EDSBS LIVE! FATHER’S DAY EDITION
Ah, dad and football:
We honor the rageaholic fathers of our football nation tonight with an EDSBS Live devoted solely to you, dad. Our four questions in brief, un-fancy order:
1. What football coach would be the best surrogate father?
2. What football coach would be the worst surrogate father?
3. Tell us your best anecdote about your father and college football.
4. What essential lessons will you, as a father (or as the wife/girlfriend, or knowing our readership the babymomma of a father) insist your child learn about college football?
Join us here at 9:00 p.m. EDT at Now Live. NOW GIMMEH THE REMOTE!!! THE BUCKEYES ARE ON!
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Irish09 says:
1. Lou Holtz. Lots of useful folksy wisdom, but corny enough to embarass you in front of your friends.
2. JoePa. Devouring of brains does not make for good father-son bonding experiences.
3. My father, once a Michigan fan, has converted to the light. He was actually more neurotic then me during ND’s final defensive stand against Stanford this year.
4. Throwing buckets of slop to the Purdue cheerleaders may seem natural, but it’s very rude. Remember that, son.
June 10th, 2008 at 4:46 pm
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Ground0EastLansing says:
1. Pete Carroll – he would let you know that you can kick that field goal through the uprights son, and even if you don’t, that’s OK, because you will still win forever. Bonus: will look the other way when your “uncles” shower you with gifts.
2. Nick Saban – Bounces from home to home every few years, leaving a trail of either destruction or pissed-off caguns in his wake. Also does not have time for your teeball shit.
3. Dad went to Michigan Tech (D2), so he wasn’t a huge CFB fan. He was a decent UM fan though to spite his MSU friends, so that’s what I was raised as. Eventually during high school, the tide started to turn, which led to me playing the MSU fight song on my baritone in high school after every MSU score or UM turnover. Good times.
4. My child’s going to be raised an MSU fan, so he or she’s going to learn this: No matter how good things start out, the other shoe will drop in soul-crushing fashion (Drew Stanton fumbling against ND in ‘06, Henne remembering in the 4th quarterthat Jaren Hayes was covering Braylon Edwards in ‘04), so always, always be humble. Also, learn how to hold your liquor, because being an MSU fan almost always involves an amount of drinking that would make Chruchill seem like a teetotaler.
June 10th, 2008 at 4:49 pm
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pz says:
That video is pure hilarity. Does the TV not work without the remote?
June 10th, 2008 at 4:50 pm
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Ground0EastLansing says:
Edit to #2, Q1 – instead of “win forever”, it should be “WIN FOREVER”. Brennan Carroll would not be fucking pleased with that fucking mistake.
June 10th, 2008 at 4:51 pm
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Brian O'Blivion says:
1. Mike Gundy. I could have used some of that “I’m a man” vitriol during my youth. It might have kept my name out of the police blotter. Well maybe not, but it would have been cool.
2. Pete Carroll. He would have called all of my girlfriends for dates and they would have been awestruck by his awesomeness.
3. My dad knew Dr. Cade, which is not really an anecdote, but it’s really fucking cool.
4. My child will know the difference between an end around and a reverse. And will curse every announcer who fucks that up.
June 10th, 2008 at 5:04 pm
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Sec. for gunrunning, daylight robbery, and general mayhem says:
1. Bear Bryant. Seems to have acted as a father figure to a number of his own players throughout the years, figure he’d make a good real one.
2. Dan McCartney. I’d rather not get pimped out to my father’s players, thank you very much.
3. My Dad’s last game in the ND band was the 73 Sugar Bowl vs. Bama in New Orleans for the national title. To this day, he refuses to tell any stories.
4. Never give up, even in the face of tragedy (Willingham) or near certain failure (2006 MSU).
June 10th, 2008 at 5:26 pm
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kleph says:
before we all go and award pete the ‘best dad evar’ award lets not forget what sober and somewhat frightening reality has to tell us about his parenting skills.
June 10th, 2008 at 5:27 pm
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Domer Guy says:
1. I’d have to go with Lou Holtz also. He seems like the type to kick your ass for coming home drunk at 3am when you’re 16 after having put a dent in the family car, then quickly let forget about it, chalk it up to a lesson learned, and share a beer with you while discussing life on the porch the next night.
