It is the last week of the season, so I figured I should at
least try to cobble together some thoughts about this accursed team as they
offer their soft places to the Green Bay Packers one more time. It sucks, not
just the always sucking that goes along with being a Lions fan, that not only
is this game doomed and meaningless but that we know that the Fords are locked
into this whole Quinn/Patricia Evil Nightmare that we find ourselves in, and none
of these fuckers will be going away.
I don’t know what to do. I am a Lions fan. I always will be.
I have to be. It has just always been there. But I do not love them. This is a
loveless marriage, a mean and terrible thing. Why do we stay together? Well,
fucked up people tend to cling to other fucked up people because the
alternative, that empty loneliness, is too much to face.
Would I be lonely if I disowned the Lions completely? As an
NFL “fan” which means I barely tolerate this fucking thing, I don’t know. The
Browns are always there to fall back on, but it wouldn’t be the same, and it
wouldn’t feel good either because honestly this is just such a wretched league,
this NFL, a corporate leviathan that has attached itself to the New Americanism
I have touched on in the past, an ugly grotesque thing that just swallows up
anybody in the way of that big money empire, a monstrosity that exploits and
brutalizes its players more than any sporting league that has ever existed save
perhaps for those old gladiator games where fucking slaves and shit fought and
killed each other for nothing. I despise the NFL and everything about it, and yet
I can’t turn away because I love football, I really do. I know a lot of people,
such as my boys Raven Mack and Paul, have completely disowned the game of
American football, but I just can’t. It is still burned into me and I don’t
think I could ever give it up.
Take that desperate and unhealthy thing and couple it with
the hideous loveless train wreck of a marriage that is my relationship with the
Detroit Lions and you can start to understand why this place is so fucking dark
and despicable year after year. Writing about it is the only way I can cope
with it.
And so here I am, all set to watch the Lions roll up and die
yet again to cap off another miserable season, and it is just so shitty. The
good thing is that I have pretty much divested myself of any real feelings for
this team and now I just sit here, in this loveless marriage, and I watch the
whole thing crumble about me and there is nothing I can do but I don’t really
care either.
The Lions have fucked up another season of NFL football for
me, and they will continue to fuck it up as long as they stay attached to these
Poor Choices that they make that manifest themselves in a fake tough guy waving
a baseball bat in the locker room and a fat piece of shit probable rapist whose
disdain for the fans and the media is a reflection of his own miserable existence
on this planet. Fuck him and fuck all of them.
I do not like these people at all. I was going to say that I
hate them, but hate is such a strong word, a word tied up in love more than
anything and I do not love these pieces of shit. I abhor them, but I do not
hate them because I would have had to loved them first.
This is all so dark and fucked up, and yet, what else is
there to say as we wait to take it one more time from the devil himself to
close out another insipid year of Lions football? I have nothing good to say about
this team. There are a handful of players I like, but they are very few, and
can in no way make up for the overwhelming avalanche of awful feelings I have
for the rest.I despise this thing, this
being a Lions fan, so fucking much and yet I am too much of a coward to just
let it go, and in a fucked up way, it’s not even about being a fan of them
anymore so much as it gives me an outlet to write from, and I know you sad
idiots like to read my shit for whatever reason.
This means that I am doomed to continue on, trapped in this
loveless marriage, in this hideous fan life that I did not want for myself and
would not wish on anyone. It is hard to keep doing this week after week, year
after year, and it’s made even harder by thus particular crew of shitheads who
have ruined this team in a way even more depressing than the Millen years to
me. At least he wasn’t evil. He was just a buffoon.
I despise this team, not so much the players as just the
whole fucking organization, and while I should take pride in Lions fans being
some of the most loyal people around, filling that stadium up no matter how
shitty the team is year after year, I don’t. Instead, I blame them for propping
this whole fucking ugly thing up. I blame myself for not having the guts to
just walk out that door and never come back no matter how much I love the kids,
which are you sad idiots reading this and following me and trusting me all
these years. I am here for you more than anything at this point, certainly more
than for me, and I don’t begrudge you for it because I love writing to you
guys, I really do. I just wish it didn’t have to be about this fucking football
team.
And so, with that said, let’s close out this season the way
we have closed out so many, by watching the Lions humiliate themselves at the
feet of the goddamn devil himself. I don’t like any of it and I know you don’t,
but at least we’ll always have each other because you are never getting rid of
me, I am here to stay because I love you and I love that I am a wretched thing
in your life that you can never make go away. So, here is to one more season of
Failure and Contempt and I will see you all on the other side.
Last week’s Gambling With Sanity was truncated due to a
combination of Poor Choices and the NFL scheduling games on Saturday, which
they do every year but I somehow forgot about that shit and let’s not dwell on
the past, I don’t even want to look at last week’s results, and let’s jump into
the now with this, the last weekend of NFL football regular season style. I’ll
probably do something for the playoffs, I have a few ideas, but this is the
last Gambling With Sanity of the year 2019 and I will see you all next year and
also in hell.
Tennessee (-3.5) at Houston
Tennessee needs this one if they have any hope of getting
into the playoffs, and the Texans have won the division and are missing JJ Watt
again because Time comes for us all, and so it’s pretty easy to see Tennessee
getting this one. But you can never be too sure, especially when you have
Failure Demons lurking around like the Titans do as they have never made it all
the way, coming literally inches away from winning a Super Bowl and riding Steve
McNair all those years until he up and fucked off the planet forever, and now
here they are trying to get behind Ryan Tannehill instead of Marcus Mariota and
this is their last chance to sneak into this thing before having to make a go
of it again next year behind who knows at quarterback. Houston just doesn’t
want anyone else getting hurt as they hunker down for the playoffs, and so Ryan
Tannehill just doesn’t have to make a mess of himself for the Titans to win and
at least have a shot at that last Wild Card spot depending on what happens with
the Steelers. Can they manage to do just that? Hopefully, or else what is even
the point of having a football team?
Pick: Tennessee
Cleveland (-2.5) at Cincinnati
I probably cursed the Browns by offering them my dick while
my loveless bride, the Lions, lays in bed all goddamn day, and if that’s the
case, I apologize because Baker Mayfield doesn’t need my Failure Demons
following him around, and neither does Dan. But both Baker Mayfield and Dan are
stuck with me and I’m sure we can all together at least beat the shit out of
the pathetic Bengals, who were a team originally founded by Paul Brown, the
same dude who founded the OG Browns who are now in Baltimore, and it really is
an incestuous fucked up family in the AFC North. But the second family is
always weaker than the first, which has its problems due to Daddy walking out
on them, but remains strong together as the original unit and not the painted
over façade of the new family with its step-children and brittle forced bonds
of “love” that are no match for the real thing. Yes, I’m speaking from my own
personal life experience here, but also with the knowledge that the Bengals
will forever be that second family, and the Browns will always be able to come
together and beat them senseless even if they fuck up most of the time and make
Poor Choices like getting involved with me and Dan.
Pick: Cleveland
Chicago (+1.5) at Minnesota
I was happy to see the devil beat Kirk Cousins last week,
and now I have to get behind the Bears, who are my hated team of youth, in the hopes
that they too can humiliate Kirk Cousins who is the worst of all things as I
have documented over and over and over again here. This is ugly business having
to support your enemies to defeat an even uglier enemy, but that is life in the
NFC North and life as a Lions fan, where we are clinging to a loveless marriage
and rooting for the goddamn devil and now these Bears just to spite a shithead
like Kirk Cousins. This is so goddamn dark I don’t even know what to do. The
good news is that Captain Shithead will get humiliated in the first round of
the playoffs and I won’t even have to get behind one of my other enemies,
unless of course you consider Drew Brees an enemy, which he is, but I won’t let
him drag the rest of New Orleans down with him and they are most definitely my
people, so let’s hope they get to be the ones who humiliate Kirk Cousins one
more time. As for this week’s game? I don’t know, man. A lot of “let’s not get
our dudes hurt” will probably be coming from the Vikings while the Bears have
to find a way to pretend that Mitch Trubisky can be their dude going forward.
Will that be done against a half assing it Vikings team? Fuck if I know, which
is why this week’s games are especially hard to work out. I suspect the Vikings
will want to close out the regular season with a win and as much as I hate to
say it, Kirk Cousins probably wins this goddamn game.
