BUSTED MEMORABILIA: MAKE URBAN A MYTH!
Countless Africans really are wandering the streets of Lagos and Lome wearing “USC: BACK 2 BACK CHAMPIONS!!!” and “BRADY QUINN: HEISMANTASTIC!!!” t-shirts. Or at least we like to think so after reading about how hypothetical merchandise like “Buffalo Bills: Super Bowl Champs” tees and hats wind their way down the supply chain and onto the backs of Malian herdsmen.
An eagle-eyed reader saved one such example of neverwas memorabilia for us, however, and sent it post-haste to the Swindle Reptile Farm on Highway 78. The taste is a bit fresher on this one, however, and endlessly sweet for us.
Busted Memorabilia presents: the “Make Florida an Urban Myth” t-shirt.
The front:
Available in brilliant scarlet.
The back:
Well, it did end.
And, in your “economics illustrated” lesson of the day, the price tag:
Da hao to ‘Fesser for the shirt, and for spending more money to ship it than it cost to purchase the actual tee.
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That shirt wouldn’t sell even if they won the game. OSU is single handedly keeping the replica jersey industry afloat.
You haven’t seen style until you see a 300 lbs. pasty white 45 year old man wear a Ted Ginn Jr. jersey.
Comment by Stokes — May 10, 2007 @ 7:33 pm
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#72 Steve: It is very nice to have your team win back to back national championships and come within inches of a third. Going to 5 BCS bowls in a row is something to be happy about as well. So you consider one of the year’s schedule as soft? That counts for exactly nothing, since we have the championship.
So I’ll enjoy my alma matter’s continuing success and you can just go on being a jealous bitch.
Comment by oc phil — May 10, 2007 @ 1:04 am
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USC 2003 AP National Championship = Alabama 1900 -Current Billy Bob’s Alabama Truck Trader Magazine National Championship
Comment by Dawgphan42 — May 9, 2007 @ 3:58 pm
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Oc-Phildo,
As I said before, you only played 1 team in the regular season with less than five losses. Washington St.
When Washington St. is your toughest game on the way to the Rose Bowl, you have a slack schedule.
Tough Auburn team that year. Really was. 5 losses. That’s the worst they’ve done in ten years (and I fucking HATE Aubarn).
Keep celebrating your One-peat like it was the second coming of Christ.
Comment by Steve — May 9, 2007 @ 3:28 pm
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After the USC-Texas Rose Bowl of 2006, I was able to snag a “USC Trojans 3-Pete” shirt for 5 bucks.
Comment by RB — May 8, 2007 @ 9:26 pm
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#65. Yeah USC plays nobodies. That’s a risk you take when you schedule cupcakes like Auburn and beat them 23-0. But you seem to have forgotten about Washington State who finished 10-3 with a win over Texas that year.
Michigan was #4 that year going into the Rose Bowl and though they had two losses compared to one for LSU and Oklahoma, they were the hot team. I thought at the time that USC would have had a better chance against one of the other one loss teams. Often the hot dangerous team at the end of the year (like LSU 2006 or USC 2001) is already out of the title picture.
USC vs Texas has nothing to do with this. Texas were a great team who put it together, got a few lucky breaks (as every winning team does) and won a close game. Bringing that up just makes it sound like you have general jealousy issues with USC.
The national championship game has to have the #1 team in it. So the championship game was the Rose Bowl that year. Simple.
Comment by oc phil — May 8, 2007 @ 2:27 pm
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Sundawg,
Good one. As a Dawg fan its hard to argue with the Gator’s success the past 17 years. On the other hand it must feel like paddling upstream to have won 15 of 17 and still trail the series by 9. Knowing how these things run in cycles, better enjoy it now.
Comment by Bob — May 8, 2007 @ 1:49 pm
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Not a Fifer #63: Sold! I hadn’t thought about under-writing vanity projects; add the 2012 Olympics in and you’re really talking.
Although, wasn’t the Wembley decision taken under Adam Crozier? Was he in fact trying to destroy the English FA from within?
