of that name got its own club. Fun fact: when Pearl Harbor was attacked in early December 1941, the Brooklyn Dodgers were playing the Giants at the Polo Grounds. Brooklyn won. Earlier that year, they lost to the Packers in Liberace's hometown. I doubt Lee was at the game.*Before anyone adds that a team was based in Hammond across the state line, that franchise had no home games. Nor did the Oorang Indians the year before, who were all actual Indians, including Jim Thorpe.
https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:450/1*2JOqiH1wZyZoJsyQJJS5iQ.jpeg
Now that they made the same comment, what did Thorpe have in common with Liberace? Hint: Elvis, too.Replies: @njguy73, @Ganderson, @ScarletNumber, @kaganovitch, @J.Ross
My uncle Roland Moynagh, who is in the University of St. Thomas’ HOF, was offered a contract to play for the Duluth Eskimos of the NFL, probably in 1926. He turned it down to teach high school in suburban Chicago, as teaching paid more. Of course, playing in the NFL was more of a side gig in those days, kinda like Major League Lacrosse (or whatever they’re calling it now) today.
Jackson Mahomes looks and acts like a fruitcake, so maybe he should be encouraged to kiss more women. Punishing him might send the wrong message.
Never a truer word spoken. I was about as bad a football player as there could be. Too skinny, and even hours of weight lifting every day in high school couldn’t fix that.
But, the half a dozen times I made a perfect block or tackle is something I can remember as clearly today as the day it happened 30+ years ago. It’s the same as when you hit a baseball or golf ball perfectly. All of your energy is transferred to the person you are hitting and you feel like you hit an empty paper bag instead of another person. Truly a transcendental moment when you are a teen age boy.
Spectator sports are a huge shiny bauble dangled in front of the citizenry. They are heavily promoted and have a close relation with governments and monied interests for a reason.
It was a nondescript scrimmage before the start of my senior season. We were in - of all places - Uvalde playing a team that had driven up from the Rio Grande Valley and met us halfway from our own town up towards the panhandle.
I was the right tackle. We were inside the 10 yard line on the north end of the stadium and it was a called outside run to the right. I came off and chipped the play side defensive end and quickly got onto the outside linebacker. I was low and got my inside shoulder on his outside hip and just effortlessly drove him backwards 20 yards out of the back of the end zone. It was textbook and he could do nothing but go along for the ride until he was flat on his back.
Almost 40 years ago and I still remember it as clear as day.
Since Sailer’s Taki’s piece includes an aside on his correspondence with America’s Favorite Midwit, this comment is not off-topic.
Doomberg’s latest Substack essay is about oil & gas supply-and-demand, but the lead paragraph applies here as well.
A century ago, Ohio and Wisconsin each had four teams in the NFL; Illinois only three*, and New York two, both upstate. The Cardinals were originally "Racine", after the Avenue they played on, but had to change it when the city of that name got its own club. Fun fact: when Pearl Harbor was attacked in early December 1941, the Brooklyn Dodgers were playing the Giants at the Polo Grounds. Brooklyn won. Earlier that year, they lost to the Packers in Liberace's hometown. I doubt Lee was at the game.*Before anyone adds that a team was based in Hammond across the state line, that franchise had no home games. Nor did the Oorang Indians the year before, who were all actual Indians, including Jim Thorpe.
https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:450/1*2JOqiH1wZyZoJsyQJJS5iQ.jpeg
Now that they made the same comment, what did Thorpe have in common with Liberace? Hint: Elvis, too.Replies: @njguy73, @Ganderson, @ScarletNumber, @kaganovitch, @J.Ross
The original Baltimore Colts played 1947-1950 before going bankrupt, the last NFL team to fold and not be immediately replaced. The reborn Colts started in 1953 from the ashes of the Dallas Texans.
Steve’s very understated reference to the spergy nature of the iSteve readership.
That would require him to have to rethink his entire premise. And Steve doesn't do rethinking premises.
Steve also likes to talk about Mahomes' inherited athletic ability, but definitely does not want to talk about other family behaviors, like his black dad getting arrested a dozen times for drunk driving or his brother getting arrested for sexual battery.
Nor have I read him mention that Brock Purdy also has a father who pitched (in the minors) for several years, or that his brother was recruited by Florida St to play QB. But the Purdy's seem to be boring law abiding white people, who definitely do not help promote the idea that racial mixing is the best thing to happen to pro sports, or something.Replies: @Pixo
But, the half a dozen times I made a perfect block or tackle is something I can remember as clearly today as the day it happened 30+ years ago. It’s the same as when you hit a baseball or golf ball perfectly. All of your energy is transferred to the person you are hitting and you feel like you hit an empty paper bag instead of another person. Truly a transcendental moment when you are a teen age boy.Replies: @The Anti-Gnostic, @JR Ewing
I played football. And rugby. I loved executing that perfect smack that keeps your opponent on their heels the whole rest of the game. I like watching sports, to a point. Then I get restless and want to do something besides sit on the couch and stare at a screen.
Spectator sports are a huge shiny bauble dangled in front of the citizenry. They are heavily promoted and have a close relation with governments and monied interests for a reason.
Obfuscation. It’s the owners simply protecting their investments.
This is similar to the “safety first” lie that is pushed in transportation. The bosses say it’s about going home to see your family every night, but what it really is about is companies do not want to pay for injuries that their employees sustain on the job. Which leads to employees being subject to impractical standards and harsh discipline for non compliance. The barely kept secret that it’s not your safety director making much of the policy, its your insurance company.
Special treatment for QB’s goes back at least to the 1980’s, when the slide rule was put in place. But that rule reveals what they have known for a long time, and that is QB’s are more likely to get hurt when they leave the pocket. But the NFL has decided they want more “mobile quarterbacks” so the result is more of them getting destroyed in the open field.
Steve thinks it’s “smart” to change the rules to allow one special player to run around the field risk free, in a game that is unique because of of its full contact nature. Seems a bit contradictory. Playing QB in the NFL offers the greatest rewards, so it’s only reasonable that they endure similar risks.
A great many MLB pitchers sustain arm injuries; perhaps they should only be allowed to slow pitch underhand? Think of all the home runs that would be hit! How exciting!
The NBA and NFL have matured to the point that there are a fair number of players that have parents who also played professional sports – and more black or part black players that contrary to the normal assumption of deprived backgrounds that were have suburban upper middle class families. As Steve notes, there has to be a selection effect that we will see increasingly over the years.
As for the declining popularity of youth football, my view as someone with kids in middle and HS is that for more parents the potential long term effect on the brain and/or injuries in general make it unappealing if your kid doesn’t have clear standout talent. Along with that, all youth sports today demand significantly more time investment to be competitive so there are not as many athletic kids who rotate between sports seasonally – they settle on one or two and essentially play or train for them all year round. At the high school level, basketball and football require physically mature kids to be competitive and certain physiques as well. In contrast, you can play golf, tennis, baseball, soccer, and lacrosse with a more run of the mill body so long as you have the requisite hand-eye coordination.
Well I dunno about ANY of this feetsball shee-it, I’m just some sort of goofball poofter who grew up getting his ass kicked, then weirdly learned more about art than all y’all. Go figger. As the great goddess Shelby Lynne once noticed, Life Is Bad.
But for those of you who like me are bored by football, here are some alternatives……
Joe Brainard, “I Remember”
Kick out the jams, muthafuckas.
As I keep explaining to confused men everywhere, Taylor Swift is the easiest person in the world to understand. She’s a princess. That’s all there is to it.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CBxPmWAUAAAgI_6?format=jpg&name=small
Sailer: sniffing jocks while Rome burns.
Steve himself believes that the NFL is a pure meritocracy and that there couldn’t possibly discrimination against white players. (Even though the NFL brags about their discrimination against white coaches and potential owners)
That would require him to have to rethink his entire premise. And Steve doesn’t do rethinking premises.
Steve also likes to talk about Mahomes’ inherited athletic ability, but definitely does not want to talk about other family behaviors, like his black dad getting arrested a dozen times for drunk driving or his brother getting arrested for sexual battery.
Nor have I read him mention that Brock Purdy also has a father who pitched (in the minors) for several years, or that his brother was recruited by Florida St to play QB. But the Purdy’s seem to be boring law abiding white people, who definitely do not help promote the idea that racial mixing is the best thing to happen to pro sports, or something.
I was reminded of this fascination of yours with respect to the Wedgwood family while reading Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Wikipedia entry yesterday. I’d been looking in Google Maps at a place I’d been decades ago near the English town of Horsham in Sussex and noticed nearby the village of Kingsfold. Which reminded me of the hymn tune of the same name, so I wondered about that and discovered that Vaughan Williams had grown up like three miles from the village and had named his hymn setting for Horatius Bonar’s “I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say” after the place he’d first heard the traditional song on which he based it.
