ARP OF THE LIVING DEAD
This is the movie we’d like to watch this weekend.
A quiet farmhouse in the southeast corner of Georgia. Crickets do not chirp in the dead air of a tepid evening.
MARK RICHT stands on the porch with his quarterback MATT STAFFORD.
MR: Coming here was a great idea, Matt.
MS: Yup, coach.
MR: Just a quiet place to get the team away from the craziness in Jacksonville. And only one bridge to get in and out of this island! Crazy, isn’t it? No one will be able to bother us here.
MS: Nope, coach. ‘Specially since I blew up the bridge on the way in.
MR: What?
MS: Yup. Was trying to throw to A.J. Green. Missed and hit the bridge. Took the whole thing out.
MR: Well, you go get yourself another Nutty Buddy, Matt. I’m sure we won’t need to get out of here in a hurry in the middle of the night, anyway.
KNOWSHON MORENO walks over. He has a concerned look on his face.
KM: Have you seen my dog? He went into the woods, and he hasn’t come back.
MR: I’m sure he’s just off lookin’ for a new girlfriend, Knowshon. Let’s get some dinner and settle in for the night.
One and a half hours later.
KM: It’s a dog face. Your pinkie is the jaw.
MR: Knowshon, let’s let Matthew get one for a change.
MS: A dragon!
MR: Close! Look hard. Rhymes with “dawg.”
MS: CHARADES IS HARD.
KM: Wait…do you hear that?
A dull groaning starts up from outside. The rest is silence.
KM: Coach, what do we do?
MR: I think we should just look out the front door. What could possibly be out there?
He opens the door.
ZOMBIE CHRIS RAINEY: WHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIITE GIIIIIIIIIIIIIIRRRRRLS UHHHHHHHNNNNNNNGGGGGGG…
MR: Okay, let’s just stay cool, everyone. Matt, grab that gun and aim for the head.
MS: What are we doing with a shotgun?
MR: Well, someone bought out all the assault rifles (nudges head at oncoming orange and blue zombie horde), so it was all I could buy before coming out here. Aim for the head and let ‘er rip.
MS: But I thought their secondary was their weakness–
MR: Just fire it, Matt.
Matt Stafford drops back, turns his back to the zombies, and then unleashes a powerful and authoritative shotgun blast four feet above the mob’s collected heads.
NFL Scout: (applauses, makes note in notebook) Did you see that power? First round, here you come. He turned his back to the zombies!
Knowshon Moreno vaults an onrushing zombie Brandon Spikes and beheads him with a shovel.
KM: There’s too many of them. PUNT! Head to the second floor!
Richt swings wildly with the severed left arm of Asher Allen.
MR: To the second floor, boys. We’ll figure this out.
MS: They’re so tiny! And there’s so many of them!
MR: LOOK OUT MAAAAAATT!!!
ZOMBIE JEFF DEMPS: PUNT…UNNNGGGHHH…BLOCKED….UNGGHHHHH
MS: I knew we’d run out of left tackles eventually. (Is devoured by zombies midget running backs.)
MR: NOOOOOOOO!!! HE WAS LIKE DAVID GREENE, BUT WITH TALENT!!!
KM: He’s not Matthew anymore Coach. Let’s get to higher ground. (Does Soulja Boy, decapitates multiple defenders with Shaolin Spade on the “YOUUUU” of each chorus.)
They grab backup qb Joe Cox and head upstairs.
KM: Okay. Let’s look alive. Keep your wits about you. Look left, look right, and remember: they’re not your friends anymore.
Joe Cox: Whaddya mean? Like, they’re….
MR: They’re not human anymore. Not Matthew, not the Gators. Not any of them. They want brains and nothing more. It’s all they crave, and they don’t stop until they get them.
JC: How do you know so much about zombies, Knowshon?
KM: I’m from New Jersey. Duh.
MR: JOE! BEHIND YOU!!!
JC: Hey, Matt, you look kinda under the wea–AAAAIIIIIGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!
MS: NOM NOM BACKUP SNACK NOM NOM
NFL Scout: Look at that appetite!
MR: God help us.
And so this incredible story becomes more ghastly with each report. It’s difficult to imagine such a thing actually happening, but these are the reports we have been receiving and passing on to you, reports which have been verified as completely as is possible in this confused situation.














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CincySooner says:
Zombie Chris Rainey puts his Nike Pro underpants on backwards….
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… (rainbow) the more you know. (/rainbow)
October 31st, 2008 at 12:01 pm
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CincySooner says:
Also, it looks like Demps has dressed up as a zombie hooker for halloween…
… I bet that’s how they turned Rainey.
October 31st, 2008 at 12:02 pm
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Burritobrosshits says:
Fuckin….. Nope. Can’t say anything right now.
October 31st, 2008 at 12:03 pm
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Holly says:
Georgia is supplying the butt…..and the BRAAAAAAAINS
October 31st, 2008 at 12:07 pm
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Larry Langolier says:
Pending the outcome this year, Coach Richt may get the title “The Exorcist.” Also, no jokes about brain-eating creatures starving? And shouldn’t “I blew up the bridge” be “I done blowed up the bridge?”
Happy Halloween (little known trick – if you go Trick or Treating the day after Halloween pople will give you all of their left-over candy).
October 31st, 2008 at 12:16 pm
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Larry Langolier says:
Pople obviously being people bitten by zombies.
October 31st, 2008 at 12:17 pm
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Gen. Stoopnagle says:
Spooky.
It’s eeirely quiet in Athens today. Nothing to do ‘cept go downtown and drink…
C’mon 5 o’clock!
October 31st, 2008 at 12:33 pm
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Harris says:
Oh, shit. Not zombies. If I start ranting about that godawful Marvel Zombies limited series of which I purchased all four issues because I’m a goddamn dumbass I’ll be here all day.
October 31st, 2008 at 12:35 pm
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bj says:
not backwards, inside out.
everyone knows that those seams chafe, even for the undead.
October 31st, 2008 at 12:49 pm
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Jmuthaf'nT says:
outta all the chicks gonna be in town this weekend, you can’t find any fl/ga bunda to put up? did the wifey put an end to it or something?
October 31st, 2008 at 12:59 pm
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Der Schatten says:
Nom Nom Nom?
The last time I saw that, it was in reference to Bob Stoops and bag of certain male genitalia.
Of course, when dealing with the Baby Sex Spooner, you never know.
October 31st, 2008 at 1:08 pm
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Wooderson says:
What, no JoePa references?
October 31st, 2008 at 1:17 pm
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NativeSon says:
Brah! I so dreamed that exact same senerio, senar……. thing last night! awesome!!1!
nom nom nom nom
October 31st, 2008 at 1:29 pm
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DarinSmith says:
that was very funny. as a Dawg fan I salute you.
October 31st, 2008 at 10:27 pm
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SkersFan says:
Wooo Dogs Sic’em AARP AARP AARP
November 1st, 2008 at 9:02 pm
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sha-mac says:
My internets time has been severely lacking this past week but I knew I had to stop over here after the glorious kicking of the butt at the WLOCP yesterday, so I am coming to this belatedly.
But holy shitballs, I am weeping of laughter. Bravo, Orson. Looking forward to a gloriously sweet week of taunting and ridiculing.
November 2nd, 2008 at 10:35 pm