Pick: Minnesota
Indianapolis (-3.5) at Jacksonville
Pick: No Love for the Bizkit
Atlanta (+1) at Tampa Bay
This will likely be an aerial war show, sloppily played by
two shitbird teams going nowhere. The Falcons seem doomed to die over and over
and over again in the shadow of their Super Bowl collapse against Tom Brady and
the Patriots while the Bucs flail along game by game behind the erratic crab
leg thief Jameis Winston who also might have raped a girl back in the day.
There is a lot of bad energy in this game, an ugly thing for the dirty south to
deal with in the ways which they do which are sometimes pretty ugly, especially
if we start to bring race into the equation, which we have here with Jameis
Winston who is fighting for his life both metaphorically and literally in the
face of this ugly southern aggression. The Falcons are a doomed team it seems,
and I don’t know how they get out from underneath that shadow of that Super
Bowl Gone Way Wrong, but if it starts anywhere, it might as well start by
dragging Crab Legs down, but I won’t count his ass out just yet as he survives
to live another day in the heat of the dirty south.
Pick: Tampa Bay
Washington (+11) at Dallas
The Cowboys have to smash the Redacteds to have any chance
at winning their shitty division, and I think they probably will do it here. If
they can’t beat the shitty Redacteds at home in the last week of the season
with everything on the line then they deserve to be blown up and swept away
into the dustbin of history, which I think they should be anyway on account of
being the shittiest kind of team on this here earth, pandering to the Military
Industrial Complex and Big Oil and everything shitty and rotten about America
which is why they are America’s team, a traveling circus monument to our
grotesqueries and petty meanness dressed up in garish uniform. This is America’s
team at its ugliest, shittiest, meanest, hillbilly conman worst and I wish
nothing but the worst for them and all of their terrible fans.
Pick: Dallas
New Orleans (-13) at Carolina
The Saints are still fighting for the top spot in the NFC playoff
picture so they won’t be lazing about against Carolina who are a shattered
franchise, clinging to Christian McCaffrey the way Lions fans used to do with
Barry Sanders back in the day. But it doesn’t look good for the Panthers as the
Saints blow through like a hurricane of offense. I don’t want to cheer for Drew
Brees, who is a torture advocate, but I will always back my New Orleans
hooligans like Heinie, who just want to live big and have fun. So WAR SAINTS
and WAR HEINIE.
Pick: New Orleans
Philadelphia (-4) at NY Giants
Fuck it, let’s just gaze at Tosh making some Poor Choices.
Pick: Philadelphia
Pittsburgh (-2) at Baltimore
Man, this is why I hate the last week of the season. This
should be an all out Hate War, but it won’t be because the Ravens have already
clinched the top spot in the AFC and won’t want Lamar Jackson to get hurt by my
man Devin Bush. The Steelers, of course, need to win here if they have any hope
of jumping Tennessee for that last wild card spot, which all points to a
Steelers runaway here, which is bullshit because the Ravens should be men and
want to crush their rival instead of protecting themselves and their brains
from unnecessary punishment. I mean, I get it, but it makes for a sham of a
football game and I think everyone involved should just fuck off if they play
it this way which they will.
Pick: Pittsburgh
NY Jets (+1.5) at Buffalo
The Bills are locked in to that first wild card spot in the
AFC so again this is one of those games that make the last week of the season
so shitty where no one will try too hard and everyone stays safe and healthy.
Still, the Jets are fucking awful and the Bills might just win anyway, but I
don’t have to devote more time and thought than I already have to this game so
fuck it.
Pick: Buffalo
Miami (+15.5) At New England
The Patriots will beat down the Dolphins because they want
to stay ahead of the Chiefs for home field reasons so it is only a matter of
how many brown people are broken beneath the wheel of the Brady/Gisele machine
this week. They are both rapidly aging into those years which are notoriously
hard on people in both their professions although I imagine Gisele has pretty
much hung up the catwalking already. But Tom Brady has not hung up his own
catwalking as the quarterback for the New England Patriots who are trying to
squeeze yet another year out of this dynasty in its twilight, and they probably
will and next year too. Hopefully, no babies get fumbled in the Turbo household,
and hopefully, Brady and the Patriots just quietly put the Dolphins to sleep like
they do with their exotic drugs on their Filipina massage therapists before
they send gerbils in to clean out the caverns after they make a mess in them.