Like Charles Darwin and other notables, Vaughan Williams was of course a Wedgwood, and Wikipedia gives us this episode from his upbringing:
BTW I also learned yesterday that Kingsfold had appeared in English County [sic] Songs by Lucy E. Broadwood and J. A. Fuller Maitland, the book that Vaughan Williams credited with kindling the fashion for English folk music in the late 19th c., and presumably therefore his own fascination with the old songs of his country. Lucy Broadwood would be some sort of distant relative of mine as she was great-granddaughter of my ancestor John Broadwood, founder of Broadwood & Sons, inventors of all sorts of innovations in the pianos they manufactured.
So my 16yo son who sings in the choir at his boarding school is also related to Lucy Broadwood. I very much look forward to telling him all this: he may not be a Wedgwood as far as I know, but Kingsfold is easily his favorite hymn tune.
https://hymntunes.blogspot.com/2015/11/sussex-hymn-tunes-part-ii.htmlReplies: @slumber_j
A ctrl-F of the Sailer essay reveals a key word missing — starts with I.
The NBA is changing dramatically because of immigration. Likewise MLB. I don’t follow soccer but it is also far more internationally integrated.
NFL remains an outlier.
A century ago, Ohio and Wisconsin each had four teams in the NFL; Illinois only three*, and New York two, both upstate. The Cardinals were originally "Racine", after the Avenue they played on, but had to change it when the city of that name got its own club. Fun fact: when Pearl Harbor was attacked in early December 1941, the Brooklyn Dodgers were playing the Giants at the Polo Grounds. Brooklyn won. Earlier that year, they lost to the Packers in Liberace's hometown. I doubt Lee was at the game.*Before anyone adds that a team was based in Hammond across the state line, that franchise had no home games. Nor did the Oorang Indians the year before, who were all actual Indians, including Jim Thorpe.
https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:450/1*2JOqiH1wZyZoJsyQJJS5iQ.jpeg
Now that they made the same comment, what did Thorpe have in common with Liberace? Hint: Elvis, too.Replies: @njguy73, @Ganderson, @ScarletNumber, @kaganovitch, @J.Ross
Execrable sartorial taste?
Jackson Mahomes has been an attention seeking bum for all of Patrick’s pro career. It has to be challenging to see a sibling be way more successful than you are, but from what I can tell he has never done meaningful work in his life.
Taking another incomplete pass here, but doesn’t
sound like an AI generated parody headline of this blog?
The 76% black 49ers vs the 73% black chiefs – how exciting. No doubt the halftime festivities will be a blackfest to boot. Enjoy…
Csonka not Czonka!
A century ago, Ohio and Wisconsin each had four teams in the NFL; Illinois only three*, and New York two, both upstate. The Cardinals were originally "Racine", after the Avenue they played on, but had to change it when the city of that name got its own club. Fun fact: when Pearl Harbor was attacked in early December 1941, the Brooklyn Dodgers were playing the Giants at the Polo Grounds. Brooklyn won. Earlier that year, they lost to the Packers in Liberace's hometown. I doubt Lee was at the game.*Before anyone adds that a team was based in Hammond across the state line, that franchise had no home games. Nor did the Oorang Indians the year before, who were all actual Indians, including Jim Thorpe.
https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:450/1*2JOqiH1wZyZoJsyQJJS5iQ.jpeg
Now that they made the same comment, what did Thorpe have in common with Liberace? Hint: Elvis, too.Replies: @njguy73, @Ganderson, @ScarletNumber, @kaganovitch, @J.Ross
At one point they all lived in Palm Springs?
Reading the press release, it is notable that the president never mentions "merit" or "quality" in her decision, but couches it entirely in terms of "broadest swath", "wide range" (when really they are looking for the opposite), "diversity", "broader", along with a lot of digression about the "less-resourced" (her most common trope, at three uses).
It says a lot that even when making the obviously right decision and a decision that one is entirely entitled to make, one has to couch it entirely in terms of several paragraphs of "diversity" double-speak. The culture is still corrupt.Replies: @J.Ross
So really all we’ve established is that even if an admittedly misspeaking black says she’s cool with the frealing Holocaust directly to a Jew’s face, in public, on camera, and under oath, they still won’t be fired. In that case what hope should a white person have?
“It’s all a crock. . . . A crock. It’s all a crock.”
Having wasted my opportunity at a college education by majoring in Psychology, I can second that emotion.
The only people who will watch this Super Bowl are Chiefs & 49er fans, teen girls who like Taylor Swift. Now if word gets out that K.C. starts to lose, especially lose big, television sets outside of the Kansas City & Bay Area will start turning on. I say the fix is on for K. C.
“Any man who doesn’t like [football] is a submissive bitch.”
We found the simp!
Football, beginning in high school, is about making money. Anyone permanently injuring his body so others make BANK without himself getting a BIG taste of that money is……. 🍭
Be funny if we convinced moron journalists that when Steve uses certain words (say, words starting with an “n” and ending with a hard “r”), he’s actually appealing to a secret code in which a different word is intended.
Purdy threw 4 interceptions against Jackson’s Ravens. The colts haven’t been in Baltimore for a longtime.
And I’m not trying to troll here, I love Sailer. But what are you talking about with the blue eyes thing?
What’s interesting about that is it doesn’t seem that quarterback injuries have decreased. Though I’m too lazy to confirm that.
I’d add another big contributor is the frequent penalties for “illegal contact” and “defensive holding”. These are judgment penalties and are called almost randomly. Some officials call every tiny bit of contact, others require it to be actually holding, not just touching. Others make it up as they go, calling some contact and not calling other similar contact. Further, its not enough that its 5 yards, its also an automatic first down. If its 3rd and 15, somehow a 5 yard penalty produces a first down.
This leads to offenses frequently getting “do overs” on failed drives. It also provides a powerful incentive to throw more often, as there is no comparable random awarding of yards and first downs on running plays.
-The defensive pass interference penalty that is the "spot foul" which in one instance, amounted to a 66 yard penalty. If DPI occurs in the endzone, the ball is placed at the 1 yard line with an automatic first down, virtually guaranteeing a TD.
-Defensive holding and illegal contact penalties, which come with 10 and 5 yard penalties, but also result in automatic first downs.
-Legal contact with a receiver is within 5 yards of the line of scrimmage, where as it used to be 10 yards IIRC.
it is a penalty to face shield (a contactless penalty)
-The inconsistency regarding the ball as the determining factor. for example, only the tip of the ball has to break the plain of the endzone marker in order to be a TD, but not just the ball, but the entire QB's body has to surpass the line of scrimmage in order for an illegal forward pass to be called.
-Offensive lines are given much wider latitude in regards to the interpretation of "holding."
-The assortment of penalties in regards to making a tackle. "Spearing" was one thing, but the league now penalizes any tackle in which it is determined the tackling player lead with his helmet. Back in saner times players were taught to tackle by putting their facemask into the chest of the ball carrier and wrapping up. That is extremely difficult to do while leading with a shoulder. So you have more missed tackles.
-Intentional grounding rules are completely arbitrary. when a pro QB throws the ball 10 yards past the sideline when he's under pressure, it's intentional grounding. The "spike" play is intentional grounding. The rule itself is shrouded in "if's and's or but's".
-The rules surrounding what constitutes roughing the passer are completely impossible for a defender to follow while he's in the process of fighting off a block. Tom Brady's knee injury was bad, but it's not common injury sustained by pocket passing quarterbacks. Robert "Me love you long time" Kraft was the driving force behind it, but probably wouldn't have been if it had been say Peyton Manning who blew his knee out instead. *Sorry all you mulatto enthusiasts, Russell Wilson and Muhhomies don't count, as they are both significantly white.Replies: @ScarletNumber
Speaking of which, Johnny U. is the probably the all-time prototype of the quarterback who was overlooked early on.
Looks like blue eyes.
Don’t know anything about the NFL anymore other than it is woke, worships blacks, hates real–non-black worshipping–whitey. That’s enough.
Was going to do the “And look what it’s gotten her? 34, single and no kids.”
But then realize, she’s got a billion dollars and has most probably already had a bunch of eggs harvested. Swift could keep milking her cow for another dozen years then suddenly become a mom of four in one year at 47. (Yes, she’ll probably stagger the surrogacies a bit.)
The modern rich woman really can “have it all”.
~~
I also had the thought that this Travis Kelce guy would be better off plucking a young pretty All-American girl type. He’s got enough money … how much can you eat?
I guess if he ties the knot with Swift he gets to be filthy rich, instead of just comfortable rich. (I’d rather have a normal, smart, pleasant woman and big family.) Though there is the upside, that he can’t get divorce-raped. Compared to Ms. Swift he earns like an Indian peasant.
-There were visibly plenty of whites on both teams.
-There were white stars as well like Kelce, and the production/commenters gave them plenty of credit.
-The not just white but old white male coaches
were given plenty of credit.
