Since I shit the bed with the NFL thread, now that I am aware that it is Saturday, I better throw up the appropriate thread for you all before the bitching becomes intolerable.
GO TEAM!
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Since I shit the bed with the NFL thread, now that I am aware that it is Saturday, I better throw up the appropriate thread for you all before the bitching becomes intolerable.
GO TEAM!
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Yutsano
RIBBIT! GO HORNED FROGGIES!!
JPL
You do know that the Rose Bowl doesn’t start for awhile.
Some folks are watching the Outback Bowl and others are watching Ala/MSU. A few might even watch Northwestern/Texas Tech but I doubt it.
Whoops..There’s the Gator Bowl..also,too. That’s more exciting than the ticket city Bowl.
Omnes Omnibus
@Yutsano: On Wisconsin!
Suffern ACE
If you want to be a Badger, just come along with me…
Omnes Omnibus
@JPL: He’s less early with this one than he was with the NFL Open Thread. By this evening, the temporal anomalies should be eliminated.
Yutsano
@Omnes Omnibus: I’m not anti-Wisconsin, I just want the BCS to eat its lunch. So it’s not personal.
Julie
Euwww.
Also, I think there are too many bowls.
xjmueller
Got badgered into this, eh? Don’t feel too bad – the missus and I are completely disoriented today, and it isn’t due to alcohol or pharmaceuticals, or old age (well maybe…). We were both off yesterday and were fairly confused then.
NU is getting hammered by Texas Tech. Expecting Wisconsin to do the usual Big Ten dance of death. It’s hell being a Midwesterner on New Years Day.
Happy 2011.
Omnes Omnibus
@Yutsano: I have to be pro-Wisconsin. I live in Madison, I am from Wisconsin, and my wife has one degree from UW and is working on her PhD here. Neither of my degrees are from the school though.
Tim
GO SOONERS, BEAT UCONN
Villago Delenda Est
Firstly, On Wisconsin. Because I have no Pac 10 team to root for in the Rose Bowl this year.
Secondly, in 10 days, the real bowl is being played, and in that case, Go Ducks!
Villago Delenda Est
Firstly, On Wisconsin. Because I have no Pac 10 team to root for in the Rose Bowl this year.
Secondly, in 10 days, the real bowl is being played, and in that case, Go Ducks!
quaint irene
Temps near 50 today, rain tonight. Woo-hoo, finally getting rid of so much of this damn snow.
Oh, no! I hope I didn’t jinx things. Please, no more snow for a while, please!?
Tim
Since it is relevant to the text of this post, and because I enjoy oversharing, I would like everyone to know that back in my drinking days I did in fact, on several occasions, actually shit the bed.
At least twice when other persons were located therein.
That is all.
Yutsano
@Omnes Omnibus: There is something to be said for keeping the household happy. Having said that, I’m still pulling for TCU, mostly to egg the faces of the BCS idiots. As a Boise State alum, it’s a mission at this point.
@Villago Delenda Est:QUACK!!
Remember when the Rose Bowl was a Pac-10/Big-10 school match-up? Good times.
South of I-10
I am just glad it is not Sunday. I was concerned for a minute there. Happy New Year, y’all.
Evolved Deep Southerner
Boy, has the Southeastern Conference gorged itself on goober meat so far in the bowl season or what?
mr. whipple
I want Wisconsin to win, but if they struggle I want them to get clobbered in a huge way. Run up the score mercilessly.
CJ
WE ARE!
Also, as a part time resident of Connecticut, I’ll politely root for them until they go down 14-0 in the first quarter.
mr. whipple
@Tim:
I like that Ron White line: “Some drunk shit in my pants.”
tofubo
OT, of course, we’re we even this unhinged about UU. ??
http://patriotupdate.com/975/eligibility-challenger-wants-obama-supremes-excluded
from a comment: “Everything this man has touched need to be fumigated“, and am now awaiting a little soliloqy about the “taint” from derbyshire on the subject on par w/his last screed on the subject
http://old.nationalreview.com/derbyshire/derbyshire021501.shtml
Villago Delenda Est
@Yutsano:
The problem with the traditional Rose Bowl was when it was USC and Ohio State, of course.
“Why can’t they BOTH lose?”
Brachiator
@Omnes Omnibus:
For what it’s worth, the Wisconsin marching band certainly appears glad to be here. I took my annual long walk to view some of the Rose Parade this morning. The Wisconsin band engaged the crowd, not just cheering alumni, but general parade watchers.
Also, too, a sidewalk vendor set up shop selling hot dogs wrapped in bacon and sauteed in onion and jalapeno peppers. God bless America!
ruemara
I thought it was awesome you threw up a thread just for parade-aholics like myself.
Villago Delenda Est
@tofubo:
Some serious stupid at that site.
Villago Delenda Est
@tofubo:
Some serious stupid at that site.
Yutsano
@Villago Delenda Est: USC loses just by virtue of where their campus is located. The ten foot high walls to keep teh brown away from the good white rich kids amuses me to no end.
@Brachiator: That must be near the start. By the end they’ll be fucking exhausted and their day ain’t even half over.
