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10/22/2025 Cleaning Out the Sports Junk Drawer

It got a little dusty in the TD Garden last night, amirite?

Tough loss, Mariners. Can I interest you in a baseball poem?

Hoping that for his next investigation, Pablo Torre can find out how Katie Nolan keeps getting work.

NESN talking Patriots credit pie? Bill only ever got blame pie. And such large portions!

When you turn too many corners you end up back where you started.

Toucher, Adam 12, Hardy and Big Jim… why not make the entire station out of failed rock DJs?

If I had been playing in that media basketball game, I would have pulled my team off the floor. Sometimes you have to make a statement.

Dammit Carolina Hurricanes, stop wearing the Whalers branding as a skin suit.

Cakes are cooking for Christopher Lloyd, Derek Jacobi, Jan de Bont, Lee Meredith, Greg Hawkes, Jeff Goldblum, Bobby Blotzer, Cris Kirkwood, Barbara Potter, Leonard Marshall, Bob Odenkirk, Brian Boitano, Valeria Golino, Carlos Mencia, Ron Tugnutt, Shaggy, Shelby Lynn, Spike Jonze, Saffron Burrows, Tyrone Williams, Ichiro Suzuki, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Brad Stevens, Jon Foreman, Olivier Pla, Heath Miller, Robinson Canó, Zac Hanson, Jonathan Lipnicki, Marcus Jones, and TreVeyon Henderson.

Love my gals of sports twitter today and always.

Hey gang, this week’s Phrase that Pays is, “We’re starting to reach the point where it’s no longer Drake may … it’s Drake is.”

You can be bald or gay but not both.

Globe Pitchbot makes Michael Hurley look like Patrice O’Neal.

Green Line D Branch Reminder: From 8 PM on October 24 through October 31. Local and Express Shuttle buses will replace service between Kenmore and Riverside for maintenance work.

FYI, Celtics season ticket renewal is March, with commitment to renew in February.

I wonder if Gene Simmons gave Ace Frehley’s family a Kiss coffin at half-price.

Guys, I don’t know if it’s been said before, but we’re starting to reach the point where it’s no longer Drake may … it’s Drake is.

Whomever convinced Chris Gasper he’s a good writer needs to be brought before The Hague.

Aaron Rodgers yelling is lowkey kinda scary.

Hate when I see a 12-year-old kid wearing a sliding mitt, but Vlad Jr. makes it look cool.

As usual I’m the only one in the exit row to review the passenger safety card. I don’t see any of these people helping in the event of an emergency.

It’s crazy, like, I was just thinking that we’re actually starting to reach the point where it’s no longer Drake may … it’s Drake is. Anyone else feel this way?

Savor all the moments we have left with Chris Berman.

Long Johns went on today. Sorry folks, but it’s officially winter. I don’t care what your calendar says.

White women love two things: fucking with their faces and autumn.

You know the Patriots are back when Joe Murray and Dondero open up the postgame show by complaining about the Patriots trying to force the run, and how the defense needs to play better.

Black cats conduct heat evenly.

Why do refs say, “by rule”? What else would it be by?

As I was driving home, a thought struck me: We’re starting to reach the point where it’s no longer Drake may … it’s Drake is.

Damn convenient the Charles River water quality markedly improved right before the Regatta!

And when I wake up in the morning
To feel the daybreak on my face
There’s a blood that’s flowing through the feeling
With a knife to open up the sky’s veins.

Some things will never change
You just stand there looking backwards half unconscious from the pain
It may seem rearranged
In the backwater swirling there is something that will never change.

The best murder weapon would be a Tupperware lid…No one would be able to find it.

Porzingis had POTS? So is he better now? I ask because the broads seem to make it their personality for the rest of their life.

Honk if you remember when Paul was dead.

The next day, local television journalist Clark Booth suggested, “Instead of playing a seventh game, they should spread tables and checkered tablecloths across the outfields and just have a picnic, a feast to a glorious World Series, and toast one another until dawn.’’

It’s alright to cry Marchy, crying takes the sad out of you.

Congratulations to K’Lavon Chaisson for being named AFC Defensive Player of the Week.

Salem Ghost Lantern Stroll!

After looking at Marchand in a Panthers uni all night now I look up and it’s Marcus Smart as a Laker.

The Celtics, they could surprise!

Best bet for the weekend: we draw inexorably nearer to the point where it’s no longer Drake may … it’s Drake is.

It stayed fair, 50 years ago.

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. She’s drivin’ away, with the dim lights on.

And happy birthday to French actress Catherine Deneuve.

10/08/2025 Cleaning Out the Sports Junk Drawer

#TheFutureIsTeal? No, #ThePastIsTeal.

Bill needs to dump that gold-digging whore. I’m talking about Freddie Kitchens, obviously.

The Boston Bruins quest for The Cup begins tonight, with no less than three alternate Captains. Leadership will evolve organically.

I’m hearing that Barstool just hired Frederica Bimmel.

Zdeno Chara will be the first player to hang his jersey up in the rafters without needing a pulley system.

You’re all pissing me off the album is good and it’s ok if you think it’s bad but like it’s not my problem. She’s cringe. Expecting her not to be cringe was your problem. BTW, this is how many of us felt about “Pop” in 1997.

If H. Paul Rico were alive he would crack down on the Bills Mafia.

For many of us this is a baseball High Holy Day, the 69th anniversary of Don Larsen’s Perfect Game. Or, as some prefer, Yogi’s Leap.

I like that Mark Sanchez went back to the bar after being stabbed. You can’t teach that.

