CURIOUS INDEX, 10/24/07

Minnesota’s defense isn’t that bad.

Ok, maybe it is. But there’s no truth to the rumor that Brewster is cold calling anyone who played high school football and still has eligibility left.

Ok, maybe that is too, but at least we’re not Iowa.

Thanks for the shout-out. It’s amazing how easy its been to find things to blog about other than frigging Saturday afternoons …

Did I hear Beamer say on ESPN that BC might be the best team to ever play in Lane Stadium?

Coach Fran,

continues to have the most amazing season. ever.

thanks coach.

You spit in the face of the nicest fans of college football in the country.

Okay, it’s official. Any blog written by an NPR-listenin’, Economist-readin’ savant who can still pen phrases like “gorilla with a chainsaw dick” and give guest billing to Subcommandante Wayne can safely be described as “eclectic.”

@3

even though i’ve never thought of it that way, you may be right…the ags are really, really nice. i went to a game a couple of years ago down there and watched larry fitzgerald put together 85% of his draft day highlight reel. of course i got drunk, showed my ass, and made fun of many an aggie tradition. most of them just stared at me like some sort of zoo animal, rather than beat my ass…like i deserved…and like any self respecting sec fan would have done.

SHIT!!! i meant #4.

That Beamer invocation of violence is a tad squirm inducing given recent histories.

Violence is why we watch football. Murder is why we have jails.

Maybe it was the address-the-media setting.

I am convinced that the number of programs that Franchione could set back are dwindling.

Off the top of my head, the programs lower than whale shit on the bottom of the ocean, that he couldn’t fuck up any worse than they already are Minnesota and possibly Notre Dame. But if aTm is looking for symapthy, it is in the dictionary between shit and syphillis.

or sympathy works too.

Wait … Al Groh isn’t a Total Fucking Idiot? Is that just because of his [lucky] record, or did Coach Fran just create a new classification? I’m confused. I’m seeing his kid in class in an hour, and want to know how awkward I need to feel around him.

Rammstein Perfume smells like BO, great beer, and pure blooded Aryan snatch.

which of course smells like old sauerkraut and schnitzel.

And dog shit out of a raped to death Dachshund.

wasn’t virginia tech’s opener against east carolina?

“German perfume” is up there with “”http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2004/writers/frank_deford/07/28/fans.reading/index.html" rel="nofollow">Sorbonne on the Maumee" as far as Deford lines go.

Did Frank DeFord regale you with stories of the great Fordham teams of yore?

Crabapple Buck #11 – Symapthy is a word. I think it means not giving a damn whether your virtual character has a job, is liked by other virtual people, or dies.
ugh

Deford is an entertaining writer, but I get the sense that he finds reading his clip file to be the height of erotic satisfaction.

Maybe if you’re up by 22 earlier in the game, it’s worth the attemot at 2. But 4:30? Geez man.

But was wondering, suppose your up by 1 already and then score a TD with 3-4 minutes left. At that point you’re up by 7. It’s not on the card, but I think I would go for 2 at that point to go up by nine to put it away. If you fail to convert, and the other team scores, then they are almost assured to kick the PAT and go into OT.

RE: 14

Bitte. Ganz veil.

I thought that German perfume was a heady mix of cordite and the essence of burning untermensch.

Oh wait, that was last century’s version. Now it’s essence of grey leather shoes and gastarbeiter sweat. With a free sample size of smug.

Frank Deford?: He has not been relevant in the sports world since the early 1980’s. A known exagerator extraordinaire consistently writes with hyperbole second to none-even at the expense of the truth, seems he has found an appropriate home with the delusional lefties at NPR. If I were creative, I would write one of those “real man of genius” commercials about Franky D.

The LSU game was our road opener, the first game of the season was played at home against ECU. Glennon started in both of the first two games but was pulled early against LSU in favor of Taylor.

As for this being the best team to play in Lane Stadium, that much may be correct if you go on the rankings. Miami was as high as #3 at various points in our series going back to the Big East days but I don’t think we’ve played a #2 ranked team. Whether this year’s BC team is better than those Miami teams is a separate argument.

Sheeeee-it, Odell’s adjectives are flowering down there in the fertile Monticello malt liquor-watered soil….

Rammstein fucking rules. That’s all.

22 point lead with 4:30 to play, "I’ve got to go for two, its right there on the card." This is not a man who should be making decisions that affect other people.

Don’t knock Fordham, I’m going there now, and their FB team is actualyl kicking some Patriot League ass, with a shot at makign that most-verboten-of-football-things, the Playoffs.

