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Just when you think you’ve seen every nutty thing that could happen on a football field, something new comes along. Put on your striped shirt and let us all know how you would handle this. Puns are welcome in expressing your thoughts. But please, no observations on the Patriots “getting shafted” in Buffalo! https://uproxx.com/sports/kendrick-bourne-dildo-bills-fans/ Kendrick Bourne Is The Latest Patriots Player To Have A Dildo Thrown At Him By Bills Fans Kendrick Bourne got the New England Patriots’ first touchdown in their AFC Wild Card game against the Buffalo Bills on Saturday night. Sure, it came in the second half while the Bills already opened up a big lead — the touchdown and extra point made it 33-10 — but hey, it was a cool moment for Bourne, who reeled one in from Mac Jones on fourth-and-goal to keep the team’s slim hopes of a win alive. You might notice at the very end of the clip that Bourne appears to be pointing to something on the ground and is kind of upset about it. Well, the NFL cut it off in their video because they’re a pro sports league that probably doesn’t want this on their socials, but someone at Highmark Stadium threw a dildo at him. If you’re a longtime football fan, you might remember that this is not the first time we’ve seen this happen during a Bills-Patriots game in Buffalo. Back in 2016, someone threw a dildo onto the field while Chris Hogan caught a screen pass and tried to punch one in against the Bills’ defense. Tom Brady — who, you might remember, played for the Patriots at one point — said of the incident, “I thought it was funny the ref didn’t want to pick it up. He was kicking it. Nobody wanted to reach down and grab it.” There is no word on whether or not that dildo did anything before the game to improve its circulation in the cold Buffalo weather.

Turn the clock back about 30 yrs. and St. Joe was playing at Munster, and Digger Phelps’ kid plays TE for St. Joe. Got to chat briefly with Digger before the game. I was crushed that he didn’t remember me. 😂 I was a sophomore at ND when he showed up there to rescue the basketball program. I used to see him occasionally on campus or in the ACC.

Notre Dame would hire me before they’d hire Dabo.

In the days of The Horde that would have been good for about 5 pages.

Now that’s a truly bitter rivalry: smack talking in the off season. FWIW, Roncalli’s schedule was ranked 19th most difficult in the state last year according to Sagarin. That was, by far, the toughest schedule in 4A, and tougher than all but 3 schedules in 5A, and it doesn’t even count their game against Cincinnati Elder, a playoff team in Ohio’s biggest class.

The predictable result of a very clumsy effort on the part of the Biden Administration. There were several other ways they could have netted the same result. But selecting an OSHA regulation as their vehicle to implement nationwide health policy was just plain dumb.

And, he’s out … again.

For those hailing the recent SCOTUS decision as a rejection of the Biden mandatory vaccination in the workplace regulation, I wouldn’t schedule the parade just yet. The ruling made it clear that it was based on OSHA exceeding its statutory authority to regulate safety in the workplace. So, mandatory vaccination won’t work as an OSHA regulation. But there are other ways to skin that cat.

Testify!!!

Chaos is good. Disruption of the status quo is good. That is how growth occurs.

There’s a big difference between the Fords owning the Lions as a sort of hobby, since they made their money doing something else, and the McCaskeys, whose only wealth is the Bears.

If the McCaskeys were to sell the Bears, the sales price would be more than $4 billion. Just sayin’. When Virginia kicks the bucket, we shall see.

I have a lot more faith in the business sense of the Pakistani immigrant behind the counter of the 7-Eleven down the street.

Both of which we have to deal with at the high school level because they see it in the NCAA - where there has been a conscious decision not to enforce those rules. For the life of me, I don’t know why.

See Deion Sanders at Jackson State.

The Indiana officiating community lost a giant yesterday. Todd Clark, a Lafayette veterinarian and 40+ year football official, passed away unexpectedly. Aside from being a multiple state finals football official, Todd was a key member of the observer corps for the last several years, despite being confined to a wheelchair. Todd became well known briefly when he had a heart attack on the field and was successfully resuscitated by the athletic trainers on-site. He continued to officiate for years after his recovery. Todd was a great guy, a former IFOA board member, a valued member of the Western Indiana Officials Association, and a good friend of mine for 20+ years. He will be sorely missed.

JANUS v. AMERICAN FEDERATION OF STATE, COUNTY, AND MUNICIPAL EMPLOYEES, COUNCIL 31, SCOTUS case out of Illinois in 2018.

