Did I hear these overpaid twits correctly earlier? Half of the TD drives this season by Oregon were under 2 minutes?!
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Corner Stone
Oregon D is bringing the Shagnasty so far!
And what a big F.U. to go for two on the opening TD score.
F.U. Chumbo Fisher!
5.
Corner Stone
Wow! Just *missed* Stanford Pines on that TD pass attempt.
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Corner Stone
Ok, since no one wants to talk about NCAAF, let me just state that I made asparagus spears wrapped in prosciutto, then baked it at high temps for a bit, then shaved Parmesan slices over the top with some rough chopped basil.
It was delish!
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Corner Stone
@efgoldman: I hate the constant bug, for any reason. Hate that crap.
8.
Mr Stagger Lee
I don’t know who to root for here, the CrimiNoles or NikeU(or Phil Knight U)?
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Corner Stone
@Mr Stagger Lee: Join us. Hate on the Noles.
One of us! One of us!
@Mr Stagger Lee: As depressing as it is, rooting for the Fighting Fashion Nightmares is easy given the choice of opponent. I’d be okay with seeing Jameis Winston hauled off on a cart.
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Tissue Thin Pseudonym
Now how about a 99 1/2 yard drive for another Oregon touchdown?
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Mr Stagger Lee
@Yatsuno: OK but not too loud there are Husky fans around.
14.
Violet
@Corner Stone: I’m with y’all. Can’t support the CrimiNoles. Those green uniforms, though. Wow.
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Tissue Thin Pseudonym
Wasn’t it about ten seconds ago that Mariotta was standing in his own end zone?
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Josie
Gracious. All these haters. I just don’t know what to think.
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Tissue Thin Pseudonym
@efgoldman: They’ve kind of given up on hockey this year, too. I really thought they’d do more with Kendall Coyne back from the Olympics.
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Villago Delenda Est
The Fighting Fashion Nightmares thank you for your support, Betty.
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Villago Delenda Est
@Mr Stagger Lee: Yatsuno, being a Wazzu guy, could not possibly care less about what Husky fans think.
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Pogonip
Chick Fil A had a data breach.
Who pays for fast food with plastic?!? Did I miss something while I was yelling at kids to get off my lawn? Anyway, they’re investigating, will pay for victims’ credit monitoring, the usual.
Do companies have data-breach insurance?
I just heard honking geese fly over! This is not the local season for that.
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Pogonip
@Villago Delenda Est: Also, IRS will have furloughs this year, so poor Yatsuno won’t be able to buy fashionable new gear.
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Tissue Thin Pseudonym
Oregon has the biggest kicker I’ve seen since Chip Lohmiller.
@Pogonip: i rarely carry cash, so i pay for most things with plastic. my guess is that data breaches probably fall under commercial general liability insurance policies, but there will likely be exclusions by insurers that will require a new form of insurance.
Who pays for fast food with plastic?!? Did I miss something while I was yelling at kids to get off my lawn?
My local CFA have people in the drive through line with a portable pay-for tablet. You order at the kiosk, then pay in line, then grab your stuff at the window, then get ketchup/sauces at a stand at the end of the line.
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Corner Stone
@Josie: Who are you not hating on? Or who are you wishing people would not hate on?
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Mike E
Am I a bad person to root for the worst team possible–OSU–to win the whole thing, just to eff up this “playoff” nonsense? I am seriously not an Ohio St. fan…
30.
Steeplejack
I don’t like FSU or Oregon, but I have decided to root for the Ducks because (a) uniforms today less obnoxious than usual and (b) I don’t like teams with “Atta boy!” decals on their helmets. You end up with guys with 86 tomahawks or buckeyes plastered all over. Srsly, everything you did this season was awesome?! You’re all winners! Decals should be reserved for “I killed an opponent on the field in mortal combat” or “I ran a kick back for a TD with a broken leg.” But wait: Oregon could have cute little Nike swoosh decals! Get me Phil Knight on line 2!
And WTF with that cartoon duck on the Oregon jersey sleeves? It looks like a drunken “I don’t remember getting a tattoo last night” tattoo.
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KG
@Mike E: when in doubt root for chaos, so good plan.
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Josie
@Corner Stone: I was kidding. In the last football thread, someone called some of us haters for wanting Florida State to lose.
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Corner Stone
@Josie: Oh. Sad face.
*kicks rotten tree stump in yard*
No, it’s not just you, it’s obnoxious. Plus I don’t like how the scores are left-justified, not right-justified. Just looks weird. Although that is now happening on a lot of channels. It’s like the Chiron Sports Screen Graphics Division changed a default in the software package.
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Goblue72
Big Ten putting up a fight in bowl games today. It makes my teeth hurt, but go Buckeyes.
@Tissue Thin Pseudonym: You didn’t see that guy from Wisconsin? I think he was from Brazil and had a gut like Groza. “Rafael Gaglianone, the 5-foot-11, 231 lb kicker”!
@efgoldman: Halftime shows at the Rose Bowl are very compressed.
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Villago Delenda Est
@browser: Every so often some noobie lawyer at Disney is given the snipe hunt mission of taking the UofO to task for trademark infringement, and the UofO fires up the photocopier and sends the noobie lawyer a copy of the original permission letter signed by Walt himself to use Donald Duck as the mascot of the UofO.
I’m pretty sure that’s the lawyer version of hazing the newbie.
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browser
@Villago Delenda Est: I think UO and Disney reached detente a few years back. For a while Disney gave a flat out ‘no’ to any merchandising, Walt’s letter be damned, which is why the ‘O’ became the main logo and the school tested out an abomination called ‘Roboduck’ as the on-field mascot. If you think Oregon uniforms are ugly, look up ‘oregon roboduck’.
