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INTERNET CORRELATIVE: ELECTION DAY EDITION

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Politicians as coaches, were we to swap a few out as body or soul doubles with the current slate of candidates.

Houston Nutt=Mike Huckabee. Yes, both are from Arkansas, and both have lost a considerable amount of weight in the past couple of years. Huckabee lost three thousand pounds from his original weight of 3,190 pounds, something that assisted him in debates when his orbital gravity combined with the earth and the sun's would tear opponents limb from limb in a kind of invisible draw-and-quartering kind of move. Houston Nutt lost the weight of the Razorback Nation riding his back, a force considerably heavier than 3,000 pounds.

The similarities spread (groan, love handle pun): both are paleotypes of their profession:

Star-divide

Nutt, a seventies wishbone disciple in disguise who would, if he could, still run Darrell Royal's baby the way it was intended to be run. (Stubbornly, and with three options on every play,) Huckabee, the unfrozen Huey Long daddy type politician promising to abolish the IRS, put a chicken in every pot, and treat the simplest Department of Transportation meeting as a pulpit moment. Secretly or unsecretly, you suspect both are nice men who are completely and totally batshit crazy, and should not be trusted with anything larger than a Kiwanis Club.

John McCain is Steve Spurrier. They both share the bond of torture, with McCain having endured North Vietnamese custody, and Spurrier coaching under the "supervision" of Daniel Snyder. Neither gives a shit what you fucking think, either. What time is it? Shut the fuck up time, that's what it is, sonny. Got a ballplay right here to make this all work. Drawn up and in black and white on this here board. Can't fail, man. Both shared a rough decade in the 70s, power ascendencies during the Reagan era, thrived throughout the nineties, and then had miserable early 2000s. Known for their air games. Also share surviving total fiery disaster as a commonality: McCain on the U.S.S. Forrestal, Spurrier in the 1995 Fiesta Bowl. Superb mouth cannons known for going off at the best and worst of times.

Barack Obama as Jeff Tedford. Whenever you need hope--there he is. Looks the part. Perpetually the option for "change" when it's time to go for the "change" card. No matter the record, surrounded by sheen of shiny new awesomeness, even if he only has a short Senate tenure/barely beat Air Force in the bowl game. Good on offense, surprisingly suspect on defense at times. Better at the ground game than you might think by reputation. Both work in environments surrounded on all sides by hippies, and both shunned by extremists as compromises on the Mike Gravels/Mike Leaches of the world.

Little-known similarities: both are black, and both rate Lorenzo Lamas' character in Renegade as their inner idol.

Jim Tressel=Hillary Clinton. Similarities: fondness for outdated fashion. Speaking like an auto-dialer even when addressing people in person. Joyless, even when discussing puppies, balloons, and bouncing happy babies. Have subordinates who fail them killed. (Oil can! Oil can!) Instantly favored in any national competition, evidence and reason be damned. Most vocal supporters like sleeping with women, lifting weights, wearing baggy jeans, and have short hair.

Mitt Romney=Urban Meyer. I will say anything to get you on my team. Anything. I'm recruiting Tim Tebow as a linebacker. I was against amnesty before I was against it. I will take your roommate and your pet chinchilla on scholarship to get you to come here, son. I didn't not call him during the dead period. I fixed that Olympic thing without letting a single bribery suspect escape. You want the number pi on your jersey? You got it. You want me to make the nation France-istan safe for democracy by invading it, voter? You got it. I plan on starting you immediately. I plan on only being Mormon between the hours of 3 p.m and 7 p.m. every day, and most definitely not in a way that will creep you out as a Christian.

I'm telling you the truth. Just look in my eyes. Mesmerize! MESMERIZE!!!

Make serious political comments in the section below, and we will break out the cattle-killin' gun and Javier Bardem wig.

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Nutt and Schmuckabee are exactly the same.. both total frauds.

by md1964 on Feb 5, 2008 3:31 PM EST reply actions  

Nice try Orson. We know that isn’t a wig

by oc phil on Feb 5, 2008 3:33 PM EST reply actions  

John Edwards = Mark Richt…

best I could come up with if you compare winning SEC titles to being nominated for VP.

Also, Georgia wins the BCS next season, and Edwards will be nowhere to be found, unless it is to be AG under Hillary if she wins.

