DFO Radio: Exit Music (For a Season)

This week's special edition of Request Line was intended to deliver some much-needed catharsis to those of us who witnessed the most inexplicable choke job in the history of the Super Bowl, and for myself I'm happy to say that it really did help.  I haven't felt much of an

Better Know a Mythical Woodland Creature: Romonculus

As we delve deeper and deeper into the postseason, we're also going to be delving deeper and deeper into DFO's mythological pantheon.  This week, we'll be taking a look at one of the most ephemeral creatures to make occasional appearances on the gridiron, the Romonculus.   Species Name: Romo Sapiens Individual Names: Leon Lettucewin,

Your “WAKE UP, IT’S TIME FOR FOOTBALL!” AFC Championship Game Open Thread

  GENERAL: Mr. President, Agent Scotchnaut is pinned down in Bucharest and can’t post the Open Thread this afternoon! PRESIDENT RIKKI-TIKKI-DEADLY: [pulls up pants] I’ll handle...wait.  This seems familiar. GENERAL: He's getting 418'd!  THERE'S NO TIME! PRESIDENT RIKKI-TIKKI-DEADLY: Fine, fine, sheesh.  You know, when my Russian handlers coerced me I signed up for this job of my own

A Team Without a Franchise Quarterback is Like a Patriots Team Without a Gritty, Scrappy, Lunchpail Type Guy Playing Slot Receiver

Editor's Note: This song, with minor tweaks, was composed by reddit user A_Participant, and I was so moved that I decided to package it along with some images.  Enjoy!  BILL BELICHICK The name's Belichick, Bill Belichick, and I come before you general managers tonight with a trade proposal.  Probably the greatest [turns

Lambolton: The Musical

NARRATOR: [with musical intonation] The year...is two thousand and sixteen.  Two. Zero. sixteen.  The Cleveland Browns, flirting with the greatest triumph of numerical symmetry of the new millennium, lead the San Diego Chargers by a score of twenty to seventeen midway through the fourth quarter. A Chargers drive stalls deep

…But The Tigers Come at Night…

There was a time when I first signed... When the air was warm... And the town inviting... There was a time when love was blind... And Cleveland had a song, And the song was exciting! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJ3plaSowWc There was a time... Then it all went wrong.   Editor's note: This post has been in the "drafts" folder for about five weeks now