CURIOUS INDEX 8/28/07

Rubber chicken? Shouldn’t the Gopher football lunch feature wild rice hot dish?

This is awful. I love the Big 10 and all it stands for, and think you should all be forced to put Jim Delaney’s picture up in your homes.

As a Memphian, I despise Comcast, never imagining they could make Time Warner look good in comparison.

Yet, I am forced to agree with our cable overlords that the BTN demands are patently ridiculous, even if I would willingly pay $1.10/month extra to see it. For once, Comcast makes sense; I don’t expect this sanity to last very long.

I guess there’s a fundamental difference between you and me, and the sort of people who choose to play defense at Penn State. While the offense is across the hall playing NCAA 08 and passing around chili fries, the defense is in a shuttered room, squinting through the muted half-light at a picture of a high school kid with only two limbs, ritualistically gashing their own skulls with a rock and chanting…I am a pussy…I am a pussy…

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Don’t you see that it’s the Big Ten’s fault? Every football fan should be able to make the decision to pay $1 a month to watch the games. Every fan would and you’d see the games. Does it matter if it’s channel 30 or channel 600? I get the NFL Network on Comcast on channel 275 and it’s fine. I pay for the sports tier and that’s cool.

What I don’t get about the NFLN or the BTN is why they want to make everyone pay for it? It may be hard to accept but there are people that don’t watch football. It’s such a petty fight because the BTN doesn’t want to be on a digital tier. Who cares? If they get on the tier…and everyone pays for it…then they’ll have the demand to be bumped up. You know why they don’t want to do that? Because their programming and games suck. And they know it.

The zombie coached robots at Penn State are going all the way in 2027.

#1, it’ll be a hotdish of some sort. I’m hoping for tater tot, personally. I skipped breakfast today, hoping that I’d be so hungary that I’d enjoy whatever slop it was that they were serving us.

Anybody want to help me put up a dish outside my apartment? I’ve got plenty of duct tape and a ladder.

Jeff Bowden still hasn’t returned the team Game Boy to the FSU Athletic Dept.

When does SkyNet become self-aware?

The NFL Network and the can of spam with it in the ‘sports tier’ wasn’t worth an extra $5 a month to me, just for a few Thursday night football games. Screw Comcast. I pay over $100 a month to Comcast already for cable and internet. That’s enough.

DirecTV isn’t an option for me or else I would switch. Somehow they figured out how to make channels like the NFL Network included, at a lower price than Comcast.

Re #6: Don’t you already have a dish on your fish house? (Hey, as long as we’re hitting the stereotypes . . . .)

I guess that’s not all that useful for the first half of the season.

If bad QB’s are using PS3’s to train themselves, wouldn’t their avatars be interception machines, just like their real counter parts? And if so, wouldn’t that be counterproductive? I’m looking at you, [INSERT UNC QUARTERBACK HERE].

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That cracked me up. Now I picture Anthony Morelli throwing 6 picks a game in NCAA ’08 and crying himself to sleep. “I suck! Why oh why do I suck so bad?” At least in practice, they can boost his confidence by having him play against the third string….and keep Dan Connor locked in a cage.

Nice reference Orson!

For those of you that know August 29, 1997 was the date Skynet became self-aware….

10 year anniversary for one of the best mind-fuck time paradox robot assasim movies of all time.

Oh yeah, and fuck Auburn

That’s “assassin” not assassim, you stupid ass-fuck.

Hook ’em TIde has gone forward in time, at the speed of regular time, to call himself an ass-fuck.

I’ve gone cross-eyed

OT, but today’s Detroit News has an oblique reference to the fuck lion, at the end of this article:

http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070828/SPORTS0201/708280336

EDSBS apparently is the “made public.”

The DN is afraid to publicize the term “fuck lion” for fear that there will then be a groundswell to modify the NFL mascot.

[Insert obligatory “Fire Millen!” reference here.]

1. - Nice one…somewhere there’s a check-in clipboard with an irritating blank on it. Who said Legends of Zelda couldn’t teach you about football?

How can Grand Marques not be on the depth chart!?!?

This is a travesty and I call for all the Lllllloyd haters of the world to rise up and caravan to the Michigan AD offices to protest until it is righted.

(Jesus H. Roosevelt Christ, is Saturday ever going to get here????)

http://espnmediazone.com/program_info/CollegeFootballMaps.htm

This may be a little random, but is anyone else surprised that 23% of the country of the country is getting Nebraska/Nevada?

1. - When Penn State beats Michigan and wins in the ’shoe in the same year. When that happens (or when the sun burns out, whichever comes first) kiss your ass goodbye!