CURIOUS INDEX, 12/13/07
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“Disloyal…cancer…” Lawyer Milloy crossed out the name “Bobby Petrino” on the farewell letter the coach left in Atlanta and inserted his own edit:
Milloy also called Petrino “a cancer,” which is going a bit far. Cancer sticks around! Ah, cancer jokes. You never let us down. Also: everyone’s lying, or half the people are telling the truth: Arthur Blank accuses Petrino’s agent of telling “a fucking lie” in the AJC. Speaking of terminal diseases, the Michigan coaching search metastasizes into…Delaware? Michigan is reportedly very, very interested in Blue Hen coach K.C. Keeler, who may soon do what Michigan did not do this year: beat Appalachian State. The Blue Hens (we just like typing that name) face App State in the D-1AA (proper terminology) Championship Friday night, and Keeler says the game isn’t a matter of an audition for the Michigan job, or even that of simply winning a game. IT IS ABOUT CHEATING THE GRIM REAPER AND SLIPPING THE SURLY BONDS OF THIS MORTAL COIL. “I said this and I’ll repeat it again,” Keeler said. “I didn’t come here [to Delaware] to leave here. I love this place. It is, obviously, an honor to ever be mentioned for a job of any magnitude, especially one like that. “However, I am trying to get immortality, and immortality is a national championship. There’s nothing more important to me than that. And that’s all the kids care about, too.” So, there’s that Michigan fans. We understand there’s an emphasis on longevity in Michigan coaching searches, but eternity’s a bit of a stretch, right? Mississippi State is bringing much cowbell to the Liberty Bowl: they’ve already bought 30,000 tickets to the game, ensuring that the bowl game will be sufficiently CR00mXoR3D.
Horrific pun alert: Oregon State has signed a deal to play Penn State in 2008. The Oregon State Beavers. At Beaver Stadium. Beavers. June Jones is busy handing out cash to his assistants–a mere $100,000, mind you, scarcely enough to
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Kate says:
#24: I would cut Atlantans slack on complaining about traffic, because, honestly, the traffic IS terrible.
#37: Their colors are green and white, but both players and fans like to show up in black.
#36: I know, home team advantage helped so much when it was Arkansas in Baton Rouge, and South Carolina in Athens, and Stanford at the Coliseum, LA-Monroe at Bryant-Denny, and Pitt in Morgantown… oh, wait.
#30: No, there is nothing.
(And #16 was actually in reference to the current #10.)
December 13th, 2007 at 6:48 pm
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NRBQ says:
Katie:
#36 referred to your assertions about the Dawgs wearing black and that “obviously no one told (Richt) and he probably doesn’t care that Hawaii’s colors are black too. He probably thinks they’ll actually show in rainbow colors,” and implied nothing about home-field advantage.
I suspect he knows a trifle more about the Fighting Rainbows than you do (among other things).
December 13th, 2007 at 7:01 pm
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Irwin Fletcher says:
@49
Well they made movies in years other than 1980 also but you wouldn’t know it by talking to UGA fans.
They’re still hung up on the likes of Private Benjamin and Nine to Five.
December 13th, 2007 at 7:05 pm
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WDamnE says:
Hey Mr. Pelican Pants,
Keep us posted on the January developments, okay?
Oh, and even though we’re not planning on having any more kids, (I’m a man! I’m 42!) let me know if you find any of them Tebow drugs. I could use them myself.
December 13th, 2007 at 7:10 pm
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Kate says:
#52: Good Saint Richt surely knows much more than I do. I will never know, for instance, how on earth to find the laughable gall to argue on national television that my team should go to the MNC after having been beat by the eventual 6-6 Gamecocks and losing an SEC title game berth because of a then 9-3 Tennessee. I will never know, for instance, how to justify making a show of viciously yanking my players off the Vanderbilt star one week and letting them run wild in the endzone under my direct order and approval the next.
Could anyone explain the reasoning, because I just dunno?
December 13th, 2007 at 7:36 pm
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Raider Red says:
#45, the correct amount, according to the sign I saw on Gameday:
“$32 million…Worth Every Penny.”
That’s $4 million a year to get Croomed and Warhawked. I could have done that for much less.
December 13th, 2007 at 9:21 pm
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Thinking Bulldog says:
Did Petrino write his letter on a grocery bag?
December 13th, 2007 at 11:24 pm
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AZDuck says:
As regards the Oregon State mascot:
When I first moved to Oregon many many years ago there was an Oregon State volleyball game on the teevee. Now, imagine for a moment that you are the Oregon State women’s volleyball manager. You have a number of choices of what to put on the team jerseys:
“Oregon State”
“OSU”
“O State”
“State”
or:
“Beavers”
Now guess which one they chose.
December 14th, 2007 at 1:24 am
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AZDuck says:
#51 – No, people wear green mostly to Aloha Stadium. The team sometimes wears black at home, because its cool or something. But the fans still wear green.
December 14th, 2007 at 1:49 am
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SunDawg says:
Kate, for what it’s worth, after the Vandy game the players interviewed said they didn’t intentionally stomp on the logo at mid-field: they rushed the field after the game-winning fieldgoal and the mass of bodies drifted to mid-field. Could be total BS; I haven’t seen a replay and don’t know for sure. CMR interpreted it as a purposeful act and started yanking players off the logo.
Pretty sure after he shared this story with his wife she suggested he stop being such a tight-ass and let the boys have a little fun, ergo the post-touchdown celebration the following week.
Say what you will, I think the team has played with much more unity since Vandy. As you noted, prior to that they lost to the not-going-to-a-bowl Cocks and failed to apprear against the Vols.
December 14th, 2007 at 8:40 am
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Irwin Fletcher says:
#60, A rational UGA fan is a hard find nowadays. You are absolutely right that UGA’s played better the 2nd half of the season than the 1st. But that’s not all I heard for the week or so leading up to the BCS selections. I heard, ad nauseum, via the internets and ATL radio, that is was UGA’s devine right to play in the BCSCG, not even having won their division, very well their conference. Presumably based on the resume of beating UF (3 loss), AU (4 loss), and Ky (5 loss) in the last part of the season.
Just saying.
December 14th, 2007 at 10:02 am
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SunDawg says:
Mr. Fletcher, who you callin’ rational! [thanks, I had to get that out].
I was a little surprised to see a 2-loss UGA team in the top 5 at the end of the season, especially with undefeated and 1-loss teams ranked lower. I think the pollsters had an “oh shit” moment when the # 1 and #2 teams lost during the last week. The final rankings were part reshuffling and part beauty contest. I’m happy with the Sugar Bowl and look forward to next year.
As to the media build up, I know we were mocking Urban last year on his claim for a chance at the big dance, but his campaign paid off and proved us wrong. I would have expected the UGA faithful to do no less.
You guys go out and do the SEC proud! See you next year.
December 14th, 2007 at 12:52 pm