Time to check in with everyone’s favorite nonagenarian sportswriter, none other than legendary boxing and gridiron correspondent for the old Boston Evening Gazette, Buzz “Lefty” McBride. Mr. McBride would like to share his take on the controversial hit New England Patriots’ linebacker Christian Eliss placed on New York Giants’ quarterback Jaxson Dart during the first quarter of Monday night’s football game.
Simpler times
Buzz “Lefty” McBride:“Looks to me like Eliss knocked Jaxson Dart onto Queer Street”
Exhibit A
Exhibit B
Many thanks to “Lefty” for his thoughtful and enlightened commentary.
Sunday Lunch Time Titans at Browns (-4.5) Turds top Tits
Did someone say turd tit top?
Seahawks (-7) at Falcons Fake sea birds rule the roost
Colts (-1.5) at Jaguars Jags jettison Jones
Commanders at Vikings (-2.5) Feds raid Minnesota
Bengals at Bills (-5.5) Buffalo buries Burrow
Just a dusting
Saints at Buccaneers (-8.5) Bucs defrock the clergy
Steelers (-6) at Ravens Scary black birds love a game played in a dark place
I guess it’s not good luck
Dolphins (-2.5) at Jets New Yorkers feast on frozen fish
Sunday Dinner Time Broncos (-7.5) at Raiders YOU want the Raiders to win, but you can’t always get what you want
Bonus bet: Raiders cover
Rams (-8.5) at Cardinals Horney sheep trample pretty red birds
Bears at Packers(-6.5) The pack is back!
Sunday Prowl Time Texans at Chiefs(-3.5) Indoor cats can’t handle the chill of the open plains
Indoors is where it’s at
Monday Prowl Time Eagles (-2.5) at Chargers Patriotic birds zap Bolts
Football Cat lives in New Hampshire, enjoys watching football, and is a cat.
Wake up to a bunch of tweets from NBA reporters wondering what happened between the Clippers and Chris Paul. How about do your job and figure it out?
Nothing says rivalry weekend quite like UCF at BYU.
Jason Kelce’s eyebrows look like 2 Australian shepherds about to square off.
Basic math is now ‘analytics’.
The thing about Lane Kiffin is that he hates making things about himself. I can only imagine how hard this must be for him.
The Lions game not starting at 12:30 threw me off. A Thanksgiving staple.
I wonder if the Bruins players’ wives also made them get up early on Black Friday and drive them to Target.
Ryan Day bears an uncanny resemblance to Ming the Merciless.
What are there more of, “Kirk Minihane Show” ex-producers or videos of Turtleboi Aidan crying?
Cakes are cooking for Mickey Thomas, Rick Mears, David Hixon, Don Barnes, Franz Klammer, Melody Anderson, Kathy Jordan, Daryl Hannah, Julianne Moore, Mike Ramsey, Joe Lally, Andrew Stanton, Katarina Witt, Brendan Fraser, Montell Jordan, Harold Steinbrenner, Amy Helm, Laura Schuler, Lindsey Hunter, Paul Byrd, Vernon White, Bucky Lasek, Holly Marie Combs, Rainbow Sun Francks, Sean Parker, Tiffany Haddish, Anna Chlumsky, Jenna Dewan, Brian Bonsall, Michael Essian, Amanda Seyfried, Michael Angarano, Jake T. Austin, and Lil Baby.
If MLB has rules that apply to only one player, how soon until the NFL grants Mahomes possession of the ball no matter what at the end of games?
Rhody has a LB named Rohan Davy. No relation.
I liked New Mexico’s turquoise uniforms. The computers should’ve had that as a deciding factor.
Dallas plays football like chipmunks who found a bag of coke.
Hey gang of fake cancer survivors! This week’s Phrase that Pays is, “Making a big deal over quitting your social drinking is wild.”
The ‘There Are Too Many Streaming Services!’ Guy is my least favorite archetype.
Lem Barney has been upgraded from ‘dead’ to ‘alive’.
Not to go all Brad Rifkin on you, but elk and lingonberries are an incredible pairing.
