Earth Sends A Hot Take
There was a substantial heatwave in the pacific northwest these past several days, you might have heard about it. It reached 116 degrees on Monday, the record high for Portland, beating the record of 112 from the previous day, which beat 107 from the day before that. In a region that is not properly equipped for this, it was an absolute nightmare and it was hard to concentrate on anything else.
We were lucky, we had AC, and we provided shelter for a bunch of people who didn’t. I wanted to actually feel what 116 degrees felt like so I went outside to water the garden and it felt like my eyes were getting singed, like any moisture on them was immediately evaporating. I haven’t spent much time in the south and I generally prefer colder weather so I gotta say, not a fan.
So anyway, hope ya’ll are doing alright, especially any of you who were stuck up in the PNW with me. Please send your positive energy to our area so that we have minimal idiots setting off fireworks this weekend. We are like 5 months removed from a horrible ice storm that took out power to the city for a week. Climate change sucks, man.
Since we are in the summer doldrums, hit me with any comic ideas for laterals or something you wanna see as ideas are at a minimum.
I want to see Tiny Russell Wilson struggling to throw the ball high enough for Giant DK Metcalf to catch it.
I want to see Tiny Russell Wilson struggling to thrw the ball high enough for Giant DK Metcalf to catch it.
I sympathize with you, Dave. I grew up in Florida and hated the heat and humidity there. I live in the UK now, which rarely ever gets warmer than 80 degrees. It’s a lot nicer, that’s for sure.
Maybe you’re avoiding the topic intentionally, but I thought for sure you’d make a comment about everything Cole Beasley said.
I made my Vax comic about Darnold, making one about Beasley seemed redundant
Yeah that makes sense, let me think of something else
There’s been all this drama about Spider Tack and “sticky stuff”, there’s got to be a comic that could run with that, no?
I moved away from the PNW a couple months ago and made a trip back for a job interview + family visit.
Hell of a weekend to be near Seattle.
The Amazon is so OVER
The polar ice caps are so OVER
The habitability of planet Earth is so OVER
Do a comic of pointing out the fact that over the last 21 years, the player to win league MVP has never won a Super Bowl.
I’m too lazy to check….is this really a thing? I’ve never really noticed.
Kurt Warner (1999) was the last to win the SB and be the NFL MVP. So, yes, it is true. It used to happen a lot in the 1990s, then it just…stopped happening.
Other MVPs who won SB in the same year:
Terrell Davis (1998)
Brett Favre (1996)
Steve Young (1994)
Emmitt Smith (1993)
Joe Montana (1989)
Lawrence Taylor (1986)
Mark Moseley (1982 strike year)
Terry Bradshaw (1978)
Bart Starr (1966)
The craziest thing about that 21 year streak is that Tom Brady was the NFL MVP a bunch of times and also won the Super Bowl a bunch of times, but never both in the same year.
In 20 seasons of playing in the NFL, Tom Brady was *either* the MVP or the SB winner in 10 of those seasons!
You could make a comic of the fact that over the past 21 years, the team of the player to win the league MVP award did not win the Super Bowl. Weird right?
Comic about Kyler’s enthusiasm about AJ Green.
Bills fan here. A lateral about The Comeback would be appreciated. Hope you, your family, and friends are all doing okay in the PNW. Stay safe.
How about the course offerings at Tight End University?
What about Jaylen Twyman getting shot four times at his aunt’s house the same day Frank Clark got arrested for having an Uzi?
uh oh
I’m in AZ, so trust me I feel ya.
How about something involving Tebow not being invited to Tight End University?
What about a comic about Dan Snyders wife becoming CEO of the WFT? I could see Dan trying to figure out how to continue ruining the team while getting more money out of it.
this could be funny. dan leaving little love notes in her lunch bag that are secretly coded instructions for continuing to run The Team into the fucking ground.
You could do more Laterals comics. There’s a huge number of potential comics, there.
You should do a lateral about the time the Saints went 80 yards in the final 7 seconds with 4 or so laterals, to keep their playoff hopes alive, only to miss the game-tying extra point.
But write your own damn punchline, I ain’t no comedian.
I still want to see another series akin to “Johnny and the King” Except this time it’s old man Brady retiring to Florida and becoming crazy Florida man.
Maybe a where are they now version of Johnny and the King?
How about a comic on how the stacked WR FA class went ice cold throughout FA Frenzy. Also as a southerner, yeah it sucks ass when you have 115 temps
A lateral of a classic Bill Cowher moment:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfblEVsjS9Q.
Is Incognito still With the Raiders? Last week’s news has GOT to be a stress test on how much of a raging thunder**** he undoubtedly still is.
Not really. It’s more like a test of how much he’s learned to hide this stuff. Remember how he sexually abused that woman at a charity golf tournament the same off-season that fluff piece about how he’d changed came out and wed never have found out about it if the Martin situation hadn’t blown up?
Arizona Cardinals Rookie Zaven Collins getting pulled over for reckless driving? Sounds promising ever since his extremely enthusiastic draft night call with Steve Keim
I got lucky in that my apartment never rose past 85 or 86 but what a few miserable nights trying to sleep. On the plus side, waking up early means going into work early means getting out of work early
Doesn’t have to be a comic, but I want to see the Terminator 2: Joe Judgement Day photo you were going to draw during the season if the Giants won or lost some game
Dave, why do you look like Clipboard Jesus? Has anyone seen him and Charlie Whitehurst in the same room at the same time?
Dont think you ever did Rivers and Brees retirements
I’d love to see a Lateral for the River City Relay, or “We want the ball and we’re gonna score”.
Go to Phoenix, AZ in the summer- most of the time it’s *only* 105ish degrees
It’s a dry heat
Me casually waiting for afc north stuff: This is fine…
College kids can start making money off their likenesses now for the video games. I feel like there has to be something there.
Or Canada vs America hockey and how Canada can’t win the championship in the sport they invented anymore
Do more WTF fail comics