On behalf of all of us at Her Loyal Sons, we hope you had a peaceful, beautiful and joyous Easter Sunday.
Our #HLSRecapMadness tournament, which started at 64, has been narrowed to just eight great tweets. We invite you to vote on these four remaining matchups until 11:59:59 p.m. on Tuesday night. On Wednesday, we’ll reveal our Final Four and the two matchups that will determine who advances to the championship round, which begins next Sunday.
Here are your finalists:
Sick Burns Regional Final
#4 vs. #2
Daughter just asked if OSUs mascot was a "pooper with a happy face on it"
— Irish Tightness (@IrishTightness) January 1, 2016
Southern Cal fans hold up two fingers during their fight song because that's how many people OJ killed
— Brian Dean (@DoctahDean) October 17, 2015
How they got here:
- beat @celebrityhottub, 38-16 (70% to 30%), in Round 1;
- beat @Subway_Sprout, 19-16 (54% to 46%) in Round 2;
- beat @JackCooligan45, 15-11 (58% to 42%) in Round 3
- tied @dapremonster, 34-34, in Round 1;
- beat @PootND and @dapremonster 24 to 6 to 12, (57% to 14% to 29%), in Round 2;
- beat @andrewwinn, 32-15 (68% to 32%), in Round 3
About these tweets: Tightness’ kid is funny and smart. The O.J. joke needs no explanation.
Hubris/#NDFBIsDeterminedToKillMe Regional Final
#4 vs #2
Them -"Why did you put 42 confidence points on Notre Dame?"
Me – "Because I couldn't put 43"#AccomplishTheMission pic.twitter.com/OzlnMB957i
— Irish Tightness (@IrishTightness) January 1, 2016
Kizer should open a bakery in Boston. He's already got the whole "Kizer Rolls" name going, and now he's giving away free turnovers
— HLS_SupermanTDJesus (@SupermanTDJesus) November 22, 2015
How they got here:
@IrishTightness
- beat @Candice4ND, 36-18 (67% to 33%), in Round 1;
- beat @tyhildenbrandt, 14-4 (78% to 22%) in Round 2;
- beat @TomFornelli, 14-9 (61% to 39%) in Round 3
- beat @OptimisticDomer, 35-11 (76% to 24%), in Round 1;
- beat @clashmore, 15-6 (71% to 29%) in Round 2;
- beat @HLS_BayouIrish, 19-10 (64% to 36%) in Round 3
About these tweets: Tightness, winner of the Hubris sub-region, battles TDJ, winner of the #NDFBIsDeterminedToKillMe sub-region. Shane’s tweet was during the B.C. game – not one of DeShone’s finest performances.
Puns/WTF Regional Final
#5 vs #3
https://twitter.com/TomFornelli/status/655537314316206080?ref_src=twsrc^tfw
What though the odds be great or small, we're gonna need some hard alcohol.
— bridget (@bridgetgoirish) September 26, 2015
How they got here:
- beat @dinodemilio, 34-12 (74% to 26%), in Round 1;
- beat @tricerapops, 15-2 (88% to 12%) in Round 2;
- beat @HLS_Moons, 28-20 (58% to 42%) in Round 3.
- beat @The_Durf, 28-21 (57% to 43%) in Round 1;
- beat @PeteSampson_, 12-6 (67% to 33%) in Round 2;
- beat @PDXIrish, 33-20 (62% to 38%) in Round 3
About these tweets: When I read Tom’s tweet, I thought: “I wish I could be that clever.” Bridget took the Victory March and combined it with Irish fans’ other pastime: day drinking.
Pics/GIFs Regional Final
#13 vs #3
And again pic.twitter.com/ldDeIephBn
— EAHarter (@EAHarter) October 4, 2015
Kizer…Will…Helm -cc @okerland pic.twitter.com/yl1IqGtVOH
— Boba Bettis (@CBusIrish) September 19, 2015
How they got here:
- beat @MrsTruj, 144-104 (58% to 42%) in Round 1;
- beat @alx_west, 44-30 (59% to 41%) in Round 2
- beat @NDonNBC, 30-23 (57% to 43%) in Round 3
- beat @Jo_Rae, 55-21 (72% to 28%) in Round 1;
- beat @dapremonster, 30-13 (70% to 30%) in Round 2;
- beat @PDXIrish and @1stDownMoses, 32 to 15 to 9 (57% to 27% to 12%) in Round 3
About these tweets: Liz’s social media skills have helped her come from behind and seize victory thrice. Can she pull the upset a FOURTH time? The impressive part of CBus’s photoshop work? He did it on his phone while waiting for a roller coaster.
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