Weekend Fun: If there’s one thing we like in Iowa, besides Iowa football, it’s Ultimate Fighting.

August 18th, 2006 | Posted by The Postmen

Never was that on more ready display than last night, when I attended a “Kings of the Midwest” event in good ole Davenport, Iowa, home of native son Pat Miletich and hub for UFC fighters young and old.

Now, “Kings of the Midwest” sounds pretty intense - and, at times, it was - but for the most part, this is an event in a holed-out barn, adjacent to a strip club ($15 got you in to both sides; fights and boobs, what a concept!) with only a few trained fighters around. The rest were drunken mongrels, buoyed by their drink and by a little too much redneck pride.

It was a satisfying event, though the best match of the night was a female one, and it summed up why Davenport can be so awesome. On any random night, you can parlay an evening at the bars into a fightin’, cussin’, porn-star strip fest, and not think twice about it.

-PostmanE

OK, so we got our weekly dose of some good ole Iowa fun from E up top there. But we’re both going back to Bloomington, IN (yes, we know it’s equally as hickish) this weekend to start a fun little semester of study day job drinking fun.

But while we sloth through some moving boxes and packing peanuts (eh, actually neither of us posses either of those, it just sounded nice) there is the all important Boston Red Sox-New York Yankee five-game tilt starting today. Expect ESPN to bash your brain in with coverage on this one.

The PGA Championship rages on throughout the weekend over at Medinah Country Club. My buddy was there yesterday and said the course had temporary bathrooms erected (hehe) with marble inside. Completely necessary, if I do say so myself.

OK folks, that’s all she wrote on this one. Tell your mother you love her and we’ll see you Monday live and direct from B-Town.

-PostmanR