Morning Cup Of Joe
July 10th, 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.
Minnesota linebacker scammed out of nearly a quarter-million dollars. [PFT]
Futures bets to make now. [CBS]
Dallas wide receiver pinched for weed, gun violations. [Yahoo!]
Brock Purdy bummed about losing Deebo Samuel. [NFL]
Paul Skenes already scheming to play for a New York team? [TikTok]
This is way cool: The WWE has announced Friday night matches in the same college towns the night before select games in the Big XII. First up, Dublin in Week 0 the night before Iowa State faces Kansas State in the Emerald Isle. [Awful Announcing]
It seems Grok needs sensitivity training. [Wall Street Journal]
The Final Four is coming to Vegas, baby. [Outkick]
Bees started producing colored honey after (indirectly) eating M&Ms? No, Joe checked. It’s not an article from “The Onion.” [Slate]
Joe is guessing dads can relate to this. [TikTok]
What game truly defines the word “arcade” for you? 👾 pic.twitter.com/5WBOLM4gMZ
— Kyle Brandt (@KyleBrandt) July 9, 2025
https://twitter.com/UpAndAdamsShow/status/1942987111474340038
July 10th, 2025 at 5:18 am
The bees story is old news.
July 10th, 2025 at 5:48 am
Arcade games
Love Brandt but I am ancient old school…Pong and yes i’m gonna say it…Pinball!
LOL
Go Bucs!
July 10th, 2025 at 6:39 am
The Patriots need linemen. The offensive line at Boston College is better.
July 10th, 2025 at 7:03 am
Everyone in Minnesota is being scammed by tampon Tim.
July 10th, 2025 at 7:25 am
Agree on both garro
July 10th, 2025 at 7:36 am
@Garro, love pinball and pong. Don’t forget air hockey.
July 10th, 2025 at 8:17 am
Galaga.
July 10th, 2025 at 9:07 am
What game truly defines the word “arcade” for you?
Zaxxon, Dragon’s Lair both GOATED.
July 10th, 2025 at 9:10 am
mg
First.. the link above connnects to the Wirfs story.
Second,
Turner and his attorney contacted police in April to report that Turner received a call on Feb. 19 “from an individual impersonating a JP Morgan Chase banker. The caller claimed someone was attempting to impersonate [Turner] at a Chase Bank branch in Arizona and presented two copies of ID to execute a wire transfer.”
The caller directed Turner to immediately transfer his money to two separate business accounts in an effort to thwart the theft attempt.
That afternoon, Turner went to a Chase branch in Eagan and transferred $120,000 to “Island Food Truck LLC.” Before day was over, he visited a Chase Bank branch in West St. Paul and transferred another $120,000 to “CNL FL LLC.”
Maybe refrain from saying stupid $hit when you have no idea what you’re talking about.
July 10th, 2025 at 9:11 am
Pac Man
Asteroids
Galaga
Defender
I spent a lot of quarters back in the day.
July 10th, 2025 at 10:34 am
Man we knew dad’s like that and we damn sure knew NOT to do what pissed him off. By the same token with respect for the same man he was great to us, never a bad word.
Arcades: Too many old games to remember but pinball, another Star Wars gunner game that was too cool, Astroid when it first cam out. Pong at home. Space Invaders. Damn I’m old.
July 10th, 2025 at 11:05 am
Before computer games: Pinball.
After computer games: Galaga.
I’m so old my first computer had a cassette drive (Radio Shack). Yipes how far computers have come in my lifetime.
These days, a smart phone has way more computing power than the first supercomputer. That fact amazes me.
July 10th, 2025 at 12:09 pm
garro Says:
“Pong and… Pinball!”
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I got to experience the greatest invention of all time. The merger of pinball and video game.
Ms Pac Man
July 10th, 2025 at 12:09 pm
Our smartphones have 10,000,000x more computing and processing power than the computers used during the Apollo missions.
Strange how we can’t seem to get back there, huh?
July 10th, 2025 at 3:26 pm
D-Rome Says:
“Strange how we can’t seem to get back there, huh?”
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“We destroyed that technology, and it’s a painful process to build it back again.” ~ Don Pettit, astronot
July 10th, 2025 at 7:27 pm
That Livvy Dunne story seems like BS… or at least partially.
There’s no way you were days away from “getting the keys” when the co-op suddenly voted no. Like are we just pretending there isn’t a whole process for closing and escrow that also has to take place? LOL
@jmark – if they refrained from saying stupid $hit when they had no idea what they were talking about, they’d never have anything to say!
July 10th, 2025 at 7:56 pm
jmarkbuc
noted…