They say the blues were born on the Mississippi. We were not on the Mississippi, we were in Nashville on the Cumberland River which, in a six degrees to Kevin Bacon kind of way, is connected to the mighty Mississippi. I'm sure some blues cooties made their way over to the country music capital of the world. It was a bad weekend for yours truly. Well, not the entire weekend, just Sunday. No I didn't end up in prison or get into a fight or anything serious like that. Let me explain:
This was the weekend for the Second Annual Side Bet Payoff. As you may remember, last year I took Lenny over to Kansas City to watch a Raiders vs. Chiefs game. This year I won the bet and decided on seeing the Dolphins vs. the Thumbtacks in Nashville with the AFC wildcard in the balance. We rushed out of Manhattan late Friday afternoon and literally ran through the airport to catch our flight. What we didn't know was that the flight was delayed which was neither indicated on any website nor on any signage in the Continental terminal. No biggie, two large sized full flavored Buds later and we were on our way. We landed in Nashville and deposited our crap in the downtown Marriott, conveniently located in the heart of the action and a mere minutes walk from LP Field. Lenny took a second to plan our crawl for the evening and away we went.
Pressing on we ended up a pool hall named Buffalo Billiards (again, very clever name) where Lenny housed me at some 8 ball on pretty terrible Olympic sized tables. The only strange thing about this place was that a client of mine recognized the company T-shirt I was wearing. I was getting a little bleary so I just pressed past him in a 'very proud of you' kind of way.
The rest of the night is kind of a blur. We're not sure what happened but we swore we went to one more bar then home. It was an Irish bar and I can't recall the name. Somewhere along the line we took this pic and the rest is real shady thanks to brother Jamie.
Wake up Lenny! It's Game Day!
We woke up and rode over to the stadium. It was pretty dead in the parking lot. Lenny asked where we should set up shop. I looked around and said, "How about over there buy those Jack Daniels tents"? This turned out to be one of the best tailgates ever! I can't give away too much because I promised the proprietor his anonymity but we had full stocked bar, a cauldron of jambalaya, sausages, chips, you name it. Not to mention an awesome group of Titans fans. They welcomed us in to their circle with open arms and absolutely loved our silly little side bet story. A big thanks to our hosts and to the friends we made there. Our 50 yard line seats were dope.
The End!
Happy Holidays Baglovers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
PS. As a last thought, if you haven't seen this on facebook then check it out. This is a brother's revenge on his siter for getting him grounded for having beer in his room. Im so glad the intarweb wasn't around when i was in high school.
http://www.geekologie.com/2009/12/boy_gets_revenge_on_sister_via.php
Indianapolis @ Jacksonville, Thursday 8:20 pm
Dallas @ New Orleans, Saturday 8:20 pm
New England @ Buffalo, Sunday 1:00 pm
Arizona @ Detroit, Sunday 1:00 pm
Cleveland @ Kansas City, Sunday 1:00 pm ***BAG MATCHUP
Houston @ St. Louis, Sunday 1:00 pm
The Giants need this more but I'd be scurred of the Foreskins if I were them.
NFC East - Washington Redskins
NFC North - Detroit Lions
NFC South - Tampa Bay
NFC West - St. Louis
AFC East - Buffalo Bills
AFC North - Cleveland Browns
AFC South - Tennessee Titans or Houston Texans
AFC West - Kansas City Chiefs
Yes that is two, count em, two flights of tequila we consumed along with some ritas at a Mexican cantina in Epcot.

I passed on watching MNF this week for attending The Pixies show at Hammerstein. Awesome show. They sounded great for a bunch of old people. The fans??? Not so great. Arguably the biggest pussy crowd I've ever seen at a rock concert. I saw more hot crowd action at a Sigor Ros show at Radio City. Sarah and I were getting major dirty looks from pretty much everyone as we tried to push our way to the front. At one point we stopped and this girl grabbed Sarah's arm and told her that she was too tall to stand in front of her. Um too fucking bad. The guy behind me said I was obstructing his view. Once again, too fucking bad. Last time I checked this was a rock and roll show you morons. Definitely not the crowd I'm used to. As they kicked into Debaser, I scanned the crowd and noticed not only was no one singing along... they all kind of just stood there with their arms folded. Not even a head bob. I only know a handful of their songs but even if I didn't I'd still be into it. Then I also noticed that these were kids... worse than kids... hipsters... no wait, worse than hipsters... wanna be hipsters. Nothing is worse than wanna be hipsters I tell you. Regardless, we endured and enjoyed the show. They played some B-sides, all of Doolittle and two encores. Hot.
Week 12 Matchups!!!!!!
Green Bay @ Detroit, Thursday 12:30 PM
Stafford showed a lot of heart in that thriller against the Shitstains last week. Now he's out and in comes Mr. Culpepper.
Miami @ Buffalo, Sunday 1:00 PM
New coach, new QB same result. Dolphins victory.
Washington @ Philly, Sunday 1:00 PM
Daniel Snyder needs to be banned from the NFL. He's bringing bad luck to a storied franchise.
Seattle @ St. Louis, Sunday 1:00 PM
Bulger's hurt again? That guy needs to call it already.
Cleveland @ Cincinnati, Sunday 1:00 PM
C'mon shitstains!!
Kansas City @ San Diego, Sunday 4:05 PM
Jacksonville @ San Francisco, Sunday 4:05 PM
New England @ New Orleans, Monday 8:30 PM
The battle of the "New"s. I'm once again praying for a high scoring affair. Unlike most weeks I'm actually pulling for the (gulp) Pats to hand the Aints their first loss both both the integrity of the dolphins undefeated '72 season and of course my Bag chances.
Gotta Run
Gobble gobble.
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