Anthony Edwards looks like he can’t read.
Red Line: Delays of about 15 minutes due to a disabled train at Park Street. Trains may stand by at stations.
Thanksgiving games don’t need halftime shows. Sorry.
Wonder if Max Brosmer woke up today wondering when they play Holy Cross?
Korpisalo makes some good saves, but you always know when he’s playing because Bs are down 2 five minutes into the game.
Ian Eagle does a great job at play-by-play. A great mix of seriousness and excitement.
This is how we do it, all hands are in the air And wave them from here to there If you’re an OG mack or a wanna-be player You see the hood’s been good to me Ever since I was a lower case G But now I’m a big G The girls see I got the money Hundred dollar bills, y’all.
Hollywood Brown sounds like the name of a hustler from a James Ellroy novel.
Post Malone is the pinnacle of the redneck-wigger aesthetic. A uniquely American archetype.
I’ve slept 29 hours and 43 minutes the last 3 nights.
Lamar must be wondering what he did wrong to have Josina dump him for Shedeur.
Honk if you remember to steer into the skid. And to warn people that you’re skidding, I guess.
Espn had Herbstreit, ‘Booger’, and then Joey Galloway out there saying you’re just being soft if you think Kiffin shouldn’t coach two teams. So fucking stupid.
Wearing my Barstool hoodie so that everyone knows I’m a cool guy who loves sports and chicks and gambling.
Too many evictions scheduled, man.
USF’s Alex Golesh to Auburn? This is a great hire. AG is a BIG culture guy. Excited to see what he can do there. I’ve never heard of him.
Never discount the power of sincerely offered glad tidings.
Who is forcing BYU? Win and in. Lose and not.
Jaylen Brown one of the quickest hair recessions in history. Had that sweet flat top like 5 years ago to this patchy, sloppy mess today.
Boston’s Snowport Holiday Market: Tourist trap, or bad rap?
Just an inscrutable play by Younghoe Koo.
Derek Thompson is the most fake smart writer I’ve ever seen.
Brian Walshe looks like Jay Sherman from ‘The Critic’.
So many catalogs arriving based on the questionable assumption I want to give the gift of cheese.
Best bet for the weekend: Good Kid Pasta returns to practice.
The Game. Zero winners.
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.I’m travelin’ down the road and I’m flirtin’ with disaster I got the pedal to the floor and my life is runnin’ faster.
And happy birthday to Boston’s Own Alicia Sacramone, multiple time Gymnastics World Champion.
Turkey fans enjoy giving out gobbles this time of year, but what about America’s fastest, and fattest, growing dietary subgroup the Porksaterians? Well don’t worry Porky, we’re here to satisfy you with a serving of oinks.
Grant Huckvale (a.k.a. Hogdale): Hogdale carved a niche for himself as an overly exuberant alternative broadcaster to the stoic and bland official Red Sox play-by-play teams on NESN and WEEI. Over the summer you’d see Hogdale clips occasionally retweeted into your timeline, usually after Red Sox wins, and you’d think to yourself “I think that’s the tops“. We probably all agree that Hogdale is special. Smash cut to present day, and we are confronted with a hog of a different color. Barstool, in an effort to fill an obese chromosomically challenged void in their lineup, swooped in and waved a lucrative (by part-time minimum waged Iowan standards) five figure contract in front of Hogdale’s snout and lured him into their slaughter house. Now Hogdale’s giant screaming maw is ever present, ever hot takey and ever annoying. To quote Rocky IV: “What started out as a joke has turned into a disaster”. 4 oinks 🐷🐷🐷🐷
That will do pig
Thanksgiving early eaters time Packers at Lions (-2.5) Jungle Kings slice and dice Cheese Heads
Thanksgiving late eaters time Chiefs (-3.5) at Cowboys Squantos feast on the Pilgrims
Thanksgiving overeaters time Bengals at Ravens (-7) Scary Black Birds bury Burrow’s boys
Black Friday Afternoon Nap time Bears at Eagles (-7) Birds bully Bears
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Don’t worry Minifans, Kirk will still be on all that Barstool shit you don’t care about!
