Happy Last Friday Without Saturday Football/Drinking Thread!

this metroplex of which you speak, but by this time next week I will.  I leave Thursday morning via beautiful I-65 through Memphis to Little Rock through the Southeast corner of Oklahoma (so I can say I have been there) and on to Dallas.

 in the 90 degree heat, banging beers and alternating between fly patterns, curl-ins, and swimming with the boy.  

Jeezus, I hope there are no expectations from the wife when she gets home.  

 

Go Blue - can't wait.  

I'm headed down to the tigers game now, so I'll be drinking some overly priced beer soon.

im losing my mind, need more football

a mini chub when I read this title

Got a mix and match six pack of craft brews at my local store which includes dogfish head 90 min ipa, lagunitas Maximus ipa, stone ruination and great lakes brewing co. Lake Erie monster ipa and bells pale ale

I have the tailgating equipment scattered throughout my living room right now. Ready to go baby!

2 more hours till I'm pounding back some Shiner Blonde and thinking this time next week will be down waiting for espn gameday to begin then tailgate till kickoff for best upset on opening weekend in years!!! GO BLUE!!

With dinner.  Afterwards, going to flip between the Tigers and the 1st Quarter of preseason NFL games.   Maybe tune in to the mlive livechat for Pioneer vs. De La Salle.

Go Shane and Go Blue

Wifey's having me try out some tailgate recipes tonight; buffalo chicken balls and bacon jalapeno poppers. Might need to find some oberon before I get in too deep. Whens the last time we had a recipe thread?

Shots of Kah (Blanco ...the white skull) followed by Sam Adams  - Summer Ale.  Aaaahh! 

Going to watch the team practice tomorrow.  I'm really looking forward to that!  The season is upon us and I'll drink to that!

Go Blue!

And then some Hofbrauhaus Oktoberfest. Wonderful!

Lots and lots of Ichabod. Anyone else think fall beers are the best? Could just be the football setting but nothing beats them in my book.

I'm sippin' on some Arctic Grape Bacardi + Diet Mountain Dew.  Trust me, it's amazing.

I'm sort of in between going out and getting pants-shatting drunk or not doing anything. Nine times out of ten I'll go with the former.

My best friend's 30th birthday party was tonight, so THIS GUY is drunk on Sierra Nevada and sangria.  But....... TIGERS WHY U NO WIN BEISBOL GAME

I've learned to cherish this time of year.  Though it's in a way torturous anticipating the close-ness that football is, once the season starts it's such an up and down rollercoaster.  The highs after winning are amazing, the lows after losing are unaturally depressing.  Mondays after the weekends are back to torturous as more football is craved (no, MNF does not feed that appetite); even if it was a huge win, it's torture waiting another week and sometimes two weeks.  And as much as I love Autumn, I'm a summer guy.  I love the first part of the Fall but once it gets cold it means Winter is near (which is okay, I don't hate winters, but, you know) and that's a little disheartening.  Late-summer baseball gets interesting and is a time when I head to some games; always great going to ballparks (following the Bravos in the Midwest somewhere).   As a terrible segueway and odd transitional statement, I do know and realize the pre-season football shows and media presentations are terrible anymore. 

But.. that month to one-week-away from football feeling at the end of summer is great time for me as I've gotten "older".  It's a great time to sit back and realize life is good.  I used to think and still do at times think, "life will be even better when football starts..", but the reflection period before and the climax of anticipation (am I writing for 50 Shades of Grey?) is a great time.  Again, it's a good feeling realizing life is, just, good.

I'll drink to that! (Only the title that is)