Obligatory Introduction Post

I’m kicking off this blog with an introduction of sorts. I watch a lot of sports, and I know a few guys who watch a lot of sports; I’ve had a few blogs where I’ve scribbled inconsequential things over the years, and a lot of these same guys have too. So I thought, fuck, why don’t we all get together, put together a sport-centric/random-observation blog under the same banner? We’d make it a collective outlet for our cynicism, grave social commentary, biting sarcasm, surreptitious bigotry (and sexism), and comedic failures. What should follow is that effort.

I’m a big football guy, as are most of the writers I’ve reached out to. Expect football pieces. We’re in the offseason, but for some guys that’s one of the best times of the year. We also like college sports. Every single writer I’ve talked to is or has been a long term resident of the Pacific Northwest, so expect pieces on the Cougs and the Huskies. And expect these pieces to be relentless. We plan to cover near every sport imaginable from basketball to ski-ball to golf to UFC, and we plan to do it in a way that has some flavor. We might even sprinkle in some e-sports coverage. League of Legends is making moves and that’s kinda exciting.

Most of the writers have family roots across the nation. I encouraged them to cover their other teams out in Chicago, Indy, California, Boston, the south, and internationally. I honestly don’t give two shits about Duke, or the Cubs, or the Pacers, and especially not those frauds at Notre Dame, but what with the Sonics seemingly on the return and the Mariners ostensibly sucking much less sometime in the perceivably “near” future, it couldn’t hurt to get to know teams like these as well. As a Seahawks fan, you can’t read enough about teams you might be playing: the more you know, the easier it is to troll the fuck out of opposing fanbases. Really that’s any sport. But Seattle sports fandom in particular can be a love-hate relationship. As in you love your team and fucking hate theirs.

Anyhoo, you’ll get to know names as the pieces come up. Some are going to be articulate perspective pieces. Some are going to be statistics crunches. Some will just be a link to a picture or video with an attempt at funny in 30 words or less. Every contributor is probably going to have pieces that fit into all of the above. It’s gonna be a grab bag. Posts will go up as we submit them. In closing, I just want to say that none of us contributors, to a man (or woman?), give a god damn what you think about anything. Feel free to post comments, and shit up our pieces with your inane criticisms and critiques, but if you disagree with anything we write or claim to believe, you are 100% wrong. Remember that.