Wonder if Bruins fans envision 63 one day hanging in the rafters. The number, not the player.
First Take is The View for unemployed men.
I see the 12-year-olds with meme accounts still have no idea how the NFL scheduling formula works
Cambridge is really an interesting city. It’s designed to look just like Boston and it wants so hard to be Boston, but it has none of the charm or way of life that make Boston what it is.
Ryan Clark has gotten so good at apologies they got him apologizing on behalf of Stephen A now.
I’ve grown entirely too fond of using balsamic glaze on just about everything.
I’ll never not root for Jacoby Brissett.
Aloha means goodbye. Aloha, Jim Mora. UConn’s a baseball school anyway.
Cakes are cooking for Rich Little, Jan Stenerud, Ethan Russell, John McVie, Art Shell, Richie Hebner, Ilona Staller, Harry Carson, Bob Walk, Dale Jarrett, Harold Reynolds, Chuck Finley, Adam Gaynor, Mario Elie, Jeff Jaeger, Garcelle Beauvais, Sue Wicks, John Stirratt, Steve Lofton, John Amaechi, Shawn Kemp, Winky Wright, DJ Khaled, Jamie Fiske, Natasha Bedingfield, Rita Ora, and Louis Ducruet.
Was today years old learning Reggie Lewis has the exact same birthday as Björk.
Just got a complaint from another worker that the demo im doing is too loud. You’ve got two options buddy. Put some fucking ear plugs in or find a new line of work.
I was an earlier sabermetrics adopter but yes this has gotten out of hand.
Worcester Line Train 519 (7:30 am from South Station) will make additional stops at Wellesley Farms through West Natick to accommodate passengers from terminated Train 1517 (7:10 am from South Station).
Head Dummy—is that better or worse than Viceroy?
Congratulations Medford! You get to wallow in filth and vermin while your eco-idiot mayor counts the green scam money. The real trash problem is at city hall.
Get well soon Will Campbell. And Jared Wilson. And Khryiris Tonga. And Neemias Queta.
Stephen A. Smith thinks everything in sports revolves around him. Cam not even on enough for everyone to know he’s on lol. There are people who still ask what happened to Max Kellerman and that was like 3 years ago.
I really enjoyed the hell out of @RealGDT’s FRANKENSTEIN on Netflix. Terrific filmmaker.
How can I worry about not having an SP2 when I still haven’t seen a WR1?
Mass Maritime football is basically 13th grade.
Marcus Jones read that terrible throw like a millennial ripping through Harry Potter.
I think I said this before but Josh Allen could really use a Stefon Diggs.
Josh is an unreliable narrator, like Holden Caulfield, or Dan Lifshatz.
Threw some chords together The combination D-E-F Is who I am, is what I do And I was gonna lay it down for you
I try to focus my attention But I feel so A.D.D. I need some help, some inspiration But it’s not coming easily
Trying to find the magic Trying to write a classic Don’t you know, don’t you know, don’t you know?
There’s an NCAA Mens basketball player named Jordan Marsh? Does he happen to have a recipe for blueberry muffins?
FYI: There was an entertainment world before 1970.
Nowhere for UMass Football to go but up. Or stay winless next year too, I guess.
I think I wouldn’t mind being hairless.
Sending my boss the lyrics to “Knuck If You Buck” was not on my bingo card for a Monday.
Geekie is studly. See what I did there?
Honk if you remember Bobby Orr’s last game as a Bruin.
Did Jahlani Tavai know ahead of time that Kirk was quitting the podcast?
Chris Gasper thinks you lose socks in the washing machine.
I laughed out loud when Gordon Wood popped up on Kenny Burns’ documentary.
Kirk stayed long enough with saddling Portnoy with a one-year Mut contract. Kinda respect it.
Wriggle is an underrated word.
Gonna pay an Indian guy to start an army of pro-Belichick accounts.
Maybe Orlovsky can be the new UConn coach. Mina can be the OC with her big football brain.