Old Dan and Little Ann
@Tim: My roomie in college would piss the bed just about every weekend due to drinking. Luckily I had the top bunk. Some folks just can’t handle binge drinking. Good times.
AF
GO BADGERS! ON WISCONSIN!
Turgid Jacobian
@Villago Delenda Est: Woot.
stuckinred
What’s all this bucky fucking badger shit, the game doesn’t start for 2 hours?
Anonymous At Work
@John Cole,
What’s a West Virginian to do with the Rose Bowl? Do you root for the future Big East member or against your league’s future overlord?
Brachiator
@Yutsano:
Nope. More than two thirds of the way through. I am always amazed at the spirit of the parade participants. They prepare for a long stroll down the boulevard, and do their best to be as cheerful for those at the end of the line as for those at the beginning.
Little things. When floats stall, the marching bands have a chance to stretch out and play other tunes in their catalog, always a crowd treat. And the bands seem to get energized by a chance to play longer pieces. At another long pause, a group of dancers let a little girl come up from the crowd and join them. She was just beaming.
And as always, the group that gets some of the biggest cheers are the people dressed in white who quickly scoop up the horseshit left by equestrian teams.
Ahh, the things you don’t see on the teevee version.
JPL
@stuckinred: Look at comment 5…It’s a good thing.
Resident Firebagger
Not to be too big of a concern troll, but if you people are so bummed about the BCS, you could, you know, ignore this endless run of absurdly meaningless bowl games.
If no one gave a shit, there would be no BCS. Problem solved…
stuckinred
@JPL: I guess, Fuck em Bucky.
Bnut
I would be making fun of Michigan State atm, but considering what happened to my Bama boys in the Iron Bowl, I’ll hold my tongue for a little longer.
stuckinred
@Bnut: Good idea.
burnspbesq
The BCS fucks up everything it touches.
Why couldn’t we have an old-school, Big 10 vs. Pac 10 Rose Bowl? Wisconsin – Stanford would have been teh awesome.
Yutsano
@Brachiator:
This is definitely true. When we marched the Rose Parade, we had a set of two songs we played over and over again. Then there was a ten minute stall. We were allowed to unsaddle the tubas, and I let a couple kids play with mine. Then our assistant director said fuck it all and we played “Hey Baby” which is mostly the band singing while the tubas lay it down. The crowd joined in. We were still fucking tired as hell, but it was fun.
@burnspbesq:
Yesh, although it makes the fucking over of the BCS that much more complicated. Plus it would have been Wisconsin versus the Ducks. Stanford would have gone Holiday.
JPL
@burnspbesq: Ha! If Uconn beats Oklahoma, I’m drinking a bottle of wine. Go Fiesta Bowl…
Omnes Omnibus
@burnspbesq: I join you in old school get-off-my-lawnsism. Whenever the BCS can put together a traditional match up like Big 10/Pac 10, it should be mandated to do so. Or else, it should be taken behind the barn and shot.
burnspbesq
@Yutsano:
Now you’ve done it.
As a USC Law alum I am here to tell you that there are no such walls. For better or worse, the USC campus is part of the community.
Also, USC is probably more diverse than UCLA in these post-Prop 209 days. A typical undergaduate student body at a UC campus these days is 50 percent white, 45 percent Asian, and five percent other. Virtually every African-American undergrad at UC Irvine is a scholarship athlete, and it’s probably not much different at Santa Barbara, Riverside, or San Diego.
stuckinred
@burnspbesq: dag
burnspbesq
@Omnes Omnibus:
I will be happy to buy the ammo.
burnspbesq
At least the Rose Parade invited one band from an HBCU (North Carolina Central) this year. They need to get Grambling or Southern every year.
Bnut
Fuck it, 34-0: ROLL TIDE!!!!
JPL
Northwestern is making this a game… Wow!
Omnes Omnibus
I must say that MSU is not doing well. I may have to try to work on a complaint I need to file next week unless someone can talk me down from the ledge.
Brachiator
@Yutsano:
You played tuba in the marching band? Damn. My respects. Was there weight training for the gig?
Brick Oven Bill
I will now explain how to cook a bratwurst. The key is you have to use Old Milwaukee beer. The end-product used to be better before they put in all that quality control stuff at the brewery and stopped selling returnable bottles in cases which made for excellent furniture later, but this is still a pretty good recipe.
1. Drink some Old Milwaukee beer.
2. Pour another few Old Milwaukee beers in a pan.
3. Boil the beers.
4. Throw the bratwursts in the boiling beers.
5. Have another beer.
6. Let the bratwursts boil for, like, ten minutes.
7. Have another beer.
8. Take the bratwursts out of the beers but save the boiled beers for later when you will impress the ladies by drinking it, on occasion out of the gutter.
9. Sear the bratwursts on two sides in the now empty pan.
10. Do not poke the bratwursts with a fork as this will let the pig-fat escape from the casings.
11. Enjoy your bratwurst with fermented cabbage and a beer.
Go Wisconsin.
