THE ORANGE BOWL: THERE’S MAGIC THERE
Comfortable with his body, and good for him for that.Not that we’re particularly affectionate towards any bowl game more than others, but something about the Orange Bowl leaves us a bit limp in the trousers. Kansas and Virginia Tech don’t have any real animosity towards each other, no great historical rivalry to spice the matchup up a bit, and each side features zero players of not to make the casual observers’ eyeballs pop a bit when you scan the roster.
(BUT BUT BUT!!! Yes, Todd Reesing is good (short) and talented (short), and Virginia Tech’s defense features a guy named Macho. We know. Compare it with last night’s Oklahoma/WVU game, and the wattage doesn’t even come close, though. The day we get excited about Sean Glennon is the day we get really excited about Steve-O, since we have a sneaking suspicion they’re actually th the same person. If you see Glennon snorting Wasabi pregame, just nod in our direction like we’re a pimp of precognition.)
The one thing you can count on in the Orange Bowl (besides learning that neither of these teams will be able to run the ball on the other) is the halftime show. Lately they’ve been leaning on the Kelly Clarksons and Ashlee Simpsons of the world, a shame even if the Orange Bowl crowd booed her so loudly you could hear it on the live mikes. They put a tremendous amount of effort into it, which every average consumer of halftime entertainment shows their appreciation for by getting up and urinating before purchasing a beverage and sitting back down just in time to watch the cleanup.
This year’s entertainment? ZZ Top.
Miami, Fla. (www.orangebowl.org) – Revered worldwide as “That Little Ol’ Band from Texas,” ZZ Top will be the major attraction during the renowned halftime of the 2008 FedEx Orange Bowl on January 3 at Dolphin Stadium. The “Tres Hombres” – Billy F Gibbons, Dusty Hill and Frank Beard (ironically the beardless member of the group) – collectively known as ZZ Top, have been signed to star in the famed Orange Bowl Halftime Show, one of the most entertaining and prestigious halftimes in all college football.
Personally, we’d rather watch the iguanas rain from the palm trees than watch ZZ Top two-step their way through “La Grange” in front of a half-empty stadium. In fact, we wish they’d just to back to the days where you had to bollocks up some sort of Vegasy fantasia complete with a theme, rhinestones, and magic tricks that went horribly wrong, leaving only silence and the lonely wail of a hot dog vendor to break the tension.
That Harry Blackstone! We bet he rolled in trim. Women were easier and more easily confused back then. If you don’t believe us, consider that women believed George Michael was straight and went to the trouble of sleeping with him to prove it. Card tricks would have had women wearing nothing but Jean Nate in seconds, man, especially with a ’stache like that.
Leave your observations below, and enjoy the magic!
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101
Annapolis Doug says:
You’ve never seen my prom date.
January 3rd, 2008 at 9:47 pm
102
Godfrey says:
Doesn’t it seem like this country is trying a little too hard with its beer? Every commercial goes above and beyond to prove how amazingly hand-crafted or something-else aged or pored over by a 70 year old man in a wooden shed somewhere in a New England village, as if each bottle of whatever fake microbrew you’re drinking right now was hand crafted from a single block of spruce. It’s beer. It gets you drunk and tingles a little. Good enough.
This game is clearly thrilling me.
January 3rd, 2008 at 9:48 pm
103
corn blight says:
17-7, didn’t use a singe timeout, Mangino needs a snack, and screw this watching the halftime show crap.
I wonder if Jackie Gleason is in his family tree…..
January 3rd, 2008 at 9:48 pm
104
Annapolis Doug says:
ZZ Top?
Was REO Speedwagon busy?
(post 101)
January 3rd, 2008 at 9:48 pm
105
baconboy says:
Here’s the info on Muschamp to Austin
http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/longhorns/entries/2008/01/03/muschamp_in_aus.html
hmm..Auburn or Austin…I know which one I would pick
January 3rd, 2008 at 9:49 pm
106
bevo says:
Flipped over to the ‘Nova – DePaul game while Fox bores us with another 2 minute commercial block.
“Pam Ward” compared to the Iowa caucus and the presidential primary season to teams playing OOC and conference season. Wow! Mark May should cut her mike.
