EDSBS LIVE: MT. DOOM EDITION
EDSBS Live is on tonight, and our theme is: Doom. Cue the return of four questions!
Tonight’s show, live from Mt. Doom.
1. What player spelled doom for your team? From our perpective, no name filled us with dread more than the words “Starting quarterback…Doug Johnson.”
2. What is your career-ending injury? Ours would be a spectacular compound fracture of the tibia, like Joe Theismann, but not as side-splittingly funny.
3. What is the most doomed matchup you’ve ever watched? Nebraska versus Kansas, 1997. Ice storms. Flags flying stiff in the breeze. Temperature something like nine thousand below zero. It looked like they were playing football on Hoth, and the Huskers were playing the part of the AT-AT.
4. Name a doomed thing you love despite yourself. The entire city of Miami. It’s going underwater in a hundred years, everyone hates everyone else, the primary product of the economy is dodging one form of government accounting or another, and parts of it are Port-au-Prince destitute and twice as dangerous.
And yet:
Doomed, and lovely.
See you at 9 tonight.
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1. What player spelled doom for your team?
I enrolled at SMU in 1990. What player has not spelled doom for my team? If I must choose, I’ll go with LaDanian Tomlinson, since you’ve actually heard of him.
2. What is your career-ending injury?
Non-injury health condition (i.e. getting knocked up)
3. What is the most doomed matchup you’ve ever watched?
SMU v. Baylor in 1991 or 1992 (I can’t remember for sure, I’ve blocked it out). Baylor ran it up the middle. On. Every. Play. I am not kidding. There were no passing attempts the entire game, and we still couldn’t stop them.
4. Name a doomed thing you love despite yourself.
You mean besides SMU? How about the Kansas City Royals.
Comment by Diamond M — April 23, 2008 @ 5:34 pm
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1. What player spelled doom for your team?
Player? Since that disqualifies Ray Goff I’m going to go with Quincy Carter.
2. What is your career-ending injury?
Blown knee. I have a hard enough time with it as it is.
3. What is the most doomed matchup you’ve ever watched?
Last year’s Sugar Bowl. The part that made me feel worst about it was that the media’s drive to get people to even watch the game made Hawaii think they could actually win.
4. Name a doomed thing you love despite yourself.
I was going to go with the Sega Saturn but #32 made me change my find. Republican Party. Final answer.
Comment by Dante — April 23, 2008 @ 3:23 pm
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1. Nate Longshore.
2. Tendinitis from pipetting too much. (No, seriously. It’s not funny. Stop laughing.)
3. Nate Longshore vs. Opposing Team.
4. The San Jose Sharks in the playoffs.
Comment by Bay Area Bear — April 23, 2008 @ 3:03 pm
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1a) On-the-field: Eric Bassey - No one could blow a coverage like him. If they ever made Eric Bassey action figures he would come with his own gas can.
1b) Off-the-field: Charles Thompson - his arrest was the harbinger of the Dark Ages to come.
2) Rage Virus
3) Chris Simms vs. Oklahoma
His career stat line over 3 years against OU?
47-91 for 417 yards, zero TD, 8 INT (2 for TD)
21 rushes for minus 57 yards, 2 rushing TDs
I guess he broke even on touchdowns though
4) The triple option
Comment by CincySooner — April 23, 2008 @ 12:32 pm
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1. Anthony Wright- Best physical gifts of any QB in the program’s last 20 years, but made Blake Mitchell seem like a model of consistency.
3. Ohio State vs. Florida- By halftime, I was wishing they could have just Kentucky another shot at the Gators.
4. South Carolina football- Even when things are going well, you feel like the Sword of Damocles is constantly overhead.
Comment by Chg — April 23, 2008 @ 11:55 am
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#5
I’m sure you mean the 2003 edition. OU 77 - A&M 0
You guys won the 2002 game, knocking OU out of the title hunt.
Comment by CincySooner — April 23, 2008 @ 11:38 am
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1. Stanley Jackson — A true triple threat quarterback, he’d always manage to throw an untimely interception, inexplicably fumble, or take a bad sack. Why Cooper stubbornly insisted on his stupid two QB system, I’ll never know.
2. Infected ingrown toe-nail.
3. Ohio State vs. Michigan in 1995, Tim Biakabatuka ruined my childhood. Or, Ohio State vs. Florida in 2007, just a disaster, beginning with Ginn’s injury.
4. America, thanks to GWB.
Comment by Sir Ginho of the 216 — April 23, 2008 @ 11:12 am
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1. Blake Mitchell. Even when he was on, you knew it wouldn’t last.
2. Ruptured Achilles tendon
3. South Carolina v. Florida…the infamous Blackout game from 2001.
4. Gas guzzling SUV’s
Comment by Stinky Pinky — April 23, 2008 @ 11:03 am
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dudes….is the chick at 50 seconds topless?
b/c try as might (and i’ve tried repeatedly) my computer will not make it look like she has a top on.
then again, that might be the way my computer works.
NSFW all night and all day.
Comment by dawgaddict — April 23, 2008 @ 8:51 am
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1) Cory Bailey. He made the ‘07 Gator secondary look like 4 RFN’s.
2) A thousand very small cuts.
3) In person: ‘07 UT vs. UF. Someone call the cops, I just saw a rape! On TV: The Fiasco Bowl. Tears…unending pain…
4) Two things: 1) Soccer. All of it. Don’t care how good it is. MLS, EPL whatever. Just give it to me.
