AFL Beat 2020 Season Round 5

ballsofsteelandfury - July 7, 2020July 7, 2020

This week... Schedule? What schedule? The Cats didn't fuck up a momentous occasion and there are no more unbeaten teams left in the competition Welcome to Balls of Steel's AFL Beat! This was yet another interesting week. Remember how last week the AFL issued the schedule for Rounds 6 and 7? Well, the COVID-19 situation in

AFL Beat 2020 Season Round 4

ballsofsteelandfury - June 30, 2020June 29, 2020

This week... We had 10,000 fans in attendance in Queensland We have an early Mark of the Year candidate and there is only one unbeaten team left in the competition Welcome to Balls of Steel's AFL Beat! This was an interesting week. Off the field, the positive test that forced the postponement of the Essendon-Melbourne

AFL Beat 2020 Season Round 3

ballsofsteelandfury - June 23, 2020June 24, 2020

This week... Cats and Dogs are living together. A player has tested positive for COVID-19 and subsequently a game was postponed. Welcome to Balls of Steel's AFL Beat! Lots of weird things happened this week. Luckily, Footy will be able to go on. Despite the positive test, games continued as scheduled except for the game

AFL Beat 2020 Season Re-Start

ballsofsteelandfury - June 16, 2020June 14, 2020

This week... This is what it looks like to have fans at stadiums in the age of COVID-19. Welcome to Balls of Steel's AFL Beat! Every game that the AFL played this weekend was played in empty stadiums. Except for one. The Showdown, the annual Adelaide Derby between the Port Adelaide Power and the

AFL Beat 2020 Season Re-Start

ballsofsteelandfury - June 9, 2020June 6, 2020

This week... We play games again! Welcome to Balls of Steel's AFL Beat! This is the week we've all been waiting for. Finally, the 2020 AFL season is re-starting! Here is this week's schedule (Please remember that all times are Pacific): Round Two Thursday, June 11, 2020 2:40 AM - Collingwood Magpies v Richmond Tigers -

AFL Beat Post Quarantine Update #2

ballsofsteelandfury - June 2, 2020May 31, 2020

This week... Welcome to Balls of Steel's AFL Beat! Last week, some of you in the comments asked which team you should root for. I did my best to make some suggestions. Then I remembered I had put some stuff together in the past to help you pick a team. Let's start

AFL Beat Post Quarantine Update

ballsofsteelandfury - May 26, 2020May 25, 2020

This week... Footy is back!! Welcome to Balls of Steel's AFL Beat! Previously, the AFL announced that games for the 2020 season would resume starting on June 12, 2020. This week, the AFL released the schedule for Rounds 2, 3, 4, and 5. Here are the games in all their glory. Please remember

What Day Is It Today? Thursday? Evening Open Thread

Open Threads

BrettFavresColonoscopy - January 2, 2020January 2, 2020

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Oh, hi there. As you've likely noted, BrewHombreRoy is off looking for clues in a series of brutal hobo murders. For those of you that don't know me, I'm BrettFavresColonoscopy, I lackadaisically write the DFO mailbag, and I'm filling in just for tonight. I insert a lot of extraneous links

The Return of Temptation Island Talk: Episode 3

ballsofsteelandfury - October 31, 2019October 30, 2019

The title of this episode was "Guilt Ridden" but it really should have been "White Ashley's Ass Comes Out". There will be a screenshot and I will scour the Internet for gifs. It's.... something. Episode 3 aired on Thursday night last week when the Minnesota Vikings beat the

The Return of Temptation Island Talk: Episode 2

ballsofsteelandfury - October 24, 2019October 23, 2019

Oh, my goodness! Remember how excited I was last time about the Return of Temptation Island Talk? Well, this season is turning out to be better than last season. I mean shit started happening REAL QUICK! Episode 2 aired on Thursday night last week when the Kansas City

Sometimes we CAN have nice things: The Return of Temptation Island Talk!

ballsofsteelandfury - October 10, 2019October 9, 2019

Oh, kids! I was scanning YouTube last week (Wednesday, to be exact) looking for the latest How To Drink video and I saw an ad for a familiar friend: Temptation Island. When I clicked on it, I realized that it wasn't really so much an ad but the entire first

AFL Beat 2019 Grand Final Review

ballsofsteelandfury - September 30, 2019September 28, 2019

This week, Your 2019 Premiers Your 2019 Norm Smith medalist And there was this... The last game of the year is now over. It's only a few months until AFLW begins! At least we have the NFL to tide us over through the offseason... Welcome to Balls of Steel's AFL Beat! The Grand Final