Cakes are cooking for Rona Barrett, Paul Hogan, Fred Cash, Chevy Chase, R.L. Stine, Ray Royer, Hamish Stuart, Sigourney Weaver, Robert “Kool” Bell, Edward Zwick, Michael Dudikoff, Bill Elliott, Darrell Hammond, Stephanie Zimbalist, Joe Castiglione, Nick Bakay, Tony Eason, Reed Hastings, CeCe Winans, Matt Biondi, Emily Procter, Karyn Parsons, Matt Damon, Soon-Yi Previn, Monty Williams, Donnie Abraham, DJ Q-Ball, Kristanna Loken, Nick Cannon, The Miz, Raffi Torres, Travis Pastrana, Bruno Mars, Bubba Wallace, G Herbo, and Bella Thorne.

Cam In Taunton actually applied for a job at Barstool, but they told him he was too thin.

.A Ferrari beefing with a Sauber? I’m sat.

Imagine what Christian Barmore could accomplish if he only knew how to read.

Never skip face day, bro.

Orange Line: This weekend, October 11 – 13. No Train service between Forest Hills and North Station due to signal work. Use Shuttle buses between Forest Hills and Back Bay. Use the Green Line between Copley and North Station.

Hey Hogdale,  You don’t need to work blue! You’ll never play the big rooms with that crap. Ask Redd Foxx. You don’t need the blue stuff, kid, you got talent!

Bob, I was lucky enough to watch the whole game on Black and White TV. I skipped school that day. I don’t think we will ever see that again. The present managers would have Larsen out in the 6th. I thought Jackie Robinson would break up the Perfect game. It was a joyous day. I interviewed Don Larsen many years later.

Most teams play better when they aren’t too busy being dumb.

Hey gang of pill hurlers, this week’s Phrase that Pays is, “when you grip the hide, hide your grip!”

Trying not to let small disappointments determine my day.

Good radio bit for Dondy: ranking the greatest sports stabbings. “OJ had the panache, but I gotta give the edge to Seles here. And Pierce gotta be top 3.”

We skipped the light fandango
Turned cartwheels ‘cross the floor
I was feeling kind of seasick
But the crowd called out for more.
The room was humming harder,
As the ceiling flew away.
When we called out for another drink-
The waiter brought a tray-

And so it was that later
As the miller told his tale.
That her face, at first just ghostly,
Turned a whiter shade of pale.

Foxboro Stadium in the 70s at a night game would kill everyone in Western NY and then invade Canada.

Honk if you remember Hyacinth Bucket.

Why make a name for yourself when you can just ride your dad’s coattails? Must be nice.

I can’t imagine being excited about that time 69 years ago when I read about a baseball game a day after it happened. And then saw the Movietone News highlights a week later between the Bowery Boys and the latest Abbott and Costello feature. I’m sure it was magical.

I can’t WAIT to bust out my Irish cardigan soon!

Has the Widow Russell forbidden Bill’s kids from using his bridge?

Much. Needed. Rain.

Well now I’m hearing Bill is giving his players warm Gatorade! An alum can’t pony up his buyout wad fast enough!

Puka Nacua remains a must-start in all formats.

Imagine not hating your job.

Either die a Marv Levy or coach long enough to become a Joe Gibbs.

Passed out at 6-1. The Yankees came back and won?!?!?!

Bert Bell created the Himmy Award in 1949. The Philadelphia Eagles’ Steve Van Buren took home the first one.

Best bet for the weekend: Football Cat’s win streak starts again.

We had a very funny footer gag planned comparing Mac’s outfit to something the Batman villain Two Face would wear, “Heads interception, tails nut-crushing fumble.” but then he had to go out there and own. Thanks. Thanks a lot.

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. Pick Up the Pieces.

And happy heavenly birthday to Johhny Ramone and to C.J. Ramone, who is not pictured here and may still be alive.

10/01/2025 Cleaning Out the Sports Junk Drawer

Oh no.

If the New York Yankees had won last night Karl Ravech was going to drive non-stop to Cooperstown and hand deliver the game footage to the Baseball Hall of Fame.

The Patriots are arguably the best 2-2 team in the AFC East.

Oh, I know how get-off-my-lawnish this may sound, but the fuss about a Super Bowl halftime show eludes me. Just give me a good marching band.

It took all of Europe’s best golfers playing out of their minds to just barely beat the scrappy US Ryder Cup squad. I hope they’re very proud for that.

Oh, you know, that old New England seaside tradition, “ringing the fog bell?”

Can you imagine Kendra Middleton eating fried dough at the Topsfield Fair? The zaniness would be off the charts! LOL

The Raiders let the Bears block the kick so no one would say Tom Brady’s classified intel helped them win.

Humiliating Mut is my favorite Barstool thing ever.

Watching the Wild Card game reminds me that the late Larry Johnson could not freehand draw the Yankees logo. At all.

Cakes are cooking for Julie Andrews, Rod Carew, Stephen Collins, Randy Quaid, Earl Slick, Larry Miller, Jeff Reardon, Leslie Burr-Howard, Theresa May, Martin Cooper, Michelle Bauer, Youssou N’dour, Elizabeth Dennehy, Esai Morales, Mark McGwire, Roberto Kelly, Cliff Ronning, Christopher Titus, Mike Pringle, Scot Young, Zach Galifianakis, Rudi Johnson, Johnny Oduya, Matt Cain, and Brie Larson.

Seth, Good luck on your Book. I wrote in my Book that the two most important positions in America are the President and the Quarterback.

I’m convinced the Sullivan Tire Guy is Greater Boston’s Jimmy Savile.

