REST FOREVER WITH PETE CARROLL

Scott Wolf proposes the revolutionary idea of the team-themed cemetery for USC, which is of course based on a real German idea about a Hamburg-HSV-themed cemetery for diehard soccer fans, which is “of-course” worthy since in all matters thanatological the Germans are at the forefront, both in terms of inventing new ways for people to die and in ways of making death a vital nutrient in you daily diet of experience. (They invented mustard gas and DeathTV. QEDMF.)
USC doesn’t seem to be the most promising market, though. Death in L.A. just lets everyone down, because it’s so selfish of you to leave like that, and because you’ll get all old and wrinkled and boring like dead people always are. (You will be, however, very, very thin. Jealous!)
We instead offer alternatives business proposals fresh off the drawing table at EDSBS Capital Development, free of charge because we’ve just got too many ideas to turn them all into spun gold sweatervests, you know.
Tennessee: Tasteful, extra-large vaults overlooking the Tennessee River on 12 acres of verdant prime real estate. Amenities will include Erik Ainge “blessing” your headstone by attempting to hit it, and then missing completely and throwing to a waiting groundskeeper for a crippling INT. Discounts for all plots crapped on by Smokey during visits. Visits by boat only, of course. No Catholics, and no same-sex couples in the “Reggie White Section.” Double-wide plots and orange and white checkerboard sod available for extra fees.
Ohio State: Located within a punt’s distance of the ‘Shoe, Buckeye Timbers promises that when you’re a cloud of dust three yards deep, your stay here will be just like a Buckeye scoring drive: dignified, slow, and as long as eternity itself. Ranked number two in the nation for thre years running, Buckeye Timbers’ special features include vault supports that are the exact thickness of Eddie George’s thighs, audio tribute boxes that answer “I-O” when you cheer “O-H” at them on selected headstones, and the centerpiece of the installation, our signature fountain “Eternal Victory,” featuring a cherubic Woody Hayes urinating on the face of a drowning Bo Schmebechler forever.
Notice: Pepper spray is applied to the ground twice daily, and only during visiting hours.
Washington: Husky Meadows, where you can be as serenely dead as the Huskies football program itself! Long list of features pending, but nothing developed as of yet. We blame former management for the inconvenience.
Oklahoma State: Assuredly already in the works, and thus beyond parody. We expect wind-powered fountains and the option to buried in piles of pure, unmarked bills. Headstones should predictably include epitaphs like “Here lies T. Boone Pickens HE WAS A MAN; HE WAS EIGHTY-NINE.”
Florida. Serene live oaks and waving Spanish Moss welcome you to Gator Arbors, where you will be guaranteed the loudest eternal rest of your lives. A constant temperature of 97 degrees is maintained through the use of 935 individual heat lamps to simulate the actual conditions within the Swamp, and to be sure you’ll be completely at home, at state of the art stereo system blasts crowd noise at 100 decibels at all times. Special features include the Text Tribute feature, where you may send Urban Meyer-esque messages to your loved ones from beyond the grave. (”MSSING U VALHLLA IZ TEH SHIT!”)
Leave your own suggestions for our capital development committee below.









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DevilGrad says:
“Buckeye Timbers” would require you to locate a forest near Columbus. Good luck with that.
July 16th, 2008 at 10:08 am
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spartanmike says:
Glad to see QEDMF make a showing. I’ve actually written that on tests before submitting them. I’m an asshole.
July 16th, 2008 at 10:08 am
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spartanmike says:
also, re: Washington
I think it needs the Willingham Putting Green…for the relatives (and Coach Ty), of course.
July 16th, 2008 at 10:11 am
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beauford @ theonlygamethatmatters says:
Michigan Pines: Quietly unimposing on the outside. Once in, a bowl extends deep into the earth, housing the largest cematary. Here, you’re guarenteed piece and quiet; you’ve never heard 111,000 corpses so quiet! And don’t be concerned with becoming undead, for as soon as you sit up in your grave you’ll be sure to hear “down in front” from that guy with the delux tomb behind you. As an added feature, a button on your gravestone will jingle keys from BEYOND THE GRAVE!