Also, Richt likes helping people.

by Coop on Feb 5, 2008 3:35 PM EST reply actions  

Oh, and Richt and Edwards are both, “pretty.”

by Coop on Feb 5, 2008 3:37 PM EST reply actions  

John Edwards as Pete Carroll. Both pretty boys with big time success that has run aground. Just like Edwards won a US Senate seat out of nowhere and wound up with the demo VP nomination, Carroll came back to USCw after a failed HC carreer in the pros to win 1.5 National Championships almost right out of the gate. Since then, both have been well-financed but failed in the clutch over the last several years.

by yoyofutbawl on Feb 5, 2008 3:38 PM EST reply actions  

Coop, don’t disgrace Richt by associating him w/ Edwards, who is a total douchebag ambulance chaser. Richt deserves better.

by yoyofutbawl on Feb 5, 2008 3:42 PM EST reply actions  

Re: Gravel = Orgeron/Leach. Girl, you know it’s true. Probably certifiable, but who cares—they’re too good on TV.

by Holly on Feb 5, 2008 3:44 PM EST reply actions  

You do us the disservice of comparing noone to Ron Paul?

by Herb on Feb 5, 2008 3:46 PM EST reply actions  

Paul Johnson = Ron Paul

Old, trusty ideas that are so conservative, they’re considered liberal. Both are ignored by the media, unpopular among the trendy, and will whip your ass into shape the hard way.

by woohoo on Feb 5, 2008 3:46 PM EST reply actions  

I would put Ron Paul under Mike Leach category. Bat **** crazy. Funny. And lots of loyal followers.

by ThreenOut on Feb 5, 2008 3:48 PM EST reply actions  

Most vocal supporters like sleeping with women, lifting weights, wearing baggy jeans, and have short hair.

Not that there’s anything wrong with that.

by DC Trojan on Feb 5, 2008 3:48 PM EST reply actions  

Rich Brooks/Ted Stevens thinks this list is bullshit.

by Herb on Feb 5, 2008 3:52 PM EST reply actions  

Which candidate most strongly resembles decease icon Bear Bryant/Ronald Reagan?

by Herb on Feb 5, 2008 3:54 PM EST reply actions  

The real Orson Swindle told me he was voting for the McCain/Spurrier ticket. Can’t go against war buddies, thats for damn sure.

by Brian on Feb 5, 2008 3:54 PM EST reply actions  

14 — More than a war buddy, but a cellmate. They quoted him in a McCain campaign article and I had to do a semi-spit take.

by seventyeight on Feb 5, 2008 3:56 PM EST reply actions  

Thompson has to be Phil Fulmer, right? I mean they’re both from Tennessee, and there is a slight resemblance. Plus, I’ve heard that Thompson received payment for lobbyist services in the form of Krispy Kreme gift certificates.

by BDoc on Feb 5, 2008 4:00 PM EST reply actions  

Actually, Tressel’s most vocal supporters’ hair is only short in the front. In the rear, it’s all party.

by Anon on Feb 5, 2008 4:01 PM EST reply actions  

Judging from Fred’s energy level, we’re not sure Fred and Phil aren’t the same person.

by Orson Swindle on Feb 5, 2008 4:02 PM EST reply actions  

Lorenzo Lamas was in Renegade, not Desperado. Renegade was the absolute pinnacle of awesomedom.

by CockDonor on Feb 5, 2008 4:03 PM EST reply actions  

Howard Schnellenberger wants a return to the gold standard.

by Jerkwheat on Feb 5, 2008 4:03 PM EST reply actions  

Gerry Faust or Bob Davie as Walter Mondale or Michael Dukakis?

by Coop on Feb 5, 2008 4:13 PM EST reply actions  

Ralph Nader = June Jones

Both come out in a big way, make a big splash onto the national scene after sitting quiet for half-decades at a time, fuck up the system and talk of throwing a wrench in the gears of the 2-part-electoral-system/BCS… then lay a big fuckin’ egg on the national stage.

by Whohah on Feb 5, 2008 4:14 PM EST reply actions  

Joe Pa is Ronald Reagan.

both were awesome back in the 80s. both are currently dead.

by suicidewatch on Feb 5, 2008 4:19 PM EST reply actions  

Knute Rockne = Paul Wellstone?

by WhiteSpeedReceiver on Feb 5, 2008 4:40 PM EST reply actions  

Bob Davie as Gary Hart. Both looked the part, both were tan year-round and both were abominably stupid. Hart inviting the media to find out dirt on him (Monkey Business) and Davie inviting Ron Powlus back for a fifth season.

by BuckeyeDomer on Feb 5, 2008 4:40 PM EST reply actions  

WhiteSpeedReceiver— that’s icy, sir.

by Orson Swindle on Feb 5, 2008 4:42 PM EST reply actions  

I keep thinking of Al Gore as Lloyd Carr, but I can’t quite pull out the joke.

