Somebody’s Gotta Do It

... - December 28, 2015December 28, 2015

Owners Meeting -- NFL Headquarters Owners of all 32 teams are standing around the room conversing quietly. A palpable tension fills the room as owners wait for Commissioner Roger Goodell to arrive. 5913

The Tale of The Texan

WhyEaglesWhy - October 31, 2015October 30, 2015

A few years ago, on Halloween night, a lovely young lady consented to accompany me on a date. HEY, COME BACK, THAT'S NOT THE SCARY PART! After a romantic dinner at Sizzler, we drove to Lovers’ Lane so I could work off that five slices of cheese toast. It was at a

Balls’ Bedtime Stories Chapter One

ballsofsteelandfury - September 22, 2015

Goodell said, 'Mr. Balls, they have a saying in Chicago: "Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, the third time it's enemy action."' PART 1 - HAPPENSTANCE Chapter One Balls of Steel , with two double bourbons inside him, sat at the bar at Terminal B of Las Vegas McCarran International Airport and thought

An American Football Fan in Paris

BrettFavresColonoscopy - September 12, 2015September 11, 2015

As many DFOers/Kommentists/DFOoses/whatevers know, our own Old School Zero is currently training for a cheese eating/surrendering contest by exploring France from the tip of her Eiffel Tower to the taint of her Larzac Valley. 'Twasn't shortly after arriving in Paris that he intrepidly snapped this photo: Since he didn't get a

The Do’s and Don’t’s of Great Brownies

Old School Zero - August 5, 2015

Tonight I'm making my can't-fail : brownie recipe to take some treats into work tomorrow, which brought to might making a post out of it. Now, these brownies are very easy to make, but I thought it might be fun to track the finer details of the process to show what

Balls of Steel’s AFL Beat – Round 16

ballsofsteelandfury - July 19, 2015

As of this week, the regular season is 2/3 complete. That means the margin of error is getting smaller and every game becomes more and more important. Welcome to Balls of Steel's AFL Beat! The round started off with the North Melbourne Kangaroos facing the Essendon Bomber in a Friday Night Footy (Friday

Balls of Steel’s AFL Beat – Round 10

ballsofsteelandfury - June 8, 2015

Welcome To Balls of Steel's AFL Beat! So, remember how Fremantle were undefeated and were not scheduled to meet a threatening opponent for about a month? Yeah, um, about that... Richmond pulled off the upset of the season on late Thursday/early Friday by beating Fremantle in Perth by 27. The Tigers took a

Balls of Steel’s AFL Beat – Round 6

ballsofsteelandfury - May 10, 2015

Welcome to Balls of Steel's AFL Beat! I am making it a habit now to wake up extra early on Friday mornings, start my workout, and have the AFL game in the background before I go to work. This week, I was specially looking forward to it since Geelong were playing

Thank You For Calling Illegal Aid

NotKontent

makeitsnowondem - April 17, 2015

Interviewer: Hello, thank you for calling Illegal Aid, how can I help you? Caller: Hi! I'm so glad I got through, I was on the line forever. Interviewer: Oh, well I'm sorry to hear that. We do have a lot of people looking for help, and sometimes it can take a while

On Trent Green

Reflections

makeitsnowondem - April 2, 2015

Man, just thinking about Trent Green at all makes me laugh. We've been making basically the same joke about him for so long that when I see a Trent Green joke, or make one, it's like I'm not just seeing or making that one Trent Green joke, I'm seeing or