OT: recommendations for other humorous CFB sites
The Banner Society replaces EDSBS - don't know what it will be like.
Bar Stool Sports?
EDSBS will be missed, but as noted below, they had lost their focus a couple of years ago, with only 'Action Cookbook' providing regular content. The principal reason to visit of late is the remarkable commentariat that they cultivated over the years, a significant cut above most sports blogs. The new Banner Society will probably attract the same crowd, so that's good. In Ryan Nanni's introduction post, two items jumped out at me, a) they are not part of SBNation, and most of the best CFB bloggers from SBNation are jumping over to Banner Society. This smacks of a subscription service to me, but we'll see. The website itself is supposed to be up on 21 August.
I'm glad I didn't have to build equity for retirement by writing blog articles or doing podcasts.
RCMB.
Oh, you said funny, not a joke.
Wow, EDSBS just posted its last post. The answer to your question is: not much else out there with that level of entertaining.
All of the OGs and followers are gone: SMQ, EDSBS, grantland, many of the individual CFB blogs that folded into what is now SBnation - black heart gold pants, black shoe diaries, etc. I know I am forgeting several. You could even add blogspot mgoblog to that list.
They are all gone, or much, much worse. At its prime, EDSBS was the best and funniest of the group. For those who remember - "Space, Bitches, Space" or the Fulmer Cup updates. But there were a LOT of entertaining sports blogs. My understanding is that most of the authors were young and thought writing was fun and WHOOPS hey its a possible career.
Why are they gone? The internet is a different place, most of them got much more political, they wanted different things, the sites shut down....take your pick. Even EDSBS had been headed downhill for years, along with most of SB Nation. Now we have The Ringer (crap), SB Nation (watered down crap), The Athletic (highly political, won't make it), new & much worse ESPN ("we promise to stick to sports this time"), Deadspin(just...yikes), and maybe a few others I am missing. Hopefully I am missing a good one or two.
While I will always believe there is a huge audience for that kind of writing, maybe there is not as big an audience anymore. The authors and editors of this blog would have a really interesting opinion on the topic I bet. I can only hope Seth shares a take.
I listed a bunch of the OG sites and others below. The very first Michigan blogs I had ever stumbled across were mgoblog and i Blog for Cookies (Brian apparently follow Vijay on twitter). The world opened up from there.
As you state, it was a very different world and kind of the golden age of "start-up" sports blogging. I mean, how do you have a site like Autumn Thunder that was at all popular? Shared Michigan fandom and inside MS Paint jokes.
I miss it and we'll never see it again.
If you like find a bunch of comments from DNA challenged, low IQ fans who are delusional, have no creativity, and can't spell or use English "too good" humorous - recommend spending some time on the Red Cedar Message Board - the "RCMB".
Just realize that while it may read like satire - that shit is for real. Like going to Walmart or the DMV - these people actually exist.
^^^^Speaking of poor English.^^^^
"Other humorous CFB sites" - as in, this site is funny?
funny how? funny like this site is a clown? this site is here to amuse you?
You don't get all of Brian and Seth's inside jokes?!
Afootballwebsite.com but maybe not, because nobody knows what it is.
Roid Central Message Board (RCMB). So many stupid things posted you can't help laugh.
Also a great site to go to if you want to see an example of how our education system is failing.
Every time I go there I see the word "Nucky" WTF?
"Roid Central"--now that's funny. If you're thin skinned, don't go to RCMB. I go there and read it like I read the Times. I ignore the crap and enjoy the other parts. They had an article about the pro basketball player in Europe who failed a drug test because he was pregnant (memo to self, don't use your girlfriend's urine for drug tests). Pretty funny situation.
The "Nucky" reference concerns a poster who made up multiple logins and was annoying. So, any time a poster is annoying and only has <10 posts with a new login, he's labeled, "Nucky."
I would say MGoBlog is a college town coffee house, and RCMB is a spring break beach without volleyball and girls.
The M-Zone, Autumn Thunder, When Carcajous Attack (sorry, these are all defunct. I used read through these and Varsity Blue, Michigan Sports Center, RBUAS, Michigan Football Saturdays, iBFC, Sunday Morning QB, the original Maize n Brew, Big Ten Wonk, and Big Ten Geeks - and whatever else I'm sure I'm missing - daily). These are also mostly from before or during the Blog Poll golden years.
If you want some classic college sports blog humor, check out:
- Black Heart Gold Pants' Christopher Polyblend series on alternate uniforms
- Troy Nunes is an Absolute Magician's Octonion/Quindenian series
- Hey Jenny Slater's Interplanetary Social Chat piece (some dude named "Brian" called it the "best. post. ever." and some dude named "Yost" said it was "Brilliant, Doug. LOL."
while not being rabidly anti-Michigan
For sure. I mean, OTE does have a few funny features, but there is a pretty strong anti-Michigan bias across the board there and they rather flaunt it and wear it as a badge of pride. It's a tiresome schtick.
Responding to an inquiry for funny and interesting cfb writing with “hey man check out reddit” is like recommending your child’s finger painting when asked about a great art museum.
I was referring specifically to the CFB subreddit. Which I and others on MGoBlog apparently find entertaining / informative. There are plenty of posts by users or aggregated posts from other sites (including MGoBlog) that are creative and stimulating.
Did reddit touch you as a child or something? Overall there is a wealth of information on reddit from finance to sports to weight loss, etc. If it's not your thing, cool.
It really scratches the itch. Michigan is absolutely hated there though.
Dear Faux Pelini on the Athletic
You're welcome
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I laughed so hard that I almost passed out.
The depth chart is a flat, featureless landscape with, well, no depth.
EDSBS was fantastic. It was my daily 2nd tab open behind MgoBlog for a long time. The commentariat was the best community - the "Hate" was friendly, and self-deprecatory, very much like a tight group of buddies who don't take themselves(or anything else, for that matter, except food) very seriously. It was FUN snark.
Until about 2-3 years ago. They changed the format at SB Nation and made their site layout unbearable to view. Spencer became a businessman; he wrote and interacted less. The site became a very disorganized view: ads, links, and other garbage were everywhere, the site was in a constant state of loading, making it difficult to read when it was constantly jumping around, trying to load ad after ad.
I tried to keep going back but I had to stop trying. It was brutal. I tried to keep reading, mostly for the commenting community that I so loved, but the format turned me off so much, I stopped going there.
MgoBlog has started to lose it's fun snark. I really hope the anger that I keep seeing here is just a phase.