If you're anything like me you've been watching a lot of old sports games to help you with the lack of sports during this virus. Might I suggest one from my old sports writing days. I was in the press box watching with my good friend Matt Muench that day so I didn't watch on TV. So we'll to experience this together! Enjoy!
Cowboys, QB Andy Dalton reach agreement on one-year deal
Todd Archer/ESPN Staff Writer
Andy Dalton is returning home.
Released by the Cincinnati Bengals on Thursday, Dalton
agreed to a one-year deal with the Dallas Cowboys, the team announced Saturday.
The quarterback's deal has a base value of $3 million and could be worth up to
$7 million, a source told ESPN's Adam Schefter.
Before being selected by the Bengals in the second round of
the 2011 NFL draft, Dalton played at TCU in Fort Worth, Texas. He lives in
Dallas, which means he will not have to move his family during an offseason
that has been made uncertain due to the coronavirus pandemic.
With CeeDee Lamb pick in NFL draft, Cowboys asking offense
to lead way
Many assumed Dalton, 32, would be in position to find a spot
with a less secure starter than Dak Prescott, such as the Jacksonville Jaguars
or New England Patriots, but he opted to remain close to home.
Cincinnati drafted LSU quarterback Joe Burrow with the No. 1
overall pick last week, making Dalton expendable. Dalton was set to earn $17.7
million in the final season of a six-year, $96 million contract. In nine
seasons with the Bengals, Dalton had a 70-61-2 record and helped them to the
postseason in each of his first five seasons, but he was unable to win a
playoff game. He holds the franchise record for touchdown passes with 204 and
is second in passing yards (31,594), but he was benched after an 0-8 start to
the 2019 season.
The Cows seem to be doing all the right things lately. I think they lampooned Jerry Jones on that yacht Draft Time so they could do it up right. Now they get the best backup QB on the market.
I'll be honest, I wanted Red Rocket to be the Bills backup because I hold a special attachment to him. He's the man who single handedly put the Bills into the playoffs a couple years ago with his comeback against Baltimore.
But Dallas got him. And as ambivalent as I am about Dallas, if Red Rocket ends up on the field I will be rooting for him.
Anyone who knows me knows that I'm a sucker for Rocky movies. I celebrate almost the entire library. Except Rocky 5. God rest Tommy Morrison's soul but that movie was an abomination to say the best. The best thing that could have happened to the series was Black Panther director Ryan Coogler and star from Fruitvale Station and The Wire, Michael B. Jordan getting involved. It rejuvenated Sly and made the Rocky series start a great new chapter. I encourage everyone to watch the original Rocky (one of the greatest movies ever) and Creed.
Kentucky Derby Fans Can Watch Turtles Race Instead Of Horses This Weekend
Dan Gelston/AP
Losing the Kentucky Derby has left race fans shell-shocked.
The first Saturday in May has yielded to the legs of a bunch of slowpokes: Seattle Slow headlines a field of turtles — yes, turtles — that will race in the Kentucky Turtle Derby.
Call it, the slowest eight minutes in sports.
The race is more methodical marathon that mad dash to the finish — though the victor can win at the line by a turtleneck rather than a nose — and is just one more offbeat sport that has had a moment during the coronvirus pandemic.
The Derby, America’s longest continuously held sports event, had been scheduled for May 2. It will now be run Sept. 5, kicking off Labor Day weekend. It’s the first time the Derby won’t be held on its traditional first Saturday in May since 1945, when it was run June 9. The federal government suspended horse racing nationwide for most of the first half of the year before World War II ended in early May, but not in time to hold the first leg of the Triple Crown that month.
Looking for a slower substitute, the first Kentucky Turtle Derby was hatched.
The Courier-Journal headline from 1945 read: “167 Turtles Arrive for Races Saturday” and about 6,500 fans filled the Jefferson County Armory for the 8 p.m. post time. The event went down like this: 20 turtles were herded into seven qualifying races and the winners went on to compete in a 20-foot finale.
I admire the ingenuity Americans are showing trying to get sports back on the TV. Nebraska put on a virtual spring game that was exceptional. Watching a video game football game doesn't sound like a lot of fun but in a pinch it'll do. When I moved into my first apartment in Lubbock I didn't have cable. I turned on NCAA Football 2002 on the Playstation and started watched computer automated games. Saw some barnburners. But I'm also a somewhat turtle owner. Our turtles are well loved and well fed but they don't exactly take direction. I can't imagine these races are going well. But I'm desperate for sports so if they keep these things going I'll wager on them. Can you blame me?
Investigators are searching for the killer using their biggest clues: a grainy picture and a recording of his voice from the victim’s phone ordering the girls “Down the Hill.”
3 years and 50,000 tips later, it’s a mystery that still haunts the small town of Delphi, Indiana while police say the killer may walk among them.
Not exactly a happy subject matter during this pandemic but for those not easily shaken it's an interesting true crime tale. Still unsolved but hopefully this podcast gives enough answers to the folks in this Indiana town that it can be solved.
Hero Cat Alerts Sleeping Family To Burning Slow Cooker
By David Moye/HuffPost
Think cats are just selfish creatures who only want to eat, sleep and clean themselves?
Well, that’s a crock, according to a Canadian man who says his cat woke him up to let him know a slow cooker was on fire.
Scott White of Portugal Cove-St. Philip’s in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, said he went to sleep Sunday morning around midnight after setting some onions in the slow cooker to make jam.
A few hours later, around 4:30 a.m., White said his cat, Joey, did something strange. “Usually, Joey doesn’t bother us when we sleep, but I could sense him pacing around the bed and I woke up with a paw on my face,” White told HuffPost.
