OHIO UNIVERSITY: THE BIG BLUE OF THE FULMER CUP
Fulmer Cup updates for your stuck-at-work-ass:
Big Blue in the ’80s. Microsoft in the go-go nineties. We’re feeling the Mad Money funk when we say that no one, no one, and we mean no one has been more consistently reliable in Fulmer Cup race than steady yet spectacular Ohio University. Though robbed of a championship last year thanks to slow but impressive work by Marshall, they open scoring with a flurry of activity just now summarized for your perusal in the Athens News. (HT: Devil Grad and Chuck.)
A fight at a local Wendy’s involving two Ohio players sounds as if it were ripped straight from Ricky Manning’s Guide To Random Social Interactions:
A witness who identified Hodge to police officers said Tuesday that Hodge and Hubbard acted drunk and belligerent inside the fast-food restaurant. The witness, who was interviewed by police and filled out a witness statement, asked not to be identified for this story to avoid any repercussions.
“Ernie was up in this punkish-looking guy’s face,” the witness recalled. “Ernie pushed him, and the guy fell into tables at Wendy’s. Ernie punched him, and then (Hubbard) punched him.”
Ricky Manning, nerd-beater, surely approves.
Adding up the charges summarized in the crack article from the News:
Ernie Hodge, freshman DL: obstructing official business and underage consumption. Two points.
Horace Hubbard, freshman DL: fifth-degree felony vandalism. Reader Chuck notes, and does so rather excitedly: “Added bonus: three days before the vandalism incident, Hubbard was cited for possession of marijuana.” The charges combine for two points, since a fifth-degree felony is really like a third-degree compliment, really.
Marcellis Williamson, freshman DL: Charged with possession of paraphernalia, driving under suspension, and a headlight infraction. We’ll call that two points, since busted taillights aren’t really all that bad. (Can you tell we have one right now? Of course you can.)
Ohio leaps in with a six point weekend, taking this whole shebang by the short hairs for now. Scoreboard of sorts to come tomorrowish.
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NoVaDamer says:
Damn! they need a spiffy new monniker to go with that rep! How ’bout “da O-U.”
February 22nd, 2007 at 8:16 pm
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Newspaper Hack says:
Fucking Ohio. I’ve had it up to my Tressels with that state. Why can’t the South produce any good felonious teams anymore?
Jackie Sherrill, a nation turns its lonely eyes to you.
Woo woo woo.
February 22nd, 2007 at 9:58 pm
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tim in tampa says:
Marshall’s been stealing things from us for 40 years. If not MAC Championships, then our tools, locker room accoutrements, and our ugly coeds. A Fulmer Cup is just continuing the tradition, and I’m sure that come August they’ll have raped and pillaged their way past us once again.
February 22nd, 2007 at 10:46 pm
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kt says:
Keep voting Auburn down, you Son of a Solich. Keep your dream alive of being the Y2K Bear Bryant Reincarnate! Only you brother,! could a take a team from a border line Ive Leauge school and make it the new Thug U of shitty football.!
A drunk Pop Warner with batons and a 9mm waiting in the parking lot: That’s Solich Football, Gawddam!
Props! You sneaky Solich a Bitch.
Word….
February 22nd, 2007 at 10:59 pm
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Harris says:
This is farking ridiculous. As a former Bobcat, it doesn’t bother me that defensive lineman are getting arrested at a ridiculous clip, but dammit they can’t get arrested and suck. Be a team of winning criminals or be a team of losing choirboys, but pick one and stick with it.
February 22nd, 2007 at 11:05 pm
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NewAZTiger says:
Newspaper Hack, it’s because Shula was a poor recruiter and disciplined with Rocky Road, put another dime in the Jukebox Baby.
I bet if Auburn did offseason training in Tuscaloosca and Alabama did offseason training in Auburn that we could get some SEC West members higher up on the ole Fulmer Cup, but alas, the boys in blue in both cities look out for the home team. Them Yankees, not so much… I call it Snow-Belt Bias.
February 22nd, 2007 at 11:12 pm
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NewAZTiger says:
I think Ohio has a culture problem…
Ohio University, THE place to learn how to steal.