Bnut
@burnspbesq: Now, Birmingham Southern, they really do have walls around the campus. This keeps the White Christian girls away from the the ‘Hams riff-raff, and makes them all go down to Tuscaloosa to sleep with white frat boys like their daddy’s want.
stuckinred
@Omnes Omnibus: If it was a fight they’d stop it!
Bnut
@Brick Oven Bill: This is the most sane, cogent, and helpful post you’ve ever made. Congrats. I can’t imagine what life was like for you in Madison, that bastion of liberal nastiness.
J. Michael Neal
@Brachiator: He practiced by picking up marines.
Yutsano
@Brachiator: The weight training was, “Here’s 45 pounds of brass. Wrap it around your shoulder. Now blow your guts out because bass notes take more energy to travel.” That was about it. And that year half our tuba line was female, so we had some tough chicks with us (there were 12). Not the coolest one I ever knew though. That was a 4’6″ Ethiopian daughter of immigrants who could fucking belt that out like no one’s business. The horn was taller than she was.
@J. Michael Neal: They were more likely to pick me up, but yeah, it does impress a guy when you’re 5’9″ and he’s 6’2″ and you can make his toes come off the ground.
MikeJ
@Yutsano: I had no idea Hey Baby was a marching band standard, but a quick spin through youtube shows that pretty much everybody plays it.
Omnes Omnibus
@Brick Oven Bill: Holy crap, BOB got something more or less right. Steps 8 and 9 could do with a rework: toss the boiled beer and grill the brats, but he is damn close to be correct about something.
Ruckus
@Tim:
Some things just are TMI
On the other hand HAHAHAHA
Evolved Deep Southerner
@stuckinred: Boy, wouldn’t you know that when Florida finally has a down cycle – and this is quite definitely one, even Mrs. Deep Southerner, a UF grad and a mouth-frothing Gator fan, agrees, and isn’t even sad about Urban going – the Bulldogs have an even-downer cycle. Except we haven’t been really good in … how long?
I hate to jump on the Get Rid of Richt bandwagon, but I sure as hell wouldn’t be sad to see him go. I know it’s not a good time of the year to do it, but dammit to hell, is there EVER a good time to shitcan a man?
Stillwater
@Bnut: Fuck it, 34-0: ROLL TIDE!
Big Ten blow up. Again. And I continue to hear from haters how the SEC is overrated. I’m just not seeing it.
stuckinred
@Omnes Omnibus: Must be his idiot bastard son.
Yutsano
@stuckinred: Please do not speak of BoB potentially breeding ever again. The universe is better off if that genetic line dies right there.
stuckinred
@Evolved Deep Southerner: They are killin him in the Banana Herald and the AJC. McGarity would do well to axe him but it depends on the $$$ dudes.
JPL
I spoke to soon about Northwestern…the Big ten is not looking so good. Maybe Penn St. can pull it out.. If Wisconsin loses to TCU, then well just shit.
stuckinred
@JPL: not so fast
Bnut
@Evolved Deep Southerner: The problem with getting rid of Richt is that he’s so consistently slightly above average. I agree Georgia should be competing every year for the NC, but he has averaged 9-10 wins for so long, it’s hard to find a reason beyond the lack of said said NC.
And Alabama has just put in their backup QB. Good times.
Stillwater
@JPL: Maybe Penn St. can pull it out..
Well, they currently have the lead, but there’s still lots of time to give the game away.
(God, why did you make me a Big Ten fan?)
Yutsano
@Stillwater:
I recognize this is most likely a typo/omission, but oh man there is much potential for shenanigans here.
@Omnes Omnibus: He’s a Tide person, so he’ll grind it out to the end. And I’ll deal with the insufferability later.
Omnes Omnibus
@Bnut: I switched over to the Outback Bowl; it appears to be a game.
stuckinred
@Bnut: That’s just not the case, it’s been a steady slide for the past 3 years. His best season was with Donnans players.
Evolved Deep Southerner
@stuckinred: Look, in the grand scheme of things, the amount of money UGA’s (or Florida’s, or name-your-big-football-program-of-choice) could bring to bear on buying Richt out and hiring someone else is effectively infinite. Infinite. They could easily pay Richt’s successor enough to make him the highest paid coach in the country and make each and every one of his subordinates the highest-paid coaches at their positions in the country and never miss it. I’m not saying that because UGA is an especially rich program – there’s a bunch of other programs (virtually every program in the upper half of both sides of the SEC, for example) for whom this could be said – because there’s that much fucking money in college football at its highest levels.
The fear wouldn’t be “Oh, this would be a financial hardship!” because that’s a damn laugh. The fear would be “Oh, shit, if we pay some bastard Bob Stoops-plus money and he doesn’t perform and he doesn’t win us a national championship, that’ll look awful!”
Evolved Deep Southerner
@Bnut: Bullshit. The man can take the best talent in the country and do less with them than just about any other Division I coach in the country. I honestly don’t know what the hell the problem is, and I doubt anyone outside the program looking in knows either, but there’s something fundamentally fucked up at UGA. Time for him to go. He’s not the only coach in the world, and he’s sure not the best.
stuckinred
@Evolved Deep Southerner: The fear is that these drooling bible thumping idiots love the dude cuz he’s all over that FCA bullshit. And McGarity is one of them.