July 16th, 2008 at 10:12 am
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DevilGrad says:
BTW, once again, Texas A&M outruns satire.
http://www.roadsideamerica.com/attract/images/tx/TXCOLreveille02.jpg
July 16th, 2008 at 10:14 am
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GamecockTony says:
Nittney Lions’ Gardens just has one plot.
Of course, it won’t even be used.
July 16th, 2008 at 10:17 am
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DevilGrad says:
Beaver Acres: Let others “rest in peace.” Penn Staters aren’t the type to let mere death interfere with the action. Carefully fed on a diet of brains and maintained in an undead state, you can continue to take up your place in Beaver Stadium on fall Saturdays — just like our beloved coach.
July 16th, 2008 at 10:17 am
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DevilGrad says:
LOL @ #6. You beat me.
July 16th, 2008 at 10:18 am
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kt says:
Do one for Auburn! Do one for Auburn!
July 16th, 2008 at 10:19 am
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AllWhoYonder says:
ND has an on campus cemetery that is pretty exclusive at this point. Tough ticket to get these days.
I know I’m going to hell for this though: when I was an undergrad there, we tailgated in the now gone Green Field which was across the street from the cemetery. A couple of times throughout the day we’d head to a prearranged grave site to smoke down. Good old Mr. McCready…
July 16th, 2008 at 10:23 am
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Allahver Fist says:
To maximize profitability, Gator Arbors should be located on a wild animal preserve outside of Ocala.
July 16th, 2008 at 10:23 am
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PW says:
“Husky Meadows” sounds like the worst possible name for a female porn star.
July 16th, 2008 at 10:23 am
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SEC Supremacist says:
Threadjack-
O, How does it feel knowing you live just down the street from these people, most assuredly “Dawgs” fans?
http://www.gwinnettdailypost.com/print.asp?SectionID=6&SubSectionID=84&ArticleID=16944
/threadjack
July 16th, 2008 at 10:24 am
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blon57 says:
If they come out with one for A&M, I bet it is a top seller. Those people eat, sleep and breathe A&M…now they can die happy.
July 16th, 2008 at 10:25 am
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UgasTexan says:
Actually, at UGA you can be buried in the stadium (if you are white English Bulldog owned by the Seiler family AND you get to be Uga __), you can be scattered throughout the Hedges in ash-form under cover of night (alledgedly like part of Lewis Grizzard), or you could simply buy a plot across the street and railroad tracks in Oconee Hills Cemetery (where Wally Butts is resting peacefully).
July 16th, 2008 at 10:27 am
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Out of Conference says:
Clemson Memorial Field Gardens overlooking Lake PCB, I mean Hartwell. All tombstones marked with 1981 as the year ascended to Heaven. Once a month, for a small donation to IPTAY you get to beat the shit out of a female corpse. Witnesses will be provided that will testify to everyone bu the local PD that the corpse started it because it’s a crazy corpse. At Clemson Memorial Field Gardens, your dead body will be “planted” between rows of corn and whenever the farmer/owner Ben Tilman himself stops by to plow, they’ll play “She Thinks My Tractor’s Sexy” on the loudspeakers.
July 16th, 2008 at 10:27 am
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Aaron Aikens says:
Mountaineer Mausoleum:
Once your here, you can’t leave for Michigan.
July 16th, 2008 at 10:28 am
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Orson Swindle says:
@13: Honored, of course.
July 16th, 2008 at 10:28 am
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hobeg8r says:
Florida State University – where you will reside near Doak Campbell Stadium. Groundskeeping will be supplied by Tallahassee Community College students (as part of their ticket purchase package) and FSU players who are currently on suspension for cheating on tests; Jimbo Fisher will deliver the eulogy while he waits [eternally] for Bobby Bowden to retire; honorary pallbearers to include Jeff Bowden [still looking for an OC job], Terry Bowden, [still looking for a HC job], and Peter Tom Willis [still practicing on how not to call FSU’s performance on the field as “high-schoolish”]. Every year, you will receive a free copy of the upcoming FSU schedule composed mostly of former Division II-A schools). You can purchase an optional stained-glass picture of Bobby [just like the one at the stadium] along with an audio of the bought and paid for/politically-correct Seminole war chant.