Best bet for the weekend: slow moving traffic.
Remember the reason for the season.
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.Over the river and through the woods.
Bianca says it’s okay to wear your stretchy pants tomorrow.
Man. Quoting Cam Newton in Ebonics is a rough look.
I’m no computer nerd, but the best way to avoid B*arstool tweets probably isn’t throwing a banana cream pie at their clown car.
Mazzulla is always visibly fuming when Drew Carter does the pre-game interview.
Kirk is taking Mut not knowing what a sitcom is really hard.
I wonder if Dianna Russini has thoughts about the Olivia Nuzzi revelations.
Being able to move on from your playing days is a skill.
I was just thinking, is Barstool ready for what they’ve started? No one messes with Hardy and Sarge’s crew and gets away it.
Coed adult cheerleading team?
Red Sox now have a new catcher, but only one bullpen lefty. Concerning.
Cakes are cooking for Ted Turner, Eddie Raynor, Calvin Klein, Dennis Hull, Bob Boone, Ahmad Rashad, Robert Beltran, Kathleen Quinlan, Ann Curry, Charlie Kaufman, Michael Wilbon, Alison Janney, Grant Ledyard, Meg Ryan, Jodie Foster, Terry Farrell, Paul Weitz, Gail Devers, Rocco DiSpirito, Gary Disarcina, Justin Chancellor, Jeremy McGrath, Savion Glover, Jack Dorsey, Kerri Strug, Ryan Howard, Adam Driver, and Patrick Kane.
Little known fact: The viceroy and roy aren’t constitutionally allowed to fly on the same airplane.
I had a Pop-Tart and feel disgusting.
Never in NFL history has a backup QB come into a game and used it as the launchpad for a successful career.
Hey gang, this week’s Phrase that Pays is, “Editorial discretion.”
Meanwhile, the phrase that never pays to say is and remains, “May I meet you?”
The NFL is better when the Jaguars are good.
Stan Musial: 1815 home hits. I815 road hits. As the Ol’ Perfessor would say, “You can look it up.”
One might say Kenni’s about to grow into an allergy… of getting owned.
Aaron Glenn looks like the leader of a slave rebellion.
Blue Line: Delays of about 10 minutes while a maintenance train inspects the overhead wires between Airport and Wonderland. Trains may stand by at stations.
Surely this Kendra humiliation will cut through all the squids telling her how great she is.
“Blue-collar chip on shoulder guy” is a top 5 annoying personality type.
Robert appearing to be half a head taller than Gronk thanks to his booster seat is ridiculous.
Kirk Herbstreit’s job at this point is just humoring doddering old men while they prattle on about bullshit from 30 years ago. “Oh, really, Hartford? Wow, crazy.”
If Gresh blocked at URI like he does on Twitter he would’ve been drafted.
Does Pete Carroll have a legacy and is it in flames?
John Cena vs. Dominik Mysterio at Survivor Series would absolutely slap.
YOU were in a rock fight with the Jets, caller!
Normally you had to pay admission to one of Portnoy’s old Barstool foam parties to get that level of abused.
Have any of the radio stations gone to all-Thanksgiving music yet?
Honk if you remember Briff.
Rewatching the Patriots game and it brought up a random thought. I really miss the bond you get from being on a team. I miss that team camaraderie. Nothing like it. Anyone else miss it? Let us know in the comments.
Now if I appear to be carefree, it’s only to camouflage my sadness In order to shield my pride, I’ve tried to cover this hurt with a show of gladness But don’t let my show convince you That I’ve been happy since you decided to go (why did you go?) Oh, I need you so (I need you so) I’m hurt and I want you to know (want you to know) But for others I put on a show (it’s just a show)
Ooh ah, there’s some sad things known to man But there ain’t too much sadder than the tears of a clown When there’s no one around, oh yeah
Mais non, cher, from what I see, Gresh lost over 100 pounds back in 2019 wit’ a program, not Ozempic. No sign he usin’ dat stuff. Callin’ him a slob? Dat’s subjective, me, but he a sharp sports guy. Laissez les bons temps rouler!
