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You are here: Home / Sports / Go Army! Beat Navy!

Go Army! Beat Navy!

by John Cole|  December 14, 20132:55 pm| 63 Comments

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Let’s go Army!

Here is the earworm I’ve had since 8 am this morning:

Love the 80’s.

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  1. 1.

    Dee Loralei

    December 14, 2013 at 3:04 pm

    My oldest nephew is a Junior at West Point, so all of my family is rooting for Army. My brother in law, both nephews and my oldest niece are at the game. Freezing. Having a blast. My little Sister is bitching because she had to stay and open their jewelry store.

  2. 2.

    Soonergrunt

    December 14, 2013 at 3:04 pm

    Well, the Midshipmen of Navy are 7-4, and the Black Knights are 3-8. I think this Army-Navy game will go like the last 11 games.

  3. 3.

    Ripley

    December 14, 2013 at 3:11 pm

    Aside from rooting for head injuries, what’s on the agenda for today?

  4. 4.

    Tommy

    December 14, 2013 at 3:19 pm

    @Dee Loralei: I am an Air Force brat. I got nothing against Army, but honestly known a lot of Navy folks … so GO NAVY!

  5. 5.

    trollhattan

    December 14, 2013 at 3:20 pm

    Great song. For whatever reason I’ve always thought of it as a Tears for Fears tune, guess because it fits their style so well. This is my prototypical INXS song.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FRI5Eatbas

  6. 6.

    scav

    December 14, 2013 at 3:20 pm

    Go Coast Guard!

  7. 7.

    Tommy

    December 14, 2013 at 3:25 pm

    He hurt his ankle moving artillery.

    That is something you don’t often hear during a football game.

  8. 8.

    raven

    December 14, 2013 at 3:30 pm

    I’m a dog face and my old man was a Navy mustang, enlisted in WWII and became an officer after he got his degree. He loathed the Academy officers. He would sing. “What’s the color of horseshit, Navy Blue and Gold”!

  9. 9.

    HumboldtBlue

    December 14, 2013 at 3:34 pm

    Go Army! Beat Navy!

  10. 10.

    Yatsuno

    December 14, 2013 at 3:34 pm

    GO NAVY!!!

    *this should be a surprise to no one.

  11. 11.

    Tommy

    December 14, 2013 at 3:39 pm

    @raven: I’ve not served myself. A few months ago my father wrote a book. About the military high school he went to. He is a man of few words, and to be honest I didn’t know much about it. Since I do web sites and such I said I could help promote it. So as you might guess he sent me a copy.

    I have to admit I now understand so much of how I was raised. How things worked in my household as a kid. Being raised in a military family, well somewhat unique IMHO.

  12. 12.

    trollhattan

    December 14, 2013 at 3:39 pm

    @Ripley:

    Kid’s in the midst of a soccer tourny–one match down three to go. And it’s COLD (California cold, but still). Think I miss rec league–eight matches and done ’til next fall.

  13. 13.

    Boudica

    December 14, 2013 at 3:39 pm

    Go Navy! Says this daughter of a career Navy man and sister of Naval Academy grad…..

  14. 14.

    Bargal20

    December 14, 2013 at 3:41 pm

    Michael Hutchence: a perfect example of self-reliance gone too far.

  15. 15.

    HumboldtBlue

    December 14, 2013 at 3:41 pm

    @scav: That’s what my dad would say. The Coasties up here are very busy and are some of the finest young men and women in the country. My former neighbor just earned the Surfman’s badge. She’s a total badass.

  16. 16.

    raven

    December 14, 2013 at 3:42 pm

    @Tommy: He didn’t go to Marmion did he?

  17. 17.

    raven

    December 14, 2013 at 3:43 pm

    @HumboldtBlue: Tough woman!

  18. 18.

    recurvata

    December 14, 2013 at 3:45 pm

    Drummers always seem to be having the most fun in videos.

  19. 19.

    raven

    December 14, 2013 at 3:47 pm

    @Tommy: When my sis and I were kids he’d take us hiking in the Puente Hills above Whittier. We’d take 22’s and shoot at random shit. One time he got us in a place between two boulders that had corrugated roofing across them. He was bouncing big rocks of them and yelling “if you stay put you are safe”. It puzzled me but he was pretty nuts. Years later we talked about him being pinned down on the beach at Corregidor and the paratrooper that got hit when he took off running. Made prefect sense.

  20. 20.

    Tommy

    December 14, 2013 at 3:48 pm

    @raven: KMI (Kentucky Military Institute) back in the 50s. No longer around. The title of the book is Character Makes the Man, which was the motto of the school. I find it an interesting read, but what is more stunning is seeing the folks that order it. They are like a who’s who of stellar folks. The school clearly did something right.

  21. 21.

    raven

    December 14, 2013 at 3:52 pm

    @Tommy: @Tommy: Victor Manure went there!

  22. 22.

    Comrade Nimrod Humperdink

    December 14, 2013 at 3:54 pm

    My family is split into both branches (plus the Marines), and I find myself pulling for Army this year. A decade is long enough to go without beating a rival.

