How To Make Spiked Gummy Bears, Jolly Ranchers and Skittles Vodka
Making drinks for a party doesn't have to be complicated. With a simple set of ingredients, you can make spiked gummy bears and flavored vodkas using Skittles and Jolly Ranchers with enough to share for all. How to Make Jolly Rancher Vodka Jolly Rancher flavored vodka...
Who Sucked and Won In the NFL Last Weekend
Are the Saints in terrible trouble? After all, of the last 60 playoff teams, only one has started 0-2, and that was last year’s Carolina Panthers. Well, the short answer is no. They’re not in trouble. The Saints have lost two games by a grand total of 5 points, and...
There Are No Women In The Madden 15 Game
A good friend MC Wale was playing the new Madden the other night when he decided to look for who the game developers put in his seat in the stands. After glancing around, he noticed a pretty glaring oversight on Madden's part: There are ZERO women in the stands. Most...
The NFL’s Disciplinary Problem Isn’t Going Away Anytime Soon
It just keeps getting worse. There seems to be no end in sight for the NFL’s seemingly limitless supply of players in trouble with the law, and almost upon hearing the details of the latest culprit, the Vikings’ Adrian Peterson, you knew there was no good way for the...
Hannah Storm Gets Emotional and Asks “What Does the NFL Stand For?”
It's been a rough week for NFL fans, especially if you're a female fan of the game. We talked about what female fans of the NFL can do moving forward, but ESPN anchor Hannah Storm asked in a broadcast Sunday morning of what the NFL will stand for? In a rare emotional...
I Made These NFL Picks While Drinking Wine
I knew I should have finished making these picks Saturday morning. Instead I got busy and had to wait until I got home from work to do them, and then I had to get the sauce on the stove because I had picked up my daughter for dinner since it was Friday night and I...
How Female Fans Of the NFL Can Move Past Ray Rice and Roger Goodell
By now, you've likely heard about the Ray Rice domestic violence situation in the press and the NFL's systematic fumbling of the investigation from the get-go. The lack of a proper investigation has been unraveling into a greater discussion of women, the role within...
Domestic Violence In Sports Is Much More Than Ray Rice
This was going to be a preamble to my weekly football picks, but it’s ballooning beyond that, so now it’s its own thing. I have to talk about Ray Rice for a minute, not that I want to, but HAVE to, because there’s a lot of left turning and chest thumping and choir...
Who Has The Weapons? NFL Power Rankings Week 2
(Won-Loss Record and Last Week’s Ranking in parentheses) 1. Seattle Seahawks (1-0) (1) - Haven’t missed a beat. 2. Denver Broncos (1-0) (2) - Peyton Manning: still worth the price of admission. 3. San Francisco 49ers (1-0) (5) - Turmoil? What turmoil? I don’t...
NFL Week 1 Game Action and Random Thoughts
You gotta hand it to the NFL. No matter how much they screw up all week or all month or all year, come Sundays in the fall they deliver. Upsets, comebacks, last season finishes, overtime, week 1 had it all. And I have to say, I was right there with Fox’s announcer...
Down With The Kings: Will NFL’s Divisional Favorites Recover in 2014
No less than three NFL teams that were expected to win their divisions lost their openers in Week 1, two of them as favorites, and another—the Philadelphia Eagles—was down 17 points to one of the league’s bottom-feeders at half time. It made for a wild weekend. And...
Rookie NFL QB’s: 5 Arguments Of Whether To Start Or Sit
Week 1 came and went, and not surprisingly (to me, anyway) Blake Bortles, Johnny Manziel and Teddy Bridgewater all spent the day on the bench watching. Derek Carr played, and put up a competent stat line that anyone would take one look at and say “game manager,”...
Domestic Violence: Man or Woman, It’s Still Assault
The NFL season is already off to a wild start, not because Peyton Manning has now become the second quarterback to beat every NFL team, but because of a TMZ video. As the result of new footage surfacing Monday morning of Running Back Ray Rice punching then fiance...
Watch Drew Brees Apply For A Job In Xbox’s New Fantasy Football Commercial
Microsoft announced over the summer that they would be partnering with the NFL on exclusive videos and fantasy football highlights viewable from Xbox when the season started. Now that the season is here, commercials are starting to roll out featuring top NFL players...
9 Easy Recipes That Score Big With Football Fans
Are you ready for some football? With the NFL season now under way, football fans are busy working to come up with tasty menu items to serve during the next gridiron showdown whether tailgating or hosting a party at home. If you are like most football fans, you want...
Everyone’s Got A Chance: NFL Week 1 Preview
Without belaboring the point and being quite risk averse to the notion that I’ll become known as “the sick guy,” a doctor recently told me, “wow, it’s really not your year.” I could say the same for any number of NFL players who are already going to miss the 2014...
God Hated The Jaguars, But Not Anymore: AFC South Preview
About the only thing that’s certain in the AFC South is that the Colts will win it (barring an injury to Andrew Luck). Beyond that? Houston will have a great defense, but they should have had one last year. The Titans ALWAYS seem to be two years away, and the Jaguars...
Will The Saints Bounce Back This Year? NFC South Preview
Last year I picked the Saints to win the Super Bowl. This year I’m picking them to lose it. Either way, they are the class of this division and one of the true contenders in the NFC. You’d have to be crazy not to want to see how speed demon Brandin Cooks fits in...
