Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Technically true, but collectively nonsense

Optimism opens the door to great things.

A lot of Dems talk about what the media tells them to talk about. Not helpful.

Not all heroes wear capes.

You don’t get to peddle hatred on saturday and offer condolences on sunday.

Impressively dumb. Congratulations.

Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.

That’s my take and I am available for criticism at this time.

Americans barely caring about Afghanistan is so last month.

You don’t get rid of your umbrella while it’s still raining.

The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.

The revolution will be supervised.

T R E 4 5 O N

Just because you believe it, that doesn’t make it true.

“Squeaker” McCarthy

It’s time for the GOP to dust off that post-2012 autopsy, completely ignore it, and light the party on fire again.

They traffic in fear. it is their only currency. if we are fearful, they are winning.

Everybody saw this coming.

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

Republicans seem to think life begins at the candlelight dinner the night before.

I’ve spoken to my cat about this, but it doesn’t seem to do any good.

Do not shrug your shoulders and accept the normalization of untruths.

A Senator Walker would also be an insult to reason, rationality, and decency.

Motto for the House: Flip 5 and lose none.

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  2. 2.

    Mark S.

    Both teams look really rusty.

    I had to get up for a minute. What happened on Oregon’s last drive? They were down on Auburn’s 20.

  4. 4.

    Comrade Luke

    I love the contrast in cheerleading squads.

    Auburn: We like to pretend we’re all a bunch of wholesome country bumpkins

    Oregon: We know you want to fuck us. Why bother?

  7. 7.

    cmorenc

    There must be something un-Merikan bout me. In a moment, I’m going up to the bonus room to watch some sports on TV, and the first stop will be Leicester City v. Manchester City FA Cup game on FSC (the kind the rest of the world considers “football”), and only after awhile will I flip over for a few minutes to check out Oregon v Auburn. Though I am pulling for Ory-gun to beat Auburn, to the limited extent I have any rooting interest in that game.

  12. 12.

    madmommy

    3 turnovers before the end of the 1st quarter? This is why there shouldn’t be such a big gap between the end of the season and the Championship game.

    Cam Newton has gotten hit more in this game than he has all season, I think. Go Ducks!

  13. 13.

    Comrade Luke

    Oregon’s all about the 4th quarter; they bank on the D being exhausted after all the run-n-gun.

    Auburn’s d-linemen are already huffing and puffing. Not good.

  14. 14.

    cmorenc

    @stuckinred:

    Is that because I’m for the People’s Republic of Oregon team? Or because I’m rooting for Manchester City in the football game, even though the team’s owned by a rich sheik from somewhere in Araby?

  17. 17.

    cmorenc

    @efgoldman:

    I’ve been wishing Mushburger a happy retirement for oh, twenty-five years now, but he never seems to take the hint and retire from the airwaves.

  19. 19.

    burnspbesq

    @efgoldman:

    I do not want to hear anyone bellyaching about Musberger unless you lived in SoCal in the late 1970s and endured him as co-anchor of the 6:00 news on channel 2.

  21. 21.

    Bnut

    Auburn is fucked if this keeps going on. Their offense doesn’t know how to slow things down to let their D-line get some rest. If Cam gets hurt, it’s last year’s NCG all over again.

  23. 23.

    Evolved Deep Southerner

    @stuckinred: Stuckinred, it’s good to see you, sir. How much did y’all get? We got a good six inches on the ground in the Upstate and it’s only melted enough today to make for a royal damn mess tomorrow.

  25. 25.

    BruceFromOhio

    As a sovereign blogger, I do not accept the authority of the BCS.

    As opposed to what? A renegade blogger?

    OK, holy CRAP these defensive squads are pumped. Ducks are knocking, and its still 0-0 after 1.

    GO AUBURN

  26. 26.

    madmommy

    @burnspbesq:
    Ugh. Really? But at least you didn’t have to watch that channel’s newscast. If you want to watch a big game like this, you’re stuck with him.

  28. 28.

    Montysano

    @Mark S.:

    It’s not a good sign if you’re defense is gassed in the first quarter.