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Corner Stone
GFY, FSU!
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Violet
The Ducks are looking good!
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Betty Cracker
@Corner Stone: BOOYAH! I won’t relax until I see the Ducks drive a stake through their fucking hearts, though. I’ve seen the sleazy bastids come back too many times.
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Tissue Thin Pseudonym
Jameis Winston is still mobile so this game is not yet a success.
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Villago Delenda Est
@browser: Disney put itself in a no win situation with that shit. Basically, take back the word of its founder because of greed. They’re already thoroughly hated by some because of their constant lobbying to extend copyright so the rents keep pouring in.
Tumbrels for the lot of them. None of this gentle “euthanasia of rentiers” that Keynes proposed.
The TV informs me that The Big Bang Theory is coming on. Might take a palate-cleansing break from football with the Ducks having things well in hand. Back for the Sugar Bowl.
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Villago Delenda Est
25 point lead with a minute and a half to go in the third quarter is pretty…
well, ass kicking.
Still lots of game left, but it looks like the Fighting Fashion Nightmares are in the process of making a statement.
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Corner Stone
OH NOES!!
Sad face!!
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BillinGlendaleCA
And another stake.
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Corner Stone
I hope they hang a 60 burger on these fucking scumbags.
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T. Hunt
Ducks pick off Florida AGAIN! The Ducks kickoff team has spent more time on the field than the offense. This must be the plan to rest Mariota.
Faking Ducks look pretty awesome. Bring on the Tide Buckeyes
FTFY
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Villago Delenda Est
@Tissue Thin Pseudonym: It’s looking highly likely. FSU is bound to get possession a few more times….and lose it. Oregon turns those miscues into points.
Turn out the lights, the party’s over…
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Tissue Thin Pseudonym
The Noles can’t even see the spread from here.
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Violet
The stands were full and the aerial shot just showed they’re emptying out. I guess the FSU fans know it’s over.
They may also know how long it’s going to take to get out of Pasadena
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Betty Cracker
Fisher tells Winston to shut the fuck up or get benched. (Allegedly. It’s not all that clear to me. But wouldn’t it be pretty to think so.)
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Mike E
Phil Knight sighting… He’s calling in plays just like Tricky Dick did for Macaca Allen, Sr.
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Goblue72
@burnspbesq: I’m not sure they have telephones west of the Connecticut.
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burnspbesq
Why, yes, there will be overflowing schadenfreude all over the ACC tonight.
FSU used up all its luck with that “own goal” tip-in to beat the Gators in basketball the other day.
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BillinGlendaleCA
@James E Powell: Getting out of the Rose Bowl isn’t that bad, just go north to the 210.
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burnspbesq
True fact, apropos of nothing: the starting centers on the FSU men’s and women’s basketball teams last year were named Boris and Natasha.
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Felixmoronia
Betty, it’s time to dress in scarlet&silver! ;-}
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1weirdTrick
@Steeplejack: The ugly Duck you see has been around since before you been born. Back in the day, Oregon got special permission from Walt Disney himself to use Donald Duck as a mascot. They can’t use Donald on the merch they sell, though.
Go Ducks! Beat the Tide!
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Gin & Tonic
@efgoldman: Well, I’d have to include NYC. Maybe we can gerrymander it in.
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Betty Cracker
Christ what a hit on the OSU return man! OSU is looking good so far, though. ETA: WHOOPS!
@Tissue Thin Pseudonym: Gotta give ’em credit. They didn’t panic when they got behind.
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Tissue Thin Pseudonym
#90 for Alabama has some awful body language right now.
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Tissue Thin Pseudonym
You can’t get a much better punt than that.
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Steeplejack
I admit that I wandered off to watch Elementary, but WTF, Ohio State ahead?! I don’t like Alabama, but c’mon, the prospect of OSU playing for the title is much, much worse. Get it together, Bama!
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KG
I asked this in one of the newer threads, but since everyone seems to be here and it’s sports related:
ok, random question/comment:
so, my folks have season tickets to the Anaheim Ducks, which means I get to go to games occasionally (including yesterday). but they do this thing, usually in the 3rd period (I think)… Wild Wing (the mascot) wears a camp jersey and they honor a member of the military, put them up on the jumbotron, run through their service/awards/etc. They get a standing ovation.
It always makes me uneasy, because it seems like such a cop out “support the troops” thing. It’s not like they’re donating money to Wounded Warriors (or some such organization). It’s not being used as an opportunity to promote the VA or hiring vets or anything like that.
Is this something that happens at a lot of stadiums/arenas now? And am I right to be uneasy about it?
It was a rerun, but I got sucked in because it was Moriarty/Irene Adler. That was a good story arc. And I think the show in general has been improving a lot this season.
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Goblue72
Big. Ten. Football!
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Corner Stone
The heartbreaking thing about this is that I can’t even stand Bnut’s Bama Tide.
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Corner Stone
TD Tide.
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Betty Cracker
@Steeplejack: Still plenty of time, but the momentum is all on the OSU side fer sure. I blame Lane Kiffin, who is a giant twit.
@KG: I’ve seen stuff similar to that at baseball games. The deification of military service makes me a little queasy too. Support the troops by not squandering their lives and limbs on unnecessary wars, I say.
Support the troops by not squandering their lives and limbs on unnecessary wars, I say.
yeah, just mentioned something like that in the other thread… well trained, well equipped, not put in stupid wars, given the resources they need when they get back… that’d be better. hell, i’d be more ok with it if the Ducks (or whatever team) made a donation to Wounded Warriors on behalf of the honoree… just something more than a standing ovation.
In which Tube-i-verse?
This.Is.Sparta!
