So today is the 25th anniversary of the death of the best college football coach ever to walk a sideline. A few years ago I wrote a little post about The Bear. Good seasons come and go, and without tradition when they go, they’re gone. Nothing more than a few faded memories and [...]
So far things are setting up nicely for a Packers/Pats Super Bowl, which would be fine by me. I’m far more of a Packers fan, and it would be great to see Favre get one more ring before he packs it in, but it’d also be cool to see a team go 19-0. In other news… [...]
…you can’t for get the “the”… tOSU fans get kinda bitchy about that. Seriously. Was anyone surprised by the BCS title game last night? Anyone? Besides Buckeye fans, of course, who were convinced that this was the year they got that SEC monkey off their backs. It wasn’t. Just like last year, the Bucks got out to [...]
Wow. For weeks, literally, we’ve listened to people who have been whining about how Hawaii should’ve been in the championship game. “Hawaii’s undefeated”, they’d exclaim! “LSU has two losses”, they’d say in such a tone as to imply that maybe we hadn’t yet realized that two is greater than zero. “Who cares if their schedule is [...]
It’s official. After this season, anyone who thinks that the BCS (or any other “bowl” system) is a good way to pick a national championship is a damn fool. A few years ago, you were just a guy with a different opinion… a traditionalist. After the last two years, you were… a little dense. After [...]
(Or: Two Things You Don’t Need To Understand to Work for the Washington Post or blog Auburn Football) I’m starting to wonder if maybe there is no liberal media and, rather, that the media that we have is just completely incompetent. Take, for example, this piece of tripe about how horrible Nick Saban is for, uh, [...]
In Tuscaloosa and around the college football world, fans cheer in unison. Taunting cheers, kick-off cheers, fight songs… all of it. The crowd does it together. It’s impressive if you’re standing down on the field. Never in my life, though, have I heard fans SO in-sync that they could sound like a skipping CD! [...]
CBS’s announcers kept yammering on about tonight’s game between Alabama and LSU being a so-called “referendum” on Les Miles. The whole idea is silly… LSU has far superior talent, they’re deeper, and they’ve had a lot more continuity over the past 2 years than Alabama has. So the only sense in which this was a [...]
ESPN talking heads have been yapping non-stop today about whether or not the Patriots are “running up the score” and whether or not that’s a Good Thing. Washington Redskins linebacker Randall Godfrey said this after their game this weekend: “I told [Belichick], ‘You need to show some respect for the game.’ You just don’t [...]
Alabama destroyed Tennessee yesterday. It was great. For the uninitiated, Tennessee fans are easily the most classless fans in the SEC. LSU fans are pretty bad, but that’s typically just the liquor talking… and after they’re done taunting you in cajun gibberish, many of them will buy you a drink. Auburn fans are annoying in that [...]
