Onward With the Premiership! Sabado Open Thread

King Hippo - February 13, 2021February 12, 2021

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The fixtures continue to roll, fast and furious. You get straight-up quadruple-headers today and Sunday, and a double dip on Monday. Very nice for the TV viewer. We start things with a battle for 3rd position, incumbent Foxes taking on the delightfully free-falling Redshite (7:30, NBCSN). Like all good-hearted folk, I

BattleBots Beat: Bubble Battles

Senor Weaselo - February 11, 2021February 10, 2021

Brought to you by Blake Bortles. Welcome back to the Beat! Last time out we started asking questions about 1-2 bots. Among them, Tombstone. Could Tombstone be on the bubble? Could Tombstone be out? Well, we'll find out soon enough. But in the meantime, we'll find out how big the bubble

AFL Beat 2021 AFLW Week 2

ballsofsteelandfury - February 9, 2021February 8, 2021

This week, The AFLW has pride! Welcome to Balls of Steel's AFL Beat! We are starting to see which teams are good and which ones aren't. Sharp-eyed readers will note that we got some different games from what was on the revised schedule. As you remember, the Giants and Crows had to fly

A Most Excellent Lesser Weekend Awaits! (Sabado Open Thread)

King Hippo - February 6, 2021February 5, 2021

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Good day, y'all. YES, as a matter of fact, I do still plan to boycott the Superb Owl. Thank God I am a Lesser enthusiast, as we get a full, bona fide near-quintupleheader today (and a quaddie tomorrow). Good matchups, too. Damn, I originally read the schedule as FIVE full time

BattleBots Beat: All the Horizonal Spinners, Please

Senor Weaselo - February 4, 2021February 4, 2021

Welcome back to the Beat! Last time we watched the equivalent of a mouse beating an elephant right after the saddest fight in BattleBots this season. This week we have old favorites trying to get to 1-2, and in the main event, two fan favorites trying to avoid 1-2. And

AFL Beat 2021 AFLW Week 1

ballsofsteelandfury - February 1, 2021February 1, 2021

This week, The AFLW season got started! Welcome to Balls of Steel's AFL Beat! We had some upsets, some not-so-upsets, and a lot of bone-crushing action. Let's get right to it! *** Week 1 Recaps Carlton Blues 27 - 33 Collingwood Magpies The Pies got off to a hot start in the first half only for

BattleBots Beat: For Lack of a Good Joke

Senor Weaselo - January 29, 2021January 28, 2021

Yeah, I don't have one. Writing a requiem movement does that… (it's also part of why this is late because I was zapped.) Welcome back to the Beat! Last time we saw more sparks than at a Spyro the Dragon convention, thanks to Valkyrie and Rotator; Malice did the thing; and

AFL Beat 2021 AFLW Season Preview

ballsofsteelandfury - January 26, 2021January 24, 2021

This week... We are previewing the 2021 AFLW season! [gview file="https://www.doorfliesopen.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/2021-NAB-AFLW-Competition-Fixture-Guide.pdf"] Welcome to Balls of Steel's AFL Beat! You may not recognize the competition from last year as there have been numerous changes. Let's go over them one by one: *** No More Conferences! There are still 14 teams in the competition but they are no longer

The Greatest of Pretend HonoUrs – Lesser Sabado Open Thread

King Hippo - January 23, 2021January 22, 2021

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In the Pretend Year of Our LAWD 2081, I achieved the crowning achievement of my life (Pretend or otherwise). Ground is breaking on 140,000 seat Bernard Gilkey Park. That's right, second new stadium of my long Pretend Man City tenure, and they's naming it after ME. Hey, at least now I can't

BattleBots Beat: Cue Lazer Light Show!

Senor Weaselo - January 21, 2021January 20, 2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2aUD0Rgwho Catscratch was an underrated show and deserved more than one season. DON'T AT ME. (Unfortunately Doug TenNapel… yeah.) Welcome back to the Beat! Last time, there was salt, and anger, and arguably the worst win of the season, by a bot that I currently have as a top 3 seed! The

Tuesday nights open threads

Game Time Decision - January 19, 2021January 19, 2021

What up all? As always, I hope you're as well as can be considering all the shit going on in the world these days. I try to stay away from politics, but only one more sleep until there's a new president, so that's a plus, i think. I'm hoping it's

Hockey and Hooch Thursday night open thread

litre_cola - January 14, 2021January 14, 2021

Are you a toothless drunk named Gary? Do you like watching toothless ice football players? Do you like booze? Have we* got a rushed, poorly researched, barely thought about, quarter assed post for you. Get well soon BeerGuyRob Here at DFO we quizzed the masses** and asked what drink would you