    I’m a Hoosier who transplanted to Alabama, so for me football is just a sign that college hoops are just around the corner. But yeah… you’re right. I’ve never seen such fast-paced football.

  30. 30.

    cmorenc

    @efgoldman:

    It’s payback time for all those yahoos who stuck their noses into EVERY one of Randhinio’s occasional soccer threads barking ignorant insults about soccer.

    And I’m not even insulting “murkan football beyond implying that I’m immune enough from its charms to not bother to steadily tune in even to the national championship game. Not out of contempt like the soccer-ignoramuses do, rather simply out of tepid interest in murkan football.

  32. 32.

    stuckinred

    @Evolved Deep Southerner: Back atcha, they are saying only 4 but this place is shut down. I am amazed the cable is on. It’s going to be interesting to see how they deal with the ice and compacted snow since it’s supposed to stay frozen till Friday. I assume you are the same?

  35. 35.

    Stillwater

    @burnspbesq: People are shocked that defense is being played. They are speechless.

    Both teams showing that they got some f’n talent bro! Go defense!

  36. 36.

    Bnut

    I’m watching a low-hd stream. What is Oregon’s helmet pattern? ACU? Snakeskin? Diamond plate?

  38. 38.

    WyldPirate

    Fucking a…no way I would leave LSU for Michigan if I were Les Miles. Big 10 = football wannabes of late and in the future.

  39. 39.

    Evolved Deep Southerner

    @stuckinred: I am. Was off work today and they’ve already called it for tomorrow, which suits the hell out of me. The power’s on, the cable’s on, I got to the grocery ahead of all the rednecks fighting over the last milk and bread …. hell, life is good sometimes.

  45. 45.

    madmommy

    Les Miles was an assistant at Michigan. Maybe he thinks he can be the savior of Big-10 football. Or at least at Michigan.

  48. 48.

    Evolved Deep Southerner

    I still don’t understand why that wasn’t ruled an interception by Oregon.

  56. 56.

    Mr Stagger Lee

    @asiangrrlMN:
    Hail TCU and the Little Sisters of the Poor! Oh BTW the Mountain West Conference, wins the ESPN Bowl Challenge Cup. They have won it four times in seven years. Big Ten? Big Ten?

  58. 58.

    Evolved Deep Southerner

    @stuckinred: Unicycle guy made me smile. He’s making it a lot better on one wheel that the folks going up and down my road are making it on four.

  59. 59.

    MikeJ

    @efgoldman:

    Up here in New England we’re looking at probably a foot Tuesday night into Wednesday. I’m going to work.

    First winter Obama was in DC, it snowed. His youngest scoffed at the meagre snowfall saying, “in Chicago we’d still have outside recess!”

  63. 63.

    BruceFromOhio

    @efgoldman: Lake Erie is shallow, and it freezes easily. This year has been, so far, average in snowfall. Today I could see the big ice patches forming because the wind was light and the air VERY cold this morning.

    Over time, the higher temps will cause all of the Great Lakes to drop in depth, and that is some serious bad fucking news that has nothing to do with snowfall. I don’t think anyone can really say for sure how fucked up climate change is going to be, but it is going to cost everyone who lives around the basin.

  64. 64.

    asiangrrlMN

    @Mr Stagger Lee: I’m for anything that will mess up the BCS system. And, I am not a Big Ten fan, so taunt away.

    @stuckinred: Just now. Haven’t really been watching. Kinda glancing. It doesn’t feel like a championship game, and I don’t much care for either team. We’ve gotten a dusting of snow. Nothing like the south is getting, though.

  72. 72.

    Stillwater

    Brent needs to learn that a bubble screen isn’t a running play. Or I’m gonna exercise my sovereignty.

  73. 73.

    Steeplejack

    @cmorenc:

    I’ve been switching between football and “football” myself. Know it’s time to go back to Leicester-Man City when my eyes start to hurt from the Oregon uniforms. Yeow.

  75. 75.

