The Bizarre NFL Catch Rule
Yup, another game decided by this crap again. I could talk about how the ruling was technically correct. I could go on about how absurdly over-legislated the rule is, causing more confusion than clarification. I could go into the troubles of loosening the catch rule up, leaving even more to subjectivity. I could say Dez caught it. I could say Dez didn’t catch it. I could talk about how I think Jesse James did catch it, and that even though his hand moved, the ball remained pinned against his forearm and never really shook loose, just moved. I could talk about how the NFL really needs to figure this shit out and how they probably wont, as well as provide half-assed solutions.
But we get enough of that every time this happens, so let’s just talk Star Wars.
No Spoilers, keep it friendly for the unseen folks. If you spoil the movie I turn your comment into a comment about farts.
I loved The Last Jedi. It had some issues, like a couple of dumb moments, one forced conflict, and very questionable pacing, but I enjoyed it so much more than the other two new films. TFA was just a fan film on a high budget and did nothing new, Rogue One was a hollow, soulless mess that was hacked up by reshoots and generally sucked outside some good visuals. TLJ gave me a movie where I still generally knew the outcome, but how they got there surprised me. I liked all that new stuff. I liked that I wasn’t just watching the same thing with a new coat of paint like TFA. I liked that the characters were fun and had a personality deeper than a piece of paper like R1. God help me I didn’t hate the Porgs. I thought I would, but they were okay.
It’s not perfect at all but I like that it tried things, took a few chances, and pissed all over so many fan theories. Fuck your fan theories. Don’t make fan theories. People who do that just get caught up their own butthole and then judge the movie for not being their vision and so much of the hate I see this movie getting feels like butthurt Star Wars fans angry that it didn’t just pander to them. I’ll need to watch it again in like 6 months and see how I feel then, but I certainly came out of this new one pretty happy and actually interested in seeing where it will go from here. Considering I walked into it incredibly tired of SW fandom, the hype and everything, that feels nice.
Dave’s official opinion ranking of the SW Films:
Empire Strikes Back
A New Hope
Return of the Jedi
The Last Jedi
The Force Awakens
Rogue One
Revenge of the Sith
Phantom Menance
Attack of the Total Garbage
Anyway I’m sure everyone will be reasonable on this topic so have at me, NERDS (And please be a good person and don’t spoil things)
Because of scheduling conflicts I can’t see the movie until Friday 🙁 Avoiding spoilers has been much easier than I remember it being for The Force Awakens, but I’m still about a half-week out, so we’ll see how smoothly the next few days go.
Loved the scene when Chewbacca finds out that Snoke is his dad
The identity of his mom was kind of random. It’s no wonder why Ackbar killed himself and how can anyone blame him knowing that his grandma had an affair with several other aliens?
Or that Luke is Leia’s father!
I heard somewhere that for Part 9 they will have force users engaging in space battles where they would shoot lasers out of their hands. Remember that certain Leia scene? That was a foreshadowing.
Yeah but in The Last Jedi a thing goes boom huge explosion wow so cool yeah I’ve definitely watched the movie
oh yeah and that bearded guy you see in the movie trailers does some stuff as well haha so exciting
1. Wasn’t a catch – ball was rotating(look at the laces) so there is no way he had it pinned to his arm when he hit the ground.
2. “Whee, mesa gonna podrace” is so the worst of the movies. Especially once you realize that the whole time during “Attack of the Clones” Anakin is using the force to roofie Padme. The relationship seems forced caused Anakin is bending her will with the force. Now, he may not be doing it intentionally, but it’s the only way that shit makes sense.
That never occured to me but goddamn. Attack of the Clones just got so much darker
I’m waiting for the Blueray release because I refuse to see movies in theaters.
The movie will probably be spoiled for me by then…. But I’ll take the risks.
I just realized that’s probably not until March…Or April…..Feck. Might break my rule…
Why do you refuse to see movies in theatres?
