Two games I’ll be watching: Florida vs. Miami at noon (Go Gators!) and South Carolina vs. Georgia at 4:30 (Go Cocks!). I like Florida’s chances but don’t feel all that confident about it. I’m a Florida alum, so I always root for the Gators, but honestly? I think UF is way overrated this year, and we have arguably the toughest schedule in the country. I’m steeling myself for disappointment.
Regarding South Carolina and Georgia, this should be a hell of a game — maybe the best of the weekend. After losing to Clemson last week, Georgia has to win it to keep their hopes for the season alive. But this could be Spurrier’s year with the Cocks. My grandma is a South Carolina alum, so I always root for the Cocks when they’re not playing the Gators because it makes the old lady happy when they win. She once wrote a letter to Spurrier, and he sent a hand-written reply that addressed what she wrote — not a form letter. He may be kind of a dick, but he’s nice to old ladies, so he’s not all bad.
Anyhoo, what are y’all watching? Who’s gonna win? Please feel free to discuss football or any other topic. Open thread.
jeffreyw
The latest Chrome browser update broke my zoom settings and the fonts and tabs are tiny.
Dolly Llama
I’m a Georgia alum, so I want the Dawgs to win, but I’m not feeling good about it. My wife’s a Florida alum, so I want the Gators to win for her sake, but I (and she, for that matter) agree completely with your assessment of this year’s team, Betty. Florida’s defense will keep them in anything, but that offense … I trust they’ll be stout enough to take a weak-as-dishwater Miami team, but even if it’s close, it’s gonna be a loooooooooooooooong season for Coach “Boom” Muschamp’s boys.
jeffreyw
Though on the plus side a search for a solution led me to a fix for the same problem in Firefox.
raven
Jesus fucking christ. I’ll PIP the Canes and Stinky Gators and the Illini and Cincy at noon, the princess will drop me and a buddy off close to the stadium for the Dawgs @4. I parked a car fairly close to downtown so the trip home will be fairly easy. My front row upper deck seats should be in the shade for kickoff so that’s good. Athens was a madhouse last night and the out-of-towners were crowding in as early as 7am.
Corner Stone
Go Cocks!
jeffreyw
Today will be “boil the tomato juice day”, mostly. Mrs J is gathering the tomatoes. We have too damn many tomatoes this year, overcompensating for the poor year last season we put in extra plantings.
Betty Cracker
@Corner Stone: Grandma?
raven
@Dolly Llama: Hang tough Dolly,WOOF!
NotMax
Anyhoo, what are y’all watching?Not so much as a naonsecond of sports.
The team with more points at the finish.
raven
I mean what the fuck, how many features on Clowney is ESPN going to show?
NotMax
@jeffreyw
You might appreciate the whimsy of how grandma made gunkies.
raven
MikeJ
Red Sox – FY starts at 9:30am. Only play them five more times in the remaining twenty games (and have just played two against them). I understand they wanted to put exciting match ups at the end of the season where they could make a difference, but I think they really overdid it. Plus we get the Tigers and the Rays in there. The FY are loaded up on teams like the Jays, the Giants, the Astros. Ok, since they thought the Giants would be tough that wasn’t scheduled as a gimme, even if it now is.
Bruce
Hey, Betty — I graduated from UF’s journalism college in 1974 and worked on the Alligator when it was thrown off campus (was in the Student Center — can’t remember the name).
When did you graduate? Or is that too telling?
Enjoy your whipper-snapper posts!
Mark S.
CS has always been a big fan of the Cocks!
raven
@Mark S.: No THE is needed.
Infamous Heel-Filcher
My rule: all else being equal, I’ll root for a school that admitted me, even if I ended up not going there. Go Dawgs!
Though I really don’t much care about anything happening before about 7 pm central time.
Dolly Llama
Well, David Fucking Pollack just picked South Carolina over Georgia. Ain’t that fucking awesome.
Betty Cracker
@raven: He is crazy good, though.