Early success as a rising star, run aground by rival for highest office, revived via late victory after being considered long out of it.

by Signal to Noise on Feb 5, 2008 4:45 PM EST reply actions  

Twenty-seven posts before we get to Bobby Bowden = Strom Thurmond? What the hell is wrong with you people this afternoon?

by DevilGrad on Feb 5, 2008 4:46 PM EST reply actions  

Does George W Bush = Tommy Bowden? Son of an established Family, and for a while there it looked like he might get fired, but now, it seems like he can just coast until the end, finishing out his term having not really accomplished much, possibly setting the whole program back a decade or so.

by Brian on Feb 5, 2008 4:51 PM EST reply actions  

Lloyd Carr as…

Dick Cheney.

Both are lifelong assistants, Cheney, until Carr gets the HC job because what’s his name wrecks a restaurant job.

But, just as Bush kept Cheney as #2 in the country, Tressel kept Carr at #2 in the Big 10.

Also, both are just so personable.

by Coop on Feb 5, 2008 4:51 PM EST reply actions  

May Florida be Hillary’s bane just like Tressel and Gore.

by drogue on Feb 5, 2008 5:00 PM EST reply actions  

Well played, Swindle. Well played.

? = Alan Keyes

Somebody who’s underqualified but overexposed and makes absolutely no sense. Orgeron, perhaps?

by WhiteSpeedReceiver on Feb 5, 2008 5:00 PM EST reply actions  

Ed Orgeron as Ron Paul:
You want to like the guy, because he has some great ideas. Ed got a job he was woefully underqualified for, as Ron is attempting to do. But the more you listen, you realize he’s fucking crazier than Houston Nutt/Mike Huckabee on meth.

by Mark D on Feb 5, 2008 5:03 PM EST reply actions  

Tommy Tuberville = Wesley Clark

Both with Arkansas ties, both hate Nutt, both weasels.

by drogue on Feb 5, 2008 5:06 PM EST reply actions  

No, no—Ron Paul is Paul Johnson, the previous commenter’s right. They both are passionate about the best ideas of 1911.

by Orson Swindle on Feb 5, 2008 5:09 PM EST reply actions  

ted kennedy = dennis fucking erickson anyone?

by robert on Feb 5, 2008 5:28 PM EST reply actions  

and missouri went out there and won one for the mel-er in 2000 vs john ashcroft.

/voted for the dead guy in 2000

by robert on Feb 5, 2008 5:32 PM EST reply actions  

Dennis Kucinich = Terry Bowden

Just too diminutive to be taken seriously…

by WarCardinals on Feb 5, 2008 5:39 PM EST reply actions  

Dennis Kucinich = Art Briles (who?!?). For those people outside of Waco, he’s the head football coach at Baylor. Struggling for relevance, knowing he has absolutely no shot at winning anything.

by Brian O'Blivion on Feb 5, 2008 5:42 PM EST reply actions  

Bobby Bowden is clearly Admiral Stockdale (as played by Phil Hartman)

- neither knows where he is
- both have been dead for past 3 years

by PW on Feb 5, 2008 5:54 PM EST reply actions  

Ed Orgeron is ManBearPig.

by Digital Headbutt on Feb 5, 2008 6:12 PM EST reply actions  

Jessie Jackson = Ed Orgeron

As articulate as ever…and they’re both working somewhere, right?

by MorningBeer on Feb 5, 2008 6:16 PM EST reply actions  

I’m disappointed, Orson. In the race or not, Fred Thompson/Fat Phil was a must and you forgot. For shame.

by poguemahone on Feb 5, 2008 6:17 PM EST reply actions  

Ed Orgeron=Rush Limbaugh. Nobody knows WTF he’s saying; he’s not in the race, but makes plenty of trouble from the sidelines.

by Pompano Gator on Feb 5, 2008 6:18 PM EST reply actions  

It’s beyond argument that Gravel=Coach O. In addition, Mike Gundy is clearly Howard Dean. “I’m a man, I’m 40! I recruit Arkansas, and Michigan, and then over to Kansas, and on the Oklahoma, and thEN TO THE BCS…..AAAHHHHH!”

by them oklahoma on Feb 5, 2008 7:18 PM EST reply actions  

Bob Stoops = JFK. Both enjoyed achieving the pinnacle of their professions early on in their careers. Then….BANG. The Fiesta Bowl is to Bob Stoops as the Grassy Nole is to JFK (or could Mack Brown be JFK?)

Mike Stoops = Ted Kennedy. Along with being a little (or a lot, depending on your point of view) over-rated, they both like the women. If you lived in Norman, OK in the early ‘00s you know this. But aren’t they already married? Yea, so.

Barry Switzer = Bill Clinton. This should need no explanation whatsoever.

by them oklahoma on Feb 5, 2008 7:27 PM EST reply actions  

Smellsofbourbon = Ted Kennedy
John Blake = Alan Keyes
Gary Gibbs = Dan Quayle
JC Watts = JC Watts

by Soonertruth on Feb 5, 2008 8:19 PM EST reply actions  

Tedford bringing the option of “change”?!