February 22nd, 2007 at 11:23 pm
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Miller says:
NoVaDamer,
If anyone at OU starts calling it “Da O-U”, be sure to watch Sportscenter: I will be the bald old guy beating the shit out of the first douchebag on the team to use that tag.
Harris,
As a fellow Bobcat, I am in complete agreement with your statement.
…There is a reason people say the field at Peden Stadium belongs to the Marching 110 (OU’s kickass marching band).
February 23rd, 2007 at 7:39 am
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J.J. says:
NewAZ,
You’re giving aid and comfort to our enemies, the terrorists.
Lots of the money I’d spend on movies or music either goes to some asshole Hollywood executive, or to the artist him/herself, which money in turn goes toward feeding his/her coke habit. All drugs finance terrorism (hey, if someone says it on TV, it must be true).
So by stealing music, these Ohio U kids are fighting terrorism. Ipso fatso.
February 23rd, 2007 at 7:43 am
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J.J. says:
Being factual for a second, heroin actually does buy arms for Afghan militias. And diamonds (if talking about rap music) are actually used to launder terrorists’ money. And there’s a huge drug war (not “terrorism” but just as bad) in Mexico right now, so I probably shouldn’t have made a joke about that. I retract my above idiotic comment.
February 23rd, 2007 at 7:47 am
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Snowedin'Bama says:
There’s a reason more than a few folk here in Ohio have called OU “Pyromaniacs U.” But with the increased police presence after a few incidents of far too hardy behavior upon bar closings, someone has to find a way to pick up the slack. Who better than the football team. After all, without the help of Amish pets and Francis Ford Copolla, they’ll never outdo Cinci in sheer audacity.
February 23rd, 2007 at 8:55 am
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DevilGrad says:
Re #7: Eyeballing it, the top 25 list for RIAA complaints correlates fairly well with the Fulmer Cup standings. Hmmmmmm.
February 23rd, 2007 at 8:55 am
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Nick says:
I don’t see how you can blame Solich for all this, one them probably slipped GHB into his drink
February 23rd, 2007 at 9:32 am
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Out of Conference says:
Harris and Miller – here’s to Quad Night at the Greenery for Sibs Weekend!
Not an OU grad, but have family that are and still live in and arond Athens. I had my share of beers on Court Street though.
February 23rd, 2007 at 9:34 am
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Aerobab says:
Interesting point, DevilGrad. The local media is on fire here in Knoxville with UT at #5 on the RIAA’s “Hitlist”. I’m expecting the Vols to charge into the Fulmer Cup soon to validate your hypothesis.
February 23rd, 2007 at 9:57 am
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Snowedin'Bama says:
It;s true, we really can’t blame solich for it. It’s not his fault his fault that impressionable young men feel compelled to emulate the (er) law-abiding alcohol-free examples of the coaching staff?
February 23rd, 2007 at 10:12 am
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Aerobab says:
Also to note, it looks like “Shitbag” is letting his/her site fall into the blackness of the interweb…failing to keep tabs on the 2007shenanigans.
Score:
EDSBS -1
Shitbag – 0
February 23rd, 2007 at 10:12 am
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Dave110 says:
Thanks for the props given to the band Miller (yes that’s what the 110 in my name is from).
Well, at least we do something about it, unlike our neighbors to the north. Hubbard has been kicked off the team, and Hodge and Williamson will likely be suspended.
February 23rd, 2007 at 10:57 am
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PeterPumpkinhead says:
Hell AZ, let’s really fire it up… you guys can head to T-town, Bama can head to Knoxville, The Fulmer Correctional Facility Team can head to Gainesville, The current MNCs can go to Athens, and UGA can spend the spring in the loveliest village in Lee County. Now THAT would wrack up some points.
BTW, everyone should go check out shitbag’s site, just to see the new sponsor. I really think Fulmer put that site up himself.
February 23rd, 2007 at 12:56 pm
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Harris says:
Daaayamn, Out of Conference went old school dropping the Greenery reference. That place closed years ago. Every time I went there I came out covered some wet, sticky film. And not the good kind.
February 23rd, 2007 at 8:15 pm
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RowdyRoddyPiper says:
If your name is Horace Hubbard you have no business beating up nerds.
February 24th, 2007 at 12:59 am