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Gameday Cocktails: The Bear Bryant

What to drink when you've finished the beer, the Pink Panty Pulldowns and the Bama Bombs?

Faithful reader Gary in Jacksonville has the answer, a drink that not only pays tribute to the greatest coach in the history of the game but that tastes as good as ice cream on a hot summer day: the Bear Bryant.

First you'll need the ingredients:

A Golden Flake potato chip.

Some sauce:

and of course:

Now: Put the Golden Flake potato chip in your mouth. Take a shot of Southern Comfort. Chew and swallow. Chase it with Coke.

Orson Swindle adds: For true veracity, have someone break your leg. Now go play a football game. And don't complain. And then wrestle a bear. For fun.

Keep the Gameday Cocktail recipes coming. We'll post em.

August 31, 2006 12:14 PM | Link | Comments (11)

Do You Have Your EDSBS Couch Burning Shirt Yet?

Check out EDSBS's other tees as well...

August 31, 2006 11:44 AM | Link | Comments (2)

OSU To Own Fans: BEEEEE-HAVE!

Ohio State institutes programs to turn its rabid, frothing-at-the-mouth, drunken, cursing, angry, insane fan base into sweetie pies.

Columbus Dispatch: "Can college-football fans known for couch burnings and drunken tailgates become the best fans in the land?"

Highly doubtful...but it will be fun to watch them try.

Follows complaints from sensitive Longhorns fans following 05 game...

August 31, 2006 11:32 AM | Link | Comments (0)

Ohio State Markets Cereal: Honey Nut O's of course

75,000 Boxes of Buckeye Heroes hits Kroger shelves.

AP: "The cereal joins other Ohio State foods such as pasta, chips, salsa, hot dogs, mustard and hot sauces, as well as candy Buckeyes."

Thanks Mark!

August 30, 2006 04:07 PM | Link | Comments (0)

Are You a College Football Fan with an Infant? Then You've Got Work To Do!

With the college football season only a few days away, college football fans with babies have an important task to complete: ordering baby's first infant mascot suit.

Yes, in twelve to fifteen years, the experience of having been paraded around in front of thousands in an infant mascot suit may result in your child's feeling intense humiliation, resentment and rage -- towards you. But twelve to fifteen years is a long time. You may not even be around in twelve to fifteen years.

The fact is, if you want baby to be the hit of the tailgate party -- and to perfectly compliment that grill and keg emblazoned with your team's logo -- you're pretty much obligated to get them a little mascot suit. But where to begin?

If your infant has older siblings, simply hose off their old baby mascot suits, reuse them and spend the money you saved on beer. But if it's baby's first football season, this team-by-team guide may be helpful.

It's great to be an Auburn Tiger, especially if you're three and your parents buy you one of these.

Go Jackets! This one will look good at the big opener against Notre Dame. Your child will be miserable, but you'll look good at the big opener against Notre Dame.

This one works for Memphis fans, and anyone who likes Mike Leach.

Go Duke!

Baby's first Phil Fulmer outfit.

Technically this isn't a costume, but it gets the point across: Go Mountaineers!

The Stanford Tree. Okay -- technically a baby stuffed inside an automobile air freshener. But baby won't know the difference.

There we go. Hope this helps. Enjoy baby's first tailgate party. And don't forget to put some formula in the Igloo cooler!

August 29, 2006 06:13 PM | Link | Comments (2)

Watch the 'Horns Play from Oklahoma on the 'Godzillatron'

55' x 134'....$8 million worth of scoreboard.

August 29, 2006 12:22 PM | Link | Comments (0)

Eagles: We Had Fan Jerk Line First!

Team says it didn't want to promote the stadium tattle-tale line for fear of being overwhelmed.

Note to Cowboys fans: The Eagles Jerk Line is 267-570-4444. That number again: 267-570-4444.

August 29, 2006 08:26 AM | Link | Comments (0)

Monster Truck Fans: Cardinal Stadium Truck Show Failed to Meet Our High Standards

Monster truck fans are nothing if not a discriminating crowd, attuned to the nuances of each carefully choreographed monster truck performance. And what did they think of the big show at the Arizona Cardinals stadium over the weekend?

"It was a fiasco," said one fan.

Said another: "I've been to two monster truck shows in my life. Their entire setup on the stadium floor was a joke."

Damaging the stadium couldn't make up for the lack of excitement.

No refunds...