-No woke or anti-white messaging was detected. (I didn't watch commercials though)
So why do people on this forum have such a low opinion of the NFL? I'm guessing that the NFL, like many other organizations, freaked out during the mass hysteria in 2020 but has dialed it back since. And I agree that slavish/obsessive sports fandom is a waste, so perhaps it makes sense to be harsh given the addictiveness potential. But as an occasional entertainment, I can think of much worse things.
Then those happy, healthy babies have to grow up into well-adjusted adults.
Has she ever bragged about how she's not going to leave her kids any of her money so she can feed the teeming billions of Africa, or something?
This whole Kelce/Swift thing feels so fake. I know people who think it's some kind of bizarre CIA psy-op but I lean toward the theory that it's just a good, old-fashioned publicity stunt. The NFL has been losing viewers for years.
The way she shunned Celine Dion at the Grammys tells you everything you need to know about her.
I don’t watch it or care about it, but I think the Super Bowl is all fake. Like most or all of big time sports. Some people make a lot of money with that stuff, knowing the results of the arranged games in advance.
These days it’s mostly used for political psyops, such as BLM and now the Taylor Swift stuff.
I used to like it, but I no longer do because I don’t like how it glorifies stupid thug blacks and helps jewish billionaires make even more money. They have “END RACISM” emblazoned on the back of every end zone in the league, but I don’t see any major boycotts.
In fact, any White guy who gets really into it (fantasy football, overpriced tickets and merchandise, watching espn) I consider to be enormous cuckolds, gawking over large black men getting paid millions to give each other brain damage. Hearing people marvel over the size and strength of blacks is downright bizarre, if not homosexual. I don’t fault men too much for watching it because I used to be one of those cuck-a-ducks too, but it’s time to stop with the negro worship and find a more productive hobby with fewer bud light ads.
Like Charles Darwin and other notables, Vaughan Williams was of course a Wedgwood, and Wikipedia gives us this episode from his upbringing:BTW I also learned yesterday that Kingsfold had appeared in English County [sic] Songs by Lucy E. Broadwood and J. A. Fuller Maitland, the book that Vaughan Williams credited with kindling the fashion for English folk music in the late 19th c., and presumably therefore his own fascination with the old songs of his country. Lucy Broadwood would be some sort of distant relative of mine as she was great-granddaughter of my ancestor John Broadwood, founder of Broadwood & Sons, inventors of all sorts of innovations in the pianos they manufactured.
So my 16yo son who sings in the choir at his boarding school is also related to Lucy Broadwood. I very much look forward to telling him all this: he may not be a Wedgwood as far as I know, but Kingsfold is easily his favorite hymn tune.
https://youtu.be/Rw3dO7S9qI4?t=47Replies: @YetAnotherAnon
It sounds as if Kingsfold is an adapted folk tune.
https://hymntunes.blogspot.com/2015/11/sussex-hymn-tunes-part-ii.html
As for the declining popularity of youth football, my view as someone with kids in middle and HS is that for more parents the potential long term effect on the brain and/or injuries in general make it unappealing if your kid doesn't have clear standout talent. Along with that, all youth sports today demand significantly more time investment to be competitive so there are not as many athletic kids who rotate between sports seasonally - they settle on one or two and essentially play or train for them all year round. At the high school level, basketball and football require physically mature kids to be competitive and certain physiques as well. In contrast, you can play golf, tennis, baseball, soccer, and lacrosse with a more run of the mill body so long as you have the requisite hand-eye coordination.Replies: @Anonymous
Half-black/whitish blacks are so overrepresented among star athletes these days that one begins to suspect the good white gene variants + good black variants thing Steve attributes to Mahomes is a real pattern and confers a significant advantage. How about Victor Wembanyama? 7’4″ NBA rookie with 8′ wingspan who is much more athletic/skilled than anyone else that size. French mom, Congolese dad, both athletes, both very tall, but neither as exceptional. Come to think of it, Rudy Gobert has a very similar background and similar phenotype, just less extreme and without the skill potential on offense.
More low-class nationalism in the UR comments section.
The eye-color thing seems a bit indulgent…the only hard evidence of eyes reflecting other traits that I can recall seeing involved structures (not color) as predictor of schizophrenia (e.g. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2215001315000086?via%3Dihub). I have also seen various studies related to pain thresholds and opiate sensitivity in red heads. But, with all of the genetic data that has come out in recent years, has any trait been shown to cluster with blue eyes yet? I wouldn’t rule out the possibility, but I think other explanations are more likely at this point.
Say what you want about Kenny Stabler, but heaving the ball far down the field was never his forte.
So now I will say something about Kenny. When I was in high school he moved into the fairly modest suburb down the road, in a fairly modest section of it as well. (Back then QBs, especially with Al Davis’ Raiders) didn’t make what they do now.
His wife was hot and my friend would peek through the fence to catch her sunbathing. One day Kenny caught him doing it, and my friend came up with the excuse that he was trying to see Kenny himself. Kenny bought it. Some time after, my friend buddied up to Kenny as he pulled up in his mid sixties Corvette (like Biden’s). My friend asked him if he got a new car; Kenny replied, “nah, it’s a ’66.”
Say it with a Southern drawl and you get the picture he wasn’t the brightest bulb in the tanning bed.
Which one? He was married three times.
Taylor SwiftBeyonce, the most famous woman in the world.There, fixed it.
Or even…
I’m so old I’m lucky I didn’t write “against Unitas’ Baltimore Colts.”
But then realize, she's got a billion dollars and has most probably already had a bunch of eggs harvested. Swift could keep milking her cow for another dozen years then suddenly become a mom of four in one year at 47. (Yes, she'll probably stagger the surrogacies a bit.)
The modern rich woman really can "have it all".
~~
I also had the thought that this Travis Kelce guy would be better off plucking a young pretty All-American girl type. He's got enough money ... how much can you eat?
I guess if he ties the knot with Swift he gets to be filthy rich, instead of just comfortable rich. (I'd rather have a normal, smart, pleasant woman and big family.) Though there is the upside, that he can't get divorce-raped. Compared to Ms. Swift he earns like an Indian peasant.Replies: @Anonymous, @Stan Adams, @njguy73
I don’t really know much about the NFL either, but I was at my dad’s house when he had the Chiefs-Ravens game on and noticed a few things that surprised me given the things people say on this blog:
-There were visibly plenty of whites on both teams.
-There were white stars as well like Kelce, and the production/commenters gave them plenty of credit.
-The not just white but old white male coaches
were given plenty of credit.
-No woke or anti-white messaging was detected. (I didn’t watch commercials though)
So why do people on this forum have such a low opinion of the NFL? I’m guessing that the NFL, like many other organizations, freaked out during the mass hysteria in 2020 but has dialed it back since. And I agree that slavish/obsessive sports fandom is a waste, so perhaps it makes sense to be harsh given the addictiveness potential. But as an occasional entertainment, I can think of much worse things.
I'd add another big contributor is the frequent penalties for "illegal contact" and "defensive holding". These are judgment penalties and are called almost randomly. Some officials call every tiny bit of contact, others require it to be actually holding, not just touching. Others make it up as they go, calling some contact and not calling other similar contact. Further, its not enough that its 5 yards, its also an automatic first down. If its 3rd and 15, somehow a 5 yard penalty produces a first down.
This leads to offenses frequently getting "do overs" on failed drives. It also provides a powerful incentive to throw more often, as there is no comparable random awarding of yards and first downs on running plays.Replies: @Mike Tre
“What’s interesting about that is it doesn’t seem that quarterback injuries have decreased. Though I’m too lazy to confirm that. ”
You’re not wrong. The promotion of the “mobile quarterback” aka fast negro ball thrower, is by itself a bigger contributor to QB injuries than anything else. Staying in the pocket is safer, but for owners it’s not good enough for a Montana, Bradshaw, Aikman, Manning or Brady to merely stand in the pocket a deliver precision passes to speedy negroes like Rice, Swann, Irvin, Harrison, or Welker (oops LOL). No sir, We. Need. More. Excitement! They need Vince Young and Cordell Stewart and Cam Newton and RGIII and Justin Fields* and on and on to run around the field, make poor decisions, throw a lot more incomplete passes and or INT’s, get clobbered; all because occasionally they jump really high with ball in hand and it looks really cool in slow motion.
But to your other point, just a recap over all the rules that have been changed over the last near 40 years that are clearly designed to give offenses a sizable advantage:
-The automatic first down reward that goes along with penalties that already penalize in the form of yardage.
-The defensive pass interference penalty that is the “spot foul” which in one instance, amounted to a 66 yard penalty. If DPI occurs in the endzone, the ball is placed at the 1 yard line with an automatic first down, virtually guaranteeing a TD.
-Defensive holding and illegal contact penalties, which come with 10 and 5 yard penalties, but also result in automatic first downs.