  23. 23.

    raven

    December 14, 2013 at 3:55 pm

    @Tommy: So you are Tommy III!

  24. 24.

    Tommy

    December 14, 2013 at 4:00 pm

    @raven: Both my grandfathers served in WWII. Honestly I had no idea what they did. When one of them passed away my dad and I got to read his letters he sent home to my grandmother. I feel safe saying he was a stud, a hero. He did things I can only hope if called to service I would do. He was a HUMP flight surgeon. He tells the story of being told he would most likely die and that he needed to learn to fly, cause there could come a time where he was the only person on said plane able to bring it home.

  25. 25.

    Hawes

    December 14, 2013 at 4:03 pm

    You love the ’80s because you were a Republican back then.

    Fucking Reagan.

  26. 26.

    raven

    December 14, 2013 at 4:03 pm

    @Tommy: I knew a guy who drove over the mountains in the CBI. There were places where the drove huge poles into the side of cliffs to make part of the road. He came home and never left Georgia again. I have a bunch of the letters my stateside folks wrote to my dad in the Pacific and he kept all my letters from Korea and Vietnam. It’s funny to read them from time-to-time.

  27. 27.

    M. Bouffant

    December 14, 2013 at 4:06 pm

    Blue & Gold, baby!!

    It is after all, the Navy & Marine Corps that guarantee our freedom. The Army are for mopping up & brutal occupations. (No one can figure what the AIr Force does, but they all love Jesus & will be happy to tell you about it.)

  28. 28.

    Tommy

    December 14, 2013 at 4:06 pm

    @raven: Yes I am. There is a III after my name. I’ve tried to post my email here and it never works, cause if I could I’d forward you the book in e-Book format. I got like 47 of them left to give out. I keep telling my dad folks might want it in this format, but he says “we’re old, we don’t read books that way.” I keep saying things like “there is this thing call the Internet” and “old folks have a tablet, even if you don’t.”

  29. 29.

    raven

    December 14, 2013 at 4:07 pm

    @Tommy: markann at gmail dot com

    I was able to preview it in Google books. Funny it was so tied to Florida. Tell him I’m 64 and I work on projects producing eTexbooks.

  30. 30.

    JPL

    December 14, 2013 at 4:09 pm

    Go Navy!

  31. 31.

    Omnes Omnibus

    December 14, 2013 at 4:13 pm

    Beat Navy!

  32. 32.

    Tommy

    December 14, 2013 at 4:15 pm

    @raven: Will send it. Got to get the code from my dad. Today if not tomorrow.

    Yes they “wintered” in Flordia.

  33. 33.

    Ben Franklin

    December 14, 2013 at 4:16 pm

    INXS? Gawd the 80’s sucked hind tit.

  34. 34.

    raven

    December 14, 2013 at 4:18 pm

    @Tommy: Cool! Thx. Did you read my post on my flat tire adventure on the last thread?

  35. 35.

    Mnemosyne (iPhone)

    December 14, 2013 at 4:22 pm

    @Tommy:

    I was looking for you last night.  They have some puppies at the animal shelter that jeffreyw’s wife works/volunteers at that you may be interested in — they’re lab/border collie mixes. You can see a photo at this blog entry (black-and-white puppy).  IIRC, you guys are both downstate, but I’m not sure how far apart.

  36. 36.

    JPL

    December 14, 2013 at 4:23 pm

    @raven: I saw that! Today I went to a remembrance of the victims of gun violence put on by Mayors against illegal guns, it was held at the Unitarian Church near where I live It was non political except for about a minute and even that was a list of laws expected to be introduced by the legislature.

  37. 37.

    mclaren

    December 14, 2013 at 4:25 pm

    How about we disband the U.S. Army, disband the U.S. Navy, try their leaders for war crimes, and end professional sports?

    That would be a lot better plan than “Go Army! Go Navy!”

  38. 38.

    Violet

    December 14, 2013 at 4:26 pm

    Good Lord. Just turned on the TV and saw the weather at the game. What is that on the field–ice? What a mess!

  39. 39.

    raven

    December 14, 2013 at 4:28 pm

    @mclaren: I had to un-pie you just to read your stupid motherfucking bullshit. Asshole.

  40. 40.

    raven

    December 14, 2013 at 4:29 pm

    @efgoldman: Yea, that too.

  41. 41.

    NotMax

    December 14, 2013 at 4:31 pm

    @efgoldman

    Emceed a concert in NYC during the 70s where the power to the stage went out. But not completely, as some lighting was still on. (Not in a stadium-type venue; was in a large auditorium/ballroom in a well-known hotel.)

    The drummer covered for close to 15 minutes until power was restored. And the audience, so help me, never knew anything was amiss.

    No, honestly don’t remember the name of the band.

  42. 42.

    raven

    December 14, 2013 at 4:33 pm

    @NotMax: My buddy whose folks live on Maui said there is a big swell at the Pipeline.

  43. 43.

    Violet

    December 14, 2013 at 4:33 pm

    Across the street from me they’re building a new house. They’ve framed it out and wrapped it in Tyvek. They punched holes in the Tyvek for windows and such, but those aren’t installed yet. Today it’s really windy and the Tyvek is blowing around in the wind. It’s making a racket. Driving me batty.

