A DROOLING TODDLER OF A WEBSITE: EDSBS AT ONE YEAR OLD

That was beautiful.

Happy Anniversary!

You guys deserve some kind of made up award (SAG, OSCAR?) for the year long promotion of and devotion to heavy drinking, anonymous sex and college football.

In honor of this great day, I hereby declare today a College Football Saturday. Additionally, I bestow both Orson and Stranko the prestigous “Pearl Necklace” of College Football Blogging. You should both be proud.

No, Orson…thank you! I’ve wasted countless hours at work reading your site and pondering the many juicy tips you give us all! I’ve even been forced to re-read and re-sign our network use policy agreement twice. I think next time, I’m fired. But oh so worth it just to be in your presence.

Umm, thanks…last time we got one of those, we were in New Orleans, and it was very, very late…

And a bie ke qy to guys for a really great blog.

Wow, I didn’t expect to get this choked up, but I have to admit, I think I was long over due for a good cry. Thanks for letting me have this moment.

Could just be the pepper spray, LSUFan. We’ve got to crack a window in here…

Damn, you’re right… it is the pepper spray. This is some party!

I’m sitting here with The Orgeron and even he shed a tear… of blood.

1 year old? That explains the incontinence.

happy anniversary… edsbs is daily must read… thanks

Your site is teh sux0rz.

Gosh, I got here a little late and didn’t think to bring an anniversary gift.

But, somehow, I don’t think you’ll get a better seasonally appropriate gift for this blog than Mo Clarett’s indictment.

We’re always willing to play the role of Brian Jonestown Massacre to your Dandy Warhols.

Congratulations.

Happy berfday, you orange-and-peacock-blue-clad bastards. If a gigantic cake arrives at your house this evening and a shirtless Steve Spurrier pops out of it, that was from me.

We’ll be waiting with bated breath, Doug.

Mike—you’re the private school boys, which would make you the Dandys. Plus if you’ve been drinking with us, you’d instantly cast us as the Brian Jonestown guys.

Not to put a damper on things, but I’m (intermittently) blogging because of you guys. So the whole world has you to “thank” for that as well.

Seriously, congrats.

Damn, busting a million soon.

When I first saw boifromtroy’s stats pulling 130k or so page views a month, I thought “No college football blogger could pull that without talking about sex and politics and football.” or nudie pics.

Then I looked at your stats and you’ve blown past him, me, brian, hell, everybody, to be the 2nd most read pure opinion driven college football blog on the planet behind only Blue Gray Sky’s army of like 50 men all blogging around the clock in a sweat shop just outside of the Vatican. (i kid, i kid)

That’s impressive as hell. Especially given that you’re not on a network.

If you had a tagline, it would be “the college football blog that the college football bloggers all read.”

pwd

PWD actually makes this a great point. I don’t even consider this a Florida blog. I mean I know you guys went there and have the occasional bought of confusing feelings about one Steven Orr Spurrier, but I visit this page for all of my CFB news during the season.

Thanks, Paul. We don’t cover sex, but we do talk a lot about making love.

Swindle-

Congrats on the anniversary. If blogs are like small businesses, then 80% fail in the first year, so you’re doing something right. Actually, this is the best CFB blog out there, period.

I was in Chinatown last week and saw something that will make your day/week/month/year/life. Yes, it involves moustaches. Now I have to go get it for you as a anniversary gift. I’ll email you the details.

One last thing – may I humbly recommend that in you take Conscience out for a nice night on the town to show your appreciation for allowing you this vice, since most women would not stand for it.

Take care & be well. Except on October 28, 2006.

Thanks, Kanu. If it involves Asian mustaches, we’re thrilled.

And we are taking Mme. Swindle to Canoe tomorrow night, so she does get some just desserts out of this.

And the same to you, except on October 28, where UGA will order up the usual and take it like men.

Lucy,

Of course we well.

Yours,

Charlie Brown

Of course we will, that is.

(Your #1 goal in year 2 should be to figure out how to add a spellchecker in the comments section).

The blog reading sweatshop is just outside of Granger, not the Vatican.

Great site! I haven’t had this much fun reading stuff written by a Gator fan since I wasted a month reading the message boards following the Zooker’s (wrongful) dismissal.

(I mean, come on…how do you fire a guy that’s THAT sincere?? He reminded me so much of Ray Goff.)

