Incredible finishes highlight the BDCS

DUBLIN, IE - With a thick Irish tongue it is pronounced Domhnach Broc, meaning "The Church of Saint Broc". Located in the province of Leinster near the eastern coast of Ireland, Donnybrook is situated on the southside of Dubin near the neighboring suburbs of Ballsbridge, Sandymount, Ranelagh and Clonskeagh. Donnybrook is infamous for the Donnybrook Fair which dates back to the charter of King John of England in 1204 until its ultimate demise in 1866. The fair was legendary for the vast quantities of liquor consumed, the number of hasty marriages performed the following week and mainly for the frequent brawls that erupted throughout the event. They don't call them the Fighting Irish for nothing. Eventually, the fair's reputation for mayhem was its final undoing. From the 1790s on, there were numerous campaigns against the drunken brawl for which it had become. The event was eventually abolished in 1866, but not before its name had become generic for a free-for-all. The word donnybrook is now used in the English language to describe a rowdy brawl. Other synonyms include fracas, fray, melee, rough-and-tumble and ruckus. The word was also used recently to describe the Big Daddy Championship Series (BDCS) in Week 16 of the BDFL where the Brookside Dogs held on through Monday Night Football to defeat the Jugtown Juggernauts 15-14 while the Mineral Springs Grenadiers got a miraculous 18 points from Aaron Jones late in the game to rip the heart out of the Duncanville Armadillos 33-30. The Grenadiers will now meet the Dogs in Big Daddy Bowl XVIII for all the marbles, the coveted Grand Daddy Trophy and the 2019 BDFL Championship Title. I'm Shipping Up To Boston by the Dropkick Murphys (2005)

Final Scores

JUG

DOG

14

15

GRE

ARM

33

30

FRE

BUL

  6

38

20

DOR

BLZ

  4

19

35

GAM

SM

4

23

BEL

MAY

34

42

BD

CHE

31

11

WIL

PS

10

17

The 2019 PBR All-BDFL First Team

MILWAUKEE - There is no Pabst brewery in Beertown anymore, just a set of old buildings, the remains of the historic brewery and the memories of a better time. The former plant set doormat for decades, but has now been revitalized to save its cherished past. Thank goodness, the famous PBR brand and beer was saved by some entrepreneurs and it is now brewed and bottled by their former hometown rival, the Miller Brewing Co. across town who keeps the legacy alive. Gottlieb and Frederika Pabst and their twelve-year-old son Frederick arrived in the United States in 1848 and settled in Chicago where Frederick worked on the ships of Lake Michigan. In 1862, Frederick married Maria Best, daughter of the founder and owner of the Best Brewing Company, and in 1863 became a brewer at his father-in-law's brewery. When Philip Best retired to Germany in 1867, Pabst and Emil Schandein - his sister-in-law's husband and the vice-president of Best Brewery, transformed the company into one of the nation's largest brewers, capitalizing on the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 that destroyed nineteen Chicago breweries and helped position Milwaukee as the leading beer-producing city in the United States. In 1889, Schandein died, leaving Pabst as president and his widow, Lisette Schandein, as vice-president. In 1890, Pabst changed the "Best" letterhead to "Pabst" and the Pabst Brewing Company officially began. Pabst's flagship beer was renamed Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer following a big win as "America's Best" at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893. Their great-tasting beer won so many awards over the years that "Captain" Pabst started tying expensive silk blue ribbons around every bottle to help distinguish it from the other brands and patrons started asking their bartenders for "the blue-ribbon beer", thus leading this tag to be added to the beer's patented, signature name. The beer brand is still around and still winning awards. In 2015, Pabst won the "best large brewing company of the year" award at the Great American Beer Festival. PBR has been the honorary sponsor for years of the annual All-BDFL First Team for obvious reasons.

W1-Pronounced   W2-Twilight Zone   W3-Dog Days   W4-Waxahachie   W5-Silver Wings   W6-High Life

W7-Under Dogs   W8-More Bellcow   W9-Blitzkrieg Bop   W10-Bad to the Bone   W11-The Jugular

W12-Goose Alley   W13-Sweetness   W14-Iron Clad   W15-Barn Burner   W16-Donnybrook