-Legal contact with a receiver is within 5 yards of the line of scrimmage, where as it used to be 10 yards IIRC.
it is a penalty to face shield (a contactless penalty)
-The inconsistency regarding the ball as the determining factor. for example, only the tip of the ball has to break the plain of the endzone marker in order to be a TD, but not just the ball, but the entire QB’s body has to surpass the line of scrimmage in order for an illegal forward pass to be called.
-Offensive lines are given much wider latitude in regards to the interpretation of “holding.”
-The assortment of penalties in regards to making a tackle. “Spearing” was one thing, but the league now penalizes any tackle in which it is determined the tackling player lead with his helmet. Back in saner times players were taught to tackle by putting their facemask into the chest of the ball carrier and wrapping up. That is extremely difficult to do while leading with a shoulder. So you have more missed tackles.
-Intentional grounding rules are completely arbitrary. when a pro QB throws the ball 10 yards past the sideline when he’s under pressure, it’s intentional grounding. The “spike” play is intentional grounding. The rule itself is shrouded in “if’s and’s or but’s”.
-The rules surrounding what constitutes roughing the passer are completely impossible for a defender to follow while he’s in the process of fighting off a block. Tom Brady’s knee injury was bad, but it’s not common injury sustained by pocket passing quarterbacks. Robert “Me love you long time” Kraft was the driving force behind it, but probably wouldn’t have been if it had been say Peyton Manning who blew his knee out instead.
*Sorry all you mulatto enthusiasts, Russell Wilson and Muhhomies don’t count, as they are both significantly white.
Nothing suggests an iron will more than doing and saying what you are told to do and say, than liking what you are told to like.Replies: @danand, @Wilkey
“…marketing campaign to rejuvenate Bud Lite sales.”
Russia conclusion, insurrection, multiple charges… Trump might survive all those…only to throw it all away with a full throated endorsement of
TrannyBud Light:https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-anheuser-busch-stock-owner-wants-to-give-bud-light-another-chance
Two brothers run college track.
https://www.thechurchnews.com/members/2024/2/4/24052566/gatlin-bair-idaho-first-5-star-college-football-recruit-first-serving-latter-day-saint-missionReplies: @Ron Mexico, @danand
“…white guy and a Mormon from an athletic family.”
Couple of White US Mormon Marathoners headed to the Olympics:
https://www.ldsliving.com/former-byu-runners-smash-the-us-olympic-marathon-trials/s/12020
The stronger runner let his training partner take the win.
“So it’s hard to tell if Purdy is as great as his brief record suggests, or if his success is more the product of good coaching and all the talent around him, such as McCaffrey and defensive end Nick Bosa.” (from the Taki column)
In other words, a modern-day version of Bart Starr, right?
Agree that’s the male urge/necessity to protect the tribe. Except the football “other” is a completely phony “other”.
The “other” that is actually invading–and destroying the future for the posterity of American men–is down at the border. A little healthy violence down there and the whole thing would come to a screeching halt.
Of course, the real “other”–that planned and executes this attack on Americans–is the treasonous “Biden Administration” and associated deep-state knaves in D.C. Inflicting righteous violence upon them would be great, great fun. I’d be happy to participate, but even as an everyman spectator, that would be goodness. Held as a stadium event, that’s the kind of thing where even cheapskate me would pony up the $40,000 a seat just to support the cause. Drawing and quartering, gladiatorial combat, boiling in oil, feeding ’em to the lions–I’d want the whole thing. Value for my dollar.
But then realize, she's got a billion dollars and has most probably already had a bunch of eggs harvested. Swift could keep milking her cow for another dozen years then suddenly become a mom of four in one year at 47. (Yes, she'll probably stagger the surrogacies a bit.)
The modern rich woman really can "have it all".
~~
I also had the thought that this Travis Kelce guy would be better off plucking a young pretty All-American girl type. He's got enough money ... how much can you eat?
I guess if he ties the knot with Swift he gets to be filthy rich, instead of just comfortable rich. (I'd rather have a normal, smart, pleasant woman and big family.) Though there is the upside, that he can't get divorce-raped. Compared to Ms. Swift he earns like an Indian peasant.Replies: @Anonymous, @Stan Adams, @njguy73
If the eggs survive the freezing and thawing process … and produce viable fetuses that grow into happy, healthy babies.
Then those happy, healthy babies have to grow up into well-adjusted adults.
Has she ever bragged about how she’s not going to leave her kids any of her money so she can feed the teeming billions of Africa, or something?
This whole Kelce/Swift thing feels so fake. I know people who think it’s some kind of bizarre CIA psy-op but I lean toward the theory that it’s just a good, old-fashioned publicity stunt. The NFL has been losing viewers for years.
The way she shunned Celine Dion at the Grammys tells you everything you need to know about her.
Please don’t mistake the love of the NFL for a love of football.
But then realize, she's got a billion dollars and has most probably already had a bunch of eggs harvested. Swift could keep milking her cow for another dozen years then suddenly become a mom of four in one year at 47. (Yes, she'll probably stagger the surrogacies a bit.)
The modern rich woman really can "have it all".
~~
I also had the thought that this Travis Kelce guy would be better off plucking a young pretty All-American girl type. He's got enough money ... how much can you eat?
I guess if he ties the knot with Swift he gets to be filthy rich, instead of just comfortable rich. (I'd rather have a normal, smart, pleasant woman and big family.) Though there is the upside, that he can't get divorce-raped. Compared to Ms. Swift he earns like an Indian peasant.Replies: @Anonymous, @Stan Adams, @njguy73
Taylor Swift isn’t rich. She’s wealthy. She’s an institution. Right now she has more in common with Jeff Bezos or Bill Gates than she has with any other pop star. I’d go so far as to say she is the only indispensable performer in the music industry. Rihanna’s pretty much pushed music aside to be a lingerie mogul, and Beyonce’ only needs to release an album every five years to stay relevant. Come to think of it, if Beyonce’ ever wins Best Album Grammy, she may quit recording altogether. Everyone else is disposable. Rodrigo, Eilish, Nas X, once they stop having hits, they’ll be doing Vegas.
As for Travis Kelce, he would marry a former Miss Universe, but Tim Tebow and Christian McCaffrey got there first.
I don’t follow professional football – I’m a Cowboys’ fan.
Meanwhile in less trivial matters Musk looks at Disney
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1754999578619707658/photo/1
Alth0ugh I like Taylor Swift and it appears to me that the Kelce thing is at least a little bit genuine and not entirely a psy-op or publicity stunt, the hoopla around a Chiefs' win is going go be unbearable. Not to mention that I've had my fill of Patrick Mahomes and Andy Reid and Jake from State Farm (the second, black, one) and pretty much wish the whole Chiefs organization would just go away. We've reached peak saturation with these jerks. Go away.
But as much as I don't want to see the Chiefs win and endure all of the pop culture nonsense, I equally absolutely cannot, as a Cowboys fan, root for the 49ers.
So I'm going to make some homemade chicken wings and watch the game with my wife "just for the commercials" and hope for the proverbial meteor strike.
Approximately two generations ago NFL rules began to be changed to foster large offensive numbers. The “Mel Blount Rule” is probably the most famous example. In our era kickoff returns have de facto been eliminated; it is much safer to take the touchback, particularly since you will begin play needing to cover only about forty yards to kick a field goal.
The eye color of Mahomes is hazel green.
I count him as light-eyed.
Mexican sideshows consists of taking over a major intersection, blocking all traffic, while the Mexicans do donuts in the middle of the intersection in their crap cars, while the cholos cheer.
The district attorney will be taking weeks to release the cars, owners have to pay for the towing and storage fees, which will easily be around $1500, plus they probably lose their only mode of transportation during that time! Then if the citation sticks, add another grand!
Awesome job, Stockton Police Department!
Wish L.A. had the balls…
https://youtu.be/L9mhtcAbs9AReplies: @Buzz Mohawk, @Ripple Earthdevil
I wish Oakland, where the sideshowers are mostly blacques, had the cojones to do the same.
She sounds like a very careless individual, but she didn't shoot anyone.Replies: @bomag, @JR Ewing, @Dmon, @Ron Mexico, @Aphatgurl, @Muggles, @Reg Cæsar
Great. As we quit enforcing immigration laws; and stop prosecuting property crimes; we can put the slack to punishing parents… spreading bad DNA, I guess. I suppose the various rainbow communities are immune.
Seems like a lot of gratuitous prosecuting lately: this; the three cops with Chauvin; the civil rights violations added on to anything involving a protected human species; Trump getting it from 360 degrees.
There was fussing about giving past presidents too much immunity. How about the too-much immunity given to various court personnel?
“HE’S a Prince.”
In 1984 I’d just moved to Charlotte, NC from Tampa having grown up south of Cleveland. I was a regional sales manager for a printing company and had Baltimore as part of my territory. I went to my first trade show in Bal’mur and displayed a beautiful 4 color job we’d done for a client. One of the first people to come by my booth picked up a sample, spit on it, crumpled it up, threw it on the floor and stomped on it.
