CURIOUS INDEX, 9/17/08

by Orson on Sep 17, 2008 9:12 AM EDT

We salute your excellence in captioning: Hate Week continues: please note the fine understatement in this video's Youtube caption, which reads: "Peyton Manning completes a beautiful 88 yard TD pass to Tony George."

Truly one of the better passes Manning ever completed against Florida. DO YOUR BIG MAN DANCE, TONY!!! In more pressing news of this week's game against the Chee-to Horde, Jonathan Crompton received "treatment" on his ankle yesterday from Tennessee trainers. Doctors Jermaine Cunningham and Carlos Dunlap of the University of Florida are willing and eager to offer their own unique medical techniques this Saturday to assist Crompton in his recovery from whatever is going on with his ankle.

Further on Hate Week: We talked with Joel last night re: the UF/UT game, and explained our love for Peyton Manning and why Nashville is the most functionally useless city in the universe to us. (Hint: if you're not churchy, it's like taking a vegan to Fuddrucker's.) And speaking of things you won't eat: mmm, nothing as tasty as last year's reheated trash talk...except for teammates accidentally insinuating that Chris Rainey, while really, really fleet of foot, may not be the sharpest knife in the back of a Tennessee fan. Um, drawer. We mean drawer.

We had no idea Santonio Holmes was involved in this. Charles Davis on the Iowa/Iowa State game:

"Tough to be accurate when you have this much man in your face."

Perhaps we need to start paying more attention to this "Charles Davis" fellow. In addition to the golden shining sparkly bit of homoerotic phrasing above, Davis also said "Iowa's starting to shit -- sit! -- on these shorter routes." He sounds MAGICAL.

Armanti Edwards, artiste. App State's quarterback is an accomplished sketch artist. Mike Patrick thinks he's going to open an art shop scoff scoff scoff. When does that ever work? When you put dead bulls in formaldehyde and charge millions for it, of course.

Just because you're paranoid don't mean they ain't after you. Rich Brooks thinks MTSU was stealing signs in their 20-14 defeat to Kentucky.

They were either getting them from the field or the press box, Brooks said of MTSU. They might have gotten some help from Tennessee. Tennessee had them last year.

Opinion rendered, of course, vis-a-vis this event in respect to Rich Brooks and his estimation. Sum: bullshit. Kentucky needed a stroke-inducing finish to save the game, pulling down a completed Hail Mary one yard shy of the endzone. If this happens to Florida, you'll know where we are from searching the horizon and looking for smoke: that plume of smoke you see will be the spot where our head used to be.

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Considering most of the tail Rainey is pulling in, he probably doesn’t need to be rocket scientist. White groupies will give it up whether the man is a genius or a Vince Young. I refer specifically to the Wonderlick test hubub, not the recent mental stuff.

by That 5.0 Guy on Sep 17, 2008 9:18 AM EDT reply actions

I first started watching that clip, and I think to myself that can’t be right, Peyton is in Florida territory. then the play unfolds. And I think Oh I see what you did there.

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by crane on Sep 17, 2008 9:21 AM EDT reply actions

Normally, even I could get excited for UF/UT week.
It’s just not the same when one team sucks, though.

by GamecockTony on Sep 17, 2008 9:31 AM EDT reply actions

Woooga: Juxtaposition Alert:

1. From the Tennessean, ""I don’t think our players quit," [Fulmer] 9/17/2008
2. Also from the Tennessean, Blow out. We got down there, got tired and gave up. UT’s Demonte Bolden 9/15/08

by Der Schatten on Sep 17, 2008 9:35 AM EDT reply actions

What kind of signs was MTSU stealing? Stop? Yield? No Left Turn? Speed Bump Ahead? And why are signs in the pressbox rather than out on the Bluegrass Parkway?

From whom were these stolen? Tennessee or UK? Coach Ralphie Wiggum is, as usual, unclear here. He sez that UT had them last year, does this mean UK stole them from UT and MTSU stole them back this past weekend?

by yoyofutbawl on Sep 17, 2008 9:41 AM EDT reply actions

Orson – you need to let your new blog partner have her time in the lead-in this week

you are leaning heavily on her these days, but I get no hate vibes coming from her direction – are we on some kind of filter ?

also, as a bet this week – loser should have to write something nice about the winner each day next week… along with an accompanying photo showing the vast superiority of the winning team

and no digs on the other guy at the end, as you are apt to do

by InsaneCoachPosse on Sep 17, 2008 9:59 AM EDT reply actions

The link on the Armanti Edwards piece makes me think TCOAN may have O sleeping on the couch. Getting pretty far afield – in a good way.

by OhioDawg on Sep 17, 2008 10:26 AM EDT reply actions

insanecoachposse—

What digs are you talking about? Orson has always been gracious in defeat on here…except for the Georgia game last year, but even then, he didn’t take any digs at UGA.

by PW on Sep 17, 2008 10:27 AM EDT reply actions

I fondly remember the IM’s you posted between you and Holly that devolved into a series of threats, accusations and gross generalizations. More, please. It made me smile, and my husband and I still quote it:

“I’ll cut you…I swear I’ll cut you.”
“I’ll kick you in your dick-mitten.”

