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Football Feedings 2014 Week 10: Cowboy Frontier Pizza

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It’s become a tradition to bake at least on pizza every year on Football Feedings.  Pizza is the ultimate canvas to plaster up some food art.  This week is the week and we’ve got something special cooked up for ya this time.  Kansas State is hosting Oklahoma State so we decided to do up a little thing called Cowboy Frontier Pizza.  There’s no campfire involved but there will be some nitrates, that’s for sure. Continue reading Football Feedings 2014 Week 10: Cowboy Frontier Pizza

Barspotting: Check That, BarBQSpotting!

It’s BBQ week for KC College GameDay!  There’s plenty of sports bars out there, but every once in awhile you gotta go out and get some home cooking that only BBQ’s can provide.  I think we are going to cook up the world famous BBQ cheesy corn not sure yet.  But we are also going to cook up some college football.  Now, we could run out to a bar earlier in the day, but games really suck.  It’s all for the night time for me.  So let us see what is so special about the night time as well as the other games for this weekend.

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PIck It and Stick It: Fling It Home

That’s right, I’ll be on a plane shortly but I want to get the picks up for the week.  It’s hard to stay focused with the Big 12 in legal gridlock.  You know, I thought professional wrestling was soap opera for guys but now I know that college football realignment is the real deal.  No offense to the WWE, but this stuff is way better than the scripted stuff I used to watch.  So as the conference turn, get your picks in and hope for the best.

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Pick It and Stick It: Flick Me A Winner

Here we go with another year of Pick It and Stick It!  This time I decided to go easy on people and not do confidence points throughout the year.  It was just too much beef to handle week in and week out.  So I cut that fat off and leaned it down to a tasty point spread straight up pick league.  You can drop two weeks so if want to join up please do so at:
If you got any questions, please feel free to hit me up.  Now let’s take a look at the first week’s pics:

Crib Sheet: Ramping Up For Another Year

Media days are about done and that means practices are right around the corner.  I’m almost ready to ring the cowbell for a new season.  In the meantime, here’s this week’s Crib Sheet:
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Bowl Pick It and Stick It: The Bowl Nine Yards

Here we are in the middle of bowl season.  I got some good gear for Xmas and I hope you got some too.  The bowl action was light in the last week, but we are now ramping up into the  meat of the schedule.  Most of the Big 12 schools will be playing this week and  there will be ample action in between.  Meanwhile, I Bowl Pick It and Stick It standings are out are some peeps jumping out of the gate quick.  Let’s look at that first:

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Barspotting: Championship Saturday At Lew’s Grill & Bar

Every year we go back to the best bar of the year and this time around it’s Lew’s Grill & Bar.  It’s a solid performer that doesn’t let us down in terms of big game watching.   Sure it’s small for its size, but it packs a punch in terms of factors for a great place to watch sports.  So we’ll try one last time to get Das Boot and watch the SEC Championship Game as well as the Civil War.   What, no Big 12 Championship Game?  Welp, I will be at a company holiday party while it’s going on and for this weekend, an open bar trumps a title game with Nebraska in it.

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GameDay: Take Me Out To The Real Ball Game

Once a niche thing, now it seems it’s all back in fashion.  What am I talking about?  I’m talking about football games being played in baseball stadiums, of course!  Today we have a game at Wrigley Field and we also have a Bowl game with New Era fronting the money for two teams to play in Yankees Stadium.  For years I have longed to see a real sport played in these stadiums and now it lo0ks as though it finally will happen.  But is it a good thing?

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Barspotting: JJ’s Other Place Part II

Okay, I’m giving JJ’s Other Place one more shot.  They didn’t have power for our game last week, even though they were open that evening.  So I’m going back to give them a college try for this Saturday.  The morning games all suck, but once the afternoon hits we get some Top 25 clashes.  Let’s hope that they will have a enough juice for the week for use to enjoy at least one of those.  The backup plan, for the first time ever, is Lew’s Grill and Bar.  What can I say, it’s my new favorite place. Continue reading Barspotting: JJ’s Other Place Part II

Crib Sheet: My Head Hurts

It looks as though the NFL cracked down on concussions and big time hits, doling out suspensions for head on collisions now.   What does this mean for college football?  Probably the same type of suspension.  I’m not sure they will completely lock down like they do in the NFL.  I’m guessing that this sport may be going away in the next 15 years, or at least it will turn into more of an arena style of play.  Even for the colleges.  Now check out the Crib Sheet:

Crib Sheet: The Road is Never Done

So I just found out today that I have at least 2 more road trips to go this year for the KCCGD crew.  This year has been by far the most travelled and will be the most Stadiumspotted.  It’s a nice change of pace from the last couple of years as we have begun to run out of new and cool places to Barspot.  One of the new road trips just happens to be tomorrow night.  Tune in tomorrow to find out here, but you won’t have to think hard if you want to guess.  In the meantime, let’s catch up to the news items in this week’s Crib Sheet:

