Comments by nicepants

Uh, no, they are absolutely NOT like a division three college team. Leicester City is a premiership team, very much capable of playing great football, just last season they fell like a brick to the bottom of the table 1/3 of the way into the season and stayed their, until the last 9 games, a 7-1-1 stretch. In FA Cup, open to the top 10 divisions of English Football, is where you find Giant Killers, where a group of semi-pro footballers can beat a top flight team. What you have to understand about England there have been four teams who have one, ManU most often (leading to anybody but ManU movement.), Chelsey, Arsenal, Man City, and back in the earlist days, Blackburn Rover was the exception who proved the rule. If you were to pick likely to win other than them this season it would be Liverpool (who while never finishing first has spent most years at the top of the table) or the Spurs. So the 5000-1 odds against Leicester City were more to do with the odds are long for all but a half-dozen teams finishing at the top. Moral - never underestimate the power of a slice of pizza.

The Detroit Lions will never ever win the Premiership. Over in the Bundesliga, Eintracht Frankfurt won (fourth in a row) against Borussia Dortmund (who has not lost this calendar year) 1-nil setting up the final match of the season with Werder Bremen. If Eintracht wins or draws the final match, they've avoided relegation, and Werder is either headed to a playoff with FC Nurnberg or relegated. If Eintacht loses, they play FC Nurnberg to determine who gets demoted/promoted or if they both stay in their leagues. So, this is an yet another example of a team punching well below their weight all season, then avoiding relegation at the last moment, maybe. So if Eintracht win the Bundesliga *next* year, Eintracht will have pulled a Leicester City.

Big Daddy's? No, it was never better, as a strip club it was always, uh, odd. It was always a place at its best to stumble through on your to elsewhere, anywhere.

Write it off to a case of mistaken club identity. Between the VIP, the mileage, and the weak drink, I'd say somebody went to a different club down the street and after a few too many weak drinks didn't remember where they were.

Oh, the night's entertainment cost me 4.00, tip included, for the drinks and food. We weren't allowed to tip the models. I didn't purchase any lingerie.

Sox have collapsed so many times before, and once upon a time long long ago, at a Holiday Inn off I275, I found a cheap alternative to strip clubs that was totally unexpected. I was in the bar watching the Sox in ALCS against the Angels (but the curse was not to be reversed that year). The TV's in the room was total crap, so that was where I was going to watch the game. Because of the playoffs (and trying to get ANYBODY in Cincinnati interested in them) the bar was running insane drink specials and free bar food. I was on business travel, so the free food meant a better dinner later that week (for a very small value of "better"). But I was trying to watch the playoffs, and in ADDITION to insane drink specials and free food there was a "Lingerie Show" in the bar. There were over a dozen "models" in see-through body stockings and lingerie, trying to get us blokes to buy an outfit. With Cincinnati's well earned reputation, this free "strip club" was certainly the best venue in the area, and certainly was the best value in North America at the time. At least during breaks in the game, otherwise, the models were in the way. Hey, priorities. Amazingly enough, one model engaged in "stick shifting" while trying to make a sale during a commercial break during a pitching change.