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Backyard Brawl Open Thread

by John Cole|  November 25, 20117:29 pm| 63 Comments

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Five minutes into the game and the refs have already declared this is all about them. How many of you have ever seen a chop block called in the scrum that is the line during a field goal attempt? Utter fucking bullshit.

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  1. 1.

    Raven

    November 25, 2011 at 7:33 pm

    Only when one is committed.

  2. 2.

    Svensker

    November 25, 2011 at 7:34 pm

    Friday nite football? Where? Who?

  3. 3.

    cathyx

    November 25, 2011 at 7:34 pm

    Does this mean you’re going to drink the night away?

  4. 4.

    cathyx

    November 25, 2011 at 7:35 pm

    Oh, and it is all about the refs. They have all the power.

  5. 5.

    Raven

    November 25, 2011 at 7:35 pm

    @Svensker: The backyard brawl!

  6. 6.

    marcopolo

    November 25, 2011 at 7:40 pm

    and i thought we’d have seen pepper spray used by now…it is black friday, after all…

    also too, i am agnostic over whether it would be the players, refs, fans, stadium staff, or aliens using it…

  7. 7.

    Yutsano

    November 25, 2011 at 7:41 pm

    @Raven: Apple Cup. Also. Too. But it just started and I’m not watching yet. I go change that now. :)

  8. 8.

    cathyx

    November 25, 2011 at 7:42 pm

    @marcopolo: I like that idea. When the teams are lined up on the line of scrimmage, WVU should pull out the pepper spray and spray the defenders. A touchdown every time.

  9. 9.

    khead

    November 25, 2011 at 7:48 pm

    This thread needs some kitteh.

    Bella meets Gracie.

  10. 10.

    MikeJ

    November 25, 2011 at 7:50 pm

    @Yutsano: You must really like pregame shows. Isn’t the game tomorrow?

  11. 11.

    Raven

    November 25, 2011 at 7:51 pm

    @Yutsano: It’s listed as tomorrow?

  12. 12.

    Cassidy

    November 25, 2011 at 7:51 pm

    We need a new meme: Pepper Spraying Cop vs. Pepper Spraying Cometitive Shopper.

  13. 13.

    cathyx

    November 25, 2011 at 7:53 pm

    @khead: I hate to criticize your photography and I’m a sucker for kitten pictures, but you need to work on it a bit.

  14. 14.

    khead

    November 25, 2011 at 7:53 pm

    @cathyx:

    Heh. I can’t get the little one to stay still. It’s not for a lack of trying – 30 f’in pics and those are the best 2. They’ve been playing through the gate all day.

  15. 15.

    cathyx

    November 25, 2011 at 7:54 pm

    @khead: I think it’s more a lighting problem.

  16. 16.

    burnspbesq

    November 25, 2011 at 7:54 pm

    @Raven:

    Yup. But the Coug basketball team is on teevee tonight.

  17. 17.

    Evolving Deep Southerner (tense changed for accuracy)

    November 25, 2011 at 7:57 pm

    Man, that LSU-Arkansas game … In the beginning, after the Pick Six especially, I thought Arkansas would not only win, but romp in that one. But LSU proved that it is the best football team in the country right now. The perennial “BCS Chaos” will have to play it out in the “scrum” over Number Two.

    I am glad to see my Dawgs in the SEC Championship Game, but it could be ugly.

  18. 18.

    Raven

    November 25, 2011 at 7:58 pm

    Anyone ever heard of using tonic water for a hammy cramp? I stood on the deck of a heavily pitching fishing boat and just woke up with what I thought was a knife stabbing me in the hamstring.

  19. 19.

    Kola Noscopy

    November 25, 2011 at 8:00 pm

    Infractions of rules are infractions of rules; never understood those who think the rules shouldn’t apply depending on the situation, in the absence of any such exceptions having been included in the rule book.

    So to sum up: A chop block is indeed a chop block and will be called as such when a chop block occurs. Not hard to understand.

  20. 20.

    Raven

    November 25, 2011 at 8:01 pm

    @Evolving Deep Southerner (tense changed for accuracy): And maybe not, Arkansas’ D is nowhere as good as ours. I got my notification that I got 2 duckets for the game and now I have to decide what to do.

  21. 21.

    Evolving Deep Southerner (tense changed for accuracy)

    November 25, 2011 at 8:03 pm

    @Raven: What do you mean “decide what to do?” Are you going?

  22. 22.

    JPL

    November 25, 2011 at 8:04 pm

    @Raven: What’s to decide. Even if GA doesn’t win, you’ll see some great football.

  23. 23.

    Svensker

    November 25, 2011 at 8:04 pm

    @Raven:

    Don’t know about tonic water, but calcium/magnesium pills will help. Magnesium alone if you can’t find cal/mags. Epsom salt soak is excellent (mag in solution).

  24. 24.

    Paddy

    November 25, 2011 at 8:06 pm

    Hey guys- I’m doing our Holiday referral post tonight and wanted to give ya’ll the opportunity to get more eyes on stuff you like, whether it’s your work or someone elses, a charity or neat thing. You can send it here ’cause I will be updating for a couple weeks. We need to support each other on the intertubeythingamajigs.

