Onions

11:15a – The games are on. In attendance: Mews, LD, Meghan, Sean, Kerri, Tim, Brendan, Logan, Waldo. Nothing too intense going on right now. It looks like it might be somewhat of a tame day. Of course, I say this now.

11:45a – Lunch run to Hot Doug’s. I’ve never been to this place but it’s legendary in Chicago. After a 20 minute wait outside, a 10 minute wait inside and a 5 minute wait for the food, I feast on a Buffalo Sausage and Duck Fat Fries. Heaven.

3:13p – In trying to think of some of the great Bill Rafferty one-liners, Brendan reminds us of, “Onions!” – a player having some pretty big balls to throw up a gutsy shot and making it.

4:37p – Onions all over this bracket as LSU squeaks by Texas A&M by one point. Brendan cautions us that we’re using “Onions” too much.

6:25p – Illinois loses to Washington. Godfrey has been screaming for the past two hours about offensive rebounds, lobbing up stupid shots, lack of leadership on the floor, etc.

8:00p - The Cracker Off: It is damn near impossible to eat 6 saltine crackers in under a minute; your mouth just can't produce enough saliva to break it down. Of course we have to try this and to make it really interesting, we up the number to 7.

8:02p - I forget who went in the first round, but we're on to round 2 and right before it begins, Stevie drops the worst piece of ass so far this weekend. It causes Brendan to almost hit the floor and Stevie laughs so hard, the water he just swallowed comes back in a semi-puke form all over the couch. It's almost enough to get him barred from the rest of the weekend.

8:03p - In the middle of the competition, Brendan spews cracker dust in to the air - twice. It goes everywhere... looks like a cheap cocaine prop in a college student film. His approach to the crackers - stuff them all in his mouth and once and just work it. He gains little success and spends the rest of the night blowing cracker remnants out of his nose. Here we see the hat covered in the magical dust:


10:15p - The games are over and it's time for the Guitar Hero playoffs. O-Dawg, the brothers McNerney, Mews, LD, Seany Boy Diskin and myself engage in a brackety-style match to see who will be King of the Rock at the Upper Deck. The early rounds weed out Diskin, Brendan and O-Dawg while Seany Boy, Tim and I battle it out for middle ground. Ultimately the house owners are in the final match and Mews edges out LD to be crowned this year's UGH (Ultimate Guitar Hero)