Wake Up With The Best St. Patrick’s Day Parade Fights (Plus A Bonus Catholic Mass)

Happy St. Patrick’s Day to all who celebrate. I hope you guys had a nice weekend and your basketball team made the tournament.

Personally I celebrated my 38th birthday, which largely included a bar crawl with my wife throughout downtown Geneva because that’s what you do for a 38th birthday. You do slightly nicer things with a much smaller group of people, and I wouldn’t have it any other way. Fancy bar crawls are actually a lot of fun.

As such, yesterday was a big recovery day. I opened with a McDonald’s breakfast (double burrito w/ sausage biscuit), then graduated to a big wet hot Portillo’s beef for lunch and then followed with a shrimp Lo Mein from my #1 Chinese spot in Aurora.

Let there be no doubt – I’m paying for that shrimp lo mein today. Just a purely reckless move on my part and something I should be smarter about by now.

Maybe for my 39th birthday.

For now I wanted to wish you guys a happy St. Patrick’s day in two parts.

The first is a quick-hitter 30 minute catholic mass from CatholicTV on YouTube. You don’t have to watch but it’s there for the taking. As an actively-guilty and actively-practicing Catholic, you might find some good stuff in there about forgiveness and strength.

But it’s totally up to you.

And if that’s not your speed, then here’s a couple decent fight videos from the parade festivities this weekend.

Some observations before:

  • There used to be a lot more fight videos. I don’t know if that’s because there’s less fights or less videos, but the sweetspot was like 6-7 years ago. So if you’re in that late 20’s/early 30’s range, you guys should know that the dumb shit peaked with you guys
  • I didn’t know what BORG was before this weekend. But it’s a gallon of koolaid mixed with grain alcohol and milk residue from the plastic jug. As such I am very thankful I didn’t live through a BORG phase
  • I want a sloppier St. Patrick’s day
  • I’m very happy/proud that my generation didn’t do this baggy jean thing
  • WEAK Wrigley content this year. So weak

Lets get to it

Great Knockout

6.4

Can To The Face

Bottle to the head

Almost 3 hours of live footage

Cat Fight (Not Chicago)

Palette Cleansing River Dye

Leprechaun Caught On Tape

Like I said.

A little bit of a weaker field of fights this year and I blame that on the BORG generation being too drunk to get mean and stupid.

And quite frankly I think that’s super lame.

So if you’re an older guy, or at least aware enough to know your best times are behind you, then take comfort in knowing the best days of St. Patrick’s Day in Chicago left with you.

And while that’s an unfortunate fact, we have some very good news coming this week:

  • Cubs opening day is TOMORROW
  • March Madness starts this week
  • Illinois is a 6-seed with a reasonable path to the Final 4
  • Players Playoff today
  • Sterk Family Farms is ROLLING
  • Trey Anastasio Acoustic tomorrow night at Chicago Symphony Hall with the whole family

We always say this is the week where things turn for Chicago and I don’t think it could be any more true than it is this year.

So let’s be smart about it and have a great fuckin week.

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