What’s Going On Is Worthy of Mjolnir

By Kevin Schroeder
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Updated: March 19, 2021

The Lions should be calling any day now. (Photo credit: Disney/Marvel)

If a hammer was legal on a football field, I’m pretty sure Ndamukong Suh would have tried that by now. Dan Campbell being Dan Campbell:

The quote of the day goes to none other than #Lions HC Dan Campbell on new edition DE Michael Brockers. More please coach!😂🔨⚔️…

“I’d say this about Brockers, he’s probably one of the few in this league that can wield The Hammer of Thor. So we’re really excited about that.”

— StaceyDales (@StaceyDales) March 19, 2021

Oh, cool. This again. TSN commentator Gord Miller in response to a fan asking if he’d ever appear on Barstool’s Spittin’ Chiclets hockey podcast:

I like those guys a lot, but anything to do with Barstool is a no-go for me. https://t.co/W5l3IjmgIC

— Gord Miller (@GMillerTSN) March 16, 2021

Miller says he likes the Chiclets guys, but then proceeded to bash the entire site in a series of “Hey, look at me” tweets. Like 90% of the problems people have with Barstool can be traced to either Dave Portnoy or Kevin Clancy, but if your stance is to avoid the entire operation, that’s fine, so long a you’re extra careful about anybody you associate with, lest you look like a giant hypocrite. That’s the Julie DiCaro rule, named in dishonor of the talentless jabroni who takes issue with anyone who would dare to have anything to do with Barstool, but had no problem accepting a paycheck from a radio station that continues to employ Dan Bernstein, until she was let go during the pandemic. Gord has already broken this rule by working for NBC, who covered up Matt Lauer and Harvey Weinstein’s sexual misconduct.

The Gord v. Portnoy dispute played out pretty much the same way the rest of these do. The major takeaways were Gord’s inability to recognize a joke and that he has someone who goes through his Twitter mentions for him, which is straight out of South Park:

One thing that is indisputable is that @stoolpresidente promotes aggressive online reprisals against those who disagree with him (as he did last night to @Vindog56) which led to responses like this one, which was reported to @twitter by the people who monitor my account. https://t.co/VNXUpVmUwm pic.twitter.com/f5gw2GlJO2

— Gord Miller (@GMillerTSN) March 17, 2021

Surely that’s the only fight taking place over there.

Oh, for Christ’s sake. Julie DiCaro wrote a book. One of Kirk Minihane’s sidekicks, named Justin, read it on the air. The whole thing. Julie’s mad. Deadspin called them “Barfstool.” Aren’t they clever. DiCaro got the YouTube video taken down and is considering legal action. Minihane is considering legal action of his own:

BREAKING: @kirkmin is seriously considering suing @penguinusa @DuttonBooks for libel and defamation over Julie DiCaro’s outrageous and malicious lies about him in her new book.

— The Kirk Minihane Show (@kirkminshow) March 18, 2021

Justin may want to consider legal action, too, as I’m pretty sure that Minihane subjecting him to DiCaro’s blithering dreck constitutes an OSHA violation.

When he came back. Jack Silverstein with a thread on the lead-up to the greatest press release of all time.

On Feb. 1, 1995, Michael Jordan was the projected left fielder for the AAA Nashville Sounds while Scottie Pippen was desperate to get himself traded off the Bulls.

45 days later, on March 18, they were reunited.

This is the day-by-day account of those 45 days.

A thread. pic.twitter.com/V6MvMwEyxd

— Jack M Silverstein (@readjack) March 18, 2021

Here comes the money. The NFL has their new TV deal in place. Full story at AP. The big items:

$113 billion over 11 years
Amazon gets all Thursday night games
ABC is back in the Super Bowl rotation
ESPN+ will air one of the London games
Peacock gets one exclusive game per year for the first six years
Nothing about Sunday Ticket yet.

Who do you think you are? He was. Pete Weber is retiring from the PBA National Tour. The PBA’s YouTube channel aired his last frame on the Tour.

Weber will still bowl on the PBA50 and PBA60 tours. No word about the PBA League yet, but I would bet we see him out there, too. Weber’s one of the Tour’s all-time great bowlers and easily its greatest showman, with his fiery attitude, trademark sunglasses, and crotch chops after strikes. Your author was fortunate enough to get to see PDW bowl live in 2016 and it was an absolute blast.