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Gopherballs @gopherballs.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Today in entertainment news, Tony Danza receives lifetime achievement award from the National Association of Likable Meatheads.

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Gopherballs @gopherballs.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Good grief, Charlie Brown is Minnesota. He’s even from St. Paul.

Sad Charlie Brown as portrayed by PJ Fleck

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Gopherballs @gopherballs.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Breaking: Captain Geech and the Shrimp Shack Shooters will no longer be opening for Ed Sheeran

Captain Geech and the Shrimp Shack Shooters in sailor outfits playing in front of the Shrimp Shack

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Gopherballs @gopherballs.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Rutgers disappeared from everyone’s upcoming schedule, Back to the Future photo-style.

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Gopherballs @gopherballs.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Sark always looks like the truck he just flipped off slammed on its brakes and the driver getting out is built like Jack Reacher.

Steve Sarkisian suddenly realizing he made a big mistake

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Gopherballs @gopherballs.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Brent Venables always looks like the hot tub salesman at the state fair when you walk away after he gives you the hard sell.

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Gopherballs @gopherballs.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

It looks great in my den next to my wall-sized re-creation of this:

THEATRE ENTRANCE
PUPPET SHOW
AMD SPINAL TAP

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Gopherballs @gopherballs.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

For Rule 4-2-3, there is also a subpart c that states “If a live ball not in player possession crosses a boundary line and then is declared out of bounds, it is out of bounds at the crossing point.”

Loose Ball Out of Bounds

ARTICLE 3.
a.
A ball not in player control, other than a kick that scores a field goal, is out of bounds when it touches the ground, a player, a game official or anything else that is out of bounds, or that is on or outside a boundary line.

b. A ball that touches a pylon is out of bounds behind the goal line.

c. If a live ball not in player possession crosses a boundary line and then is declared out of bounds, it is out of bounds at the crossing point.

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Gopherballs @gopherballs.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Is that kid on vacation from his job at Buckingham Palace?

Kid who looks like he’s wearing a bearskin cap

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Gopherballs @gopherballs.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

An “Ed” game where both teams must play a mechanical chimpanzee at third base.

“Ed” still photo with a monkey in a baseball uniform next to a mechanical chimpanzee in a baseball uniform.

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Gopherballs @gopherballs.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

ESPNU is replaying the greatest college football game of the 2025-26 season: The Hawai’i Bowl between Hawai’i and Cal.

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Gopherballs @gopherballs.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

You all need to know this movie exists. Starring George Kennedy Barbara “I Dream of Jeanie” Eden Joe Namath Melissa Sue Anderson and Shooter McGavin

Movie poster for “CHATTANOOGA CHOO CHOO”

THE SONG THAT
KEPT AMERICA
CHUGGIN ALONG IS THIS SUMMER'S FUNNIEST MOVIE!
BARBARA EDEN - CHATTANOOGA CHOO CHOO GEORGE KENNEDY MELISSA SUE ANDERSON. JOE NAMATH
A Paul Berack Production
ROBERT MUNDY STEVEN PHILLIP SMITH need GEORGE EPRARDS JILL GRIFFITH
NELSON RIDOLE nest BRUCE BILSON

Unscrupulous football team owner Bert (George Kennedy) will get one million dollars tax-free if he lives up to the terms of his recently deceased father-in-law's will. He has to restore the old man's favorite train, the Chattanooga Choo Choo, and make a twenty-four-hour run from Chattanooga to New York City. Bert (Kennedy) sees this as his chance to get free from his wife and get some publicity for his team. Bert's mistress (Barbara Eden), the team coach (Joe Namath), cheerleaders, players press, estranged wife, daughter, potential son-in-law and his father (who is also Bert's business rival), are all on-board for the hilarious trip.

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Gopherballs @gopherballs.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

A’s name Terry Fator as new GM

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Gopherballs @gopherballs.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Gasps at another another Pete Campbell comeuppance.

Pete Campbell struggles to process some big news after a conversation goes in a way different than the way he expected the conversation to go.

