THANKSGIVING AND OUT
Turkey beckons, so we’re off to Birmingham to visit family. To quell any potential rumors, we would like to announce right here and now that we are staying put at EDSBS, and will not be considering any offers to coach the University of Alabama football team.
Posting will be very, very light. We’ll hold off on the rest of the Michael Lewis interview, since transcribing the thing is like ten bitches in a bitch boat, so expect that on Monday. We may post some FSU-inspired invective, but after watching them lose to Wake by 30 points and getting shutout at home, the wattage for this game is going to be very, very dim indeed. Even we’re almost tired of watching Drew Weatherford get collar-tackled in the back of the pocket every other down (almost.)
Coaching deaths may rain down upon us quickly in the next week or so. Expect updates in that case. Paper maelstroms are already likely flying between lawyers, and should turn into blizzards following the final gun on Saturday. A few predictions:
–Larry Coker may just walk into the stands and leave via the visitor parking lot on Saturday. He could, since he’s going to be fired most mercilessly by Donna Shalalalalalala on Sunday.
–Amato: say goodbye to those sweet, sweet gazongas.
–Dirk Koetter: Norm Chow is taking your job, and leaving behind the flaming garbage scow that is the Titans franchise. Why not send your resume to Tallahassee?
–Shula: for all we know, Papa Smurf may well be a legitimate candidate. Like many Alabama fans he too eschews the wearing of shirt and shoes, a bonus in his compatibility rating for the job.
Enjoy the weekend. Remember, a frozen turkey placed into a deep-fryer will kill anything in a fifteen-foot radius. Whether this is preferable to spending another second with your family is your decision, but try not to take any innocents with you.
On that note, we are thankful for our readers, who remind us that you when you are sick, you are never alone. Oh, and for Reggie Fuckin’ Nelson, who worked his ass off through the boondocks of the college football world to get to Florida and play with unparalleled passion and joy. Here’s hoping he becomes the first man to intercept two passes at the same time Saturday. The way Weatherford and Lee are bleeding picks, it may happen.
Leave your own thanks below if you wish.
–O.

No, no, don’t thaw it, it’ll “seal the juices in.” Yeah, stand right over it. You’ll be fine. I need to go get a drink–be right back!












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I’m thankful for the countless hours of quality entertainment I’ve gotten in the last year reading this blog. And I’m also thankful in advance that Orson will show mercy to Irish fans. Please…we’ve suffered enough.
Comment by j.j. — November 26, 2006 @ 2:57 pm
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I’m thankful for Greg Davis and genius decisions to go for it on 4th and inches in the first quarter.
Comment by Beergut — November 26, 2006 @ 8:11 am
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jfinke, I’m pretty much with you there. (And I was at ND for arguably the worst 4 years of suck.) I should have made myself clear - Coker deserves to be fired for letting his team turn into a tragic, public debacle. The fact that he’s getting hung out to dry for having a bad season, and not for letting the inmates run the asylum, is just another ugly irony in the annals of da U.
Comment by Phil K. — November 25, 2006 @ 4:43 pm
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I’m thankful that Lou Holtz and Mark May were nowhere to be seen during the halftime preview of USC - ND during the Fresno State game this evening.
I am less thankful that I was reduced to watching that game because of in-law duties during other potentially interesting games.
Comment by DC Trojan — November 24, 2006 @ 11:46 pm
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Phil,
Really, I could care less. I am not a miami fan. I would love to see them go 0-11 for the next 20 years. But, all I ever hear about is how ND has unrealistic expectations. And we just got done with the worst 10 years of ND football. Here is a school that is firing a coach who won a MNC his first year and got to the championship game his second. His record is still better than 90% of the coaches out there.
Who has a better record? Pete Carrol?? Mack Brown?? Bob Stoops??
Who are they going to replace him with that is going to be considered an upgrade?
Comment by jfinke — November 24, 2006 @ 11:04 pm