Why stop there?

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The Phillies triple A team is called the Iron Pigs. So it came as no surprise that they decided to name their Pig mascot Pork Chop. But apparently they can’t do that, because the term pork chop offends a Puerto Rican guy who got called Pork Chop once at a construction site decades ago. So they changed the name of the mascot. Well, I’d like to lodge some complaints as well. The Phillie Phanatic has a big nose, and I find him offensive to people who have big noses. Also, the Sixers Mascot is named Hip Hop, and hip hop contains lyrics that are offensive to women. Do the Sixers hate women? Also, Drexel named its teams the Dragons. Dragons used to kill people by breathing fire on them. Does Drexel promote the incineration of humans? Apparently. Oh, and one more thing. Pork Chop, Pork Chop, Pork Chop, Pork Chop. Also, Bacon, bacon, bacon, bacon. Sausage, sausage, sausage, sausage. I hope I offended some people with those words as well.

Was this sketchy or what?


None of the announcers talked about this, but this was one of the sketchiest plays I’ve ever seen. Watch after Lawrence Maroney catches the ball and the Ravens cornerback at the top of the screen, #22 Samari Rolle, comes into hit him at the fifty yard line, and then decides not to. He just runs alongside him for 15 yards without ever trying to tackle him. Was he in on the fix or just the biggest sissy in NFL history? I’ve never seen anything like this.

2 Bounty Bowls This Week!

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There are two different teams with bounties on their heads this week. The Sofa Kingdom has a bounty on their heads at the Bards (20th and Walnut, 10 p.m.) Tuesday night, and the Jams have a bounty on their heads at the Vous (Broad and Locust, 6:15 p.m.) on Wednesday night. $20 extra to any team that can beat either of them this week.

Pics of last week’s winners

Gonna post pics of last weeks winners. Sorry so late, but I’m having some really frustrating technical problems at the home office these days. Really aggravating, but nothing a little therapy and laudanum can’t overcome. Anyways, Illinois became a state on this date in 1818, so all questions under the photos will be about Illinois.

What happened to Goodtime Joe?

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The last guy to call himself Goodtimes didn’t turn out so well. Was just doing some reading over the weekend about strange disappearances (because, um, that’s the type of thing I do on the weekends.) And came across Goodtime Joe Crater. Crater disappeared in New York in 1930 after stumbling out of a bar with his mistress, who then vanished herself after talking to the cops. “Pulling a Crater” went into the common lexicon for disappearing without a trace, and the Golden Girls even used his name as a joke once. The story came back into the headlines a couple of years ago when his apparent killer was found. Pretty interesting stuff.