Regardless where you find yourself on the political scale, you ought to recognize this as the kind of moronic quote you get from politicians who don’t follow sports closely, but try to act like they do.
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Regardless where you find yourself on the political scale, you ought to recognize this as the kind of moronic quote you get from politicians who don’t follow sports closely, but try to act like they do.
.@Reince exiting gop cloakroom tells me: "The president stepped up and helped punt the ball into the end zone."
— Molly Hooper (@mollyhooper) May 4, 2017
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“We remember the Sugar Bowl, I think it my junior year of high school, we let Alabama beat us twice,” Brinson said of a team that also lost to the Crimson Tide in the SEC Championship game. “We’re not letting Alabama beat us twice. In the Sugar Bowl in 2018, they… thought they should have been in the playoffs and lost to Texas.” -- AB-H, 12/27/23
In Canada, they award points for that.
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…confused with how it is played in Russia.
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Rumor is he got that metaphor from Calgary Ted.
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WTF is that?
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WTH? Did someone just score a base clearing double??
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what a cool way to end a game. Never saw that when I used to go watch the BC Lions play.
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Reggie Davis might run it out.
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Watched Brandon Smith do that and then fumble the ball at about the 20 last night vs SC.
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Watched Herschel do it live in J-ville and get stopped on our 3 or so!
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Well, at least he didn’t say something like punt the ball for a home run. 8)
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groan
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In fairness, it’s possible that Molly didn’t hear correctly and added the “n.” It could have been “put” and then the sentence makes sense not withstanding that the “end zone” is really after both houses deal with it and its ready to be signed into law.
Reince does talk like he’s had 4 martinis and a mouthful of marbles.
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In fairness, it’s possible that Rinsed Penis started the word with a “b” and said that Trump “helped bunt the ball into the endzone”, thus screwing up the metaphor even further.
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A possibility. Not necessarily a fair one.
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I’d rinse of my penis off too, if I just got done sodomizing the democratic party. Again.
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Yeah, Rince Preibus sodomizer in chief. Sounds about right for most repubs.
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I like it. Let’s make it official.
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I would be happy to accept a six figure salary to become their staff sports metaphor consultant.
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And wreck the general aloofness that makes them all so darn likeable!?!? The hell you say!
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Are you calling Derek an elitist? This aggresion will not stand!
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LOL! Now that’s funny. My first thought was it was probably a typo where “put” was meant instead of “punt”. Still funny though.
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That’s about as stupid as a football bat.
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I keek a touchdown for you!
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Ha, this is funnier still because Molly Hooper is on my old tennis team here in DC.
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Corrected quote: “The president stepped up and helped PUNCH the ball into the end zone.”
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I wonder what led to the correction.
Too bad, ’cause I really like the silliness of the original tweet. 😉
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So, possibly a misquote from a journalist who doesn’t follow sports closely.
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Yeah, blame the journalists again. Fake news, fake quotes, Trumps people never screw up.
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Correction: Very fake news. Get it right, fake GTP commenter.
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This will probably be pretty civil….
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Once I was emerging from the GOP cloakroom after going in through the out door. That’s not the only thing that’s been punched in there. Now watch this drive.
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Don’t worry Senator. I’m sure when the leftists take over for good in this country you will be able to walk away from your blog because there really won’t be anything else to talk about regarding college football… with all the concussions and labor regulations you know. And if you are implying that the left in this country is more knowledgeable about football than the right then you are too far gone to debate. But hey… if you can utilize a coed in your attempt to reclaim the metaphoric football domain then knock yourself out.
Just when I thought we were making progress.
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I just thought the quote was stupid.
I didn’t realize that football knowledge has a political bent. The things I learn here.
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And my response was too. Apologize. But I did see where the reporter misquoted him… evidently everybody ran with it to make him look bad. More fake news.
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He doesn’t call himself doofus for nothing.
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It would help if the word “leftist” didn’t keep growing to include the likes of John Boehner, Paul Ryan, Eric Cantor, preexisting conditions, the Pope, etc. All disciples of Mao and Stalin, amiright?
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you have to tip your hand at her.
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And Derek wins for most reasonable and even handed political comment. (Turns out he was right). WTF! Things are getting weird here at GTP.
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