July 16th, 2008 at 10:33 am
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Doug says:
At Gamecock Gardens, you’ll not only be buried beneath some of the South’s finest and most meticulously tended fescue, you’ll have the honor of Steve Spurrier himself traipsing amongst your plots, even taking leaks on them if the need strikes, as he enjoys his weekly 18. Yes, honor; you’re a corpse, don’t even act like things are going to get any better for you. You’ll lie there and enjoy every last drop.
July 16th, 2008 at 10:35 am
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BallStateGrad82 says:
WVU Crematorium.
Your remains will respectfully be laid on a couch secured from some porch off campus. An entourage of drunken students will salute you by raising a toast of Yuengling beer, as your couch, in the back of Don Knotts old pick up, is driven down High Street to its final destination, Sunnyside. The WVU Gospel Choir (you can hear them at Bent Willies any Friday night) will send you on your final journey by singing Country Roads. The match is lit to the final prayer of “Cheers, Beers and Mountaineers!”
July 16th, 2008 at 10:38 am
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Doug says:
Oh, and Cavalier Meadows in lovely Charlottesville, Virginia, the deceased will have the honor of being buried on the grounds of Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello estate — Al Groh will summarily dump them, without any kind of ceremony or embalming whatsoever, into a mass grave right next to Jefferson’s own plot. It’s kind of half-assed, actually, but at least your relatives will be able to say that you’re buried next to a president.
July 16th, 2008 at 10:42 am
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ChemE93 says:
BallStateGrad82 @21:
You forgot the Robert C. Byrd Eternal Burning Couch.
July 16th, 2008 at 10:47 am
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Allahver Fist says:
The Ole Miss Vaught-Colonel Rebetarium: Located in God’s Country, the visitors will be able to transcend life and feel as dead as Ole Miss football itself. Fresh table cloths at sunrise and candles at dusk are provided to its permanant residents’ tented resting places. Dixie is played hourly by the quartered marching band, guaranteed to be well stocked with obese, black tuba players – a fixture of the South. The spirit of Colonel Rebel is alive and well, and may be counseled with by the deceased. The Colonel’s presence is by appointment only and will be located on the porch of that really nice white mansion over there on the hill. A permanant flame will burn in the Rebetarium, beneath the unearthed bones of Billy Cannon. Every day is Archie Manning day.
July 16th, 2008 at 10:48 am
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Dumpster Baby says:
Don’t you realize that they already have this in Tuscaloosa and have for years?
Click my name
July 16th, 2008 at 10:48 am
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Austin Dave says:
@22
Didn’t Mr. Jefferson invent caskets or headstones or perhaps even death itself? Amazing man…just ask anyone at UVa.
July 16th, 2008 at 10:48 am
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Kerwin4two says:
As an added bonus, the Florida State Eternal gardens have 2 kinesiology classrooms on the grounds. So the entire cemetary and mausoleum is paid for with Tax dollars
July 16th, 2008 at 10:55 am
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PW says:
In the Bama cemetery, on each of your fingers and toes (as well as your ears, nose, and penis) they place a MNC ring from their vast collection.
July 16th, 2008 at 10:59 am
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PW says:
Is the Eddie George thigh vault made of styrofoam?
July 16th, 2008 at 11:00 am
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Excuse me Stewardess, but I speak jive says:
What exactly qualifies as a “double-wide” plot? Considering the majority of the Vols are already double-wide, would that make these special plots offer 8′ wide coffins?
Oh, and for the Errors column this week: “Discounts for all plots crapped on by Smokey during visits”- that is actually an added charge.
July 16th, 2008 at 11:04 am
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The Tusk says:
Bama already has its own caskets…
The Paul W. “Bear” Bryant Memorial Gardens (what else would we call it?) are located directly across Paul W. Bryant Drive from Bryant-Denny Stadium.