All Lynn Ferry service is cancelled for the remainder of today, October 1, due to rough seas

Tyreek Hill’s leg snapped easier than a three-year old’s arm. What?

Hey gang of stackers, this week’s Phrased that Pays is, “Mut just got cucked by Hogdale.”

That Ceddanne at bat against Weaver was one of the coolest things my eyes have ever seen. Like seeing a minotaur.

Fun Fact: ‘The Fog Belles’ was the name of the San Francisco 49ers first cheerleading squad.

How does a car race go to overtime?

Ravech acting like Judge playing right field on roller skates is making plays out there like he’s Willie Mays.

I’ll say it again: if you want to be a creator, don’t let brands exploit you. A massive food company just asked me to eat something so spicy it required a safety waiver and for zero pay. I’ve been doing this for 10 years and still get offers like this. No one will advocate for you but you. If a brand says, ‘no compensation, just community,’ the answer is NO. They don’t get to use your image for clicks and their gain for none of your own, because I promise they have the budget. The end.

Fire Country is at least an actual phrase. Sheriff Country makes no sense.

Red Sox Alumni News: Nice to see Francona bring the Reds to the playoffs. Ely De La Cruz is a fun player to watch. Rafi Devers played 163 games this season. Gary Allenson is still alive.

Cam has good rabbit-killing hands.

Zooey Deschanel looks completely different without bangs.

I’m jk I know this usually means a retirement tour or whatever but I have declared the Kings my punching bag of the year.

If you leave, don’t leave now
Please don’t take my heart away
Promise me just one more night
Then we’ll go our separate ways
We’ve always had time on our sides
Now it’s fading fast
Every second, every moment
We’ve got to, we’ve gotta make it last


I touch you once, I touch you twice
I won’t let go at any price
I need you now like I need you then
You always said we’d still be friends someday

I always knew Nick Sogard and Nate Eaton would be big for the Red Sox in the playoffs.

Honk if you remember ‘Memphis Seoul.’

Portland Heart of Pine playing on a field with both football and soccer markings is confusing.

Smokey Joe Wood? He was a problem.

Live is one of the few bands actually worse than Nirvana.

Happy trails, Al Horford. You will be missed.

I can’t name one Zac Bryan or Eric Church song, and I’m guessing neither can Gerry Callahan.

The Ryder Cup Envelope Rule?

Best bet for the weekend: early whiteout conditions in Buffalo. Check for Skyway closure announcements!

Douglas, Henry, & Diggs could get used to winning.

Material from interviews, wire services, Twitter, Meta, other writers, league and team sources, Joe Giza, Old Friend  Hacksaw, and the members of #the15 were used in this column. Souma Yergon, Sou Nou Yergon. We are shakin’ the tree.

And happy Birthday to model and actress Cindy Margolis, the one-time ‘Most Downloaded Person in the world’

Football Cat’s Week 4 NFL Picks ’25


Spanning the globe to bring you the constant variety of sport! The thrill of victory, and the agony of defeat! Welcome to Football Cat’s Wide World of Sports Weekend! In Asia there are the World Athletics Championship finishing up in Tokyo. In the Land Down Under we have an all feline Grand Final in the Australian Football League as the Geelong Cats (a personal favorite) take on the defending champion Melbourne Lions. In Brazil there’s the Grand Chess Tour Finals kicking off (a Blitz isn’t only in football kids). And who could possibly forget about everyone’s favorite jingoistic biennial golf tournament, that the Ryder Cup (any relation to Greg?) is taking place at Bethpage Black (any relation to Shirley Temple Black?) Even the Red Sox are prepping for the playoffs (PLAYOFFS?!?!) But Faith and Begorrah the most important international sporting event of the weekend will be taking place in the Emerald Isle, when the Steelers “host” the Vikings in the first ever regular season NFL game to ever be played on the auld sod. Why the Steelers you may ask? What a stupid question boy-o! Why I ought to bop you on the head with me shillelagh! The Steelers were the obvious choice because of their deep Irish roots. Steeler’s patriarch Art Rooney’s great-grandparents emigrated from Ireland way back in 1840 during the Great Famine. That means current Steeler’s owner Dan Rooney only has to go back four generations to reach his potato roots. Wow a 4th generation Irish American! There are only about 32 other million of those, and half are in Southie. So remember no matter how many times you drop “Sláinte” or “Éire go Brách”, your blood will never be as green as the Sainted Rooney family. Top o’ the mornin’ to YOU, ya’ spud!

The local Mick community couldn’t be more excited


And congratulations to Warren Dull’s Aunt on being the only human to ever defeat Football Cat

Choke on that Fluff lady

Sunday Potato Pancake Time
Vikings (-2.5) vs Steelers

Stillers hand the Vikings their worst defeat in Ireland since the Battle of Clontarf in 1014

Brian Boru invented sudden death centuries before Bert Bell

Sunday Lunch Time
Commanders (-1.5) at Falcons
Penix stiffens up and balls out.

Saints at Bills (-15.5)
Even Saint Jude is backing the Bills in this one.

The Popes!

Browns at Lions (-9.5)
Jungle Kings smear the Browns

Titans at Texans (-7.5)
FUN FACT: This game showcases the only two teams in the NFL whose nicknames end in “ans”! Tex top Tit

Did someone say “Texas tit top”?

Panthers at Patriots (-5.5)
Black cats get caught looking ahead to October.

Chargers (-6.5) at Giants
Jaxon Dart? More like Jaxon Sharts the bed!

