Overused Jokes In Football
So this is me essentially piggybacking off of the last comic a little bit. I think it generated some quality comments and reminded me of an old comic I made about 3 years ago. Since we had some folks mention jokes they were sick of hearing on the last comic (Like Zane’s good post about overused Browns jokes and Matt Ryan’s White Bread with Mayo’s talk about the Falcons 28-3 jokes) I wanted to steer this comic in that direction with a joke I’m personally really tired of.
So yeah. Lets re-open this topic. What jokes are you tired of hearing? What jokes are just terrible, overused on bad memes shared by terrible fans? I mean fairly specific, too. The Browns being bad is a meme, but I think there are still unique and clever ways to make that basic joke. I do a lot of that here. I wouldn’t say my strength here on this site is my explicit joke originality, but my presentation I think is. For example: Nelson Agholor dropping balls isn’t exactly a unique joke that I’m making here, but nobody else is making the joke in the context of a dumb rap by Alshon Jeffrey. I think originality in core concept is overrated, and the best strength lies in originality of presentation, and that’s something I’ve always personally strived for.
The worst jokes, the ones we hate, are the ones that are not unique or clever in presentation. There are still ways to make 28-3 funny, but pointing out 28-3 isn’t particularly funny now. Saying the Browns suck isn’t really that funny, but you can still say it better in a way that is. This joke pictured above is another case of something that is so overdone and unclever that whatever appeal it had is gone, yet so many dumbasses still use it like it is the height of wit. It is not.
So if public physical violence was allowed, what jokes would make you slap the person who made it? Let’s hear these jokes, so that we may all learn what is tired and bad from all perspectives, so that we may strive to make sure we do not get lazy and uncreative. Hit it!
This is me, except I don’t put money in a jar I just go lay down in shame
Joe Flacco is Elite jokes. I know he’s not elite and that joke died during the 2013 season but has slowly stayed alive through sheer stupidity over the years. The “Fort elite moneys” is the best thing to come out of him becoming “elite”. Joe Flacco being elite is like beating a dead horse with a sack of money and hoping a lombardi trophy falls out of it.
The worst one is https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CPcnYfDUcAA8sEP.jpg I mean politicalness aside, that was a thing. Fuck this joke.
P.S Oh and the Ray Rice “I’m gonna knock her out” kangaroo jack thing got really old really quickly. But that was more just an awful joke than relevant to this.
I think what made it worse was that Ray Rice supported the anti-bullying campaign…then this happened.
So, Dan Snyder is just an elite Joe Flacco?
Seems legit
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The giant D + Fence sign and obligatory shot of it during a game.
(Though I was delighted to see someone with a giant light switch with OFF visible once s part of the rebus)
Pre Red Sox un-sucking, “1918” was incredibly tiresome. 28-3 will be that for the Falcons fans for years.
FALCON CHOOOKE!!!
Literally any joke people make where they try and make a play on a team’s name (i.e. Cowgirls instead of Cowboys). Congratulations. You’re a friggen genius. NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD SUCH WIT! The one exception to this is if the people who root for the team have the kind of stupid accent that makes them pronounce an “eag” sound as an “igg” sound. In that case, have at it.
P.S. the 69ers is a combination of both this and a juvenile fascination with the “sex number”
P.P.S. it still makes me giggle because I’m apparently 12
This. These always make me cringe because they’re so fucking juvenile. “Seachickens” makes me want to break my knuckles punching something every time I read it in a comment, and I’m not even a Seahawks fan.
Another exception to the rule is the Bungles. It’s certainly overused but its always fitting.
You and Gronk.
As a Browns fan, I get tired of the nicknames a lot of others have for the other teams in the AFCN. Except Bungles. That’s a classic that will never go out of style.
All 28-3 jabs, no matter how unoriginal, remain viable until February 4, 2018. It is once a new champion is crowned, that the previous year’s story lines become old news. The Warriors had to endure ‘blew a 3-1 series lead’ all the way up until they won the rubber match. The Falcons, and the city of Atlanta shall wear their scarlet scoreboard until this year’s playoffs conclude.
That’s fine to say it lasts the whole year but at least be original with it don’t use it as the first argument against us or just because you don’t have a better retort.
its like the packers’ 19-7 jokes in 2014. except that one was completely done 2 weeks later
“Curse of the Bambino” was very stupid. The nonsense about selling Ruth to finance a play…is just nonsense.
