======= ======= ====== ====== ====== ===== ==== ====== ====== ===== ==== ======= ======= ====== ====== ====== ===== ==== ====== ====== ===== ====
It’s Sunday night and I’m feeling all right. I got a ton of stuff done this weekend, my Patriots won, and I’m got some four-cheese pizza I’m about to devour for dinner as my cheat meal. That’s about as happy as I can be in this crazy world, and I’ll take it.
But while I was lounging around in my workout pants (that didn’t see an actual workout) and chowing down on some quality ‘za, some people had pretty crappy weekend…
Drake Bell
Remember when Drake Bell, of Nick’s Drake & Josh, was a relatively big star? Yeah, me neither. But it’s got to be disheartening to go from having your own show to performing at a high school in Charlotte.
Bell and his band were playing at Northwest School of the Arts when students starting throwing balls from a nearby ball pit (um, what?) at the stage. And of course, someone caught it, and Bell’s subsequent pissed off rank, on tape.
Dude, you’re playing a high school in North Carolina. Maybe you need to set your expectations a little lower, huh? [Via TMZ]
Packers Fans
It’s been a season of injuries and the latest one to go down is Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers. Rodgers took a hard hit from Vikings’ linebacker in the first quarter:
Aaron Rodgers takes huge hit from #Vikings linebacker Anthony Barr, exits game on cart. pic.twitter.com/OmqFZW6gcE #Packers #Skol
— HighlightHub (@HighlightHub_) October 15, 2017
Rodgers trash talked Barr on his way off the field, and he was listed as questionable with a shoulder injury for the rest of the game. It was reported later in the day that the collarbone on his throwing side is broken and he could be out for the rest of the season. Karma may have some for Barr; he was ruled out with a concussion before the second half began.
Right now, the best option the Packers have to replace Rodgers is third-year QB Brett Hundley, who has never really seen any game action. Of course, I hear that a certain former 49ers quarterback is still on the market. [Via The Bleacher Report]
Miami Football
There were a lot of upsets this weekend in college football: #5 Washington lost to ASU, #19 SDSU lost to Boise State (and is no longer undefeated), #10 Auburn lost to LSU. But instead of talking about those, let’s talk about this disastrous onside kick Miami tried on Georgia Tech.
According to Yahoo Sports:
Michael Badgley’s kick didn’t go 10 yards, meaning it couldn’t be legally recovered by Miami, but none of Badgley’s teammates realized it was still a live ball. With basically no resistance, Georgia Tech’s Lamont Simmons scooped up the loose ball and ran 42 yards untouched for a Yellow Jackets touchdown.
Miami tried to start the second half with an onside kick. It didn't work. pic.twitter.com/oVouOX3boQ
— Dr. Saturday (@YahooDrSaturday) October 14, 2017
Miami overcame the kick, and a 21-13 deficit, the win the game 25-24 with a last-second field goal, but still, this is pretty embarrassing. [Via Yahoo!]
Professor Marston and the Wonder Women
It was a good weekend at the theater for Universal StudiosHappy Death Day, taking in $26.5 million, when it only cost $5 million to produce. Pretty sweet, right?
Not so much for the weekend’s other new movie, Professor Marston and the Wonder Women. Personally, I think the topic seems a little dry – a recounting of how a real-life American psychologist created the fictional character Wonder Woman – which may explain why the film only took in $737,000 from 1,229 theaters for a horrible screen average of $600.
Lesson for movie execs: a college student who relives the day of her murder over and over? Yes. Real-life story about a psychologist? No. [Via Hollywood Reporter]
Daniel Rushing
Actually, Rushing probably had a bad weekend back in December 2015 and is doing pretty okay now, but this story is so nuts, it had to be included.
Rushing was arrested back in 2015 when Orlando police officers pulled over him over leaving a 7-11 parking lot. Turns out, officers had been conducting surveillance on the store after receiving a series of drug complaints. Rushing was arrested after Cpl. Shelby Riggs-Hopkins, a 10-year veteran of the force, saw “a rocky, white substance on the floorboard of his car” and assumed it was crystal meth.
Turns out, the substance wasn’t meth or crack or any kind of drug – of the illegal variety anyway. Instead, Rushing was strip-searched and spent hours in jail due to glaze from a Krispy Kreme doughnut.
Rushing sued and in a settlement reached this week, the City of Orlando agreed to pay him a $37,500 for the wrongful arrest. Meaning that he probably spent the weekend awash in glazed deliciousness. Although, I’m not sure that’s worth the strip search, but to each his own. [Via New York Daily News]
Image via Mat Hayward / Shutterstock.com
Respond
Jenna Crowley
Jenna used to be known as 2NOTBrokeGirls, but then one of the girls actually went broke, so she's struck out on her own. Jenna spends her free time saving the world, one sorority girl at a time (usually while wearing yoga pants), questioning why she decided to get a doctorate, documenting her love of all things cheese related, and hosting the new PGP podcast Don't Take It From Us. You can ask her anything you want about football, using your boobs to get what you want, and pizza at @JennaLCrowley on Twitter or via email at JennaLCrowley@gmail.com.
@JennaLCrowley
@donttakeitfromus
Collateral damage from the Rodgers injury: all his fantasy owners. RIP season.
I somehow still won this week. I’m finished for the year, though
Good thing I have injury prone Derrick Carr on my roster as backup.
And I understand that is misspelled.
That’s what you get for breaking Olivia Munn’s heart.
Look man, I don’t know if the movie’s any good, but when the subject matter is William Moulton Marston, a guy who:
– invented the lie detector
– convinced his wife to have a menage a tois living situation with a student of his, who was the niece of the founder of Planned Parenthood, that lasted for the rest of his life (including having children with both of them)
– had such an S&M and bondage fetish that he created an “empowered female character” whose main powers involved binding men. When his editor sent him the note “stop drawing pictures of women tied up in rope,” he sent back a picture of a woman in chains…
… I’m just saying, if the movie fails, it’s not because the subject matter is dry.
Hinting at Kaepernick (is that how you spell it?) is a trash move. No way he’s ever back in the NFL
I agree he’ll probably never get back to the NFL, but I have to say, regardless if you agree with him or not, its obvious he’s out of the league for reasons other than lacking the ability to play the position.
Professor Marston created Wonder Woman based on his wife and his lover/student who lived with him and his wife.
It’s amazing how one injury ruins the entire NFL season for me. At least the Badgers are still good for the time being…
That was a weird game up in Madison. Badgers dominated in basically every category, yet if my Boilers converted on any of those turnovers, they could’ve won. Either way it was a good game, I’ll be rooting for Wisconsin the rest the way and hope they represent the conference in the playoff.
My man!