2. (a) Urban Meyer. Lots of cold stares and evasive non-answers to the questions you need to know when growing up. “Dad, where do babies come from?” (cold look of contempt). Or (b) Lloyd Carr, who I picture sitting in the study, reading “The Economist,” and not even looking up to acknowledge you when you get home or ask him a question. Wouldn’t be surprised if him and ma didn’t sleep in the same bed.
3. How about a story about my HS football coach and college football? (I played in HS, Orson, I PLAYED!!!) Anyway, my HS coach played for Frank Kush at Arizona State, and used to tell us about how Kush would take the team out in the desert for tackling and fumble recovery drills in the rocks. The experience actually knocked out my coach’s four front teeth in the process. I know that didn’t answer the question, but dammit that’s cool.
4. There is no excuse for putting pom-poms on your mailbox (I’m looking your way, U$C).
June 10th, 2008 at 5:30 pm
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kleph says:
and my father is going to be tough to top for #3 – he took my mom to the 1966 orange bowl for their honeymoon.
June 10th, 2008 at 5:38 pm
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purpleheart says:
1) I’d also have to go with Pete Carroll — he’d get me a 5 star prom date. Runners up: Les Miles would be fun as shit but he wouldn’t let me gamble, get drunk, or any of that nonsense, Dan Hawkins, because he’d let me be the starting quarterback, and Ed Orgeron, because I would be able to drive a hummer.
2) Jeff Tedford, because we’d have to live in a shitty house forever. Runners up: Dennis Franchione, because he’d leave me for a worse family.
3) Dad streaked tiger stadium.
4) If you’re going to leave a strip joint screaming “I’m the next 60 million dollar man”, don’t get caught doing a pitchers mound of blow.
June 10th, 2008 at 5:50 pm
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The Conscience of a Nation says:
3) My father had his nose broken by a police fire hose in downtown Gainesville partying after a Gator game back in the 1960s. Go Dad!
June 10th, 2008 at 5:54 pm
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Bobak says:
more proof that midgets just don’t understand the importance of football.
June 10th, 2008 at 5:56 pm
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EireHog says:
1. Mark Richt.
2. Steve Spurrier- ‘Stepdad, can I have $5?’ ‘Click-clack MFer’.
3. My father can’t say ‘Texas’ without ‘Motherf*cking’ preceding the state name. This led to hijinks when I had an oral quiz in 3rd grade about all the states and their capitals.
4. I have a boy and a girl, both 4 months old. We’re already gearing up for this season, and I have a laundry list of things to teach them, not limited to:
Never give Coach Holtz your newspaper; never give Coach Saban a LOI; never make a noise over a thousandth of a decible within a hundred miles of Tubbs. Most important of all, if you hear someone saying Ohio State is a serious NC contender this year, it’s perfectly acceptable to give them an open handed chop to the Adam’s Apple, and loom over them yelling ‘EEEEESSEEEEECEEE SPEEED!’ after you have finished.
June 10th, 2008 at 5:56 pm
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El Hombre says:
1. Dan Hawkins–the intensity would make me better.
2. Joe Paterno–he’d be too busy sleeping in an easy chair, foaming at the mouth and yelling “BRAINS!” occasionally to do anything.
3. Apart from seeing Nebraska’s famed “triplets” (Turner Gill, Mike Rozier and someone else no one cares about), my father played flag football at Ohio Stadium and even though he’s a die-hard Bugeater, let me rush onto the pitch at Faurot and take a piece of the goalpost when Mizzou beat the Cornholers in 2003.
4. My children will know that it is not a “double reverse” unless it actually goes two directions (which it rarely does), believe that “traditional powers” are now bullshit and being usurped by any team that can run the spread with skill, and that any woman spotted with a Kansas fan is actually a sheep wearing an elaborate costume.
June 10th, 2008 at 6:08 pm
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dudis41 says:
1. Can’t go wrong with Pete Carroll. Just imagine walking around USC’s campus knowing the words “I’m Carroll… yes that Carroll” could get you laid pretty much on the spot.
2. Dave Wannstedt. It would essentially be Bizarro-world Pete Carroll.
3. My dad went to Temple. I just graduated from Miami University. He had no idea when I told him AT THE END of this season that we were now conference rivals. He was always more of a Penn State fan anyway.
4. My kids will be Redhawks as soon as they pop out. They will be instructed to hate the Big 10, Big East, SEC, rest of the MAC, most of the ACC, and anyone else who I grow annoyed with within the next however many years before I happen to reproduce.
