Kayvon Sends Goodell To Hell
I learned something watching the Giants first draft pick that I somehow didn’t know before. Kayvon Thibodeaux is cool as shit. He strutted onstage, flabbergasted the hell out of Goodell with a crazy handshake, and then got in a hype match with the Make-A-Wish kid who announced the pick. Draft pick swagger is nothing new but then I finally watched clips of Kayvon talking to people and…yeah, if he doesn’t bust, we just drafted our new Strahan. Dude is already smoother on camera in interviews than people who have been in the booth for years. Stud. I love him.
It also made me think about Goodell for a bit. Is the NFL draft’s first round the best night of the year as commish? Goodell never looks particularly happy when he has to go out there and be a public face…except at the draft. To be fair, if Goodell is facing the media, it’s usually to address something bad the NFL is covering up but not always. But he genuinely looks like he has a good time at the draft. No doubt it’s probably stressful but getting to stand on stage and welcome all these new players who are effectively having their dreams fulfilled that night seems like it might actually be fun. Considering his usual gig is being a puppet and manager of billionaire egos while also being the public whipping boy, a few hours getting to celebrate vicariously with these kids and shake hands has got to be up there. I’d probably have fun if I was in that position that night. Read some names, get chest bumped by large happy men, good times.
Since we have officially entered the offseason dark zone here’s where I put out the idea request call! Got something on your mind you want to see a comic on? Especially a lateral throwback topic? Hit me up down there in the comments. We got a few months of nothing to get through so let’s do some planning.
Well if your taking requests, I’m sure the 07 NFC Championship has some great possibilities for jokes.
How about the 1999 AFC Championship Game and Jacksonville’s struggles against Tennessee that season.
For context: The 99 Jaguars ended the year at 13-3, They were Perfect versus everyone else, but the Titans refused to bend to their will, and they never got punished.
Edit I meant 14-2
Mike vick making friends with dogs
Vick gets saved by Paw Patrol
Another one of those crashing bandwagon comics, except this time it’s the Rams and the 49ers. Bonus points if the 49er on the road is all bandaged up
Request for Scott Norwood’s Missed Kick, Barry Sanders, The First Thanksgiving Game,
Noooooooooooo. Poor Norwood. Never vilified as much as Buckner but still.
It’s not football, but Cincinnati Reds ownership gutting the team and insulting fans resulting in a historically bad losing streak/season. It’s moving from rage-inducing to just plain hilarious.
Lateral ideas:
NFL: The Comeback. Bills Super Bowl losses.
Personally I wouldn’t mind an Aaron Rodgers-esque comic regarding the Bengals playoff loss streak.
Baker Mayfield as a squatter in the Baker at Home Commercials
we got a winner!
Only if Baker’s wife is visibly disgruntled at him for losing his job to someone like Watson.
I like it
I love this idea
idk if it got deleted so I’ll repost again, but:
Wayne Gallman once claimed Eli Manning farted in his face, and like how can you NOT take advantage of that? https://nypost.com/2020/12/06/giants-wayne-gallman-eli-manning-once-farted-in-my-face/
Also your idea a few months ago about coaches whose names start with “Mc”: https://twitter.com/DrawPlayDave/status/1490892988230234115
I want to see Kayvon Thibodeaux face off with Deion Sanders for most self-confident swagger.
Oh something about the Music City Miracle lateral would be great.
My Dad is a Bills fan and this would drive him up the wall.
At least we have the NHL & NBA playoffs before we’re fully dark until early September.
The draft if it was all one day would be funny. Goodell would be out there with his tie undone and jacket off, squinting to read the cards.
The USFL has had some fun games. Between these new teams, old names we see again, and Mike Perira being their head of officiating you could make some there.
If the Make a Wish kid not only got to announce the pick, but make it. Have him pick some meme player or someone else funny.
I want that old Vikings player that went on an old man rant in the 3rd Round to announce every pick. Extend the Draft to a whole month.
How about a lateral shout-out for all those kickers who have won extremely tight/important games, but then everybody forgets about in favor of the QB or some other exciting player? (like how everyone forgets Vinateri won Tom Brady’s first 2 super bowls by making clutch kicks… which nobody talks about today)
I remember people giving all the credit to Vin.
I would love to see one on Kenny Pickett moving next door with the Steelers and/or Aiden Hutchinson being everything Michigan from his hometown, college, and now the Lions.
-I think you’ve already done a Vikings boat party comic, right?
-This is an idea for a long comic you probably won’t use but might get your creative juices flowing: You could do one where an Arnold-model Terminator from an irradiated future wasteland (with littered newspapers on the ground with headlines about the Bills dynasty winning its 5th Super Bowl) travels back in time to force approval the sale of the Bills to Donald Trump at gunpoint so that he stays out of politics. When he gets to the boardroom, he discovers that the A.I. that Putin uploaded his consciousness to before Judgment Day also sent back a T-1000 to prevent the Terminator from changing history. A battle ensues and the T-1000 gets put through a table that is also for some reason is also straddling a smelting vat. As the Terminator lowers himself into the pit, he warns Goodell and the others about the future and charges them with preventing it.
