Normally I am super apologetic about posting pictures from my geeky DolfansNYC events, but this week is an exception.  We went down to the game in NJ to watch the Dolphins beat the Jets for the second time this year and sent their fans crying home.  We started tailgating at 9am and it was a blast.  We probably had about 40 members out and parked near a few other Phins fans so we did it up.  As someone who doesn’t drink I have never been a big tailgater and spent a lot of the time walking around the parking lot with my friend Sheeva passing out flyers and talking to fellow Dolphins fans.  I only ended up eating two hot dogs because I hadn’t slept due to Halloween the night before and I was pretty much losing my mind.  We had pretty much the worst seats in the stadium in the VERY last row in the far corner, but when we were surrounded by our group of DolfansNYC members, we still had a great time.  The Dolphins ended up winning and I spent most of the next two hours talking to any sad bastard wearing green that I could find.  The Jets fans didn’t have much fight left in them.

Anyway, these pictures are a lot more fun than my normal Dolphins shots, I think they are actually worth checking out this week.  Also, remember when I said I don’t drink… well I don’t but I do have some special beer chugging abilities, and I sort of had to step up to the plate against some rowdy Jets fans…  My completive spirit some times outweighs my personal code.  You will see what I am talking about when I post video of the epic battle later in the week…

Until then, check out all the photos from the first annual DolfansNYC tailgate!

I told people I would stop talking about football on here and Twitter for a while and the Dolphins had a bye so I held up my end of the deal for two weeks, but today three Dolphin events came together requiring a post.  I am sorry, but it had to be done, and when you watch the video below you will probably never be able look me in the eye again.

So let’s start with the easy one.  It’s Sunday and my Dolphins are playing the New Orleans Saints which somehow appear to be the best team in football right now.  We will probably lose, but if we win, I will probably be wearing my Dolphins sweater every day for the next week.  I can’t wait till 4:15PM.

Second Dolphin related event was that Daniel Baxter came out to our last game against the Jets because he lives a few blocks away from Third & Long the sports bar where we hold our Dolphins watching parties.  You have seen a bunch of his nightlife films on here and I asked him to bring his camera. He took a lot of footage of me losing my shit in victory.  He also filmed us a few weeks ago when we lost a game we had every right to win. I also lost my shit then.  Hopefully, he is going to combine the videos into some sort of sad documentary on the mental illness that is my obsession with the Miami Dolphins. In the mean time he sent me a little clip from the Jets game. The sound is pretty fucked up, but let’s just say if you know me at all, this is not something you want to miss.  For those of you who don’t know me, I am the guy who is screaming at the camera.

Thirdly today is the launch of DolfansNYC.com.  It took me months to convince four separate people to build a website for me for free.  As of a week ago I didn’t think it was close to ready and our second designer was getting married and had to quit.  Fortunately the DBB web guy Thadd, and the new web guy of another unnamed site I run came in and saved the day.  Thadd got the site up this morning and we are victorious.  I am pretty sure you guys could not care less about this fan club and fan club blog I started, but if nothing else it will give me a place to talk Dolphins away from this site and leave you guys naked people and party pictures which is all you seem to ever want.   But on second thought… you should check out the site anyway.

Anyway, enjoy this crazy video with painful sound… It is the happiest you will ever see me:

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I am going to give you guys a little break from football news after this post. I know you guys don’t care, and the Dolphins have a bye week so it will be a while until I take any new DolfansNYC pictures. I do have to mention yesterday as it was one of the best games of my life.  The Dolphins put a hurting on my least favorite team, the New York Jets. They beat them with our innovative offense, the Wild Cat, even though they have been talking all season about being able to stop it.  Their fat fuck coach basically cried after the game, and I laughed my ass off. The Dolphins defense didn’t play great and we had to win it with 7 seconds left in the game, but it was still pretty fucking fantastic. At out bar, Third and Long, everyone lost their shit and I actually crowd surfed at the end of the game.  Dan Baxter shot some footage so when he gets that to me it will probably be the next time I mention the Dolphins.