  • Coach Mark Dantonio of Michigan State had his health issues and that apparently inspired a fan to postpone surgery to watch the battle for Paul Bunyan’s Trophy last Saturday.  Major Hester put off getting a pacemaker installed to watch the battle.  Okay, that’s hardcore.  I would pick life over college football, but it would be close.
  • Looks like the move to the Big 10 will support a stadium expansion for the Nebraska Cornhuskers.  The newly approved plan will cost about $56 million and put the capacity at around 90,000 seats.  How much do you want to bet that they will try to build Memorial Stadium up to be bigger than the Big House?
  • Meanwhile, the Rose Bowl has expansion plans of its own.  The $152 million expansion will keep the lease going with the bowl through 2043.  They have an upcoming BCS National Championship Game so they need to spruce things up a bit.
  • But while the two stadiums have expansion competition going, the locker room just got better for the Nebraska Cornhuskers.  Ndamukong Suh donated about $2 million and as part of that, the players get iPads installed in the locker room.  Man they need to put that in the toilet, not the locker.  You’re not going to get much use out in the open with those things.
  • Baylor receivers Willie Jefferson and Josh Gordon got busted with pot after they were found passed out in a Taco Bell drive through.  The whole 4th meal thingy from the Bell targets potheads anyway so it was a no brainer that these guys were found with weed.  They’ll more than likely miss a couple of games.
  • Neither of those two were involved last week in one of the shortest kick returns in history.  Texas Tech hit an onside and it didn’t go 10 yards.  Terrance Ganaway nabbed it and ran 38 yards for a touchdown.  It wasn’t the shortest, but it was awesome to see the special teams fail on the Red Raiders.
  • Don’t dump on Texas Tech too much though, they are getting kick ass camouflage uniforms for a game against Missouri in November.  Any kind of camo works for us as we miss the old Army ones.  If you want to dump on uniforms, check out Texas A&M’s refresh.  It’s almost exactly the same.  Yawn City.
  • Floida quarterback John Brantly played with broken ribs and thumb against LSU last Saturday.  That’s pretty tough, especially for a quarterback.  You know what’s tougher?   Virginia Tech offensive lineman Greg Nosal didn’t realize he lost the tip of his pinky in his glove and continued to play the game until it was out of reach.  His pinky tip was on ice and was reattached after the game.  Football is tough, real tough.
  • This bit of news is confusing so bear with me on this.  A former agent said an agent friend of his, Gary Wichard, used ESPN’s Mel Kiper, Jr. to recruit college players.  Kiper’s released statement says he talked to players by going through agents.  I’m having a hard time finding where the fault is.  I think it’s the fact that agents are pushing players to Kiper and his Big Board.  But I don’t know it’s players after college or during.  This does smell fishy.
  • College football is cyclical.  Power programs come and go and the traditional ones always swing around back into power.  Much like the seasons, power programs have summers and winters.  For Penn State’s winters, that also includes the usual cries for Joe Paterno to retire.  This guy is going to die on the field, in anything to fulfill my prediction.  He’s not going to retire and Penn State will be good in a couple of years.

Mascot Monday: Bill the Goat

It’s another Mascot Monday, but more importantly it’s another Memorial Day here at the KCCGD.  Last year we took a look at Army’s mascots, but this year it’s the Navy’s turn.  So why is a goat, Bill to be specific, the mascot for the Midshipmen?  We’ll find that out as well as look at Bill throughout the years.  As an added bonus, we’ll get to Bill fire off weapons and blow up stuff in between.  All fun aside, let’s remember the men and women who perished in combat while we take a journey through Bill the Goat’s decorated achievements, both live and plush style.

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Breaking Away From Barspotting

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What, you say?  No barspot this week?  That is correct.  As much as we’d like to go out and watch Army vs.  Navy, we think we deserve a little break from going out to bars and watching football.  It sounds crazy, but it could be alot of work.  So in the interest of being brief, check back regularly as we go over the bowl schedule and knock out some bowlspots here and there.  Also, we’ll have some year end reviews and probably something really nice for you kids for the BCS National Championship.

Johnny’s Tavern has the Power and the Light


We were very skeptical when we strolled toward the Johnny’s Tavern setup on the corner of the Power & Light District in Downtown Kansas City.  We’ve been to a couple of places around there before and the experiences were weak.  We had some hope, however, as Johnny’s Tavern came through for us before.  After spending the afternoon there we can say it is the best bar in the district.  The food was great, the poker game was loads of fun, and the games on the screens were stellar.   If you own or work at a bar around that area, read on to see how to make it successful.

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Spit Ball Predictions for 2009

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We can take a couple of more days to draw up a preview of each conference and then roll the dice on how the bowls will shore up but that would take way too much time and reach far out of our happy little niche.  So what we are going to do instead is spit up some predictions for what’s going to happen this year in college football.  We may talk about your favorite conference, we may not.  Chances are we’ll predict the title winner, but we may over look the Outland Trophy Award winner.  Who knows?  We’re loading up our straws (or empty pens) and seeing what sticks to the wall for 2009.

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