Super Bowl weekend ... no better time to acknowledge the ultimate, all-time, over-the-top act of devotion to one's team.
Oakland Raider hardcore sociopaths with their frothing-at-the-mouth, kick-the-crap-out-of-the-visiting-fans rabidity? Not even close. Green Bay/Minnesota/any cold-weather-team supporters stripped to the waist, or bikinis, at 20 below? Rank amateurs. Tattooed facially with team colors, attended every home game since 1973 and named his kids (girls included) after the one champ
Bistro 400 in downtown SanTana has a unique advantage over Memphis and Jason's Downtown in trying to nab dinner eaters: it's actually open. Whereas Memphis is open for dinner Wednesday through Sunday while Jason's entertains Thursdays through Saturdays, Bistro 400 operates every day except the Lord's día. That's where the lady and I found ourselves last night, famished and looking for booze.
I tend to stay away from Bistro 400, not because of its food--delicious, fancy--or its ever-affable own
A story from my past came flooding back as I read Cyd Zeigler's Jock Talk Blog post riffing on a Forbes report that raised the possibility of the 49ers leaving San Francisco for the OC.
Bernie Mullin, who runs the Atlanta-based Aspire Group, an industry consultant, tells Forbes Frisco, Buffalo and Minnesota are NFL teams that may leave their towns in a couple seasons for greener pastures in Las Vegas or Orange County.
That got me thinking to several years ago, when I attended a Monday Night
Not Esquire.Gustavo blogged him up as "OC's Eternal Loser" in 2007, but Esquire magazine's May 2009 issue (the one that allows you to create your own horrifying Obama/Clooney/Timberlake/monster man cover) labels him as "The Man Who Never Was." We're talking about Todd Marinovich, the Newport Beach kid who was engineered by his father to be a legendary quarterback and, eventually, became a legend for the wrong reasons. He led Mater Dei and Capistrano Valley teams to greatness in the late 1980s an
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Larry "D-Fence" Garcia is ready for another season of Raiders football.Yes, dear, the NFL is back already. The Oakland Raiders kick off the 2009-2010 preseason versus the Dallas Cowboys tonight from Oakland Coliseum in a preview of this year's Thanksgiving Day game. Live coverage begins at 7 p.m. on KTLA-Channel 5.
Despite their relative--ahem--differences in the win-loss columns in recent years, the Raiders always give the 'Boys a good fight.
This also kicks off
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"Pastor Mondo" Armando Leon, who is shown in this 2005 photo above the cross-tattooed shoulder of Raiders Boosters of Orange County president Larry Garcia, founded Nation Ministry this season.Should the Oakland Raiders bounce back from their close opening night loss to the San Diego Chargers at Oakland Coliseum Sept. 14 and miraculously mount a winning season, perhaps it will be because they have The Big Guy on their side.No, that is not a re