In one of the dumber moves in the history of this website I somehow managed to upload the unedited high resolution images to the site instead of the ones with watermarks. It was a very odd thing to do, but my gallery software automatically resizes images so I guess it’s not a big deal.  Check out the photos from Monday Night Football here.  And enjoy a picture of me looking like an asshole below.

I once started a completely separate Miami Dolphins site just to keep shit like this off my main page.  I know nearly every single person who visits this site does not care about it, but it’s my damn site, and I will do as I like with it, even though I feel the need to apologize to you about it every time I put up pictures from DolfansNYC events.

Anyway, last Sunday was the first week we could enjoy ourselves at Third and Long.  The Dolphins kicked the shit out of the Buffalo Bills from start to finish.  It was great, and made for better photos.  I am only going to post one below, but you can click here to see more of the pictures from Sunday’s DolfansNYC meet up.

Those who know me well know that I let the fate of a professional sports team dictate my well being, but the fact remains that when the Dolphins suck, I am fucking miserable… And they have sucked for a long time. Until last year. Last year was this miracle season where after a rough start they won 9 out of their last 10 games and ended up winning the division before getting embarrassed in the play offs. This off season I was so happy because they were even better than the year before and I couldn’t wait for the season to start.  I helped found DolFans NYC the only fan club in New York City for the Miami Dolphins.  We brought out almost 100 people for the first game at the Third & Long sports bar in Murray Hill… But then they lost. And lost again, and then lost a third time.  During their most recent loss last Sunday the man most responsible for their worst-to-first record last year was injured so badly he may never play the game of football again.  Chad Pennington is gone and so is pretty much any chance of a winning season. And such is life. The Dolphins will not win the Super Bowl again. Not only have they not won in my life time, but NO sports team I have followed EVER won a championship.  I am a Dolphins fan, a Caps fan, a Georgetown Hoyas fan, a Bullets/Wizards fan and since I went there, I am mildly a Penn State Football fan. When I was a kid, do you know what my favorite baseball team was? The New York fucking Yankees. But then my favorite player Don Mattingly retired so I gave up and started rooting for the home team, the Oriels. Guess what? The Yankees won the next fucking year and the Oriels are an embarrassment to the game.

Anyway, I don’t really care about baseball or basketball, I just want my Dolphins to win the Super Bowl once before I die. Is that too much to ask?  It probably is.  I am going to try to keep it together, while you can check out the photos from our last two Dolphins NYC meetings. I even convinced my friend Ibi to go (and I forced her to wear Aqua) to the Colts game with me, as you can see in the picture of us below.  Click here for pics from Week 2 against the Colts and click here for pics from Week 3 against the Chargers. Keep in mind that these are basically snap shots and are not up to the usual oh-so-high standards that you come to expect from Driven By Boredom Productions LLC.  Yeah, fuck you too.

So yeah. I run a Miami Dolphins fan club. What are you going to do about it? I am sure I have mentioned this before, but my friend Michelle and I were watching Dolphins games in a Patriots bar for the last several years and were pretty sick of it. We found some other Dolphins fans and an hospitable bar in Murry Hill called Third and Long. By the end of the season last year we were packing the place with Dolphins fans. We decided over the summer to make it official. Dolfans NYC has a Facebook page, a Twitter account and temporary website. And clearly if you have a Facebook page you must be legit. Last week the Dolphins got pretty embarrassed by the Atlanta Falcons, and playing the Colts on Monday night tomorrow is not going to be any easier, but at least the club is looking tough. We brought out more people than we could handle last week and it was standing room only. Hopefully by mid season the Jets fans there will get the hint and go to one of the other 100 bars in the city you can watch the Jets play.

Anyway, I know most of you couldn’t care less about the Dolphins, but I am going to post some photos from our party last week anyway. And get used to it, because I am going to be taking more. Oh, and by the way, these photos are pretty terrible because I used my on camera flash for everything. Deal with it. Go Dolphins!