The sample was a job done for Mayflower Moving. Even though I was an NFL fan (Browns season tix in the early-mid 70’s) and knew of the Colts move to Indy, I had no concept of the hatred of Mayflower…until then.
She sounds like a very careless individual, but she didn't shoot anyone.Replies: @bomag, @JR Ewing, @Dmon, @Ron Mexico, @Aphatgurl, @Muggles, @Reg Cæsar
I’m inclined to agree that in most instances, parents shouldn’t be held legally responsible for their children’s actions.
However, the differentiating factor here is that the parents weren’t just absent or negligent or otherwise just poor parents. In this case they literally bought the gun for him a few days before he went on the shooting spree, despite knowing of his mental problems and issues at school. That’s irresponsible and anyone, parents or not, should bear responsibility for something like that.
Seems a preponderance of airplane fighter aces were/are blue-eyed. Tantalizing to entertain a conclusion; reminds us of the fuzziness involved.
She sounds like a very careless individual, but she didn't shoot anyone.Replies: @bomag, @JR Ewing, @Dmon, @Ron Mexico, @Aphatgurl, @Muggles, @Reg Cæsar
Yeah, that’s an interesting one – Schroedinger’s Shooter. The 15 yr old shooter was found guilty as an adult, but the mother was convicted of basically failing to supervise a juvenile. Lots of interesting legal ramifications there, particularly when 15 yr old D’Shitavious shoots his next carjacking victim. Also, seems like the criminal negligence rap could just as easily apply to the school personnel. Of course, the legal precedent set here will only be applied against non-connected, non-diverse people, who are always collectively responsible for everything. Note also the contrast to the Alec Baldwin case, in which so far literally nobody has been found responsible for anything. It’s good to be on the King’s team.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/mother-michigan-school-shooter-found-guilty-involuntary-manslaughter/
But, the half a dozen times I made a perfect block or tackle is something I can remember as clearly today as the day it happened 30+ years ago. It’s the same as when you hit a baseball or golf ball perfectly. All of your energy is transferred to the person you are hitting and you feel like you hit an empty paper bag instead of another person. Truly a transcendental moment when you are a teen age boy.Replies: @The Anti-Gnostic, @JR Ewing
I can still remember the most perfectly executed block I ever made in high school.
It was a nondescript scrimmage before the start of my senior season. We were in – of all places – Uvalde playing a team that had driven up from the Rio Grande Valley and met us halfway from our own town up towards the panhandle.
I was the right tackle. We were inside the 10 yard line on the north end of the stadium and it was a called outside run to the right. I came off and chipped the play side defensive end and quickly got onto the outside linebacker. I was low and got my inside shoulder on his outside hip and just effortlessly drove him backwards 20 yards out of the back of the end zone. It was textbook and he could do nothing but go along for the ride until he was flat on his back.
Almost 40 years ago and I still remember it as clear as day.
She sounds like a very careless individual, but she didn't shoot anyone.Replies: @bomag, @JR Ewing, @Dmon, @Ron Mexico, @Aphatgurl, @Muggles, @Reg Cæsar
Should prosecutors start going after baby mommas whose sons are doing drive-bys? Equity and all.
https://hymntunes.blogspot.com/2015/11/sussex-hymn-tunes-part-ii.htmlReplies: @slumber_j
Right: the book I mention in my original comment is a compendium of folk songs, and Kingsfold is in it.
That would require him to have to rethink his entire premise. And Steve doesn't do rethinking premises.
Steve also likes to talk about Mahomes' inherited athletic ability, but definitely does not want to talk about other family behaviors, like his black dad getting arrested a dozen times for drunk driving or his brother getting arrested for sexual battery.
Nor have I read him mention that Brock Purdy also has a father who pitched (in the minors) for several years, or that his brother was recruited by Florida St to play QB. But the Purdy's seem to be boring law abiding white people, who definitely do not help promote the idea that racial mixing is the best thing to happen to pro sports, or something.Replies: @Pixo
“ Steve himself believes that the NFL is a pure meritocracy and that there couldn’t possibly discrimination against white players. ”
He has opined many times that pro sports discriminated against white Americans:
1. In MLB before sabremetrics coaches may have favored showboating and more athletic blacks over whites.
2. Cornerback became a “blacks only” position where whites were not considered.
3. In diverse areas athletic white youth who would be good at it are steered away from basketball because of blacks.
“ help promote the idea that racial mixing is the best thing to happen to pro sports”
He didn’t say that. And even if you think there are sports or positions which are optimized for mulattos, that doesn’t mean you “promote racial mixing.”
Looks like blue eyes.
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/2e/3b/4b/2e3b4b2f1238d77dc345c571d425d098.jpgReplies: @Bill Jones, @Truth
Is the flat head because he played before they had helmets?
Black people! I love how people think just because one can throw or catch a ball, it automatically means they or their family is still not a menace to society. PG County in Maryland is statistically the best place in America to live if you’re a black person. As a family member says who lives nearby, if it’s not a double homicide, it ain’t makin the news in PG County. Sounds lovely, and remember comrades, diversity is our greatest strength!
In other trivial news, The rate of immigration exceeds the American birthrate.
Oh man, Toby Keith’s passing must have been tough, huh.
OT: Steve mainly does sports and celebrity news these days, but his favorite Mark Walburg-looking ex-Cricket star, Imran Khan, who was deposed by the CIA, just got sentenced to 10 years in prison for liking Putin too much.
This is, of course, exactly what they are hoping to do to Trump.
https://www.unz.com/article/the-us-toppling-of-imran-khan/
Bingo. SS's apparent indifference to the serious stuff like this going on these days is so, so depressing.Replies: @Pixo, @YetAnotherAnon
Games are for children. The NFL re-channels energies that could save the republic into regime-friendly passivity.
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1754999578619707658/photo/1Replies: @JR Ewing
As a fellow Cowboys fan, let me take this opportunity to say that this is particular Super Bowl is absolutely one of the most awful matchups ever, at least for me personally.
Alth0ugh I like Taylor Swift and it appears to me that the Kelce thing is at least a little bit genuine and not entirely a psy-op or publicity stunt, the hoopla around a Chiefs’ win is going go be unbearable. Not to mention that I’ve had my fill of Patrick Mahomes and Andy Reid and Jake from State Farm (the second, black, one) and pretty much wish the whole Chiefs organization would just go away. We’ve reached peak saturation with these jerks. Go away.
But as much as I don’t want to see the Chiefs win and endure all of the pop culture nonsense, I equally absolutely cannot, as a Cowboys fan, root for the 49ers.
So I’m going to make some homemade chicken wings and watch the game with my wife “just for the commercials” and hope for the proverbial meteor strike.
She sounds like a very careless individual, but she didn't shoot anyone.Replies: @bomag, @JR Ewing, @Dmon, @Ron Mexico, @Aphatgurl, @Muggles, @Reg Cæsar
“Disparate impact” may hold back similar cases from repeating this juries decision …
Many parents have been proven negligent in the past … more accountability may not work out … in the future
OT: Steve mainly does sports and celebrity news these days, but his favorite Mark Walburg-looking ex-Cricket star, Imran Khan, who was deposed by the CIA, just got sentenced to 10 years in prison for liking Putin too much.
Bingo. SS’s apparent indifference to the serious stuff like this going on these days is so, so depressing.
Have you watched the drone videos from last week that show Ukraine sinking yet another Black Sea Fleet capital ship that was supporting Putin’s anti-white war of aggression?
Just masterful, the first two drones disable the left and right rudders, the third blows a hole in its side, the fourth flies into it and causes the missiles aimed at the heroic defenders of Ukraine to detonate and sink the ship.
The AA fire splashing impotently into the water as the drones approach is a great touch. Slava Ukraine!
https://youtu.be/wAx3F8vdeU8Replies: @Catdompanj, @vinteuil, @JohnnyWalker123
But for those of you who like me are bored by football, here are some alternatives......
Joe Brainard, "I Remember"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEFu9iV0Zxw
https://www.amazon.com/Home-Economics-Wendell-Berry/dp/0865472750
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjEX2idAGNA
Kick out the jams, muthafuckas.Replies: @kaganovitch
Well, had you paid attention when those 23 lesbians were talking, you might have learnt something about football.
She sounds like a very careless individual, but she didn't shoot anyone.Replies: @bomag, @JR Ewing, @Dmon, @Ron Mexico, @Aphatgurl, @Muggles, @Reg Cæsar
Also off topic:
I believe the murderous son was a minor at the time. There is a specific law there holding parents accountable for their minor children who commit murder of school students.
You can be charged with various criminal murder related charges if your action or inaction is a direct proven cause of someone being murdered (by others) as a result.
This is akin to “give the kid a gun and he takes the rap” kind of scenario.
