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Football Open Thread

by Sarah, Proud and Tall|  September 24, 20118:43 pm| 53 Comments

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Apparently there are games on and people want to talk about them…

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  1. 1.

    sb

    September 24, 2011 at 8:44 pm

    I think all the EPL games have been played, thank you.

    Go Man City!

  2. 2.

    Raven (formerly stuckinred)

    September 24, 2011 at 8:45 pm

    Yea, since noon.

  3. 3.

    BlueDWarrior

    September 24, 2011 at 8:45 pm

    As a resident of Baton Rouge, I wish West Virgina the best of luck in their games after tonight

    but tonight, GEAUX TIGERS

  4. 4.

    Corner Stone

    September 24, 2011 at 8:46 pm

    Wow. SP&T pulling the trifecta. Impressive.

  5. 5.

    Geoduck

    September 24, 2011 at 8:46 pm

    The University of Washington defense held on to win a game. There may be the first glimmerings of hope.

  6. 6.

    Corner Stone

    September 24, 2011 at 8:47 pm

    Go Cocks!

  7. 7.

    Raven (formerly stuckinred)

    September 24, 2011 at 8:47 pm

    Miami went down the hard way.

  8. 8.

    South of I-10

    September 24, 2011 at 8:48 pm

    @BlueDWarrior: Agreed! Little South is rocking her LSU shirt and her ULL headband. They are both going to win!

  9. 9.

    Corner Stone

    September 24, 2011 at 8:48 pm

    @Raven (formerly stuckinred): You’ve intrigued me. I’m intrigued.

  10. 10.

    Raven (formerly stuckinred)

    September 24, 2011 at 8:49 pm

    @Corner Stone: They scored with 59 seconds to go to take the lead, reviewed and over turned.

  11. 11.

    Comrade Luke

    September 24, 2011 at 8:51 pm

    @Geoduck:

    To be fair, those were some pretty bad calls at the goal line by Cal.

  12. 12.

    Evolved Deep Southerner

    September 24, 2011 at 8:58 pm

    Whoever your favorite teams may be, I think that we can all agree that today, we are all Clemson Tigers.

  13. 13.

    Spaghetti Lee

    September 24, 2011 at 9:00 pm

    MIZ ZOU RAH!

  14. 14.

    Raven (formerly stuckinred)

    September 24, 2011 at 9:01 pm

    @Evolved Deep Southerner: A note from one of my Athens FB friends

    o Clemson fans rush the field after beating a two-loss, overrated Florida State team. Way to act like you’ve been there before Tiger fans. Oh, right . . .

  15. 15.

    South of I-10

    September 24, 2011 at 9:01 pm

    @Evolved Deep Southerner: That was a great game!

  16. 16.

    Raven (formerly stuckinred)

    September 24, 2011 at 9:02 pm

    @South of I-10: Go Hokies.

  17. 17.

    Phylllis

    September 24, 2011 at 9:04 pm

    @Evolved Deep Southerner: That was fun to watch.

  18. 18.

    Thomas

    September 24, 2011 at 9:05 pm

    Oklahoma State overcomes a terrible 1st half to send Texas A&M packing in their last ever conference meeting before A&M heads to the SEC next year. Good luck with that Aggies.

  19. 19.

    MikeJ

    September 24, 2011 at 9:05 pm

    @Spaghetti Lee: I remember every word to the fight song as well as I, and everyone I knew, ever did:
    Fight tigers fight for old Mizzou
    daaaa da da dada dadadada

    My friends and I always went to Reactor field for the rugby game before the football. They check for alcohol at the stadium, but not at the rugby match.

  20. 20.

    The Dangerman

    September 24, 2011 at 9:10 pm

    I’m still hoping for a good game WV/LSU; I watched UCLA barely beat a shitty OSU team. Stanford, at the Farm, next week; 2-3, here we come.

  21. 21.

    Raven (formerly stuckinred)

    September 24, 2011 at 9:13 pm

    @The Dangerman: The OSU that Sac State beat?

  22. 22.

    Linnaeus

    September 24, 2011 at 9:13 pm

    U-M looking good, but Denard Robinson still needs to work on his passing. Big Ten defenses will stack the box against him and he won’t be able to outrun them all the time.

    But there’s definite improvement since last year, especially on defense. Bar was set pretty low, though.

  23. 23.

    Corner Stone

    September 24, 2011 at 9:14 pm

    Man. Lo Mein for dinner or sushi?
    I love eating with chopsticks. Makes me revel in my first culture intellectuality.

  24. 24.

    Raven (formerly stuckinred)

    September 24, 2011 at 9:14 pm

    The czar has a new thread up.

  25. 25.

    Linnaeus

    September 24, 2011 at 9:14 pm

    @Raven (formerly stuckinred):

    Yes, that OSU. Beavers are looking awful so far.

  26. 26.

    Corner Stone

    September 24, 2011 at 9:14 pm

    Lattimore, bitchez!

  27. 27.

    Raven (formerly stuckinred)

    September 24, 2011 at 9:15 pm

    @Linnaeus: FAK MICHIGAN!

