We have to take what we can get
A fitting comic for the end of a boring and stupid offseason. It ends tonight, friends, get crunk. Our long and boring 2017 offseason journey ends with the football equivalent of coke zero. Tonight the Arizona Third Stringers play the Dallas Probable Cuts in the annual Hall of Fame game.
Why is the Hall of Fame game on a Thursday night now? Did the NFL look at the HoF game and ask themselves…How can we make it somehow even worse? You know that Thursday Night Football thing we have that everyone agrees is pretty bad even when the season is in full swing? Why not take the lamest, least consequential football game of the entire year and do that with it? Yeah, that’s a good idea. I’d wager a bunch of people don’t even realize it’s on tonight and still assume it’s on this Sunday as a cap to HoF weekend, like it always is. But it’s not.
I wonder if the field will work this time. Last year had literally the best Hall of Fame game ever, because it didn’t actually get played due to a three stooges level comedy of errors. (This is one of my personal favorite comics that I will look back on fondly in my dying years)
Maybe they are worried that there might be injuries in this game, and the extra few days will let these 4th stringers with no hope and no prayers recover a little better so they can be fresh for the first round of cuts later in the preseason. The Arizona starters are literally not playing a down tonight. We get literal Blaine Gabbert as the starting QB for the Cardinals. Blaine Gabbert. Blaine Gabbert. Some people will argue “Who cares, it’s football”, but you have to have standards. Have some dignity. Don’t be me in the comic up there. Have some shame.
I’ll probably watch it because what the hell else is on Thursday night?
FOOTBALL IS BACK
I did actually think that the HoF game was this Sunday and not tonight, and I’d have missed it had I not checked TDP today. Thanks a bunch, Dave!
HOF GAME HYPE
Annnnnnnnnnmd there goes everyone’s interest in Arena Ball. At least nothing else is happening on August 26th when Arena Bowl (se)XXX(y) (re)XXX(y) is played. Oh wait…
The Arena League is stupid. Also, lol The Flow
Preseason football is Coke Zero. The HOF Game is caffeine free Coke Zero. Not only is it pretending to be real football, but lacks the calories, it doesn’t even have the pick me up.
I was actually going to label the HOF Game as Tab, but this is a much better analogy. Tab is so vile that it is at least interesting, which is something the HOF Game never is. Like caffeine free diet sodas, you wonder what the point even is.
Just in case you forgot they took away early cuts this year and will only be doing final cuts.
I… forgot that was happening…
I’m so addicted to football, that I’ll watch every Thursday night game. Its like using crack to keep someone with a cocaine addiction sane until their next score.
“I’ll probably watch it because what the hell else is on Thursday night?”
Critical Role?
I’m not to trying be “that guy,” but “available” is misspelled.
Of course you are that guy. You probably enjoy being that guy. 🙂
Rex Grossman had a long pass, but in several videos he had more chemistry with many other receivers than his own.
Don’t Care Bear’s coming back!
I stupidly sat down and watched the entire HOF game, hoping it would at least be funny. It was. I was treated to the following;
-A two point conversion that took three tries because of penalties
-Insane amounts of holding penalties
-A Cowboys kicker completely missing the net on a 40 yard field goal
-Cardinals wide receivers continuing to run downfield and look for the ball well after the pass had fallen incomplete… twice
-TJ Logan actually doing well… then getting hurt
-Not to be outdone by the Cowboys kicker, the Cards kicker missed a 32 yard field goal so badly it went off the screen and may have gone further sideways than it did forward
-A Cardinals punt returner making a motion as if he was trapping the ball against his chest when the ball had already landed 5-10 yards behind him
-Fourth string quarterbacks
-Ezekiel Elliott chewing his beard
-Jerry Jones talking
The most preseason play of the game came when an undrafted rookie quarterback for the Cards ran straight toward a pass rusher, panicked, and threw a pass into double coverage. An undrafted rookie cornerback dropped the pick. There was a penalty on the play. I don’t remember what it was, but it was probably holding.
Hey, at least football’s back.
Now tannyfanny is likely out for thr year with a knee boo-boo. Matt Moore time (hopefully better than his 2-14 effort that got Carolina Cam Newton).
Hopefully like the 6-6 effort in 2011 that kept miami from ducking for luck
“Crunk”
Your old man is showing Dave…
:p
I thought this was funny, before noticing the tissues and the “zip” thing.
Now I think it’s hilarious.
I saw this was on last night and until just now I assumed it was some sort of countdown to the preseason rerun.
I was looking in the comments section of the highlights video on YT. Cowboys fans are already contemplating competing for the Lombardi. Some even got their panties in a twist after being confronted by a Giants fan