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I'm not a football fan, but we have someone over watching the Michigan Penn State game, and Michigan, frankly, is dumb.

They even had a play where one of their own players ran into another player and took him out of the game due to knee injury.

I'm just glad I'm not at the stadium getting soaked (there are about 100k people there being rained on right now, who, I suspect, will say it wasn't worth it afterwards...)

But yeah. Get your game together, guys.

I hope you are all fairing better.

-Adam

FUCK ALABAMA FUCK ALABAMA FUCK ALABAMA

I just want Alabama to fail, it doesn't matter when, it doesn't matter how...I just wont be able to stomach a national championship if it actually happens.

Thats practically as far as my fandom of college ball goes, the only time a player becomes interesting is when he goes from college player to draft pick.



Edit: What Charles stated so eloquently. Yes.

Hawkeyes!

Finally! A year where I can say that loud AND proud!

Soccer ftw.

3 down football for the win

Most of you probably all heard about Jasper Howard of UConn getting stabbed to death last weekend.

This week they were here at WVU. Not an enviable position for the hosts to say the least, Especially when it's Homecoming Week.

I'm glad to say the school, the team, and the fans were a class act the whole way. A moment of silence was held prior to kickoff, both teams shook hands at midfield, and WVU had #6 stickers on their helmets. A goon number of signs in Howard's memory were held by Mountaineer fans. Makes ya proud.

Holy shit what an ending to the Hawkeye game!

Next week it's Ohio State!

NFL football is nothing compared to college. I am obsessed with the college, OBSESSED. I'm up at 10am sharp for College Gameday and literally do not move except to use the bathroom and make food until the very end of the helmet sticker segment on College Gameday Final. As such, two years ago I had to sign a contract with local police forces not to comment directly on Michigan or Michigan State games until such time as RichRod repairs the program from the lethargic wound dealt it by the departing Lloyd Carr.

What I will comment on, though, is, hey Dave? Why the hell couldn't Iowa put away Sparty earlier? Considering Sparty sucks donkey nuts? Ugh.

Also Alabama rules. To hell with Auburn.

For rooting clarification, Michigan trumps everyone and everything including my own life. MAIZE AND BLUE. But I also kinda like Texas, Florida State, Alabama, and Steve Spurrier. I don't mind Penn State either - I went there for half a year of college and JoePa's awesome - but this week they can go to hell.

Now for the bigger list, who do I loathe: Ohio State tops the list. I hate Buckeyes and the state of Ohio and the color grey and the letter O and anything associated with that garbage pit to my south, the sphincter of America, with a fiery hot passion that exceeds the Big Bang itself. I can not state enough how much I despise Ohio State and the state of Ohio.

A close second on the hate list is Nebraska. The "Blackshirts", what a crock. Why do I hate them? Because instead of Michigan's rightful 1997 national championship being a sole championship, they have to share it with f'ng Nebraska because their damned coach retired that year and as a goodbye present the coach's poll put Nebraska at #1. Screw that.

And just below Nebraska is USC. I'd have no issue with them, except for the fact they are Southern California. LA. Hollywood. That sit-on-our-hands, fair weather, don't-care-unless-we-win, glitz-and-glamour, superficiality-driven, horrible sports fanbase doesn't deserve the excellent program they have and it sickens me to no end to see the winning there continue. I became a peripheral Texas and Vince Young fan simply because they beat USC in the Rose Bowl for a national championship. Also the fight song and defense stop jingle get damned annoying.

Those three top the list by far. But below them are Tennessee (a nothing program that tries to act like a good one by copying everything from Michigan), Auburn, the entire Sun Belt conference (for the refereeing debacle that was the 2005 Michigan/Nebraska bowl game), and of course Michigan State fans.

So really I spend as much time rooting AGAINST teams during college football Saturdays as I do rooting FOR teams. Probably even more.

OH-IO!

The Ohio State University gained a couple million extra fans with that little pit of poaching The School Up North did. Grandmothers in the deepest hills and hollers of West Virginia, who had never seen or heard a game in their life, root for a Wolverine loss now.

Fuck yeah go Cys! Yeah what Dave we beat you damn corn huskers...

Also the Hawkeyes ftw vs Michigan State.

Today was a good day

Qonas said:

Considering Sparty sucks donkey nuts? Ugh.

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They beat U of M.

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Considering Sparty sucks donkey nuts? Ugh.

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They beat U of M.[/QUOTE]

Works for me.

HoboNinja said:

Fuck yeah go Cys! Yeah what Dave we beat you damn corn huskers...

Also the Hawkeyes ftw vs Michigan State.

Today was a good day

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You confuse me with a Husker fan. I'm a Hawkeye. I'm a Husker HATER!

Dave, you never answered my question. Rude!

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:waah: out: :waah:

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Because State has a very good defense. It was a very good, exciting defensive battle that went right down to the last play.

How'd Michigan do against Michigan State and Iowa, anyway?

Hmph. Gimme Bill Stewart any day. Just wait until DickRod starts banging *Michigan* cheerleaders...

