Bar Observations

By Just A. Bartender

Dilworth, NC – As the college football is drawing to its regular season close, we start to ponder who is on the hot seat. It seems that fat guys are on the top of the list. Mark Magino, who apparently swallowed Kansas instead of coaching there, Ralph Friedgen, who weighs a little less than the state of Maryland, and Fat Charlie Weis, Notre Dame being a cat lick, er, catholic school doesn’t mean you need to eat every cat in South Bend. There is nothing wrong with being fat, that is if you want to die young and not get laid much. Although being a tub of goo makes it hard to be a college football coach.
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By Just A. Bartender

Dilworth, NC – Seeing as I rarely say anything nice about ESPN or ESPN.com, today I would like to thank  Ivan Maisel for making a great point about what a shitty weekend this is for college football in his story Where’s the return counter?.

It is the weekend before Thanksgiving, and that  used to mean USC/UCLA, Auburn/Alabama, The Kappa Sigma Upsilon Mud Bowl, and The Ohio State/Michigan game. This weekend the fraternity Mud Bowl at a Division III school looks better than what is on the slate. In the top 10, 5. Cincinnati, 7. Georgia Tech, and 9. Pittsburgh are all off, and their practices will be more fun to watch then any of the other games this week.

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By Just A. Bartender

Dilworth, NC – The NFL season has separated the haves from have nots. We have our first coaching casualty this week, with more to come, more on that later. Instead why not take a best guess about what the playoffs will look like this season.

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11/19/09

By:  The Young Bartender

Brian Kelly

The Beach, FL- Last night at the bar Gator Nation was represented as always, and I had to hear the chants of how great they are, as well as a Florida State backer going on about how Bobby Bowden is one of the best coaches in America, and has been for years (he was a little tipsy). When they found out that their pourer of drinks was a Buckeye, they were quick to dog me, which is well deserved considering our recent big game flops. Soon though, the question moved to great coaches and immediately I perked up. Not because I was going to defend Sweater Vest, but because I defended the best coach in America, Brian Kelly of Cincinnati. Kelly has his Bearcats off to a 10-0 start and with games with Illinois and Pittsburgh could finish 12-0 with a trip to a BCS bowl game. This only tells half the story though.
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11/13/09
By: The Young Bartender

Gary Danielson
Sometimes at the bar when there is nothing good on, my patrons and I will flip the TV onto Family Guy and laugh for a while. One of our favorite episodes is when Peter Griffin is a guest on the new station and he does a segment called, “You Know What Grinds My Gears”. Well, to borrow Peter’s line, what grind my gears is Gary Danielson and his complete one-sided opinion of the SEC. This morning Michael Hiestand of USA Today did a piece on how Danielson argues that a one lose SEC team deserves a shot at the national title because it is such a rugged conference. I’m bored with this argument because it is not true. Yes, Florida and Alabama are good, but there are ten other teams in the conference and only LSU is any good. Danielson goes on to say that whoever loses the SEC title game should NOT be a participant in the BCS Championship game. Well, I guarantee you that if Alabama lost to Mississippi State and Auburn, but then beat an undefeated Florida team in the SEC game, Danielson’s opinion would change real quick. Would a one lose non-SEC champion be worthy of a national title shot?
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By Just A. Bartender

11/12/9

Dilworth, NC – It is past Halloween and I am one of those crazy Holiday people that likes to get their decorations up early. This has become futile this week, thanks to Tropical Storm Ida, the rain will not stop. I look at my inflatable Xmas Penguin, and he is just a big plastic puddle. It reminds me of watching my good buddy Hank Abromawitz watch his beloved Michigan Wolverines look like a Hyundai stuck in the mud. Then a quick look at the transaction wire this week shows futility has already brought two coaches down, David Elson at Western Kentucky and Tommy West at Memphis. West should have performed better, but WKU should fire anyone that thought they could make it as Division I-A school. But I digress, back to the rain and my friend Hank. Futile is what Michigan has become and should be the next place a pink slip is handed out.
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11/09/09

By: The Young Bartender

Weekend Wrap-Up

The Beach, FL- What a weekend it was once again in the world of college football. Not many upsets but none-the-less it was another impressive weekend of watching football at the bar. My favorite part of the weekend was the two Penn State fans that I had sitting at my bar, when my shift began one gentleman was drinking a beer and a women was drinking Diet Coke. By the time the second half had begun the gentleman was drinking Jim Beam and the women was having a Margarita. That’s what college football will do to you.
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By Just A. Bartender

11/7/9

Dilworth, NC – This is part two of what I am rooting for this weekend, not that anyone really cares what I am rooting for, but hey, it gives you a chance to agree or disagree. Either way it is a fun way to look at the NFL weekend that starts tomorrow.
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By Just A. Bartender

11/6/9

Dilworth, NC – I am back after my bye week spent watching baseball. So to start back I would like to preview the college football weekend, but not by thinking who will win or lose, instead, what I am rooting for. Why? Well to steal a quote from Animal House, “why not?”
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11/6/2009

By: The Young Bartender

World Series

The Beach, FL- The World Series came to an end a couple nights ago and as we watched the game at my bar a few images stuck out to me. The most obvious is the Big Four who combined have won 20 World Series titles. Derrick Jeter, Andy Pettite, Jorge Posado and Mariano Riveria have been playing for the Yankees since before I was of legal drinking age, or at least it seems that way. And for all the crap the Yankees take about spending money, people forget that these four players came up through their system. » Read the rest of this entry «