Weekend Whippoorwill: Very Bad Things

The new joint has been officially up and running for six days. It's kind of a shame considering the initial target date was St. Patrick's day. I blame construction. In fact, everyone does. But that's only because they completely suck. Here, one day after the celebration of our nation's birth, I propose that we amend the constitution to allow construction workers to be shot when they fudge end dates or do something stupid. Not like, with a gun or anything. Maybe with one of those rubberband shooters. That would be cool. Because then you could shoot them in the neck. Anyway, this, in case you didn't know, is a horrible weekend in which to debut your new eats/drinks establishment because people are doing family stuff, drinking heavily, and blowing stuff up, not necessarily in that order. Since nothing's happening in the kitchen right now, here's some splendid weekend correspondence.

The gang over at Arrowhead Addict knows the scoop on Old No. 4. Granted, it's not really scoopable material since everything associated with the story is tagged with allegations and speculations, but it's still worth mentioning. On the one hand, I can't imagine Favre playing for anybody but Green Bay. On the other hand, Kansas City is about the only franchise I could see pulling off such travshamockery. I'm interested to see if this thing progresses to the next stage of prognostication.

In Bronco Country, HercRock's been documenting the epic off-season of B-Marsh. Check out his thoughts on the route runner's most recent oopses here, here, and here.

Since we're talking about really dumb news stories, we can't skip out the always-existed newly discussed standing rule at Arrowhead. Warpaint Illustrated breaks it down for us.

In more interesting developments, Bronco Talk -- the little blog that never sleeps -- alerts us to some worthwhile reading, like this FoxSports story regarding the helmets of defensive players, and how some (likely that of the middle linebacker) of them will now include electronic transmitters like those used in the quarterback's gear. They also hook us with this link to a CBS4Denver story where former Broncos running back Terrell Davis looks at the '08 Denver squad, and of course there's the token John Elway bukkake post that's mandatory for any Broncos blog.

Over at Arrowhead Pride, the latest intallment of "When We Were Champions" features Jacky Lee. A good read. A quick read. And one that ends on a funny note: a speculation that Lee looks like the good ol' boy quarterback up thar in Indianapolis.

In non-football Denver news, Bugs and Cranks recaps a very long Fourth of July baseball contest in which 25 runs were scored.

Speaking of baseball, the kids over at Royals Review run open threads on each Royals game. Yesterday's series opener against the Bay Rays isn't one you want to read. Not because the thread is bad, but because the game was. Very, very bad.

That's about all she ever intended to write for this off-the-wall weekend installment. Hope you're killing hangovers with beer. Tip one for the Gipper. Or someone.