The Hoser’s Guide to the 111th Grey Cup
Calling all degenerate Grey Cup attendees! Your guide to medically unsafe binge drinking and general antisocial behaviour has arrived!
The Blue Bastard’s Annual Canadian Football League Prognostication for 2022
Death, disease, bankruptcies, strikes, mergers and low attendance. Always drama. Every opening day seems like a miracle but we made it again in 2022. The leaves are green, football’s back and summer has begun! Take a look at 2019 and 2021. Clearly I can see the future. Take your children’s education fund and multiply it…
The Hoser’s Guide to the 108th Grey Cup
Had your doubts?! Ye of little faith. It’s back! Two plus years since the last Canadian Drunk! Your liver should be pining for a double dose of degenerate drinking! The not so great about one-oh-eight is that the parties have been trimmed down significantly due to that thing I won’t talk about. However, the bright…
The Blue Bastard’s Annual Canadian Football League Prognostication for 2021
Let us never utter any five letter words starting with ‘c’ again. Four letter c-bombs are still fine though. I have to admit that I gave the CFL only 50/50 odds of coming off the ventilator. I tried several times to scribe a new post but feared it would be the last. If that came…
Grey Cup Pick
It turns out I am superstitious. Ti-Cats.
The Hoser’s Guide to the 107th Grey Cup: Part 3 – A Hoser’s Itinerary
At Grey Cup you don’t have to drink but you’re likely reading this for a singular reason: getting every drop out of Lord Grey’s Cup! They don’t call it the Grand National Drunk for nothing. I will lead you to the finish line of this marathon and unlike the running kind, you will not go…
The Hoser’s Guide to the 107th Grey Cup: Part 2 – Parties, Ranked
Team Parties Party wise, Grey Cup weekend usually looks pretty familiar from one year to the next, with a couple of variations. I’ve tasted them all over the course of my previous 14 pilgrimages. At some, you can have so much fun the whole thing’s over before it’s started. Others are like your in-laws, only…
The Hoser’s Guide to the 107th Grey Cup: Part 1 – The Essentials
Moving Around the Very Cold City of Calgary You have several options to get from YYC to downtown: Public transit runs $8. Taxi from the airport to downtown is $45. Uber collects at Doors 1, 12, and 17. There is no Lyft! For the second year in a row, the Grey Cup Committee is doing…
The Hoser’s Guide to the 107th Grey Cup
Introduction The Grand National Drunk has evolved from a game played on Sunday with some other stuff on Friday/Saturday, to a well organized four day party that happens to have a championship football game at the end. How are you to get the most out of this weekend? This will be my 14th straight Grey…
Grey Cup Pick
Last Pick of the Year! Well like it not we’re getting a replay of the 104th. That means the 106th has a lot to live up to! Ottawa @ Calgary: Sunday, November 25 (6:00pm EST) Pick: Calgary Given what we witnessed last weekend, this is a collision between an unstoppable force (Ottawa’s offence) and an…