Holy Erin Andrews's Areola!!

Erin loves talking about domination.... nobody dominated here tonight but Jacquizz Rodgers the RB for Oregon St had the best line just now.... "How did you do it EA said"...

"I was just hidin behind my line all night... I'm a small dude... They couldn't find me!"


Classic.

It's a game I'll remember my whole life... and my own quote about Erin's Areola.

Out.

Holy Shitballz

Penn State and Stanford beat Oregon State... and Oregon State is whupping up on USC 21 to No Reason at the half.

This is this year's game of the century but are we really surprised? Dr. Lou could've predicted it. If USC doesn't have an erection to put their Trojan Wrap around then they don't have a clue as to what to do. The game goes and goes and the offense hasn't been on the field for more than 12 minutes out of 30. No rhythm.

I love that word rhythm... no vowels.

Ringer: The Featured Back

Looks like Javon Ringer will get some Heisman pub from ESPN today. There really hasn't been a breakout back other than Javon. He's faced some pretty weak run defense so far this year but that's not to say he isn't the real deal.

Coming out of Dayton Chaminade in high school he was overlooked by his favorite college, Ohio State, due to grade requirements.

Excuse me and the financial crisis

I have been detained by obligations and apologize for my absense but I honestly see less reason for coverage during the season than out of it. During the season you're swamped with information. Out of seaon all you hear about are arrests.

Tonight we are given a nice morsel of football with a Big East Power, once again, versus another Big 12 also ran in Louisville/Kansas State. Kansas State looks to have the horses.

Lou Holtz, Mark May, Reece Davis and Mark May (seems redundant doesn't it) are calling the game. Louisville just missed a potentially game changing pat putting them up by 13 rather than 14. Holtz just went off on a player not getting up and going off the field after getting a little injured. I have to agree with my fellow KSU grad.

Louisville seems to be the place for the Ryder Cup championship, Valhalla Country Club to be exact. I must say, from the pictures, the place is right up there with Augusta in terms of beauty from all that.

It's 10:05 and my 3 year old has decided to eat some food for dinner... Raisin Bran.. as I hear him watching Spongebob and echoing the latter remnants of the ABC song...

Ahh... dow down 449 points... thank you very much Tanqueray....

Too much anticipation

Every website has at least two items referencing OSU vs USC. Sportsline even has a countdown clock. College football has become so much about the national title game that everyone forgets that these are kids and that the pageantry of college football and rivalry and tradition is what it's really all about. As a kid growing up I didn't even think about the national title- not at all. It was the furthest thing from my mind. Maybe it was because Earle Bruce and the boys always managed to lose 3 or 4 games but all the guys who played there were gods nonetheless.

Now, if you don't win the the whole enchalada, you're nothing- until you land in the NFL.

I hate Spencer Tillman... but here we go... I was hoping to see Dennis Dodd do his own preview because his are kind of like watching that hillbilly from Tennessee do his own sports updates.


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Monday Night Football: We'll be watching tap soon

Soon we'll be watching tap football and we'll have to clap for our opponents when they score or make a nice play because, well, because it's just an awful darn nice thing to do!

No celebration?

No in your face? What in the wild world of sports, as Slim Pickens said, is the sporting world coming to? We're red meat eating Americans, right? Jake Locker can't throw a ball in the air and Tom Brady is not allowed to be injured and soon Peyton Manning will get done for the season too- but not if the refs have their way. Last night a Bears LB got a fifteen yarder for a love tap on Peyton's head. It didn't matter as karma kicked in and the Bears one for having an awesome D and an O that could occasionally make plays... (did I say Defense Wins Championships? I think I did (see previous post)

Anyways, get ready for a good game after this Minny/vs/Packattack game with an effective O vs an effective D once again. If you can have one or the other, pick the D.

Anyways again-the NFL is going to do it's best to protect marquee QBs this year. There are fewer and fewer left. Tony Romo almost got knocked out against the Browns and Peyton is being held together by safety pins and Farveee is just Farvee and he doesn't get hurt- or he just takes pills so he can play the next game (don't worry prescription drugs will only kill your liver while marijuana will only cure your gloucoma).

Ch-Ch-Changes

Football is still fresh and creating this year's identity. I won't go over college right now because if you're reading this you already know what happened and that's what those links up on the right are for. I need a hug after this weekend's football but what is becoming an apparent theme this weekend as I sit here typing along they flash to Peyton Manning riding the exercise bike on the sidelines and the talk of Tom Brady's wounded knee.

Those guys are my age and while I'm not old, I've been working at my profession for nearly ten years and so have they and while I've learned quite a few tricks I will continue to get more experience but those guys, I don't think they have too much left in the tank. Brett Favre looked good today but he's only for or so years older than those two so it's not like he's 100 years old or something but football takes it's toll. You can make your muscles stronger by lifting weights and get faster through speed training and you get smarter through film and other mental gymnastics but the bones and the tendons and the joints cannot simply be trained to get stronger. They can only withstand so much pulling apart and getting put back together and as a quarterback in football the average fan has no idea just how exposed these players are. The sport is very cruel to that position. They get to stay stationary somewhat while many are just trying to hurt them.


And Another Thing About Quarterback....

The average fan sees all of football as though they are the quarterback somehow and thus all of football is seen through and "offensive eye-piece." For instance if team "A" beats team "B" by 20 but allowed 30 points, it just seems more impressive than team "C" who beats team "D" by one touchdown less but only gave up 1 touchdown as the defense was suffocating. It is often said that defense wins championships. It's like baseball. Pitching wins gams and th big hitting teams always end up losing the big one. So here we are all over again. Offense totally gets people over excited while stifling defense just bores people. The teams with the flashy offenses always get people excited but those offenses can have a bad game or go up against a strong defense and not seem quite as good.

Not looking good for Ol' Ball Coach

Ol' Ball coach is about to go down two years in a row to Vandy. Vandy runs a spread option and pops in and out of traditional formations and just went up by two TDs with 9:28 left over the Gamecocks. Don't let the name fool you. Vanderbilt has been building for a long time and they're finally figuring it out: Smart guys want a good education and good football, too. ND has been doing it for a long time. Other big programs have been doing it lately too. By bringing in smart kids to top programs you enhance your draft status with NFL teams and it feeds itself. The NFL has a strong interest in guys with intelligence and kids who want to go pro have a strong interest in programs that get their kids drafted. ND and USC have been onto this for a while. The Big10 gets a lot of kids drafted as well due to high academic standards. UFlorida and UMiami have good standards as well. There's a trend developing that's running deeper today than ever and a program like Vandy has all the pieces to step out in front of something like this and do something quite unexpected.

More ACC piling on

From Southerncollegesports.com they have more.

CFN reviews...

The Lament of Pittsburgh... Bowling Green rolls in and drops the bomb on a bunch of players who were all "rated" significantly higher than them.