June 10th, 2008 at 6:32 pm
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dogtown gator says:
1. Are you kidding? Mike Leach. As obsessive about random shit as I am. Hell, I’m adopted. Maybe Coach Pirate is my pops. (Pete Carroll’s a close runner-up).
2. Terry Bowden. Fucking evil little munchkin.
3. My Dad’s from Spain and his zero interest in sports. His interaction with games consist entirely of walking into the living room, glancing at the game, naming the Institution of Higher Learning playing, then naming their mascot and then leaving the room.
4. I’d raise my kids not to move 3000 miles from their favorite sporting team like I did. No offense meant to the Gator Club at Tony P’s in the Marina.
June 10th, 2008 at 6:36 pm
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sonofsamford says:
1. Croom. Has that throwback, bad-ass, father-figure coach demeanor that Bryant perfected seemingly without many of the vices.
2. Petrino. I tried to like this guy while he was doing such a good job at Auburn, but after watching him at a few practices he just came like a natural born prick.
3. My father had a tray of barbeque thrown on him while celebrating an Auburn win in Tuscaloosa in 1993. The game wasn’t there, but I was stuck there studying for finals and my family came to visit. They showed the AU-Bama game on a big screen at Bryant-Denny because AU was on probation and couldn’t be televised. We must have been the only people pulling for Auburn in that whole stadium and my father’s Jim Beam drinks steeled his hatred for the tide. My sister was with us and still can’t believe we made it out of there alive.
4. My wife is expecting twin boys in August. I figure I’ll wait til next year before I teach them how to chop block.
June 10th, 2008 at 6:44 pm
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chaimy says:
1. Pete Carroll. Already the surrogate father for Los Angeles.
2. Nick Saban. Builds you up, but as soon as a new kid comes around, you are worthless and ditched. That hurts more than Petrino who never cared from the start.
3. Took me to 1996 UF-FSU in Doak, 2nd row behind the Gator bench. Ric Flair was on the Gator sideline. WOOOOOOO. It wasn’t perfect, but revenge was had 6 weeks later. My sister went with him to UF-FSU 1997. She was 7 and I watched on a 3 inch black and white TV. I should never have spent that one year in band.
4. A) Bet against teams traveling from West to East in a close line. B) Bobby Bowden is proof positive the Anti-Christ can show up as a Bible thumper. The constant late hits at the Doak and Ernest Graham’s knee settle any arguments with that point. C) Should I have a daughter, keep her away from Da U. If its a boy, have him represent the players of Da U.
June 10th, 2008 at 7:09 pm
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chaimy says:
#5-Brian O’Blivion’s point on the end-around vs reverse is superb. I hate when announcers screw that up.
June 10th, 2008 at 7:13 pm
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Spazzy McGee says:
1. Mike Gundy – won’t let anyone give my son shit.
2. Cheatypants – assuming he is the main source of my son’s clothing selection, I don’t want the kid to get the crap beat out of him at school, daily.
3. Well, I got my dad to care about football……
4. The disappointment. Oh, the disappointment.
June 10th, 2008 at 7:15 pm
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fife in the bay says:
@ purpleheart
and have dirty hippies live in trees above your house
1) Mike Price – Big drinker and he’d get all the hookers you wanted.
2) Ty Willingham – True, all the chocolate milk you can drink but icy stares.
3) My dad is Rick Neuhiesel so I guess you can take your pick, I like the “northwest championship” one though.
4) Liberals from Seattle have no place in college football.
June 10th, 2008 at 7:26 pm
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tempebamafan says:
1 saban. he’s a great motivator, gets the most out of his talent. also teaches eithics and the importance of doing things the right way “the process”.
2 tubbs-fulmer-dye: smug ,ungracious, loudmouth jerk. phat, liar, snitch. cheater, perinial loser
3 my dad was in grad school at memphis state, the tigers were playing the tide, mike shula threw an errant pass that wound up in my dads hands in the fourth row. security came over and asked for the ball back, not knowing what to do, and not being drunk enough, he surrendered the ball. Dad taught me and my bro that if we are ever to face the same scenario (blowout win, nothing to lose) you make a break for it, screw security, thats one hell of a souvenier.
4 auburn and tennessee suck donkey nutts
June 10th, 2008 at 7:33 pm
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tempebamafan says:
edit
#4 auburn and tennessee LICK donkey nutts.
