It's time for Readers' Revenge, the weekly feature in which we turn Grantland over to YOU, the unpredictable reader. This week's topic was Your Biggest Workplace Embarrassment. I received tons of great e-mails as always, so please don't take it personally if yours didn't make the cut. To give you an idea of how terrible I am at this, I rejected a story this week about a 76ers employee who got pantsed at center court by a mascot.
Below are the top eight e-mails. You can check out past installments in the box below. The topic for next week is Your Most Cowardly Moment. Send your very best to tobaccordblues@gmail.com by Sunday for a chance to make the cut. Stories can involve you or someone you know, and anonymity is allowed. Those with a high degree of hilarity and humiliation always do well. Enjoy!
It's time for Readers' Revenge, the weekly feature in which we turn Grantland over to YOU, the unpredictable reader. This week's topic was Your Best Prank. One thing you should know about Reader's Revenge is that I love reading the e-mails, and narrowing them down is the hardest thing I've ever had to do. That includes the time I had to choose which relative I loved the most as the beneficiary of my insurance policy (in the end, me). When I've narrowed down my list, I always feel like I've screwed up, so anyone who sent me an awesome story, don't take it personally if you didn't make the cut. It's my fault.
Below are the top nine e-mails, and you can check out past installments in the box below. The topic for next week will be Worst Moment With the In-Laws/Significant Other's Family. Send your very best to tobaccordblues@gmail.com by Sunday for a chance to make the cut. Stories can involve you or someone you know, and anonymity is allowed. Those with a high degree of hilarity and humiliation always do well.
It's time for Readers' Revenge, the weekly feature in which we turn Grantland over to YOU, the unpredictable reader. This week's topic was Your Worst Experience in a Foreign Country. I'm happy to report that we received a record number of e-mails, and so, so many of them centered on the theme of digestive problems. I'm literally delirious from reading them all, and I'll never eat food again. But thanks for all who submitted — it was the hardest one to narrow down yet. I can't believe how many great stories got rejected.
Below are the top nine e-mails, and you can check out past installments in the box below. The topic for next week will be Your Best Prank. It can be one you played, one played on you, etc. Send your very best to tobaccordblues@gmail.com by Sunday for a chance to make the cut. Stories can involve you or someone you know, and anonymity is allowed. Those with a high degree of hilarity and humiliation always do well.
We begin, as usual, with the Seth from Conway Honorary Story. Enjoy!
It's time for Readers' Revenge, the weekly feature in which we turn Grantland over to YOU, the unpredictable reader. This week's topic was Your Most Shameful Lie. I'm not sure what I was expecting when I put this one out to the general population, but the result might make you quit reading Grantland forever to avoid sullying your good name by association. Just know that Grantland and I are neutral observers, and we don't endorse or condone anything that happens in these stories. I do laugh, though. I laugh and laugh and laugh, and then I take a long hard look at myself, and then I laugh again. But this time more quietly.
Below are the top e-mails, plus a new feature, and you can check out past installments in the box below. The topic for next week will be Your Worst Moment in a Foreign Country. Define "worst" however you see fit — most horrible, most shameful, etc. Send your very best to tobaccordblues@gmail.com by Sunday for a chance to make the cut. Stories can involve you or someone you know, and anonymity is allowed. Those with a high degree of hilarity and humiliation always do well. Enjoy!
It's time for "Readers' Revenge," the weekly feature in which we turn Grantland over to YOU, the unpredictable reader. This week's topic was Your Worst Interview. To give you an idea of the quality of stories received, I actually had to reject an e-mail where the interviewee licked the side of a ketchup bottle at lunch, and another where the interviewee kept insisting to the (thin, female) interviewer that she would "fill out nicely when her metabolism slowed." Thanks, Brian and Anne, and sorry, but it was that kind of week. Also, I've received a lot of crazy stories, but this week's no. 1 might be the most batshit of all time.
Below are the top 10 e-mails, and you can check out past installments in the box below. The topic for next week will be Your Worst/Most Shameful Lie. Send your very best to tobaccordblues@gmail.com by Sunday for a chance to make the top 10. Stories can involve you or someone you know, and anonymity is allowed. Those with a high degree of hilarity and humiliation always do well. Enjoy!