  25. 25.

    Evolving Deep Southerner (tense changed for accuracy)

    November 25, 2011 at 8:06 pm

    In that game, I would not be worried about our defense as much as our offensive line. They’re “bigger than the NFL” big, but … I can see Aaron Murray getting KILLED in that game. Their defense is really good.

    Of course, Arkansas was up on them two touchdowns at one time today, so you keep that kind of effort up, anything’s possible. I’ll sure be screaming at the TV over it.

  26. 26.

    Yutsano

    November 25, 2011 at 8:06 pm

    @MikeJ: @Raven: Weird. I swear that when I looked on ESPN this morning they said 7:30 start time tonight. Oh well. It’s not as if I’ve been wrong before.

    @burnspbesq: That game against UW is fun to watch too. But I know that happens later in the season.

  27. 27.

    cathyx

    November 25, 2011 at 8:07 pm

    @Raven: The best thing you can do for a cramp and for avoiding cramps is to drink a lot of water. That’s why you cramp up in the first place, you’re dehydrated.
    ETA: Potassium is the mineral to take to help with cramping.

  28. 28.

    Raven

    November 25, 2011 at 8:08 pm

    @JPL: $$$$$. I paid for my season ticket with what I made on the Boise game. I hate the dome so I may juts set a price in my head, throw em up on stub hub and see what happens. I’m invested in the ACC Championship if the Hokies go so I have to wait and see what gives.

  29. 29.

    Raven

    November 25, 2011 at 8:10 pm

    @cathyx: I know I got them from standing on the deck as long as I did. I was very rough and I don’t like sitting. I had never heard of this quinine thing until I got shot out of a cannon. The google also reveals “bed soap” as a preventative!
    http://www.snopes.com/oldwives/legcramp.asp

  30. 30.

    cathyx

    November 25, 2011 at 8:13 pm

    @Raven: That would get you sore muscles, but not cramps. Most people don’t drink enough water during the day. Usually that entails drinking when you don’t feel thirsty.

  31. 31.

    Raven

    November 25, 2011 at 8:15 pm

    @cathyx: k

  32. 32.

    MikeJ

    November 25, 2011 at 8:16 pm

    @Raven: Gin & tonic cures everything.

  33. 33.

    Raven

    November 25, 2011 at 8:17 pm

    @MikeJ: No booze here. That ship sailed 20 years ago.

  34. 34.

    Raven

    November 25, 2011 at 8:19 pm

    @Evolving Deep Southerner (tense changed for accuracy): Our O line has evolved, know what I mean?

  35. 35.

    suzanne

    November 25, 2011 at 8:23 pm

    So I had to fill a prescription, and F Walgreens with a rusty pitchfork, so I went to Target. After 5pm. It wasn’t so bad at that hour. Anyway, while the pharmacy was doing what they do, I browsed in the holiday department. They are selling a Christmas ornament of a menorah.

    My head kind of exploded.

  36. 36.

    Schlemizel

    November 25, 2011 at 8:26 pm

    In the only game that matters the U of M tied up Michigan State before the end of the first period. three quarters of the way through the second it is still tied.

    Damn arena in Lancing is tiny so the game is pretty brutal

  37. 37.

    khead

    November 25, 2011 at 8:31 pm

    @cathyx:

    If you want to explain to me how I can get a kitten to chill out in the best photography light possible – since she is a lot like Sonic the Hedgehog on steroids – I am all ears.

    Meanwhile, I will take what I can get with her.

  38. 38.

    Evolving Deep Southerner (tense changed for accuracy)

    November 25, 2011 at 8:57 pm

    @Raven: @Raven: It has. But they will be up against the likes of nothing they’ve seen thus far. Maybe it will bring out the best in them. I hope so. I sure would hate to see it turn out just ‘zackly like people expect it to, you know? The only outcome worse than that would be “Damn, I thought they’d beat ’em, but not THIS damn bad …”

    I’d sell your tickets and watch it at the house. I’m younger than you by a sight, but I’ve already gotten too old for crowds or “scrums” of any kind, no matter how benign.

  39. 39.

    Evolving Deep Southerner (tense changed for accuracy)

    November 25, 2011 at 8:59 pm

    @suzanne: How many people besides you, do you reckon, will complain?

  40. 40.

    Raven

    November 25, 2011 at 9:00 pm

    @Evolving Deep Southerner (tense changed for accuracy): I go to Sanford Stadium and when the Hokies come to Tech we always go there but the dome just sucks. The Dawgs have absolutely nothing to lose so fuck it, knock their dick in the dirt and see what happens.

  41. 41.

    seanindc

    November 25, 2011 at 9:01 pm

    cry more you’re tears are delicious

  42. 42.

    cathyx

    November 25, 2011 at 9:02 pm

    @khead: First you get a laser pointer. Then you lure her out to where there is better lighting. Then you hold the laser pointer still so she thinks she caught the light dot. Then snap the picture.

  43. 43.

    ding

    November 25, 2011 at 9:05 pm

    @suzanne:

    Maybe it was an ornament for a “Hanukkah bush”

  44. 44.