June 10th, 2008 at 7:34 pm
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Harris says:
1) Mike Price because he’d get me into all the best parties
2) Mike Price because a boy shouldn’t have to compete with his father for chicks
3) Papa Harris isn’t much of a college football fan, but he played high school football in the early 70s, an era of steel cleats, tyrannical coaches who thought only pussies got dehydrated and helmets that weren’t as good as the toys I played with. He was my coach in junior high and one of our favorite pictures together is me as a 12-year-old center dirty after a game. I was wearing one of his hold t-shirts and he’s got his arm around my shoulders. We’re both smiling. We didn’t take another picture that good for at least another 10 years.
4) The difference between the end-around and the reverse was an inspired choice. 100 cocktails to Brian O’Blivion. Instead, I’ll instruct my daughter in the ways of the barbarian: There are a three good things in life: To crush your enemy, To drive him before you. To hear the lamentation of his women.
June 10th, 2008 at 7:57 pm
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EffinDane says:
1) Bobby Dodd. Bobby Dodd did the Pete Carroll thing before Pete Carroll was even born (Dodd had boosters up his ass for playing volleyball during Friday practices for light workouts, and still managed to kick ass). Nobody cared about his players more than Bobby Dodd, both in athletics AND academics. He was a father to hundreds, and not in the babydaddy kind of way.
2) Les Miles. I don’t think he knows how to ever be pleasant.
3) My dad explained to me that every Catholic in his hometown picked a side – Penn State or Notre Dame. When they played, fathers would kick sons out of their households the week before, and would not let them back for days to come depending on the outcome of the game.
4) If the QB throws a pick, he is now a blocker, and you are free to destroy him – an opportunity you should never miss.
June 10th, 2008 at 8:34 pm
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Other Chris says:
We’ve already raised our children right so they already know the basics about college football. Earlier this year, I overheard my daughter, 10, advising my son, 5, as he put together a puzzle of the United States: “Be careful when you put in Ohio. You don’t want to touch Columbus, because you’ll get Buckeye on you.”
Go Blue!
June 10th, 2008 at 8:54 pm
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Raider Red says:
1. I’ll have to go with Mike Leach (look up the story about the USS Bowfin and his son’s hat)
2. Charlie Weis. Heart disease is in your immediate future. Plus you have to root for Notre Dame.
3. My dad was at a party with Lou Holtz when Granny coached at Arkansas. Lou pours himself a glass of Jack and a glass of milk. Dad asks him “what’s with the milk?” Lou replies, “You got to foam the runway.”
4. My daughter is seven months. I will teach her that 1) whoever has the best linemen usually wins, and 2) Horns and Aggy are persona non grata.
June 10th, 2008 at 9:32 pm
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hollerback says:
1.) Mark Richt- He loves some Jesus, but also allows guys like Odell Thurman to slip through the cracks. Who wouldn’t love a dad like that?
2.) Mark Mangino- Is he fat or just really damn big? Either way, I’d like my dad to live past 50.
3.) My dad is a deacon and reads his Bible every day. When Georgia is on the field, every referee is a jackass and can’t see for shit.
4.) The Grove is the greatest tailgating on earth and best tail getting you’ll ever find.
June 10th, 2008 at 9:44 pm
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That 5.0 Guy says:
1. Bill Belichick – the man totally lives the adage that “if you ain’t cheatin’, you ain’t tryin’.” I mean, seriously, as long as you won, he wouldn’t care how many girls you brought home or how much booze passed through your liver. Plus, he’d just brow-beat the living fuck out of anybody who asked questions or accused that you did something wrong.
2. Jim Levitt – He has sound fundamentals, but sometimes things just slip through the cracks that would be obvious to anyone else. Like USF periodically forgetting how to stop the run, he’d forget to feed you for a few days. ADHD and Speed make him a little vacant.
3. @11 by TCOAN – Same Father. I seriously never knew that. When the hell does Dad tell you these things?
4. Special teams are a special time. It’s essentially legalized murder and the perfect time to eject braincells from someone else’s skull. To enjoy, much less play, special teams takes a unique brand of crazy. I can remember getting hit so hard that not only did I see triple, but I could only see in primary colors. I would pass on the appreciation of those dedicated and absolutely insane bastards.
June 10th, 2008 at 9:55 pm
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chris says:
1- Cutliffe. High expectations? Shit son, he coaches at Duke. Football there is just shit to do til basketball starts. An easy paycheck (for him) and easy access to all the college tail (for you) ain’t nothing to sneeze at.
2- Friedgen/Mangino/Weiss/Fulmer. The lazy fat man smell that would permeate the household alone would be enough to make me join the circus. Not to mention being the son of the fattest mf’er on campus would suck monkey nuts. God, the shame.
3- A cousin gave two tickets of his for me and my dad to go with him and his son to see Auburn play LTech sometime in the late 80’s. Hell if I remember the score, probably wasn’t even close. I had the time of my life though as a 9 year old cheering for some shitty school in Louisiana amongst all those tiger fans.
4- If my son ever runs in to terry bowden or dye, he’s sworn an oath to knee em in the groin repeatedly until they fall on the ground. Then as they writhe in pain to yell “Golden Flake Chips suck and The Tide Rolls On Forever!”
June 10th, 2008 at 10:09 pm
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jsmithND says:
1. Randy Shannon: foster parent adept at turning around previously troubled and/or incarcerated children.
2. Les Miles
Son: “Gee dad, you really think I jump my bike over this 20 foot wide pit of poisonous snakes?”
Les: “You know our family policy son. We don’t kick field goals, and we always go for it on our pit jumping. Besides, we have ridiculous depth amongst the rest of your brothers and sisters”
Hon. Mention for Ty Willingham, who would simply miss every major event in your life while out golfing.
3. Dad doesn’t really follow CFB, but will spring for the occasional keg of Killians, which is nice.
4. One lesson and one lesson only: “It’s better to die as a child than fumble the ball.”
June 10th, 2008 at 10:32 pm
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This Guy says:
1. Steve Spurrier. Intense as all hell and a tireless workaholic, but would fight for you in a heartbeat. Kind of a blend of my father and stepfather.
2. Phil Fulmer. Genetic obesity, structureless household, and will throw you under the bus, train, plane, car and rickshaw to save himself.
3. My dad stayed in a Northside Jacksonville motel after one Florida-Georgia. It’s a miracle I’m here to talk about it.
4. Tennessee, Georgia, Florida State and Miami are officially off your college search lists. Any derogatory comment about Danny Wuerffel or Tim Tebow shall be greeted with five fingers. Brush your teeth at night or RFN will get you. I don’t care if the other kids make fun of you, orange and blue match. The girls will know that the homeless guy who hasn’t changed in five years will get my permission before any boy named Manning, Fulmer, or Clausen. I’m going to seminary just in case one of the boys develops a midlevel arm, gets tough as a sonofabitch and develops an affinity for hopelessly complex, otherworldly productive offenses.
June 10th, 2008 at 11:13 pm
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oc phil says:
1) A bunch of other people have already said Pete, but I mean it.
2) Saban wouldn’t have time for any parenting shit.
3) My dad grew up playing the other kind of football and was good enough to be offered a pro contract, but came to the US instead. I got to take him to his first CFB game, to see USC play in the Rose Bowl.
4) I actually had my two daughters out tossing a football around this afternoon. They won’t ever play the game but they can still learn to win forever and that to be early is to be on time.
June 11th, 2008 at 12:58 am
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BigErn says:
1) Jim Tressel: He has a very cool demeanor but yet you know if you screw up your butt is in trouble. He also legitimately cares about you. Like him using the spread in 2006 you know he’ll adjust to the times so he instills traditional values on you but yet knows how to keep it real
2) Bobby Petrino: Absolutely ZERO loyalty. The kind of dad that dumps your biological mother for a new trophy wife (more than once). Also shows no persevearance, as he would rather jump ship on the Falcons than suck it up and rebuild.
3) My dad played football for a year at James Madison University (2004 I-AA National Champs), so he was on me like white on rice when I played Varsity Football. But my best memory with him and football was when Virginia (where im a student) lost the 2008 Gator Bowl. Afterwards, he sees Im about to cry, put his arm around me and says “You’d be Bullsh*ttin if you thought you would be watching Virginia on New Years Day back in August. Y’all had a great year”
4) My kid will appreciate to hate all things Maroon and learn to make fun of VT jean overalls (no joke: They make them), VT Showboating Thugs (The Vicks, MeAngelo Hall, Macho Harris, etc.), and learn that dressing up in your finest orange polo long sleeve, blue and orange tie and blue seer-sucker shorts/pants along with the classic UVA Bar Cap and shades for day games is the only way to dress for saturdays
June 11th, 2008 at 1:28 am
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Crabapple Buck says:
I never knew Herbstreit married a dwarf and shaved his head. You learn something new every day.
Wish I had heard the show last night. I’m sure everyone was kind to the Buckeyes.
June 11th, 2008 at 7:50 am
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Red says:
1) David Cutcliffe: Peyton and Eli both sucked Cut’s teet and the milk nourished those fags all the way to a super bowl. Imagine what such nectar would to for me and my quest to become streetcar driver down Canal St.
2) Pete Carroll: It’s a no win situation- your dad would always get more pussy, get into the hottest clubs, kick it with superstars all day and everybody that hung out with you would only do so to get close to “The Event” a.k.a. Carroll
3) My dad beat the shit out of an LSU fan one time, RAD. note: only did it because he had to, he was trying hard not to set a bad example.
note 2: Would it ever really set a bad example to kick the shit out of “that” LSU fan? I think everyone’s soul smiles on the inside when LSU fans get smacked on the face with an upward table.
4) I will teach my son that no matter what his little goatee having, Jr rootin, Iron Bowl losing, Brodie fucking classmates have to say, whoever the flavor of the month coach is at Alabama IS NOT GOD.
good talk Russ
June 11th, 2008 at 8:19 am
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Petie says:
1. Lloyd Carr. This, coming from a die-hard Tide fan. What, you think I’d choose Saban? Franchionne?
2. This is where I’d pick Saban or Franchionne.
3. When I left southeast KY for Tuscaloosa (grad school), Dad told me “son, now you’ll see what football is like”. This was DuBose’s next to last year. Thanks, Dad, I could’ve stayed home for football disappointment.
4. My daughter will probably grow up an LSU fan, what with us living in Shreveport. Could be worse, she could get addicted to buffets and penny slots, or worse, Big XII football.
June 11th, 2008 at 8:29 am
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Big Jon says:
1) Frank Kush, as inspired by Domer Guy @ 8. Kush once had a full pads, full contact practice in the stadium after a bowl game because he was disappointed by the team’s effort. If I had that kind of discipline as a kid I would probably be a better person today.
2) Urban Meyer strikes me as the type of overbearing dad that would make me resent him and hate football out of spite.
3) The old man was a lifelong Okie fan, and he taught me to hate Nebraska.
4) Always hate the U of A and it’s perfectly fine to kick someone while they’re down.
June 11th, 2008 at 8:47 am
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hobeg8r says:
1. Randy Shannon. Living proof that you can make positive changes no matter how terrible the situation.
Runner-up: SOS. No one cares more about winning and would be great for pick-up games on Sunday afternoons.
2. Can we name dead guys? If so, Woody Hayes. (For the obvious reasons). If not, Petrino. (Life Lesson he would teach: Loyalty is overrated.)
3. My dad taught me that ANY college football game is a million times better than ANY pro game. Case in point: Many years ago, he traveled to KY to see the Gators beat the Wildcats. Afterwards, he told me it was a perfect game – great weather – great score – great fans – great stadium. On his way back to FL, he suffered a fatal heart attack. As awful as that sounds, I was comforted by the fact that his last days were spent doing the one thing that he loved the most….watching CFB. I can’t think of a better way to go.
4. CFB is the great equalizer. On any given Saturday, the underdog CAN win.
June 11th, 2008 at 9:05 am
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blazin says:
Anyone remember the joke about the perfect woman; 3 ft tall, flat head to place your beer, and turns into a roast beef sandwich at 12AM?
Appearently that guy took it literally.
June 11th, 2008 at 9:07 am
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blazin says:
Sonny Lubick- the most under appreciated coach, so I thought I would give him some props.
Tyrone Willingham- first word out his mouth would always be No.
Growing up, my dad would have me wear a Princeton sweatshirt that had “Beware of Tiger” on it. One day, someone said Princeton was nothing to be afraid of. I got back at my dad by going to USC.
Son, go to a school with a big football program so you can feel better about yourself on Saturday.
