Friday, August 16, 2019 - PITTSBURGH (FFD) - It is slow going, but I feel my return to the Warrior’s Diet is helping me return to normal. You see, I was going gungho over health for a while. Earlier in the season I had a record 36 days straight on the Warrior’s Diet and then decided to change it, count calories, make it more challenging. After all, I had it all figured out. Then life happened.

Scratch got his ass kicked on Week 6 - OTAs. It is important to learn from such weeks. This week, despite a ton of adversity—shit that just doesn’t happen any normal week—he stuck to his health plan.

Scratch got his ass kicked on Week 6 - OTAs. It is important to learn from such weeks. This week, despite a ton of adversity—shit that just doesn’t happen any normal week—he stuck to his health plan.

Scratch poops the bed on The Football Fan’s Diet. what a bad, stinky, crappy week health wise. Hell it was a lot of fun, but healthy wise… Oh, man, it was a real stinker.

Scratch got his ass kicked on Week 6 - OTAs. It is important to learn from such weeks.

PITTSBURGH (FFD) - Had a great time yesterday celebrating the Fourth of July. Attending a pool party in the afternoon and at night took my daughter and her friend to downtown Pittsburgh to see the fireworks on the river. We took an Uber to get there. That was a good thing. Because through the day I had certainly my share of Sam Adams Boston Lager.

Pairing a refreshing, easy-drinking beer and an intense, star-laden football game is something all of us -- OK, a great many of us, can get behind, writes Alden Gonzalez for ESPN.com today. And so, on the day our nation celebrates its independence, he writes, it would be fun to take a look at some of the best tribute beers throughout the NFL.