Upon entry through the Paul W. “Bear” Bryant gate, you’ll be greeted by an animatronic Paul W. “Bear” Bryant leaning against a goal post wearing a houndstooth hat, smoking a Chesterfield and sipping some sourmash. He’ll growl unintelligibly about something being “a goodun” then talk about how much he likes Cocola & Golden Flake chips.
Interment options include burial next to Kenny Stabler’s liver, Joe Namath’s knees, Bill Curry’s coaching career and the still-living Mike Shula (he’s on loan from table-bussing duties at Shula’s Steak House). Future custom options will include the chance to have Dennis Franchione’s disemboweled, drawn, quartered and burned-at-the-stake remains displayed prominently on your headstone for a small contribution to the Crimson Tradition.
July 16th, 2008 at 11:05 am
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Gwen says:
Here at LSU, we are concerned with sustainability and the environment. As such, we are proud to offer you the opportunity to be recycled into Tiger history. For a small donation, your corpse will be fed to Mike VI. For an extra amount, you can fulfill your lifelong dream of “playing” with Mike VI in his cage.
We certainly won’t let you bury your remains or sprinkle your cremains in our hallowed halls, but we will let you become the ultimate in Tiger Bait!
**You must sign the waiver, however, that lets LSU broadcast your last moments with Mike VI over the internet via Tiger Cam on http://www.mikethetiger.com/.
July 16th, 2008 at 11:06 am
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hunglikehussain says:
Ah death, unfortunately it runs in my family.
O, wouldn’t T. Boones’s epitaph sound better if it was…”He was a man, He was four score and ten.”
July 16th, 2008 at 11:06 am
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blon57 says:
#30
I never realized Mike had his own website and a live cam. Now that is homage to a mascot.
July 16th, 2008 at 11:10 am
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Allahver Fist says:
#34, blon57
Don’t you mean you didn’t KNEAUX Mike had his own website and webcam?
July 16th, 2008 at 11:15 am
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BallStateGrad82 says:
David Letterman Mortuary will transport your remains to the campus cemetery of the school you choose to support instead of Ball State.
July 16th, 2008 at 11:16 am
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CalBear in SC says:
All this talk of Germans and thanatology gave me an excuse to mention that I just found an audio book version of Gravity’s Rainbow from the early eighties:
http://www.btmon.com/Audio/Unsorted/Thomas_Pynchon_-_Gravity_s_Rainbow_-_Reader_George_Guidall_23792.torrent
July 16th, 2008 at 11:30 am
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hunglikehussain says:
From Mike the tiger web site.
WTF?????
http://img384.imageshack.us/img384/3117/1357768036471f6353663b8fs8.jpg
July 16th, 2008 at 11:31 am
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Gwen says:
#38
That’s one of our clients who is on the payment plan. If money is an obstacle, other means of payment can be worked out.
July 16th, 2008 at 11:34 am
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dcbruin says:
While Westwood Gardens is better known for its hardwood pavilion, consider spending eternity in its nondescript Gutty Little Cemetery. Admittedly a mediocre final resting place, you can at least spend eternity consoling yourself that you’re a better person than the arrogant a$$holes in the famous, more popular cemetery across town.
July 16th, 2008 at 11:39 am
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Excuse me Stewardess, but I speak jive says:
Threadjack @ 13-
http://www.gwinnettdailypost.com/print.asp?SectionID=6&SubSectionID=84&ArticleID=16944
isn’t it bad luck to see the bride smoking a cigarette in the kitchen of the waffle house with her 2 kids getting dressed before the wedding?
oh wait- it’s bad luck to see the bride in her wedding dress before the wedding. my mistake…
July 16th, 2008 at 11:49 am
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hobeg8r says:
University of Miami Mausoleum (currently under “renovation” at the Orange Bowl), complete with free drive-by shootings every hour on the hour. We are proud to offer various coaching packages. For the Dennis Erickson years – access to the ASU website; for the Jimmy Johson years – a can of hairspray, for the Howard Schnellenberger years – a complimentary suit and tie; for the Larry Coker years – a program from the FIU game. For additional fees, you can receive a copy of the Gino Torretta Heisman trophy, a picture of Warren Sapp patrolling the da U sidelines, and the complete arrest report of Michael Irvin. Background music to consist of repeated recordings of “Wide Right, Wide Left.” Unfortunately, there is no parking offered at Mausoleum at the current time. However, your family may negotiate parking spaces in the local neighborhood at various prices dependent on “block or no block”.
July 16th, 2008 at 11:56 am
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now_a_hoo says:
Northwestern, Stanford and Duke fans are creating a consortium to make their own cemetary. No one over 6′4″ or 280 allowed, for “academic reasons,” and a wrought iron gate at the front, reading:
We don’t fret,
We don’t fuss,
For even in death,
You’ll be working for us!
July 16th, 2008 at 12:10 pm
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DC Trojan says:
Come on down to Neuheisel’s Necropolis, formerly the Bruin Boneyard! Coach Rick Neuheisel has the sleeping giant of southern California charnel houses ready to awake and depose the Campo Santo della Carroll across town!
You just can’t beat Neuheisel’s Necropolis! The staff has national championships in flower arranging, lawn mowing, weed-pulling, and all the other minor elements of cemetery management, and Coach Rick Neuheisel is now poised to win the real deal!
Every plot comes with a free Passion Bucket for the bereft Bruins you’ll leave behind! Emote at will in the luxury of gorgeous grounds in an upper middle class enclave, and the taxpayer foots most of the bill! What a deal!
Book now, and ask about our bereaved baksheesh package!*
*For families with 4 or 5 star recruits only; the recruit’s chair does not have any attached baksheesh per NCAA regulations. Neuheisel’s Necropolis does not supply recruits with mausoleums or funeral corteges in other parts of the southland, unlike some graveyards we could name.
July 16th, 2008 at 12:18 pm
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marcillac says:
Gwen@32
The ecological and entertainment benefits are most fetching.
July 16th, 2008 at 12:52 pm
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ChemE93 says:
At War Eagle Eternity Farms, spend your days six feet under in the Loveliest Village! Sign up before Labor Day and get a free roll of toilet paper and Sociology Degree at no additional cost! Any clientèle needing our services due to an unintentional illegal chop block will also receive 20% off their headstone, as per the requirements of the class action lawsuit settlement. To help ensure a peaceful interment, the deceased may request temporary re-animation and de-briefing should Auburn win the MNC and/or pass bama in the all-time series. This service is NOT available for notification of Heisman trophies or undefeated seasons.
DISCLAIMER: Free Sociology Degree is not SACS accredited. University not responsible for damage caused by unapproved tailgating on plots. Corpses subject to routine experimentation on the effects of various agricultural products on human flesh under a pending USDA proposal. Temporary re-animation not guaranteed to be reversible or non-mutative.
July 16th, 2008 at 1:01 pm
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UFJim says:
sorry to burst the bubble, Florida already has a cemetery for fans
no punchline coming. seriously we already did it.
July 16th, 2008 at 1:08 pm
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jd says:
penn state meadows
located in the farming grounds outside the stadium, student tuition will pay for groundskeeping, and an extra fee will keep certain coaches from lurking on the grounds at night looking for scraps.
July 16th, 2008 at 1:32 pm
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hueyp says:
Alternatively for LSU fans . . .
At “Tiger Tombs,” we’ve expanded upon the tradition of Louisiana’s above-ground cemeteries by converting the now-vacant dorm rooms built into Tiger Stadium into a place you will want to spend eternity (and never miss a game).
July 16th, 2008 at 2:08 pm
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socalbryan says:
USC fans don’t need a Trojan themed cemetary in order to be close to their beloved Trojans in the afterlife, because Pete Carroll will visit us in heaven. Pete Carroll’s spirit is not limited to this earth, and in fact, spends much of it’s time shaking hands and inspiring those in heaven to win forever and always comPETE.
July 16th, 2008 at 2:29 pm