‘Bama is leading Mizzou in the 3rd. Interesting games coming up. I’ll be hate-watching Florida State (ptuii!) and hoping the Badgers bash the Buckeyes. Baylor and K-State should be interesting too.
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raven
My goodness, a handful of games and another thread. Very nice, when what’s-his-name is in charge we get zip.
raven
@efgoldman: I’m still pullin for Mizzou but it will be a joke if the SEC isn’t in the playoff.
lamh36
Since this is a sports thread…Go Jamaica!!
Corner Stone
How does #88 for MO keep doing that?
raven
@lamh36: Irie
raven
The thick plottens
Betty Cracker
@raven: That’s why I’m kinda pulling for ‘Bama (even though I think Saban is Satan and Kiffen is his puling lesser imp flunky).
Corner Stone
MO making it an actual game.
JPL
Thank you for the new thread. Someone needs to let Mizzou know that a field goal isn’t gonna help. I will be cheering loudly for Tech though.
Betty Cracker
@lamh36: Go Atkinson! I love the look on her face in that pic when she realized she’d won!
Corner Stone
@JPL:
It’s a one score game still in the 3rd Q !
raven
@Betty Cracker: I’m so sick of all those fuckers that I don’t really care. A bonus may be to see what kind of immediate rule change comes about if they lose.
JPL
ot.. dog story… As I mentioned hundreds of times, my latest rescue urinates while walking on his front paws. The neighbors son calls it handstands and states that it is embarrassing. While talking on the phone with a friend this morning and cooking bacon, I turn to see him erect on his hind legs walking towards the stove. The friend said well….the hind legs would be stronger so why are you surprised. I called another friend who said the same thing.
So I have a dog that walks erect and my friends are not surprised.
raven
@lamh36: Do you know about “Herb” McKenley”? He was an Illini as well as a Jamaican.
Herbert Henry “Herb” McKenley OM (July 10, 1922 – November 26, 2007) was a Jamaican sprint runner. He competed at the 1948 and 1952 Olympics in six events in total, and won one gold and three silver medals.[1]”
JPL
@Corner Stone: haha.. That makes as much sense as my dog story. Bama can score td’s
raven
@JPL: Tell your friend “If my dog had a face like yours. . . “
JPL
@raven: The ex called today about xmas and the sons. I told him about the Finch and he said, you always picked out strange pets. I said, I’m better for it. Who else would adopt a dog being treated for heartworm who escaped from a circus.
raven
@JPL: I would have had a better come back for him than that but, then, I’m evil.
Betty Cracker
@JPL: My mom had a rescue dog that would pee while doing a handstand. It’s a tiny little poodle that weighs maybe seven pounds or so? An average housecat could kick its ass. Anyhoo, that was the first dog I’d ever seen do that. Very odd.
Omnes Omnibus
@raven: Something along the lines of “Well, I did marry you, didn’t I?”
Betty Cracker
Holy fuck! Oklahoma State just ran a punt back for a touchdown and is an extra point away from tying it up with 45 seconds left!
ETA: Annnnd, tie ball game!
raven
jesus christ, 92yd runback by OK State to tie with 45 seconds left. What does that remind us of boys and girls?
Corner Stone
Kate Upton riding on a horse at full gallop is pretty damn inspiring. Or is it aspirational?
raven
@Omnes Omnibus: Ding, we have a winner in aisle 21!
JPL
@Betty Cracker: The vet wants Finch at fifteen pounds and he was eighteen when I adopted him. My son who came over yesterday thought he lost a few ounces. In the morning he can cover about twelve feet. I never saw him walk on his hind legs before this morning though.
bacon, bacon, bacon
Mnemosyne
@JPL:
Wait, your dog escaped from a circus? Why are you not teaching it tricks 24/7 and making it a YouTube star to challenge Justin Bieber? I think it’s your patriotic duty.
raven
Stoops went to the Mark Richt school of clock management!
Corner Stone
Wow. Really bad, horrible, no good pass defense by MO.
Betty Cracker
@raven: What the fucking fuck was up with that?
Doug r
Canucks vs Maple Leafs starts in a couple of minutes for those of you that can get CBC Television or their live stream.
raven
@Betty Cracker: Of course my stake in the is that OSU is 5-6 and if they win they are bowl eligible and it hurts the Illini
eta, sheesh
Betty Cracker
@raven: The Illini’s chances just went up with that hooked field goal attempt!