Steeplejack
@jeffreyw:
Jeez, I hate that, when an upgrade breaks your settings. I have some fairly arcane tweaks to make certain sites look good, and, although Firefox is pretty good about not screwing things up, it does occasionally happen. The worst part is sometimes I can’t remember exactly what the arcane tweaks were, so there is some repair work needed.
raven
Yes, Corso picked SC!
Steeplejack
@jeffreyw:
What is your solution? I find that the text on a lot of sites is too small (on my laptop).
Dolly Llama
@raven: Yeah, nobody’s ever accused Pollack of blind homerism – or of being all that swooft at picking games, either.
raven
@Dolly Llama: He really annoys me.
jeffreyw
@Steeplejack: There is a tweak in about:config, but try the nosquint addon, another one that works pretty well is zoom page. On a laptop you shouldn’t need the “theme font & size changer” addon but it is great for viewing on a big screen tv from across the room. Firefox has tweaked the scaling to track your system settings since version 22.
Corner Stone
@raven: FUCK!
MikeJ
@Steeplejack: The nosquint plugin will let you set and remembers zoom levels globally and on a per site basis.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/nosquint/
Marcelo
Only mildly interested in the SEC action this week. UF vs. Miami will probably be on in the background for a while, and then Gamecocks vs. Georgia, but I’m really holding out for the evening edition – Notre Dame vs. Michigan, the last of the series, and that game is always always dramatic and fun (plus the 2011 version remains the best specialty uniform game ever done).
After that, it’s time to root for my alma mater, the USC Trojans, as they take on the Wazzu Cougars. Not top ten material, but this should be a really interesting test for both teams, as we will finally learn whether Leach’s close call at Auburn was for real, and whether Kiffin can actually bring USC back from last year’s debacle (and pick a starting quarterback).
Dr. Squid
Feh. Playing Georgia Southern in the middle of the SEC schedule is not scheduling tough. USC’s easiest nonconference opponent this year is probably Boston College at home.
Hen
go ducks!
Corner Stone
@Marcelo: May I just quietly say, “Fuck Mike Leach.”
meander
A few decades ago, a TV network (NBC?) tried an experimental broadcast of an NFL game without commentary. It didn’t catch on, but was an interesting experiment. I think it is time for another dramatic TV football experiment: a game with very few shots of the coaches. For some reason, the directors of NCAA and NFL games think that the audience needs to see the coaches between every play, after every time out, and during seemingly any other break in the action. Why? Coaches almost never do anything interesting, they just stand there talking into their headsets or looking at a clipboard. The TV directors might as well show a still photograph from the team program on the screen. Meanwhile, the players are lining up for the next play, there are scores of players on the sidelines, there might be a mascot dancing around and there are tens of thousands of fans in the stadium, all of which are far more interesting than the head coach.
The coach obsession seems a bit stronger in the NFL, as there is a lot more ‘eye candy’ in NCAA stands to show between plays (cute young people or fans decked out in body paint).
jeffreyw
Yes, we have tomatoes today.
Betty Cracker
@Marcelo: Lane Kiffin is a contemptible douchenozzle, but his dad was a great coach.
Linnaeus
I’m a University of MIchigan alum (and lifelong fan), so I’ll be watching my Wolverines against Notre Dame tonight. Should be a fun one.
Ben Cisco
Waiting for Bama-South Carolina next week. All else is prelude.
dedc79
Is it too much to ask that there be one decent college football team north of the Mason-Dixon line?
And to answer my own question, yes it is, apparently.
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
@Linnaeus:
Tune in before the Wolverines run out of the tunnel.
gene108
@Betty Cracker:
His dad is a great defensive coordinator.
He was head coach at my alma mater for three seasons, in the early 1980’s, and was pretty mediocre, at best.
ranchandsyrup
Moar bday shenanigans for our 3 y.o.
dedc79
@meander: The problem, I believe, was that they picked a Jets game for the silent broadcast. Jets games are always unpleasant, with or without sound.
