Searching for Community, Finding Football

The score update was the first thing to flash on to my screen as we got the okay to turn our phones back on. I hustled out of the plane and into Chicago’s mammoth O’Hare airport, with only one goal in mind for my three-hour layover: find a bar. Irish… [Read More]

The F.U. Effect

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0EzeStwP5I&w=560&h=315] You don’t have to know too much about football to know Terrell Owns (T.O.). His controversial career has made him quite the media tool. Before Carl’s Jr. grabbed him to promote their new heart-slowing Philly Cheesesteak Burger, my last memory of T.O was seeing him sobbing on some reality… [Read More]

My Football Problem

FOOOOOOOOOOTBBAALALLALLLALAL is back. Football is back. It’s back, baby. Thursday night the Denver Broncos trampled the Baltimore Ravens by a score of 49-27 marking the beginning of a 6-month Bud Light-powered journey to the Super Bowl. Over the past few weeks I’ve gone through an inner struggle.  On one end,… [Read More]

The Life and Times of Chad Johnson

With the latest Chad Johnson news yesterday revealing that he’s been sentenced to 30 days in jail for slapping his lawyer’s ass in court, it’s as good a time as any to take a look at the loud off-field news #85 has provided us over his storied career. Here are… [Read More]