Your “Wait? What? Who?” Wednesday Evening Open Thread

Beerguyrob - February 10, 2021January 7, 2024

Evening all, Because I'm bored but have a wrestling itch to scratch that can't be satisfied until "Dynamite" comes on air, tonight I'll cover the Thread looking at wrestling from a local perspective. Growing up in Vancouver, we had a local promotion called "All Star Wrestling", which was a rinky-dink little deal

Your “The Skies of November Turned Gloomy” Tuesday Evening Open Thread

Beerguyrob - November 10, 2020

NFL Nuggets: Ben Roethlisberger is among four Steelers added to reserve/COVID-19 list, joining already quarantined teammate Vance McDonald. They all will be isolated for five days. Each will have to pass COVID-19 tests throughout the week if they want to be able to play in Sunday's game against Cincinnati. When

Your “Weekend At Donnies” Saturday Evening Open Thread

Beerguyrob - October 3, 2020October 3, 2020

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The fact that I now know this means Seamus is still trying to inflict his musical stylings on me from beyond the grave: Apparently, it's a "thing" for newbie idiot Green Day listeners to tweet at Billie Joe Armstrong on October 1st. Because September ended. GET IT?! (h/t Cracked) https://youtu.be/R1JXYgwwDeY Of course,

Your “Don’t Spend It All In One Place” Wednesday Evening Open Thread

Beerguyrob - July 29, 2020July 29, 2020

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NFL Noise: Joey Bosa & some barnstorming team called the Chargers have agreed to a 5-year, $135.0 million contract extension. It has $78 million guaranteed at signing, and $102 million in total guarantees. Whatever helps impoverish the Spanos family & helps facilitates a Chargers sale has to be a

Your “Trying To Kill Opponents With Anger” Tuesday Evening Open Thread

Beerguyrob - July 21, 2020July 21, 2020

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NFL News: Michael Bennett has retired. It's a combination of the 11 years he's already played, the COVID issue, and the fact that he discovered he liked spending time with his family during the lockdown. He leaves with three Pro Bowls to his name and a Super Bowl title. But

Your Bastille Day Tuesday Evening Open Thread

Beerguyrob - July 14, 2020July 14, 2020

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NFL Nuggets: Today is all about getting paid: The Chiefs and DT Chris Jones agreed to a four-year contract worth $85 million. $60 million is guaranteed. Proving there's some money left in the kitty after Mahomes got paid. Actually, Mahomes' extension left the salary cap flat for the next two

Your “It’s Orangemen’s Day, So Let’s Blow Something Up!” Sunday Evening Open Thread

Beerguyrob - July 12, 2020July 12, 2020

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So, aside from today being someone's special day, I figured why not remind all the [DFO] readers about the gloriousness that is "The Twelfth". July 12th commemorates two great victories in the "War of the Two Kings" (if you don't want your car blown up), the Williamite War (if you do), or

Your “Everybody’s History Is History” Thursday Evening Open Thread

Beerguyrob - July 9, 2020July 9, 2020

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NFL News: Julian Edelman, noted by nfl.com as "one of the few active Jewish NFL players", has offered to take DeSean Jackson to the Holocaust Museum in DC to help educate each other. In exchange, he wants Jackson to take him to the African-American Museum of History and Culture so

Your “What’s Old Is New Again, Again” Wednesday Evening Open Thread

Beerguyrob - June 17, 2020June 17, 2020

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NFL Noise: Well, it looks like the Chargers will pick up Roger's mantle & at least possibly maybe consider Colin Kaepernick for their bench. "I haven't spoken with Colin, not sure where he's at as far in his career, what he wants to do, but Colin definitely fits the style

Your “Happy Bill & Ted Day” Tuesday Evening Open Thread

Beerguyrob - June 9, 2020June 9, 2020

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NFL News: Apparently, Todd Gurley passed his physical with the Falcons. He signed with them a couple of months back, but had to wait until this week to take his tests due to Corona restrictions. It is a one-year contract that includes a $2 million signing bonus, $3.5 million fully

Your “Super Tuesday!” Evening Open Thread

Beerguyrob - March 3, 2020March 3, 2020

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NFL Notes: The Chargers are cutting Travis Benjamin. In order to stay with the team last year, he agreed to a pay cut & a team void option for 2020. He responded by playing in only five games and caught only six passes for 30 yards. Two Monday Night Football rumours

The Friday Evening Pre-Christmas Open Thread Post

Beerguyrob - December 20, 2019December 19, 2019

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Welcome to my last post of the year. I asked Seamus if he wouldn't mind switching with me, and he readily agreed since it's taking longer than he expected to get the squirrel piss out of the carpet. #thoughtsandprayers I will be away from the #content mines for a couple of weeks.