The Match VI Announcement
FUMBLE!
<Sigh>
News broke on Tuesday about the newest installment in The Match franchise and...
<Sigh>
Yes, the all-QB edition featuring the grizzled vets of Brady and Rodgers squaring off with the spunky young guns of Allen and Mahomes has earned the elusive double sigh from me.
It's been really interesting to watch the evolution of this event through the last few years as we get to see, in real time, as TNT and Capital One try to figure out what it is that the public actually want to see.
For me, this ain't it.
Good one, Tom.
The Match has become this weird, insider-y boys club that the NFL sank its teeth into and won't let go. I imagine the scheduling of these no longer takes place in a room full of innovative golfing programmers but instead in Tom Brady's cigar lounge where he boasts to Josh Allen that he can play with whoever he wants and Capital One/TNT will just say yes.
Give me variety!
Give me sport v. sport matchups (Ray Allen and Steph Curry v. Allen and Mahomes).
Give me a mixed doubles (Michelle Wie and Rickie Fowler v. Christina Kim and Joel Dahmen). Oh, you don't know Christina? She's criminally underappreciated.
Give me a battle of the sexes (The Kordas v. The Koepkas)
But instead we get a bunch of QBs, having a weirdly tense pissing contest and, if we're lucky, a funny shot tracer meme the day after.
<Sigh>
Like buffalo wings and celery...
THE DALYS FOUND THEIR PERFECT MATCH
It took the brand team over at Hooters HQ all of about two weeks after John's Masters moment to lock down this father-son duo for the longterm.
On Tuesday, Hooters made it offish with John Daly (original recipe) who miraculously only had a handshake understanding with the chain prior. Then Hooters doubled down on the Dalys and locked in Little John to a NIL deal as he enters his freshman year at Arkansas.
Synergy at every level.
"Hooters is the ideal place for me to go and unwind after a long day on the course or in the classroom, so I am honored to be chosen as an ambassador for the iconic brand," Daly II said.
Get it, my dude.
This week on CriBBs
MARKY MARK'S MONSTROUS MANSION
Splashed across all socials this week was Mark Wahlberg's Entourage-level mansion in Los Angeles going up for sale at the staggeringly low price of $87.5M.
<I wonder if Davina is on the listing? Where my Selling Sunset fans at?!? Looking at the numbers of regular readers, my rough, back of the napkin math says there should be at least 4 of you. It's back today!! Goodbye weekend.>
Annnnnnd for the other 99.9% of you... back to the golf-adjacent s#%&.
So Mark Wahlberg's place is insane and I crave a true Cribs style tour but for now, here are my three favorite areas.
<Homer Simpson voice> Mmmmmmmmm. Mahogany.
Is it Mark's wine cellar/cigar lounge or is it the latest $25/drink speakeasy that opened up in a run-down laundromat in the new hip part of town labeled with a hyphenate name like No-Ho or So-Co or Cray-Pas?
This is technically a weekly golf newsletter so, yeah, there's an insane golfer's paradise mini-course in the back too.
Suddenly $87.5M sounds like a bit of a steal in this market, huh?
Join me down the rabbit hole.
THE GOAT GOLF COMMERCIAL?
When one finds oneself, as a new dad, awake at 2am feeding one's 9 week old son, one tends to spiral down different nostalgia-induced rabbit holes.
Last night, it led me to this random a$$ article from titans of golf content GolfWRX.com about the best golf commercials of all time.
Most strike the perfect note of 90's energy and production value that has me yearning for the days spent sprawled on the floor watching Rugrats without a single care in the world.
But then I re-discovered this absolute grand slam of a commercial from ETRADE.
Shankopotamus is the GOAT.
Still earns a chuckle every time I watch. One of those commercials that after all these years, you somehow can still quote word for word.
And with the return of the ETRADE baby at the Super Bowl... should we all be so lucky as to see a sequel for the modern era?
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