Brachiator
@Yutsano:
Forty five pounds. OK, now I’m really impressed.
Who’d have guessed that playing the tuba would have made you so talented.
JPL
@Evolved Deep Southerner: but does he love his god. Prayers are important for GA fans.
stuckinred
@JPL: Even when they don’t have one. . .
Stillwater
@Yutsano: And my edit doesn’t really seem to resolve things, either.
Bnut
@stuckinred: @Evolved Deep Southerner:
This is his first losing season ever. Before last year, he had never not won at least 9 games a year since his first team. I understand the frustration (I lived through Mike Price, Franchinone and Shula, all while I was in school), but I think you have to give him another year or two to see if he can pull it out of this bad stretch.
Omnes Omnibus
@Brachiator: Yeah, that seemed a bit close to TMI, but, as an ex-violinist, what do I know?
JPL
@stuckinred: sometimes prayers aren’t enough. When we first moved here the little league coach had the team gather round and pray. It didn’t help then either.
Evolved Deep Southerner
@JPL: Well he needs to switch and start praying to a different one, because in terms of football, whichever one he’s praying to keeps smiting his ass over and over. How long must there be such weeping and gnashing of teeth in Athens? Do we need a rain of bloody frogs to nudge McGarity off dead center?
stuckinred
@JPL: You are preachin to the convict over here.
Bnut
@Yutsano: LOL, yeah pretty much. Get out of my head.
Evolved Deep Southerner
@Bnut: This year was not because of a lack of talent, though. He and his staff were outcoached in every loss (and several of the damn wins.)
stuckinred
@Evolved Deep Southerner: Greg will do as he is told.
burnspbesq
@Bnut:
A useful thought exercise.
Imagine your head coach with Duke’s talent. Ask yourself whether he would do better than Cutcliffe with that talent. If yes, keep. If no, toss.
stuckinred
@Evolved Deep Southerner: We sucked at running back.
Yutsano
@Bnut:
Oh my dear gravy. I apologize for inflicting him upon your fair football program. Idiot should have never left Wazzu, he would have retired a legend.
Brick Oven Bill
We could have a baby Yutsano, and name it after you.
Morbo
@burnspbesq: Yeah, well, in 3 years they’ll get a Big 10/Pac 10 Rose Bowl again. It will be Nebraska vs. Boise St.
Yutsano
I need a shower now. I needed to take one anyway, but now I REALLY need it.
Bnut
@burnspbesq: @Evolved Deep Southerner: I totally agree that Richt is under-performing based on talent. I’m really more interested in how he can be justifiably let go in the face of his record. I’m not really up on the Georgia coaching tree, so who are the likely prospects to replace him? Or are they gonna go outside the SEC version of wingnut-welfare?
J. Michael Neal
I hope this is the end of Rich Rodriguez at Michigan. The new AD was already looking for ways to get rid of him.
Bnut
@Yutsano: That relationship is a sitcom waiting to happen.
Omnes Omnibus
@Bnut: Premium cable channel, of course. I am not sure network TV is ready for it.
Mr Stagger Lee
My God, both Michigan teams stinking up the bowls, at least Northwestern is trying, Penn State is doing the job, pulling for Wisconsin. Rumor is that Tressel may bench the Tat-Gate five for at least the half, if not first series of the Sugar Bowl.
befuggled
@Stillwater: Eh, anyone who was paying attention knew Michigan State was going to get killed. Their best win was against Wisconsin in East Lansing, and Wisconsin didn’t start to play well until later in the season. They didn’t play Ohio State, they needed some luck to win close games against borderline bowl teams Northwestern, Penn State and Notre Dame. They were also lucky to escape with a win against a terrible Purdue team. Finally, they were crushed by Iowa, who had an off year.
stormhit
@Stillwater:
Did anyone in the Big Ten think MSU was actually a good team? Or that Michigan even deserved to go to a bowl with the outright disgusting defense that they’ve run out there all year?
Big underdogs losing what are essentially away games isn’t really that surprising.
Yutsano
@Bnut: @Omnes Omnibus: I’d hate you both, but you’re both just too damn cute.
JPL
@Omnes Omnibus: So do you think John will put up another open thread before the Rose Bowl starts?
stuckinred
@stormhit: Oskeewow!
Bnut
@Mr Stagger Lee: That’ll teach em….Didn’t they all agree to come back next year in return for being able to play in the bowl?
burnspbesq
@J. Michael Neal:
Any athletic administration that is dumb enough to fire Tommy Amaker is dumb enough to keep Rich Rodriguez.
Omnes Omnibus
@JPL: I think he’s gone Galt.
Gravenstone
It’s a good thing Big 10 teams travel well, because they sure as hell don’t seem to bother to show up. Northwestern fell, and Michigan and MSU are both getting spanked at this posting. At least Penn State is leading presently, and we’ll see whether the Wisconsin running juggernaut can handle TCU in another hour or so.
