Morning Cup Of Joe
May 1st, 2025
Welcome to your Morning Cup of Joe, an eye-opener to help Joe’s readers ease into their busy workday with a few football links, wacky news and a pleasant distraction.
Dixie Chicks defensive coordinator fined $100,000 for his son making a prank call on Shedeur Sanders. For context, Howard Stern gets paid $120 million a year, in part, to produce prank calls. What the hell, Roger Goodell? Joe wonders how much you fined Andy Reid after his kid maimed a five-year old girl for life in a drunk driving wreck? Talk about virtue signaling. If that wasn’t Deion’s kid, would this even be a story outside of Barstool or maybe Outkick? [PFT]
Top 10 NFL rookie jersey sales. [CBS]
Current win totals for each team. [Yahoo!]
Top 10 games of 2025. [NFL]
Driving through a hailstorm. [TikTok]
How Bill Belichick’s girlfriend went from being a fisherman’s daughter going to college to having an $8 million real estate portfolio in a handful of months after meeting the famous coach. You thinking what Joe’s thinking? Sure, you are. [New York Post]
Zach Wilson may be a loser on the football field but the guy is a Pro Bowler off the field. [Outkick]
Can/will the NFL kill off those godawful, useless pregame shows? Peter Schrager makes a good point. Whenever the FOX pregame, pregame show, which he used to be a part of with cougarish fibber Charissa Thompson, went against an international game at the same time, it got no viewers. Zilch. When there wasn’t an international game on, that same show’s viewer numbers exploded. The NFL plans to play 16 regular season games overseas annually, or one morning international game each Sunday. And then sell those games as a TV package for mega-revenue, likely to Netflix. If the NFL does that, Schrager reasons, why on earth would networks continue to run pregame shows if no one is watching? Good! Those shows have been horrible for decades. Every one of them. Giant wastes of electricity. Instead, for BSPN’s purposes, just have a gambling show focusing specifically on NFL games and let tequila-swilling Erin Kate Dolan flash her legs and talk spreads and odds with news updates on a crawl from Adam Schefter. That’s all you need! Those pregame shows haven’t been worth a sh!t since Brent Musburger teamed up with Jayne Kennedy, Irv Cross and Jimmy the Greek on CBS, and NBC had Bob Costas and Will McDonough. [Awful Announcing]
No one owns college sports media like Shannon Terry. In the early aughts, he launched Rivals.com and then sold it to Yahoo! for $100 million. Then he launched 247 Sports and sold that to CBS for $10 million. Then Terry launched On3.com and yesterday bought back Rivals. Dude is a mover and shaker. [Front Office Sports]
Dude takes about a 20-foot dive onto the right field warning track at PNC Park in the middle of the game. Video style! [X]
Florida Man discovers a peacock repellent: Bagpipes. [TikTok]
Dog vs. rooster. [TikTok]
It's a TWO BOX DAY here at the FFCA!
Not only did we get an awesome box from Coach Norvell and @FSUFootball but Coach Jarrett and @FSUBaseball sent us a box as well!
Thank you so much to both incredible programs and GO NOLES!! pic.twitter.com/wUA3Wmz8JN
— Jon Gruden (@BarstoolGruden) April 29, 2025
Why hasn’t Vikings HC Kevin O’Connell named a starting quarterback yet? 🤔@heykayadams | #SKOL | @KevOC7 pic.twitter.com/MJBt2eGLsq
— Up & Adams (@UpAndAdamsShow) April 30, 2025
May 1st, 2025 at 5:04 am
“Dixie Chicks defensive coordinator fined $100,000”
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So the NFL came down on the Falcons for poor data security policy.
Now do the John Gruden e-mail leaker.
May 1st, 2025 at 5:18 am
Do you guys know what “American-centric” thinking means?
Or euro-centric?
Or ethnocentric?
If not, please study more anthropology and human history.
Belicheck is like a Roman or Greek general from 1000 years ago.
And in ancient times, and in modern middle eastern, Mediterranean, African, and Asian cultures, it is normal for people with a large age gap to connect and love each other.
Why?
Men like Belicheck are generals. They don’t age.
He’s the same person inside as he was 30 years ago. He has more wrinkles? So what?
He’s still an OG warrior king.
His girl loves his vibe. His strength. His power.
And he loves how happy and cute she is.
Why would any American man want a bitter, angry, jaded, man-hating woman in her 30’s or 40’s?
Men don’t want “boss bitches” yuck!
Men like tender and cute girls.
Not manly women! And no offense.
But most American women are very masculine.
I’m living in Tbilisi, Georgia. An ancient land.
The women here are “white” but they don’t act or speak or carry themselves or think like American girls at all!