Sensing something was wrong, White got up and saw the kitchen filling up with smoke from the slow cooker. “There was a lot of haze in the kitchen, but not enough to alert the fire alarm about 20 feet away,” White said.
In the aftermath of Joey’s alertness, White and his fiancee have been giving Joey extra attention and treats from a “hero basket” donated to them as word about the cat spread around town.
But Joey’s heroism may have left White’s other pet, a 10-month-old puppy, in the metaphorical doghouse. “The dog was always in the window growling at people, so we thought he’d be a good watchdog,” White said.
Instead, the pooch slept through the entire incident.
“I guess we found out the real hero is the cat,” White told the CBC.
Yeah, take that Lassie! Dumbass dog sitting there with his tail between his legs while The Cool Cat has to take care of bizness and save the family. I'm a cat guy. I can't be drawn to an animal like a dog that needs desperately for my affection. You gotta make me work for it. Like a cat. And maybe if I love the cat enough it'll save my life one day. Maybe not.
Alex Jones Says He’s Considering Eating Neighbors If COVID-19 Lockdown Continues
By David Moye/Huffpost
Think you’re going stir crazy from the coronavirus lockdown? Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones can probably top whatever disturbing thoughts you might be having.
He said on his far-right radio talk show Friday that he’s willing to go full cannibal.
If COVID-19 shutdowns continue, he said, he has “extrapolated this out” and may have to resort to drastic and disgusting methods of survival.
“I’ll admit it. I will eat my neighbors,” Jones said, predicting a dystopian future plagued by food shortages.
“I won’t have to for a few years ’cause I got food and stuff ― but I’m literally looking at my neighbors now and going, ’I’m ready to hang ’em up and gut ’em and skin ’em. My daughters aren’t starving to death. I will eat my neighbors. ... I will.”
Although Jones’ admission could make neighborhood watch meetings awkward, he said he plans on gobbling “globalists” who imposed the lockdowns first.
“You think I like sizing up my neighbor?!” Jones bellowed. “I’m gonna haul him up by a chain and chop his ass up! I’ll do it! My children aren’t going hungry! I’ll eat your ass! And that’s what I want the globalists to know — I will eat your ass first!”
It’s unlikely Jones will ever go hungry, thanks to a fortune amassed in part through scams like selling fake coronavirus cures. He was ordered to pay Sandy Hook elementary school parents $100,000 for legal fees last year in a lawsuit they filed over his lies that the 2012 school massacre was a hoax.
Look, I'm never going to be one to advocate for a scumbag like Alex Jones but he's kinda being practical here. If all the farmers plow their crops and slaughter all the animals we may have to go Walking Dead style. Maybe Alex is just looking ahead. I say we give this great patriot a road map to survival. Alex, when all the meat runs out you can feel free to drive to West Texas and eat my a$$.
It's the summer of 1984, and it's Season 3 of Snowfall. Crack cocaine is spreading like wildfire through South Central Los Angeles, continuing its path of destruction and changing the culture forever.
Police are waking up to this growing epidemic, and Sergeant Andre Wright (Marcus Henderson) has set his sights on budding Kingpin and next-door neighbor Franklin Saint (Damson Idris) and his people. While local law enforcement fights to stem the tide, Teddy McDonald (Carter Hudson) and the CIA are working hard to make sure the flow of cocaine into LA doesn’t stop.
To continue funding the war against communism in Central America, Teddy will need to find new routes into the United States using Gustavo “El Oso” Zapata (Sergio Peris-Mencheta) and what's left of the Villanueva family. As the stakes and losses continue to mount, our players truly begin to understand the destructive force they have set in motion, forced to re-examine their own motivations and the cost of continuing forward from here.
Snowfall is created by John Singleton & Eric Amadio and Dave Andron and Executive Produced by Singleton, Andron, Thomas Schlamme, Amadio, Michael London and Trevor Engelson. Andron will serve as showrunner.
Ever wonder how crack cocaine was invented and spread throughout the US? Well this great show tells that story with a good narrative and amazing characters. If you've got some free time (like I do), give a few minutes to this fascinating show. It's from John Singelton so anyone whoever liked The Program, Higher Learning or Boys in the Hood would be a big fan.
Aliens might be real as The Pentagon releases footages of what they claim is an 'unidentified aerial phenomena'
We might not be alone in this ever-expanding universe.
The Pentagon released three videos showing what they are calling "unidentified aerial phenomena". In the videos, we can see an oval object moving rapidly, which seems to be impossible manoeuvre for aircraft to carry out.
However, the videos have been released over the years, dating back to early 2000s. The first footage, which was recorded in 2004 and was picked up by To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science, co-founded by Blink-182 guitarist Tom DeLonge.
It shows a patrol carrier's sensor system picking up an object floating in the sky. The carrier had its sensors on and locked on the object. But after a while, the object speeds off to the left and sensors lost track of it because of its immense speed.
The other two videos were recorded in 2015 from the aircraft of two U.S. fighter pilots.
The first video was leaked in 2007 and the others in 2017 to which the U.S. Navy has come out and said they are real.
The U.S. Defense Department spokesperson Sue Gough said, “After a thorough review, the department has determined that the authorized release of these unclassified videos does not reveal any sensitive capabilities or systems, and does not impinge on any subsequent investigations of military air space incursions by unidentified aerial phenomena.”
Say whatever you want. It's pretty obvious to me that the aliens are really out there and I need to call them out. So thousands of years ago you build pyramids for the Egyptians but now you can't step up and help us out of this virus? For thousands of years all you aliens did was butt diddle hillbillies and mow circles into crops. Why don't you get your asses down here and pitch in? Oh? And Bigfoot? Don't think I don't have my eye on you. You're like Chewbaca with none of the charm.