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Gopherballs @gopherballs.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Argentina is not going to win until they put Gabo in

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Gopherballs @gopherballs.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Taco Bell now down to combining four ingredients in a totally new way. We need an update, @theonion.com

News from The Onion

Taco Bell's Five
Ingredients Combined In Totally New Way
Published: October 15, 1998
LOUISVILLE, KY-With great fanfare
Monday, Taco Bell unveiled the Grandito, an exciting new permutation of refried beans, ground beef, cheddar cheese, lettuce, and a corn tortilla.
"You've never tasted Taco Bell's five ingredients combined quite like this,"
Taco Bell CEO Walter Berenyi said. "The revolutionary new Grandito, with its ground beef on top of the cheese but under the beans, is configured unlike anything you've ever eaten here at Taco Bell." The fast-food chain made waves earlier this year with its introduction of the Zestito, in which the beans are on top of the lettuce, and the Mexiwrap, in which the tortilla is slightly more oblong.

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Gopherballs @gopherballs.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

When they get to the part about trying to figure out how fast the bison could close the distance, it unintentionally turns into the “unladen swallows” bit from Holy Grail.

Monty Python’s Holy Grail: “WHAT? A SWALLOW CARRYING A COCONUT?”

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Gopherballs @gopherballs.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

We had the board game from Milton Bradley and played it long after the show was off the air and until we wore it out.

Emergency! board game from Milton Bradley

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Gopherballs @gopherballs.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Rene and Georgette Magritte, with their dog after the war?

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Gopherballs @gopherballs.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Happy 250th Birthday Sexy Ben Franklin

TV’s Andy Daly as Sexy Ben Franklin on The Office USA

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Gopherballs @gopherballs.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Hazy memories of: -flags and bunting everywhere -ad and packaging bicentennial tie-ins (saved a fancy Spirit of 76 syrup bottle) -bicentennial stickers -Ben Franklin, pop culture icon -got a bank similar to this one for saving special 1976 quarters and silver dollars (not allowed to spend)

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Gopherballs @gopherballs.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

A This Week In Baseball favorite

Bill Caudill with a magnifying glass over his eye

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Gopherballs @gopherballs.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

One of the funniest “you would not believe this happened unless you lived through the 1990s” was the brief period of time when the Colorado Rockies cap was the hottest thing around even though they had not played a game yet. Black and purple and being the first new team in decades had a moment

Colorado Rockies original “CR” cap from Chris Creamer's SportsLogos.net

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Gopherballs @gopherballs.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Everything’s coming up Canada!

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Gopherballs @gopherballs.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

We got one of the in-laws’ sets as a wedding gift, but they also registered us for the missing pieces, so we kept getting envelopes like this every month for the next decade or so.

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Gopherballs @gopherballs.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Ivory Coast-Ecuador Man of the Match

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Gopherballs @gopherballs.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

They did it for Joey Tribbiani (RIP).

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Gopherballs @gopherballs.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

You don’t own an at least one article of clothing with this logo.

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Gopherballs @gopherballs.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

The one time I went to Hawaii as a kid we rode a bus that went right by Aloha Stadium on a day the Islanders were playing. This was me when I caught just a glimpse of the multi-colored stands.

Gary Larson Far Side comic with cat pressed against window seeing accident between "Bob's Assorted Rodents" truck and "Al's Small, Flightless Birds" truck.

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Gopherballs @gopherballs.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

What’s your favorite sitcom set in or around New York City?

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Gopherballs @gopherballs.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

I prefer their earlier incarnation as Captain Geech and the Shrimp Shack Shooters.

Captain Geech and the Shrimp Shack Shooters dressed in sailor costumes playing in front of the Shrimp Shack

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Gopherballs @gopherballs.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

My kid discovered Mad Men, and I got to enjoy their delightful reaction when Pete Campbell gets his first of many comeuppances.

Pete Campbell thinking of the GOB Bluth “I’ve made a huge mistake” meme.

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Gopherballs @gopherballs.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Draper: “It’s the Burger with the Grown Up Taste.” Ginsberg: “… and the art will have little kids making yuck faces and comparisons to spinach and cauliflower.” Draper: “Wha-?” McDonald’s executive: “We love it.” [elevator interior] Draper: “That’s clever but it will never sell hamburgers.”

[Little girl rolling her eyes making yuck face.]

SPINACH.
CAULIFLOWER.
NOW THIS.
Introducing the And Doluxe.
Big, sophisticated, adult.
It's the burger with the grown up taste.
ARCH

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