CURIOUS INDEX, 1/30/08

Why can’t the writers’ strike bring us TV like that, instead of the embarrassing FOX shows?

Isn’t the proper term for the oSU/ISU debacle douchebagesque?

It’s a sad day when mimicking iowa state athletics becomes a good idea.

Well Alabama, if you want an offense that will get you inside the 20 and come away with a field goal every time, that’s what you’re getting.

i’m not surprised to see my okie brethren of the gingered stepchild persuasion pulling this stunt after the greatest bygod offense in the history of the universe OMG failed to generate excitement (or wins) last year – t. boone’s new stadium isn’t going to fill itself folks, and at the end of the day, they need bodies to feel those new, shiney, empty seats – even mike gundy thinks this is garbage, and the AD who approved it is garbage

Say what you want about the Japs. They come up with some damn entertaining viewing that usually includes public humiliation.

Leave it to Xerox state to copy what another school is doing. I guess ripping off hand signs, waving wheat, having a guy on a horse lead the team out, etc. wasn’t enough. They had to mimic ISU’s pricing policies as well.

(The only thing original about Okie State is that they’ll be the first ones sued when some WR runs headfirst into the wall that surrounds the field. They call it a stadium, I call it a deathtrap.)

No one in Oklahoma will be able to afford the new prices except OU fans. Certainly least of all anyone who lives in the tenement housing that surrounds T-Boone $$$tadium.

Am I the only one concerned that the “Excite Sensual Gels” ads might get me fired?

1. That’s been a recent concern of mine as well. I’m suprised the work filters haven’t come after me.

1. - Check out Ninja Warrior if you have G4 Network on your cable. Occasionally, there are even some hot little Japanese gymnasts on there.

The japs have real reality TV. There is nothing like watching a transvestite announce people slamming face first into blocks of ice. That makes Survivor and Fear Factor look like pussy stuff.

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You mean we’re hiring Mike Shula as OC?

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i have to disagree with you on one point, and that’s t. boone state’s originality – i think its pretty original for a school that bills itself as an engineering school to have a field that runs east/west

First Human Tetris, now the Slip ’n Slide. We need more shows like these in the states.

“It’s your law or mine, Joker”

as a bama fan, i think i like this hire…i just haven’t decided yet. i’m doubting th offense gets any worse.

lsufreek is either unemployed, perpetually single, or both.

as a bama fan i think i’m digging this hire, but i haven’t really decided yet. i’m guess the offense can’t get that much worse.

lsufreek is either unemployed, perpetually single, or both.

i’m an idiot.

That was some fabulous television programing, rivaled only by the sabado gigante episode where couples had to break balloons by humping eachother on bales of hay.

Re: OSU tickets

Georgia tech has been doing this for years. They have “packages” for sale, that are partial season tickets. If you want to buy UGA/GAT tickets when the game is held at hysterical Grant field, you have to also purchase tickets to other games. The packages are designed with one potential “good” game (i.e. UGA, FSU, VT) and the rest consisting of crap.

Washington State adds another point to the big board.

Am I the only one who doesn’t think what Oklahoma State is doing here is a big deal, considering that dozens of other BCS programs have done similar things for years? (For example, Michigan has been packaging home games with ND and Ohio State together with the lesser lights on their schedule as “mini-plans” for nearly a decade now).

And those of us who follow teams in non-BCS land have long employed a similar strategy to keep our homefield/home court advantage when State Flagship U. makes their once-per-decade-or-so appearance on our campuses. I have no problem making fans of Big State pay through the nose for the privilege of invading my home team’s turf.

Am I the only one who thinks that in addition to the Fulmer Cup (bad behavior of current players in the off-season), there should be an Orgeron Cup, for recruits who pull the same shit? I think the ‘roids dealer and the “Naughty Hubby” would be included (if we ever find out who that guy is). Of course, to be the “Orgeron Cup” you’d have to include all the assistant coaches that get fired for DUI’s before spring practice even starts.

I was about to type, “Man, I could watch that shit all day!” … and then the 2:10 mark hit, and it got REAL awkward in the house of Eirishis. Mostly because my opinion didn’t change, but just became much more progressive.

Temple did a similar thing this year when you had to buy a three-game package in order to get a ticket to the Penn State game. But considering that the three ticket package was less than $100 in most sections, I didn’t consider it that douchbaggish.

In 2006, there were actually some Nebraska fans who bought USC season tickets, so the Badlam plan might actually work.

One of Michigan’s miniplans last year was OSU and App State. In hindsight, they probably should have called it the Miniplan of Maximum Pain.

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You should have done what I did. I bought the password to the Temple Alumni ticket website for $5 on ebay. Then I used it to buy 8 Temple/Penn State tickets for me and my friends.

That game was great. It was an away game but we still outnumbered Temple fans like 3:1.

All those shiny new seats in T Boone’s stadium won’t be empty when they’re all done. They’ll be full of Georgia fans. Probably half of whom will be in need of conveying after the game.

Who else could see the Japanese show redone by Fox with shirtless rednecks for contestants and hosted by Larry the Cable Guy?

It’d have to be a guilty pleasure.

Who else could see the Japanese show redone by Fox with shirtless rednecks for contestants and hosted by Larry the Cable Guy?

I’d watch that……but then again, I’m going to watch Moment of Truth again tonight. That’s entertainment, baby! Most scripted shows are shit anyway. Screw the writers.

Nobody does ludicrous game shows like Japan. Between MXC, Ninja Warrior, Banzai, and this … I mean, damn.

Mt. Fuji doesn’t need that. Having climbed it once (and never again!), the loose volcanic rock on the way down already feels like you’re on a slip and slide.

Why the Japanese have geeky stand-up comedians doing this, and not hot young chicks in bikinis, I have no idea—wait a minute, they DO have hot chicks in bikinis do this, but it’s on pay-per-view.

KU has a similar fan-screwing ticket-pricing scheme in place. For many years, tickets to the Nebraska game have been nearly double the price of those to the the other games. Of course, it made sense because they knew Husker fans would fill the stadium for the annual ass-stompin’.

Now of course, the roles are reversed, although temporarily, but they’re still stickin’ it to their own fans who actually have a good reason to attend this game now.

And here’s our host, Shigeru Kleinfelter . . .