  28. 28.

    The Dangerman

    September 24, 2011 at 9:16 pm

    @Raven (formerly stuckinred):

    The OSU that Sac State beat?

    That would be the one. Far too close for comfort (and Skippy’s job security; he might have been left in Oregon if he lost).

  29. 29.

    Svensker

    September 24, 2011 at 9:16 pm

    @Geoduck:

    Used to make delicious chowder from your ilk.

  30. 30.

    Linnaeus

    September 24, 2011 at 9:18 pm

    @Raven (formerly stuckinred):

    FAK MICHIGAN!

    Oh, dear. That’s a problem.

  31. 31.

    Raven (formerly stuckinred)

    September 24, 2011 at 9:19 pm

    @Linnaeus: Not for this Illini it’s not.

  32. 32.

    Corner Stone

    September 24, 2011 at 9:20 pm

    @Svensker:
    “I know what you’re thinking“

  33. 33.

    Linnaeus

    September 24, 2011 at 9:20 pm

    @Raven (formerly stuckinred):

    Not for this Illini it’s not.

    An Illini? That’s an even bigger problem. :)

  34. 34.

    Raven (formerly stuckinred)

    September 24, 2011 at 9:22 pm

    @Linnaeus: 4-0 for the first time since 1951 when my dad was a senior and we lived in vets housing next to the stadium!

  35. 35.

    Linnaeus

    September 24, 2011 at 9:24 pm

    @Raven (formerly stuckinred):

    Seriously, Illinois is looking good this year and has some real talent. They’re fun to watch. I would actually like to see them play more, but I don’t have a TV and we don’t get a lot of Big Ten games out here in the Great Northwest.

  36. 36.

    Raven (formerly stuckinred)

    September 24, 2011 at 9:24 pm

    Me and my mom next at Stadium Terrace 1950. We had just scored on the Wolverines!

  37. 37.

    JPL

    September 24, 2011 at 9:25 pm

    @Raven (formerly stuckinred): That is so cute…

  38. 38.

    Raven (formerly stuckinred)

    September 24, 2011 at 9:26 pm

    @Linnaeus: Western Michigan gave us all we wanted today. I’ve been gone from there 26 years but the local cable all the sudden picked up the Big 10 network so I’m choppin in high cotton!

  39. 39.

    AR

    September 24, 2011 at 9:30 pm

    As a Maryland fan, I am +5 at the moment.

    Easily the worst loss in football in my lifetime.

  40. 40.

    Raven (formerly stuckinred)

    September 24, 2011 at 9:32 pm

    @AR: Buddy around the corner is a Maryland AND Miami fan, talk about a bad day!

  41. 41.

    Linnaeus

    September 24, 2011 at 9:33 pm

    @Raven (formerly stuckinred):

    Okay, that’s pretty awesome. Even if you had just scored on my Wolverines.

  42. 42.

    Raven (formerly stuckinred)

    September 24, 2011 at 9:34 pm

    @Linnaeus: just funnin

  43. 43.

    Svensker

    September 24, 2011 at 9:40 pm

    @Corner Stone:

    “I know what you’re thinking”

    You ain’t seen nuthin til you’ve pulled one of those babies out of the sand and seem him (they are all “him”) flop.

  44. 44.

    Svensker

    September 24, 2011 at 9:40 pm

    @Raven (formerly stuckinred):

    Cutest picture ever. And your mom is quite a dish.

  45. 45.

    Raven (formerly stuckinred)

    September 24, 2011 at 9:42 pm

    @Svensker: She was. A coal miners daughter. Been gone almost 5 years now.

  46. 46.

    Yutsano

    September 24, 2011 at 9:43 pm

    @Svensker: How many other clams in the world could you feed a family of four with on just one bivalve?

  47. 47.

    grandpajohn

    September 24, 2011 at 9:44 pm

    @Evolved Deep Southerner: yes . yes. over a thousand yards total offense against 2 rated teams.

  48. 48.

    Svensker

    September 24, 2011 at 9:47 pm

    @Raven (formerly stuckinred):

    She done good.

    and @Yutsano:

    But they’re skeery. Still. My Uncle Pete made the world’s best clam fritters with those things. He could make them with other clams, but to be just right real honest to gawd Uncle Pete’s Clam Fritters they had to be geoduck meat.

  49. 49.

    Raven (formerly stuckinred)

    September 24, 2011 at 9:53 pm

    @Svensker: Check out her aunt Venus

  50. 50.

    Geoduck

    September 24, 2011 at 10:23 pm

    Just for the record, it’s the mascot of my Alma Mater. Yes, there is a collage with a clam for a mascot.

  51. 51.

    Raven (formerly stuckinred)

    September 24, 2011 at 10:24 pm

    @Geoduck: Banana Slugs too!

  52. 52.

    Dee Loralei IPhone

    September 24, 2011 at 10:40 pm

    @Spaghetti Lee: Boomer Sooner!!

  53. 53.

    Spaghetti Lee

    September 24, 2011 at 11:04 pm

    @Dee Loralei IPhone:

    Well, lah-dee-dah.

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