YOU KNOW WHO I LIKE? UNDEFEATED TEAMS.
Guest columnist and recently fired sports journalist Ted Sheehan joins us for his commentary on this week’s poll.
Ted Sheehan, guest columnist.You know, this polling thing isn’t that hard, people. It’s just not! It’s all part of something I can slam into a series of sentences I call a column like I slam riblets into my mouth at my favorite local watering holes. Riblets! I’d eat ‘em for breakfast.
You see: just put the undefeated teams at the top.
Why?
Because undefeated teams haven’t lost, and this means they’re good.
Good teams don’t lose? See, it’s simple like that. You only get to the top if you play like a champion every week, and that’s why I’m making it easy for you.
For example: Kansas is undefeated. But so is Ohio State, and so is Hawaii. You see a problem, I see a solution. (That’s why I get paid to write this, people!)
Just put them in order of the number of times they’ve been on television. Ohio State? They’re on television all the time, so they must be good. Put them first. Hawaii? They’re always the late game, so they’re number two.
Kansas? Please! They don’t have a football team. Ha! I know they do. But I couldn’t pick them out of a lineup. So put them at 23, because that’s where teams with undefeated records I’ve never seen go in my poll. Keeps them happy.
But really, not doing this is like trying to decide what good music is without looking at the charts or what good television is like without looking at the ratings. Because people in large numbers? They’re always right.
Perfect example: CSI. It’s number one because it’s the best. I love it. Sometimes, my third wife gets upset at the gore, but that’s ok–I tell her that if she doesn’t like it, I’ll just divorce her and get another wife! Then she cries and leaves the room.
Life’s funny sometimes!
It’s science, though–if Gil Grissom didn’t assume each murder was much more complex than it appeared, Las Vegas would be full of punks killing people at will. And then where would I buy my Tommy Bahama shirts? AT THE MALL? Please, you’re being silly. You can’t buy them at the mall.
And music–right now, the number one album is Bruce Springsteen’s Magic, and he deserves it. Why? Because he’s the best! Just awesome. I own it all. He’s the ultimate American troubadour and all those albums prove it. If you don’t like him, you really need to look at yourself, because there’s a hollow evil something in you if you don’t like him and his gloomy, introspective mumbling about workers, factories, and how he feels about them and stuff.
Glory Days! They’ll pass you by!
I know they have for me!
Because my penis won’t get hard anymore. Seriously. Not even with meds. Just a soft, useless pee-hose between my flabby legs.
Life’s funny sometimes!
So I’m almost at my column word limit. Britney Spears joke! Because the kids like her. At least the non-Satanist kids.
And just want to remind you that undefeated teams are good, and defeated teams are bad. A million people can’t be wrong: just look at ESPN or Nazi Germany. I don’t know a lot about history, mind you, but the History Channel’s helping me out with that, and the Nazis really knew how to throw a party, judging from all the pictures of uniforms and stuff.
Just kidding, folks! They were 0-2 in their conference, meaning I couldn’t rank them anywhere near the top 25. Because they have a loss!
Life’s funny sometimes!
Ted Sheehan may not join us again. But he reminds you that his penis doesn’t work, and he could really use help with that because wifey numero tres is weeping uncontrollably and won’t stop.









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SonofSamford says:
Didi Mao!!!!
October 25th, 2007 at 2:23 pm
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PeterPumpkinhead says:
William Jennings Bryan represents Roy Kramer around the time he created the BCS, The two bars of soap are the Coaches’ and Harris polls (very slippery), and the antiderivative of sin(x)/x is how the computer polls calculate their rankings…
No, that’s just sad, not funny.
October 25th, 2007 at 2:33 pm
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Mr Pelican Pants says:
DO NOT BRING MATH INTO THIS CONVERSATION. I’M A MAN!!!,MY IQ IS 40!!! I’M FROM GREENBOW,ALABAMA!!!. Textbooks and math makes my head hurt, unless its 2 for 1 price.