Corner Stone
@Dr. Squid:
Possibly. But they play in the PAC 12 Conference for goodness sake. FL plays 3 top 10 ranked teams and also Georgia which will probably be out of the top 25 by the time FL gets to them. But, still.
Linnaeus
@Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again):
Will do.
Corner Stone
I think Oregon may have the easiest schedule of any top 10 ranked school. If they win out is that really worth a #2 ranking?
I enjoy watching the Ducks play but I think their schedule is some seriously weak sauce.
Baud
@ranchandsyrup:
She doesn’t look a day over 2 and a half.
What a cutie.
raven
@Ben Cisco: Bama A&M, try to keep up.
raven
@Ben Cisco: Bama A&M, try to keep up.
Linnaeus
@dedc79:
There are several, actually. Depends on how one defines “decent”, though.
Baud
@dedc79:
Maybe instead of pure silence, they should have had Yakaty Sax playing in the background.
raven
I think there are only 8 games between BCS teams this week.
Fuzzy
I have 3 favorite college teams. Whoever is playing Notre Dame, USC or Alabama. If they play one another, it must end in a tie.
Corner Stone
@Ben Cisco:
Which sport?
ranchandsyrup
@Baud: thank you kindly. Heading to the beach to celebrate.
raven
@Corner Stone: No shit, it’s one thing to be a fan if a team coached by a total dickhead, it’s another to chime in and have no clue!
Villago Delenda Est
@Corner Stone:
After last week’s blowout of hapless Nicholls State, in which the Ducks barely beat the spread, some local wags are wondering if the Fighting Fashion Nightmares are ready for the challenge of taking on local HS teams.
Keith P
@raven: ESPN’s only trying to keep up with BleacherReport, aka ClowneyReport.
How much of the Clowney hype comes from him making an unblocked tackle, anyway?
Betty Cracker
@gene108: I consider a “defensive coordinator” a species of “coach,” but yeah, when I referred to MK’s greatness, I was thinking of his time in Tampa. I didn’t even know he’d ever had a head coaching gig.
Vogrinch
Wolverines! Go Blue!
Dee Loralei
My beloved Sooners are playing John’s Eers tonight. And I’ll be watching a bunch of other games before and after, but that’s prolly the only one I’ll see from start to finish. I looooooooooooooove college football. Boomer Sooner!
dedc79
@Linnaeus: none in the top 25, right? Penn State’s the only northeastern school i’ve seen that has even gotten any votes in either AP or USA Today polls.
raven
@Keith P: Some but he is a beast.You need to see the video of him in the stat3 4×100 relay. He was the anchor and his big ass can fly!
Steeplejack
@jeffreyw, @MikeJ:
Thanks for the tips. I’ll add them to the trick bag. I haven’t tried NoSquint yet; maybe it’s time to give it a go.
There are just so damn many dials to twiddle and knobs to spin. I have tweaked Firefox’s settings, delved into about.config and have done a fair amount of scripting with Stylish. It would be nice to find a more “global” solution. Maybe NoSquint is that.
Just Some Fuckhead
BLOOD ON MAH HANDS
dedc79
@Baud: Or some of the music they use in the background for all those old NFL Films compilations.
What would be truly be experimental (and which would never happen) would be to make a broadcast available on tv that never goes to commercial break. Then fans would get to see the players stand around doing nothing for about 3/4 of the 3 hour broadcast. I imagine it would be something like watching The Big Bang Theory or Two and a Half Men without the laugh track.
raven
They skipped over my Illini and Cincy!
Linnaeus
@dedc79:
Oh, I see what you mean. I interpreted “north of the Mason-Dixon line” more loosely than you meant it.
Ben Cisco
@raven: @Corner Stone: Yeah, I earned that. Vapor lock.
Karmus
I’m a Gators fan because my dad was. I sort of root for the Alabama Crimson Tide because of a cousin, and again my dad. Otherwise I really don’t give a rip for college ball. I used to be a big pro fan but since my telly watching has dropped to nada over the years, I barely even keep track any more. I find myself starting to get interested again, however. I’m pleased that the Broncos delivered a thumping to the Ravens. I do not care for the Ravens.
raven
@Ben Cisco: Maybe just wishin! Bama is going to destroy A&M.
