Comments on: Always Be Covering: Drunken Las Vegas Edition

By: rkelly

rkelly — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 23:09:50 +0000

The girl on the left is my sister. I’m really, really disgusted that such shoddy predictions are juxtapositioned with her handsome visage. She is, after all, the living vision of our dearly departed mother.
Shame. The loftiest shame.

By: Otto Man

Otto Man — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 11:49:24 +0000

@Otto Man or whoever else – aside from the LV Hilton, any other suggestions on where to watch games?

Well, I like the Mandalay Bay one. The MGM Grand is great, as YR says. And the one at the Wynn is stylish. There are a lot of great options, but be aware that if you want to get a seat at anything but the Hilton theater, you’re going to need to get there at the crack of fucking dawn.

As for getting cut … I was at the MB sportsbook in 2005 when USC and Notre Dame had that great 34-31 game that went back and forth. The room was packed with fatass Fightin’ Irish fans and Axe’d-up USC fans, and since the whole fourth quarter was one dramatic lead change after another, it turned into a back-and-forth round of taunting and pointing. The major instigators were an 18-year-old USC fan who thought the finger was their team salute and a 60+-year-old Notre Dame geezer whose blood pressure was hitting gasket-blowing levels. The game ended with the kid in the old man’s face, as he let loose a stream of profanity and his wife tried to take him away. If the game had gone into overtime, there would have been blood.

By: Big Black Richard

Big Black Richard — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 06:12:24 +0000

@Yeah, right: A big +1 on the Johnny Depp reference.

By: Nikki

Nikki — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 00:45:09 +0000

Well, good news is I’m staying at MGM. I’ve been to Vegas a dozen times for work, this is the first time I’m going for a lengthy period of time just for fun and divulging in sports shenanigans whilst there…so thanks!!

By: yeah, right?

yeah, right? — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 00:06:19 +0000

Hey Nikki, MGM grand has a pretty decent sports book, and I would put Craft Steak, also at MGM against any of the other steak houses. If you go to MGM try Diego’s, they make a cochinita pibil that forced me to shoot the chef on his way to his car. If you lose a bunch of cash and still want to watch/gamble on the games, the Stratosphere has a decent venue but they do allow the locals to bring in their fast food bags and their 40′s in the paper bag. So it depends on your luck. You will be fine. Cowboys fans everywhere in Vegas.
Have fun.

By: Nikki

Nikki — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 23:22:50 +0000

@Otto Man or whoever else – aside from the LV Hilton, any other suggestions on where to watch games? I will be there in a few weeks and have already started trying to figure out where to go that Sunday (priorities, you know). I’m a Cowboys fan and we’re playing the Eagles, so I have no desire to get cut.

By: DixieNormess

DixieNormess — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 20:35:28 +0000

All of this shit is better than gang bangin’ a bank of Wheel of Fortune slots at the fuckin Palms like Simmons.

Personally, I’d say placing some prop bets on the ALCS and NLCS and then flagging down a suitable waitress to make rounds every 15 minutes would be an excellent way of ensuring hours of entertainment.

But, I also remember getting in a shouting match with a hooker outside of O’shea’s at 5am, so my advice should be taken with a modicum of salt.

By: mick

mick — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 20:22:19 +0000

I would fuck every one of those chickens to pieces.

By: Ron Dayne's Strict Diet

Ron Dayne's Strict Diet — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 20:10:39 +0000

Prime at Bellagio made me believe in God.

By: Slash

Slash — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 20:05:03 +0000

For some reason, the flying cat cracks my shit up.

And all those showgirls look like chickens.