2026 Season | Week 1 | Gameday Chatter Thread | Cowboys @ Giants | 09/13/2026

[Cotton]

Semi-vulgar celebration by St. Brown.

 

[Chocolate Lab]

Olson keeps saying, "We have the benefit of instant replay" but that PI was obvious in real time imo.

 

[bbgun]

Olson keeps saying, "We have the benefit of instant replay" but that PI was obvious in real time imo.

Well, we know his hair didn't get in his eyes.

 

[Cotton]

Olson keeps saying, "We have the benefit of instant replay" but that PI was obvious in real time imo.

The commentating has just gotten so bad. Yesterday in the Tech game, the booth was 0-6 when they said "It looked _______ from up here". No exaggeration. They didn't get a single one right.

 

[data]

Penalty if you remove your helmet off in celebration, but what about a Guardian cap?

 

[data]

At their own 40, down by 6. 4th and inches and Texans just got more inches for a close first down.

 

[bbgun]

Bears-Panthers is wild

 

[boozeman]

Bears-Panthers is wild

It is a good game. The Panthers scoring on the Bears as they have should be concerning to them.

 

[Chocolate Lab]

Metcalf with the bad, bad drop

 

[data]

'Hump' is a pretty funny word.

 

[bbgun]

TJ Watt pick-six

 

[data]

TJ Watt pick-six

~Taco Charlton picks his nose~

 

[boozeman]

Hell of a play by TJ Watt and what a bad toss by Rush.

 

[Cotton]

I love it when a big boy scores a TD. The other fat boys celebrate like crazy because one of their own scored.

 

[boozeman]

Taco Charlton picked his nose

And ate it.

 

[boozeman]

Mayfield has certainly screwed the pooch in this one.

 

[bbgun]

Mayfield has certainly screwed the pooch in this one.

I've never understood that expression. Who's fucking their dog?

 

[boozeman]

I've never understood that expression. Who's fucking their dog?

It was some military slang that became a thing. I honestly do not know.

 

[data]

I've never understood that expression. Who's fucking their dog?

ok phil

 

[Cotton]

I've never understood that expression. Who's fucking their dog?

“Fuck the dog” (sometimes “fuck the dog and sell the pups”) started as World War I U.S. Army slang for wasting time or goofing off while looking busy. A 1918 hospital newsletter already lists the euphemism “feeding the dog” for killing time. By 1935 it appears in print in Jack Conroy’s novel A World to Win. Over the following decades it also picked up the meaning “to botch something badly.”

“Screw the pooch” is the version that stuck for the “catastrophic blunder” sense. The earliest documented printed uses are from the late 1970s.

In short: military loafing slang from World War I → later sense of “major screw-up” → polite variant that NASA/test-pilot circles and then Tom Wolfe popularized in the late 1970s.