Or at least Bamaland.
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mawado
Ok,
I was not expecting to be a split household next Monday. I had high hopes for my beloved Ducks. Was not expecting wife’s buckeyes to still be in it.
Any advice from families who’ve faced a stylist quandary?
Mawado
PS she may kill me, but divorce is not an option.
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Mike E
@Steeplejack: Cool…I’m kinda binging on cable at work, (re)watching The Walking Dead marathon while catching the game.
Sucks that one of this weekend’s NFL games is on ESPN, but it’s one I really don’t care if I miss.
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Betty Cracker
@Corner Stone: I’m only rooting for ‘Bama out of conference solidarity. If they lose, I’ll be able to wholeheartedly support the Ducks in the title game. If ‘Bama wins, I’ll be conflicted because now I love the Ducks for administering that beat-down to Florida State.
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Mike E
@efgoldman: Heh, my old tube teevee at work can’t render the goddamned score/time of game…our lawn keeps getting smaller, too!
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Corner Stone
@Betty Cracker: You will remember me! For centuries!!
I can’t stand Saban or the stupid Tide. But despise the punk ass Big Cheese OSU team more.
The Oregon team looked like they came to Duck and Destroy. My money’s on them, either way.
But I hope Bama beats the BS Buckeyes.
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Corner Stone
Keep that, biznatch!
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Felixmoronia
@Betty Cracker: Conference solidarity is the only reason I’m cheering for OSU. I’ll be reak conflicted if it’s Ducks v. Bucks.
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Corner Stone
This is the kind of game I’ve been waiting for, in this ridiculous BCS Era.
Yeah, this whole championship has come down to “Who do I hate less?” for me. Don’t like ’Bama, but I’ll take them any day over “the Ohio State University.” If it ends up being Oregon-OSU, I’ll be the biggest quacker in the room.
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Betty Cracker
You’re welcome.
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Mike E
It’s gonna be the world v Oregon, and the Ducks are world beaters, face it.
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Corner Stone
HAHAHAHAHA!! A fucking backwards bounce!
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Betty Cracker
Crappiest. Punt. Ever.
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Betty Cracker
But it worked out for them!
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Corner Stone
WOW!
How the F do you throw that BS INT Sims?
I mean, HOW!?
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Tissue Thin Pseudonym
Alabama apparently wants them to see if they can repeat the punt.
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Corner Stone
@Betty Cracker: Faithful commenter Bnut just destroyed some amount of bar territory with that one.
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Mary in Ohio
Delurking to add that
1. This is The Ohio State University’s third string quarterback and they are still making this an exciting game.
2. Win or lose I think OSU has proven they deserved to be in the playoffs.
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Tissue Thin Pseudonym
Okay, try avoiding illegal procedure penalties on a damned punt this time.
@Tissue Thin Pseudonym: Normally I’d agree, but ‘Bama’s punter is phenomenal. Maybe the Bucs should draft him!
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Corner Stone
I fucking love, love, Matthew McConaughey.
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Tissue Thin Pseudonym
@Betty Cracker: If you really trust your defense to get the ball back without giving up first downs, you ought to trust them at midfield and do your best to keep the ball there no matter how good your punter is.
Edit: To put it a different way, if I’m Ohio State right there, I let you just put the ball on the 1-yard line if you agree not to think about going for it.
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Corner Stone
Fuck balls.
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Steeplejack
Damn. It.
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Tissue Thin Pseudonym
And to put it another another way, Ohio State could make it a two touchdown game again.
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Betty Cracker
Well, that’s that. Looks like it’ll be Ducks vs Bucks. Go Ducks!
Yeah, this ad with the bull, now they’re just fucking with us.
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Corner Stone
@efgoldman: I didn’t say I was buying the POS.
But anyone who can straight faced talk to Cyrus the Longhorn bull and thank him for his honesty is A-OK in my book.
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Goblue72
B1G!!!!
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Betty Cracker
@Corner Stone: I’ve always liked him, but his performance in True Detective turned me into a devoted fan.
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Corner Stone
Ok. Life, left?
Hmmmm….
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Betty Cracker
@Goblue72: Most obnoxious rebranding since “the U.”
The deification of military service makes me a little queasy too. Support the troops by not squandering their lives and limbs on unnecessary wars, I say.
As one who is an object of the deification, it makes me VERY uncomfortable. As for your second sentence, so on target it needs fire for effect right now.
If i had a vote for MVP, id be voting for Spencer, the OSU WR. touchdown pass, sensational block on the winning TD run, and recovered the onside kick. Not a bad night.
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Corner Stone
Is that Urban Meyer’s wife on the podium?
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KG
@Tissue Thin Pseudonym: to update my comment from earlier today, the SEC is now 5-5 in bowl games. all five losses were by ranked teams. they only beat two ranked teams in bowl games (Missouri beat #25 Minnesota, and Georgia beat #21 Louisville). I’d say the gap has been closed.
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Betty Cracker
I think this says it all:
Also, was anyone besides TCU and Baylor really saying OSU didn’t belong in the playoffs? It sounds like the War on Christmas.
I wouldn’t. I’m glad the Big 10 is winning some big games but they spent the entire regular season demonstrating that they weren’t as good as the SEC. Or the Pac 12. Or the Big 12. A sample of nine games (with two more to be played) in which they are barely over .500 doesn’t change that.
Also, was anyone besides TCU and Baylor really saying OSU didn’t belong in the playoffs?
I was and tonight didn’t change my mind. The Gophers played both OSU and TCU and I thought TCU was definitely the better of those two teams. I thought both Baylor and TCU were more deserving of being in the playoff; the sample size of one game doesn’t change my mind on that, particularly given what TCU did to Ole Miss.