You had me at “ok face.”
Imagine thinking having 5 active jobs on the ol’ LinkedIn looks good.
When did YAC yards become RAC yards?
You know a guy is dirty when Mark Schelreth says, “this guy isn’t dirty.”
BYU and UNC will have an epic Holiday Bowl in 2027.
Next thing you know we’re going to find out she doesn’t really work 65 hours a week.
Aloha means goodbye. Aloha, Johnny Beecher.
Best bet for the weekend: Bill the GM’s former players playing well on other NFL squads.
THE GARDEN was built for the brawlers, the bombers, THE ABSOLUTE SHOT-CALLERS! Beantown demands the PROS, baby, not some doe-eyed amateurs still figuring out which end of the rink is up! We shelled out our hard-earned cash to watch the GODS: Russell blockin’ shots into the Charles, Orr flyin’ end-to-end like a jet, Bird drainin’ ‘em with the silky smooth, Espo snipin’ top shelf where Mama hides the cookies! These are the GIANTS who strode among us mere mortals! So take that college kiddie carnival back down to Storrs, Geno!
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And happy birthday to Ukrainian-Canadian supermodel Daria Werbowy.
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Commanders at Dolphins
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Chargers at Jaguars
Bears at Vikings
Packers at Giants
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Texans at Titans
49ers at Cardinals
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Sunday Desayuno Time Commanders at Dolphins (-2.5) ¡Los delfines ganan!
Sunday Lunch Time Panthers at Falcons (-3.5) Black cats can’t catch a break, or find a win
Times are tough
Buccaneers at Bills (-6) Bills bully Baker
Chargers (-3) at Jaguars Spotted cats get zapped by Plugs
From the golden age of advertising
Bears at Vikings (-2.5) Norsemen sneak by sleepy Bears
Packers (-7) at Giants There will be no metamorphosis under Kafka’s leadership.
High brow humor!
Bengals at Steelers (-5.5) Yinzers flatten Flacco
Texans (-6) at Titans Tex squeezes Tits
Sunday Dinner Time 49ers (-3) at Cardinals Purrrrdy swallows pretty red birds
He’s gaining on you red
Seahawks at Rams (-3) Horny sheep trample fake sea birds
Ravens (-7.5) at Browns Scary black birds flush the Browns
If it’s brown, flush it down
Chiefs (-3.5) at Broncos Chiefs bust Broncos
Sunday Prowl Time Lions at Eagles (-2.5) Jungle kings claw out a win in Philly
He likes his cheese steak extra cheesy
Monday Prowl Time Cowboys (-3.5) at Raiders Ranch hands rustle Raiders
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Jaguars at Texans
Bills at Dolphins
Ravens at Vikings
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Sunday Frühstück Time Falcons at Colts (-6.5) Indianapolis Jones triumphs over those Nazi inspired helmet logos
Sunday Lunch Time Saints at Panthers (-5.5) Black cats scare the bejesus out of the Saints
Giants at Bears (-4.5) Bears send G-men into hibernation
Seems like a bad idea
Jaguars (-1.5) at Texans Spotted cats have a problem in Houston
Bills (-9.5) at Dolphins Buffalo grills Dolphins
Not this time Flipper
Ravens (-4.5) at Vikings Scary black birds continue to come back from the dead
Browns (-1.5) at Jets Browns catch Firesale Ed’s team looking ahead to 2027
Patriots at Buccaneers (-2.5) It’s no longer Baker Mayfield, it’s Baker ISfield!
This will never make any sense
Sunday Dinner Time Cardinals at Seahawks (-6.5) Fake Seabirds snatch up pretty red birds
Rams (-3) at 49ers Horny sheep menace Mac
Lions (-7.5) at Commanders Lions tame Swamp Things
No shirt, no shoes, all action!
Sunday Prowl Time Steelers at Chargers (-3) Bolts can’t penetrate the Men of Steel’s Faraday cage
Monday Prowl Time Eagles at Packers (-2.5) American Birds snap up Meat Men
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