I’m hard pressed to think of a better sports week-end than labor day until the Christmas holidays, when there is a bowl game every night and NFL and NBA and college basketball.
At any rate, here is to the start of the new football season. I hope your team wins.
*** Update ***
Thanks for the reminder in the comments:
Vote for me or the ears get it!
For you non sports fans, go vote for Little Bitsy here. It is for a really good cause.
Zifnab
GO HORNS!
bystander
If I may…
Don’t forget to vote for Little Bitsy.
That is all.
asiangrrlMN
Go any team from MN!
RS
Geaux Tigers!
South of I-10
Go Cajuns and Go Tigers!
South of I-10
@RS: Damn the 9:30 kick-off!!
Violet
Thanks for the reminder! I went and voted. I don’t think she’s going to win, though. She’s not even over 1000 yet. I think we need to concentrate on next week to get her over the top.
smiley
I think the Gators might struggle against Charleston Southern.
asiangrrlMN
Has anyone heard from Anne Laurie in the past day? She was having health problems with her dog, and the prognosis was not good.
MikeJ
My team isn’t allowed to sign anyone until 2011. At least they’re at the top of the table, although this early I suppose it doesn’t matter.
No game this week, but they play Stoke next.
r€nato
Thanksgiving weekend is actually pretty good as well. You got your favorite traditional/local college football rivalries, you got important end-of-season clashes, you got great NBA match-ups… the only thing that would make it perfect is if they’d end the tradition of having the Detroit Lions play whomever. Lions suck now and into the foreseeable future…
demimondian
@asiangrrlMN: A team from MN gave up an 82 yard punt return (and the game) to a reality show winner who won a slot on the Dallas Cowboys 80 man roster. It’s hard to imagine where they can go after that unique and astounding achievement.
JenJen
World Cup qualifier today, too… El Salvador at US. 8:00 EDT on ESPNClassic!
Woot! All football is good!
ChrisB
But Ivy League football doesn’t start for another couple of weeks.
asiangrrlMN
@demimondian: Yes. But they also had a pretty breathtaking runback of their own. Oh, hell, who am I kidding? Even if the Vikes make it to the playoffs, they will just lose when Brett Favre throws an interception with no time left on the clock because he’s just a kid playing for the love of the game. Fuck Brett Favre.
I was talking about the college teams from MN–except for the football Gophers.
Max
College Football = blech
Football Season begins on Thursday
burnspbesq
From the Be Careful What You Over-Hype department.
Fuse fans are going nuts. New head coach, new quarterback, hometown kid and former nationalHS player of the year who chose instead to play basketball at Duke.
First offensive play of the Greg Paulus Era, Cuse lines up in the shotgun, and the snap goes 10 feet over his head.
r€nato
Georgia hosts Italy in another World Cup qualifier today…
madmommy
Roll Tide!!
arguingwithsignposts
Liberty U. (Jerry Falwell’s “university”) is tied with West Va. in the second quarter. They are playing “coal is west virginia” ads on the internet stream. I am amazed at the bald-faced greed of the coal industry. No, strike that, I’m not amazed, just slack-jawed.
arguingwithsignposts
How the hell do georgia and oklahoma play in the first game of the season? neither team has a compass point in their name?
smiley
@arguingwithsignposts: It’s Oklahoma State not Oklahoma. Oklahoma is playing BYU.
arguingwithsignposts
@smiley: thanks for clarifying. i was looking at atdhe.net’s sched. still, okla. state is a pretty big name for georgia to be playing on the first week.
Nutella
Google chose these two ads for the top of this page:
McDonnell for Governor
Unfilled Balloons Cheap
and Ann Coulter Free
Kryptik
I’m not feeling too good about WVU all of a sudden. This isn’t a game that should even be this close at the half.
jwb
@Zifnab: It would be nice if UT was playing a real opponent.
Ash
Don’t really care about college football at the beginning of the season.
The US Open schedule looks great for this afternoon.
Maude
I’m 852 for Little Bitsy.
smiley
@jwb: Careful there. UL-M beat Alabama in ’07.
arguingwithsignposts
#860
ricky
@Zifnab: @jwb:
I am sure Colt McCoy thanks Jesus both of you are thinking of Him as he guides your team against the unworthy.
Linkmeister
UH managed to escape disaster by scoring with 1:22 left in the game last night. Losing to an FCS school to start the season would have been embarrassing.
Linkmeister
BTW, a good resource for opinionated college football coverage (most conferences represented!) is Fanblogs, in case you’ve missed it.
http://www.fanblogs.com/
Tim in Wisconsin
@Max:
If I wanted to watch a sport with an excessively long preseason and several meaningless weeks to its regular season while plastic-enhanced cheerleaders roam the sidelines trying to drown out the din of piped-in music, I’d be an NBA fan.
freelancer
Oof. Where’s the Advil?
Go Big Red, Also.
Demo Woman
@Ash: The US Open is pretty good today. Of course, Fed won and I’m hoping for an upset on the ladies match. Oudin lives just a few miles south of me and for a 17 year old, she is really composed.
SiubhanDuinne
@Demo Woman 3:37 pm
Yes, I’m also cheering for Oudin. Quite something for a home-town girl to get as far as she has so far. And so young!
On another topci, thanks for the Liþtle Bitsy link and reminder. I wasn’t sure I’d be able to cast my ballot from the ‘Berry, but it went through just fine. So that’s a good thing.
South of I-10
@madmommy: Around the bowl and down the hole! Sorry, couldn’t help myself.
dorkboy
Bear down!
Nicole
Yay! Go Rachel Alexandra and beat those older horses!
( I go sit back in my nerd corner now.)
Demo Woman
@SiubhanDuinne: just wow
John Cole
@Kryptik: We’re going to be terrible this year.
Rommie
I live in Kalamazoo, so I get to see Western Michigan a lot. They have a long and sad history of getting blown out on National TV, or choking at the end of games, with their football team. Different day, same result. Bleh.
South of I-10
Best first day of football season ever! Some guy just paid me $50 to park in my yard for the the UL/Southern game. I told him repeatedly he could park for free, but he insisted. So I went to the store and bought beer. This has got to be a record breaking crowd.
smiley
@South of I-10: Heh. And Bush said the French don’t have a word for entrepreneur (not really). At least UL-L is playing someone they might beat (I have a nephew who is a sophomore at UL-L). UL-M is playing frickin’ Texas and Tech is playing frickin’ Auburn. Go Ragin’ Cajuns!
tcolberg
Go Bitsy!
sweetgreensnowpea
you mentioned you have a another friend with a dog named “sam” in the same contest but you haven’t put up sam’s picture. i have more than one e-mail address, i could, in fact, vote for both of them.
or would that be (OMG) unethical?
mindless animal lover that i am, i’ve voted for “bitsy” for days without any idea whatsoever who bitsy is competing against… i’m simply trusting a reformed republican…
Sarcastro
Hah! Been too damn long since the Vols truly wailed on an unworthy opponent. Nice. Especially after losing to frelling Wyoming last year. Now things get harder in a hurry though.