Doug r
@JPL: I’d watch that dog. Especially if you see him reading something.
raven
@Betty Cracker: No, OSU needs to lose, the fewer the bowl eligible teams the better our chances.
lamh36
@Betty Cracker: IKR and apparently she also won with a WR time!
lamh36
@raven: no I’d never heard of him.
Cool. I have a friend who loves all things Jamaican and the Carribean. She even engaged to a guy from Dominica.
raven
@lamh36: My dad knew him, they were both at Illinois after the war and my pop was a PE man and big in sports. He always spoke with such reverence about Herb.
Betty Cracker
@raven: Oh, well, it’ll all over now. Poor Soonergrunt! I don’t know what the hell Stoops was thinking.
JPL
@Mnemosyne: The neighbor has him doing tricks and I almost bought a tube that he could go threw and a few jumps but then decided that is just silly. He’s a dog or a cat or something.
raven
@Betty Cracker: He’s an asshole win, lose or draw.
Omnes Omnibus
@raven: Why would you say that about soonergrunt? Some sort of anti-infantry bias?
raven
@JPL: My friends grandson plays for Benedictine and they play for the state title in the dome Saturday. I might go.
raven
@Omnes Omnibus: You know I loves the grunt, hell, he’s even FB friends with me.
Omnes Omnibus
@raven: That’s why I was surprised to see you calling him an asshole.
tsquared2001
I hooked Wiskey and K-State which will, hopefully, make up for the Tigers and under bet that I pissed away money on. Oh How I Hate Ohio State is third on my college football hate list. So go Badgers. I guess.
JPL
@raven: You should! The local high school made the playoffs but didn’t last long. If you guys want to come by and drop the pups off, you can. Finch is pretty welcoming of all types of company.
Pogonip
My mom left a Bisquick cookbook, published in 1967. It contains a recipe for chocolate-chip cookies–made with Bisquick. I wonder if anyone who ordered the book ever tried that?
I don’t care for Bisquick myself, it’s too salty, but even if I did I would never use it for cookies!
I admit I use whomp biscuits ( which make pretty good short-order dumplings, by the way) and Hungry Jack pancake mix; my kid likes Hungry Jack better than the real thing.
Mnemosyne
@JPL:
You can send your dog to Canine Circus School. Depending on the dog, he might dig it.
raven
@JPL: Ah thanks, the princess would be immersed in shibori!
raven
@Omnes Omnibus: Thilly Thavage
Betty Cracker
@Pogonip: Whomp biscuits! We’ve always called them “whamming biscuits,” but I think I like your term better.
jo6pac
College well I was to busy into Rock/Sex/Drugs but then again Sanford has always been a Fav
JPL
@raven: Let me know because the Finch gets bored without company. I know that’s shocking but true.
HinTN
@Betty Cracker: Now that’s the best description of ole Lane that I’ve ever read! THANKS
SiubhanDuinne
@Pogonip:
I had that cookbook — for all I know, I still do, someplace — and I have a pretty clear memory of making Bisquick chocolate chip cookies (probably in 1967 or ’68). Edible, but a very very very far cry from the Only Good Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe (the one on the back of the Nestlē’s package, suitably modified). My then-husband always loved my CCCs, and was quite disappointed. I don’t think I ever tried again.
OTOH, if you’re making shortcake in the summer to sop up all those fresh strawberries, there’s nothing better than Bisquick. So there’s that.
Pogonip
@Betty Cracker: Either I’m getting weaker or the cans are getting stronger; in recent years I have not been able to open the biscuits with a whomp. I have to peel the little strip. One time the strip tore off: neither my son, a guest, nor I could whomp those things open. Have TPTB decided that if you can open a can of biscuits with reasonable force, the terrorists win?
(And now I am envisioning Samurai Jack whacking away at a stubborn biscuit can with his magic sword.)
raven
@JPL: Thanks!
tsquared2001
@Pogonip: Before I came along, all Mom did was bake from scratch. That fourth kid meant a change to Bisquick for any baking needs. She never did the chocolate chip cookies but we would have strawberries and Bisquick shortquake as long as strawberries were in season.
raven
@Pogonip: Lay it on the counter and hit it with the flat side of your #2 cleaver.
Pogonip
@SiubhanDuinne: Yup, it was published in 1967, the tail end of the cream-of-whatever school of cookery. Her 1948 Good Housekeeping cookbook has a few recipes calling for cream of shrimp soup, which I haven’t seen in years, although you can probably order it from the Vermont Country Store for a mere $50 a can.