Pick: New England
LA Chargers (+9) at Kansas City
The Chiefs still want to put the heat to the Patriots asses
in regards to who will play where when the real playoff fun gets going and the
lowly Chargers are just in the way. It is somewhat surprising that the Chargers
are so lowly this year. There is no real reason for their shitty season other
than the erratic whimsy of the Failure Demons attached to Phillip Rivers. His
18 interceptions speak to the bad Rivers that has always followed him around,
never letting him ascend to true greatness. He will always be in that second tier
of quarterbacks who could never get over the top, which is where my man Matthew
Stafford will probably find himself too. But Pat Mahomes has already jumped
both of those dudes, winning an MVP and who knows what else in the future. This
is a sad end for Philip Rivers and just another notch in the belt for Mahomes,
which is just how it is out on these streets. The young and the quick survive,
while the old and damaged can’t get that pistol up in time. Just the way that it
goes.
Pick: Kansas City
Arizona (+4.5) at LA Rams
The Rams are out of it and the Cardinals were never in it so
this could be a dispiriting affair. But more importantly, have they gotten a
handle on those wildfires in California yet? I just did some research and it
seems like they are still battling that shit, the most recent being out Santa
Barbara way, and the power company is paying out billions to victims of the
wildfires because the power company caused it I guess and the whole thing is
just a big fucking mess and is why I never want to live in California which
sucks because that is a state that has everything else going for it. But,
because we’ve fucked up the planet too much, California is going to be the edge
of the Nightmare when it comes, whether it is earthquaking shit or wild fires
or droughts or evil winds or Godzilla like monsters. I just hope that the
beautiful people we all jack off to manage to survive so we can continue to
jack off to them.
Pick: LA Rams
San Francisco (-3.5) at Seattle
Oh man, this is the big war of the last weekend of the
season, with division titles on the line and homefield advantage in the
playoffs. The Seahawks already got the 49ers this season and now they get them
at home to close it out and I’m excited for this one. The 49ers three headed
running game and Jimmy G at quarterback along with a good defense has them
looking like one of the prime contenders this year, but the Seahawks always
seem to have the 49ers number. It’s just always been that way during this Pete
Carroll run. Russell Wilson is the best player on the field here, and the
Seahawks running game can hang with the 49ers. The Seahawks defense is pretty
shitty this year, but again, they just always seem to have the 49ers number and
they are at home and Seattle is one of the toughest places for teams to come in
and play and yes I am actually doing football analysis here., it happens sometimes.
I think I’m gonna go with Seattle here, but I wouldn’t be surprised if the
49ers finally broke through here either. I’m sorry I can’t give you anything
more definitive. I’m sorry for everything, okay!?!?!?!?
Pick: Seattle
Oakland (+3.5) at Denver
Oakland still has a shot at that last wild card spot, but
fuck them for everything they’ve done to disgrace the memory of Kenny Stabler
and the boys. I hope the Broncos fuck them up here, not because I like John Elway’s
crew or anything but because I despise what the Raiders have become under the
leadership of Mark Davis and Jon Gruden, who are dragging this team to hell in
the Vegas desert where they will end up getting their players hooked on blow and
Poor Choices and desert graves. I mean, seriously, why would you willingly
expose these volatile athletes to the Joe Pesci’s of the world? This is going
to be a hideous train wreck of wasted human energy. But before then, they still
have to deal with business here in the present, and I don’t want these assholes
to make the playoffs. They don’t deserve it, not after what they have done to
my boy Harpo, who was the dude who invited me to Armchair Linebacker in the
first place and has always been my right hand man, the first of all of our
collective to see something in me and champion my presence into what I have
become over these years. The Raiders have fucked that man over and for that I
wish them a hideous and terrible end in the Rocky Mountains on this last
weekend of NFL football and this fucked up decade.
Okay, so I totally botched this week’s Gambling With Sanity
because I saw there were no Thursday games this week, and I planned on doing
all this bullshit on Saturday, but I forgot that they start playing on Saturdays
in December because people can’t be without their football with the college
games winding down. So, this is obviously truncated but that’s okay because I
am wide awake at 5:02AM on this Sunday morning due to some certain choices that
I made that has left me incapable of sleep outside of a coffin.So, any fucking way let’s just get to the
shit, and I won’t even look at what last week’s shit turned out to be because you
don’t need to know that I am any dumber than you already do.