    Mr Stagger Lee

    @asiangrrlMN: Actually I am a Ohio State fan, but I have come to the conclusion that the Big Ten is more of a basketball conference. As for this game I am pushing for a Oregon victory to piss off the local Washington Husky Homer on the local sports radio.

  81. 81.

    Evolved Deep Southerner

    @Steeplejack: The football/”football” cognitive dissonance can’t be as bad as my wife switching between Oregon/Auburn and “The Bachelor.” She’s a football fan, but she also is keenly interested in the fate of “vampire fang chick.”

  92. 92.

    Steeplejack

    @asiangrrlMN:

    Had a fun and productive day away from the computer yesterday. Got a much-needed haircut–a good one, too, which is not automatic–bought some socks and a load of notions and sundries at Target and got new batteries installed in five dead watches that had been lying around gathering dust. Feel like I’ve got the jump on the new year now.

    (Laughing/crying at how easily satisfied I am.)

    Puttered around the man-cave today and took a long nap this afternoon to shake this lingering cold. Think it’s almost gone now.

  97. 97.

    James E Powell

    Ducks should have run to the corners. The middle of Auburn’s defensive line is its strength. Speed is Oregon’s strength.

  100. 100.

    cathyx

    I can’t believe I can live in Oregon and not get the Ducks game on tv unless I have cable. This is ridiculous.

  104. 104.

    Obliterati

    What a pass. Auburn’s getting their money’s worth out of Newton.

    Yeah, I went there…

  109. 109.

    freelancer

    “This is a boxing match. Right now, you just see Auburn jabbing and jabbing and jabbing and pretty soon they’re gonna go for the Home Run.”

    You fail. You’re fired.

  111. 111.

    KG

    Dear Old Man Announcer Musburger (or whatever your name is):

    They are the Arizona Cardinals, they have not been the Phoenix Cardinals for more than a decade.

    Thanks,

    KG

  116. 116.

    handy

    @freelancer:

    “This is a boxing match. Right now, you just see Auburn jabbing and jabbing and jabbing and pretty soon they’re gonna go for the Home Run.”

    Pussberger really knows how to carry home the metaphors, doesn’t he?

  120. 120.

    sherifffruitfly

    Nice game so far. Difference is the aub d-line playing well and/or ore qb playing like shit.

  122. 122.

    BruceFromOhio

    Vertically fornicated Ducks keep getting caught offsides, and everyone gets to go suck O^2^ over the half. 16-11, Auburn, and the bookies are wondering wtf is wrong with everyones’ cleets up there.

    ETA: So its an indoor venue on a relatively cool evening. Why the hell is everyone slipping and sliding? At first glance, I thought this being played outdoors. Did someone hose off the plastic a little to well?

  123. 123.

    WyldPirate

    Damn. Lot of defensive players leading their hits with the helmet. I’m tired of seeing that crap. Officials need to start calling that shit.

  124. 124.

    Evolved Deep Southerner

    Musberger. My God, how long has he been calling these things? I can remember when I was about ten making fun of him with a friend calling him “Moosh Booger.”

  126. 126.

    Montysano

    @WyldPirate:

    Lot of defensive players leading their hits with the helmet.

    I understand why they’re trying to discourage helmet hits, but it seems to go against the physics of the game.

  127. 127.

    justawriter

    There is only one champion of Division I football and this year it is Eastern Washington. All that’s being settled tonight is a bowl title until there is a real playoff.

  133. 133.

    WyldPirate

    @Montysano:
    yeah it’s effective physics, too. Damned dangerous physics. It’s a testament to the physical conditioning of the players that more are not turned into para- or quadriplegics from those sorts of hits.

  136. 136.

    Hawes

    I had a friend (the last living subscriber to The Daily Worker) who said he could never root for a team from the old Confederacy. I’m guessing most of those Auburn player’s great-great-great-grandpappies didn’t fight for the Confederacy.

    As much as my Southern heritage embarrasses me at times, I am still an SEC fan.