Monday means "Readers' Revenge," the weekly feature in which we turn Grantland over to YOU, the unpredictable reader. This week's topic was Your Worst Rejection. I got a lot of good e-mails about sports rejections and job rejections, but there were so many heartbreaking romantic ones that I decided to just roll with that theme. Each week I try to come up with a lesson derived from the e-mails I received, and for this week, I'll just hit you with a question: What's more painful than life? (Also, the batch below concludes with what might be my favorite e-mail of all time.)
Below are the top 10 e-mails. The topic for next week will be Your Worst Job Interview. I imagine I'll mostly get e-mails from the interviewee, and that's awesome, but if you were the interviewer, I bet you've got some solid tales of your own. Send your best story to tobaccordblues@gmail.com by Sunday for a chance to be as famous as Johnny Depp before his 21 Jump Street days. Stories can involve you or someone you know, and anonymity is allowed. Those with a high degree of hilarity and humiliation always do well. Enjoy!
It's time for the next installment of Readers' Revenge, the weekly feature in which we turn Grantland over to you, the unpredictable reader. This week's topic was Your Worst Encounter with an Animal. As usual, the response was terrific and I wish the list could have been twice as long. A lot of tough decisions were made; this is the part of my job I enjoy the least.
Below are the top e-mails. The topic for next week will be: Your Worst Rejection. Romantic interaction? Club? Team? Frat? Church? Something else? Send your story to tobaccordblues@gmail.com by Sunday for a chance to make the list and live on in history, or at least until someone finally bans the Internet. Stories can be about you or someone you know, and anonymity is allowed. E-mails with a high degree of hilarity and humiliation always do well.
A note of caution about this week's edition: Some of these are a little … graphic. So. You've been warned. You can read old installments of Readers' Revenge in the box below. Enjoy!
It's Monday, which means it's time for the next installment of Readers' Revenge, the weekly feature in which we turn Grantland over to you, the unpredictable reader. This week's topic was most fireable offenses, and the response was awesome. And also, terrible. (It's always disturbing to read about workers at a popular fast food joint putting dead rats in the fryers and urinating in the lemonade bubbler — thanks for nothing, guy.) But mostly awesome.
I apologize in advance for anyone who sent in a great story but wasn't included. Sorting through so many e-mails, I'm sure I made some dumb exclusions. This could easily be a top 50 list without missing a beat, and you're all winners.
Below are the top 15 e-mails. The topic for next week will be: your worst encounter with an animal. Send your story to tobaccordblues@gmail.com for a chance to make the list and become a hot Internet celeb. Special consideration given to stories that are terrifying and/or hilarious. They can be about you or someone you know, and anonymity is allowed. In today's edition, names have been erased to protect the guilty.
It's Daylight Saving Time, and things are about to get weird. All this extra sunlight must have given us a touch of the Vitamin D Madness that's going around, because we're about to turn Grantland over to you, the unpredictable, erratic reader.
"Reader's Revenge" is the most basic of concepts — I ask you to write in with your personal stories on a weekly topic. Examples used in the past have been "worst date," "coldest breakup," etc. You e-mail, I read, and we print the top 15 every Monday. Those of you who have already joined the About Last Night party will recognize this as Participation Friday, re-branded. If you have no idea what I'm talking about, the gist is that we've already done this a few times within the About Last Night columns that run every morning, but now it has its own post. Turns out there are some funny SOBs among Grantland's readership, and y'all just couldn't be contained.
Caught up? In a sidebar with this post, you'll find links to the older columns if you care to check them out. (In those old posts, the reader stories are at the bottom of the news items.) ALSO, at the bottom of this post, you'll find this week's question along with the e-mail address where you should send your stories.
In case you were out living a life of leisure, here's what you missed in sports on Thursday.
The Comeback Kids have done it again. Trailing by 20 with less than 12 minutes remaining, no. 4 Duke rallied to beat NC State 78-73 at Cameron Indoor Stadium. Once again, it's a tale of pluck and resilience befitting a school filled with so many rags-to-riches students — the downtrodden, lowborn souls yearning outside the gates of power — who never stopped believing in themselves and their ability to climb within the system. O, Duke, you beacon of the little man, you shining symbol of mobility! Lady Liberty is your virtuous maiden, Uncle Sam your protecting angel!
Not to be outdone, no. 21 Florida State kept pace at the top of the ACC by coming back from an eight-point deficit with just 1:29 left and beating Virginia Tech 48-47 on Michael Snaer's late 3. The struggling Hokies got more bad news after the game when they found out that their legal status as a basketball team had been revoked by President Obama to save money.
