Welcome to the Darkside

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There's no getting around the fact that at the end of any football season, fans of only one team will experience that intoxicating euphoria that comes with a Super Bowl victory. The rest of us can hope for apathy, at best. At worst, you'll deal with the painful, repeated kick to the groin that comes with knowing your team very well had a shot and blew it. It's a pain so deep, you almost envy fans of loser teams that never even made it to the postseason because at least they got let off the hook early. It's like choosing whether you want to die peacefully in your sleep or be slowly crushed to death with a medieval torture device. Which bring us to this year's round of divisional playoff … [Read more...]

The Return of Hit it and Quit it

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There were plenty of big story lines this week. SportsCenter will play all of them on repeat for the next 72 hours. But if you want to get the scoop and avoid seeing the "Discount Double Check" commercial 63 times (and not the good one with B.J. Raji), allow us to break down the highlights and low-lights of week 5, in a way that only the Chicks can. Let's Hit it and Quit it, people! Hit It Even with a losing record, Drew Brees is still breaking records. How fitting that he broke the original "#19" Johnny Unitas' record for consecutive games with a touchdown to the Saints' #19, Devery Henderson. Quit It The Patriots/Broncos game almost lived up to all the hype. That is until Willis … [Read more...]

Tim Tebow, Will You Accept This Rose?

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If the Saints' "bounty" scandal makes your heart hurt, it's time to make your brain hurt, too! Producers are courting Broncos quarterback and proud Christian Tim Tebow to appear on The Bachelor. That's the show where desperate, fame hungry women demean themselves in front of a national audience to make out with a dude and pretend to fall in love before he chooses one to fake propose to at the end of the season. So yeah, this show is PERFECT for someone like Tebow, right? Tim apparently hasn't commented on whether he'll accept this rather indecent proposal from ABC. But let's be honest here. A Tim Tebow version of The Bachelor would be like ordering a tequila shot and saying "hold the … [Read more...]

The Season Is Over. Now What?

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Congratulations, Giants!! You proved the world wrong by winning the Super Bowl in a year that you weren't even expected to make the playoffs. You made Gisele Bundchen drop the f-bomb in a tirade against her hubby's team and you pushed Rob Gronkowski to dance shirtless to LMFAO. Consider all of your preseason missions accomplished! While Eli and the G-men and most of the Tri-State area soak up the win, what about the rest of us sorry saps who not only are left out of the party but have nothing to fill the void the end of the football season leaves behind? I mean, what are we supposed to get excited about now? March Madness? Tiger Woods? Should I be obsessively Googling the words "Awesome … [Read more...]

The Super Bowl Is More Important Than…

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...apparently a whole mess of stuff, according to the average American. And I thought it was just me and my fellow chicks who suffered from an odd, unhealthy obsession with the game. But nope, it turns out the rest of you are a bunch of weirdos, too! Hooray!! According to a survey run by CouponCabin.com (I know, I know...but just hear me out), 20% of people said they would miss a loved one's funeral if their favorite team was in the game. (Say what?!!!) 21% would miss an important work responsibility and 20 percent would miss the wedding of a close friend. (If someone cares so little about the Super Bowl that they would plan their wedding on game day, are they really worth being friends … [Read more...]