YOUR MOTHERLY THANK GOD YOU DIDN'T PLAY FOOTBALL MOMENT OF THE WEEK.

Charlie loves a good mismatch… ND will get all St. Blaze on his ass…

i DID play flanker in 7th grade. of course, i was 4’ 8" and about 80 lbs. for some reason, it didn’t work out.

I played a little of the game’s kicking cousin – rugby – in HS, but then I decided that I like my teeth.

Wow, Nd’s maligned secondary is getting to go up against a 3rd string QB. this should help brady’s heisman numbers.

Orson, I hear you’ll be in the Bend on saturday?

I was playing some pick-up ball in LA last summer. It was fun.

Hey DC, I actually played rugby at USC. Between the behemouths who didn’t make the football team and the guys from places like South Africa and Australia who grew up with the game, it was brutal. There was tension between the long time rugby players and the converted football players because the latter would tackle and hit in practice like everybody was wearing pads. I broke my leg pretty quickly.

That is funny – I played rugby because my mom wouldn’t let me play football, and she did not know what rugby was. “Yeah, ummm… it’s more like soccer because we don’t wear pads…”

OC Phil, that doesn’t surprise me at all. I thought briefly about going out for the team until two things happened: I met the token neo-nazi from my dorm who wanted to play so he could hurt people, and I got a look at the size of the players… and since the only position I could plausibly play was hooker, the chances to get snapped in half seemed too high.

Cue hooker jokes from the peanut gallery.

Jon (Austin)…great St Blaze reference. Not sure how many will get it.

You’ve got to have leather balls to play rugby.

I saw a rugby game where a guy’s ankle was broken so bad his foot was spun around the other way and it stayed like that. I’ve never seen so many grown men jump off of a guy that fastr. I almost threw up.

Rugby is a tough sport, but it is for latent homosexuals that are trying to over compensate for their gayness.

Not that there’s anything wrong with that.

WHAT?! Orson’s road tripping to ND???

“Quick honey, douse the couch with lighter fluid. Time for a bonfire. And while you’re at it, lay out the dance floor too!”

Please god, Can I use my Birthday, Christmas, and Easter (?) wishes right now and have ND lose? Thanks,
See you sunday.
Bob

The rumors are true-

Orson will be in South Bend for the game this weekend along with a list of things to buy for me from Lush in Chicago (Orson’s husbandly mind-control secret weapon: luxury scented bath products for me= guilt-free out-of-town game weekend for him.)

TCOAN:

From the looks of ND women, you have nothing to fear about OSwindle’s weekend with the boys.

I trust Orson completely.

Besides, we’re in the SEC, if the bird was never really mine to begin with he would have long ago flown away.

Well, thanks to a lot of years in Catholic school, I got the St. Blaze reference. Good grief!

Wait – Domers burn couches too?

i played 4 yrs of high schoo footbaw! starting bitches! Btw my teams sucked and I caught a grand total of ZERO balls. God damn single wing offense!

Rocket – We only burn them on special occasions, like when someone from an SEC university actually travels north of the mason dixon line during college football season.

I have been informed it is St. Blaise… GRRRR… ill get you wikipedia…

If the average fan knew what actually went on in those piles that occur for loose balls most would either be in awe or shock. I never played above high school but when some 250-300 pounder is the first to flop on top of you it doesn’t feel good. Your first instinct is to pinch, squeeze and claw anything you can reach to get them off of you as fast as possible. The other wierd thing is it’s not really that big of a deal. As soon as the pile is broken up no one gets mad. What happens in the pile stays in the pile or something like that.

DC Trojan, and the rest of the USC fans; Who do you WANT to win this next weekend:

UCLA or ND? (Asume the game will not affect USC’s BCS ranking, when USC beats them both later in the year.)

To me that is like asking which is preferable getting an insurance sales presentation or a time share hard sell sales pitch.

DC: Hooker was what I played at USC. For the non-rugby folk that means you are front-row center in the scrums and are lifted off of the ground by the huge guys (locks and props) around you. Defensively your role is like a weak-side LB. The wingers (WR equivalents) were the smallest guys on the team when I played, but they were fast.

As far as the ND/UCLA question, It really does not matter much. I’ll be rooting for UCLA out of conference solidarity plus a UCLA win would piss off the Dorrell haters so much. But a one-loss ND team would bring so much hype into the USC game that beating them would be sweet indeed, so it’s all good.

I have family in South Bend, and I’ve been planning on going to a game one of these days. But alas! I’m stuck going back to Ames this weekend to watch my beloved Cyclones get their asses kicked by the Texas Tech Viking Raiders.

Although the last TT game I went to was this game.

OC Phil: hooker was what I played in high school — small, wide, and slow, there was never any doubt.

As for who I would prefer to win this weekend when ND plays UCLA… I don’t buy into the conference solidarity business at all, but a UCLA win might help keep Dorrell in town another year, whereas a Notre Dame win is only going to encourage the WWL to increase the wrist action on the reach-around…

I’ll take ND over fUCLA any day of the week. To hell with the conference solidarity.

Plus an ND win gives SC a chance at spoiling their BCS hopes later in November and will also cause the ladies at bruins nation to go ape shit.

See, it’s a win-win.

At bruins nation when are they not ape shit? And they are not really ladies, more like whiny little girls.

I still think they would be more upset by UCLA winning than by them losing, not that they matter.

ucla vs. notre dame?

I dislike both quite a bit and cannot make up my mind regarding who I want to lose that game. As a kid growing up in LA, I used to dislike ucla more than nd.

With Fucla fans, I have had to put up with them all year, either during school or now at work. Whereas, there are fewer notre dame fans. However the notre dame fans are much more arrogant. So, now, I am 50-50.

But, if SC would not be affected in the BCS standings, I would probably be inclined to want ucla to beat notre dame. Too bad it can not end in a 0 – 0 tie.

Notre dame likes for ties, you know.

I would much rather like it if ND loses, that way, they go from Being handed the NC and Heisman from Jan-Sept. 15, they lose 3 (maybe four in the Bowl) and aren’t eligible for the BCS.

I got knocked out in the first quarter while playing DE during a semi-pro game two years ago and learned later that I sustained two herniated disks and two dislocated disks in my neck and a concussion. I went back into the game and finished with six tackles and a sack. I’m hardcore, bitches.