Pogonip
@Betty Cracker: Are you native to Florida? I thought they were called whomp biscuits at least as far north as Chicago.
Omnes Omnibus
@Pogonip: What is a whomp biscuit?
Comrade Luke
Just watched my Zags lose to Arizona in overtime, and I’m numb. Feels like a March Madness loss.
raven
@Omnes Omnibus: Whomp.
raven
@Omnes Omnibus: And if the stills won’t get it here’s a movie.
Omnes Omnibus
@raven: @raven: Oh. Thanks.
SiubhanDuinne
@Pogonip:
Even though I almost never cook any more, I adore old cookbooks, especially that golden age of the ’50s and ’60s. James Lileks (yes, unfortunately the wingnut) has, or had, a terrific site featuring culinary treats from the era — it was called something like “Gallery of Unfortunate Food.”
Edit: “Gallery of Regrettable Food.” Having trouble linking, but it is worth Googling if you’re not familiar with it.
raven
@SiubhanDuinne: I think I’ve already sent this
Bull Cook and Authentic Historical Recipes and Practices
Mnemosyne
@SiubhanDuinne:
There’s a Weight Watchers version, too. I have the book, and it’s hilarious.
raven
@SiubhanDuinne: Also, this Time-Life is badass
American cooking: Creole and Acadian (Foods of the world)
raven
@Omnes Omnibus: Silly ain’t it?
raven
This horseshit of having some dork-ass song before games is annoying as hell.
SiubhanDuinne
@Mnemosyne:
Dear christ.
JPL
OH, NO.. Say it ain’t so.. according to the NY Times
Republican attorneys general have formed alliances with some of the nation’s top energy producers to push back against the Obama regulatory agenda, an investigation by The New York Times has found.
I’m shocked, just shocked. link
tsquared2001
In honor of Betty and haters everywhere, I just called my bookie and bet the house on the Seminoles.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nlgfs7bIhys
SiubhanDuinne
@raven:
OMG, I owned the entire set of those Time-Life cookbooks. I “accidentally” (wink wink nudge nudge) left them behind in the divorce, and had not given them one.single.thought until this minute.
raven
@tsquared2001: They’ll probably lose and get in anyway.
BruceFromOhio
I got yer badgers right here.
GO BUCKEYES
Mike J
@SiubhanDuinne:
I got the NYT’s cookbook from the 60’s at a library sale for a quarter. Craig Claiborn is very different from “vegan until dinner” Mark Bittman.
Betty Cracker
@Pogonip: Yes, Florida native.
raven
@SiubhanDuinne: It’s important to make sure the little cookbook is in there if you re-order.
Omnes Omnibus
@BruceFromOhio: Mushroom. Mushroom.
raven
@Omnes Omnibus: Rabbit Rabbit
JCT
@Comrade Luke: I was there – it really felt like a March Madness game – McKale was insane, felt like the roof was going to lift off.
It was a great game – your center is excellent, pushed our guy all over the place .
raven
@JCT: I was on a deep sea fishing trip in Maui with “The Edge”.
trollhattan
After a welcome week of rain it hit a sweltering 68 today, pretty amazing for December 6. Kid’s soccer team lost their conference tournament final 0-1 this morning but luckily for us, it’s already been shrugged off. Get ’em next year, but don’t know where next year will be as this team has probably played its last match.
In real football the 49ers-Raiders game[sic] is keeping my game off my teebee so I guess those xmas lights are going up. Thinking zinfandel and my kmart ladder can combine to make my day fascinating.
SiubhanDuinne
@raven:
Unlikely in the extreme, but I appreciate the sentiment.
raven
@SiubhanDuinne: The stories about creole and cajun cooking are great.
BruceFromOhio
@SiubhanDuinne: Nothing tops Being Bold With Bananas at #16, except perhaps SPAM & LIMAS!
JCT
@raven: That’s nuts – must have been a blast.
SiubhanDuinne
@raven:
Somewhere I have a “Southern Woman’s” cookbook with a recipe for baked opossum that goes into excruciating detail about skinning the poor beast. The book doesn’t exactly call it “roadkill,” but it’s strongly implied.
tsquared2001
@raven: Nah, a loss would only open the door for Oh How I Hate Ohio State but since the Buckeyes are going DOWN against Wiskey, it is moot point.
JPL
@SiubhanDuinne: Why?
