CFL Beat: Week 10

The Maestro - August 7, 2025August 11, 202527

As life on the East Coast moves slowly while on vacation once more, football continues to march forward unabated. We have been working through a very long to-do list of all the usual haunts to hit every time we come home to visit; my personal donair guy Wally, at Pronto's

Wumbo Wednesday With Weaselo: Back to Work

Senor Weaselo - August 6, 2025August 6, 202546

Which is to say, I spent the last three weeks running around for personal rather than business reasons, but we're back to work this week, which means today I'm *checks text thread* playing for people getting on a boat. Sure. Meanwhile, this SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY I'll be playing the national

AFL Beat 2025 – Round 21 Recap!

ballsofsteelandfury - August 6, 2025August 5, 202559

This week, the Pies lost again and all of a sudden people are trying to say the wheels are falling off. Easy there, AFL Media! Let's not go overboard. Let's get to it! *** The AFL Ladder *** The AFL Round 21 Results The AFL Round 21 Highlights https://youtu.be/UQ8RWU12wc4?si=cB12gJzkaHnSqJVu https://youtu.be/NQ4XrV3uJwM?si=lYXJI6hSMZ1NlgG3 https://youtu.be/SrcAIlqaUj0?si=S5rUUlJcsoiBPyfV https://youtu.be/eG4vz1RBmfU?si=BppxCJZ_d5yDnOti https://youtu.be/IlhDlNbiDN8?si=H7FU13EqxdkFS7KO https://youtu.be/xitGvcumJgo?si=9rfDG_OqafWQpyXx https://youtu.be/VcJ5FB8Loak?si=2PpdGKsMGVRmYH7X https://youtu.be/8bGRcyjWu30?si=OoMAXWl_2lIPm7XI https://youtu.be/9hSAe8WShqE?si=Qze_yeDywzk9IY3O AFL Round 22 Schedule *** AFL Footy Tipping Contest

#Hardland Blues: Tuesday Open Thread

Open Threads

The Right Reverend Electric Mayhem - August 5, 2025August 5, 202571

America is a culture of Bigness. Perhaps it is a holdover from the incredible expanse of stolen unclaimed land that greeted European-extraction settlers so long ago. Maybe it's the vast natural resources we ripped from the still-beating heart of the land and water found there. Maybe we're overcompensating for perceived shortcomings in...other

Subsequent GTD reflections

BallsofLacrosseAndMapleSyrup - August 5, 2025August 5, 202568

Hello there fellow DFO'er. Hope you're well today. And thanks for coming back to see last weeks tl;dr of last week as decided by my brain. There's no reason as to why some comments make it and others don't. Seriously. There isn't. This weeks cheesy motivational quote is:How many more must

Random Night Open Thread – for a rainy day Part Trois

ballsofsteelandfury - August 4, 2025August 4, 202564

I'm doing a quick fill-in (PHRASING!) for Armed n Hammered as he is stuck dealing with random IRL crap. As we head into more preseason games, here are a few things to note: *** DK Metcalf says that the Steelers have the best defense he's ever seen. Keep in mind that he

Monday Morning Mock Draft: The Line Approaches

DFOing Good

Horatio Cornblower - August 4, 2025August 3, 2025144

(featured image likely results in a Dallas punt) Or something like that. Not exactly the profound effect I was going for as we enter the last month of the long national nightmare that is the off-season. Rest assured, however, that soon you'll be watching meaningless pre-season games, followed by meaningless in-season games

Bouncing Forward – A Preseason Sunday Open Etc. Etc.

Wellness and Crap

Don T - August 3, 2025August 3, 202586

The end of the 2025 offseason fills my soul with a freshness like... Like a rotating desk fan would, blowing air in my soul’s face NOW then no. No no NOW no no etc. etc. I mean, it’s great that training camps are open, for sure. But when news about

CAKE SUCKS! A Sunday Gravy After School Special.

DJ TAJ - August 3, 2025July 28, 202557

Valentines day it was. I was at my horrible job embarrassing chickens yet again. When in walks a very lovely lady carrying a balloon that said " I Love you cause I Blasted you out of my Beaver." And a cute box from some fancy-ass local bakery carrying in it an unknown

Saturday Night Off-season Open Thread 2025-26

ballsofsteelandfury - August 2, 2025August 1, 202552

I'm going continue the bit with the lists. Tonight, I present to you a list of things I like that start with the letter Y: Yoni (look it up) YSL (perfume) Yachts (Someday....) York (the old one in England, not the New one in America) Yellowfin (tuna) Yes (the affirmation, not the band) YVR (IYKYK) YOLO (life is