Searching For Inner Excellence-A Rams/Eagles Game Thread

scotchnaut - January 19, 2025304

A.J. Brown the egghead was not on anyone's bingo card. (who plays bingo anymore anyway?) The Eagles look poised to run away with this but the same was said about the Lions not 24 hours ago. To The Game! Rams/Eagles: -Los Angeles ranks 22nd vs the run and part of that ranking is

Two Feel Good Stories-Who Ya Got? An Open Thread

scotchnaut - January 18, 2025January 18, 2025404

Jayden Daniels has that "Wiser than his years" look that Mahomes had back in the day but methinks they're simply overmatched here vs a team of destiny. Let's take a look. To The Game! Commies/Lions: -I think that Washington needs to get to 40 points to have a chance here but they'll fall

Your Texans/Chiefs Divisional Round Playoff Game Thread

scotchnaut - January 18, 2025January 18, 2025174

Can I wishcast a Houston W? Can they actually string two above average games together for the first time this season? I've got some tids and bits regarding this tilt so here we go... To The Game! Texans/Chiefs: -Is this Reid's best coaching job ever? (and by extension, Spags) To lose only one

Placeholder Saturday Thread

King Hippo - January 18, 2025January 17, 2025120

What's new in the world, one might ask. Not fuck shit, one might answer. Appreciate this last weekend of both (i) full FITBAW schedule; and (ii) liberal democracy. Hey, there's a better than 50/50 shot prong (i) will at least come around again. Depends on when the shooting wars start, I reckon. Presumably,

Sexy Friday – 20250117

Mr. Ayo - January 17, 2025January 17, 2025209

TGIF! We have three glorious days of footed ball ahead of us, so let's get to it. Survival - Personal Edition Let's talk about purifying water in the wilderness. There are four methods: filter, chemical, distillation, and boiling. Filtering This is a general first step and should be used on any source of

Sharkbaits Cocktail of the Week: Well Travelled

Sharkbait - January 17, 2025January 17, 202597

Well, it's that time of year once again. Maybe I have a mild case of seasonal depression but it seems like this time of year, I start longing to be somewhere else. Maybe it's because after the holidays, I would prefer to skip straight to spring, and the fact that

A Thursday Evening Open Thread

scotchnaut - January 16, 202582

Another Thursday, another football-less night. May as well start getting accustomed. Damn: What can you say about a guy that gave the world of entertainment Blue Velvet and Twin Peaks? I recall walking out of the movie theatre after seeing the former-my buddy and I retired to a patio and just didn't

Cutting Out the Bloat – 2024 NFL Playoffs

Don T - January 16, 2025January 16, 202579

There’s a documentary series out there called “Game 7”, which the blurbs promote as THE MOST EXCITING EVENT IN SPORTS AND THEREFORE ALL HISTORY and so on. Yeah... Nope! Gimme instead the single elimination NFL playoffs, with the nervous intensity and the violence and random bounces and inconsistent refereeing. That’s

Wumbo Wednesday With Weaselo: Out Getting Tires

Senor Weaselo - January 15, 2025January 15, 202563

Fortunately it’s my neighbor so he doesn’t screw me with tires that do more than they need to! “Speed rating? It’s my neighbor’s Corolla!” The speedometer only goes to 160, and good luck getting close to that speed on NYC highways, unless you drive a 330i or Challenger or Infiniti

Todd’s Surf Journal: Gillis Revisited

DFOing Good

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly - January 15, 202518

Date: Monday 1/6/2025 Location: Dockweiler Beach - Gillis Breakwater Greetings, hodads. As you might have heard I've been away from my beloved Southland for a while. There's been a lot of gossip about my absence and how I went into witness protection, which is so much bullshit. Newsflash to anyone who got

Down, Down and Drowned: Tuesday Open Thread

The Right Reverend Electric Mayhem - January 14, 202599

NOTE: Sorry for the abbreviated post. The Young Deacon Mayhem took sick. Playoff Football Fever: Catch It! Then Spend Several Days In Bed, Praying For The Sweet Release of Playoff Football Death! Out of respect for our Bronco fan contingent, I will refrain from excessive celebration of Sunday's comprehensive second-half throatstomping by

Subsequent GTD reflections

Game Time Decision - January 14, 2025January 13, 202565

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:"Guilt is perhaps the