The Pros and Cons of NFL Pre-Season

I was hoping to get out of thinking tonight after a long day and just do my Night Cap but Last Call was hosted at our blog and it looks like Daddy is coming home to a trashed house. You bastards put the cat in the microwave? Well I did have an idea of something to post so I might prematurely run with it but it seems like I prematurely do everything these days. Ask your mother. BOOSH!

So, the big talk of the preseason of the NFL is always a trendy topic to discuss. I can see why. It has valid arguments for each side. I’d like to take a quick look at it and see which would be the more beneficial to the NFL. God knows that mein fuhrer Goodell will not stray from his original thinking because if he second guesses himself once, well then the Axis loses.

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Tags: Brett Favre, Dainty Dandelions, Jake Plummer, Matt Cassel, NFL, Pre Season Football, Racism Free Post!, Roger Goodell
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Isn't Everything Supposed to be Bigger in Texas

I'm from Canada, I don't know any better

Everything in Texas is bigger. The cars, the food, the people. It’s practically un-American to have something bigger than it’s likeness in Texas. Why do you think Jerry Jones built him the biggest and bestest of all the stadiums in the land? Well, that has more to do with him being a giant egotistical fuckwad but the point remains. Everything is bigger in Texas. Everything.

Fans of the Houston Texans will disagree with that statement. This year when the Team’s fans showed up to Reliant Stadium for pre-season games, the beer had gotten smaller. Yeah, you read that right, smaller. Last year when fans ordered one of the $7.75 beers, they received 24oz of draught beer. My math skills might not be the greatest this early in the morning, but to a Canadian, that doesn’t sound that bad. After all it’s two regulation can’s of beer for $7.75. At a bar here in Canada, that would cost me probably about $11, barring a sale and assuming domestic beer. That’s with our Canadian dollar buying much less as well.

This year though, the draught beers have been reduced to a measly 20oz for their $7.75. Those bastards. continue

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Tags: Beer, drinking, Houston Texans, NFL, Roger Goodell
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RIP Ted Kennedy-A Memorial from an Unlikely Source

The Face of America's Royal family

I don’t completely know, but I might be the last guy that should be doing a memoriam of Senator Ted Kennedy. I’m Canadian and I’m the editor of a sports and comedy site. Yes it can be serious at times, but The Gally Blog is more about a fun sided look at sports. Then there’s the other mitigating factor. I’m a staunch political Right Winger, well that’s kind of a sports reference. I’m also a gigantic conservative, though that has more to do with fiscal policies than social policies. After all, my idol is Hunter S. Thompson and he was the strictest of Liberals. If I can forgive him for his failings, then I’m sure that I can forgive Kennedy for being on his side of the fence. Sure we’re all going to see the Republican Party of the USA, as well as other conservative/liberal ruling parties bow down and give him the utmost deference. Possibly more than he deserves, but not likely.

The next 4 days are likely going to be worse than when Michael Jackson was Murdered. I don’t mean that in an overly cynical reason, well maybe I do. The next few days we are all likely to be subjected to a non stop barrage of stories about America’s Royal Family. Sure, the Bush family could be considered the royal family but who are we kidding? The USA has not seemed to have gotten over not having a actual ruling family. Princess Di was revered, even though she was part of the British Royal Family. The Kennedy’s have been a national power since around the 1940′s. continue

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Tags: Eulogy, Kennedy, Presidential, Somber, Ted Kennedy, USA
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The Importance of Sports and Sports Video Games

Sports are a huge part of the world today. Almost every major city has a least one major sports team, and many “small” cities have at least one. It’s a multi-billion dollar industry. According to Wiki which got it’s info from forbes.com Sept. of ’08, Manchester United was worth $1.800B, Dallas Cowboys $1,612B, Washington Redskins $1,538B, New England Patriots $1,324B, and are all more valuable than the Yankees $1,306B(suck on that New York). It’s an industry where people devote their entire lives to either playing, covering or following the games.

It’s also something that adds an emotional component to people’s lives. This emotional component can be of the good or bad variety. Fans of the Cubs have to be dealing with the fact that they haven’t won a Championship in a 100 frikken years, and it’s counting. On the other hand, the Detroit Lions fans were overjoyed in 1991 when the team won a playoff game. It was the first playoff game that they had won in 44 years. They Haven’t Won One Since, which allows them to feel the other side and for you to laugh at them. No matter whether you’re on the winning or losing side of a real NFL team, you’re going to feel something at the end of a game.

Now most of us are alcoholics, fat lumps or people devoid of any modicum of athletic ability. That pickup game of Coed volleyball you play every other week doesn’t count, nor does getting off the couch to grab another beer. continue

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Tags: Fandom, Fans, MLB, NBA, NFL, NHL, PS3, Sports, Video Games, Xbox 360
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Philly is Generous

So the city of Philadelphia is known as the city of Brotherly Love. Well sorry to anybody from Philly reading this, but you’re not really seen in that light. To a sports fan whose never been to the city, it’s more like a place where you’re a failure if you don’t win the Championship. It’s also a place where you could have batteries chucked at you, and have racial slurs recklessly tossed about whether you’re the home team or the away team. It doesn’t mean that it doesn’t have some redeeming qualities, but that they are few and far between.

This story is one of them. The City of Philadelphia has a program whereby any company hiring a recently released prisoner is eligible for a bonus/reward/gift. That bonus is a whopping $10,000. Hell, if you’re a recently released prisoner in the Philly area and you like sports contact me, I’ll hire you. To be completely honest, I’m amazed that in this economy such frivolous (some would say) spending is occurring. Yes a legitimate job might keep a criminal off the streets, but is the city actually wealthy enough to throw dollar bills around like Pacman Jones.
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Tags: Dan Snyder, Jeffery Lurie, Jerry Jones, Mike Vick, NFC East, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Eagles
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