Violet
When did all the Bowl games start being on ESPN?
stuckinred
@Gravenstone: And the Illini won!!!!
JPL
@Omnes Omnibus: ah..shit..that means ten more posts about politics.
Morbo
Also, if I drink enough of these I won’t care how many bowl picks I have wrong. That is the plan.
JPL
@Violet: I’m convinced time warner paid espn to broadcast all the games. Since I have an antenna, I have been streaming them on espn3 online.
Bnut
@Omnes Omnibus: I’m seeing Willem Dafoe and John Goodman in a more violent, sexual(ly repressed), and profane Odd Couple remake.
stuckinred
@Violet: This year when they paid for them. However, the Cotton Bowl is on CBS.
J. Michael Neal
@burnspbesq: That was a previous administration. Besides, the Michigan people I talk to seem pretty happy with Beilein. They went 1 for 2 grabbing coaches from West Virginia.
Omnes Omnibus
@Bnut: I won’t ask who plays which part.
Mr Stagger Lee
@Bnut: Very true, but from what I hear, they could bolt anyway, and Tressel will be covered, saying he held up his end of the deal. If they do stay however, I predict the five game will be paired down to three.
Stillwater
@befuggled: @stormhit:
Damn, dudes. I didn’t think MSU would win this game. I didnlt even think they could compete. But some points on the board would have been pretty cool. 42-0? WTF? (Sobs into Big Ten beer mug.)
stormhit
@J. Michael Neal:
I’d say Beilein skepticism was running high in the offseason, but thus far we look a little better than expected, so that’s calmed down a bit.
stuckinred
@Mr Stagger Lee: They didn’t pare shit down for AJ Green.
Yutsano
@efgoldman: Depends. The fiberglass ones run around 20 pounds. All brass are quite a bit weightier. When we weighed them for the flight down they topped off at 51 pounds. The cases were flimsy light plastic things. Plus when you’ve worn one for hours you feel it when it comes off.
@Brachiator: 7.3 miles from head to release point. It’s quite the stroll. Plus add in the fact that you’re marching and playing, which uses a different set of muscles than just walking.
Morbo
@J. Michael Neal: I consider the fact that they are unable–as a division 1A school mind you–to find a kicker that they’re confident enough in to kick a 40 yard field goal unforgivable for a coach. But I am not a booster, nor a person who would make a hiring decision.
Mr Stagger Lee
@Bnut: I would like to see Christopher Walken and Gary Oldham in a violent Odd Couple directed by either Quentin Tarantino or Abel Ferriera.
Brachiator
@efgoldman:
Makes sense. But given that the Rose Parade route is (I think) 5 miles, that would still be quite a balancing act, I would think.
Evolved Deep Southerner
Aaaaaaaaaaand Florida takes the lead for the first time in a game that seems like it’s been on since eight this morning. Mrs. Deep Southerner is happy so all of us – the dog, the two indoor cats, the three outdoor cats, and I – are happy. If they can hang on here, I might just get laid later.
stuckinred
@Morbo: Where’s Ali Haji Sheik when you need him?
Morbo
@Stillwater: Ask and ye shall receive.
J. Michael Neal
Sparty scores! I always root for the Big 10 team, but if they weren’t going to win, I hardly mind watching Michigan State get bombed. The team I root for may have changed, but you just never give up hating.
Evolved Deep Southerner
@stuckinred: I heard THAT, brother. “Pare it down” my fucking ass.
J. Michael Neal
@stuckinred: Ali Haji-Sheikh, please.
Edit: You bastard. Either you edited, or my eyes are gone.
Bnut
@Morbo: It’s stupid, but Alabama refused until the early 2000’s to give scholarships to kickers/punters unless they were All-Americans. They start giving them, and all of a sudden we got a punter who (with a fucking torn ACL) would chase down returners like he was the gunner.
stormhit
@Morbo:
The sad thing is that UM has a kicker on scholarship who was ranked and recruited and all that jazz. But as it turns out, he’s apparently terrible at actually kicking. It’s inexplicable.
stuckinred
@J. Michael Neal: I still misspelled his last name!
J. Michael Neal
@stuckinred: The stadium announcer used to drag his name out for five minutes or so.
stuckinred
@J. Michael Neal: Wasn’t there a Michigan kicker in the early-mid 70’s that was a Nam vet?
Bnut
@Mr Stagger Lee: Abel Ferriera directed this one, has my vote.
Yutsano
@efgoldman: I always predicted JoePa would die on the sidelines. But if Penn State loses I’ll have to deal with a Marine caterwauling about that on Monday.
J. Michael Neal
@J. Michael Neal: Before my time. I wasn’t born until 1968, and we didn’t move to Ann Arbor until 1980.
Svensker
@tofubo:
Ohm. Eye. Gawd. I’d never read that particular Derb screed. Fumigate indeed. What a piece of….well, “shit” is at least useful for fertilizer, so worse than shit. Blech.
stuckinred
@J. Michael Neal: So you had just heard of Sheikh.
stuckinred
@J. Michael Neal: Mike Lantry
A native of Oxford, Michigan, Lantry enlisted in the U.S. Army after graduating from high school. He spent three years in the Army, including service in Vietnam.