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Steeplejack
Bah. Over to (dead, warmed-over) Craig Ferguson show for me.
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KG
@Tissue Thin Pseudonym: I’m just talking about the proclaimed gap between the SEC and everyone else. The SEC has had a tendency to not play non-conference road games or many games against better teams in the Power 5 conferences. The Big 10 is probably still the weakest of the Power 5, but the gap between the SEC and the rest of the Power 5 isn’t so big.
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Gavin
Go Bucks!
The notion of “SEC speed” has been buried, dug up, beat repeatedly, taken out behind the woodshed, shot, and buried again.
Ohio State was faster and more physical in all phases of the game .. except punting.
If SEC fans are reduced to asserting that their out-of-conference games against Eastern Sisters Of The Poor and other directional schools are somehow worthwhile.. they’ve already lost.
The SEC has had a tendency to not play non-conference road games or many games against better teams in the Power 5 conferences.
Georgia/Georgia Tech
Georgia/Cemson
South Carolina/Clemson
Florida/Florida State
Tennessee/Oklahoma
Kentucky/Louisville
Auburn/Kansas State
Ole Miss/Boise State
LSU/Wisconsin
The SEC played as many tough non-conference games as anyone.
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Tissue Thin Pseudonym
Oh, christ. A bunch of Oregon players are going to be disciplined for chanting “No means no,” after the game. I’d give them a medal.
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Eric
So the BCS would have given us Alabama and FSU, Bama would have blown them out and all the SEC homers would gave said “Once again The SEC rules”
I wonder how many national titles the SEC would have won the last several years with a real playoff? How many years were #3 and 4 better than who ever they played?
By the way the vaunted SEC West that ESPN has been ramming down our throats as the best division in the history of football just saw its top 5 teams lose their bowl games.
Miss State was especially a fraud, their ranking was based on beating A&M and LSU, who both turned out to be not very good. If they were in the Pac 12 Miss State probably isn’t even bowl eligible.
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JG
Bama lost all the mojo after the idiotic “taunting” penalty. that player should be on a D-III team next year.
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Corner Stone
Oh yeah, B Crack! Bring that Nasty Duck Action!!
raven
You’re my horse if you never win a race!
Corner Stone
Did I hear these overpaid twits correctly earlier? Half of the TD drives this season by Oregon were under 2 minutes?!
Corner Stone
Oregon D is bringing the Shagnasty so far!
And what a big F.U. to go for two on the opening TD score.
F.U. Chumbo Fisher!
Corner Stone
Wow! Just *missed* Stanford Pines on that TD pass attempt.
Corner Stone
Ok, since no one wants to talk about NCAAF, let me just state that I made asparagus spears wrapped in prosciutto, then baked it at high temps for a bit, then shaved Parmesan slices over the top with some rough chopped basil.
It was delish!
Corner Stone
@efgoldman: I hate the constant bug, for any reason. Hate that crap.
Mr Stagger Lee
I don’t know who to root for here, the CrimiNoles or NikeU(or Phil Knight U)?
Corner Stone
@Mr Stagger Lee: Join us. Hate on the Noles.
One of us! One of us!
Yatsuno
@Mr Stagger Lee: I’ll make this easy:
QUACK!!!
Tissue Thin Pseudonym
@Mr Stagger Lee: As depressing as it is, rooting for the Fighting Fashion Nightmares is easy given the choice of opponent. I’d be okay with seeing Jameis Winston hauled off on a cart.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym
Now how about a 99 1/2 yard drive for another Oregon touchdown?
Mr Stagger Lee
@Yatsuno: OK but not too loud there are Husky fans around.
Violet
@Corner Stone: I’m with y’all. Can’t support the CrimiNoles. Those green uniforms, though. Wow.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym
Wasn’t it about ten seconds ago that Mariotta was standing in his own end zone?
Josie
Gracious. All these haters. I just don’t know what to think.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym
@efgoldman: They’ve kind of given up on hockey this year, too. I really thought they’d do more with Kendall Coyne back from the Olympics.
Villago Delenda Est
The Fighting Fashion Nightmares thank you for your support, Betty.
Villago Delenda Est
@Mr Stagger Lee: Yatsuno, being a Wazzu guy, could not possibly care less about what Husky fans think.
Pogonip
Chick Fil A had a data breach.
Who pays for fast food with plastic?!? Did I miss something while I was yelling at kids to get off my lawn? Anyway, they’re investigating, will pay for victims’ credit monitoring, the usual.
Do companies have data-breach insurance?
I just heard honking geese fly over! This is not the local season for that.
Pogonip
@Villago Delenda Est: Also, IRS will have furloughs this year, so poor Yatsuno won’t be able to buy fashionable new gear.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym
Oregon has the biggest kicker I’ve seen since Chip Lohmiller.
SiubhanDuinne
@Josie:
My ex, a Gator through and through, used to refer to the Tallahassee team as “Half-Ass U, home of the Semiholes.”
Violet
@efgoldman: I have not. And wow. Those are so bad they’re good.
Josie
@SiubhanDuinne: Chuckle
KG
@Pogonip: i rarely carry cash, so i pay for most things with plastic. my guess is that data breaches probably fall under commercial general liability insurance policies, but there will likely be exclusions by insurers that will require a new form of insurance.
Corner Stone
@Pogonip:
My local CFA have people in the drive through line with a portable pay-for tablet. You order at the kiosk, then pay in line, then grab your stuff at the window, then get ketchup/sauces at a stand at the end of the line.
Corner Stone
@Josie: Who are you not hating on? Or who are you wishing people would not hate on?