I hadn’t thought about trident but surely the right group of neds with some buckfast empties ought to do the trick as a replacement.
I didn’t see the Old Firm game but I did have a chuckle about the result.
Bob # 66 : stop trying assign the blame where it properly lies, you’ll distract Steve from his agenda of appearing to go after USC while really going after Auburn.
Comment by DC Trojan — May 8, 2007 @ 1:11 pm
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Sorry about that. Big XII Championship game.
Comment by Bob — May 8, 2007 @ 1:06 pm
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Guys the real joke in 2003 was the selection of Oklahoma. Lordy, they had just lost their Big Eight Championship game by 4 touchdowns. USC legitimately should have been playing LSU for the title.
I also see no issue with having split national champions…it happened many times before and probably will happen again. No big deal. Two great teams. LSU was better defensively and USC was better offensively.
Until there is a playoff, it is all going to be speculative anyway. What if Michigan had gotten the rematch with the Buckeyes and won and what if USC had not lost to UCLA. We could have had OSU, Michigan, Florida, LSU and USC with one loss a piece and Boisie unbeaten. Michigan would probably have won the BCS title, but after watching the games over the holidays it was obvious that Florida, LSU and USC were much better teams.
Comment by Bob — May 8, 2007 @ 12:59 pm
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USC played nobodies that year. They only played one team that had fewer than 5 losses that year in the regular season. Their mighty bowl matchup was a 2 loss (3 after the game) Michigan team.
If the AP named Duke the national champions last year, would you be singing their high praises from the rooftops?
Remember all the complete and utter bullshit when USC and Texas were gonna be playing, and they were talking about this USC team being the greatest team ever? Yet they couldn’t even win the NC game. You have to do that to even be on that list.
You have to play in, and win, the National Championship game, to be considered the NC under the BCS system. As I said before, it is no different than the ‘Barn in 2004.
Comment by Steve — May 8, 2007 @ 12:16 pm
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#61, I stand corrected. Was not aware they were #1 in both polls. However I still think that choosing OUvsLSU for the title was justified.
Comment by Kecalf Bailey — May 8, 2007 @ 11:35 am
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DC Trojan #48: It adds up a lot better if we don’t have to pay for arsehat projects in London like the Millenium Dome or Wembley. All funded centrally so Scotland gets to pay 9%.
The SNP would also pull out of Trident.
None of the small northeuro countries like Belgium, Netherlands, Ireland, Denmark, Sweden (I’m ignoring Norway because of oil revenue) or Finland have any advantages we don’t; and our economy is stronger than most.
I’m all for it so that if we fuck it up we can’t blame anyone else.
And now a return to your scheduled programme . . .
Talking of local rivalry, anyone see the Old Firm game at the weekend?
Comment by Not a Fifer — May 8, 2007 @ 10:00 am
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#53
Speed faster than SEC speed? I don’t think that’s possible. Everyone knows that not even Michael Johnson has a chance in a foot race with an overweight offensive lineman from one of the schools blessed enough to be geographically below the Mason-Dixon and to the right of the Mississippi.
Comment by GrokBlok — May 8, 2007 @ 8:17 am
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#57. I stand corrected sir. It just seems like the LSU and Auburn fans whine more, but they are not the only offenders.
#59. It should happen before Pete Carroll is done, but you have a couple of more years to go at least.
#60. You are spinning some gibberish there. The AP never changed anything or broke any agreements. They ranked teams the way they always had and gave the championship they way they always have. The BCS screwed up that year and did something that nobody had dreamed the formula would ever do. They matched the #2 team in both polls against the #3 team in both polls. The AP never agreed to boost up the #2 or #3 team over the #1 team so they didn’t have to. I’m sure the coaches would have voted USC #1 had they been able to vote as they wished. The “everywhere but the collective mind of the AP” satement is total BS since the coaches poll also had USC #1 at the end of the regular season. LSU are the lucky ones in that the BCS wanted to make sure they could hand out the trophy on TV at the end of the game and thus got the coaches to agree to automatically predetermine their “vote”.