SiubhanDuinne
@BruceFromOhio:
I dunno. Atora “cup steak puddings” at #8 looks pretty irresistible. I mean, aren’t you jonesing for a mess o’ suet right about now?
Corner Stone
Monica Bellucci is the shit.
That is all.
JPL
@tsquared2001: That’s how I feel about FSU.
max
@Pogonip: Her 1948 Good Housekeeping cookbook has a few recipes calling for cream of shrimp soup, which I haven’t seen in years, although you can probably order it from the Vermont Country Store for a mere $50 a can.
? Campbell’s (condensed!) Cream of Shrimp, a buck 98$ at Walmart.
Not real sure why you’d want to eat that exactly, but it could be worse. I guess.
My assorted European cookbooks from the late 60’s and 70’s and my commie block cookbooks (translated by actual communists!) are pretty cool. Dunno about this 50’s American cookbook business. Sounds horrid.
max
[‘I wonder if there’s a Cream of Goat?’]
SiubhanDuinne
@JPL:
You mean, why do I own such a thing? Inherited from my father and stepmother. I have come around to the belief that they kept it around for ironic reasons.
raven
@JPL: The lil bugs are slicing and dicing their asses.
BruceFromOhio
@SiubhanDuinne: If I could stop laughing, perhaps.
“Can we just stop turning everything into loaves?”
Pogonip
@Omnes Omnibus: You whomp the can on the edge of the table to open them–or at least you did before 9/11. Now, To Keep Us Safe, you must resort to what was once the sissy way to open the biscuits, and press a spoon into the seam if the little strip tears off.
Comrade Luke
@JCT: Fortunately it’s December and not March. Seems pretty clear that these two teams and SDSU are the cream of the crop out west, at least right now.
BruceFromOhio
@Corner Stone: Truly.
Cause and Effect, my love.
Betty Cracker
@raven: Go insects! I know better than to get my hopes up, though.
tsquared2001
@SiubhanDuinne: Dad saw a turtle on the side of the road and we took it back to Grandma’s for her to make home made turtle soup. Road kill can be a Good Thing.
One of my first jobs as a teen was at General Mills and at the end of the summer, the department gave me a cookbook. I hardly ever cook but when I do cook, it is with that same cookbook.
raven
@Betty Cracker: Where’s Rare Sanity??
Mike E
Watching Burn Notice, that was a fun show with a good cast.
Pogonip
@SiubhanDuinne: So far I’ve found the Bisquick cookbook, 3 Campbell’s soup cookbooks, a Crisco cookbook, a Bob Evans cookbook, and a McCall’s cookbook showing you how to make a white frosted chocolate layer cake decorated with chocolate hearts, spades, clubs, and diamonds, for your bridge night. The authors of mid-century cookbooks do not seem to be aware that card games other than bridge existed. In 55 years I have encountered one person who knew how to play bridge, and any number of people who knew how to play poker, blackjack, hearts, spades, and euchre. So I never understood cookbook authors’ fixation on bridge.
JPL
@SiubhanDuinne: It is ironic. The Finch brought a jaw bone that he found and pretty sure it was a possum. Maybe the previous owners already stewed it.
‘btw just darn.. does tech not have a defense.. . ..
JPL
@Mike E: There were two series that ended on a perfect note according to me, Burn Notice and St. Elsewhere.
Pogonip
@SiubhanDuinne: My father ate a lot of possum as a kid during the Depression. He never liked it. He used to bring home squirrels and rabbits, and when he told us the possum story he always wound up with ” Them things ain’t fit to eat!”. I don’t know if that’s universally true or if my paternal grandmother was just a lousy possum cook.
I do know that peeling the fur off a squirrel like a banana may become a lost art once the last of that generation is gone.
tsquared2001
I would like it very much if K-State would just stop messing around and take the bible bros from Baylor to the woodshed.
I miss my TV that had picture in picture since I am trying to watch 3 games at once.
raven
@tsquared2001: I’ve had to do some serious engineering to use the PIP now that they went 100% digital. I have a cable run under the house and I have to go to the TV on the deck to change the picture.
Betty Cracker
@tsquared2001: I’m wearing out the remote too!
tsquared2001
@Pogonip: Gotta field dress rabbits and squirrels.
My Grandpa tried to pass off possum to us kids by calling it meat. Nuh uh, Grandpa, we ain’t falling for that.
catclub
@lamh36: Tim Duncan quit swimming after the pool he trained at was ruined by a hurricane, and it meant swimming in the ocean – with the sharks.
