Round Six: Your Vikes/Rams Open Thread

scotchnaut - January 13, 2025420

Welcome to Glendale, Arizona-home of the Arrowhead Town Center shopping mall! (seriously, that's the third sentence in their wiki bio) Guh... Fallout: -They're expected to fall to Detroit next week (as almost all have) but there's more good news for Washington-the amount of cap space they're expected to have this offseason? A

Instant Hippo Thoughts – Wild Card Weekend, 2024 Season

Reflections

King Hippo - January 13, 2025January 12, 202586

YEEEHHHHHAAAAAWWWWW, Wild Card Weekend means SIX games now, not that they all lived up to any sort of billing. Very briefly recapping Saturday, the 500s started horribly, then flipped on a dime and ass-blasted Clippers du Merde, 32-12. A Scorigami and everything! Houston springing to life could have maybe inspired the Yinzers

Round Five: Commies/Bucs

scotchnaut - January 12, 2025January 12, 2025367

Was this my pick for most low-key entertaining game of the weekend? Why would I bring it up if it wasn't? Why am I typing this at all? (side-eyes the word counter) To The Game! Commies/Bucs: -Fireworks Alert: Right here we've got two top five scoring offenses (Tampa 4th, Washington 5th) vs two

Round Four: Your Packers/Eagles Open Thread

scotchnaut - January 12, 2025January 12, 2025258

Here we go again. To The Game! Packers/Eagles: -Love has been removed from the injury report. (an elbow ouchie, "It still hurts when I throw") Speaking of Hurts, (status: concussed) word has it that a 'specialist' was flown in from the Dolphins medical staff and voila, he's ready and raring to go! -So the bad

Your Tamworth/Tottenham Open Thread + Broncos/Bills, Whatever

scotchnaut - January 12, 2025January 12, 2025228

You've been talking about this match all week so here you go! I see we've Arsehole/Man U as well-not a bad footy-related day! Would anyone care to wallow with me in the tepid bathwater of my Tub of Wrongness regarding the Chargers game? Herbert was the first qb since 1950 to

Round Two: Steelers/Ravens (Voodoo Edition)

scotchnaut - January 11, 2025January 11, 2025290

Wasn't that last tilt a keeper? (writing this at noon EST) They don't get much better than that! And the ending-I did not see that coming. Onward. To The Game! Steelers/Ravens: Flowers For None: Zay has been ruled out of the game. Ordinarily I'd think that a receiving corps whose best wr is Rashod

Round One-Chargers/Texans

scotchnaut - January 11, 2025January 11, 2025276

Welcome back one and all. We've got six playoff games and all have some sort of appeal. Let's get to it. Chargers/Texans: -Houston's only quality win was vs Buffalo and that was quite some time ago. There's just something missing from the team this year and I can't put my finger on

Frozen Hades-Scape Saturday Pre-Footy Thread

King Hippo - January 11, 2025January 10, 2025111

As an arctic blast envelops the portions of Murrika not currently on FUCKING FIRE, we sit patiently and await Wild Card action. I can sit patiently, because though the week started fairly shittily, it ended well. I got the LAST Friday slot for a new HVAC repair outfit, and finally

Sexy Friday – 20250110

Mr. Ayo - January 10, 2025January 10, 2025201

TGIF! Half the country is burning, the other freezing, and I'm stuck here with only clouds and rain. *pokes Mt. Rainer* Do something! Survival - Personal Edition Let's talk about champagne. Specifically, opening a bottle of said champagne. First lesson, don't do this: That's wasting champagne and removing the carbonation from what's left.

Sharkbaits Cocktail of the Week: Smoke ’em If You’ve Got ’em

Sharkbait - January 10, 2025January 10, 202570

Happy first full work week of the year. To kick off 2025, I had a challenge. During the holidays, I went to my sister's house and there she had a bottle of Ardbeg Wee Beastie that was to live there for when my father or myself came to visit and

Your Notre Dame/Penn State Hatefest! An Open Thread

scotchnaut - January 9, 2025194

Someone once said, "If you don't have anything good to say about anyone, come here and have a seat beside me." My guess is Dorothy Parker because she had all the good quips but I think it was a society dame in reality. Like, we all tend to lean towards lower-seeded

A gathering is on the Horizon

yeah right - January 9, 2025January 9, 202537

Since we here at Door Flies Open tend to be a social, genial and interactive bunch of individuals we have this tendency to have and attend random get-togethers. Events where we collectively gather, have many, many adult beverages, and share tales of our travels and past experiences. Many of you have