Morning Cup Of Joe
April 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.
NFL now allows four games a season for teams to wear alternate uniforms. Does that mean the Bucs will break out Bucco Bruce and the Creamsicles more often? [PFT]
Browns owner confesses he effed up trading for Deshaun Watson. [CBS]
Dolphins say they are planning on Cheetah Hill being on the team this fall. [Yahoo!]
Drama queen Aaron Rodgers and DK Metcalf working out together. [NFL]
How did this dude survive? [TikTok]
NFL looking at playing a game in the United Arab Emirates. What could possibly go wrong? [USA Today]
Coming to a sideline near you: So, is Talia Baia going to give a Gators walk-on basketball player a piece of her first big post-graduate contract? Because he sure made her career. And in case Baia doesn’t know it, just a tip from Joe who has spent decades in media: Baia working in radio is a complete waste. [New York Post]
NFL decreases time needed to flex a game to Thursday night games. [The Athletic]
Screamin’ Stephen A. Smith declares Nolan Richardson dead — but he’s alive! [Barstool Sports]
Coastal Carolina to offer free concessions this fall at home games. Let’s go Chanticleers! [Outkick]
So let Joe get this straight: Matt Rhule is scared of a spring game because he claims other teams will cherry pick his players (nevermind all regular season games are televised) — hey Rhule, you are bankrolled by one of the richest men in the world and already have the players in your building, how about giving them a reason to stay? — but Rhule is peeved that the NCAA won’t let Nebraska and Colorado have a joint practice/preseason game. This guy Rhule is so dizzy he doesn’t know which side is up. [College Football Network]
Wait a minute! A hot babe who played hoops at Cleveland State doesn’t know how to pour a beer? Where have we gone wrong as a society? [Instagram]
The best of Yosemite Sam. [TikTok]
A #FloridaMan dressed up like #RonaldMcDonald got arrested for trespassing … and when cops told him he looked like a clown, the guy responded, "No s***, I am a clown, stupid."
Full story HERE: https://t.co/drW6vRprGE pic.twitter.com/4AJ8vHEjKt
— TMZ (@TMZ) March 28, 2025
.@PSchrags says goodbye to GMFB ❤️ pic.twitter.com/mwaVUGkt6e
— Good Morning Football (@gmfb) March 31, 2025
April 1st, 2025 at 5:57 am
I see a whole lot of Nike clown show games coming Joe. Alternate unis my assterisk. Love more Creamcicle games though. Follow the money. Nike is laughing all the way to the bank. So is Roger and company me thinks.
Go Bucs
April 1st, 2025 at 7:28 am
The Creamsicles should be worn for all, and only, the worthless preseason games. Fans who want to wear the Creamsicles will have their chance, but the Bucs won’t be impacted by the hex during the regular season.
April 1st, 2025 at 7:54 am
I have a friend who used to do a lot of work in the UAE. Dubai. He loved it there. Very nice people, but don’t screw around.
April 1st, 2025 at 8:08 am
I am with Jim Bob Buc, wear the Creamsicles in preseason! The Bucs have won one game in those throwback jerseys against the Packers in 2009. BTW, the Bucs went 3-13 that year and since then the Bucs have gone 0 dash 5 in the Creamsicle uniforms including that embarrassing loss last year.
Look, I have been a fan since 1976 and remember watching some of those early Buc teams in the Creamsicles play at the old Sombrero with my Dad but with the exception of the “Worst to First season of ’79” and a couple of one and done playoff berths in the early ’80s under Coach McKay, the teams were historically bad thanks to putrid and miserly ownership.
I for one, was dang glad when the Glazers bought the team from the Culverhouse Trust and soon thereafter gave the uniforms a makeover in their final season at the Sombrero. Yeah, it is a marketing ploy, and fans buy the throwbacks, but the team simply cannot win in them for whatever reason.
April 1st, 2025 at 8:25 am
That kid for the Gators, Bennett Andersen, looks like he died and went to heaven as he was interviewed by Talia Baia. Anyhow, nice story about how Andersen was the hoops equipment manager for 3 seasons and then made the team as a walk-on. I have a feeling we will be seeing Baia as a sideline reporter for one of the networks/platforms after she finishes up at UF……..
April 1st, 2025 at 8:47 am
JimBobBuc has nailed it. That’s a fantastic idea, and please god don’t wear those uniforms ever again for a game that matters
April 1st, 2025 at 9:02 am
Throwback uniforms should be the first year in Pewter. That really represents the turnaround of this franchise.
April 1st, 2025 at 9:34 am
I couldn’t help but notice the lack of Middle East countries with a NFL fan base.
April 1st, 2025 at 9:55 am
Cheerleaders and guzzling beer are not big things over there.
April 1st, 2025 at 10:21 am
Playing a game in the UAE – What could go wrong? NO BEER there. That’s what could go wrong! Football and tea?
April 1st, 2025 at 11:37 am
Game in Dubai:
Will our women-folk (cheerleaders) be expected to adhere to their dress-code?
Also, lack of beer/drinks and NFL football doesn’t match our NFL culture, at least in the US.
April 1st, 2025 at 11:57 am
Instead of cannon fire for a touchdown you get AK’s fired in the air!
I know, I know, wrong middle eastern country.