Swimming’s loss is basketball’s gain.
SiubhanDuinne
@tsquared2001:
I hope I never implied otherwise.
@Pogonip:
According to the cookbook I mentioned, possum tends to be exceptionally fatty. Makes my stomach roil, but that could be just me.
catclub
@efgoldman: Soviet Russia
tsquared2001
@raven: Wow. I just tried to tell my nephew to MAKE IT WORK. It didn’t.
tsquared2001
If Wiskey can sustain this drive, it will be not good for Oh State. Big third down
raven
@tsquared2001: Well you have to have an analog tuner and with the new setup that means a box for every TV. I ran a splitter off the box to the TV on the deck and ran a coax under the house and to the vcr and then to the analog IN on the TV. That’s why I have to go outside to change the analog. It ain’t great, the volume is way lower on the analog but it works. My watch espn on my iPad work really well too.
trollhattan
@Mike E:
Who doesn’t want Fiona as their girlfriend? Gunz, explosivez, hawt…need I go on?
tsquared2001
@Betty Cracker: I had to write down the channels of the games I am watching in order to keep up. 25, 431 and 434
Burn in hell Oh State.
Omnes Omnibus
This is not a good start for Wisconsin.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)
Well, the Gophers outscored St. Cloud 19-0 this weekend. Today’s game was more lopsided than the 12-0 beatdown last night despite the nominally closer score. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a team less interested in playing a hockey game than the Huskies today. They actually have some real talent on that team but no heart.
Mike E
@JPL: They both were playing with the house’s money, each in their own way: St E as a network hit back when that supposedly came with the obligation to go out “classy”, so they thot, what the hell, what do we got to lose (Newhart was paying attention to that ending, methinks); and, Burn Notice as a niche show with a very dedicated fan base…it never stopped going for broke, so they ended it very much in their own way.
max
@efgoldman: In Soviet Union, borscht cooks you!
Actual quote.
max
[‘”Bon Appetite” as they spell it.’]
Betty Cracker
@Omnes Omnibus: Shit. That’s even worse.
tsquared2001
@raven: That sounds like no….. too much work. I much prefer calling my nephew a dumbass for not making it work. Its kinda a term of affection
FUCK. Damn you Wiskey
Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)
@Omnes Omnibus: Joel Stave is not your savior.
Mike E
@trollhattan: Yes, on and on and on :-)
Jordan Rules
@catclub: Swimming’s loss is basketball’s gain. Indeed it is!
Betty Cracker
Florida State and Georgia Tech both seem to be defense-free.
Omnes Omnibus
@Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN): No one ever thought he would was. He just happens to be better than McEvoy.
ETA: Praising with faint damns, I know.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)
@Omnes Omnibus: The way Britt Ammerman quarterbacks a power play, she’d be a better choice than either of them.
raven
Where’s the dope telling us all about how bad Tech’s placekicker is. . . oh, it was burnsie.
tsquared2001
At this point, I am cheering when OH State messes up. Come the fuck on, Badgers. Bastids keep the Axe and then shit the bed against the Buckeyes? So not good.
tsquared2001
@Betty Cracker: True that. There are some gaping holes on both sides. Neither team seems to want to tackle.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)
The insects defensive line needs to figure out how to stay within three yards of the line of scrimmage against the run.
Mr Stagger Lee
I want to the Buckeyes to win, one question why the Hatorade!
BruceFromOhio
This OH-WI game is so bad, I’m going to check out Game of War, Because Its Free.
ETA: Mmmm, cleavage.
raven
@tsquared2001: Ya’ll don’t seem to have watched this Tech offense.
Linnaeus
Ugh. Come on, Wiscy, get it together!
Omnes Omnibus
@Mr Stagger Lee: Ever live in Columbus as a non-Buckeye?
Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)
@Omnes Omnibus: I have fond memories of last year’s Big 10 Championship game. I was in Columbus that weekend and watched the game in a bar three blocks from the Horseshoe with the parents of a Gopher player from East Lansing. After MSU finished their comeback it was touch-and-go whether we’d get out alive.
I hate Urban Meyer so much (and have since he was at Utah) that I cheerfully rooted for Sparty. It was surprisingly easy, given the circumstances.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)
Bucky is toast.