PS. As per last post, these link to a Flickr page for the mean time because my website is trying its hardest to fuck up my life.

Update: Gallery is working again… Above link now works.

So Monday came and went without me being near a computer. That almost never happens, but I had a doctors appointment in the city and I never came back. I just wanted to do a quick update before I went to sleep and let you know a few things that are probably more Live Journal material than a super professional type blog of DBB’s stature, but unfortunately I don’t have a LJ.

Firstly about the doctors appointment. I got the results of the MRI on my knee. Turns out I have a torn meniscus. The meniscus is the cartilage in your knee that separates your bones so they don’t rub together. I have to get surgery and do rehab, but the good news is its only minor surgery. It only takes 15 minutes and I can walk out. The doctor told me I just have to rest it for a couple days and its pretty much healed in two weeks, with max six weeks of rehab.  Compare that to a year of rehab for an ACL tear and I will consider myself lucky.  The other good news is that in the mean time I can walk on it and I am not going to do any further damage to it. This means that I can go and shoot if I can suck up the pain.  And really the pain is not as bad as the super weird feeling of having your knee feel like it is going to fall apart at any minute. Knowing that my knee cap is not going to slip into my shin has been a big help and being able to put my full weight on it has reduced my significant limp into a pretty sweet pimp walk. Lets just hope I can get it together soon, because I have gained 8lbs since my injury stopped me from walking everywhere.

Next personal note is that I cut off all my hair. I had a dream that my mom cut off my mustache in my sleep and it freaked me out. I just woke up and decided to get a shave and a haircut. My friend Ibi did it and before she really went to work she cut it into a bob which is pretty fucking funny.  I will post a picture below. Let me know what you think of the new me.

Nextly I spent most of Sunday under my covers weeping loudly after my Miami Dolphins embarrassed themselves in a loss to the Atlanta Falcons.  They turned the ball over 4 fucking times and their offensive line played the worst game since they drafted the monster left tackle Jake Long. More successful that the Dolphins was the DolfansNYC the New York City Miami Dolphins Fan Club that I started with my friend Michelle. I have no friends who like football, so it has been really great for me to have a day a week where I can hang out with a bunch of Dolphins fans. I lost my voice from screaming so much.  You would think I was insane if you saw me wearing all aqua and screaming at a television for 3 hours. Even more insane that normal. We had almost 100 people show up and the NY Daily News mentioned our bar Third and Long as a place to go to watch Phins games. We had a raffle and raised over $100 for charity. It was a pretty successful party. Evidently I am a better promotor of sports bars than I am dance clubs. I just wish the Dolphins had won.

On a less personal note two more celebrities have passed on. Jim Carroll is now one of those people who died. and while nobody puts Baby in the corner, the cancer in Patrick Swazye put him 6 feet under.  I am a pretty big fan of Jim Carroll and I fucking loved Point Break dammit. Speaking of celebrities, Kanye West is making me hate that I really dug his first two albums and Jessica Simpson is pretty much the only person who could make a puppy dying funny to me.

Continuing on, this Joe Wilson shit has got to stop. Going after a republican for losing his shit during Obama’s health care speech is just divisive and republican tactics. Democrats should have just let it go. They guy looks like an asshole already, if you make this huge deal out of it, they are just going to make a huge deal out of the fact that one of your appointees is a 911 conspiracy theorist. Another story that has gotten out of hand his the Serena Williams melting down during the US Open. If you some how missed it, Serena told a line judge that she was going to shove a tennis ball up her ass after the judge had called a ticky tack fault a that put her one point away from losing her match. She then got penalized a point for flipping her wig and lost the match. People are talking about suspending her for it. Things like this happen all the time in football, baseball and basket ball and no one cares.  When McEnroe did it he got endorsements. I think a lot of the outrage is about her being a black woman in an almost entirely white sport. I saw message board posts calling her an animal and all manor of borderline racist shit. Fuck that. She owns part of the Dolphins now, so I got her back.

