Week seven The game: Patriots at Jets The beer: Avery Ellie’s Brown Ale The result: Win, 33–0 Week eight The game: Browns at Patriots The beer: Lord Hobo Dark Lager The result: Win, 27–13 Week nine The game: Patriots at Ravens The beer: Ipswich Chucktoberfest Lager The result: Loss, 37–20 Week ten (bye) The beer: […]
Week one The game: Steelers at Patriots The beer: Four Quarters Blackboard Jungle Imperial Tropical Stout The result: Win, 33–3; Cowboys win, 35–17 Week two The game: Patriots at Dolphins The beer: Rapscallion Red Ale The result: Win, 43–0; Ravens win, 23 –17 Week three The game: Jets at Patriots The beer: Cisco 182.5 India […]
Get out there, old man The game: Patriots vs. Rams The beer: Epic Big Bad Baptist Imperial Stout The result: Win, 13–3 The commentary: Is this Super Bowl LIII recap, seven months after the fact, to be of the XLIX variety and feature a handful of Peter King-esque you-say-there-was-a-game observations? Or will it get the […]
The beer: Proclamation Derivative Vic Secret Pale Ale The commentary: Some people lose front teeth. Others lose old blog posts. (Transition: smooth.) My relationship with the Biff! Bang! words you’re reading is troubled, and if the Pats weren’t such a goddamn winning machine I might have signed off altogether following the Beefheart crowning achievement. It’s […]
The game: Patriots vs. Eagles The beer: Collective Arts Stranger Than Fiction Porter The result: Fuuuuuuck The commentary: There I was, chain-drinking bombers with the first setting up a presumed—upon winning—deep dive into socialized literature. Said plans, though, were scrapped early when our defense declared “No more!” So what better time to revisit a Super […]
The game: Jets at Patriots The beer: Down the Road Wolfgeist Dunkel Lager The result: Win, 26–6; Lions win, 35–11; Jarrod/Dan/Katie/Oren win, 4–53 The commentary: With apologies to Commissioner Rico, we knockout-pool participants who remain after seventeen regular-season weeks of entertainment—Dan, Katie, Asterisk Oren and myself—have copped out and agreed to split the dough four […]
The beer: Clown Shoes Third-Party Candidate India Pale Lager The result: Chiefs win, 19–14; Trump wins, 304–227–7 The commentary: This is my two hundredth post. I am close to dropping an overdue essay regarding the importance of Trout Mask Replica (currently headlined “Tight also”), having reserved its epic for a weighty round number, but it […]
The game: Chiefs at Patriots The beer: Ballast Point Sculpin India Pale Ale The result: Win, 27–20 The commentary: Ladies and gentlemen, Andy Reid & His Five-Minute Drives! I love that band. I love when the Pats’ defense can just hang out and listen to them perform without worrying about where to stand and whom […]
Week sixteen The game: Patriots at Jets The beer: Berkshire Cabin Fever Ale The result: Loss, 26–20 The commentary: Shades of Nausea! The Jets game was disjointed in that G. and I suffered through the ugly first half at home, then ran off to the local toy store and café before I was to meet […]
Week four (bye) The beer: Oskar Blues Pinner Throwback India Pale Ale The result: Raiders/Jarrod lose, 22–20 The commentary: Jay Cutler, of all people, has made me a better father. The Pats were off and my gambling hopes rested on, rested all over, the Silver and Black Attack. Or, precisely, rested against the Bears of […]
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