Eat My Sports: May the Best Man win

Here in February, we have discussing a whole lot of love, I mean a lot of love. So I figured I would keep with the theme.

Later on this year, one of my close friends is getting married, and, for the fourth time in my distinguished career, I have been selected to be a groomsman. Selecting groomsmen is like selecting the starting five of your friends. Sure, you’ve got some good role players, but these are the guys your either:
A) Trust
B) Are stuck with and don’t have anyone better
Or, C) Have been around with you for so long that you have no choice but to have them there.

Most of us get a combination of all of the above, but this got me thinking the other day, what if we got to choose a starting five that were actual athletes for your wedding? Here’s what I came up with. Continue reading Eat My Sports: May the Best Man win

Drinks on Angela Merkel

History teaches us that it’s unwise to make a German leader angry. Fortunately for one waiter, Chancellor Angela Merkel isn’t quick to get angry.

Merkel was at a meeting somewhere in Germany where they were serving beer. Keep in mind, this is Germany, where it is illegal to hold a public meeting without steins. A waiter was coming over to Merkel’s table with a tray full of beer when, according to the waiter, he was pushed and accidentally dumped the beer on the chancellor.

Fortunately, dumping beer on a woman in late winter is a German sign of fertility, so we wish Merkel a healthy mating season.

Archaeologists find earliest evidence of Peter Benchley in 1st Century tomb

A group of archaeologists who thought they found Jesus’ tomb a few years back believes they struck paydirt again, this time unearthing what may be the earliest grave ever marked with the Jesus fish. The inscription (see above) is theorized to represent Jonah — the testicle hanging off the fish’s lip — being eaten by the fish God sent after him. (It was the Old Testament. Fatherhood really changes a deity.)

The tomb in question dates back to the 1st Century. Previously, the Jesus fish has only been found on tombs as far back as the 2nd Century, when early Christians believed in adorning the most expensive thing they owned with faith-advertisements and representations of how many times they’ve procreated.

Even if you don’t believe, just remember: one day in the future, somebody is going to unearth your remains and think you might be Steve Jobs because you insisted on being buried with your iPad.

It’s an exchange in the loosest term of the word

Let your alcohol-enjoying taste buds fear tyranny at the gas pump no longer! Beer-anny, as we like to call it, for the longest time, was relegated to forcing a person to drink down the worst swill possible: Icehouse, Bud-anything, Colt 45, King Cobra, Coors, MGD and so forth. At some locations, you might be lucky enough to score a Sam Adam’s sixer, but hope is little and far away. But no more if the gas station you frequent is of the Sunoco brand!

Sunoco has so far piloted its Craft Beer Exchange program at 12 locations and to much success! The program allows customers access to 64-oz. growlers or 6-packs of 12-oz. bottles that can be filled with craft-brew brands like Allagash, Abita, Dogfish Head, and Victory. In other words, beer that actually tastes good. This program will now be tested out in South Carolina and hopefully into other locations!

May your gas tank be full and your mouth be overflowing with tasty beverages! Just not necessarily at the same time.