Are you there, God? It’s me, DogFister. I sit here before you, asking as a humble/self-loathing Lions fan, why do you hate us?

Oh indeed. My family in the mid-west is all Polish or 2nd generation Polish-American and I am pretty sure you’ve hit on why the game is such a big deal with that part of my family. Most get-togethers get pretty rowdy. Forget about it when the cards come out.

I know how to pronounce it, but I don’t want to end up like this person.

Pro tip: It’s all in your pronunciation. Say it as: rE-n’EGG, not rE-nig, and you’ll be fine.

Former upstate NY Euchre player... Moved to FL and NO ONE even knows what I’m talking about.
I also have no love for a shit partner.

I think it’s mostly a Great Lakes area thing. Real big in the upper midwest, Illinois (I think), Indiana, and a little bit in Ohio.

A few years ago, when Yahoo still had games you could play with other people online (they probably still do), if you logged on to play euchre, you could guarantee everyone in there was from Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Minnesota or Canada. So I’d go ahead and call Michigan the center of that? Maybe?

It’s like spades with a reduced deck and different scoring system. Trump is set before every hand and could literally change every time. The Jack of the trump suit is the highest followed by the jack of the other same-color suit, then ace through 9 of the trump suit. If you decide trump (this takes the place of the…

Pinochle and canasta at our house. Dad was a WWII vet from a farm in the South and Mom was a Yankee from a family of machinists and factory workers. Jim Beam, Falstaff, Pall Malls and Camels. What’s a filter?

My Detroit-born wife claims euchre was the game of choice for factory shift workers, since it could be played in 20 minute breaks. I have no idea though, its odd how they’re so similar yet have such distinct geographic areas.

You got called out because you reneged.........which means you should have been called out AND called a bitch AND gotten the stink-eye the rest of the game AND then not allowed to play next game because clearly, you are the worst.

Now at an old, old school type party, the card game of choice is Pinochle.

Seriously, where the fuck does euchre come from? Is it largely the Midwest? I haven’t figured out a regional center for it. I grew up in upstate NY, and we played... But only a few of my friends. None of my family, and very few other kids at school knew the game. And the people I’ve met as an adult who play are such a…

Unless you know someone, or recognize a face from somewhere, “dropping in” on anyone’s cookout is pretty much a no go, I’d think.

I grew up playing spades but am now forced to play ‘euchre’ thanks to my wife’s midwest childhood.

This is the best I could come up with for a “statue” of limitations.

The Wells Report, commissioned by the league to prove this precise thing, could only muster up that it was “more probable than not that Tom Brady was at least generally aware of the inappropriate activities” of the team employees. But yeah, when that type of dead certainty is what an investigator hired by your…

a player who almost definitely did what he was accused of

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