Classic.

by Xaryn on Sep 17, 2008 10:32 AM EDT reply actions

We should have hate week every week of the season. Pick a game and let the supporters fire a way at each other. Better on a list than in person. (See past stories of poor UT guy getting his testicles ripped off.)

Oh, and for you OU types…Stoops whining about Washington nailing Granger. Please. Did Brown whine when Heard nailed McCoy? Did he whine when English nailed McCoy last year? I think not.

by blon on Sep 17, 2008 10:55 AM EDT reply actions

Re: UT giving up.

They should have done what UGA did against them last year, which is give up immediately. It makes the second half more of a drunken comedy for the fans instead of gut-wrenching meltdown.

by Biggus Rickus on Sep 17, 2008 10:56 AM EDT reply actions

As long as Crompton is starting, I say Florida is a 25pt favorite, since you know how Urban likes to “run up the score”, and I bet Urban will go for 2 after every touchdown, just cause he can. Now if Phil decides to run the ball, I still say Florida wins by 2 TD’s…..
I think Tennessee needs Lou Holtz’s patented pre-game speech…..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=No1J5B1qbIA

by Mr. Pelican Pants on Sep 17, 2008 11:15 AM EDT reply actions

I think that’s interesting about what Brooks said. I’ve thought for the last two years UT might have had UGA’s signals, primarily b/c I remember hearing one of their coaches say that they had stolen signals in the Cal game in 06, and secondly because I’ve never seen a team essentially run their entire offense the way UT did those two games. They would line up, UGA would signal the defensive play and make their adjustments, then the entire UT team would look over and get the call from the sideline. I know you see this a lot more now, but nothing like those two games. Just a thought I always had. Very interesting.

by UgaMatt on Sep 17, 2008 11:27 AM EDT reply actions

I’m trying to find the guy giving signals to the UGa receivers to drop balls thrown into their hands.

by OhioDawg on Sep 17, 2008 11:31 AM EDT reply actions

With all this “must run the friggin’ ball to win” talk, I’ve decided to send Brandon Warren on a deep seam route on the first play of the game.

Sincerely,

Dave “Awsome” Clawson

by Vol on Sep 17, 2008 11:57 AM EDT reply actions

…make that AWESOME. Damn I hate typos when thousands of people can see them.

by Vol on Sep 17, 2008 12:01 PM EDT reply actions

OhioDawg – Those aren’t called plays, that’s just part of the magic of Georgia football. If we caught all of those passes (resulting in more first downs, touchdowns, and greater time of possession) the games would be down right boring. This way you’re more interested. And you have ulcers.

by Sparrow on Sep 17, 2008 12:08 PM EDT reply actions

If they’re going to start nonsense like “Armanti Edwards for Heisman,” I’d rather the NE media go back to completely ignoring college football.

It’s like a child when trys to insert themselves into grownup talk and ends up saying something ridiculously awkward that derails the conversation and leads to an uncomfortable silence where everyone just wants the kid to go away but no one knows how to tell them.

by Chg on Sep 17, 2008 12:21 PM EDT reply actions

What is little known is that it was George’s body double who played the remainder of the game. George was running all the way to Ann Arbor with the Heisman Trophy.

by Neil Dub on Sep 17, 2008 12:22 PM EDT reply actions

@15
Ask Ainge how that plan turned out a couple of years ago.

by NativeSon on Sep 17, 2008 12:38 PM EDT reply actions

Well it couldn’t possibly fail twice could it???

by Vol on Sep 17, 2008 12:42 PM EDT reply actions

@10
“We should have hate week every week of the season. Pick a game and let the supporters fire a way at each other. "

Who needs to when we Auburn fans and our nemisis Alabama fans hijack threads all season. One of the few things we agree on is how much we hate each other. Actually some of them think they hate Tennessee more. So I guess the only thing we agree on is the great taste of Golden Flake potato chips.

by sevenDs on Sep 17, 2008 1:29 PM EDT reply actions