Detroit (+7) at Denver
Normally, I do a separate post for the Lions game, but this
week is all blown to fuck already, and there is only so much bile I can spew,
like I understand that you want blood but the blood has all been wrung out
already and now we’re just sucking on the bones and the marrow and there is
only such much marrow to go around before we start to eating each other, and
then when you’ve eaten all your friends, the only thing left is to eat yourself
piece by piece, doing it scientifically in a way that allows you to optimize your
flesh, and I can only do that every so often. There comes a time when even
eating your own entrails isn’t enough to warrant further evisceration from nano-demons,
and you just have to shut the door and keep it shut for a while and let nature
take its course. There is nothing to be said about the Lions and the Fords that
hasn’t already been said, at least until The Great Willie Young and I do peyote
and finally figure this shit out. But until then, fuck the Lions because I am
sick of them fucking us.
Pick: Denver
Oakland (+7.5) at LA Chargers
It was both funny and satisfying when the Raiders fans almost
literally ran them out of town after their final game in Oakland. Thanks for
the memories, but this hasn’t been a healthy marriage for a long time. You would
like to think that at some point, the Raiders could have recaptured some of
that Stabler Spirit Warrior magic, but oh no, that never really happened, and
it sure as fuck won’t happen when they are ensconced in the lurid bacchanalian
fuck gardens of Las Vegas, where everything is designed to fleece you of your
belongings. But that is all for another day. For today, these nomad Raiders
will sink down to LA where they will face the Chargers in a game that will be
interesting to see from a fan standpoint because LA has a lot of Raiders fans
due to past associations and also because the silver and black looks cool especially
when it was being rocked by NWA, not the wrestlers which would have been goofy
as fuck but Ice Cube and the boys. I don’t know how many people give a shit
about the Raiders in LA these days, but I do know they don’t give a shit about
the Chargers, which makes this feel almost like a bowl game or some shit,
sponsored by Hooters and the Military Industrial Complex.
Pick: Chargers
Jacksonville (+7.5) at Atlanta
Pick: Atlanta
New Orleans (-2.5) at Tennessee
I could see New Orleans getting tripped up here, but it also
feels like one of those games where everyone sees it as a trip up type of game
so there will be no surprises as evidenced by the relatively tight point
spread. That means it will come down to which team is better, home field
advantage, you know the deal, which makes this a tough one to call, but I think
I will roll will the Saints if only because I will need a lot of help from them
when I take a run at the real throne, the old man has gotten soft in his golden
years with Jesus moving back in with him after not being able to cut it in the East
and South Asian leagues who still have five star talent like Krishna. But that
is yet again another story for a different day.
Pick: New Orleans
NY Giants (-1) at Washington
Asshole game for asshole fans. Fuck off.
Pick: Fuck Off
Pittsburgh (-3) at NY Jets
My dude Devin Bush being the superstar linebacker that he is continues to
make me happy, but it also makes me sad because the Lions could have drafted
him but didn’t because they are run by evil fucking idiots, the same kind of
evil fucking idiots who make this world such shit for so many people, but that’s
more of that bile coming out and I don’t want to let it start spraying
everywhere because I won’t be able to stop, and anyway, what I want to say is
that I am glad that Devin Bush has found instant happiness in the NFL because
he is a True Spirit Warrior and I will roll with him in my Valhalla as part of
my All Michigan Team and all I can hope is that they don’t let any Buckeyes in
there.
Cincinnati (-1.5) at Miami
This is a trash game with no winners, and it’s offensive to me that I
have to sit here and try to come up with something interesting to write about
these shitbird teams who are both just trying to get their lips around Chase
Young or whatever quarterback that can trace his roots back to wild Arabian
horses or whatever the fuck genotype these dudes are a part of that can both
throw and run for all the yards. Cincinnati looks like they will probably get
first suckling, but a failed football team can always somehow fuck itself into
an even more fucked position, I don’t know what I’m rambling about but you do
know that they will somehow fuck it all up.
Pick: Miami
Carolina (+7) at Indianapolis
Two teams dwindling down the days until they can all go back home and
toss their ladies around the room thanks to jacked up testosterone and lack of
structure, which is not a nice place to be in, but a fool doesn’t know that he
is a fool, and when there’s nothing to do but play with your toys that you
never got to play with because you probably grew up with nothing and now that
you’ve got that signing bonus you can do all the drugs and fuck all the women
and at some point that life will all collapse around you because you’re still
just a child, but none of that matters now, as long as no one films it with
their phones which is a weird thing really, the way that the phone has become
much more than just a phone, and yes, one of these teams will win and one will
lose, but I don’t fucking care which one does what and also send me your nude
pics you have saved on your phones.