2) The city of Los Angeles. So self-absorbed, so huge, so maniacal….I sit around all day and try to dream up excuses to go out to the land of fake boobs and no humidity*.
* - Distinguishes it from Miami.
Comment by cobian — April 23, 2008 @ 8:32 am
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1. why, who else? http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q250/FrontLobo/si%20jinx%20cover/oklahoma1989.jpg
honorable mention to rhett bomar
2. the beer/pot combo - it pretty much ended my young, ill-fated high school athletic careers in foobaw and basketball…but then again, my golf game improved dramatically
3. usc over ou in the 05 orange bowl - i still get chills down my spine thinking of how the doom blew in over the field once that punt was muffed - to make myself feel better, i’ll give an honorable mention to OU/tx 2000 and 2004, b/c texas is just plain pathetic
4. barry switzer - so what if his players were shooting uzi’s out their dorm windows and selling kilos to feds while barry was taking turns blowing lines off the bare asses of cheerleaders and his assistant coach’s wives…he hung half a hunnerd on ‘em! and he’s still the king, baby! whoo!
Comment by okiedomer — April 23, 2008 @ 8:23 am
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1. Corey Bailey - he was the ‘07 Florida secondary back in the [REDACTED] years.
2. Losing interest and settling into cushy TV work, a la Robert Smith (but NOT like Tiki Barber, who’s a prick)
3. Both teams doomed? 2005 FSU vs. Miami, which ended 10-7 after a suckfest provided by first-year starters Drew Weatherford and Kyle Wright. One team but not the other? Florida’s 62-0 win over Western Carolina where the only thing that kept the Gators from scoring was the end of each half.
4. The Ron Paul for President campaign
Comment by Dave — April 23, 2008 @ 8:04 am
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1. Kecalf Bailey, “cornerback” and superstar-maker. In his defense, it did seem like he lined up across from a future all-pro every down…
2. Massive, acute myocardial infarction should I ever try to sprint farther than the distance from my couch to the john (during commercials). BTW, being able to pause live TV has really cut down on my conditioning.
3. Bama vs. anyone in a tight game with a Mike Shula-coached fourth quarter coming up.
4. The pharmaceutical industry and its legion of 6′ tall viking goddesses pushing product.
Comment by hawkeye — April 23, 2008 @ 7:42 am
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Actually, I’ll change #3–I’ll go with watching BC-Buffalo in a driving monsoon on ESPN 360.
Comment by Alex F. — April 23, 2008 @ 7:12 am
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1. Ryan Ohliger. That fucking diamond-earringed douche. Alternatively, Quinton Porter.
2. Broke my ankle senior year after a long night of drinking. I have zero idea how.
3. Fog Bowl
4. The Philadelphia Eagles
Comment by Alex F. — April 23, 2008 @ 7:11 am
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1. Jay Paterno. Somehow made the PSU squad in the late 80s as a backup QB. Wonder how that happened?
2. Severe whiplash from watching Barry Sanders run by me.
3. Sorry, but…Nebraska v. Florida in 1996. I think Tommie Frazier just ran another one in…
4. The Republican Party…
Comment by immikfefazz — April 23, 2008 @ 7:09 am
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1. Illinois had a qb named Jason Verdusco - imagine a 5 foot 8 inch Anthony Morelli.
2. First my left pinkie (dislocated/acted like a total baby right in front of my head coach), then my right shoulder from my one and only time surfing.
3. The only bad time I ever had at Camp Randall: a Jason Verdusco-led Illini lost to Wisconsin by a score of 2-1 if memory serves. Sometime in November and I sat at about Row 904 in the end zone.
4. “The Cubbies are coming, tra la, tra la.”
Comment by joe martin — April 23, 2008 @ 2:54 am
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1) Anthony Morelli
2) “Last Boy Scout”- style: I catch the ball, dodge a couple of defenders, when it looks like I’ll be stopped, I pull a gun out of my pants and shoot the remaining defenders. When I reach the end zone, I take off my helmet, say “Ain’t life a bitch” and then shoot myself in the head. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVrsGHs2MCk (Featuring an appearance by Uncle Verne)
3) As PB said, the 2005 Big 12 Championship. My morbid curiosity kept me glued to this game.
4) The City of Philadelphia: Declining population, high murder rate. But I still think of it as the greatest city in America.
Comment by John — April 23, 2008 @ 1:59 am
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#22, ASU scored three points in the half, as I recall. We scored 6 all game. No touchdowns, for sure. I cried into my girlfriend’s shoulder and I am not ashamed.
Comment by Erik — April 23, 2008 @ 12:15 am
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1. Going back a few years, Danny Woodson. He didn’t even know where he was going with the ball.
2. Scored a TD on the last play of my career, but I tore a muscle away from my pelvic bone in the process.
3. a) Steve Beurlein vs. Cornelius Bennett
b) Tennessee’s secondary vs. DJ Hall
4. Alabama basketball under Mark Gottfried for another year.
Comment by crimson daddy — April 23, 2008 @ 12:12 am
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1. What player spelled doom for your team?
Uh…Reggie Ball
2. What is your career-ending injury? Compund SPIRAL fracture for me, though it was not career-ending, NAY merely season ending.
3. What is the most doomed matchup you’ve ever watched?
Duke v Anyone
4. Name a doomed thing you love despite yourself.
My youth.
Comment by Brian — April 22, 2008 @ 10:26 pm
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Uh, it’s 9 p.m. Where the hell is the show?
Comment by Harris — April 22, 2008 @ 8:06 pm