  138. 138.

    danimal

    @burnspbesq: Yea, I get to bitch about Mushburger (my typo was accidental, but seems appropriate). He was a mediocre newscaster (not just sports) and I’ve waited to celebrate his retirement for 20 years. Probably a nice guy, but I wish he’d just go away. What an annoying voice and the fake buildup for events is absolutely grating.

  140. 140.

    WyldPirate

    @madmommy:

    I could see one SEC coach, but 2?

    the only other coach I can name from a PAC-10 team isn’t a man, but a belly-crawling snake named Lane Kiffin at USX.

    He wasn’t available tonight as he’s too busy out sucking off goats somewhere, though.

  143. 143.

    KG

    @WyldPirate: Dennis Erickson is at ASU, like 20 minutes from the stadium they are presently at. And one of the Stoops boys is in Tucson. I live in SoCal and can’t remember the name of the guy at UCLA, Nuehisel?

  144. 144.

    cmorenc

    Almost immediately after I switch over to the Oregon-Auburn game from a thrilling Leicester City v Manchester City futbol game and find the Ducks leading by the baseball-ish score of 11-7, the football game turns from honey to shit for Ory-gun, and they get tackled in the end zone for a safety.

    I shoulda stuck with the real football, er futbol over on FSC; the Ducks would have been better off without me rootin’ for em, even from afar on teevee.

  148. 148.

    madmommy

    @stuckinred:
    Well yeah, but for the sake of parity…neither of these coaches has even played Oregon. If only to give the perspective of a coach that has actually played against them I’d think they’d have a PAC-10 coach.

  151. 151.

    WyldPirate

    @KG: , @madmommy:
    Yeah. I had to rag on Kiffin, though. I’m a UT undergrad alum.

    @KG
    didn’t know Erickson was still coaching. Didn’t he have a problem with alcohol or something? seems I remember something about that.

  153. 153.

    Evolved Deep Southerner

    Man, Auburn is simply incapable of playing a clean game, aren’t they? Beats all I’ve ever seen.

  154. 154.

    KG

    @WyldPirate: not sure what his problem was, I know he’s bounced around since leaving The U. Oregon State, the 49ers, Idaho, and now at ASU. He might have been somewhere else too…

  160. 160.

    madmommy

    @stuckinred:
    I’ve got no beef with their analysis, it just struck me as odd given that there is an SEC team against a PAC-10.

    Fairley is a rat-bastard dirty player. I’ve seen him do crap like that all season.

    @WyldPirate:
    As an Alabama fan I can’t muster too much sympathy for the troubles Kiffin brought to Tennessee :)

  162. 162.

    Evolved Deep Southerner

    I want Fairley to get nailed SO HARD. In the words of my best friend after the Georgia game, “That son of a bitch needs to be peeling gizzards at the damn poultry plant.”

  165. 165.

    asiangrrlMN

    @Nina: Agreed. When the announcers are talking about how you have a rep for being dirty, yeah, doesn’t speak too well of you. I guess they like that kind of play at Auburn.

    @stuckinred: Oh, THAT guy. I notice there are many more videos in ‘tribute’ to his dirty play. Ugh.

  166. 166.

    BruceFromOhio

    So maybe that’s the delta between NCAA and NFL. College brings all this baggage with coaches, history, and there’s what, some thousands of colleges in the US? It’s like the 181 games of baseball every year.

    Witness the simplicity of a Cleveland Browns team, or something even more elegant like Manchester United, or a Real Madrid.

    Ducks been fornicated vertically by the boys of Auburn, sho’nuff.

  181. 181.

    Comrade Luke

    Oregon’s red zone play calling should be trashed in the media after this game. An abomination.

  190. 190.

    Comrade Luke

    @KG: Auburn’s line has been getting penetration all night, so you run two plays in a row where the guy gets the ball 3yds behind the line of scrimmage.

    Just. plain. dumb.

  192. 192.

    WyldPirate

    Go Tiggers!

    This might be the beginning of the “wear down” for OU. They are looking like they are beginning to suck a little wind now.

  194. 194.

    KG

    given the way they’ve played tonight, I think either of these teams could be beaten by any of the following teams: Nevada, Boise State, TCU

  209. 209.

