What I learned in Week 5 of the NFL season
In Week 5 of the NFL season, I learned that...
- ...Tom Brady gives a whole new meaning to the term "Michigan math."
- ..., if Tom Brady wrote the Gettysburg Address, he'd start it by saying, "Four fingers and seven downs ago..."
- ...the Monica Seles grunt sounds like a whisper when compared to the sound Drew Brees makes when throwing the ball more than 3 yards.
- ..., when it comes to his near hairdo, Chris Berman did "go all the waaay!"
- ..., if this were slow-pitch softball, Philip Rivers would have been demoted to bat-boy.
- ..., the way COVID is spreading within the organization, you'd think the Tennessee Titans were part of the Trump administration.
- ..., when seeing a man get decapitated in a film, Tony Romo is rumored to say, "Hopefully, that's just a paper-cut."
- ..., with how they're playing, the 2020 49ers may soon get 86ed.
- ...it's becoming increasingly obvious that Andy Reid is trying to make face-shields sexy again.
- ..., when going through a sobriety test, instead of asking Tom Brady to recite the alphabet backwards, the cop asks him to count to 5.
After its first week, I gave The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore a B+ grade. While I didn't think the show appeared to be perfect by any stretch of the imagination, I also liked the Daily Show meets Politically Incorrect vibe I got from it, and thought, with the proper adjustments, the show would indeed provide a great fill-in for The Colbert Report . In the show's succeeding weeks, however, I've been less impressed by it and think that if it doesn't make certain adjustments, it could be in jeopardy of losing many long-time viewers of the show's time slot. One major issue I think the show's had to this point is a lack of direction. It's been unable to decide whether it wants to be a comedy show with serious conversation sprinkled in or a serious show with comedy sprinkled in. It's almost as if the show's writers want to give The Nightly Show a Real Time with Bill Maher feel. The problem with that idea or format is the fact Real Time is an hour lon...
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