A clip from our favorite Halloween movie here in the Lounge, Young Frankenstein. (”That’s ‘Frawnkenshteen’!”)

Just came across this cool website you should check out. It lists hundreds of movies in which the characters play darts or the plot has something to do with the game. It’s
http://www.crowsdarts.com/movies/movies.html

This week’s comedian is Louis CK. The language is a little adulty so don’t play it too loudly on your speakers at work or be eight years old while you watch it.

We love darts here in the Lounge. It’s one of those truly beautiful games where one can be a barfly and still be good at it. The most effort involved is getting up and walking a few paces from the bar. What could be better?

One of our regulars – you know who you are – insists that we should hang the dart board on the wall behind the bar so he doesn’t even have to get up anymore. I have to admit that there’s a certain amount of logic to that plan. But our bartenders are strongly opposed to being caught in the crossfire. So, for now, the dart board stays where it is.

But, as a courtesy, here are some tips for making darts more conducive to the sedentary barfly lifestyle:

1. Tie a string to you dart so you don’t have to walk those extra few steps to the board and back to retrieve them. Just throw and yank!
2. Tip the servers to throw for you. When we polled them, most of the staff agreed that a dollar per dart would be fair.
3. Throw from the bar. The oche is only there to keep you from stand too close. We don’t see any problem with standing, or sitting in your case, farther away.
4. Get a motorized bar stool – the ultimate barfly vehicle!

Tuesdays suck. So, we’re launching Beer Ad Tuesdays where each week we’ll be posting some of our favorite funny beer ads here in the Lounge to take the edge off.

Most of the conversation around the dart board here in the Lounge revolves around silly posturing and curses when a dart doesn’t fly as planned.   I started wondering the other day if the luminaries of the game have any loftier conversations.  I found this article on the BBC about some of the more memorable quotes from the game and, as it turns out, they don’t.  Here are some of my favorites:

“The other day Phil was going on about how he could not get a set of table and chairs in his Bentley. What does he want a Bentley for? It is pathetic, absolutely pathetic…I drive a nine-year old car and he rubs everyone’s noses in it by driving round in a Bentley.”

“His darts used to stick out like tulips in the board.”

“We couldn’t have more excitement if Elvis walked in and asked for a chip sandwich.”

“I asked for the air-conditioning to be turned off, because it was blowing my darts all over the shop.”

“Before a match I like to relax with 25 bottles of Holsten Pils and six steak n’ kidney pies.”

“I wasn’t nervous during the match but the streaker certainly affected my game. I just wish I’d got her name and address!”

It’s Sunday and the football games are getting started for the afternoon. If you’re at home you’re probably settling in for an afternoon in front of the TV. Here in the lounge we’ve all claimed our stools, the drinks are poured and the bowls of chips and pretzels are spread out on the bar.

But if you’re lucky enough to actually be at the game you’re either craning your neck for the overpriced beer guy or standing in line for the overpriced hot dog guy. Or, if you’re smart, you’re checking out the tailgaters; better yet, you’re tailgating yourself.

Tailgating is the perfect marriage of two of American’s great loves – sports and eating. Joe Cahn, the self described Commissioner of Tailgating, describes it as the “last great American neighborhood.”

Recently the Food Network aired Tailgate Warriors, a judged cook off between tailgating fans of the Buffalo Bills and the Chicago Bears when the teams met in Buffalo, NY earlier this year. The show was hosted by one of our favorite bowling shirt wearing celebrities, Guy Fieri.

Most of us probably think of tailgating as a combination of clever cooler packing and grill mastery. But after watching these two cooking teams face off, I now know these hardcore tailgaters are both gadget-heads and alfresco-gourmands. From motorized spits and spinning beer-can chicken cookers on the Chicago side to the over seven foot long, custom built, charcoal fired combination grill, griddle and oven – yes, oven – on the Buffalo side, these were some serious outdoor kitchens.

But it wasn’t all about the gadgets. There were some really great looking recipes, seared scallops, pork loin stuffed with Buffalo style chicken, and even a sundae. Check out the show page for links to the recipes themselves.

There are still plenty of excuses for tailgating coming up this year so keep your coals hot and grill on, baby!

On Monday I promised to tell you the greatest football movie of all time. This was after the unfortunateness that occurred here in the Lounge. Here are a few of the films that we “discussed” on Sunday.

Jerry Macquire
I only mention this one because the guy who broke the mirror during the brawl on Sunday was trying to convince us that JM is the greatest football movie ever. No. Simply no. It might be the greatest chick flick that involves football ever – even the women were saying, “Dude, it’s a chick flick!” – but it barely even ranks as a football movie. I mean, when the most memorable line is “you had me at hello?” C’mon!

Rudy
Who doesn’t love a movie about the underdog making good? I definitely recommend this one to anyone who likes football. It’s a good one, just not the greatest.

The Waterboy
Now, I’ll admit that there’s a soft place in my heart for any movie with Henry Winkler in it. But why did they have to give so much screen time to that mouth-breather, Adam Sandler?

Brian’s Song
Okay, this movie has its place on the list. Who doesn’t tear up just a little at this one? But it’s not really a football movie, is it? I mean football is certainly integral to the main character but it just doesn’t really cut it as a sports film.

The Longest Yard
Football movie, prison movie and Burt Reynolds movie – what, are you kidding me? It simply does get any better. (And if you think I’m talking about the Adam Sandler remake then you are hereby banned from the Lounge!) This is the greatest football movie of all time, hands down, end of discussion.

Hey, football fans. We’re announcing a special offer today to email club members only. Sign up before noon. Go to the Bowling Concepts home page and look for the email sign up box under Charlie Sheen’s picture.

Last week some jackass wandered into the Lounge and suggested that perhaps we spend a little too much time on Two and a Half Men and not enough on sports, this being a sports bar and all. Naturally, I had him thrown out. This was all made especially traumatic by the fact that that Lounge doesn’t actually exist except as a fictitious bar in my head. I’m still trying to figure out how he got in.

Nevertheless, we – yes, all of us here in the Lounge, and you can stop looking at me like that – are excited that once again we’re getting a new episode of the greatest sitcom in the history of man tonight. (Preview below.) But, for those of you without the taste and sophistication for the comedy stylings of Charlie Sheen and Co. and who might be looking for some sport, we definitely do football here in the Lounge.

Right after THM, the Washington Redskins will be playing the Philadelphia Eagles on ESPN. The TV over the bar will be promptly switched over at 8:30 ET.

Now, when you get to the Lounge tonight you might find the place a bit of a mess. During the games yesterday afternoon someone brought up the topic of football movies. This turned into a conversation about which is the greatest football movie of all time and, naturally, that turned into an all out brawl as everyone each defended his or her choice. A few tables and the mirror behind the bar were broken and I won’t have time to fix everything before tonight.

But there’s no need for further “discussion.” I’ve already decided what the greatest football movie of all time is and I’ll be revealing that on Wednesday. In the meantime, if you think you have a worthy candidate, let us know in the comments section. I’ll consider your choice then I’ll go ahead and post the movie I’ve already picked here on Wednesday.