Jesse James lost control of the ball as he went to the ground. This is because the Steelers are an undisciplined gang of thugs, who eat beans, broccoli and tacos at the training table. He was a loaded cannon, and tge hard contact with the ground caused a massive fart that in turn caused him to bobble the ball and it touched the ground as the tacos had their way with his bowels. Look at the replay for proof. The Patriots defenders are gassed, the smell prevented them from touching James down momentarily.
Contrast this undisciplined play with Edelman’s catch in SB LI. Belichick’s strict dietary rules prohibit gassy foods, ever. Edelman does not fart during games, ever. Steelers fans stop whining and face facts. That avocado ice cream is part of the syrategy.
I understand this is probably edited but it is still one of the greatest comments in the history of this site
It’s not edited. I regret the typos. And the stuffed cabbage.
People will talk about the no-catch but the thing to really focus on was the fact that Big Ben made the worst throw of the entire season right there, at least Kizer’s jackpot-esque shenanigans against Green Bay was supposedly caused by his arm being hit during the throw, there’s no excuse for Ben to make that throw then completely blame his idiocy on the coaching staff giving him mixed signals because nothing should tell him to throw it into triple coverage. He choked, pure and simple, and I wanna laugh at Pittsburgh as they’ll underperform their way out of the playoffs yet again this year.
Another thing to point out is that Tomlin will still never learn that zone defense and “Don’t Cover Gronk” aren’t legitimate defensive strategies, this team is coasting on pure talent and the coaching staff is laughable, it’s like Green Bay except Pittsburgh has nobody else in their conference and more than just the QB, a few offensive key players dragging a subpar-esque performance from the coaches to the playoffs and keeps them alive in the process because why risk change if you can get lucky once or twice in the postseason?
BUT HEY AT LEAST GREEN BAY IS FINALLY FUCKING OUT! CHEESE CURD EATING ALCOHOLICS CAN CLAIM HOW THEY’RE NFL OWNERS FROM THE BACK OF A DENNY’S PARKING LOT!
Did you even watch the game? The Steelers were playing man to man all game!
Im a giant wet fart that doesnt understand what a spoiler is and I want to huff my own farts until i fart again and then huff that and become a perpetual fart loop for all time
Fuck you for spoiling this.
I disagree. The prequels didn’t render the entire original trilogy meaningless, like the new trilogy has.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMTkedIUX8U
Star Wars is crap
So is the NFL catch rule
#DezCaughtIt #JesseCaughtIt
Last Jedi left no impact on me. Just Disney trying to figure out the exact proportion of porgs to supporting minority characters to make the most money.
Oh noes, minoritehs! Teh essjay dubbayews are ruinin mah stur wurs!
I’m complaining about tokenism, not the presence of minorities. Disney was more concerned about checking diversity boxes than making those diverse characters interesting. Can’t tap the Chinese market without bland Chinese characters.
I love a good strawman.
Just stuff Nicholas Cage in there and burn it, we’ll get something good out of it.
I am in the process of moving (seriously, don’t EVER do that during the holidays unless you like going stark raving mad) and thus will not be seeing it until next year. Thanks for no spoilers, although if it’s as predictable as TFA it wouldn’t be a problem.
No ranking for the Clone Wars TV series pilot episodes that were released theatrically?
Yeah, that sounds about right.
The movie was mediocre, but the series was good, I think, and made some good contributions to the mythos.
And it also improved a lot on the weakest lynk of the prequels.
In the tv series, Anakin got to actually play the hero, and little brother to Obi-Wan.
If Hayden Christensen’s Anakin had been able to convey the range of emotions that his virtual counterpart did, his eventual fall would have landed harder, and it would have been easier to connect connect Anakin with Vader.
IMO Hayden had the facial expressions, just not the vocal tone or the lines to convey the emotions. Also the Clone Wars movie just seemed like an extended episode of the series and would have worked better had it been released as a TV movie.
So are you guys done hating on the Packers now?
*SOB*
There is one positive thing to say about them, they kept Flozell the Clown from getting a ring.
