No True Raiders Fan

INT. PACIFIC-UNION CLUB - DAY A trio of well-dressed gentlemen sit in comfortable chairs around a table in the cigar room of an exclusive private club in downtown San Francisco.  Two of them hold snifters of some kind of liquid, while the third puffs away at a cigar made of a

Balls of Steel’s AFL Beat – 2017 Round 13

We are at the halfway point, the dreaded byes are over, and we can finally make some definitive statements about this year's competition and the prospects for every team going forward.  This is going to be fun.  Let's dive in! Welcome to Balls of Steel's AFL Beat! Round 13 Let's start things off

Your “Congratulations On Knocking Up Mom Day” Sunday Evening Open Thread

Greetings and Salutations, my imaginary friends. For those of you whose seed was mighty enough to further the overpopulation of the planet, congrats.  For some of you, just having sex should be lauded...let alone actually having one of your swimmers plant its flag.  So, here's to you...I guess. For some of you,

Sunday Gravy with yeah right: Heute Habin Wir Jagerschnitzel und Spätzle. Ja!

Guten tag DFO! Wie gehts? Alright, I'll go ahead and do this in English instead. German is one of the languages I fuck around with a bit. I had 5 years of German classes between junior high and high school. Mostly because in high school if you took German 3 (DREI!)

TGISF…aka “¡Oh Dios mío! Sólo el Béisbol y el Golf?” Sexy Friday Open Thread

So what should our theme be this week?  Wednesday was Flag Day, so I considered doing the USA/Red,White,Blue/Stars n Stripes type thingy.  But that would just shit on Independence Day in a few weeks.  You know, kinda the way "Independence Day: Resurgence" shat on last year's Independence Day. Jeebus that movie

Fun with Nick Hardwick: A Liar’s Guide for Moving to LA 3 – Carson Drift

Last week, former San Diego Chargers radio color commentator and long time center, Nick Hardwick, announced that he would be doing a complete and total about-face on his decision to call games for the second NFL team in Los Angeles. This is rather surprising, considering the fact that Hardwick had

Your “Out For Summer, Out ’til Fall, I Might Not Come Back At All” Thursday Evening Open Thread

NFL News: How was Jeremy Maclin cut from the Chiefs? By voicemail. To be fair to Andy Reid, he might've thought he'd called a BBQ joint and was ordering a cut of beef. The Rams traded former 2014 first-round draft pick Greg Robinson to the Lions for a sixth-round pick

MIDWEEK RATIONS EP: IX – SO, WHAT’S FOR DINNER?

You're goddamn right it's beef; and by beef, I mean the way true 'muricans eat it.  Big, thick slabs grilled to perfection.  By perfection I mean medium rare, or medium at the most.  I'm talking, of course, about steak.  What could be more Yankee Doodle-esque than that? That's right, medium rare.