That’s the way it has to be in public sector unions.

Oh, it’s going to be much more than a “landscape shaker.” It’s going to be a complete game changer. Very shortly, schools will center recruiting pitches around the program’s ability to act as a sports agent for the players, managing and maximizing NIL opportunities. An entire industry is springing up around NIL.

The GM is by far the more important hire. Make sure you’ve got the right guy there. Then let him hire the new coach.

So, the axe dropped on Nagy this morning. He was followed out the door by GM failure, Ryan Pace. Now begins the process that will shape the next decade for this organization.

Because if they colluded like that, the Commissioner would fine them both about $5 million, and they’d probably lose draft choices as well. Among other reasons, the betting community would be up in arms.

This is a huge get for the Irish. https://www.si.com/college/notredame/football/notre-dame-football-harry-hiestand-returning-a-home-run-for-marcus-freeman-tommy-rees Harry Hiestand Returning To Notre Dame Is A Home Run For Marcus Freeman, Tommy Rees The return of Harry Hiestand to coach the offensive line at Notre Dame is a coup for Marcus Freeman and Tommy Rees Irish Breakdown readers and members have known this was coming, but more and more national reporters are learning what we've known for awhile, and what has been reported on Irish Breakdown for weeks, that Harry Hiestand is going to return to Notre Dame as its next offensive line coach. Hiestand and Notre Dame have been working on a contract for weeks, and IB sources indicate all the hurdles have been cleared and the former Irish line coach will once again be the Irish line coach. Of course, Hiestand was the Notre Dame offensive line coach from 2012-2017, and during that time the program came to be known as O-Line U for its success at producing elite lines and high NFL Draft picks. Notre Dame won the 2017 Joe Moore Award, which goes to the nation's best offensive line, during Hiestand's final season in South Bend. A case could be made that Notre Dame also had the nation's best offensive line in 2015, two years before that award was created. Of course, that award is named for a former Irish coach, one who was part of Notre Dame's last championship squad (1988) and also had a legendary career at Pittsburgh. During Hiestand's six seasons at Notre Dame he developed four players that became 1st Round NFL Draft picks (Zack Martin, Ronnie Stanley, Quenton Nelson, Mike McGlinchey), including three that were Top 10 NFL Draft picks. Notre Dame also had a second and a third round draft pick during that tenure, and three more players that Hiestand recruited and coached for at least one season were drafted in the second (Liam Eichenberg, Aaron Banks) and third round (Robert Hainsey) a year ago. Notre Dame's offenses averaged 204.1 rushing yards per game during Hiestand's tenure (minus sacks, team runs), compared to 191.8 in the four year since he departed and 142.7 in the four years prior to his arrival. Notre Dame's offense also averaged 5.83 yards per carry (minus sacks, team carries) during his six seasons, compared to 5.41 in the four years that followed his departure and 4.74 in the four years prior to his arrival. Notre Dame's 2015 team set a modern program record for yards per play (7.0). In 2017, Notre Dame's 6.25 yards per carry also set a modern program record. Despite a narrative emerging about his recruiting passions, Hiestand landed top line classes year after year. He even recruited a player inJerry Tillery that eventually became a first round pick at defensive line. Tillery, of course, was initially recruited to Notre Dame as an offensive tackle. For Notre Dame to become a national title contender a major step was getting its offensive line back to the levels it had during much of Hiestand's tenure. The program has grown in other ways since he left, but the line steadily took steps back. Head coach Marcus Freemanand offensive coordinator Tommy Rees convincing Hiestand to come back gives the program a chance to get its line where it needs to be. This is a coup for both coaches. For Freeman it gives him one of the best, and most respected names in the business. For Rees, more practically, it gives him an offensive line coach who will certainly be able to improve the physicality and production of the run game. It's the first, and arguably most important, big coaching domino to fall for Notre Dame this offseason. It's step one towards Freeman building the kind of top-to-bottom elite staff that his predecessor never could build. Hiestand and Rees clearly have a relationship. The former was the offensive line coach for the final two seasons of Rees' career, including overseeing the line that allowed Rees to be sacked just 8 times in 2013. They also worked together in 2017 when Hiestand was the offensive line coach and Rees was in his first season as the quarterbacks coach.

From the Coaching Openings thread: WHME Ch. 46 reporting that John Barron has resigned as HFC at Plymouth.