Seriously, keep up the great work so I can keep avoiding it (work, that is).

Russ

I heart you, you magnificent bastard. Congratulations!

How sad is it that I looked back at your first post and got all mad at someone calling you an asshat for not liking Biloxi, then realized it was me? Heh.

We’d be disappointed if you hadn’t called us an asshat. Much love.

Forgot: thanks guys for producing some of the funniest cfb-related bloviation on this here interweb thingie. Definitely one of those sites necessary for maintaining sanity in an otherwise intolerable world.

Where can I send a resume to apply for the position of official edsbs Bling Handler?

Congrats on 1 year. I’m still relatively new to the site but you’ve got me hooked with all the jokes at The Great Pumpkin Fulmer’s expense.

Our email addy, bitterhorn, though we hope you realize that statistically, “bling handler” just became the world’s most lethal job.

To EDSBS…they taught me how to make love to a woman, and how to scold a child.

Congrats on the one year.

The site makes me feel like I never left the South for a few moments – until the harsh reality that there isn’t a Waffle House for 500 miles hits me again.

Keep up the good writin’. The prose is really top notch here. Not since Dickie Dunn covered the Charlestown Chiefs and the Eastern Hockey League has a sport recieved such consistent good writin’.

EVDSBS: The David Stirt of a new generation? (Speaking of mustache Wednesday?)

Starting a college football blog in February shows all the business acument of opening an ice cream store in Alaska in February, but you made it anyway. Congratulations.

Congrats fellas!

Wow, today is my actual birthday and the only person of note who I thought shared my birthday is Boris Pickett, the guy who sang “Monster Mash” to a stunned world.

Awwwww, cute.

Short-term reader, first-time poster. Love the site, even for a couple of Gators. May the power of jorts compel you to year #2.

Oh, BTW, the entry….just a little gay?

Huzzah and kudos. Thanks for enriching my workdays. Whatever you’re doing when you’re not doing this, you should reconsider.

I think Arnold from different strokes may also share your birthday Contrarian, but I’m not positive. Oh, and don’t forget that it is my birthday as well. * Just double checked… his birthday was February 8th. We’ll have to settle for Boris Pasternak.

Congrats on your 1year and volume. I enjoy your posts tremendously. Wish I had a 10th of your traffic but most of that’s my fault (not nearly as clever and some of my posts tend to be “heavy” and more cathartic for me to write than interesting to others to read).

Keep it up. UT vs UF is only 8 months and 6 days away.

Fulmer I’m sure appreciates your attention too.

Hey, Mike: that UT game will be magnificent, we’re sure. Thanks again.

I will chime in with my huzzahs: best ever. Life without EDSBS would be like last year’s football season, extended into infinity. Make sure you get that twenty bucks.

Much thanks, Brian.

Congrats guys. If ever we needed to assemble a crack team of bloggers to say, fly to an asteroid and save the American way of life, I think you would be at the top of Freedom’s calling list, I hope you will accept the charges.

In the meantime, I basically look at 3 blogs as being everything I wish mine was if I had the time, motivation, and most importantly, the requisite skills and abilities, Ian, Brian, and you guys.

My birthday package should be arriving soon. I hope you and Nathan Scott Phillips are very happy together.

I am too old to be on the cutting edge of the internet, but I do feel proud that I found on my lonesome the best CFB blogs out there, you guys, BGS, etc. You guys however are the best, though given my antipathy towards USC I don’t know how good BfT is. Keep up the good work, helps make it through the doldrums of the off season.

The Drizzle—here’s hoping he thanks me for the gift of life.

My best friend in high school got the second-highest SAT scores in our class, trailing a certain man that goes by the name of J. Crumbs when he’s checking into America’s finer hourly hotels. Anyways, some time around 10th grade, I lent him a copy of SimCity 2000, and it completely destroyed his GPA. He ended up getting into Penn State honors, where he got his act together and is now at Harvard Law. In a way, I equate EDSBS with that fateful copy of SimCity 2000. Although it’s taken a huge role in my stunning academic freefall, when I get my act together and put the book out, I’ll remember my near obsession with it as a turning point and an enormous influence. Keep up the outstanding work.

SI on Campus has donned the leather jacket and water skis by giving Jenn Sterger an ‘advice’ column.

I am SOOooooooo choked up, I think I am going to have to go home. Before I do, PLEASE say something negative about Fillup Foolmer, just for old times sake.

