Enter a Chick-fil-A this Labor Day wearing anything from a mesh Little League cap to a USC song girl outfit, and your chicken sandwich is on the house.

From the Triangle Business Journal…

Chick-fil-A Inc. will give away a free chicken sandwich on Labor Day to anyone showing team spirit at one of the fast-food chain’s locations nationwide.


Anyone who wears any sports-related apparel on Sept. 7 at a participating Chick-fil-A restaurant will receive a free chicken sandwich in celebration of the second annual Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game in Atlanta, which will take place Saturday night with Alabama playing Virginia Tech.

According to the Chick-fil-A locator, the only store in NYC is in a New York University food court. Sadly, my resources to gain access to New York college eateries is limited to nonexistent  at this juncture. But hey, at least an eatery exists in the city (looking at you, Sonic jerks).

However, if you’re in Atlanta, the birthplace of Chick-fil-a and the site of the annual Chick-fil-A Bowl, you won’t have to bum rush the Georgia Tech or Spelman dining halls to take advantage of the promotion . To quote the restaurant locator, “there are 63 Chick-Fil-A’s near you.” I recommend you to try the buttermilk ranch sauce, Falcons fans.

Team spirit = free Chick-fil-A sandwich on Labor Day (Biz Journals)

I checked out of last night’s NCAA Championship game about ten minutes in (North Carolina already up by double digits, on pace to score 60 in the first half) and flipped on what would prove to be a lukewarm episode of 24 (only reason we endured that much of the game was so we could rifle through the commercials).

Then, I felt like a timing genius when we tuned back in just in time to see this nonsense in the stands…

I thought seeing HaShades Thabeet making time with his best girl would be the highlight of the show. But, wrong. Should have waited to see this.

Did the In Loving Memory Of guy at the end write this jam? Because I’m gonna feel like a big d if he did after saying this: that song was absurd and preposterous. Preposterousness at it’s finest though. Because I’m sure that made the Hansbrough family weep, and the rest of us cut-up, just like during one of Hansbrough’s E-trade commercials…

Hat’s off to Hansbrough for his tourney performance – you’re a tough mofo who plays an ugly version of basketball that we don’t see too often anymore. But your pro career is going to fledgling, and I’ll never stop making fun of people who have or will inevitably be getting a ton of money they do not deserve.

H/T to Brahsome for first posting this year’s opus One Shining Moment.

I’ve been playing around a little bit with buildtheperfectsandwich.com, a website that Hellman’s launched recently. Smug enthusiast Bobby Flay is involved too, and there’s an opportunity to win $10 Gs. (Flay can eat Guy Fieri’s lunch by the way).

I checked out the sandwich recommender app they’ve got on there. Thought it was going to be the fat man’s special of personality tests. So far, I’ve been recommended a zucchini and roasted red pepper melt and a portobello mushroom pita. Those results hurt my feeling, but for a shot at 10 large, hell, I’ll let Hellman’s feed me some ruffage.

And this sandwich recommender did give me an idea, in honor of Final Four weekend…

What’s Your Team’s Big Man’s Victory Sandwich?

I hope BTPS is cool with it, I opted to pull my recommendation instead from ThisIsWhyYoureFat.com…

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Yesterday, I gave a quick rundown of some of the more unorthodox NCAA Tournament bracket pools that are going on this year. And if you care at all about the maintenance of my pork consumption, you’ll be rooting for this whole every five years UCONN gets the No. 1 seed in the West Region and takes home the trophy scenario to pan out as it has been written.

Something else cool that we’re doing this year is the newly launched March Madness Blogger Fantasy League, which I’m lucky enough to be participating in with some of the most elite sports bloggers on the interwebs.





Basically, each of us gets to pick five players whose stats we’ll tally throughout the whole tourney. After the Final Four, the blogger with the highest sum total of points, rebounds, and assists from their five players is crowned champion.

Today I woke up to learn that this thing is probably over for me before it even starts. One of my guys, North Carolina PG Ty Lawson, is out today against Radford (exact wording actually was, “huge probability” he won’t play; yeah, he’s not going play). They better win today, and Toe Stiffness Lawson better respond in game two in a big way. I’m now hedging my bets that UCONN does make that run, and A.J. Price goes buck.