J. Michael Neal
@stuckinred: Haji-Sheikh was at Michigan from 1979-82. I saw him for three years.
Violet
@JPL:
It’s teh suck that they’re on ESPN. I went looking for them on regular broadcast TV and there were none. This is not the New Years Day of my childhood.
@stuckinred:
So it’s new, huh? Stupid ESPN, stupid cable, stupid money making all the decisions. Bah.
Bowl games should have classic names like “Cotton Bowl,” “Orange Bowl” and “Rose Bowl.” They should be on broadcast TV for everyone to watch. They should not have names like the “Capital One Bowl.” That’s just wrong.
And get off my lawn!
Stillwater
Let’s Go! Li-ons!(clap clap clap-clap-clap) Let’s Go! Li-ons!
stuckinred
@Stillwater: That ship just sailed.
Evolved Deep Southerner
Well, that’s it for Florida/Penn State. I am vicariously happy for them. Still want Mark Richt to walk the plank, tho.
stuckinred
@Violet: ESPN has really trashed SEC football with these insane night games. On the other hand, when you are shitty like Georgia, you get to play at noon.
Evolved Deep Southerner
@Evolved Deep Southerner: Thank Mark Richt’s God it’s over.
stuckinred
@Evolved Deep Southerner: Fuck the Gators and especially Meyer, he’s an asshole.
Stillwater
@stuckinred: Fuck the Gators and especially Meyer, he’s an asshole.
But you can say this: he wins Bowl games. JoePa?
Fucking Big Ten. I hate this time of year.
stuckinred
@Stillwater: I don’t give a rats ass what he wins. He can take his nasty christian warrior bullshit and jam it.
Evolved Deep Southerner
@stuckinred: stuckinred, I would have agreed with you until about 14 months ago and met Mrs. Deep Southerner. I still hate them – secretly – but I fake it.
John - A Motley Moose
God, what a miserable day for the Big 10. I was tempted to avoid this thread after all the trash talking I did about the SEC vs the Big 10 the other day, but that would be cowardly. I stand humbled, make that humiliated, after the lousy performances in today’s bowl games. Time for some humble pie.
Some announcers were just talking about Rich Rod of Michigan. Apparently, his contract buy-out was $4 million before today. If he’s fired in 2011 it is only $2.5 million. What a joke. The guy is such a lousy recruiter he can’t even find a kicker good enough to play for a high school team. Even worse is the fact that he took over the only major college program that had never had NCAA sanctions and managed to ruin that record in his first 3 years. It was so bad he didn’t even get sanctioned for cheating. He got sanctioned for being a lousy coach. Oh, how the mighty have fallen.
JPL
Is this a Rose Bowl open thread?
Go Wisconsin…
stuckinred
@John – A Motley Moose: I saw Humble Pie play in the Illini Union in a little room without a stage!
stuckinred
Pulezzzeee #18.
stuckinred
Uh huh, let’s see some more muscle poses Frogs.
fucen tarmal
the new years games sucked so bad i watched college hoop. and soon i leave for the hockey game it was too warm and rainy to play today…
i suppose someone should right something smug about global warming, because they would, and did, about snowmygod or whatever over hyped media-circle jerk impacting thing they had last year.
Stillwater
Anyone here? Bueller?
Fucking Frogs.
Fucking Big Ten teams. (The horror. The horror.)
khead
I’m late so I have not read the comments but….
Fuck you Penn St. Only loser so far today.
Michigan? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Khead +2.5
J. Michael Neal
Did anyone bring a defense to the Rose Bowl?
Evolved Deep Southerner
@stuckinred: Man, you got you some Urban hate on, bro! I mean, that’s fine, I respect it. But damn.
Stillwater
Badgers!!! Go m’fers!
Mark S.
Geez, I thought this was going to be a bit of a defensive struggle. This is like watching Oregon-Auburn.
Yutsano
@J. Michael Neal:
Apparently they both left theirs at home.
Mark S.
Did everyone leave? Already got their fill from the Ticketcity Bowl?
MattR
@Mark S.: I just got back. Couldn’t focus on the four early games and the blog at the same time.
In good news for the Big Ten, they don’t have a team playing in the Fiesta Bowl so they won’t go 0-6 today.
Mark S.
Did Musburger say TCU is moving to the Big East? Is there anybody left in the Mountain West?
burnspbesq
@Mark S.:
A big chunk of the WAC, including Boise, is moving to the MWC.
MattR
@Mark S.: TCU is heading to the Big East in 2012. Utah and BYU also leave the Mountain West in 2011. Boise State joins that year while Fresno and Nevada join in 2012 and Hawaii joins for football only in 2012.
Yutsano
@burnspbesq: And the Pac 10 goes to 12 with Colorado and Utah. Yeah I don’t get it either.
asiangrrlMN
Why the fuck isn’t this game on regular TV?
ETA: Goooo, TCU!
Yutsano
@asiangrrlMN: RIBBIT!!
