CALL US RAINBOW 7: LAS VEGAS FANDANGORAMA
We’re off to Vegas to cover the first weekend of the tournament for The Sporting News, and it promises to be Con Air awesome, minus the Nicholas Cage Skynrd locks. Follow our descent into madness–and really, the aim is to destroy this gig and never, ever let anyone come close to our rapid mad post rate ever again–one of several ways.
The Sporting Blog. Not only does it have our interview with Ric Flair, but it will have our posts on what Vegas during the first weekend of March Madness looks, feels, smells, and feels like, including the part where we wind up drinking $2000/bottle cognac from goatskins with the sheikhs of Dubai at a live man versus panther death match in the hills of Nevada.
Step One, this. Step Two, fire up laptop. Step three: MASSIVE PROFITS.
Flickr. I’ll be posting photos live from the fracas, as well, so keep up by following here.
Twitter. For those too ADDled to even get through this blog post, we’ll be posting on the EDSBS Twitter feed muy rapido all day and most of the night.
Your guest host will be Oops Pow Surprise from Black Heart, Gold Pants , a demented gent who promises to not only provide the Curious Index, but an installment of “Things Black and Gold People Like,” the latest in our series of fan profiles. We will usurp the Iowa jokes by saying the only one we know for sure: meth.
Godspeed. And wish the same to us. If we fail to come back from this mission, know that we went to bat country happily.
Filed under: Blog Buddies, ONE HUNDRED COCKTAILS, Other College Sports, blood blood blood, drankin', drunk white women, hangovers of staggering intensity, holiday in cambodia, i've made a huge mistake, media whoring, my lawyaz, push it to the limit!, triple espresso enema please, your worst nightmares, zawmbies by Orson Swindle
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Also, if you go to the Spearmint Rhino do not take your Amex or any other card with no, or a very high, limit. Trust me on this one Orson. Trust me.
Comment by JoesDeliGatorTail — March 20, 2008 @ 11:05 am
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the first time i was in vegas was during the first weekend of the NCAA tournament, 1999 - had to check into the hotel using our fake id’s, b/c none of us were 21 - while there, i made my favorite sports bet of all time: Duke -40 vs. Tulsa in the second round - i just remember thinging “Duke by 40? i’d be stupid not to take that much chalk” - Duke covered, winning by 41
a word to the wise: drink only screwdrivers or bloody mary’s (or something else with a vitamin c based mixer) - stamina and health are important, and trust me, there’s no vitamins or minerals in whiskey
Comment by okiedomer — March 20, 2008 @ 8:45 am
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I’m so jealous of Orson right now. He’s taking the exact vacation I’ve wanted to go on for about 3 years now. Vegas for the first weekend of the NCAA tourney. All those big screen TVs, all those free drinks… tears soak my cubicle desk.
Also, after reading the first couple of pages of BHGP, I think I need to add it to my regular rotation. Nice work.
Comment by CincySooner — March 20, 2008 @ 8:19 am
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Only sad part is, with the time zone thing, we wont be getting any updates until Noon, easy.
Comment by Brian — March 20, 2008 @ 7:23 am
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Booze??? I thought ether was Vegas’ drug! That coupled with a “head full of acid”
Comment by King Harvest — March 20, 2008 @ 7:09 am
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Stay away from that In ‘n’ Out on Flamingo. Just trust me on this one. Jimmy John’s? Oh, Hell to the Yeah!
Comment by Mr. Wrong — March 20, 2008 @ 12:15 am
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waitaminnit, aren’t you supposed to take manhattan first?
Comment by kleph — March 19, 2008 @ 10:18 pm
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Well, I hope his fanhood is better for us than it was for Huckabee.
Comment by CockDonor — March 19, 2008 @ 9:58 pm
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http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=3301997
Brandon Ore kicked off the Virginia Tech football team.
Comment by John — March 19, 2008 @ 9:31 pm
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Holly, Its because of the bread. Its all in the bread.
Comment by Brian — March 19, 2008 @ 8:57 pm
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More importantly, there is a Jimmy John’s in Vegas. Counting the hours…
Comment by Holly — March 19, 2008 @ 6:57 pm
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This image got me through last season:
http://img.impiri.us/usc/flairusc.gif
Thank you, Ric Flair.
Comment by impirius — March 19, 2008 @ 6:51 pm
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Don’t break the internets with all that posting good sir. Last time you lit up the webs, your furious typing caused a tornado.
Do take lots of pictures of:
1) Old Ladies playing video poker wearing sweatshirts with lots of kittens on them.
2) Old dudes with those radiation goggle sunglasses, yea you know what I mean, you went to school in FL.
3) B list celebs
4) chicks working “the skank shift”
5) People wearing mardi gras beads
6) Old high roller Cowboy dudes with young women, or any combination thereof of Asian or Middle Eastern guys doing the same.
7) making it rain
And this is on the house: There is an In-n-Out Burger in Vegas, just so you’re aware.
Comment by Brian — March 19, 2008 @ 6:41 pm
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One of the tags is “Holiday in Cambodia”.
Comment by poguemahone — March 19, 2008 @ 6:21 pm
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As most P&C (Charleston, SC) readers know, there is a weekly pro wrestling column on Sunday, and Wrestlemania will be Flair’s last match.
I hope he gets the title again, or that he is at least wrestling for the title.
Comment by Coop — March 19, 2008 @ 6:21 pm
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a dead kennedys reference? where? jello is the man
Comment by tempebamafan — March 19, 2008 @ 6:13 pm
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whenever you encounter any type of adversity on this glorious endeavor just remember the most important rule - drink through it.
Comment by kleph — March 19, 2008 @ 5:42 pm
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A Dead Kennedys reference? On my EDSBS?
Comment by poguemahone — March 19, 2008 @ 5:31 pm
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The only time I’ve ever been to Vegas (well, other than for 9 hours overnight with my parents and little siblings on a three-week family road trip out west) was the Wednesday-Sunday the first week of March Madness six years ago. One of my buddies from college had gone that weekend with a couple of his fraternity brothers every year since he turned 21, and he occasionally invited me along, but I was never able to go for financial or scheduling reasons.
Then, a couple months before our oldest child was born, my wife told me that if I wanted to go, I better go that year. So I did. Three of the best days of my life.
I need to go back, but I fear going at a time other than the first days of the Tourney might be a disappointment. Fortunately there are other distractions in Vegas (so I’ve been told).
Do they still have the auditorium/theater in Paris set up like a huge sportsbook with three games being projected on jumbo screens? That was my favorite place to watch the games. I liked a lot of the other sportsbooks too, but the setup in that theater was pretty sweet.
Comment by Big Ten Joe — March 19, 2008 @ 5:02 pm
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leaving tonight at 8:30. one of my comrades is an attorney in the DA’s office, say hello to a get out of jail free card.
Comment by fife in the bay — March 19, 2008 @ 4:59 pm
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What, no Tumblr feed?
Comment by pinche.borracho — March 19, 2008 @ 4:58 pm
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It will kill your entire day. It’s excellent. Join usssssss.
Comment by Holly — March 19, 2008 @ 4:56 pm
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I wish I knew what Twitter was.
Comment by Doug — March 19, 2008 @ 4:55 pm
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Meth is on the Orange and White People list. C’mon, now.
P.S. Thanks for the “drunk white women” tag. Bye, everyone. Nice knowing you.
Comment by Holly — March 19, 2008 @ 4:48 pm
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Leaving at 7:30 am tommorow myself. Good luck.
Comment by DanF — March 19, 2008 @ 4:19 pm