Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for January 02, 2024

What is that? One for three? Sounds about right.

Arlo’s skills are better than an air ball?

How are you when opponents are present?

Arlo would be the guy the other team would like to foul.

The average yearly salary in the NBA is around $8.5M.

By comparison, Arlo would be worth $15-20k for pushing out the racks of practice balls for the pre-game shootaround.

Even Michael Jordon missed bout 40% of the time.

He would make a good bricklayer.

Is that the going rate for bench warmers?

Keep your day job!

Maybe AARP is starting a league?

That’s all I’m asking for as a back-up quarterback for the Vikings.

Those benches aren’t going to warm themselves.

Recently finished a John Grisham audiobook, Playing for Pizza about a thoroughly unemployable former third-string quarterback who ends up playing for a semi-pro team in Parma, Italy. He doesn’t always get pizza after a game, but he does get 40K Euros for less than a year’s work, plus a furnished apartment and a car.

It’s “semi-pro” in the sense that each team’s American players get paid, but the Italian players don’t. By league rules, teams are allowed to up to 3 Americans.

I enjoyed it, except for the play-by-play of games, especially the last game they played. Not a fan of “Football Americano”, so a lot was so much “reverse the polarity of the theta radiation beam” to me. I know what things like “First and goal” and “Hail Mary” mean, but not much else.

Presumably it all made sense to fans; Grisham played football in school (college, too, maybe) and probably watches NFL games. So if you’re a football fan, you’ll likely enjoy the play-by-play, too.

Shaq had a lousy free throw

Arlo would be a shoo-in for the Detroit Pistons.

Now to work on developing a terrible personality and ego.. on second thought, don’t do it, Arlo!

OK, Christmas was a week ago…and Arlo is playing basketball in the driveway, with greenery all around and he is not wearing a coat. Miraculous.

Fifteen or twenty thousand what? ☺

Amazingly, the minimum salary is one million.

I object! it’s still football until after the “Big game”.

New year, new delusions.

The Pistons might take him

Based on his accuracy level I’d say….maybe grade school level……..maybe!

Is that what they pay halftime entertainment?

To Jimmy Johnson I just want to say “Thanks” you been a great help

I own the original art for this strip. :-)

beau brick

I thought Arlo took the garage hoop down a couple of years ago?

They might let you drive the dust mop …