Brendee's: The League of Substitute Hosts

Since regular host Justin Shiffer was away terrorizing lobsters in Maine, I became the substitute host at his Brendee's all-sports trivia show. I love Brendee's. As Evil Pete of the Lancaster 505 once said, it's the quintessential corner bar. The food is excellent, as is the staff, which has a bunch of folks from the trivia family: John Flavin of the Arrogant Bastards is one of the bartenders, Tim Thompson of Ubersmack is the manager and The Bouncer Formerly Known As Hot Tub Steve is from Broken Lizard. And co-owner Steve Gallo used to work with Curtis way back in the Holiday Inn Days. So, thanks to Tim and Caroline for making me feel at home.

On the competition-front, Carol and Dwight (AKA Bacardi AKA Drink Beer on Thursday, pictured above) won the first game, narrowly beating Shut the F*ck Up Donnie, You're Out of Your Element (Donnie blamed it on too many baseball questions) and Deric (AKA Deric). The standings were turned around in the second game, when an inspired name change to I'm Not Creative Make Up a Name for Me by Deric propelled him to the leader spot. Competition was again close for the extreme logo close-up picture round, when Deric beat Lick My Logo by one point. Other teams competing tonight included A-Rod Is a Greedy Pig, What!, Cotton 41, The Blue Ribbons, BP, Broke, Carly, and the appropriately-named Mike Is the Trivia God - But We Suck at Sports Trivia. Troutman also had fun with his team names, which described Jeff in various sex acts.