    MikeJ

    @KG: List of schools who could beat either contender for champion. In big cities, schools are often numbered instead of named. The joke was, “Public School 27” could join your list.

  218. 218.

    KG

    #42 for Oregon does not look like someone that I would want to try and tackle if he’s running at me full speed.

  225. 225.

    madmommy

    Is it my imagination or did Oregon change shoes at half time? Seems like their entire sock/shoe combo was that eye-popping yellow and now they’re in gray shoes.

  229. 229.

    Evolved Deep Southerner

    If this were any other Southeastern Conference team, I’d be overjoyed that this would mark the SEC’s fifth consecutive national championship. Tonight? I just hope the Ducks can miraculously pull this off somehow. They sure aren’t doing much to inspire hope on that front, though.

  234. 234.

    KG

    you know what’s going to be a real shame if Auburn holds on? In a couple of years when the NCAA actually finds out that there was something to Cam Newton telling the Mississippi State recruiter that “the money was too much” at Auburn was legit and they have to vacate the title…

    that’s going to be a real shame.

  241. 241.

    madmommy

    @KG:
    It’s not going to take that long. The SEC is known for ratting out other schools in the conference for NCAA violations. If they already know Newton’s dad shopped him to Mississippi St., there’s no way Auburn didn’t throw a fat envelope in the collection plate at Rev. Newton’s church.

  244. 244.

    Mark S.

    @KG:

    Wouldn’t be surprised if that happened. “$200,000? No thanks, I’d rather go play over here for free.” Maybe that’s what happened, but I doubt it.

  246. 246.

    James E Powell

    Not sure if this has been thoroughly discussed on another thread, but I find it odd that the Big Game is only on cable and also too that it starts kind of late for that huge EST audience.

  248. 248.

    KG

    @Mark S.: that was the one detail of the story that always seemed strange to me. Cam Newton supposedly calling the recruiter in tears and saying, “Sorry, my dad says I have to go to Auburn, the money was too much.”

  250. 250.

    handy

    @stuckinred:

    Aren’t they part of the same company? I imagine we’re well on the road to where every major sports championship game is going to be on cable.

  253. 253.

    Comrade Luke

    That fucking inside handoff has resulted in about negative 20yds of total offense for Oregon. You’re down 8 with 5min left, no point trying to keep the defense honest.

  255. 255.

    stuckinred

    @handy: Yea, hell they have all these Saturday night games on ABC/ESPN splits during the regular season. Their rating for the Rose Bowl was less than usual for the game but the second best ever for cable.

  259. 259.

    KG

    @stuckinred: close, I remember hearing it on ESPN.

    @handy: they showed the Rose Bowl on ESPN too. but as long as Fox has the rights to stuff, I don’t think everything will be going to cable.

  265. 265.

    madmommy

    @asiangrrlMN:

    I went to make the coffee pot for in the morning but left the teevee on-come on Ducks!!

    Is it too much to ask that they come up with some intelligent play calling in the Red Zone?

  288. 288.

    Evolved Deep Southerner

    Finally, a national championship game that lives up to its billing. We will see some bad nastiness from Auburn from here on out.

  291. 291.

    Comrade Luke

    This is really interesting. I don’t think Newton is all there. Could get another TO here.

  292. 292.

    Steeplejack

    Wonder what strategic genius for Oregon figured out that running up the middle was not going to work. “No, seriously, they’re getting tired. It’ll start to kill them any minute now.”

  312. 312.

    Evolved Deep Southerner

    @WyldPirate: He sure fucking THOUGHT he was down. If it hadn’t been for the sideline coaches telling him to keep running, he’d have handed the ball to the ref and gone back to the huddle.

  313. 313.

    James E Powell

    Oregon defensive guy was tackling the ball rather than the ball carrier. Horrible result.

  314. 314.

    Morbo

    HOLY FUCK! So much for centering it up for the field goal.
    Or rather, looks like he’s down at that 8″ line.

  321. 321.

    madmommy

    God dammit all to hell and back.