Eagles (-3.5) at Buccaneers
American birds soar in this battle of the unbeatens

Sunday Dinner Time
Colts at Rams (-3.5)

Hairy sheep hand Indianapolis Jones his first loss

Jaguars at 49ers (-3.5)
Mac tames the Spotted Cats

My good friend Mac and I can’t stop owning

Ravens (-2.5) at Chiefs
Scary Black birds murder Mahomes

Bears (-1.5) at Raiders
It is officially fall, and the Autumn Wind is a Raider… Vegas baby!

Packers (-6.5) at Cowboys
Meat men grind up Cow boys

Eeek!

Monday Early Prowl Time
Jets at Dolphins (-2.5)

Jets take the toilet bowl

Monday Prowl Time
Bengals at Broncos (-7.5)

Stripey Cats succumb to hypoxia

I hope this is nitrous

Football Cat lives in New Hampshire, enjoys watching football, and is a cat.

09/24/2025 Cleaning Out the Sports Junk Drawer

What are we doing here?

Oh, good the new 2004 Red Sox documentary has JFK and forced busing in it. I was scared they were going to leave those out.

Not sure if Coach Parcells should be purchasing green bananas when he goes to buy the groceries.

Jayson Tatum is now a spokesperson for Vertex Pharmaceuticals after using their new non-opioid pain drug, Journavx, following Achilles surgery. The FDA approved the drug earlier this year.

omfg it just dawned on me that we have a fantastic chance of getting a Lyss v Nai WNBA Finals, and if that wouldn’t be the best thing ever, I don’t even know what to say anymore.

Whenever there’s a Minihane live show, do the Minifans pick a Designated Survivor?

Red Sox are 5-2 now in minor league ballparks this season.

Jeff Hardy is aging in dog years.

Pats wore the throwback uniforms. Edelman rang the lighthouse bell; what more were they supposed to do?

Cakes are cooking for Joe Greene, Jerry Donahue, Gorgon Clapp, Emilio Castillo, Kristina Wayborn, Joseph P. Kennedy II, Hubie Brooks, Brad Bird, Kevin Sorbo, Allen Bestwick, Mike Phelan, Nia Vardalos, Rafael Palmeiro, Sean McNabb, Bernard Gilkey, Kevin Koslofski, Shawn Crahan, Megan Ward, Eddie George, Kyle Turley, Stephanie McMahon, Daniele Bennati, Drew Gooden, Ryan Briscoe, Paul Hamm, and Lisa Wang.

Alex Cora told the media Payton Tolle will pitch out of the bullpen for the remainder of the season.

2/3 of Irsay’s daughters… WOULD.

The homeless Athletics came into your house and beat YOU!

Fitchburg Line Diversion Reminder: Saturday, Sept. 27th & Sunday, Sept. 28th Red & Green Line subway service will replace regular Commuter Rail service between North Station and Porter. This allows for North Station Terminal Area Signal System Improvement work.

You HAVE to tag Jerry Thornton when you get a divorce. No way around it.

I have to wonder if Sal still would have created cancel culture all those years ago if he could have foreseen how it would eventually be used.

Bruins scoring goals in bunches, nice to see, even in preseason.

Tried to use AI to put together my fantasy football lineup for this weekend. Complete trash. Everyone’s jobs are safe.

‘I don’t want the bass loaded anymore?’ What an idiot Lou Meloni is. The term is ‘loaded diamond.’

Zolak’s pronunciation of “Steelers” isn’t triggering at all.

Hey mean and not for everyone gang, this week’s Phrase that Pays is, “It’s nothing scandalous, it’s just some broad on the internet.”

Wyomissing translates from the Lenape to ‘brook full of trull.’

I hope years of forced bicoastal living won’t place undue strain on Attorney Jackson’s marriage.

Dallas Braden seems like if Pat McAfee was in the Lumineers.

What if I don’t like Millwall? What then?

It’s almost like sportswriting attracts a disproportionate number of talentless losers.

Kirk Minihane might be retarded.

You’ve got “toss the egg yolk” money in this economy? Must be nice.

Walked into a strange cafe
No one there’s ever heard my name
Go to the bar, have a seat
Talk to that woman sittin’ next to me

She ask me in a voice so low,
She ask me if I come in here alone.
She ask me nicely, “Can I buy you a drink?”
You know I think she likes me, that’s what I think,
I think she likes me, that’s what I think.

Can someone who has covered the NFL longer than I explain why all nine Patriots-Steelers games from 1981 to 1995 were in Pittsburgh? Was there no rhyme or reason to NFL scheduling? Just going off vibes?

Kay Adams debuting the ‘bait for a gang initiation beatdown’ look is certainly a bold decision.

Kenny Anderson: wash cloth user.

Honk if you remember NASCL’s Enemies List.

I bet if they try even harder the media can make one more person care about the Tom Brady “conflict of interest” storyline.

Vocal fry in a male is very off-putting.

Whenever Donald Trump comes after one of Bill Simmons’ friends he stops talking about Belichick. So who’s to say whether him forcing ABC to cancel Jimmy Kimmel is a bad thing or not.

Also, I really wanna go 100% on this but…I can’t cancel Disney+…I just can’t. Marvel has a hold on me. Disney/Pixar movies have a hold on me. Shit, Hulu does somewhat too. And now with WWE moving their PLE’s there? Ugh. I’m sorry. I’m still 99% with everyone though!

It’s good to be on the good side of the crazy coworker.

Ramondre knows he has to be better!

Rub some dirt on it, David Fry. Walk it off. You’re okay.

Can you imagine Kendra Middleton going to the Big E? Hahahahaha zoinks!!