Hi hon. I think we had a troll shift change while you were away.
burnspbesq
Football trivia question.
Maurice Jones-Drew was the second UCLA player to lead the nation in punt return yardage in a season. Who was the first?
(Hint: you don’t think of him as a football player).
MattR
@asiangrrlMN: Because ESPN is the Devil.
@burnspbesq: Yeah. The end result is that the WAC will become a non-entity in football while the MWC will probably be the only consistently solid conference out of the BCS.
Wikipedia summary of conference changes
burnspbesq: Just because of the hint I have to say Mark Harmon
burnspbesq
Pitt’s new head coach is spending the weekend in jail in South Bend, on domestic violence charges.
Yutsano
@MattR: Which is odd because I thought Harmon was a QB. But I’ve been wrong before.
Mark S.
@burnspbesq:
I know Jackie Robinson played football for UCLA. Was it him?
burnspbesq
@MattR:
Not a bad guess, but wrong. Harmon was a QB, and a pretty good one. UCLA was 17-5 in games he started.
MattR
@Yutsano: I am pretty sure he was, but in those days it would not surprise me if he also returned punts. And there weren’t any other non-traditional names that came to mind.
asiangrrlMN
@Yutsano: NOT allowed into the family! Just, NO! And, I’m toggling between the game and Worst Cooks in America. I should be on the show! What would I win?
@MattR: Agreed. Good thing I have my ways to get around the devil.
burnspbesq
@Mark S.:
We have a winner.
People who saw him play have said that baseball was Robinson’s fourth-best sport (after basketball, track, and football).
Along similar lines, Jim Brown has said that if he could have made a living playing lacrosse, he wouldn’t have bothered with football. I had a neighbor growing up who was at Dartmouth when Brown was at Syracuse, and I’ve heard some stories about Brown the lax player that are mind-blowing.
Mark S.
That was a catch.
WaterGirl
@asiangrrlMN: Asiangrrl, you are needed on the “where did they go” thread. All these people popping back in and no one is there to acknowledge them, which is something you always do so well.
burnspbesq
For about 10 years, Jim Brown held the career scoring record in high school basketball on Long Island. The guy who broke his record is not known as a basketball player. It was Carl Yastrzemski.
Yutsano
@asiangrrlMN: Yes, yes indeed. Me likey this idea. I know they have a nomination process…I shall have to keep my ear to the ground. I don’t think you’re allowed to snog the hosts however.
stuckinred
@WaterGirl: Huh?
asiangrrlMN
@WaterGirl: I’m on it.
@Yutsano: Not even the Australian geek/cutie? I’m watching last season, I think, and I do not want to shag the male chef. The female? I wouldn’t mind. May I shag the other contestants? There’s this really cute rockabilly gal on the show.
stuckinred
@asiangrrlMN: Like a duck on a junebug.
Bruce (formerly Steve S.)
That’s either terrible clock management or abject cowardice on the part of Wisconsin’s coaches. This isn’t tiddly-winks for crying out loud, it’s FOOTBALL!
stuckinred
@Bruce (formerly Steve S.): Now Bruce, they faked a punt on 4th and 9.
asiangrrlMN
@stuckinred: I had to look that up! Funny.
@Yutsano: I went to look up the rules and such, and, damn! What did I see? Who won the first season. BIG SIGH.
WaterGirl
@stuckinred: John put up a post about commenters who seem to have disappeared or stopped posting. Some of those folks popped back in (posted on the thread). I’m not a key person on BJ, but I figured that if I had been gone and then posted to say “I’m still here” it would be nice to be acknowledged. Asiangrrl seems to always acknowledge what people are saying, and she’s a key person on BJ, so I thought she was just the right person.
This is like trying to explain a joke that flopped. I typed all that, but maybe I should have just said, oh, never mind. :-)
Gravenstone
That didn’t take long, Pitt just fired their football coach of two weeks after he was busted for domestic violence yesterday.
stuckinred
@WaterGirl: Not at all, I thought you were talking about the lousy movie!
Yutsano
The ribbits, they be awinning!
gwangung
Ribbit! Ribbit!
Maxwel
What do you think the Big10’s record would be if they played the Bowl games in Detroit, Cleveland, Minneapolis, etc?
WaterGirl
@stuckinred: Now I’m the one who’s lost. What movie?
By the way, I was about to put a single dash after the word “lost”. What’s the deal with single dashes causing problems?
asiangrrlMN
@WaterGirl: The deal is WP was betrayed by a single hyphen once, a lone hyphen, and now hates the hyphen with a passion.
RIBBIT! I’m sorry, that’s just not very inspiring.
Yutsano
@asiangrrlMN:
I know. And Onmes is gonna have a miserable night if Wisconsin loses. But you go with the mascots you have yadda yadda yadda.
JPL
I’ve been putting up xmas decorations and listening to the game online. TCU came prepared to play the big guys. Before this wasn’t their biggest win against Utah?
gwangung
@asiangrrlMN: I’m the wrong one to talk to. I voted for the Robber Barons for Snodfart, I approve of the “Tree” and I like the local Evergreen State University mascot—the mighty Geoduck.
asiangrrlMN
@Yutsano: Yes. This is true. And, can Brent M. just go away? Please? And will you take his color guy with you? Please?