Smash cut to 2014-ish Putin in the Kremlin, as a time portal opens and Bill and Ted, Marty McFly and Doc Brown, the “Endgame” Avengers, H.G. Wells, and President Zelenskyy all step through to kick his ass.
Smash cut to the present, with ESPN talking heads talking about the absolute clown show in Buffalo and how the playoff drought continues. Show Bills fans at the bar asking each other if it ever feels like their suffering feels predestined by the universe for some higher purpose.
Stop me if you already did these:
-A comic about Tebow’s OT playoff win?
-A comic about the Colts’ swinging gate punt play?
https://www.thedrawplay.com/comic/demaryius-thomas-takes-it-home/
https://www.thedrawplay.com/comic/it-belongs-in-a-museum/
Thanks!
Re: The Terminator comic:
Of course, the present day part with the Bills fans needs some reassurance that the only pain in the world is their fandom, like someone changes the channel and hears a reporter say “How the U.S. kept Covid rates at record lows, vaccination rates nearing 98%, unprecedented peace around the world, etc. (But done in a funny way, obviously!)
He did the swinging gate, idk if he did the OT playoff win
Its the offseason. Time for Craziness.
Give us a Marquette King v “The Punt King” comic , where they get interrupted by McAfee on a Throne of Balls!
I’d like to see a lateral on Elway’s helicopter spin, that might be fun.
Off-season non-lateral comic ideas:
1) Rule changes we’d like to see
2) Bandwagon guide for former Browns fans
I’d love to see a comic about the Sam Wyche “you don’t live in Cleveland” bit.
Maybe since it’s the offseason, you could do a non-lateral comic about the decline of the Madden video game series.
A rooting tier list like the one you did during this past season, but updated (gotta knock the Browns down a few tiers) and with some more detail as to why you like/dislike/despise the very existence of each team. You could also turn it into a comic or several (one for the AFC and one for the NFC? One for each division?), but even just a sentence or something for each team would be great.
You should do a comic based on Johnny Football throwing a touchdown pass to Terrell Owens in the FCF, and how that headline would be completely incompressible to anyone a decade ago.
Comic idea:
Backup Quarterbacks around the league start a revolution against their starters. Led by Mike Glennon and Jacoby Brisett, they form a shadow squad and pick off starters across the league. But what’s this?!? Goodell’s been tipped off! The QB’s are being Protected… there’s a mole within the Shadow League of Untapped Potential (SLUP). WHO? WHO IS IT? Oh no… the backups are surrounded. GM’s with paper shredders prepared to axe their meager contracts. Pass rushers prepared to kill. Maim. Destroy.
But then, from the shadows he emerges… M-Marcus? MARIOTA? How?? Why??
“For thirty (million) pieces of silver (dollars) I have handed you over. Now, Mike Glennon, you are of no more use to me. You foolish fool.”
Matiota Laughs maniacally in the last panel as the GM’s stuff Glennon into one of the paper shredders.
Comic ends.
Do it Dave.
Lateral idea: 2003 NFC Divisional, Carolina at St Louis, Carolina wins late in 2OT off a 62 yard pass-play to Steve Smith affectionately called “X-Clown.:
Also: Sam Mills and the Keep Pounding Speech.
If we’re talking non NFL sports, how about that backup for the Penguins being thrust into goal halfway through the second OT last night? Dude was sitting for 4 hours and then had to blank the Rangers.
Another idea, QBs start showing up at Kurt Warner’s house to be mentored.
Honestly, I’m still wanting to see crazy florida man brady make an appearance. Always my biggest hope to see someday.
Honestly, I’ve been hoping someday to see comings with Brady with a new florida man character. Instead of the old boring “oh no pats are gonna win this” thing, just have him getting drunk losing the lombardi like he did in the parade, or something.
MIND CRUSH!
Can you do the time when Harry Carson was going to retire early on to join the air force due to how bad the Giants were before the LT era? It hasn’t been talked about much and I’d like to see someone lampooning it.
Or the time in 1993 draft when teams drafted busts over Strahan thinking he would never catch on.
Bon Jovi buys any team – what happens. Could be a series!
Or a prequel to “Ringless Rivers”
“Da Blingless Dan”? With Elway, Montana, and Aikman (though given too much credit) bullying Marino into suicide.
You should pick a random season from the 80s or 90s, watch every game you can find in order, and make somics as if was unfolding real time.
KT getting hyped with the kid was fukin amazing can’t wait to see him on the field
A year-by-year of the 70s-80s Packers to relish in the times when they were bad (similar to the Rodgers Playoffs comic) might be an interesting trip.
Sterling Sharpe wrecked his spine carrying that team.
Side by side comparison between Elway and Eli’s draft day shenanigans.
As best as I can tell, you don’t have a check down about Bo Jackson. I feel like the Chuck Norris-esque stories about his incredible athletic feats could provide some good material