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The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

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

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They’re not red states to be hated; they are voter suppression states to be fixed.

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  3. 3.

    J. Michael Neal

    Screw football. (Easy to say when you’re a Gopher fan. Nice job losing the homecoming game, Goophs.) I decided that it was a good day for a drive so I’m up in Duluth to watch the Badgers and the Bulldogs square off. It would probably be better for Minnesota if UMD wins, but I just can’t root for a team coached by Shannon Miller.

  5. 5.

    jwb

    Texas looks as bad as Ryan did in the debate against Biden. I had to turn it off before I made it to halftime.

  6. 6.

    Mr Stagger Lee

    I hope Stanford stomps Notre Dame into a mudhole, I am hardly sick of this worshiping of this tired old program, though they may be good this year. National Championship contender? Mike Golic maybe you need to ease back on your meds!

  7. 7.

    The Snarxist Formerly Known As Kryptik

    Geez. OU is stomping a mudhole into Texas. I hope that doesn’t make WVU’s win look bad in the computer standings.

  9. 9.

    Hill Dweller

    @jwb:

    Texas looks as bad as Ryan did in the debate against Biden.

    PPP’s initial post-debate swing state polling shows voters see the debate as a draw, just like the media was telling them to believe.

  11. 11.

    MikeJ

    @Amir Khalid: There was a California-Arizona women’s game on this morning, but I couldn’t keep watching since they ran the clock backwards. It just annoyed me too much.

  13. 13.

    Schlemizel

    @J. Michael Neal:

    Yaaaa J. Mike!!! No way I could ever hope any team Miller coached win anything but OTOH the badger? yuk – the only thing I’d root for is a meteor but since your there thats no good either. BTW – has she whined to the refs for 10 minutes between periods yet? She does that once a game

    On the up side the Gophers are handing St. Lawrence another whoopin’ (3-0 end of one) so thats great

  15. 15.

    The Snarxist Formerly Known As Kryptik

    I’m getting awful feelings about this game now….

    Texas Tech’s defense is already getting through badly, and we can’t play defense…

  16. 16.

    Loneoak

    “Man, are we slipping on the football open threads.”

    The service around here is terrible, and the threads are too small.

  17. 17.

    Schlemizel

    @Amir Khalid:

    You see it in hockey in Europe all the time. Its weird but you get used to it. Somehow though watching the clock get to 0:00 has a stronger visceral feeling then having it reach 20:00.

  20. 20.

    Schlemizel

    Gophers just scored again to go up 4-0 on St. Lawrence. It is going to be a most entertaining winter

  22. 22.

    Arm The Homeless

    @efgoldman: There is a persistent Gooper on BF claiming it’s a false flag, parsing the guys wrinkles in the back of his head trying to prove the photographer and the racist were in cahoots. It’s simultaneously sad and funny.

  26. 26.

    Geoduck

    @efgoldman:

    But that’s the Rmoney/Ryan logo on the back of the shirt, right above the “reprehensible” slogan.

    Even the Romney campaign wouldn’t hand out shirts like that. Looks to me like the wearer added a sticker above the message.

  28. 28.

    Scout211

    Went outside to do yard work because Michigan State was about to win the game against my Hawkeyes. I came back in and OMG! Iowa won in 2 OTs!

    I missed it.

    Sheesh.

  29. 29.

    The Snarxist Formerly Known As Kryptik

    @efgoldman:

    WVU -4.

    We finally got a touchdown back, but we still have no appreciable defense in the secondary.

  30. 30.

    Soonergrunt

    @The Snarxist Formerly Known As Kryptik: No. 14-0 isn’t murdering you. That’s beating you.
    Murder would be what the Sooners are doing to the Longhorns.
    Other appropriate metaphorical language include:
    Destroy
    Annihilate
    Butcher
    Crush
    Ravage
    Mutilate
    Eradicate
    Shatter
    Snuff out
    Slaughter

    Hope this helps.

  31. 31.

    burnspbesq

    @efgoldman:

    There was actually one pundit earlier this week projecting that Duke would play Vandy.

    The first order of business for Duke is for Renfree to get healthy. They’re neither as good as the first quarter of today’s game suggested nor as bad as they looked in the second half.

    Would be awfully cool to become bowl-eligible by beating the fookin’ Tarholes next week.

  32. 32.

    Amir Khalid

    @efgoldman:
    By hockey you mean the kind played on ice, right? We don’t follow that very much here in the tropics. American football, either.

  34. 34.

    burnspbesq

    Tuesday night’s going to be interesting.

    A draw between the US and Guatemala means that both advance, no matter what Jamaica does. OTOH, a Guatemala win knocks out the US if Jamaica beats A&B by two, and a US win knocks out Guatemala if Jamaica beats A&B by two.

    If you’re Guatemala, do you risk everything by going for the win?

  36. 36.

    Spaghetti Lee

    Man, it is storming in Columbia right now. The players are basically running through a swamp. And Bama’s up 21-0.