Yatsuno
@Linnaeus: My band director from high school went to Michigan, and I actually was going to go until my parents got the bill. So Boise State won that battle.
And ALLEZ LES COUGS!!! Spank the Univer$ity of $poiled Children!
Keith P
@Ben Cisco: It’s Bama-A&M next week.
Steeplejack
@raven:
It’s on ESPN2 here.
raven
Damn, who has a smaller crowd, Illinois or Miami???
raven
@Steeplejack: I meant the Game Day picks.
Villago Delenda Est
@dedc79:
That’s one of the things about watching football live, in the stadium: you get to see just how much time is devoted to selling beer, razor blades, and Buicks, and how little actual football is played.
Villago Delenda Est
@Yatsuno:
“Cougars unimpressed by Trojans.”
Steeplejack
@raven:
Well, there’s so much great football on today, like Oklahoma State vs. Texas-San Antonio.
And maybe they’re afraid to go on the record with a prediction.
Ben Cisco
@raven: I admit I would like to see it. Plus it’s all Clowney all the time here in Charlotte too.
scav
@ranchandsyrup: Huzzah! She looks to keep you on your toes to keep up (and not in a state of dread concern, more in curiosity). Enjoy the beach.
Linnaeus
@Yatsuno:
Makes sense. I was in-state, so the choice was much easier (though still not cheap).
Ted & Hellen
What?
burnspbesq
@Corner Stone:
You can say that as loud as you like. I think our resident Coog might even agree with you.
Corner Stone
@Villago Delenda Est: They’ll do alright. I actually think Cal may be their biggest challenge until they hit Stanford.
If they get past The Cardinal then they win out and may end up #1 by default.
burnspbesq
@Steeplejack:
Not to mention that great traditional rivalry, Duke-Memphis.
Baud
@Villago Delenda Est:
You could say the same thing about baseball or golf or even tennis. Even sports like soccer or hockey have more motion than action.
raven
@burnspbesq: It’s hard when your coach is a fucking scumbag asshole, my brother still pulls for the Trojans!
Corner Stone
@Keith P:
What you see as a blase “unblocked tackle” is about as far from what actually happens as can be.
That unblocked tackle happens a few times but the other times he either beats somebody in space or sheds them like old panties to put himself in a position to make the “unblocked tackle”.
raven
@Baud: You could also say “don’t watch it if you don’t like it”. But it is horrible in the stadium. That fucker with the red hat runs the game.
Villago Delenda Est
@Baud:
The thing is, baseball has the commercial breaks built into it, without even knowing that commercial breaks are needed. The inning changes are perfect for that.
raven
I forgot Tubberville was the Cincy coach.
Amir Khalid
@Ted & Hellen:
You’re not jealous, are you?
Corner Stone
@dedc79:
The horror!…the horror!!
Corner Stone
@raven:
People have thought that before.
burnspbesq
@Yatsuno:
The triumph of hope over experience.
raven
@Corner Stone: Yea and Bama has no special motivation do they?
Corner Stone
@raven:
What is it? Is someone holding on to their weekly pay packets until they beat A&M?
dedc79
@Villago Delenda Est: My view is that if they’re going to insist on commercial breaks (frequent and lengthy ones at that) they should at least work in some consistency regarding when they do it (as opposed to, we have promised 12 more commercial spots this half, so we better break now). Personally, i’d prefer a short, consistent (30-60 break) after each score and change of possession then random 2-3 minute breaks throughout the game.
raven
@Corner Stone: I like Johnny Football less than I like the Tide.
HeartlandLiberal
Well, I am here in Bloomington, IN. Basketball is championship class here, last two years back to back Sweet 16 appearances for the Hoosiers. Football? Meh. Traditional bottom dwellers.
But this evening they are putting on a big event. Per the HeraldtimesOnline.com web site (behind firewall).
