CURIOUS INDEX, 12/31/07

Excellent in regards to the live blogging. I’m here at work, but I brought my headphones so I could listen to the Georgia Tech game this afternoon on the internet radios.

Just took another look at the bowl schedule for today, Peach bowl tonight, and Rose/Sugar tomorrow, finally - glorious, glorious, real football bowls.

Don’t taze me bro!! Someone needs to taze Hawkins…what the F#($ kind of game plan was that he brought to the independence bowl? I was starting to wonder if the Independence bowl put the end zones on the sidelines with all those horizontal run plays….that shit doesn’t work Hawkins…all you had to do was run the F’king ball right at them and throw all day long with your freshman quarterback and you would have won by 2 scores. That gimmick offense might work at the high school level, but this is division 1 football. I was telling myself last night that if Tressel ran an offense out there that looked like that with all those misdirection and fake draws I would throw up on myself. Hey Hawkins, JoePa has won 23 bowl games with the same game plan…run the damn ball right at the defense and force them to stop you…do that for 4 quarters and the defense will wear down.

God I hate all these bowls that match 6-6 teams…I’d rather see Alabama Colorado during the regular season and only 15 bowl games, all played before and on Jan 1st.

TAFKAtOSU,

What are you talking about? I saw those same plays help the AOPis win the flag football championship at Furman 3 years ago.
Furthermore, Applewhite was dealing some bonehead calls too. How about those lame runs in the 4th quarter, when Bama was getting into the redzone and came away with a FG instead of 7. But my favorite was when Bama got the ball back with less that 4:30 to go and after getting the first 1st down, on 2nd down JPW throws to a short out route on the side line that was almost intercepted and was broken up. Now there are tons of bad things that can happen on that play and about 1 good thing that can happen.
The good:
1. The defender makes a horrible read or slips and the defender cuts back in and runs down field for the first (and more).
The bad:
1. The ball is intercepted (and returned for a TD).
2. The WR catches the ball but is forced out of bounds and stops the clock.
3. The pass in incomplete and it is now 3 and 8 and you have to pass again, putting JPW in a bad spot (this is what happened, but he did convert).
4. JPW is sacked making it 3 and really long.

Orson,
We expect 7-post, War & Peace-length breakdowns on every game like T.Kyle did for the Sugar Bowl. Don’t let us down.

i would lay generous amounts of money that on average, dallas has the funniest news casts in america. between idiot cops, idiot criminals, and idiot news anchors, its like watching the news on snl.

check out our local weatherman pete delkus make an accidentally racist remark to the same man from the video orson posted.

whatcha got there?? watermelon??

“He also curses like a Babylonian demon-god, which we like in our defensive coaches.”

He’s alright but can he explain the complexities of the inside trout.

I, for one, thanks to Oscar and Peter Bean, have a bangin hangover, since they kept making up shit to drink to, when there were too many things to drink to in the first place….eventually I put in an IV bag, and just added whiskey to the saline solution since it was easier than having to keep tippin the bottle of Knob Creek…. At least Alabama will have better bowls next year and the year after….good riddance Shreveport…Nick Saban would like to compare Oscars SN column and the responses to it to Chernobyl and Katrina…..You would think by all the comments from the salt of the earth that is Shreveport, that Oscar had set the American Flag on fire, then took a dump on it while wearing a pinko commie “Jane Fonda Was Right!” t-shirt, with a bullhorn screaming “Where is your God Now, Shreveport?!!! The terrorist have already won!!” or “The Holocaust never happened!!”
Never trust a town that pronounces a hyphenated name Bozier that is spelled Bossier…..well now I gotta go drive my Bull Dossier and clear off some land to bury some bodies in…..

I hope Orson can make his blog comment section like the SN comment section so that we all can have approval ratings and give people the thumbs down…I predict that if tOSU wins, TAFKATOSUB will have a
27% approval rating… SEC speed!! Woooo Hoooo!!
 2-0 Wooo hoooo….now Auburn will probaly screw it up for us since they actually have to play someone with some talent for a change in a bowl game……but I hate Auburn, so I win either way…Auburn wins-SEC Speed!!
Clemson wins—-I love it cause I hate Auburn more than I like the SEC Speed argument…yeh yeh yeh
SICKS IN A ROE!!! Heard it before…..ESSS— EEEEE— SEEEEE.

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In full agreement w/ you. Great analysis. I know my Bulldogs are as boring as hell until the final 5 minutes of almost any game, but we’re 8-5. Running it down Bammer’s throats worked for us and any team who did it against them this year, with the exception of Arky-Sawr (go figure – oops, forgot who was coaching there at that time, sorry). That’s why Phat Phil lost so badly to them – gave up on the run too early.

If any SEC team were to lose, I wished it would be them. Now I have to listen to my oldest daughter’s Pollyannaish mutterings for the next eight months about how they’ll win the BCS, have 12 all-SEC playas, etc, as nauseum.

ULM should have set up a cam near the billboard that had the 21-14 score to get the reaction of the unwashed when they drove by it.