    Raven

    November 25, 2011 at 9:09 pm

    Cat vs iPad.

  45. 45.

    Evolving Deep Southerner (tense changed for accuracy)

    November 25, 2011 at 9:10 pm

    @Raven: Just saw this from some fuckstick writer on Yahoo! as an aside to their coronation of LSU:

    Predicting the ripple effects of a Georgia upset seems akin to predicting the fallout of an alien invasion, which at this point seems about as likely to happen.

    Unlikely, yes, but “alien invasion” unlikely? Shit, no, not that unlikely.

    And according to Yahoo-person, it wouldn’t make a shit if Georgia pulled off this infinitesimally probable upset, Louisiana State University STILL ought to be #1.

  46. 46.

    Raven

    November 25, 2011 at 9:13 pm

    @Evolving Deep Southerner (tense changed for accuracy): Reading online sports comments is a losing proposition. Witness, the Dawg Vent.

  47. 47.

    burnspbesq

    November 25, 2011 at 9:21 pm

    @Raven:

    the dome just sucks

    Indeed. Went to the Women’s Final Four there in 2003. Never seen so much Tennessee Dog Gack Orange before.

  48. 48.

    Raven

    November 25, 2011 at 9:28 pm

    @burnspbesq: it’s even worse for the hoop

  49. 49.

    Evolving Deep Southerner (tense changed for accuracy)

    November 25, 2011 at 9:35 pm

    @Raven: Oh, my friend, I am a regular at “Get The Picture,” Blutarsky’s blog at WordPress. You should go over and check out the Senator’s place if you haven’t.

    ETA: The link: http://blutarsky.wordpress.com/

  50. 50.

    Raven

    November 25, 2011 at 9:43 pm

    @Evolving Deep Southerner (tense changed for accuracy): Very nice, thanks. I have been in town long enough to have seen the King of Soul do dat thang at halftime. “They’ll Rock You, They’ll Sock You. . . “

  51. 51.

    burnspbesq

    November 25, 2011 at 9:50 pm

    @Raven:

    Reading online sports comments is a losing proposition. Witness, the Dawg Vent.

    No place is worse than this.

    http://mbd.scout.com/mb.aspx?s=78&f=1410

  52. 52.

    Raven

    November 25, 2011 at 9:52 pm

    @burnspbesq: Ugh!

  53. 53.

    burnspbesq

    November 25, 2011 at 9:56 pm

    Joy!

    http://www.ncaa.com/game/soccer-women/d1/2011/11/25/long-beach-st-duke#boxscore

    The Devils went down to Georgia,
    they was lookin’ for a trophy to steal.

  54. 54.

    Raven

    November 25, 2011 at 9:59 pm

    @burnspbesq: Um, what’s the Georgia connection, they have a layover at the ALT?

  55. 55.

    burnspbesq

    November 25, 2011 at 10:04 pm

    @Raven:

    Final Four is at Kennesaw State next weekend.

  56. 56.

    Yutsano

    November 25, 2011 at 10:05 pm

    @suzanne: I’ve seen those. They’re usually for mixed faith families. A lot of compromise houses will have a tree and a menorah as well.

  57. 57.

    Raven

    November 25, 2011 at 10:07 pm

    @burnspbesq: Aha! Thanks. Way up North in Mayretta.

  58. 58.

    Raven

    November 25, 2011 at 10:11 pm

    @Yutsano: We have buddha’s and
    Our Lady of Guadlaupe’s all over the joynt!

  59. 59.

    Raven

    November 25, 2011 at 10:23 pm

    Yea, the refs really screwed the Eeers.

  60. 60.

    gwangung

    November 25, 2011 at 10:27 pm

    Heh.

    Bet Cole’s gonna say he knew they had it in the bag all the time…

  61. 61.

    Skip Schloss

    November 25, 2011 at 10:32 pm

    Time passes, I’m waiting for a reaction from Cole.

  62. 62.

    moderateindy

    November 25, 2011 at 10:50 pm

    The reason you would rarely see a chop block called on a field goal attempt is that such a block would be super crappy technique for a lineman to do during that type of play. I didn’t see it but my guess is that somebody made contact below the waist with the defender while another blocker was still engaged with that defensive lineman.
    But seriously, Cole crying about the officiating is hilarious. I don’t follow WVU, but considering how often he squawks about his poor Steelers getting screwed, I’d have to go with the word suspect, to describe his judgement where his football teams are concerned. Because everyone knows how often the Steelers, and teams like Duke or North Carolina basketball get the short end of the stick when it comes to officiating. Let’s just say that if Cole, were a Detroit fan, we’d be hearing about how the refs and the league were picking on poor Suh.

  63. 63.

    burnspbesq

    November 25, 2011 at 11:07 pm

    @moderateindy:

    teams like Duke or North Carolina basketball get the short end of the stick when it comes to officiating.

    If you’re going to be a Dook hater, get your talking points straight. Dook gets all the calls, and it’s because Eebil Coach Rat-Face has perfected the eebil arts of intimidating the refs.

    If you want to see how the experts do it, follow the link in comment 51.

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