Corner Stone
@raven: Yeah, I am not a fan. If he survives college football intact he will flame out spectacularly in the NFL.
raven
@HeartlandLiberal: I was at the Illini-IU game when Corso was the coach and Buckner was a corner. I knew guys on the team and we were shooting the shit in the parking lot the day before the game and one of the coaches freaked out because they were talking to a wild ass looking hippie!
raven
Holy shit, Illinois 7-0!
Ted & Hellen
@Amir Khalid:
I don’t get it. ???
Ted & Hellen
Could Johnnie Doucheball be any more of a little shit?
Does the coach have that brat under control this week?
raven
@Corner Stone: I’m just thinking Bama is going to be headhunting his sorry ass big time. Giving Saban time to prep and a special reason is not that good of an idea.
FlipYrWhig
@Corner Stone: he reminds me of James O’Keefe.
raven
@FlipYrWhig: Well, the dude can play.
geg6
Staying away from sports today. After the Bucs shit the bed last night, I drank too much beer and I’ve had enough sports. Today’s weather around here feels like mid-June or something, so I’m going to enjoy the great outdoors some today. Take Koda out with a frisbee or something.
Gonna use up some basil tonight and make some pesto to have with some chicken and pasta and maybe a tomato salad. The fruits of summer! Argo is on HBO tonight, so it’s going to a nice evening with good food, a good movie and some nice white, currently cooling in the wine fridge. Tomorrow, we’re going to make applesauce and can it. Nice domestic weekend.
Just Some Fuckhead, Thought Leader
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Steeplejack
@burnspbesq:
These non-conference games have really gotten ridiculous. I know the small schools are looking for a big payday—and maybe some cred if they make a good showing—and the big schools are terrified of jeopardizing their rankings, but come on.
Back in the day the pre-conference games were more reasonable. I went to Mizzou, and they would always play Illinois (big adjacent-state rivalry), someone from the Southwest Conference, etc., occasionally even Notre Dame. Roughly equivalent teams, or equivalent competitive level. Now they’re beating up on Murray State and Toledo. Ugh. All about the money, I guess.
raven
The incredible Illini crowd of 30,000 seems to be bothering Cincy’s offense!
Dee Loralei
@Ted & Hellen: Damn you! I went and scrolled back to see who typed that and I was the only one to mention the Sooners. HA! I know you’re a fan, so is Cole gonna propose to you?
danielx
An incident of sacrilege…out driving around running errands with the daughter unit yesterday when James Brown popped up on the IPod singing Living In America. She innocently inquired “is that Michael Jackson” and of course I responded bite your tongue, Michael Jackson couldn’t sing like that on the best day he ever had. And where do you think he learned his moves?
raven
@Steeplejack: Yea and the additional game. They can’t play 12 quality opponents. Besides, Illinois playing you guys in the dome was a disaster for us! But when the Tigers come to Athens next month, OH DOCTOR!
raven
@danielx: Play this for her
James Brown: Dooley’s Junkyard Dawgs (UGA)
Steeplejack
@raven:
Yeah, I think Mizzou is going to be paying off some big karmic debt by moving into the SEC. Paying for a while.
raven
@Steeplejack: The money is sure better and I think their hoops will do well. Where is “The Bandaid Man”????
Steeplejack
@raven:
Yeah, basketball won’t be a problem. Football? Ngrr.
raven
It’s funny how you can feel so much better you feel when you have NO expectations of a team.
raven
Illini 14-0! My god.
raven
21-0!!!!!!!!
Yatsuno
@raven: So…they’re winning? :P
raven
@Yatsuno: 2-10 last year, no D-1 wins, almost blew the SIU game last week. This could be really important. Washington in Wrigley coming up.
S. cerevisiae
Go Beavers!
I really wish they would play the ‘Cocks someday, just for the fun the headline writers would have.
Corner Stone
@Steeplejack:
*GASPS!*
raven
@Corner Stone: I don’t think he really meant THAT.