Fran goes for 2 when he’s up by 22 with 4.5 minutes to go, but he kicks the extra point to go up by 2 with 9 minutes to go against Clemson in 2005 and loses on a last-minute FG. Only in Fran’s mind does this logic make sense.

Wouldn’t a German perfume just be called….Cologne?

Also, Frank Deford (coming to you LIVE from WSHU in Fairfield, CT) hasn’t been lucid since 1984.

I wonder if DeFord is aware of the origin of the word “cologne”??

BC : VT :: Ookie : Underperforming pitbulls

Okay, I guess someone here DOES listen to NPR.

#30…it’d actually be “Koln”, with an um laut over the o…if we’re being uberDeutsch.

Wow, I actually can use uber in this sense and not sound like an internet geek.

24 — The 01 Miami team?

I mean, I’m a BC fan and all but didn’t the U have like 73 future NFLers on that roster?

BC is going to get hung from the clothes line like Fido the pitbull tomorrow night. Book it.

’01 Miami was definitely the best team to play in Blacksburg – close loss with a near epic comeback by VT if I recall. We were a wide-open dropped two point conversion away from tying the game in the fourth.

‘03 Miami was also ranked number two and got absolutely decimated in the “Terror Dome” night game. Loudest I’ve ever seen the place from start to finish by far.

34 – That 2001 Miami team is arguably the best but I can’t recall their rank at the time. I do however have a vivid, second by second memory of the dropped two point conversion that would have given us the upset in the last seconds of the game. I remember that crystal clear, live and in person :-)

And yeah, they had a crazy amount of talent that eventually went pro.

34

that team immediately came to mind and a quick wikipedia search confirmed that they indeed played in Lane Stadium that season.

Just a few notables:
Clinton Portis
Ed Reed
Jonathan Vilma
Bryant McKinnie
Jeremy Shockey
Vince Wilfork
Andre Johnson

this is a very abbreviated list and it doesn’t even include back-ups who have also gone on to have productive NFL careers.

Maybe Beamer meant this is the greatest disparity of talent between 2 teams at Lane Satdium. Even then, I think he’s wrong.

DeFord also referred to Kentucky and UConn as juggernauts. Not saying they’re not good but juggernauts? Come on. Th point of the piece http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=15574210 was parity is the rule this year, and he also claimed that the national championship meant nothing because of it. Just ask anyone who has one if it means nothing, or BCS # 1 and # 2 if they don’t want to play for it.
I think he should stick to baseball. His reporting might leave uninformed people with a sense that they know something of college football now. I can just hear the conversation at the next art gallery showing, “Did you know that the University of Connecticut is a football juggernaut this year?”

37 -

That’s the team. My friends and I were talking about that roster the other day in reference to the BC- Miami game that year. On paper, it should’ve been a 63-0 blow out (insane skill players, best college D in recent years) but somehow, it took a late 4th quarter INT for Miami to seal it up.

And agree, it’s going to be a great tomorrow night. After the last two years, the ACC needs a well played top 10 matchup in primetime to help its rep a little. I hope the game lives up to expectations and BC walks away with the win.

Wait, you mean BC is playing on Thursday night? Isn’t the local baseball nine scheduled for a game that night, too? (I really don’t know.)

Poor BC. Best team since Flutie, and it has to compete with the undefeated Pats and the Sox in the World Series. Well, I went to a BC game this year, anyway.

Also, is Frank Deford still alive? I thought that NPR stuff was all re-runs from the early ’80s. I think I heard him mention Brian Sipe the other day.

38

Just went back and checked an AP Poll archives and they were indeed ranked #1 at the time we played in Lane. For some reason I had it in my mind that they were #3 at the time. That was a great game. We had a chance to tie and force OT but for a dropped conversion. Willis Magahee was on that team too, amongst even more NFL players. They were crazy loaded that year.

I don’t think the talent disparity is all that great, except for their O-line versus our O-line, in which case it’s huge. Should be a good game, just under 20 hours until I head out to the Burg!

Now this is, as far as I know, the biggest Thursday night matchup that Lane Stadium has hosted. I’ve been to just about all of them and I don’t think we’ve ever hosted a second ranked team on Thursday before.

42 – I’d say BC has the QB advantage…

minnesota’s defense is abysmal, yes. but sdsu has been decimating the west coast for years.

Orson- #9 Fantastic.

About the Deford quote: great concept but Joop has a fairly servicable men’s fragrance so the analogy is not quite as universally apposite as it appears.