    Enjoy it while you can Auburn, you’ll be giving it all back soon enough. Cam is going to declare for the draft before all the confetti hits the field and he’ll be long gone when the shit hits the fan.

  332. 332.

    KG

    blocked field goal returned for a touchdown…

    what are the odds that I can get on that for the finish?

  339. 339.

    Evolved Deep Southerner

    Well, break out the Cammy-Cam Juice! Hey, and this time, let’s get a sample of that for testing, announcers!

  345. 345.

    madmommy

    @WyldPirate:

    Yeah, there’s going to be some smack talk. But Alabama has 13 national Championships. This is what, number 2 for Auburn? And like I said, they won’t have it for long.

    Nighters!

  349. 349.

    Steeplejack

    “This is for all the Tostitos”? Seriously, Musberger, DIAF.

    At least no overtime. Our long national playoff-free nightmare is over for another year.

  351. 351.

    KG

    Just once, one time, I would love to hear someone say “look, we all know we’ve got a bunch of bandwagon fans who only show up when we win, but fuck it, we won!”

    ETA: I would also like someone to thank the FSM or just say, “I did this, no help from a higher power, just fucking me!”

  355. 355.

    Andy K

    @BruceFromOhio:

    I may have to revise my Collinsworth/Simms statement from Saturday.

    I recall a time when Musberger was actually a decent announcer….But that was the ’70s, when he was calling NBA games on CBS.

  359. 359.

    Steeplejack

    And Cam Newton lets us know that he is God’s instrument to spread His word. I guess that makes Oregon the Devil’s hand trowels or something. Ugh. Switching to something less offensive, like the Discovery Nazi Military History Channel.

  361. 361.

    Comrade Luke

    This is the first time I’ve heard him speak: Cam Newton doesn’t sound like he even remotely cares about this, other than how it affects his draft position.

  362. 362.

    WyldPirate

    I can do without all of this Tim Tebow/Kurt Warner style SkyDaddy-praising, though.

    Damn Go Tiggers! They got their money’s worth out of this year’s players—literally.

    Best college football team money can buy…

  364. 364.

    Andy K

    @madmommy:

    And like I said, they won’t have it for long.

    Damn straight. Auburn’s football program should have gotten the “death penalty” many NCAA rules violations ago.

  365. 365.

    Evolved Deep Southerner

    Well, I’m in the mood to jump threads and start talking in earnest about firearms now. What about y’all?

  367. 367.

    KG

    @Andy K: after what happened at SMU no football team is ever going to get the death penalty, especially from a big conference. Won’t happen. If it didn’t happen to USC recently, it sure as shit isn’t going to happen to a team in the SEC.

  368. 368.

    Andy K

    @handy:

    Nope, CBS. He had the NBA play-by-play gig on CBS in the winter/spring, after spending the fall/early winter doing The NFL Today with Irv, Phyllis and Jimmy.

  369. 369.

    Maxwel

    Great! The so-called championship decided on a play where everyone is standing around looking at each other.

  370. 370.

    Comrade Luke

    Listening to them, it sounds like the Auburn players are going to the malt shop after the post-game service.

    amirite?

  373. 373.

    J. Michael Neal

    @fucen tarmal:

    some how, some way, before i die, just once, south carolina is gonna play oregon st.

    Shit, I’m a Golden Gopher fan. I just want to play on New Year’s Day some year. My sister went to Northwestern. They went to Pasadena her sophomore season. It’s an injustice, I tell you. I’d brag about winning a hockey national title, but Wisconsin did that while she was in grad school there.

    Sigh.

  377. 377.

    Andy K

    @KG:

    USC’s history of violations isn’t in the same ballpark as Auburn’s. But, yeah, you’re probably right: The SEC (and, probably, CBS) would fight it tooth and nail.

    If it’s out of print- and it almost certainly is- someone should reprint Rick Telander’s The 100-Yard Lie (I might not have the title exactly correct). He had some interesting ideas on ways to reform the way the system works now.

  378. 378.