January 3rd, 2008 at 9:49 pm
107
Stacy Keibler Luvs Me says:
Best Post of the Day:
#83 – Kansas coach looking like prom date.
Oh ….have not stopped laughing….
…man, what an awful mental picture.
Annapolis Doug continues his domination of this EDSBS’ site bowl season blogfoolery…..
January 3rd, 2008 at 9:49 pm
108
BON Disciple says:
Muschamp to Texas rumors here
http://www.burntorangenation.com
January 3rd, 2008 at 9:49 pm
109
corn blight says:
@101 – you can only drink so much shitty beer before you want something better out of life, man.
January 3rd, 2008 at 9:51 pm
110
notthequarterback says:
Doug,
I’ve been on White Russians all week with homemade Kahlua…but ran out of Vodka last night and almost had a diabetic fit with all the Kahlua…hence the Jack tonight.
January 3rd, 2008 at 9:53 pm
111
Annapolis Doug says:
I’m so old I remember when women looked like ZZ Top when they pulled their underwear off.
I don’t miss that a bit.
January 3rd, 2008 at 9:53 pm
112
Stacy Keibler Luvs Me says:
marcillac: Notre Dame #1 class? One 500 star defensive lineman just “decommitted” from ND and will probably end up with the Gators. This will cause Charlie to get off his prepared meals and back to cheeseburgers, will ensure another losing season. But, with a revised BCS system, they might just make a game, since they will get the exception for a losing team being allowed in the games.
January 3rd, 2008 at 9:54 pm
113
gurn says:
PW –
SIX.
Take it deep and gag.
January 3rd, 2008 at 9:56 pm
114
baconboy says:
I think I just saw a rat crawl out of his beard…
January 3rd, 2008 at 9:58 pm
115
Annapolis Doug says:
This is me scraping the bong.
January 3rd, 2008 at 9:58 pm
116
baconboy says:
This half-time show brought to you by AARP and Viagra.
January 3rd, 2008 at 9:59 pm
117
meatybob says:
#110
Nice. Now it is so rare, it’s a fetish.
January 3rd, 2008 at 9:59 pm
118
bnb614 says:
Man, pseudo excited fans running across the field, meant to look spur of the moment, then jumping around and dancing in front of the stage. 10,000 points for originality. Where do they come up with this stuff?
January 3rd, 2008 at 9:59 pm
119
fotodog says:
The linked article says Muschamp was a walk-on, but I am pretty sure that he was on scholarship or was by the end of his career at UGA. I know he was a starter (and a good guy).
Also, several of the coaches on Goff’s staff are or were on Texas’ staff- Mac McWhorter for one and if Greg Davis is still there, then him.
Frankly, I would love to see Muschamp leave Auburn… and any of UGA’s rivals.
January 3rd, 2008 at 10:00 pm
120
D-nice says:
Am I really watching ZZ Top? I thought they were dead.
January 3rd, 2008 at 10:01 pm
121
corn blight says:
@116 – hey Janet Jackson screwed it up for everybody.
ER is starting!
January 3rd, 2008 at 10:01 pm
122
PW says:
Hey Gurn.
So…does Muschamp stay or go? If I were him I’d stay put, then bolt next year for some higher profile job.
January 3rd, 2008 at 10:02 pm
123
Stacy Keibler Luvs Me says:
Iowa
Hillary “Stand by your man” Clinton lost…. To Barracks Osama….
… How can he beat Hillary in a State that has little or no Blacks? I guess people really hate Billary’s guts.
January 3rd, 2008 at 10:02 pm
124
stapler says:
Well I’ll be damned. The Jayhawk trash might actually pull it out after all.
January 3rd, 2008 at 10:04 pm
125
marcillac says:
Hillary is not that popular on the interwebs.
January 3rd, 2008 at 10:05 pm
126
TigerNacho says:
They continue to promo this haltime show as a “very special performance” from ZZ Top. I think they mean “special,” as in “retarded”
January 3rd, 2008 at 10:07 pm
127
Stacy Keibler Luvs Me says:
I do not think Hillary is popular even with Bill. He has to get his poontang elsewhere.
January 3rd, 2008 at 10:07 pm
128
Tom says:
Why all the negativity towards ZZ Top? Would you clowns prefer some metrosexual dolled up with too much hair gel or a blinged-out thug rapping about how many cars he owns? Give me Da Beards any day of the week.
