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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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.
Comment by PJ from NU in SF — June 11, 2008 @ 7:02 pm
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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}
Comment by shanensga — June 11, 2008 @ 6:03 pm
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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.”
Comment by EmotionalFescue — June 11, 2008 @ 3:49 pm
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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.
Comment by Steve — June 11, 2008 @ 1:14 pm
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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.
Comment by Kerwin4two — June 11, 2008 @ 11:55 am
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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.
Comment by blazin — June 11, 2008 @ 9:56 am