WOLVERINES=NATURAL MONARCHISTS
The strange royalist tendencies of Michigan football are one of the angles examined in our latest Sporting News column.
Wolverines: monarchists on the cheap? Photoshop by Peter.
Sponsor Us
Loading ...ORSON SWINDLE FAQs
Got leisure time? Care to waste it? Learn more about Orson Swindle here.
AT THE SPORTING NEWS
Profanity-free writing under a strange name.
EDSBS Store
Live it. Love it. Wear it until it's ripped from your body by envious hordes of tailgaters.
Back and forth
Locker Room
About us
Orson Swindle and Stranko Montana are two men pushing thirty who should know better than to run a college football blog, but evidently don't. Both graduated from the University of Florida, and both agree that college football is far too important to be left to the professionals.
Contact
Comments? Questions? Long strings of profanities directed at something we said? Please send your comments to harumphharumph -a- yahoo -dot- com. Please direct all tailgating photos and stories to edsbsfans -a- gmail -dot- com.
Awards
Monthly Archives
- November 2009
- October 2009
- September 2009
- August 2009
- July 2009
- June 2009
- May 2009
- April 2009
- March 2009
- February 2009
- January 2009
- December 2008
- November 2008
- October 2008
- September 2008
- August 2008
- July 2008
- June 2008
- May 2008
- April 2008
- March 2008
- February 2008
- January 2008
- December 2007
- November 2007
- October 2007
- September 2007
- August 2007
- July 2007
- June 2007
- May 2007
- April 2007
- March 2007
- February 2007
- January 2007
- December 2006
- November 2006
- October 2006
- September 2006
- August 2006
- July 2006
- June 2006
- May 2006
- April 2006
- March 2006
- February 2006
- January 2006
- December 2005
- November 2005
- October 2005
- September 2005
- August 2005
- July 2005
- June 2005
- May 2005
- April 2005
- March 2005
- February 2005
Calendar
| S | M | T | W | T | F | S |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| « Nov | Jan » | |||||
| 1 | ||||||
| 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 |
| 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 |
| 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 |
| 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 |
| 30 | 31 | |||||
Search the blog:
Bleachers
Finest Friendship
- Doc Saturday The Good Doctor’s Yahoo digs are the swankiest CFB blog around.
- Mgoblog Brian Cook. The Man. The Math. The Legend.
- The Blue Gray Sky Notre Dame’s finest and divinest college football blog.
- The Sporting Blog The Mothership featuring Orson writing under his weak, fleshy human name.
Wired up
©2009 EveryDayShouldBeSaturday.com - Privacy Policy
EDSBS is proudly powered by WordPress
The page was generated in 0.997 seconds with 25 queries.
Site design by Sevenpixels
1
Rival says:
What if they just shit the bed during this whole ordeal?
How’s that for a metaphor? I’ll ask Paul Wulff what he thinks.
December 11th, 2007 at 1:57 pm
2
Scalz1 says:
Michigan is Bill Murray in Groundhog Day.
December 11th, 2007 at 2:09 pm
3
Clem says:
Those should be fake blue gems, not fake green gems.
December 11th, 2007 at 2:10 pm
4
TigerNacho says:
Does this mean Les Miles is Mary Queen of Scots?
December 11th, 2007 at 2:18 pm
5
Stacy Keibler Luvs Me says:
ucla buins in Ruins Dept:
If the Wolverines are natural monarchists, then are the ucla bruins lately representative of Banana Republics?
Both get fearless leaders that are leading anything, not just a country, one day, and either hanging or in jail almost the next day? (I think I heard someplace that Dorrell was at Duke University interviewing for that job recently, methinks.)
December 11th, 2007 at 2:22 pm
6
SpookyJuice says:
Kansas just scored again
December 11th, 2007 at 2:34 pm
7
yoyofutbawl says:
Gadzooks! Is this fearsome denizen pictured above related to The Burger King? Don King? Neither! Methinks he looks bears resemblance to Houston Nutt screaming “GIGGETY GIGGETY!”, doth he not?
December 11th, 2007 at 2:35 pm
8
TideInTx says:
Orson,
Would “The Man” not allow you to refer to Ron Zook by his Christian name (Name Redacted)?
December 11th, 2007 at 2:57 pm
9
hunglikehussain says:
First thing they need to do is get rid of that mascot.
Looks like a trash-can raiding coon if you ask me.
December 11th, 2007 at 2:57 pm
10
Scalz1 says:
#9
Why do you have be all racist and stuff ?
