Saturday, December 28, 2019

Trapped in a Loveless Marriage


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.

Packers 27 Lions 21

Friday, December 27, 2019

Gambling With Sanity Week Finale


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.

Pick: Denver


Sunday, December 22, 2019

Gambling With Sanity Week Making The Best of a Fuckup


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