An excerpt from Deconstructing West Virginia: A Study of the Hills and the Billies:

What truly defines the hillbilly? Is it the tattered flannel and denim clothing? The lack of personal hygiene? The missing teeth? The dirt, the slop caked on themselves and their property?

No, of course not. That is judging the book by its cover. What defines hillbillies, and indeed all of us as people, is not our outward appearance but our behavior. The hillbilly is most known for a narrow world vision; they focus solely on their own inward family or community view to the exclusion of everybody else. They do not take into account global, country, or even state-wide factors and people. They are ignorant to the world around them but supremely attached to the world beside them.

This leads to the second defining behavioral trait of the hillbilly: clannishness. It is very easy to see how this ignorance of the state and world around them leads the hillbilly to be clannish. But what seperates the hillbilly from your tight-knit Italian or Greek families is a disturbed mental health. Any and all outsiders to the hillbilly clan are greeted not even with wariness, but with violent suspicion and threats. This deranged prediliction towards violence is only amplified towards perceived "wrongs". The hillbilly will enter a mode of righteous fury combined with serial-killer-like focus and murderous intentions.

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/football/2008-01-08-rodriguez-family_N.htm

GRANT TOWN, W.Va. (AP) — Relatives of Rich Rodriguez have been harassed and threatened in the three weeks since his resignation as West Virginia University football coach, his mother says.

Arleen Rodriguez says her teenage grandson received a death threat and found other harassing notes taped to his locker at East Fairmont High School, while her 12-year-old granddaughter had to be escorted to classes.

Mountaineer fans furious over Rodriguez's Dec. 16 decision to accept the head coaching job at Michigan also vandalized his home near Morgantown, hanging signs on a fence and tossing a mailbox in the yard.

"He put seven years into WVU and now everybody thinks he's garbage," his mother said. "Think like a parent. That's all I can say. Think about it. Think about what you're doing."

The backlash has been even more venomous on the Facebook social networking site, where dozens of groups with profanity-laced names have formed, devoted to wishing ill for Rodriguez and his family.

"What it feels like to me, it's like your kid getting beat up at school all the time and you can't stop it," his mother said Monday.

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Not that this is anything new for Mountaineer fans:

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/sports/college/s_541356.html

Coach Rich Rodriguez declined to criticize West Virginia fans or address the issue after it was revealed Wednesday that his Pittsburgh-area kicker, Pat McAfee of Plum, had his car vandalized and received death threats following Pitt's Backyard Brawl upset.

McAfee misfired on a pair of first-half field goals Saturday night in the Panthers' 13-9 victory at Milan Puskar Stadium in Morgantown, W.Va.

The defeat cost the Mountaineers a chance to play in the BCS Championship Game on Jan 7 in New Orleans.

The verbal abuse and vandalism against McAfee had already tapered off when his father, Tim, spoke out yesterday on West Virginia MetroNews Talkline.

He told the state-wide radio network that in addition to vehicle damage, his son had been threatened online, and via text and phone messages. He said fans gathered outside his son's off-campus residence following the game to voice their frustration.

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You stay classy, West Virginia.

Grraaah football gragrah

Anyone see the Clemson-Miami game? I was very proud of my Alma Mater, though my heart may be a little weaker for it.

That game was on while I was whipping up some garlic pasta for the evening. It was probably the most fun to watch game of the evening. I'm pretty sure Dabo Sweeney needed a win like that too, Clemson's been in a bad place since that last year of Tommy Bowden.

Hook 'em Horns

It baffles and slightly sickens me how national pundits, every single year INCLUDING the Vince Young era, love to underestimate and ignore Texas. Meanwhile Oklahoma will get taken off to a corner and blown by every college football poll and pollster, at once.

Qonas said:

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You stay classy, West Virginia.

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Individual accounts of idiocy aside (that could happen anywhere), the way that West Virginia acted this weekend towards the University of Connecticut team as they dealt with the death of one of their teammates shows that you are full of shit, Qonas. The WV entire crowd acted classy as hell and treated the UConn team with respect and helped them through a very difficult time.

The fans, players and coaches showed us all what class is Saturday. And while UConn didn't win the game, they came in to a standing ovation and left to another.

In all seriousness I say stay classy, West Virginia.

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That game was on while I was whipping up some garlic pasta for the evening. It was probably the most fun to watch game of the evening. I'm pretty sure Dabo Sweeney needed a win like that too, Clemson's been in a bad place since that last year of Tommy Bowden.

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That game was probably the most exciting game I've seen in a while. Though I imagine I'm a little biased. Dabo brings an intensity Tommy never had. It's been a pretty fun ride, even if they did fall to Maryland.

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Qonas said:

It baffles and slightly sickens me how national pundits, every single year INCLUDING the Vince Young era, love to underestimate and ignore Texas. Meanwhile Oklahoma will get taken off to a corner and blown by every college football poll and pollster, at once.

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Reminds me of the attention Notre Dame gets every year.