Happy Anniversary guys. I am one of the Blue Gray sky transplants that now spends more time on your site than I do the Notre Dame sites. But, if any of homo’s buys me any Florida gear, I’ll kill ya.

Congrats, you do a hell of a job. Keep it up.

“Keep up the good writin’. The prose is really top notch here. Not since Dickie Dunn covered the Charlestown Chiefs and the Eastern Hockey League has a sport recieved such consistent good writin’.”

I’m telling you GoneGator they really do capture the spirit of the thing.

Just so he knows somebody actually got the reference.

Old time bloggin!

Congrats…..can’t think of a better way to waste my employer’s time. Almost 1 million visitors ….. and close to 750 k Fulmer is Fat references….
Keep up the good work…..and keep sporting the Jean Shorts

Oh and since this IS the people’s blog, shouldnt you immortalize Bob Gomez like Ingsoc did to Goldstein, the ultimate tratior of the people? Cuz that’d be great.

Good work, fellas. Thanks for the tinfoil hat, which I wear proudly.

Oh and the 20 bucks I will give you (I asked you to send me your address). But remember, you were 1-1 on bets with me this year and you never did ‘pay up’ the one you lost, which was (I believe) to write a post for my site on the sanctity of the Heismandments or something.

So how ’bout it?

Happy birthday, buddays… You’ll be a grownup before you know it!

We doubt it.

Congrats, guys, and thanks for all the fun, especially the Appy State promotional video.

Enough self congratulatory sap. Get back to hatin’ on F$U. Top notch all around. Carry on.

Damnit! I got here so late- There’s no way anybody reads the 59th post. I’m failing out of med school (PSU of course) because of these hilarious posts every day! Here’s to our brothers in the SEC!

Happy Birthday guys- I think The Drizzle might have been on to something, considering I think I’d trust you guys to run the country in a manner that is both entertaining and full of truthiness.

Nice job, fellas! And oh, btw, Michigan sucks. Have a Fat Tire tonight!

ORSON, YOU MAGNIFICENT BASTARD, I READ YOUR BLOG!

(For the uninitiated, that was a reference to the George Patton who didn’t help Georgia pound Florida into the ground in the 1966 Cocktail Party.)

For a couple or three years before I even knew the college football blogosphere existed, I would send out mass e-mailings on Georgia football to probably 75 or 80 people, many of whom forwarded them along to friends, who forwarded them along to friends of friends.

One of those friends of friends was Paulwesterdawg, who wrote me to say, “You really should start a weblog.” After much cajoling, I did, then I wrote Paulwesterdawg and asked, “What do I do now?”

“Read these guys,” he replied . . . and sent me the link to Every Day Should Be Saturday.

I came to the site, saw the picture at the top, and thought: “Paulwesterdawg must have made a mistake. When trying to tell me how a Georgia weblogger should conduct himself, surely . . . SURELY! . . . he wouldn’t have sent me to a Gator blog!”

Giving Paulwesterdawg the benefit of the doubt, I stuck around and read . . . and read . . . and read. (For you Auburn alumni out there, “reading” is that thing where you look at words and they form ideas in your head.)

You’re good people and, when it comes to college football humor, you’re the industry standard. The Urban Legend may yet turn out to be an Urban Myth, but y’all are the real deal.

I’ve been issuing mayoral decrees already this week, so what the heck: I hereby declare the first day of the rest of your weekend to be . . . Every Day Should Be Saturday Saturday!

Y’all are more than welcome; it’s been a fun ride.

I don’t even know how I found you guys in the first place—I’m pretty sure it was before you got the redesign from OF Jay (who’s been on my blogroll for ages). A mystery for the ages, I suppose!

Happy B-day! Here’s to one full year in jean shorts!!

As a fan of college football for 50+ years, I find EDSBS frequently a refreshing and irreverent read. As a Noter Dame grad and fan-antic, I enjoy and respect finding similar irreverence AND devotion to one’s passion. Keep up the good work. Loved the pic of the Vol’s couple last fall, priceless!

Happy Anniversary, EDSBS!

Keep up the good work!

Wow, one year and almost a million hits. Very impressive. I’m a latecomer to the EDSBS crowd – I always thought the title was a play on Morrissey’s “Everyday is Like Sunday.” I get that little ditty stuck in my head every time I go to the site.
Congrats and many happy returns.