Tag: Not Sports But Whatever

Fall Back: When does daylight saving time end in November 2023?

Congratulations! You’re getting an extra hour of sleep this weekend.

It’s time to “fall back” this weekend.

Daylight saving time ends at 2 a.m. on Sunday morning, and most people across the country will need to set their clocks back one hour at that time as the nation returns to standard time.

There are several areas in the United States that do not observe daylight saving time — which was standardized nationwide in 1966 — namely the state of Arizona and Hawaii.

Daylight saving time is also not observed in the territories of Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam and American Samoa.

While the dreaded “spring forward” will come on March 10 when we lose an hour of sleep and return to daylight saving time, you can enjoy the extra hour this weekend.

So if you were looking for a justification to stay up and watch the “Pac-12 After Dark” matchups on Saturday night and still catch the Chiefs-Dolphins game in Frankfurt, Germany, early Sunday morning, there you go.

All 32 NFL teams as Halloween candy: 2023 edition

Some teams give you a delicious Halloween treat. Others are gross and stick to your mouth.

Here at For The Win, a very serious place of business, we often have hearty staff debates. About anything, really, but especially food. Simply mentioning that you enjoy a certain salad or cookie or how you take your coffee will turn many of us feral. We’ll react viscerally, baffled that someone, somehow, enjoys a different texture, flavor, mix, what have you.

So in the Halloween spirit, smack dab in the middle of the 2023 NFL season, we decided to compare all 32 NFL teams to a specific Halloween candy (or any candy otherwise). And you won’t be surprised to learn that we professionals immediately hounded someone (this fair but courageous writer) for daring to have a dissenting opinion about chocolate and fruity gold.

One might even say such a pack mentality is a little spooky. Dear reader, this is the cross I bear for my colleagues.

Below, you will find the very scientific candy consensus we came to for every NFL team this Halloween. Some team choices and blurbs are obvious. They are the evergreen peanut butter cups of professional football. They are a treat. Others, unfortunately, stick in our craw in the worst way, necessitating whole globs of water to wash away the disgusting taste out of our mouths. You only wish they were a trick.

Note: The list is in alphabetical order, not by ranking of what is and isn’t delicious.

FEMA emergency test: Why everyone’s phones and TVs will simultaneously sound on Wednesday

Why your phone buzzed or pinged on Wednesday, Oct. 4.

At 2:20 p.m. ET on Wednesday, you may notice your phone make a sound … along with the phones of everyone around you, at the very same time.

That will also coincide with a message on your television if you’re watching.

What’s the deal with that? Here’s the answer: The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) will be conducting a nationwide test of the Emergency Alert System on Wednesday, Oct. 4, which makes sure that in the case of an actual emergency, we can all be alerted.

So no need to panic — as the alerts on our TVs used to say back in the day, “this is only a test.”

6 reasons Buc-ee’s lives up to the hype as the GOAT rest stop and gas station

As Buc-ee’s continues to expand, here’s why you need to go there.

Full disclosure: I’m from the Northeast, so I had no idea what Buc-ee’s was for years.

Then, on a road trip from Austin to Dallas, my buddy and I made a pit stop. And it was there that I discovered that Buc-ee’s isn’t just any old gas station with a convenience store attached to it.

It was a destination unto itself, a stop that you have to make if you can find one of its locations. And with news that it’s expanding up to Ohio, you may be wondering: What is Buc-ee’s and why is it so hyped?

I have answers, with reasons why it’s the GOAT:

The 15 best types of cookies, ranked

These cookies stand out above the rest as the best of the best.

There’s no better snack in the world than freshly-baked cookies. Given just how many varieties of cookies there are, there’s always going to be something for everyone no matter what they like.

That being said, there are a handful of cookies that are clearly a cut above the rest. The best of the best, if you will. For one reason or another, these cookies have become commonplace in our lives, either through tradition or just plain and simple tastiness.

Except you, oatmeal raisin. You are a terrible excuse for a cookie and I’m not afraid to say it.

Without further ado, here are the 15 best types of cookies!

An Iowa TV sports reporter had to cover a blizzard and looked completely miserable doing it

“Can I go back to my regular job?”

With a massive, arctic cold front sweeping across the country, this is no time to be outside if you can help it.

Unfortunately for this Iowa TV sports reporter, duty called in the worst way possible. As inclement weather and frigid temperatures are engulfing a large portion of the United States — and impact betting lines for the NFL — KWWL-TV sports reporter Mark Woodley was called upon to fill in as an on-sight weather man in the midst of a blizzard.

Thankfully, Woodley survived his freezing, snowy ordeal covering the brutal weather in the late evening and early morning hours near Waterloo, Iowa. That being said, he sure didn’t look happy about it!

Talk about going above and beyond for your job! Woodley’s snark even well into a long night of reporting is hilarious too. Hopefully now Woodley is taking a well-deserved day off cuddled under as many blankets as possible.

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Chicago weatherman adorably loses it on-air after realizing his TV is a touch screen

“I can do that? No way!”

Touch screens are pretty much everywhere nowadays. From your phone and tablet to even your computer, the tactile technology is part of our daily lives at this point.

And yet, ABC 7 Chicago weatherman and meteorologist Greg Dutra was adorably gobsmacked when coming face to face (hand to screen?) with this technology. On-air during Thursday morning’s weather report, Dutra moved his hand across his screen when the image suddenly shifted due to the touch screen.

Dutra and his coworkers Terrell Brown and Val Warner then immediately stopped in the middle of the weather report to mess around with the TV screen in the most wholesome moment captured on live television.

The power of technology, baby!

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The months of the year, definitively ranked from worst (January) to best

What are the best and worst months? We have answers.

We’ve hit that stretch in the middle of the summer where there’s not a ton going on.

Sports-wise, there’s post-All-Star baseball, the beginning of NFL training camps … and not much else.

But there was one tweet this week that sparked a lot of debate, including in the For The Win group chat: @thecity2 on Twitter declared recently, “I’m so bored I’m bout to rank all the months.”

There were so many takes on this subject both from our staff and elsewhere, so we took it seriously: Each participant ranked every month first to last, we crunched those numbers and ended up with a composite ranking.

So let’s run through it, with some of our takes below:

 

The internet mourned the loss of Choco Tacos after the dessert was suddenly discontinued

Rest in peace, Choco Taco.

Today, the world lost a hero. That’s right, after nearly 40 years, the Choco Taco is no more after Klondike confirmed the beloved ice cream staple has been discontinued.

The internet was treated to the devastating news on Monday afternoon after reports circulated online that the popular summertime snack was no more. In speaking with People, a Klondike representative confirmed the discontinuation of the Choco Taco in July due to “an unprecedented spike in demand for different Klondike products over the past two years.”

For many, the waffle cone taco filled with vanilla ice cream, fudge and peanuts topped off with a chocolate coating was a cherished dessert of their youth and will be sorely missed.

The passing of such a beloved dessert hit the internet hard, as more and more of the things that brought us joy in our childhoods disappears into the ether and is lost to time forever.

Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies crash and everyone’s flipping out

Uh-oh.

Oh boy. Is Wednesday the day when Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies completely crash and never rise to the high prices they were at?

That’s a big question for investors as prices took a nosedive — Bitcoin went below $37,000 for the first time in months, down some 20 percent at certain points. Ethereum took a dip, as did Dogecoin.

What’s the deal here? The buzz seems to be focused on two events: Tesla CEO Elon Musk announcing last week that his company won’t accept Bitcoin as payment due to the use of fossil fuels for mining the cryptocurrency. Let’s look at what’s happened and the reaction to it.