01/28/26 Cleaning Out the Sports Junk Drawer

Well, at least the NFL Network won’t be airing irrefutable evidence of Bill’s first-ballot career over the next ten days. Wait…
it’s clear there’s a QB controversy in Denver. How can they keep a superstar like Jarrett Stidham on the bench???
When they say that Diggs has had four kids this year, do they mean in the last 28 days?
Was the Pro Football Hall of Fame going to have Dylan Mulvaney announce the 2026 inductees? What a self-own.
Wow. Terry Pegula throwing McDermott directly under the Zubaz-themed bus and driving over multiple times. He says “the coaching staff” wanted Keon Coleman and Brandon Beane was just “being a team player.” Woah.
Vance Joseph looks like he manages a McDowell’s.
Imagine how good Joe Mazulla’s coaching record would be if he knew to call a timeout every time the opposing team goes on a 4-0 run.
Not taking the points with your backup QB and your defense playing great is spitting in the face of the Football Gods!
Ryan Leaf seems to hate a lot of the right people.
Even after a long bus ride back to Boston, Pasta is a good kid and Geekie is a scoring machine.
I don’t feel bad about making dated references to 90’s Seinfeld now that people are quoting The Warriors from 1979.
Cakes are cooking for Bill White, Alan Alda, John M. Fabian, Paul Henderson, Rick Allen, Jeanne Shaheen, Gregg Popovich, Barbi Benton, David Carl Hilmers, William “Billy Bass” Nelson Jr, Dan Higgins, Peter Schilling, Nick Price, Dave Sharp, Sam Phillips, DJ Muggs, Rakim, Sarah McLachlan, Jermaine Dye, Magglio Ordóñez, Tony Delk, Jarrod Montague, Mark Madsen, Rick Ross, Joey Fatone, Takuma Sato, Nick Carter, Elijah Wood, Andre Iguodala, Katie Nolan, and Whitney Peak.
Doesn’t happen often but the Bruins and the Celtics don’t often play on the same night BUT they do tonight.
Just wait until someone reads the news to Ted Johnson.
Speaking of The Warriors, Lou Merloni would have made the perfect Baseball Fury.
Red Line Update: Regular service between JFK/UMass and Ashmont has resumed. Trains continue to experience residual delays of about 20 minutes.
Is there really a Perkins School for the Blind hockey squad?
Happy for the biggest Patriots fan I know, the Big Cat.
Hey gang of Emerald Isle autists, this week’s Phrase that Pays is, “No one expects the Irish Inquisition!”
I love that fat shaming commercial, reminds me of being at a Minifan live show.
We’re on the brink of the verge of the Beanpot Tournament.
Bill needs to finally accept that medal of freedom to put the universe back in balance.
There’s just not enough college basketball on tv nowadays.
They’re going to ask all the committee voters how they voted and it’s going to total up to 55 ‘yes’ votes for Bill.

‘Looks like a still from The Jenny Jones Show. “Help! My Boyfriend Keeps Eating the Couch!”‘
‘Sexual Dimorphism Has Entered the Chat.‘
‘Any escape might help to smooth the unattractive truth’ – I had to look up the lyrics for Subdivisions, and I always heard ‘to smooth’ as ‘disprove’. This has been The Sports Junk Drawer’s Mondegreen Minute.
These names are annoyingly close. Mike MacDonald, Mike McCarthy, Mike McDaniel, Josh McDaniels.
Barmore hit Stidhsy like he messed with the thermostat.
Anyone catch the newest episode of “Stugotz & Company LIVE”? Yeah, me neither.
I’m going to let it slide because it’s his first one, but Coach Vrabes has to remember to immediately hand off the Lamar Hunt Trophy to Jonathan like it’s covered in broken glass and AIDS.
‘Belichick doesn’t deserve credit for drafting Christian Gonzalez’ people deserve a special place in Hell.
You think Planet Fitness was ever close to going with Fitness Planet? Or was Planet Fitness always the move?
Hell of a win by Seattle and congratulations to Sam Darnell.
The Little Debbie’s Valentine’s Day heart snack cakes are good, but nowhere near as good as the Christmas Tree snack cakes.
And it’s hard at the end of the day
I need some distraction
Oh, beautiful release
Memories seep from my veins
Let me be empty
Oh, and weightless and maybe
I’ll find some peace tonight
In the arms of the angel
Fly away from here
From this dark cold hotel room
And the endlessness that you fear
You are pulled from the wreckage
Of your silent reverie
You’re in the arms of the angel
May you find some comfort here.
Are we really acting like Jerod Mayo wouldn’t have this team in the exact same spot? Pats cut bait too soon.
All blizzards are snowstorms, but not all snowstorms are blizzards.
Out of the 7 NFC teams that made the playoffs, only the 49ers wouldn’t have been a Super Bowl rematch for the Patriots.
You let us get Snoopy’d, Rifkin!!
Every time I learn something new about Brazil, I feel that it’s just India with fatter ass-ed women.
News Item: Josh Allen will have significant say on the next coach of the Buffalo Bills. What if he said Sean McDermott?
Imagine getting angry about lobsters.
What is missing during this blizzard is Dan Rather strapped to a tree & the immortal Shelby Scott reporting knee deep in snow and howling wind.
Fist bumping Kraft must feel like dapping up the Cryptkeeper.
“Da’Jury Foreman” is a great defensive tackle name.
Apple watch fitness app needs snow shoveling category.
Honk if you remember 1971 NFL Draft first overall pick Jim Plunkett.
While appreciated, I don’t think Jonas Gray needed to have an official statement citing his departure from the team.
Mike McCarthy has corrupt Mayor physiognomy.
The Supreme Court thinks it’s weird the NFL Hall of Fame voters have lifetime appointments.
UConn may still also be a basketball school.
I would very much like to have seen Mayor Menino take a whack at saying ‘Jaxon Smith-Njigba.’
I think that fat shaming commercial was paid for by the LA Rams kicking unit.
So if Spygate and Deflategate were big problems for Belichick with the Pro Football Hall of Fame voters, will Tom Brady not make it in on the first ballot either?
Best bet for the weekend: more unasked-for trailers for Super Bowl commercials.

Material from interviews, wire services, Twitter, Meta, other writers, league and team sources, Joe Giza, and the members of #the15 were used in this column. We all we got. We all we need.



























