8:22 - Kevin comes downstairs.
8:45 - Tony comes downstairs.
8:50 - Sinical comes downstairs.
9:00 - Watch last nights 60 Minutes interview with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene. She is absolutely delusional.
9:18 - Watch Game Theory with Bomani Jones - In honor of Jim Nantz calling his last Final Four, they do a segment piecing together some of Jim Nantz's most memorable calls - they are all CBS promos from throughout the last 40 years! Hilarious.
9:26 - Cam'ron is on discussing New York basketball - "We street legend the fuck out, but we haven't had a star since Kareem!"
9:45 - Now we watch Last Week Tonight with John Oliver.
11:00 - While discussing some of the problems in our immigration policy, Tony says that some people don't want to fix it, biggest it is the biggest source of fundraising. Pepster says, "Well, besides being indicted!"
11:20 - We start The Hangover, since we learned last night that Tony has never seen it. (See The Dan Band discussion during "The Interregnum" post.
12:45 - Since we all had some work to do, and/or work calls to complete - it is Monday, after all - we are getting a late start on food. Pepster remarks, "Given our menus so far this weekend, I think we should eat something ethnic - like a burger."
12:51 - Rideshare to On the Kirb for lunch sans Kevin, as he is finishing his last call of the day.
13:00 - Waitress tells us her name is DJ. Pepster asks if she "Is going to keep playing that song?"
13:02 - We order a beer tower. We are told that we cannot order it until Kevin arrives because beer towers have a "4 person" rule.
13:03 - Texas - you can carry a tower of guns; but not a tower of beer!
13:14 - Because he kept changing his mind, Sinickal orders the "Meat on the Kirb" pizza three different times. Not sure how many will show up at the table.
13:25 - One.
13:52 - Kevin arrives.
14:07 - Muzak system gifts us Indeep's DJ Saved My Life (with a song). We immediately summonses over our waitress.
14:51 - Order our second Yuengling beer tower only after asking if we could fill it with half-and-half.
14:52 - DJ tells us the story that one time a group of customers were sitting on their outdoor patio when it starting raining slightly. They had ordered green tea shots, and when she delivered those shots they asked if rain had gotten into them. She says "probably" and then they tell her that they don't want watered-down shots!"
15:44 - Sinickal, "I like to think I can remember a lot of stuff, but I don't have a lot of stuff to remember!"
15:45 - Pepster, in response, "I do have more hair to keep things in!"
1618 - Leave On the Kirb. Lots of places nearby, include our old stomping ground, Little Woodrow's.
16:23 - While walking to Little Woodrow's, we walk past Dog Tavern. (It is right next door to On the Kirb.) Guy outside smoking a cigarette looks at our shirts and calls Sinickal "Syracuse", Pepster "Miami" and Kevin, "Randon Gray Dude". KEvin is now Random Gray Dude for the rest of today's posting.
16:24 - Guy then notices Random Gray Dude's shorts and wants to start calling him "Pink Shorts." Random Gray Dude says they are "salmon!"
16:25 - Guy says - "Enter Dog Tavern. See Eli. Get a drink. Have a good time!"
All afternoon - 16:26 - A little backstory - after Pepster told them about a 13-run baseball gambling pool he is in, Sinickal and Random Gray Dude have been formulating a similar 13-run pool for golf, only making in a Calcutta. We have collectively been working on the rules and fine-tuning it all afternoon. Once in Dog Tavern, Sinickal posts the idea in his group chat in his and Random Gray Dude's golf club. Members join immediately!!!
16:55 - Pepster see a commercial on the television in the bar and says, "I don't know if it is because I am Hispanic, but I love zero turn radius lawn mowers.
16:55:30 - Random Gray Dude asks if I am also the type to complaint about them "taking our jobs!"
17:05 - First guy from outside Dog Tavern is talking to his friend, but yells out for all to hear, "Philly is good for only two things, Cheesesteaks and Hall and Oates, the greatest soul duo of all-time!" Pepster and Sinickal perk up because they love to just rank things. Immediately start thinking if Hall & Oates is in fact the greatest soul duo of all time. [Ed. Note - we know that Hall & Oates may not really be soul - but that isn't a point we could hage argued with this guy.] Pepe immediately throws out Ike and Tina Turner, which leads down a rabbit hole of this guy saying things like, "I don't want to argue with you husky" to Pepster, and when everybody laughed at that, "Hey Salmond Dude " to Random Gray Dude, "I hope you spit and don't swallow!" Same guy then just keeps up the conversation about Ike and Tina, including saying lines like "I am going to go home and masturbate to Tina," "She was repurposed in Thunderdome" and that Ike was "Punching the sole into her!" We try to extricate ourselves from this conversation as quickly as possible, even though we really want to keep thinking about the greatest sold duos!
17:20 - Talking about how everything in Houston is at least 20 miles away. Tony says, "Hell, the mailbox is 20 miles away!"
17:22 - IT'S THE ISLEY BROTHERS!
17:24 - Crazy dude and his cohort was talking about how Houston has everything. You can get everything. We respond that "you can't get a beer tower unless you have 4 people," and "DeShaun Watson couldn't get what he wanted."
17:28 - We learn from another patron that Little Woodrow's is the offical UConn bar. We were planning on going there anyway, and now we really are!
17:58 - We walk into Little Woodrow's and everyone immediately begins booing Sinickal. Pepster and Random Gray Dude agree that they "have never been happier" in their lives!
