football

Today's BSOW, which I'm like 85% sure I've done before but am too lazy to check, is "Your Hand In Mine" by Explosions in the Sky. For two, very good reasons.

1) It is Frakking Awesome.

2) It is the beginning of "FNL" here in the Mind of a ditriech.

Ok. Let me explain the latter point.

I have a bunch of weird rules, traditions and shit that I do because I'm not normal. Like at all. Most of them revolve around football, predominately Ohio State football now.^sd. One of these traditions, that I'm pretty sure no one knew of before like now^sd2 is FNL.

It's simple enough really, Basically, starting with the first Friday of August (i.e. today) I watch FNL every Friday until the collegiate football season is over if at all humanely possible. This is, actually, quite normal for me so far. The insane part started about 2 or 3 years ago when I decided that just watching the movie wasn't enough. I had to make a drinking game out of it. This too, isn't all that odd. The worst part is that I made a drinking fantasy game.

That I play by myself.

For like 16 weeks.

Well, technically 15. The first week is like a preseason to get me used to drinking Miller Lite again.

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At home that is^sd4

But yeah, in case you were wondering the rules go like this:

Points are only counted during the 30 minutes pregame before you are watching FNL^sd3, during the movie itself and for an hour after, but only if a) you don't immediately watch something else and b) you play at least three songs from the sdtk while drinking.

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I know

Continuing: each 12 oz can/bottle of Miller Lite is 5 points.

Each 12 oz can/bottle of Miller High Life is worth 4.5 points

Each 12 oz can/bottle of MGD is worth 4 points

Each 12 oz can of The Beast is worth 3.5 points.

For each 24 oz you drink, you add 1 point to the score. For each 40 oz, 2 points. For each 22 oz, add 0.8 points.

Highest point total after The Game wins. Low man has to buy the high man a beer.

It's fun. I'll be updating throughout the year via twitter.

Explosions in the Sky
Your Hand in Mine
The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place/Friday Night Lights sdtk

ditriech:  Also, I'm about to get a Growler of beer. Stay tuned   14:27
zerodutch: And I'm stuck at my boss's place working. I hate you. 14:29
ditriech: I just finished a Growler in 20 minutes. Now a rhino hero 15:22
zerodutch: Hate hate hate 15:23 

...but we are also dorks, which is what makes this so awesome.

That is all.

Seriously, what the fuck is that thing???

Update: Of course now this is happening. 

I like Shakespeare.  I mean, I don't read it for fun, but I respect the work and enjoy the poetry of the writing.  I also think certain football players are douchebags, and have held that opinion since even before they caused certain injuries to their own person.  So this made me very, very happy.

As you were.

Superbowl XXXVIII was notable for many things, the actual game being not one of them. The highlight of the evening, for most, was the Terry Tate: Office Linebacker. Check out the full documentary-style video in all its glory. Like most great Superbowl commercials, it only had a tangential relationship with the product it was supposedly endorsing - in fact, most viewers would be hard-pressed to even identify the corporate sponsor. In fact, the Terry Tate commercials are only notable insofar as the company that created them is still in business.

Well, Terry's back. Ten dollars says that Reebok's not sponsoring him this time, which means his spots are even greater - if that's possible. Terry's trying to get out the vote - and doesn't care who he hurts in the process. Check it out. We've all seen the clip, and lord knows it's painful, so put it on mute and get ready to crank up the volume around 0:44.

"What the fuck," I'm sure you're saying. "How the hell did they do that?" Well, after the jump, we'll take a look at this cinematic work of art frame by frame, and find out just how Terry works his magic.

Forget that I didn't say anything about weeks 1-8.

1. Glenville (9-0)
2. St. Ignatius (8-1)
3. Mentor (7-2)
4. Strongsville (8-1)
5. Mayfield (8-1)
6. Highland (9-0)
7. Twinsburg (7-2)
8. Avon (9-0)
9. Brecksville-Broadview Heights (6-3)
10. Shaw (8-0)
11. Euclid (7-2)
12. Willoughby South (7-2)
13. Amherst Steele (8-1)
14. Clearview (9-0)
15. Brunswick (8-1)
16. Walsh Jesuit (6-2)
17. St. Vincent-St. Mary (7-2)
18. Padua Franciscan (7-2)
19. Perry (8-1)
20. Aurora (7-2)
21. Kirtland (9-0)
22. St. Edward (6-3)
23. Nordonia (6-3)
24. Cuyahoga Valley Christian Academy (8-1)
25. Avon Lake (7-2)

Big matchups in week 10:
Euclid @ Shaw
St. Ed's @ St. Ignatius

Another stellar pick from the Random Number generator.  With no "off" games on the board this week, it can't do too badly. But I'd like to point out that it picked PSU, OSU, and Michigan. I gotta respect an algorithm based on atmospheric noise that picks the hometown favorites.  And that also has a soft spot in its digital heart for hating on Minnesota. Despite its successes in the last two weeks, the RNG played it safe this week and predicted that the enimitable ditriech. Full predictions after the jump.

(03:40:25) ditriech: quick question, while I drift away from sobriety. Are you a Browncoat?
(03:42:59) BucknutOhBama: while i am not surly surified on the whole of an accord with the central planets, my fondness for lost causes does sure enough lend my fondness towards that of the Browncoats.
(03:43:13) ditriech: ...
(03:43:17) ditriech: gorramit
(03:43:49) ditriech: the sad part is that I think we all are, and its something we came upon separately
(03:43:54) ditriech: which, you know, scares me.
(03:44:14) BucknutOhBama: haha