Mr Stagger Lee
@Omnes Omnibus: I grew up outside C-bus, You Infidels should have been warned! :-) Granted Buckeye fans can be total dicks, but I think Notre Dame, USC, and Texas higher on the douchcanoe scale. Oh don’t forget the U(Miami-Fla) too.
tsquared2001
Well, at least I don’t have to keep track of the Big Ten championship game anymore. Thanks a lot, Badgers. Down to only two channels.
Omnes Omnibus
@Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN):
Gawd, I would never go near the Lane Avenue bars during a Buckeye game. Ti be fair, I tried to avoid them like the plague anyway.
raven
@Omnes Omnibus: So apparently High Street isn’t what it was 40 years ago? I had a buddy who’s family owned Brennan’s on Broad-Nel.
Benw
I don’t give a damn about playoffs. Go Jackets!!!
Steeplejack
@BruceFromOhio:
Despite the cleavage, the complete lack of acting ability makes those commercials painful to watch.
tsquared2001
@Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN): Big time.
Betty Cracker
@Mr Stagger Lee: I used to be indifferent to Ohio State and even sometimes rooted for them in years past because I have friends / coworkers who are Buckeyes. But they all turned on me when Florida kicked OSU’s ass in the 2007 title game, so now I hate ’em right back!
raven
@Benw: PLAYOFF’S, PLAYOFF”S!!!!!!!
Omnes Omnibus
@raven: Some of the (in)famous places on High Street have closed over the years. The Lane Avenue bars are in the middle of tailgating country right near the stadium – not my scene at all. Generally the best places on High Street were/are in the Short North (north of the business district and south of the OSU campus).
tsquared2001
@raven: That is true. I am betting on FSU for rep only. GT is a quick quick quick team. I gotta think though that the Seminoles will wear them down. Eventually.
Mike E
@Steeplejack: Tho: “You have nothing to fear, except what’s about to come through those trees!” is pretty funny.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)
I love it when a coach says, “The best team lost. The team that tried to win lost. That’s football.” I mean, even I’ll concede that the better team lost, but it’s still fun to beat someone and hear that.
Omnes Omnibus
I may give up on this game fairly soon.
raven
@Betty Cracker: Both the superbowl and the bcs championship games that season started with the losing team running the opening kickoff back for touchdowns. Devin Hester and Ted Ginn.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)
@Mr Stagger Lee:
I grew up in Ann Arbor and I can’t stand Urban Meyer.
tsquared2001
@Betty Cracker: Oh How I Hate Ohio State. It is not just a homecoming slogan – it is a way of life.
Corner Stone
@Steeplejack: What? What is wrong with you, friend?
raven
@Omnes Omnibus: I may be wrong but I didn’t think anything was near the stadium in 1972.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)
@Omnes Omnibus: I think the place we were was The Varsity Inn. This year we watched the first half of the Minnesota/OSU game being played in Minneapolis before the hockey game. There was less fun involved in that.
Edit: Omnes helpfully corrects me; it was The Varsity Club both years.
Omnes Omnibus
@raven: There are a several places along Lane between the Horseshoe and High Street. The Varsity Club was there in your day.
raven
@Omnes Omnibus: No bic
Linnaeus
@Betty Cracker:
That was a mistake. I’m glad you corrected it.
tsquared2001
@raven: As a Bear fan, Devin’s opening TD had me jumping around like some kind of crazy person. I was getting calls from college friends, neighbors, etc. Then it all went to shit.
Mr Stagger Lee
@Betty Cracker: I must confess at the time of that BCS Bowl I thought Florida had no business playing OSU, right up to the time Ted Ginn Jr ran a ball back to TD at the beginning, but after that, all I remember the a** whipping by the Gators, hey I wasn’t mad at Florida, I wondered where Coach Sweater Vest was because he was no where coaching that game.
Omnes Omnibus
@Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN): I hate that place. “Hang On, Sloopy” every five minutes. and then “O,H” “I,O” punctuating it. The last time I was there, some drunk vomited on me as I walked into the fenced off area.
ETA: I turned around and went home.
Betty Cracker
God, what a vile peckerwood Jimbo Fisher is! And the way the announcers are discussing how Jame-ass Winston has bravely handled the “adversity” this week — i.e., university sexual assault hearings! — is downright creepy. I don’t expect them to comment on the charges, but Christ on a Triscuit, let’s not make him into Rudy.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)
@Omnes Omnibus: I’m not all that fond of it but it’s really convenient if you’re coming from or going to the Ice Arena.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)
@Mr Stagger Lee: He was busy arranging more free tattoos.
