I assume these bad-ass masks are banned only because the company that makes them has not give the NFL some sugar to be recognized as an official equipment provider. Or, to look at it another way, providing these customized shields implies that the officially licensed helmet companies provide an inferior product.

They say that parting is such sweet sorrow.

And actually surreptitiously based off of the Colts name and logo by Baltimore's National Brewing, and marketed as cheap and manly to football fans and college kids, only accidentally finding the underprivileged African-American market.

Whereas the Eskimo makes use of every part of the seal carcass, Kwame Brown's carcass is utterly useless.

...does whatever a Sneijder can.

The producer responsible for this still has a future in FM morning radio.

We do? We have some vulgar chants ("If I had the wings of an eagle" being my favorite, along with the f-bomb in "We're all part of Olsen's Army") but I don't remember YSA.

Our palettes seem to be similar. I like Flying Dog's Raging Bitch for its malt character. I've heard of Brewer's Alley and need to try that out.

Oh certainly not. Our conversation in this thread kind of meandered away from that point, critiquing the Baltimorean obsession with Natty Boh as something far more than merely a cheap beer with a long local history, though which is now imported from out of state, that very effectively washes Old Bay down the gullet…

Me, too! I kinda backtracked from it after I brought a bunch of Below Decks barleywine to a gathering with old friends last year and they hated it, and I had to face the fact that I like Weyerbacher's Blithering Idiot more.

It hasn't been brewed in Baltimore City since the 70s and hasn't been brewed in Baltimore County since the 90s. Its brewing site is an effing mystery, actually. The trademark is owned by Pabst. Most labels say that it is brewed by the G Heilmann company, with a post office box in Milwaukee. It is supposedly…

How can PBR be #5 and Natty Boh #29 when they are the exact same beer?

The ACC putting College Park on the Eastern Shore was possibly worse.

Yeah, this is actually not that rare. I've seen it happen in person. The jockey's job is more to steer the horse than to make it run faster. An unladen horse is faster than a laden one. Horses in low-stakes races lose their riders from time-to-time, and if the emancipated horse is somehow motivated to keep going,…

"The rigidity of studio TV is really discouraging. Let's just say that A LOT makes sense after these past 8 months."

Will Simmons be disciplined for tweets about ESPN editing and production?

For awhile last year I was hooked on the Facebook Price is Right game, which is just amazing for so many reasons. The $500 Motorola cell phones from 2003. The dudes trying to mac on girls while playing, and the girls who are down with that. But the best is the people who accuse you of "cheating" when you bid a…

Additionally, this staffer got the following:

Of course, I could never figure out when the four-letter was carrying games, while Fox Soccer Channel was far more predictable, except that they did not always have an early game.

Macca is the best soccer announcer I've ever had the chance to hear.