December 11th, 2007 at 3:06 pm
11
Brian says:
Mike Leach = Al Czervik.
To Miles: “I bet you get a free bowl of soup if you buy a hat like that, oh, looks good on you though.”
or…”Hey Wang, it’s a parking lot!”
To the UM President’s wife: “Hey you musta’ been somethin’ before electricity.”
December 11th, 2007 at 3:10 pm
12
hunglikehussain says:
#10
Hmmmm….PETA flamer.
December 11th, 2007 at 3:24 pm
13
Out of Conference says:
minor threadjack-
Nix to defend Ole Miss’s Nutts.
December 11th, 2007 at 3:27 pm
14
sb says:
If Michigan is Monarchist, then the mighty Gators shall be the Revolutionary Republic that shall destroy their despotic reign and ruin the retirement coronation of King Carr in the arena of Capital One somewhere in the wilds of Spanish Florida…and I’m still pissed that Miles is going to be their next coach…now LSU may actually get a good coach, which would suck…hard.
December 11th, 2007 at 3:28 pm
15
hunglikehussain says:
It’s about time for Subcommandante Wayne to declare a coup d’ etat in this obvious anarchy environment.
Only then can the people truly be free!
December 11th, 2007 at 3:39 pm
16
NativeSon says:
That dog could take that mangy wolverine.
December 11th, 2007 at 4:19 pm
17
drogue says:
App St. plays Delaware in the ‘Not good enough to be in a real bowlgame but we have a playoff final’. So? Delaware has the same helmets as Michigan. Nice way to start and end the season.
December 11th, 2007 at 4:27 pm
18
oc phil says:
Excellent job on the article as always Orson, but I have to be a paleo-nerd even though I shouldn’t.
Coelacanths are actually pretty advanced fish, they branched off of the path leading to amphibians. Sharks would be a better example of a primitive fish that predate Coelacanth’s by a couple of hundred million years. The very best metaphor (or most accurate paleobiology-wise at least) would be agnathids or jawless fish. There are two of those around today, lampreys and hagfish and both are pretty disgusting.
December 11th, 2007 at 5:02 pm
19
Chuck says:
Is it wrong that I saw this post and immediately thought of . . . Alexander Hamilton?
Damned Constitutional History final.
December 11th, 2007 at 7:17 pm
20
Hossnfeffer says:
Michigan set the standard when they hired John “class” Beilein. They are going to have to work hard to top that. Maybe John Mark Karr took some coaching classes when he was in Thailand.
December 11th, 2007 at 9:22 pm
21
MikeGoBlue says:
Trust me, as a Michigan student and fan, this crap frustrates me like nothing else. The idea that our coach needs to have prior ties to the school is absurd BS. Yost, Crisler, and Schembechler had no ties to UM before taking the HC job. They turned out pretty well IIRC.
I like to think that most UM fans are as disgusted as I am with the way Bill Martin & MSC have handled this search.
Give me Chuck Martin!
December 11th, 2007 at 10:51 pm
22
El Caballo de Sangre says:
Pretty good column right up until the end, ol’ Spence, but your take on the Tressel hire – specifically the “third or fourth choice” bit – is wrong, wrong, wrong.The Glen Mason/Mike Belotti/John Gruden rumors were really just that – nobody else even got as far as an offer. I won’t bore you w/ the endless praises that need to be sung to then-AD Andy Geiger, but the search was always his to run and The Senator was surely his number one guy from the git-go.
December 12th, 2007 at 12:07 am
23
Beergut says:
#21,
What cares if Tressell was choice #1 or #5?
Darrell Royal was texas’ 5th choice (Duffy Daugherty at Michigan State said no).
Pete Carroll was SC’s third or fourth choice.
Who gives a damn how far down the list you are if you’re wildly successful when you get there?
Bottom line is, when you’re hired doesn’t matter, if you win, everyone forgets that stuff.
December 12th, 2007 at 5:05 am
24
sb says:
#19, you were entirely correct in your assessment…Hamilton, that creole bastard, was a monarchist of the first order, who insisted that Washington be the “king” of the United States and to be referred to as “your Eminence”…an appelation which flew about as well as “king” GW’s teeth when he sneezed.
Hamilton, as you know, paid the ultimate cost for his not- so-private and slanderous musings on the character of his political foes…I wonder if NY would still attempt to indict for murder someone killing a NY political hack in NJ?
December 12th, 2007 at 9:44 am
25
Brian says:
#23 – Bobby Dodd turned down Texas and then said, “you should hire Royal” – UT, that one’s on the house.
December 12th, 2007 at 12:05 pm