    WyldPirate

    LOL. Stuckinred and Evolved Deep Southerner are gonna hate that Fairley was voted Defensive player of the game.

  381. 381.

    Morbo

    Today was a true victory for the eyes of the viewing audience. Get that chartreuse back in your children’s coloring box, Nike!

  382. 382.

    handy

    As if Coach Meyer and Team Tebow weren’t bad enough. What the hell is with the SEC. That whole conference is like a bad nightmare. Except Georgia. For some reason I always liked them, must be the mascot.

  385. 385.

    WyldPirate

    @handy:

    What the hell is with the SEC. That whole conference is like a bad nightmare.

    They are all just “God’s big tool”, doing “His will”?

    ‘Nuf to make ya wanna hurl, isn’t it?

    Edited-to get my quote right…damn sorry-assed right mouse key

  387. 387.

    Raoul

    Observations:
    Entertaining game for sure.
    Cam was off.
    Refs blew too many calls,especially the face mask (not blown).
    The Auburn d-line was the star but two guys should have been tossed, one for kicking and #90 for slamming someone’s head to the ground.
    TCU #1.

  388. 388.

    KG

    @Andy K: no, they pretty much said as much on ESPN 30 for 30 Pony Expre$$, basically, after SMU they realized how devastating it is and have flat out said they won’t do it again. Hell, even in minor sports, it’s only been dished out like five times.

    @handy: I kind of like the Arkansas Razorbacks, but that might have something to do with the former Razorback cheerleader I met while visiting my cousin in SW Missouri.

  390. 390.

    tesslibrarian

    @handy: Sadly, our newest Uga (VIII) who was introduced mid-season has been diagnosed with lymphoma. He’s not even 2, and was perfect for the gig–we were right near him for most of the UGA-UK game this year, and I’ve never seen an animal love a camera or crowd more. Sigh. Georgia football is cursed lately.

    Basketball is ranked, though. That just feels weird.

  395. 395.

    Comrade Luke

    @handy: You know, I never cared for them, but that’s because I never interacted with one. A guy at the coffee shop I frequent has a puppy, and she’s the nicest damned dog I’ve ever met.

    I think their face led me to believe they’d have a different demeanor.

  396. 396.

    WyldPirate

    @handy:
    Damn you, handy! Beat me to it! ;)

    Now I’m thinking of the Ned Beatty scene from “Deliverance”, though. Damn it….

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    Andy K

    @handy:

    Except Georgia. For some reason I always liked them, must be the mascot.

    Yeah, I can stomach Georgia, ‘Bama, Kentucky (football only) and Vandy, but the rest?

    I won’t go as far as saying that the Big Ten+Two is perfect in this manner, but I don’t think that half the starters in the SEC could get into a Big Ten school, even with the lowered academic standards for scholarship athletes. And then there’s Notre Dame, who bit the bullet and raised their academic standards for student athletes back in, when, the early/mid ’90s, which is what has hindered their football team’s performance ever since.

  398. 398.

    handy

    @Comrade Luke:

    I know this place generally leans to the kittehz, but they really are sweet animals. Great temperament and great with kids. They just have this…well this…saliva problem.

  399. 399.

    lefty stanford fan

    Glad somebody else saw what a classless dick Chizik is. They admittedly played excellent run defense to barely scrape by a team whose first-year QB made a few good plays but also a bunch of mistakes. Winning, he doesn’t even mention the other team, but does say “we’re the best team in the country” as if they had just won 56-3. And tomorrow all the SEC idiots will go around saying how their football is on a far higher plane than any other conference, that the Pac-10 doesn’t play defense, blah blah blah. If Oregon had played in the SEC this year they might have gotten beat once or twice. But same thing if that crappy Auburn secondary had had to play a whole season against real (i.e. Pac-10) quarterbacks. That said, I still don’t know if TCU is all that or not. I just wasn’t that impressed with the Wisconsin win.

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    Paul in KY

    Only point: When the side of your lower leg hits the ground while you are in the grip of a defender, then you are down!

    Auburn did physically beat them up.

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