Best bet for the weekend: New England improves to 2-2.

Bruce Allen Jr, the indispensable founder of the Boston Sports Media Watch website. A good man, a kind man, a tall man. Taken from us too soon. He will be greatly missed.

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. Walk, Don’t Run.

And there’s some leftover cake in the break room from THE BUTCHIE’S birthday yesterday.

“Where are my blue cupcakes!?”

Don, it’s RAH SHERSHONNAH, so a SHONER TOVER to you and yours. And just so you know, the only state I’ll recognize is RED SOX NATION!

Football Cat’s Week 3 NFL Picks ’25

Happy Upton Bell Day!

Every September 19th all of Patriots Nation gather together with their family and friends to celebrate the legacy of their one time wunderkind General Manager Upton Bell. Back in February of 1971, Billy Sullivan hired the snot nosed 33 year old Bell to be his GM. The most memorable moment of Upton’s brief reign of terror was when he forgot to mail out contracts to all the team’s impending free agents, thus instantly granting them their freedom. The Upton Bell era came to an abrupt end in December 5, 1972 when he was unceremoniously fired after amassing a putrid 9 – 19 record. Sure that is a bad record, but really damning fact is that Upton was so incompetent that he never worked in the NFL again. Imagine how awful his reputation within the league must have been to never get another front office job. This was the son of former NFL Commissioner and Eagles owner/founder Bert Bell, and after being fired at the age of 35 his career in the league was over.

Today the 88 year old social media maven has morphed into a modern day Baron Hieronymus Karl Friedrich Freiherr von Münchhausen. The list of famous (all dead) people Upton has met includes Burt Reynolds, Jane Russell, Hedy Lamar, Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, Grace Kelly, Stephen Hawking, Patricia Neal, Jack Nicholson, Richard Nixon, Anthony Hopkins, Angie Dickerson, Arnold Palmer, Alan Shepard, Ted Turner, Seiji Ozawa, Donna Reed, Hedy Lamarr, Carely Simon, Yo Yo Ma and three (THREE!) Tuskegee Airmen. The list goes on and on. We didn’t even bother with listing the sports figures he claims to have known/discovered, but rest assured if they’re dead Upton claims he interacted with them.

And if Upton didn’t meet them, rest assured his mother did. Per Upton, his mom, Broadway “star” Frances Upton, had close encounters with Charles Lindbergh, James Cagney, Florenz Ziegfeld, George Gershwin, George Burns, Willie Mays, Babe Ruth, Lefty Gomez and Al Capone. According to Upton, when Bert Bell, his father, dropped dead Universal Pictures wanted to make a movie about him with Danny Thomas as the lead, but Frances turned it down (of course she did!). The aforementioned Bert Bell invented the NFL Draft, coined the phrase “On Any Given Sunday”, brought the entire Eagles team with him on his honeymoon, proposed local TV blackouts, and in 1958 came up with the idea of sudden death overtime – which is ironic because he dropped dead less than one year later while attending a football game.

Happy Upton Bell Day!


So celebrate today the Upton way by forgetting to send out important legal documents on time, or by getting you rugs cleaned or by lying on social media about all the famous dead people you’ve interacted with. Happy 9-19 to all who celebrate!

Sunday Lunch Time
Falcons (-5.5) at Panthers

Black cats get slapped by Penix

Packers (-7.5) at Browns
Packko over Flacco

In 1935 Bert Bell invents the NFL draft. In 1948 Bert Bell invents prank calling potential draft picks.

Texans at Jaguars (-2)
Texicats hog tie spotted cats

Bengals at Vikings (-3)
Norsemen beat Burrow-less Bungles

Steelers (-1.5) at Patriots
Pat Patriot makes Rodgers see red

November 14, 1972 press conference with owner Billy Sullivan (right), interim head coach Phil Bengtson (center), lame duck GM Upton Bell (left). Disgraceful body language

Rams at Eagles (-3.5)
Philly rams LA

Jets at Buccaneers (-6.5)
Tampa takes the Todd Bowles Revenge Bowl

Colts (-4.5) at Titans
Tits whip Indianapolis Jones

Frances Upton in her only feature film role as Angie in ‘Night Work’ (1930). Francis loved to tell Upton about all the times she lost out on an acting job because she would not submit to the casting couch. Proving that lying is inherited.

Raiders at Commanders (-3.5)
The Raiders keep racking up frequent flyer miles but not wins

Sunday Dinner Time
Broncos at Chargers (-3)

Bolts best Broncos

Saints at Seahawks (-7.5)
Saints remain winless in Seattle

Upton saw Wilt Chamberlain play high school basketball and new he’d be a super star

Cowboys (-1) at Bears
Da Bears drop Da Boys

Cardinals at 49ers (-2.5)
Prospectors use the Pretty Red Birds as their canaries in the gold mine.

Sunday Prowl Time
Chiefs (-6) at Giants

Chiefs cut the Giants down to size

9 wins as Patriots GM work out to 1 win for every tooth

Monday Prowl Time
Lions at Ravens (-4.5)

Scary black birds tame the big cats

Football Cat lives in New Hampshire, enjoys watching football, and is a cat.

09/17/2025 Cleaning Out the Sports Junk Drawer

It always comes back to baseball, Danny. Robert Redford 1936-2025.

First The Whammer, then Bump Bailey, and now Mr. Roy Hobbs? 2025 is clearing out the cast of The Natural.

I have as many FBS wins as Notre Dame this season and I’m not in the AP Top 25.

Well, to the good, in a couple of weeks Mike McDaniel will be able to use his Breitling watch to tell time.

