Saturday Night Off-season Open Thread 21: Watch AFL!

Seriously, if you’re upset about the lack of sports this time of year, you absolutely need to be watching the AFL and the CFL. There’s no excuse.

Today’s topic is “shit we had/did when I was growing up that kids today will never have.”

People today see that picture and think, “why hasn’t the city fixed that???” I look at it and think, “where’s my bike?” If I couldn’t get air over that vault, I’d consider myself a failure.

If you had balls, you would attempt a flip. If you had stones, you would attempt a BACK flip.

Short shorts, tube socks, and half shirts. I used to ROCK a Semi-Tough half shirt!

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Golf Update

My local club has a summer-long single elimination Match Play tournament. My first match was on Thursday afternoon. I took the afternoon off work and so did my opponent.

The match was scheduled for 9 holes with handicaps being utilized. Since I’m a 30 and opponent is a 26, I got a stroke advantage on three holes.

On the Par 4 first hole, we both got off to a rough start with 7s. However, this was one of the holes I got an advantage on, so I won the hole. I got a par on the second, third, and fourth holes, so I beat my opponent straight up on those holes.

I was 4 up going into the Par 3 Fifth. My opponent got a 4 and I had a five foot putt to tie him, but I missed it and he clawed one back. Then, in the Par 5 Sixth, I hit a clean drive, a brilliant second shot, and got on the fringe in three. He finished with a seven and I tapped in for a 6 and the win.

I will find out next week who my new opponent is. I’ll keep you posted on how I do.

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Politics Politics Politics Politics

As one of our brilliant commentists, fleshwound_NPG, put it perfectly: Biden is about to get Khrushchev’ed. It’s just a matter of when, not if.

On the other side, Trump apparently embarrassed himself further (as if that was actually possible) during his rambling speech at the RNC. It is clear neither of these two should be president.

If Biden steps away, as is widely expected, who will take over on the Democratic side? I say anyone but Kamala. My personal thought is that the Governor of Michigan has the best shot at winning. What say you?

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Today, some of the SoCal DFO crew got together for some AM drinking at Joe Jost in Long Beach.

I met up with the illustrious Brick Meathook and the equally talented (though in different fields) Yeah Right. A good time was had and multiple schooners of beer, root beer (on tap!), bags of home-roasted peanuts, and Joe’s Specials were consumed.

I really liked the place. I commented to the boys that it was a lot of people OUR age. Yeah Right added that they were all OUR skin color too, which was interesting. There was lots of Milfy goodness around, which made for nice scenery. We’ll have to go back…

Please note there are no Arsenal flags…

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As a quick reminder, the full Summer of Soccer schedule is below. The Olympics start soon!

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Your weekly Psych gif:

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Your weekly hot girl pic:

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Your weekly music video:

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One last thing: