EDSBS LIVE: THE NARRATIVE EDITION
EDSBS Live returns! Listen here as we decide what the narrative will be for this year, summed up nicely in our patented (not quite) four questions below.
1. What is the best stolen storyline for your team this year? For Florida, this would be the exact storyline of the first 45 minutes of Blow: new comers improve our coverage, apply pressure to the opposition, and then make magic happen resulting in gold-lame speedo victory and beachside mansions in Mexico.

Just like that, but with Tim Tebow instead of Pervy McFondles there.
2. What is the worst stolen storyline for your team this year? The remainder of Blow. Newcomers, after initial success, spiral out of control on their own cockiness and end up in football lockdown.
3. If you could wish one storyline on another team……it would be Texas Tech reading the script of Yellowbeard all season long, with the Red Raiders taking us all on a half-cuddle, half-rape on the way to a national championship. Mike Leach with burning hair twists would be boss, too.
4. The plotline of your life was stolen from……a Wes Anderson movie. There’s strange doctors, a rapidly changing array of vocations, an odd lack of demonstrated emotion between family members, a decent but too coy soundtrack, and garbageloads of unnecessary allusions.
Talk to you tonight through a cold medicine-induced haze. (Seriously: tonight we really will be on that purple drank, but strictly for medicinal purposes.)









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Holly says:
I propose a moratorium on picking any football movies, in the interest of good answers.
June 3rd, 2008 at 3:58 pm
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Harris says:
1) Rudy, obviously.
2) Demolition Man: Our blond hero goes on a bloody rampage the entire film only to go down in L.A. to a well-preserved meathead with great hair.
3) For USC, the end of Raiders of the Lost Arc wherein the forces of evil get their faces melted off.
4) Under the Cherry Moon: There some incendiary moments, but it’s mostly boring and self-indulgent.
June 3rd, 2008 at 4:01 pm
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Harris says:
Dammit. Fine. Then for number one I’ll go with “Set it Off.” The Clovers win a national championship.
June 3rd, 2008 at 4:02 pm
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Out of Conference says:
1. What is the best stolen storyline for your team this year? Killer Clowns from Outer Space – we show up on the scene thinking we’re bad asses, try to take over the SEC East, then people realize our weakness- knee injury to Jasper Brinkley and easily defeat us. Oh wait, you said, “Best Story” line.. sorry.
2. What is the worst stolen storyline for your team this year? That of Titanic. Started off great, met great expectations early, but hit a big damn iceberg sometime between halftime of the UNC game and kickoff for the Vandy game.
3. If you could wish one storyline on another team……
That of “Alive” on Clemson, except I don’t want any of them to survive the plane crash. figuratively speaking of course.
4. The plot line of your life was stolen from……
The Gods Must Be Crazy – the gods throw a bottle (or a school of admiration- like USCe) at me. I love it, root for it, worship it on Saturdays, except it’s caused nothing but anguish in my life. So now I try like hell to throw it off the end of the earth, but realize I never will be able to.
June 3rd, 2008 at 4:03 pm
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Ground0EastLansing says:
1. Michigan State, with a returning QB, stud RB, decent defense, and a coach that is competent for once, is dubbed the “sleeper” team by just about everyone in the media. MSU beats Cal @ Cal to start the season, goes 9-3 with a win at UM, and gets a berth in the Capital One Bowl. Of course, this could give way to the storyline everyone knows about MSU…
2. The eventual late-season collapse. MSU suffers injuries to their offensive line and two QBs on scholarship, leaving a walk-on to play Quarterback. MSU goes 4-8 after starting 4-1, and I wonder if they make any booze stronger than West Virginia Moonshine.
3. DickRod has to pay all $4 million of his buyout. UMs offense looks like Notre Dame’s circa 2007 with no mobile QB to speak of, causing UM to go 5-7, and miss a bowl game for the first time since dinosaurs walked the Earth. UM fans, for the first time since the mid-90’s, look forward to basketball season.
4. Back to School. I’m not Rodney Dangerfield old, but being a 25-year-old trying to pick up a Bachelor’s in Chemical Engineering surrounded by 20-year-olds has had it’s moments. That, and I once pulled off the Triple Lindy in the IM West Outdoor pool. Take that, Les Miles.
June 3rd, 2008 at 4:39 pm
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Albino Tornado says:
1. What is the best stolen storyline for your team this year?
Ben-Hur. The best thing it works with either Osborne or Pelini as the role of Ben-Hur, with Messala being Pederson. I guess that makes Callahan the horses in the chariot race — or at least, whatever portion of the horses were visible.
2. What is the worst stolen storyline for your team this year?
The Shining. Osborne sees the problem, leaves his vacation/retirement to fix them, shows up in the nick of time to save the day… and catches an axe in the chest as he comes around the corner.
3. If you could wish one storyline on another team…
Brokeback Mountain. I don’t care who’s the butch between Texas and Oklahoma, so long as at least one of them gets pounded in the poopchute. Let Texas Tech be one of their weepy girlfriends as punishment for their OOC.
4. The plotline of your life was stolen from… Waiting for Godot. Surreal and existential with a heavy leavening of nonsensical and meaningless.
June 3rd, 2008 at 4:44 pm
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Ground0EastLansing says:
Amending #5 –
1. Breaking Away – MSU = Cutters.
2. Friday Night Lights, only the Dallas Carter game is the ND game,
3. The first half of Rocky II, where Rocky loses all his money.
Always read before you post.
June 3rd, 2008 at 4:44 pm
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Zone Left says:
1. Michigan’s talent gels+EEEE BARWIS+weak Big Ten=10-2 Season (2nd half of Hoosiers)
2. Michigan’s talent doesn’t gel+constant Herbie references about poorly matched talent+quiet fans+buzzsaw wielding Brutus Buckeye=5-7 (1st half of Hoosiers–4 PASSES!!)
3. Percy Harvin joins the Nation of Islam. Tim Tebow refuses to give him the ball and what becomes known as the 1st Baptist Crusade breaks out in rural Florida.
4. An After School Special about big brother joining the Marine Corps. Anti-climactic and less than Top Gun. I don’t know if the episode happened, but it’s corny enough to be plausible.
June 3rd, 2008 at 4:53 pm
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Irish09 says:
1.”Rookie of the Year”. After an arm injury, Jimmy Clausen suddenly becomes incredible at his favorite sport and discovers himself along the way.
2. The second half of “Trainspotting”. After being on a downward slide for a while, the whole thing finallly crashes into bizzare and incredibly depressing surreality. ND football is forced back to rehab.
3. Any Greek tragedy, for USC. Hubris destroyeth all.
“Groundhog Day” for Ohio State so that they get to relive the same inescapable fate over and over and over.
4. A 90’s sitcom. 20-somethings awkwardly encounter real life and crappy jobs in the big city. Sadly, no laugh track for my bad jokes.
June 3rd, 2008 at 5:11 pm
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Eric says:
Orson, out of all the movies you have referenced that have made me chuckle and/or think “oh yeah, I remember that,” the Yellowbeard reference sets a new standard for awesomescurity factor. Keep it up, or I’ll nail yer tits to the table.
June 3rd, 2008 at 5:14 pm
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Brian O'Blivion says:
1. Best storyline (Florida) – Tebow’s the Man of the Year.
2. Worst storyline – Something like this after watching the secondary for another year.
3. Storyline for another team. Florida State in Requiem for a Dream.
4. Plotline for my life – Point Break – got into way too much trouble, all for a woman, and she wasn’t worth it. And I shoulda been an EFFF BEEEE EYE agent, but I got high.
June 3rd, 2008 at 5:21 pm
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AllWhoYonder says:
1. Revenge of the Sith: Emperor Weis and his prodigy Darth Jimmy exert their will upon the football galaxy with some losses and tragedy but ultimately the solidification of the empire.
2. Requiem for a Dream: an endlessly downward spiral of failure culmiating in the double ass pounding by USC.
3. Godfather II: Playing the part of Fredo, as always, is Boston College.
4. ,Crossing the Bridge: good natured guy with best intentions misses out on some opportunities due to lack of balls but saves his ass and that of his friends by making wise choices in the end. But with a much better soundtrack.
June 3rd, 2008 at 5:28 pm
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Year2-Dave says:
1. Take your pick… a) Return of the Jedi where a bunch of young fighters (Florida) defeat once and for all a crumbling empire of evil (FSU… and Wake Forest can be the Ewoks) or the end of Ghostbusters where a group of heroes (Florida again) blow up a giant man made of marshmallow (Phil Fulmer).
2. In keeping with the theme, Empire Strikes Back where a rejuvenated evil empire (FSU) takes its revenge on the young fighters (Florida) and put the dashing, manly hero (Tebow) out of commission in a block of carbonite.
3. For UCF, my mother’s school and my non-BCS rooting interest, Major League: despite incompetent management, the team attains glory by making the BCS.
4. A Beautiful Mind, minus the imaginary people and groundbreaking new theory in economics. I use spreadsheets to do college football stat analysis in my spare time… for fun… *hangs head*
June 3rd, 2008 at 7:19 pm
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Zone Left says:
Orson, are you doing EDSBS Live tonight?
June 3rd, 2008 at 7:29 pm
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Holly says:
What gave you that impression?
June 3rd, 2008 at 8:12 pm
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That 5.0 Guy says:
1. Batman Begins – a hero takes it’s licks, then comes back and kicks some serious ass in a hurricane of awesome.
2. DareDevil – should have been awesome, but somehow, . . . it just imploded in an awful, predictable way (USF = Rutgers, DareDevil = Ben Affleck)
3. Mission to Mars – WVU gets billed as pure awesome and starts good but turns out to be totally mundane and uninteresting and anti-climactic.
4. Confidence – It may seem like life has gone to total shit, but in actuality, I’ve actually got that shit under control and running according to plan. Even if that plan is totally on the fly.
June 3rd, 2008 at 10:12 pm
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macker says:
#13- Wake Forest = Ewoks………..100+ cocktails
It has everything. They’re small, cute, cuddly and if you aren’t careful they’ll crush your superior firepower.
June 4th, 2008 at 7:57 am
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Pants McPants says:
1) Dazed and Confused- the character of Pink. School stud who has Joey Lauren Adams in his back pocket but still has to smooch a brunette on the side.
2) Dazed and Confused- character of O’Bannion. Bully who won’t go away, who paddles the Big Ten unmercifully only to have paint poured on him by the SEC in a bowl game. We will still “kick your fucking ass right here” though. Dammit,
3) Dazed and Confused- I wish the character of Joey Lauren Adams on Oregon’s cheerleaders. Get them some cutoff jeans shorts and helium voices, stat!
4) Dazed and Confused- character of Mitch- skinny geek who hangs out with the cool kids and dates older women. Only I had weed.
Come to think of it, there’s just a myriad of possibilites for this move, Wooderson, Slater, Adam Goldberg….
June 4th, 2008 at 8:52 am
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Pants McPants says:
move=movie.
June 4th, 2008 at 8:53 am