Jim Kogutkiewicz

@jimmyfk.bsky.social

Checking scores and reading articles

Uncle Neil at work: Last year we watched Farm Aid and Bridgette didn't know a single song. Now she's singing along to almost everything and just cranked the volume 20 points for Keep on Rockin' in the Free World.

The slow-mo close-up replay of the unsportsmanlike conduct penalty Texas just got, with Herbstreit have to comment on it, with be the stupid highlight of the day. Not since that one Egg Bowl have we seen one like this.

£400 milion over 10 years. The highest English deal at the time was £90 million over 15 years for Arsenal. The previous worldwide record had been £187 million for Madison Square Garden. Cooking the books started here. www.theguardian.com/football/201...

Manchester City bank record £400m sponsorship deal with Etihad Airways

Uefa's Club Financial Control Panel is poised to assess the fairness of Manchester City's 10-year arrangement with Etihad Airways

theguardian.com

More fun with numbers ... Saw somebody, a Bengals fan I guess or maybe a Bears fan trying to rub it in, say that when we think about Jordan Love, we should remember that Joe Burrow went to the Super Bowl with a vastly inferior O-line significantly worse than the Packers. So I looked it up ...

So it turns out a £450 million payment from one account of the Saudi Arabian government into another account of the Saudi Arabian government actually did break the rules in effect at the time just like everybody said the day it happened.

Neighbors across the street are getting a new fence put up. The workers are cranking Milwaukee's La Gran D radio. You know those tubas hit so hard in those songs. I'm ready to put a folding chair in the front yard, crack a beer and just watch the work.