WTF Time Is It World Cup Open Thread

ballsofsteelandfury - June 16, 2018June 16, 2018

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It is 2:30 AM Pacific as this post goes up. Yes, I'm awake. Hawthorn and Adelaide are about to have the First Bounce and in about 30 minutes, France will face Australia in their World Cup debuts. There will be three more games back to back to back. Also this: What can we

AFL Beat 2018 – Round 12 Part 2

ballsofsteelandfury - June 12, 2018June 11, 2018

As mentioned yesterday, the remaining intrigue of Round 12 was who would win the Queen's Birthday game held on Australian Monday between the Melbourne Demons and the Collingwood Magpies and how that would impact the standings. LET'S GO TO THE VIDEOTAPE! Oh kids, if you're a Pies supporter, you enjoyed this game!

AFL Beat – 2018 Round 12 Part One

ballsofsteelandfury - June 11, 2018June 10, 2018

Part One?!? Yes, part one. This is because it's the Queen's Birthday this weekend and Melbourne v Collingwood won't start until 10:20 PM Pacific on Sunday night and I have to open up a site for a contractor at 6:30 AM Monday morning and there's no way in hell I'm

AFL Beat – 2018 Round 11

ballsofsteelandfury - June 4, 2018June 3, 2018

This week, All this, a big upset, plus more perfection coming up on... Welcome To Balls of Steel's AFL Beat! *** Round 11 The Round started late Thursday night with Sydney taking on Carlton. When I woke up for work, I expected the Swans to have a comfortable lead, which they did. It wasn't, however,

AFL Beat – Special Edition – Your 2018 Sir Doug Nicholls Indigenous Round Guernseys

ballsofsteelandfury - May 29, 2018May 29, 2018

This is my favourite "theme" Round that the AFL does to promote a cause or honor a group of people. In this case, it is Sir Doug Nicholls, a pioneer in advocating for Aboriginal people's rights in Australia. *** I highly recommend you read this article on the man so you can

AFL Beat – 2018 Round 10

ballsofsteelandfury - May 28, 2018May 27, 2018

This week, You may be wondering what those three pictures mean. Well, the big news this week is that the Docklands stadium currently known as Etihad Stadium will, starting next year, be sponsored by Marvel and be known as Marvel Stadium. If they don't do a Deadpool tie-in, people should be

2018 World Cup Team Preview – Australia

ballsofsteelandfury - May 21, 2018May 22, 2018

This week, Welcome to Balls of Steel's AFL Beat Australian World Cup Preview! I put Tim Cahill pics up because the story of successful Australian fútbol in the last few years is the story of one Timothy Filiga Cahill. He is Australia's highest goal scorer of all time and has led the

AFL Beat – 2018 Round 9

ballsofsteelandfury - May 21, 2018May 21, 2018

This week, *** Round 9 The Round started in Adelaide in what was expected to be a blowout. What was not expected were the rainy conditions that typically spell out a close low-scoring game. Well, we got both a low-scoring game AND a blowout. 63-26 to the Crows in a game that really

AFL Beat – 2018 Round 8

ballsofsteelandfury - May 14, 2018May 13, 2018

We are back and I would be remiss not to thank my good buddy tWBS for filling in for me last weekend! It's been, what, three weeks since I've done this? I used to fill these with pictures of hot Australian girls, didn't I? If not, I do apologize. Now, where

AFL Beat – 2018 Round 7

theeWeeBabySeamus - May 7, 2018May 7, 2018

As you've no doubt surmised from that beautifully done banner image, this is tWBS coming at you this week from down under. But don't get excited (not that you would anyway) because I'm about to really let BallsofSteelandFury down. You see, it was my job to sit in for him

AFL Beat – 2018 Round 5 Part Deux

ballsofsteelandfury - April 26, 2018April 25, 2018

I know everyone is all hyped to see how their favourite team's front office fucks up the team's future tonight, so I'll be brief. As it is, there are only two games to report on: ANZAC Day Eve Game - Melbourne Demons v Richmond Tigers The Tigers easily handled the Demons after

AFL Beat – 2018 Round 5 Part One

ballsofsteelandfury - April 23, 2018April 22, 2018

This week, We're going to do something different. Since the are still two more games to go, we are going to split the coverage into two. Part Two will run midweek after the ANZAC Day games are played. Welcome To Balls of Steel's AFL Beat! Round 5 (so far) The Round started with a