Balls on ASSignment: Thursday Night Football Review Week Three

Welcome back! Last night we had the Prototypical Thursday Night Football game. The one. The only. It could only be the Jacksonville Jaguars vs the Tennessee Titans. The game no one wants to watch on Thursday Night. For those of you that stayed up with us

A Modest Proposal for the Miami Dolphins

"Hey Wakey, did you catch the Dolphins game?" a friend on Facebook will ask me, presumably with a shit eating grin on their face because they saw on the sports ticker that Miami lost their second straight game by over 6 touchdowns. For the second straight week, I will have answered

AFL Beat 2019 Finals Week Two

This week, Two stayed alive, two went home. Wait, seriously, AGAIN?!? Wait, you too?!? We had two thrilling Semi-Finals. Let's get right to it! Welcome to Balls of Steel's AFL Beat! Finals Week Two started with the first of the two Semi Finals to be played: West Coast Eagles against the Geelong Cats at

Balls on ASSignment: Thursday Night Football Review Week Two

Welcome back! Like the swallows to San Juan Capistrano, we return each year in the hope that Thursday Night Football will be better. Last night we got the Carolina Panthers against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in a NFC South showdown that was delayed by lightning, degenerated into a political

AFL Beat 2019 Finals Week One

This week, Two stayed alive, two went home. Wait, again?!? And here are your new Premiership favourites! We had four games with all Eight teams playing and two teams going home. Lots happened. Let's get right to it! Welcome to Balls of Steel's AFL Beat! Finals Week One started with the first of the

Balls on ASSignment: Thursday Night Football Review Week One

So, that was a game last night, wasn't it? Contrary to popular opinion, that was a real football game that counted in the standings and not just another pre-season game that season-ticket holders were forced to pay full price for. For those of you that stayed up with us and

WTF with…

So, like many of you, I'm sitting here watching TV and I see things that make me say WHAT THE.... (please note they don't let me swear in the first 40 words). Anywhoo, I figured I'd start a new occasional series of posts having to do with the weird things in

AFL Beat 2019 Pre-Finals Bye Week

This week, Here we go!! Who's still #1? And here is your All-Australian team! No games were played as the AFL took a week off to "celebrate Footy" like they were Rex Ryan. However, there is precious content for you to devour early on this Labour Day. Let's get to it! Welcome

AFL Beat 2019 Round 23

This week, Here we go!! Who's #1? And who got the last spot in the Eight? Welcome to Balls of Steel's AFL Beat! Round 23 Recaps and Highlights We've come to the end of the Home and Away Season! Next step: Finals! Who is in? Who is out? Who plays who? Lotsof things happened this week.

AFL Beat 2019 Round 22

This week, Vroom vroom!! Happy Tigers And someone hangs ten... Welcome to Balls of Steel's AFL Beat! Round 22 Recaps and Highlights This week, we had quite possibly the two best games of AFL in a long time. The matchups of #1 vs #2 and #3 vs #4 lived up to their billing. However, there

Your 2019 Stillers Preview

I'm supposed to preview the 2019 Steelers. Let me start with this:   This entire division makes less sense than Drumpf's cabinet. People are talking about the Browns to be good? I trust (hashtag The Pauls) to be successful less than I trust Charlie Kelly can read.   Our dear friend Redshirt let us

AFL Beat 2019 Round 21

This week, SNOW GAME!!! Seriously, for the first time EVER there was snow at an AFL game! And yes, Scotchy and Yeah Right, that was the final score... Welcome to Balls of Steel's AFL Beat! Round 21 Recaps and Highlights This week, we had quite a few firsts. There was, as you