On the strength of 374 posts (that's more than one a day!) and a number of contributors, year one of the Dank Game experience has yielded a good amount of humor, horror and at least a handful of casual readers - I think.
Based on Eddie's inhale, I don't think he'll have any trouble blowing out a single candle.***
Appropriately enough, Dank Game began with a then-recently unearthed high school posterization of LeBron James courtesy of Jordan Crawford. The post launched a late July flurry of I-miss-NBA-season ramblings from Dank Game creator SlimMcFavorite (who I'll give the respect of using his real handle in this anniversary post). This included Dank Game's first Ron Artest post.
On Friday, August 7th sneaker, snacker and music correspondant Sean and futbol columnist ANDY HAMS each made their debuts. Sean posted an NBA Nike YouTube video, while HAMS
announced to the world his love affair for premier league "don't call it soccer" club Arsenal. Both ANDY and Sean have been very quiet 'round these parts and I'll embrace them with open arms when they return.
Yours truly, Teenage_Mustache debuted on August 17th with my much-hyped Steelers-freemasonry conspiracy theory post. I guess a legend was born that day. After a few more Ron Artest updates, 'stache challenged Slim that Chad Ochocinco was every bit as crazy and entertaining as Artest. A quality rivalry ensued for many months, though I yield the battle to Slim until we see Ron Ron's reality show.
In September, football season began anew, the most exciting moment of the month being the Bengals' week three win against the hated Steelers. Around the same time, Slim began his campaign to relocate the Sacramento Kings to their rightful home as the Cincinnati Royals.
In October with the NFL season in full swing and the NBA starting up again, we hit a record output of 39 posts in one month. The Heat-Thunder Dank Game rivalry was born, which should hit new heights this coming season. However most excitingly, October launched Dank Game's mascot and new slogan, 'Seems nobody wants to hang around a dank pit no more." For those not in the know, the line was once uttered by Moe the bartender on the Simpsons. Eventually, Eddie Dribbles was chosen as our mascots name.
Slim also discovered that "Dank Game Alert" is an Urban Dictionary approved term. To end the month, we celebrated Halloween in a very Bengals fashion.
In November I discovered Rumble the Bison, mascot of the OKC Thunder. It was my first Thunder post! The month also heightened the Thunder-Heat rivalry, in a post where I claimed Slim believed the Miami Heat where from Miami of Ohio when he was a child. Sorry Slim! I also discovered Cincinnati's performance hinges on the number of Johnsons on the team, and Slim began to distance himself as Ron Artest's jockey past my steed, Ochocinco.
In December Ron Artest's drinking habits vaulted himself into the lead (I still think it will be temporary). A day later, on December 3rd, Nicolas Perkins made his Dank Game debut with another Heat feud, this time with the home state Cavs. Slim debuted Thursday Throwback Posterizations, then on the 17th sadly had to eulogize our dearly departed Chris Henry. Dank Game also made a brief foray into Party planning with Dank Game New Years, which despite massive technical issues was pretty fun thanks to a ten+ year old portable boom box.
In January, Sean debuted his new and still much under-utilized column Seanz Snax. According to Slim, I made it to my first Thunder game.
In February we busted the records again with 42 posts in 27 days. I realized that Mike Brown and Co. were drinking moonshine. The Year of the Tiger commenced - possibly ending with a Bengals Superbowl? Slim wrote a poem about James' Harden's awesome beard.
In March word first broke of Ben Roethlisberger's disgusting episode in Georgia. Funny Bengals Tweets was also born.
April brought Dank Games first podcast, a basketball themed power hour called "The Half Court Heave", co-hosted by Slim and "homeboy" Ryan. I developed Snax 4 Sports Fans - which I still need to produce another installment of. Toward the end of April we hit 300 posts.
In May the Cavs made their playoff exit, and Slim co-wrote a farewell of sorts with future Dank Game columnist Andy "The Turd" Young. Young_Turd debuted in proper with his mathematician of the Suns, but has since changed his handle to mr. maybe.
June gave me a chance to do some of my hardest investigating, looking into the deplorable Roethlisberger case. Perkins jumped on board the Ron Artest train (he likes the Ocho too, so it's cool).
And in July, Dank Game's world came crashing down. LBJ left the Cavs and the Miami Heat made one of the biggest coups in sports history. Slim tried to predict the thing in advance of "The Decision", but I don't think anyone was truly ready. Perkins hid his grief by arguing that the Miami trio don't actually play well together without Kobe. mr. maybe likened the three headed monster to Super Shredder. I just posted some Bengals tweets about it - the Thunder are already set after all. Later Slim tried to write rationally about the whole incident without gloating. Finally, on Dank Game's 365th day of existence, something about baseball was posted.
Phew! So as you can see, it's been a wild ride. Won't you please join us for another year Dank Gamers? This is also a great time to let us know what you, the readers, enjoy on the site. If you don't feel like making a Blogger account just to comment, you can also reach Slim and myself on Twitter.
*cake image by "Aunt Sue"
I think that you should have included your post about High Life camo cans and mine about Great Lakes Christmas Ale. Beer needed to be represented more.
ReplyDeleteMy post about J.J. Redick's stick wax was a favorite with many readers. I was also a big fan of your post about Roethlisberger entitled "A Face Only Pittsburgh Could Love."