Qonas said:

It baffles and slightly sickens me how national pundits, every single year INCLUDING the Vince Young era, love to underestimate and ignore Texas. Meanwhile Oklahoma will get taken off to a corner and blown by every college football poll and pollster, at once.

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UT has been so bad for so long. It is a little natural for then to be overlooked. I was happy back when I heard that Mack Brown was bringing back a lot of the old traditions to the team. He really impressed me when they won the National Title, and the first thing he said pertained to the strength of Texas High School Football.

I am still feeling very upset over the Tennessee game

Qonas said:

It baffles and slightly sickens me how national pundits, every single year INCLUDING the Vince Young era, love to underestimate and ignore Texas. Meanwhile Oklahoma will get taken off to a corner and blown by every college football poll and pollster, at once.

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Really? That must be a perspective thing. OU is a good team. Did you catch the OU-Texas game? If OU sucks so much, why did Texas only get one touchdown? They're not a bad team at all. They have losses to ranked teams. It's not their year, for sure.

I see just as much vitriol against the Sooners from the Sportscasters and pollsters, but I'm a fan. You see all the nice talk b/c you don't like them.

I can't root for Texas. They're a good team. McCoy seems like a good kid, and is certainly talented. But, being a Sooner (alma mater), I would root for Pol Pot over Texas.

I'll be eager to see if Oklahoma State can give Texas a loss. Not likely, but it could happen.

I'll definitely root for Bama if they go to National Championship.

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UT has been so bad for so long. It is a little natural for then to be overlooked. I was happy back when I heard that Mack Brown was bringing back a lot of the old traditions to the team. He really impressed me when they won the National Title, and the first thing he said pertained to the strength of Texas High School Football.

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I don't think UT has been bad for a long time, and I'm a Sooner.

I will definitely agree with the Texas HS comment. Especially since the Sooner lineup would be sparse w/o Texas HS football.

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I can't root for Texas. They're a good team. McCoy seems like a good kid, and is certainly talented. But, being a Sooner (alma mater), I would root for Pol Pot over Texas.

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You, sir, have my respect in how you deal with rivalries. I'm so tired of people who would pull for a rival when the two aren't playing. I would shed no tears if the University of South Carolina was nuked from orbit (just to be sure) provided only the school was destroyed and no people hurt.

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I can't root for Texas. They're a good team. McCoy seems like a good kid, and is certainly talented. But, being a Sooner (alma mater), I would root for Pol Pot over Texas.

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You, sir, have my respect in how you deal with rivalries. I'm so tired of people who would pull for a rival when the two aren't playing. I would shed no tears if the University of South Carolina was nuked from orbit (just to be sure) provided only the school was destroyed and no people hurt.[/QUOTE]

When USC and Texas faced off in the National Championship a few years back, I couldn't believe so many of my Sooner-brethren rooted for Texas. It made me sad. I didn't really root for USC. I just kind of hoped for a sink hole or earthquake.

I call that "pulling for injuries"

WE ARE PENN STATE

Chazwozel said:

WE ARE PENN STATE

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I remember those guys. They're the ones we beat.

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WE ARE PENN STATE

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As much as I love seeing Joe Paterno get more wins than Bobby Bowden, I am glad to see Iowa in the top 10, undefeated for my grandpa's sake.

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WE ARE PENN STATE

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The only loss of the season. To the Hawkeyes. <cowers in shame>

-heh- We're your Achilles' heel. Ours is coming up with Ohio State.

Doesn't matter how good Penn State is or how bad Iowa is - State always has trouble with us.

drawn_inward said:

When USC and Texas faced off in the National Championship a few years back, I couldn't believe so many of my Sooner-brethren rooted for Texas. It made me sad. I didn't really root for USC. I just kind of hoped for a sink hole or earthquake.

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I don't get that. I am no Sooner fan by any stretch, but I pulled for them in their shot at the championship because they are the team representing my division in the big game. I was not sad when they lost... but I was on their side.

It was even worse when Aggies were cheering for USC in that Rose Bowl...

After the podcast, I went to watch the Syracuse/Akron game. nothing like watching 2 terrible teams to really get the alcohol flowing. High point was the micheal jackson tribute by the marching band at halftime...with full out thriller song and dance!



About 5 min or so in, they drop instruments and jsut start doing the full thriller dance hahahaha

sixpackshaker;284143][quote=drawn_inward said:

When USC and Texas faced off in the National Championship a few years back, I couldn't believe so many of my Sooner-brethren rooted for Texas. It made me sad. I didn't really root for USC. I just kind of hoped for a sink hole or earthquake.

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I don't get that. I am no Sooner fan by any stretch, but I pulled for them in their shot at the championship because they are the team representing my division in the big game. I was not sad when they lost... but I was on their side.

It was even worse when Aggies were cheering for USC in that Rose Bowl...[/QUOTE]

I didn't really cheer either one b/c I don't care for either team. I think the Big XII is underrated and I probably should have pulled for UT, but I just couldn't do it.

I know they're not a college team but... I'd just like to say, even as a person who's generally apathetic towards sports, I can't believe the Saints have been winning.