ATL-area bloggers, come have a drink with Orson at the illustrious Brewhouse in Little Five Points on Thursday night around eightish. We’ll be on the porch with a big black dog, and when we mean big, we mean we rode the dog there.
Citing the fact that the sovereign Seminole nation has approved of the use of their name by Florida State, the NCAA has reversed course and removed the ‘Noles from the banned list of names. The NCAA will review other schools with Native American inspired names on a case by case basis so the jury is still out on the Utes and the Illini…. but I’m pretty sure the Savages will still be on the banned list. It is nice to see that a little common sense can win the day from time to time. Now, can we talk about a playoff?
FSU is free to continue honoring the legacy of Chief Osceola through the sale of items like this.
Gator fans and indeed all others who watched the Gators languish under the frenetic and often incompetent “leadership” of the Zook administration will greet this news with a mixture of laughter and horror I suspect, but some devoted and dillusional Illini fans have launched a pro Zook website (what a novel concept… using the internet to support a coach). Check out www.gotzook.com to see the hard core belief that under Zook, Illinois will get “better and better” as their foibles on the field each week will always be “correctible”. Check it out, but be warned Gator fans, their are some choice words for you there (including some comparisons to terrorists).
A scene that warms the hearts of Gator fans everywhere.
*** Author’s Note: I actually believe Illinois will improve under Zook because he is the perfect coach to bring in talent only to waste it on the field which should make Illinios a Bowl eligible team that underachieves. Fine for Illinois (for now, given their current suckitude), not fine for one of the premier programs in the country coming off a top 5 finish and returning the best quarterback in college who finished 2nd in the Heisman race the year before.
Enough preseason rankings and compulsive listmaking–or glazomania, for the wordy among you–it’s time for the EDSBS Consumer Whore edition, where we talk about the goods you need to properly enjoy a game at home.
Yes, it’s preferable to get to the game. But if you’re not local–and if the only teams in easy driving distance are coached by Chan Gailey–you’re going to be watching the game at home. This is a situation with its own advantages, of course. You can keep track of multiple games, which is hard to do even the wireless age when you’re sitting sandwiched between Sweatass McFatty and a cymbal player in the North endzone. Toss in alcohol and you might not even have a clear idea of what’s going on in your game, much less across the country. And the cold comfort of watching a devastating loss from home is that you can avoid the sour collective misery of thousands of people exiting a stadium looking for a beer and a fight. Unless that’s your thing, of course, in which case we can’t stop you from exiting your apartment and decking the first person in hostile colors you find. (Yes, we’re talking to you, Brent.)
Beginning with the basics, which you can think of as “Orson’s Favorite Things,” which is kind of like “Oprah’s Favorite Things” with one exception: we’re not buying you shit.
We’re like Oprah, but stingy, white, male, broke, and not having Li’l John’s baby.
The basics… (more…)
Brian, fresh from a bleary-eyed night of css tinkering, has the inaugural BlogPoll up and eating solid foods. Congrats.
ATL Eagle goes best-case on his game by game estimate of Boston College’s upcoming season. Flinty Yankee skepticism puts BC’s “best of all possible worlds” outcome at 9-2 for the regular season capped with a defeat of Notre Dame in the Gator Bowl, finishing 10-2. (Why do we get the feeling that most BC fans’ sex dreams end with them rolling off their exhausted partners, lighting a cigarette, and flicking on the television just in time to watch a last-minute touchdown float into the hands of an Eagles receiver to defeat the Irish?)
Scoring figures prominently in most BC fans sex fantasies, we’re guessing.
Former LSU sophmore Amp Hill has decided that the destination for his services at wide out will be Tampa, Florida as he announced his intention to join the South Florida Bulls this season. He’ll have to sit out this season but will have three seasons of eligibility remaining.
An amazing half-hour after our request below, and we get this:
Bauhaus, Renaissance-era Florence, postwar Paris…screw ‘em. You want art, go to Soonerfark.
Soonerfark, we’re speechless. We’ll keep updates as the day goes on, but our gratitude knows no limits. Thanks. You’re all owed beers in Atlanta. Follow the genius yourself at the Soonerfark forum on SoonerFans.com.
There’s more! (more…)
Football Outsiders chimes in with their list of subtle pleasures of the upcoming college season. (We loooooove it when these guys write about the college game. DO MORE FASTER NOW!) We couldn’t help but contribute our own:
-Watching those ultra-gay Gillette commercials where hairless men run through walls and the voice-overs blathers incomprehensible Euro-nonsense like “You win, they lose…oh this feeling should last forever…”
-Listening to Mike Gottfried get really grumpy after a turnover. He always sounds like a kid who just shat their pants and really wants you to know about it.
-The blue-white sheen of floodlights on a helmet.
-Heat waves in the background of a on-field shot of the lines squaring off.
-The “Corso sucks” chants in the background of GameDay when Corso’s pick inevitably loses.
-Spurrier.
-Watching the Mountaineer rile up the ‘necks in Morgantown into a couch-burning frenzy.
-The eerie light that settles over Husky Stadium in the misty rain.
-The horrible, awe-inspiring noise of 80,000 fans getting robbed simulataneously on a bad, last-minute call to end a game.
-Keith Jackson’s one senile 4th quarter ramble around the mental boneyard. My favorite one was “Oh, how airplanes have changed things, Dan. Airplanes. Golly.”
Airplanes. Golly
Orson Swindle and Stranko Montana are two men pushing thirty who should know better than to run a college football blog, but evidently don't. Both graduated from the University of Florida, and both agree that college football is far too important to be left to the professionals.
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