@JPL: Putting UP Christmas decorations?
@gwangung: You need help. You really do.
Capri
Badgers…..we don’t need no stinkin Badgers.
Wisky is a fourth quarter team. Hope that TCU can hold on.
asiangrrlMN
@Yutsano: By the way, $25,000 is the prize for the Worst America’s Cook. Your wallet will heave a sigh of relief if I win!
ETA: Wasn’t there another FN program years ago about taking sucky cooks and making them better?
Yutsano
@asiangrrlMN: They make really good chowdah though. Only really takes one to make a whole pot, so they’re really economical.
There are people who need to DIAF, and people who need to just die. Brent is among the latter.
stuckinred
@WaterGirl: I’m Still Here
stuckinred
@Maxwel: That is soooo tired.
asiangrrlMN
@Yutsano: I’ve never had frog chowder. Huh. Things I learn here at BJ.
Brent just needs to disappear. I don’t care how, and I won’t ask questions.
You watching the hockey game tonight if it gets played? I may, but then I can’t watch WCinA any more.
gwangung
@asiangrrlMN: Oh. Guess I shouldn’t say anything about the Artichokes or the Anteaters….
stuckinred
Rose Bowl heating up!
Yutsano
@asiangrrlMN: Frog’s legs you usually eat fried. It’s a Louisiana/Acadian thing. I know they do other things to them in France but I like them that way.
(fixed spelling on edit, h/t stuckinred)
And you do know what a geoduck is, right?
@gwangung: Or the Boll Weevils. Or the Banana Slugs…
stuckinred
@Yutsano: Acadian
asiangrrlMN
@gwangung: Artichokes, I like. Anteater? Not so much.
@Yutsano: Banana Slugs. I like them.
Crap! I didn’t see the TD. Oooh, nice deflection.
stuckinred
@asiangrrlMN: In Illinois there is a high school, The Fisher Bunnies. There also was the Pekin Chinks but they 86’d that in 80. Don’t forget the Cobden Appleknockers.
asiangrrlMN
@stuckinred: I like one and three, but not two, obviously. I really like the last one.
“You never know what would have happened after if something had changed, but…” STFU, Brent!
@Yutsano: RIIIIIIIIBBBBBIT! The other thing I would hate about a reality show is having to live in the same place with the same people for ten weeks.
J. Michael Neal
@stuckinred: The Moorhead Spuds. Back in the 90s, I saw their hockey team in jerseys with a potato logo.
stuckinred
@asiangrrlMN: I went to a Unitarian service once and there was a great debate about purging the sexist language from the hymnal. One side wanted it out and the other felt it was important to preserve it so we knew where we came from. I guess I fall in the camp of wanting to remember just how fucking stupid and racist we can be.
The Cobden Appleknockers are often called the real “Hoosiers”. An amazing team back in the time when there was only one class of HS Hoop in Illinois.
Oh yea, they lost to Pekin!
WaterGirl
@stuckinred: All becomes clear!
By the way, so many of your posts are a walk down memory lane for me. Last night it was a musical group I had forgotten all about, today it’s the fisher bunnies.
burnspbesq
In the timeless words of that great American hero, Yosemite Sam, “Great Horny Toads!”
Yutsano
@asiangrrlMN: There is that, but I’m sure you’d adapt. It’s one of those focus on the end goal sorts of things.
Oh and RIBBIT!!
stuckinred
@WaterGirl: Guess I’m just Livin in the Past!
burnspbesq
@J. Michael Neal:
There’s a private high school in Los Angeles called Ribet Academy. Care to guess what their mascot is?
Laguna Beach High’s sports teams used to be known as the Artists. Now they’re the Breakers.
There are lots of Trojans and Spartans, and even some Hueugenots (New Rochelle HS) but there’s only one school whose teams are known as the Trevians.
stuckinred
@burnspbesq: Macon. Georgia had the Sidney Lanier Poets.
asiangrrlMN
@stuckinred: Appleknockers. I want an NFL team with that name. Preferably from Washington (state).
@Yutsano: I think you underestimate how much I loathe living with other people.
ETA: And, I couldn’t eat any of the food.
WaterGirl
@stuckinred: One of the all-time greats. Listening to it now. thanks!
D-Chance.
The “Big Ten” is evidently a euphemism, or they’re talking centimeters. Zero and Five… really? What an embarrassment.
Too bad Notre Dame didn’t join the conference; they would have been a perfect fit for this gaggle of overrated losers.
Mark S.
No Fiesta Bowl open thread? Just because the final score is going to 59-7?
Why on earth does the Big East get an automatic bid? It guarantees at least one crappy matchup each year.
Paul in KY
Too late to thread, but I’d just like to register a ‘WTF’ for UW passing it on their 2 point try.
You just ran the ball down TCU’s throat with big ole #32 & then you try a pass?! You’re a running team. Run the goldanged ball!
Good job TCU.