So the show about the entertainment industry cleaned up at the Emmys? That never happens.

Tom Brady. A 24-year journey from from Mo Lewis to Mo Atta.

After Borregales missed 2 xp’s Patriots fans were ready to check him for disqualifying tattoos.

Too soon to call Carles Gil a coach killer?

Cakes are cooking for Phil Jackson, Fee Waybill, Cassandra Peterson, Rita Rudner, Scott Simpson, John Franco, Steve Clifford, Ty Tabor, Baz Luhrmann, Paul Feig, Bryan Singer, Kyle Chandler, Anastacia, Mark Brunell, David Reid, Rasheed Wallace, Jimmie Johnson, Flo Rida, Danny Haren, Eugenia Volodina, Alex Ovechkin, Mason Raymond, and Patrick Mahomes II.

Pablo Torre may be a strange lil fella who’s more obsessed with Jordon Hudson than Coach Bill himself, but he does seem to have Steve Ballmer dead to rights.

Cool limp, bro.

I hope Mike Reiss is going to demand a personal apology from the nepo GM for drafting Ja’Lynn Polk.

Red Line: Delays of about 15 minutes due to police activity at Harvard.

‘Wake Up Barstool?’ That just makes one think of all the Barstool Rohypnol ‘n Foam parties back in the day.

If the Red Sox lose out they will finish 82-80. They were 81-81 last year.

Stefon Diggs and Cardi will definitely have to play zone and not man with all them kids.

You can say anything you like
But you can’t touch the merchandise
She’ll give you every penny’s worth
But it will cost you a dollar first

You can step outside your little world
(Step outside your world)
You can talk to a pretty girl
She’s everything you dream about…

(But don’t fall in love) She’s a beauty
(She’s one in a million girl) One in a million girl
(Why would I lie?) Why would I lie?

Congratulations to WNBA KIA Most Improved Player Award Winner Veronica Burton.

Another 2004 Red Sox documentary in the offing? Who asked for that?

And that goes double for Nana Gary Myers’ book.

I’m not saying you fiddled with the thermostat, but I didn’t set the heat at 55 degrees and the AC at 80.

Honk if you remember the Montrealer train.

I wonder if Pablo Torre is going to investigate the Saudi Flag Football League.

David Pastrnak will be limited in the first few days for training camp with an undisclosed injury.

Molly Qerim is a free agent.

Best bet for the weekend: Christian Gonzalez’s hamstring keeps him inactive vs Pittsburgh.

Perpetually skeptical as to CLNS. Charlie Kirk 1993-2025

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. Apple bottom jeans, boots with the fur, and things of that nature.

And Happy Birthday to British actress Ella Purnell.
I hope Fred isn’t listing his height as 6’1″ on Grindr.

09/10/2025 Cleaning Out the Sports Junk Drawer

Oh no.

Jerod Mayo won his first game as HC. Just sayin’.

Stupid me thought Kawhi’s LA Clippers contract was the no show job! <Rodney Dangerfield.gif>

Just catch the 95 MPH fastball you weren’t expecting. What’s the big deal? But you know who else wasn’t expecting a fast one down the middle? That’s right: John O’Keefe.

Dondy is gonna own the 2030’s

No mass shooting at UMass Lowell last week means the Shedd Park incident still the worst catastrophe in Lowell history.

“Jump Around”(1992) is not a great walkout choice for Super Bowl champs on opening night.

Pam Oliver is morphing into Harriet Tubman.

Brazil can be a dangerous country. A friend of mine lives there.

The subtext of The Departed is that Nicholson’s character is an impotent homosexual who grooms young, impressionable men into a life of crime. So yeah, I’m fucking JACKED UP for football season!

A tale of two rookie pitchers by facial hair… Payton Tolle: gets a 5 o’clock shadow at 3 p.m. Connelly Early: shaves once a month whether he needs it or not.

Get ready for the ‘Words and Phrases People Associate With Bill Belichick in Context’ website to bring the heat!

Cakes are cooking for Artie Tripp, Danny Hutton, José Feliciano, Larry Nelson, Judy Geeson, Barriemore Barlow, Bill O’Reilly, Don Muraco, Don Powell, Joe Perry, Gary Danielson, Amy Irving, Pat Mastelotto, Johnny Hickman, Carol Decker, Kate Burton, Siobhan Fahey, Chris Columbus, Colin Firth, Randy Johnson, John E. Sununu, Joe Nieuwendyk, Robin Goodridge, Big Daddy Kane, Guy Ritchie, Julie Halard-Decugis, Paula Kelley, Ben Wallace, Ryan Phillippe, Timothy Goebel, Misty Copeland, Joey Votto, Coco Rocha, Jordan Staal, and Brooke Henderson.

Rob Bradford was a Make-A-Wish kid who never died.

How are you, a grown ass 40+ year old adult, not using the correct form of “you’re” in a company wide email you sent to the owner of the company? You ARE…not ‘your’…what’re we doing here? This is like Day 1 school stuff.

Collinsworth looks like he got his makeup done at the funeral home.

Winthrop Ferry Notice: Service will bypass Seaport through the end of service today, Sept 10, due to construction for the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series. Passengers can use the 712/713 bus between Orient Heights and Winthrop for alternate service.

Trying to find a 5’5” Asian male in Lowell? Good luck!

Maxx Crosby looks like a guy from one of Sons of Anarchy’s affiliate clubs in Oregon that gets introduced and killed in the same episode.

Twitter is now just literal Nazis and then guys who argue about Tom Brady, for some reason.

I’m worried about the Red Sox.

