President Garfield said today that the number of viewers for this past weekend’s Academy Awards was down, and that it was because of him. And isn’t everything about him? Besides being orange and mean, President Garfield is very intuitive. He has the best intuits. He is basically a huge tuit-head. But I have another theory. […]
Category Archives: Football
Nerdstock IIII: The Death of Roman Numerals
Are you a nerd? Do you love board games, strategy games, social games, games of skill, games of chance, drinking too much, watching your friends drink too much, or getting injured? Then you would love Nerdstock. Now in its fourth year, this Mecca for local game geeks has inexplicably and accidentally moved away from roman […]
An Apology to Bill Peebles For Being a Little Too Excited About Star Wars
Bill Peebles, as I’m sure you know, is an award-winning* blogger, thinker, philosopher, and all-around insightful and amazing guy. He writes some great stuff over at ihopeiwinatoaster. If you haven’t read any of his achingly beautiful ramblings on life, parenting, and the joy and despair of growing up, do yourself a favor and check it […]
If You Don’t Win, It Isn’t Not Worth It
This past weekend, professional football player James Harrison, who is not so famous that people who don’t follow football have ever heard of him, posted this picture to instagram. It is a picture of two trophies that his sons received for participating in sports, and which he forced them to return to the school. He […]
Should You Be an NFL Cheerleader, or an Opera Singer?
A dark and terrible secret has been revealed recently, concerning the NFL and their compensation of cheerleaders. Not only did the cheerleaders receive no benefits, but they received almost no salary. They were responsible for all of their own training, equipment, travel expenses, and pretty much everything else that costs money, and then were required […]
A “Christmas and Easter” Football Fan
Perhaps you have heard the term “Christmas and Easter Christians” before, or perhaps you haven’t. It is a term that we, the “regular” churchgoing members use to describe those people that we only see twice a year. They might be members of the church, or they might not, but they do not attend weekly services, […]