Anyway, I have no blind items for you today, but hopefully I will have pics up from the NY Couture Spring show up later. Until then enjoy these sexy photos of me during and after my hair cut.

You guys probably know by now that I am a huge geek for the Miami Dolphins. While I was at the beach the Phins released a version of their theme song recorded by T-Pain. I am part of a Miami Dolphins NYC fan club and I wanted to get it out to our peoples there was no video on YouTube. When I was looking for footage for this nightlife video project I am working on I found some random footage of some friends of mine dancing at a Dolphins game I went to in Miami last year. So when I heard the song and saw it didn’t have a video I just threw up the footage with the song, posted it on YouTube and called it a day. I didn’t think anything of it until people started sending me links. First it was just the local media links… then Sports Illustrated and then my intern sent me the link after seeing it on TMZ. This is completely weird. I guess I should have realized that this might be seen outside of Dolphins fans since it involved T-Pain, but this is a bit crazy.

I’ll keep you updated if there are any other weird links… I just hope people be kind to my dancing friends…

UPDATE:

This video clip from an Orlando news station is super awkward and they show a lot of my footage…

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One thing I pride my self on are my eclectic tastes. I have a very weird and wide taste in music and film, but while no one questions my mix CDs with Frank Sinatra and Three Six Mafia on them there are a few things that people tend to be surprised about. When anyone ever finds out about my fanatical obsession with the Miami Dolphins a they always say “I didn’t picture you as a football fan” or something to that extent. Also equally weirded out are the people who I force to listen to Jimmy Buffett records with me while I tell them how much he means to my life.

When I was still in the womb my dad would sing Jimmy Buffett lyrics to me. It was pretty much the only music he ever listened to. I grew up listening to the Beatles, the Monkees, Jimmy Buffett and pretty much nothing else. (Occasionally my mom would get a chance to play a Bonnie Raitt tape on car trips.) The first song I ever memorized was not Mary Had A Little Lamb or Twinkle Twinkle Little Star… It was a Jimmy Buffet song about playing music in dive bars.  I pretty much know every lyric to every Jimmy Buffett song written before 1980, which is the year I was born and the year my parents stopped listening to new music.

I listened to so much Jimmy Buffett when I was a kid that I think I actually thought I was from Florida.  Often people ask me why I am a Miami Dolphins fan and I usually tell them I don’t know… But I am pretty sure my life long love of the Miami Dolphins is directly related to listening to Jimmy Buffett songs about Florida.  I was a big Orlando Magic fan too…  To this day I have constant fantasies about quitting nightlife photography, buying a house boat and  moving to the Florida Keys to try my hand as a fisherman. When I was 10 years old I once cried because I realized that I would never get to meet Jimmy Buffett.  He was like a second father to me… or at least an extension of my actual father.

So this whole story has a point.  Today the Dolphins announced a partnership with Jimmy Buffett.  Buffett has a beer company called Land Shark Beer and Dolphin Stadium is now called Land Shark Stadium for the next year.  In trade Jimmy Buffett going to be making appearances at Dolphins games and events, doing special concerts and he changed the words to his song Fins so it relates to the Dolphins instead of a song about trying to fuck girls at bars.

Now originally I was super excited about this merging of two of my life long obsessions… but now I am not so sure. The local Miami papers interviewed Buffett fans who said they would be attending games just because of Buffett even though they don’t like football.  At the same time Dolphins fans are sort of upset about the whole thing.  Let’s face it, Jimmy Buffett is not exactly hip.  I am not sure how they plan on attracting younger fans with a musician who is nearly 70 years old.  Also, the new lyrics to Fins are super hokey and have nothing to do with the actual team.  They are just about going to Land Shark Stadium not about football.  I mean, the current Miami Dolphins theme song is horrible, but at least it has more to do with football than it does tailgating.  I think my man Jimmy phoned this one in.

All that being said, I have a good relationship with the Dolphins organization so now there is actually a much better chance that I might meet Bufett one day which if nothing else would really please my 10 year old self…

Let’s Go Dolphins!

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