Betty Cracker
@Mr Stagger Lee: Yep, that’s the view my Buckeye buds took of the game — how dare Florida even presume? I must’ve received five triumphal text messages when Ginn ran that kickoff back. It was pretty much crickets after that, though.
raven
@tsquared2001: Yea well, I was at Walter’s last game! 72 was the year I went to Columbus to see the Illini. Tommy Hicks, from my high school and future bear MLB, intercepted a pass and ran it in for a TD. We lost 49-7. Their backfield was Green, Johnson, Griffin with Bashnegal at wide out.
raven
@Betty Cracker: My bride has the text I sent her last Saturday telling her about in insane Bulldog win. She also has the “we lost” text.
Benw
@raven: playoffs? PLAYOFFS!?
Omnes Omnibus
Fuck it. I am done with the game.
Linnaeus
Ohio State is going to hang 70 on Wisconsin.
BruceFromOhio
@Mr Stagger Lee: This.
Benw
Oof. That was a bad ending to the half. Tech can’t afford to get stopped at all.
raven
The whole time it looked like the hispanic kid was winning.
Steeplejack
@Corner Stone:
Stupid is off-putting, even with cleavage, and those ads make her sound really stupid. I’m sure she’s a wonderful person in real life.
BruceFromOhio
@Steeplejack: Not far off.
Benw
Yes! Buzzzzzzz!
tsquared2001
@raven: I bled purple and gold. Then the Vikings lost 1,2,3,4 Super bowls and the one time where the Vikings were gonna win (for reals) the Super Bowl, fucking Drew fucking Pearson pushed off Nate Washington and Dallas went to the Super Bowl and the Hail Mary was born.
I had to quit the Vikings for my own mental health. But who do I cheer for? Walter Payton was my boy even when I was a Viking fan and since this was before NFL ticket, at least I would get to see the Bears twice a year when they played Minnesota.
That is the story of how I became a Bear fan
Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)
Okay, Tech. Time for a defensive stop.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)
@tsquared2001: At least the Vikings got to four Super Bowls. For the NFL, I’m a Lions fan, so I’m unimpressed with all of the local fans’ whining about their football team.
Gophers and Lions, oy. The last 35 years have been a football trainwreck.
Linnaeus
@Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN):
At least the Lions are no longer an automatic win for the opposing team.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)
@Linnaeus: They’ve given us false hope before.
Linnaeus
@Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN):
True. My dad no longer watches the Lions and my brother has switched his fandom over to the Packers.
Omnes Omnibus
@Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN): They have been known to implode.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)
@Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN): Well, that was half of a defensive stop, at least.
Pogonip
@Omnes Omnibus: I happened to be in Columbus when Urban Meyer took over from whoever preceded him (I’ve forgotten that man’s name). All 3 local channels had non-stop coverage from the time Meyer walked in the door. Four hours of stupid questions to a man who probably didn’t even know where his office was yet, rehashing of predecessor’s tenure, babbling about what Meyer might or might not do…for four hours. We’d turn the TV on, trying to get local weather, thinking it MUST have stopped by now… Nope. The next day, of course, some hapless Columbusite asked me what I thought about Meyer. My response is better imagined than described.
Benw
@Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN): they need one bad. Time of possession is crazy given the score!
tsquared2001
@Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN): My first “job” was working the Gopher games at Memorial Stadium, a 12 year old begging for tickets and then re-selling them. Used to sneak in too, only to watch the Gophers run right for 2, run left for 3 and up the middle for 1. That was called the Cal Stoll offense.
Benw
@Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN): the FG felt like a stop but Tech’s offense needs a TD every drive. So many games like this with Paul Johnson.
raven
@tsquared2001: I knew Studwell pretty well as well!
Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)
@tsquared2001: That gained nine more yards than the Smoky Joe Salem offense.
raven
@Pogonip: Tressel.
raven
@Benw: Aw quit your fucking whining.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)
Lord, I loathe UFC.
tsquared2001
FSU holds on and I am even steven on the my bets and can bet again tomorrow.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nlgfs7bIhys
raven
The table is set for the genius and one of his 10 minute drives.
Betty Cracker
@tsquared2001: Though I sincerely hope Winston suffers a season-ending groin injury and Fisher face-plants in the Gatorade bucket, they probably will hold on…the bastids!
tsquared2001
@Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN): Damn, man. Talk about a trip down a really shitty memory lane. But the Jug is ours and Floyd so I am a happy camper. I wanted that Ax but… oh well
tsquared2001
@raven: Studwell was a monster. Him and Blair were for realz football players.
tsquared2001
@Betty Cracker: Hell, Winston can kiss my ass. Can’t take betting personally – that way lies madness.