Mike E
Am I a bad person to root for the worst team possible–OSU–to win the whole thing, just to eff up this “playoff” nonsense? I am seriously not an Ohio St. fan…
Steeplejack
I don’t like FSU or Oregon, but I have decided to root for the Ducks because (a) uniforms today less obnoxious than usual and (b) I don’t like teams with “Atta boy!” decals on their helmets. You end up with guys with 86 tomahawks or buckeyes plastered all over. Srsly, everything you did this season was awesome?! You’re all winners! Decals should be reserved for “I killed an opponent on the field in mortal combat” or “I ran a kick back for a TD with a broken leg.” But wait: Oregon could have cute little Nike swoosh decals! Get me Phil Knight on line 2!
And WTF with that cartoon duck on the Oregon jersey sleeves? It looks like a drunken “I don’t remember getting a tattoo last night” tattoo.
KG
@Mike E: when in doubt root for chaos, so good plan.
Josie
@Corner Stone: I was kidding. In the last football thread, someone called some of us haters for wanting Florida State to lose.
Corner Stone
@Josie: Oh. Sad face.
*kicks rotten tree stump in yard*
Steeplejack
@efgoldman:
No, it’s not just you, it’s obnoxious. Plus I don’t like how the scores are left-justified, not right-justified. Just looks weird. Although that is now happening on a lot of channels. It’s like the Chiron Sports Screen Graphics Division changed a default in the software package.
Goblue72
Big Ten putting up a fight in bowl games today. It makes my teeth hurt, but go Buckeyes.
raven
@Tissue Thin Pseudonym: You didn’t see that guy from Wisconsin? I think he was from Brazil and had a gut like Groza. “Rafael Gaglianone, the 5-foot-11, 231 lb kicker”!
http://www.sbnation.com/lookit/2014/8/30/6088561/wisconsin-kicker-rafael-gaglianone-has-a-sexy-chunky-kicker-dance
Josie
@Corner Stone: It’s okay, honey. You can be a hater if you want to.
Steeplejack
“Sprinkles are for winners.”
Okay, that Progressive ad was funnier than usual.
Corner Stone
@Josie: It’s my rusty detritus!
Thanks!
Mike E
@raven: Somehow, he brings this to mind.
Steeplejack
@Corner Stone:
Phrasing!
raven
@Mike E: Garo the Tie Maker!
Corner Stone
@Steeplejack: Rusty trombone?
Steeplejack
@Corner Stone:
Phrasing!
Corner Stone
For all the haters with no one to hate on, hate on me.
/Katt Williams
browser
@Steeplejack: That’s the original Duck logo from the 40s, just before or after the handshake deal with Disney.
Steeplejack
@browser:
Point taken, but it’s fugly and out of line with the (supposedly) sleek, high-tech look.
Steeplejack
God, they’re showing the band at halftime?! What failure of network programming is this?
jharp
So how are the Big Ten haters taking things today?
Go Buckeyes!
raven
@Steeplejack: Always at the Rose Bowl. In 84 we knew it was a bad omen when they made the Chief dance before the game instead of at the half!
I just got 2 calls and GUYS are coming over! Reminds me of the days in Urbana when my house was a clubhouse.
raven
@efgoldman: Halftime shows at the Rose Bowl are very compressed.
Villago Delenda Est
@browser: Every so often some noobie lawyer at Disney is given the snipe hunt mission of taking the UofO to task for trademark infringement, and the UofO fires up the photocopier and sends the noobie lawyer a copy of the original permission letter signed by Walt himself to use Donald Duck as the mascot of the UofO.
Mnemosyne
@Villago Delenda Est:
I’m pretty sure that’s the lawyer version of hazing the newbie.
browser
@Villago Delenda Est: I think UO and Disney reached detente a few years back. For a while Disney gave a flat out ‘no’ to any merchandising, Walt’s letter be damned, which is why the ‘O’ became the main logo and the school tested out an abomination called ‘Roboduck’ as the on-field mascot. If you think Oregon uniforms are ugly, look up ‘oregon roboduck’.
Corner Stone
GFY, FSU!
Violet
The Ducks are looking good!
Betty Cracker
@Corner Stone: BOOYAH! I won’t relax until I see the Ducks drive a stake through their fucking hearts, though. I’ve seen the sleazy bastids come back too many times.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym
Jameis Winston is still mobile so this game is not yet a success.
Villago Delenda Est
@browser: Disney put itself in a no win situation with that shit. Basically, take back the word of its founder because of greed. They’re already thoroughly hated by some because of their constant lobbying to extend copyright so the rents keep pouring in.
Tumbrels for the lot of them. None of this gentle “euthanasia of rentiers” that Keynes proposed.
Villago Delenda Est
@Tissue Thin Pseudonym: I can feel your hatred!
Just One More Canuck
@browser: oh my lord
Corner Stone
GONE!!!
Tissue Thin Pseudonym
Although, that play was almost as good as an injury. Way to go, Jameis.
Lokahi
@Betty Cracker: There’s the stake!!!
Betty Cracker
BOOM!
Tissue Thin Pseudonym
FSU may have dug itself too big a hole this time.
Steeplejack (tablet)
The TV informs me that The Big Bang Theory is coming on. Might take a palate-cleansing break from football with the Ducks having things well in hand. Back for the Sugar Bowl.
Villago Delenda Est
25 point lead with a minute and a half to go in the third quarter is pretty…
well, ass kicking.
Still lots of game left, but it looks like the Fighting Fashion Nightmares are in the process of making a statement.
Corner Stone
OH NOES!!
Sad face!!
BillinGlendaleCA
And another stake.
Corner Stone
I hope they hang a 60 burger on these fucking scumbags.
