FIRST SHIFT: AWESOME KILLER HELICOPTER BOWL, ETC.
Nursing a lingering hangover from the Independence Bowl, we present today’s liveblog, brought to you by LSUFreek’s very important message on the importance of proper safety procedures while blogging.

12:28: AAAIIIIIIIIIIGGGHHHH Dan Fouts in HD not good! Your set memes are Cal attempting to overcome a peanut-loaded sewer trout of a season, redemption, suspensions of players; Air Force to keep momentum from “surprisingly good” season.
And they have smooth luvah Jason Kidd introducing the Cal players! Don’t kill mommy, Cal! Please!
12:50: Air Force has a goddamn general introduce the lineups while flying a goddamn awesome F-18. The only thing cooler would be if he fired a missile into a T-54 at the end that was painted in Cal colors.
We credit this for Air Force’s dominating first drive.
1:10: Cal looks like they were playing along last night during the Independence Bowl Drinking game. They’re playing rock paper scissors and losing badly.
1:19: Cal looks like they’ve been replaced with the NPCs from a poorly rendered video game: the sort who stand around and wait for you to fire a rocket launcher into their balls in between repeating canned dialogue like “What was that?” and “I’m scared!”
Air Force 21, Cal 0. Wizard!
1:42: Kevin Riley comes in, and suddenly you can spell fecal without Cal. Where the hell has Riley been? Dan Fouts is singing “Centerfield,” one of the songs they play in our version of Robot Hell along with “Hotel California” and “Butterfly Kisses.” Stop, Hairface. Please stop. 21-14 and Cal’s awake.
2:12: Subtract Chan Gailey from the equation, and Tech’s allergy to points disappears! Up 7-0 thanks to beautiful pass by Taylor Bennett and yes we just typed that. Boise’s commercials look awesome, btw: all rock climbing, mountain biking, and various activities you really loved to do when you had free time and knees.
2:35: The Sun Bowl in El Paso really has the best setting: a cross between a desolate Halo map and Thunderdome. Oregon’s got early jazz here as they refuse to let USF’s offense do anything. They’re also giving Justin Roeper simple tasks at qb, and he’s doing splendidly thus far.
2:53: Air Force went to Les Miles’ Balls Emporium before the game, converting fourth down on an option play to keep catchfire Cal off the field. Chad Hall is 5′ 8″ of pure badass: he catches, he runs, he flies jets fifty feet off the ground. We need to walk to the liquor store–champagne must go with this campaign.
Ooohhhh…Carney’s knee just bent in an unholy, gorge-rise kind of way. He’s done for the day, year, whatever. Dan Fouts is telling us not to look and we’re still looking because we’re evil like that.
Goddamn, that is horrible.












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Cue all your Pac-10 jokes, because at best, this conference is going 2-3 in bowl games.
What a difference a couple of hours makes. The PAC 10, barring a huge [name redacted] upset, going to go 4-2 in bowl games.
Comment by Brian O'Blivion — December 31, 2007 @ 5:58 pm
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#69: It is a crime to know who is Baby Bash! (I think both of his parents were in jail growing up and he was raised by relatives, or something like that.) But, if it is a crime knowing who Baby Bash is, what the !@#@ is having ‘Suga Suga’ on the IPOD? Elves put the song on the Ipod, and I need to get it out, one of these days…
Comment by Stacy Keibler Luvs Me — December 31, 2007 @ 4:52 pm
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Here is some info on the artist formely know as Baby Bash:
“Bash had aspiration of becoming a professional basketball player, but he now works as a songwriter and rapper. He had planned to play field hockey for the junior college he attended in California during the mid-1990s[2]. After his first year, however, he began selling crystal meth and dropped out after discovering that he was more likely to make fast money through dealing…”
Thats the work ethic I’m talkin bout……Never get high off ya own supply….
Comment by Mr Pelican Pants — December 31, 2007 @ 4:39 pm
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#66
Isnt baby bashing a crime? Better yet, isnt it a crime to know who Baby Bash is? Dunno which is worse…..a Lil Jon music rip off at best..is there an artist that Akon/ T-Pain hadnt collaborated with?
