September 6, 2022 Good Day Grover Pickers, You are reading live from the Queen Street Playhouse in downtown Charleston, South Carolina. Hey, Ya’ll! THE COMMISSIONER is here for an event to launch the second season of a PBS television series, How She Rolls, which he produces, directs, writes, and endlessly ponders. He’s joined tonight by …
Category Archives: Football Picks
General Collective Booty
August 30, 2022 Like a melting popsicle revealing a cheap balsa stick, the summer season melts into Labor Day and Professional Amateur Football returns to us filled with hope and anticipation for every fan of Alabama and maybe Georgia and possibly Ohio State. The rest of us are just an abandoned ice cream truck of …
Toddlers Frying A Turkey in the Driveway Bowl
December 16, 2020 Good Day Grover Pickers, Welcome to Bowl Season! Bahamas Bowl – Toledo v Middle Tennessee This is the BIG ONE! The most prestigious non-playoff bowl game. Game time temp is 80 with lots of sunshine. You leave Toledo or Murfreesboro and head for Atlantis! It’s a reward beyond the reach of teams like …
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Inside Info from Beano and Hank, The Greek Ax
December 3, 2021 Breaking News: Your Commissioner, THE Commissioner, received last night an encrypted, catsup stained .scrt file from an unnamed source, let’s call him ‘Beano’, with HUGE “news” about this week’s games. This is a source The Commissioner has cultivated for years, especially since Beano’s alleged ‘death by bacon’. I’ve used sketchy methods, decoder …
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Thanksgiving is The Season For Hiring Coaches, Turkey, and Lightbulbs.
November 25, 2021 It’s Turkey Eating/Buying Lightbulbs/Coach Firing Season in football. It’s also the end of the college regular season. Let’s get our lives in order and set some things straight. The First Mistake The First Mistake Hiring Coaches You want your AD to hire an offensive genius or a defensive genius. You want to …
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Lazy, Angry, Befuddled and Cliched
November 18, 2021Good Day Grover Pickers, Your Commissioner, THE Commissioner, is lazy, angry, and befuddled. Here’s one reason. This is an actual thing kids, but not my kids, are asking for this Christmas. What is this… crap? It is SOLD OUT at Target and Walmart. You may have to purchase it at QVC! An alternative is …
Nothin’ But A Good Time
November 3, 2021 Gray colored the chilly morning outside the window of the first floor medical office condo. I had a perfect view from the dental hygienist’s chair of the 231 pale red bricks forming a wall of another medical condo just 12 feet away. I was beginning the 45 minute ritual in which a …
Bronco, Bibbers, The Duck, and Renewable Concrete
October 26, 2021 Good Day Grover Pickers, Now just look at this junk The Commissioner has you picking this week! Cardinals v Packers It’s Thursday. Two 100-year-old franchises. The game is on Amazon. It feels like the angry older brother, Green Bay, chasing the much faster, more petulant, younger brother, Arizona, all over the backyard. …
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Good, Evil, Stupid- A Compendium
October 23, 2021 First, the good, and a point of Commissioner privilege. GROVER PICKS SPECIAL TEAMS PLAYER OF THE WEEK Last Friday on Senior Night at South Mecklenburg High School, Zane Davis, aka “The ‘Lil Commissioner”, kicked a game winning 37-yard field goal in the last minute of the game. Then, last night, he kicked …
Short Guys, Genos, and Defending Bama, but not Gruden’s Friends.
October 13, 2021 Good Day Grover Pickers, We’ve had a great week of football and other sports, but nothing was better than halftime of the Ohio State v Rutgers game. The Commissioner has no love for Ohio State football, but the OSU Marching Band is hereby recognized as the Official Grover Picks Greatest Marching Band …
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