Hey gang, this week’s Phrase that Pays is, “I miss taking walks in the woods with you and my wiener.”

I’d like to see a throwback NFL game where they install a dirt baseball infield.

Too bad the Celtics didn’t pay Jrue and Porzingis with tree money.

To call a game because of a thunderstorm is ridiculous. The Eagles played the Cardinals in a blizzard in 1948. I was there. – Upton Bell.

Is 38 Studios moving to the Seaport too?

You can’t put a number on how many kids I want to see catch measles in Florida.

Hockey things are happening. Rookie Camp is underway!

50% of my enjoyment from watching the Messi Barca teams was thanks to Ray’s commentary of the matches. Ray made me a fan and judging by the comments here… that was true of so many others. Congrats on a magesteeeeeeerial run.

Micah Parsons chasing down Jared Goff legit looked like a video you’d see on Animal Planet.

Ohio State beat Grambling like they whistled at a white woman. What?

Haha.. it said a New England Journal of Medicine study. So, its actually easier to sauce and get jacked than to be a natty daddy and just do the work.

Watching the game over this morning: I’m infuriated by the way TreVeyon Henderson was used in this game.

Early wins > Early Wynn * (* Adjusted for recency bias)

So the Billy Joel song, ‘Scenes From an Italian Restaurant’, is that restaurant Mr. Cacciatore’s, down on Sullivan Street
across from the medical center?

My gen alpha niece just asked me if I’ve seen the movie “KPop Demon Hunters.”

Will Campbell with a compression sock on his left ankle. Looked fine.

Is Jeff Howe selling Never Forget 9/3/25 merch for charity yet?

Jeremiah was a bull frog
Was a good friend of mine
I never understood a single word he said
But I helped him drink his wine
And he always had some mighty fine wine.

Singin’
Joy to the world
All the boys and girls, now
Joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea
Joy to you and me.

Alls I’m saying is Bill Belchick wasn’t this petty a person until he was a media member for like, five months.

Honk if you remember Subway Flatizzas.

I worry less about the shoulder with Boutte then the clavicle.

News Item: Arthur Demoulas removed as Market Basket president, CEO. Time is a flat circle of sawdust.

If I’m going to take any health advice from an ex-junkie, It’s going to be Keith Richards.

Imagine having the audacity to criticize professional athletes for being too proud of a championship.

Patriots HC Mike Vrabel: DC Terrell Williams will be away for the next few days. Unrelated to the incident from March. Something that just came up. Plan is to run some tests.

Jeffrey Simmons always seems so under control and level headed.

Best bet for the weekend: Coach Drip in Miami needing a win to save his job.

Not the first time Dougie Meehan has pulled 7 G’s in one day! (Danger Zone guitar riff)

Material from interviews, wire services, Twitter, Meta, other writers, league and team sources, Joe Giza, Old Friend Larry Legend, and the members of #the15 were used in this column. Roll us both down a mountain and I’m sure the fat man would win.

A fall-coded Bianca in NYC.

09/03/2025 Cleaning Out the Sports Junk Drawer

Let’s go RED Sox! (weird Tom Werner cadence)

All the cvnts who were performatively rooting for TCU Monday are the same ones who told us they were just being unbiased for years.

“The diamond is loaded” is absolutely a thing that people say.

I already want Tommy DeVito and his greasy butt plug of a manager dead.

All these years Boston sports fans hated Peyton Manning.  Now they love Payton Pritchard and Payton Tolle.  Amazing what swapping out an E for an A will do.

The next Jordon Hudson joke is going to be the funny one; I can feel it.

Brennan Bernardino looks like Noel Gugliemi.

They gave his radio show to a puffy whore. They took away his casino access. They made him angry. And you don’t make Dan Lifshatz angry.

Cakes are cooking for Dick Motta, Al Jardine, Dave Eichelberger, Valerie Perrine, Eric Bell, Don Brewer, Steve Jones, Costas Mandylor, Spike Feresten, Charlie Sheen, Chris Gatling, Luis Gonzalez, Keith Traylor, Martin Straka, Damon Stoudamire, Jevon Kearse, Garrett Hedlund, Shaun White, Dominic Thiem, Kaia Gerber, and Eileen Gu.

Jimmy Bulger would have turned 95 today too, Danny. But as the Bard wrote, “violent delights have violent ends.”

Hey gang of three-color carbonless invoice enthusiasts, this week’s Phrase that Pays is, “Do you have other plans today, or is that it?”

Old, white guys really love coffee.

The home run leader in the American League and the National League are both from the Cape Cod League. You’re welcome.

Green Line D Branch Reminder: Through September 11 Shuttle buses are replacing service between Kenmore and Riverside for maintenance work. Express shuttles are operating between Newton Highlands and Copley.

You know it’s a big event when Blake Snell shows up.

People from New England that use y’all should be shot in the face.

Someone please give James Gunn a hug and tell him how proud they are about how many obscure comic book characters he knows.

Nobody sweats enough to need 5000+ mgs of sodium a day.

Lays knows how to make potato chips, their Sour Cream & Onion and Barbecue flavors especially.

On May 13, 2004, the Boston Red Sox were blown out 12-6 by the Toronto Blue Jays and got passed for first place in the AL East by the New York Yankees. Roman Anthony was born that day. The rest is history.

I love when people pretend not understand why Irish-American Catholics root for Notre dame. So silly!

My dad is going to hang himself because my mom will watch the auto-previews on Netflix for hours and not pick anything to actually watch.

Good job, rookie Oriental golfer lady.