Betty Cracker
Gators are trailing. Boo. Gator QB’s britches are soaked with sweat, and it appears he forgot to wear undies. Gotta love HD.
Jane2
@Betty Cracker: I learned about SEC football in a Yahoo chatroom. I just had to post “Smokey’s going to the Swamp to kick Gator ass” and the fight was on. Of course, it was all I knew….
raven
@Betty Cracker: The far shot on the Illini game is awful. For some reason the orange jerseys and the weird fake turf really make for an awful picture.
Yatsuno
@Betty Cracker: Hmmm…might have to watch now…
Betty Cracker
@Yatsuno: ESPN. But it’s halftime. I hope no one tells him!
Tommy
I just have to say this. Why the heck is Western Kentucky playing TN? Or why will my LSU Tigers play UAB tonight? Look if you are a major college program play other major colleges. Don’t pad your schedule.
raven
@Tommy: Totally untrue, everyone has to do that with the 12 game schedule.
Tommy
@raven: Well as an SEC guy you could fill 12 games within my own conference.
raven
@Tommy: sure you could
Corner Stone
This FL defense is damn nasty. But can their offense only kick field goals?
Tommy
@raven: I think you play to the level of your competition and I want my team playing the best of the best.
raven
@Tommy: Whatever, I want a fucking pony. This is the way it is and it isn’t going to change.
My Georgia tickets this year get me the best slate of games in 5 years and I get SC, North Texas, LSU, Mizzou. App State and Kentucky.
Tommy
@raven: That is a good slate of games. I still laugh when I see MO is now in the SEC. Local sports radio here in St. Louis thought it was such a great idea for them to move to the SEC. Now they are getting rolled almost every weekend I wonder if that is still the case.
raven
@Tommy: Yea, like I said, the best in years and it still gives us NTSU, APP State and Kentucky.
Corner Stone
@raven:
Why is the Pope at your game?
raven
@efgoldman: Yea, my pal’s son played for Wisconsin WW and I went to the D 3 National Championship Game in Roanoke. $12!
Corner Stone
@Tommy: IMO, you’re overlooking the bright spotlight shone on the second tier DIV-1 schools. And other programs, actually.
They love it, as far as I am aware. More money, more exposure. It’s like a social program lifting up the lazy food stamp recipients.
The haves get to beat the snot out of the havenots and everyone is happy!
raven
@Corner Stone: They are at every televised game, you just don’t see em on the tube.
and they may not wear red hats in every conference.
raven
@efgoldman: Check that, they play at Soldier Field.
Tommy
@efgoldman: I can’t stand Solider Field, but Wrigley rocks to see a game at. And I say that as a St. Louis Cardinals fan :).
MikeJ
@efgoldman: Not long ago they had that new year’s day hockey game at Fenway too.
Dolly Llama
Suddenly, it appears Florida may be well and truly fucked. Miami keeps trying to give this game away, and Florida stubbornly refuses to accept it.
raven
Dang, Cincy’s QB is badly hurt.
Corner Stone
Welp, with 5 turnovers I think we can kiss FL goodnight on this one.
raven
@Dolly Llama: Fuck Florida!
Betty Cracker
@Corner Stone: Yep. Dumb motherfuckers. Oh well, it’ll be cheaper to pick up tickets if I want to catch a game.
Corner Stone
Come on FL. That guy had no chance at the ball and you pull a blatant mugging in the end zone to refresh their downs?
Just start packing it up now please.
Tommy
@Corner Stone: Yeah hard to win when you do that.
Betty Cracker
@raven: Go Cocks! ;-)
Corner Stone
Whomever the FL Offensive Coach is should be tarred and feathered. This was an awful display of sloppy and sloppiness.
Corner Stone
FL has to score *right now*, not those stupid 5 yard hitch patterns.
raven
@Betty Cracker: If we lose I’m going to be very lucky I sold those cocktail tickets for as much as I did!
Corner Stone
Uh oh! TD FL!!
Betty Cracker
And they did. Onside kick coming up.
Corner Stone
Are you fucking kidding me? A 12th man infraction on a PA?
