The Indianapolis Colts’ home field, Lucas Oil Stadium, was on fire last night during the Colts-Patriots game.

Literally.
After the Colts’ first touchdown of the game, fireworks inside the stadium caught the playing field on fire.

(What an unsightly bare patch)
Video after the jump.

The contenders from today:

I’ll take Reali. Really outdid himself this year. TV show host? Get out!

Worst costume on ESPN’s Around The Horn today:

Woody

Jackie Mac

Mariotti

Blackistone

Reali

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Goes without saying that nobody topped Woody going as Julia Child last year.

Nailed it my man! (Though a pronounced, disconcerting stoop would’ve be a nice touch.)
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Case you missed it, ESPN’s Rachel Nichols reported last week that on the Vikings’ most recent team flight, coach Brad Childress dressed up as a female flight attendant as a joke. I hadn’t seen any photos of the Childress’ ill-advised ‘costume’ until now:

(Has Steve Phillips suddenly surfing Orbitz)
May god bless Minnesota Viking Visanthe Shiancoe, who […]

Normally, you don’t see a broadcast booth spend a plurality of a football game raving about the “time of possession” statistic. Then again, normally, you don’t see a team win said battle by a full 30 minutes of game time, which is precisely what Miami did to Indianapolis last night. And then again, you don’t […]

One of the main reasons a lot of Americans don’t care for soccer is flopping. In a meritocracy like the United States that prides itself on rugged individualism and ascetic Puritan roots, the idea of gaining an unfair advantage by theatrically throwing oneself on the field at the lightest touch is abhorrent. The stereotype of […]

From my travels along Venice Beach on Sunday:

Actually saw two topless women on the boardwalk that day (other after the jump). Unfortunately, they might as well have been Eddie Vedder with botched implants.

(Hard times for Jim Gray. Hard times.)
More after the jump.

Christina Romer is an IRL fan? Who knew?

(Breaking: Man v. Food guy to feature Danica at St. Elmo’s in season two?)
Just swallowed my own sick. On the bright side tho, was able to breakout little-used “Unnecesary Photos” category on this one.

While sifting through some recent photos of Anna Kournikova at a charity event yesterday, I happened upon this photo:

Kournikova over the past decade is one of the most photographed women in the world, but I don’t recall ever seeing that monster tramp stamp. Turns out I was a little late to the party - her […]

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Soccer has always had a tough time gaining legitimacy as a sport amongst a large portion of Americans. Maybe it’s Americans’ latent isolationist bent, maybe it’s the flopping, maybe it’s the frequent 0-0 matches. Or maybe it’s stuff like this:

(He appears to be a Florida fan to boot.)
No, your eyes do not deceive you. That […]