  44. 44.

    NotMax

    December 14, 2013 at 4:39 pm

    @raven

    Storm front moving in – thunderstorms predicted later through weekend.

    High Surf Warning…north and west shores of Kauai, Oahu, Molokai, and north shore of Maui

    Small Craft Advisory…for large surf along the north and west
    shores of Kauai down through Maui County and the Big Island

  45. 45.

    Pogonip

    December 14, 2013 at 4:41 pm

    My dad was Army, my uncle was Navy, had my tonsils out in an Air Farce hospital, give to Toys for Tots every year. So I remain impartial.

  46. 46.

    Pogonip

    December 14, 2013 at 4:45 pm

    @efgoldman: In this area so far today we have had snow, rain, snow, some miserable in-between species of precipitation, and now rain again. Since this is Geminid weekend, I expect the flaming meteorites to start falling at any time now.

  47. 47.

    Yatsuno

    December 14, 2013 at 4:46 pm

    @Mnemosyne (iPhone): ZOMG PUPPEHS!!!

    @mclaren: Sure. End one of the greatest employment plans the US government has! Then you have 2 million more unemployed Americans! Go back to your underpants gnomes, they left off a few steps.

    @Pogonip: Actually, Toys for Tots edges you over into the Navy camp ever so slightly. :)

  48. 48.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    December 14, 2013 at 4:47 pm

    Dad was Navy during WWII, enlisted 4 years before the war, GO NAVY.

  49. 49.

    Omnes Omnibus

    December 14, 2013 at 4:52 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: Probably not going to happen.

  50. 50.

    Pogonip

    December 14, 2013 at 4:54 pm

    @Yatsuno: T for T is run by Marine reservists. As long as we’re on the subject, they get discounts when they buy the toys themselves, so if you give them money your donation goes farther than it would if you bought the toys and gave the toys to the jarheads.

    Does anybody have any good purple jokes?

  51. 51.

    SiubhanDuinne

    December 14, 2013 at 4:56 pm

    I do not have a dog — sea dog, salty dog, Dawg, or dogface — in this fight. But I had to laugh earlier today when my FB feed showed adjacent posts from two different friends:

    Go Army! Beat Navy!

    and

    Go Navy! Beat Army!

  52. 52.

    Violet

    December 14, 2013 at 4:59 pm

    @efgoldman: Yeah, I know about the winter stuff. I just wasn’t sure what was on the field. It looked cracked, like ice that’s been stepped on. Not drifted and soft like the snow that was falling at the time.

  53. 53.

    Yatsuno

    December 14, 2013 at 5:09 pm

    @Pogonip: A lot of them love getting dressed up for the toy drives and showing off for the kids. But yeah I knew about the money part, which is why I try to slip them a 20 when I can. Plus it’s a very well-run charity.

  54. 54.

    J R in WV

    December 14, 2013 at 5:20 pm

    I have a love/hate relationship with the Navy. I was an involuntary enlistee, to avoid being drafted into the Marines and sent to the beautiful rice paddies of Vietnam. I worked hard, and enjoyed the hard work. The NCOs and Officers on the other hand…

    Anyway, Go Navy!

    I hate to see the guy injured tho. Playing in Freezing Rain! Urck!

  55. 55.

    raven

    December 14, 2013 at 5:31 pm

    @J R in WV: They started drafting into the corps right when I went in , November, 1966.

    eta I think you have to be a volunteer to be an enlistee?

  56. 56.

    spudgun

    December 14, 2013 at 5:38 pm

    Sorry, John, Navy brat here – Dad’s a (retired) Master Chief…brother also did a stint in the Navy during Gulf War I.

    GO NAVY!!

  57. 57.

    PaulW

    December 14, 2013 at 6:19 pm

    Navy family here.

    Actually, it’s an Auburn-Florida-USF-Navy family, with an interest in FGCU basketball (DUNK CITY!).

    Anywho.

    GO NAVY.

  58. 58.

    Skippy-san

    December 14, 2013 at 7:21 pm

    12 years in a row. Go Navy!

  59. 59.

    Josie

    December 14, 2013 at 8:13 pm

    Just in case anyone besides me cares, Mack Brown is stepping down.

    http://www.burntorangenation.com/2013/12/14/5204672/mack-brown-to-resign-as-texas-longhorns-head-coach

  60. 60.

    PaulW

    December 14, 2013 at 9:44 pm

    people didn’t like INXS? “Don’t Change” was a great song!

    I SURVIVED THE 80S PEOPLE, AND YOU CAN TOO.

  61. 61.

    master c

    December 15, 2013 at 1:02 pm

    @PaulW: yes. this!

  62. 62.

    Manyakitty

    December 15, 2013 at 1:29 pm

    @PaulW: One of my favorite songs, period.

  63. 63.

    Thomas

    December 16, 2013 at 9:45 am

    Love the 80s, John? You should check out Robert Drake’s Land of the Lost show. XPN is Philly-based, but you can stream the show (you can also stream archived shows).

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