Whipped Cream Difficulties

Oh, mama, can this really be the end?
To be stuck inside of TMQ with those NFL blues again…

After the jump, this week’s (possibly last?) TMQ…

Nobody beats The Wiz Jerry Rice! 367 words down.

Rams vs. Bears and Baltimore vs. Kansas City may be prophecies of the post-season. Except maybe not, since the Rams are unlikely to play another cold weather game. Chicken-(salad) kicking: Philadelphia, but not Dallas.

Stat-O-Matic. Sweet: Miami. (Laterals are fun!) Mixd: New York Football Giants – Washington, Rams-Bears.

Television crime shows are unrealistic! Even the ones on the BBC! 950 words down!

When the hero, Walt Longmire, arrives on the scene, five FBI agents have been shot to death. The honor roll of actual FBI line of duty deaths lists nothing like this.

While Easterbrook’s point is technically correct (the best kind of correct), this seems dismissive. Only two FBI agents actually died in the 1986 Miami shootout, but it was a damn close thing that more were not killed. Three Florida officers (two Tampa PD, one Florida Highway Patrol) were killed in 1998…by a guy who got out of handcuffs and grabbed one officer’s gun. And in Easterbrook’s peaceful, quiet England…the Shepherd’s Bush murders.

Yet moviegoers at this star-studded big-budget flick are given to believe that police are being slaughtered and no one cares—a Trump-serving misimpression promulgated by trendy Hollywood lefties. (Wind River was the last movie released under Harvey Weinstein’s name.)

It feels like TMQ is steering towards dangerous territory here…

It’s hard to believe pilots will say, “Sparky, I’m goin’ in, rack up a Stormbreaker™.”

What are they going to say instead? “Sparky, rack up a Small Diameter Bomb!”

But why should a weapon bear a trademark—so sidewalk merchants along Times Square can’t sell knockoffs?

Man, we have got to get back to NYC. Or maybe if we front Manhattan Infidel the money, he’ll pick us up a knockoff Stormbreaker?

Both teams that are somewhat related to New York City are struggling (the Jersey/A Giants and Jersey/B Jets play, practice, and even have the offices in the Garden State), but Chicago and Los Angeles have been pulsing with pro football excitement this season.

“Pulsing”?

You know what else on TV is unrealistic? Air shafts. There. We saved you another 321 words. Merry Christmas.

99 yard drives: Tennessee. (Whoop! Whoop! Containment failure!)

The Russians violate treaties, John Brennan was responsible for one of the worst intelligence failures in history, and “let’s blame Barack Obama!“. Saved you another 661 words. Happy New Year.

In swirling snow, Division 2 football is played. The football gods:

• chortle
• switch to Netflix
• promise an investigation

Busy bunch, aren’t they?

Geezers: Brees, Brady, Rodgers. “Adventures in Officiating”: Philadelphia, Jets, and Seattle’s illegal field goal block.

And that’s all for this week, folks. We’ll see how things play out next week. Until then, our Christmas endorsements are coming.

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