Super Bowl Party - Open Thread

But seriously, kill yourself with chicken wings and ribs.

Jerry Rice and Emmitt Smith are definitely in.

TEZ! TEZ! TEZ!

Brew Dog: Basha, Allagash: Tripel, Bear Republic: Hop Rod Rye, Anderson Valley: Oatmeal Stout, Flying Dog: Gonzo Imperial Porter, Victory: Hop Wallop.

Colts win.

What if Field Gulls existed during Super Bowl XL?

Paper Tiger is battling Stumptown for my new coffee of choice.

I wonder what Chicago will do about left tackle.

I wonder if they draft Matthews, if not trade up and get Spiller.

This could be fun.

Are the final seven.

No Tez this year.

Um.

Rain, snow, or shine.

September 18th
September 25th
October 9th
October 23rd

I generally stick with the following but I am looking for more ideas (a rant about poor selection of quality Canadian beers is long over due. Nothing against the country or its beer history but there really isn’t a selection. And, sorry, honey ale is not beer). At the bottom, I have listed a couple of random beer facts about Canada but before the list here is what I usually stand by (new suggestions are welcome):

Phillips Blue Buck
Phillips Chocolate Porter
Old Yale Brewing Sasquatch Stout
Howe Sound (generally anything, but specifically) Father John’s Winter Ale
Big Rock (stable selection across the board, nothing outstanding but nothing poor)

And here is the list of random facts:
1. Canada is the largest consumer of Bud Light Lime (the stuff sells out all the time, weirdest thing)
2. It’s considered common knowledge that all US macros are 3.5% alcohol (false, but I have yet to meet a Canadian who hasn’t stated how weak alcohol wise US beer is and then tout how a Molson Canadian is a real beer)
3. Pabst is the cheapest beer at the BC liquor store (I am not calling Dude Beer, beer)

Unfortunately, there’s also this write-up on Adjusted Games Lost. It seems like a clever, useful idea at first—tallying teams’ reported injuries weighted by how bad the injury is (probable, questionable, etc.). But if I taught an intro applied statistics course, I’d use this as the poster-child of how not to construct research. I’d say, “Ok class, let’s list all the errors, fallacies, and other problems with this on the board.” Data-mining for type I errors, small-sample fallacy, widely varying injury-reporting doctrine by teams, correlation-causation fallacy…Some of their comments have additional criticisms.

Could it be that some teams regularly report half their players as probable or questionable regardless of true injury status? And that some teams don’t disclose injuries that they should? Also, once it becomes apparent a team is not in the playoff hunt, many players will suddenly be held out or put on IR. So there is a “causation back-flow” where being a bad team creates injuries. Adjusted Games Lost is like a bad research pinata. It’s fine to do something like AGL if you address its shortcomings up front, but claiming they’ve discovered that some teams are tangibly better at keeping players healthy is an overreach.

I really wish FO would stop discrediting themselves.

But I hate that shit they do at halftime, with all the people dancing on the field.

So I can be off 3 hours early. Yay 6am-2:30 shift!

Menu includes duck egg rolls, pulled pork egg rolls, Prosciutto wrapped prawns, sweet and sour meatballs, pigs in blankets (little smokies in crescent roll) and devils candy (candied bacon with dates). And of course hot, hot wings. Damn, my stomach is growling now.

So we’re watching the game at a Brazilian-owned soccer bar, who required convincing to throw a SB party. But the menu looks tasty (Moqueca, anyone?) and Hobgoblin’s on tap.

Frying up some burgers later on, and washing them down with Alaskan IPA.