That Peyton Manning is, for some imagined reason, a sheriff. The Omaha jokes. Calling Andy Reid a walrus, despite a noticeably trimmed mustache. Belichick as a Sith Lord. Green Bay as “Titletown”. Calling any NFL player a “stud”. Referring to skill players as “weapons”. Bleeding blue, green or purple. Obviously these are not all “jokes”, but the “played basketball” reference opened this up.
Also it was forgotten that the Red Sox sold several more key players that time as well, just that Babe Ruth was the most notable example because it’s friggin’ Babe Ruth. Even after their fall from grace, they trade Ruffing for a bench player though no one could have known Ruffing would have a HOF career (even if the selection was questionable).
Where can I buy a Kent State Antonio Gates jersey?
Did you know Antonio Gates played basketball?
Any joke that begins with “Don’t let this distract you from…” They’ve gotten extremely old now. Anytime something big happens in any sporting event, there’s a race to see who can make some variation of this joke first.
I know the team brought on themselves, but I’m tired of hearing about the Texans’ letterman jackets from when they played and lost at NE years ago. They did the jacket thing once….ONCE!
It STILL gets brought up on broadcasts. I bet it will be mentioned numerous times during the game this weekend.
Shame is the best weapon society has to discourage bad behavior.
I don’t get what the big deal as either, they were just jackets. Those jackets weren’t the reason Houston lost… but jackets.
How about any of Gregg Easterbrook’s overused tropes?
Every jerk who realizes that they can’t (or don’t) want to win an argument/discussion with an Eagles fan, so “yeah, whatever point you make is moot because the Eagles have NO SUPERBOWLS! HURR DURR”. Man, I mean, I understand that my favorite team has no SB’s. Why does that mean I can’t have a conversation about football past or present?
(I’d assume that this happens for Lions fans ans fans of other SB-less teams.)
Lol an Eagles fan. Complaining about other fans. Don’t you have a mall Santa you have to dropkick?
Why dropkick him when you can pelt him with batteries?
I know you’re joking, but the batteries aren’t even the right sport, yet somehow they get associated with only the Eagles and not the Phils.
Nothing more annoying than a packer fan “winning” every argument with “count da RINGZ!”
Super Bowl rings are two. You don’t count games retroactively termed “Super Bowl”.
Niners Fans saying “Count Da Ringz!” back when they had Harbaugh.
Hawks Fans (yo, represent!) replying to Niners Fans by saying “What have you done this Millennium?”
People who refer to the Patriots as the Cheatriots.
PAC10 fans who refer to Pete Carroll as Pete the Cheat.
Zorn>Kreig
Belicheat, deflatriots
the cheatriots joke is still funny and will be until the pats suck
The only thing I hate about the cheatriots thing, are the Pat fans that go on this diatribe defending them. It’s like they need others to believe them, so they go on this quest to edumacate the masses. Who are they kidding, these people are trolling, or they already made their minds up. They can call us what they want, I’m not losing any sleep.
The Redskins sure are offensive…OFFENSIVE TO WATCH THEM PLAY FOOTBALL!
Man I’m so clever.
Jokes about AP beating his kid are bad and morally wrong
Didn’t he end up buying his kid a Switch? The Irony….
You’re right. We should switch up the jokes.
IDK. If you can’t beat them… beat them.
To continue the pot of daffodil post I made on your previous comic, it will encourage teams to start drafting trees for their offensive line. The problem is that while they are unmovable, at the same time they don’t move. Being that trees won’t show up for the training camp, games, or anywhere else, they will get cut since they can be a locker room problem if they ever get there. Not to mention knowing that trees have no comment about the cut, it shows that they just don’t care.
The Bengals are thugs jokes. I get that when a team has Pac-Man and Mixon, it’s easy to call them out on it. But other teams have just as many if not more bad apples. Also people don’t seem to notice Vontaze is a saint off the field just because he makes controversial plays on it. I don’t think it’s fair to put him in the same category as Pac-Man and Mixon, tbh.