Noel Gugliemi is an American actor best known for his portrayals of Southern Californian gangsters.

Matt Patricia rolling out an overload sim with Caleb Downs on the line paired with a coffee house stunt the other way. Hooooo boy.

If the Sun moves to Boston, and assuming they adopt the Celtics colors and theme, they should absolutely be renamed the Banshees.

Not Luis Suarez!

Portugal is advancing to the next round of EuroBasket after a thrilling win following Neemias Queta’s ejection.

Roman has a strained oblique? Oh! Bleak!

Ay these edits on Tik Tok these days are on another level ! I don’t know what they are feeding these young hustlers but my goodness! Keep goin crazy!!!

Four young chiquitas in Omaha
A waitin’ for the band to return from the show
Feelin’ good, feelin’ right, it’s Saturday night
The hotel detective, he was outta sight

Now these fine ladies, they had a plan
They was out to meet the boys in the band
They said, “Come on dudes, let’s get it on”
And we proceeded to tear that hotel down.

I really feel like Saturdays are for Dr. Pepper ads and Sundays are for State Farm. Make it happen.

Woah, they released Buehler?

Honk if you remember the longest game in Fenway Park’s history, a 20 inning 8-7 loss to Seattle.

It’s time for Captain’s Skate at WARRIOR ICE ARENA already?

Well actually, Pete Rose is still not in the Baseball Hall of Fame, Mr. President.

Good for you, Jeff Howe. Way to wrest control from that dangerous spiral of six beers a week.

Tommy DeVito…we’re supposed to believe that this is a real person?

SportsChannel and NESN were $20/month on Continental Cablevision in the 80s. I paid for it with my paper route.

Wrexham has a midget.

With whom is Drake Maye getting his revenge? His elementary school teachers?

Kenny Anderson understands brand loyalty!

BC Eagles looking good early.

Best bet for the weekend: win or lose, no Gatorade bath for Coach Vrabes.

You don’t need an official captain to hold a Captains’ Skate.

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 lose 80 minutes of daylight in September.

And happy birthday to statuesque Gold Medal-winning softball pitcher Jennie Finch.

The 2025 Labor Day Weekend Playlist

(Dear The15net dot com Wicked Pissah Beantown Chowderheads Platinum Elite Members; Here is a bonus musical playlist for your Labor Day weekend enjoyment. We’re nice like that. Assorted Songs of Work and Toil, Songs of Celebration & Songs of Summer’s Departing. Click HERE to download.)

Summer of 369 – Bryan Adams in Taunton

She Complains Hard for the Money – Women In Sports

Jobseeker- The Cryin’ Dohertys

Scenes From an Overpriced Italian Restaurant – The Royles

Manny Loves the Zoo – Owl City

Pale Blue Cupcakes – Nashua Underground

There’s Magic Doin’ Damage Wearing the Greens – Dropkick Murphys feat. Lou & TC

Hot Blob Summer – Turkeypie Jefferson

Big Ten Inch Record – MassMutual Unsettling Fenway Children’s Choir

Lazy Eye – Silversun Career Backups

Anal Rail Gun – The Doodletown Pipers

Banned Biographer Blues – Uncle Kratom

Yeah I Hate Steve, (But Most Do) – Dan Lifshatz

Driveway to Hell – JM/IH

Skate Your Own Lane – Jethro Trull

Won’t Get Fooled Again (Even Though I Wasn’t Fooled in the First Place, Idiots) – Oafis Redding

Breakfast Never Ends – Bowling for Soup Kitchen

Paper Machete – Carrier Puffin

Funeral for an Internet Friend – Cesar Osiris

Zebra Cakes by the Ocean- The Magic Mike Band

We Ain’t Have No Hot Fun in the Summah No More (Cooling Climo) – Brian and the Family Levesque

The Wheels On The Bus (To Southie) – Dart Adams

Hey Kate Peter – FlashR and the Pan

The kids don’t stand a chance- the Bradfo 5

I Keep Forgettin’ (To Brush My Teeth) – Mathew McTakey

Yaaaaaaaaa….tha Rushins! – Sting

Much Needed South Central Connecticut Rain – Tommy TwoTimes

RESPECT (All Women) – Marvelous Mike Franklin

Where Did I Say I Live Under the Bridge – Redding Hot Chili Peppers

Counting Blue Cupcakes – Dis Squalor

Bert Bell Invented Tightening Up – Upton Bell and the Drells

Precious Cancellation – Collaborative Soul

Hamming (expired) – Slob Marley

Skin Flute Concerto 7-11 – Mozartfan87

What A Fool Believes – The Doherty Brothers

Mamba Gozón (a Helicopter) – Tito in Taunton

Sundown – Mick Gindaloon and his Dumb Polacks

Redding Redding Whine – UB40

Hunger Strike – Template of the Dog Paw Tattoo

You’re All Beautiful – Sixx:Am Manic Episode

Wandering the Streets of Philadelphia – Shukri Springsteen

Move Along – The Cambridge Associates Rejects

I Got 5 On It (God Bless) – Dougie Meehan

Raspberry Beret, and 5 reasons why it stinks- Faith No More In Dutches plan

I’m Your Boogie Man – Carmine Zombie

No Career Opportunities – Jonathan Bowen & The Clash

Drive Faster – Rat Shoveler’s Union

You Better You Bet! – The Marion

My Bicycle Hit a Bad Ice Cube – Mr. Underwood

Wok bm pppppppppppp – Peter Gammons feat. The Strokes

Tooly Happy Josh – Mongoloid Confessional

Jordon’s Salty Snail Trail – Little Whore Friends

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