Offseason Events

AFL Beat 2020 Season Re-Start

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This week...   This is what it looks like to have fans at stadiums in the age of COVID-19. Welcome to Balls of Steel's AFL Beat! Every game that the AFL played this weekend was played in empty stadiums.  Except for one. The Showdown, the annual Adelaide Derby between the Port Adelaide Power and the

AFL Beat 2020 Season Re-Start

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This week... We play games again! Welcome to Balls of Steel's AFL Beat! This is the week we've all been waiting for.  Finally, the 2020 AFL season is re-starting!  Here is this week's schedule (Please remember that all times are Pacific): Round Two Thursday, June 11, 2020 2:40 AM - Collingwood Magpies v Richmond Tigers -

AFL Beat Post Quarantine Update #2

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This week...   Welcome to Balls of Steel's AFL Beat! Last week, some of you in the comments asked which team you should root for.  I did my best to make some suggestions.  Then I remembered I had put some stuff together in the past to help you pick a team.  Let's start

AFL Beat Post Quarantine Update

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This week... Footy is back!! Welcome to Balls of Steel's AFL Beat! Previously, the AFL announced that games for the 2020 season would resume starting on June 12, 2020. This week, the AFL released the schedule for Rounds 2, 3, 4, and 5.  Here are the games in all their glory.  Please remember

Horatio’s DFO 2020 Will Never End Mock Draft 2.0 And Open Thread

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Greetings, fellow shut-ins.  We like to use the term 'shut-ins' around here to mock our propensity for staying indoors on our various devices while talking about football, lesser football, boobs, butts, and why Trump sucks, but in truth these days we are all, with the rest of the world, literal

Tucson, Ch 6: Never Settle

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The University of Arizona, for all intents and purpose, is Tucson, Arizona's claim to fame. The university is the city's largest employer and, as a member of the illustrious Pac-12 athletic conference, the school brings the most press to southern Arizona simply via the broadcast of its sports teams. More

Talking Pandemic – With Special Guest

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DFO talked to convicted murderer and anti-technology ideologue Theodore Ted Kaczynski about COVID-19. Commonly known as The Unabomber, Mr. Kach— Ted Kaczynski: Wait. Ideologue? Do not insult me. Door Flies Open: May I finish the voiceover? Ted Kaczynski: No. You told me this was a TED talk. Door Flies Open: Via giphy.com Ted Kaczynski: Yesterday a

AFLW Beat – 2020 Semi-Finals, Which Just Became The Finals

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I suppose we should have seen it coming.  Thanks a lot you fucking virus. The remainder of the AFLW playoffs have been cancelled.  So this is it for AFLW Beat 2020.  The girls just got shut down. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuK6n2Lkza0 But let's get to it... *** Welcome To Ball of Steel’s tWBS’ AFL Beat – 2020 Semi-finals Which Is

AFLW Beat – 2020 Round Six

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OK.  For the past few weeks I've featured a profile of a player.  "Better Know The Girl" I've called it.  And we'll do that again next week.  But this week it's... Better Look Out For All The Girls Before They Kill You Tempers boiled over (under?) this week.  The ladies were apparently

AFLW Beat – 2020 Round Five

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Better Know The Girl Yeah, I'm being a bit of a homer this week.  Our "guest" this week is none other than the Geelong Cats' rising star, Nina Morrison.  She good. (although I am curious about the yo-yo test) Morrison tested at the AFL Women's draft combine, breaking records in the two-kilometre time