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@grandvillain.substack.com
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grand rapidian, wolverine, ex-sportswriter. the artist formerly known as bauncey chillups.

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al @grandvillain.substack.com · 03/10/2026
really bad decision to hire joe biden as our football coach
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al @grandvillain.substack.com · 03/10/2026
maybe we should have considered the possibility that utah's administration made the right move forcing this dude into retirement. should have gone fishing with the grandkids.
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al @grandvillain.substack.com · 03/10/2026
seeing far too much "bench the quarterback" and not nearly enough "bench the offensive coordinator"
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al @grandvillain.substack.com · 03/10/2026
he's the joe milton of JT barretts
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al @grandvillain.substack.com · 03/10/2026
iowa state's not looking so good in the big ten
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al @grandvillain.substack.com · 28/09/2026
nine
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al @grandvillain.substack.com · 26/09/2026
oh so u disagree with kirk trying to hit over the 35.5 alt huh
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al @grandvillain.substack.com · 26/09/2026
it's amazing how iowa is this exact same team every single year. outgained by over 200 yards but somehow hanging around. you gotta respect it.
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al @grandvillain.substack.com · 26/09/2026
whitt's turning bryce into JT barrett
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al @grandvillain.substack.com · 25/09/2026
made some gobi manchurian for dinner. it was excellent. one of the better things i make.
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al @grandvillain.substack.com · 20/09/2026
college football's the best
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al @grandvillain.substack.com · 20/09/2026
just learned that my late-night viewing while tending to a fussy newborn is gonna be purdue vs ucla what did i do to deserve this
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al @grandvillain.substack.com · 20/09/2026
all these Protect College Sports Act ads are so ridiculous like yeah dude for sure gonna happen when congress went home for the next two months
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al @grandvillain.substack.com · 20/09/2026
i don't gamble on sports for a lot of reasons but northwestern dragging neon deon and the buffs to the bottom of lake michigan was one of the more predictable outcomes this weekend
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al @grandvillain.substack.com · 20/09/2026
this is a trinidad chambliss appreciation account
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ben @vtben.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
You just gotta respect how Ole Miss's QB is from Grand Rapids, Michigan, the least SEC place in the country.
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al @grandvillain.substack.com · 18/09/2026
i had to leave college at 20 due to severe depression. never thought i'd be happy again i went back and graduated, eventually fell in love, got married, had a daughter, bought a house, have a good job, two dogs, lots of great relationships with friends and family 20 year old me wouldn't believe it
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al @grandvillain.substack.com · 18/09/2026
went for a nice long run earlier so i could celebrate tonight's matchup with buffalo wings and detroit pizza
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al @grandvillain.substack.com · 16/09/2026
genuinely frightening how much antivax content meta feeds me now that i have a kid
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al @grandvillain.substack.com · 12/09/2026
the fancy tennis lads are cooking up a hysterical 4-6, 6-2, 3-6 loss here
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al @grandvillain.substack.com · 12/09/2026
we are so back
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al @grandvillain.substack.com · 06/09/2026
i realize i never mentioned this on here, but my daughter was born a week and a half ago. she's doing well! i celebrated last night's win by finishing a dirty diaper change mere seconds after buchanan caught that ball.
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Will Warren @statsbywill.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Kills me that Raj isn’t over here, this is an instant classic, hung in the rafters.
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al @grandvillain.substack.com · 06/09/2026
and Wolverine Bob decided that payback should be meted out to a MAC team that hadn't even been born when that happened
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al @grandvillain.substack.com · 06/09/2026
no need for michigan fans to rationalize this, it was an all-time screw job, and we'll spend the mext 11 (or heaven forbid 12) games paying for it.
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al @grandvillain.substack.com · 06/09/2026
everyone wants to talk about how we stole that game i just want to talk about how we played a defensive lineman at tight end the entire game
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al @grandvillain.substack.com · 06/09/2026
kyle's gonna be laughing on the phone with his buddy urb after this one
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al @grandvillain.substack.com · 06/09/2026
best-case scenario is that they fire this guy after we go 4-8
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Will Warren @statsbywill.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
If you're gonna pull the second-worst loss in modern Michigan history you could at least spare me the part where you look like Joe Biden at the June 2024 debate every camera cutaway
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al @grandvillain.substack.com · 06/09/2026
well the good news is that i noticed earlier in the game that my roof probably has a leak - we bought this house two months ago
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al @grandvillain.substack.com · 06/09/2026
completely shambolic
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al @grandvillain.substack.com · 06/09/2026
the whole case for whittingham was that he'd raise the baseline competence of the entire operation. amd this team has looked worse than anything sherrone put out there.
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al @grandvillain.substack.com · 06/09/2026
bryce needs a redshirt year at oregon in the worst way
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al @grandvillain.substack.com · 05/09/2026
for all the money CBS pays to televise these games, you'd think they'd want announcers who can reliably tell what's going on down on the field.
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al @grandvillain.substack.com · 04/09/2026
I follow enough Death Of The Republic accounts on here - what are some College Football accounts I should follow?
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al @grandvillain.substack.com · 02/09/2026
dennis was just being a good uncle!!
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al @grandvillain.substack.com · 01/09/2026
instead of just complaining about her on here, I wrote my congresswoman for the first time today. don't expect it to make any difference, but I've found her behavior disgraceful lately.
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don't hug me I'm porksweats @porksweats.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
one must imagine wile e. coyote happy
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al @grandvillain.substack.com · 28/08/2026
logged on for the first time in a week for my two minutes hate
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I enjoyed this. ordinaryabundance.com
ordinaryabundance.com
Ordinary Abundance
A walk through a modern apartment, through the eyes of the people for whom everything in it was new.
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al @grandvillain.substack.com · 07/08/2026
the kawhi cap circumvention story is so funny to me. NBA seems terrified to punish ballmer. and the clippers weren't even good! flagrantly broke one of the biggest rules and haven't won a playoff series in a half decade lol.
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al @grandvillain.substack.com · 04/08/2026
there's a certain poetry to the fact that most of the top blog posts, forums, etc. about the ending of this book are: a) all about 15ish years old and b) pointing to a dead* link saying "this is the best explanation" anyways if anyone wants to talk about it, lmk *wayback machine saved the day
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al @grandvillain.substack.com · 30/07/2026
official prediction: abdul +8
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al @grandvillain.substack.com · 17/07/2026
about 70% through infinite jest (have liked it a lot so far). I have a lot of thoughts about it but felt compelled to note that the whole "US forcibly annexing canada due to ecological disaster" doesn't feel quite as crazy as it did when I started the book.
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al @grandvillain.substack.com · 16/07/2026
really hope this smoke clears by this weekend. been training for a triathlon all year and starting to wonder if it's gonna actually happen.
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al @grandvillain.substack.com · 12/07/2026
england world cup after a knicks nba title feels fitting somehow
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Jason Kirk @jasonkirk.fyi · 11/07/2026
College football gamers have defeated capitalism
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al @grandvillain.substack.com · 06/07/2026
the idea of travis kelce reading his chatgpt vows for a half hour is cracking me up
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al @grandvillain.substack.com · 06/07/2026
concacastic
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al @grandvillain.substack.com · 02/07/2026
how big of a bribe do we need to pay to rescind that red card
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