johnny franchise

[johnny franchise @johnjoseph_7]

@ThoughtMiss @pythagoreanmetr @chris_kratovil Overnight shifts were the absolute best.

[Wolf of X @WolfofX]

In 1986, a man purchased a copy of Super Mario Bros. as a Christmas gift. For reasons lost to time, the gift was never opened and eventually ended up forgotten inside a desk drawer.

There it remained for more than 35 years, still sealed in its original factory packaging.

The game survived untouched, preserving features that collectors rarely see today, including its original shrink wrap and an intact cardboard hang tab from an early production run.

When the long-forgotten game was rediscovered in 2021, experts immediately recognized its extraordinary rarity and condition.

It was consigned to Heritage Auctions, where collectors from around the world competed for the chance to own one of the finest known copies of one of the most iconic video games ever made.

On April 2, 2021, the sealed copy sold for an astonishing $660,000, setting a new world record for the highest price ever paid for a video game at the time.

[johnny franchise @johnjoseph_7]

@Matt_Bove @OwenP29 @JeremyWGR

A TIE!?!?

[johnny franchise @johnjoseph_7]

@JeremyWGR @OwenP29 “Summer Girls” by LFO

Fire it up out of the break, boys.

[johnny franchise @johnjoseph_7]

@Jofbi2 @kevin_siracuse One could argue he’s one of the best QBs the NFL will ever have.

[Nathaniel 'Nature' Erdman @Erdmanchargers]

The Rams won the Superbowl, fell to 5-12 the next year, and then this was said by Bills GM Brandon Beane.

Since then:
Bills are 36-15, 4-3 Playoffs, 1 AFCCG, fired Head Coach, promoted within, and Beane is still employed.
Rams are 32-19, 3-3 Playoffs, 1 NFCCG, 2026 SB Favorites.

[alex brasky @alexbrasky]

The Rams are the anti Bills

Rams: Recognize their Super Bowl window, capitalize with big-swing moves year after year, find results

Bills: Take half measures while
meandering through the prime of Josh Allen’s career, never win the big game

[Creative Deduction @CreativeDeduct]

By the 1930s many Western intellectuals reluctantly realised that classical Marxism had failed and the proletariat wasn’t revolting. But then a group of exiled German Marxists led by Max Horkheimer, Theodor Adorno, Erich Fromm and Herbert Marcuse decided to change the battlefield.
Instead of economics, they targeted the “cultural superstructure”: family, religion, tradition, sexual norms and the very idea of objective truth. Their weapon was Critical Theory - a relentless campaign of negative criticism designed to portray every Western institution as inherently oppressive and capitalism as not just economically flawed, but psychologically and morally corrupt.
Marcuse gave the strategy its most powerful tactical manual in his 1965 essay “Repressive Tolerance”: true liberation, he argued, required “liberating tolerance” - tolerance only for progressive ideas and outright intolerance for conservative or “regressive” ones. Free speech, in other words, was only legitimate when it served the revolution.
The intellectual poison of the Frankfurt School was extraordinarily influential and as its graduates and intellectual heirs colonised universities, media, NGOs and corporate HR departments, Critical Theory evolved into today’s identity politics, DEI mandates and cancel culture - a cultural Marxism that attacks the individual in the name of group grievance. What began with a small circle of German émigrés in the 1930s now shapes the moral vocabulary of much of the Western elite. The result has been a softer, more pervasive authoritarianism: the dictatorship of the politically correct.

[Buffalo Sports Talk @BUFSportsTalk]

Helenius - 20
Benson - 21
Kulich - 22
Östlund - 22
Doan - 24
Quinn - 24
Krebs - 25
McLeod - 26
Tage - 27

Power - 23
Byram - 24
Dahlin - 26
Samuelsson - 26

Nine fowards under age 28.

Top four defensemen all under age 27.

This is just the beginning.

#LetsGoBuffalo

[Maia @maiamindel]

basically every form of anything has that problem, the simpsons is now written by people whose only background is in watching the simpsons, snl with snl, star wars with star wars, pop music with pop music

[Seamus (FreedomToons) @seamus_coughlin]

I invest 1 dollar. Inflation happens. Now everything that once cost 1 dollar costs 2 dollars. So my stock is now worth 2 dollars.

I sell the stock. The government says I profited 1 dollar. They tax me on it.

But I didn't profit. I broke even while they destroyed the dollar.

[The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox]

Stephen A. Smith says he’ll never forget when two politicians ripped each other apart on TV, only to later spot them together at a restaurant “laughing it up.”

“I was in a booth next to them. And they were like, ‘That was some DAMN GOOD TELEVISION.’”

Smith says things on TV got “really bad” and “ugly.” So intense that you felt like you needed security on standby because they were “going to come to blows.”

But after the cameras stopped rolling, Smith says he spotted the same politicians “laughing it up” and “clanking glasses,” bragging about how they got “everybody fooled.”

Smith says this was a moment that “changed” his life politically forever. He couldn’t believe it.

He realized: “The more division you have, the more control you have because you’re forcing folks to pick a side.”

[Dennis Williams @dwilliams3bc]

I think the #Sabres dodged a bullet getting to see Alex Tuch in the playoffs. Everything moves faster and he looked slow. Imagine if they gave him all that money at 30 years old. It’s not bad luck with no points in 7 games of the playoffs it’s data.

[Jonah Ahrens @TSR_Jonah]

Proof of everything the Sabres built this season.

Pause the video and zoom in on any face in the crowd. Can’t find anyone over the age of 30.

This season alone did the legwork of 4-5 normal ‘good’ seasons. A whole new generation is here.

[Rockpile Report @RockpileReport]

This.

Buffalo sports teams don't just "lose".

They find ways to give you hope first, so that when they hit you with a unique & jarring brand of failure at the end it doesn't just sadden you - it genuinely hurts.

[Tyler @politicstcan]

In the four elimination games the Habs have played in, they have been out xG'd 18-10. They have gone 2-0 in game 7s with a 29% xG share.

[HockeyStatCards @hockeystatcards]

Final series impact card for the Buffalo Sabres after losing the Canadiens 3-4

[johnny franchise @johnjoseph_7]

@CaptainCrutch2 Don’t pay him anything. Let someone else sink their salary cap for the next 8 years.

[The Tribal Chief @TheSchmidtShow4]

@DobberHockey As long as Tuch and UPL leave we have a bright future

[Jim Rome @jimrome]

Buffalooooo, nooooo! Not again! How much heartbreak can one city endure?! #Montreal #NHL