The girls here are feminine and nurturing and sweet and cute.
I feel bad for American men. You guys are stuck with the most selfish women and masculine women on earth!
I’ve lived all over the world.
American men are perhaps the most henpecked men on earth.
I’m happy for Bill. He has a hotty who respects him and appreciates him.
Isn’t that what every man wants?
And the age gap?
Again. Don’t be an American-centric, ethnocentric thinker.
This kind of age gap is beneficial for both of them!
Memento Mori. Live and let live.
Go Bucs!
And all hail General Belicheck!
“Block out the noise”
May 1st, 2025 at 5:18 am
Unless the Falcons and Ulbrich were involved in the prank call, it is ridiculous to fine them anything. Roger Goodell will do anything to make an extra dollar.
May 1st, 2025 at 5:37 am
Props Zach…indeed sir!
May 1st, 2025 at 5:47 am
Bill Belichick’s girlfriend
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My first reaction was “I bet her father is proud of her.” As I read along, I got to this sentence: “Her mother eventually moved to Provincetown, on Cape Cod, where she manages a sex-toy shop and museum.”
So I guess, yes. Her father probably is quite proud of his daughter.
May 1st, 2025 at 6:02 am
Scott Wurster-Ohio-Wow Zach has it going on! He has beautiful taste in women! So much better than my disgusting wife! Scott Wurster-Ohio
May 1st, 2025 at 6:09 am
Scott Wurster-Ohio-Wow Zach has if going on with his beautiful woman!! She is so gorgeous and so much better than my disgusting wife. Scott Wurster-Ohio
May 1st, 2025 at 6:15 am
Coach Hoody is about to purchase “Toys of Eros”.
May 1st, 2025 at 6:18 am
That son of Ulbrich sure cost his dad a lot of money.
May 1st, 2025 at 6:25 am
Yes, the pipes are repellent. That’s why the Scotts play them going into battle. It chases off half the enemy before the fight even begins.
May 1st, 2025 at 7:53 am
110% agree with teacherman.
I currently live in the DR. Womyn here enjoy being womyn, including professional types.
No girl bosses here, and no hysterical, angry, clip-haired post-menopausal harridans with her beta male in tow.
Good for Bill. I suspect he can afford to keep his cutie in good real estate, and he’s smart enough to have an asset protection plan.
May 1st, 2025 at 8:10 am
I was more of a Phyllis George fan myself. Those shows used to be fun.
May 1st, 2025 at 8:16 am
Personally thought Jayne Kennedy in her day was traffic-stopping hot. Joe’s problem with Phyllis George was her constant slurping of the Cowboys since she was from Texas. You have no idea how many times Joe shut that show off because of that sh!t! She was worse than Colleen Wolfe and her Eagles sh!t.
The rest of the show was excellent. Just excellent.
(Will never forget Jayne Kennedy doing a feature on the Browns when she was running around a football field wearing those old NFL polyester tight pants like the players. Football pants before and after never looked so good!)
May 1st, 2025 at 8:18 am
Joe, I’m with you on pregame shows. I stopped watching them for good two years ago. The only one worth a darn to me is the Sunday Night Football pregame show because it gives me the highlights from the games earlier in the day. Plus, I don’t usually have much going on in that window between the 4:00 game ending and the 8:15 start (or whenever) for Sunday Night Football.
May 1st, 2025 at 8:22 am
Cobra, thought you were moving back? I took my first trip to the DR this winter. A wedding. Had a great time.
May 1st, 2025 at 8:23 am
I’ve read that multiple players had prank calls on draft night? I’m curious to see if the NFL is investigating those calls, and if fines will come to the teams, and/or responsible parties, where those numbers were leaked.
May 1st, 2025 at 9:03 am
I doubt those other prank calls were to a player who has Deion Sanders as his dad.
May 1st, 2025 at 10:08 am
Funny how that works.
May 1st, 2025 at 10:31 am
– That fine seems a little ridiculous to me, considering the dad had nothing to do with it.
– Zach is a lucky man. And he’s still making a bank to hold a clip board.
– could care less about the pregame shows. At least Fox is kind of amusing at times with Gronk on it.
– LOL @ being triggered by “girl bosses”…
May 1st, 2025 at 10:37 am
It’s seems the NFL is also investigating the calls to Mason Graham and Tyler Warren. We’ll see if anything happens.
May 1st, 2025 at 10:41 am
The Mason Graham prank call apparently came from a Bucs fan. Hopefully the clown caller isn’t related to any Bucs officials or staff.
May 1st, 2025 at 10:43 am
Correction: buckeye fan, not buc fan.