The game: Bills at Patriots The beer: Newburyport Melt Away India Pale Ale The result: Loss, 16–0; Bengals win, 22–7 The commentary: It’s another outtake from week one, just like two years ago after the shellacking in Kansas City. No Pink Floyd talk this time though. No playlist modification either! That surely fucked us all. […]
The game: Bills at Patriots The beer: Ballast Point Black Marlin Porter The result: Win, 20–13 The commentary: “I’m not emotionally prepared to write about the state of my football team.” Lo, had I joined the loathsome rabble? Remain I there? Surely not, so long as ours is somehow a top-twenty defense. I’ve recently… acquired… […]
The game: Patriots at Bills The beer: Ipswich Route 101 India Pale Ale The result: Win, 40–32; Saints lose, 26–19 The commentary: “You guys mind if I run back inside for the last minute of the game?” With my mom visiting we retired to the back yard, the Pats seemingly in control with eight minutes […]
Week sixteen The game: Patriots at Jets The beer: Stone Coffee Milk Stout The result: Win, 17–16 The commentary: It’s rarely easy with these teams. I spelled it out after the Pats won in October’s first meeting, and adding this one to the pile the Pats come out three cumulative points ahead from 2013 to […]
The game: Bills at Patriots The beer: Wachusett Larry Imperial India Pale Ale The result: Win, 34–20 The commentary: During the Browns game a few weeks ago I got into a shouting match with color man Steve Tasker. He said something critical about the Pats or their play-calling (I was bitter because Jason Campbell was […]
Week one The game: Patriots at Bills The beer: Samuel Smith Nut Brown Ale The result: Win, 23–21; Bengals/Jarrod lose, 24–21 The commentary: Longtime readers (!) might recall this whole “beer and football” thing I started years ago when an innocent, shockingly handsome thirty-something guy got drunk on Samuel Smith pints each autumn Sunday in […]
The game: Bills at Patriots The beer: AleSmith Nut Brown English-Style Ale The result: Win, 37–31 The commentary: God bless the DVR. Continuing the trend, this week’s “1:00” game didn’t start for me until almost 3:30. Sunday was the deadline for a local arts festival logo contest that I entered, and after running a few […]
Week four The game: Patriots at Bills The beer: Unibroue La Fin du Monde Triple Fermentation Ale The result: Win, 52–28 The commentary: Hello friends! Hoo boy, this game was over a month ago now. It was one of those multimedia affairs for me because we were entering phase one of our trip to Florida, […]
The game: Bills at Patriots The beer: Samuel Adams (The) Vixen Chocolate Chili Bock Lager The result: Win, 49–21 The commentary: I’m cheating with this picture as it was not actually taken during the game, or even on game day, but rather the following morning as G. snuggled her loveys and fought sleep with every […]
The game: Patriots at Bills The beer: Clown Shoes Lubrication American Black Ale The result: Loss, 34–31 The commentary: No pictures of my little girl will accompany losses, especially losses as ugly and perplexing as this. Deion Branch was invisible all day, and since he’s her favorite player she will be too. My boy Paul […]
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