T. Hunt
Ducks pick off Florida AGAIN! The Ducks kickoff team has spent more time on the field than the offense. This must be the plan to rest Mariota.
T. Hunt
Goblue72
@Villago Delenda Est: A fashion statement perhaps?
Corner Stone
BOOM! Goes the ugly green dynamite!
Felixmoronia
Betty, your wish is being fulfilled! Go Ducks!
Feebog
Fuking Ducks look pretty awesome. Bring on the Tide.
Betty Cracker
52-20 — shades of the 1997 Sugar Bowl!
Corner Stone
There is no fucking way!!
Betty Cracker
GTFO!
Tissue Thin Pseudonym
@Corner Stone: You may get your wish.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Corner Stone: As someone used to say here in LA, “the refrigerator door is closed, the light is off and the butter is getting hard”.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym
Who was that getting helped off the field? I wasn’t paying attention.
martha
Wow, unbelievable. FSU has just given up. Whipped.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym
Go for two to make it 60?
Corner Stone
This is sooo sweet. Fuck the haters of the FSU haters.
IOW, GFY FSU!
James E Powell
@Feebog:
Faking Ducks look pretty awesome. Bring on the
TideBuckeyesFTFY
Villago Delenda Est
@Tissue Thin Pseudonym: It’s looking highly likely. FSU is bound to get possession a few more times….and lose it. Oregon turns those miscues into points.
Turn out the lights, the party’s over…
Tissue Thin Pseudonym
The Noles can’t even see the spread from here.
Violet
The stands were full and the aerial shot just showed they’re emptying out. I guess the FSU fans know it’s over.
Bostondreams
As a Gator, this is only the second game that I have enjoyed all season (thanks, Georgia).
burnspbesq
@efgoldman:
No, Northern Illinois. Friggin New Englanders think civilization stops at the Connecticut River.
Corner Stone
Dammit, Oregon.
James E Powell
@Violet:
They may also know how long it’s going to take to get out of Pasadena
Betty Cracker
Fisher tells Winston to shut the fuck up or get benched. (Allegedly. It’s not all that clear to me. But wouldn’t it be pretty to think so.)
Mike E
Phil Knight sighting… He’s calling in plays just like Tricky Dick did for Macaca Allen, Sr.
Goblue72
@burnspbesq: I’m not sure they have telephones west of the Connecticut.
burnspbesq
Why, yes, there will be overflowing schadenfreude all over the ACC tonight.
FSU used up all its luck with that “own goal” tip-in to beat the Gators in basketball the other day.
BillinGlendaleCA
@James E Powell: Getting out of the Rose Bowl isn’t that bad, just go north to the 210.
burnspbesq
True fact, apropos of nothing: the starting centers on the FSU men’s and women’s basketball teams last year were named Boris and Natasha.
Felixmoronia
Betty, it’s time to dress in scarlet&silver! ;-}
1weirdTrick
@Steeplejack: The ugly Duck you see has been around since before you been born. Back in the day, Oregon got special permission from Walt Disney himself to use Donald Duck as a mascot. They can’t use Donald on the merch they sell, though.
Go Ducks! Beat the Tide!
Gin & Tonic
@efgoldman: Well, I’d have to include NYC. Maybe we can gerrymander it in.
Betty Cracker
Christ what a hit on the OSU return man! OSU is looking good so far, though. ETA: WHOOPS!
Ben Cisco (onboard the Defiant)
Holding them to field goals is OK, but the pass defense makes me nervous.
Mr Stagger Lee
Alabama D is no joke, best in the nation. Urban needs to calm the QB down.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym
OSU needs some touchdowns.
Ben Cisco (onboard the Defiant)
My boss is a Buckeye alum. Either way, Monday is going to be interesting.
Ben Cisco (onboard the Defiant)
COOOOP!
Tissue Thin Pseudonym
The Buckeyes already look dead.
Betty Cracker
Rammer Jammer
Yellowhammer
Give ’em hell, Ala-bammer!
Ben Cisco (onboard the Defiant)
Only mostly dead, need to drop the hammer on them right now.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym
These Dr. Pepper commercials would be funnier if they’d gotten Steve Spurrier to be the vendor in the visor.
Ben Cisco (onboard the Defiant)
@Tissue Thin Pseudonym: Brilliant!
Ben Cisco (onboard the Defiant)
Pick!
Betty Cracker
@Ben Cisco (onboard the Defiant): And TD!
Mr Stagger Lee
No doubt there will be screaming by TCU fans saying they should be playing in this game, but the same thing will happen, Alabama is a machine.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym
I’ll repeat: OSU is dead.
Ben Cisco (onboard the Defiant)
Stupid penalty on the kickoff…
redbeardjim
If OSU could quit stepping on their own dicks, this would be a pretty good game.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym
End around to the short side of the field? Really?
Tissue Thin Pseudonym
Are you fucking kidding me? Ohio State is going to go to the locker room within two points?
Betty Cracker
Helluva game.
Heliopause
How do you east coasters who have passed college age stay awake for this? Red Bull and greenies? Or are all of you in the NYPD?
Ben Cisco (onboard the Defiant)
@efgoldman: ESPN is well known for pushing product past its sell-by date.
Ben Cisco (onboard the Defiant)
@efgoldman: Also, they have a stable full of would-be pros.
Ben Cisco (onboard the Defiant)
@Heliopause: Standard ops for me, I don’t sleep much.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym
And now the Buckeyes are ahead.
Betty Cracker
@efgoldman: Now, now. TT was a great college QB!
@Heliopause: It’s only 11 PM!
@Tissue Thin Pseudonym: Gotta give ’em credit. They didn’t panic when they got behind.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym
#90 for Alabama has some awful body language right now.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym
You can’t get a much better punt than that.