August 29, 2006 08:14 AM | Link | Comments (0)

Lions Fan Exorcises Demons of Last Season with Backyard Bonfire

via Deadspin

August 28, 2006 05:05 PM | Link | Comments (0)

Soccer Fans Stop Traffic in Tblisi With Ticket Protest

Two thousand soccer fans really wanted tix to the big Georgia - France match.

After shutting down the city for half an hour, they got em.

August 28, 2006 05:00 PM | Link | Comments (0)

Stanford "Tree" Mascot Fined by the NCAA

This incident has nothing to do with Erin "Rock Star" Lashnits, the Tree who was escorted off the court, while drunk, at a Cal - Stanford game.

Rather, the offended Tree in this case was inhabited by one Tommy Leep, who apparently was involved in some sort of altercation with officials at last season's NCAA women's basketball tournament. The incident, in which the Tree apparently danced in an undesignated area, and then refused to leave, was captured live on ESPN. Sadly, a YouTube search failed to turn up the footage.

Leep is set to perform as Tree this season -- and we think given the Tree's past, "perform" is indeed the mot juste.

Meanwhile, word is that the Stanford band has been suspended indefinitely for allegedly vandalizing its own "Band Shak," causing between $30,000 and $50,000 in damage. A trumbone player tell the Merc News: "We're really bummed out."

August 28, 2006 01:15 PM | Link | Comments (0)

Soccer Fans Arrange Riot on Internet; 17 Arrested

Sticks, rocks, "homemade grenades" as weapons.

(thanks Dave)

August 28, 2006 12:17 PM | Link | Comments (0)

Iowa State Revamps Pre-Game Rituals after Focus Groups Demand Changes

New routine will feature tornado warning sirens to alert fans of kickoff.

AD got the idea after sirens blared during tornado warning and forced evacuation at last year's Colorado game.

"We don't want to alarm people -- it will sound different."

Inflatable Helmet Entry Routine will remain intact.

August 28, 2006 08:15 AM | Link | Comments (1)

English Soccer Club Seeks More Gay Fans

Manchester City hopes more gay fans will improve the fan experience for families, straights as well.

Official: "Only the loopiest" fans will object.

Sun's new nickname for team: Men City.

August 28, 2006 08:10 AM | Link | Comments (0)

U of Oregon Introduces Fan Misbehavior Line, "Code of Conduckt."

70 arrests made at last year's Civil War for "obnoxious or threatening behavior."

August 28, 2006 08:02 AM | Link | Comments (0)

Mississippi Named Top Football State

Okay then.

8 of "top 10 football states" are in the South.

August 25, 2006 08:28 AM | Link | Comments (1)

Want to Be Afraid? Meet the Bengals' Biggest Fan (She Raps!) -- Video

She's got the "Bengals disease."

Is that what you call it?

Possibly the scariest fan video ever...

August 25, 2006 08:13 AM | Link | Comments (0)

Rockets' Van Gundy to Buy Tickets for 50 Rowdiest Fans

Fans will have 30 seconds to prove their rowdiness and their devotion to the team, which went 34-48 last year.

Van Gundy will not be a judge.

30 will get courtside season tickets; 20 will be scattered evenly throughout the crowd, to increase chances of an altercation with Ron Artest.

August 25, 2006 08:09 AM | Link | Comments (0)

UF Researchers Recruiting College Florida Football Fans for Season-Long Study

Got an email last night from Melanie Mousseau, a researcher at the University of Florida's College of Health and Human Performance.

She's looking for volunteers to participate in a season-long, Internet-based study of "the changes in individual's thoughts, feelings, and behaviors over the course of football season." Scary stuff, in other words. The study's title: the Fan Experience.

Participants will answer a questionaire online each week during the season, and in the end, researchers say, you will come away with "an awareness of how sport fandom and a sports team's performance may be related to fluctuations in fans' thoughts, feelings, and behaviors."

NOTE: Researchers assure us that "there are no anticipated risks or discomforts associated with your participation."

Apparently they did not see Urban Meyer in this video clip.

(Sorry Melanie - couldn't resist.)

The deadline to sign up for the study is August 31st. Participate, and at the end of the season we can commiserate over how insane we all are. And bloggers, spread the word.

UPDATE: Word from the comments section is that this study is geared towards UF fans only; the researchers didn't let us on to that detail. Maybe they thought we were these guys. So Gators fans, have at it.

August 24, 2006 08:10 AM | Link | Comments (8)

Fan Arrested in Toronto for Impersonating a Blue Jay

August 24, 2006 08:06 AM | Link | Comments (3)