Comment by oc phil — May 8, 2007 @ 3:27 am
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Wooderson, yes we can claim ‘73. The National Championship used to be given out prior to bowls.
I believe I quote one Mr. DC Trojan when I say, “Them’s the facts, whether or not you like it is your business.”
Re: LSU/USC, I fully recognize that USC has a national championship. I was mainly trying to state that I feel that the legitimacy of the AP’s actions when they retroactively decided they didn’t like the BCS’s magic formula answer and would not cooperate, are questionable at best.
Sure the AP named their own national champion, but if they have problems with the BCS’s system, why wouldn’t they say something to begin with? Why did they wait until the major market LA team got “snubbed” instead of a team from Baton Rouge or Norman if there was no ulterior motive?
I stand by what happenned on the field, not in the board room. Sure a bunch of journalists said that USC could have a national title, but by the system to determine one used at the beginning of and throughout the season, they were not. They played an easier schedule and lost to a worse team than LSU and Oklahoma, therefore they got the short end of the stick everywhere but in the collective mind of the AP.
Say what you will about the brokedick BCS, but at least it is a system. I prefer that to the former days of every news outlet picking their own.
Comment by Kecalf Bailey — May 8, 2007 @ 2:49 am
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*Yawn*
you guys are arguing over championships? Wake me up when someone has more than us Domers.
And If y’all are really ready to go hunting for titles like bama does, you’re all going to be in line behind yale, penn, and harvard for the next half century.
(pssst, bama fans: you can’t claim an NC when we whooped you in the bowl game to vault you, a la ‘73)
Comment by wooderson — May 7, 2007 @ 10:26 pm
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Harvey Wireman is funny.
Comment by Chg — May 7, 2007 @ 10:01 pm
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“I only ever hear LSU fans whine about having to share a title.”
#49 - You are incorrect sir! We have to listen to the Nerds from the North Ave. Trade School whine about it all the time. It’s great comedy, as you are almost assuredly aware.
Comment by CLTDawg — May 7, 2007 @ 9:12 pm
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Cruzer, the only argument is from people trying to say that USC didn’t win any national championship in 2003. LSU won the BCS NC, and USC was named (not claimed) the AP NC. Them’s the facts, whether or not you like it is your business.
Despite all the oh-so-principled objections on this thread, I guarantee that had any other university been named AP NC in 2003, they wouldn’t have said “oh no thanks, it’s not the one with the crystal football, and we won’t sell any t-shirts or anything.” Likewise, the fans would not have said, “No, thanks, we won’t get excited about this national championship, because it was not the one true national championship.”
Comment by DC Trojan — May 7, 2007 @ 8:39 pm
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#49
It’s the 21st century, The BCS decides the NC. That USC argues the point is just lame.
Comment by Cruzer — May 7, 2007 @ 8:29 pm
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At $3.99, that shirt is still waaaay overpriced.
That’s all I’m sayin’.
Comment by Kanu — May 7, 2007 @ 8:01 pm
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Every SEC team, with perhaps the Gators as an exception, would get killed by the USC Trojans. Offense is too fast, advanced…and the D is tough.
Comment by Harvey Wireman — May 7, 2007 @ 7:59 pm
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The Reggie Bush scenario might play out sometime after the scandal caused by the FSU players getting money from agents (and resulting SI cover) or the Charles Woodson “money from his agent” scandals play out.
Saying the AP poll has no credibility is just dumb. The coaches poll and the writers poll’s have been the only rankings that have ever had credibility over the years.
Auburn fans should count their blessings that they didn’t play USC in 2003. They seem to conveniently forget what happened when the teams did play in 2001 and 2002.
Comment by oc phil — May 7, 2007 @ 6:27 pm
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USC’s Back to Back is tenuous, especially considering that the Whole Reggie Bush got Paid scenario hasn’t played out.
Oh, and the fact that the AP poll has no credibility after telling the BCS to stop using their poll “illegally” a mere 7 years after the fact.
Comment by NewAZTiger — May 7, 2007 @ 5:44 pm