Steeplejack
I admit that I wandered off to watch Elementary, but WTF, Ohio State ahead?! I don’t like Alabama, but c’mon, the prospect of OSU playing for the title is much, much worse. Get it together, Bama!
KG
I asked this in one of the newer threads, but since everyone seems to be here and it’s sports related:
ok, random question/comment:
so, my folks have season tickets to the Anaheim Ducks, which means I get to go to games occasionally (including yesterday). but they do this thing, usually in the 3rd period (I think)… Wild Wing (the mascot) wears a camp jersey and they honor a member of the military, put them up on the jumbotron, run through their service/awards/etc. They get a standing ovation.
It always makes me uneasy, because it seems like such a cop out “support the troops” thing. It’s not like they’re donating money to Wounded Warriors (or some such organization). It’s not being used as an opportunity to promote the VA or hiring vets or anything like that.
Is this something that happens at a lot of stadiums/arenas now? And am I right to be uneasy about it?
Mike E
@Steeplejack: How was Elementary?
Tissue Thin Pseudonym
Ohio State with a two touchdown lead? Really?
Corner Stone
Holy shit.
Steeplejack
Holy shnikeys! OSU scores on an interception.
Still lots of time left, he said nervously.
KG
@Tissue Thin Pseudonym: S-E-see what happened…
Corner Stone
How the fuck do you throw that underneath pass into double coverage?
Felixmoronia
The Tide is gettin’ rolled.
Go B1G
Steeplejack
@Mike E:
It was a rerun, but I got sucked in because it was Moriarty/Irene Adler. That was a good story arc. And I think the show in general has been improving a lot this season.
Goblue72
Big. Ten. Football!
Corner Stone
The heartbreaking thing about this is that I can’t even stand Bnut’s Bama Tide.
Corner Stone
TD Tide.
Betty Cracker
@Steeplejack: Still plenty of time, but the momentum is all on the OSU side fer sure. I blame Lane Kiffin, who is a giant twit.
@KG: I’ve seen stuff similar to that at baseball games. The deification of military service makes me a little queasy too. Support the troops by not squandering their lives and limbs on unnecessary wars, I say.
PS: Touchdown Bama!
KG
@Betty Cracker:
yeah, just mentioned something like that in the other thread… well trained, well equipped, not put in stupid wars, given the resources they need when they get back… that’d be better. hell, i’d be more ok with it if the Ducks (or whatever team) made a donation to Wounded Warriors on behalf of the honoree… just something more than a standing ovation.
Corner Stone
@Felixmoronia:
In which Tube-i-verse?
This.Is.Sparta!
Or at least Bamaland.
mawado
Ok,
I was not expecting to be a split household next Monday. I had high hopes for my beloved Ducks. Was not expecting wife’s buckeyes to still be in it.
Any advice from families who’ve faced a stylist quandary?
Mawado
PS she may kill me, but divorce is not an option.
Mike E
@Steeplejack: Cool…I’m kinda binging on cable at work, (re)watching The Walking Dead marathon while catching the game.
Sucks that one of this weekend’s NFL games is on ESPN, but it’s one I really don’t care if I miss.
Betty Cracker
@Corner Stone: I’m only rooting for ‘Bama out of conference solidarity. If they lose, I’ll be able to wholeheartedly support the Ducks in the title game. If ‘Bama wins, I’ll be conflicted because now I love the Ducks for administering that beat-down to Florida State.
Mike E
@efgoldman: Heh, my old tube teevee at work can’t render the goddamned score/time of game…our lawn keeps getting smaller, too!
Corner Stone
@Betty Cracker: You will remember me! For centuries!!
I can’t stand Saban or the stupid Tide. But despise the punk ass Big Cheese OSU team more.
The Oregon team looked like they came to Duck and Destroy. My money’s on them, either way.
But I hope Bama beats the BS Buckeyes.
Corner Stone
Keep that, biznatch!
Felixmoronia
@Betty Cracker: Conference solidarity is the only reason I’m cheering for OSU. I’ll be reak conflicted if it’s Ducks v. Bucks.
Corner Stone
This is the kind of game I’ve been waiting for, in this ridiculous BCS Era.
Steeplejack
@Betty Cracker:
Yeah, this whole championship has come down to “Who do I hate less?” for me. Don’t like ’Bama, but I’ll take them any day over “the Ohio State University.” If it ends up being Oregon-OSU, I’ll be the biggest quacker in the room.
Betty Cracker
You’re welcome.
Mike E
It’s gonna be the world v Oregon, and the Ducks are world beaters, face it.
Corner Stone
HAHAHAHAHA!! A fucking backwards bounce!
Betty Cracker
Crappiest. Punt. Ever.
Betty Cracker
But it worked out for them!
Corner Stone
WOW!
How the F do you throw that BS INT Sims?
I mean, HOW!?
Tissue Thin Pseudonym
Alabama apparently wants them to see if they can repeat the punt.
Corner Stone
@Betty Cracker: Faithful commenter Bnut just destroyed some amount of bar territory with that one.
Mary in Ohio
Delurking to add that
1. This is The Ohio State University’s third string quarterback and they are still making this an exciting game.
2. Win or lose I think OSU has proven they deserved to be in the playoffs.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym
Okay, try avoiding illegal procedure penalties on a damned punt this time.
Corner Stone
Oh, Urban Meyer. Go back to Utah, amigo.
Steeplejack
@Mary in Ohio:
Not saying they shouldn’t be in the playoffs. I just don’t want them to win, because they’re dicks. Or the dicks—however they want to phrase it.
Corner Stone
@efgoldman: Bullshit.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym
Alabama really ought to be going for this.