January 3rd, 2008 at 10:09 pm
129
Will (The Other One) says:
Cartman’s fighting hippies on on Comedy Central.
It beats septuagenarian rock on Fox.
January 3rd, 2008 at 10:11 pm
130
gurn says:
He’s gone.
My only guess is that he really doesn’t like to recruit and maybe he won’t have to in Austin.
Other than that, I don’t know why. Hate it, though.
January 3rd, 2008 at 10:11 pm
131
Cock D says:
what the hell just happened on fox? I got a picture of a shoe for about 30 seconds with some comment “is that a member of one of the bands”
WTF?
January 3rd, 2008 at 10:11 pm
132
Annapolis Doug says:
#113- gigling
#109- homemade Kahlua? If I knew how to make that I’d make Liz Lohan look like Bob Tebow.
January 3rd, 2008 at 10:12 pm
133
marcillac says:
Bill has been fastidious about sleeping elsewhere (preferably on another continent) for almost 7 years.
January 3rd, 2008 at 10:12 pm
134
Will (The Other One) says:
Also, even people that don’t necessarily hate Hillary don’t like the idea of the White House going Bush-Clinton-Bush-Clinton.
January 3rd, 2008 at 10:13 pm
135
lola says:
#129
looked like somebody took a digger on the field.
maybe the cameraman had to help.
January 3rd, 2008 at 10:13 pm
136
corn blight says:
@129 – clearly the producer was assasinated and replaced mid-bowl game by someone more Nikelike.
January 3rd, 2008 at 10:14 pm
137
Stacy Keibler Luvs Me says:
Tom: I think ZZ Top is too old school for today’s younger audience.
January 3rd, 2008 at 10:14 pm
138
baconboy says:
Does Fox have ANY hot sideline reporters??
January 3rd, 2008 at 10:15 pm
139
OhioDawg says:
The ACC does suck, but the 2nd half should be interesting. If VaTech stops fucking up, this could be interesting.
One good quote from the first half:
How much do you think not having Ore hurt VaTech?
Not at all.
Nice.
January 3rd, 2008 at 10:15 pm
140
Doctor Strange says:
Mangino reminds me of one of those guys you read about who needs the wall cut off his house so he can be carted on a flat bed to a local hospital.
#129 most of the Fox crew took Doug’s advice and split for the Clevelander at halftime
January 3rd, 2008 at 10:16 pm
141
TigerNacho says:
#126
No.
But could I watched the gelled-up boy band, thugged-up rapper and drugged-up Billy Gibbons fight to the death? That would be better.
January 3rd, 2008 at 10:16 pm
142
Stacy Keibler Luvs Me says:
When I want to last longer, I think of Hillary’s face. Beats thinking about baseball.
January 3rd, 2008 at 10:17 pm
143
Kate says:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=2GVHkkgK9F4
Watch and enjoy.
January 3rd, 2008 at 10:17 pm
144
Annapolis Doug says:
Funny..I started the politics talk with post #44 where I have Ron Paul at +3000 for $100
I’m cold ‘texting’ old girlfriends with mass messages-
“I miss you” to about 7 different fat girls….I’ve gotten no replies.
Any ideas for Rum? I’m thinking pineapple, OJ and ….a Mount Gay float….(whoever named it Mt. Gay should be fired).
January 3rd, 2008 at 10:17 pm
145
baconboy says:
SKLM, you could just take your hand off and that would work just as well…
(couldn’t resist)
January 3rd, 2008 at 10:19 pm
146
Stacy Keibler Luvs Me says:
Doug: I think if you write the fat chicks:
“I miss your loins” …. that might work!
January 3rd, 2008 at 10:19 pm
147
Stacy Keibler Luvs Me says:
Bacon: That was funny!
January 3rd, 2008 at 10:20 pm
148
Tom says:
139,
That sounds quite entertaining. I’d put my money on Billy in a landslide.
January 3rd, 2008 at 10:21 pm
149
marcillac says:
Hillary’s been a passionate Cubs…er…Yankees fan her entire life.
January 3rd, 2008 at 10:21 pm
150
baconboy says:
Did something interesting just happen on the football game???
January 3rd, 2008 at 10:22 pm