Rocky wore a robe with advertising for a meat company as comic relief in the first movie. The Packers have carried that joke too far.
HOW HARD IS IT TO NOT SEE A BOLDED STATEMENT DEMANDING NO SPOILERS?
If you’re me, very hard, because you can’t see the screen through your own fart haze
I apologize.
Everyone I know has already seen this movie, so we have been talking about it openly for a while now.
I should have avoided spoiling the movie.
Dave, I am sure there must be a reason why you don-thave an edit function, but it would be useful to have one.
pretty sure Dave controls the edit function, and your post will soon be replaced by “wet fart” shenanigans like John Mara’s junk up there… could be wrong…
No you live with your shame maybe this will teach you to read and think before farting so much
My post lived for almost a full day, so it was worth it.
So why did you apologize for posting spoilers? Are you 15 years old?
I was really happy with how they developed Poe. He’s basically Maverick from Top Gun.
I honestly hate both teams, so either way the game went I’d be disappointed by having to watch one of them win; but that was a catch, and the rulebook is a joke, and Roger can’t figure out why the league’s ratings are plummeting, and that’s hilarious
The folks who wrote the rules disagree. Therefore it’s not a catch. Steelers need to eat right and cut down the flatulence.
i personally liked one of the fan theories that had leia turning to the dark side
anyway, i have no fucking clue what those “equations” are supposed to be. is scientist man converting from octal to hexadecimal for literally no reason?
could’ve thrown in the quantum wave function of navier-stokes equations. they’d both function as great stand-ins with complicated-looking symbols, with the benefit of being able to ask some deep questions about the catch rule like “the refs can’t be wrong as the ball exists in a superposition of both caught and not caught” (unless the camera fucks it up by observing it too soon, fucking camera) or “catches no longer matter for a sufficiently viscous ball”
Lets not forget about Gene Steratore and his index cards.
I didn’t think “Attack of the Clones” was that bad, though I had low expectations thanks to “The Phantom Menace.”
Snape killed Dumbledore.
The real answer is that the evil empire of Bill Belichick won the galaxy.
His flatulence of death caused Jimmy G to sprint for SF.
Im sorry, but how on earth do you have the force awakens above the revenge of the sith? I know the dialoge is pretty terrible at points, but storywise and altogether thought it was miles ahead of TFA. Id almost put ROTS above it based on meme content alone.
RotS is meme content because of how laughably bad it is. It has all the same problems the other prequels have. Bad acting. Wooden to awful dialogue. Over-reliance on CGI nonsense. Boring and bland directions and cinematography. It has a few decent things but overall it’s pretty garbage.
TFA is a complete rehash mish mash of the OT but even though it’s essentially a fan film it’s at the very least competently made with fun action and likable characters. It’s hollow, but it’s not bad. If it fails in any way more that ROTS, it’s because it’s not as interesting to study since it’s just a rehash.
I still call it “Star Wars” rather than “A New Hope”.
here’s some money, go see a star war
I was wondering – the next comics is going to be about QB’s beating up Rodgers at the Playoff Party with him coming to Injured reserve? 🙂
Is there something wrong with me that I actually like the Clone Wars series better than movie Episodes 1,2,3,and 6, and on par with 3.5 and 7?
Only the part about 6. I’ve never understood why it isn’t better respected. I mean sure, plot and stuff, whatever. Emperor Palpatine taunting Luke is the most glorious bit of scenery chewing in the whole damn series.
I think 6 gets a bad rap and when I was a kid it was my favorite. As an adult the Endor stuff is pretty crap outside maybe the speeder bike chase but everything else is wonderful. The Jabba stuff is great. The final space battle rules even if it is just another death star. The stuff with Luke, Vader and Palpy is some of the best drama in the entire series. When 6 is good, it’s real good. It just has some lower points than 4 & 5.
I heard that 6 was more well liked than 5 when it first came out and that the opinion changed over time.
I really liked it, for the most part (excpet for bald Chewbacca, that was a bit over the top).
Smoke dies and so does Luke
Sorry not sorry