    I’ll admit I’m glad I sat it out-I’m not that big a fan.

  37. 37.

    Mister Papercut

    @raven:

    No shit. The Hokies have roared back from 20-0 in the first to up 20-34 in the 4th.

    Down 20 against Duke in the first quarter at Lane, tho.

    I definitely picked the wrong week to quit amphetamines.

  38. 38.

    Gator90

    An announcer for the game I’m watching just faulted some college football players for not doing “what they’re paid to do.”

  40. 40.

    Dee Loralei

    My beloved Sooners kicked TexASS! WooHoo!

    Now West Virginia is looking poorly against TT.

  41. 41.

    Schlemizel

    Gophers just went up 5-0, had a player draw a game misconduct for pulling the face mask off a Saint – wish I had video so I knew what happened!

  43. 43.

    The Snarxist Formerly Known As Kryptik

    Yep….28-7 with just over 2 minutes in the half.

    A shitting of the bed of epic proportions, unless WVU can charge out of the gate at the start of the second half. But the way the defense is going, I give up.

    Figures.

  44. 44.

    Schlemizel

    Game over – 6-0 UoM
    #1 team in the nation – running total for their first 6 games: 40 – 1

  45. 45.

    Evolving Deep Southerner

    @Spaghetti Lee: Damn right. If you’re under a roof – and I assume you are, since you’re posting here – you’re in a better place than any of the fans who went to that one. It’s raining like a whole herd of cows pissing on flat rocks. Alabama needs to put in second/third stringers and just ride this one out. Mizzou … shit, I don’t know what they need to do. Hope lightning curtails the whole thing, I guess.

  46. 46.

    Evolving Deep Southerner

    @Spaghetti Lee: Damn right. If you’re under a roof – and I assume you are, since you’re posting here – you’re in a better place than any of the fans who went to that one. It’s raining like a whole herd of cows pissing on flat rocks. Alabama needs to put in second/third stringers and just ride this one out. Mizzou … shit, I don’t know what they need to do. Hope lightning curtails the whole thing, I guess.

  48. 48.

    Mark B.

    Oklahoma beat Texas like Biden beat Ryan. Mack Brown was complaining that it was rather rude.

  49. 49.

    JWL

    I’d have slid on posting football comments, too, had the Niners, like the Steelers, just been whipped by the Tennessee “On Any Given Sunday” Titans.

  51. 51.

    jomike

    What a beatdown. Worst performance by a Texas defensive unit in the Mack Brown era. D coordinator Manny Diaz is on the hot seat now, for sure.

    Nice three-touchdown comeback by Illinois State at home against a solid Youngstown State team.

  52. 52.

    DesertFriar

    @Hill Dweller: I wish someone in the Obama family would respond to those remarks with “Because we’re Christian, we are supposed to turn the other cheek.”

  54. 54.

    Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)

    Michigan is just whooping up on Alabama Notre Dame Illinois. 45-0. Ugly.

  65. 65.

    burnspbesq

    @Thlayli:

    That’s the smart play, but emotionally, the chance to deliver the knockout punch to El Yanqui has to be alluring. I wouldn’t be surprised to see them come out flying, and reassess if it’s tied at halftime.

  66. 66.

    Evolving Deep Southerner

    @raven: I really want South Carolina to win that one. Just to make me feel better about last week. And because I’ve heard so much SEC-East-Can’t-Carry-SEC-West’s-Jock-Strap talk.

    And Mrs. Deep Southerner is not happy with where her Gators are at right now.

  71. 71.

    Tokyokie

    @Soonergrunt: I hope today’s game helped make up for an otherwise crappy week for you . I know that walloping the snot out of those emasculated bovine always brightens my whole week. The whorns can never lose often or badly enough to satisfy me (I’m still pissed off about letting up 2 on a botched XP, Jones’ bonehead pick-6 and two scores allowed by the second team), but today came awfully close.

  74. 74.

    Evolving Deep Southerner

    Mr. Cole, what happened to your ‘Eers? Hell, that was getting into Georgia-vs.-South Carolina territory.

  75. 75.

    Evolving Deep Southerner

    And I’d sure never have picked Steve Spurrier to be one for uniform gimmickry. The Old Ball Sack should have thought about that and then laid down until the idea passed.

  76. 76.

    raven

    @Evolving Deep Southerner: $$$$, plus they are “Wounded Warrior Project” uni’s so I bet the organization is getting something.

    Not that I thing the WW’s should have to have fucking bake sales. We sent em, we damn sure should be taking care of them.

  85. 85.

    Frank in midtown

    I think I enjoyed the first annual thrashing of Mizzou as much as my ole favorite the annual thrashing of Ole Miss. Next week, the annual thrashing of TN. Roll Tide Roll.

  86. 86.

    Kilkee

    The degree of loathing for Notre Dame on here always surprises me. Somehow I would think that a team that at least aspires to blend actual academics with football (and yes, check out the graduation rates) would cause the sort of folks who gather here to give it at least some grudging respect.

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