Stupid shit.
Betty Cracker
@raven: Man, I haven’t been to the cocktail party in ages.
Betty Cracker
Look at those thugs abusing the poor stuffed gators. Like to see them go to the Everglades and try it on a real one.
Corner Stone
That was close!
Betty Cracker
Fuck. Miami recovers.
raven
@Betty Cracker: I wouldn’t have gone down there when I drank, I damn sure wouldn’t go now. I’ve managed to parlay those tickets into what amounts to free Georgia season ticket for about a decade.
Corner Stone
If I am a captain on the FL D I go back to the locker room and use my laser vision to burn the crotch off every offensive players panties when this game is over.
raven
Huge huge huge win for Illinois. Look for me at the dawgs game, good looking motherfucker in the 1st row of the upper deck with the Die Hard Sportfishing shirt!
Betty Cracker
@raven: I’ll bet! My sister and I always used to go. Large blocks of time are not remembered. Woke up on a floor with my head in a KFC bucket once. But then we grew up.
Betty Cracker
@Corner Stone: Ain’t that the truth? Dumb bastids. It’s gonna be a long season for them.
Corner Stone
@Betty Cracker:
It’s funny what you can learn over the prior twelve months sometimes.
Corner Stone
THROW THE FUCKING BALL!
Betty Cracker
Jeezus. What a clusterfuck. Fuckity fuck.
Corner Stone
I’d be surprised if this FL QB isn’t disappeared mysteriously before the next game.
Epic.
raven
@Betty Cracker: Yea, I’ve been there but not for a long long time. Think good thoughts for the Dawgs. Bye!
Dolly Llama
Man. The Gators … That was an ugly son of a bitch. Such an ugly game.
SmallAxe
Georgia play of the day. And good for the U.
Keith G
In Buckeye Land Braxton Miller has been carted off with an MCL injury, Well-tested backup Kenny Guiton has lead the Bucks in their three scoring drives against San Diego St. Best news is that true freshman Dontre Wilson (from Texas) has some serious wheels at RB, scoring the first TD of the game and his hopefully long career.
Worse news….this will be the first OSU FB season without my brother and that really sucks.
SmallAxe
Oregon is just lightning fast, they get outside the tackles and it’s over. If they can play any D this year look out.
Cacti
Go Canes! Suck it Gators!
Thank you, that is all.
Yatsuno
@Betty Cracker: Oh my. I luvvers teh Interwebs,
Dolly Llama
It’s hard to overstate how much I’m enjoying Georgia vs. Carolina right now.
SmallAxe
@efgoldman: I take it you don’t respect the Pac-12 much. Not everyone can be the SEC. I’m not an Oregon booster but their non-league games are Virginia and Tennessee those aren’t so bad compared to some of the other big teams out there. I’m looking at you Louisville (now that’s a cupcake schedule).
PhoenixRising
@Betty Cracker: You have a living grandparent? Thought I was the only one with a 13.8 year old child (addled by the hormones) AND a grandma who was still kicking. In all senses of the word: She fell out of bed and broke her arm last month, and the old lady is so damn ornery they sent her home to do her PT outpatient before her Medicare coverage ran out.
Seriously. She just didn’t like it in that hospital, with people waking you up and asking you who the President is–bad enough that we have a colored family in the White House, those whippersnappers don’t have to rub everyone’s nose in it!
I’m 42, and my only living grandparent shows all the signs of being born and raised in SE KY in the 1920s.
Betty Cracker
@PhoenixRising: Both of my grandmothers are still alive! The men in my family have normal lifespans, but the women live forever.
Betty Cracker
@Dolly Llama: Well, I’m happy for you and Raven. But I’m having a bad football day. Anyone have a team they want to faceplant tonight? Just tell me, and I’ll root for them.
raven
@Betty Cracker: Woof godamn woof
Corner Stone
@Betty Cracker: Hold me, Betty. Hold me like one of those escaped pythons in the everglades.
Kalki
The gators fucked that one up. Not the defense fault.