Gil Thorp by Henry Barajas and Rachel Merrill for October 22, 2024

P1: Disco dancing in the void.

P2: Opponent wearing a jersey with blue jeans and a belt.

P3: Mudlarks performing an interpretive dance.

I’m trying to give the new artist a chance to grow on me. It’s a struggle.

Patience …

More crap announcing. “Clinch the night”? And “3:15 minutes left on the clock”? That one should be shortened to “3:15 to go”. Or in college/NFL — “3:15 to go in regulation”. Finally, need to announce whether interception occurred in end zone.

P3 – Penalty on Mudlarks for Excessive Celebration-Taunting (illegal in HS).

3:15 is an eternity in football.

Milford changed jerseys and socks during the game? Editor’s note: see the 10/19 episode

P4- Referee: Coach jajaJAJA. We have unsportsmanlike like conduct on your yutes because they’re too stupid to stay disciplined and respect the game. Hey Tays! 2 for 1 dances at the club tonight right?

This sports strip is now being written and drawn by two people who know nothing about sports.

Artist or writer(using those terms loosely)? Which is worse?Black sky backdrop has to go in a stadium with a gazillion-watt lights. And the “script” is just putrid

I am usually critical here. Not today. I am simply lost for words. YEET indeed.

Those who had over 0.5 Yeets win regardless of this outcome.

3:15 is an eternity. And WTF is “Yeet”?

If there’s 3:15 left, it wouldn’t clinch anything for New Thayer even if they did score.

so did cami iron on all those numbers at halftime ? shes not good for anything else

not in my house yeet win one for the gilpa

jamie shopping for a costume would be better then this horrible football action

I must say, Henry’s sports knowledge is improving.

He knows as we all do that no team in the history of football has ever come back to win after trailing with 3:15 to go in the game.

(New Thayer quarterback): “YEET! I should have thrown it to my receiver that was covered by that Torch guy.”

Uncle Andy will be so proud of Oscar when the news travels across the pond

Wiktionary advises that “yeet” is “A type of dance involving dipping one’s shoulder and swinging both hands out, while an audience repeatedly chants ‘YEET yah, yah, yah, yah’.”

I assume that that is what is being drawn.

I’m surprised nobody has mentioned that 3:15 is a lot of time left considering it must be a one score game. (I’m being sarcastic.) And if Milford is ahead, which I’m guessing, but hopefully not, a Tilden score would have put them ahead by less than a touchdown and in no way iced the game. If Tilden is ahead and the score would have put them ahead by more than a touchdown to ice it (although still not really a certainty), then Milford still has to drive the length of the field to win or tie.

Also, how come interception guy isn’t celebrating with the team? There’s nobody with sleeves in P3. And yes, teams do the stupid pose for the camera thing after a turnover in the NFL. That is accurate. Also in college but not on the field. But not in high school.

And, finally, “YEET!” is apparently becoming a team rallying cry, because the kid that’s been saying it up until today was not black. Actually, the kid yelling “YEET!” is also wearing Leo’s number from yesterday, and he’s not black either. And speaking of black, your day feels black when you don’t read Mopped Up Thorp.

moppedupthorp.wordpress.com/2024/10/22/wrong-time-to-audition/

Credit again to merril. They are livening up these game strips.

Marty’s stuck in Milford because of bad play-by-play writing.

allegedly, the word is used to express sardonic humor. “look, the ’rents forgot to replace the spare tire in the trunk, YEET!”

YEET is the new GRAH.

In high school football, there are several rules for celebrations on the field, including: No strutting or pointing: After a tackle or quarterback sack, players cannot strut or point. No prancing or end zone dancing: After a touchdown, players cannot prance or dance in the end zone. No outside props: Players cannot use outside props to celebrate. No leaving the team box: Players who are not on the active roster for the game cannot leave the team box to celebrate. No excessive celebration: Excessive celebration is considered unsporting and is a concern of the rules committee. Excessive celebration can include delaying the game or drawing attention to oneself.

I can’t take it anymore. After many decades, I’ve read this comic for the last time. Good bye Gil Thorp.

Let’s ask the moron that is now writing this strip…