Taking your QB out AFTER he started 5 games looking like a mule with 3 legs (2 legs in the 4th quarter) is not very correlative to your analogy.

Nor in 2005 when he started a QB whose arm::where the ball goes ratio was about as predictable as Britney Spears::sanity.

by Bay Area Bear on Feb 5, 2008 8:49 PM EST reply actions  

Charlie Weis as Jimmy Carter. Everyone thinks your ready for the big time, then we see you on the job and lose all faith in your ability to guide the team/country. Both gone after four years.

by Dawg 05 on Feb 5, 2008 9:41 PM EST reply actions  

Rudy Guliani = Charlie Weis
Started off pretty strong with a lot of promise, but we now know they are both overrated.

by Brian on Feb 5, 2008 9:45 PM EST reply actions  

Hilary Clinton as Jimbo Fisher. Main claim to fame & the coveted top job is hanging around the big dog, and if they don’t get that top job, it’s pay-day from the big dog, son.

by DC Trojan on Feb 5, 2008 10:14 PM EST reply actions  

Mike Huckabee for President of the Confederate States of America!!!!!!

SOOOOOOOOOEEEEEEEEEIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEE

by AZDuck on Feb 5, 2008 10:20 PM EST reply actions  

And, BTW, in the speech I just saw Huckabee make on national TV… I’m pretty sure that would be the first time any Presidential candidate pretty much shamelessly pandered to the SEC.

He probably could have shortened the whole thing by holding up a sign that read:

Speed
Equals
Championships

I really wanted the talking heads like Chris Matthews to try to discuss that crap… but they saw a shiny thing in the corner and it distracted them.

by AZDuck on Feb 5, 2008 10:24 PM EST reply actions  

Bill Stewart is Gerald Ford…
Assistant to the top guy in the program until the boss fucks up royally over a battle he should have won and quits, then he finds himself in charge.

Mark Mangino is William Taft…
A complete rise out of nowhere, the necessity of customized oversize bathtubs… i’m having trouble finishing this one.

Joe Tiller is Teddy Roosevelt… just look at that mustache.

Mark Richt is British Prime Minister Tony Blair…
You may not always like what he does or how he handles his program, but hes just so likeable it all rolls off in the end

Norm Chow is Arnold Schwarzenegger…
You love theideas and the knowledge they bring to the table, but theyre just foreign enough you dont trust them to run the whole show.

by beckett929 on Feb 5, 2008 10:34 PM EST reply actions  

Mark Mangino = William Howard Taft. Yes, this has nothing to do with policy whatsoever…but damn they’re huge.

by them oklahoma on Feb 5, 2008 10:37 PM EST reply actions  

54- you just beat me with the Taft thought. But, as you can see, I tend to agree. Currently watching Romney, and he’s starting to remind me of Terry Bowden in the sense that I want to choke him until he dies. It’s a damn shame, he would be okay for the economy. But he needs a beating just like Baylor or Vandy.

by them oklahoma on Feb 5, 2008 10:40 PM EST reply actions  

Mike Bellotti is Howard Dean.

Ty Willingham is JC Watts.

Pete Carroll is FDR.

Dennis Erickson is the old Richard Nixon (post “Checkers” speech).

Mike Price is David Vitter.

Rick Neuheisel is JFK.

Jeff Tedford is the young Richard Nixon (pre “Checkers” speech).

Mike Leach is Donald Rumsfeld.

by AZDuck on Feb 5, 2008 10:41 PM EST reply actions  

mike leach is curtis lemay.

by robert on Feb 5, 2008 10:59 PM EST reply actions  

McCain is apparently Swindle himself…he just dropped a royal we on live TV.

by Holly on Feb 5, 2008 11:39 PM EST reply actions  

Nick Saban – Vlad Putin -

 Both leaders of a fallen “red” empire. Trying to bring back the glory, much to the dismay of the rest of the free world. Wildly aggressive. Impatient. Slightly frightening.

Both manage to balance charisma and sheer “bomb a random nation” cruelty.

by Bama on Feb 6, 2008 1:45 PM EST reply actions  

O:

I know that every post brings the inevitable “Best post ever!”, “You’re a God among men”, “I know I’m a dude, but I still want to be your baby’s mama” responses. But, this mixing of football and politics (‘cause football’s not politics, right? I mean… of course it’s not, right?!) has got to be the best post that mixes two irrational genres ever produced. Good job to you, man! I am giving you a raise. (Not really)

by Charlestownecock on Feb 6, 2008 2:34 PM EST reply actions  

who is ron paul?

by jrod on Feb 6, 2008 3:35 PM EST reply actions  

What if I want to vote for Pete Carroll?!?

by boifromtroy on Feb 7, 2008 12:25 PM EST reply actions  

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