TheFatherLife.com: Osburn On Tap: Halloween In a Bottle

Since I only write this column once per month, I usually touch upon a big holiday or beer related event and this month is no different. Halloween is one of my favorite holidays for a variety of reasons. I know it sounds cliché, but I’m twenty-seven years old and I’m really just a big kid. I still pine for the days of playing the original Super Mario Brothers all day in my pajamas during a snow day. I miss playing waffle ball in my front yard for hours on end with my brothers. I feel like I need to hold onto my youth as long as possible, and Halloween is the easiest way I know how to do it. It’s ok to be a kid again once a year...

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TheFatherLife.com: NFL Power Rankings: Week 9

What is wrong with Peyton Manning and the Colts? They had a 14-6 lead in the third quarter and looked to be shutting down Tennessee’s offense when I changed the channel to watch the World Series. When I returned, what seemed like minutes later, the Titans had a 31-14 lead. Manning scored on a QB plunge with just over a minute left to make the score 31-21, but the outcome of the game was already decided.

It’s the midpoint of the season for some teams and the Titans are still the only undefeated team at 7-0. The defending Super Bowl champion New York Giants got back on the winning track and are the only one loss team left after Buffalo fell to a tenacious Miami squad and Pittsburgh lost to the champs by a touchdown...

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TheFatherLife.com: NFL Power Rankings: Week 8

Another week goes by and the Titans are still undefeated and Vince Young is still on the sideline. Kerry Collins only had 123 passing yards, but Chris Johnson had 168 rushing yards and LenDale White chipped in with 149 of his own.

The Cowboys and Broncos went from contenders to big-time pretenders with disappointing losses. The Buffalo Bills, fresh from their bye week, rebounded from a loss to defeat the San Diego not-so-super Chargers 23-14 and move up a few spots.

Many of the top and bottom teams remain mostly unchanged since last week although the middle is so close that teams seem to easily take a tumble with a loss. This is the most wide open the NFL has been in years. There is no clear cut favorite, and that’s really exciting...

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TheFatherLife.com: NFL Rankings: Week 7.

Wow, my power rankings look mighty different this week than they did just seven days ago. It’s as if someone took all the teams and put them into a cement mixer, turned it on as fast as it could go and let the teams spill out all over the sidewalk. As Elvis would say, my rankings are “all shook up.”

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TheFatherLife.com: NFL Power Rankings: Week 6

And then there were two. Only the New York Giants and Tennessee Titans remain undefeated after the Buffalo Bills fell in dramatic fashion to the Arizona Cardinals 41-17. The Giants cemented themselves at #1 in my first official rankings because of their 44-6 pasting of a once proud Seahawks team. The Titans kept rolling with a close 13-10 win over the Ravens and are the first team to reach five wins in ’08… even without Vince Young...

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TheFatherLife.com:The October Rundown

The Major League Baseball regular season has reached its commencement, and an elite eight teams remain in the hunt for October glory. A crazy season ended with some regular playoff squads in, some teams without a lot of postseason history in, and many high profile teams left out. Missing are the New York Yankees, home for the first time since 1993, when I was twelve. In are the Milwaukee Brewers, who hadn’t made the post season since 1982, when I was only a year old. Out are the New York Mets, the only team in history to blow a 3-game plus division lead two Septembers in a row...

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