Criminal law can be pretty complicated. So now it’s not just Mafia capos who can be guilty of murder by others.
Eh, only 12 owners are Jewish so statistically you can almost always catch a ‘no Jewish owner involved’ game every week of the season unless the bye week schedule works out really poorly. So if you get the NFL package you can watch at least one game a week with a semi-clear conscience. I say semi-clear because the stupid thug Blacks are somewhat more ubiquitous.
Fun NFL factoid:
Yesterday’s WSJ had a sports column which established that the 49ers use a much tighter offensive line set up than any other team in the sport.
Very short spread. The Chiefs use a wider spread but not the widest.
The column summarizes the view that Mike Shanahan figured out via NFL research that shorter lines have proven more successful than the older and favored wideout offensive line.
Essentially, this “wisdom”maintains that a narrower offensive line set is much harder to defend against since the open end spaces provide a lot of running room and spread out pass defenders.
There are a lot of stats which appear to back this up.
This isn’t a secret in the NFL but some coaches are using this more than others.
It was news to me, but makes sense. You’d think that “analytics” would be pretty old stuff by now, but evidently not in the NFL. So it’s not just the coaching and players, but as we say here “noticing.”
We’ll see how this works out in “The Big Game.” One hour of football, three more hours of ads, penalty reviews, half time Vegas productions (now actually in Vegas!), time outs, and “commentary.”
Also, if her private jet manages to safely make the Tokyo-Las Vegas run, many clips of America’s new favorite billionaire. That’s another half hour right there…
Kyle Shanahan has been a coach in 2 SBs.
He was the OC in Atlanta's loss to the Patriots when the Pats were down 28-3 at the half.
He was the head coach of the 49ers when they lost to the Chiefs in 2019.
In both losses, he had a double digit lead in the 4th quarter but lost because he wouldn't run the ball.
OT — Matt Walsh has live footage of the FAA workshopping to reduce the number of white pilots. Not to overpromote blacks or underpromote whites but to remove them.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1755319178897092689.html
At that point it would become necessary to ban all private air travel and make the CEO class fly with D'Ontavious and Shabazz in the cockpit just like Joe Public will have to.
Otherwise the CEO class will get Harvey and Glenn in the cockpit while we get Ziggy and Shebonnaire.
PG County is basically what Baltimore would be if around 75-100k of its Blacks! were given well-paying fedgov jobs via affirmative action.
Looks like blue eyes.
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/2e/3b/4b/2e3b4b2f1238d77dc345c571d425d098.jpgReplies: @Bill Jones, @Truth
They’re totally DREE-me.
Bingo. SS's apparent indifference to the serious stuff like this going on these days is so, so depressing.Replies: @Pixo, @YetAnotherAnon
Or perhaps Steve approves of a bit of illiberal deep-state Putinist-crushing, but being a gentlemanly classical liberal keeps those baser sentiments to himself.
Have you watched the drone videos from last week that show Ukraine sinking yet another Black Sea Fleet capital ship that was supporting Putin’s anti-white war of aggression?
Just masterful, the first two drones disable the left and right rudders, the third blows a hole in its side, the fourth flies into it and causes the missiles aimed at the heroic defenders of Ukraine to detonate and sink the ship.
The AA fire splashing impotently into the water as the drones approach is a great touch. Slava Ukraine!
They all had twin brothers who didn’t survive. Thorpe’s lived about five years; the others died shortly after their birth.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/mother-michigan-school-shooter-found-guilty-involuntary-manslaughter/Replies: @J.Ross
This case appears to be absolutely tailor-made to justify the law. I’m not saying it’s an op, but the Crumblies — that’s their name — are on record laughing about school warnings and incidents of acting out. And this is coming from the same scumbags who did the test run for January Sixth. Whether “real” or not (some people are horrible parents), it signals a strategic shift away from focusing on the gun, and a death by a thousand cuts approach, making gun ownership expensive and inconvenient. Similar laws passed at the same time and more recently criminalize having the wrong safe. And the Red Flag SWAT law is in effect now, so all the people who dodged having a murderously bitter ex-spouse by not getting married in the first place look vindicated.
As you say, this is part and parcel of the end run around the common law by continuously extending the web of liability to every action and person with any connection to a crime whatsoever, no matter how remote. This is pretty much how every level of our government at every level has worked for a number of years, at least until recently. Blatant illegality and unconstitutionality were generally met with resistance, so they would step back and take the indirect approach. Until 2020, that is.
I am a blue-eyed guy myself and I’d love to believe it, but my guess it is more a matter of blue eyes being correlated with Northern European genes, height, intellgence, and success on the mating market. One way to track it would be to look at brothers from families with eye color variation and see if there are any correlations in abilities/outcomes.
She’s so hot right now!
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CBxPmWAUAAAgI_6?format=jpg&name=small
I’ve been waiting for Steve to get around to this topic. There were two White RBs who led one of the conferences in rushing in the 70s. Journeyman Jim Otis led the NFC in 1975 with 1076 (O.J. led the league with 1817). The Raiders Mark van Eeghen led the AFC in 1977 with 1273 (Walter Payton led the league with 1852, his best season) which was one of the higher totals ever for a 14-game season.
Van Eeghen started at FB for the Raiders a half-dozen years or so. He got two Super Bowl rings, two thousand yard seasons. And he received almost no publicity. Van Eeghen wasn’t spectacular (never made news off the field) with a steady four yards a carry. Stabler was the Raiders star player.
Christian McCaffrey with his parentage, big high school star, Stanford All American, was primed to be drafted high and succeed.
https://twitter.com/Super70sSports/status/1520924332259569665
No, it’s because he played before they had hair dryers.
Feel free to print out a poster-sized picture to hang in your tent on the moon.
Have you watched the drone videos from last week that show Ukraine sinking yet another Black Sea Fleet capital ship that was supporting Putin’s anti-white war of aggression?
Just masterful, the first two drones disable the left and right rudders, the third blows a hole in its side, the fourth flies into it and causes the missiles aimed at the heroic defenders of Ukraine to detonate and sink the ship.
The AA fire splashing impotently into the water as the drones approach is a great touch. Slava Ukraine!
https://youtu.be/wAx3F8vdeU8Replies: @Catdompanj, @vinteuil, @JohnnyWalker123
Drones or the Ghost of Kyiv?
Yup -U.S. v Emerson. You have an individual right to bear arms, unless your wife is a vindictive bitch, in which case all your constitutional rights are waived. If you are in contested divorce proceedings, the state can illegally search and seize, infringe your right to bear arms, waive due process, and probably quarter troops in your house and force you to attend the Anglican Church.
As you say, this is part and parcel of the end run around the common law by continuously extending the web of liability to every action and person with any connection to a crime whatsoever, no matter how remote. This is pretty much how every level of our government at every level has worked for a number of years, at least until recently. Blatant illegality and unconstitutionality were generally met with resistance, so they would step back and take the indirect approach. Until 2020, that is.
Masturbation for cucks. Seemingly every sportsball obsessed dad I know is fat. The few other active/fit dads I know aren’t too interested. I feign interest; I suppose it’s fun when I’m drunk. But as soon as I sober up my self awareness kicks in.
I heard they will play the Black National Anthem this year? Bread and circuses courtesy of the people that despise you and are destroying the last of your civilization. I’d rather workout and go to the range.
The NBA is changing dramatically because of immigration. Likewise MLB. I don't follow soccer but it is also far more internationally integrated.
NFL remains an outlier.Replies: @The Anti-Gnostic
NFL remains an outlier.
American football is really fast-twitch loaded and the positions are hyper-specialized. So a Brit or Aussie who’s a good number eight in rugby and about the right physique for defensive end or tight end is going to be more aerobic vs. anaerobic and not as competitive in the US market.
But NCAA football with the exploded restrictions on transfers and earnings may result in more foreigners entering the collegiate market.
Van Eeghen started at FB for the Raiders a half-dozen years or so. He got two Super Bowl rings, two thousand yard seasons. And he received almost no publicity. Van Eeghen wasn't spectacular (never made news off the field) with a steady four yards a carry. Stabler was the Raiders star player.
Christian McCaffrey with his parentage, big high school star, Stanford All American, was primed to be drafted high and succeed.Replies: @Trinity, @ScarletNumber
And #44 Marv Hubbard before Van Eeghan. Damn, same number as Riggins.
-The defensive pass interference penalty that is the "spot foul" which in one instance, amounted to a 66 yard penalty. If DPI occurs in the endzone, the ball is placed at the 1 yard line with an automatic first down, virtually guaranteeing a TD.
-Defensive holding and illegal contact penalties, which come with 10 and 5 yard penalties, but also result in automatic first downs.