Now Seriously…..I need some help for Todays Bowl Pickem—Straight up and with the Spread….Does Air Force win outright? Can Ga Tech win without a coach?
Is South Fla a winner? I know KY should win easy, who do you think wins in AU/Clemson in THE TOMMYKNOCKER BOWL?

Hey if you wanna waste your time and throw shit at your computer, try this BCS playoff simulator….freakin Mizzou keeps winning and its BS
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/bowls07/bracket

Ellis Johnson leaving Croom to coach for Dead Shark Eyes

http://www.sportingnews.com/yourturn/viewtopic.php?t=331489

MPP 11,

You are right, the ESPN folks have put some kinda aura over Mizzou & Arizona State. In my first bracket, ASU beat VT, LSU and OU before falling to USC in the finals.
In the second bracket without ASU (since they lost to Texas in real life), Mizzou won their first 2 games – Florida & USC before UGA beat them and went on to beat LSU for the title.

Come clean, Oscar. We know you’ve got a bitchin’! time planned in S’port tonight.

What’s that bizarre music streaming on the live blog right now, anybody know? It’s intriguing, in a ‘soundtrack for my next binge’ kind of way.

Pelican – Good on the tide and sa6an for holding off the mighty buffs.

I am looking forward to getting a glimpse of the future tonight at the GA Dome. With Auburn’s defense, even a moderately productive offense could make the Tigers quite scary to opponents.

Also, am I the only one who thinks that the WWL would be making a huge mistake if current Atlanta Falcons CB David Irons doesn’t get to (colorfully) introduce Auburn’s starting lineups tonight? Any opportunity to get an Irons on a mic should always be taken up.

16,

Let’s just hope he still remembers his teammates’ names. Or actually lets not. Mr. Irons attempting to read a prompter would be hilarious.

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True, running the ball did work for State. But so did a 99 yard pick 6 before the half. Still, Bama couldn’t stop Dixon.

Perfect timing on the preseason Fulmer Cup. This article will need to be relinked or published here in full later after last game, or does the FC start when a team’s season stops for the year?
Does this give non-bowl teams a bit more time to earn points or does Orson only start the counter when the ball drops?

Does anybody have video of Jovorskie Lane crying on the sideline during the Alamo Bowl like a chick watching The Notebook? Yeah, it was a dumb coaching decision but its not everyday you see a six foot 260 manchild literally crying on the sidelines.

1. - I have a sneaking suspicion that any mental deficiencies David Irons’ may have are the result of the bottle he took to the head after the Tigers logged #5 in Tuscaloosa.

I mean, Damn! You folks even pelted the dogs this year. It’s not like losing is new to you people. Act like you’ve been there before — because you have — quite a lot recently.

Juno???? Dept:

EDSBS actually fessed up to seeing that chick flick?

Amazin’. (By the way, I liked that movie a lot, even though 20-year old, Ellen Page is a canuck. (Canada joke!))

My guess is that many people (females included) that read this blog only go to movies that have some sort of karate in them or babes with big boobs.

Are they mutually exclusive, S.K.?

The student section, and more specifically the Greek section, throwing shit at the end of the UGA game was disgraceful, as was Irons getting hit with a water bottle. No place for that.

But please don’t attempt to claim the moral high ground as fans. I’ve walked down Wire Road before a game.

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I’ll admit it…I saw it too. It was a pretty good flick. Not sure why it brought Orson to tears, though.

I’ll claim the high ground against the bammers any day. I’d love to see some links you provide that document that sort of sportsmanship at AU. That’s 2 in 11 months at the capstone.

At any rate, bama is known for its idiots. They are as much your mascot as the crimson tide or big al. Does any other fanbse have documented loons like the ramp lady, tattoo guy, Phyllis from Mulga, Shane from Center Point, Collette, and these two who got married at Legion Field.

Every school’s fans can claim the high ground against this bunch.

#23, NRBK, I think they are not mutually exclusive! I think every Steven Seagull movie includes some sort of bleach blonde bimbo or two.

Woops here’s the ramp lady. www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8Xgp5vtZAk

1. PW: I think the part that brought Orson and Cuddles to tears was when Juno finds out the ‘perfect couple’ that was going to adopt her baby were splittin’ up and she probably thought that her dream of her baby having a better life than her own (abondoned by a mom and replaced with other kids) was shot. Juno was cryin’ and whimpering in her mini-van by the tracks on a farm road. Or, it could of been near the end, when things turn out sort of ok, and the tears were of happiness?

At one of these point the TCOAN screamed at Cuddles and Orson: “Man up dudes!! It is only a movie. It is not like the Gators winning the whole thing again!”.

Tiger-

All I can say is that I spent 7 years in Tuscaloosa and don’t know anyone who has gotten married at Legion Field or Bryant Denny. Nor do I know anyone who consistenly calls into the Finebaum show or anyone with any bama tats, period. You just called out 7 people out of a few hundred thousand. At least you don’t come across as a judgmental prick.

TIGERinATL,
It always cracks me up when AU fans talk about fanbases. One only needs to take a trip to the Wiregrass portion of Alabama to see how Auburn has some special fans themselves…

does it strike anyone as odd that the video of mr. booger-eater was captured?… I have that queasy feeling that was NOT the first nose nugget Mr Aggie consumed shudder