Pick: Indianapolis
Baltimore (-10) at Cleveland
This is a blood feud, which automatically makes it worth watching, but
also, I declared on Twitter earlier this week, which I imagine every single
person reading this already saw because that’s where Neil hangs out these days,
that I am adopting the Browns as my new team. Now, of course the Lions are
still my team. It’s just that it is a loveless marriage and right now I even
hate the bitch, and the Browns are another ne’er do well team that I can
sympathize with and I still need to fuck even if my marriage is a sham. And I
still like Baker Mayfield, who has certain Stablerish tendencies that I admire.
I don’t give out Stabler points freely, so I really mean it when I say that I
think he is of the Stabler tree. I know there is the whole Ohio of it all, but
honestly, the worst parts of Ohio are everything not clinging to Lake Erie.
Cleveland is a good town, certainly better than Cincinnati or that rat’s den in
Columbus, and I want to lend my pathetic energies to the Browns faithful if
they will have me, at least until they fuck me over which they will. But for
now, I’m a Lions fan first, but I’m fucking the Browns, and Dan that means I
get to be the big spoon.
Pick: Baltimore
Dallas (-2.5) at Philadelphia
Goddammit it feels like we just did this one and I damned both of these
teams and their fans and people to hell, except for Tosh who is a good Philly
dude and not a cocaine addict despite certain photographic evidence but fuck
all that I don’t want to snitch on my boy and it’s okay anyway because this is
pretty much a closed loop and we all know each other by now I think and what
happens in the internet stays in the internet, unless of course you somehow are
reading this after taking a wrong turn waaaaaay in the back of the internet renfair,
in which case I advise you to just give up and get high and fuck or send me
some money so I can make better choices for all of us. Anyway, fuck the
Cowboys, fuck ‘em real hard, I will roll with Tosh.
Pick: Philadelphia
Arizona (+9.5) at Seattle
The Seahawks should take this one pretty easily, and if they don’t, its
not my fault. Pete Carroll makes some Poor Choices of his own sometimes, you
know. Other than that, I have nothing to say about this game.
Pick: Seattle
Kansas City (-6) at Chicago
It’s cold as fuck in December in Chicago and it’s at night which is even
more brutal which means someone is probably having a testicle frozen and hacked
off on Prime Time, which is just how we entertain ourselves in the Midwest. This
is where a million Brock Lesnars (very poor forms of, etc.) make themselves
subhuman, fighting the pin prickling cold by fucking with each other and acting
like they will start eating each other as soon as the grid goes down. It’s
fucking cold in December in Chicago at night. This is not a place where you
play games. But they will because the NFL prides itself on these types of Man
against Everything games. They want that epic cold snow scene because when you
get down to it, this is all really just theater, and Sunday in late December in
Chicago is about the best place to find that kind of action, but maybe it will
be like 38 degrees and it will just piss that stinging rain. That would be cool
too. I don’t know what the fuck I’m talking about.
Pick: Kansas City
Green Bay (+5.5) at Minnesota
This would be so much more fun if it was played in the cold and snow, but
it will be played in an air conditioned dome between the devil himself and Kirk
Cousins who is even worse than the devil. God will fight with the devil. That
is his wayward boy, but God won’t have anything to do with Kirk Cousins no
matter how much he sucks up to him. That is because Kirk Cousins was born
without a soul or whatever you want to call it. He was conceived not out of
love nor out of hate but out of simple indifference and has lived his life in
the same sort of stooped mind, the enlightened parts shorn off, only
recognizing loud colors and 248 words chosen carefully by the sort of Deep Evil
that spawned Blackwater. And somehow, this human made up of excrement and shame
has led the Vikings to a shot at first place. And the sad thing, is I don’t
think even the devil can beat him at his own screwed game. There is just a feeling,
that somehow this rat fuck will get away with it all. And now I have to place
my hopes in the goddamn devil. This is what life has brought to me in 2019, begging
the fucking devil to take down Kirk Cousins.
Pick: The Bastard Cousins Will Somehow Beat The Devil