Would Napoleon be equal to these guys in stature only:
1. Doug Flutie or
2. Terry Bowden
October 25th, 2007 at 2:35 pm
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Ted Ginn did Everythin' says:
Paul Johnson, refusing to believe in the evolution of the coaching species, brings two bars of soap to the game for his morbidly obese rival, presuming one won’t quite do the trick when it comes time to wash the “hidden places”. I’ll be missing the game, on account of needing to watch the latest installment of Texas Methodist University’s QB coach on Tivo.
October 25th, 2007 at 2:36 pm
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Anonymous IV says:
#51, that is a lot better than what I had come up with. The two bars of soap, Williams Jennings Bryan, and the antiderivative of sin(x)/x share the same transitive property as the following:
ND > UCLA > CAL > Oreg > Houston > Rice > S.Miss > E Car > NC > Miami > FSU > Colo > OU >
UT > TCU > Stanford > USC > ND.
October 25th, 2007 at 2:38 pm
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PeterPumpkinhead says:
A IV, that just blew my mind
October 25th, 2007 at 2:41 pm
57
Signal to Noise says:
#48 – my question is whether since #46 addressed that Charlemagne was essentially West German (proto-Prussian?), whether his victory (like API’s) would count for the French (Auburn) later.
I’m not inclined to weigh in on the parallel, but if you want to piss off some Auburn fans, go right ahead.
October 25th, 2007 at 2:59 pm
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w.j.b. says:
Why is it that within three months such a change has come over the sentiments of the country? Three months ago, when it was confidently asserted that those who believed in the BCS would nominate our national champions, even the advocates of the BCS did not think that we could elect BC or USF. If they dare to come out in the open field and defend the BCS as a good thing, we shall fight them to the uttermost.
You shall not crucify college football upon a cross of gold.
October 25th, 2007 at 3:20 pm
59
PeterPumpkinhead says:
Ok, but I’m going to tell them you said so
October 25th, 2007 at 3:26 pm
60
Stockman says:
Dear God, please don’t ever let me have to read Kerasotis and Bianchi in the same set of comments again. Ever. Please.
Being a Brevard county resident Kerasotis is our local papers feel good sports hac…err writer, so any mention of him is taboo.
As for Bianchi, well he speaks for himself. Way too much. Really.
October 25th, 2007 at 3:46 pm
61
Slap-Of-WAC says:
This is all just a highly elaborate rationalization for ranking Oregon at #2 in your blog poll, isn’t it?
October 25th, 2007 at 4:23 pm
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kleph says:
the gestapo – lookin sharp cause your threads ain’t gonna be shabby when hugo boss is your tailor.
October 25th, 2007 at 5:37 pm
63
marcillac says:
S2N/Ananimous IV
The scoring is tricky because while the Franks were a Germanic tribe which invaded Gaul which was consequently (much later) renamed France. It wasn’t called that at the time of Charlemagne was based in the west (France) and then conquered to the east (Bavaria/Saxony-Germany) so maybe you can score if for France. Both claim Chrl. (see statute in front of Notre Dame – in Paris, not South Bend) and the 3rd Reich.
Kinda like a Tennesse native/player going to play at/coach at Florida (Alabama) and then having his players/coaches Florida (Alabama) natives/desciples going to coach at Tennessee (and Vanderbilt?).
Except not because in the latter case we’d know how to score it.
Whatever
Oh and S2N — my 16 seems to be on the same wavelength (both parts) as your 8. Sorry, didn’t see it before.
October 25th, 2007 at 5:39 pm
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Thor says:
I have and will in the future eat riblets for breakfast. Screw you all for judging me
October 26th, 2007 at 9:07 am
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NickSabanisHungLikeaMule says:
#10 great comment. thanks for sharing.
October 26th, 2007 at 9:42 am
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Wes says:
How many exclamation points can you shove into one blog? Was this written by that old man in the picture, or a 14 year old on her birthday?
October 26th, 2007 at 9:52 am