Here’s A.J., Lawson, and the rest of my horses along with their stats from the regular season…

Dante Cunningham, Villanova (16.0 ppg, 7.2 reb, 1.2 ast)

Ty Lawson, North Carolina (15.9 ppg, 2.8 red, 6.5 ast)

Johnny Flynn, Syracuse (17.5 ppg, 2.8 reb. 6.7 ast)

Tyler Hanbrough, North Carolina (21.4 ppg, 8.2 reb , .9 ast)

A.J. Price, UCONN (14.0 ppg, 3.3 reb, 4.7 ast)

In my infinite wisdom, or possibly against my better judgment, that’s who I got. Wish me luck.

If last year at this time you had told me that next year at this time (which is this time in space right here right now, Will Robinson) I’d be entering an NCAA tournament bracket pool where to the victor went a collection of no less than five variations of pork product, consolidated in edible log/explosion form…man, I’d go ahead and call. You. Wacky. But I’d befriend you immediately.

Fast forward a year later to today, I’d be calling you my fun genie, and offering you the executive fun genie privilege of having your face photoshopped onto one these fun genies pictured below. Because as it would have it, I have indeed found myself to be a registered participant in an NCAA tournament bracket pool where I am competing for the chance to sink my chompers into one of those baconized beast.

If you decide to enter, check out my bracket – it’s called FUN GENIE.

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Two other unorthodoxed NCAA tournament challenges of note for you to try your hand at:

• Someone sinister came up with the Bracketology XD’s Bracket Challenge the idea of giving away a night of glee which includes a meet-and-greet with Penthouse’s 2007 Pet of the Year, Heather Vandeven. You don’t need a fun genie to tell you many, many people are going to enter this.

• Also worth checking out, The Locker Room Alumni Bracket Contest – a tournament that’s pitting celebrity alumni from the schools in the Mountain West Conference. If for no other reason, go cast a vote Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger (Air Force Alum, duh).

Easily the best performance in recent times by an athlete with a truly unfortunate name. University of Kentucky guard, Jodie Meeks, dropped 54 points last night, going 10-15 from behind the arc, to lead the Wildcats to a 90-72 victory over Tennessee.

Jodie as in Jodie, the name for females. Meeks as in meek – or docile, submissive, milquetoast. Or Meeks, as in Steven “me and Meeksy are working on a hi-fi system” Meeks from Dead Poets Society.

Frankly, the name Sheryl Miller sounds tougher to me, but there’s no denying that this guy got it done. Check out the highlights:

(c/o Sports by Brooks)

Here are 12 movies screening at Sundance that you should know about (via Pop Candy)
Darius Miles Stuffs Himself (Blaze of Love)
The Most Important Conversation Ever…Continued (Sharapova’s Thigh)
Sblog Tweets Promotes Sports Bloggers Content (The World According to MoonDog)
KSK Suicide Pools: And Then There Was One (Kissing Suzy Kolber)
Scott Pioli Takes the Chiefs GM Job (Barstool Sports)
Snowboarder Owned By Table (Phil Knows Best)
Seattle: Where Banging Your Students Is Totally Kosher (Brahsome)
Kate Hudson’s ass is still talking to me (on205th Magazine)
Giants’ Fans Unleash Verbal Abuse On Eagles’ Fans (Busted Coverage)

Link Bombast!

And be sure to check out the Bombastic Scooter Club of Tri-Cities Washington. Their rides include “a little caffeine, beer, or wine – and of course, two-stroke smoke.”

Regardless if Favre Returns or Not, Jets are Screwed (Moondog Sports)
Let’s call those science people (This is Illuminati)
Bar Refaeli in a bikini on the beach (on205th Magazine)
AskMen.com asks you to rate the top 99 women of 2009 (Banned in Hollywood)
MLB Network Launches Today (Sharapova’s Thigh)
Colt McCoy’s Girlfriend Rachel Glandorf Gives Out High-Fives At Fiesta Bowl (Busted Coverage)
Chris Clemons Destroys Tarvais Jackson (Intentional Foul)
Dead Baby Thrown Out in Hospital Trash (Gothamist)
Antoine Walker Busted For A DUI (Barstool Sports)
Ghostface Killah: GhostDeini the Great (Pitchfork Media)
Texas Wins An NCAA Playoff Semifinal Game! Unimportant Fiesta Bowl (Awful Announcing)

Each Wednesday, I post a weekly update to the digest “If You Had Money”, which shows the sporting goods and memorabilia you could purchase if disposable income was no longer a thing of the past. Each week, it will inevitably leave you wanting…

Before we get into it, let me remind you that the government owes you mmmmmmonney.

Now, our most scandalous investment opportunity yet…

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