They’re not jokes, they’re truthful observations
I dunno, Trent Richardson has been out of the league for a while now and I still enjoy “Trent can’t find a hole” jokes no matter how supposedly stale they should he
I don’t think there have been enough Andrew Luck/Geico caveman jokes. Please fix that.
John McKay had the best “offensive” joke.
“What do you think about the execution of the offense?”
“I’m all for it.”
John McKay was a national treasure.
“The key to good blocking is to hold when you’re at home.”
“We have a lot of experience, but we lost ten games last year, so I’m not sure it’s the good kind.”
“Well we can’t block, but we made up for it by not tackling.”
“We can’t stop the pass or the run. Other than that, we’re in good shape.”
Any colts-related LUCKY BREAK or OUT OF LUCK or any such thing…
I felt bad because I went to the Panthers-Colts game in 2015 and someone got upset at me for saying “good luck.”
I for one am tired of spying jokes and sedation jokes, also niners retiring, oh also the titans not existing
Obligatory from me but…
“Did you know Kurt Warner bagged groceries and played in the Arena League”
“Did you know Jay Gruden coached/played in the Arena League”
“Did you know that 1+1=JFK did 9/11”
Wide right
oh please lol. We’d die to make it into the playoffs #trusttheprocess
[insert word related to latest scandal here]-gate… wasn’t even THAT funny when the Simpsons did it over 20 years ago…
I want to see someone do a scandal as [insert]-pot Dome and see if anyone gets it.
Butt fumble. There I said it
Buttfumble will never not be funny.
Nobody is ever tired of buttfumble.
lol just seeing if anyone was. Still cracks me up every time (sorry Jets fans) XD
Bills
Boy I Love Losing Superbowls.
Say it again you bandwagon #^$%@^$&@(%*%^@^@* $&$*^(%*%&$&%(^)@ *#^#%@&$*%^ #^@*$&$&&#% $&$&#&$
The worst “jokes” are weak word plays on team names that are repeated ad nauseum. We’re talking about the “Cowgirls”, the “Cheatriots”, etc. Though I must admit to a fondness for the “Ain’ts” and the “Bungles”.
Snowflakes
The ever-dismissive “sportsball,” by which the speaker declares their aggressive apathy towards sports by affecting ignorance of the difference between major league sports.
What bothers me more than “sportsball” is the attitude that goes with it. That by being dismissive of something widely popular, someone is being edgy and subversive. It’s a pretty obnoxious flavor of smarmy elitism.
Don’t forget that most of the people who sneer at “sportsball” for being a waste of time usually spend the better part of their day masturbating to anime
*looks around nervously* I know right?
you win an internet, a+ would agree again
I think “sportsball” is kind of funny when it’s used by sports fans as mild self deprecating sort of thing, acknowledging that we are obsessing and screaming over a game, which is a little silly. When it’s used with dismissive contempt, it’s really obnoxious.
Handegg fits in that category too, especially when used by soccer and rugby fans.
Soccer sucks. Rugby too.
I’ve never heard a Rugby fan refer to football as handegg. I would hope they’d understand the irony there.
I have on forums and YT comments section. Yeah it is pretty ironic for them to refer football that way.
Soccer is one of those sports that is actually fun to play but as a spectator sport, it’s pretty boring. That’s my take anyway.
disagree, soccer is amazingly fun to watch
men’s soccer on the other hand is a paltry scoop of combed-over horse shit that falls writhing to the ground with the slightest gust of wind. so fucking boring with all those preening douche bags
I wish the Saints were relavant again to have Bountygate jokes told to death. At least they show a ton of Gregg Williams on the sideline everytime his team is on TV.
If you are looking for an offensive joke I would say something that had to do with former deceased football players. Maybe in heaven in a fantasy league but even in heaven their CTE problems are still present. Basically anything dealing with CTE. I would cringe but still laugh
Any sports-related joke stemming from the last 5-10 minutes of “Ace Ventura, Pet Detective”… that and a joke about handling pressure.
The Santa Clara 49ers. Seattle sports talk radio kept that one up for months after the move. Hell, they probably still call them that as if it’s some sort of insult. As if there’s any insult worse than just being the post Harbaugh 49ers.
“Ray Lewis killed a guy.”
I see this everywhere, and in the most random topics. Some don’t have anything to do with football, or murder, and they just interject with that. I admit, it cracks me up, but it’s awful.