Pointers for The Apocalypse – Monday Open Thread

The NFL starts in ten days, while we’re still in the homestretch of hurricane season. I saw no NFL items of note, while Ida struck Louisiana as a Category 4 hurricane, destroying the electrical grid. Having once gone four months without electricity at home, and several weeks without water service,

Subsequent GTD reflections

Hello there fellow DFO'er.  Hope you're well today.  And thanks for coming back to see last weeks comments of the week as decided by my brain.  There's no reason as to why some comments make it and others don't.   I just realised, even though I'm the commish for the fantasy football(FF)

AFL Beat 2021 AFL Week 23

Welcome to Balls of Steel's AFL Beat! We've gotten to the end of the Home and Away Season! Finals start this week. Let's see what happened. *** AFL 2021 Season Week 23 Recaps Western Bulldogs 64 - 66 Port Adelaide Power This was the first of many crazy and exciting games this weekend. Port

Your Miami Dolphins Preview: It’s starting to feel like the 90’s again

Wazzzzzzup! Fellow DFOers, you know how pop culture is all about the 90s right now? Well, this Miami Dolphins team is starting to remind me of the 90s Dolphins: They're actually good! For the first time since the Taliban was firmly in charge of Afghanistan, this Miami Dolphins team looks

Subsequent GTD reflections

Hello there fellow DFO'er.  Hope you're well today.  And thanks for coming back to see last weeks comments of the week as decided by my brain.  There's no reason as to why some comments make it and others don't.   Looked at the calendar and it's like 3 weeks until LaboUr day. 

AFL Beat 2021 AFL Week 22

Welcome to Balls of Steel's AFL Beat! The Finals picture is taking shape. Let's see what happened. *** AFL 2021 Season Week 22 Recaps GWS Giants 106 - 67 Richmond Tigers The Giants put one giant boot on the cockroach-like Finals chances for the Tigers. Funnily enough, other results assured that the Tigers are

Sexy Friday, Post-Olympics edition!

I've decided to switch up the format of Sexy Friday a little bit. Change is good. Go with me here. One reason is that I've found that I need a space to put some stuff out there that doesn't fall into the traditional post categories. I've done serials with tWBS,

Subsequent GTD reflections

Hello there fellow DFO'er.  Hope you're well today.  And thanks for coming back to see last weeks comments of the week as decided by my brain.  There's no reason as to why some comments make it and others don't.   Not sure what's on my mind today to share.  Anything that's bouncing

AFL Beat 2021 AFL Week 21

Welcome to Balls of Steel's AFL Beat! We had some major upsets this week. Let's see what happened. *** AFL 2021 Season Week 21 Recaps Geelong Cats 65 - 84 GWS Giants Because I wake up early for work, I tuned in at the start of the third quarter when GWS were leading by 31.

HARF HARF WHAT’S (VERY) OLD IS… OLD AGAIN: YOUR 2021 YINZBURGH STILLERS WHO KNOWS

December 2, 2020 Stillers: 19 Ratbirds: 14 The Stillers were 11-0, the longest undefeated streak to open a season in franchise history, and the only team without a loss left in THE NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE. The Yinzers weren't exactly the '85 Bears, but, were finding ways to win and win and

Sexy Friday, Almost the end of the Olympics edition!

I've greatly enjoyed the Olympics. I think I've enjoyed them more because the coverage is more focused on the action itself instead of all the hoopla around it. I haven't seen one story about sex in the Olympic Village and I'm really happy about that. Which brings me

25 Questions About…

The Ghana Skateboarding commercial has been getting shown on the NBC Sports App whenever I've been watching Olympic events on it. For those of you that have not seen it, here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPa1efitpsA There is also a 2 minute version that adds more backstory to some of the characters.