Comment by Mr Pelican Pants — December 31, 2007 @ 4:35 pm
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Baby Bash?! Man, I am really missing out on the bowl season this year. Well, I would rather see this cornball Baby Bash video, with plenty of babes, than the Sun Bowl footbaw game!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQiXZr744qQ
Comment by Stacy Keibler Luvs Me — December 31, 2007 @ 4:28 pm
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Stacy@58
Can’t agree with you entirely but in general this bowl season is fairly meh while there are some decent matchups among the No Funners. The Pats-Jints game was in prospect and in fact somewhat dramatically more exciting than the post-Fran/Jo Pa snooze fest at the Alamo.
Comment by marcillac — December 31, 2007 @ 4:21 pm
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the sun bowl presents: baby bash!!!!
just wow.
Comment by gerry dorsey — December 31, 2007 @ 4:11 pm
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#61–thanks for the explanation…I felt like I was doing an algebra problem…even though OR came to play…I switched to the Kentucky-FSU game to see how many players are actually playing for FSU….
Comment by jamiedawg — December 31, 2007 @ 4:09 pm
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QB controversy? Hm. One would think Riley would start with a significant lead and Longshore would have a lot of work to do to get his job back. We’ll see.
Comment by marcillac — December 31, 2007 @ 4:05 pm
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I think Air Force just fubbed up my perfect bowl pick em season. Dammit. Let this be a lesson to Fla. on running your QB every down…..Get a running back…Tim Tebow will end up like this guy, although Tebow will simply regenerate new ligaments overnite, his down time will be enough to cost you a game
I think in the Clemson/Auburn game, its safe to say the Tigers will win.
Comment by Mr Pelican Pants — December 31, 2007 @ 4:05 pm
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#43: Duncan Hunter’s chances of winning a straw poll ANYWHERE are about the same as the chances of the Miami Dolphins hiring Nick Saban to replace Randy Mueller as GM.
Anyways, I was pretty shocked to see Cal bounce back the way they did. I figured they packed it in right around the time of the UCLA game.
Comment by Doug — December 31, 2007 @ 4:01 pm
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jamiedawg @ 59: Oregon went for and got the 2 pt conversion after their opening touchdown. USF did the same later, with some FGs in between.
As someone who lives in Tampa, I thought that USF would mop up Oregon without Dixon, but they are actually looking pretty good.
Comment by ClwFlGator — December 31, 2007 @ 3:57 pm
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Brian @ 57: I’d almost rather be at work listening on-line, since using my last floating day means that my other choice is mediating three and five year olds’ fights about everything and mopping up the collateral damage.
Comment by DC Trojan — December 31, 2007 @ 3:52 pm
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just turned on the Sun Bowl and the score is 11–11….are we playing baseball or something? What the hell kind of score is that?
Comment by jamiedawg — December 31, 2007 @ 3:47 pm
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Brian: I actually came to work today, instead of staying home looking at a few meaningless college football games. All of the bowl games suck and mean nothing. This year in college football must be the worst bowl season evah.
Heck, I saw the Patriots-Jints game on Sat instead of another meaningless bowl game that was on at that time. Except for USC-name-redacted jokers, I will try to skip the rest, and for the first time in years, focus more on the no fun league. Bah humbug!
Comment by Stacy Keibler Luvs Me — December 31, 2007 @ 3:31 pm
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Can I get some love for the people at work listening to their bowl on internet radio?
Comment by Brian — December 31, 2007 @ 3:09 pm
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And now Cal, unfortunately, is going to house AF.
Comment by socalirish — December 31, 2007 @ 3:02 pm
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Pat Hill will be in your commercial anytime, anyplace.
Comment by brougham — December 31, 2007 @ 3:02 pm
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I was advised against watching my own knee injury on the game film when I was a sophomore and choose to ignore said warnings - ones foot should never be at a 90 degree angle from the rest of one’s leg.
Comment by Jerkwheat — December 31, 2007 @ 3:01 pm
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That was not pretty at all
Comment by Jolly 21 — December 31, 2007 @ 2:58 pm
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Carney’s knee has caused me to curl up like a baby
Comment by Jerkwheat — December 31, 2007 @ 2:57 pm
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That Roady’s commercial was terrible I hope they didnt pay more than 30 bucks for it
Comment by Jim-bo — December 31, 2007 @ 2:51 pm