-Legal contact with a receiver is within 5 yards of the line of scrimmage, where as it used to be 10 yards IIRC.
it is a penalty to face shield (a contactless penalty)
-The inconsistency regarding the ball as the determining factor. for example, only the tip of the ball has to break the plain of the endzone marker in order to be a TD, but not just the ball, but the entire QB's body has to surpass the line of scrimmage in order for an illegal forward pass to be called.
-Offensive lines are given much wider latitude in regards to the interpretation of "holding."
-The assortment of penalties in regards to making a tackle. "Spearing" was one thing, but the league now penalizes any tackle in which it is determined the tackling player lead with his helmet. Back in saner times players were taught to tackle by putting their facemask into the chest of the ball carrier and wrapping up. That is extremely difficult to do while leading with a shoulder. So you have more missed tackles.
-Intentional grounding rules are completely arbitrary. when a pro QB throws the ball 10 yards past the sideline when he's under pressure, it's intentional grounding. The "spike" play is intentional grounding. The rule itself is shrouded in "if's and's or but's".
-The rules surrounding what constitutes roughing the passer are completely impossible for a defender to follow while he's in the process of fighting off a block. Tom Brady's knee injury was bad, but it's not common injury sustained by pocket passing quarterbacks. Robert "Me love you long time" Kraft was the driving force behind it, but probably wouldn't have been if it had been say Peyton Manning who blew his knee out instead. *Sorry all you mulatto enthusiasts, Russell Wilson and Muhhomies don't count, as they are both significantly white.Replies: @ScarletNumber
You left out Michael Vick, who of course went to prison for two seasons in the middle of his career for financing a dog-fighting ring.
Plane, as in the geometry term
Not really, although I agree with you that most instances of a quarterback throwing the ball away do not fall into the purview of the rule.
He's included in the "on and on" portion of my comment, as well as Jmarcus Russell, Jameis Winston, EJ Manuel, etc, etc.
"Plane, as in the geometry term"
LOL their is moor too life than being that guy.
"Not really"
Yes really. "Outside the tackle box" is deliberately arbitrary because the "tackle box" is fluid therefor subject to the ever reliable judgement call. Outside the hash marks ( or outside the near numbers and far hash marks) would at least establish hard boundaries. Why is it all of a sudden not IG when outside the TB? Magic?
Van Eeghen started at FB for the Raiders a half-dozen years or so. He got two Super Bowl rings, two thousand yard seasons. And he received almost no publicity. Van Eeghen wasn't spectacular (never made news off the field) with a steady four yards a carry. Stabler was the Raiders star player.
Christian McCaffrey with his parentage, big high school star, Stanford All American, was primed to be drafted high and succeed.Replies: @Trinity, @ScarletNumber
Steve’s favorite Twitter account noted that Otis looked like Steven Stills
Nothing suggests an iron will more than doing and saying what you are told to do and say, than liking what you are told to like.Replies: @danand, @Wilkey
Victory is achieved by having allies and working together, not by having “an iron will.” See: 100% Democratic unity vs. Republican disunity in the failed Mayorkas impeachment vote. Would you say that McClintock and Buck have “iron wills,” or would you just call them traitorous assholes who cost the Republicans a major win?
214 of their fellow Republicans told them they were wrong, but the 2-3 Republican clowns who voted against them preferred to listen to their “iron wills.”
Rules are made to be broken, so if there’s any exceptions it follows there must be a rule.
Something here about small differences adding up over time, along the lines of Northern Europeans having the patience, cooperation, and mechanical aptitude to build societies and infrastructure that facilitated the building of planes and encouraging the aptitude to fly them. Hard to suss that out in today’s climate with all the shouting about equality and discrimination.
I’m pretty sure Elvis’ twin brother didn’t die. I just saw him at Wal-mart the other day.
The whites who suffer the most from anti-white racism tend to be the same whites who actively promote it. I think this phenomenon probably deserves more discussion.
It seems to be a feedback loop where these whites start out as generic “anti-racist” lefties, then they experience anti-white racism at the hands of their supposed allies, and then they respond to it by doubling down and becoming strident anti-white racists themselves. Denial undoubtedly plays a large role, plus traces of Stockholm Syndrome, maybe? They definitely do not get a free pass from their “allies” for being good whites. It’s not like the early 90s “one free grope” rule for Clinton—progressives these days are dead serious and eager to eat their own.
Apart from the universal affirmative action discrimination in college admissions and hiring at large cooperations, conservative whites in the US, by and large, aren’t as personally affected / held back by anti-white racism as progressive whites are. And yet progressive whites cannot stop themselves from fanning the flames.
“As it will be in the future, it was at the birth of Man
There are only four things certain since Social Progress began.
That the Dog returns to his Vomit and the Sow returns to her Mire,
And the burnt Fool’s bandaged finger goes wabbling back to the Fire;
And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins
When all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins,
As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn,
The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return”
BTW: you forgot about the Schwartz brothers (Geoff and Mitchell). Ashkenazis are rarely suited for the NFL line, but when they are it’s not surprising that it rubs off on their siblings.
BTW BTW: the Schwartz brothers (apparently full Jewish) look less stereotypically Jewish than >90% of Ashkenazis. Perhaps they got a larger component of the ~20% Central/Eastern Euro admixture? I say that only partially in jest.
https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/B/BartHa00.htmReplies: @Anonymous Jew
Bingo. SS's apparent indifference to the serious stuff like this going on these days is so, so depressing.Replies: @Pixo, @YetAnotherAnon
“SS’s apparent indifference to the serious stuff like this going on these days is so, so depressing.”
I don’t think foreign policy is Steve’s forte.
As Pixo rightly notes, NATO special forces are doing a sterling job attacking the Black Sea Fleet – but on the land front, where Ukrainians do most of the fighting (albeit with vast amounts of NATO intelligence), Ukraine have just relieved the Army Commander of his position.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/08/volodymyr-zelenskiy-fires-top-ukraine-army-commander
Still, this foreign stuff definitely illuminates a few things. It’s amazing how the kill-all-Palestinians crowd are also the kill-all-Russians crowd.
I do wonder if we’re not at a historical point of inflection. The success of the Russian economy and the disasters for the European economy – despite, as many here would point out, Russian corruption and European ingenuity – are striking.
Does the USA have a poet like Kipling? It was 126 years ago, at the height of Imperial power, that he predicted the end of Britain and her Empire.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recessional_(poem)
Hunsdon agreed: Funny how that works.Replies: @J.Ross
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1755319178897092689.htmlReplies: @YetAnotherAnon
“Matt Walsh has live footage of the FAA workshopping to reduce the number of white pilots. “
At that point it would become necessary to ban all private air travel and make the CEO class fly with D’Ontavious and Shabazz in the cockpit just like Joe Public will have to.
Otherwise the CEO class will get Harvey and Glenn in the cockpit while we get Ziggy and Shebonnaire.
Here’s another. Not too many guys go from Atlanta Jewish Academy to the 49’ers.
https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/B/BartHa00.htm
YetAnotherAnon said: Still, this foreign stuff definitely illuminates a few things. It’s amazing how the kill-all-Palestinians crowd are also the kill-all-Russians crowd.
Hunsdon agreed: Funny how that works.
“You left out Michael Vick”
He’s included in the “on and on” portion of my comment, as well as Jmarcus Russell, Jameis Winston, EJ Manuel, etc, etc.
“Plane, as in the geometry term”
LOL their is moor too life than being that guy.
“Not really”
Yes really. “Outside the tackle box” is deliberately arbitrary because the “tackle box” is fluid therefor subject to the ever reliable judgement call. Outside the hash marks ( or outside the near numbers and far hash marks) would at least establish hard boundaries. Why is it all of a sudden not IG when outside the TB? Magic?
https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/B/BartHa00.htmReplies: @Anonymous Jew
Thanks. He looks both Ashkenazi and a lot like my last (Jewish) boss, only Barton is literally 11 inches taller.
She sounds like a very careless individual, but she didn't shoot anyone.Replies: @bomag, @JR Ewing, @Dmon, @Ron Mexico, @Aphatgurl, @Muggles, @Reg Cæsar
A link would help.
Hunsdon agreed: Funny how that works.Replies: @J.Ross
They should apply the essential principle to the design of kitchen appliances, because of the every single times that it works like that.
So now I will say something about Kenny. When I was in high school he moved into the fairly modest suburb down the road, in a fairly modest section of it as well. (Back then QBs, especially with Al Davis' Raiders) didn't make what they do now.
His wife was hot and my friend would peek through the fence to catch her sunbathing. One day Kenny caught him doing it, and my friend came up with the excuse that he was trying to see Kenny himself. Kenny bought it. Some time after, my friend buddied up to Kenny as he pulled up in his mid sixties Corvette (like Biden's). My friend asked him if he got a new car; Kenny replied, "nah, it's a '66."
Say it with a Southern drawl and you get the picture he wasn't the brightest bulb in the tanning bed.Replies: @Corvinus
“His wife was hot”
Which one? He was married three times.