Little bastids
raven
@tsquared2001: He was a fucking mad man, he and Kramer toured around in an RV and they’d come to Champaign-Urbana in the off season. It was in the days when there were snowstorms in the summer, if you know what I’m sayin, and they were up to their eyeballs.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)
Tech needs to get something started soon.
Benw
@raven: yeah you’ve never bitched about Richt before.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)
@tsquared2001: Hey, we have the Chair, too.
raven
@Benw: When he pooched it to you douchebags I bitched plenty!
tsquared2001
@raven: My brother always used to say that when Tommy quit drinking (and other things) he turned into one shitty quarterback. I never liked that punk anyway since he took Tarkington’s job.
Francis was my boy. I played flag football just like him, with the running backwards, sideways, backwards again, ok, now forward.
Benw
@raven: seriously, the fuck was he thinking? Here start the drive near midfield! You just need a field goal to tie! You asshat…
raven
@tsquared2001: He’s a homeboy now that I’ve been in Athens for 30 years.
raven
@Benw: What was he doing throwing on third down on that last series last week? Battle of the dumbclucks!
Betty Cracker
Well, that’s the end of the Insects. Goddamnit! Now may favorite team is whoever plays FSU in the playoffs.
raven
Well so much for that. Good run Tech but twarnt enough.
raven
The selection is going to be a total clusterfuck.
tsquared2001
@Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN): OMG. You have got to be kidding me! Talk about some fake ass shit. You simply cannot pretend to have a rivalry trophy for TV. They did PSU and Michigan State as a Land Grant Trophy. Get the fuck out of here with that nonsense – the Big Ten is nothing but Land Grant Universities. Except for Northwestern but who really cares
debbie
@Omnes Omnibus:
Pity the person living in Columbus dumb enough to admit they’re from Michigan.
@raven:
I remember the Broad-Nel. It turned into Bag of Nails, burnt down, and was rebuilt.
Benw
@raven: aaaaaaaaaa! TD!!! Thanks for being assholes FSU!
Betty Cracker
@raven: Yep! Who do you reckon they’ll pick? I have to agree with Herb Kirkstreit / Kirk Herbstreit about Oregon, FSU and ‘Bama being a lock. But that fourth spot is going to piss tens of thousands of people off no matter how it shakes out…
Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)
Well, it looks like every team I was rooting for lost today. Thank god for hockey.
tsquared2001
Motherfucker! That back door cover is some bullshit.
Edit: lucky for me, I am killing it in fantasy football
Betty Cracker
@Benw: That’s one thing you can count on. Come on onside kick!
Betty Cracker
That was lame.
Benw
@Betty Cracker: argh. Now they’re Tomahawk Chopping. I hate the chop.
Unsympathetic
Couldn’t be a bigger Bucks fan.
If they had gone onside there I’d still be laughing.. but happy.
I want 60! And onside kick!
Now about that selection committee….
tsquared2001
That is what I get for betting on a rapist.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)
@Unsympathetic: You’re dreaming. We played both TCU and Ohio State this year and TCU was definitely the better team.
Betty Cracker
I think there’s a decent chance it will be Oregon, ‘Bama, FSU and OSU in that order.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)
@Betty Cracker: I have no idea how anyone could put Ohio State in over either of the Big 12 teams let alone both of them.
Punchy
B12 gunna get bounced. OSU will take TCU’s spot. Book it.
Punchy
@Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN): No idea? OSU Fan base size, national prestige (warranted or not), Urban Meyer….all trump Baylor’s and TCU’s by magnitudes. And this is coming from someone who loathes OSU.
Betty Cracker
@Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN): I think they’re going to punish the Big 12 for not having a championship.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)
@Betty Cracker: Then they ought to, you know, let the Big 12 have a championship.
RobertDSC (Quad Intel Mac)
I have it FSU, Alabama, Oregon, and Ohio State. In that order.
Jon Rockoford
From a diehard Buckeye and resident of awesome Columbus, to all the meanies who loathe OSU, especially the otherwise lovely Ms. Betty: I say unto you, Ha! Ha! Ha! I hereby gloat in glory and our team reigns supreme! So, chew on this: 59-0!
A great research university with a great medical presence and a fantastic football team. Hell, we’re still THE.