June 11th, 2008 at 9:56 am
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Kerwin4two says:
1. [Name Redacted] – his relative cluelessness and water skiing ability are excellent traits for fathers to have. I would be full of self esteem as I would be told that I was getting “better and better” constantly
2. Neuheisel – If you can’t trust your dad, who can you trust?
3. Took my dad to the UF – Miss State game in ‘99. That’s when I learned that he was a 5′6” 165lb walk-on fullback (tackling dummy) his freshman year before taking some time off to kill people in the South Pacific in 1944-45. “being a tackling dummy was much more dangerous”. That and he also told me he’s pretty sure that I was concieved the night after the WLOCP in 1967.
4. Tradishun is nice but it don’t mean squat between the lines. If “It doesn’t matter who wins or loses it’s how you play the game” was true, they wouldn’t keep score.
June 11th, 2008 at 11:55 am
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Steve says:
Concerning Saban, from the guy’s demeanor and hard work ethic, I can’t see him being a bad father to his kids. He genuinely cares about his players and what they do in life, so I don’t see it being any different for his own children. While he may not make every dance recital or tee-ball game, I imagine he probably makes sure the time he spends with his kids is time well spent.
June 11th, 2008 at 1:14 pm
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EmotionalFescue says:
1. Mark Richt – All your friends’ parents and your teachers would assume you were an angel so you could probably get away with Odell Thurman-like nonsense. Hopefully, you’ll inherit your mother’s hair.
2. Bobby Petrino – I imagine getting a Post-it note saying ”Son, I’ve left your mother for a Bennigan’s hostess” would give you some sort of complex.
3. Poppa Bear isn’t a huge college football fan but talked my Mom into taking me along to my sister’s sorority’s Parents Weekend at Auburn. I was 5 and it was pretty amazing to see Bo Jackson run over people. As a Dawgs fan now it pains me to know I cheered on the Multi-Mascoters at Jordan-Hare.
4. The following phrases are absolutely off limits from being said by my son:
”College football games are so long. This game started 3 hours ago.”
”What’s the big deal about Uga? He’s just a dog.”
”Wow – I really like the Vols uniforms.”
”…the Florida-Georgia game…” (correctly said Georgia-Florida in my house)
”Waffle House? C’mon that place is so dirty.”
”I’ll have a Pepsi.”
June 11th, 2008 at 3:49 pm
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shanensga says:
1- My first thought was Mark Richt, definately a good Dad, but not for Me. All those Mission trips to God-awful third world countries and having to be in church every time the doors open, and no partying! My pick is a no brainer, Bobby Bowden. He likes to fish, goes barefoot, and knows that boys will be boys, Dadgumit! He also gets His kids jobs at the family store. 2- Nick Saban, he always looks like His gut hurts. 3- UGA-AU 1970 at Auburn. Unranked UGA upset highly ranked Auburn. My Dad died when I was in High School, We didn’t know it would be our last game together. 4- If You live a good life and never wrong others, when You die You get to go to Vince Dooley’s house. {borrowed from Lewis Grazzard}
June 11th, 2008 at 6:03 pm
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PJ from NU in SF says:
For what it’s worth…
1) Schnellenberger — for his sense of perspective, and how the important thing is to stay in the game.
2) Fitz — after all, he’s younger than I am.
3) My dad was dying of cancer during Northwestern’s 1995 miracle season. He was G’town ‘58, so for lack of gridiron-based Hoya action, he would cheer for Michigan (where the father of one of his lifelong friends had been team captain in the ’20s) or any other school that his offspring attended. He took a lot of grief every year from all the Walmart Wolverines and Thrifty Acres Spartans took their money on a lot of uncovered spreads, and had a great time in his final season. The last time I spoke with him was the day after the ‘96 Rose Bowl, and he was proud as a pig of how NU played, despite the beating we took. Two days later, I was flying home on a bereavement ticket, to watch him die. (Thanks, Orson, now the screen’s all blurry.)
4) No kids for me, and that goes double for the Pride of Louisville. But my nephews and nieces are growing up with these truths:
a) Land grant schools suck. Especially tOSU (aka Oh-oh A&M), and Kentucky.
b) Anything from Ohio — unless it’s a student that enrolls at Michigan or Northwestern — sucks, with only Miami U. being somewhat tolerable.
c) All polls are biased at best, and bullshit at their worst.
d) If they screw off in high school, they have to go to a directional college.
e) Southern Cal and Notre Dame are temples of the Antichrist.
f) There’s a time and a place to experiment with drugs — it’s called sophomore year.
June 11th, 2008 at 7:02 pm