[feels a bit icky making a baseball-related reference] Damn, I like this 7:10 (eastern) starting time. Sometimes my extraordinarily strict post-work beer, scotch, cider, wine and martini regimen catches up to me and the world starts spinning and the games (yes, the games) lose their focus and I have to find
Month: September 2016
“I did it so you don’t have to” – A Boots On The Ground Seahawks Game Experience
I, like most of you, enjoy the NFL. I also like attending the events, because museums and airplanes are full of babies, tourists and germs. Given the relatively high rates of vaccination in the US, combined with actually having had most airborne communicable diseases as a child, I find spending the
Instant Hippo Thoughts – Week 1, 2016
Balls of Steel’s AFL Beat – Finals Week 1
Oh kids, do we have some great stuff this week! Gather around and let Ole Balls tell you about this weekend's finals games! Welcome to Balls of Steel's AFL Beat! We start off with the surprise of Finals Week 1. Going in, few people, me included, thought that the Western Bulldogs would
Your Sunday Night NFL Football “Piece Of Resistance” Open Thread
Your Late Afternoon Trifecta Of NFL Games
Mia/Sea-Arian Foster has looked fantastic in pre-season for the Dolphs but the Seahawks will be interlocking their arms for peace? justice? hope? I don't think it's been thought through-how the hell can anyone catch a fish that's thrown their way as happens on a regular basis in that city? Prediction?
Your Early Afternoon NFL Football Slate
Sunday Morning Appetizers
Welcome all to the first NFL Sunday of the year. It's been about 7 months since we had one, so savor it. College football Saturday featured some ranked teams falling to unranked ones, most significantly the Central Michigan Chippewas over OK State. Big 12 is having a rough start to the
One More Down!
♫ ...set to the music of "One Day More" from Les Miserables... ♫ JIMMY HASLAM One day more! Another day, another felony Much less a franchise than a laund-ery And though I've made a mint from crime I still refuse to spend a dime One day more! HAL HUNTER (OFFENSIVE LINE COACH) The blocking scheme has gone awry It's like the Red
Enjoy Thine First EPL/JV NFL Combo Platter of 2016
Fuck you, you KNOW you can/will/do always take an extra helping. /before writing this, set my DVR for Syracuse/Maryland Friday Night ACC craptacular, to give myself something to "look forward to" when I get back from my daughter's cross country event. Squeezing in a mini-Hippo Thought about my Donks' opener...it's mystifying in