Betty Cracker
@Tissue Thin Pseudonym: Normally I’d agree, but ‘Bama’s punter is phenomenal. Maybe the Bucs should draft him!
Corner Stone
I fucking love, love, Matthew McConaughey.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym
@Betty Cracker: If you really trust your defense to get the ball back without giving up first downs, you ought to trust them at midfield and do your best to keep the ball there no matter how good your punter is.
Edit: To put it a different way, if I’m Ohio State right there, I let you just put the ball on the 1-yard line if you agree not to think about going for it.
Corner Stone
Fuck balls.
Steeplejack
Damn. It.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym
And to put it another another way, Ohio State could make it a two touchdown game again.
Betty Cracker
Well, that’s that. Looks like it’ll be Ducks vs Bucks. Go Ducks!
Steeplejack
@Corner Stone:
Yeah, this ad with the bull, now they’re just fucking with us.
Corner Stone
@efgoldman: I didn’t say I was buying the POS.
But anyone who can straight faced talk to Cyrus the Longhorn bull and thank him for his honesty is A-OK in my book.
Goblue72
B1G!!!!
Betty Cracker
@Corner Stone: I’ve always liked him, but his performance in True Detective turned me into a devoted fan.
Corner Stone
Ok. Life, left?
Hmmmm….
Betty Cracker
@Goblue72: Most obnoxious rebranding since “the U.”
Tissue Thin Pseudonym
Nail biting time.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym
How the hell did #6 hold on to that?
Corner Stone
@Tissue Thin Pseudonym: Got to be industrial strength stickem.
That was crazy.
Violet
@Corner Stone: These commercials are the best thing on TV. I love them. The longhorn, Cyrus? Awesome.
Corner Stone
I want one of those big Gatorade containers.
Corner Stone
Good Lordt!
Corner Stone
This is actually tight. What a freakin great game.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym
The Big 10 is now 5-4 in bowl games this year.
Villago Delenda Est
@Betty Cracker:
As one who is an object of the deification, it makes me VERY uncomfortable. As for your second sentence, so on target it needs fire for effect right now.
Ben Cisco (onboard the Defiant)
Congratulations to the Buckeyes, they earned it.
Go Ducks!
Violet
Exciting finish to that game.
Villago Delenda Est
It’s all over but the crying in Tuscaloosa.
goblue72
Suck it, rednecks!
B1G!
burnspbesq
If i had a vote for MVP, id be voting for Spencer, the OSU WR. touchdown pass, sensational block on the winning TD run, and recovered the onside kick. Not a bad night.
Corner Stone
Is that Urban Meyer’s wife on the podium?
KG
@Tissue Thin Pseudonym: to update my comment from earlier today, the SEC is now 5-5 in bowl games. all five losses were by ranked teams. they only beat two ranked teams in bowl games (Missouri beat #25 Minnesota, and Georgia beat #21 Louisville). I’d say the gap has been closed.
Betty Cracker
I think this says it all:
Also, was anyone besides TCU and Baylor really saying OSU didn’t belong in the playoffs? It sounds like the War on Christmas.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym
@KG:
I wouldn’t. I’m glad the Big 10 is winning some big games but they spent the entire regular season demonstrating that they weren’t as good as the SEC. Or the Pac 12. Or the Big 12. A sample of nine games (with two more to be played) in which they are barely over .500 doesn’t change that.
Corner Stone
@Betty Cracker: I could swear…hmmm…
Tissue Thin Pseudonym
@Betty Cracker:
I was and tonight didn’t change my mind. The Gophers played both OSU and TCU and I thought TCU was definitely the better of those two teams. I thought both Baylor and TCU were more deserving of being in the playoff; the sample size of one game doesn’t change my mind on that, particularly given what TCU did to Ole Miss.
Steeplejack
Bah. Over to (dead, warmed-over) Craig Ferguson show for me.
KG
@Tissue Thin Pseudonym: I’m just talking about the proclaimed gap between the SEC and everyone else. The SEC has had a tendency to not play non-conference road games or many games against better teams in the Power 5 conferences. The Big 10 is probably still the weakest of the Power 5, but the gap between the SEC and the rest of the Power 5 isn’t so big.
Gavin
Go Bucks!
The notion of “SEC speed” has been buried, dug up, beat repeatedly, taken out behind the woodshed, shot, and buried again.
Ohio State was faster and more physical in all phases of the game .. except punting.
If SEC fans are reduced to asserting that their out-of-conference games against Eastern Sisters Of The Poor and other directional schools are somehow worthwhile.. they’ve already lost.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym
@KG:
Georgia/Georgia Tech
Georgia/Cemson
South Carolina/Clemson
Florida/Florida State
Tennessee/Oklahoma
Kentucky/Louisville
Auburn/Kansas State
Ole Miss/Boise State
LSU/Wisconsin
The SEC played as many tough non-conference games as anyone.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym
Oh, christ. A bunch of Oregon players are going to be disciplined for chanting “No means no,” after the game. I’d give them a medal.
Eric
So the BCS would have given us Alabama and FSU, Bama would have blown them out and all the SEC homers would gave said “Once again The SEC rules”
I wonder how many national titles the SEC would have won the last several years with a real playoff? How many years were #3 and 4 better than who ever they played?
By the way the vaunted SEC West that ESPN has been ramming down our throats as the best division in the history of football just saw its top 5 teams lose their bowl games.
Miss State was especially a fraud, their ranking was based on beating A&M and LSU, who both turned out to be not very good. If they were in the Pac 12 Miss State probably isn’t even bowl eligible.
JG
Bama lost all the mojo after the idiotic “taunting” penalty. that player should be on a D-III team next year.