18:41 - See a small contingent of SDSu bros in the bar and wonder, "Does SDSU have a creatine startup?
18:48 - ESPN pre-game analysis includes the question - "Is there concern about an emotional letdown for SDSU?" Pepster says, well, it's not like the beat the South Carolina women." (For those that don't get the reference, Iowa's women beat an undefeated South Carolina team in the semi-finals before falling to LSU in the finals.)
18:56 - We see a food truck at Little Woodrow's with a full pizza oven inside. Random Gray Dude immediately says, "Fukin' white people." [Ed. Note - Random Gray Dude is white.]
19:00 - We see a UConn dued in a tank top and a cowboy hat. Random Gray Dude says that "He is my least favorite person of the weekend - and I unplugged a jukebox!"
19:01 - We see that someone put Reese Witherspoon in the dryer!
19:08 - Seeing all of the UConn fans leads to a discussion about various college's student bodies. Random Gray Dude recalls a quotation that the "Ole Miss girls are so hot that they should have a major in paternity suits!"
19:13 - Apparently pancakes are delicious with butter and maply syrup and nuts all over them.
19:20 - Enter rideshare to NRG Stadium.
19:42 - On the streets and we pass a Chick-fil-A with a flag at half staff. Tony asks why the flag is half-staff. Pepster responds probably because of the Nashville shooting. Random Gray Dude says, "I thought it was because they were out of waffle fries!"
19:45 - Uber driver let's us out in a parking lot across from NRG stadium as we think it is easier that him having to get to the rideshare lot. Tony looks around and says, "Oooh, I love Trader Joe's!" Pepster asks him, "Are you are 30-something housewife?"
19:47 - On stadium property.
19:49 - Should we go in or mill-around outside? [Ed. Note - there is a lot of stuff to do and see outside the stadium.] Pepster says, "Let's go in. Gives us time to go to the restroom, get something to eat and drink, take a knee, and get to our seats before tip-off. [Ed. Note - we don't get to take a knee as we were out in the concourse during the anthem, and it was barely audible."
19:51 - See same UConn cowboy hat bro on the escalator.
19:52 - Pepster pretending to engage UConn cowboy in conversation, "So, what ranch are you from, Bridgeport?"
19:53 - First Sinickal "Let's Go Orange" chant inside NRG.
19:54 - UConn fans behind Pepster say to Sinickal, "I smell orange, you stink." Pepster asks them if that was all they could come up with. Their response ... "I'm sorry."
19:55 - Tell a SDSU fan that if they lose tonight then these Aztecs would have found their Cortes. He has no idea what I am talking about.
20:17 - The most ironic shirt we have ever seen. No we cannot post it. (But feel free to ask us in person!)
20:21 - Tip-off. Radio silence (mostly.)
21:10 - While remarking that the SDSU fan section is mostly emplty, we notice that SANTA CLAUS IS AN USHER!!!!
21:14 - SDSU just ending a draught in which they went 11:07 of game time without a field goal, missing 14 straight. Before looking it up, Random Gray Dude thought it was over 7 minutes.
21:22 - UConn cheerleaders halftime performance was boring at best. Random Gray Dude remarks that their performance, "Made me more depressed than the first half."
21:35 - Second half starts. More radio silence.
21:35 - So I lied. That was the second-best missed dunk I have ever seen in my life. Here is THE BEST!
21:54 - In the Santa picture above- you can see 5 ladies dressed in black spread apart across three rows. They were a part of some dance team for SDSU and would periodically perform choreagraphed numbers. One SDSU male students must have been staring too hard, because a lady said something to him. He threw his bucket of popcorn at her head, she slapped him and then left! Was the most action of the whole game.
22:03 - Leave NRG at the under 12 minute timeout. Just an awful game. We will miss One Shining Moment, but hope to be back at the bar before it comes on.
22:51 - After a lightrail trip discussing the tournament with a couple from Purdue (her) and Rice (him), we make it back to Little Woodrow's. Remember now - this is a UConn bar!
23:18 - Bartender asks Silas if he is a coach. He said, "No just a fan. Should have asked me yesterday when I was." Thoroughly confounded, Sinickal explains the concept of Southwestern Central to her.
22:31 - UConn fans tricking into the bar and they are QUIET?! They all walk up to the self-serve water station and most don't even go to the bar.
23:34 - UConn dude starts asking Random Gray Dude about how many titles have you had since '93. Random Gray Dude, a graduate from the University of Kentucky, says, "3. Is this line of questioning going the way you thought?"
23:43 - We decide that 10:00 p.m. in Storrs, Connecticut must be "Silent Time."
23:54 - Random Gray Dude regarding UConn fans lake of celebration, "I am not mad. I am disappointed!"
00:30 - Two UConn female fans walk down the aisle near us and a drunk UConn bro tries to have-five them. They stop, look at him, snarl, about-face and keep-walking.
00:43 - UConn girl states, "We have 5 championships." Looks at Silas the Syracuse alumnus, "How many do you have?" Then looks at Random Gray Dude - the Kentucky alumnus - "And how many do you have?" Random Gray Dude, "8!"
00:47 - Same girl says to Pepster and Silas that Silas "Is in Orange. It's an OK color. But everybody looks good in blue and white." Pepster asks if she has looked around the bar tonight!
00:49 - UConn has packed the bar - but it is still rather subdued. We know it is time to call it a night.
00:50 - Uber home.
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