Jury finds Jennifer Crumbley guilty of involuntary manslaughter in son’s school shooting
Have you watched the drone videos from last week that show Ukraine sinking yet another Black Sea Fleet capital ship that was supporting Putin’s anti-white war of aggression?
Just masterful, the first two drones disable the left and right rudders, the third blows a hole in its side, the fourth flies into it and causes the missiles aimed at the heroic defenders of Ukraine to detonate and sink the ship.
The AA fire splashing impotently into the water as the drones approach is a great touch. Slava Ukraine!
https://youtu.be/wAx3F8vdeU8Replies: @Catdompanj, @vinteuil, @JohnnyWalker123
I have no words left to express how low you have fallen in my esteem, you blood-thirsty creep.
That the havoc of war and the battle’s confusion
A home and a country should leave us no more?
Their blood has washed out their foul footstep’s pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave,
From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave
https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1754782237143269464Replies: @YetAnotherAnon
I would like to see the 49ers win because I too am tired of the Chiefs, BUT . . .
Kyle Shanahan has been a coach in 2 SBs.
He was the OC in Atlanta’s loss to the Patriots when the Pats were down 28-3 at the half.
He was the head coach of the 49ers when they lost to the Chiefs in 2019.
In both losses, he had a double digit lead in the 4th quarter but lost because he wouldn’t run the ball.
And where is that band who so vauntingly swore,
That the havoc of war and the battle’s confusion
A home and a country should leave us no more?
Their blood has washed out their foul footstep’s pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave,
From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave
That the havoc of war and the battle’s confusion
A home and a country should leave us no more?
Their blood has washed out their foul footstep’s pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave,
From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave
https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1754782237143269464Replies: @YetAnotherAnon
Alas we could swap videos of stuff getting blown up until the cows come home. Doesn’t necessarily give great insight, unless it shows huge numbers of enemy troops running in disorder, abandoning their weapons and shouting “Aaarghh!” as in the war comics of my youth.
One thing I’ve noticed from reading the Telegram channels is that there are no longer many videos of Ukrainian funerals, complete with poor crying women and roads lined with kneeling neighbours, or cemeteries full of new graves and flags. It could imply that casualties have fallen dramatically, but I tend to assume that there’s been a concerted effort to stop these being posted by Ukrainians, as they soon get copied by pro-Russian channels. After all, video of Russian funerals and cemeteries has always been pretty thin on the ground, but I doubt that is related to casualty numbers, more likely tight Russian media control.
Similarly not many videos of Russian missile strike damage behind the front lines now – there’s actually probably more Russian stuff posted from Ukrainian strikes – whereas we used to see a lot of video of ammunition dumps or warehouses going up.
Know thy enemy:
Why Are Woke Pro Sports Leagues Lobbying Congress For Gun Control?
I won’t be watching the “Super Bowl”.
The death of “professional sports” would be the best thing to happen in the USA.
It is sickening to see grown men collect sports cards and other overpriced sports “memorabilia”, “team jerseys” and other useless things, having the ability to quote sports statistics ad-nauseum, but not giving a damn about REAL issues affecting the country.
Add to that, the adulation that many grown men place on their “sports heroes” (actually grown men playing childrens’ games) who quite often are brain-damaged, immature, bulked-up steroid-addicted poor excuses for human beings.
This false flag “COVID19” virus may force people to wake up from their “professional sports” induced stupor and start to realize that there are many other things in life that really DO make a difference.
Sports figures wear COSTUMES…those in military service, others with real responsibilities and true “heroes” wear UNIFORMS.
Big difference…
I’ve been criticizing grown men for supporting professional “sports” for more than a few decades. I never watched that garbage…
Not only the “National Felon League” and the “National Basketball Association” but even that bastion of truly professional skills, NASCAR has been infected with “woke” ideology. When (((they))) banned the “Stars and Bars” flag, a part of their history, NASCAR sealed its fate, along with the promotion of substandard “affirmative action” driver “bubba” wallace complaining about “racist” garage door pulls, triggering a full-blown FBI investigation, NASCARs fate was set. To add insult to injury, recently “bubba” wallace’s violent tendencies were on full display.
Let’s not forget the billions spent by grown male “sports fans” on sports ball jerseys, caps and other “trinkets”, overpriced game tickets and taxpayer-subsidized stadiums (playpens), all to benefit the (((owners))) of the criminal, steroid-addled costumed players who are paid millions of dollars to play children’s games.
“Bread and circuses” which are provided to “quell the masses” are just as successful now as they were in ancient times…
It is disgusting to see grown men spout off useless and meaningless sports statistics and the adulation that they give these costumed players (actors) while not giving a damn about the direction this country is taking. It is just sickening to see grown men debase themselves with that mind-numbing garbage.
I realize that sports ball is “entertainment for the masses” and do look down derisively on grown men who sport their favorite sports ball players clothing or other accouterments.
I think to myself: “don’t you have anything better to do?”
There are much better things for grown men to do than watch sports ball sports.
Build something…repair something…study philosophy or technical journals on something that interests you, make something better, improve yourself and your standard of living and devices…use your wisdom and knowledge to get your fellow men to THINK for themselves, not what to think, but HOW to think and to not just accept the pablum, lies and falsehoods of the mainstream media and useless professional sports.
Message to grown men: Get away from the sports ball. You are much better than that…
Money well-spent!
Have you watched the drone videos from last week that show Ukraine sinking yet another Black Sea Fleet capital ship that was supporting Putin’s anti-white war of aggression?
Just masterful, the first two drones disable the left and right rudders, the third blows a hole in its side, the fourth flies into it and causes the missiles aimed at the heroic defenders of Ukraine to detonate and sink the ship.
The AA fire splashing impotently into the water as the drones approach is a great touch. Slava Ukraine!
https://youtu.be/wAx3F8vdeU8Replies: @Catdompanj, @vinteuil, @JohnnyWalker123
I think Zelensky and Putin should resolve their problems with a game of Battleship!
On Warthog defense on Utube, they show Russian POWs. Their stories are so sad that I am beginning to feel sorry for the Russians.
The death of “professional sports” would be the best thing to happen in the USA.
It is sickening to see grown men collect sports cards and other overpriced sports “memorabilia”, “team jerseys” and other useless things, having the ability to quote sports statistics ad-nauseum, but not giving a damn about REAL issues affecting the country.
Add to that, the adulation that many grown men place on their “sports heroes” (actually grown men playing childrens’ games) who quite often are brain-damaged, immature, bulked-up steroid-addicted poor excuses for human beings.
This false flag “COVID19” virus may force people to wake up from their “professional sports” induced stupor and start to realize that there are many other things in life that really DO make a difference.
Sports figures wear COSTUMES…those in military service, others with real responsibilities and true “heroes” wear UNIFORMS.
Big difference…Replies: @J.Ross
Not the death of professional sports per se but people moving on to constructive things, like getting into sports in their own lives and exercising more.
https://twitter.com/DuringJs/status/1756075909323321799Replies: @p38ace
She earned her money! This is unlike these “refugees” who throw out food they do not like.
Once again the powers that be in the NFL have decreed that there be TWO separate national anthems played prior to the start of the Superbowl spectacle—the actual anthem (“The Star Spangled Banner”) and the new upstart woke “Black! national anthem,” “Lift Every Voice and Sing.” Here. for example, is an article decrying this divisive practice, which the NFL overlords piously proclaim is in the name of greater inclusion (as in DIE).
ONE ANTHEM
I suppose my question for the commentariat is, does anyone else think that practices like this, and the similar one of declaring the new Juneteenth holiday (our overlords call it “Juneteenth National Independence Day”), will lead to further moves toward breaking up the USA into multiple new nations? These kinds of measures, it seems to me, are markers along the road to Civil War II. I think the globohomo elites are mistaken if they think that the mass consumer culture, epitomized by the NFL and Taylor Swift, will provide enough “glue” to hold the country together in the future, especially given the mass influx of illegal alien invaders we are experiencing.
Democrat criticizes Super Bowl crowd for not standing during Black national anthem
Makes you wonder how long before standing for the Black! national anthem is mandatory.
ONE ANTHEM
I suppose my question for the commentariat is, does anyone else think that practices like this, and the similar one of declaring the new Juneteenth holiday (our overlords call it "Juneteenth National Independence Day"), will lead to further moves toward breaking up the USA into multiple new nations? These kinds of measures, it seems to me, are markers along the road to Civil War II. I think the globohomo elites are mistaken if they think that the mass consumer culture, epitomized by the NFL and Taylor Swift, will provide enough "glue" to hold the country together in the future, especially given the mass influx of illegal alien invaders we are experiencing.Replies: @deep anonymous
Interesting update on the “Black! national anthem”:
Democrat criticizes Super Bowl crowd for not standing during Black national anthem
Makes you wonder how long before standing for the Black! national anthem is mandatory.